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  • Spain’s High Minister Suggests Ditching Neckties To Save Power

    MADRID (AP) — Spain’s chief has proposed an energy-saving transfer that many males have already embraced.

    Spanish High Minister Pedro Sánchez has requested executive officers and folks operating within the personal sector to save lots of calories through giving up dressed in neckties at paintings.

    Showing at a information convention in an open-necked white blouse and blue jacket, Sánchez defined he had dressed much less officially now not as a nod to the informal Friday customized however to curb application use — probably air-conditioning, however he didn’t spell that out.

    “I´d such as you to notice that I’m really not dressed in a tie. That signifies that we will all make financial savings from an calories standpoint,” the top minister mentioned on the information convention known as to summarize his executive’s annual efficiency.

    He mentioned he inspired his ministers and public officers, “that if now not important, don’t use a tie.”

    Spain has sweltered for greater than a month, with temperatures in portions of the rustic ceaselessly surpassing 40 levels Celsius (104 levels Fahrenheit). The federal government has instructed folks to scale back electrical energy prices through now not overusing air con.

    Emerging calories prices for families and companies in Spain has been a significant factor in contemporary months, particularly for the reason that Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. Sánchez mentioned the federal government would provide a brand new energy-saving plan subsequent week, however he gave no main points.

    He mentioned the plan was once designed to chop application expenses and to scale back calories dependency on “the aggressor, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.”

    In June, Spain authorized financial reduction measures price greater than 9 billion euros ($9,2 billion), together with discounts in electrical energy taxes and a one-time cost of 200 euros ($200) for folks with low-incomes.

    Apply all AP tales on weather alternate problems at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment.

  • 0 FIR lodged towards Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary over remarks towards President Murmu

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    BHOPAL: Whilst BJP and Congress individuals indulged in a heated trade of phrases within the Parliament on Thursday, over the Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary’s alleged “Rashtrapatni” remarks towards President Draupadi Murmu, again within the tribal-dominated Dindori district of the BJP dominated Madhya Pradesh, 0 FIR was once lodged towards Chaudhary at the grievance of the ruling celebration’s nationwide secretary Om Prakash Dhurve.

    Whilst confirming the accommodation of 0 FIR, in search of motion towards Chaudhary at the grievance of the BJP chief Om Prakash Dhurve, the Dindori district’s further SP (ASP) Jagannath Markam stated the FIR can be transferred for additional investigations to the Parliament Boulevard police station in New Delhi.

    The 0 FIR has been lodged towards the Congress’s Lok Sabha member from West Bengal u/s 15B and 55[2] IPC.

    Confirming the advance, some other BJP chief Vinod Gotia, chairman of MP State Tourism Construction Company, stated by means of making indecent remarks towards Murmu, Chaudhary has insulted the publish of the President of India, girls and all the tribal inhabitants of the rustic, owing to which the FIR has been lodged on the Dindori Kotwali by means of the previous MP minister and BJP nationwide secretary Om Prakash Dhurve.

    BHOPAL: Whilst BJP and Congress individuals indulged in a heated trade of phrases within the Parliament on Thursday, over the Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary’s alleged “Rashtrapatni” remarks towards President Draupadi Murmu, again within the tribal-dominated Dindori district of the BJP dominated Madhya Pradesh, 0 FIR was once lodged towards Chaudhary at the grievance of the ruling celebration’s nationwide secretary Om Prakash Dhurve.

    Whilst confirming the accommodation of 0 FIR, in search of motion towards Chaudhary at the grievance of the BJP chief Om Prakash Dhurve, the Dindori district’s further SP (ASP) Jagannath Markam stated the FIR can be transferred for additional investigations to the Parliament Boulevard police station in New Delhi.

    The 0 FIR has been lodged towards the Congress’s Lok Sabha member from West Bengal u/s 15B and 55[2] IPC.

