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UNO lovers divided after company introduces new ‘skip’ rule to classic card game

UNO lovers divided after company introduces new 'skip' rule to classic card game

It’s the cheeky new rule causing outrage among fans of the classic card game UNO.

According to the gaming company’s website, players can now use a Skip card to avoid a Draw 2 — as long as they are the same color — and pass the buck to the next player.

“Skipping never felt so good,” UNO’s official Twitter account says.

“If someone plays a Draw 2 on you and you have a Skip card of the SAME COLOR in your hand, you can play it and ‘bounce’ the penalty to the next player!”

And get this, if the next player has a Skip card of any colour, they can play it and kick the penalty further down the line.

“The next player must draw the two cards, unless they have a Skip card (of any colour) they can play, in which case they pass the penalty to the next player and so on until no one has a Skip card and must draw two cards,” the company says.

The change, flagged on UNO’s Twitter account in 2020, has left many fans aghast.

“Absolutely not,” one player said. “I’ve lost enough friendships over fighting this exact rule.

“I can’t find this in the rule book — surely this is fake!”

Another simply wrote: “Nah no.”

And another said: “I’m starting to believe y’all don’t know how to play your own game.”

It comes after UNO confirmed that Wild Draw 4 and Draw 2 cards could not be stacked.

It meant that if a player put down a Wild Draw 4, the next player must simply draw four cards and skip their turn.

Another Wild Draw 4 cannot be stacked on top and passed to the next player down the line.

UNO said this had been the rule all along but it caused a storm among players who had always used the strategy — and mostly still do.

UNO has introduced a new 'skip' rule.
Camera IconUNO has introduced a new ‘skip’ rule. Credit: Getty Images/Getty Images

In 2019, UNO released a new version of the card game to add extra spice.

UNO Flip has gained its fair share of core fans, with many considering it more competitive.

The entire deck is double-sided, with a “light side” resembling the original game and a “dark side” where penalties are far tougher.

If you score a Flip card, you gain the power of revealing a new set of numbers and colors on the other side.

But there is one rule that never changes — whatever you do, don’t forget to shout “UNO” when you’re down to your last card.

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Sports

Kyrie Irving slams Brooklyn Nets coach and GM, Steve Nash, Sean Marks, Kevin Durant, trade rumors, whispers, latest

Kyrie Irving slams Brooklyn Nets coach and GM, Steve Nash, Sean Marks, Kevin Durant, trade rumors, whispers, latest

Kevin Durant doesn’t seem to be the only Nets player not enamored with the leadership stylings of GM Sean Marks and coach Steve Nash.

A source close to the Nets organization indicated Kyrie Irving is none too pleased with the pair, either.

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“Kyrie Irving hates these guys,” the source told The Post’s Josh Kosman. “He feels that Nash is terrible and Marks is bad.”

On Monday, The Post confirmed The Athletic’s report that Durant told Tsai that the Nets head honcho had to choose between the 12-time All-Star or his coach and GM.

The face-to-face meeting in London came after Durant requested a trade out of Brooklyn, a year after signing a four-year, $198 million contract extension.

Durant’s backflip on Nash’s position presents a marked change from how he viewed Nash after the Game Four loss to the Boston Celtics in the playoffs.

Will Durant and Irving still be with the Nets by the time the new season starts? (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
Will Durant and Irving still be with the Nets by the time the new season starts? (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images

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“Steve’s been dealt a crazy hand the last two years,” Durant said.

“He’s had to deal with so much stuff as a head coach, a first-time coach. Trades, injuries, COVID and just a lot of stuff he had to deal with.

“I’m proud of how he’s focused and his passion for us. We all continue to keep developing over the summer and see what happens.”

Despite the stars making their feelings on Marks and Nash known, Tsai appeared to give his GM and coach a vote of confidence.

“Our front office and coaching staff have my support,” he wrote on Twitter Monday evening. “We will make decisions in the best interest of the Brooklyn Nets.”

The Nets effectively banned Irving from being around the team due to his COVID-19 vaccination status and local mandates until December of last season.

The mercurial guard’s murky status played a major role in derailing the season and caused James Harden to request a trade out of town.

