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The majority of President-elect Donald Trump 's nominations to join his administration are from his two states of residence, Florida and New York. Following Trump's nomination of Pam Bondi to become the next U.S. Attorney General, jokes of "Make America Florida Again," mocking Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, have been circulating social media. Trump has now announced he wants nine people from Florida to take on positions close to him in the White House. An additional six people are nominated in New York. Beyond New York and Florida, 15 other states have just one or two nominees representing them. A map shows where Trump's nominations are from. Florida—9 Trump announced on Thursday that he was selecting former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has his U.S. Attorney General nomination. The pick comes after his first choice, former Representative Matt Gaetz , withdrew his nomination. Gaetz was also from Florida. Republican Senator Marco Rubio was picked by Trump to serve as Secretary of State. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he has "already received strong interest from several possible candidates" for the Senate seat vacancy if Rubio is confirmed. Mike Waltz, a retired Green Beret and National Guard colonel representing Florida's 6th Congressional District has been asked by Trump to serve as national security adviser . A date will be set for a special primary and general election to replace Waltz. The governor does not appoint members of the House to fill vacancies. Susie Wiles was Trump's first announced nomination. She has been chosen to serve as the Chief of Staff. Wiles co-led Trump's 2016 Florida campaign and went on to lead his 2024 national campaign. Sergio Gor was tapped to be Trump's Director of Personnel. Interesting, Gor spends a lot of his time at Mar-a-Lago. He has published Trump's books and has remained within the President-elect's inner circle. Mike Huckabee has a strong connection to Florida. He was chosen as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel. A resident of Santa Rosa Beach, Huckabee sold his luxurious beachfront house in 2021 for $9.4 million. Trump's choice for Deputy Attorney General is Todd Blanche. He purchased a home in Palm Beach County, Florida in 2024. When doing so, he also switched his voter registration from Democrat to Republican . The Solicitor General nomination was given to D John Sauer. Sauer, who lives in Town 'n' County, represented Trump in an oral argument before a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in January of this year. Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs will be James Blair. The political consultant at a firm based in Tampa has helped with numerous campaigns. New York—6 Howard Lutnick was picked for the Secretary of Commerce. He is a New York financier, serving as the chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners. He rose to prominence after supporting 9/11 victims' families while rebuilding the company. He is now the cochair of Trump's transition team. Lee Zeldin was tapped as Trump's EPA Administrator. He is a former Representative from New York. He represented New York's 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2023. Elise Stefanik was chosen at the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations . She was born in New York and is currently serving as the Representative for New York's 21st Congressional District. She has been in the position since 2015. Steve Witkoff is Trump's pick for Special Envoy to the Middle East. He was born in the Bronx and is a real estate investor. Trump chose Dan Scavino as his Deputy Chief of Staff. He moved in 2017 with Trump to D.C. but is from Hopewell Junction. Emil Bove is a retired assistant New York attorney general. He is chosen to be the Principle Associate Deputy Attorney General. He is the former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. 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Colorado—1 Chris Wright was Trump's choice for Secretary of Energy. He is currently the CEO and Chairman of Liberty Energy. Connecticut—1 Linda McMahon was tapped to be the Secretary of Education. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband Vince. Georgia—1 Doug Collins, Trump's choice for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, is from Georgia. He was previously a Representative from the state from 2013 to 2021. Massachusetts—1 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Trump's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Like much of his family, he lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Kennedy is an environmental attorney and activist. Missouri—1 Will Scharf, Trump's staff secretary, is from Missouri. Scharf played a role in Trump's legal team in 2023. New Hampshire—1 Karoline Leavitt, the nominated press secretary, was raised in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Her family owned an ice cream shop and truck dealership in Plaistow. North Dakota—1 Doug Burgman was chosen by Trump to be the Secretary of the Interior. He has been the North Dakota governor since 2016. Ohio—1 Trump's Vice President JD Vance was voted in as Senator in Ohio. He grew up in Middletown and detailed his life in his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis . South Dakota—1 Kristi Noem is currently the governor of South Dakota. She was first elected in 2018 and later reelected in 2022. Trump chose her for his Secretary of Homeland Security. Tennessee—1 Trump has leaned on Pete Hegseth to be his Secretary of Defense. Hegseth, who has been the center of a sexual assault controversy, lives in Middle Tennessee. Virginia—1 Stephen Miller, who was nominated to be the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, recently moved to Arlington, Virginia. Wisconsin—1 Sean Duffy was Trump's choice for Secretary of Transportation. 