NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks tiptoed to more records amid a mixed Tuesday of trading, tacking a touch more onto what’s already been a stellar year so far. The S&P 500 edged up by 2 points, or less than 0.1%, to set an all-time high for the 55th time this year. It’s climbed in 10 of the last 11 days and is on track for one of its best years since the turn of the millennium. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 76 points, or 0.2%, while the Nasdaq composite added 0.4% to its own record set a day earlier. AT&T rose 4.6% after it boosted its profit forecast for the year. It also announced a $10 billion plan to send cash to its investors by buying back its own stock, while saying it expects to authorize another $10 billion of repurchases in 2027. On the losing end of Wall Street was U.S. Steel, which fell 8%. President-elect Donald Trump reiterated on social media that he would not let Japan’s Nippon Steel take over the iconic Pennsylvania steelmaker. Nippon Steel announced plans last December to buy the Pittsburgh-based steel producer for $14.1 billion in cash, raising concerns about what the transaction could mean for unionized workers, supply chains and U.S. national security. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden also came out against the acquisition. Tesla sank 1.6% after a judge in Delaware reaffirmed a previous ruling that the electric car maker must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package. The judge denied a request by attorneys for Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors to vacate her ruling earlier this year requiring the company to rescind the unprecedented pay package. All told, the S&P 500 rose 2.73 points to 6,049.88. The Dow fell 76.47 to 44,705.53, and the Nasdaq composite gained 76.96 to 19,480.91. In the bond market, Treasury yields held relatively steady after a report showed U.S. employers were advertising slightly more job openings at the end of October than a month earlier. Continued strength there would raise optimism that the economy could remain out of a recession that many investors had earlier worried was inevitable. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.23% from 4.20% from late Monday. Yields have seesawed since Election Day amid worries that Trump’s preferences for lower tax rates and bigger tariffs could spur higher inflation along with economic growth. But traders are still confident the Federal Reserve will cut its main interest rate again at its next meeting in two weeks. They’re betting on a nearly three-in-four chance of that, according to data from CME Group. Story continues below video Lower rates can give the economy more juice, but they can also give inflation more fuel. The key report this week that could guide the Fed’s next move will arrive on Friday. It’s the monthly jobs report , which will show how many workers U.S. employers hired and fired during November. It could be difficult to parse given how much storms and strikes distorted figures in October. Based on trading in the options market, Friday’s jobs report appears to be the biggest potential market mover until the Fed announces its next decision on interest rates Dec. 18, according to strategists at Barclays Capital. In financial markets abroad, the value of South Korea’s currency fell 1.1% against the U.S. dollar following a frenetic night where President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and then later said he’d lift it after lawmakers voted to reject military rule. Stocks of Korean companies that trade in the United States also fell, including a 1.6% drop for SK Telecom. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.9% to help lead global markets. Some analysts think Japanese stocks could end up benefiting from Trump’s threats to raise tariffs , including for goods coming from China . Trade relations between the U.S. and China took another step backward after China said it is banning exports to the U.S. of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications. The counterpunch came swiftly after the U.S. Commerce Department expanded the list of Chinese technology companies subject to export controls to include many that make equipment used to make computer chips, chipmaking tools and software. The 140 companies newly included in the so-called “entity list” are nearly all based in China. In China, stock indexes rose 1% in Hong Kong and 0.4% in Shanghai amid unconfirmed reports that Chinese leaders would meet next week to discuss planning for the coming year. Investors are hoping it may bring fresh stimulus to help spur growth in the world’s second-largest economy. In France, the CAC 40 rose 0.3% amid continued worries about politics in Paris , where the government is battling over the budget. AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.www 50jili net 。

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Mark Waugh could scarcely contain his surprise in Melbourne last month when it was put to him that batting in the modern age is harder than it has ever been. Harder? Hardly, he spluttered during a chat prior to a Fox Cricket photographic shoot ahead of the Border Gavaskar Trophy series beginning in Perth on Friday. Bats were bigger and their sweet spots sweeter. Ropes, rather than fences, served as the distinction between fours and sixes. Whereas back in Waugh’s day ... well, you get it. Watch every ball of Australia v India LIVE & ad-break free during play in 4K on Kayo | New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. The context surrounding the question stemmed from an answer from Australian coach Andrew McDonald a few days earlier when standing outside the MCG, near Dennis Lillee’s statue, to discuss the summer ahead. Amid discussions about the relative paucity of runs from Australia’s top order in recent seasons compared to the bountiful decade before, McDonald said conditions were tougher now. And since that discussion, a number of batters have backed the former all-rounder. Steve Smith, Australia’s “best since Bradman”, opined that an 80 now was the equivalent of a top century a few years ago. Those who have fallen in the ‘nervous 90s’ would have loved that to be the case! Usman Khawaja declared the raised seam made the ball rounder and that pitches were “more divoty” now than when he was first making his way on the Australian domestic scene. Marnus Labuschagne and co blame the modern-age Kookaburra, which has a hardier layer of lacquer to keep the brand shining brightly, along with a seam that does not fray. Matt Renshaw, who went from the reserve batter for the Australian tour of New Zealand at the end of last summer to being out of contention in the battle to replace David Warner by mid-October, agrees. The Age reported earlier this week that since 2020, captains have opted to bowl first in 98 of the 134 Sheffield Shield matches that have been played given their view that conditions for batting are more testing. The views of Fox Cricket ’s panel of experts diverge on the matter. Some are sympathetic to the plight of those wielding the willow. Others suspect a new age has brought bad habits. Ravi Shastri, who played alongside legends including Sachin Tendulkar and coached India with great success against Australia, was succinct when quizzed at the Fox Cricket launch in Melbourne on Tuesday. “Why should it get harder? It’s the quality of the batsman as well. If the batting line up is good, you should get runs,” he said. Waugh, who made batting look easy in even the most testing of conditions when in full flight, granted a concession once he had picked himself back up off the floor of the Pullman Hotel. It was only a marginal one, though, with the Australian great stating that perhaps batters were finding it more difficult now because there was a touch more spice in the pitches. “I would say (over) the past couple of years, the pitches actually have had a bit more in them for the quicker bowler, the last two seasons,” he told foxsports.com.au. “Before that, I think the pitches were pretty bland. Is it harder to make runs these days? They have got bigger bats and smaller boundaries and the DRS, which I think favours the batters. “There is always something that is not quite right with the delivery. It might be too high. Or it has hit him outside the line. I don’t know. I will probably rub up the modern day players the wrong way if I said it was easier now than when we played. You still have to play well. “But I would say the last couple of seasons in Australia, in particular, the pitches have had a bit more in them for the quicker bowlers, who would be pretty happy about that, because we did see some bland pitches in the years before that. I think it is a good balance at the moment.” Having faced the fast and furious pace of West Indian legends during their reign of terror, Allan Border could be forgiven for making a point of order or two about how good today’s generations have it. The former Australian skipper said he relied on his memory and the nous of his bowlers when plotting a plan to undo opposition stars in domestic and international cricket. In an era where the Walkman was considered peak technology, cricketers relied on the eye to decipher a flaw. But with the explosion in matches screened around the world and the remarkable advance in analytics, every tic from the time a batter is most likely to scratch their nose to the delivery they are most prone to getting out to is available for anyone who wants it. As a case in point, Kayo Sports has unveiled HyperLayer technology that will be used throughout the Border Gavaskar Trophy Series. It will provide subscribers with the most comprehensive insights yet seen in cricket. Unlike traditional ball speed measurements, HyperLayer uses six cameras tracking at 250 frames per second to capture every phase of the ball’s journey — from bowler to pitch to batter. Across an estimated 540 deliveries each day of Test cricket, the setup produces 810,000 frames of data daily, unlocking unprecedented levels of detail and analytical depth, not just for the current season but also with historical data, a Foxtel release noted this week . It is only part of a new series of technological advancements being used in the broadcast. And Border believes the advancements are making life far harder for batters. “There’s so much homework done on you as a batsman, about where to bowl,” he said. “That used to come more naturally with captains. You’d remember people and go, ‘Oh, this guy. He’s good on the off-side. He’s going to go through the covers.’ Or whatever it was. You instinctively knew. “But now there’s so much footage of you batting on all sorts of services, against all sorts of bowlers, so you’re analysed. So from that point of view, yes, (it is harder).” Ashes winning English captain Michael Vaughan said the superb quality of those delivering the ball should not be underestimated either. The Australian attack is arguably the most complete cricket has seen, with all four front-line bowlers securing at least 250 Test wickets leading into the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Vaughan, too, rates stand-in Indian skipper Jasprit Bumrah as arguably the world’s premier bowler given his brilliance in all three formats. It is, he said, part of a broader trend. “I think we forget to mention that there is an era, or a generation, of really good skilful bowlers who have played in the last few years. In terms of seam bowlers and pace, there are plenty of (good bowlers) out there across the world,” he said. “You could argue there is not quite as much spin as there was back in the days. But I think in terms of the quality of the seam that these players are facing, we almost skip a generation to think the old boys, the old players, are better than they are now, because I think what we have seen across the last few years some are outstanding seam bowlers across all the different types of attacks around the world.” Vaughan suspects the massive growth of white ball cricket has had an impact. Philosophies associated with Test cricket have changed as well. ‘Bazball’ is referenced so often it has become a cliche. India likes to put the foot forward, and to the floor, in Tests. Strike rates seem to have become as important as averages when considering a batter in the eyes of some. “I guess the way that the game is played now, which is more on the front foot to try and score and to be a bit more aggressive, that throws the mentality in terms of not seeing off a bowler or not seeing off a spell or not seeing off a moving ball,” Vaughan said. “They all try to score and get on top of the bowlers, which I guess brings opportunities for the bowlers and the fielding side. But I do think we have had a few years where bowling has been exceptional. There has been a real quality of bowling attacks around the world and that makes it quite difficult for the batters.”

