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(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) — A woman visiting Yellowstone National Park was hospitalized Monday after being gored by a bison, National Park Service officials said.
The unidentified 47-year-old tourist from Phoenix was walking with another person near the Lake Lodge Cabins on the north shore of Lake Yellowstone when they saw two bison, according to NPS.
Officials said the two visitors turned around and tried to walk away, but one bison charged at them and gored the woman.
“The woman sustained significant injuries to her chest and abdomen and was transported by helicopter to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center,” NPS said in a statement.
Park officials did not provide an update on the wounded tourist’s condition.
It was unknown how close the visitors were to the bison when it charged. The investigation is ongoing, according to the NPS.
This is the first reported bison attack against a park visitor since June 2022, the NPS said.
Last month, the NPS put out warnings following a string of human encounters with Yellowstone wildlife that were going viral on social media.
In one video posted in May, a woman was seen getting close to a bison and taking a selfie, which park officials said was dangerous given the animal’s unpredictable movements and actions. The agency noted that bison can run three times faster than humans.
Visitors are advised to “stay more than 25 yards away from all large animals – bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose, and coyotes – and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves,” NPS said.
“During mating season (rut) from mid-July through mid-August, bison can become agitated more quickly. Use extra caution and give them additional space during this time,” NPS said in a statement.
The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) pulls into port in Busan South Korea July 18, 2023. — Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael Chen/US Navy
(BUSAN, South Korea) — A U.S. Navy nuclear-capable submarine on Tuesday made a port call in South Korea for the first time in decades.
The USS Kentucky made a rare stop in Busan, marking the first time a nuclear ballistic missile submarine visited South Korea since 1981.
The development comes as a U.S. service member crossed into North Korea “without authorization” and was in North Korean custody, United Nations official and a U.S. official said Tuesday.
After the U.S. submarine arrived in South Korea, in the early hours of Wednesday local time, North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile, according to the prime minister of Japan.
The deployment is a realization of a commitment announced by the U.S. in April following a state visit by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The USS Kentucky is one of 14 Ohio Class ballistic missile submarines that can carry up to 20 Trident II D-5 long range ICBMs carrying nuclear warheads, though as standard practice the U.S. Navy doesn’t confirm if there are nuclear weapons aboard when a submarine goes out to sea.
During Yoon’s state visit in April, he and President Joe Biden released a statement saying a future visit by an Ohio-Class submarine to South Korea would “further enhance the regular visibility of strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.”
Yoon, a conservative elected in 2022, stressed the U.S.-South Korea alliance was a “linchpin” in safeguarding freedom in the Indo-Pacific while he was in Washington.
According to the press release from U.S. Forces Korea the USS Kentucky’s arrival “demonstrates the flexibility, survivability, readiness, resolve, and capability of the U.S. Navy submarine forces” and “reflects the United States’ ironclad commitment to the Republic of Korea for our extended deterrence guarantee.”
The U.S. Forces Korea shared images of the submarine on its Twitter page.
ABC’s Alexandra Hutzler contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — As Canada continues to battle its worst wildfire season on record, toxic smoke has traveled south and is once again blanketing states across the U.S.
A total of 18 states are under air quality alerts on Tuesday, stretching from Montana to New York and as far south as Georgia, according to AirNow, an air quality website run by a partnership between the federal government and state and local air quality agencies.
Washington, D.C., and New York City were among the top 10 worst air quality rankings in the world on Tuesday morning, according to IQAir, a website that publishes air quality data around the world.
While moderate surface smoke was still hanging over portions of the much of the East on Tuesday morning, it will lighten as the day goes on, forecasts show.
Light to moderate surface smoke will linger in some areas through the middle of the week.
There are more than 900 active fires in Canada now, with nearly 600 of them deemed “out of control” by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
The fires in 2023 have already have already burned more than 26 million acres in Canada — more than 850% of normal and far surpassing the previous record set in 1995 of 17.5 million acres burned. There are still months to go in the fire season.
The Canadian wildfires began far earlier than usual and have been causing air quality concerns in the U.S. since May.
Vulnerable groups, such as children, teenagers, senior citizens, pregnant people and those with heart or lung disease, stay indoors and that people who travel outdoors consider wearing masks.
This is because wildfire smoke is made up of several toxins, including fine particulate matter — known as PM2.5 — which is 30 times smaller in diameter than a human hair.
These particles are too small to be seen with the naked eye and can be breathed deep into the body, entering the nose and throat and traveling to the lungs.
