The Amazfit GTR 3 and GTS 3 were unveiled in October, so we are waiting for their successors to show up. While the launch date is yet to be revealed, what look like official renders of the products have been leaked. A previous leak also gave us a glimpse of the two devices, and the design doesn’t seem to have changed suggesting it’s the final look. We presume that Amazfit GTR 4 and GTS 4 are not far away from launch. So let’s dive in to find out everything that we know so far.
Design
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The Amazfit GTR 4 — the R in the name stands for round — stands out with a large crown (that’s probably a button) at the 2 o’clock mark. Apparently, the case will be made of aluminum, and it looks like another button is at the 4 o’clock mark. By comparison, the existing GTR 3 has curved sides and two crown-like buttons. As indicated by the latest report from GSMarena, the GTR 4 will be offered in silver and black casings. Plus you will get to choose between leather, silicone, and nylon fabric straps.
On the other hand, the GTS 4 — the S stands for square — gets a rectangular body. Like the GTR 4, it also gets an aluminum casing and a crown element for navigation. The casing has two color options gold and black which can be paired with nylon or silicone straps. It is likely to weigh 27 grams and have a thickness of 9mm. The GTS 4 looks identical to its predecessor with little to no changes.
Specifications
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The Amazfit GTR 4 is expected to feature a 1.43-inch AMOLED display. It may have a resolution of 466 x 466 pixels and Always on Display functionality. The GTS 4 is expected to feature a larger 1.75-inch AMOLED panel with a resolution of 390 x 450 pixels. The brand is bringing a new 4PD BioTracker 4.0 PPG optical sensor that will provide more accurate measurements of heart rate, blood oxygen, and stress levels. There’s dual GPS functionality as well, so you don’t need to have your phone connected to the watch for GPS.
The Amazfit GTR 4 and GTS 4 will get a speaker and a microphone so that you’re able to take calls and play music on the go. Finally, Amazfit GTR 4 may pack a 475 mAh battery which is likely to provide you with 12-days of battery life. While the GTS 4 is tipped to sport a 300mAh battery with up to 7 days of battery life in Normal mode.
Software
As far as the software is concerned, these devices will run Zepp OS 2.0. It will come with pre-installed Amazfit apps but will support a bunch of other apps including mini-games. Moreover, some regions will also get support for Amazon Alexa. Amazfit is said to offer more than 200 watch faces including 30 animated options. Both these smartwatches will be able to track over 150 sports activities.
On paper, it sounded like a great idea: let’s recreate Woodstock to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the peace and love music festival that sat at the epicenter of the hippie movement. Groovy.
What followed was four days of carnage. The event was marred with deaths, rapes, assaults, violence and arson and will go down in history as one of the worst music events ever to take place. It all but set fire to the legacy of the original gathering in ’69.
Now, as a three-part Netflix documentary is set to cover the chaos of that long weekend in Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99what actually happened to make it such a horrific disaster?
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Five years prior to ’99, there had been a Woodstock ’94 festival that also ended in catastrophe. Storms meant that the site was turned into a huge mudbath, more than double the attendees expected turned up (estimated around 350,000) meaning that the crowd couldn’t be safely monitored and two people died. Elsewhere at the event, the lead singer of the band Jackyl burned a stool on stage, attacked it with a chainsaw and fired a gun during their performance; some bands were pelted with mud on stage.
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The writing was on the wall (or maybe it was just the mud) that a second re-enactment of the Woodstock festival was probably not a good idea, given the troubles that came with the first event. But the organizers and promoters ploughed on, seemingly oblivious to the heat generated from Woodstock ’94.
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The set up
Woodstock ’99 was held at a former air force base in Rome, upstate New York. The mainly concrete and asphalt space was the worst location for a music festival, especially when the two main stages were a two-mile walk from each other. The weekend of July 22 to 25 was set to welcome a heatwave, too. Over 400,000 people bought tickets.
There were very few trees or areas of shade, and campers were forced to put up tents on the tarmac. There was serious fencing all around the site, not only stopping people from breaking in, but later on, from escaping. The organizers hadn’t made enough facilities available for their guests, and the toilets and showers were soon overflowing in the heat.
Despite the festival arising from the peace and love ethos of the ’70s, this ’90s event was commercialized to the hilt. MTV sponsored the whole festival, running a pay-per-view of the whole weekend for $60. The four-day party was covered by many corporate sponsors and on site there were pop-up shopping malls and ATMs all over, which would have been handy as punters would be losing money faster than Lehman Brothers in the banking crash. Burritos cost $10, a pizza $12 and most importantly, while customers baked in the searing heat, bottled water was being shilled at $4 – the equivalent of $7/£6 in today’s money.