Irving picked up his one-year, $36.5 million player option on June 29, with Durant requesting a trade a day later.

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and has been reposted with permission

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Australia

Victoria Police still working to identify man hit by train last month

A composite image of an elderly man

Police remain stunned about the identity of a man more than a month after he was struck by a train in Melbourne’s inner north.

A train struck the man as it was moving at a slow rate between Royal Park and Jewell railway stations in Brunswick at about 6:33pm on July 7.

However, he suffered significant head injuries, and hospital staff did not initially expect him to survive.

Transit Safety Division Senior Constable Dean Pilati said the man had since woken up, but the extent of long-term injuries was unknown.

“He is conscious and stable, however he is non-communicative,” Senior Constable Pilati said.

“[Medical staff] don’t know the extent of his injuries, in terms of his brain damage, or how he’s going to progress from here.”

The man is described as between 65 and 75 years of age, with no distinct identifying features such as tattoos or scars.

He is described as Caucasian, about 175cm tall, and of medium build. He has a prominent mole below his left eye.

It is unknown exactly what the man was wearing at the time of the incident, but it included black runners with white soles, black socks and a black belt.

Man only able to utter a few words

Police said the man had only been able to mutter the words “Roy” and “Ryan”, but they were unsure if the names referred to family or the man’s own name.

The man has also been able to say the word “Coburg”, leading police to believe he could be from the suburb.

Police have cross-referenced the names with internal databases and conducted doorknocks with potential matches in order to discern the man’s identity, with no success.

Fingerprints and DNA analysis have also failed to shed any light on the man’s identity.

Due to long periods of unconsciousness and a tracheotomy procedure, the man had been unable to communicate with police.

A man in a shirt and tie in front of a victoria police logo
Senior Constable Dean Pilati says the man has been unable to communicate beyond a few words.(ABCNews)

Senior Constable Pilati said the man remained largely non-communicative.

“We’ve tried to do some prompt cards to try and have him spell out words. He’s unable to do that,” he said.

“The hospital have tried to get him to respond by gripping his hands but they’ve been unsuccessful with that as well.”

Police said there were no witnesses to the incident besides the train driver.

A canvas of CCTV footage produced no results, nor did outreach to local homeless support services.

Authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the man is from overseas, explaining the lack of information available.

Police have also explored the possibility that the man may be from a nursing home, but no missing persons reports have emerged from any nursing homes.

Senior Constable Pilati said police were eager to find support for the man.

“If I was in that position, I’d want my family around me, and if I were that person’s family I’d want to be there to support him as well,” he said.

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Primary election: Trump’s pick will win Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nomination, CNN projects

Primary election: Trump's pick will win Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nomination, CNN projects

Tim Michels’ defeat of former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch comes as Republicans are looking to unseat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November in a critical battleground state that flipped from Trump to Joe Biden in 2020.

Michels, a construction company owner and political neophyte, won Trump’s endorsement by more aggressively amplifying the former President’s 2020 election lies — most notably in the intra-party debate over whether Wisconsin should seek to decertify Biden’s victory there nearly two years ago. Kleefisch was widely considered the favorite early in the campaign. She spent eight years as former Gov. Scott Walker’s second-in-command and enjoyed the broad backing of the state’s powerful GOP establishment.

Wisconsin is the third state in which Trump and Pence have backed opposing candidates for governor. Trump’s choice in Arizona, Kari Lake, a conservative commentator and election denier, narrowly won the nomination, while Pence’s pick in Georgia, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, defeated Trump-backed primary challenger David Perdue, a former senator, in a landslide.

But Trump prevailed in the rubber match between the former running mates as the Republican Party finished filling out its slate of nominees for governor in the five states — Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania — that flipped from Trump in 2016 to Biden four years later. All are expected to be fiercely contested again in 2024, and GOP victories in those political battlegrounds this fall could help ease Trump’s path back to the White House if he runs again.

Wisconsin is also home to a critical GOP primary in the state legislature, where longtime Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, an arch conservative who has mostly gone along with Trump’s 2020 election claims, is being challenged by Adam Steen, who picked up a Trump endorsement because Vos , in the former President’s estimation, has been insufficiently bullish about right-wing efforts to have the state decertify his defeat.

