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Chicago Sun-Times: Saved by shelters in Florida, cats and dogs get a chance at forever homes in Chicago by Emmanuel Camarillo
Volunteers with PAWS Chicago returned from Florida on Tuesday with more than 50 pets from shelters in areas hit hard by Hurricane Ian.
Most of the 53 animals were already in shelters when the storm struck. PAWS partnered with Humane Society Naples in Collier County, which operated as the nerve center for animal shelters from the area, to bring the 12 dogs and 41 cats to PAWS Medical Center in Little Village.
“Many of the shelters lost their roof, they’ve closed down, they’ve lost their power,” said Paula Fasseas, founder and chair of PAWS Chicago, the largest comprehensive no-kill animal welfare organization in the Midwest. “They just didn’t have good conditions for these animals.”
Three PAWS rescue vans full of supplies left Chicago for Florida on Saturday morning. The aim of the mission was to empty shelters in the direct path of the storm to make space for a possible influx of animals displaced by the hurricane in the coming days.
Washington Post: Far from coasts, flooding from Hurricane Ian devastates inland communities by Barbara Liston and Brady Dennis
WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. — The tidy lawns and palm tree-lined streets of Hacienda Village lie more than 150 miles inland from where Hurricane Ian came barreling ashore near Fort Myers. But on Monday, the neighborhood was lined with sopping sofas and soaked dressers, ruined appliances, sodden rugs and discarded mattresses.
Family photo albums sat in the midday sun, in hopes that some memories could be salvaged, while some individual snapshots blew through the streets like tumbleweeds.
In this neighborhood, a 20-minute drive north from Orlando, as in numerous other
inland communities throughout Florida, Ian and its remnants dumped biblical amounts of rain. The storm caused ponds to swell far beyond their banks and creeks to become rushing rivers. It overwhelmed storm-water and sewage systems, and brought unprecedented flooding to places far from the most visceral scenes of destruction along the coastline.
“Right now, I want to run. I want to turn my back and just run as far away as I can,” said Rose Grieber, 79, as she surveyed the already mildewing interior of the home she shares on La Vista Drive with her 82-year-old husband, Ron.
New York Times: Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in Review of Mar-a-Lago Records by Adam Liptak and Charlie Savage
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in the litigation over sensitive documents that the F.B.I. seized from his Florida estate, saying that an appeals court had lacked jurisdiction to remove them from a special master’s review.
But Mr. Trump’s lawyers did not ask the Supreme Court to overturn the most important part of the appeals court’s intervention: its decision to free the Justice Department to continue using documents with classification markings in its criminal investigation of Mr. Trump’s handling of government records.
The new filing was technical, saying that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, had not been authorized to stay aspects of a judge’s order appointing a special master to review all materials that the F.B.I. had seized in its search of Mr. Trump’s residence, Mar-a-Lago.
NBC News: Justice Jackson makes waves in first Supreme Court arguments by Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed a conservative attempt to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965 to protect minority voters, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court delivered a history lesson on the divisive issue of race in the United States.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in just her second day on the bench, spoke about the enactment of the Constitution's 14th Amendment, stressing how its aim was to redress historic harms to Black people in the aftermath of the Civil War and the end of slavery. It was a symbolic moment in a courtroom in which only three Black justices have ever sat.
Exploring the history that lurks in the background of the
dispute over Alabama's congressional districts map, Jackson said that "the entire point of the amendment was to secure rights of the freed former slaves." As a result, she wondered, how could the state be barred from considering race when deciding whether more majority Black districts should be drawn?
AlJazeera: US, South Korea fire weapons after North Korea missile launch
South Korea and the United States have carried out a series of missile drills in response to North Korea’s first ballistic missile launch over Japan since 2017.
The suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile flew about 4,600km (2,850 miles) on Tuesday morning before falling into the Pacific, the longest flight for any North Korean test.
In Japan, where residents of northeastern areas heard sirens and were sent warnings to take shelter, the launch was condemned by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as “barbaric”. South Korea and the US also condemned the test and all three countries warned of a tough response.
On Wednesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said South Korean and US forces fired four surface-to-surface missiles into the sea.
Victory can look desolate.
It does inside the eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman, retaken from the Russians at the weekend. The deserted debris-strewn streets are lined by boarded up or burnt-out buildings. Metal sheeting dangling from smashed roofs is buffeted by the wind. Few civilians venture out. We counted almost as many dogs as people - though the population was around 20,000 before the war.
