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FILE - A worker returns voting machines to storage at the Fulton County Election preparation Center on Nov. 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Ga. The list of security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations ongoing in at least three states, Colorado, Georgia and Michigan. Security experts say the breaches by themselves have not necessarily increased threats to the November elections, but say they increase the possibility that rogue election workers could access election equipment to launch attacks.
FILE - MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, speaks to reporters outside federal court in Washington, June 24, 2021. Lindell, who has organized or attended forums around the U.S. peddling conspiracy theories about voting machines, said earlier this week that he had received a subpoena from a federal grand jury investigating the breach in Colorado and was ordered to hand over his cell phone to FBI agents who approached him at a fast-food restaurant in Minnesota.
FILE - A monitor showing Dominion Voting Image Cast Central display tab is seen as Cobb County Election officials count ballots on a machine Nov. 24, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. The list of security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations ongoing in at least three states, Colorado, Georgia and Michigan.
FILE - A worker returns voting machines to storage at the Fulton County Election preparation Center on Nov. 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Ga. The list of security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations ongoing in at least three states, Colorado, Georgia and Michigan. Security experts say the breaches by themselves have not necessarily increased threats to the November elections, but say they increase the possibility that rogue election workers could access election equipment to launch attacks.
FILE - MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, speaks to reporters outside federal court in Washington, June 24, 2021. Lindell, who has organized or attended forums around the U.S. peddling conspiracy theories about voting machines, said earlier this week that he had received a subpoena from a federal grand jury investigating the breach in Colorado and was ordered to hand over his cell phone to FBI agents who approached him at a fast-food restaurant in Minnesota.
FILE - A monitor showing Dominion Voting Image Cast Central display tab is seen as Cobb County Election officials count ballots on a machine Nov. 24, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. The list of security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations ongoing in at least three states, Colorado, Georgia and Michigan.
ATLANTA (AP) — Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting software available for download. Ballot-counting machines inspected by people not supposed to have access.
The list of suspected security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations underway in at least three states -- Colorado, Georgia and Michigan. The stakes appeared to rise this week when the existence of a federal probe came to light involving a prominent loyalist to former President Donald Trump who has been promoting voting machine conspiracy theories across the country.
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Theater staged a pandemic comeback, but audiences didn’t get the memo.
Shelby Jordan, whose spectacular career at Washington University in St. Louis earned him a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame and an 11-year NFL career, has died. He was 70. Jordan died on Sept. 9, according to statements released by the Hall of Fame and the New England Patriots. Neither gave a cause of death or said where his death occurred. Jordan was a seventh-round draft pick by the Houston Oilers in the 1973 NFL Draft. He was an offensive lineman in the NFL with the Patriots and Los Angeles Raiders.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A conservative gathering this month in Charlotte will feature U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and other Republicans.
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
Aric Almirola continued NASCAR's trend of non-playoff drivers stealing the show with a pole-winning run Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. The Saturday night race at Bristol is the first playoff eliminator and the 16-driver field will be cut by four. Christopher Bell is the only driver locked into the next round because non-playoff drivers Erik Jones and Bubba Wallace won the first two rounds. Now it will be Almirola leading the field to the green flag after Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Chase Briscoe couldn’t knock him from the pole in Friday final run.
Point guard Dennis Schröder is returning for a second stint with the Los Angeles Lakers. Schröder’s agency, Priority Sports, announced the deal on social media. The German guard spent the 2020-21 season with LeBron James and the Lakers, averaging 15.4 points and 5.8 assists per game. Los Angeles offered him a four-year contract extension worth more than $80 million during the season, but he turned it down to seek more money in free agency. Schröder struck out in the market and signed a $5.9 million deal with the Boston Celtics, who then traded him to Houston late last season.
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. The ruling Friday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is a victory for Republicans who accuse the platforms of censoring conservative speech. But the decision is not likely the last word on a legal battle that has stakes beyond Texas and could affect how some of the world’s biggest tech companies regulate content by their users. A similar law was also passed in Florida and ruled unconstitutional by a separate appeal court. The Texas law has been challenged by tech trade groups that warn that it would prevent platforms from removing extremism and hate speech.
A judge has approved a fund for more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by a University of Michigan doctor. The order allows victims to start collecting a portion of a $490 million settlement negotiated with the school. Robert Anderson died in 2008 after working at the university for nearly 40 years. He was director of the campus Health Service and a physician for multiple sports teams, including football. Former athletes, students and others who had no connection to the university said they were molested by Anderson during routine physicals or other visits. The settlement was announced in January, but the final details took months to wrap up.
Judge approves fund as part of $490 million settlement between University of Michigan, late doctor's sex-assault victims.
Police in Virginia are searching for a man found guilty earlier this week of conspiring to kill a college student who was a nephew of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. Norfolk police say a jury found Rashad Dooley guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the death of Christopher Cummings in 2011. Dooley wasn’t in court and police said Friday that three warrants for failure to appear were issued for his arrest. Dooley is one of four Newport News men charged in the case last year, more than 10 years after Cummings, a student at Old Dominion University, was fatally shot and his roommate was injured.
