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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — DeMarr Langford Jr. put in the winning points off his offensive rebound at the buzzer and Amar'e Marshall scored 18 points as Albany defeated Kansas City 67-65 on Saturday. Marshall added five steals for the Great Danes (5-1). Langford added 16 points while going 7 of 8 and 2 of 4 from the free-throw line while he also had six rebounds. Justin Neely shot 2 of 4 from the field and 6 for 7 from the line to finish with 10 points. Anderson Kopp led the Roos (3-4) in scoring, finishing with 20 points and four assists. UMKC also got 18 points from Jayson Petty. Kasheem Grady II also had 16 points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
More than two dozen transgender people and their allies staged a sit-in at a U.S. Capitol bathroom Thursday to protest a proposed policy that would prohibit the country’s first openly trans member of Congress from using the women’s restrooms in the building. Of the 25 demonstrators, about 15 were arrested for illegally protesting inside the Cannon House Office Building within the U.S. Capitol complex in violation of a Washington, D.C., code regarding crowding and obstructing, according to Brianna Burch, a spokesperson for the U.S. Capitol Police. Advocates held the sit-in protest inside and outside the women’s bathroom closest to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office over his support for a policy introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., last month that she said was intended to bar Rep.-elect Sarah McBride , D-Del., from using the women’s restrooms in the Capitol. Mace’s resolution would prohibit any lawmakers and House employees from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” She told reporters that the measure was intended to target McBride, adding that she is “absolutely 100% going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms.” Those arrested Thursday included Chelsea Manning, a former Army intelligence officer and trans advocate, and Raquel Willis, a trans journalist and author, according to Gender Liberation Movement , the advocacy group behind the protest. Video of the sit-in shows protesters chanting, “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace, our genders are no debate.” Abby Stein, a rabbi, author and trans advocate, said another chant was, “Democrats, grow a spine, trans lives are on the line.” “This is not just about Republicans,” Stein, who was not arrested, told NBC News after the protest. “It is also about the Democratic Party, to make sure that they know and they feel that we are here.” Stein said the advocates chose a sit-in to send the message that they can’t be ignored. “We’re not a figment of your imagination that you can fearmonger around,” she said. “We’re real people who are really here. This isn’t about just bathrooms. This is about safety for anyone, for women or otherwise.” Following the protest, Mace shared a video on social media addressing the demonstrators by calling them an anti-trans slur. Standing outside of what appeared to be a Capitol police station, she then read the protesters their Miranda rights using a megaphone. Willis, who is co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement, said trans people deserve to use the restroom without fear of discrimination or violence like everyone else. “In the 2024 election, trans folks were left to fend for ourselves after nearly $200 million of attack ads were disseminated across the United States,” she said in a statement released by the organization after her arrest, citing political advertising data gathered by Ad Impact . “Now, as Republican politicians try to remove us from public life, Democratic leaders are silent as hell. But we can’t transform bigotry and hate with inaction. We must confront it head on. Democrats must rise up, filibuster, and block this bill.” Manning said she attended the protest because, as someone who has fought against similar rules, she knows “what it’s like to feel pushed aside and erased.” “I’m not here as a leader or a spokesperson but simply as another member of my community who shows up unconditionally to support my siblings in this fight,” she said in a statement released by the Gender Liberation Movement. “I will stand beside them no matter what. We didn’t start this fight, but we are together now.” McBride did not immediately return a request for comment about the protest. On Nov. 20, she responded to Mace’s proposal and Johnson’s response, writing on X: “I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them.” She added, “This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn’t distracted me over the last several days, as I’ve remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest state in the union come January.”AAP legislator Naresh Balyan was arrested here on Saturday in connection with an extortion case lodged last year, police said. The MLA from Delhi's Uttam Nagar Assembly segment was called to the Delhi Police's Crime Branch office in R K Puram for questioning and was later arrested, they said. The development came hours after the BJP alleged that Balyan was involved in extortion activities and questioned why AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has not taken action against him. The Aam Aadmi Party defended Balyan, claiming that his arrest was illegal. The MLA had