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As the temperatures rose, so did the aggression in the bro-heavy festival line-up (as The New Yorker noted, only three solo female musicians performed over the whole weekend). By the time Limp Bizkit hit the stage on Saturday night – egged on by lead singer, Fred Durst – some of the audience began tearing wooden panels from the walls during their song Break Things. During their set, Durst said: “It’s time to let yourself go right now, ’cause there are no motherfucking rules out there”. The mosh pit was out of control, but afterwards in an interview, Durst denied encouraging it: “I didn’t see anybody getting hurt. You don’t see that. When you’re looking out on a sea of people and the stage is twenty feet [6 m] in the air and you’re performing, and you’re feeling your music, how do they expect us to see something bad going on?”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers followed Limp Bizkit, and a nice idea by the anti-gun violence organization PAX to get everyone to light candles they had distributed during the song Under The Bridge instead added to the terrible situation. The candles were used to start bonfires and empty bottles were set to light. After the set, the crowd were told not to panic, but there was a “bit of problem” – one of the audio towers had been torched and was set alight.
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As the feral atmosphere continued, things got even more dangerous. ATMs were pushed over and broken into, merch stalls were looted and robbed, the site was destroyed and numerous objects set alight.
According to Billboardthere were “five rapes and numerous cases of sexual harrassment and assault” during the weekend, and as reported by mtvtwo women were allegedly gang-raped in the crowd during Limp Bizkit and Korn’s sets.
One festival goer, David DeRosia, collapsed in the crowd at the Metallica performance and later died, believed to be from “hyperthermia, probably secondary to heat stroke”. According to Syracusehis mother then sued the festival promoters and the doctors on site because they were “negligent by not providing enough fresh water and adequate medical care for 400,000 attendees”.
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There were protests by the National Organization of Women against the sexual violence women endured at the festival, and then the official site, Woodstock.com posted topless pictures of attendees without their consent, captioning them with quotes like “nice pair” or “show us your tits.” VH1 reported news that the promoters were being sued several times for “distress and dehydration.”
Ace San Francisco Examiner journalist Jane Ganahl wrote at the time, it was “the day the music died”.
Is there going to be another Woodstock festival?
In short: probably not. At the end of HBO’s 2021 documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, the late Michael Lang – who organized the original festival as well as those that came after it – was asked if he thought there would be another Woodstock, given the carnage that unfolded at the turn of the millennium. He said that, at his age, he’d learned not to rule anything out, but it’s not looking likely any time soon.
The legendary promoter passed away in January of this year at the age of 77, from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In the years after Woodstock ’99, Lang had found success writing about the original festival (his 2009 book by him, The Road to Woodstock, became a New York Times bestseller) and even tried to stage a fiftieth anniversary festival in 2019, which was ultimately cancelled. Set to be held in Bethel, New York (after being moved from Watkins Glen International racetrack) it suffered a number of blows before organizers pulled the plug: it was first reduced from three days to one, financial and legal difficulties emerged early on, and many headliners – including Miley Cyrus, Jay-Z, Santana and Dead & Company, amongst many others – canceled their appearances due to the chaotic production process.
The festival was officially canceled on 31 July 2019, and Lang laid much of the blame on Japanese investment firm Dentsu Aegis, who had expressed concern over the amount of money being spent on artists, for pulling out from funding the festival. Lang planned to hold a small fundraising event at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in the same year, but it didn’t happen, and Lang didn’t live to see the festival performed again.
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 streams on Netflix from 3 August.
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Five former Treasury secretaries backed Manchin’s inflation-fighting bill in a Wednesday statement.
The group includes secretaries from the George W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama administrations.
The secretaries urged Congress to pass the plan “immediately,” adding it will help cool inflation.
Sen. Joe Manchin just won valuable new backing for his plan to fight inflation.
A group of five former treasury secretaries threw their support behind the Inflation Reduction Act on a Wednesday statement. The proposal, brokered by Manchin and Senate Majority Chuck Schumer last week, offers a path forward for some of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. The signatories include secretaries from Democratic and Republican administrations alike, lending the plan bipartisan approval that it’s unlikely to win in Congress.
The former treasury secretaries backing the proposal are:
Larry Summers, who served under President Bill Clinton
Robert Rubin, who served under President Bill Clinton
Hank Paulson, who served under President George W. Bush
Tim Geithner, who served under President Barack Obama
Jacob Lew, who served under President Barack Obama
“This legislation will help increase American competitiveness, address our climate crisis, lower costs for families, and fight inflation — and should be passed immediately by Congress,” the group said.