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Article content WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad is a “fundamental act of justice” after decades of repression, but it was “a moment of risk and uncertainty” for the Mideast. Recommended Videos Biden spoke at the White House hours after after rebel groups completed a takeover of the country after more than a dozen years of violent civil war and decades of leadership by Assad and his family. Biden said the United States was unsure of Assad’s whereabouts, but was monitoring reports he was seeking refuge in Moscow. The outgoing Biden administration and President-elect Donald Trump were working to make sense of new threats and opportunities across the Middle East. Biden credited action by the U.S. and its allies for weakening Syria’s backers — Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. He said “for the first time” that they could no longer defend Assad’s grip on power. “Our approach has shifted the balance of power in the Middle East,” Biden said, after a meeting with his national security team at the White House. Trump said Sunday that Assad had fled his country, which his family had ruled for decades, because close ally Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, “was not interested in protecting him any longer.” Those comments on Trump’s social media platform came a day after he used another post to decry the possibility of the U.S. intervening militarily in Syria to aid the rebels, declaring, “THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT.” The Biden administration had no intention of intervening, according to President Joe Biden’s national security adviser. The U.S has about 900 troops in Syria, including forces working with Kurdish allies in the opposition-held northeast to prevent any resurgence of the Islamic State group. Biden said he intended those for troops to remain, adding that U.S. forces on Sunday conducted “dozens” of what he called “precision air strikes” on Islamic State camps and operations in Syria. The Syrian opposition that brought down Assad is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The Biden administration has designated the group as a terrorist organization and says it has links to al-Qaida, although Hayat Tahrir al-Sham says it has since broken ties with al-Qaida. “We will remain vigilant,” Biden said. “Make no mistake, some of the rebel groups that took down Assad have their own grim record of terrorism and human rights abuses.” He added that the groups are “saying the right things now.” “But as they take on greater responsibility, we will assess not just their words, but their actions,” Biden said. Assad’s fall adds to an already tense situation throughout much of region on many fronts, including Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza and its fragile cease-fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Trump, who takes office Jan. 20, 2025, made a connection between the upheaval in Syria and Russia’s war in Ukraine, noting that Assad’s allies in Moscow, as well as in Iran, the main sponsor of Hamas and Hezbollah, “are in a weakened state right now.” Vice President-elect JD Vance, a veteran of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, wrote on own social media Sunday to express skepticism about the insurgents. “Many of ‘the rebels’ are a literal offshoot of ISIS. One can hope they’ve moderated. Time will tell,” he said, using another acronym for the group. Trump has suggested that Assad’s ouster can advance the prospects for an end to fighting in Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia in February 2022. Trump wrote that Putin’s government “lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine” and the Republican called for an immediate cease-fire, a day after meeting in Paris with the French and Ukrainian leaders. Daniel B. Shapiro, a deputy assistant secretary of defence for the Middle East, said the American military presence will continue in eastern Syria but was “solely to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS and has nothing to do with other aspects of this conflict.” “We call on all parties in Syria to protect civilians, particularly those from Syria’s minority communities to respect international military norms and to work to achieve a resolution to include the political settlement,” Shapiro said. “Multiple actors in this conflict have a terrible track record to include Assad’s horrific crimes, Russia’s indiscriminate aerial bomb bombardment, Iranian-back militia involvement and the atrocities of ISIS,” he added. Shapiro, however, was careful not to directly say Assad had been deposed by the insurgents. “If confirmed, no one should shed any tears over the Assad regime,” he said. As they pushed toward the Syrian capital of Damascus, the opposition freed political detainees from government prisons. The family of missing U.S. journalist Austin Tice renewed calls to find him. “To everyone in Syria that hears this, please remind people that we’re waiting for Austin,” Tice’s mother, Debra, said in comments that hostage advocacy groups spread on social media. “We know that when he comes out, he’s going to be fairly dazed & he’s going to need lots of care & direction. Direct him to his family please!” Tice disappeared in 2012 outside Damascus, amid intensification of what became a civil war stretching more than a decade. We’ve remained committed to returning him to his family,” Biden said at the White House. “We believe he’s alive, we think we can get him back but we have no direct evidence to that yet. And Assad should be held accountable.” The president added: “We have to identify where he is.” — Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Manama, Bahrain, and AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report.Analysts update Asana stock price target after earnings
