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House torpedoes Democratic-led effort to release Ethics report on Matt GaetzGlobal Automated Material Handling AMH Market Set For 11.7% Growth, Reaching $81.81 Billion By 2028MIAMI , Dec. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominently featured in The Inner Circle, Donald B. Olson is acknowledged as a Pinnacle Life Achiever for his contributions in Leading Oceanography and Marine Science Innovator. Dr. Donald B. Olson has established himself as a prominent figure in oceanography, marine, and atmospheric science over his illustrious 50-year career. Currently a professor at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science since 1979, Dr. Olson's contributions span across education, research, and international collaboration. Dr. Olson's academic journey began with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wyoming in 1974, followed by both a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy from Texas A&M University in 1976 and 1979, respectively. 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Looking ahead, Dr. Olson remains committed to advancing oceanographic knowledge, fostering international collaborations, and mentoring future generations of scientists in the field. Contact: Katherine Green , 516-825-5634, [email protected] SOURCE The Inner CircleThe House of Representatives voted to block the immediate release of the ethics report involving former Rep. Matt Gaetz. The vote was 206 to 198 — with all but one Republican, Rep. Tom McClintock, voting to refer the report back to the Ethics Committee. The House Ethics Committee investigated allegations of sexual misconduct involving Gaetz, along with accusations of illicit drug use and the alleged acceptance of improper gifts. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and the Department of Justice announced last year it would not bring charges against him. “Today, the majority of the House of Representatives took the easy way out,” said Rep. Sean Casten. “They could have ensured a vote on whether or not former Members should be held accountable when they face serious and credible allegations of sexual misconduct, including having sex with minors. Instead, the House voted to sweep these allegations under the rug and set an unfortunate precedent that, if you are ever facing scrutiny, resigning from Congress can make your problems go away. Gaetz resigned from Congress in November, days before the potential release of the report. His resignation set off a debate in Washington about whether the report should still be released since he was no longer a sitting member of Congress. RELATED STORY | Johnson against release of House Ethics Committee report involving Gaetz House Speaker Mike Johnson said the report shouldn't be released, claiming it set a bad precedent. "The rules of the House have always been that a former member is beyond the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee," he said in November. However, there was mounting pressure to release the report from Democrats and some Republicans as Gaetz was the nominee to be the next attorney general. The former congressman ultimately decided to withdraw his name from consideration, saying the nomination had become a distraction. RELATED STORY | Matt Gaetz says he's removing his name for consideration for attorney general

Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in Israel-Hamas fightingHead coach Vanni Sartini paid the price Monday for the Vancouver Whitecaps’ mediocre results this past season and subsequent first-round playoff exit. His firing came about two weeks after the Major League Soccer team won a play-in game before falling to top-seeded Los Angeles FC in a three-game series that went the distance. “The desperation on my side is absolutely there,” said Axel Schuster, the Whitecaps’ sporting director and chief executive officer. One of the reasons for the change, he said, is everyone in the organization, including himself, needs a reminder that playoff success next year is imperative. “We cannot not get there.” The Whitecaps haven’t reached the conference semifinals since 2017. In a one-hour availability with reporters, Schuster noted the team had the second-worst home record in the Western Conference this year and recorded just two points over its last seven regular-season games. He referenced the need for fresh energy from a new coach and added there was no firm timeline in place for a replacement to be named. “I had to make a professional decision (for) how we can get the biggest impact to make this step forward and to get to a progression,” he said. The Whitecaps’ late-season slump dropped them to eighth place in the West with a record of 13-13-8. Vancouver won a play-in game at Portland before dropping a 1-0 decision at LAFC in the deciding game of the series. Vancouver also won its third-straight Canadian championship this season, beating Toronto FC 4-2 on penalties after the final ended in a 0-0 tie. “I took my time with this decision, and it was not taken lightly,” Schuster said. Sartini, a 47-year-old from Florence, Italy, took over coaching duties on an interim basis in August 2021 after the Whitecaps dismissed Marc Dos Santos. He was officially named head coach that November. “For the last three years and three months, it has been an absolute honour to be the head coach of Vancouver Whitecaps FC,” Sartini said in a release. “I will always be grateful to Axel Schuster and ownership for entrusting me to be the technical lead of this club in such an important time. “Vancouver will always have a special place in my heart and my wife’s heart,” he added. He posted a record of 57-51-39 across all competitions. The exuberant Italian made headlines in November 2023 when he publicly criticized a referee following a playoff game and made a joke about being a suspect if the official were to be found dead. He was suspended for the first six games of the 2024 MLS campaign, fined US$20,000 and ordered to complete a league-approved behavioural assessment. The coach later apologized for the comments and his suspension was cut to four games. Sartini came to Vancouver in 2019 as Dos Santos’ assistant coach and spent two seasons with the first team before being named the club’s “director of methodology” and taking over coaching the U-23 team in 2020. Before joining the Whitecaps, he worked as a coach educator for the Italian Football Federation and the U.S. Soccer Federation, and coached several different clubs in Italy.

