North Korea ‘not returning calls’ on missing US soldier
North Korea is remaining silent about a US soldier who crossed its border from South Korea . The incident comes amid heightened tensions between Pyongyang and Washington.
Fiancé of Arizona woman gored, tossed in air by Yellowstone bison details attack
An Arizona man recounted how his vacation at Yellowstone National Park “took a turn for the worst” on Monday when a bison charged his fiancée, tossing her as high as 10 feet in the air.
Chris Whitehill told FOX10 Phoenix how the first day of his trip with fiancée Amber Harris started out beautiful as the couple got coffee and walked through a field near the Lake Lodge Cabins on the north shore of Lake Yellowstone.
But then the Phoenix couple spotted two bison about 50 to 60 yards away.
“[One bison] scratched at the ground and I started screaming and yelling and trying to distract him and he charged at Amber, hitting her square in the abdomen,” Whitehill said. “I looked over my shoulder and she was 8 to 10 feet in the air and landed right on her back.”
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK VISITOR SEEN TAKING SELFIE INCHES FROM BISON IN VIDEO
The 47-year-old Harris was gored and suffered significant injuries to her chest and abdomen, the National Park Service said. She was airlifted to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.
Whitehill said Harris suffered seven fractured vertebrae and two partially collapsed lungs.
“It’s hands down the most difficult thing I’ve witnessed,” he said. “And praise God she won’t have to have surgery, but it is going to be a long road to recovery for her.”
Whitehill also recalled the incident to NBC’s “Today,” calling it a “freak accident.”
“[The bison] had struck her head-on, and she was airborne,” Whitehill said. “I think she did like one or two back flips in the air.”
Park officials have said it is unclear how close the visitors were to the bison when the animal charged.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK OFFICIALS SAY MAN DISTURBED BABY BISON, RESULTING IN ITS DEATH
On Saturday, a bison also severely injured a Minnesota woman in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, the park service said. She was in serious but stable condition after suffering “significant injuries to her abdomen and foot.” Exact details of the woman’s encounter with the animal are unknown.
The NPS warns visitors to stay at least 25 yards away from all wildlife, including bison. Visitors are urged to use extra caution during mating season, which runs from mid-July to mid-August, when bison can quickly become agitated.
Park officials have said bison have injured more visitors in Yellowstone than any other animal. The park described bison as unpredictable and noted that the animals can run three times faster than humans.
Mets outfielder ‘too weak’ to play as he battles illness
Since joining the Mets, it seems that a dark cloud has been following Starling Marte. From the death of his grandmother on the second anniversary of his wife’s death to the lingering pain from offseason surgery that’s affected his play, Marte has dealt with a lot since coming to New York.
It Never Grains But It Pours
It Never Grains But It Pours
By Bas van Geffen, CFA, senior macro strategist at Rabobank
After cancelling the Black Sea Grain Initiative deal, Russia has attacked the port of Odesa. Ukraine said the drone and missile strike specifically targeted its capacity to export grain out of Odesa, damaging a warehouse and a grain and oil terminal. Adding insult to injury, Russia warned that any ships sailing to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports would be seen as “potentially carrying military cargoes,” to further stifle Ukrainian exports. Russia did not say what it would do if any ships were found sailing to Ukrainian ports, but the US issued a warning that Russia’s attacks may expand to civilian ships.
Meanwhile, EU officials were quick to react: The Minister of Agriculture of Hungary stated that five Central and Eastern European EU members will ask the EU on Wednesday to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports beyond a Sept. 15 deadline. So more and more pressure will be placed on the ports on the Danube, at a more expensive transport cost and with the rail infrastructure exposed to Russian attacks. In any case, our agri commodities strategists expect Ukraine to still manage to export most of its exportable surplus of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower seeds this season. But the higher transport cost means that Ukrainian farmers may, quite possibly, reduce planted area in the future. Chicago Wheat futures soared after the news.
These are not the only logistics issues. In the US, Yellow, a company specializing in low-cost less-than-truckload services, is reported to be in a liquidity crunch, and it has failed to make its pension contributions for June. There are fears that the company could go into bankruptcy, and even it if doesn’t, concerns that a union strike could hinder capacity are leading shippers to look for alternatives.
If Yellow liquidates, it will be the biggest bankruptcy in trucking history. Twice as big on nearly every metric as Consolidated Freightways (CF). https://t.co/ktno1VpVg1
— Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) July 20, 2023
That will not be a cheaper solution, though, as other less-than-truckload carrier executives have said they are “not chasing the freight, it’s coming to us regardless. We won’t do it at Yellow’s rates.” Some of them are already increasing their rates. So, if anything, these two developments highlight the ubiquitous risk of flare-ups of price pressures from the supply side.
