It was a tragic ending to the seek for a six-year-old boy in northeastern Manitoba who had been lacking since Wednesday.

Manitoba RCMP confirmed the physique of Johnson Redhead was discovered at round 7:45 p.m. Sunday in a wooded space in Shamattawa, Man.

Sgt. Paul Manaigre with the RCMP’s media relations crew stated a Canadian Ranger, utilizing their drone, was capable of finding Redhead a substantial distance from the varsity the place he was final seen.

“I consider roughly 3.25 kilometres away, headed towards the river,” stated Manaigre.

Redhead had been lacking since Wednesday morning. Police stated he went to high school for the breakfast program till 9 a.m., however didn’t arrive for sophistication afterwards.

RCMP search and rescue, Canadian Rangers and volunteers from in and across the group helped with the search.

Manaigre stated it is believed Redhead died from publicity, however an post-mortem can be achieved to verify. RCMP may also examine whether or not there was any foul play concerned in his dying.

Whereas this wasn’t the ending Manaigre or anybody concerned within the search wished, he famous the household has closure now.

“We have been capable of deliver him dwelling to them. Would have been robust not having these solutions if it saved occurring for days.”

He stated it has been troublesome for the group and everybody concerned, as they have been all hoping for a cheerful ending.

“I am not going to lie, it hurts.”

Talking Monday, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Garrison Sofa supplied his condolences to the household and all these impacted by what occurred.

“We need to categorical the gratitude that we have now to everybody that joined within the search. There have been many individuals that stepped as much as assist this First Nation and we’re very grateful for the those who got here to help Shamattawa First Nation,” stated Sofa. “We simply pray that the household can be surrounded by folks that can consolation and provide phrases of kindness.”

Sofa stated MKO is able to ship a disaster crew to Shamattawa to assist folks work by means of this tragedy.

“We’re getting ready to ship a crew in there to work with the group, to work with the household and in addition to anybody that has been affected by this disaster. So we’re able to mobilize and we’re able to go and help the household.”

He famous assist may also be despatched to the varsity as he is aware of everybody there was traumatized by this.

Intel has shed over $100 billion in market cap this 12 months with shares falling over 50% as considered one of Silicon Valley’s authentic powerhouses struggles to remake itself. The inventory surged 5% in premarket buying and selling Monday on the Apollo information and stays up roughly 1.5% from Friday’s shut, nonetheless, constructing off final week’s positive factors.

Information of a cope with Amazon Net Companies to provide a sophisticated AI chip and the corporate’s plans to spin off its struggling foundry enterprise have helped shareholders get a much-needed reprieve, with shares rising 14.5% over the earlier two weeks.

Apollo supply follows information of potential Qualcomm takeover

Apollo’s supply comes shortly after information that chipmaking rival Qualcomm has approached Intel to discover a pleasant acquisition. A deal could be one of many largest within the historical past of M&A, however it will nearly inevitably face regulatory hurdles.

It will additionally underline simply how far Intel has fallen from the semiconductor mountaintop. As soon as the world’s largest chipmaker, Intel’s market cap of $93 billion is now roughly half of that of Qualcomm. Shares of Intel rose 3.4% Friday on reviews of Qualcomm’s strategy, whereas the inventory of the San Diego-based firm dropped 2.9% as buyers thought of the dangers of such a deal.  

Intel, in the meantime, continues to wrestle with value and aggressive pressures. The marketplace for conventional PC chips, or CPUs, has historically been Intel’s bread and butter enterprise. It’s faltered, nonetheless, below competitors from Superior Micro Units, or AMD, whose cheaper and extra environment friendly ARM-CPUs have triggered Intel to lose market share. 

On its face, the corporate additionally appeared poised to benefit from the AI growth. In actuality, the corporate hasn’t produced something that may maintain a candle to Nvidia’s GPUs, or graphic processing items, that are all however important for corporations coaching GenAI fashions. Intel’s foundry enterprise, which is turning into an unbiased subsidiary, fell properly behind the likes of TSMC.

