University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe was shot and killed at a Salt Lake City house party Saturday night hours after the team’s victory against Washington State, ESPN reports.

Lowe died at the scene of the house party, in the Sugar House neighborhood.  A woman was also shot, and she is in critical condition at a local hospital.  Police said they responded to a call around 10:30 p.m. local time complaining about the noise from the party.  After midnight, police got another call reporting a fight involving weapons.

“We are devastated to hear about the passing of Aaron Lowe,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Aaron’s family and friends, along with the other individual who was harmed in this tragic incident. Aaron was a great teammate, friend, brother and son and was loved by anyone who crossed paths with him. He will be deeply missed.”

A school bus driver in Pasco, Washington was stabbed to death Friday by a man boarded the bus as it was taking on students from a local elementary school, NBC News reports.

The driver, whose name has not been identified, had stopped to pick up students from Longfellow Elementary when an older man stepped aboard the bus and immediately stabbed the driver repeatedly.  The driver lost control of the bus, which jumped a curb and hit some shrubery.  No children were physically harmed in the incident.

The suspect exited the bus and waited for police to arrive.  The name of the suspect has not been released.

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Tim Stellers, Arizona Daily Star: “That so-called audit springs from a worldview that has long tried to limit who can claim the mantle of ‘real American.’ Anybody who doesn’t fit the preferred mold – conservative in politics, traditional in social and religious views – is discarded as illegitimate, ‘illegal,’ a globalist, a fake American. By logical extension, their votes should not count. And if their votes are counted, democracy itself is the problem. That’s one of the reasons I think it is a mistake to put any stock in what the Cyber Ninjas announced after their monthslong review of Maricopa County’s 2020 election. The review was biased from the beginning, based on the stated pre-judgment by lead Ninja Doug Logan that election systems were corrupted in a way to hurt Trump. It was also carried out by people with no experience in audits and elections and who ad-libbed their methods.”

“The fact that their count found Biden won anyway is irrelevant. And it was an outgrowth of a constricted understanding of the state and country as they really are. We live in a big, bustling United States of America, and an Arizona bursting with growth and energy. Both state and country are full of people with diverse backgrounds, political views and social practices. It’s not the comparatively homogeneous 1950s anymore, and it won’t ever be again, even if some politicians keep yearning to resurrect that era. The country as it exists today is only a threat if you let it be. And the Republican Party has chosen to let it be. That’s why, for decades, you may have heard increasing numbers of conservatives argue in various ways against the democratic principle of majority rule, or against democracy in general.”

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— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) September 26, 2021

“For the first time in American history, the losing candidate refused to concede the election – and rather than dismissing him as a sore loser, a startling number of Americans have followed Trump down his conspiratorial rabbit hole. The safeguards that ensured he left office last January after losing the presidential election may be crumbling: The election officials who certified the counts may no longer be in place next time he falsely claims victory; if Republicans take Congress, a compliant Speaker could easily decide it’s simply not in his interest to let the party’s leader lose. ‘You could look at 2020 as the nadir of American democratic processes, or you could look at it as a dress rehearsal’ says UC Irvine law professor Rick Hasen. As he sees it, it’s time for us to wake up.”

“‘I feel like a climate scientist warning about the Earth going up another degree and a half,’ Hasen told Politico Magazine. ‘The rhetoric is so overheated that I think it provides the basis for millions of people to accept an actual stolen election as payback for the falsely claimed earlier ‘stolen’ election. People are going to be more willing to cheat if they think they’ve been cheated out of their just desserts.’ Hasen has ideas about how to preempt some of this – they range from the legal to the political. But even as he and other elections experts warn of a three-alarm fire, he’s troubled that Democrats in Washington seem to lack the same sense of urgency and focus” – Politico.

