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Brazil 's former President Jair Bolsonaro has been a target for investigations since his early days in office, and the swarm of cases since his failed reelection bid in 2022 has left him in ever-deeper legal jeopardy. In the latest indictment Thursday, he was accused of attempting a coup to keep himself in the presidency. In another case, the electoral court ruled the far-right leader ineligible to run for office until 2030. There are dozens of other probes that could produce criminal charges at low-level courts, where he could appeal any eventual conviction. But the country's Supreme Court will have the final say regarding more than five in-depth investigations, including into the alleged coup attempt, which could land the former president behind bars or under house arrest. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing in all of the cases, and his allies have alleged they are political persecution, while recognizing the severity of the legal risks on multiple fronts. Here's a look at the biggest threats and where they stand: Coup Attempt Federal police on Thursday indicted Bolsonaro and 36 others for allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections. The indictment is sealed, but among other things authorities had been investigating whether he incited the Jan. 8, 2022 riot in which his followers ransacked the Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital of Brasilia. STATUS: Police sent their findings to Brazil’s Supreme Court, which must decide whether to refer them to Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet. He will either formally charge Bolsonaro and put him on trial, or toss the investigation. Electoral Misdeeds Brazil’s highest electoral court in June ruled that Bolsonaro used government communication channels in a meeting with diplomats to promote his reelection bid and sow distrust about the vote. The case focused on a meeting the prior year, during which Bolsonaro used government staffers, the state television channel and the presidential palace in Brasilia to tell foreign ambassadors that the country’s electronic voting system was rigged. The ruling rendered him ineligible for office until 2030, although he has insisted that he will run in the 2026 race. The court also found that Bolsonaro abused his power during Brazil’s Independence Day festivities, a month before the election. The ruling didn’t add years to Bolsonaro’s ineligibility, but made any appeal less likely to succeed. A third case is also pending at the court. STATUS: Bolsonaro’s appeal of the initial ruling was denied. Vaccination Fraud Bolsonaro has been indicted for directing an official to tamper with a public health database to make it appear as though he and his 12-year-old daughter had received the COVID-19 vaccine in order to bypass U.S. entry requirements. During the pandemic, he railed against the vaccine, characterized the choice to receive a shot as a matter of personal freedom and has repeatedly said he never did so. The Federal Police accused Bolsonaro of criminal association and inserting false data into public records, which carry maximum penalties of 4 and 12 years in prison, respectively. It was his first indictment since leaving office. STATUS: Brazil's Supreme Court sent the indictment to the prosecutor-general, who is weighing whether to use it to press charges. Local media reported that he was seeking to consult American authorities about whether Bolsonaro used the forged document to enter the country, and that having done so could result in U.S. legal action. Saudi Jewels Federal Police have probed whether Bolsonaro directed officials to smuggle luxury jewelry worth millions into Brazil from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, then acted to prevent them from being incorporated into the presidential collection and instead retain ownership for himself. Investigators summoned Bolsonaro for questioning in April and August of 2023. He has returned the jewelry in question. STATUS: The Federal Police indicted Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations. A second source confirmed the indictment, although not for which specific crimes. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Pandemic Sabotage Brazil’s Federal Police is investigating Bolsonaro for inciting crimes against public health during the COVID-19 pandemic, which include encouraging people not to wear masks and causing alarm about non-existent danger of vaccines accelerating development of AIDS. A Senate inquiry commission also spent months investigating his pandemic-era actions and decisions, and recommended nine criminal charges. Brazil’s former prosecutor-general Augusto Aras, widely seen as a Bolsonaro ally, decided not to file any charges based on the lawmakers' findings. They have urged his Aras' successor to reopen the case. STATUS: The investigation is ongoing. Fake News, Digital Militia Brazil's Supreme Court in 2020 ordered an investigation into a network allegedly spreading defamatory fake news and threats against Supreme Court justices. The probe has yielded the imprisonment of lawmakers from the former president's circle and raids of his supporters' homes. In 2021, Bolsonaro was included as a target. As an offshoot of that probe, the Federal Police is also investigating whether a group operating inside Bolsonaro’s presidential palace produced social media content aimed at undermining the rule of law. The group, allegedly comprised of aides and Bolsonaro’s politician son, has been widely referred to as a digital militia and “the hate cabinet.” STATUS: Both investigations are ongoing. ___ Biller reported from Rio de Janeiro

