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[h=4]The Short List: No shiny Apple; the camerawoman who tripped a migrant; Elizabeth's record reign[/h]Out of the loop today? We've got what you missed on the Apple Event, the photographer who tripped a migrant and Queen Elizabeth's crowning achievement.
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Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, talks about the features of the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus including the color finishes.(Photo: Eric Risberg, AP)
That time the Apple Event left us wanting
Did our eyes deceive us? Or did Wednesday's Apple Event look like the same old, same old? Sure, there were the shiny new toys we couldn't stop tweeting about, a slew of iPhone 6S<span style="color: Red;">*</span>features we can't wait to tap into<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and a stylus that has —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>so far — only drawn laughs. ("It's an Apple Pencil, people!") Even if we got through the event feeling "meh," we couldn't look away, which made it easier to notice that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the splashy event seemed on track to feature a lineup of usual suspects in dad jeans:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>CEO Tim Cook and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>SVPs Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue. If Apple wanted to demonstrate its<span style="color: Red;">*</span>progress in hiring women, it was off to a rocky start. And then the event took a cringe-inducing turn<span style="color: Red;">*</span>when<span style="color: Red;">*</span>one presenter adjusted<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the face of a woman in one of his designs to "give her a little bit more of a smile." (Of course,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Twitter went nuts.) In all, it took nearly 45 minutes before the first woman executive spoke. Irene Walsh of 3D4<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Medical would be one of three to take the stage;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the other two were Jen Folse, a senior design producer at Apple who demonstrated the new Apple TV, and Michelle Peluso, CEO of Gilt, who showed how her company's app would work on the Apple TV. The effort felt forced.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>But Apple — criticized for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>years<span style="color: Red;">*</span>over the event's lack of women and underrepresented minorities — was trying. We have to remember their greatness — or meh<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wasn't built in a day.
A TV camerawoman from Hungary is caught in shocking video tripping a migrant dad carrying a child
Shame on you, Hungarian journalist<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Petra László. She<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was recording migrants fleeing police near the town of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>R?szke on Tuesday when another journalist nearby saw her stick her leg in front of the man, causing him to fall on top of the child. We repeat: She stuck out her leg and tripped a man carrying a child. You have to watch the unbelievable video.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>She was fired Wednesday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>László's motivation wasn't<span style="color: Red;">*</span>clear, and attempts to reach her through N1TV, where she was a camera operator, were not successful.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The station posted a message on its website saying László<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had been dismissed for "unacceptable behavior."<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The 20-second video was captured by a German journalist. If tripping a baby-carrying man fleeing police<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wasn't bad enough, in a separate video, she can be seen kicking two other migrants, one of whom appears to be a young girl. Unreal. Let's back up and talk about the latest in Europe's migrant crisis. The European Union is calling for mandatory refugee quotas.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Hundreds of thousands of people<span style="color: Red;">*</span>have traveled to Europe this year, but the EU has struggled to form<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a strategy for handling them. The<span style="color: Red;">*</span>crisis<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has rapidly developed into a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>humanitarian emergency with thousands of people stranded at various transit points and borders from Greece to Hungary.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Some 500,000 migrants have entered Europe this year, many from conflict-torn Syria and Libya.
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A TV camerawoman has been fired after she was caught on video kicking and tripping migrants entering Hungary across the border with Serbia. Hungary's N1TV Internet channel identified their employee as Petra Laszlo. USA TODAY
Queen Elizabeth II's latest crowning achievement? Nailed it.
Sound the trumpets! Queen Elizabeth II, 89, is now<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the longest-reigning British sovereign<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in more than 1,000 years of the monarchy, overtaking her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria, with just over 63 years and six months on the throne. (Queen Victoria died in January 1901, when she was 81.)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Buckingham Palace marked the event by releasing an official photograph of the queen taken by Mary McCartney, the photographer daughter of former Beatle Paul McCartney.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>In London, a flotilla of historic vessels, leisure boats and ferries took part along the River Thames in central London. The HMS Belfast sounded<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a four-gun salute. And the queen herself? Dressed in one of her signature pastel outfits, she was in Scotland, taking a break from her vacation at Balmoral to open a new railroad. Do you heart the royals? You're not alone.