CNN: “Critics often describe the wave of voter restriction laws sweeping the nation as a new version of Jim Crow, the 19th century minstrel figure whose stage name became the symbol of a brutal era of Black oppression. But if you want to understand how these new voter restriction laws also oppress White people, it’s more useful to invoke another cultural figure: Wile E. Coyote. Wile E. Coyote is the Looney Tunes cartoon character whose obsessive quest to catch the Road Runner always backfires. Though he employs an array of outlandish gadgets such as jet-powered roller skates, the coyote’s schemes to capture his prey inevitably ends up injuring him instead. This comparison is not designed to make light of voter suppression, which is an alarming attack on our democracy. It’s to make a point that doesn’t get emphasized enough as Democrats approach a crucial stretch in their efforts to pass a new voting rights bill: White people – not just people of color – have been some of the biggest victims of voter suppression tactics.”

“The Republican Party’s crusade to make voting more difficult isn’t just morally wrong. It’s folly. By obsessively chasing the phantom of widespread voter fraud, they are actually hurting their own base of White voters. So far this year, at least 18 states have passed laws that make it more difficult to vote. All but one are led by GOP-controlled legislatures. Some of the more obvious boomerang effects of these laws have already been noted. Voter restrictions anger and mobilize voters of color. They make it more difficult for older, rural White citizens to vote. And they discourage some White voters from even participating in elections. Even some GOP leaders are now warning that restrictive voting laws are hurting their base. One commentator went further, saying Republicans are ‘inadvertently suppressing their own voters.'”

“U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the Mind Your Own Business Act, which would enable shareholders to hold woke corporations accountable. Specifically, the legislation would require corporate directors to prove their ‘woke’ corporate actions were in their shareholders’ best interest in order to avoid liability for breach of fiduciary duty in shareholder litigation over corporate actions relating to certain social policies. It would also incentivize corporate management to stop abusing their positions to advance left-wing social policies by increasing their personal liability to shareholders for breaches of fiduciary duty resulting from those policies. Rubio announced the bill during an appearance with Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria and in a Fox Business op-ed.”

“‘Patriotic Americans who love their country and the opportunity it provides should be able to fight back against the growing tyranny of the woke elites running corporate America,’ Rubio said. ‘These are often nationless corporations that amass fortunes divorced from the fate of our great country while pushing socially destructive, far left policies like boycotts and cancel crusades at home. My Mind Your Own Business Act would put the burden of proof on corporations to show that their far left actions were in shareholders’ best interests, and make corporate directors and officers personally liable if they can’t prove it. No more legal tricks that shield these corporate executives from accountability. If they really believe that being woke is good for business, they should have to say so – and prove it – under oath in court'” – Press release on Rubio’s Senate.gov site.

AFP: “In a first in Europe, women hold more than half of the seats in Iceland’s new parliament, final election results showed Sunday. Of the 63 seats in the Althing, 33 were won by women, or 52 percent, according to projections based on the final results. No other European country has had more than 50 percent women lawmakers, with Sweden coming closest at 47 percent, according to data compiled by the World Bank. Five other countries in the world currently have parliaments where women hold at least half the seats, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union: Rwanda (61 percent), Cuba (53 percent), Nicaragua (51 percent) and Mexico and the UAE (50 percent).”

“Unlike some other countries, Iceland does not have legal quotas on female representation in parliament, though some parties do require a minimum number of candidates be women. Iceland has long been a pioneer in gender equality and women’s rights, and has topped the World Economic Forum’s ranking of most egalitarian countries for the past 12 years. It offers the same parental leave to both men and women, and its first law on equal pay for men and women dates back to 1961. Iceland was the first country to elect a woman as president in 1980, and since 2018 it has had a pioneering gender-equal pay law that puts the onus on employers to prove they are paying the same wages to men and women.”

“The South Dakota House of Representatives has received more than the necessary 47 signatures to proceed with a special session to debate the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. The State Senate got the votes necessary to proceed with the trial earlier this week. All that remains is for President Pro Tempore of the Senate Lee Schoenbeck (R-Watertown) and Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch (R-Glenham) to sign a proclamation making the matter official. ‘We will try to keep the public informed as we move through this process,’ Gosch said. ‘(But) we intend to gavel into a special session on this matter November 9th'” Fox Black Hills reported.