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes reached more records after tech companies talked up how much artificial intelligence is boosting their results. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% Wednesday to add to what looks to be one of its best years of the millennium. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.7%, while the Nasdaq composite added 1.3% to its own record. Salesforce pulled the market higher after highlighting its artificial-intelligence offering for customers. Marvell Technology jumped even more after saying it’s seeing strong demand from AI. Treasury yields eased, while bitcoin climbed after President-elect Donald Trump nominated a crypto advocate to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are rising toward more records Wednesday after tech companies talked up how much of a boost they're getting from artificial intelligence . The S&P 500 climbed 0.5% to add to what looks to be one of its best years of the millennium. It’s on track to set an all-time high for the 56th time this year after coming off 10 gains in the last 11 days . The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 252 points, or 0.6%, with an hour remaining in trading, while the Nasdaq composite was adding 1.2% to its own record. Salesforce helped pull the market higher after delivering stronger revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected, though its profit fell just short. CEO Mark Benioff highlighted the company’s artificial-intelligence offering for customers, saying “the rise of autonomous AI agents is revolutionizing global labor, reshaping how industries operate and scale.” The stock of the company, which helps businesses manage their customers, rose 9.3%. Marvell Technology jumped even more after delivering better results than expected, up 23.2%. CEO Matt Murphy said the semiconductor supplier is seeing strong demand from AI and gave a forecast for profit in the upcoming quarter that topped analysts’ expectations. They helped offset a 9.8% drop for Foot Locker, which reported profit and revenue that fell short of analysts’ expectations. CEO Mary Dillon said the company is taking a more cautious view, and it cut its forecasts for sales and profit this year. Dillon pointed to how keen customers are for discounts and how soft demand has been outside of Thanksgiving week and other key selling periods. Retailers overall have offered mixed signals about how resilient U.S. shoppers can remain. Their spending has been one of the main reasons the U.S. economy has avoided a recession that earlier seemed inevitable because of high interest rates brought by the Federal Reserve to crush inflation. But shoppers are now contending with still-high prices and a slowing job market . This week’s highlight for Wall Street will be Friday’s jobs report from the U.S. government, which will show how many people employers hired and fired last month. A narrower report released on Wednesday morning may have offered a preview of it. The report from ADP suggested employers in the private sector increased their payrolls by less last month than economists expected. Hiring in manufacturing was the weakest since the spring, according to Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP. The report strengthened traders’ expectations that the Fed will cut its main interest rate again when it meets in two weeks. The Fed began easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high in September, hoping to offer more support for the job market. The central bank had appeared set to continue cutting rates into next year, but the election of Donald Trump has scrambled Wall Street’s expectations somewhat. Trump’s preference for higher tariffs and other policies could lead to higher economic growth and inflation , which could alter the Fed’s plans . Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the central bank can afford to cut its benchmark rate cautiously because inflation has slowed significantly from its peak two years ago and the economy remains sturdy. A separate report on Wednesday said health care, finance and other businesses in the U.S. services sector are continuing to grow, but not by as much as before and not by as much as economists expected. One respondent from the construction industry told the survey from the Institute for Supply Management that the Fed’s rate cuts have not pulled down mortgage rates as much as hoped yet. Plus “the unknown effect of tariffs clouds the future.” In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.18% from 4.23% late Tuesday. On Wall Street, Campbell’s fell 6% for one of the S&P 500’s sharper losses despite increasing its dividend and reporting a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Its revenue fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, and the National Football League’s Washington Commanders hired Campbell’s CEO Mark Clouse as its team president. Campbell’s said Mick Beekhuizen, its president of meals and beverages, will become its 15th CEO following Clouse’s departure. Gains for airline stocks helped offset that drop after JetBlue Airways said it saw stronger bookings for travel in November and December following the presidential election. It said it’s also benefiting from lower fuel prices, as well as lower costs due to improved on-time performance. JetBlue jumped 8.3%, while Southwest Airlines climbed 2.8%. In stock markets abroad, South Korea’s Kospi sank 1.4% following a night full of drama in Seoul. President Yoon Suk Yeol was facing possible impeachment after he suddenly declared martial law on Tuesday night, prompting troops to surround the parliament. Yoon accused pro-North Korean forces of plotting to overthrow one of the world’s most vibrant democracies. The martial law declaration was revoked about six hours later. Samsung Electronics fell 0.9% in Seoul. The country’s financial regulator said it was prepared to deploy 10 trillion won ($7.07 billion) into a stock market stabilization fund at any time, the Yonhap news agency reported. In the crypto market , bitcoin climbed back above $97,000 after Trump said he would nominate Paul Atkins , a cryptocurrency advocate, to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission. ___ AP Writers Matt Ott and Zimo Zhong contributed. Stan Choe, The Associated PressSilence the World: Finding the Best Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones Under $100 at Best Buy

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The Department of Commerce has that formalizes the operations of the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, or OICTS, in conducting investigations of foreign adversary threats to ICTS transactions that may impact U.S. national security. The department said Thursday OICTS was formed within the Bureau of Industry and Security in March 2022 to advance the implementation of an executive order aimed at securing the ICTS supply chain. “This final rule clarifies and strengthens BIS’s existing authorities to investigate, mitigate, and prohibit ICTS transactions involving our foreign adversaries. It significantly enhances our ability to protect the resilience of our national infrastructure and technology and communications sectors,” , undersecretary of Commerce for industry and security. “The further formalization of the OICTS is an important part of a pivotal year in the office’s growth as it continues to advance U.S. national security,” added Estevez, who also leads BIS. Key OICTS Rulemakings & Investigations In September, the office released a proposed rule that would ban the import or sale of connected vehicles integrating specific pieces of software or hardware linked to China or Russia. In June, OICTS announced a final determination that prohibits Kaspersky Lab from selling its software within the U.S. or offering updates to software already in use.

Qatar tribune dpa Moscow/Kiev Moscow is accusing US President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration of undermining the plans of President-elect Donald Trump to resolve the Ukraine conflict. “During the election campaign, Trump talked about wanting to make peace in some way and was leading everyone down a peaceful path,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian television. “And now they are doing everything they can to escalate the situation in such a way that peace agreements are doomed to failure,” Peskov said on the political news show Moscow. Kremlin. Putin. Trump, set to take office on January 20, has said he would move to quickly end Russia’s war with Ukraine, which has now been going on for more than 1,000 days. However, he has not yet named any precise plans. Peskov’s comments come after Biden granted Ukraine permission to use long-range ATACMS missiles from the US against military targets in Russia. Biden also plans to waive some of Ukraine’s debts. Peskov asserted that Biden’s administration had shown that it “will do everything to ensure that this war does not end.” He insinuated that the US Democrats wanted to use this to limit Trump and take revenge for their election defeat. Moscow’s use of a new type of Russian medium-range missile in Ukraine and threats of further attacks are “typical blackmail,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in Kiev on Sunday. Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to deter anyone from supporting Kiev, according to Sybiha. “Ukraine’s partners should do the exact opposite: reject blackmail, increase support, and strengthen Ukraine’s air shield with systems capable of intercepting such missiles,” the minister wrote on X. Copy 25/11/2024 10The future of the Democratic Party: Prospective new DNC chair weighs inAccenture plc ( NYSE:ACN – Get Free Report ) has been given an average rating of “Moderate Buy” by the twenty-two ratings firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirteen have given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month price target among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $368.23. Several brokerages have recently commented on ACN. Susquehanna lifted their price target on shares of Accenture from $350.00 to $360.