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Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT.

The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys.

Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.”

The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, “Higher Ground.”

He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.

Barack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D Eisenhower was given a special Emmy Award in 1956.

Barack Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, “The Audacity of Hope” and “A Promised Land.” Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020.

EGOT refers to a special category of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. To date, 17 people have done it.

The late Chadwick Boseman also won an Emmy for his voice work on Saturday. The “Black Panther” actor won for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios animated show “What If…?”

On the show, Boseman voiced his “Black Panther” character T’Challa in an alternate universe where he becomes Star-Lord from “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

It was one of the last projects for Boseman, who died in 2020 of colon cancer at age 43.

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Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv during the night, damaging a medical treatment facility, the city’s mayor said Sunday.

Mykolaiv and its surrounding region have been hit daily for weeks in the conflict. On Saturday, a child was killed and five people were injured in rocket attacks in the region, Governor Vitaliy Kim said. Mykolaiv city mayor Oleksandr Senkevych did not specify whether there were any injuries in the overnight attack, which he said also damaged some residences.

Mykolaiv, on the Southern Bug River about 30 kilometres (20 miles) upstream from the Black Sea, is a significant port and shipbuilding centre.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Russian shelling late Saturday set a large wooden restaurant complex on fire, according to the region’s emergency service. One person was killed and two injured in shelling in the region, governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the eastern Donetsk region where Russian forces have been trying to take full control, said four people were killed in shelling on Saturday.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Saturday that the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine was disconnected from its last external power line but was still able to run electricity through a reserve line amid sustained shelling in the area.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said in a statement that the agency’s experts, who arrived at Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, were told by senior Ukrainian staff that the fourth and last operational line was down. The three others were lost earlier during the conflict.

But the IAEA experts learned that the reserve line linking the facility to a nearby thermal power plant was delivering the electricity the plant generates to the external grid, the statement said. The same reserve line can also provide backup power to the plant if needed, it added.

“We already have a better understanding of the functionality of the reserve power line in connecting the facility to the grid,” Grossi said. “This is crucial information in assessing the overall situation there.”

In addition, the plant’s management informed the IAEA that one reactor was disconnected Saturday afternoon because of grid restrictions. Another reactor is still operating and producing electricity both for cooling and other essential safety functions at the site and for households, factories and others through the grid, the statement said.

The Zaporizhzhia facility, which is Europe’s largest nuclear plant, has been held by Russian forces since early March, but its Ukrainian staff are continuing to operate it.

Vladimir Rogov, the head of the Russia-installed local administration in Enerhodar, the city where the plant is located, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying there had been no new shelling of the area on Sunday as of midday.

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A female pedestrian is this country’s latest road fatality.

According to Police the woman was struck by a vehicle travelling from south to north on Friars Hill road at about 3:20am Sunday.

The woman is yet to be identified by Police.

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Police seized a submachine gun and a magazine during an operation in Dennery on Friday.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Elvis Thomas disclosed that officers found the weapon when they executed a search warrant on a residence on Friday morning.

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COVID-19: Una muerte y 256 hospitalizados

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El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el domingo una muerte y 256 personas hospitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,996.

Hay 230 adultos hospitalizados y 26 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 20 de agosto al 2 de septiembre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está a 23.77 por ciento.

Se reporta una defunción adicional a causa del COVID-19. Unas 256 personas están hospitalizadas; 230 adultos y 26 pediátricos. Al medio día se ofrece una actualización de los datos que incluye el status de vacunación; https://t.co/8KaFLZcGta

— Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico (@desaludpr) September 4, 2022

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Juan ‘Igor’ González hace historia en la Doble A en triunfo de los Toritos de Cayey

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Juan ‘Igor’ González se convirtió en la noche del sábado en el segundo dirigente en la historia del Béisbol Superior Doble A, en lograr títulos consecutivos con equipos distintos, con la victoria de los Toritos de Cayey.

“Nos merecíamos este triunfo. Estoy agradecido y privilegiado. Se escribe una página más en la historia”, expresó el dos veces Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Americana en las Mayores.

González, quien ganó con los Grises de Humacao en 2021, igualó la gesta de su compueblano vegabajeño Víctor ‘Vitín’ Meléndez, campeón de las temporadas 1971-1972 (Manatí) y 1973 (Vega Baja).

Cayey venció en el séptimo partido 7-2 a los Peces Voladores de Salinas, ante más de 5 mil fanáticos en el estadio Pedro Montañez de Cayey.

Por tercer año consecutivo, el campeón del torneo se decidió en un séptimo juego. Es el segundo título en los últimos cuatro años para Cayey, que tiene cuatro cetros en total, conquistados en las temporadas 2022, 2018, 1986 y 1945.

Cayey contó con una efectiva combinación de los hermanos José Carlos y Juan Carlos Burgos, ambos lanzadores zurdos. El primero fue el ganador, al tirar durante 7.1 entradas con cinco ponches, seis hits permitidos y una carrera. Mientras, Juan Carlos cubrió el resto del camino.

Los Toritos atacaron desde la primera entrada al derecho Yadiel Rolón con par de anotaciones, mediante sencillo de Nelson Molina y ‘passed ball’ que aprovechó Richard González para llegar al plato.

Rolón permitió las primeras cuatro anotaciones de Cayey en 2.2 entradas para cargar con la derrota. Le pegaron seis incogibles y ponchó a dos.

En el tercer episodio, un triple de Michael Arroyo añadió dos vueltas después de dos outs y en el sexto acto, los Toritos aumentaron su ventaja con ramillete de tres carreras, gracias a sencillos de Christian Torres y Jan Arroyo.

Salinas hizo su primera vuelta en la octava entrada y fabricó otra en la novena.

El primer bate  de los Toritos, Kelvin Pérez, fue escogido el Jugador Más Valioso de la serie. Fue el campeón bate del baile de coronación con promedio de .400, con 12 hits. Anotó siete carreras y empujó cuatro. Además, recibió dos bases por bolas.

Al finalizar el encuentro, el vicepresidente de la Federación de Béisbol de Puerto Rico, ingeniero Carlos Príncipe Díaz, entregó el trofeo de campeón al apoderado Alberto Rivera.  Le acompañó el director ejecutivo, Efraín Williams González.

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St Andrew woman gone missing; last seen at Coronation Market Loop Jamaica

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Thirty-one-year-old Stacy-Ann Grant of Swettenham Road, St Andrew, has been missing since Wednesday, August 31.

She is of brown complexion, stout build and about 167 centimetres (five feet six inches) tall.

Reports from the Hunts Bay police are that about 9pm, Grant was last seen in the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston. She was wearing a red blouse and red tights.

She has not been heard from since then.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Stacy-Ann Grant is being asked to contact the Hunts Bay police at 876-923-7111, the police 119 emergency number, or the nearest police station.

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