Democrats, meanwhile, were very much enjoying the anticlimactic finish to what many expected to be a closely-contested Senate primary. Lt.Gov. Mandela Barnes will win the Democratic nomination, CNN projects, after his top rivals all dropped out in a span of a few days. Those departures effectively handed him the nomination and a November showdown with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, one of Trump’s leading defenders in Washington and a top target for Democrats hoping to preserve or potentially expand their Senate majority.

Also in the Upper Midwest on Tuesday, Republicans in Minnesota will pick their candidate to face Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who is seeking a second term.

Scott Jensen, a doctor and former state lawmaker, had all but clinched the nomination after winning the support of the state party. But he made it official on Tuesday night, CNN projects, cruising past underdogs Joyce Lynne Lacey and Bob “Again” Carney Jr.

Jensen is a longtime critic of Walz, mostly railing against statewide lockdowns during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he also suggested hospitals inflated their counts of the sick and questioned the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, which Jensen has said he did not receive.

The race between Walz and Jensen could also help determine the fate of abortion rights in Minnesota. Jensen told Minnesota Public Radio in March that he would “try to ban abortion” if elected, a remark Walz and other Democrats have already seized on. Jensen, late last month, backed off his more aggressive language in remarks, saying he supports exceptions to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at risk. But Democrats, emboldened by Kansas’ vote last week to preserve abortion rights in a statewide referendum, are expected to make the issue a central piece of their fall campaign.
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Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, the progressive “squad” member from the state’s 5th Congressional District, will survive a surprisingly close primary challenge, CNN projects, from moderate Don Samuels. Omar beat back a well-funded primary rival in 2020, but Samuels entered this race with higher name recognition in the Minneapolis-based district and the support of a big-spending super PAC.

Voters in the current version of southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District will choose a replacement to fill the seat of the late Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a Republican who died earlier this year. The special election in the GOP-friendly district features Republican Brad Finstad and Democrat Jeffrey Ettinger. The winner will almost immediately head to Capitol Hill to serve out Hagedorn’s term.
But both candidates were also on the regular primary ballots as they vied for their respective parties’ nominations in a new version of the district, which was redrawn ahead of the midterms. Finstad, a former state lawmaker and USDA official in the Trump administration, will win the GOP nomination, CNN projects. Ettinger, the former Hormel Foods chief executive, is expected to win easily on the Democratic side.

History in the making in Vermont

Vermont Democrats will nominate Rep. Peter Welch, CNN projects, to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Patrick Leahy, who will leave office next year after nearly 50 years on the job. Welch’s decision to run for the Senate created a rare open Democratic primary for the state’s lone House seat, setting in motion a contest that will almost certainly end with a history-making election.

State Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint will win the nomination, CNN projects, defeating Lt. Gov. Molly Gray for the nomination to replace Welch in the House. An overwhelming favorite in the fall, Balint is poised to become the first woman elected to Congress from Vermont, which is the only state that has never sent a woman to represent it at the federal level.

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Little separated Balint and Gray on the major issues, but their candidates split the loyalties of Vermont Sens. Bernie Sanders and Leahy. Sanders and leading progressives from around the country endorsed Balint. Gray had the support of Leahy, who donated to her because of her and said he voted for her, although he did not issue a formal endorsement in the race. Former Vermont Govs. Howard Dean and Madeleine Kunin also backed Gray.

But in a race that saw the candidates themselves about level on fundraising, a flood of outside spending for Balint likely helped tip the scales. The LGBTQ Victory Fund invested about $1 million into the race for Balint, who is gay. She also benefited from spending by the campaign arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, whose chair, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, along with the progressive senators from neighboring Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, endorsed her.

In Connecticut, there is little jeopardy for Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont or Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Both were unapposed in their primaries.

On the GOP side, former state lawmaker Themis Klarides, a moderate, will be bested by Trump-backed Leora Levy, CNN projects. A first-time candidate, Levy will move on to face Blumenthal in November. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski was, like Lamont, alone on the ballot Tuesday — setting the stage for a rematch of their 2018 race.