PM2.5 can cause short-term health effects, even for healthy people, including irritation of the eyes, nose and throat; coughing, sneezing; and shortness of breath. It can also cause long-term effects such as asthma and heart disease.
Canada may not be the only country in North America that has to battle wildfires. Red flag warnings went into effect Monday for much of eastern Washington and parts of Oregon and Colorado due to dry air, dry ground, and breezy conditions.
Combined with low humidity and strong winds, the conditions are prime for fires to be sparked and to grow rather quickly.
ABC News’ Kenton Gewecke contributed to this report.
An emergency slide fell from a plane and landed outside of a home near O’Hare Airport in Chicago, July 17, 2023. — Laura Devitt
(CHICAGO) — It wasn’t a bird or a plane hurtling from the sky, although it did fall from the latter.
The Federal Aviation Administration said they are investigating after a Chicago resident found an aircraft emergency escape slide in his backyard just after noon on Monday.
The inflatable slide, which is believed to have fallen from a United Airlines flight from Zurich, Switzerland, fell onto the roof of a northwest Chicago home, which suffered minor damage from the impact.
“My father-in-law and my son are having lunch in the kitchen, and they hear a loud boom on the side of the wall,” homeowner Patrick Devitt told ABC affiliate WLS.
Surveillance footage from a nearby home showed the large slide plummeting from the sky.
Devitt told WLS that he found the silver-colored plastic slide in his backyard and dragged it to the street.
“When it’s all stretched out…it’s larger than a small car. It’s a very, very big piece of equipment that fell,” Devitt said. He also said he called 911, after which FAA officials arrived to investigate.
Meanwhile, miles away at Chicago O’Hare Airport, maintenance workers discovered that an emergency evacuation slide was missing from United Airlines Flight 12, a Boeing 767 that had recently landed following a flight from Zurich, Switzerland, according to the FAA. Devitt told WLS that United Airlines representatives came to his house later Monday to retrieve the slide.
United Airlines confirmed that the flight was carrying 155 customers and 10 crew. United Airlines said in a statement that immediately contacted the FAA, which is not investigating the matter.
No injuries were reported on the ground where the slide landed or onboard the aircraft, but the incident startled residents who live below the flight paths to O’Hare.
“Just seeing that in my backyard, I was like ‘Wow, this really happened,’” Devitt said. “This fell off an airplane and landed in our backyard.”
ABC News’ Victoria Beaule and Chris Looft contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Millions of people are dealing with extreme heat waves as climate change continues to raise temperatures to unhealthy levels.
Jeff Goodell, a climate journalist, published a new book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, that examines how damaging the increased heat waves are for people’s health. Goodell warned that people need to be cautious about their activities during the high heat days.
He spoke with ABC News’ “Start Here” podcast Tuesday about the heat and what can be done to mitigate the damage.
START HERE: Thanks for being with us, Jeff. I’m wondering, like in your mind when we talk about climate change, is heat just by itself, heat the single most affecting part of that whole picture? That’s the thing that actually hits will hit the human race the hardest.
JEFF GOODELL: Well, I think it’s very clear that when it comes to your own health risk and to your own life, heat is by far the most dangerous impact of climate change. Heat kills far more people than drought and wildfires. My previous book was about sea level rise. And, sea level rise is really important because it impacts every coastal city in the world and it’s going to have huge impacts on real estate and flooding and things like that.
But nobody stands on Miami Beach and drowns because of sea level rise. It’s happening over a longer period of time. The thing about heat is that it can kill you very quickly.
But it’s also the larger warming of the planet that is causing the glaciers to melt, is causing the sea level rise that’s drying out the forests that are causing hotter, bigger wildfires. It’s changing the precipitation patterns because of the changes in the atmosphere.
So, it is the large scale driver of all these big changes, and it’s also the micro killer –invisible force that is most deadly to you as a person.
START HERE: Well, and so I’ve been wondering lately, is all temperature change relative? If you’re used to living in 60 degree weather and then at 70 degrees, you’re undergoing the same amount of change that somebody who lives in 95 degree weather and now it’s 105 [degrees] all the time. Is that the same difference or is there a level — is there a threshold at which the air temperature becomes profoundly more dangerous for people?
GOODELL: Well, I mean, there has been some speculation [and] some papers written about this, about what is the sort of human threshold for heat. And there’s the idea of what’s called a wet bulb temperature, which is a measurement kind of like a complicated heat index that was developed by the military that includes sunlight and wind speed and enclosure wearing and everything.