Amid one other disappointing earnings launch and a dim forecast, the corporate introduced in August it will cut back its workforce by 15%, a lack of roughly 15,000 staff, as part of a $10 billion cost-cutting effort.

Within the pursuit of semiconductor supremacy, nonetheless, the U.S. authorities stays in Intel’s nook. Final week, the Biden administration introduced it will award Intel as much as $3 billion in CHIPS Act funding as a part of an effort known as the Safe Enclave, which goals to make sure a gradual provide of cutting-edge chips for protection and intelligence functions. That’s along with a $8.5 billion grant awarded to the corporate in February for constructing a number of main vegetation.

That type of backing seems to have Apollo, the famed various asset supervisor based by Marc Rowan, Leon Black, and Josh Harris, betting on a turnaround. The agency, which boasts almost $700 billion in property below administration, per PitchBook, has labored with Intel earlier than. Earlier this 12 months, Apollo stated it will purchase an $11 billion stake in a three way partnership that controls Intel’s new manufacturing facility in Eire.  

Missouri is slated to execute a person on dying row on Tuesday, regardless of objections from prosecutors who’ve urged he was wrongfully convicted.

Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, 55, is because of be killed by deadly injection at 6pm CT even after the workplace of the St Louis county prosecuting legal professional, which initially convicted him, sought to have his case overturned. Prosecutors have raised issues in regards to the lack of DNA proof linking Williams to the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle and have stated that Williams didn’t get a good trial.

Though the prosecuting workplace and sufferer’s household backed an settlement to have Williams keep away from the dying penalty, Missouri’s Republican legal professional common, Andrew Bailey, has fought to permit the execution to proceed.

“The general public doesn’t need this execution to maneuver ahead. The sufferer’s household doesn’t need this execution to maneuver ahead and the St Louis county prosecuting legal professional’s workplace doesn’t need this execution to maneuver ahead,” stated Jonathan Potts, one in all Williams’s attorneys, in an interview on Monday. “The legal professional common’s workplace, who had nothing to do with this in anyway, are those who’re making an attempt to steer him to the dying chamber. It’s fairly startling and extraordinary.”

Williams, who has lengthy maintained his innocence, was convicted of first-degree homicide of Gayle, a social employee and former reporter for the St Louis Submit-Dispatch. Williams was accused of breaking into Gayle’s house, stabbing her to dying and stealing a number of of her belongings, however no forensic proof linked Williams to the knife or scene.

Williams, who serves because the imam in his jail, and has devoted his time to poetry, twice had his execution halted on the final minute. He was days away from execution in January 2015 when the Missouri state supreme court docket granted his attorneys extra time for DNA testing. In August 2017, Eric Greitens, the Republican governor on the time, granted a reprieve hours earlier than the scheduled execution, citing DNA testing on the knife, which confirmed no hint of Williams’s DNA.

Greitens arrange a panel to evaluation the case, however when Mike Parson, the present Republican governor, took over, he disbanded that board and pushed for the execution to proceed.

In January, Wesley Bell, the Democratic prosecuting legal professional in St Louis, who has championed felony justice reforms, filed a movement to overturn Williams’s conviction. Bell cited repeated DNA testing discovering that Williams’s fingerprints weren’t on the knife.

“Ms Gayle’s assassin left behind appreciable bodily proof. None of that bodily proof might be tied to Mr Williams,” his workplace wrote, including: “New proof means that Mr Williams is definitely harmless.” He additionally asserted that Williams’s counsel on the time was ineffective and that his predecessors within the St Louis prosecutors’ workplace had improperly eliminated Black jurors from serving on the trial.

Extra testing on the knife, nonetheless, revealed that workers with the prosecutors’ workplace had mishandled the weapon after the killing – touching it with out gloves earlier than the trial, Bell’s workplace stated. A forensic skilled testified that the mishandling of the weapon made it unattainable to find out if Williams’s fingerprints might have been on the knife earlier.

In August, Williams and prosecutors reached an settlement to halt his execution: he would plead no contest to first-degree homicide in trade for a brand new sentence of life with out parole. His legal professionals stated the settlement was not an request for forgiveness, and that it was meant to avoid wasting his life whereas he pursued new proof to show his innocence. A decide signed off on the settlement, as did the sufferer’s household, however the legal professional common challenged it, and the state supreme court docket blocked it.

