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Steve Bannon held his microphone out to the crowd. “Should (Mike) Johnson be speaker of the House?” he asked. “Nooo,” came the reply, as Bannon, the longtime ally of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, spoke at a Dec. 19 “AmericaFest” rally of Turning Point USA, a right-wing advocacy organization. Bannon, who said at the event that Johnson “has got to go,” spoke in Phoenix as the U.S. House debated an end-of-session spending package. Congress ultimately passed a Johnson-endorsed, stopgap funding bill signed by Democratic President Joe Biden on Dec. 21 to avert a government shutdown ahead of the holidays. But Bannon’s remarks foretold likely challenges to Johnson. As the opening of the new Congress approaches on Friday, Johnson’s leadership is being questioned by, among others, Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, who heads the House Freedom Caucus, and Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, who previously led the hard-line conservative group. Neither will commit to backing the Louisiana Republican. The speaker will help determine whether Trump can succeed on an agenda that includes policy shifts on taxes, voting and border policy. Underlying the GOP’s turmoil is how closely it should work with Democrats, if at all, particularly on spending issues. “The political class is infected with a malignant cancer. That cancer is bipartisanship, right?” Bannon told the crowd. Johnson, he said, “doesn’t have what we call the right stuff, right? That combination of guts and moxie and savvy and toughness.” Bannon, who previously served four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena, is awaiting trial in a case alleging he was part of a scheme to dupe donors who contributed to help build a wall on the Mexican border. Other Republicans have also questioned Johnson’s leadership. Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, recently floated a proposal to elect billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump adviser and ally, as speaker. The speaker is not required to be an elected House member. The election will occur after the new Congress assumes office on Jan. 3. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk,” Paul posted on X. “Think about it ... nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds).” As Congress raced to avoid a shutdown before Christmas, Musk was instrumental in sinking an earlier spending proposal by House Republicans — Democrats also backed it — to head off a government shutdown. The package contained about $100 billion in disaster aid, including a federal commitment long sought by Maryland lawmakers to pay the full cost of replacing the Francis Scott Key Bridge following its March collapse. Musk, citing a pay increase for Congress among other objections, attacked the bill on X, his social media platform, calling it “dead.” Johnson, who has supported Trump, then pitched the alternative that was ultimately approved. He needed a deal acceptable not only to most Republicans but also to Democrats, whose votes were required because the GOP majority was so slim. The final package included the Key Bridge funding commitment but neither the pay raise nor a Trump proposal to suspend the debt ceiling — the amount the government can borrow. The party was similarly divided in 2023 when its far-right voting bloc expressed dissatisfaction with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, saying he had not forcefully resisted the Democratic agenda. Johnson, who replaced McCarthy, said at the time that he would emphasize bringing up individual spending bills instead of putting funding measures into a large package as executive branch spending authority is about to run out. — Jeff Barker / Baltimore SunSimmons scores 19 as Gardner-Webb takes down SE Louisiana 73-69

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TROY, Ala. (AP) — Damien Taylor rushed for 169 yards and three touchdowns, Matthew Caldwell threw for a touchdown and ran for another, and Troy scored 21 points in less than two minutes in the fourth quarter to beat Southern Miss 52-20 on Saturday. Taylor went straight up the middle from 56-yards out to give Troy a 24-8 lead midway through the third quarter. He added a 35-yard scoring run for a 38-20 lead with 5:50 left in the fourth. On the ensuing possession, Ian Conerly-Goodly intercepted a deflected pass and returned it 31 yards for a 25-point lead. Southern Miss quarterback Tate Rodemaker was intercepted again and LJ Green returned it 49 yards to the Golden Eagles' 16-yard line. Jordan Lovett capitalized on the short field by running it in from the 5. Taylor reached the 1,000-yard mark on the season for Troy (4-8, 3-5 Sun Belt Conference). Caldwell was 14 of 26 for 187 yards and he carried it seven times for 30 yards. Rodemaker threw for 234 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for Southern Miss (1-11, 0-8). Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballThese Black Friday TV deals are still going strong

