blackjack rules The Palestinian Authority and militant group Hamas both welcomed the International Criminal Court’s arrests warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister over the Gaza war. “The State of Palestine welcomed the decision” to issue the warrants against Netanyahu and ex-defence minister Yoav Gallant, the Palestinian Authority said in a statement published by official news agency Wafa. The ICC said it had found “reasonable grounds” to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bore “criminal responsibility” for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, as well as the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts. “The ICC’s decision represents hope and confidence in international law and its institutions,” the Palestinian statement said, urging ICC member states to sever “contact and meetings” with Netanyahu and Gallant — who was sacked by the Israeli prime minister earlier this month. The statement from the Palestinian Authority, which has partial administrative control in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, did not make any mention of the warrant also issued Thursday for Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif over war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel said it killed Deif in Gaza in July, but Hamas has not confirmed his death. The group, in its own statement about the ICC decision, similarly did not mention Deif. Hamas said the warrants for the Israeli leaders were “an important step towards justice and can lead to redress for the victims in general”. “But it remains limited and symbolic if it is not supported by all means by all countries around the world”, the group’s political bureau member Bassem Naim said. – ‘Massacres’ – Asked by AFP about the Deif warrant, a Hamas official who wished to remain anonymous said there was “no comparison between the criminal occupier and the victim”. Palestinians uprooted from their homes in Gaza suggested the ICC warrants will make no difference to their suffering. Yussef Abu Huwaishel, inside a flimsy shelter with a dirt floor in central Gaza, said “it is important to see someone speaking out about these massacres and the oppressed people” but “there is still the United States” which supports Israel. At the same encampment in Al-Zawayda, Hasan Hasan said he was certain that “the decision will not be implemented because no decision in favour of the Palestinian cause has ever been enforced.” The Gaza war, triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. About 250 hostages were seized during the attack, with 97 still held captive in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 44,056 people in more than 13 months of war, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip’s health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable. With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world as a leading global news agency. AFP provides fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the issues affecting our daily lives.

ATLANTA (AP) — Ethan Vasko threw three touchdown passes and ran for a fourth as Coastal Carolina became bowl eligible by beating Georgia State 48-27 for its sixth win of the season in the regular season finale on Saturday. The Chanticleers evened their season record at 6-6 with the win and finished 3-5 in the Sun Belt East. The loss leaves Georgia State (3-9) with just one win in eight conference games. Vasko threw 10 yards to Senika McKie for the game's first score midway through the first quarter, but the Panthers got a Liam Rickman 28-yard field goal and a 19-yard touchdown run by Freddie Brock to take a 10-7 second-quarter lead. Vasko threw his second TD pass, this one a five-yard strike to Zach Courtney to take the lead and Kade Hensley booted a 43-yard field goal as time expired to put Coastal Carolina up 17-10 at halftime. Christian Washington ran 18-yards for a touchdown to open up a 24-10 lead four minutes into the third quarter. Vasko hit McKie for their second touchdown, this one from 31-yards out and Vasko ran 10 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown to make it 38-10 with under 10 minutes to play. Vasko was 13 of 17 passing for 200 yards and carried 13 times for another 68. Washington carried 20 times for 124 yards. McKie caught five passes for 81 yards Georgia State amassed 428 yards of offense, but the Panthers turned the ball over six times. Christian Veilleux completed 15 of 26 passes for 205 yards but was picked off four times and fumbled. __ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up . AP college football: and The Associated PressCorVel Co. ( NASDAQ:CRVL – Get Free Report )’s share price hit a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as $370.00 and last traded at $365.59, with a volume of 9060 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $360.19. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Separately, StockNews.com cut CorVel from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, August 31st. Get Our Latest Report on CRVL CorVel Stock Up 2.8 % Hedge Funds Weigh In On CorVel A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in CRVL. Blue Trust Inc. boosted its position in shares of CorVel by 435.3% during the third quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 91 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $30,000 after buying an additional 74 shares during the period. GAMMA Investing LLC boosted its position in CorVel by 98.0% during the 2nd quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 97 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $25,000 after acquiring an additional 48 shares during the last quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. grew its stake in shares of CorVel by 121.7% during the 3rd quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. now owns 204 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $67,000 after acquiring an additional 112 shares in the last quarter. Point72 DIFC Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of CorVel in the third quarter valued at approximately $88,000. Finally, Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc. bought a new stake in shares of CorVel in the third quarter worth $102,000. Institutional investors own 51.36% of the company’s stock. About CorVel ( Get Free Report ) CorVel Corporation provides workers’ compensation, auto, liability, and health solutions. It applies technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to enhance the managing of episodes of care and the related health care costs. The company also offers network solutions services, including automated medical fee auditing, preferred provider management and reimbursement, retrospective utilization review, facility claim review, professional review, pharmacy, directed care, clearinghouse, independent medical examination, and inpatient medical bill review services, as well as Medicare solutions. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for CorVel Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for CorVel and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

