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Trump, Biden set for first debate tonight CLEVELAND (AP) — In an election year like no other, the first debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, could be a pivotal moment in a race that has remained stubbornly unchanged in the face of historic tumult. The Tuesday night debate will offer a massive platform for Trump and Biden to outline their starkly different visions for a country facing multiple crises, including racial justice protests and a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs. The health emergency has upended the usual trappings of a presidential campaign, lending heightened importance to the debate. But amid intense political
polarization, comparatively few undecided voters remain, raising questions as to how, or if, the debate might shape a race that has been defined by its bitterness and, at least so far, its stability. Biden will step onto the Cleveland stage holding leads in the polls — significant in the national surveys, closer in the battleground states — but facing questions about his turn in the spotlight, particularly considering Trump’s withering attacks. And Trump, with only 35 days to change the course of the race, will have arguably his best chance to try to reframe the campaign as a choice election and not a referendum over his handling of a virus that has killed more people in America than any other nation. “This will be the first moment
in four years that someone will walk on stage as co-equal to Trump and be able to hold him to account for the malfeasance he has shown leading the country,” said Steve Schmidt, senior campaign aide for John McCain’s 2008 Republican presidential bid and a frequent Trump critic. “If Biden is unable to indict Trump for all that he has done, (that) would be profound failure. There is no spinning that away.” The president’s handling of the coronavirus will likely dominate much of the discussion. The pandemic’s force will be tangible as the candidates’ podiums will be spaced far apart and the traditional opening handshake scrapped. And the debate could be shaped by an extraordinary confluence of
other recent moments: the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, allowing Trump to nominate a conservative jurist to replace a liberal voice and reshape the high court for generations, and the blockbuster revelations about Trump’s long-hidden tax history, including that he paid only $750 a year in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and nothing in many other years. But the impact of the debate — or the two that follow in the weeks ahead — remains unclear. The tumult of 2020 is difficult to overstate: COVID-19 has rewritten the rules of everyday life; schools and businesses are shuttered; and racial justice protests have swept the nation after a series of high-profile killings of Black people by police.
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Worldwide death toll from COVID-19 now over 1 million NEW DELHI (AP) — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 1 million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work. “It’s not just a number. It’s human beings. It’s people we love,” said Dr. Howard Markel, a professor of medical history at the University of Michigan who has advised government officials on containing pandemics and lost his 84-year-old mother to COVID-19 in February. “It’s our brothers, our sisters.
It’s people we know,” he added. “And if you don’t have that human factor right in your face, it’s very easy to make it abstract.” The bleak milestone, recorded on Monday in the U.S. by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Jerusalem or Austin, Texas. It is 2 1/2 times the sea of humanity that was at Woodstock in 1969. It is more than four times the number killed by the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Even then, the figure is almost certainly a vast undercount because of inadequate or inconsistent testing and reporting and suspected concealment by some countries.
And the number continues to mount. Nearly 5,000 deaths are reported each day on average. Parts of Europe are getting hit by new outbreaks, and experts fear a second wave in the U.S., which accounts for about 205,000 deaths, or 1 out of 5 worldwide. That is far more than any other country, despite America’s wealth and medical resources. “I can understand why ... numbers are losing their power to shock, but I still think it’s really important that we understand how big these numbers really are,” said Mark Honigsbaum, author of “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic,
Hysteria and Hubris.” The global toll includes people like Joginder Chaudhary, who was his parents’ greatest pride, raised with the little they earned farming a half-acre plot in central India to become the first doctor from their village. After the virus killed the 27-year-old Chaudhary in late July, his mother wept inconsolably. With her son gone, Premlata Chaudhary said, how could she go on living? Three weeks later, on Aug. 18, the virus took her life, too. All told, it has killed more than 96,000 in India. Please see Virus, Page 2
Despite the upheaval, the presidential race has remained largely unchanged since Biden seized control of the Democratic field in March. The nation has soured on Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and while his base of support has remained largely unchanged, he has seen defections among older and female voters, particularly in the suburbs, and his path to 270 Electoral College votes, while still viable, has shrunk. Polls suggest fewer undecided voters remain than at this point in the 2016 campaign. And several high-profile debates in past elections that were thought to be game-changing moments at the time ultimately had little lasting effect. Please see Debate, Page 4
Census to end Oct. 5 despite court ruling