    Confirming the advance, some other BJP chief Vinod Gotia, chairman of MP State Tourism Construction Company, stated by means of making indecent remarks towards Murmu, Chaudhary has insulted the publish of the President of India, girls and all the tribal inhabitants of the rustic, owing to which the FIR has been lodged on the Dindori Kotwali by means of the previous MP minister and BJP nationwide secretary Om Prakash Dhurve.

  • Curtain rises for Droupadi Murmu as India’s fifteenth President; swearing-in to have tribal contact

    Through On-line Table

    NEW DELHI: Elaborate preparations are in position for the swearing-in of Droupadi Murmu – India’s first tribal lady president, within the Central Corridor of Parliament on Monday.

    The President-elect can be sworn-in because the fifteenth President of India.

    President Ram Nath Kovind and President-elect Droupadi Murmu will arrive within the Central Corridor in a ceremonial procession. The President-elect will take the Oath of Place of business within the presence of the Leader Justice of India NV Ramana, adopted through a 21-gun salute. 

    The time period of President Ram Nath Kovind involves an finish on Sunday. Murmu would be the first member of the tribal group and the second one lady to carry the highest constitutional publish within the nation.

    Murmu used to be the primary lady governor of Jharkhand and served within the publish from 2015 to 2021.

    Born in a deficient tribal circle of relatives in a village of Mayurbhanj, a backward district in Odisha, Droupadi Murmu finished her research in spite of difficult cases. She taught at Shri Aurobindo Integral Training Centre, Rairangpur. She has additionally served as a minister in Odisha.

    Particular saree 

    Murmu might put on a standard Santali saree when she takes the oath of workplace in Delhi on Monday. Her sister-in-law Sukri Tudu is travelling to Delhi with a different saree utilized by Santal girls in Jap India.

    Sukri in conjunction with her husband Tarinisen Tudu on Saturday left for the nationwide capital to witness the oath taking rite to be held on the Parliament’s central corridor.

    “I’m really not certain what she’s going to in truth put on throughout the instance. The Rashtrapati Bhawan will come to a decision the get dressed of the brand new president,” Sukri stated.

    The Santali sarees have some stripe-work on one finish and is worn through the Santal girls on particular events. The saree is vertically symmetric and has each the ends designed with the similar motifs.

    She could also be wearing conventional candy pancakes, also known as ‘Arisa Pitha’ for Murmu.

    In the meantime, Murmu’s daughter Itishree, a financial institution officer and her husband Ganesh Hembram, have reached New Delhi and are staying with the President-elect.

    “Most effective 4 contributors of the President-elect’s circle of relatives – brother, sister-in-law, daughter and son-in-law – will attend the oath-taking rite,” stated a senior BJP chief including that essence of ‘adivasi’ tradition and custom might be mirrored within the swearing-in of the rustic’s fifteenth President.

    Why July 25 holds particular position? 

    Droupadi Murmu will turn out to be the tenth successive president to take oath on July 25 since 1977. Information display that since 1977, successive presidents have taken oath on July 25.

    India’s first President Rajendra Prasad took oath on January 26, 1950 — the day India turned into a Republic.

    In 1952, he went directly to win the primary presidential ballot. He received the second one presidential election and used to be in workplace until Would possibly 1962.

    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan took oath because the president on Would possibly 13, 1962 and used to be in workplace until Would possibly 13, 1967.

    Two presidents — Zakir Husain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed — may just no longer entire their tenures as they died in harness. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, the 6th president of India, took oath on July 25, 1977.

    Since then successive presidents together with Giani Zail Singh, R Venkataraman, Shankar Dayal Sharma, Ok R Narayanan, A P J Abdul Kalam, Pratibha Patil, Pranab Mukherjee and Ram Nath Kovind have taken oath on July 25.

    Hopes of tribals 

    Hopes and aspirations are working prime amongst tribal of Jharkhand as they appear as much as Droupadi Murmu to pave the best way for his or her ‘sengel’ (empowerment) after “centuries of forget”.

    They’re additionally positive that Murmu would take steps to fructify a long-standing call for through tribals that the Centre recognise their faith as ‘Sarna’ and make sure enumeration beneath this class within the subsequent census.

