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An illegal alien was arrested on Wednesday after killing two BYU students in a crash in Orem, Utah.
Ceasar Castellon-Flores killed killed Hailee York, 21, of
Lehi, and Ashlyn Hanzon, 21, of Pearland, Texas when he flew through an
intersection on Friday. Cstellon-Flores does not have a license and was
in the country illegally.
An unlicensed driver who was allegedly trying to “beat the light”
when he crashed into another vehicle, killing two BYU students, was
booked into the Utah County Jail on Wednesday.
Ceasar Castellon-Flores, 20, of Orem, was arrested for investigation
of two counts of manslaughter, negligent collision, reckless driving,
speeding and two counts of not obtaining a license.
Friday night, a crash at the intersection of 400 S. State in Orem
killed Hailee York, 21, of Lehi, and Ashlyn Hanzon, 21, of Pearland,
Texas. The women were in a Chevy Malibu making a left turn onto State
Street when a Jeep Cherokee allegedly tried to speed through the
intersection after it turned yellow, according to a police booking
affidavit…
…Police noted that the driver of the Jeep, Castellon-Flores, actually
passed other cars in front of him that were in the process of slowing
and stopping for the traffic signal. Investigators determined that
Castellon-Flores was traveling 68 mph in a 40 mph zone, and then
increased his speed to 73 mph once the light turned yellow, according to
the affidavit. When he realized he was about to hit another car, the
Jeep was only able to reduce its speed to 67 mph before the collision,
the affidavit states.
Castellon-Flores is an undocumented citizen, according to the
affidavit, and appeared to officers to be “making an attempt to flee or
elude police” when they came to his house after the investigation to
look for him.
Its
Republican governor weathered months of scorn for loosening pandemic
restrictions ahead of other state leaders. Its case counts, when on the
rise, are often cited by critics as evidence that the entire Republican
approach to managing the virus has failed.
But drops in Florida’s case counts invite a fraction of the attention.
New infections per 100,000 residents dropped to 12 over the past week, according to the New York Times coronavirus tracker. Over the past 14 days, cases dropped by 48%.
Other states with far more expansive pandemic restrictions are seeing COVID-19 continue to spread at faster rates than Florida.
In New York, for example, the rate of new cases is more than double that of Florida’s at 25 per 100,000 residents over the past week.
In Washington state, the rate of new infections per 100,000 residents was at 31 during the past week.
Critics
have vilified Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for a pandemic response that
deviated early from what other states did to limit transmission. He
allowed businesses to resume operations with some limits in early May
2020, just two months after the virus shuttered virtually the entire
country, and by September of last year had lifted all restrictions and began efforts to limit new ones that local governments could impose.
J.
Edwin Benton, a political science professor at the University of South
Florida who cast doubt on the veracity of Florida’s current numbers,
suggested DeSantis’ political ambitions have likely driven both his
pandemic-related decisions and the intense attention paid to them.
“It’s
a right-wing approach, and it’s just a page out of Trump’s playbook,”
Benton told the Washington Examiner. “He’s doing it to mimic what Trump
would still be doing and did do prior to being voted out of office.”
Other
Republican governors who ditched restrictions early or have so far
resisted pressure to require vaccination have faced much less heat for
pursuing the same kind of policies as DeSantis; Benton said that’s
because “they aren’t running for president” like Florida’s chief
executive.
Few of the more dramatic predictions about the result of DeSantis’ approach have come to pass.
In the spring, low case counts and low unemployment earned DeSantis some positive media coverage and a limited amount of praise.
But
the seeming success of his refusal to mandate masks, social-distancing
measures, and, ultimately, vaccines did not silence many of his more
vocal critics, who continued to sound the alarm over the summer of
DeSantis’ push to reopen schools fully without any masking requirements
in the classroom.
That changed in August and September when the
highly contagious delta variant drove a deadly wave of new infections
that hit Florida, with its high population of elderly residents,
especially hard.
The spike in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths attracted widespread nationalcoverage
and a fresh round of criticism aimed at DeSantis, who was at that point
not just declining to implement pandemic-related mandates statewide but
actively attempting to stop any Florida entity from adopting them on
their own.
Florida’s apparent emergence from that wave and return to a transmission rate lowerthanitsneighbors and much of the country has warranted little reevaluation of the narrative surrounding DeSantis’ stewardship of the state.
While
Florida’s summer surge in cases was viewed in media coverage and
political commentary through the lens of DeSantis’ leadership, the
state’s current COVID-19 decline has been framed as a product of trendsaffecting all states — when it’s warranted coverage at all.
In
Washington state, with nearly three times the number of new COVID-19
infections this past week than Florida, state employees faced a deadline
Monday to take the vaccine or lose their jobs.
Some sectors of
New York, including healthcare workers and New York City school
personnel, have also faced vaccine mandates that so far have not brought
COVID-19 infections down to the level currently seen in Florida.
Chicago museum fires all of it's mostly White female, financially well-off docents for lack of diversity
Emma Colton
·4 min read
The Art Institute of Chicago fired all of its trained volunteers and guides last month, who were mostly older White women, to diversify its team.
"We
were surprised, we were disappointed," Gigi Vaffis, president of the
docent council, said in an interview with radio station WBEZ of the
firings. "There is an army of very highly skilled docents that are
willing and ready and able to continue with arts education."
The
Art Institute used to have more than 100 docents, 82 of whom were
active, until an executive director of learning and engagement, Veronica
Stein, sent an email on Sept. 3 firing them all, the Wall Street Journal reported. Docents are trained volunteers who lead tours of museums, and at the Art Institute, they averaged 15 years of unpaid service.
back up to restore default view.