This story has been updated with additional developments.

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Business

Meta’s new AI chatbot can’t stop bashing Facebook | Goal

If you’re worried that artificial intelligence is getting too smart, talking to Meta’s AI chatbot might make you feel better.

Launched on Friday, BlenderBot is a prototype of Meta’s conversational AI, which, according to Facebook’s parent company, can converse on nearly any topic. On the demo website, members of the public are invited to chat with the tool and share feedback with developers. The results thus far, writers at buzzfeed and Vice have pointed out, have been rather interesting.

Asked about Mark Zuckerberg, the bot told BuzzFeed’s Max Woolf that “he is a good businessman, but his business practices are not always ethical. It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!”

The bot has also made clear that it’s not a Facebook user, telling Vice’s Janus Rose that it had deleted its account after learning about the company’s privacy scandals. “Since deleting Facebook my life has been much better,” she said.

The bot repeats material it finds on the internet, and it’s very transparent about this: you can click on its responses to learn where it picked up whatever claims it is making (though it is not always specific).

This means that along with uncomfortable truths about its parent company, BlenderBot has been spouting predictable falsehoods. In conversation with Jeff Horwitz of the Wall Street Journal, it insisted Donald Trump was still president and would continue to be “even after his second term ends in 2024”. (It added another dig at Meta, saying Facebook “has a lot of fake news on it these days”.) Users have also recorded it making antisemitic claims.

BlenderBot’s remarks were foreseeable based on the behavior of older chatbots such as Microsoft’s Tay, which Twitter users quickly taught to be a racist conspiracy theorist, forcing the company to apologize for its “wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images”. GPT-3, another AI system, has also delivered racist, misogynistic and homophobic remarks. A South Korean startup’s chatbot, designed to resemble a 20-year-old college student, had to be suspended after it rattled off racial slurs and anti-LGBTQ+ remarks.

Given the cesspool that is the internet, Meta appears to have expected similar things from its own service. Before logging on, users must acknowledge that BlenderBot is “likely to make untrue or offensive statements”. As Vice notes, Meta researchers have described the AI ​​tech behind the bot as having “a high propensity to generate toxic language and reinforce harmful stereotypes, even when provided with a relatively innocuous prompt”.

“Everyone who uses Blender Bot is required to acknowledge they understand it’s for research and entertainment purposes only, that it can make untrue or offensive statements, and that they agree to not intentionally trigger the bot to make offensive statements,” said a Meta spokesperson in to statement.

My own conversation with BlenderBot did not veer into that territory, but it did highlight another flaw in the service: its utter inanity.

The bot began by asking me what subject I liked in school. The bot is open about which “person” it is using in the conversation; our discussion involved a person it described as “I like to read. I went to college.” When I asked it tough questions, such as which colleges accepted AI bot students, it offered nonsensical replies (“in some ways, aren’t we all chatbots?” No) and offered further reading by saying, “Here’s the link”, without providing a link. It also kept steering the conversation back to chatbots.

It did, however, maintain its firm stance against its own creators. When I said I wasn’t a fan of Facebook’s ethics, it wholeheartedly agreed: “Me too! That is why I stopped using it and just stick with reading books instead.”

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Technology

GTA The Trilogy records subdued sales, yet mobile versions have no release date yet

From the latest report by Take-Two, which is the parent company of Rockstar Games, we learn that GTA: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition is resolving subdued sales figures, at least in respect to the standards of the series. The versions Android and iOS also have not yet a precise release date, though [] the [suite] versions have no official release date.

According to a recent report from Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games, GTA: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition is recording sales figures in the first half of the series, at least against what the standard level has been. The iOS and Android versions also have no precise release date, but they were originally planned on the first half of 2022.

According to shared data, these copies sold in the last quarter are less than one million copies of the collection which includes the remasters of GTA 3 and Vice City. If there were such a number numbers in Q4 of fiscal year 2022, and in Q3, when the Trilogy was released on PC and console, they were ten million copies.

Eventually, after a much better launch, GTA: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition was very weak in sales in the second half of 2013. Most likely the negative impressions of the international press and the community have kept their sales behind.

