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2023 NFL mandatory minicamp tracker: Highlights, analysis, updates as Cowboys, 49ers, others wrap-up workouts – CBS Sports
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Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds, who uses wheelchair, says he was humiliated at mandatory debate due to stage without wheelchair access: “I felt like a circus clown” – CBS News
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BTS’s Jin to start mandatory military service in South Korea’s army
Some 270 riot police have been deployed, and ambulances are on standby around the Key Recruit Training Center, where Jin enters boot camp at a front-line division in Yeoncheon County on the border with North Korea.
The enlistment of Korean celebrities often attracts fans and journalists trying to catch a glimpse of the stars before they leave the public eye for around two years.
BTS’s agency HYBE said on Monday that Jin, whose real name is Kim Seok-jin, will be driven into the military grounds without stopping for a send-off “in order to prevent any accident from crowding.”
The enrollment day at a training center is usually busy with recruits and their family members exchanging emotional goodbyes. The 30-year-old singer joins boot camp with a cohort of about 200 other conscripts, many of whom are younger than him.
All able-bodied South Korean men aged between 18 and 28 must serve at least 18 months in the country’s armed forces, but K-pop stars like Jin who are recognized by the government can defer their service until age 30.
Jin told the “BTS Army” — the official name of the boy band’s millions-strong fan base — to refrain from coming to his enrollment day. Despite his plea, fans are expected to show up and HYBE warned in a statement on Monday about possible overcrowding.
The K-pop heartthrob sent social media abuzz earlier when he revealed his freshly shaved head. The South Korean army maintains rigid grooming standards, including hair length regulations. “It’s cuter than I thought,” he said in a message posted on the Weverse fan community on Sunday.
Jin will undergo a physically demanding five-week basic training course before being assigned to a military unit. Army trainees learn basic skills such as how to march, shoot guns and throw a grenade.
The six other members of BTS are expected to fulfill their draft obligations based on individual timelines. BTS, hailed as the world’s biggest boy band, plans to reconvene as a group in 2025 after they complete their service.
Jin made his solo debut in October with the hit single “The Astronaut,” which sold more than a million copies.
Iran reviewing mandatory headscarf law amid ongoing protests | Iran
Iranian authorities said they would review a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as the country struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.
“Both parliament and the judiciary are working [on the issue],” of whether the law needs any changes, Iran’s attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said on Saturday.
Quoted by an Iranian news agency, he did not specify what could be modified in the law by the two bodies, which are both largely in the hands of conservatives.
The review team met on Wednesday with parliament’s cultural commission “and will see the results in a week or two”, the attorney general said.
President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday said Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched.
“But there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible,” he said in televised comments.
Protests began on 16 September after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the sharia-based law.
Over the following weeks demonstrators burned their head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans. After Amini’s death, a growing number of women have not been wearing headscarves, particularly in Tehran’s fashionable north.
The hijab headscarf became obligatory for all women in Iran in April 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the US-backed monarchy.
It remains a highly sensitive issue in a country where conservatives insist it should be compulsory, while reformists want to leave it up to individual choice.
In July this year Raisi, an ultra-conservative, called for mobilisation of “all state institutions to enforce the headscarf law”.
In September, Iran’s main reformist party called for the mandatory hijab law to be rescinded.
The Union of Islamic Iran People Party, formed by relatives of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, on Saturday demanded that authorities “prepare the legal elements paving the way for the cancellation of the mandatory hijab law”.
The opposition group also called for the Islamic republic to “officially announce the end of the activities of the morality police” and “allow peaceful demonstrations”, it said in a statement.
Iran accuses its sworn enemy the United States and its allies, including Britain, Israel, and Kurdish groups based outside the country, of fomenting the street protests which the government calls “riots”.
Oslo-based non-governmental organisation Iran Human Rights on Tuesday said at least 448 people had been “killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests”.
UN rights chief Volker Turk said last week that 14,000 people, including children, had been arrested in the protest crackdown.
The campaign of arrests has snared sportspeople, celebrities and journalists.
Among the latest figures to be arrested were film star Mitra Hajjar, who was detained at her home on Saturday, according to the reformist newspaper Shargh.
BTS members to embark on mandatory military service
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Members of BTS, the K-pop supergroup, are planning to undertake military service, the band’s record label confirmed Monday, with Jin, the oldest member, aiming to start the process at the end of the month.
Military service is mandatory in South Korea, where almost all able-bodied men are required to serve in the army for 18 months by the time they are 28 years old.