Feature Sitting in the hangar of Lockheed Martin's famous Palmdale, California Skunk Works facility is one of the oddest aircraft ever to take shape: the X-59 that's looking to revive supersonic travel over land. The X-59 is a very strange looking bird. It's 99.7 ft (30.4 m) long with a 29.5 ft (9 m) delta-style wingspan – but the first third of the aircraft is all nose. That elongated proboscis is designed to pierce shockwaves created when aircraft top the speed of sound, and by doing so reduce sonic booms to a more muted sonic thump that won't deafen folks on the ground. X-59 aircraft (pic: Lockheed Martin) Earlier this month, NASA fired up the X-59's engines for the first time ahead of next year's test flights. The Register caught up with the project’s head of propulsion, Ray Castner, and test pilot James L Less – aka "Clue" – to learn more about this amazing aircraft. The Register: James, I have to ask about your call sign. Where did you get it? Less: I've been Clue since my first squadron in the Air Force over 20 years ago. I walked in, they took a look at my name, and they just said, "OK, we've got to come up with something good." The Register: It seems like you're basically taking an F-18 engine, F-16 undercarriage, and then the rest of the plane is custom-built. Is that correct? Castner: That's true. It is a fully new aircraft with parts from all kinds of other airplanes, mostly to save budget and cost. If you can get anything you can reuse, that saves money. The Register: Does that go for the lack of a forward windscreen? It's got to be unusual relying on cameras alone. Less: The cockpit of the X-59 is designed around the rear cockpit of a T-38 Air Force trainer. So we didn't have to develop it all from scratch and test it. The canopy, canopy jettison mechanism, and then the ejection seat are all things that, if we had to do those from scratch, would be a lot of development. So we just used what's in the T-38 – they took the blueprints for that rear cockpit and then built a whole plane around it. This is not the first airplane that you couldn't see straight forward out of – Charles Lindbergh had to hang his head out the window to see where he was going. We didn't want to have to do that. So this camera system will actually make it – in theory – just like looking out the front window. We have a big high-definition TV monitor right in front of us, and the picture is nearly what they call "conformal." If I were looking through a transparent window right there, that's what I'd be seeing. The Register: The design of the craft is most unusual – the extended nose and tail in particular. How does that help with sonic booms? Castner: I've sat through countless meetings about the sonic-boom design. And actually, before the X-59, we'd done some wind tunnel testing on what would be a next-generation supersonic transport. The whole concept for aircraft shaping for sonic booms is about managing the volume of the airplane and the lift – because sonic booms are all about lift and volume. So if you can manage that energy, then the human ear will hear that sound as a softer sound. And it's really all based on advances in computational technology. We have all these supercomputers that can analyze thousands of designs in a month. And they can basically optimize the shape of the aircraft, and that's really the secret sauce, how boom optimization works. Less: The nose of the airplane and the tail of the airplane put out the strongest sonic shocks normally. And that's the boom that you hear. And then there's a whole bunch of smaller shocks along the whole length of the airplane. And as those all travel to the ground, they kind of merge together into the front and the back, and that's the loud boom that you hear. The point of the long, straight, new nose, skinny airplane is to spread all those little shocks out so that they don't merge together as they go to the ground. And as Ray was saying, it's energy. It's the same amount of energy in the sound, but it's spread out over the length of the airplane instead of into two short sections: nose and tail. The Register: Is this design practical for commercial aircraft? Castner: NASA is pretty confident. Right before we designed X-59, we've done both computational and wind tunnel tests on vehicles that would be scaled up towards 60-passenger aircraft. NASA feels confident that that technology can be scaled up to a full scale commercial supersonic aircraft – but the X-59 is needed to demonstrate that and to collect that data. The Register: So when's the first flight? Less: From a flight test standpoint, we mainly just have to make sure we're safe. So