In fact, the collection was widely criticized at launch because of the large number of bugs and performance problems present in the remasters, and completely absent in the original titles, and several controversies. Rockstar Games released numerous corrective patches to fix the issues which, as demonstrated in Digital Foundry, managed to repay the damage.

In addition to the latest Take-Two data, we find out that the versions of GTA The Trilogy for iOS and Android have no precise date for its release. The collection was officially scheduled for the first half of 2022, while the recent financial report confirmed the suggested postponement to May, with the delivery scheduled for the end of fiscal year 2023 or until the 31st of March.

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Entertainment

My Kitchen Rules star Nigella Lawson’s real age has left viewers stunned

My Kitchen Rules star Nigella Lawson's real age has left viewers stunned

My Kitchen Rules fans have been left stunned by Nigella Lawson — and not just the star power, charisma and expertise she brings to the show.

The British chef has left viewers gobsmacked over her age.

It seems Lawson, who published her first cookbook in 1998 before breaking into TV with Nigella Bites in 1999, has a timeless beauty.

Because believe it or not, she is 62.

Lawson puts her youthful look down to staying out of the sun and eating “lots of fats.”

Nigella Lawson has a youthful look.
Camera IconNigella Lawson has a youthful look. Credit: Jeremy Greive/TheWest

“I think what ages a face most is disappointment and a lack of enjoyment,” she said.

“So I try to do what I love.”

Lawson’s timeless look has left fans of Channel 7’s reality TV cooking show speechless.

“Look at her neck, not a single wrinkle — I’m telling you, forget what ppl tell you, endulge in butter and cream and sweets, and chocolate and lush velvety rich sauces — and live and look like #QueenNigella#MKR,” one wrote.

Another said: “Can someone explain to me how Nigella Lawson can look so stunning ALL THE TIME?

“She 62yo and looks 42. What kind of witchcraft is she performing!”

Yet another said: “If I don’t age like Nigella Lawson, I don’t want to get old at all.”

Since her first appearance on MKR on Sunday night, viewers have flocked to social media to dub her the “vital ingredient”.

After the exit of long-term judge Pete Evans, whose reputation took a tumble after his peddling of anti-vaxer conspiracy theories on social media, Manu Feildel has been paired with the British domestic goddess.

Their first episode saw them head to Victoria to taste the dishes of father-daughter duo Peter and Alice, and Lawson was clearly the star of the show, with the contestants even joking about giving her used cutlery to their family as gifts.

But when things fell apart in the kitchen, viewers really warmed to Lawson when she offered encouraging words.

“Nigella is the vital ingredient this show has been missing,” Twitter user Archie Banez wrote.

MKR 2022 - Manu Feildel and Nigella Lawson
Camera IconManu Feildel and Nigella Lawson on MKR. Credit: Supplied/TheWest

“Not only is she a bona fide food-lover & relatable to all us home cooks but it’s her personable nature, positive energy, insightfulness & unique way with words that makes her so endearing.”

Viewers also remarked on Lawson’s warm demeanour, while others said her presence encouraged them to tune in after not watching the show for years.

And she even won over the critics.

TV Writer Colin Vickery described Lawson as a “hoot” and “funnier and cheekier than on MasterChef”.

During the episode, Lawson showed her down-to-earth nature, ditching the cutlery to chomp at a lamb cutlet.

And while Peter and Alice’s home restaurant faced plenty of hurdles—and even a watery dessert fail—Lawson still tried to keep spirits high.

On Tuesday, Lawson took to Twitter to reply to some of the comments, saying that she was gutted for Peter and Alice.

“I was heartbroken for them. And hated the idea they would feel ashamed in any way,” she posted.

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Sports

Bulldogs sound out former Giants coach

Bulldogs sound out former Giants coach

Leon Cameron is being sounded out by his former club the Western Bulldogs.

SEN’s Sam Edmund has reported that the Bulldogs are considering bringing Cameron back to the Whitten Oval to link up with head coach Luke Beveridge and head of football Chris Grant.

It is understood that the Dogs have started “informal” talks with the former GWS Giants coach as clubs begin to prepare for an increase in the soft cap.