The statement comes as Democrats scramble to gather the necessary support to pass the bill in the Senate. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is the biggest unknown within the party’s ranks, and her stance from her can either secure the bill’s passage or tank it entirely. Sinema hasn’t weighed in on the measure yet, and the plan’s proposal to close the carried-interest loophole could sway her against the bill. The Arizona senator has opposed closing the loophole in the past.
That’s prompted a mad dash among Democrats and Republicans to win Sinema over. Republicans have pointed to estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation that suggests the proposed 15% minimum corporate tax on large, profitable companies will trickle down to most Americans. Democrats, meanwhile, argue the projections don’t tell the entire story, and other aspects of the IRA would provide most Americans with a net financial benefit.
Other estimates tout the proposal as a boon for the US economy. The plan, if approved, “will nudge the economy and inflation in the right direction,” Moody’s Analytics said in a Monday note. The firm’s analysts forecast the plan will modestly cool price growth and boost economic output over the next decade. Not approving the IRA, however, could worsen the inflation problem by allowing ACA credits to expire and saddling millions of Americans with higher health care costs.
If the treasury secretaries’ statement is to change any senators’ minds, it has little time to do so. The Senate is likely to vote on the plan later this week, and Manchin has said he’ll personally pitch the IRA to Sinema in hopes of winning her over and sending the plan to Biden’s desk. But with the Senate barreling toward an August recess, the Arizona senator will have considerably less time to consider the plan than Manchin did.
The enduring appeal of Lego comes not from the complexity of the sets, nor the adorable minifigure versions of pop culture icons, but from the build process itself, and turning a box of seemingly random pieces into a completed model. It’s a satisfying experience, and another one that robots might steal from you one daythanks to researchers at Stanford University.
Lego’s instruction manuals are a masterclass in how to visually convey an assembly process to a builder, no matter what their background is, their experience level, or what language they speak. Pay close attention to the required pieces and the differences between one image of the partly-assembled model and the next, and you can figure out where all the pieces need to go before moving on to the next step. Lego has refined and polished the design of its instruction manuals over the years, but as easy as they are for humans to follow, machines are only just learning how to interpret the step-by-step guides.
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to machines learning to build with Lego is interpreting the two-dimensional images of the 3D models in the traditional printed instruction manuals (although, several Lego models can now be assembled through the company’s mobile app, which provides full 3D models of each step that can be rotated and examined from any angle). Humans can look at a picture of a Lego brick and instantly determine its 3D structure in order to find it in a pile of bricks, but for robots to do that, the researchers at Stanford University had to develop a new learning-based framework they call the Manual-to-Executable-Plan Network—or, MEPNet, for short-as detailed in a recently published paper.
Not only does the neural network have to extrapolate the 3D shape, form, and structure of the individual pieces identified in the manual for each step, it also needs to interpret the overall shape of the semi-assembled models featured in every step, no matter their orientation. Depending on where a piece needs to be added, Lego manuals will often provide an image of a semi-assembled model from a completely different perspective than the previous step did. The MEPNet framework has to decipher what it’s seeing, and how it correlates to the 3D model it generated as illustrated in previous steps.
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The framework then needs to determine where the new pieces in each step fit into the previously generated 3D model by comparing the next iteration of the semi-assembled model to previous ones. Lego manuals don’t use arrows to indicate part placement, and at the most will use a slightly different color to indicate where new pieces need to be placed—which may be too subtle to detect from a scanned image of a printed page. The MEPNet framework has to figure this out on its own, but what makes the process slightly easier is a feature unique to Lego bricks: the studs on top, and the anti-studs on the underside that allow them to be securely attached to each other. MEPNet understands the positional limitations of how Lego bricks can actually be stacked and attached based on the location of a piece’s studs, which helps narrow down where on the semi-assembled model they can be attached.
So can you drop a pile of plastic bricks and a manual in front of a robot arm and expect to come back to a completed model in a few hours? Not quite yet. The goal of this research was to simply translate the 2D images of a Lego manual into assembly steps a machine can functionally understand. Teaching a robot to manipulate and assemble Lego bricks is a whole other challenge—this is just the first step—although we’re not sure if there are any Lego fans out there who want to pawn off the actual building process on a machine.
Where this research could have more interesting applications is potentially automatically converting old Lego instruction manuals into the interactive 3D build guides included in the Lego mobile app now. And with a better understanding of translating 2D images into three-dimensional brick-built structures, this framework could potentially be used to develop software that could translate images of any object and spit out instructions on how to turn it into a Lego model.
Jodi Gordon appears to be in good spirits following a recent 30-day rehab stint.
The former soap star, 37, was photographed heading out for a stroll through the affluent Sydney suburb of Double Bay on Wednesday.
Jodi opted for a chic look – dressed head-to-toe in black activewear. She kept herself warm in a black puffer vest, a black long-sleeved top and leggings.