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ORCHARD PARK — Taylor Rapp had some extra energy as he ripped off his red No. 9 practice jersey after practice Thursday. The non-contact jersey he was wearing the last few weeks was a necessity as he nursed an ailing neck and shoulder injury. Rapp declined to discuss the exact nature of his injury, but it was enough to keep him out of the last two games. When Rapp dressed for practice Friday, he didn’t put the red jersey back on, instead returning to the defensive white uniform. Officially listed as questionable, Rapp’s return would provide a boost to the Buffalo Bills secondary — as should the return of cornerback Rasul Douglas — as the safety has emerged as the conductor on the back end. To decipher Rapp’s value, look no further than the games the Bills have allowed the most passing yards. Rapp was playing injured or out in four of the five games Buffalo allowed more than 250 yards through the air, including the last three games. It’s a flip from where Rapp was a year ago, serving as the team’s third safety on third downs after signing with the team on a prove-it, one-year $1.77 million contract. “From a safety perspective, across the league, this is definitely one of the harder systems and schemes,” Rapp told GNN Sports. “Just being able to get that first year under my belt to learn from guys like Micah (Hyde) and (Jordan Poyer), some of the best to ever do it in this system. Just having that first year under my belt to get comfortable and keep it moving.” Is simply winning a game no longer enough for #Bills fans? How much goodwill can the #Sabres get back after a 13-game losing streak? And just how much coal did @billhoppe.bsky.social get in his stocking? fireside.fm/episode/sMvb... Last week’s 253 passing yards allowed to rookie quarterback Drake Maye and the New England Patriots marked the first time the Bills have allowed 250 yards in three consecutive games since 2020. They have never had four such games in Sean McDermott’s eight seasons as head coach. Now the Bills get the New York Jets and quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who despite dropping 10 of their 12 games, has thrown for over 250 yards in three consecutive games, the first time he’s done so since December 2021. . Having Rapp in the lineup gives the Bills a playmaker who has two interceptions, two tackles for a loss and a forced fumble. Typically the Bills are among the best in the league in limiting opposing playmakers. The brand of defense Buffalo plays is designed to limit long passing plays and the Bills have allowed just eight passes over 30 yards, second in the NFL to the Green Bay Packers. But the Bills have given up three passing plays over 50 yards after allowing one in the previous two seasons combined and two over 60 for just the second time (2021) under McDermott. But the Bills view it as a communication issue rather than a decline in talent. All five Week 1 starters in the secondary have missed at least one game due to injury, with cornerback Christian Benford being the only player not to miss more than one. The Bills played without three starters in back-to-back weeks, while slot cornerback Taron Johnson missed parts of last week's game while being assessed for a concussion and safety Damar Hamlin (rib) is questionable to miss a third consecutive game after wearing a red non-contact jersey all week. “Just hone in on the details,” Rapp said. “It always starts with the details. ... Honing in on the game plan, knowing what you’re supposed to do and knowing your job.” The 41-year-old Rodgers is tasked with facing the Bills defense with his blindside protected by New York’s third-string left tackle. It may seem like a game for the Buffalo pass rush to feast, but the Jets will surely have a plan. Rodgers already has the fourth-quickest release in the NFL this season, getting the ball out in 2.64 seconds on average. Buffalo held him to 2.71 seconds in the 23-20 Week 6 win, but the Jets have added receiver Davante Adams since then. The Bills have struggled with quarterbacks with quick release this season. Opposing quarterbacks are unloading in 2.68 seconds this season, faster than the league average of 2.8. Nearly half of passing attempts against the Bills have left the quarterback’s hand in 2.5 seconds or faster and they are completing 76.7% on those throws.The Bills are allowing 7 yards per attempt on those throws, up from 6.3 on throws over 2.5 seconds. Buffalo hasn’t been able to get to the quarterback on quick-release throws, with seven of its 34 sacks coming on attempts longer than 2.5 seconds. Often the only hope on those plays is to knock passes down, but the Bills don’t have any batted balls on quick throws this season. “We’re expecting a lot of quick throws, a lot of timing things to get him in rhythm and try to get us to second-guess ourselves,” Bills defensive end A.J. Epenesa said. “But if we can keep a one-track mind and keep getting after him, I think we can get to him.” Keeping running back Breece Hall in check should help the Bills put Rodgers in more positions to hold the ball a little longer. But an offense that ranks 31st in the NFL with 88.7 yards rushing per game put up 121 on the Bills in the first matchup. And even if the Bills can make the Jets pass reliant, they must do a better job closing out games defensively. Buffalo has one fourth-quarter sack since Week 10 — it came last week on a bad snap — and they have not had an interception in the final frame since picking off Patrick Mahomes to seal a Week 11 win. Opposing quarterbacks have gone 31 of 38 for 357 yards and four touchdowns the past three games. Not only does the defense know it’s going to be a passing play when playing from behind late in the game, but the offense knows the defense is rushing four and dropping seven in coverage to prevent big plays. “It’s not like we’re hiding what we’re doing,” Epenesa said. “They do certain things to help protect, whether it’s chipping, mixing up protection plans, bringing people in and out from different formations to block. It’s just us trying to get on our stuff and get after it.” The Bills have no chance at the No.1 seed in the AFC after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Houston Texans on Wednesday. They are now focused on the No. 2 and just need a win over the Jets to clinch it for the third consecutive season. If the Bills don’t beat the Jets, it likely puts them in a position to have to play the Patriots without resting starters in the regular season finale. It would also squander an attempt to go 6-0 in the AFC East for the first time since 2020 and finish with an unbeaten home slate for the first time since 1990. “That's a precedent that (McDermott) sets early on from everybody that gets here of defending our dirt and making sure that that's one of the best ways to help yourselves get in the playoffs, is being a good team at your home field,” Bills quarterback Josh Allen said. S Damar Hamlin (rib), DB Cam Lewis (shoulder), S Taylor Rapp (neck/shoulder) and WR Curtis Samuel (rib) are questionable to play Sunday.

