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Prince Harry: Did He Lie About Drug Use On US Visa? Scandal Explained – TalkTV
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Kremlin says Boris Johnson’s claim about Putin missile strike threat “is a lie”
Battles are underway in the south and east of Ukraine as authorities report more casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure on Monday.
Donetsk region
Donetsk region continues to see some of the heaviest fighting. On Monday, the Ukrainian military said that Russian forces are trying to advance toward Lyman, Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
At least one person was killed in the city of Krasnohorivka, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk region military administration.
Kherson region
Russian forces have fired 42 times in the region in the last 24 hours, the regional military administration said Monday. “The enemy attacked civilian settlements of the region with artillery, MLRS, mortars, tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles,” it said.
At least three people were killed by Russian shelling in the city of Kherson on Sunday and eight civilians sustained injuries of varying severity, the regional military administration said.
Kharkiv region
At least one person was killed and three wounded in the city of Kharkiv on Sunday, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv region military administration.
Preliminary investigations suggest the missile was fired from an S-300 air defense system, he said.
“The missile hit a 4-story residential building in the Kyivsky district,” said Syniehubov. “The upper floors and roof of the building were destroyed, and a large-scale fire broke out.”
Kupiansk, Vovchansk, Strilecha, Dvorichna and other towns came under enemy fire, added Syniehubov, with private houses, shops and other buildings damaged.
In Kupiansk, a 41-year-old man was wounded as a result of enemy shelling, he said.
Zaporizhzhia region
The situation remains relatively stable as Russian forces are concentrating on holding occupied territories in the region, the Zaporizhzhia region military administration said Monday.
Russian shelling damaged residential houses and buildings in various parts of the region, the regional police said.
Herschel Walker denies 2nd woman’s claim that he paid for her abortion: ‘Lie’
Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Wednesday denied an unnamed woman’s new claim that in Dallas 1993 he paid for and strongly encouraged her to have an abortion that she did not want.
The woman, only identified as Jane Doe, made her accusation at a video news conference hosted from Los Angeles by her attorney, Gloria Allred. The woman was not shown on camera and said that she feared reprisal if she revealed her true name or her face.
In a statement issued later Wednesday, Walker said, “I’m done with this foolishness. This is all a lie, and I will not entertain any of it.”
“I also did not kill JFK. This is pitiful,” he added. “The media should not be so foolish as to think I will spend any time talking about these lies.”
That statement echoed one he gave earlier Wednesday, shortly before the woman’s news conference. A reporter asked him then if he wanted to “unequivocally deny” paying any women for abortions, but he did not answer.
Walker previously denied an ex-girlfriend’s claim to various news outlets that he paid for her to have an abortion in 2009. That woman told The Daily Beast that she had documents supporting her allegation: a receipt from an abortion clinic, a bank deposit receipt with an image of a $700 check that she said was signed by Walker sent within a week of the abortion and also a “get well” card that she said was signed by Walker.
ABC News has not independently confirmed either woman’s claim.
Georgia Republican Senatorial candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a campaign event in Carrollton, Ga., Oct. 11, 2022.
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Walker is running against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock as staunchly anti-abortion rights.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has been campaigning with Walker, also issued a statement on Wednesday supporting him and labeling Allred, the woman’s attorney, an “activist” and a Democrat.
Graham and Walker suggested the new allegation was a coordinated political attack to upend a race that has also focused on public safety and the economy as well as abortion rights.
Leading Republicans including former President Donald Trump have rallied around Walker, citing his denials.
“Democrats will say and do anything to hang on to power. Well, I’m Herschel Walker, and they picked the wrong Georgian to mess with. I’m not backing down the stakes are too high,” Walker said in his statement.
The new woman’s allegations
The unnamed woman who spoke at the video news conference with Allred said that in April 1993, she became pregnant after having been intimate with Walker.
“After discussing the pregnancy with Herschel several times, he encouraged me to have an abortion and gave me the money to do so,” the woman claimed.