I won't say how many flights, but we will fly fairly quickly, and assuming we keep moving through that envelope, we will get supersonic without too much delay. That's obviously the goal. So we're hoping to do the first flight early next year. The Register: So assuming a successful flight, what happens to the data for this? Is this shared with the industry? Less: One is the human response to the public survey data. When we're done testing this airplane we're going to go fly around the country and get people's response to the sonic thump. That data will go to the Federal Aviation Administration and any international regulatory boards to show them that we've got the data saying you can change your rules. Instead of being a hard speed limit, the limit will be based on sound. The other set of data we're going to get is all those computer tools that Ray was talking about that were used to design this. We're going to go and measure the results and go back and refine those tools even more based on real-world results. And then those tools are available to any US manufacturer that wants to try to use it and make a low boom aircraft. ®

Baltimore (7-4) at Los Angeles Chargers (7-3) Monday, 8:15 p.m. EST, ESPN/ABC BetMGM NFL odds: Ravens by 3. Against the spread: Ravens 5-5-1; Chargers 7-3. Series record: Ravens lead 9-5. Last meeting: Ravens beat Chargers 20-10 in Inglewood, Calif., on Nov. 26, 2023. Last week: Ravens lost to Pittsburgh 18-16; Chargers beat Cincinnati 34-27. Ravens offense: overall (1), rush (2), pass (3), scoring (2). Ravens defense: overall (3), rush (26), pass (2), scoring (23). Chargers offense: overall (18), rush (12), pass (19), scoring (18). Chargers defense: overall (11), rush (11), pass (12), scoring (1). Turnover differential: Ravens plus-2; Chargers plus-8. K Justin Tucker missed two field goals last week and is under pressure after spending most of his career beyond reproach. He’s missed six field goals on the season and is 4 for 12 from 50-plus yards since the start of last season. WR Ladd McConkey had a career-high 123 yards on six receptions against Cincinnati. The rookie came up with clutch catches of 28 and 27 yards to set up the game-winning touchdown. Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins vs. Ravens’ run defense. Dobbins showed promise during his time in Baltimore, but he never was able to live up to that potential because of injuries. Now in Los Angeles on a one-year “prove it” contract, Dobbins has nearly matched his most productive season as a professional with 726 yards and eight touchdowns in 10 games. After seeing Pittsburgh run the ball 34 times last week, the Chargers will be glad to copy that bruising approach with Dobbins. The Ravens are allowing 77.5 rushing yards per game, but even the sturdiest defense can buckle against that volume of work, so getting off the field will be critical. Baltimore’s defense has a couple of significant injury concerns. LB Roquan Smith (hamstring) left last weekend’s game, and S Kyle Hamilton has been nursing an ankle problem, although he played against the Steelers. ... Chargers OLB Khalil Mack (groin) didn’t play against Cincinnati. If the veteran pass rusher remains out this week, it would be a big loss to the chances of containing the Ravens' multi-faceted offense. The Ravens have won four straight over the Chargers in the regular season, but Los Angeles did earn a 23-17 AFC wild-card round upset in January 2019. ... Baltimore cruised to a 34-6 win over the Chargers in its first visit to SoFi Stadium on Oct. 17, 2021. Ravens RB Derrick Henry leads the NFL with 1,185 yards rushing and 15 total TDs (13 rushing and two receiving). He’s also run for a league-high 52 first downs. ... Henry is one rushing TD shy of the Ravens’ single-season record, set by Jamal Lewis in 2003. ... Baltimore QB Lamar Jackson is 6-2 on “Monday Night Football” with 20 TD passes and no interceptions. ... Henry is one of four players in the Super Bowl era to score a TD in each of the first 11 games of a season. The others are O.J. Simpson (1975), John Riggins (1983) and Jerry Rice (1987). ... The Ravens have scored touchdowns on a league-best 77.8% of their red zone trips. ... Jackson needs 124 yards passing and 16 yards rushing for a second consecutive season with 3,000 passing and 600 rushing. Since the AFL-NFL merger, only Randall Cunningham (1988-1990), Cam Newton (2011-12), Josh Allen (2021-22) and Jalen Hurts (2021-23) have accomplished that feat. ... Dobbins ran for two touchdowns against Cincinnati, giving him multiple scores in two of his past three games. He did it twice in 24 games as a Raven. ... OLB Tuli Tuipulotu had 1 1/2 sacks of Bengals QB Joe Burrow, his third straight game with more than one. All seven of Tuipulotu’s sacks this season have come in the past four games, and six of his eight tackles for loss