Alex Jones’ bankruptcy judge orders new hearing on The Onion’s Infowars bid(Reuters) - A FIFA sub-committee report on Qatar's 2022 World Cup legacy said soccer's world governing body has a responsibility to compensate migrant workers but the organisation has not acted on a recommendation to do that by using its legacy fund. The report prepared by the FIFA Sub-Committee on Human Rights & Social Responsibility looked into a request made at the FIFA Congress by the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF), who asked what steps FIFA might take to compensate workers. FIFA launched a $50 million legacy fund this week for social programmes but was criticised by Amnesty International for not doing anything for families of migrant workers who died or were exploited when building Qatar's stadiums for the World Cup. The Middle Eastern country has denied that workers were exploited. "There are workers who have contributed to the resounding success of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 who have not yet benefited from any, or any adequate, remediation," said the report, which was published 11 months after it was submitted. "Whilst the main responsibility to rectify such shortcomings lies with the direct employers of these workers as well as with the Government of Qatar... FIFA too has a responsibility to take additional measures to contribute to the provision of remedy to these workers." The report said many "human rights impacts" occurred in Qatar from 2010-2022 for workers, including deaths, injuries, wages not being paid for months and debt faced by workers and their families reimbursing fees they paid to obtain jobs. "The due diligence measures put in place by FIFA and its partners did not prevent these severe impacts from occurring," it added. FAIR COMPENSATION "The report provides clear guidelines to FIFA on what constitutes effective and fair restitution to ensure migrant workers get the compensation they are entitled to," NFF president Lise Klaveness said. "FIFA must now implement the recommendations in the report and ensure that migrant workers who contributed to the World Cup are fairly compensated." FIFA said all reports and recommendations were considered during a comprehensive review. "While all recommendations could not be met, practical and impactful elements were retained. It should be noted that the study did not specifically constitute a legal assessment of the obligation to remedy," a FIFA spokesperson told Reuters. The spokesperson added that the creation of the legacy fund was "unanimously endorsed" by the FIFA Council while a Workers' Support and Insurance Fund was established in Qatar in 2018. At the World Cup in Doha, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the Workers' Support and Insurance Fund had provided compensation of more than $350 million to workers in cases mainly related to non-payment of wages. Amnesty and other rights groups had led calls for FIFA to compensate migrant workers for human rights abuses by setting aside $440 million, matching the World Cup prize money. (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers formally asked a judge Monday to throw out his hush money criminal conviction , arguing continuing the case would present unconstitutional “disruptions to the institution of the Presidency.“ In a filing made public Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers told Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan that dismissal is warranted because of the “overwhelming national mandate granted to him by the American people on November 5, 2024.” They also cited President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted of tax and gun charges . “President Biden asserted that his son was ‘selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,’ and ‘treated differently,’" Trump’s legal team wrote. The Manhattan district attorney, they claimed, engaged in the type of political theater "that President Biden condemned.” Prosecutors will have until Dec. 9 to respond. They have said they will fight any efforts to dismiss the case but indicated a willingness to delay the sentencing until after Trump’s second term ends in 2029. In their filing Monday, Trump's attorneys dismissed the idea of holding off sentencing until Trump is out of office as a “ridiculous suggestion.” Following Trump’s election victory last month, Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed his sentencing, previously scheduled for late November, to allow the defense and prosecution to weigh in on the future of the case. He also delayed a decision on Trump’s prior bid to dismiss the case on immunity grounds. Trump has been fighting for months to reverse his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to suppress her claim that they had sex a decade earlier. He says they did not and denies wrongdoing. Taking a swipe at Bragg and New York City, as Trump often did throughout the trial, the filing argues that dismissal would also benefit the public by giving him and “the numerous prosecutors assigned to this case a renewed opportunity to put an end to deteriorating conditions in the City and to protect its residents from violent crime.” Clearing Trump, the lawyers added, also would allow him to “to devote all of his energy to protecting the Nation.” The defense filing was signed by Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who represented Trump during the trial and since were selected by the president-elect to fill senior roles at the Justice Department. A dismissal would erase Trump’s historic conviction, sparing him the cloud of a criminal record and possible prison sentence. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime and the first convicted criminal to be elected to the office. Trump takes office Jan. 20. Merchan hasn’t set a timetable for a decision. Merchan could also decide to uphold the verdict and proceed to sentencing, delay the case until Trump leaves office, wait until a federal appeals court rules on Trump’s parallel effort to get the case moved out of state court or choose some other option. Prosecutors cast the payout as part of a Trump-driven effort to keep voters from hearing salacious stories about him. Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels. Trump later reimbursed him, and Trump’s company logged the reimbursements as legal expenses — concealing what they really were, prosecutors alleged. Trump pledged to appeal the verdict if the case is not dismissed. He and his lawyers said the payments to Cohen were properly categorized as legal expenses for legal work. A month after the verdict, the Supreme Court ruled that ex-presidents can’t be prosecuted for official acts — things they did in the course of running the country — and that prosecutors can’t cite those actions to bolster a case centered on purely personal, unofficial conduct. Trump’s lawyers cited the ruling to argue that the hush money jury got some improper evidence, such as Trump’s presidential financial disclosure form, testimony from some White House aides and social media posts made during his first term. Prosecutors disagreed and said the evidence in question was only “a sliver” of their case. If the verdict stands and the case proceeds to sentencing, Trump’s punishments would range from a fine to probation to up to four years in prison — but it’s unlikely he’d spend any time behind bars for a first-time conviction involving charges in the lowest tier of felonies. Because it is a state case, Trump would not be able to pardon himself once he returns to office. Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes.