Jodi Gordon appears to be in good spirits as she was spotted on a morning walk, following her recent 30-day rehab stint
She topped off her look with a $240 black beanie from Acne Studios, while accessorizing with gorgeous drop pearl earrings and a black Gucci handbag.
Jodi spent 30 days in rehab for alcohol addiction earlier this year, and is now on the path to redemption after embracing a healthier lifestyle, banning booze and staying single.
‘Life isn’t always perfect, you go through your ups and downs’, Jodi exclusively told Daily Mail Australia at the launch of Life Botanics’ new vitamin range in Sydney last month.
‘I’ve made some big changes this year. So it’s been a journey of getting my life to a place where I’m making changes, really taking time to invest in myself.’
Jodi opted for a chic look – dressed head-to-toe in black activewear. She kept herself warm in a black puffer vest, a black long-sleeved top and leggings
She topped off her look with a $240 black beanie from Acne Studios, while accessorizing with gorgeous drop pearl earrings and a black Gucci handbag
Jodi, who is Life Botanics’ celebrity ambassador, said she’s been making positive changes in recent months, including following an exercise regimen, practicing meditation and looking after her nutrition.
‘I’m making changes where I want to create the life that is good for me. Looking after myself, my wellness. Just waking up in the morning and seeing what I really need and what’s going to be beneficial for myself to get through a day,’ she explained.
‘Quit alcohol. I do n’t drink, ‘Jodi, who previously described booze as her de ella’ poison ‘de ella, added.
Jodi, who is Life Botanics’ celebrity ambassador, said she’s been making positive changes in recent months, including following an exercise regimen, practicing meditation and looking after her nutrition
The former Home and Away star underwent ‘immersion therapy’ at an exclusive alcohol rehabilitation clinic called The Sydney Retreat in Stanmore, where clients are offered a ’30-day recovery program’ for $8,800.
She checked herself in following her acrimonious split from investment banker Sebastian Blackler.
The exes are currently subject to court ordered AVOs prohibiting them from contacting each other until April 2024.
Jodi has suffered a string of doomed romances over the years, including with Channel Seven heir Ryan Stokes, entrepreneur Aidan Walsh and a lawyer only known as Cedric.
Jodi checked into an alcohol rehabilitation clinic earlier this year, following her acrimonious split from investment banker Sebastian Blackler (right)
‘Life isn’t always perfect you go through your ups and downs’, Jodi exclusively told Daily Mail Australia at the launch of Life Botanics’ new vitamin range in Sydney last month
She also dated controversial real estate agent Warren Ginsberg in 2016, years before he was convicted after pleading guilty to drug possession last year.
When quizzed on her love life, Jodi told Daily Mail Australia that she is now single and hopes to stay that way for the time being.
There’s nothing happening [in my love life],’ she said, adding: ‘I talk about health and wellbeing and things like that, and part of that is taking care of myself. Making changes for me means looking after me and not involving anyone else in it. So definitely, no time for that.’
Jodi told Daily Mail Australia that she is now single and hopes to stay that way for the time being
Jodi partnered with Life Botanics at the start of the year, and swears by the brand’s hyaluronic acid capsules and marine collagen powder to hydrate the skin and promote hair and nail growth
‘Giving back to myself and making sure I’m in a good place,’ she continued. ‘There’s no inviting anyone else into my life until I’m in the right space.’
Jodi, who is best known for playing Elly Conway on Neighbors between 2016 and 2020, was previously married to rugby league footballer Braith Anasta, 40, between 2012 and 2015.
The pair welcomed daughter Aleeia, eight, back in 2014.
Jodi, who is best known for playing Elly Conway on Neighbors between 2016 and 2020, was previously married to rugby league footballer Braith Anasta, 40, between 2012 and 2015. Pictured together in 2011
Highland Park, Illinois, shooting suspect Robert Crimo III on Wednesday pleaded not guilty in a Lake County courtroom to fatally shooting seven people and injuring dozens of others at a Fourth of July parade in the town located about an hour north of Chicago.
Crimo quietly answered “yes” or “no” questions to let the judge know that he understood her directives and stated his birth date. He wore a short-sleeved, blue jumpsuit and his parents appeared behind him.
Last week, an Illinois grand jury indicted Crimo on 117 counts for his role in the tragedy, including 21 counts of first degree murder comprised of three counts of first-degree for each deceased victim.
HIGHLAND PARK FOURTH OF JULY SHOOTING SUSPECT INDICTED ON 117 COUNTS
Crimo is also charged with 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm for each victim who was struck by a bullet, bullet fragment, or shrapnel, according to Illinois State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart’s office.