‘He hasn’t given up hope’

On Monday, Williams’s legal professionals pleaded for the execution to be stopped based mostly on arguments that the prosecutor within the 2001 case had excluded a Black juror as a result of he appeared just like Williams. However the state supreme court docket denied that request. The governor additionally rejected a clemency request, which emphasised that the sufferer’s household opposed execution and quoted three trial jurors, who stated that they had doubts in regards to the case and supported Williams’s petition.

The legal professional common argued in court docket that the prosecutor on the time denied racial motivations for eradicating Black jurors and asserted there was nothing improper about touching the homicide weapon with out gloves on the time.

Bailey’s workplace has additionally urged that different proof factors to Williams’s guilt, together with testimony from a person who shared a cell with Williams and stated he confessed, and testimony from a girlfriend who claimed she noticed stolen gadgets in Williams’s automotive. Williams’s attorneys, nonetheless, contended that each of these witnesses weren’t dependable, saying that they had been convicted of felonies and have been motivated to testify by a $10,000 reward supply.

Parson defended the execution in a press release on Monday, saying Williams’s attorneys “selected to muddy the waters about DNA proof, claims of which courts have repeatedly rejected”. He stated Williams had “exhausted due course of and each judicial avenue”, including: “The details are Mr Williams has been discovered responsible, not by the governor’s workplace, however by a jury of his friends, and upheld by the courts.” A spokesperson for Bailey pointed to the state supreme court docket’s ruling that “there isn’t any credible proof of precise innocence.”

Bell stated in a press release on Monday night that the St Louis prosecutor’s workplace “will proceed to do every thing in our energy to avoid wasting his life”. He added: “Even for many who disagree on the dying penalty, when there’s a shadow of a doubt of any defendant’s guilt, the irreversible punishment of execution shouldn’t be an possibility.”

Potts, Williams’s legal professional, stated the case would create additional distrust within the felony course of: “The one manner you may create public confidence within the justice system is that if the system is prepared to confess its personal errors … The general public is seeing the justice system at its most dysfunctional right here.”

Williams, Potts added, is “somebody who has by no means given up hope”.

“The few occasions he’s had the chance to point out the courts proof of his innocence and the way his rights have been violated, that’s once I’ve seen him most heartened … He’s making an attempt to come back to phrases and attain his personal private peace with what may occur within the subsequent 24 hours. However he hasn’t given up hope,” Potts stated.

Michelle Smith, co-director of Missourians to Abolish the Dying Penalty, stated she had been working with Williams since 2021 and regarded him a mentor. She talked to him lately after he was transferred to the ability with the execution chamber: “He’s all the time in good spirits. He’s very religious and grounded in his religion. And he all the time checks on different individuals. He wished to know the way I’m doing, as a result of that’s simply who he’s.”

Smith added: “He means a lot to so many individuals. He’s a good friend, a father, a grandfather, a son. He’s a trainer. He’s a religious adviser to so many different younger males. His absence can be an important hurt upon so many individuals.”

Smith stated she hoped his case would assist the general public perceive that “capital punishment doesn’t work”.

“I do know individuals who say: ‘We shouldn’t kill harmless individuals, however aside from that, I imagine within the dying penalty.’ However in the event you imagine within the system in any respect, meaning you’re OK with harmless individuals being killed, as a result of the system isn’t excellent. It’ll kill harmless individuals.”

Williams’s son advised an area reporter he hoped for a “miracle” and would attend the execution: “I’m going to face there agency and present my dad he’s not alone.”

Williams’s execution is one in all 5 scheduled throughout the US in a one-week interval. On Friday, South Carolina executed a person days after the state’s principal witness recanted his testimony.

The Related Press contributed reporting

Intel inventory (INTC) popped in early buying and selling Monday following a Bloomberg report of a possible multibillion-dollar funding from Apollo World Administration. (Disclosure: Yahoo Finance is owned by Apollo World Administration.)