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That jumbled up the pairings and made a strong case for tinkering in the future. Some possible tweaks, like reseeding after the first round or not giving conference champions automatic byes, would have resulted in a vastly different tournament this year, Belichick says he's had 'good conversations' with UNC chancellor amid Tar Heels' coaching search Former New England Patriots coach and six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick says he had “a couple of good conversations” with North Carolina Chancellor Lee Roberts amid his discussions about the Tar Heels’ head-coaching job. Belichick appeared on ESPN's “The Pat McAfee Show" on Monday. He said he had spent the 11 months since his departure from the Patriots taking a “longer look” at the college level. He said he had learned a lot and had “a couple of good conversations" with Roberts. UNC fired the program's all-time winningest coach in Mack Brown last month. 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Another final-second victory puts the Chiefs in prime spot to secure AFC's No. 1 seed: Analysis A thunderous doink helped the Kansas City Chiefs gain some breathing room in the race for the No. 1 seed in the AFC after the Buffalo Bills fell short despite Josh Allen’s spectacular performance. The fight for the top spot in the NFC stayed close as the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles kept pace with the Detroit Lions. Four weeks remain in the NFL regular season to determine the playoff picture. There’s a clear leader in the fight for the AFC’s bye. The two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs are 12-1 and in excellent position to secure home-field advantage throughout the playoffs after a 19-17 win with a last-second field goal over the Los Angeles Chargers. No. 19 Tennessee back in women's AP Top 25 after year out of poll; UCLA, UConn remain 1-2 Tennessee is back in the AP Top 25 at No. 19, ending the school’s longest drought in the 48-year history of the women’s basketball poll. The Lady Vols (7-0) had not been ranked since Nov. 27, 2023, a span of 22 polls. Since the rankings began in 1976, Tennessee has been in the Top 25 in 779 of 870 total weeks. UCLA, UConn and South Carolina remain the top three teams and Oklahoma has cracked the top 10. Georgia Tech and N.C. State entered the rankings while Illinois, Louisville and Alabama fell out. College football transfer portal opens as Oklahoma's Arnold, other top players look for a move The college football transfer portal has opened a day after the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff field was released. The portal period closes on Dec. 28. Oklahoma QB Jackson Arnold, Texas State running back Ismail Mahdi, Miami (Ohio) wide receiver Reggie Virgil and Ohio State QB Devin Brown were among the first players who entered the portal. The sophomore Arnold passed for 1,984 yards with 16 touchdowns and six interceptions and ran for 560 yards and four scores at Oklahoma. Mahdi led the nation with 2,169 all-purpose yards last season. Brown entered the transfer portal after three years as a backup. Saquon Barkley is chasing Eric Dickerson's NFL season rushing record. Can he do it? PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley is closing in on the NFL season rushing record. Barkley set the Eagles' franchise record when he rushed for 124 yards and pushed his season total to 1,623 yards in a win against Carolina. Barkley also maintained his pace to break Eric Dickerson’s NFL single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards, set in 1984 with the Los Angeles Rams. Barkley is averaging 124.8 yards per game. At that pace and with one more game to play than Dickerson had, Barkley would become the top single-season rusher in NFL history. He needs 483 yards over the final four games to top Dickerson’s 40-year-old record. Barkley is on pace for 2,122 yards, just 17 yards beyond Dickerson’s 2,105 total.AP Business SummaryBrief at 1:15 p.m. EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Quarterback Carson Beck's status for No. 2 Georgia's Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal is uncertain after he suffered an elbow injury in Saturday's Southeastern Conference championship game win over Texas. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * ATLANTA (AP) — Quarterback Carson Beck's status for No. 2 Georgia's Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal is uncertain after he suffered an elbow injury in Saturday's Southeastern Conference championship game win over Texas. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? ATLANTA (AP) — Quarterback Carson Beck’s status for No. 2 Georgia’s Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal is uncertain after he suffered an elbow injury in Saturday’s Southeastern Conference championship game win over Texas. Georgia announced Monday there is no timetable on Beck’s return as he and his family explore treatment options. Georgia coach Kirby Smart said Sunday the team was awaiting results of tests. The school did not announce details of the injury in Monday’s announcement. Beck was injured on the final play of the first half in the Bulldogs’ 22-19 overtime win over Texas on Saturday. Beck made a dramatic return to the field for the handoff on the game-winning play. Beck was needed after backup Gunner Stockton had his helmet knocked off, forcing him to leave the game for one play. Beck’s injury was to his right (throwing) arm. Even though he was able to take the snap and hand off to Trevor Etienne for the running back’s decisive 4-yard touchdown run, Beck was unable to raise his right arm. Smart said Sunday that Beck attended the team meeting for the CFP draw announcement. “He was pretty somber,” Smart said. “It was a tough deal for him in terms of not being able to go out there and finish in the second half.” Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Georgia announced punter Brett Thorson will need season-ending surgery after injuring his non-kicking leg against Texas. “Carson and Brett are both fierce competitors and extremely hard workers,” Smart said in a statement released by the school. “I’m confident they will attack their rehab with the same determination they exhibit in their daily habits. We will be here to support them every step of the way.” Stockton would be the likely starter if Beck can’t return for the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl. Stockton completed 12 of 16 passes for 71 yards with one interception against Texas. ___ 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 Advertisement Advertisement

Caparello signs on, Jets announce new recruitGrading the Giants’ 30-7 loss to the Buccaneers at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. Offense Forget about any of the final stats, which look bad but not embarrassing. This was abominable. Three first downs and 45 total yards in the first half. Everyone knew Todd Bowles would blitz like crazy — everyone but the offensive line, apparently. Tommy DeVito (21 of 31, 189 yards) was overwhelmed in the first half. He was sacked four times in the game. Rookie Tyrone Tracy (9-42) had another costly fumble — it is becoming a problem. Malik Nabers (6-64) was not targeted in the first half, had some drops and is growing frustrated . No catches (only two targets) for Darius Slayton. C John Michael Schmitz was obliterated by Vita Vea on a second-quarter sack. LT Jermaine Eluemunor (quad) went out early. Daniel Jones clearly wasn’t the only problem, was he? Grade: F Defense Oh, there goes another missed tackle by the Gang That Couldn’t Wrap Up. High school teams get ballcarriers to the ground better than this. Baker Mayfield (24 of 30, 294 yards) ran for a TD and then mocked the Giants with DeVito’s signature hand gesture. To the victors go the taunting. Bucky Irving (12-87) led a 156-yard rushing attack. A missed tackle by Bobby Okereke set up the first Bucs TD. Okereke did force a fumble on Sean Tucker that forced Tampa to settle for a field goal. Tyler Nubin had a nice pass breakup on Mike Evans in the first quarter but the rookie safety whiffed several times. An illegal-contact penalty on Deonte Banks led to a Bucs TD. Banks seemed content to allow receivers to catch the ball in front of him and then try to make the tackle. Adoree’ Jackson blatantly dragged down Evans for a 23-yard pass interference penalty. D.J. Davidson had a fumble recovery. Grade: F Special Teams Jamie Gillan’s first punt put the Bucs back on their 16-yard line. His next punt sailed 53 yards and out of bounds on the Tampa 18. He put three down inside the 20. Good kickoff coverage to pin the Bucs back on their 2-yard line. No field goal attempts for the Giants. Grade: B Coaching If we hear “We had a good week of practice’’ one more time we’re going to have to throw something against the wall. Whatever Brian Daboll is selling, his players aren’t buying — and it is getting worse. It smacked of desperation to see Daboll go for it on fourth-and-1 on the Giants 37 late in the first quarter. As for defensive coordinator Shane Bowen, what exactly is his unit good at doing? Tackling is terrible, pass rush is suspect and stopping the run is optional. Grade: F

