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When Memorial Day weekend of 2020 ended with 39 people shot and 10 of them dead, then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot called it a “bloodbath” and a “fail” by her newly-hired Police Supt. David Brown.
Mayor Brandon Johnson has no intention of similarly undercutting interim Chicago Police Supt. Fred Waller — even after this year’s three-day holiday weekend ended with 59 people shot, 11 of them killed.
That level of violence — the most shooting victims since 2016 — was “intolerable,” Johnson said.
“It produced pain and trauma that devastated communities across Chicago, and my heart breaks for everyone affected,” Johnson said in a statement issued late Tuesday afternoon. “That’s why as mayor, I am committed to leveraging every single resource at our disposal to protect every single life in our city.”
A bipartisan deal to suspend the government debt ceiling and set federal funding limits was headed on Tuesday toward climactic House votes, even as hard-right Republicans revolted over the deal between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden, claiming that their party was squandering an opportunity to force fundamental spending changes.
The legislation scaled its first major obstacle on Tuesday night, when the House Rules Committee voted to clear the way for a debate on the plan on Wednesday, after right-wing opponents failed to muster enough allies to block it.
“Not one Republican should vote for this bill,” Representative Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and influential member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, said hours before the committee vote. “We will continue to fight it today, tomorrow, and no matter what happens, there’s going to be a reckoning about what just occurred unless we stop this bill by tomorrow.”
Washington Post: Land around the U.S. is sinking. Here are some of the fastest areas. By Kasha Patel
Imagine Earth’s surface is like a stack of pancakes. The pancakes, or layers of soil and rocks, may appear fairly evenly stacked and fluffy. Over time though, the stack can become compressed, thinner and shorter.
Scientists observe this downward motion of land, called land subsidence, across the planet. While some regions of land experience uplift, many parts of Earth’s surface are sinking — fast. Scientists are especially concerned for sinking locations near the coast, which are at a higher risk for flooding as sea levels rise in a warming world. Hurricanes and extreme rainfall events can also bring more damage to such low-lying areas.
But understanding this slumping land motion is not simple, scientists say. Even within the same city, some regions may be sinking at faster rates than other areas.
NBC News: 5 people unaccounted for in partially collapsed Iowa apartment complex; 2 believed to still be in building by Marlene Lenthang
Five people were unaccounted for after a historic Iowa apartment building partly collapsed, and officials said Tuesday that two of them are thought to be inside the building.
Nine people have been rescued since the catastrophic structural failure of the 116-year-old, six-story complex in Davenport about 5 p.m. Sunday.
City officials said at a news conference Tuesday that they plan to search the complex again and are consulting with fire experts and structural engineers to determine the safest way to do so.
The decision is an about-face a day after Davenport officials said they would demolish the structure Tuesday morning after K-9 units found no survivors inside.
Hours after the announcement Monday, Lisa Brooks, 52, was rescued from her fourth-story apartment.
BBC News: US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest by Guy Delauney and George Wright
The US has announced measures against Kosovo for ignoring its advice to avoid raising tensions in majority-Serb northern areas.
It has criticised Kosovo's decision to install ethnic Albanian mayors in northern Kosovo "by forcible means".
Kosovo has been expelled from participating in an ongoing American-led military exercise in Europe.
Police and Nato troops clashed with Serb protesters in Zvecan, north Kosovo, on Monday.
Protesters had tried to invade a government building amid unrest over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in areas where Serbs make up the majority of the population.
Nato is to deploy an additional 700 troops to Kosovo after saying 30 of its peacekeepers and 52 protesters were hurt in the clashes in Zvecan.
El País in English: Marijuana, blood and phone scams: New clues in the case of seven workers who disappeared from a Mexican call center by Daniel Alonso Viña
Possible traces of blood, marijuana, and blackboards with the names of foreign-sounding individuals as well as profit targets. This is part of what the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office found in two searches conducted this past weekend in two different locations of that Mexican state: a call center in Zapopan, where seven young workers went missing last Monday, and a property that the investigation led to. The first complaint came on Saturday, May 20: Carlos Benjamín García Cuevas had disappeared. Within days, the brothers Iztel Abigail and Carlos David Valladolid were also reported missing. The tragedy continued to expand, as did the questions: Arturo Robles, Jesús Alfredo Salazar, Mayra Karina and Jorge Velázquez had also disappeared. They were all around 30 years old and they all worked at a call center that is the focus of investigators’ suspicions. Authorities say the premises worked as a cover for a network with ties to organized crime that carried out telephone fraud against foreigners.
AlJazeera: Pakistan minister says Khan should be tried in military court
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan should be tried in a military court for his role in the protests that erupted across the country after his arrest earlier this month, the country’s interior minister has said.
Rana Sanaullah accused ex-Prime Minister Khan of personally planning the attacks on military installations as part of deadly protests across the country after he was arrestedon May 9.
When asked on local news channel Dawn News on Tuesday if Khan would be tried in the military court, Sanaullah replied, “Absolutely, why shouldn’t he? The programme that he made to target the military installations and then had it executed, in my understanding absolutely is a case of a military court.”
“He carried it all out. He is the architect of all this discord,” Sanaullah said.
Guardian: North Korea’s first spy satellite launch ends in failure, and promise to send up another by Justin McCurry
North Korea’s first spy satellite launch has ended in failure after its second stage malfunctioned, sending the projectile plunging into the sea, the country’s state media has said, with the regime vowing to conduct another launch soon.
The launch sparked emergency warnings in Japan and the South Korean capital Seoul, where the city briefly issued an evacuation warning in error.
The new Chollima-1 satellite launch rocket failed due to instability in the engine and fuel system, state news agency the official KCNA news agency said, adding that officials were working to verify the “grave” defects that caused the rocket to malfunction.
The launch was the nuclear-armed state’s sixth satellite launch attempt, and the first since 2016. It was supposed to launch North Korea’s first spy satellite into orbit.
The Hollywood Reporter: Anonymous Strike Diary: The ‘Eastside Warrior’ on Stretching Out Those Final Paychecks by Anonymous
Memorial Day must be the new Labor Day — at least judging by the ocean of unions that flooded downtown to end Week 5. While Disney had Ariel trying to sing the summer box office back to life, we had Lindsey Dougherty chanting “Union Town.” Nothing against mermaids, but when I’m in a knife fight, I’ll take a Teamster with a Hoffa tattoo on her arm any day of the week.
No, it’s not easy. At this point everyone’s starting to think more about practicalities. What places in town give discounts for WGA members. (Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank is Hollywood labor’s new commissary thanks to Drew Carey.) What shoes are the best for clocking 20,000 steps a day? (As every waitress and nurse already knows, Hokas apparently.) Most importantly, how do I stretch out those last paychecks to last however long they gotta last?
Also, with school out, more than a few of us will be juggling childcare with picketing schedules. The WGA’s volunteer captains are busting their asses daily. Folks are calling every actor they knew to help SAG-AFTRA get its strike authorization vote passed. And everyone is holding their breath to see how deep the DGA sticks the knife in our collective bargaining back this time around.