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From fad diets to balanced solutions: What works?Sen. Bob Casey concedes Pennsylvania Senate race to Republican Dave McCormickSen. Mitch McConnell said Thursday he will lead a subcommittee overseeing defense spending as he carves out new roles once he relinquishes his long-running post as Senate Republican leader. The Kentucky Republican revealed he will assume the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. The role dovetails with his constant message that America needs a bulked-up military to deter threats from adversaries such as Russia, Iran and China. The transition comes as McConnell is ending his role as the longest-serving Senate leader in history, just as Republicans prepare to take majority control of the chamber after big gains in this month's election. Republicans elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune , a top deputy to McConnell, as the next Senate majority leader. McConnell, 82, said Thursday he will assume the subcommittee chairmanship at a critical time. “America’s national security interests face the gravest array of threats since the Second World War," the senator said in a statement. “At this critical moment, a new Senate Republican majority has a responsibility to secure the future of U.S. leadership and primacy.” McConnell frequently evokes Ronald Reagan’s mantra of “peace through strength” when discussing foreign policy risks and how the U.S. should respond. McConnell's stance could clash with President-elect Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine on foreign affairs. McConnell worked with Trump on a tax cuts package and the appointment of conservative judges — including three justices to the nine-member Supreme Court — during Trump's first term as president. Fighting back against isolationism within his own party, McConnell has championed sending weapons and other aid to Ukraine as it fends off Russia’s invasion. McConnell said Thursday he's also set to become chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, which is often a more low-key panel at the center of big issues, both at the Capitol and in the country. The committee oversees the administration of the Senate side of the building, including during inaugurations. But it also puts McConnnell at the center of weighty topics, namely federal elections and voting rights as well as the procedures of the Senate, including the debate around the filibuster. McConnell said the committee will have important work in the coming two years. “Defending the Senate as an institution and protecting the right to political speech in our elections remain among my longest-standing priorities,” he said. There had been considerable speculation about what roles McConnell would take after stepping down as Republican leader. He has two years left in his current Senate term and has not signaled whether he will run for reelection in Kentucky in 2026. McConnell has been a prolific appropriator for the Bluegrass State, a role he’s well positioned to continue.

By PETER SMITH A social-media tribute to Coptic Christians. A billboard in Amish country. A visit to a revered Jewish gravesite. While Donald Trump’s lock on the white evangelical vote is legendary, he and his campaign allies also wooed smaller religious groups, far from the mainstream. As it turned out, Trump won by decisive margins, but his campaign aggressively courted niche communities with the understanding that every vote could be critical, particularly in swing states. Voter surveys such as exit polls, which canvass broad swaths of the electorate, aren’t able to gauge the impact of such microtargeting, but some backers say the effort was worth it. Just one week before the election, Trump directed a post on the social-media platform X to Coptic Christians in the United States —- whose church has ancient roots in Egypt. He saluted their “Steadfast Faith in God, Perseverance through Centuries of Persecution and Love for this Great Country.” “This was the first time seeing a major U.S. presidential candidate address the community in this manner,” said Mariam Wahba, a Coptic Christian and research analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based research institute. “It was really a profound moment.” She said many Copts share the conservative social views of other Christian groups in the Republican constituency, and they may already have been Trump supporters. But the posting reinforced those bonds. Coptic bishops sent the president-elect congratulations after his victory and cited their “shared social and family values.” Some Assyrian Christians — another faith group with Middle Eastern roots — similarly bonded with Trump, whose mispronunciation of “Assyrian” at a rally created a viral video moment and drew attention to their support. Sam Darmo, a Phoenix real estate agent and co-founder of Assyrians for Trump, said many community members cited the economy, illegal immigration and other prominent voter issues. They echoed other conservative Christians’ concerns, he said, on issues such as abortion, gender identity and religious expression in public. But he said Trump supported various Middle Eastern Christians recovering from the Islamic State group’s oppressive rule. Darmo also credited Massad Boulos, father-in-law to Trump’s daughter Tiffany, for mobilizing various Middle Eastern Christian groups, including Chaldean Catholics, and other voters, particularly in Michigan, such as Muslims. “He brought all these minority groups together,” he said. “We’re hoping to continue that relationship.” But members of Middle Eastern-rooted Christian groups, and their politics, are far