    Conclusion of the rite 

    The Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu used to be formally declared because the fifteenth President of the rustic after the belief of the counting of votes on Thursday.

    The President will then ship an cope with. At the conclusion of the rite, the President will depart for Rashtrapati Bhavan the place an Inter-Services and products Guard of Honour can be given to her within the forecourt and courtesies can be prolonged to the outgoing President.

    In line with the Ministry of House Affairs, Chairman of the Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu, Top Minister Narendra Modi, Leader Justice of India NV Ramana, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and contributors of the Council of Ministers, state Governors, Leader Ministers, Heads of Diplomatic Missions, Contributors of Parliament and foremost civil and army Officials of the federal government of India will compile within the Central Corridor for the rite on Monday.

    Previous, BJD supremo and Odisha Leader Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday in conjunction with his celebration MPs met President-elect Droupadi Murmu right here and congratulated her on profitable the election.

    (With inputs from companies)

    NEW DELHI: Elaborate preparations are in position for the swearing-in of Droupadi Murmu – India’s first tribal lady president, within the Central Corridor of Parliament on Monday.

    The President-elect can be sworn-in because the fifteenth President of India.

    President Ram Nath Kovind and President-elect Droupadi Murmu will arrive within the Central Corridor in a ceremonial procession. The President-elect will take the Oath of Place of business within the presence of the Leader Justice of India NV Ramana, adopted through a 21-gun salute. 

    The time period of President Ram Nath Kovind involves an finish on Sunday. Murmu would be the first member of the tribal group and the second one lady to carry the highest constitutional publish within the nation.

    Murmu used to be the primary lady governor of Jharkhand and served within the publish from 2015 to 2021.

    Born in a deficient tribal circle of relatives in a village of Mayurbhanj, a backward district in Odisha, Droupadi Murmu finished her research in spite of difficult cases. She taught at Shri Aurobindo Integral Training Centre, Rairangpur. She has additionally served as a minister in Odisha.

    Particular saree 

    Murmu might put on a standard Santali saree when she takes the oath of workplace in Delhi on Monday. Her sister-in-law Sukri Tudu is travelling to Delhi with a different saree utilized by Santal girls in Jap India.

    Sukri in conjunction with her husband Tarinisen Tudu on Saturday left for the nationwide capital to witness the oath taking rite to be held on the Parliament’s central corridor.

    “I’m really not certain what she’s going to in truth put on throughout the instance. The Rashtrapati Bhawan will come to a decision the get dressed of the brand new president,” Sukri stated.

    The Santali sarees have some stripe-work on one finish and is worn through the Santal girls on particular events. The saree is vertically symmetric and has each the ends designed with the similar motifs.

    She could also be wearing conventional candy pancakes, also known as ‘Arisa Pitha’ for Murmu.

    In the meantime, Murmu’s daughter Itishree, a financial institution officer and her husband Ganesh Hembram, have reached New Delhi and are staying with the President-elect.

    “Most effective 4 contributors of the President-elect’s circle of relatives – brother, sister-in-law, daughter and son-in-law – will attend the oath-taking rite,” stated a senior BJP chief including that essence of ‘adivasi’ tradition and custom might be mirrored within the swearing-in of the rustic’s fifteenth President.

    Why July 25 holds particular position? 

    Droupadi Murmu will turn out to be the tenth successive president to take oath on July 25 since 1977. Information display that since 1977, successive presidents have taken oath on July 25.

    India’s first President Rajendra Prasad took oath on January 26, 1950 — the day India turned into a Republic.

    In 1952, he went directly to win the primary presidential ballot. He received the second one presidential election and used to be in workplace until Would possibly 1962.

    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan took oath because the president on Would possibly 13, 1962 and used to be in workplace until Would possibly 13, 1967.

    Two presidents — Zakir Husain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed — may just no longer entire their tenures as they died in harness. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, the 6th president of India, took oath on July 25, 1977.

    Since then successive presidents together with Giani Zail Singh, R Venkataraman, Shankar Dayal Sharma, Ok R Narayanan, A P J Abdul Kalam, Pratibha Patil, Pranab Mukherjee and Ram Nath Kovind have taken oath on July 25.