have come in that span. ... The Chargers allowed a season-worst 27 points to Cincinnati after holding each of their previous nine opponents to 20 points or fewer. ... QB Justin Herbert has thrown one interception in 277 attempts this season. That lone pick came in Week 2 at Carolina. ... The Chargers lost their fifth turnover of the season when Herbert fumbled to start the fourth quarter. It was their first turnover at home. ... Los Angeles does not have a takeaway in its past two games. Herbert has heated up after a slow start in terms of fantasy production, having thrown for multiple touchdowns in three of his past four games. He is likely to keep that success going this week. Baltimore has allowed 22 scores through the air, which is tied with Houston for second most in the league, and Herbert should have plenty of chances to add to that total in what could be another high-scoring matchup. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFLCaprock Group LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Fox Factory Holding Corp. ( NASDAQ:FOXF – Free Report ) during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund purchased 9,583 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $398,000. Several other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in FOXF. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans boosted its stake in shares of Fox Factory by 89.0% in the third quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 68,532 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,844,000 after buying an additional 32,263 shares during the last quarter. Royce & Associates LP boosted its stake in shares of Fox Factory by 5.7% in the third quarter. Royce & Associates LP now owns 302,349 shares of the company’s stock worth $12,547,000 after buying an additional 16,410 shares during the last quarter. Zions Bancorporation N.A. boosted its stake in shares of Fox Factory by 17.1% in the third quarter. Zions Bancorporation N.A. now owns 30,932 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,284,000 after buying an additional 4,510 shares during the last quarter. KBC Group NV boosted its stake in shares of Fox Factory by 36.5% in the third quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 1,377 shares of the company’s stock worth $57,000 after buying an additional 368 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Victory Capital Management Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Fox Factory by 1.8% in the third quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 42,891 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,780,000 after buying an additional 772 shares during the last quarter. Fox Factory Price Performance Shares of Fox Factory stock opened at $32.43 on Friday. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $37.79 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $42.48. Fox Factory Holding Corp. has a 12 month low of $30.92 and a 12 month high of $70.13. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.35 billion, a P/E ratio of 124.74, a PEG ratio of 2.63 and a beta of 1.65. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.62, a current ratio of 3.21 and a quick ratio of 1.62. Wall Street Analyst Weigh In A number of brokerages have recently commented on FOXF. Bank of America lowered their target price on Fox Factory from $53.00 to $43.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, September 12th. Robert W. Baird lowered their price target on Fox Factory from $45.00 to $38.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, November 1st. B. Riley lowered their price target on Fox Factory from $50.00 to $45.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, August 2nd. Roth Mkm lowered their price target on Fox Factory from $45.00 to $36.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, November 1st. Finally, Truist Financial lowered their price target on Fox Factory from $54.00 to $42.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, November 1st. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $41.50. Check Out Our Latest Stock Analysis on FOXF About Fox Factory ( Free Report ) Fox Factory Holding Corp. designs, engineers, manufactures, and markets performance-defining products and system worldwide. The company offers powered vehicle products for side-by-side vehicles, on-road vehicles with and without off-road capabilities, off-road vehicles and trucks, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, and specialty vehicles and applications, such as military, motorcycles, and commercial trucks; lift kits and components with shock products and aftermarket accessory packages for trucks; and mid-end and high-end front fork and rear suspension products. Read More Want to see what other hedge funds are holding FOXF? 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