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross says the 2020 census will end Oct. 5, despite a federal judge’s ruling last week allowing the head count of every U.S. resident to continue through the end of October, according to a tweet posted by the Census Bureau on Monday. The tweet said the ability for people to self-respond to the census questionnaire and the door-knocking phase when census takers go to homes that haven’t yet responded are targeted to end Oct. 5. The announcement came as a virtual hearing was being held in San Jose, California, as a follow-up to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s preliminary injunction. The injunction issued last week suspended the Census Bureau’s deadline for ending the head count on Sept. 30, which automatically reverted back to an older Census Bureau plan in which the timeline for ending field operations was Oct. 31. The new Oct. 5 deadline doesn’t necessarily violate the judge’s order because the injunction just suspended the Sept. 30 deadline for field operations, as well as a Dec. 31 deadline the Census Bureau has for turning in figures used for determining how many congressional seats each state gets in a process known as apportionment. The census also is used to determine how to distribute $1.5 trillion in federal spending annually. Koh asked federal government attorneys during Monday’s hearing to provide documents on how the new decision to end the head count on Oct. 5 was made. When a federal government lawyer suggested that the decision-making was a moving target without any records, the judge asked, “A one sentence tweet? Are you saying that is enough reason to establish decision-making? A one sentence tweet?” Given the judge’s preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order she had previously issued prohibiting the Census Bureau from winding down 2020 census operations, the decision was made that the Sept. 30 deadline was no longer viable, said August Flentje, special counsel to the assistant U.S. Attorney General. “It’s day to day adjustments and assessments,” Flentje said. Koh said in her ruling last Thursday that the shortened schedule ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration likely would produce inaccurate results that would last a decade. She sided with civil rights groups and local governments that had sued the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of ComPlease see Census, Page 4
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Coos County has five new COVID-19 cases over weekend The World COOS COUNTY — Five new and confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported over the weekend in Coos County, bringing the total number of cases to 113 positive and 44 presumptive for a total of 157 cases, according to Coos Health & Wellness. There are currently 12 active cases, with no current hospitalizations, CHW reported. Active cases means positive and presumptive cases that are currently
still in their infective period. There have been 12 new confirmed or presumptive cases in the past seven days in the county. Non-cases that tested negative are at 7,039. No one in Coos County has died from complications due to COVID-19, according to CHW. Case-specific information on new cases since the last update: Adult over 60, female, confirmed, under investigation, low exposure to others, isolating at home. No underlying
health conditions. Adult under 40, female, presumptive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. Underlying health conditions. Adult 40-60, female, presumptive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. Underlying health conditions. Adult under 40, male, confirmed, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. No underlying
health conditions. Adult 60-70, female, confirmed (previously reported as presumptive) linked to known cases, high exposure to others, isolating at home. Adult under 20, male, confirmed (previously reported as presumptive), linked to known cases, moderate exposure to others, isolating at home. Adult 40-60, female, presumptive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. Underlying health conditions.
Adult 50-60, female, presumptive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. Unknown underlying health conditions. Adult over 60, female, presumptive, linked to known cases, low exposure to others, isolating at home. Underlying health conditions. Adult under 40, female. presumptive, linked to known cases, moderate exposure to others, isolating at home. No underlying health conditions.
Oregon coronavirus death toll unchanged Monday Virus The World
PORTLAND — The state’s death toll from COVID-19 is unchanged from Sunday and remains at 547, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday. Oregon Health Authority also reported 181 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the state total to 32,994. The new cases reported today are in the following counties: Benton (4), Clackamas (13), Clatsop (5), Columbia (8), Deschutes (13), Douglas (1), Hood River (1), Jackson (13), Jefferson (6), Lane (26), Malheur (6), Marion (12), Morrow (6), Multnomah (21), Polk (2), Umatilla (11), Wasco (4), Washington (24), and Yamhill (5). September is National Preparedness Month People in Oregon were working on adjusting their lives to autumn and a return to school during
the COVID-19 pandemic when they were suddenly confronted with dangerous wildfires, evacuations and hazardous smoke. While so many folks are still having to adjust their lives after being impacted by the wildfires, it may seem like too much to think about preparedness for future emergencies at this time. Even so, keeping track of what you are missing in your preparedness kit right now while it’s fresh in your mind may really help you in the future. There are many low-tono cost actions you can do today that will help you in the event of a disaster or emergency, including measures everyone can take during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. You can limit the impacts that disasters have on you and your family by taking steps to: • Know what disasters and hazards could affect your area and learn what to do before, during and after each type of emergency.
• Have important documents lined up, from insurance coverage to health/ medical records. • Learn how to make your home more prepared for emergencies, both structurally and non-structurally. • Sign up for emergency alerts so that during a disaster or emergency, you receive immediate life-saving information from your state and local municipality and are prepared to act fast. • Ensure your home has the right types of insurance coverage based on where you live. Consider purchasing homeowners, renters, health, life and/or flood insurance to protect yourself and your property. Oregon Office of Emergency Management has a webpage that can help you prepare for future emergencies, and below is a video that can help you prepare. Back to school – Helping your child stay physically active
Even if your child’s online school offers a physical education class, you may wonder how to make sure your child stays physically active this year. Here are some things to keep in mind: • Plan for at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day. This could be two 30-minute sessions (before and after school), six 10-minute sessions or whatever works with your family’s schedule. • If you can, join in the activity and have fun! You and child can make a list of the activities that work best for both of you, whether it’s dancing, yoga, walking, biking, a game of tag or ball, or jumping rope. You could also find an online class or video series to complete together. You can find more ideas for adding physical activities to your routine on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website and the American Academy of Pediatrics website.