The non-public fairness agency would make investments as much as $5 billion in Intel, the Bloomberg report stated, including that Intel executives are weighing the supply. The information follows carefully on the heels of a number of studies that the chipmaker is contemplating a pleasant takeover by one other chip big, Qualcomm (QCOM).

Intel shares rose greater than 3% on Monday after hypothesis over the Qualcomm deal propped them up by over 3% on Friday.

Qualcomm traders have seemingly been much less happy with the report of talks with Intel. The chipmaker’s shares fell by round 3% on Friday and by about 1.8% on Monday.

Intel and Apollo have a preexisting relationship. In June, the chipmaker bought Apollo an $11 billion stake in its Eire manufacturing facility.

The curiosity in Intel — and its subsequent inventory worth increase — is welcome information for a tech firm that’s struggled to seek out its footing in a brand new AI-dominated market. Intel shares are down almost 57% from the start of 2024. The corporate stated in August it is trying to reduce $10 billion in prices by shedding 15% of its workforce, and it is pausing a few of its tasks in Europe.

Intel has lagged behind rivals Nvidia (NVDA) and Superior Micro Units (AMD), whose superior AI chips have captured the curiosity of Massive Tech to the tune of many billions of {dollars}.

And Intel’s Gaudi AI processor hasn’t gained steam with Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), or Microsoft (MSFT). That is as a result of it debuted after the tech giants started engaged on their very own AI chips, Moor Insights CEO Patrick Moorhead instructed Yahoo Finance in a latest interview.

In the meantime, a takeover by Qualcomm can be the biggest tech merger since Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. A deal of such scale would possible seize undesirable consideration from federal antitrust regulators, whose scrutiny of the tech trade has ramped up lately.

“Much like different proposed mega-deals that have been unable to clear excessive regulatory hurdles, similar to NVDA’s bid to amass ARM Holdings, Broadcom’s proposal to amass Qualcomm and Qualcomm’s try to amass NXP Semiconductor … we imagine {that a} Qualcomm/INTC deal can be unlikely to garner regulatory approval,” Stifel analysts wrote in a be aware to traders Monday.

Even when profitable, some analysts say {that a} Qualcomm merger would not essentially be good for Intel or its shareholders — and that Intel ought to get out of the chipmaking enterprise altogether.

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“We proceed to imagine Intel ought to exit the foundry enterprise in the perfect curiosity of shareholders as we imagine the corporate has a really small likelihood of turning into a worthwhile modern foundry,” Citi analysts wrote in a be aware on Monday. Intel’s foundry enterprise manufactures chips for different corporations.

Bernstein senior analyst Stacy Rasgon additionally instructed Yahoo Finance on Monday that it might be “arduous to do a deal the place I believe the chance would justify the returns.”

Qualcomm’s and Apollo’s curiosity in Intel comes as the corporate tries to construct a few of its personal momentum too. Final week, CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced an expanded, multibillion-dollar partnership with Amazon and $3 billion in CHIPS Act funding from the US authorities.

“This information, mixed with our AWS announcement, demonstrates the continued progress we’re making to construct a world-class foundry enterprise,” Gelsinger stated within the announcement final Wednesday.

Laura Bratton is a reporter for Yahoo Finance.

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Immediately, advocates for Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams gathered exterior the Missouri Supreme Court docket, the place his enchantment was heard in a ultimate try to halt his execution scheduled for tomorrow, September twenty fourth. This enchantment listening to represents one of many final authorized avenues to save lots of the lifetime of a person who has been wrongfully convicted for over 20 years.

Williams was sentenced to dying in 2001 for the 1998 homicide of former Submit-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle, against the law for which DNA proof now proves his innocence. But, regardless of this significant proof, Missouri courts and the state’s Legal professional Common persist of their efforts to hold out this state-sanctioned homicide, exemplifying the continuing legacy of racial violence throughout the American carceral, punishment system.

Michelle Smith, Co-Director of Missourians for Options to the Demise Penalty (MADP), emphasised the injustice surrounding the case. “Finality of a judgment overrides a human particular person’s life?” She acknowledged in response to feedback made by Legal professional Common the place he acknowledged there needs to be some finality to a court docket resolution. “That’s problematic for me, Nothing must be above precise justice,” Smith stated.