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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday decided to constitute a high-powered commission to settle land disputes between warring tribes in Kurram district amid a prevalent tense situation that saw 18 killed in fresh clashes. Efforts were underway today with a jirga meeting held to restore peace in Kurram district as 18 more people were killed and another 30 injured in fresh clashes. The violence followed Thursday’s deadly attack , when a convoy of around 200 vehicles came under heavy gunfire in Kurram’s densely populated Bagan town, killing at least 43 people and injuring 16 others. The convoy was carrying passengers between Peshawar and Parachi­nar city, which is in Kurram, a district near the Afghanistan border with a history of sectarian violence and land disputes. Kurram District Health Officer Dr Qaisar Abbas confirmed the casualties to Dawn.com , adding that nine patients would be referred to Peshawar by air ambulance as they were in serious condition. The KP government sent a high-level delegation to Kurram to improve the security situation in the area, comprising KP Law Minister Aftab Alam, KP Chief Secretary (CS) Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, the Kohat Division commissioner and deputy inspector general of police, and other high-level officials. The delegation was tasked to take measures to improve the security situation and also make efforts to utilise the local jirga for the purpose. Alam said that recommendations would be forwarded to the chief minister. He said that all departments were making tireless efforts to improve the law and order situation in Kurram. Talking to Dawn.com after a jirga meeting comprising high-level officials, Alam said: “KP government [has] decided to constitute a high-powered commission to settle land disputes among the warring tribes in Kurram.” He said a government delegation held a meeting with and spoke to various stakeholders in Kurram, saying that the biggest issue in the district was land disputes. “There were very positive meetings with one stakeholder group and the government delegation was assured of cooperation. “A report will be made on all the incidents taking place in Kurram and presented to the chief minister and other senior officials,” he said. Alam said a new high-level commission would be established to resolve the Kurram disputes since all commissions and committees previously formed were not acceptable to any of the parties. “This time, the commission will be formed according to the wishes of the parties,” he said, adding that it would be acceptable to everyone. Alam said the land disputes between the various groups in Kurram were being given the colour of sectarian riots, adding that it was wrong to do so. The provincial law minister said the report on Kurram’s issues would also be presented in a meeting of the apex committee. Meanwhile, KP government spokesperson Barrister Dr Muhammad Ali Saif said the government delegation held a jirga with district elders on KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s instructions. “Efforts are being made to resolve all issues amicably to end the tension. Detailed meetings were held with Shia leaders today, positive discussions were held to resolve the issues. Meetings will also be held with Sunni leaders in the next phase,” he said. Saif added that the government’s first priority was to establish a ceasefire between the warring sides and establish lasting peace. “The KP CM has clear instructions that all issues should be resolved through dialogue.” Sajid Hussain Turi, a former PPP MNA from Kurram and one of the meeting’s participants, told Dawn.com after the jirga that KP Inspector General of Police (IG) Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur, CS Chaudhry and others attended the jirga meeting. He lamented that the security provided to the convoy that was attacked was less than the required amount. Turi said another round of talks was scheduled for tomorrow, with provincial government officials, military officials and others expected to attend. “The jirga came to a decision that they will discuss with the chief minister, the corps commander and the federal government,” Turi said. “It is very important to have both sides present.” He added that there was a jirga being planned in lower Kurram, but maintained that there needed to be a ceasefire for that to happen. “We have been very clear, we will not do anything without a ceasefire,” he said. “We have ceased fire from our side.” He said the KP chief secretary, Barrister Saif, Alam, KP IG and brigade commander would also attend tomorrow’s meeting. Turi did not confirm if CM Gandapur would be present. “The government needs to ensure that there is peace like there was five years ago,” Turi added. “We will not do anything without a peaceful environment.” He added that the above was a key demand from local residents in the region. “The locals’ biggest demand is peace and safety,” he said. “Locals have demanded that we open roads. The locals want the roads opened and the state responsible for their security.” According to Turi, all roads in the district were currently closed. He added that the Turi tribe was “open to negotiations, but will not negotiate with the TTP (Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan) or Daesh (Islamic State)”, mentioning that they have a presence in lower and central Kurram. Turi added that there were no demands for the withdrawal of army or Rangers personnel. When asked if he was in contact with CM Gandapur, Turi replied that Barrister Saif said he would speak with the chief minister. He added that he already had channels of communication open with the corps commander. Turi continued, “We will speak with the interior ministry, so far they have not indicated that they will come to KP.” He said the Turi and Bangash tribes were part of today’s talks. Kurram Deputy Commissioner (DC) Javedullah Mehsud said efforts were being made to re-establish peace in the area, reiterating yesterday’s statement. DC Mehsud said officials of security forces and local administration attended the meeting convened at the DC Conference Hall. “With the help of local elders, forces and the administration, peace will be established as soon as possible,” the official said. According to witnesses, the vehicles in Thursday’s attack were ambushed from four sides. Muhammad, a 14-year-old survivor, told Dawn that the assault lasted around 30 minutes. Authorities said that the victims included seven women and three children, with 16 others injured — 11 of whom are in critical condition. Sajid Kazmi, a leader of Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen, demanded the formation of a joint investigation team (JIT) to investigate the attack. No group had immediately claimed responsibility for the incident. Speculation also surrounds the involvement of the TTP, which has recently been active in Lower Kurram, prompting fears among the residents. But government officials attributed the incident to the ongoing land dispute, ruling out sectarian motives. A press release issued from CM Gandapur’s office said that he held an online meeting via video link with the government delegation after the jirga and reviewed the current situation in the district while being briefed on today’s developments. The government delegation also presented its initial report to the chief minister. It informed the chief minister about the suggestions and demands of the Shia elders it met today, adding that a similar meeting would be held with Sunni elders on Sunday. “The provincial government is making serious efforts for a peaceful and sustainable solution to the Kurram conflict. I am personally monitoring the situation in Kurram,” CM Gandapur said, adding that Thursday’s incident was “extremely regrettable and condemnable” and he shared in the grief of the affected families. “Efforts are being made to ensure that such tragic incidents do not recur. The provincial government will decide the future course of action in the light of consultation with the elders of the area. “Whatever the legitimate demands of the parties are will definitely be fulfilled. The government delegation should sit with the parties and the elders of the area and present final proposals,” he said. CM Gandapur stressed that a ceasefire in the area was indispensable to move towards resolving the conflict and urged all parties to observe one so that progress could be made towards ending current tensions. “Regional elders and elders should fully cooperate with the government delegation and local administration in this regard. Establishing peace in the region is the top priority of the provincial government at present, all available options will be utilised for this purpose. “Negotiation is the best way to resolve all issues, we will find a peaceful solution to the issue through a jirga,” he was quoted as saying by the statement. Earlier today, reports circulated in the media about an alleged firing attack on the government delegation’s helicopter in Parachinar, causing it to land. A statement was also issued from the KP governor’s office condemning the alleged incident. However, Alam told Dawn.com that the news was “baseless” and nothing of the sort happened. “No such incident has occurred. The news of the firing on the helicopter is false. The government delegation, including me, is safe,” he said. Turi, who was also aboard the helicopter, similarly denied any firing incident to Dawn.com . According to him, the reports of a firing incident were entirely baseless and a product of propaganda spread by news channels without proper authentication. Businesses, educational institutions and markets remained closed across Parachinar and surrounding areas on Friday. An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that mobile signals across the Kurram district had been shut down, describing the situation as “extremely tense”. The official also said a curfew had been “imposed on the main road connecting Upper and Lower Kurram”. Thousands of people participated in a sit-in in Parachinar, where protesters criticised the government’s failure to protect civilians. Hundreds also demonstrated in Lahore and Karachi. Funerals for the victims, including journalist Janan Hussain, a member of the Parachinar Press Club, were held in their respective villages before Friday prayers. Hussain had recently returned from Malaysia. The attack was widely condemned, including by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari, as well as political parties . Previous clashes in July and September had claimed dozens of lives and were resolved only after tribal councils brokered ceasefires. Additional input from APP.