Florence resident dies when car crashes into river FLORENCE (AP) — A 91-year-old Florence resident was found dead after his car went off the road into the Siuslaw River on Sunday. A witness called police
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“This pandemic has ruined my family,” said the young doctor’s father, Rajendra Chaudhary. “All our aspirations, our dreams, everything is finished.” When the virus overwhelmed cemeteries in the Italian province of Bergamo last spring, the Rev. Mario Carminati opened his church to the dead, lining up 80 coffins in the center aisle. After an army convoy carted them to a crematory, another 80 arrived. Then 80 more. Eventually the crisis receded and the world’s attention moved on. But the pandemic’s grasp endures. In August, Carminati buried his 34-year-old nephew. “This thing should make us all reflect. The problem is that we think we’re all immortal,” the priest said. The virus first appeared in late 2019 in patients hospitalized in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first death was reported on Jan. 11. By the time authorities locked down the city nearly two weeks later, millions of travelers had come and gone. China’s government has come in for criticism that it did not do enough to alert other countries to the threat. Government leaders in countries like Germany,
South Korea and New Zealand worked effectively to contain it. Others, like U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, dismissed the severity of the threat and the guidance of scientists, even as hospitals filled with gravely ill patients. Brazil has recorded the second most deaths after the U.S., with about 142,000. India is third and Mexico fourth, with more than 76,000. The virus has forced trade-offs between safety and economic well-being. The choices made have left millions of people vulnerable, especially the poor, minorities and the elderly. With so many of the deaths beyond view in hospital wards and clustered on society’s margins, the milestone recalls the grim pronouncement often attributed to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin: One death is a tragedy, millions of deaths are a statistic. The pandemic’s toll of 1 million dead in such a limited time rivals some of the gravest threats to public health, past and present. It exceeds annual deaths from AIDS, which last year killed about 690,000 people worldwide. The virus’s toll is approaching the 1.5 million global deaths each year from tuberculosis, which regularly kills more people than any other infectious disease.
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Two injured when boat explodes in boathouse on South Tenmile Lake
Crabbing closure will end Oct. 7 The World
SALEM — Nonresident recreational clamming and crabbing closures that were in place due to COVID-19 restrictions are being lifted coastwide as of Wednesday, Oct. 7, according to a press release from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Clamming coastwide and crabbing in ocean areas north of Cape Falcon and the Columbia River had been closed to nonresidents since April 11. The emergency rule was meant to limit visitation and crowding in coastal communities. The rule expires midnight Oct. 6 and will not be renewed. As a reminder, razor clamming on Clatsop beaches (from Tillamook Head in Seaside to the mouth of the Columbia River) remains in a conservation closure until Oct. 1. This is an
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annual summer closure to allow newly set razor clams to establish themselves on Clatsop beaches. At this time, South Coast beaches are closed for recreational and commercial mussel harvesting due to the marine biotoxin, paralytic shellfish poison. The closure runs from the South Jetty of the Coquille River in Bandon to the California border.
Always check for toxin-related closures before harvesting clams or crabs by calling the shellfish safety hotline 1-800-4482472. Closures are also noted on ODA’S Recreation Shellfish page and on ODFW’s Recreation Report — Clamming and Crabby Report. For more information about clamming on the Oregon coast, visit ODFW’s
Crabbing and Clamming page online. “Please continue following safety measures in place due to COVID-19 including maintaining at least six feet distance from anyone not a member of your household, wearing a mask when you can’t maintain social distance, washing hands frequently, and staying home if you are sick,” stated the release.
LAKESIDE — Two people were injured in a boating accident on South Tenmile Lake on Saturday afternoon. According to a press release from the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, on Sept. 26 at about 3:15 p.m., the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, Lakeside Fire department, Bay Cities Ambulance, Lower Umpqua Ambulance and Reach Helicopter Service responded to a boat explosion/accident on the Devore Arm of South Tenmile Lake. The Sheriff’s Office was conducting routine boat patrol in the area when the call came in, stated the release. A Sheriff’s Office deputy was first on scene, pulled one victim out of the water and rendered potentially lifesaving first aid
candidates who will be on their ballot Nov. 3. The Grassroots group hopes this will be the first of many candidate meet-andgreet events. “This year we are fortunate to have state senator and candidate for Oregon Secretary of State Kim Thatcher, who will be giving a short talk about the importance of voting and the election process,”
said Michael Brainard, one of the Grassroots organizers. The candidates will be set up in individual stations at the Airport Heights ballpark to increase social distancing. Following Thatcher’s talk, attendees will have the opportunity to go to the different candidate stations and meet candidates, ask questions and pick up candidate
information. Those scheduled to attend include: Mayor candidates for the City of North Bend Jessica Engelke and James Rose North Bend City Council candidates Timm Slater, Levi Clow, Ron Kutch and Eric Gleason Coos County Board of Commissioners candidate Bob Main
Coos County Treasurer candidates Megan Simms and Steve Scheer State Representative District 9 Candidate Boomer Wright State Senator District 5 candidate Dick Anderson State Treasurer candidate Jeff Gudman Secretary of State candidate Kim Thatcher U.S. Senator candidate Jo Rae Perkins
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People crab from Weber’s Pier in Bandon on the Fourth of July.
to both victims involved in the incident. Minutes later, the Lakeside Fire Department arrived on scene, provided advanced first aid and assisted with extrication of the victims via boat. One female victim, with multiple lacerations and possible broken bones, was taken to Bay Area Hospital via Bay Cities Ambulance. The second victim, a male, suffered a severe compound fracture to the lower leg and was transported by Lower Umpqua Hospital Ambulance to a nearby airport and Reach Helicopter Service flew him to River Bend Hospital in Eugene. The cause of the accident is still under investigation. Preliminary results are that the personal watercraft exploded during start-up while inside of a boat house at the location.