An insect flies over the head of U.S. Senate candidate and former football player Herschel Walker as he speaks at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ga., Oct. 21, 2022.
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She said she then went for the procedure in Dallas but did not go through with it. She said Walker allegedly pressured her, though, and ultimately drove her back to the abortion clinic the next day and waited outside until it was done, then drove her to a pharmacy for medication.
The woman did not provide any documentation in support of her alleged abortion.
Warnock’s response to Walker abortion claim
In a statement on Wednesday, Warnock’s deputy campaign manager, Rachel Petri, said that “we know Herschel Walker has a problem with the truth, a problem answering questions, and a problem taking responsibility for his actions.”
“Today’s new report is just the latest example of a troubling pattern we have seen play out again and again and again. Herschel Walker shouldn’t be representing Georgians in the U.S. Senate,” Petri said.
Earlier this month, Warnock commented on the first woman’s abortion claim against Walker.
He said then, at a campaign event, that “what we’re hearing about my opponent is disturbing. I think the people of Georgia have a real choice about who they think is ready to represent them in the United States Senate.”
Meta’s Virtual Reality Legs Video Was A Lie, Used Some Mocap
Earlier this week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to demonstrate that, having spent billions of dollars to create a virtual reality universe (Horizon Worlds) that looked like it was from 2004, his company was working on improving that universe to make it look like it was from 2009 instead. Integral to this upgrade was the fact that avatars would no longer be mere floating torsos, but would soon have legs.
It was a very weird video existing in a very weird space, as Ethan wrote at the time:
Today’s model is clearly an extension of that early rendering, and finally brings the VR platform past the likes of Fire Emblem: Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS, another game that lacked legs. And that was with Meta only spending $10 billion this year on the technology. Who knows what another small fortune will bring? If anything can catapult the Oculus storefront into the green, it’s a burgeoning market for VR feet pics. It might seem like we’re being ridiculous here, but do know that the live chat alongside the virtual audience watching all of this unfold absolutely exploded when Zuckerberg started talking about feet.
While the updates expecting to bring full-body avatars aren’t expected until 2023, Zuckerberg was clearly seen jumping around in the video, giving everyone an early look at the tech. Or was he?
Anyone who has ever been around *checks the culture* any piece of marketing ever made should know by now that not everything is as it seems when a company is trying to sell you something. And in this case, the video Meta showed off was made with some help.
As UploadVR’s Ian Hamilton has since reported, Meta has issued a follow-up statement, which says “To enable this preview of what’s to come, the segment featured animations created from motion capture.”
Deep down, of course, you all knew this. From vertical slices at E3 to photo tricks shown at Apple events, there are always grains of salt we need to chew on every time a company trying to sell us something that isn’t out yet.
But there’s something especially funny about this in particular, that a project that has spent billions of dollars to look like a Kinect demo—a piece of hardware first shown off in 2009—has ended up with its own dumb feet-related moment.
Who knows, maybe when it’s eventually released the tech will looks exactly like this! Maybe it won’t. Maybe none of us will ever actually use Horizon Worlds and it will remain a mystery forever.
Why did so many Americans lie about following Covid guidelines?
Nearly half of Americans acknowledged they weren’t truthful about their COVID-19 status or didn’t follow public health measures at the height of the pandemic in a new nationwide survey led in part by a team of University of Utah Health researchers.
Wanting to feel normal and exercise personal freedom were the most cited reasons for a list of behaviors that included lying about what precautions they were taking against spreading the virus, breaking quarantine rules, avoiding testing and failing to disclose they had COVID-19 when asked.
The findings “suggest that misrepresentation and non-adherence regarding COVID-19 public health measures constitute a serious public health challenge,” according to an article on the study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open.
“This gave us a much better idea of what kind of behaviors people were engaging with and how prevalent it was. I think more importantly, we got a really good idea of the reasons why,” said Alistair Thorpe, the study’s co-first author and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Population Health Sciences at U Health.
Thorpe said the findings were more concerning than surprising.