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, September 27th. Piper Sandler Companies restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $329.00 price target on shares of Accenture in a research note on Friday, September 20th. TD Cowen upgraded shares of Accenture from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $321.00 to $400.00 in a research note on Monday, September 30th. Royal Bank of Canada increased their price target on Accenture from $377.00 to $389.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, September 27th. Finally, Guggenheim boosted their price objective on Accenture from $380.00 to $395.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, September 27th. View Our Latest Stock Report on ACN Insiders Place Their Bets Institutional Inflows and Outflows Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Morse Asset Management Inc bought a new stake in Accenture during the third quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Unique Wealth Strategies LLC bought a new stake in shares of Accenture during the 2nd quarter valued at $26,000. Strategic Financial Concepts LLC bought a new position in Accenture in the 2nd quarter worth $28,000. MidAtlantic Capital Management Inc. purchased a new position in Accenture during the third quarter valued at $30,000. Finally, Mowery & Schoenfeld Wealth Management LLC increased its position in Accenture by 607.1% in the third quarter. Mowery & Schoenfeld Wealth Management LLC now owns 99 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $35,000 after buying an additional 85 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 75.14% of the company’s stock. Accenture Stock Down 0.7 % Shares of NYSE ACN opened at $358.66 on Wednesday. Accenture has a 52-week low of $278.69 and a 52-week high of $387.51. The stock has a market capitalization of $224.22 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.38, a P/E/G ratio of 3.10 and a beta of 1.25. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $356.42 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $328.98. Accenture ( NYSE:ACN – Get Free Report ) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, September 26th. The information technology services provider reported $2.79 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.78 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $16.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $16.37 billion. Accenture had a return on equity of 26.83% and a net margin of 11.20%. Accenture’s revenue was up 2.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.71 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Accenture will post 12.77 earnings per share for the current year. Accenture Increases Dividend The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, November 15th. Investors of record on Thursday, October 10th were issued a dividend of $1.48 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, October 10th. This is a boost from Accenture’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.29. This represents a $5.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.65%. Accenture’s dividend payout ratio is currently 51.79%. Accenture announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback plan on Thursday, September 26th that permits the company to buyback $4.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization permits the information technology services provider to buy up to 1.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued. Accenture Company Profile ( Get Free Report Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. Featured Articles Receive News & Ratings for Accenture Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Accenture and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .LYNSEY McLEAN has a matchday to-do list longer than an orangutan’s throw-in. And I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include grabbing a shovel and putting in a shift like a navvy. Advertisement 4 St Mirren general manager Lynsey McLean clearing the snow in Paisley 4 Volunteers chipped in to make sure the game went ahead Yet come half two, there was St Mirren ’s general manager, out with the stewards and turnstile operators and ball boys, putting her back into hoofing piles of snow off the pitch. Still in her day-job gear of short-sleeved top, skirt and boots , too. Why? Because there were thousands of her club’s fans standing outside the stadium, desperate for one of the biggest home games of the season to go ahead. Because 1,500 Dons diehards had braved the snow to make it a near sell-out. Advertisement read more football stories COLD BEERS SPFL side spotted going for a PINT after their bus got stuck in the snow MEGA OFFER Get £50 in free bets to spend on football when you stake £10 with Betfred Because two sets of players had sweated bullets all week for the chance to get out there and do their jobs . Because once you’re there, once you’ve braved the elements to get through the gates, being told, ‘It’s Aff’, is the worst feeling on earth . At which