refuted the BJP's allegations and said he would lodge police cases against those who "spread lies" about him. A police official said that an audio clip of a conversation purportedly between Balyan and gangster Kapil Sangwan, currently based abroad, had gone viral on social media. The conversation involved discussions about collecting extortion money from businessmen, he said, adding further investigation and interrogation was underway. AAP MP Sanjay Singh alleged that since Kejriwal has started raising the issue of law and order and rising crime in Delhi, the BJP and the central government are "trying to harass and conspire against his party leaders". "Balyan has been arrested under this conspiracy and the charges against him are baseless," Singh claimed. "The BJP leaders have played a fake audio despite the High Court's order against it. Balyan himself complained to the police about multiple threats received by him from the gangster Kapil Sangwan," he claimed.None
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Take Rich Rodriguez’s resume. Now take his name off the top. Just look at the list of accomplishments – 190 wins, 14 bowl appearances for his teams, including a trio of New Year’s Six bowls, three power-conference stints, an offense consistently sitting at or near the top of the national rankings. Don’t lie. Looking at it just as a blind resume, you’re at least intrigued. You’re likely interested. Some of you may be begging West Virginia University brass to hire this guy. But for some of you, that name makes you stop dead. Suffice it to say that reaction to Rodriguez’s return to WVU has been ... mixed ... among the fanbase. Some folks are over the moon that the guy who engineered some of the Mountaineers’ greatest seasons is back for an encore. Others want nothing to do with him, saying they don’t want a retread or they’re still angry about the way he left for Michigan in 2007. But here’s the truth: WVU was not going to find another coach with that type of background for this job. At three of his four Football Bowl Subdivision stops, he won far more than he lost. That Michigan stint was just an ill fit. A West Virginia guy walking into the blueblood surroundings of Ann Arbor went together as well as sardines and strawberry jam. Otherwise, in many seasons Rodriguez coached, his teams were playing for conference titles, if not winning them. As for that breakup in 2007? The people on the WVU side of that feud are long gone. Three people have been WVU’s president since then. Three people have been WVU’s athletic director since then. The folks who are there now – President Gordon Gee and AD Wren Baker – are good with Rodriguez and, obviously, he’s good with them. There’s another big reason why Rodriguez is back in old gold and blue, one that Baker mentioned when he talked to the media about the coaching search last week. “There are great coaches who aren’t capable of this, who aren’t comfortable living in a fishbowl,” he said. “If you’re the football coach at West Virginia University, you are the most recognizable person in this state. You’re never going to stop and get gas, you’re never going to walk into a convenience store, you’re never going to go into the grocery store and buy anything where people don’t know who you are. You can feel the eyes following you. “For some people, they can handle the pressure on game days; they can’t handle that,” Baker continued. “You can’t ever get away from it. And so I’ve spent a lot of time talking about that and trying to make sure that whoever we bring in understands that. Until you experience it, you don’t fully comprehend what it is.” There may be no person on this planet that understands both the good and the bad that comes with being WVU’s football coach better than Rich Rodriguez. He has been called both hero and villain, champion and traitor. Pat McAfee, Rodriguez’s former punter turned sports media sensation, has mentioned over the last couple of days that he and Rodriguez both still think about that 13-9 loss to Pitt in 2007, the one that knocked WVU out of the national championship game. McAfee said Rodriguez looks at his return to Morgantown as a road to redemption, an opportunity to right a wrong. Are there some concerns with a Rich Rod redux? Sure. He hasn’t experienced the new frontiers of college football like name, image and likeness, revenue sharing and the transfer portal at Jacksonville State like he will at WVU. There might be a learning curve. And his departures from WVU, Michigan and Arizona have been, to put it mildly, messy. Does WVU want to invite the possibility of another tumultuous tenure, or have the pitfalls of Rodriguez’s career humbled him in the sense that he knows he can’t falter like that again? Here’s what we do know. His team will score plenty of points. It’ll gain a lot of yards. It’ll play hard to the echo of the whistle. It’ll be tough. All those things should help WVU’s fanbase emerge from the funk it has sat in for the last few years of ho-hum, average performances. Fans need a jolt. WVU needed someone to give it to them. They made a pretty long list, and Rodriguez rose to the top. WVU also needed someone who could win at West Virginia, who understood West Virginia, who embraced West Virginia. It needed someone who didn’t have to learn all those things on the job. That was a list of one, and he’ll stand before the crowd on the floor of the Coliseum today.