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www 50jili tv BRP Inc. executives said the Ski-Doo maker needs to stay calm in the face of tariffs proposed by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump — tariffs that could hurt a manufacturer that depends on Mexican production. "I don't think we should overreact right now," chief financial officer Sébastien Martel told analysts on a conference call Friday. "We should not speculate too much, because there are hundreds of different possibilities." Last month, the incoming president threw markets into turmoil when he threatened to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico. Trump also proposed a 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports. Some 70 per cent of BRP's production stems from Mexico, Martel said. The company also churns out Ski-Doo snowmobiles and some of its Can-Am three-wheeled motorcycles at a factory in Valcourt, Que. He stressed the advantage of Mexico's lower labour costs as well as its skilled workforce and the benefits of a North American free trade agreement. "We believe we would not be the same company had we not had that footprint in Mexico," Martel said. Roughly 10 per cent of BRP's goods are sourced from China, Martel noted, adding that those parts are "less technically complex." "There are parts that we could easily transfer to another supplier," he said. "Obviously, it would require work." Many observers have framed Trump's tariff threat as a gambit to gain negotiating leverage, rather than an announcement set in stone. "We are used to dealing with evolving trade agreements and have always succeeded in finding solutions to new tariffs," said CEO José Boisjoli. National Bank analyst Cameron Doerksen said the "uncertainty on this issue" remains a problem. "With the return of the Trump administration, the risk of tariffs on powersports imports into the U.S. market has risen materially, with BRP potentially vulnerable," he said in a note to investors. The uncertainty over tariffs could hardly come at a worse time for the company. BRP saw earnings plunge across all product lines amid dropping demand last quarter, capping off a tough year for the recreational vehicle manufacturer. Net income at the Sea-Doo maker fell 70 per cent year-over-year to $27.3 million in the quarter ended Oct. 31. Third-quarter revenue decreased 17 per cent to $1.96 billion. "Our retail performance was as anticipated, reflecting a challenging market dynamic due to soft industry trends," Boisjoli said, stating that discounts from competitors added to the company's woes. A slow start to the snowmobile season has not helped either. "The snow is a bit late, but now it’s catching up. And we expect good retail this season," Boisjoli said, adding that Ski-Doo sales over the next three months remain a "big question." After an urge for outdoor activity sparked a sales boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, buyers responded to inflation and interest rate hikes by pulling back from pricey recreational purchases. BRP's revenues have fallen year-over-year for eight straight quarters. Last month, the company laid off more than 120 employees in its home province of Quebec. The cuts followed some 1,150 layoffs across North America earlier this year, leaving it with roughly 20,000 workers globally. In October, BRP put its marine businesses up for sale as it looks to focus on powersports products and cut the cable to its money-losing boat brands. Nonetheless, its diluted earnings of $1.16 per share beat analysts' expectations of 69 cents, according to financial markets firm LSEG Data & Analytics. The performance boosted BRP's stock price seven per cent; it closed at $72.75 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Friday. The company forecast that sales of seasonal products such as Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos will fall by more than 30 per cent this year. The category accounted for a third of BRP revenues last quarter. It predicted sales of all-terrain vehicles and other year-round products — comprising more than half of revenue in the quarter — will drop by more than 20 per cent. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 6, 2024. Companies in this story: (TSX:DOO) Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian PressWolf Hall restores dignity to Anne of Cleves by flipping the script on Henry VIII in vital way

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) announced Friday that she is running to be her party’s ranking member on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, becoming the latest Democrat to challenge a more senior member for a leadership role in the new Congress. As the party moves to shake up its leadership in the next term, some Democrats are making efforts to turn over an aging cohort of leaders. In recent days, the caucus’s ranking members on the Judiciary and Natural Resources committees have stepped aside after younger colleagues mounted challenges to them.NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees slugger Aaron Judge wins his second AL MVP award after leading MLB with 58 home runs.

Schlumberger Ltd. stock underperforms Thursday when compared to competitors despite daily gainsDENVER — Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colorado, refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl that they are not pursuing. JonBenet Ramsey, who competed in beauty pageants, was found dead in the basement of her family's home in the college town of Boulder the day after Christmas in 1996. Her body was found several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note was left behind. The gravesite of JonBenet Ramsey is covered with flowers Jan. 8, 1997, at St. James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, Ga. JonBenet was bludgeoned and strangled. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever prosecuted. The details of the crime and video footage of JonBenet competing in pageants propelled the case into one of the highest-profile mysteries in the United States. The police comments came as part of their annual update on the investigation, a month before the 28th anniversary of JonBenet's killing. Police said they released it a little earlier due to the increased attention on the case, apparently referring to the three-part Netflix series "Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey." In a video statement, Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn said the department welcomes news coverage and documentaries about the killing of JonBenet, who would have been 34 this year, as a way to generate possible new leads. He said the department is committed to solving the case but needs to be careful about what it shares about the investigation to protect a possible future prosecution. "What I can tell you though, is we have thoroughly investigated multiple people as suspects throughout the years and we continue to be open-minded about what occurred as we investigate the tips that come in to detectives," he said. The Netflix documentary focuses on the mistakes made by police and the "media circus" surrounding the case. A police officer sits in her cruiser Jan. 3, 1997, outside the home in which 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered Dec. 26, 1996, in Boulder, Colo. Police were widely criticized for mishandling the early investigation into her death amid speculation that her family was responsible. However, a prosecutor cleared her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and brother Burke in 2008 based on new DNA evidence from JonBenet's clothing that pointed to the involvement of an "unexplained third party" in her slaying. The announcement by former district attorney Mary Lacy came two years after Patsy Ramsey died of cancer. Lacy called the Ramseys "victims of this crime." John Ramsey continued to speak out for the case to be solved. In 2022, he supported an online petition asking Colorado's governor to intervene in the investigation by putting an outside agency in charge of DNA testing in the case. In the Netflix documentary, he said he advocated for several items that were not prepared for DNA testing to be tested and for other items to be retested. He said the results should be put through a genealogy database. In recent years, investigators identified suspects in unsolved cases by comparing DNA profiles from crime scenes and to DNA testing results shared online by people researching their family trees. In 2021, police said in their annual update that DNA hadn't been ruled out to help solve the case, and in 2022 noted that some evidence could be "consumed" if DNA testing is done on it. Last year, police said they convened a panel of outside experts to review the investigation to give recommendations and determine if updated technologies or forensic testing might produce new leads. In the latest update, Redfearn said that review ended but police continue to work through and evaluate a "lengthy list of recommendations" from the panel. Receive the latest in local entertainment news in your inbox weekly!