South Korea’s parliament passed a bill in 2020 allowing pop stars – namely those who “excel in popular culture and art” – to defer their service until the age of 30.
With Jin turning 30 this year, and the band’s announcement of a break in June from group musical activities to pursue solo projects, members are now making plans to serve.
BTS is expected to reconvene as a group around 2025, according to BIGHIT Music.
The record label said it has been looking at the timing of the band’s military service, “to respect the needs of the country and for these healthy young men,” and it said the time was “now.”
“Group member Jin will initiate the process as soon as his schedule for his solo release is concluded at the end of October. He will then follow the enlistment procedure of the Korean government,” the label said, adding: “Other members of the group plan to carry out their military service based on their own individual plans.”
The country’s defense minister said in August that BTS might still be able to perform overseas while serving in the military, the Reuters news agency reported.
GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
If you don’t want to pay for in-car subscriptions every month, no problem: Just pay it all upfront. That’s the line from General Motors today after news spread that it’s making a three-year, $1,500 OnStar connected services subscription a mandatory “option” for new Buick, GMC, and Cadillac Escalade models. The subscription, which enables things like using your phone as a key fob, data-enabled navigation, audio streaming, and Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant, is still optional on other GM vehicles, with the Premium package running $49.99 a month. But don’t be surprised if this new setup spreads across the automaker’s full portfolio.
Though it’s getting attention today following a Detroit Free Press report, the news of Onstar becoming a mandatory subscription was first reported back on July 5 by GM Authority. The $1,500 charge for OnStar will effectively raise the base prices of these cars, though the exact increase varies from model to model. All Buicks will see a price increase of $1,500. Higher trim GMCs will see an increase of as little as $905 with the Hummer EV getting no MSRP boost. Base model GMC pickups, the Sierra and Canyon, are hit the hardest with a $1,675 increase. By far the most common price hike is $1,500, which also applies to the Cadillac Escalade, Automotive News reports.
Speaking to GM Authority, a spokesperson said making customers pay for the service will “enhance [their] vehicle ownership experience.” They went on to state that “By including this plan as standard equipment on the vehicle, it provides more customer value and a more seamless onboarding experience.” The automaker confirmed to AN that buyers who don’t activate OnStar and have no desire to use the services will not be offered a discount.
The way this change rolled out is a pretty classic GM forced error. Dealer markups aside, new car prices are somewhat insulated from rapid inflation because they’re typically set in annual increments as each new model year comes out. We are now getting into the 2023 lineup launch season, and we are already seeing some hefty price jumps to account for increased supply chain costs. GM could’ve raised all those MSRPs, pinned it on inflation, and offered a free three-year OnStar subscription to soften the blow.
Instead, it’s thrown itself into the melee that is consumers raging about subscription options on new cars with this mandatory option nonsense. It’s not as bad as trying to paywall things like heated seats, as BMW found out recently, nor is it as convoluted as Toyota’s plan to turn its key fob remote start function into a subscription service. But the idea that buyers are forced to pay for something they may not want that was previously an optional subscription is undoubtedly going to raise concerns. And the whole thing feels a bit Orwellian when GM insists on still calling it an “option” being “offered.”
We reached out to GM to ask whether this mandatory subscription model is headed to Chevrolet and other Cadillacs next, and a spokesperson responded by saying the plan “is being offered on new Buick, GMC, and Cadillac Escalades at this time.”
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Ukrainian president declares mandatory evacuation of Donetsk region
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Saturday a mandatory evacuation for residents of the country’s eastern Donetsk region amid intense fighting in the ongoing war with Russia.
The president said, “The more people leave [the] Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill.” He noted that those who do leave would be compensated.
Zelenskyy also said in his address that the hundreds of thousands of people still occupying combat zones in the larger Donbas region should leave as well. Donbas includes the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
“Many refuse to leave, but it still needs to be done,” he said. “If you have the opportunity, please talk to those who still remain in the combat zones in Donbas. Please convince them that it is necessary to leave.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Saturday a mandatory evacuation for the eastern Donetsk region.
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
According to Ukrainian media, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the evacuation had to take place prior to the start of winter because the region’s natural gas supplies had been destroyed.
But former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst said the evacuation may have more to do with the anticipation of more fierce fighting instead of fuel shortages.