There will also be a table where Oregon residents age 16 and up can register to vote or update their voter registration. Those who register at 16-17 won’t be able to vote until the first election after their 18th birthday. Organizers are encouraging attendees to wear masks, respect people’s personal space and become informed voters.
Public invited to candidate meet-and-greet on Friday The World NORTH BEND — A grassroots team of North Bend residents is inviting Coos County residents to attend the first Grassroots Candidate Meet-and-Greet at 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2, at Airport Heights City Park, 3000 Colorado Ave. North Bend. This is an opportunity for attendees to meet
Attorney general to release grand jury tapes in Breonna Taylor case LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general has acknowledged that he never asked the grand jury to consider homicide charges against police in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Amid outrage over the long-awaited charging decision, Attorney General Daniel Cameron said he would agree with a judge’s order to make public a recording of the proceedings, and that he wouldn’t object if members of the panel want to speak publicly about their grand jury experience. In his statement Monday night, Cameron also revealed that the only charge he recommended to the jury was wanton endangerment. He had previously declined to provide details on what charges prosecutors brought to the grand jury to consider when it met last week.
Cameron said the grand jury is meant to be a “secretive body,” but “It’s apparent that the public interest in this case isn’t going to allow that to happen.” Cameron said a recording of the grand jury proceedings would be released on Wednesday. “Once the public listens to the recording, they will see that over the course of two-and-a-half days, our team presented a thorough and complete case to the grand jury,” Cameron said. Last week, the grand jury in Louisville issued charges against one officer, Brett Hankison, for endangering three of Taylor’s neighbors by firing through her home, into an adjacent unit where bullets missed people. None of the the officers were indicted in the killing of Taylor, who was shot five times after
officers knocked down her door to serve a narcotics warrant on March 13. Cameron said last week that two of the officers, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, were justified in firing their weapons because Taylor’s boyfriend had fired at them. Mattingly was struck by a bullet in the leg. There was no conclusive evidence that any of Hankison’s bullets hit Taylor, Cameron said. A coroner’s report says Taylor was shot five times and died of multiple gunshot wounds. It says she was hit in the torso, her upper left extremity and both lower extremities. She tested negative for drugs and alcohol. “Our prosecutors presented all of the evidence, even though the evidence supported that Sgt. Mattingly and Det. Cosgrove
Man falls to death in Tillamook County The World TILLAMOOK — A Seaside man has died after falling from a cliff on the northern Oregon coast in Tillamook County. On Sunday, Sept. 27, at approximately 1:48 p.m., Oregon State Police troopers and emergency personnel responded to a person who fell from a cliff, into the ocean, at Devil’s Cauldron trail in Oswald West State Park. Preliminary investigation revealed two people walked down the Devil’s Cauldron trail to take a photograph at a cliff side viewpoint, according to a press release from Oregon State Police. Steven Gastelum, 43, of Seaside, climbed a tree on the cliff’s edge to pose for a photograph. A limb broke, on the tree, causing him to fall approximately 100 feet into the ocean. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and Nehalem Bay Fire Department jet skis assisted in locating
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A warning sign posted along a trail at Oswald West State Park. Gastelum and bringing him to shore. Gastelum was transported to Tillamook
Regional Medical Center by ambulance where he was pronounced deceased, stated the release.
were justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker,” Cameron said in the statement. “For that reason, the only charge recommended was wanton
endangerment.” Hankison, who was fired from the force for his actions during the raid, pleaded not guilty on Monday. Also Monday, an un-
identified grand juror filed a court motion asking a judge to release the record of the proceedings, and to allow the panel’s members to talk publicly about their experiences.
DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren
Man uses family gas money to buy a birthday party tattoo
DEAR ABBY: My family just came back from a relative’s after a weekend visit. The occasion was a birthday party, and he had a tattoo artist come over. My boyfriend -- the father of our 14- and 3-year-olds -- spent our last $100 and went ahead and got himself a tattoo! We aren’t rich, and we had to borrow money for gas to get home. I think he is the most selfish person on the face of the planet, and I get mad at him for every other little thing now. I can’t imagine many adult men would do that to their partner. I know a few who would even say, “No, Honey, YOU get something. I can wait.” Is there any hope for mankind? -- MARK OF DISASTER IN WASHINGTON DEAR MARK OF DISASTER: There is plenty of hope for mankind; for the father of your 14- and 3-year-olds, maybe not so much. Was he under the influence at that party, or does he make poor decisions about money often? That tatt is now a constant reminder of your disappointment in him, so I hope it’s in a place where you don’t have to see it every day or night. You have my sympathy, but you chose this person as a life partner. DEAR ABBY: My parents have been together for more than three decades, but their marriage has been strained for years. Still, they won’t pull the plug and call it quits. It’s making us kids (all in our 20s and out of the house) and our extended family confused and frustrated. They still live under one roof, although they spend all of their time in separate parts of the house and communicate only through us kids. They’re clearly miserable, but if any of us tries to speak to them about their toxic dynamic, each one blames the other. Abby, I adore both of my parents, but they’re becoming shells of themselves. I know it’s not my business to step in, but something has to change. I can’t handle another tense holiday visit. What should I do? -- CONCERNED IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR CONCERNED: You and your siblings should sit down with your parents and tell them the effect their toxic dynamic has had on you as a family. All of you should urge them to seek counseling from a licensed marriage and family therapist. Then cross your fingers and hope they are willing to follow through. However, if they aren’t and you can’t handle another tense holiday visit, I recommend you make other plans and tell them why. DEAR ABBY: I am 13. Three years ago, I was in a car accident that left me in a wheelchair. I have been able to move on in life and am happy and have lots of friends who help me stay active in sports, etc. My problem is, I had a friend before my accident who moved away, and I’m sure he doesn’t know his once best friend can no longer walk. I just heard his family is moving back here, and I’m not sure how to handle this. Should I contact him before the move, or wait and be like, “Oh, by the way”? Do you have any advice? -WONDERING IN NEW YORK DEAR WONDERING: The news is bound to be a shock. If you have this young man’s contact information, I vote for letting him know in advance about the accident. And while you’re at it, fill him in on what you have been doing since he left town. ------------------------------Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. What teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