Robert Crimo on August 3 pleaded not guilty to 117 counts for his role in a shooting that left seven people dead and dozens injured during a Fourth of July parade. (AP/handout from Lake County Major Crime Task Force)
There are a total of 47 named victims, an Illinois judge said during Wednesday’s arraignment. About two dozen family members and friends of victims also appeared in court to watch the arraignment.
HIGHLAND PARK FOURTH OF JULY SUSPECT GREW UP WITH BOOZY PARENTS WHO OFTEN CALLED 911 TO HOME: DOCUMENTS
Crimo’s parents have hired attorney George Gomez, who said the Crimo family wants to help the community heal.
The suspect allegedly climbed on a roof above the Fourth of July parade on Central Avenue and opened fire on spectators with a legally purchased Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle.
Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, on Monday, July 4. (AP/Nam Y. Huh)
Crimo dropped the rifle at the scene in Highland Park but had another rifle with him as he drove to Madison, Wisconsin, and allegedly contemplated a second mass shooting that never materialized.
Authorities have yet to determine a definitive motive. Crimo had a total of five legally purchased firearms, including rifles and handguns. Those weapons were seized from his father’s home pursuant to a July search warrant.
HIGHLAND PARK FOURTH OF JULY SUSPECT’S MOTHER HAD TROUBLED PAST INCLUDING ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
Crimo came from a troubled household, where police responded to frequent 911 calls, one involving a threat of suicide from Crimo and another involving an alleged threat to kill his family, according to police reports.
Despite the threats and frequent police visits, his father, Robert Crimo Jr., signed an affidavit allowing his then-19-year-old son to apply for a state Firearms Ownership ID card, or FOID. FOID cards are mandatory for Illinois residents who wish to legally own firearms, and applicants under the age of 21 must also submit a parent’s written and notarized consent to apply.
Gomez said Wednesday that Crimo Jr. regrets the actions taken to sponsor their son for a FOID card and are heartbroken by all those affected by this tragic event
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The seven victims who died in the shooting are Jacki Sundheim, 63; Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78; Irina McCarthy, 35, and Kevin McCarthy, 37; Katherine Goldstein, 64; Stephen Strauss, 88; and Edwardo Uvaldo, 69.
The next hearing for Crimo is on November 1 at 12 pm CT at the Lake County Courthouse.
Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
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Social media users were left stunned on Tuesday after Instagram account Celeb Spellcheck shared a series of magazine covers, including an old Ralph cover with Jennifer Hawkins looking ‘barely recognisable’.
The cover, which was from 2004, featured the former Miss Universe Australia posing for the cameras in a red bikini.
Jennifer Hawkins is ‘barely recognisable’ in a resurfaced magazine cover shared by Instagram account Celeb Spellcheck. Photo: Getty
“Jennifer Hawkins, Mistress of the Universe!” the headline read.
Instagram users were shocked at how different Jennifer looked, with one user writing, “Wow Jen Hawkins is unrecognizable.”
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“Bloody hell didn’t even realize it was her!” another agreed. “How does she look so different? How old was she here?!”
“I would never have known that was Jen Hawkins!” a third said.
“Didn’t recognize Jen Hawkins 😮,” someone else added.
Social media users had no idea it was Jennifer until they saw her name on the cover. Photo: Ralph Magazine via Instagram/Celeb Spellcheck
“Doesn’t even look like her,” yet another agreed, with one person adding, “She’s barely recognizable in that pic ay.”
Others joked that the early 2000s was the “golden era of Photoshop” and that the magazine covers were “honestly iconic.”
“Before lip fillers, eyebrow feathering and Botox,” another said.
Jen has never revealed whether or not she’s had any plastic surgery, instead saying, ‘I am happy with who I am as a person and really just want to live my life.’ Photo: Getty
Jennifer appears to have fuller lips and thicker brows nowadays, however, the model has never admitted to having any work done, telling The Australian Women’s Weekly in 2014, “When someone says ‘under the knife’ I don’t have a reaction.”
“Everyone in the industry gets that. That’s fine. I’m cool with that. I’m cool with people having an opinion, but as I said, I am happy with who I am as a person and really just want to live my life.” life.”
She’s also previously told The Daily Telegraph it’s a personal choice to get plastic surgery, saying, “Each to their own!”
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Attorneys for Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment in Lake County Circuit Court Wednesday after a grand jury indicted him on 117 felony counts for the July Fourth mass shooting in Highland Park that killed seven people and wounded dozens of others.
During the hearing, Judge Victoria Rossetti informed Crimo, 21, of the range of sentences he could face, including natural life if he is convicted of first-degree murder. Manacled at the waist, wearing dark jail scrubs and a mask, Crimo answered in a clear voice that he understood.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to return to court Nov. 1 for a case management conference.