The handful of civilians we met seem shell-shocked by months of bombardment, and uncertain their ordeal is over.
The only surge of life was a convoy of Ukrainian troops riding high on top of armoured personnel carriers, waving and cheering, as they headed out of town, along a road bordered by pine forest.
They roared past evidence of the human cost of Russia's defeat.
DW: Philippines: Killing of journalist sparks protests
Radio journalist Percival Mabasa, better known in the Philippines as Percy Lapid, was killed on the outskirts of the country's capital, Manila, late on Monday, police said on Tuesday.
This triggered condemnation from media groups, activists, opposition politicians and foreign embassies, which described his "brazen" assassination as a blow to press freedom. Protesters organized a march of indignation and vigil on Tuesday evening in Manila.
Mabasa, 63, was killed by two gunmen riding a motorcycle at the gate of a residential compound in the Las Pinas area of Manila, near his home. He was driving to work at the DWBL radio station.
National police pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice and said a special task force would be set up to investigate.
"We are not discounting the possibility that the shooting could be related to the victim's work in media," police chief Jaime Santos said in a statement.
Mabasa's YouTube account showed he had been critical of former President Rodrigo Duterte and of some policies and officials in incumbent Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration.
BBC News: Philippines lottery: Questions raised as hundreds win jackpot by Annabelle Liang
A lottery in the Philippines that saw 433 people hit the jackpot has drawn surprise and triggered scrutiny.
It was the highest number of people to have ever won the Grand Lotto's top prize, according to local media.
The winning combination for last weekend's 236m peso ($4m; £3.5m) jackpot was a series of numbers which were all multiples of nine.
Philippines senate minority leader Koko Pimentel has called for an inquiry into the "suspicious" results.
Participants in the Grand Lotto select six numbers from one to 55. To win the jackpot, all six of a player's numbers have to match those drawn by the lottery's operator.
"These lotto games are authorised by the Republic of the Philippines. Therefore, we need to maintain and protect the integrity of these gambling games," Mr Pimentel said as he called for an investigation into the lottery's unusual outcome.
El País in English: From Wordle to Scrabble: Do word games bring out the worst in people? By Karelia Vázquez
Ever since Sam Ezersky, digital puzzles editor at The New York Times, took on the responsibility of choosing the words for the game Wordle, which is played by several million people worldwide, he has been inundated with hate mail. Every day, the 27-year-old engineer is insulted and threatened for a seemingly trivial matter: words. He had no choice but to close his Twitter account. He talks about the experience in an interview published in The Economist, in which he admitted that while he is not a “true word person” (he studied mathematics and engineering); he accepted the position in the puzzle section, because he loves solving problems.
Every day, after the publication of the Spelling Bee – one of the newspaper’s greatest hits – Ezersky’s department also receives dozens of emails; readers complain about words being too obscure, too British or too ambiguous. Several Twitter accounts have been created just to troll him. When the puzzle did not accept the word “raffia” someone sent fibers of that material to the newsroom, accompanied by a slight threat.
Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle – the name of the game is a nod to his last name – is also surprised by the passion of the players. Wardle, an engineer for the online community Reddit, created the game for his partner, who loves word games, during the Covid-19 lockdown. Last February, he sold it to The New York Times for a seven-digit figure. At the time, British players complained of a “cultural imperialism” bias in the criteria applied for choosing words, and rumors spread that the New York newspaper would make the game more difficult or put it behind a paywall. “It going viral doesn’t feel great, to be honest. I feel a sense of responsibility for the players. I feel I really owe it to them to keep things running and make sure everything’s working correctly,” he told The Guardian in an interview after the sale. “It’s not my full-time job and I don’t want it to become a source of stress and anxiety in my life.”
Guardian: Loretta Lynn, country singer of love and hardship, dies aged 90 by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Loretta Lynn, whose tales of heartbreak and poverty are among the most celebrated in the country music canon, has died aged 90.
Lynn died at home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, on 4 October, her family confirmed.
Born Loretta Webb in a one-room rural Kentucky cabin in 1932, Lynn was one of eight siblings and the daughter of a coal miner – a fact that led to her signature song, 1970’s Coal Miner’s Daughter.
She was married at the age of 15 to 21-year-old Oliver Lynn, a month after she had met him. Despite Oliver’s frequent infidelity and struggle with alcoholism, the couple remained together for 48 years, until Oliver died in 1996. They had six children together, three of them before Lynn was 20.
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