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Mount Anthony boys basketball ready to compete with high intensityCHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Bill Belichick spent time after his NFL exit talking with college coaches wanting his thoughts on managing new wrinkles at their level that looked a lot like the pros. The two-minute timeout. The transfer portal as de facto free agency. Collectives generating name, image and likeness (NIL) money for athletes becoming like a payroll. The impending arrival of revenue sharing. It didn't take long for Belichick to envision how a college program should look based on his own NFL experience. "I do think there are a lot of parallels," Belichick said. And that's at least partly why the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach is now taking over at North Carolina. Years of rapid change at the have only increased the professionalization of college football across the country, with schools adjusting staffing to handle growing duties once seemingly more fitting for a pro team. UNC just happens to be making the most audacious of those bets, bringing in a 72-year-old who has never coached in college and asking him to build what amounts to a mini-NFL front office. But plenty could follow. "I really think there's going to be some of those guys that maybe don't have a job in the NFL anymore," Kansas State general manager Clint Brown said, "and now that this is going to be structured in a way where there is a cap that that's going to be something they're interested in." A changing college course The rapid changes in college athletics have fueled that, notably with players able to transfer and play right away without sitting out a year and be paid through NIL endorsement opportunities in the past five years. Recruiting is now just as much about bringing in veteran talent through the portal as signing recruits out of high school, mirroring the NFL with free agency and the draft, respectively. And a bigger change looms with revenue sharing, the result of a $2.78 billion legal settlement to antitrust lawsuits. Specifically, that model will allow the biggest schools to establish a pool of about $21.5 million for athletes in the first year, with a final hearing in that case set for April 2025. It will be up to schools to determine how to distribute that money and in which sports, though football's role as the revenue driver in college sports likely means a prominent cut everywhere as a direct parallel to a professional team's salary cap. Throw all that together, and it's why coaches are adjusting their staffs like Florida's Billy Napier interviewing candidates to be the Gators' general manager. "We're built to do it now," Napier said. "The big thing here is that we're getting ready to be in a business model. We have a cap. We have contracts. We have negotiation. We have strategy about how we distribute those funds, and it's a major math puzzle. "We're going to build out a front office here in the next couple of months, and it's primarily to help us manage that huge math problem," Napier added. "There'll be a ton of strategy around that. I'm looking forward to it." Still, that also explains why Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule, the former head coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, said: "This job as a head coach is a juggernaut. There's way more to do here than I had to do in the NFL." The value of a hire And it explains why the Tar Heels are betting on Belichick to be the right fit for today's changing climate. "If I was 16 of 17 years old, a coach who came at you and won how many Super Bowls? And he said, 'Come play for me,'" said New York Giants offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, now in his third year out of UNC. "I mean, that's pretty hard to turn down now, especially in this day and age, he's telling you to come play for him and he's offering you some money, too. I mean, you can't go wrong with that choice." The timing worked for UNC with Belichick, who was bypassed for some NFL openings after leaving the New England Patriots last year and instead spent months taking a closer look at the college game. Those conversations with coaches — some in the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, he said Thursday — made him understand how the changes in college aligned with his pro experience. "College kind of came to me this year," Belichick said. "I didn't necessarily go and seek it out." And his mere presence in Chapel Hill makes a difference, with athletic director Bubba Cunningham saying his "visibility" would likely allow the team to raise prices for advertising such as sponsorships and signage. Belichick is also hiring Michael Lombardi, a former NFL general manager and executive, as the Tar Heels' general manager. Cunningham also said the plan is for Belichick to continue his appearances on former NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning's "Manningcast" broadcasts during Monday Night Football as well as ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" — all giving the coach the chance to promote himself and the program. Investing in football Yet these steps to reshape football at North Carolina comes with a rising price. Belichick will make $10 million per year in base and supplemental pay, with the first three years of the five-year deal guaranteed, according to a term sheet released by UNC on Thursday. That's roughly double of former coach Mack Brown, whose contract outlined about $4.2 million in base and supplemental salary before bonuses and other add-ons. Additionally, Belichick's deal includes $10 million for a salary pool for assistant coaches and $5.3 million for support staff. That's up from roughly $8.1 million for assistants and $4.8 million for support staff for the 2022 season, according to football financial data for UNC obtained by The Associated Press. And those figures from 2022 under Brown were already up significantly from Larry Fedora's tenure with the 2017 season ($4 million for assistant coaches, $2.3 million for support staff). There is at least one area where the Tar Heels are set for Belichick's arrival: facilities. UNC spent more than $40 million on its football practice complex with an indoor facility (2018) as the biggest project, while other projects include $3 million in upgrades to the locker room and weight room (2019), $14.5 million on renovations to the Kenan Football Center (2022), even $225,000 on Brown's former office (2021). Now it's up to Belichick to rethink the approach to football here for the changing times. "We're taking a risk," Cunningham said. "We're investing more in football with the hope and ambition that the return is going to significantly outweigh the investment." AP Sports Writers Tom Canavan in New Jersey; Mark Long in Florida; and Eric Olson in Nebraska; contributed to this report.
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