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In the opening minutes of the debate, Fetterman addressed what he called the “elephant in the room.”

“I had a stroke. He never let me forget that,” Fetterman, the lieutenant governor, said of Oz, who constantly questioned his ability to serve in the Senate. “And I might have missed some words during that discussion, mixed two words together, but it blew me away and I’ll keep coming back.”

When later in the debate he was asked to release his medical records, he refused to oblige.

Oz, a famed heart surgeon, ignored his opponent’s health issues during the debate, instead taking advantage of Fetterman’s policies on immigration, crime and his support for President Joe Biden. At one point, Oz said that Fetterman was “trying to get as many murderers out of prison as possible.”

The school shooter had an AR-15 weapon and 600 rounds of ammunition

St. LOUIS (AP) — The 19-year-old who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15 rifle and what appeared to be more than 600 rounds of ammunition, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

Orlando Harris also left behind a handwritten note explaining the reason for the shooting at Central High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, St. Louis Police Commissioner Michael Sack told reporters. Tenth-grader Alexandria Bell and 61-year-old gym teacher Jeanne Kuchka were killed and seven students were wounded before police killed Harris in a shootout.

Seck read a note from Harris, in which the young man complained that he had no friends, no family, no girlfriend, and was living in isolation. Harris called it “the perfect storm for a mass shooter.”

Garris had ammunition strapped to his chest and in a bag, Seck said, and additional magazines were found on stairwells.

“It could have been a lot worse,” Sack said.

Doctors say ‘fossil fuel addiction’ is killing and starving millions

Extreme weather caused by climate change has left nearly 100 million people hungry and increased heat-related deaths by 68% among vulnerable people worldwide as “fossil fuel addiction” worsens public health every year, doctors report in a new study.

Worldwide, the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and biomass creates air pollution that kills 1.2 million people a year, including 11,800 in the United States, according to a report published Tuesday in the prestigious medical journal Lancet.

“Our health depends on fossil fuels,” said University College London health and climate researcher Marina Romanello, executive director of the Lancet Countdown. “We are witnessing a continued commitment to fossil fuels that not only amplifies the health effects of climate change, but is now compounded by other simultaneous crises we face around the world, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. , the cost of living crisis, the energy crisis and the food crisis that arose after the war in Ukraine.”

In the annual Lancet Countdown, a journal that looks at climate change and health, nearly 100 researchers around the world identified 43 indicators that climate change is making people sicker or weaker, and this year added a new look at hunger.

“And the health impacts of climate change are increasing rapidly,” Romanello said.

Evade, deny or deceive: Candidates do not specify plans for 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — They’re evasive. They insure themselves. And, yes, they sometimes even make up – or at least flip flops.

Presidential hopefuls dreaming of the White House while running for congressional or public office often face an uncomfortable question: Regardless of your high hopes — and the time they may take — whether you’ll commit to serving a full term for the people who vote for you. you now?

Some, like Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, dodged the question of how he did it during Monday night’s debate. Instead of directly answering whether he might leave the state, he lashed out at both President Joe Biden and his Democratic opponent, Rep. Charlie Crist, whom he called “the only worn-out old donkey I want to put out to pasture.”

Others, like South Dakota Gov. Christy Noem, are leaving room for hesitation, saying she “plans” to serve another four years.

Not too long ago, there was also Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who famously promised, “I will serve my full six-year term,” only to announce his candidacy for president 13 months later. He had just won his seat when he was sworn in and was not facing any immediate re-election.

Los Angeles police are investigating the illegal recording of a racist video

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles detectives are investigating whether a tape last year that captured racist remarks by city council members was made illegally, the police chief said Tuesday.

The release of the tape earlier this month sparked a growing scandal in the nation’s second-largest city in the weeks leading up to Election Day. A bigoted debate among council members — laced with crude insults — exposed unequal representation and divided political power along racial lines in Los Angeles.

Council President Nuri Martinez resigned in disgrace, while two other council members resisted widespread calls — from the White House on down — for their ouster.

The uproar began nearly two weeks ago when a previously unknown recording of a private 2021 meeting involving Martinez and council members Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo, as well as powerful labor leader Ron Herrera, head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, was released.

“The department has opened a criminal investigation into the wiretapping allegations,” Los Angeles Police Chief Michelle Moore said Tuesday during a media briefing in response to questions from The Associated Press.