MrBeast ‘s controversial, lawsuit-ridden Beast Games is premiering next month. On Monday, the YouTuber shared the trailer for the reality competition show and announced it will air on Prime Video on Dec. 19. “I spent over a year creating this 10-episode competition series, breaking 40 world records, building the craziest sets in entertainment history, featuring 1,000 players, and a $5,000,000 grand prize!” MrBeast wrote . “This show will blow your mind.” “Start the timer!” MrBeast declares in a mic before the teaser trailer flashes clips of a Squid Games -esque competition show featuring a thousand contestants as they attempt to win the cash prize. “Witness a competition show like no other.” A post shared by MrBeast (@mrbeast) The teaser reveal comes about two months after five former contestants of Beast Games filed a class action lawsuit against the show’s production company. The lawsuit arrived the same day Rolling Stone published an investigation, where former contestants described unsafe work conditions and chaos. The complaint accused MrB2024 of having “shamelessly exploited the labor” of the hundreds of contestants and mischaracterizing their participation on the show to avoid employment obligations — including fair pay and mandatory meal and rest breaks — under California law. It claimed that contestants suffered “unreasonable, unsafe, and unlawful” work conditions, including being “fed sporadically and sparsely,” and that women were subjected to sexual harassment. Another claim in the suit said that the “insufficient caloric intake” provided “endangered the health” of contestants. (One contestant who spoke with Rolling Stone said they received a single “scoop of rice” on their 15-minute break over a 16-hour shift. Another PA alleged that “catering ran out of food a bunch of times.”)None

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Reports: Eagles coach Nick Sirianni apologizes to Commanders TE Zach ErtzANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) — Michigan defensive lineman Kenneth Grant is skipping his final college season to enter the NFL draft. Grant, a key part of the Wolverines' 2023 national championship team, announced his decision Thursday on X, formerly known as Twitter. Fellow Michigan interior lineman Mason Graham had already declared for the draft. Both are projected as likely first-round picks. The 6-foot-3, 339-pound Grant was a third-team Associated Press All-American. He had 32 tackles, 6 1/2 tackles for loss and a pair of fumble recoveries. Grant helped Michigan upset Ohio State in the Big Ten regular-season finale, making four tackles. Cornerback Will Johnson and tight end Colston Loveland have also declared for the draft leading up to Michigan's game against No. 11 Alabama in the ReliaQuest Bowl. 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-football

The Israeli Justice Ministry made the announcement in a message late on Thursday, saying the investigation would focus on the findings of a recent report by the Uvda investigative programme into Sara Netanyahu. The programme uncovered a trove of WhatsApp messages in which Mrs Netanyahu appears to instruct a former aide to organise protests against political opponents and to intimidate Hadas Klein, a key witness in the trial. The announcement did not mention Mrs Netanyahu by name and the Justice Ministry declined further comment. Earlier on Thursday, Mr Netanyahu blasted the Uvda report as “lies”. It is the latest in a long line of legal troubles for the Netanyahus, highlighted by the PM’s ongoing corruption trial. Mr Netanyahu is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in a series of cases alleging he exchanged favours with powerful media moguls and wealthy associates. He denies the charges and says he is the victim of a “witch hunt” by overzealous prosecutors, police and the media.Vikings place LB Ivan Pace on injured reserve and sign LB Jamin Davis off Packers practice squad