On Sept. 9, 2015, just after 4 pm London time, the United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II, 89, the 40th monarch since 1066, passes her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria for longest reign in British history, at just over 63 years and six months. She will be at her Scottish estate on that day, which for her will be like any other day in terms of her schedule of engagements. She has asked there be no fuss, and so officially, there won't be. But Brits will be celebrating quietly nonetheless, raising a glass to their beloved Her Majesty and pulling out the photo albums for a look back at key moments during a singular, and singularly successful, reign.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> Apic/ Getty Images
Her coronation took place more than a year later, on June 2, 1953, in Westminster Abbey, where British monarchs are crowned. Coronations, the most ancient, solemn and spiritual ceremony in the royal tradition, is also the most rare in the modern era. In 1953, it was televised for the first time, the first major international event broadcast on TV. That allowed millions of her subjects around the world to see their queen take up the emotional and actual burdens of the throne (the crown and scepter) and accept pledges of allegiance from peers and bishops in Westminster Abbey. Watching all this from a balcony above the throne was her young son and heir, Prince Charles, her mother, sister and her extended family.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> AP
Prince Charles' investiture as the Prince of Wales, an elaborate ceremony updated for the modern era, took place on July 1, 1969, when he was 20, at the medieval Caernarfon castle in Wales, where tradition holds all early princes of Wales resided. This ceremony, too, was televised for millions around the world. Although he had been Prince of Wales since age 9, the queen waited until he was old enough to understand the significance of the ceremony, in which she invested her heir with the insignia of his principality. Charles later delivered a speech in the difficult Welsh language.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> AFP/Getty Images
In June 2015, when the family gathered on the balcony for the Trooping the Color parade, Prince George joined for the first time, allowing the queen to stand with her son, Prince Charles, her grandson, Prince William, and her great-grandson, George, for one of those rare four-generation photos of royal heirs. The first official occasion was for George's christening on Oct. 23, 2013.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> Tim Ireland, AP
In June 2015, when the family gathered on the balcony for the Trooping the Color parade, Prince George joined for the first time, allowing the queen to stand with her son, Prince Charles, her grandson, Prince William, and her great-grandson, George, for one of those rare four-generation photos of royal heirs. The first official occasion was for George's christening on Oct. 23, 2013.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> Tim Ireland, AP
One of the queen's favorite events during her Balmoral holiday is the Scottish Braemar Gathering, which she attends faithfully as the Chieftain of the Gathering, accompanied by other members of the royal family, including Prince Philip and Prince Charles. This year it started Sept. 5, in Braemar, in the Cairngorms National Park, where there's been an annual gathering for over 900 years. The Highland Games feature competitions in running, heavy weight lifting, solo piping, and dancing. It's one of those events that brings delighted smiles to the queen's usually impassive look in public. <span style="color: Red;">*</span> Carl Court, Getty Images
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The wait is over for Week 2 of the USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and Fiorina is on the move
If Donald Trump is looking in his rearview mirror, he will see Carly Fiorina gaining on him. The former Hewlett Packard CEO has had several good weeks, and our panel of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>political experts now have her in third place in the GOP 2016 power rankings. In the second week of our rankings, Fiorina moves<span style="color: Red;">*</span>up from sixth place, while Florida Sen. Marco Rubio drops from third to sixth. Of course, Trump remains No. 1 in our poll by a wide margin, with 22 first-place votes. So what changed since last week? Deb Lucia, a Kansas Tea Party activist, explains:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“The CNN debate controversy put her in the spotlight, and many people took a look at her for the first time and liked what they saw.”<span style="color: Red;">*</span>But don't get too excited. It's early still. “There is a long time between now and February, when people start<span style="color: Red;">*</span>making real choices,” says Nathan Gonzales of the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>And if you're curious about the whole field<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dems included —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>be sure to check out the USA TODAY/Facebook Candidate Barometer. You'll see who's trending and where and see who has the most buzz on Facebook.
USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings, Week 2<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)
New York City says: Please don't pass the salt<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Remember when then-mayor Michael Bloomberg<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wanted to help New Yorkers<span style="color: Red;">*</span>slim down by banning super-size sugary soft drinks? And remember how a court struck down that ban with a 20-page ruling that said the city Board of Health "exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority"? Yeah, we remember, too. Now the board is going after salty foods with a first-of-its-kind warning label.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Salt-shaker symbols on menus will denote dishes with more than the recommended daily limit of 2,300 milligrams of sodium — that's about a teaspoon. Public health advocates cheered the board's vote Wednesday, while salt producers and restaurateurs were left with a bitter taste in their mouths, calling it a misguided step based on "outdated" guidelines.
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Contributing: Jessica Guynn, Marco della Cava, Jefferson Graham, Ed Baig, Elizabeth Weise, Maeve McDermott, Kevin Kepple,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Janet Loehrke,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Kim Hjelmgaard, Matthew Diebel, Maria Puente, Mike Snider, Cooper Allen, Paul Singer, David Jackson,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>USA TODAY; the Associated Press
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