Europes first black leader, after winning the welsh labour leadership election. The outgoing First Minister, mark drakeford, will step down from the post next week. Mr gething was born in zambia and is a former solicitor. In his acceptance speech, he highlighted the historic nature of his win. Today, we turn a page in the book of our nations history. A history that we write together. Notjust because i have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any european country, but because a generational dial has jumped too. Like ken and jane, devolution is not something that i have had to get used to, or to adapt to, or to apologise for. Devolution, welsh solutions to welsh problems and opportunities, is in my blood. It is what i have always known through my adult political life and that is the same for a growing number of our citizens and i want us to use this moment as a Starting Point for a more confident march into the future. A march into the future on behalf of a generation that,
Justice sotomayor said, look, even though the commission may have made commissioners may have made disparaging comments about religion, this was assessed by other entities, by courts, and there was no need to say that the context here affected t case. That these two individuals did face discrimination and it should be read as that. So they were the only two that broke off, but as i say, Justice Kennedy, i think he wanted to caution everyone in the courtroom, and probably anyone reading this opinion, that this is a very small step in the case of these particular men. Again, Justice Ginsburg and sotomayor said otherwise, but i think it really opens the door to what would come next from the next case. I would just add one other thing, Justice Kennedy noted that in 2012, when this had happened, colorado was not
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incident friday night with an alaska airlines flight 1282 that was taking off from portland, oregon, en route to ontario, california, here in southern california. this happened just minutes into takeoff when part of the fuselage broke off. you can see it in some of the videos, it looks like a door. on this particular aircraft it was not used as a door, but could be used as a door if the plane was reconfigured by the airline. when you look at the images coming from passengers on the plane, you can see hair is blowing around, you can also see that oxygen masks had been deployed, in fact, one passenger emma vu said that she did not know what was going on because she had fallen asleep before they took off but knew something was wrong when she got a jolt awake and saw the oxygen masks, it all happening behind her, however. another passenger said that he could see someone sitting in front of him and talked about the scary incident with one boy very close to that hole in the fuselage. take a
The fire was still estimated by the Forest Service to be at just below 3,000 acres Tuesday afternoon, with no containment, though light rain in the area did slow fire