And, although labor markets in both Europe and the US appear to be slowly going off the boil, the story of worker shortages isn’t over yet either. What’s more, these shortages are slowing down the West’s intentions to make its key industries less reliant on global trade flows. TSMC said it is postponing chip production at its planned Arizona facility from late 2024 to 2025, citing labor shortages. That same problem will undoubtedly also surface in Europe, where Intel amongst others is planning to build a fab. Whether this will extend or worsen the competition over skilled labor and, hence, wage pressures, remains to be seen. TSMC plans to bring over skilled workers from Taiwan to alleviate the shortages.
Meanwhile, the American plans to curb sensitive chip exports to China and screen inbound investments are invoking a response. Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to the US, said that China “will not make provocations, but will not flinch from provocations. So China definitely will make our response.” China certainly has some cards to play, as it is the key player in several sectors that are crucial to the semiconductor industry and, in the case of Europe, for its energy transition. The country controls a large share of key inputs needed for the fabrication of chips, for example. Earlier this month, the Chinese government already imposed export restrictions on gallium and germanium.
Yet, China also has something to lose from a further decoupling, as the country’s growth is slowing. The Q2 GDP figures that were released earlier this week are putting additional pressure on the government to boost the economy, but so far they have refrained from broad-based stimulus, favouring targeted measures instead. The PBOC left both the 1 year and 5 year loan prime rate on hold, as expected. However, the Chinese central bank did ease restrictions on companies’ oversees borrowing somewhat. The ‘parameter for cross-border funding’ was raised to 1.5 from 1.25, in an attempt to improve business conditions and growth, as well as to bolster the renminbi with more capital inflows. In addition to the borrowing tweak, the PBOC set the USD/CNY fixing at 7.1466, which is significantly stronger than anticipated.
To further boost economic growth, China is also mulling easing rules that curbed housing demand. According to Bloomberg’s sources, the government is considering scrapping rules that make it harder for people who ever had a mortgage –even if it has been fully repaid, and even if they no longer own a property– to buy a house. Currently, any buyer with a mortgage record has to make a bigger down payment and faces more restrictive borrowing limits. The plans have not yet been approved, and would follow a 16-point plan that was rolled out last year in support of the property sector – albeit with limited effects.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 07/20/2023 – 11:35
NYC EMT repeatedly stabbed by ’emotionally disturbed’ patient in back of ambulance: ‘He skewered her’
A female EMS worker in New York City was hospitalized after she was repeatedly stabbed by a patient during a transport Wednesday night, police said.
The EMT, who was working on board a Mount Sinai Health Systems ambulance, was taking an “emotionally disturbed” man to the hospital following a cardiac arrest call, according to the New York Post.
The report noted that the man stabbed the EMT in the arm and leg while the two were inside the back of the ambulance at around 9 p.m.
The ambulance was parked in the Upper West Side area near Mt. Sinai Hospital at the time of the attack.
The female EMT was taken to the hospital and was in stable condition, police said.
The NYPD confirmed that they arrested 48-year-old Rudy Garcia in connection with the attack. Garcia has been charged with three counts of assault and criminal possession of a weapon, according to police. The EMT injured in the attack has not been named at the time of this report.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the NYPD said, “On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at approximately 2053 hours, police responded to a 911 call of an assault [in] the vicinity of Mount Sinai Hospital West (1000 10th Avenue), within the confines of the Midtown North Precinct. Upon arrival, officers were informed that [a] 25-year-old female was stabbed numerous times about the body.”
“The victim [was] removed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital by EMS in stable condition,” the statement continued. “The investigation remains ongoing.”
A fellow EMT, who declined to be named, told New York Daily News that the suspect “skewered” the female first responder.
“He was a patient-turned-psycho,” the witness recalled. “He stabbed her in the leg, chest and arm. He skewered her.”
The investigation into the attack is ongoing, and a motive has not yet been established.
Christopher Nolan defends steamy ‘Oppenheimer’ sex scene as ‘essential’
The dramatic departure from the director’s usual style has fans hot and bothered.
Dear Annie: My husband and I are low-income and he doesn’t want his adult children to know
DEAR ANNIE: My husband and I are low-income, but he doesn’t want his adult children to know. Sadly, he lost an enormous amount of money about 12 years ago (to bad investments) and is quite embarrassed by it.
We have been married for over 10 years and have been able to sustain our lifestyle by using my savings and what money I brought into the marriage, but his children don’t know this.