    Hopes of tribals 

    Hopes and aspirations are working prime amongst tribal of Jharkhand as they appear as much as Droupadi Murmu to pave the best way for his or her ‘sengel’ (empowerment) after “centuries of forget”.

    They’re additionally positive that Murmu would take steps to fructify a long-standing call for through tribals that the Centre recognise their faith as ‘Sarna’ and make sure enumeration beneath this class within the subsequent census.

    Conclusion of the rite 

    The Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu used to be formally declared because the fifteenth President of the rustic after the belief of the counting of votes on Thursday.

    The President will then ship an cope with. At the conclusion of the rite, the President will depart for Rashtrapati Bhavan the place an Inter-Services and products Guard of Honour can be given to her within the forecourt and courtesies can be prolonged to the outgoing President.

    In line with the Ministry of House Affairs, Chairman of the Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu, Top Minister Narendra Modi, Leader Justice of India NV Ramana, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and contributors of the Council of Ministers, state Governors, Leader Ministers, Heads of Diplomatic Missions, Contributors of Parliament and foremost civil and army Officials of the federal government of India will compile within the Central Corridor for the rite on Monday.

    Previous, BJD supremo and Odisha Leader Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday in conjunction with his celebration MPs met President-elect Droupadi Murmu right here and congratulated her on profitable the election.

    (With inputs from companies)

  • PM Modi hails President Kovind’s cope with as ‘inspiring’

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described President Ram Nath Kovind’s farewell cope with to the country as “inspiring” and stated his remarks show off his interest against nationwide growth.

    President Kovind advised youths to stick attached to their roots and appealed to all to give protection to the surroundings for the approaching generations, pronouncing mom nature is in deep agony and the local weather disaster can endanger the very long run of this planet.

    In his farewell cope with to the country, Kovind emphasized that the rustic is getting provided to make the twenty first century “the century of India”.

    “An inspiring cope with by means of President Kovind,” Top Minister Modi stated in a tweet. “His remarks show off his interest against nationwide growth and replicate the spirit with which he served the country as our President,” Modi stated.

    President-elect Droupadi Murmu will likely be sworn in as the rustic’s fifteenth President on Monday.

    In his closing televised cope with to the country, Kovind hailed India’s democracy, pronouncing it has “created pathways to let each and every citizen participate within the shaping of our collective future”.

    NEW DELHI: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described President Ram Nath Kovind’s farewell cope with to the country as “inspiring” and stated his remarks show off his interest against nationwide growth.

    President Kovind advised youths to stick attached to their roots and appealed to all to give protection to the surroundings for the approaching generations, pronouncing mom nature is in deep agony and the local weather disaster can endanger the very long run of this planet.

    In his farewell cope with to the country, Kovind emphasized that the rustic is getting provided to make the twenty first century “the century of India”.

    “An inspiring cope with by means of President Kovind,” Top Minister Modi stated in a tweet. “His remarks show off his interest against nationwide growth and replicate the spirit with which he served the country as our President,” Modi stated.

    President-elect Droupadi Murmu will likely be sworn in as the rustic’s fifteenth President on Monday.

    In his closing televised cope with to the country, Kovind hailed India’s democracy, pronouncing it has “created pathways to let each and every citizen participate within the shaping of our collective future”.

  • John Hinckley Jr. Apologizes For Taking pictures Ronald Reagan, 3 Others

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The person who wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981 apologized for his movements Tuesday and stated he doesn’t keep in mind what he used to be feeling when he fired the pictures that still wounded 3 others.

    John Hinckley Jr. advised CBS Mornings in his first televised interview since he used to be free of all courtroom oversight this month that he feels sorry for the entire lives his movements affected.

    “I believe badly for they all. I’ve true regret for what I did,” Hinckley stated. “I do know that they almost definitely can’t forgive me now, however I simply need them to understand that I’m sorry for what I did.”