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Four years ago, Democrat Hillary Clinton was widely seen as besting Trump in their three debates, but she lost in November. In 2012, Mitt Romney crushed Barack Obama in their first meeting only to falter in the rematches. But some debates have mattered: most famously, a turning point in the 1960 race was when John F. Kennedy was perceived — at least by TV viewers — as outdueling Richard Nixon. And in 1980, Ronald Reagan was able to reassure nervous voters that he possessed a presidential temperament when he delivered a winning performance against incumbent Jimmy Carter. While both sides anticipate a vicious debate between two men who do not like each other, the Biden campaign has
encing those last two nights,” he said. The Glass Fire is one of nearly 30 wildfires burning around California and the National Weather Service warned that hot, dry conditions with strong Santa Ana winds could remain a fire danger in Southern California into Tuesday. In a forested far northern part of the state, more than 1,200 people were evacuated in Shasta County for the Zogg Fire. Three people have died in the fire, Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini said Monday. He gave no details but urged people who receive evacuation orders: “Do not wait.” Residences are widely scattered in the area, which was torched just two years ago by the deadly Carr Fire — infamously remembered for producing a huge tornado-like fire whirl. Pacific Gas & Electric had cut power to more than 100,000 customers in advance of gusty winds and in areas with active fire zones. The utility’s equipment has caused previous disasters, including the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people and devastated the town of Paradise in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
downplayed the night’s importance, believing that the pandemic and the battered economy will outweigh any debate stage gaffe or zinger. Conversely, the Trump campaign has played up the magnitude of the duel, believing it will be a moment for the president to damage Biden and recast the race. Trump had told advisers that he is preparing an all-out assault on Biden, claiming that the former senator’s 47 years in Washington have left him out of touch and that his family, namely his son Hunter, has benefited from corruption. The president on Monday also repeated his demand that Biden take some sort of drug test, asserting without evidence that the Democratic nominee was somehow using a performance enhancer. That continued a curious round of expectations setting: While Trump’s campaign has of late praised Biden’s debate
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skills, the president has also vividly portrayed his opponent as not being up to the job, potentially allowing Biden to come off well as long as he avoids a major stumble. “This guy doesn’t have a clue. He doesn’t know where the hell he is,” Trump said recently, likening the debate to a boxing match and pointing to his head. “To win matches you need that up here. This wins, probably, it’s 50% of it. This is not prime time for Joe.” But Trump — never a polished debater, though a commanding presence on stage — has done little in the way of formal preparations, which may mean he is walking into his own trap. “Historically, incumbents do less well in the first debate, largely because they’re unaccustomed to being challenged openly,” said presidential historian Jon Meacham. “The most important single
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By Monday night, the utility said it had restored electricity to essentially all of those customers. However, PG&E said about 24,000 people remained without power in areas affected by two fires in Napa, Sonoma, Shasta and Tehama counties. So far in this year’s historic fire season, more than 8,100 California wildfires have killed 29 people, scorched 5,780 square miles (14,970 square kilometers), and destroyed more than 7,000 buildings. The Glass Fire began Sunday as three fires that merged and drove vineyards and mountain areas into eastern Santa Rosa. Some 70,000 people are under evacuation orders, including the entire 5,000-plus population of Calistoga in Napa County. Some people were injured and Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies had to rescue people who ignored evacuation orders, officials said. The fires came as the region approaches the anniversary of the 2017 fires, including one that killed 22 people. Just a month ago, many of those same residents were evacuated from the path of a lightning-sparked fire that became the fourth-largest in state history.
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Another wildfire hits wine country SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters say they hoped dying winds would enable them to bear down on a wildfire that exploded in the Northern California wine country, prompting tens of thousands of evacuations while a second blaze killed at least three people. The Glass Fire raged through Napa and Sonoma counties on Monday, tripling in size to around 56.6 square miles (146.59 square kilometers) without any containment. Some two dozen homes had burned, the San Jose Mercury News reported. The fire north of San Francisco was driving through brush that hadn’t burned for a century, even though surrounding areas were incinerated in a series of blazes in recent years. But dry winds that gave the flames a ferocious push appeared to have eased by Monday evening and firefighters were feeling “much more confident,” said Ben Nicholls, a division chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. “We don’t have those critical burning conditions that we were experi-
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debate in terms of direct impact on outcome came 40 years ago, with the single Carter-Reagan meeting a week before the election. The key question then — ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ — has fresh and compelling resonance.” Biden’s performances during the primary debates were uneven, and some Democrats have been nervous as to how he will fare in an unscripted setting. But his team views the night as a moment to illuminate Trump’s failings with the pandemic and economy, with the former vice president acting as a “fact checker on the floor” while bracing himself for the onslaught that is coming. “They’re going to be mostly personal,” Biden said. “That’s the only thing he knows how to do. He doesn’t know how to debate the facts because he’s not that smart. He doesn’t know that many facts.”