Authorities allege Crimo, who grew up in Highland Park, climbed onto a store building and fired more than 80 rounds from an assault-style rifle into the crowd along the city’s Independence Day parade route before escaping in the ensuing chaos.
Police said Crimo disguised himself as a woman and dropped the rifle before escaping.
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He was arrested later that day after a police officer spotted him driving in North Chicago. Police have said that following the Highland Park shooting, Crimo drove to the vicinity of Madison, Wisconsin, where he allegedly contemplated attacking another gathering.
Meanwhile, officials in Highland Park, which bans the possession of assault-style rifles and large-capacity magazines within city limits, are pressing for a similar prohibition at the state level. Numerous legislators are co-sponsoring a bill to that effect and Gov. JB Pritzker has endorsed the concept.
Last week, Democratic House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced the formation of a working group devoted to firearm safety and reform, saying he wanted “to take a balanced and research-driven approach to meaningfully reform our laws in Illinois.”
Check back for updates.
Freelance reporter Cliff Ward contributed to this story.
Neighbors star Olympia Valance showed off her incredible figure in a skimpy baby blue bikini in Mykonos on Monday.
The former soap actress, 29, looked stunning as she enjoyed some fun in the sun on the popular Greek island.
Olympia appeared to be having the time of her life with her former AFL star husband Tom Bellchambers, 33, who donned matching blue swim shorts.
Olympia Valance (pictured) looked sensational in a bikini as she enjoyed her sun-soaked honeymoon in Mykonos with husband Tom Bellchambers on Monday
Olympia appeared delighted as she waded into the water for a refreshing dip.
At one point, the brunette bombshell appeared to flick her hair back and squeeze the salty sea from her famous locks.
She then tied her tresses into a chic ponytail, as she continued to frolic in the Aegean Sea.
Olympia’s sensational curves were on full display as she paddled in her sizzling swimwear.
Olympia appeared delighted as she waded into the water for a refreshing dip
The former soap actress, 29, looked stunning as she enjoyed some fun in the sun on the popular Greek island
At one point, the brunette bombshell appeared to flick her hair back and squeeze the salty sea from her famous locks
Olympia ensured she was comfortable for her day in the sea
She then tied her tresses into a chic ponytail, as she continued to frolic in the Aegean Sea
It wasn’t long before Tom joined his beautiful wife for a dip.
The couple waded in the shallows and lovingly looked at each other, as holidaymakers buzzed round them.
Olympia soon draped her arms around Tom as the couple shared a laugh.
The Playing for Keeps star’s skin started to show signs of being sun-kissed as she paddled in the crystal clear waters.
It wasn’t long before Tom joined his beautiful wife for a dip. Both pictured
The couple waded in the shallows and lovingly looked at each other, as holidaymakers buzzed round them
Olympia soon draped her arms around Tom as the couple shared a laugh
The lovers shared a kiss as they cooled off, with Olympia’s sparkler on full display
The Playing for Keeps star’s skin started to show signs of being sun-kissed as she paddled in the crystal clear waters
After their paddle, the newlyweds relaxed beneath the shade of a beach umbrella and took in the sights and sounds around them.
Olympia donned sunglasses for the occasion, as she surveyed the beach with a refreshing drink.
Olympia and Tom’s beachside frolic comes after she and sister Holly celebrated the highly anticipated finale of Neighbours.
After their paddle, the newlyweds relaxed beneath the shade of a beach umbrella and took in the sights and sounds around them
Olympia looked divine as she quenched her thirst
Olympia donned sunglasses for the occasion, as she surveyed the beach with a refreshing drink
The pair were pictured drinking Champagne at sunset after the soap bid farewell.
‘WOW. So that’s it, the last episode ever of Neighbours. What an end of an era for us all.’
She added in reference to their characters on the show: ‘Big love from Greece, Flick and Paige.’
Holly began her career on Neighbors as Felicity ‘Flick’ Scully back in 1999.
Olympia and Tom’s beachside frolic comes after she and sister Holly (right) celebrated the highly anticipated finale of Neighbours. The pair were pictured drinking Champagne at sunset after the soap bid farewell
Holly left the soap in 2002 to begin her music career, producing hits including Kiss Kiss and Down Boy.
However, she’s mostly retreated from the spotlight since marrying billionaire Nick Candy.
Olympia meanwhile played Paige Smith on Neighbors from 2014 to 2017, but reprized her role in 2020 for the 35th anniversary of the show.
Olympia and Tom couldn’t get enough of the cool water
Olympia played Paige Smith on Neighbors from 2014 to 2017, and reprized her role in 2020 for the 35th anniversary of the show
Both sisters returned to the show for the finale this week, which also saw the likes of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce return.