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After snapping a two-game losing streak, Iowa State still has a chance to play for a Big 12 title. But the No. 22 Cyclones cannot afford to lose against Utah on Saturday. Beating a Utes team mired in a six-game losing streak will be harder than it appears at first glance. Utah (4-6, 1-6 Big 12) has not scored more than 24 points against any Big 12 opponent this season. But the Utes are also one of the toughest defensive teams in the league. Coming into Saturday’s game, Utah leads the Big 12 in third-down defense and first-down defense. The Utes rank second in the league in red zone defense (78.3%) and total defense (317.2 yards per game). "This is, bar none, the best defense we’ll play,” Iowa State coach Matt Campbell said. “Man, you just look at this football team and they’re gritty, tough. They’ve been through heck and back with injuries and they’ve been right there to win all these football games.” The Cyclones (8-2, 5-2, No. 22 CFP) are no defensive pushovers themselves. Iowa State allows 18.6 points per game, tops among Big 12 teams. Part of that stinginess comes from a stout pass defense. Four opponents have passed for fewer than 100 yards against the Cyclones, who are yielding just 153.4 yards through the air per game. For a Utah team needing a win to avoid its first losing season since 2013, moving the ball against Iowa State will be a formidable task. “They’re battling for a spot in the conference championship game, so we’re going to get everything they have,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. Rocco Becht has been a model of consistency for Iowa State over the past two seasons, throwing at least one TD pass in a school-record 14 straight games. Now Becht is closing in on another milestone. He needs just 187 passing yards Saturday to become the fifth Cyclones quarterback to pass for 6,000 career yards. Becht is third in the Big 12 with 2,628 passing yards this season and has thrown for at least 200 yards in six consecutive games. One of Becht’s favorite targets, Jaylin Noel, needs to accumulate just 85 yards against Utah to surpass 1,000 receiving yards this season. Noel ranks third among Big 12 receivers with 935 yards and has accumulated 150 or more receiving yards in two of his last four games. Isaac Wilson regained his role as Utah’s starting quarterback ahead of the Utes’ 49-24 loss to Colorado after Brandon Rose suffered a season-ending foot injury. Wilson battled the flu last week but threw for 236 yards against the Buffaloes — marking his fourth career 200-yard game — and two touchdowns. He also tallied a season-high three interceptions. Still, Whittingham thought Wilson’s timing and decision-making improved as the game progressed and said the freshman is putting in extra work between games and practices to get better. “He comes in on his own and watches a ton of film,” Whittingham said. “We’re doing everything we can and he’s doing everything he can to continue to develop and see things quicker.” Iowa State nose tackle J.R. Singleton injured his arm during the Cyclones' 34-17 win over Cincinnati and is questionable for Saturday. He did not practice earlier in the week. Singleton has started 18 straight games and has been a reliable anchor on the defensive line, with a team-high 4.0 sacks this season. “We were really worried it was going to be season-ending,” Campbell said. “It’s not, so that’s a huge win for JR and certainly a huge win for Iowa State.” Micah Bernard needs just 120 rushing yards on Saturday to become the 21st 1,000-yard rusher for Utah. Bernard has enjoyed a breakout season after missing 11 games with an eye injury a year ago. He has tallied four 100-yard games while rushing for a career-high 880 yards. 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-football

Bad Bunny announces a new album, ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ Happy holidays from Bad Bunny, who announced Thursday he will release a new album Jan. 5. “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” which translates to “I should have taken more photos,” is his sixth studio album and follows in his tradition of releasing new music on unexpected dates. His debut album, 2018’s “X 100PRE,” arrived around Christmas and 2020’s “El Último Tour del Mundo” near Thanksgiving. The January release date is just before “Día de Reyes,” or Three Kings Day, and is a Sunday — unlike the industry’s standard Friday release date. The Puerto Rican musician announced the news on Instagram in a short video featuring filmmaker Jacobo Morales. He also released a new single, “PIToRRO DE COCO.” A day before, Bad Bunny teased a 17-track list on social media, with each song titled “BOMBA,” perhaps in reference to the Puerto Rican musical style and dance. “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” follows 2023’s “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana” (“Nobody Knows What Will Happen Tomorrow”), which was met with mixed reviews. On that album, Bad Bunny’s reggaeton offerings were limited, returning instead to the Latin trap of “X 100PRE” in songs like “MONACO” and “GRACIAS POR NADA.” The announcement caps a busy year for El Conejo Malo. Bad Bunny made headlines after he threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris shortly after a comedian at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally made crude jokes about Latinos and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” He also canvassed North America on his “Most Wanted Tour,” which made The Associated Press’ list of the best concerts of the year. ‘Baby Driver’ actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies in a fall from a moving vehicle VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. | Teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said. Meek, 16, was hurt on Dec. 19 while on a street in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham. He died two days later, according to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office. The Vestavia Hills Police Department, which is investigating Meek’s death, has not issued any public statements. Meek made his on-screen debut in 2014’s “The Santa Con,” and had roles in various TV series, including “MacGyver.” He was perhaps best known for his role in the 2017 film “Baby Driver,” in which he played a younger version of Ansel Elgort’s titular character. “His 16 years on this earth were far too short, but he accomplished so much and significantly impacted everyone he met,” a post on Meek’s Instagram page read. Meek played football at Vestavia Hills High School, enjoyed Bible study with his teammates and had traveled to all 50 states. He loved snow skiing, making music playlists for his friends and singing in the school choir, according to his obituary, His family plans a funeral and memorial service on Saturday that will be livestreamed on Meek’s Instagram account. Richard Perry, record producer behind ‘You’re So Vain’ and other hits, dies at 82 Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” series and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles, died Tuesday. He was 82. Perry, a recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, friend Daphna Kastner said. “He maximized his time here,” said Kastner, who called him a “father friend” and said he was godfather to her son. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.” Perry was a onetime drummer, oboist and doo-wop singer who proved at home with a wide variety of musical styles, the rare producer to have No. 1 hits on the pop, R&B, dance and country charts. He was on hand for Harry Nilsson’s “Without You” and The Pointer Sisters’ “I’m So Excited,” Tiny Tim’s novelty smash “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and the Willie Nelson-Julio Iglesias lounge standard “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before.” Perry was widely known as a “musician’s producer,” treating artists like peers rather than vehicles for his own tastes. Singers turned to him whether trying to update their sound (Barbra Streisand), set back the clock (Stewart), revive their career (Fats Domino) or fulfill early promise (Leo Sayer). “Richard had a knack for matching the right song to the right artist,” Streisand wrote in her 2023 memoir, “My Name is Barbra.” Perry’s life was a story, in part, of famous friends and the right places. He was backstage for 1950s performances by Little Richard and Chuck Berry, sat in the third row at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival during Otis Redding’s memorable set and attended a recording session for the Rolling Stones’ classic “Let It Bleed” album. A given week might find him dining one night with Paul and Linda McCartney, and Mick and Bianca Jagger the next. He dated Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda among others and was briefly married to the actor Rebecca Broussard. In Stewart’s autobiography, “Rod,” he would remember Perry’s home in West Hollywood as “the scene of much late-night skulduggery through the 1970s and beyond, and a place you knew you could always fall into at the end of an evening for a full-blown knees-up with drink and music and dancing.” In the ‘70s, Perry helped facilitate a near-Beatles reunion. He had produced a track on Starr’s first solo album, “Sentimental Journey,” and grown closer to him through Nilsson and other mutual friends. “Ringo,” released in 1973, would prove the drummer was a commercial force in his own right — with some well-placed names stopping by. The album, featuring contributions from Nilsson, Billy Preston, Steve Cropper, Martha Reeves and all five members of The Band, reached No. 2 on Billboard and sold more than 1 million copies. Hit singles included the chart toppers “Photograph,” co-written by Starr and George Harrison, and a remake of the 1950s favorite “You’re Sixteen.” But for Perry and others, the