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merce, which oversees the statistical agency, arguing that minorities and others in hard-to-count communities would be missed if the counting ends this month. Attorneys for the federal government said they were appealing the decision. During hearings, federal government attorneys argued that the head count needed to end Sept. 30 in order to meet a Dec. 31 deadline for handing in figures used for apportionment. Monday’s statement was noteworthy in that it was solely attributed to the commerce secretary, while previous announcements about census schedule changes had been made either by Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham or both men jointly. “It is time that the Trump Administration stopped working to politicize and jeopardize the 2020 Census,” said U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has oversight over the Census Bureau. The decision by the Commerce Department came as census takers across the U.S. told The Associated Press that they were being pressured to meet the Sept. 30 deadline, even after Koh issued her injunction. In upstate New York, a census supervisor told her census takers Friday that the Buffalo office was operating with Sept. 30 as the end date, according to a text obtained by AP. “5 days left (no matter what the court status),” the text said. In northern California, a manager told supervisors working under him on Sunday, “We’re in the home stretch with only 3 days left,” according to an email obtained by AP.
In that same region, a different manager told the census supervisors working underneath her Monday that they needed to complete 99% of households in the the Santa Rosa region by Wednesday, including 12,000 households yet to be counted in Mendocino County. In the conference call, area manager Nicole Terrazas pleaded with her supervisors to ask their census takers to head to Mendocino County, even though that part of California is under threat of wildfires. “We need as much help as we can get. We only have three days to do it,” said Terrazas on a call that an AP reporter listened in on. When a census supervisor asked why they were being pressured with the Sept. 30 deadline when Koh’s preliminary injunction prohibits the count from ending at the end of this month, Terrazas called the judge’s order “something completely different.” Other census takers and supervisors, including one from Texas, have sent emails to Koh’s court, saying that field operations in their areas are slated to shut down Sept. 30. In response to the pandemic, the Census Bureau last April pushed back the deadline for ending the 2020 census from the end of July to the end of October. The bureau also asked Congress to let it turn in numbers used for apportionment from the end of December to the end of April. The deadline extension passed the Democratic-controlled House but it stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate after President Donald Trump issued a memorandum seeking to exclude people in the country illegally from being used in the apportionment count. A panel of three judges in New York said earlier this month that the memorandum was unlawful.
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Tampa Bay raises Stanley Cup in bubble EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The joyful yells from the bench could be heard in the empty arena in the final seconds and the roar from players when Commissioner Gary Bettman called for Steven Stamkos to accept the Stanley Cup echoed even louder. The triumph of winning the NHL championship in a bubble was certainly no less sweet for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 in Game 6 on Monday night to finish off the most unusual NHL postseason in history, staged nearly entirely in quarantine because of the pandemic. The clock hitting zeros with no fans in attendance set off a celebration for a team that endured years of playoff heartbreak and two months in isolation — and their fans outside Amalie Arena in Tampa celebrated right along with them. “It takes a lot to be in a bubble
for 80 days or whatever long it was,” said defenseman Victor Hedman, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. “But it’s all worth it now. We’re coming home with the Cup.” Before giving that trophy to Hedman, Bettman gave all the players credit for enduring a quarantine largely on their own for so long. “To be in this place at this time under these circumstances is remarkable and frankly overwhelming,” Bettman said. “Frankly, all of the players who participated should feel like MVPs.” Goals from Point and Blake Coleman and a 22-save shutout by Andrei Vasilevskiy in Game 6 were enough to power the Lightning to their second championship after winning it in 2004. That one came just ahead of a lockout that wiped out an entire season and similar uncertainty hangs in the air now because of the coronavirus. Questions about the future
were put off for a celebration by the Lightning and by the NHL, the first of the four major North American professional sports leagues to crown a champion since the start of the pandemic. Tampa Bay’s core group closed out the final with an almost poetic display of what got the Lightning to this point over the past several years and months. Point’s goal came with assists from longtime standouts Nikita Kucherov and Hedman, key addition Coleman scored on an odd-man rush in the second and Vasilevskiy did his job on a relatively slow night in net. Veteran defenseman Braydon Coburn was the first to get the Cup after Stamkos and Hedman, even though he played just three games in the postseason. He played 964 regular-season and 137 playoff games to get to this point, losing in the final twice before. “The beauty of our team is everyone was chipping in,” Point
said. “We got contributions from anyone and everyone at different times, and that’s what makes this win so special.” It was more of a coronation than a challenge as the dominant Lightning outshot the Stars 29-22 and looked like the powerhouse they’ve been for much of the past decade. Tampa Bay’s power play turned the series around after Dallas won the opener. Point’s goal made it 7 for 16 over the past five games to decimate the Stars, who were undone by their lack of discipline and couldn’t get enough “Dobby” magic from goaltender Anton Khudobin. “There is no feelings right now,” Khudobin said. “Just empty, you know. We battled hard, especially with this situation, it’s not easy to stay without families for two months and stuff like that.” The Stars simply ran out of gas after injuries piled up. “I couldn’t ask more from our players,” said coach Rick
Bowness, an assistant for Tampa Bay for five years who was part of their 2015 run that fell short in the final. “So it wasn’t enough to beat that team, so it wasn’t enough. But it’s better than sitting here saying how we could done this or could have done. We don’t second-guess anything we’ve done.” The Lightning did to the Stars what Chicago did to them in the ’15 final, when injuries built up. Tampa Bay had Point and No. 2 center Anthony Cirelli playing hurt this time, didn’t have Stamkos for almost all of the playoffs — and still survived. “These last six weeks have been really emotional for my family and I, not only on the ice but off the ice,” said Stamkos, who played just 2:37 in the playoffs yet scored a goal in Game 3. “I just want to say to my family: I love you guys so much. To all the friends and everyone who supported us along the way: We love you, we can’t wait to celebrate with you.”