Many of the behaviors people were asked if they had engaged in “can have very severe consequences,” he said, such as not being forthcoming about having COVID-19 when going to a doctor’s office, “a place where there’s potentially very vulnerable people who you’re exposing, without them knowing, to a very serious virus.”
The online survey of 1,733 participants, including six respondents who said they lived in Utah, was conducted in December 2021, when the highly transmissible omicron variant of COVID-19 that drove cases to record-breaking levels worldwide started sweeping through the country.
In Utah, the omicron surge led to reimposing mask mandates in Salt Lake and Summit counties, an effort that was quickly stopped by state lawmakers, while hospitals ended up being so overcrowded that patients had to be turned away.
But just under 42% of the Americans who participated in the survey reported misrepresentation or nonadherence for at least one of nine behaviors, most commonly telling someone they were spending time with that they were taking more measures against COVID-19 than they actually were.
Respondents who’d admitted they hadn’t been truthful with others and/or weren’t following the rules intended to protect the public were asked to answer yes or no to a long list of possible reasons for their behavior. The most popular choices were:
- “I wanted my life to feel ‘normal’ (how I felt before the COVID-19 pandemic began).”
- “I wanted to exercise my freedom to do what I want.”
- “It’s no one else’s business.”
- “I didn’t feel very sick.”
- “I was following guidance from a public figure I trust (politicians, scientists, people on the news, celebrities).”
However, the survey also found “a substantial portion of participants” also agreed with these reasons:
- “I didn’t think COVID-19 was real.”
- “I didn’t think COVID-19 was a big deal.”
- “I didn’t want someone to judge or think badly of me.”
A third of the participants had already had COVID-19, while the remaining participants who had not had the virus were split between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. About 60% having sought a doctor’s advice for prevention or treatment.
While those younger than 60 — and those who expressed a greater distrust of science — were more likely to engage in misrepresentation or nonadherence behaviors, no association was found with political beliefs, party affiliation or religion.
“We don’t believe that these are simple behaviors, that people do one thing because of one reason,” Thorpe said. ”We really need to work to address them all, so it’s not the case, ‘Oh, if we change one thing, it will have the desired outcome.’ It’s a very complex behavioral process.”
A theme that emerged was “people wanting to maintain autonomy, that they felt it was no one else’s business, that they wanted to exercise personal freedom. The fact that these similar concepts were consistently prevalent across a number of reasons, that tells us something about how we can work better to communicate,” he said.
Making it easier to comply with public health measures can help people feel less resistant, Thorpe said. But he said public health officials also need to “figure out how you can talk to people about these concerns that they have in a way that can help them become more engaged with these measures” and see their collective benefit.
“That’s why this study is so important. We need to try and figure out who we’re not communicating as well with and how we can do better,” Thorpe said. The challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic is that “people have been asked to do things that they never even had to comprehend before in their lives. So it’s a challenge.”
Many people struggled to shift their perspective from viewing adherence to public health measures in terms of personal concerns to focusing more on how their actions could protect others. This “ties back to how a lot of these things have been really burdensome. You can have the best of intentions,” he said.
Thorpe said the pandemic placed people “under an extremely long period of uncertainty, stress in all aspects of your life — your social life, your financial life, your philosophies of life — those kind of situations, those extreme situations like we’ve seen here can make it difficult to engage in more proactive behavior.”
Besides Thorpe and others from the University of Utah, including Angela Fagerlin, senior author of the study and chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, researchers from the Veterans Administration in Salt Lake City along with institutions in Connecticut, Colorado, Iowa and the American Heart Association also contributed to the study.
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Queen Elizabeth II moved to Westminster Hall to lie in state
Queen Elizabeth II‘s coffin was processed through central London on Wednesday from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where the late monarch will lie in state for four days until her funeral on Monday.
Members of the public will be able to visit the queen’s coffin at Westminster Hall to pay their respects. Crowds had already gathered early Wednesday morning to view the procession, and a line had begun to form of people waiting to file past the queen’s coffin. The doors of the ancient hall on the bank of the River Thames were to open to the public from 5 p.m. local time.