most memorable track was a non-hit, custom made. John Lennon’s “I’m the Greatest” was a mock-anthem for the self-effacing drummer that brought three Beatles into the studio just three years after the band’s breakup. Starr was on drums and sang lead, Lennon was on keyboards and backing vocals and longtime Beatles friend Klaus Voormann played bass. They were still working on the song when Harrison’s assistant phoned, asking if the guitarist could join them. Harrison arrived soon after. “As I looked around the room, I realized that I was at the very epicenter of the spiritual and musical quest I had dreamed of for so many years,” Perry wrote in his 2021 memoir, “Cloud Nine.” “By the end of each session, a small group of friends had gathered, standing silently along the back wall, just thrilled to be there.” McCartney was not in town for “I’m the Greatest,” but he did help write and arrange the ballad “Six O’Clock,” featuring the ex-Beatle and Linda McCartney on backing vocals. Perry had helped make pop history the year before as producer of “You’re So Vain,” which he would call the nearest he came to a perfect record. Simon’s scathing ballad about an unnamed lover, with Voormann’s bass runs kicking off the song and Jagger joining on the chorus, hit No. 1 in 1972 and began a long-term debate over Simon’s intended target. Perry’s answer would echo Simon’s own belated response. “I’ll take this opportunity to give my insider’s scoop,” he wrote in his memoir. “The person that the song is based on is really a composite of several men that Carly dated in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, but primarily, it’s about my good friend, Warren Beatty.” Perry’s post-1970s work included such hit singles as The Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance” and DeBarge’s “Rhythm of the Night,” along with albums by Simon, Ray Charles and Art Garfunkel. He had his greatest success with Stewart’s million-selling “The Great American Songbook” albums, a project made possible by the rock star’s writer’s block and troubled private life. In the early 2000s, Stewart’s marriage to Rachel Hunter had ended and Perry was among those consoling him. With Stewart struggling to come up with original songs, he and Perry agreed that an album of standards might work, including “The Very Thought of You,” “Angel Eyes” and “Where or When.” “We were at a back table in our favorite restaurant as we exchanged ideas and wrote them down on a napkin,” Perry wrote in his memoir. Stewart softly sang the options. “As I sat there and listened to him sing, it was clear that we both sensed we were on to something,” Perry added. Perry was a New York City native born into a musical family; his parents, Mark and Sylvia Perry, co-founded Peripole Music, a pioneering manufacturer of instruments for young people. With his family’s help and encouragement, he learned to play drums and oboe and helped form a doo-wop group, the Escorts, that released a handful of singles. A music and theater major at the University of Michigan, he initially dreamed of acting on Broadway. Instead, he made the “life-changing” decision in the mid-1960s to form a production company with a recent acquaintance, Gary Katz, who would go on to work with Steely Dan among others. By the end of the decade, Perry was an industry star, working on Captain Beefheart’s acclaimed cult album, “Safe As Milk” and the debut recording of Tiny Tim and Ella Fitzgerald’s “Ella,” featuring the jazz great’s interpretations of songs by the Beatles, Smokey Robinson and Randy Newman. In the early 1970s, he would oversee Streisand’s million-selling “Stoney End” album, on which the singer turned from the show tunes that made her famous and covered a range of pop and rock music, from the title track, a Laura Nyro composition, to Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind.” “I liked Richard from the moment we met. He was tall and lanky, with a mop of dark, curly hair and a big smile, which his big heart,” Streisand wrote in her memoir. “At our first meeting, he arrived laden with songs, and we listened to them together. Whatever hesitation I may have felt about our collaboration soon vanished and I thought, ‘This could be fun, and musically liberating.’” The end of the ‘Rust’ criminal case against Alec Baldwin may unlock a civil lawsuit SANTA FE, N.M. | The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath, attorneys for plaintiffs in the civil suit said Tuesday. At a news conference in Los Angeles, victims’ rights attorney Gloria Allred said that the parents and younger sister of deceased cinematographer Halyna Hutchins were disappointed that prosecutors won’t appeal the dismissal of an involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin. The criminal charge against Baldwin was dismissed halfway through trial in July on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense. Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during a rehearsal in the movie “Rust” in October 2021 at a film-set ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Baldwin, the lead actor and coproducer, was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when it discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired. Allred said Hutchins’ relatives are determined to pursue damages and compensation from Baldwin and “Rust” producers in New Mexico civil court, and want Baldwin to answer questions under oath in the proceedings. Hutchins’ widower and son previously reached a separate legal settlement. “With the withdrawal that was made public yesterday, we are now able to proceed with our civil case,” Allred said. “Clearly, the rights of Alec Baldwin were protected, but the due process rights of the victims — Halyna Hutchins and her parents and her sister — were violated.” Allred said she’s ready to prove that Hutchins had a close relationship with her parents and sister — a prerequisite for seeking civil damages. In November court filings in the civil lawsuit, Baldwin denied allegations that he was negligent or at fault in the shooting of Hutchins and sought to suspend the case. Attorneys for Baldwin could not immediately be reached Tuesday. Allred read a statement from Hutchins’ sister, Svetlana Zemko, that said, “Mr. Baldwin must be held accountable.” In April, a judge sentenced movie weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to the maximum of 1 1/2 years at a state penitentiary on an involuntary manslaughter conviction in Hutchins’ death. Allred condemned New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez for declining to appeal the dismissal of the criminal charge against Baldwin, calling him “the Grinch who stole Christmas” at the Christmas Eve news conference. Torrez spokesperson Lauren Rodriguez defended the decision in an email, citing “significant procedural irregularities” identified by the judge in the criminal case. “Attorney General Torrez will not prolong the grief and anguish of Ms. Hutchins’ family in the vain attempt to salvage the compromised criminal case against Mr. Baldwin,” Rodriguez said. “There are other victims’ families in Santa Fe County and across New Mexico who are awaiting justice, and our energy needs to be devoted to supporting those cases on appeal.” —From AP reportsUS stocks were mostly higher on Tuesday, led by the tech sector. Today marks the start of the Santa Claus trading window, a historically bullish 7-day stretch. The stock market will close at 1 p.m. for a shortened trading session due to Christmas Eve. US stocks were mostly higher on Tuesday led by gains in technology stocks. The bump comes amid a shortened trading session for Christmas Eve, which also happens to mark the official start of the Santa Claus trading window — a historically bullish period for stocks during the last five trading days of the year and the first two trading days of the new year. The stock market is set to close at 1 p.m. and will be closed on Wednesday for Christmas. The bond market, which is also closed on Wednesday, will wrap up at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Investors have no economic data to analyze on Tuesday, but they will be watching for the release of initial jobless claims on Thursday morning. Economists expect 225,000 initial jobless claims, slightly higher than last week's reading of 220,000. Historical data dating back to 1950 shows that the S&P 500 has posted an average return of 1.3% and is positive 79% of the time during the Santa Claus trading window. The average gain during the Santa Claus trading window is even stronger, at 1.6%, when including stock returns going back to 1928, according to data from Bank of America. Here's where US indexes stood shortly after the 9:30 a.m. opening bell on Tuesday: S&P 500 : 5,982.87, up 0.14% Dow Jones Industrial Average : 42,892.81, down 0.03% (-10 points) Nasdaq composite : 19,838..09, up 0.40% Here's what else is going on: American Airlines briefly grounded all of its flights on Tuesday due to a technical glitch. The probability of a US recession in 2025 is 0%, according to a top economist. Consumer confidence dropped to near-recession levels ahead of Donald Trump's second administration. Here is a complete rundown of Wall Street's 2025 S&P 500 targets.