Cameron has a long history with the Bulldogs, having played 172 games over 10 seasons in the red, white and blue, and served as an assistant coach from 2004 to 2010.

“The Western Bulldogs have had informal discussions with Leon Cameron about a role at The Kennel next year,” Edmund said on SEN’s Whateley.

“I’m sure Leon has been contacted by many clubs and this was a sounding out from the Dogs, nothing more. ‘What are you up to next year? What do you want to do?’

“Obviously Leon is close to Chris Grant, the current head of football. He played a lot of football with Chris and also Luke Beveridge, who he’s worked with before at Hawthorn.

“All clubs are reviewing what they’re doing with the soft cap increasing even though it’s minimal. There’s an extra half a million dollars in the cap, so some decisions to be made there.

“Do we bring new staff in or do we bring existing back up to what they financially? So it’s all a bit delicate in that space at the moment.”

Cameron parted ways with the Giants in May after nine years at the helm.

He has most recently been working part-time in the media with SEN and AFL Nation.





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Australia

COVIDSafe app branded a failure and deleted

COVIDSafe app branded a failure and deleted

The COVIDSafe app, introduced by the Morrison government in 2020, has been decommissioned after a senate select committee branded it an expensive failure and the health minister said state governments haven’t used it for months.

The app was updated on Wednesday night to remove all of its functionality, and users opening the app are now greeted with the message “Please uninstall COVIDSafe”. On Thursday, Health Minister Mark Butler said the app did little but burn through money.

Health Minister Mark Butler said contact tracers working on the ground were far more effective than the COVIDSafe app.

Health Minister Mark Butler said contact tracers working on the ground were far more effective than the COVIDSafe app.Credit:alex ellinghausen

“It is clear this app failed as a public health measure, and that’s why we’ve acted to delete it,” he said. “This failed app was a colossal waste of more than $21 million of taxpayers’ money.”

Butler said while the app had 7.9 million registrations, fewer than 800 users consented to having their data added to the national store. Since its launch in April 2020, the app had only identified two positive cases that were not found by manual contact tracing, he said.

Designed to aid contact tracers by determining the people that an infected individual had been physically near, COVIDSafe was originally described by Morrison as like a sunscreen you need to apply when you go outside. But it was an immediate source of controversy.

Technical limitations meant that people using iPhones needed to keep the app on their screens, and their phones unlocked at all times, prompting concerns for their security as well as their phone batteries. After several updates, experts continued to question the efficacy of the Bluetooth-based tracking method — which was shown to work less than half of the time — as well as the government’s decision to decline help from Apple and Google.

Former PM Scott Morrison described COVIDSafe as a way to protect the community against infection.

Former PM Scott Morrison described COVIDSafe as a way to protect the community against infection.Credit:alex ellinghausen

After two months and 6 million downloads the app had failed to detect any close contacts that hadn’t already been identified by traditional contact tracers. A government report published in July of last year disclosed that the app only led to 17 unique close contacts as at May 2021. An evaluation published in the Lancet Public Health journal concluded this caused substantial additional work for contact tracers, without making a meaningful to COVID response.

As state governments opened up in 2021 and moved to QR codes and check-in apps for contact-tracing, the expectation was that they’d somehow integrate with COVIDSafe, but this ended up not happening.

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US

Another Republican who backed Trump’s impeachment concedes defeat

Another Republican who backed Trump's impeachment concedes defeat

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 riot, granted Tuesday to a challenger backed by the former president.

NBC News has not yet projected the second candidate who will advance the general election in the state’s 3rd Congressional District. As it stands, the top two vote-getters, who under the state’s election rules would advance to the general election, are Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and the Trump-endorsed Republican Joe Kent.

Beutler conceded her race Tuesday night in a statement that did not mention Kent by name.

“Though my campaign came up short this time, I’m proud of all we’ve accomplished together for the place where I was raised and still call home,” she said. “Serving you in the United States Congress these past twelve years has been the honor of my lifetime.”

Beutler’s concession means two of the three House Republicans on the ballot last week who backed Trump’s impeachment lost to candidates he endorsed: Rep. Peter Meijer fell to John Gibbs in Michigan by less than 4 percentage points, while Rep. Dan Newhouse fended off Trump- backed challenger Loren Culp in Washington by more than 4 points.