On person in the crowd, Sharon Stapleton, told CBS News she had “met lots of interesting different people you wouldn’t meet normally — all brought together and united in their grief for the queen, and excited about being able to go through and see her lying in state.”
“It’s been a long night. It’s been raining, very wet, a bit cold,” added Stapleton, who said she started waiting in the line at 9 p.m. Tuesday night. “But it’s worth every minute of it.”
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The most senior members of the royal family took part in the procession — a roughly 40-minute walk — from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, including the new monarch King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Prince Andrew. William, Prince of Wales and Harry, Duke of Sussex marched in a row behind the queen’s children.
The procession included the tolling of the bells of Big Ben, the iconic clock tower in Parliament Square, and a gun salute at Hyde Park nearby.
As the procession passed, the gathered crowd broke out into applause at various points along the route.
A short service began after the coffin reached Westminster Hall, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, which the royal family — including the Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex — attended.
The coffin rests on a raised platform that will be guarded around the clock for the full four-day lying in state period by members of various British military regiments assigned to royal protection duty.
As King Charles III takes the throne, big changes lie ahead for the royal family
The moment Elizabeth II died, her eldest child, Charles, automatically became monarch. As sovereign, he has chosen to take the name King Charles III.
All rights and responsibilities of the Crown now rest with King Charles III.
He becomes head of state not just in the UK but in 14 other Commonwealth realms including Australia and Canada. He will become head of the 56-member Commonwealth, although that is not a hereditary position, after his succession to the role was agreed by Commonwealth leaders at a meeting in London in 2018.
He has become head of the British Armed Forces, the judiciary and the civil service, and he is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. He is the Fount of Honour, which means all honors, such as knighthoods, will now be given in his name.
The United Kingdom does not have a codified constitution, so the role of monarchy is defined by convention rather than law. He has a duty to remain politically impartial, which means he will come under greater scrutiny if he continues to express the views he is known for.
He has championed alternative medicines and organic farming techniques. In 1984, he hit out at the “glass stumps and concrete towers” of modern architecture. He has spent decades warning of the dangers of climate change. In the so-called “black spider” memos, he raised the issues he was concerned about directly with ministers.
In a BBC documentary to mark his 70th birthday, Charles acknowledged having ruffled feathers with his past interventions. But he promised not to meddle in controversial affairs once sovereign, saying he would operate within “the constitutional parameters.”
Elizabeth stayed “above politics” and never expressed herself in any way on any issue and as a result she rarely divided opinion. She managed to retain popular support and cross-party support in parliament, which was the one body with the power to dethrone her.
We will never know what she discussed in her regular audiences with her prime ministers, beginning with Churchill, but Charles is a more outspoken character. Will he go quiet on policy matters in public but continue to lobby in private? Will the prime minister act on it?
The prime ministerial audiences are one of several constitutional duties to which King Charles III will be expected to step up and they will bring him in regular contact with policymakers. He appoints the prime minister, opens parliamentary sessions, approves legislation and official appointments, receives the credentials of foreign ambassadors and hosts world leaders on state visits.
Charles has also adopted the symbolic position as Head of Nation, meaning he becomes the symbol of national identity, unity, and pride. He represents continuity and celebrates excellence on behalf of the country. That’s why we see the monarch opening national events and leading commemorations.
People would look to Elizabeth in times of crisis, but will they rally around King Charles III in the same way? He is more divisive not just because of his honest views but also because of the bad taste still left from his acrimonious divorce from his immensely popular first wife, Diana.
All the official royal residences including Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle will now be under his control. There are also other residences such as Balmoral in Scotland and Sandringham in Norfolk which the Queen owned privately — and the nation will have to see to whom she leaves them in her will.
Either way, Charles’ wealth has ballooned. He will now receive the Sovereign Grant, which covers the cost of his official duties and amounted to £86.3 million ($99.2 million) for the 2021/2022 financial year. He will take charge of the Royal Collection, which includes one of the most valuable art collections in the world. He also picks up the Duchy of Lancaster, a vast estate of more than 10,000 hectares of land, prime London real estate and a portfolio of investments.