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When Microsoft announced 365 Copilot in March 2023, a major selling point was that it used OpenAI's GPT-4 model Microsoft has been working on adding internal and third-party artificial intelligence models to power its flagship AI product Microsoft 365 Copilot, in a bid to diversify from the current underlying technology from OpenAI and reduce costs, sources familiar with the effort told Reuters. It is the latest effort by Microsoft, which is a major backer of OpenAI, to lessen its dependence on the AI startup – a departure from recent years when Microsoft touted its early access to OpenAI’s models. When Microsoft announced 365 Copilot in March 2023, a major selling point was that it used OpenAI’s GPT-4 model. Microsoft is also seeking to reduce 365 Copilot’s reliance on OpenAI due to concerns about cost and speed for enterprise users, according to the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private matters. A Microsoft spokesperson said OpenAI continues as the company’s partner on frontier models, a term for the most advanced AI models available. The original agreement between the two companies allows the software giant to customize OpenAI’s models. “We incorporate various models from OpenAI and Microsoft depending on the product and experience,” Microsoft said in a statement. OpenAI declined to comment. In addition to training its own smaller models including the latest Phi-4, Microsoft is also working to customize other open-weight models to make 365 Copilot faster and more efficient, the sources added. The goal is to make it less expensive for Microsoft to run 365 Copilot, and potentially pass along those savings to the end customer, one of the sources said. Microsoft’s leaders, including Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, are tracking the efforts closely, the same source added. The move mirrors those of other Microsoft business units which have changed the ways in which they use OpenAI models. GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, added models from Anthropic and Google in October as alternatives to OpenAI’s GPT-4o. Its consumer chatbot Copilot, revamped in October, is now powered by in-house models as well as OpenAI models. Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI assistant built in to Microsoft’s suite of enterprise software including Word and PowerPoint, is still trying to prove its return on investment to enterprises. Microsoft has not shared specific sales data on the number of licenses sold, and there have been concerns about pricing and utility. A survey of 152 information technology companies showed the vast majority of them had not progressed their 365 Copilot initiatives past the pilot stage, research firm Gartner said in August. Still, analysts at BNP Paribas Exane said they have seen an acceleration in adoption, and expect Microsoft to sell 365 Copilot to more than 10 million paid users this year. Microsoft also said in a November that 70% of Fortune 500 companies are using 365 Copilot. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );Disney will pay US$43.25 million to settle a class action from roughly 9,000 female employees in California accusing the company of pay discrimination, reports The Hollywood Reporter . Under the deal, Disney will retain experts to address “significant pay differences” using a model commissioned by lawyers representing the women, they said in a statement. The lawsuit, filed in 2019, centred on claims from female workers employed by Disney since 2015, who said they’re being paid less than their male counterparts for substantially similar work. It was brought by LaRonda Rasmussen , a longtime product development manager at Walt Disney Studios, and Karen Moore , who has spent over two decades as a senior copyright administrator for Disney’s Hollywood Records. At the time, Disney denied allegations of pay bias across numerous corporate divisions in the class action seeking up to $300 million. [Read more] Basil Zempilas’ mayoral campaign manager Cam Sinclair facilitated polling that spruiked the Perth Lord Mayor and Liberal candidate for Churchlands as an electoral saviour for the party at the 2025 election, reports Nine Publishing’s Hamish Hastie . Sinclair is a longtime Liberal party member and runs Perth agency Ammo Marketing, which helped build both Zempilas’ Churchlands campaign website and Liberal leader Libby Mettam’s website. He confirmed to WAtoday that his agency was behind the Sodali & Co polling but that it was commissioned by an Ammo Marketing client and was provided only to them – not Zempilas. “We outsourced to Sodali on behalf of our client,” he said. “We do work for a range of conservative groups around WA and need to respect client expectations to keep their work confidential. Just as any professional firm would.” The polling, leaked to Seven West Media’s The West Australian , triggered a failed challenge of Mettam on Tuesday. Zempilas emphatically denied that he knew about the poll and that he only found out about its existence a week ago by reading about it. Zempilas deferred questions to Sinclair. Speaking after the leadership challenge on Tuesday afternoon, Zempilas said he had been told a name but that it was not his information to share. [Read more] Jay