“I don’t know why Zelenskyy issued the call,” he said. “What I do know is that there has been fierce fighting in Donetsk. The Russians took [neighboring] Luhansk [oblast] several weeks ago. I expect further fierce fighting in Donetsk.”
The Ukrainian military claimed earlier on Saturday that more than 100 Russian soldiers were killed, and seven tanks were destroyed during fighting Friday in the Kherson region. The Kherson region is the center of Kyiv’s counter-offensive in the south and a crucial part of Moscow’s supply lines.
UKRAINE CLAIMS MORE THAN 100 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN FIGHTING IN KHERSON REGION
The Ukrainian military claimed earlier on Saturday that more than 100 Russian soldiers were killed, and seven tanks were destroyed during fighting Friday in the Kherson region.
Ukraine’s southern command said rail traffic to Kherson over the Dnipro River had been cut, which could further isolate the Russian military west of the river from reaching supplies in Crimea and the east.
Long-range missile systems supplied by the West have been used by Ukraine to impose damage on three bridges across the Dnipro River in recent weeks, cutting off the Kherson region.
“As a result of fire establishing control over the main transport links in occupied territory, it has been established that traffic over the rail bridge crossing the Dnipro is not possible,” Ukraine’s southern command said in a statement.
RUSSIA CLAIMS 40 UKRAINIAN POWS KILLED IN STRIKE WITH US HIMARS, UKRAINE DECRIES ‘BRUTAL EXECUTION’
Smoke rises behind vessels on the Dnipro River during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Russia-controlled city of Kherson, Ukraine.
Kherson region Gov. Dmytro Butriy said the Berislav district, which is across the river northwest of the Kakhovka hydroelectric powerplant, was particularly damaged.
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“In some villages, not a single home has been left intact, all infrastructure has been destroyed, people are living in cellars,” he wrote on Telegram.
Butriy said fighting was continuing in many parts of the Kherson region.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Sheep Fire: Mandatory evacuations after Southern California blaze expands 20-fold
The Sheep Fire grew from 35 acres Sunday morning to 775 acres by the afternoon, according to InciWeb. The fire is only 5% contained.
“Law enforcement is going door-to-door with a mandatory evacuation for Desert Front Road and Wild Horse Canyon,” the latest fire update said.
“Wrightwood is under an evacuation warning. There is a road closure from Hwy 138 to Lone Pine (Highway 2),” according to the incident overview.
CNN has reached out to authorities for details on how many residents are under the evacuation orders.
The fire began on Saturday evening. The cause remains under investigation.
Located around 23 miles outside the Los Angeles area, the forest is “within one of the driest, most fire-prone areas in the United States,” according to the Angeles National Forest site.
Southern California fire officials have already warned of a challenging fire season ahead.
Robert Garcia, the US Forest Service’s fire chief for the Angeles National Forest, told CNN last week that the summer months are off to a “concerning start.” Firefighting resources have been mobilizing since March to Arizona and New Mexico, where the Black Fire just became the state’s second-largest blaze in history.
“Southern California typically has a fire season of historically late June and then into the fall,” Chief Garcia said. “But we’re seeing activity now year round.”
Angeles National Forest is already under fire restrictions expected to expand around the forest in coming months, he said.
Sheep Fire: Mandatory evacuations after Southern California blaze expands 20-fold
The Sheep Fire grew from 35 acres Sunday morning to 775 acres by the afternoon, according to InciWeb. The fire is only 5% contained.
“Law enforcement is going door-to-door with a mandatory evacuation for Desert Front Road and Wild Horse Canyon,” the latest fire update said.
“Wrightwood is under an evacuation warning. There is a road closure from Hwy 138 to Lone Pine (Highway 2),” according to the incident overview.
CNN has reached out to authorities for details on how many residents are under the evacuation orders.
The fire began on Saturday evening. The cause remains under investigation.
Located around 23 miles outside the Los Angeles area, the forest is “within one of the driest, most fire-prone areas in the United States,” according to the Angeles National Forest site.
Southern California fire officials have already warned of a challenging fire season ahead.
Robert Garcia, the US Forest Service’s fire chief for the Angeles National Forest, told CNN last week that the summer months are off to a “concerning start.” Firefighting resources have been mobilizing since March to Arizona and New Mexico, where the Black Fire just became the state’s second-largest blaze in history.
“Southern California typically has a fire season of historically late June and then into the fall,” Chief Garcia said. “But we’re seeing activity now year round.”
Angeles National Forest is already under fire restrictions expected to expand around the forest in coming months, he said.