A wet bulb temperature of 95 degrees…you can basically think of it as a sunny, humid day at 95 degrees. If you are out in that for very long and do any kind of exercise or movement around your, you will rapidly head into heat stroke land.
In my book, I write about a farm worker in Oregon who died in the fields because he was afraid if he took shade and water breaks, he would be fired. The thing about these heat waves is that there’s a real kind of justice and equity issue involved here. Not just here in the United States, but there are billions of people on this planet who do not have access to air conditioning and will not have access to air conditioning anytime soon.
The last point about I’ll make about the air conditioning is that it’s a false sense of security because I’m here right now talking to you in Austin and it’s 106 degrees right now. If there were a power failure in Austin right now and that power failure lasted for very long, hundreds, if not thousands of people would die because they would lose air conditioning all of a sudden. We’ve built many of our houses without the ability to open windows.
They are all sealed up very tight, and they become like convection ovens without mechanical air conditioning. So, you know, there’s an inevitability that that kind of power failure is going to happen on a grid in a major American city during one of these heat waves.
START HERE: Well, and in fact, you’ve described your book is like it’s not just doomerism, it’s a survival guide for this new era that we’re all inhabiting right now. I mean, if we’re looking for survival tips. And I’m serious, are there practical things that we should be doing? Not just like write your congressmen and like try to get less CO2. Like, are there things we should be doing preparing ourselves for to get by in a much hotter, hotter world?
GOODELL: Well, again, just to stress the obvious and to repeat the obvious, cutting fossil fuel emissions as quickly as possible is the first order of business in any kind of thinking about what to do about extreme heat. But, on a more practical level, it’s, you know, getting smart about the risks of heat.
I didn’t understand the risk before I started writing this book, even though I have been writing about climate change for almost a decade. I was really dumb about it. I came close to having a heat stroke myself. I didn’t understand what was happening. People don’t understand how dangerous heat is and how and how to deal with it. For example, one of the myths is that if you drink enough water, you’ll be fine. That’s not true.
Water does not in itself cool you off or cools you off. Is it the sweat? And yes, you need to have water in you so you can continue sweating. And if you get dehydrated, you can’t sweat. But there are many stories and I write about them in my book of people who die of heat stroke and have plenty of water. It’s just that they’re in conditions where they’re exercising, hiking, walking, working, whatever, in hot conditions and their bodies overcome by heat.
START HERE: So literally thinking differently about exertion, where you live and what these heat extremes are doing now.
GOODELL: Exactly. And there’s a lot to be done with checking in on vulnerable people. A lot of heat deaths can be easily avoided by better education about heat, about ranking heat waves..so that we know the severity of them because they’re invisible. We don’t see them. They’re not like hurricanes where you can you see the trees bending in half. The risks are very visible. With heat, they’re not.
So we need to get a lot better about messaging about it than the media and government officials, public health officials. There are initiatives underway to try to name heat waves to make it more tangible to people’s imaginations and more identifiable. You know what the risks are. Simple things like, calling relatives, friends, people who you think might be vulnerable and saying, “Hey, it’s going to be really hot tomorrow. Are you set? Is your air conditioning working or if you don’t have air conditioning, do you know where to go?” There’s a lot of just simple things like that that can be done.
START HERE: It’s almost against speaking to your idea of like, these are just like storms, but they’re more invisible. My mom, like, gets like annoyingly, she calls me whenever she thinks there’s a snow flurry on the way. Yes. You want to do that for a huge heat wave. Like that’s the difference.
GOODELL: Right. And the media plays into this. Whenever there’s a heat warnings or whatever they show pictures of people at the beach and they show pictures of kids running through sprinklers and things like that. And there’s this notion that, you know, yeah, it’s going to be warm, but it’s not really dangerous. And, you know, just like put a hat on and put on sunscreen and drink plenty of water and you’ll be fine. Well, you won’t be fine. And it’s much more dangerous than that.
As these temperatures climb and climb and climb, these risks grow faster and faster and they become more urgent. And, I opened my book with the story of a family in California. They went for a hike on a warm day in the California foothills. And the next day they were all found dead on the trail, including their tragically, their one-year-old daughter, because they all had heatstroke.
They knew they were experienced hikers. They understood the risk, but they miscalculated. And those kinds of questions in this kind of education about this is just going to become more and more and more important as we get hotter and hotter and hotter.