Olympia recently told Greek publication Neos Kosmos: ‘Neighbours have always felt like home to me. There is a reason why everyone refers to Neighbors as the best training ground in the world.’
She said news of the show’s cancellation in March, following the loss of its main UK broadcast partner Channel 5, left her extremely sad.
Olympia recently told Greek publication Neos Kosmos, ‘Neighbours have always felt like home to me. There is a reason why everyone refers to Neighbors as the best training ground in the world’
She said news of the show’s cancellation in March, following the loss of its main UK broadcast partner Channel 5, left her extremely sad
While Donald J. Trump’s wing of the Republican Party flexed its muscle in primaries across the country on Tuesday, a remarkable victory for abortion rights in Kansas, coupled with a couple of defeats for Trump-styled candidates, suggest this year’s midterms are a trickier environment for uncompromising conservatives than Republicans once believed.
But there is a twist: In places where the night was roughest for the far right, the Republican Party may well benefit in November.
In Missouri, the defeat of former Gov. Eric Greitens in the Republican Senate primary means that the seat of Senator Roy Blunt, who is retiring, is likely to remain safely in GOP hands. And in Michigan, Tudor Dixon, a GOP candidate for governor backed by the state’s powerful DeVos family (and, in the final days, by Mr. Trump), defeated several far-right rivals to set up what could be a competitive general election against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat.
Where Trump-backed candidates prevailed, Democrats may prosper. That is especially true in Western Michigan, where a candidate endorsed by the former president, John Gibbs, narrowly beat one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump, Representative Peter Meijer. Mr. Gibbs’s victory handed Democrats a golden opportunity to grab a seat that has been redrawn to lean toward their party.
Here are five takeaways from a big election night in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington.
Kansas rattles the nation, and the midterms, with its abortion vote.
Voters in deep-red Kansas delivered a loud warning shot to Republicans across the country, signaling that abortion has the potential to energize voters who the GOP had hoped would remain disengaged. Democrats are likely to use the vote to try to build momentum and depict Republicans as out of step with the majority of Americans on the issue.
The vote in Kansas, which resoundingly rejected a ballot referendum that would have removed the right to abortion from the State Constitution, was the first test of Americans’ political attitudes on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. wade decision. It revealed that from the bluest counties to the reddest ones, abortion rights outran Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s performance of him in the state in 2020.
Abortion rights supporters marched on Saturday at the Capitol building in Topeka, Kan.Credit…Arin Yoon for The New York Times
As the polls began to close, Scott Schwab, the Kansas secretary of state, said election officials expected turnout to reach about 50 percent — far above the 36 percent that his office had predicted before Election Day, and particularly stunning for a primary in a nonpresidential election year.
It is too soon to tell the partisan breakdown, but early results indicated that the strength of the abortion rights side wasn’t limited to Democratic areas.
The referendum was rejected not only in moderate and increasingly blue areas like the Kansas City suburbs, but also in certain conservative parts of the state. Swing areas swing left.
As both parties look ahead to elections this fall in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona that could help decide the future of abortion rights, Kansans showed that the political winds on the issue are shifting.
Another impeachment vote loses his seat.
For much of this year, a vote in 2021 to impeach Mr. Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol appeared to be a career-ending move for a House Republican.
Of the 10 who cast that vote, four retired before they could face the primary electorate. One, Representative Tom Rice of South Carolina, was defeated by a Trump-endorsed Republican. One, Representative David Valadao of California, survived a primary night to remain on the ballot in November.
Tuesday was a major defensive stand for the anti-Trump GOP, with three of the remaining four Republicans who voted for impeachment facing the former president’s wrath on the ballot. Races for two in Washington, Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse, were too close to call — and one, Mr. Meijer, did not survive.
There was plenty of drama. Mr. Meijer was not only battling the Trump-backed Mr. Gibbs, but also the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which spent more than $400,000 on advertising meant to lift the little-known Mr. Gibbs, in hopes that he could be more easily defeated by Hillary Scholten, the Democrat, in November.
John Gibbs waiting for results at his watch party in Wyoming, Mich., on Tuesday.Credit…Brittany Greenson for The New York Times
Ms. Beutler’s Trump-endorsed opponent, Joe Kent, is a square-jawed retired Army Ranger whose wife was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria. Mr. Kent has turned to the hard right, expressing sympathy for Jan. 6 rioters and repeating false claims of a stolen 2020 election.
The Democrats’ high-risk strategy of elevating an election-denying conspiracy theorist in Michigan worked for now: Mr. Gibbs will be the Republican nominee in a newly drawn seat that Mr. Biden would have won by nine percentage points in 2020. If Mr. Gibbs prevails in November, the recriminations against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will be brutal.