King Charles III has become one of the richest men in England overnight.
Camilla
For years, the big question around Charles’ wife surrounded her title. At the time their wedding was announced in February 2005, the official statement said: “It is intended that Mrs Parker Bowles should use the title HRH The Princess Consort when The Prince of Wales accedes to The Throne.” That was a very clear signal that Camilla would not use the title of Queen. Her office at Clarence House distanced itself from that statement in the intervening years, however, saying it was a matter for the reigning monarch.
Then, in February 2022, the Queen expressed her desire for her daughter-in-law to be known as Queen Consort when Charles became King in a message marking the start of her platinum jubilee year — a statement that appeared to resolve the issue for good.
The Queen’s wishes were welcomed by the couple themselves. That same weekend, a statement released by a spokesperson said they had been “touched and honoured by Her Majesty’s words.”
Where will the couple live? Well, traditionally the new monarch would move into Buckingham Palace but in 2011, the BBC reported that Charles was considering moving his entire court to Windsor and turning Buckingham Palace into an events center. That would be a dramatic and controversial shift but might also assert King Charles III as the new boss.
William and Catherine
Up until now, Charles has been responsible for covering the costs of his heir, Prince William.
William has now inherited his father’s title of The Duke of Cornwall, which comes with an estate which last year delivered an income of £23 million ($26 million). That money now goes straight to William and he becomes independently wealthy.
His new title is HRH The Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge and tradition dictates that, as first in line to the throne, he will also become Prince of Wales — but that’s something on which the monarch will need to make a specific announcement. If he does, Catherine becomes Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge.
William and Catherine will be able to solidify their own independent court, which is currently based at Kensington Palace in west London, in an apartment that was refurbished shortly after their marriage. It seems unlikely that William would want to move, so the King’s former residences, including Clarence House and Birkhall in the Scottish Highlands, will likely remain vacant until Charles offers them to other members of the family, or finds an alternative use. The family resides at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor during school term time.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will follow their parents’ titling. They are now Their Royal Highnesses Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis of Cornwall and Cambridge. Colloquially they are likely to be known as George, Charlotte and Louis Wales.
Harry and Meghan
It’s unlikely that Charles’ second son, Harry, will be offered a royal office unless he and wife Meghan return to their royal duties, and the King would also need to confirm that they can continue to use Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate, which is part of the royal estate. They currently live with son Archie and daughter Lilibet in California but were allowed to continue using Frogmore as their official residence during the Queen’s reign.
When Harry and Meghan announced in early 2020 that they were stepping back from royal duties, they said they would “work to become financially independent.” The terms of the split stipulated that while the pair would always remain part of the family, they would no longer use their HRH titles.
As grandchildren of the monarch, Archie now automatically becomes His Royal Highness Prince Archie of Sussex while Lilibet will be Her Royal Highness Princess Lilibet of Sussex. Whether they use those titles will only become known the first time their parents refer to them publicly.
Prince Andrew and other family members
King Charles III also becomes responsible for distributing roles, responsibilities and resources to other members of the royal family.
Charles has never been close to his brother Andrew, who stepped back from royal duties over his links to the late disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein. In January 2022 he was stripped of his HRH title, as well as others associated with the military and charity roles. That raises the question of whether the new King continues to allow Andrew to use his Buckingham Palace apartment and offers financial support.
Then there are his other siblings, Princess Anne and Prince Edward, and more distant relatives such as the Gloucesters and Kents who retain royal residences at Kensington.
Charles will need to decide how much family support he needs to carry out his duties and who he wants to offer it. Then he can reveal what support he offers in return. Many of these decisions would already have been taken and the first telling signs of where his loyalties lie will be seen in who gets to keep which residences and especially who gets an upgrade.
Anne and Edward, and his wife Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, are expected to continue with their public duties following decades of dedicated service but the new King needs to balance that against pressure for a slimmed down monarchy in austere times.