Residents on Alaska’s vast and sparsely populated western coast braced for what forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history, accompanied by strong winds and high surf that could knock out power and cause flooding. The storm is the remnants of Typhoon Merbok. Warnings anticipate winds reaching hurricane-force speeds in places, water levels reaching up to 18 feet above normal high tide in some communities and widespread power outages and areas of flooding and erosion. The storm also is influencing weather patterns far from Alaska — a rare late-summer storm is expected to bring rain this weekend to drought-stricken parts of California.
The top two picks in the 2016 draft will be under center Sunday at Ford Field. Detroit quarterback Jared Goff was selected No. 1 by the Los Angeles Rams and Washington quarterback Carson Wentz was selected by Philadelphia one pick later. Wentz beat Goff in 2017, and Goff won three years later in a rematch. Washington is coming off a 28-22 win over Jacksonville and is aiming for its first 2-0 start since 2011. Detroit dropped its opener 38-35 to Philadelphia, giving up 30-plus points for the eighth time in 18 games under coach Dan Campbell.
As the U.S. attorney in Kansas in 2019, Stephen McAllister said he asked the FBI to initiate an investigation into Roger Golubski, a former detective long suspected of various criminal activities.
A Texas judge has expanded her order blocking the state from investigating families of transgender youth who have received gender- affirming medical care. Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction Friday preventing the state from investigating members of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG Inc. over the care. The group has more than 600 members in Texas. Meachum in July issued an order blocking investigations against two families of transgender children who had sued the state. The ruling was the latest against the state’s efforts to label gender-affirming care as child abuse.
North Carolina’s hospitals and hospital systems have unveiled an offer that could shake up stalled negotiations on legislation that would expand Medicaid to cover hundreds of thousands of low-income adults. The North Carolina Healthcare Association said it sent an offer on Friday to Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Both the House and Senate approved expansion measures in June but no agreement was reached before the General Assembly's primary work session ended. Senate leader Phil Berger this summer accused the association of refusing to compromise on “certificate of need” rules for medical facilities. The association's offer contains changes and outright repeals to those rules.
President Joe Biden is meeting with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another American detained in Russia, Paul Whelan. The meetings Friday at the White House are the first face-to-face encounter between the president and the relatives of Griner and Whelan. Administration officials say the sessions are meant to underscore Biden’s commitment to bringing home Americans held overseas and to establish a personal connection, but are not an indication that negotiations with Russia for their release have reached a breakthrough. A national security spokesman told reporters Friday that the U.S. had made a serious offer to get the Americans home but the Russians had not responded to that offer.
For the second time in less than a year, Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly finds himself convicted of serious federal child-sex crimes and staring at a lengthy prison term.
Stricter air quality regulations are coming for northern Colorado businesses after the Environmental Protection Agency downgraded the area to a category for “severe” violators of ozone standards. Drivers may have to be pay higher gas prices too. That’s because the reclassification announced Friday prohibits the sale of conventional gasoline within one year. The Colorado area was one of six areas to get downgraded by the EPA along with the Chicago area; the Dallas-Forth Worth and Houston areas in Texas; parts of Connecticut, the New York-New Jersey-Long Island area and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians in southern California.
A Texas judge has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to halt all investigations into the families of transgender children if they are members of the LGBT advocacy nonprofit PFLAG.
Mexico’s Independence Day parade had even more of a militaristic air this year coming just days after the relatively new National Guard was passed completely to the command of the military. The gray-camouflaged National Guard troops were a heavy presence Friday in the display in central Mexico City. With the guard’s recent transfer and a push to extend permission for Mexico’s military to remain in a policing role through 2028, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has concentrated his domestic security strategy on the country’s soldiers and marines. Standing before rows of thousands of troops Friday, López Obrador thanked the navy and army for their loyalty.
Mexico’s Independence Day parade had even more of a militaristic air this year coming just days after the relatively new National Guard was passed completely to the command of the military. The gray-camouflaged National Guard troops were a heavy presence Friday in the display in central Mexico City. With the guard’s recent transfer and a push to extend permission for Mexico’s military to remain in a policing role through 2028, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has concentrated his domestic security strategy on the country’s soldiers and marines. Standing before rows of thousands of troops Friday, López Obrador thanked the navy and army for their loyalty.
NEW YORK — The music of the night is coming to an end — after 35 years.
Justin Jefferson has proven to be one of the most difficult receivers in the NFL to cover. The Minnesota Vikings are trying to toughen the task for opponents by making it harder to figure out where Jefferson is going to be. Jefferson had 184 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the opening victory over Green Bay and was frequently in motion before the snap. The Vikings will try to keep that up on Monday at Philadelphia. The Eagles passed on Jefferson in the first round of the 2020 draft by picking Jalen Reagor one spot before him.