But if the two impeachment supporters win in Washington, it would mean that more of the 10 who faced primary voters have survived than have been defeated. Later this month, Representative Liz Cheney will be the last of the 10 to face voters.
Meanwhile, the former president’s winning streak in Republican primaries for the Senate kept rolling in Arizona, where a political newcomer, Blake Masters, captured the nomination after receiving Mr. Trump’s endorsement.
Another conspiracy theorist comes closer to overseeing elections.
If Mr. Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is loosening slightly, his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen have persisted and spread among prominent Republican candidates. And some candidates’ primary victories on Tuesday could make the issue of democratic elections a central theme in their November general elections.
Mark Finchem, who has identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers militia in the past and has waved around wild, false allegations of election improprieties, won the Republican nomination for secretary of state in Arizona.
He will be vying in November for a post overseeing future elections in a state that Mr. Biden narrowly won in 2020 and where election conspiracy theorists have wreaked havoc ever since.
Voting in Mesa, Ariz., on Tuesday.Credit…Rebecca Noble for The New York Times
The Arizona race for governor between Kari Lake, a conspiracy-minded, Trump-backed candidate, and Karrin Taylor Robson, a rival favored by the establishment, was too close to call. If Ms. Lake wins in addition to Mr. Finchem and Mr. Masters, it would make a clean sweep of election-denying candidates backed by the former president at the top of the ticket in Arizona.
In Missouri, the victor in the Republican primary for the state’s open Senate seat, Eric Schmitt, led several other state attorneys general in appealing to the Supreme Court in 2020 to take up and possibly throw out Mr. Biden’s election victory in Pennsylvania.
And in Michigan, Ms. Dixon, a conservative commentator who won the Republican nomination for governor, has wavered when questioned whether Mr. Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in her state was legitimate.
Election officials are also still fighting the conspiracy theories. In Michigan, prominent election deniers who have clung to the falsehoods of a stolen 2020 presidential contest have organized to sign up as poll workers and have forced officials to respond to a string of specific claims and concerns about safety.
In Arizona, Republican legislators who have questioned Mr. Biden’s victory in their state were calling on Tuesday for people to stake out drop boxes to ensure that no one was illegally stuffing with them ballots, according to voting rights groups and a local news report.
Shame still exists in politics (but it’s a low bar).
The decisive defeat of Mr. Greitens in Missouri’s Republican Senate primary showed that after all the tumult of the last six years, there are still lines that cannot be crossed in politics. Mr. Trump once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in New York and not lose any supporters.
Eric Greitens greeted supporters on Tuesday as he arrived to vote in Innsbrook, Mo.Credit…Whitney Curtis for The New York Times
Mr. Greitens resigned the Missouri governorship in 2018 while facing accusations that he had lured a former girlfriend to his home, tied her up, torn off her clothes, photographed her partly naked, threatened to release the pictures if she talked and coerced her into performing oral-sex
He thought he could make a political comeback as a United States senator. Even after his former wife he accused him in a sworn affidavit of physically abusing her and one of their young sons de ella, he pressed on, denying the allegations and arguing that his accusers had been manipulated by establishment RINOs, or Republicans in name only .
As of Wednesday morning, Mr. Greitens had mustered less than 19 percent of the vote, a distant third-place finish. Mud that rancid still sticks.
The results set up three competitive governor’s races.
Governor Whitmer has maintained much higher approval ratings than Mr. Biden as she has led Michigan through a pandemic, an economic crisis and a dam collapse.
But she could face a tough competitor in Ms. Dixon, who managed to unite warring factions of her party allied with Mr. Trump and the state’s wealthy DeVos family. Ms. Dixon has said she decided to run for office out of her anger over Ms. Whitmer’s policies de ella, particularly health restrictions early in the pandemic that were among the most stringent in the country.
Races in Arizona and Kansas could prove to be even tighter.
In Arizona, Katie Hobbs, the Democratic secretary of state and now the party’s nominee for governor, has emerged as a high-profile defender of the state’s 2020 election results who has weathered death threats that prompted round-the-clock security from state troopers.
She will be squaring off against Ms. Lake or Ms. Taylor Robson, who has the endorsements of former Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Doug Ducey, who is term-limited.
In Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, will face Derek Schmidt, the Trump-backed state attorney general. It is a tough landscape for Democrats, but Ms. Kelly’s approval ratings are relatively strong. A former state senator, she rose to higher office in 2018 after defeating Kris W. Kobach, a Republican known for specific warnings about election fraud and illegal immigration. Mr. Kobach won the Republican primary for Kansas attorney general on Tuesday.