    Going again to that day, Hinckley recalled Reagan strolling out of the Washington Hilton after giving a speech: “And I used to be proper there, and I fired pictures at him, which so sadly hit people, too.”

    Requested what emotions led him to shoot, Hinckley stated he can’t keep in mind the ones feelings and doesn’t need to.

    “It’s such every other lifetime in the past. I will’t let you know now the emotion I had proper as (Reagan) got here strolling out. I will’t let you know that,” he stated, later including: “It’s one thing I don’t need to keep in mind.”

    Hinckley used to be 25 and affected by acute psychosis when his gunshots wounded Reagan and 3 others. The assassination strive paralyzed Reagan press secretary James Brady, who died in 201. It additionally wounded a police officer and a Secret Carrier agent.

    Hinckley advised Main Garrett, CBS Information’ leader Washington correspondent, that he’s happy he didn’t prevail. He stated that on the time of the taking pictures he did “no longer have a excellent middle” and used to be doing issues “a excellent individual doesn’t do.”

    Jurors discovered Hinckley no longer responsible by way of reason why of madness and he spent a long time at a psychological health center in Washington.

    “I used to be no longer only a chilly, calculating prison in 1981,” he stated. “I in point of fact consider I had a major psychological sickness that used to be combating me from realizing proper from fallacious again then.”

    Hinckley started making visits to his folks’ house in Williamsburg, Virginia, within the early 2000s. A 2016 courtroom order granted him permission to are living along with his mom complete time, albeit underneath quite a lot of restrictions, after professionals stated his psychological sickness were in remission for many years.

    He signed a rent on a one-bedroom rental within the Williamsburg house final yr and has been dwelling on my own there along with his cat, consistent with courtroom paperwork. His mom died in July. He’s additionally been liberating songs on-line and in search of a venue keen to let him sing and play guitar sooner than a are living target audience.

    Hinckley had prior to now been underneath restrictions that barred him from proudly owning a gun, the usage of medication or alcohol or contacting individuals of the sufferers’ households. However a federal pass judgement on in Washington had stated months in the past that he would loose Hinckley from the ones restrictions if he remained mentally solid. The ones restrictions have been lifted on June 15.

    Tuesday’s apology used to be no longer Hinckley’s first. His lawyer Barry Levine stated all the way through a courtroom listening to final yr that Hinckley sought after to precise his “heartfelt” apologies and “profound be apologetic about” to the folks he shot and their households in addition to to actress Jodie Foster, who he used to be obsessive about on the time of the taking pictures, and to the American folks.

    As Hinckley expressed his regrets on Tuesday, he stated he hopes to melt the general public’s belief of him.

    “I’m simply seeking to display folks I’m roughly an unusual man who’s simply seeking to get alongside like everyone else,” he stated.

    However he doesn’t be expecting to peer forgiveness from his sufferers, announcing: “I truly don’t suppose that the Brady circle of relatives or the Reagan circle of relatives or Jodie Foster – I don’t suppose they need to listen from me.”

    “I believe horrible for what I did,” he stated. “If I may take all of it again, I might. I swear — I might take all of it again.”

  • WNBA Megastar Brittney Griner Ordered To Stand Trial Friday In Russia

    MOSCOW (AP) — Shackled and having a look cautious, WNBA megastar Brittney Griner was once ordered to face trial Friday via a court docket close to Moscow on hashish ownership fees, about 4 1/2 months after her arrest at an airport whilst returning to play for a Russian staff.

    The Phoenix Mercury heart and two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist additionally was once ordered to stay in custody at some point of her prison trial. Griner may face 10 years in jail if convicted on fees of large-scale transportation of gear. Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian prison instances are acquitted, and in contrast to within the U.S., acquittals will also be overturned.

    At Monday’s closed-door initial listening to on the court docket within the Moscow suburb of Khimki, Griner’s detention was once prolonged for any other six months. Footage got via The Related Press confirmed the 31-year-old in handcuffs and having a look instantly forward, in contrast to a prior court docket look the place she saved her head down and lined with a hood.