START HERE: Yeah. And I keep going back to 95 degrees and humid, being like this moment where the cellularly your body starts to react differently. It was this past Friday that it was 95 degrees and muggy. I went out for what I thought was a healthy bike ride. I hydrated myself really well throughout the day, and yet hours and hours later, my wife is like, You don’t look well. Like, this was bad for your health. That’s the sort of decision making that you think will be changing, whether we like it or not.
(WASHINGTON) — The controversy over Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s comments on Israel will continue Tuesday when the House votes on a Republican-led resolution to reaffirm the U.S. ally is not a racist state and condemn antisemitism — an effort designed to drive a wedge between Democrats as the party contends with differing stances within its ranks toward Israel.
The resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, says “the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state, Congress rejects all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia, and the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.” The measure is expected to pass with strong bipartisan support.
The vote is essentially a rebuke of Jayapal, who has walked back her comments calling Israel a “racist state” and apologized to those she hurt with the remarks made at a political conference over the weekend. Seeking to clarify her remarks, Jayapal said she supported the two-state solution but is opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime and its policies.
Top Democrats issued a statement over the weekend countering Jayapal’s remarks in which they declared, “Israel is not a racist state.”
“Our commitment to a safe and secure Israel as an invaluable partner, ally and beacon of democracy in the Middle East is ironclad,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Reps. Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar and Ted Lieu said in a statement.
Aguilar further touted the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel during a press conference on Tuesday, where he was asked whether the Israel resolution will expose division within the party.
“No, there’s unity in the Democratic caucus,” Aguilar responded. “I think you’ll see that with strong attendance from our colleagues on the House floor to see the president of Israel address us.”
Aguilar said he plans to vote for the resolution and expects “a large number of Democrats to vote for it.”
Republicans are also expected to vote in favor of the resolution, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Calif., applauding the resolution.
“I think you have seen some growing antisemitism over the years and including coming from some members of Congress. And I think it’s always important that we reiterate our strong support with our great ally Israel, and stand up to antisemitism wherever we see it,” Scalise said.
Scalise later said he expected a “strong vote” for Pfluger’s resolution.
Presented with the contrast between his condemnation of antisemitism with House Republicans’ plans for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify before a House subcommittee — despite Kennedy recently being accused of antisemitism for his false claim that COVID-19 was “targeted to” certain ethnicities while Chinese people and Jewish people of European descent were more immune — Scalise criticized Kennedy’s remarks.
“I don’t agree with that,” Scalise said when asked about Kennedy’s recent comments. “But we’re bringing legislation so that every member of Congress can be on record about whether or not they stand up against antisemitism.”
As the House takes up the measure, Israeli President Isaac Herzog will arrive in Washington, D.C., and sit down with President Joe Biden at the White House. The two leaders will hold a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon. Herzog will deliver remarks to Congress on Wednesday to mark the 75th anniversary of Israel’s statehood.
Some progressive Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have said they will not attend.
ABC News’ Arthur Jones contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — The Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $1 billion after Monday night’s drawing produced no winners, the third-largest purse in Powerball history.
The winner numbers in Monday’s drawing were 5, 8, 9, 17 and 41, and the Powerball was 21.
The estimated cash payout would for the next draw is $516.8 million.
There was no Powerball jackpot winner in Saturday night’s $875 million drawing either, Powerball said Sunday.
There have been 37 consecutive drawings without a jackpot, Powerball officials said in a press release. The most recent jackpot winner was in the April 19, 2023, drawing, which had a grand prize worth $252.6 million, the lottery said.
The $900 million jackpot trails only two previous drawings, the lottery said. A ticket in California won a $2.04 billion jackpot in November 2022 and tickets in California, Florida and Tennessee hit a $1.586 billion jackpot in January 2016.
Saturday’s winning numbers were 2, 9, 43, 55 and 57, and the red Powerball was 18.
Two tickets in Texas and one in Colorado matched all five white balls, winning the $1 million prize on Saturday.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
(NEW YORK) — An estimated $1 billion jackpot is up for grabs in the next Powerball drawing.
It’s the third-largest purse in the game’s history and the seventh-largest U.S. lottery jackpot, according to a press release from Powerball.
The grand prize has an estimated cash value of $516.8 million, Powerball said.
Here’s everything you need to know:
What days are the Powerball drawings and when is the next one?
Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. The drawings are also livestreamed online at Powerball.com.
The next drawing is on Wednesday, July 19.
Where are Powerball tickets sold and how much do they cost?