“The proclamation of a special session, set to immediately follow a special session for redistricting on November 8th, will allow state lawmakers to debate whether or not they should impeach Ravnsborg without throwing off the regularly scheduled legislative session, set to begin next January. Gosch will select nine members of the House, including himself, to head up a select committee to review evidence, and ultimately decide whether or not they should vote to send impeachment to the full House. ‘There will be two Democrats on a nine member committee.’ Gosch explained. ‘I will be the 9th member of the committee, but would only vote in the event of a tie.’ The other set members of that committee will be State Rep. Kent Peterson (R-Salem), Rep. Ryan Cwach (D-Yankton), and Rep. Jamie Smith (D-Sioux Falls). Gosch says he intends to fill the remaining six spots with legislators who are former law enforcement officers, or attorneys.”

The US Border Patrol detained fourteen Mexican soldiers who apparently wandered across the border into El Paso Saturday morning, NBC News reports.  US Border Patrol agents were at the Bridge of America border crossing when they noticed Mexican military vehicles on US soil.

The Mexican soldiers were disarmed without incident and sent for processing before being returned to Mexico in about five hours.  One of the soldiers was cited for having a small amount of marijuana.

An Amtrak train traveling to Portland, Oregon derailed outside Joplin, Montana Saturday afternoon, killing an unknown number of people and injuring at least fifty, the New York Times reports.

Emergency response units from six surrounding counties are responding to the wreck, caused when five cars from the westbound Empire Builder train reportedly derailed.  There were 147 passengers and 13 crew on the train.  Authorities have set up two centers for survivors.

Minutes after Judge Jeanine claims that she’s not a racist or a xenophobe–because people who aren’t must announce it on cable television–her guest Lara Logan claims that biological weapons experts told her the Chinese were shipping viruses into the US in people coming across the Mexican border.

At a biennial meeting of Michigan Republicans, former Trump Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos offered a lightly veiled criticism of Donald Trump’s leadership of the GOP, saying the Party risks becoming a cult of personality, the Detroit Free Press reports.

DeVos lamented that “principles have been overtaken by personalities” in modern politics, saying “[O]urs is not a movement dependent on any one person.  Politics now are so often about people, not the policies that impact lives directly.”

In her address to Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference also commented that she “didn’t have to live under the thumb of that woman from Michigan,” referring to Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, during the pandemic.

Sioux City Journal:  “A 12-year-old boy died Friday after an accident in Sloan.  Woodbury County Sheriff Chad Sheehan said Saturday that sheriff’s deputies were called to an accident at 1000 Rebel Way in Sloan, the address of the Westwood Community School, at around 2 p.m. Friday.

“The accident occurred during a homecoming parade.”The boy was life-flighted to MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center in Sioux City, where he succumbed to his injuries. The Westwood Community School District identified the victim as Kage McDonald in a social media post.

“‘Our condolences and thoughts go out to the family. Kage had an enormous heart and I enjoyed every interaction I had with him. He was a tough kid who worked hard at everything he did. He will be missed and remembered by all who knew him,’ Westwood Superintendent Jay Lutt said in a statement shared on social media.”

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“The climate is always changed and no amount of taxes and no government on the planet can do anything to stop climate change.”

“The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has begun to solicit testimony from the rioters, issuing requests for some defendants to voluntarily provide an account of their decision to travel to Washington and join the angry mob. Lawyers for multiple riot defendants who have already pleaded guilty say they have received communications from the panel in recent days requesting their clients’ cooperation with the committee, which is led by Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.),” reports Politico.

“The breach of [domain registrar] Epik’s internal records has cast a spotlight on a long-hidden corner of the Internet’s underworld, and researchers expect it could take months before they can process the full cache — the equivalent of tens of millions of pages. Many are digging for information on who owns and administers extremist domains about which little was previously known,” reports the Washington Post.