    Her detention and trial come at a very low level in Moscow-Washington family members. She was once arrested at Sheremetyevo World Airport not up to every week sooner than Russia despatched troops into Ukraine, which irritated already-high tensions with sweeping sanctions via america and Russia’s denunciation of U.S. weapon provides to Ukraine.

    Amid the tensions, Griner’s supporters had taken a low profile in hopes of a quiet solution, till Would possibly, when the State Division reclassified her as wrongfully detained and shifted oversight of her case to its particular presidential envoy for hostage affairs — successfully the U.S. executive’s leader negotiator.

    Griner’s spouse, Cherelle, steered President Joe Biden in Would possibly to safe her free up, calling her “a political pawn.”

    Her supporters have inspired a prisoner switch like the only in April that introduced house Marine veteran Trevor Reed in change for a Russian pilot convicted of drug trafficking conspiracy.

    Russian information media have time and again raised hypothesis that she might be swapped for Russian fingers dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed “The Service provider of Dying,” who’s serving a 25-year sentence on conviction of conspiracy to kill U.S. voters and offering assist to a 15 May Organization.

    Russia has agitated for Bout’s free up for years. However the discrepancy between Griner’s case — she allegedly was once present in ownership of vape cartridges containing hashish oil — and Bout’s world dealings in fatal guns may make this type of switch unpalatable to the U.S.

    Others have advised that she might be traded in tandem with Paul Whelan, a former Marine and safety director serving a 16-year sentence on an espionage conviction that america has time and again described as a set-up.

    U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, requested Sunday on CNN whether or not a joint switch of Griner and Whelan for Bout was once being thought to be, sidestepped the query.

    “As a normal proposition … I’ve were given no upper precedence than ensuring that American citizens who’re being illegally detained in a method or any other world wide come house,” he mentioned. However “I will be able to’t remark in any element on what we’re doing, apart from to mention that is an absolute precedence.”

  • Hugh McElhenny, NFL Corridor Of Repute Operating Again, Lifeless At 93

    NFL Corridor of Famer Hugh McElhenny, an elusive operating again from the Fifties has died. He used to be 93.

    The Professional Soccer Corridor of Repute mentioned in a information liberate that McEhlenny died of herbal reasons on June 17 at his house in Nevada, and that son-in-law Chris Permann showed the demise.

    Elected to the Professional Soccer Corridor of Repute in 1970, McElhenny’s exciting runs and all-around abilities as a runner, receiver and kick returner made him some of the NFL’s most sensible avid gamers of the Fifties. He used to be the league’s Rookie of the 12 months in 1952 (ahead of the award was legit) and made two All-Professional groups, six Professional Bowls and the NFL’s All-Decade squad of the Fifties.

    “Hugh McElhenny used to be a risk in all stages of the sport offensively — speeding, go receiving and as a kick and punt returner. His all-around ability — evident to professional soccer scouts when Hugh used to be nonetheless a teen — will probably be celebrated and preserved eternally in Canton,” Corridor of Repute President Jim Porter mentioned in a commentary.

    An all-conference participant at Washington, the place he set a number of Pacific Coast Convention data, McElhenny used to be decided on 9th general within the 1952 draft and made a direct have an effect on. No longer handiest did he lead the run-happy NFL in yards in keeping with raise (7.0) that season, however McElhenny had the longest rush from scrimmage, 89 yards, and the longest punt go back, 94 yards. He scored 10 touchdowns as a rookie.

    It used to be the start of a stretch of 9 seasons wherein McElhenny used to be the 49ers’ number one offensive weapon. Simplest in 1954, when a separated shoulder sidelined him after six video games, and 1960, his ultimate yr in San Francisco, used to be McElhenny now not a point of interest for the Niners.

    “The 49ers circle of relatives is heartbroken to be told of the passing of some of the NFL’s all-time greats, Hugh McElhenny,” San Francisco co-chairman Dr. John York mentioned in a commentary. “Rising up, my favourite workforce used to be the 49ers. I take into account such a lot of nice avid gamers from the past due 50s and 60s. After I began to ask an alum to each and every recreation, my objective used to be to satisfy the “Million Greenback Backfield”. Hugh used to be the final of the 4 to enroll in us and we remained pals. Hugh is a brilliant a part of 49ers historical past.”