Powerball tickets cost $2 and are sold in 45 U.S. states as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In Idaho and Montana, Powerball is bundled with Power Play — a feature that allows a winner to multiply the original amount of non-jackpot prizes — for a minimum purchase price of $3 per ticket.
More than half of all proceeds remain in the jurisdiction where the ticket was purchased.
Can Powerball tickets be purchased online?
Players can buy Powerball tickets in person from retailers in authorized participating U.S. states. In certain U.S. states, Powerball tickets can be purchased online through the state lottery agency.
Players can also take part through online lottery ticket company Jackpot.com by going to the website or downloading the mobile app.
What are the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot?
The Powerball jackpot grows based on game sales and interest, but the odds of winning the big prize stays the same — 1 in 292.2 million.
Jackpot winners can either take the money as an immediate cash lump sum or in 30 annual payments over 29 years. Both advertised prize options do not include federal and jurisdictional taxes.
All winning tickets must be redeemed in the jurisdiction in which they are sold.
How to play Powerball
Select five numbers between 1 and 69 for the white balls, then select one number between 1 and 26 for the red Powerball. Choose the numbers on a play slip or let the lottery terminal randomly pick them.
Add the Power Play feature for an additional $1 to multiply non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, five or 10 times. The multiplier number is randomly selected before each drawing.
The 10-times multiplier is only in play when the advertised jackpot annuity is $150 million or less, while the Match 5 prize with Power Play is always $2 million.
Sen. Joe Manchin and Jon Huntsman Jr. speak with ABC News about the No Labels group in Manchester, N.H, July 17, 2023. — ABC News
(NEW YORK) — Sen. Joe Manchin isn’t running for president on a third-party ticket in 2024, he said on Monday in New Hampshire — and while he played down the possibility of changing his mind, his appearance at No Labels’ Common Sense town hall alongside Jon Huntsman Jr. continued to fuel speculation that the two could be on a future “unity” ticket against Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
That wasn’t what either Manchin and Huntsman wanted to talk about at the event, however.
“I think people are getting ahead of the game, put[ting] the cart before the horse,” Manchin, D-W.Va., said at the town hall when asked if Huntsman, a Republican, might be his 2024 running mate. “We’re here to make sure that the American people have an option, and the option is can you move the political parties off their respective sides. They’ve gone too far right and too far left.”
Monday’s town hall is the first of what No Labels intends to be a yearlong tour, with more speakers to come.
Over the weekend, No Labels also released a policy manual called Common Sense which serves as the group’s platform and includes centrist solutions on a range of issues, from Social Security to the national debt, abortion and guns.
No Labels is openly weighing whether to launch a third-party “unity” ticket in next year’s race that would feature both a Democrat and Republican, arguing that their research shows voters may have an appetite for an outside bid.
That strategy has drawn criticism, particularly from Democrats who say it could “spoil” the outcome.
“I’ve never been in any race I’ve ever spoiled. I’ve been in races to win,” Manchin said at Monday’s town hall. “And if I get in a race, I’m gonna win.”
He and Huntsman, a former governor of Utah whom Manchin called a “dear friend,” were appearing at Saint Anselm College in Manchester — a popular stop in the early-voting state for candidates running for president.
“We’re here basically trying to explain to you to the real options, and the options may be new parties who basically haven’t receded to their logical extreme right and extreme left,” Manchin said.
Speaking with ABC News ahead of the town hall, the senator brushed off a question about a possible No Labels candidacy.
Manchin has so far been coy about his plans for the 2024 election cycle. ABC News has reported that he is considering running for reelection in his current Senate seat, retiring or running for president.
“This is not [about] my politics or whatever my future will be,” he said on Monday, of supporting No Labels. “This is about uniting the country.”
Both he and Huntsman also said they do not believe if they were to enter the presidential race that it would help former President Trump’s chances against President Biden.
“I don’t believe it for one second,” Huntsman said. “First of all, it’s the preseason. Second of all, who would argue with the importance of expanding democracy and choices and ideas? That’s what this country is all about.”
At the town hall, Huntsman took a sharper tone, saying that he had gotten fed up with the potential ticket conversation occupying the initial 15 minutes of their time on stage. But he also criticized the potential rematch between Trump and Biden next year, which polls show voters are apathetic about.
“If we end up in 2024 with the same set of nominees that we did in 2020, is that insanity? Is that the definition of insanity or what?” Huntsman said.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu was a notable figure in the audience, with Huntsman joking that he should be on stage with the co-hosts.