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has fractured rib cartilage after taking a hit during the fourth quarter of Thursday night’s 27-24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Coach Brandon Staley said a CT scan Friday morning confirmed the injury. Staley said the third-year quarterback is day-to-day and that his status will be evaluated again on Monday. The Chargers don’t return to the practice field until Wednesday, when they will start preparing to host Jacksonville on Sept. 25. Herbert only missed one play and still threw the ball effectively after the injury.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Deputies arrested a man wanted in two counties Wednesday after a traffic stop check revealed he was transporting a large supply of fentanyl and marijuana, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
DALLAS — Eric Johnson said Friday that he’ll seek reelection next year as Dallas mayor.
CHICAGO — By sending unknown rookie Hunter Gaddis to the mound Thursday in a makeup game at Progressive Field, the Cleveland Guardians sent a message to the Chicago White Sox:
SAN DIEGO — The Chargers have talent advantages over the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Pentagon's intelligence chief says Russian forces have shown themselves incapable of achieving President Vladimir Putin’s initial objectives in Ukraine, as things stand now. Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier spoke on Friday to an intelligence and national security forum outside Washington. He said Putin is at a point where he will have to revise his initial aims in invading Ukraine. Berrier said what Putin decides next will determine how long the conflict continues. His comments followed Russian forces latest major setback, a Ukrainian offensive that drove Russians out of a large swath of northeast Ukraine. Putin on Friday vowed to keep pressing his offensive.
Hundreds of people, including police officers from throughout Colorado, paid tribute Friday at a funeral service for Dillon Vakoff, a suburban Denver police officer who was fatally shot while trying to break up a family disturbance earlier this week. Police motorcycle officers led the procession that included a hearse bearing the Arvada officer’s casket to a Lafayette church as residents saluted along the route. The 27-year-old Vakoff died Sunday after being shot while he and another officer responded to the disturbance that spilled into a street outside a housing complex. He was the second Arvada police officer to be killed in the line of duty in two years. A suspect is in custody.
Marcus Stroman won at Wrigley Field for the first time since signing with the Cubs, pitching no-hit ball into the sixth inning during a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Stroman, who signed a $71 million, four-year contract, had been 0-5 with a 7.11 ERA in nine previous starts at Wrigley Field this season. Zach McKinstry homered and tripled as the Cubs extended a winning streak to four for the first time since mid-August. Colorado has lost three of four and dropped to a major league worst 22-48 on the road.
The Arizona Cardinals and Las Vegas Raiders look to shake off season-opening losses when the two 2021 playoff teams meet in Week 2. The Cardinals got blown out at home by Kansas City in the opener, while the Raiders lost a close game on the road to the Chargers. Both teams made the playoffs as wild cards last season and come into this year with high hopes of returning to the postseason.
Maryland’s football stadium will have a new name next month. The athletic department announced Friday a partnership with SECU, which is a state-chartered credit union. The deal includes renaming the venue SECU Stadium starting Oct. 1. It is currently called Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium. SECU is set to pay Maryland Athletics $11 million guaranteed, including a $2.5 million gift supporting programs and facilities. That includes the construction of a basketball performance center. The partnership is for 10 years. The school says Capital One and Maryland Athletics mutually agreed to terminate their current agreement.
Aston Villa further eased the pressure on manager Steven Gerrard with a scrappy 1-0 win over Southampton in the English Premier League earned by Jacob Ramsey’s 41st-minute goal. The midfielder’s first goal of the season lifted Villa to 13th place with a victory that built on its battling point against Manchester City two weeks ago. In between the league paused following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and there were tributes to the late monarch before the game. It was a forgettable game between two teams still searching for a consistent identity. Southampton slipped to a third defeat in four games.
SAN DIEGO — What is the insanely productive state of Alex Morgan's game, a goal-scoring avalanche in the debut season for San Diego Wave FC? How do you explain the absurd level of play at 33, as she shreds defenders like a spry 20-something?
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed Friday to spend all $12 million he has been given by state lawmakers on flights and buses sending migrants to sanctuary cities and states in protest of what he calls President Biden’s “reckless” border policies.
Ross Chastain heads into the first elimination race of NASCAR’s playoffs in a pretty comfortable position above the cutline. Kyle Busch, Austin Dillon, Chase Briscoe and Kevin Harvick are trying to stave off elimination Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway. And yet Chastain can’t relax, even as he sits ninth in the 16-driver field. The bottom four in the standings will be eliminated when the checkered flag falls at the Tennessee short track, and Chastain can’t guarantee he won’t be knocked below that cutline. He’s angered enough fellow drivers this year that any payback headed his way could be delivered at a most inopportune time.
Real Madrid has denounced the use of racist language to denigrate forward Vinícius Júnior. The Brazilian has been the focus of a debate in Spanish sports talk shows and sports news programs about the appropriateness of him dancing when he scores goals. But Madrid was moved to issue a statement in defense of its player after a guest on a televised sports talk show reportedly said Vinícius, who is Black, should stop “doing the monkey.” The club added it will take legal action against anyone who uses racist language against its player.
MINNEAPOLIS — While waiting for a flight last weekend, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve opened Twitter and saw Anthony Edwards' name trending. She clicked to see why.