The
firings were apparently sparked by the fact that most of the docent
staff was composed of older White, financially well-off women, the
outlet reported. Stein said that the museum needed to take a new path
"in a way that allows community members of all income levels to
participate, responds to issues of class and income equity, and does not
require financial flexibility."
The fired docents were offered a two-year free pass to the museum as gratitude for their previous service.
The
institute is one of America’s oldest and largest museums, with its
docent program launching in 1961 as part of an initiative of the Woman’s
Board and the Junior League of Chicago.
The docents sent a
letter on Sept. 13 detailing the staff "engaged in eighteen months of
twice-a-week training to qualify as a docent, five years of continual
research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas,
and monthly and bi-weekly trainings to further educate ourselves with
the materials, processes and cultural context" of the museum’s pieces.
"It
was nearly a full-time job," Dietrich Klevorn, a docent since 2012,
told the Wall Street Journal. "We had to spend a lot of time physically
in the museum studying works of art, researching, putting tours
together."
"We had to be very comprehensive about everything as
we talked with them, moving through the space," she said. Klevorn was
the only docent to speak on the record to WSJ, after the museum
reportedly requested they not speak to the media. The institute told Fox
News later Sunday that "the museum did not ask the docents not to speak
to media," but that the docent council decided to decline further
comment to the press.
The Chicago Tribune’s Editorial Board even hit back at the museum’s decision, calling Stein’s termination letter to the docents as "weaselly."
"Why
not invest some time in recruiting new, diverse docents? Why not grow
the corps in such a way that it’s refreshed? Why not help docents who
need help with expenses or child care? Why not have a hybrid model, at
least until the current docents exit?" the board wrote in its Sept. 27
opinion piece.
"Instead
of trashing volunteerism as inherently elitist, why not avow and attest
to its ongoing value as a vital part of necessary diversification and
cultural change?"
Robert Levy, chairman of the Art Institute,
defended the decision to fire the docents days later in his own op-ed,
and said that the plan to do so had been in the works for 12 years.
"Critical
self-reflection and participatory, recuperative action is required if
we are to remain relevant to the changing audiences seeking connection
to art," he wrote.
Klevorn,
who is Black, conceded to WSJ that the docent staff was "not a
demographically representative population." Vaffis, however, noted that
the staff was a diverse group socioeconomically, and included a fireman
and condo manager among the group.
"Still, the Art Institute
hasn’t explained why they had to be jettisoned en masse and not
diversified over time. The museum appears to be in the grips of a
self-defeating overcorrection. It has adopted the language of diversity,
inclusion and equity so completely that it was willing to fire the same
upper-middle class volunteers it relies on for charitable donations,"
WSJ noted.
The Art Institute told Fox News in comment on Sunday that they "have not fired anyone."
"We
thought we were being very clear when outlining our plan, but somehow
this has been twisted into unfounded accusations of reverse racism
resulting in lewd threats against our staff. We’re simply pausing a
volunteer educator program and would never want to diminish the
contributions they have made. This should not be the roots of a culture
war," a spokesperson for the institute said.
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According to the VAERS tracking website, in the United States, 4,144 Americans have died following the Moderna COVID vaccination. 11,346 have died due to the Pfizer vaccination.
On Monday the FDA delayed approval for the Moderna vaccine for children.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it would delay
its decision on administration of the Moderna vaccine to adolescents,
citing concerns the shot may lead to a heightened risk of a rare heart
condition.
The FDA has not yet determined if the risk is higher for adolescents,
but the agency is planning to review the data further before extending
the vaccine’s eligibility, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“I think people can be reassured that the risk of myocarditis with an
mRNA vaccine is low, it appears to be balanced between the different
products,” Paul Burton, Moderna’s chief medical officer, told the
outlet.
Jamie Lee Curtis has implied that the new “Halloween Kills” film
that opens this Friday is about the January 6th protest at the Capitol.
However, Curtis is full of crap because the movie was filmed from September to November 2019.
Curtis has been an outspoken anti-Trump fanatic for quite some time.
Mr. Trump. You are an embarrassment to this great country. A country made up of immigrants and dreamers and patriots. The only “shithole” is you.
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Speaking to horror filmmaker Eli Roth for his “History of Horror” podcast, Curtis said that the 2018 Halloween movie was about the #MeToo movement and the one opening on Friday was about Trump supporters.
“[When] we were launching the 2018 movie, it was right in the center
of the MeToo movement,” Curtis said. “And so women taking power and
speaking truth to power and voicing their experiences as trauma victims
was echoing all over the world when we released that movie — a movie
about a woman taking power from her trauma against her oppressor.”
“The second movie is about mob violence,” Curtis said. “We have just
in America watched a mob descend on January 6 with nooses and stun guns
and members of Congress in the building. And we all watched it on TV.”
Breitbart reports
that “Curtis described the new movie as the story of a ‘mob descending
together,’ comprised of people who are going ‘to take matters into their
own hands.'”
Four Trump supporters died at the Jan. 6 protests – at least two were killed by police.
Gen.
Colin Powell, the influential former secretary of state and chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff who played a pivotal policy role during the
administration of then-President George W. Bush, died Monday at 84 from
complications related to COVID-19, his family announced."We
have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a
great American," his family said in a statement, adding that he was
fully vaccinated.
The statement continued, "We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment."
Gen. Colin Powell, seen here in New York City in 2017, died from COVID-19 complications, his family announced.
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Powell,
the first African-American secretary of state, served in Bush's Cabinet
from 2001-2005, including during the tumultuous years following the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
This is a developing story; check back for updates.