World Health Organization urges governments to set up surveillance system for at-risk people during heat wave
The World Health Organization on Wednesday urged governments and local authorities to set up a strong surveillance system for people who are most at risk of severe symptoms from a heat wave that is baking the northern hemisphere.
People with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and diabetes, as well as pregnant women, children and homeless people, are seen as the most vulnerable to heat waves that have scorched parts of Europe, Asia and the United States this week.
“We are very concerned about those who are most vulnerable. And clearly, the heatwaves can exacerbate all of those pre existing diseases,” Maria Neira, director of the public health, environment and social determinants of health department at the WHO, told journalists on Wednesday.
4 DEAD AS POST-HEATWAVE STORMS SWEEP CROATIA, SLOVENIA
While the has been seen as the reason for the heat wave this year, global warming has been further exacerbating the issue, causing erratic weather patterns globally.
While some are facing heat waves, heavy rains have pummeled central and southern regions of South Korea since last week while in northern India, flash floods, landslides and accidents related to heavy rainfall have killed more than 100 people since the onset of the monsoon season on June 1.
“In the medium and long term, we need to decarbonize our society as well,” Neira said.
Woman accused of setting WY abortion clinic on fire set to take plea deal
A judge is set to consider a plea deal Thursday for an abortion opponent who investigators say burned Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years.
Lorna Roxanne Green, 22, told investigators she broke in and used gasoline to set fire to the Wellspring Health Access clinic in Casper because it was giving her anxiety and nightmares, according to court documents.
Green is scheduled to appear in court for a change-of-plea hearing Thursday before U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in Cheyenne. Details of her proposed deal with prosecutors have been off-limits to the public pending Johnson’s approval of the agreement.
WYOMING WOMAN ARRESTED NEARLY A YEAR AFTER ALLEGEDLY SETTING PLANNED ABORTION CLINIC ON FIRE
Charged with arson, Green faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, though a plea deal could bring a lighter sentence. Green has been free from jail since March while her case proceeds, and she pleaded not guilty at a court hearing in June.
Her deal with prosecutors, revealed by court documents filed last week, suggests she’s now willing to plead guilty or no contest to arson or possibly some other charge. Johnson will accept or reject the plea agreement at the hearing or decide to rule later.
At the time of the fire in May 2022, the clinic was being renovated with plans to open within the next several weeks. The fire delayed the clinic almost a year; Wellspring Health Access finally opened April 20 of this year.
Though Green told investigators she opposed abortion, the Casper College student showed no sign of anti-abortion views or activism on social media. Green is from Casper and was living in Laramie at the time of the fire.
She told a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent she bought gas cans and aluminum pans the day before the fire, drove to Casper, and carried the cans and pans to the clinic in a bag, matching security video and a witness’ account, according to a court filing.
She admitted to using a rock to break glass in a door to enter and pouring gasoline into the pans in several rooms and on the floor before lighting it, according to the document.
Investigators said they made little progress finding who started the fire until a reward was increased to $15,000 in March, leading several tipsters to identify Green.
WYOMING ABORTION CLINIC ARSON SUSPECT SEEN ON NEW VIDEO CARRYING GASOLINE INSIDE BEFORE FIRE
While Green has remained publicly quiet about her views, many other clinic opponents have not. Protesters gather outside the clinic regularly, and in May, Casper Mayor Bruce Knell apologized for a Facebook post about the clinic some interpreted as sympathizing with the fire attack.
Wellspring Health Access provides surgical and pill abortions, making it the first of the kind in the state in at least a decade. Before it opened, only one other clinic in Wyoming — one in Jackson, some 250 miles away — provided abortions, and only by pill.
The fire and plans for Wellspring Health Access — led by longtime abortion advocate Julie Burkhart, a former associate of assassinated Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller — occurred amid a contentious backdrop for abortion in Wyoming. Women in the rural state often go to Colorado and other nearby states for abortions.
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming after a series of court rulings suspending new state laws seeking to make abortion illegal pending the outcome of a lawsuit challenging the bans.
Last summer, Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens suspended an abortion ban that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Wyoming’s ban stood to harm women and their doctors who sued to contest the ban, Owens ruled.
Since then, Owens has suspended a new abortion ban written to try to overcome the first ban’s legal shortcomings, as well as Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation explicit ban on abortion pills, which had been set to take effect July 1.
Owens has expressed sympathy with arguments that a 2012 state constitutional amendment guaranteeing Wyoming residents’ right to make their own health care decisions conflicted with the bans.
___ Bedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.