from monolithic, said Marcus Zacharia, founder of Progressive Copts, a program of Informed Immigrants, an organization that promotes dialogue on sensitive topics among such groups in the United States and Canada. He said many younger community members question Trump’s stances on issues such as immigration, and sense that conservatives sometimes tokenize them by focusing on the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East while neglecting wider issues of repression in countries there that the U.S. supports. He said there needs to be more informed dialogue across the political divide in these communities. “There is no more high time than these next four years to have that way of conducting conversations,” he said. Republicans also made an aggressive push for Amish voters , particularly in the swing state of Pennsylvania, where they are most numerous at about 92,000 (many below voting age). The GOP has made similar efforts in the past, even though researchers have found that less than 10% of them typically vote, due to their separatism from society. But Republicans used billboards, mailers, ads and door-to-door campaigner to drive turnout in Lancaster County, home base to the nation’s largest Amish settlement. On Election Day, Amish voters Samuel Stoltzfus and his wife Lillian Stoltzfus said they were supporting Trump, citing their anti-abortion beliefs. “We basically look at it as murder,” Stoltzfus, 31, said outside a polling center in the Lancaster County community of New Holland, where dozens of other members of the local Amish community voted. Trump has wavered on the issue, dismaying some abortion opponents, though many have said Republicans still align more closely to their views. Stolzfus added: “Make America great again and keep the moral values,” he said. “Let’s go back to the roots.” Steven Nolt, a history professor at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster College who studies the Amish and their voting patterns, said that while it’s too early to say definitively without further research, he doesn’t see evidence of a larger turnout this year. Lancaster County as a whole — most of which is not Amish — is a GOP stronghold that Trump won handily, though both parties’ votes edged up from 2020, according to unofficial results posted by the Pennsylvania Department of State. Trump’s biggest increases were in urban or suburban areas with few Amish, while some areas with larger Amish populations generally saw a modest increase in the Trump vote, said Nolt, director of the college’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. “Bottom line, percentage-wise, not much change in the parts of Lancaster County where the Amish live,” he said. Trump directly reached out to members of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of Orthodox Judaism. Related Articles National Politics | Attorneys want the US Supreme Court to say Mississippi’s felony voting ban is cruel and unusual National Politics | Trump convinced Republicans to overlook his misconduct. But can he do the same for his nominees? National Politics | Trump gave Interior nominee one directive for a half-billion acres of US land: ‘Drill.’ National Politics | Trump’s team is delaying transition agreements. What does it mean for security checks and governing? National Politics | Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing in order to decide where case should go now On Oct. 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, Trump made a symbolically resonant visit to the “Ohel,” the burial site of the movement’s revered late leader, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Wearing a yarmulke, the traditional Jewish skullcap, Trump, who has Jewish family members, brought a written prayer to the Ohel and laid a small stone at the grave in keeping with tradition. The site in New York City, while particularly central to Chabad adherents, draws an array of Jewish and other visitors, including politicians. About two-thirds of Jewish voters overall supported Trump’s opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. But the Trump campaign has made a particular outreach to Orthodox Jews, citing issues including his policies toward Israel in his first administration. Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowitz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida said it was moving for him to see images of Trump’s visit. “The mere fact that he made a huge effort, obviously it was important to him,” he said. Associated Press journalist Luis Henao contributed.Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC Takes $1.79 Million Position in ATN International, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATNI)(CNN) — For more on CNN’s interview with Sherrod Brown, watch CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju” this Sunday at 8 a.m. ET and 11 a.m ET. Sherrod Brown can boil down the loss of his Senate seat to this: Donald Trump and withering GOP attacks. And the top of his ticket didn’t help him much, either. As the veteran Ohio Democrat takes stock of the loss in his marquee race, he also has a blunt message for his party: Win back working-class voters or lose more elections. “I think that we don’t appear to be fighting for them,” Brown said when asked why Trump won the same blue-collar workers whom the Democratic senator has prided himself in courting through the course of his three-plus decades in Congress. “Workers have drifted away from the Democratic Party.” In a wide-ranging interview with CNN, Brown bluntly criticized his party for not addressing voter concerns over rising consumer costs and declining economic conditions. And he accused Republicans — including his foe in the Senate race, Trump-aligned businessman Bernie Moreno — of distorting his record as he battled the headwinds at the top of the ticket. And when asked whether he would run in 2026 for the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance, Brown pointedly refused to say. “I’m not dismissing anything at this point,” said Brown, 72, similarly leaving the door open when asked if he would run for governor. Brown held one of four Senate seats that Republicans flipped as they seized control of the chamber. They will now command a 53-47 majority over the next two years. But Brown, along with Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, had among the toughest slogs of any Democrat: running in red states while trying to maintain distance from their party’s nominee, Kamala Harris, as they tried to court Trump voters. Both men lost seats they’ve held since 2007. “I lost, but we ran ahead of the national ticket,” said Brown, who fell to Moreno by 4 points. “When the leader of your ticket runs 12 points behind, almost, you can’t overcome that, even though it was a close race in the end.” Asked whether he believed that Trump was the deciding factor in his race, Brown took a swipe at Moreno. “A lot of things made the difference. I’d say it’s the money and Trump. That kind of money, month after month after month, with nasty negative ads,” Brown said. “I guess that’s how you win a race. You lie, you spend a lot of money, and then you, as my opponent, hope that your candidate, Trump in this case, would win by a lot.” Moreno’s camp hit back. “Sherrod Brown is a bitter career politician who’s lashing out because he has to find a real job for the first time in his life and work for his paycheck like everyone else,” Moreno spokesman Phil Letsou said. Moreno’s campaign and his GOP allies outspent Brown and his allies on the air, with $251.9 million in total GOP spending compared with $232.7 million in total Democratic spending on the race, according to AdImpact data. But there was a late surge of Democratic spending in the final month of the campaign, with Brown and his allies edging out the GOP with $83.3 million on the air compared to $77.4 million for the GOP. In the interview, Brown said he believed going into Election Day that he would win his race. “I expected to win because I’m out a lot, and I talk to workers. I talk to people year-round ... I saw the enthusiasm in the crowds,” Brown said. “What I didn’t see is the ad they did at the end where Trump said, voting for Sherrod Brown is voting against me.” In one ad for the Moreno campaign, Trump called Brown “a radical left politician” and said: “You’ve got to go out and back Bernie Moreno.” And an ad from the Senate Leadership Fund — a top GOP super PAC — told Ohio viewers: “A vote for Sherrod Brown is a vote against Donald Trump.” Moreno’s attacks over Brown’s record are particularly grating to the vanquished senator. Asked whether he believed that Moreno ran a clean campaign, Brown said: “You can be the judge of that. I think when you run ads and they’re proven to be lies by fact checkers ... you can connect that dot.” Republicans targeted Brown heavily over trans issues during the race — a line of attack the GOP deployed across the country and that Trump wielded against Harris. After the primary, and through Election Day in the Ohio race, GOP advertisers spent a whopping $33.8 million on TV ads that referenced LGBTQ rights and transgender people’s access to bathrooms and involvement in sports. In one GOP ad, a narrator’s voice says, “Six more years of Sherrod Brown? He’s for they/them, not you.” “I cut an ad showing they lied,” Brown said, pointing to fact checks, including one that rated as false an ad that claimed Brown voted to “allow transgender biological men to compete in girls’ sports.” “But that’s what they do,” Brown said. “They spend, they lie about — they take an issue that they know polls well, they lie about it.” “They weren’t talking about how to make Ohio a better state,” he said. Brown cut two ads worth about $3.3 million defending himself on the issue, including one where a narrator calls the ad a “complete lie.” Letsou, the Moreno spokesman, defended the campaign’s attacks. “The truth is Sherrod Brown lost because he chose to lie to Ohioans repeatedly,” the spokesman said, citing the senator’s record on issues including trans people’s involvement in athletics, border security and “endless wars” during the Biden administration. When asked whether Democrats were out of touch on cultural issues and whether more should have been done to counter GOP attacks, Brown fired back. “I’m not out of touch with those issues,” he said. “I go home. I hear people all the time. I know how they focus group and they lie. I mean, how do you call me out of touch when they lie about an issue?” Brown, who served in the House for 14 years before being elected to the Senate in 2006, has long built a populist brand aimed at courting blue-collar workers, an appeal that has been successful over the course of a political career that started nearly half a century ago in the Rust Belt state. But he says his party has fallen sharply out of step with working-class voters, starting with the enactment of NAFTA in 1994 and subsequent policy decisions. And he said the problem also stems from a failure to communicate. “Republicans put inflation totally at the feet of higher government spending. That’s not what caused inflation,” he said. “Corporate profits are up. Stock market’s up. Wages have been flat. We need to take on those interest groups that cause that. Early on in his administration, President Joe Biden attempted to reassure Americans by arguing that price hikes would be temporary, with some administration officials describing the issue as “transitory.” The president later turned away from that messaging , but high consumer costs continued to dog Democrats through November. “That’s the mistake we made,” Brown said when asked about the “transitory” messaging. CNN exit poll data shows Trump won voters without a college degree by 14 points over Harris, 56% to 42%. Four years earlier, he won the group by only 2 points over Biden. Brown says Democrats consistently miss clear opportunities to appeal to those voters. A federal judge in Texas recently struck down a Biden administration rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility for about 4 million workers. Brown said it’s an issue that Democrats should hammer Republicans over, especially since the judge was nominated by Trump. “I’m pretty angry about it,” Brown said. “As you can see, one judge denied 4 million workers in this country their overtime. We ought to be talking about that. ... And I know that very few Democrats have talked about it. And Trump and his crowd, his corporate crowd, they’re always looking out for their rich friends, hope it goes away and hope it gets ignored. “But I’m not going to let it get ignored.” CNN’s David Wright and Sheden Tesfaldet contributed to this report. The-CNN-Wire TM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

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