Mahomes leads Chiefs to victory over Ravens BALTIMORE (AP) — It wasn’t just that Patrick Mahomes threw for a ton of yards and four touchdowns. Most impressive was how he did it. Mahomes juked, danced, and jumped in and out of the pocket. Sometimes he just dropped back and fired pinpoint throws downfield. He tossed shovel passes and flung it sidearmed. The common thread was that just about everything he did worked for the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, who rolled past the Baltimore Ravens 34-20 on Monday night. Mahomes put on a scintillating show while outperforming Lamar Jackson, who’s 0-3 against the Chiefs and 21-1 against the rest of the NFL as a regular-season starting quarterback. With Mahomes leading the way, the Chiefs (3-0) emphatically ended the Ravens’ 14-game regular-season winning streak while extending their own run to 12 games (including playoffs). Mahomes went 31 for 42 for 385 yards and averaged 6.5 yards on his four rushing attempts. “They don’t give that guy a half-billion dollars for no reason,” Ravens defensive tackle Calais Campbell said. “He just made play after play. You’ve got to give him respect.” Mahomes, who signed a 10-year, $503 million extension in July, gave the Chiefs their money’s worth on Monday night, surgically shredding a Baltimore defense that had allowed only two touchdowns in its first two games. “You got to give credit to Pat for leading the charge. He stepped up big,”
Seahawks 3-0, but defense needs work SEATTLE (AP) — Bobby Wagner sounded deflated. And angry. The Seattle Seahawks should have been celebrating after they improved to 3-0 for the first time since their Super Bowl season of 2013 after Sunday’s 3831 win over Dallas. But Wagner’s pride and the numbers on the stat sheet told him there was very little to be happy about, at least on the defensive side of the ball. “It’s not something I am accustomed to. It is not something I want to be accustomed to,” Wagner said. Seattle is undefeated in perhaps the most un-Seahawks way possible. They are throwing the ball all around the field, relying on the arm of Russell Wilson, who is putting up record numbers through three weeks. Wilson set NFL marks for most TD passes through three games with 14 and became the first quarterback to throw four or more touchdowns in each of the first three weeks. But on the other side of the ball, Seattle is surrendering points and yards at an Kansas City coach Andy Reid said. Mahomes was not intercepted, and avoided being sacked. The Chiefs led 27-10 at halftime and held on to defeat Baltimore (2-1) for the third year in a row. “The plays we ran, we got in the right situations,” Mahomes said. “I thought guys executed at a very high level on
Rivers out as Clippers coach LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Doc Rivers would easily be considered the best coach in Los Angeles Clippers history. Most wins. Most playoff appearances. Top winning percentage. And now he’s out. Rivers announced in a statement posted to Twitter on Monday that he is not returning as coach. The move comes about two weeks after the Clippers wasted a 3-1 series lead and lost to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals. “Doc has been a terrific coach for the Clippers, an incredible ambassador, and a pillar of strength during tumultuous times,” Clippers Chairman Steve Ballmer said in a statement. “He won a heck of a lot of games and laid a foundation for this franchise.” The Clippers said Rivers and Ballmer came to the decision jointly. Rivers spent seven seasons with the Clippers, making the playoffs in six of them — major success for a once-woebegone franchise. This season’s team, with the summer 2019 additions of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, was expected
to compete for a championship. But losing three closeout opportunities to the Nuggets cost the Clippers a chance to play the Los Angeles Lakers in the West finals, and likely played a role in Rivers not remaining as coach. “When I took this job, my goals were to make this a winning basketball program, a free agent destination, and bring a championship to this organization,” Rivers wrote in the statement. “While I was able to accomplish most of my goals, I won’t be able to see them all through.” Rivers went 356-208 over seven seasons with the Clippers, taking them to the West second round three times. But the franchise has never made the conference finals, and going 0-3 in chance to get there this year was a devastating blow. Expectations were high, and on the night the season ended, Rivers took responsibility. “We didn’t meet them. That’s the bottom line,” Rivers said on Sept. 15 after the Game 7 loss. “I’m the coach and I’ll take any blame for it. But we didn’t meet our expectations, clearly.”