While those other two races were called last week, Beutler’s race lingered. She led Kent for much of the ballot count before she fell behind on Monday.

In Washington state, the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, move on to the general election in November, a setup that gave both Newhouse and Beutler a better chance of advancing than their fellow impeachment supporters in more traditional party primaries. Still, only Newhouse survived.

The contests in Washington and Michigan were the latest gauges of Trump’s influence over the party. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is the last remaining impeachment supporter who has yet to face voters in a primary this election cycle. Cheney, the vice chair of the House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has encountered particularly stiff headwinds back home. Her primary de ella is scheduled for Aug. 16.

“Knock out Impeachment Slime Jaime Herrera Beutler, Dan Newhouse, Peter Meijer, TODAY,” Trump posted to his Truth Social platform last week ahead of their primaries. “The rest, including the now disgraced RINO, Liz Cheney, are either gone, or soon will be.”

On Tuesday night, Trump congratulated Kent.

“Joe Kent just won an incredible race against all odds in Washington State,” Trump said in a statement. “Importantly, I have knocked out yet another impeacher, Jaime Herrera Beutler, who so stupidly played right into the hands of the Democrats.”

Many of Beutler’s and Cheney’s impeachment colleagues on the right will not be returning to Congress next year. In June, Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina succumbed to a Trump-backed challenger, while Reps. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, John Katko of New York, Fred Upton of Michigan and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois all opted to retire at the end of the term rather than seek re-election.

Newhouse, meanwhile, joins GOP Rep. David Valadao of California as the only other impeachment supporter to survive a primary challenge. Like Washington, California uses a similar primary system, and Trump did not endorse a challenger to Valadao.

Like other impeachment supporters, Meijer, Beutler and Newhouse had out-raised their rivals. Federal campaign finance records show Meijer out-raised Gibbs in the 3rd Congressional District for more than $2 million. Meijer raised $2.77 million through mid-July, while Gibbs’ haul totaled $484,000.

In Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, Beutler out-raised Kent by roughly $1.3 million, with Beutler bringing in $3.5 million and Kent raising $2.2 million as of mid-July.

And in the state’s 4th Congressional District, Newhouse raised about $1.6 million, compared to Culp’s $310,000 through the middle of last month.

Ahead of the Aug. 2 primary, Caleb Heimlich, the chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, told NBC News he had heard from people on the ground and within the campaigns that the races were “very, very competitive in both districts.”

He noted that in Beutler’s district, about $2.5 million in outside, independent spending came in for the race’s final two-week sprint, much of it aimed at either tearing down Kent or boosting Heidi St. John, a Republican who was also campaigning on a pro Trump message.

“With not having a closed party primary, you just have a different electorate,” he said. “And so there are some different factors that play into that campaign. And you have to compete with all the voters in the district.”

The GOP incumbents who supported impeachment all have varying tenures in their districts. Meijer was first elected to Congress in 2020, defeating Democrat Hillary Scholten by 6 points. Beutler, first elected in 2010, defeated her Democratic rival in 2020 by 13 points. And Newhouse, first elected in 2014, won his previous general election by nearly 33 points.

Gibbs, Kent and Culp, meanwhile, all promoted Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election and falsely claimed President Joe Biden’s victory was illegitimate.

They have closely tied themselves to the former president, touting support from him and his allies. Meijer, Beutler and Newhouse instead sought to shift the discussion from their impeachment votes to local issues and national themes like inflation.

Democrats, meanwhile, tried boosting Meijer’s opponent, prompting backlash from some Democratic House members. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee placed a TV ad last month that amplified Gibbs’ ties to Trump. Meijer’s campaign said the 30-second spot was “clear evidence” Democrats would much rather face Gibbs than Meijer in November.

Only Meijer’s district is viewed as competitive in the fall. The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan elections analyzer, lists Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District as a toss-up, while both Beutler’s and Newhouse’s districts are rated as solid Republican.

Gibbs will now face off against Scholten in the western Michigan district, while Kent will go head to head with Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Newhouse is expected to battle Democrat Doug White.