Ukraine accused Russia of deceiving the creation of a bomb at a nuclear plant

Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s nuclear power operator said Tuesday that Russian troops are carrying out secret work at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, an activity that could shed light on Russian claims that the Ukrainian military is preparing a “provocation” using radioactive devices.

The Minister of Defense of Russia, Sergei Shaigu, stated without evidence that Ukraine was preparing to launch a so-called dirty bomb. Shaigu made the accusation over the weekend in calls to his British, French, Turkish and American counterparts. Britain, France and the US immediately rejected it as “obviously false”.

Ukraine also dismissed Moscow’s statement as an attempt to divert attention from the Kremlin’s own alleged plans to detonate the dirty bomb, which uses explosives to disperse radioactive waste with the aim of sowing terror.

The Ukrainian state-owned enterprise “Energaat”, which manages the country’s four nuclear power plants, said that during the last week, Russian troops carried out secret construction work at the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Russian officers overseeing the site will not give access to Ukrainian personnel who run the plant or to observers from the UN atomic watchdog, who would allow them to see what the Russians are doing, Energoatom said in a statement on Tuesday.

The panel interviews former Trump aide Hope Hicks on Jan. 6

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee on Jan. 6 is questioning Hope Hicks, a longtime aide to former President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the meeting.

Tuesday’s interview comes as the investigation is wrapping up and the panel has called Trump for interviews in the coming weeks. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting.

Hicks did not play a major role in the White House’s response to the January 6, 2021 uprising, in which hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol and disrupted the certification of victory for President Joe Biden. Trump’s longtime communications aide was still working there at the time, but left the White House a few days later.

Still, Hicks was one of Trump’s most trusted aides. And she received some text messages and emails that day in the run-up to the then-president’s speech outside the White House and before the violence erupted, according to CNN, which obtained copies of the text messages provided by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Hicks is no stranger to investigations into his former boss. She was a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, passing on important information to the special counsel’s office about Trump’s attempts to obstruct the investigation. But she declined to answer questions about her time in the White House before House Democrats, who investigated the former president in 2019 after the release of the Mueller report, citing privilege issues.

Sleep apnea device recalls are delayed, fueling frustration

WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive recall of millions of sleep apnea machines has sparked anger and frustration among patients, and U.S. officials are considering unprecedented legal action to speed up a replacement of the machines that will drag on for next year.

In June 2021, manufacturer Philips warned that the noise-absorbing foam in pressurized breathing apparatus could deteriorate, leaving users potentially inhaling tiny black particles or hazardous chemicals while they sleep.

Philips initially thought it could repair or replace the devices within a year. But as the recall expanded to more than 5 million devices worldwide, the Dutch company now says the effort will continue until 2023.

As a result, many patients are left with a choice between using a potentially harmful device or trying risky remedies, including removing the foam themselves, buying used machines online, or simply going without therapy.

These devices are called continuous positive airway pressure machines, or CPAP. They draw air through the mask to keep the passages open while you sleep.

“They took away my great love”: Ukrainian woman is looking for answers

OZERA, Ukraine (AP) — Tatsiana Boykov watched from the basement doorway as Russian soldiers questioned her husband about his phone.

“Come,” called her husband Mykola Moroz. “Don’t be afraid.”

Moroz — Kolya to his friends — tried to explain that the recovered surveillance video was from his work as an electrician, and it was all done before the February 24 break-in.

“I am a religious person,” said Kolya. “I didn’t hurt anyone.”

But the two soldiers and their commander did not listen. They put a bag on his head. In desperation, Boykov demanded to know what they were going to do with the man she called her great, great love.

Condition of Texas teen who ate touch-and-go burger

A teenager shot by a San Antonio police officer three weeks ago while he was rear-ending while eating a hamburger remains hospitalized and in “very touching condition,” his father said Tuesday in the family’s first public comments since shooting. .

“He’s getting a little bit better, his wounds are healing, but the wounds that he’s had, they’re big, they’re a lot,” Eric Cantu told a press conference.

Family attorney Ben Crump, who has taken on some of the nation’s most high-profile police killings of black people, said the family was told the now-fired officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Eric Cantu racially profiled him while searching for a Hispanic suspect.

Cantu was shot and killed on October 2 by Officer James Brennand in a McDonald’s parking lot. After the shooting, the 27-year-old rookie officer was fired and charged with aggravated assault by an officer. Police said Brenand violated training and police procedures by approaching the car.

In the video released by police, Brenand opens the car door and orders Kant to get out. The car backs up with the doors open and the officer fires several shots into the car. He continues to shoot as the car drives away.