“We should always take nonetheless lengthy it takes to show Mr. Williams’ innocence and guarantee his rights are upheld and that the whole lot is introduced out in court docket… this finality of judgement declare that the AG’s workplace is upholding is ridiculous… what in regards to the finality of judgement for Eric DeValkenare in Kansas Metropolis who murdered a Black particular person and was convicted and the governor is signaling he desires to pardon him, what occurred to that finality of judgement? It’s fully inconsistent.”

The Missouri Supreme Court docket enchantment follows an alarming historical past of judicial failure. Williams’ conviction was secured largely on the testimonies of two witnesses—each of whom had been paid to testify. No forensic proof linked Williams to the crime scene, and a predominantly white jury handed down the sentence. Since his preliminary conviction, no substantial bodily proof has emerged connecting Williams to the crime, solely deepening the questions across the systemic bias that led to his conviction.

“Justice Denied, Humanity Misplaced”

The newest ruling from St. Louis County Choose Bruce Hilton on September thirteenth upholding Williams’ conviction has solely added gas to the hearth, main his authorized group to enchantment as soon as once more to the Missouri Supreme Court docket. But even on this ultimate hour, the courts appear extra involved with bureaucratic finality than with reality and justice. As Smith put it, “He’s been incarcerated for twenty-four years. They’re not essentially going to let him go tomorrow. So this finality of judgment declare is ridiculous, particularly as a result of they solely care about it when it’s about Black and poor folks.”

Nimrod Chapel, President of the Missouri NAACP, echoed these sentiments. “The Legal professional Common’s argument about finality is a double-edged sword. It’s not about simply being completed with the case, it’s about did we get to the reality?” Chapel requested, “The prosecutor’s job is to get to the reality, and so they’ve failed time and time once more. This might be yet one more public failure of that workplace to make sure that justice is finished.”

Because the clock ticks down, greater than half one million folks throughout the nation, together with dozens of religion leaders, have joined forces, calling on Governor Parson to halt the execution. “We have to work out what went fallacious earlier than, not after. Now’s the time,” stated Chapel. He urged residents to proceed pressuring the governor, asking them to name and demand a direct halt to the execution. “Religion leaders are praying to make sure that Mr. Williams isn’t murdered. Each Missourian can be complicit on this grave injustice if the execution goes ahead.”

A Legacy of Racial Violence

Williams’ case is emblematic of the systemic racism plaguing the prison authorized system, significantly in instances the place Black and Brown people are disproportionately focused for capital punishment. His trial jury consisted of 11 white jurors and just one Black juror. The racial bias in jury choice, mixed with the reliance on paid testimony and the whole absence of forensic proof tying Williams to the crime, has led advocates to liken this to a modern-day lynching.

“The dying penalty, particularly in instances like this, is an extension of the lengthy historical past of racial violence on this nation,” Smith defined. “Missouri is as soon as once more exhibiting that Black lives, Black our bodies, might be disposed of by the state with out consequence.”

It is a creating story. The Defender will proceed reporting stay from Jefferson Metropolis.

It isn’t an exaggeration to say that the Los Angeles Rams saved their season on Sunday. The 2018 Houston Texans are the one staff in NFL historical past to make the playoffs after an 0-3 begin, and thru the primary three quarters in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers this weekend, it seemed just like the Rams had been going to hitch that Texans staff.

Down All-Professional vast receivers Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua, the Rams managed to attain just one landing by the use of a 15-yard catch from operating again Kyren Williams. Defensively, Los Angeles had no solutions for 49ers vast receiver Juan Jennings, who caught two of his three touchdowns within the first half.

Within the second half, LA turned it round on either side of the ball and overcame a 10-point deficit to safe its first win of the season. With 3:53 remaining within the third quarter, Williams scored his second landing of the sport to make it a one-score recreation. Following the scoring drive, each groups kicked area targets, and the rating was 24-17 with simply over six minutes remaining.