Prior to the town hall, Sununu spoke with reporters and said he is unsure if No Labels will be on the ballot in New Hampshire, which historically holds the country’s first primaries, but believes the group has a plan to get there.
He also encouraged the group to continue what they’re doing, saying, “Most Americans don’t want Trump or Biden, so there is going to be a vacuum to fill the void.”
“It’s very interesting that they are launching everything here,” Sununu said. “They know where the conversation is going to be, and they want to be a part of it.”
New Hampshire voters in attendance — who spilled into three overflow rooms — were interested in what the politicians had to say, but most of the conversation was focused on Manchin’s future, not on the newly released Common Sense policy booklet.
He closed the town hall by reiterating he is not currently seeking the White House.
“I’m not here running for president tonight. I’m not,” he said. “I’m here trying to basically save the nation.”
Speaking with ABC News earlier in the day, he declined to say whether he would seek reelection in the Senate instead.
Not dampening speculation is the fact that No Labels’ platform, released over the weekend, bears a striking resemblance to Manchin’s. The “Common Sense” theme is evocative of Manchin in both content and strategy, repeating his stances on several key issues, like energy, abortion and immigration.
Among other similarities, the platform opens with a call to “fix Social Security,” echoing Manchin, and it argues for “a balance” between abortion rights and certain restrictions, as Manchin has advocated.
No Labels also brands its energy strategy with the coal-state senator’s catchphrase on the issue — “all-of-the-above” — in embracing both efforts to help address climate change through encouraging renewable energy production while not, as Manchin contends, too quickly pivoting away from the use of fossil fuels.
Manchin said Monday that No Labels had interviewed him when crafting their platform document but that any similarities beyond that were “maybe a coincidence.”
He and Huntsman said they did not draft the Common Sense booklet themselves.
“I think most people in America have a commonsense approach to how they run their life or how they expect to be governed,” Manchin said. “I gave my input, basically, as one person giving my response.”
A potential No Labels ticket could affect the electoral chances of both major parties — as has happened in some past presidential races. Analysis from FiveThirtyEight suggests that a No Labels candidacy in the 2024 presidential race would marginally harm Biden over Trump.
No Labels’ leadership insists the organization’s main purpose is to push the two major parties towards greater consensus in the center rather than to sway the race to one candidate or the other. No Labels’ founding chair, former Sen. Joe Lieberman, told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that the group would abstain from the 2024 presidential race if they realized they would tip the results.
“If the polling next year shows, after the two parties have chosen their nominees, that, in fact, we will help elect one or another candidate, we’re not going to get involved,” Lieberman said.
Former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, a Democrat who opposes No Labels, appeared with Lieberman on Sunday and was blunt about his assessment: “There is no way on God’s green earth that they can get to 270 electoral votes, which means they will be a spoiler, one way or another.”
The problem wasn’t No Labels, Lieberman said then. “The problem is the American people are not buying what the two parties are selling anymore. And I think the parties would be wiser to think about that.”
The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) pulls into port in Busan South Korea July 18, 2023. — Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael Chen/US Navy
(BUSAN, South Korea) — A U.S. Navy nuclear-capable submarine on Tuesday made a port call in South Korea for the first time in decades.
The USS Kentucky made a rare stop in Busan, marking the first time a nuclear ballistic missile submarine visited South Korea since 1981.
The development comes as a U.S. service member crossed into North Korea “without authorization” and was in North Korean custody, United Nations official and a U.S. official said Tuesday.
The deployment is a realization of a commitment announced by the U.S. in April following a state visit by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The USS Kentucky is one of 14 Ohio Class ballistic missile submarines that can carry up to 20 Trident II D-5 long range ICBMs carrying nuclear warheads, though as standard practice the U.S. Navy doesn’t confirm if there are nuclear weapons aboard when a submarine goes out to sea.
During Yoon’s state visit in April, he and President Joe Biden released a statement saying a future visit by an Ohio-Class submarine to South Korea would “further enhance the regular visibility of strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.”
Yoon, a conservative elected in 2022, stressed the U.S.-South Korea alliance was a “linchpin” in safeguarding freedom in the Indo-Pacific while he was in Washington.
According to the press release from U.S. Forces Korea the USS Kentucky’s arrival “demonstrates the flexibility, survivability, readiness, resolve, and capability of the U.S. Navy submarine forces” and “reflects the United States’ ironclad commitment to the Republic of Korea for our extended deterrence guarantee.”
The U.S. Forces Korea shared images of the submarine on its Twitter page.
ABC’s Alexandra Hutzler contributed to this report.