    McEhlenny additionally used to be one thing of a franchise savior, which used to be becoming since the 49ers as soon as attempted to signal him out of highschool once they had been nonetheless within the All-American Soccer Convention.

    “When Hugh joined the 49ers in 1952,” Lou Spadia, then the workforce’s common supervisor, mentioned, “it used to be questionable whether or not our franchise may live to tell the tale. McElhenny got rid of all doubts. That’s why we name him our franchise saver.”

    Defenders would name him one thing else as they were given fingers filled with air as an alternative of the ball provider.

    “My perspective sporting the ball used to be concern,” he mentioned. “No longer an apprehension of having harm, however an apprehension of having stuck from at the back of and brought down and embarrassing myself and my teammates.”

    Simply recognizable for his lengthy stride and top knee motion, McElhenny now not handiest used to be rapid however had the strikes of a spoil dancer a long time ahead of spoil dancing was a factor.

    “Getting ready for a workforce that lists McElhenny at the roster,” mentioned Hamp Pool, who coached the archrival Rams from 1952-54, “you simply can’t take any possibilities.”

    Coincidentally, his long-time 49ers backfield mate, fullback Joe Perry — any other Corridor of Famer — had performed at Compton Junior School in California, the place McElhenny starred ahead of heading to Washington. In combination in San Francisco, they shaped certainly one of professional soccer’s very best backfield tandems.

    However the Niners made the postseason handiest as soon as with McElhenny, shedding a Western Convention name playoff recreation with Detroit in 1957. By way of 1961, with McElhenny dressed in down a little bit, he used to be left at the enlargement draft checklist and scooped up through Minnesota. He had a cast season and made the Professional Bowl because the Vikings went 3-11 of their inaugural season.

    Knee issues then slowed him. He performed yet one more yr with Minnesota, spent 1963 as a backup with the New York Giants, the place he performed in his handiest NFL name recreation, shedding to Chicago, and completed his profession in 1964 with Detroit.

    When he retired, McElhenny used to be certainly one of 3 avid gamers to have won greater than 11,000 all-purpose yards.

    Extra AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL

  • Yashwant Sinha picked as joint Opposition candidate for presidential polls

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha’s title has emerged because the consensus presidential candidate of 13 opposition events, together with the Congress, the TMC and the Samajwadi Birthday celebration, which met right here on Tuesday to talk about the problem.

    Opposition leaders, who collected on the Parliament annexe for the assembly convened through NCP leader Sharad Pawar to come to a decision on a consensus candidate for the presidential election, agreed on Sinha’s title, they mentioned.

    Sinha’s title got here up after Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah opted out of the race.

    The events that attended the assembly come with the Congress, NCP, TMC, CPI, CPI-M, Samajwadi Birthday celebration, Nationwide Convention, AIMIM, RJD and AIUDF.

    We (opposition events) have unanimously made up our minds that Yashwant Sinha would be the commonplace candidate of the Opposition for the Presidential elections: Congress chief Jairam Ramesh percent.twitter.com/lhnfE7Vj8d

    — ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2022

    Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge and Jairam Ramesh, TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva, CPI-M’s Sitaram Yechury and CPI’s D Raja had been amongst those that participated within the assembly.

    5 regional events thought to be non-aligned – TRS, BJD, AAP, SAD and YSRCP — stayed away.

    Those events had additionally stayed clear of the June 15 assembly convened through West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee.

    Previous these days, Yashwant Sinha had mentioned that he’s going to “step apart” from the TMC to paintings for the bigger nationwide reason for Opposition cohesion. “I’m thankful to Mamataji for the respect and status she bestowed on me within the TMC. Now a time has come when for a bigger nationwide motive I should step except for the birthday party to paintings for higher opposition cohesion. I’m positive she approves of the step,” Sinha mentioned in a tweet.