After 49ers kicker Jake Moody missed a 55-yard area aim try, Los Angeles bought the ball again with an opportunity to tie or win the sport with 2:47 remaining. The Rams rapidly bought within the endzone as quarterback Matthew Stafford linked with vast receiver TuTu Atwell for a 50-yard bomb to set the Rams up at San Francisco’s 5. Williams punched the ball into the endzone to report his third landing of the sport.

After forcing San Francisco to a fast three-and-out, Stafford put the Rams in field-goal place to win the sport, and rookie kicker Joshua Karty nailed one from 37 yards out. The victory not solely prevented the Rams from becoming a member of the 2018 Texas however gave the Rams their first dwelling win over the 49ers for the reason that NFC Championship recreation within the 2021-22 season.

Stafford completed the sport with 221 yards and one landing, stable numbers contemplating he was down his two finest vast receivers. The Rams had a number of gamers step up whereas the celebs sat out, and 6 completely different receivers caught a move with Tutu Atwell main the way in which with 93 receiving yards. LA’s dashing assault was additionally important within the victory as Williams ran for 89 yards after dashing for 75 yards mixed within the Rams’ first two video games of the season. Los Angeles’ 27 factors scored on offense was a season-high and a drastic enchancment after averaging simply 15 factors within the first two video games of the season.

With no clear timetable for the return of Kupp and Nacua, Los Angeles should depend on their receiver-room depth step up of their absence. Atwell’s 93 receiving yards had been the second-most he has had in a recreation in his profession.

If the Rams need to proceed successful video games, they’ll want extra manufacturing from their operating backs. Despite the fact that Williams had a season-high 89 dashing yards, LA’s second-leading rusher, operating again Ronnie Rivers, had simply two carries for 9 yards. After main the Rams in dashing yards final week in opposition to the Arizona Cardinals, operating again Blake Corum didn’t get any carries in opposition to San Francisco.

Regardless of enjoying higher within the second half, LA’s protection nonetheless confirmed it has room to enhance defensively. Quarterback Brock Purdy had 288 passing yards and three landing passes, and  Jennings had 11 catches for 175 yards along with his three scores. The 49ers offense additionally averaged 6.5 yards per play.

Probably the most optimistic enchancment is on the Rams’ rush protection. After giving up 197 dashing yards per recreation within the first two weeks, Los Angeles restricted 49ers operating again Jordan Mason to below 100 dashing yards for the primary time this 12 months. Mason was restricted to 77 yards on 19 makes an attempt and 0 touchdowns.

Los Angeles will try to maneuver again to .500 on the street subsequent week in opposition to the 1-2 Chicago Bears, the place rookie quarterback Caleb Williams has struggled to date in his rookie season with simply two landing passes and 4 interceptions.

“I imply, it is fairly excessive with all of us and the usual that we now have of clearly successful and shutting out video games. We obtained a 14-point lead. Clearly something can occur, however for us it is like, alright, we now have the momentum, let’s run with it. We have now a adequate crew to complete out a sport fairly early and put up factors each drive offensively. So we’re all fairly pissed off. So we simply obtained to observe the movie, get higher from it, and we win and lose as a crew. Everybody has their moments, however man, greater than something, I simply really feel prefer it comes all the way down to complimentary soccer man. You recognize, as soon as the protection will get a cease, we now have to attain and we now have to reward ourselves with that. Simply all the pieces all collectively tied in. So it is 4 quarters of that. You miss out on alternative and provides the opposite crew life, it is the NFL man, the opposite guys on the opposite aspect are actually good and so they’ll make you pay for it so we sort of realized the arduous manner as we speak.”

“Clearly it is a league the place it’s a must to flip the web page and prepare for the following opponent. However for us it is like, yeah, you actually have to take a look at the movie and perceive alright, what did I not do nicely and what did I do nicely and what can I proceed to get higher at? As a result of it is going to present up once more. Within the NFL, stuff occurs time and time once more, situational soccer. And so we now have to observe this sort of stuff and actually get higher from it and it is so simple as that. So, Patriots subsequent week. They are going be an incredible crew coming in and you realize we simply obtained to carry out higher and execute higher and watch this movie and be arduous on ourselves.”