Rayner, one of The Observer’s most prominent writers, is leaving the newsbrand as controversy surrounds its proposed sale to Tortoise Media, reports Press Gazette. The news was announced on the same day that Paul Webster , who was editor of The Observer until earlier this month, wrote a lengthy denunciation of the proposed sale, which he said was based on “two false premises”: that the newspaper’s operation poses a financial risk to The Guardian and that Tortoise Media could sustain the brand in print. A Guardian and Observer staff strike over the proposed sale is set for early next month. Rayner, who has reviewed restaurants for The Observer for 25 years, said last month that he had been shortlisted for columnist of the year in the BSME Awards “in the same month that The Guardian has told me they will terminate all our contracts if they can sell The Observer to Tortoise”. Tortoise and Guardian News and Media have previously assured Observer staff that their jobs will be safe if the sale goes ahead. [Read more] A war of words has broken out between breakfast radio foes Kyle Sandilands and Sammy J , reports News Corp’s Jackie Epstein . In an unlikely feud, the tension between the under pressure KIIS FM host and soon to depart ABC host has boiled over. Sammy J poked the bear so to speak when he had a little dig after the latest radio ratings, saying that he’d “beat Kyle again”. Sandilands said: “There’s some guy at the ABC in Melbourne who quit, but he was saying some weird shit like: ‘I beat Kyle Sandilands’ and ‘I’m the first thing he thinks about’. “I have never even heard of him and he thinks that he is in my mind. What a deluded flog. I don’t know who you are dog ... Bro no one knows who you are.” On Tuesday morning Sammy J posted to his socials, addressing the matter. “I’m getting so many calls from the media that I thought it would be best to put this out there — won’t be making further comment,’’ he wrote. “To describe this as a “feud” is incorrect and offensive to both myself and Mr Sandilands. He and I both agree on facts: “I will have better ratings than him for all eternity “He can’t stop thinking about me “He needs music and ads plus multiple co-presenters to prop him up but I can host a radio show all on my own cos I’m a big boy “I trust this settles the matter. [Read more] One time, when I was the executive producer for the 2GB afternoon show, I was sent to Canberra for a week. It was me, the host I was working with, the breakfast producers and their host, Alan Jones , writes Stephanie Coombes in The Australian . We were a small group and had a few obligatory social events with clients. If I was conspicuous, it was because I was the only woman on that trip, and the only producer not working on breakfast. Despite this – and to my immense amusement – Jones introduced himself to me no less than four times in just three days. Every interaction went the same way. Jones, thinking I was a client or perhaps a fan, would go to shake my hand. He was smiling then, full of charm. I would take his hand and tell him, again, that I was from 2GB. In an instant, the beatific expression fell from his face like a meat pie dropped on concrete. Suddenly all jowls and scorn, he’d walk away without another word. For Alan Jones, women – especially young women – were completely below his notice. I could never muster any energy to be offended. I found these interactions to be funny, so I filed them away as fodder for future dinner parties. In fact, if I felt anything towards Jones at that time, it was pity. [Read more] For the most successful show in Netflix’s history, there is a lot in Squid Game that flies completely over anyone watching outside of where it comes from, South Korea. Nevertheless, when Squid Game was released on September 17, 2021, it became an instant worldwide phenomenon. The story of a divorced gambling addict called Gi-hun ( Lee Jung-jae ), who enters a secret contest with 455 other hapless players for the chance of winning a 45.6 billion won ($50.4 million) prize, struck a collective human nerve. It is dark, gripping, violent and an unapologetic portrayal of the lengths people would go to escape their class struggle. Indeed, Squid Game altered the course of people’s lives. The manager who greenlit the show now leads Netflix content for all Asia (excluding India). In 2023, Netflix pledged to spend $US2.5 billion in Korea over four years, double the amount it had spent in the seven years before that. 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Timothy Spall from The Sixth Commandment took home the award for Best Performance by an Actor. Drops of God from France won best Drama Series. [Read more] Search for “Christmas” on Stan and you’ll get about 150 titles, including such staples as Love, Actually, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Elf , writes Nine Publishing’s Karl Quinn . You’ll also find the handful of Australian Christmas movies which Stan has turned out annually since 2020. It would be nice to report that Nugget is Dead , which is written by and stars Vic Zerbst and Jenna Owen – who first broke through with their comedy-current affairs skits on SBS’s The Feed – is a hilarious addition to the fold. But despite the echoes of Muriel’s Wedding and The Castle , it never quite gets there. [Read more]