point, I’ll make my feelings on Saturday’s fiasco of a fixture list clear — EVERY game should’ve been ‘Aff’ at first light of a frozen Saturday morning. If the people who run our leagues gave a toss for the safety and comfort of supporters, players, club staff, emergency workers and more, they wouldn’t have asked any of them to travel on a day when the weather was foul and roads were a nightmare. Advertisement Most read in Sport TICKET TALKS Celtic ultras slam Hearts for sparking 'unnecessary division' among Hoops fans FAN ROW Roy Keane says 'I'll wait for you in car park' in confrontation with Ipswich fan RED HOT SCOT Scott McTominay hailed as Serie A's best midfielder by legend of rival club Breaking HIT AND RUN Car 'deliberately' ploughs into fans outside Premier League stadium after match Then again, if those people gave a toss for all of the above, one of them would surely have popped their head above the parapet to explain why instead they chose to leave us all at the mercy of the elements. A two-minute radio interview with Neil Doncaster , that would have done it. Tell us why all the risks people took were worth it. Celtic release 2024 Christmas advert as fans rave after three Hoops heroes make appearance Tell us why they allowed, for instance, Stenhousemuir to set out on a bus run to Cove that ended in a snowdrift just outside Perth . Tell us why Dundee United and Dunfermline were wrong to ask for more time to prepare after stressful journeys littered with holds-ups and accidents . Advertisement Tell us why, for the first time I can ever remember, referees were told to push kick-offs back as far as need be rather than making early calls. Maybe even just say well done to all those volunteers battling, many of them in vain, to try to get a ball kicked. You know, show a bit of leadership. Make the Lynsey McLeans of the world feel like they matter as much to the SPFL as their clubs do to them. Advertisement Sadly, though, even this most basic level of empathy seems beyond the pay grade of the SPFL’s invisible men . So all we’re left to presume is this, that on a day when they had sold two top-flight matches for live evening telly coverage, they were s***-scared to tell Celtic and Hibs it was OK for them to travel to Dundee and Edinburgh . 4 Snow around the pitch at Ibrox Credit: PA But not for Aberdeen to go to Paisley or Dundee United to Glasgow . Advertisement That’s my guess, and it might be miles off the mark. But what else is there to do but speculate when we’re run by a cabal who see absolutely no need to explain anything to anyone, to justify any decisions they ever make? Or, in this case, which they fail to make. See, that’s the bit Doncaster and his cronies don’t get, the fact that if you don’t explain yourself, the world will make its own mind up. Advertisement That lack of communication was the difference between us shaking our heads and laughing at the catalogue of ever-more bizarre events that mounted up, and us cursing them upside down for allowing it all to happen on Saturday. Ref Don Robertson ordering Dundee United players to stop warming up and get stripped for action at 3.45, even though they only reached Ibrox at 2.58. Dunfermline feeling the need to issue an angry statement after being given the same short shrift at Somerset Park . Then there was perhaps my favourite moment of the whole caper, news that even though Ross County against Motherwell WERE ready to start at three, VAR was down and there would be a 15-minute delay. Advertisement Throw in the fog at Dens, kick- off at Montrose v Annan going back two hours to 5pm, and much more besides. 4 Snow outside Tynecastle before Hearts' clash with Celtic Credit: Kenny Ramsay It’s clear that if ever there was a day for SPFL to be fully on-message and in tune with those at the sharp end, this was surely to hell it. So the fact that they hid behind the sofa as per? The fact they said and did hee-haw? Advertisement Well, it should remind us of two things. One, they are about as much use as a crispbread snow shovel. And two, that the ones who REALLY keep football going are the one who shifted the snow and hung around for the turnstiles to open, who drove the buses, and who kept the hot drinks coming. You can talk commercial deals all you like, call it a money-driven business all you like, shrug that TV rules the roost these days. Advertisement But without the volunteers, without the pie stall workers, without the bus drivers and, probably most of all, without the ones who buy the tickets , there’s simply nothing. We saw that in its most human form at Paisley on Saturday, where there literally would have been nothing had dozens of unpaid grafters not shifted a mountain of snow so ref John Beaton could start what turned out to be a tremendous, end-to-end battle. Read more on the Scottish Sun REST EASY Andy Murray flooded with messages as he shares heart-breaking family update COUGH UP Motorhome park owner shuts after guests leave without paying using shock trick That’s what this game of ours is all about. These are the real heroes. While the ones in the blazers? Just call them Storm Berks. Advertisement Keep up to date with ALL t h e latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page