  • New Mexico Prosecutor Says GOP County Should Comply With Order To Certify Votes

    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s best prosecutor on Thursday instructed a Republican-led county fee to conform to an order to certify effects from its number one election, the most recent construction in a case bobbing up from far-right conspiracy theories over vote casting machines that experience unfold around the nation.

    A spokesperson for Lawyer Basic Hector Balderas stated the Otero County fee “will have to conform to the guideline of legislation or we can take criminal motion.”

    The governing fee in Otero County refused to certify the native result of the state’s June 7 number one on account of unspecified considerations with the apparatus, although it has recognized no issues of the Dominion programs utilized by the county to tally paper ballots.

    Following the 2020 election, quite a lot of allies of former President Donald Trump claimed that Dominion vote casting programs had by hook or by crook been manipulated as a part of an elaborate scheme to thieve the election, which President Joe Biden gained.

    The secretary of state’s administrative center requested the lawyer basic to research the Otero County fee for imaginable violations of state election and govt ethics regulations. That got here after the state Excellent Courtroom on Wednesday ordered the county fee to certify its election effects.

    Otero County Lawyer Roy Nichols stated an emergency assembly of the fee is scheduled for Friday, forward of the state’s certification time limit. He stated he may no longer discuss for the commissioners and it’s unclear whether or not they’re going to vote to certify the effects. In the event that they don’t, he stated it could be imaginable for state officers to pursue election code violations towards them.

    Up to now, all however 10 of New Mexico’s 33 counties have qualified their effects from the statewide number one. No different county officers have stated publicly that they intend to vote towards certification.

    There’s no proof of standard fraud or manipulation of vote casting apparatus within the 2020 election, and election mavens say the refusal to certify result of unfastened and honest elections threatens the democratic procedure.

  • Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Mallikarjun Kharge to adapt President consensus

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    NEW DELHI:  NCP leader Sharad Pawar on Wednesday fobbed off requests from a number of events to turn into the joint Opposition candidate for the approaching Presidential polls, at a two-hour assembly referred to as via Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee right here. Mamata set the ball rolling via proposing his identify and getting the concurrence of a number of others. However Pawar in a well mannered way declined.

    The assembly that had illustration from 18 Opposition events advised him to rethink his determination. However Pawar sought to place a lid on it, taking to his Twitter care for later to mention: “I sincerely respect the leaders of opposition events for suggesting my identify as a candidate for the election of the President of India, on the assembly.

    Then again, I love to state that I’ve humbly declined the proposal of my candidature.” The assembly followed a unanimous solution to box a not unusual Opposition candidate within the Presidential elections. It made up our minds to tentatively meet once more on June 21, knowledgeable CPI MP Binoy Viswam. Mamata, Pawar and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge have been accepted to seek the advice of different events to adapt a consensus at the topic.

    With Pawar shutting the door, assets mentioned Mamata urged the names of Nationwide Convention chief Farooq Abdullah and retired diplomat Gopalkrishna Gandhi for attention as selection applicants. The advice was once met with a stony silence, an opposition MP knowledgeable. Kharge mentioned his birthday celebration has no specific identify in thoughts however will sit down with others to play a optimistic function to reach at a consensus if Pawar continues declining the be offering.

    Mamata mentioned she’s going to seek the advice of different events that would now not make it to the assembly, like AAP, SAD, AIMIM, TRS and BJD. Parallelly, BJP chief Rajnath Singh referred to as up Opposition leaders like Kharge, Mamata and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav to construct a countrywide consensus at the Presidential elections. He additionally spoke to JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar.

    Assets mentioned Opposition leaders sought to understand the NDA nominee for the top publish. BJP leader J P Nadda, too labored the telephones, to achieve out to leaders of events just like the BJD, YSR Cong, JD(U), RJD, TRS, DMK and others with whom he’s has just right rapport.

    Too untimely to remark: Gandhi
    “It’s too untimely to remark,” Gopalkrishna Gandhi, mentioned when requested about his candidature. He’s the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and was once the consensus opposition pick out for Vice President in 2017