alarming rate. They’ve given up nearly 1,300 yards passing. The 86 points allowed by Seattle are third most by an 3-0 team in league history. The Seahawks are doing well at stopping the run -- 66.7 yards per game -- but why run when it’s so easy to pass? “We have to do good at something so it’s good to hold teams under 50 yards or 75 yards rushing,” Wagner said. “But when we’re still giving up as many yards as we’re giving up, it doesn’t matter.” While Seattle seems to be evolving offensively into a more pass-heavy team -- even as coach Pete Carroll continues to preach balance -- the defensive concerns are significant. If the Seahawks can’t find a way to control their opponents’ passing game, that’s only going to increase the expectation for Wilson to be great every week. He’s been up to it so far. “I would rather win by a lot, but I don’t mind,” Wilson said. “I don’t mind winning either way. A win is a win and I love winning.” those plays.” In a duel between Mahomes, the 2018 NFL MVP, and the player who won that honor last year, Jackson was no match for the man whose resume also includes a Super Bowl MVP trophy. Jackson completed 15 of 28 passes for 97 yards and ran for 83 yards, 30 of them
on one carry during the Ravens’ opening possession. It wasn’t nearly enough against Mahomes, whose performance Jackson described in one word: “Outstanding.” The Chiefs scored touchdowns on their first two possessions — one on a run by Mahomes, the other on a shovel pass to Anthony Sherman — for a 13-3 lead. Following that second score, Ravens rookie Devin Duvernay fielded the kickoff and sprinted down the right sideline for a 93-yard touchdown. Kansas City followed with a three-andout, but Baltimore simply could not contain Mahomes for long. After he got the ball back, Mahomes completed passes of 29 and 18 yards before hitting Tyreek Hill for a 20-yard score to cap a 73-yard drive. A 49-yard touchdown pass from Mahomes to Mecole Hardman put the Chiefs up by 17 at halftime. The only other time Jackson trailed by that much at the break in an NFL game was last year, when the Chiefs held a 23-6 lead. In this one, Kansas City pumped the brakes in the second half before Baltimore closed to 27-20. That’s when Mahomes showed why he’s the league’s highest-paid player and arguably the NFL’s best quarterback. During a 13-play, 75-yard drive that produced the game-clinching score, Mahomes converted a third-and-5 with an 18yard pass and ran for 12 yards on a thirdand-10. He flipped a sidearm 12-yard pass to Sammy Watkins to set up a first-andgoal at the 2, from where Mahomes tossed a touchdown pass to appreciative tackle Eric Fisher with 8:14 remaining.
Filly Swiss Skydiver to race in Preakness BALTIMORE (AP) — Swiss Skydiver will become the second filly since Rachel Alexandra won in 2009 to run against males in the Preakness on Saturday. Trainer Kenny McPeek confirmed the decision on Sunday. Jockey Robby Albarado, who won the 2007 Preakness aboard Curlin, will replace Tyler Gaffalione on Swiss Skydiver. In her only other start against males, Swiss Skydiver finished second to potential Preakness rival Art Collector in the Blue Grass Stakes on July 11. She won the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga on Aug. 15 and finished second in the Kentucky Oaks on Sept. 4. Five fillies have won the Preakness, including Rachel Alexandra,
who went on to become Horse of the Year in 2009. In all, 55 females have run in the 1 3/16-mile race. Ria Antonia was the most recent, finishing last in 2014. “I know she will make the distance without any problem,” McPeek said. “It was a tough call between racing against straight 3-year-olds or older fillies and mares or turf, which was briefly thought about. I think she will handle it fine.” Authentic was installed as a 9-5 favorite for the race when the draw was held Monday. Swiss Skydiver was given 6-1 odds and will start at the No. 4 post. It could be a near-perfect day for Bob Baffert if the two-time
Triple Crown-winning trainer captures his record-breaking eighth Preakness, either with Authentic or Thousand Words, who drew the No. 5 post and is 6-1 on the morning line. Baffert’s assistant trainer, Jimmy Barnes, will miss his first Preakness in decades after Thousand Words acted up in the Churchill Downs paddock at the Derby, resulting in a broken arm. Art Collector, who was scratched from the Derby, appears to be the biggest threat to Authentic and is the 5-2 second choice on the morning line out of post No. 3. Trainer Tom Drury hopes Art Collector is on the lead the first time going by the stands, which will be noticeably empty.
Nadal, Serena start French Open with victories PARIS (AP) — No matter how much success they’ve had over the years, and to this day, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal both profess to deal with doubts. Both began this French Open with straight-set victories against overmatched foes in Court Philippe Chatrier on Monday. And both have something significant at stake over the coming two weeks: a chance to equal a record for Grand Slam singles titles. Williams already has 23, the
most by anyone in the professional era; one more will allow her to tie Margaret Court’s all-era mark. Nadal began his attempt to pull even with rival Roger Federer for the most by a man, 20, by beating Egor Gerasimov of Belarus 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. His 2020 debut at a place he’s won 12 trophies did not change Nadal’s view of things at this pandemic-postponed event: It’s colder than usual, the balls are heavier than usual, he’s had less
preparation than usual. “The conditions are completely different,” he said, “than any other Roland Garros that we played.” Still, Gerasimov would have been forgiven for choosing the same metaphor to describe Nadal that Williams’ opponent came up with: “a runaway train.” After she played OK in the opening set, then was terrific in the second, of a 7-6 (2), 6-0 win over 102nd-ranked American Kristie Ahn,