Antonio Daniels suggests Kristaps Porzingis returning for the Celtics is a cheat code: “He is literally the perfect compliment to finish out that Boston 5”Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The jury in Daniel Penny's manslaughter case may have been deadlocked, but Phil Mickelson's opinion is clear. The 54-year-old golfer shared a post from political commentator Collin Rugg on X that called Penny a "model citizen...that every mayor of every city should want more of," a "hero" and a "breed of young men who are becoming less and less common." Before the most serious charge was dismissed, Penny was on trial for second-degree manslaughter for killing Jordan Neely after placing him in a chokehold on a subway. Neely died later on. Phil Mickelson and Daniel Penny (Imagn I AP Newsroom) Mickelson agreed with Rugg's words. "Agree. Thank you Daniel for serving your country and for protecting the many passengers whose lives were threatened by this violent and deranged individual," Mickelson wrote . Despite the jury being deadlocked, the judge sent jurors back to deliberate more Friday morning, but they told the court shortly after 3 p.m. they still could not reach a unanimous decision. Phil Mickelson during a practice round before The 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon July 15, 2024, in Troon, Scotland. (Pedro Salado/Getty Images) The judge initially ruled the jury could not deliberate on the second charge unless they found Penny not guilty of manslaughter for some reason other than that the chokehold was justified. However, after jurors said they were deadlocked a second time, Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran asked to have the most serious charge dismissed to allow the jury to debate the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, which carries a maximum punishment of four years in prison. The charge requires prosecutors to prove Penny acted with recklessness when he grabbed Jordan Neely in a chokehold. Neely barged onto the train while high on drugs, threatening to kill passengers during a psychotic episode, according to trial testimony. Neely was a 30-year-old with schizophrenia who said someone was going to "die today" and that he didn't care about going to prison for life. Penny grabbed him from behind in a chokehold to halt the outburst. Daniel Penny departs the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York City Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital ) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Neely later died. He had an active arrest warrant at the time. He was high on K2, a synthetic marijuana drug that functions as a stimulant, and his lengthy criminal record included an alleged 2021 assault on a 67-year-old woman at another subway station. The jury will break for the weekend and deliberate on a lesser charge, criminally negligent homicide, on Monday. Fox News Research contributed to this report.

BRP executive warns against overreaction to Trump tariff planPresident-elect Donald Trump used a photo of himself and first lady Jill Biden in Paris on social media on Sunday to sell his new line of fragrances. France's iconic Notre Dame Cathedral officially reopened its doors in Paris on Saturday evening in a global event that brought in several world leaders, royals, and business tycoons, marking the revival of the 861-year-old landmark five years after a devastating fire . The visit marked Trump's fifth trip to France, following four visits during his first presidency, including D-Day anniversary ceremonies in 2019—the same year the Notre Dame caught fire. While President Joe Biden did not attend the reopening due to scheduling conflicts, the first lady represented the administration on his behalf as she was pictured sitting close to Trump and her daughter Ashley Biden during the ceremony. On Sunday, Trump took to his Truth Social account to share the picture of himself and Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony to promote his line of fragrances by turning the picture into a meme, captioning it: "A Fragrance Your Enemies Can't Resist." "Here are my new Trump Perfumes & Colognes! I call them Fight, Fight, Fight, because they represent us WINNING. Great Christmas gifts for the family. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!" the president-elect wrote. According to the website, there are four fragrance products with two cologne products for men and two perfume products for women and are being sold for nearly $200 each. However, both the "Victory Perfume" and "Victory Cologne" which feature specialized bottles are sold out as of Sunday evening. Newsweek has reached out to Trump via email for comment on Sunday evening. This is not the first time Trump has used photos of himself to sell various items as he notably used his mugshot photo when he was booked in Georgia on racketeering charges to launch a mugshot-inspired line on his campaign site that includes T-shirts, mugs and stickers. Trump and over a dozen of his allies were indicted in August 2023 for conspiring to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election to Biden in the state. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has since asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss the case against him now that he has won a second term. Trump has since continued this approach in his 2024 presidential campaign, selling a wide range of items. These included collectible digital trading cards featuring him as a superhero, $399 gold high-top sneakers, $100 "MAGADonalds" T-shirts, and even $60 "God Save America" Bibles , which reportedly netted him $300,000 overall. In September, "TRUMP Watches" were launched, with Trump asking his supporters to spend at least $499 to join "President Trump's Watch Community." However, the increase in merchandise has also brought criticism as Mary Trump, the president-elect's estranged niece, accused her uncle last month of "grifting" during the holiday season as she condemned his use of selling merchandise that is affiliated with himself. In a YouTube video posted on November 27 titled, "Griftsgiving: Trump's Holiday Scams Exposed - The Family Business," Mary Trump , a vocal critic of her uncle, discussed these products as she accused the president-elect of "grifting" during the holiday season. "Gather around the table because it is that time of the year again. Yes, the vegan turkey is roasting, the pumpkin pie is cooling, and of course I'm getting my massive bowl of mashed potatoes ready because Donald and his cronies are back at it with their favorite family tradition grifting," Mary Trump said. "Let's get into the side hustle that they are starting to call the 'parallel economy.' For those unfamiliar the parallel economy is a MAGA marketplace where conservatives pedal products to their followers promising freedom for a price." Speaking of the many Trump-branded products that are out there for sale, Mary Trump said "there is literally no bottom to the grift for this kind of junk." Her remarks come as many of these items including the Trump sneakers and Trump-branded watches were participating in Black Friday sales, according to their official websites. While it is unclear how much Trump makes from all the products and business ventures as some are collaborations with other brands, last year, it was reported that Trump made between $100,000 and $1 million for a series of digital trading cards, which he re-released this year for $99 apiece as a new "America First Collection."

PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil —Inquirer file photo/Grig C. Montegrande MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police on Sunday said it is increasing its operations nationwide for the holiday season and in anticipation of possible rallies related to the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte. PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil has ordered “intensified security operations to ensure public safety, prevent criminal activities and address political security challenges arising from the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte,” the PNP said in a statement. READ: INC rallies in support of Marcos stand against VP Duterte impeach moves One of the anticipated rallies was the announcement by the Iglesia Ni Cristo “in support of President Marcos’ position on the impeachment case and possible demonstrations by proponents of the case,” according to the PNP. “Our mandate is clear: to ensure public safety under any circumstances. The PNP is a professional and apolitical organization. We are here to serve and protect all Filipinos, regardless of the political climate,” Marbil was quoted as saying. Police units nationwide were directed to heighten visibility in high-traffic areas, such as malls, markets and transport hubs, through regular patrols and the deployment of additional personnel. Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy .

The world’s biggest podcaster Joe Rogan and the world’s richest man Elon Musk have responded to a National Press Club address given by ABC chair Kim Williams. Speaking in Canberra yesterday, Williams was asked about Joe Rogan’s influence on the US election, and if the ABC should be trying to capture the “bro market”. Williams opened by saying he was not well placed to answer the question because he is “not a consumer or enthusiast of Mr Rogan and his work”. The ABC boss then launched an attack on the popular podcaster: I think that people like Mr Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities. They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety. They prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society, and they entrepreneur fantasy outcomes and conspiracy outcomes as being a normal part of social narrative. I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief. I’m also absolutely in dismay that this can be a source of public entertainment, when it’s really treating the public as plunder for entrepreneurs that are really quite malevolent.” The clip of the attack was shared to X by an account called @wideawake_media, where it caught the attention of Rogan himself. Rogan shared the clip with the caption “LOL WUT”. Musk then weighed in, adding his own message to Rogan’s post. Musk wrote, “From the head of Australian government-funded media, their Pravda”. Pravda was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Children younger than 16 are all but set to be banned from social media, with federal parliament poised to enact the world-first legislation. The Senate is expected on Thursday to pass the laws that would ban young people from platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok with bipartisan support. However, there has been concern that the proposal has been rushed through parliament without proper scrutiny, given that Australia would be the first country to implement such a ban. The ban would come into effect one year after the laws pass the parliament, with trials of age-verification technology still being carried out by the federal government. Criticism had been levelled at the ban after an inquiry into the laws ran for just three hours, with people only given one day to hand in submissions and a lack of consultation with young people themselves. While the bill has enjoyed bipartisan support, several coalition members have broken ranks to raise concerns. Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer crossed the floor to vote against the ban in the House of Representatives, while coalition senator Matt Canavan has also criticised the laws. AAP A number of President-elect Donald Trump ’s most prominent Cabinet picks and appointees have been targeted by bomb threats and “swatting attacks,” Trump’s transition team said Wednesday. The FBI said it was investigating. “Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them,” Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. She said the attacks ranged from bomb threats to swatting, in which attackers initiate an emergency law enforcement response against a target victim under false pretences. The tactic has become a popular one in recent years. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference, followed by Elise Stefanik. Credit: nna\advidler “In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action,” Leavitt said. Among those targeted were Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick to serve as the next ambassador to the United Nations, Matt Gaetz, Trump’s initial pick to serve as attorney general, and former New York congressman Lee Zeldin, who has been tapped to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Susie Wiles, Trump’s incoming chief of staff, and Pam Bondi, the former Florida Attorney General whom Trump has chosen as Gaetz’s replacement, were also targeted, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity amid the ongoing investigation. Wiles and Bondi did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The FBI said in a statement that it was “aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees” and was “working with our law enforcement partners. We take all potential threats seriously, and as always, encourage members of the public to immediately report anything they consider suspicious to law enforcement.” AP Good morning and welcome to the national news blog. My name is Josefine Ganko, and I’ll guide our coverage through the early afternoon. It’s Thursday, November 28. Here’s what’s making news this morning.

B.C. Conservative leader faces test after colleagues' letter attacks Surrey MLAMonetary easing by central banks across developed and emerging economies trundled along in November with markets warily gearing up for a new year that could bring tectonic shifts to the global policy making backdrop. Four of the six central banks overseeing the 10 most heavily traded currencies that held meetings in November lowered their lending benchmarks. Central banks in New Zealand and Sweden each shaved 50 basis points off their interest rates while the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England delivered 25 bps cuts. Policy makers in Australia and Norway decided to leave interest rates unchanged, while their peers in Switzerland, Japan, Canada and at the European Central Bank held no rate setting meetings. The outcome of the U.S. election, which will see a return of Donald Trump to the White House on January 20, is expected to fuel fresh trade tensions that could boost U.S. inflation and curtail growth. The latest moves come ahead of some potentially sizeable shocks for the global economy, with politics set to become increasingly unpredictable, said James Rossiter, head of global macro strategy at TD Securities. “The name of the game in 2025 is now uncertainty, especially in the U.S. and Europe,” said Rossiter. “Central banks are going to have to adapt their strategies quickly.” The latest moves across G10 central banks brings the year-to-date tally of rate cuts to 650 bps, nearly matching the 2020 total of 655 bps, after major central banks delivered no cuts between 2021 and 2023. Across emerging markets, 12 of the Reuters sample of 18 central banks in developing economies held rate-setting meetings in November. South Korea, Mexico, South Africa and the Czech Republic delivered 25 bps cuts each while China, Indonesia, Turkey, Malaysia, Israel, Hungary and Poland kept rates unchanged. Brazil extended its rate hiking cycle, lifting its key interest rates by 50 bps. S&P Global Ratings emerging market chief economist Elijah Oliveros-Rosen said that a changing outlook of fewer rate cuts from the Fed in the wake of the U.S. election would shape policy making in developing economies. “We also expect greater caution among most major EM central banks, and we’ve therefore toned down our expectations for their interest rate cuts in 2025,” Oliveros-Rosen said in a note to clients. “On balance, we expect a stronger U.S. dollar against most EM currencies in 2025 than in 2024.” The latest moves in emerging markets took the tally of cuts since the start of the year to 1,810 bps across 46 moves – outstripping the total of 1,765 bps of easing in 2022, after 945 bps in 2023. Total hikes for emerging markets so far in 2024 stood at 1,350 bps. Source: Reuters (Reporting by Karin Strohecker and Sumanta Sen, Editing by William Maclean)

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Winston's performance in snowy win over Steelers adds new layer to Browns' quarterback conundrum CLEVELAND (AP) — Shortly after doing a face-down snow angel, firing a few celebratory snowballs and singing “Jingle Bells” on his way to the media room, Jameis Winston ended his postgame news conference with a simple question. Tom Withers, The Associated Press Nov 22, 2024 2:58 PM Nov 22, 2024 3:05 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message in the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Cleveland. The Browns won 24-19. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) CLEVELAND (AP) — Shortly after doing a face-down snow angel, firing a few celebratory snowballs and singing “Jingle Bells” on his way to the media room, Jameis Winston ended his postgame news conference with a simple question. “Am I a Brown yet?” he asked. He is now. And who knows? Maybe for a lot longer than expected. Winston entered Cleveland football folklore on Thursday night by leading the Browns to a 24-19 win over the division rival Pittsburgh Steelers, who had their five-game winning streak stopped. Winston's performance at Huntington Bank Field, which transformed into the world's largest snow globe, not only made him an instantaneous hero in the eyes of Browns fans but added another wrinkle to the team's ever-changing, never-ending quarterback conundrum. In his fourth start since Deshaun Watson's season-ending Achilles tendon injury, Winston made enough big plays to help the Browns (3-8) get a victory that should quiet conjecture about coach Kevin Stefanski's job. Some wins mean more than others. In Cleveland, beating the Steelers is as big as it gets. But beyond any instant gratification, Winston has given the Browns more to consider as they move forward. Watson's future with Cleveland is highly uncertain since it will still be months before the team has a grip on whether he's even an option in 2025, his fourth year since signing a $230 million, fully guaranteed contract that has proven calamitous. It's also possible the Browns will cut ties with Watson. They signed Winston to a one-year contract to be Watson's backup. But the unexpected events of 2024 have changed plans and led to the possibility that the 30-year-old Winston could become Cleveland's full-time QB or a bridge to their next young one. So much is unclear. What's not is that Winston, who leaped into the end zone on fourth-and-2 for a TD to put the Browns ahead 18-6 in the fourth quarter, is a difference maker. With his larger-than-life personality and the joy he shows whether practicing or throwing three touchdown passes, he has lifted the Browns. A man of faith, he's made his teammates believe. Winston has done what Watson couldn't: made the Browns better. “A very, very authentic person,” Stefanski said Friday on a Zoom call. “He’s the same guy every single day. He's the same guy at 5 a.m. as he at 5 p.m. He brings great energy to everything he does, and I think his teammates appreciate that about him.” Winston, who is 2-2 as a starter with wins over the Steelers and Baltimore Ravens, has a knack for inspiring through fiery, preacher-like pregame speeches. But what has impressed the Browns is his ability to stay calm in the storm. “He doesn’t get rattled,” said Myles Garrett, who had three sacks against the Steelers . “He’s just tuned in and focused as anyone I’ve seen at that position. Turn the page. There was a turnover, came back to the sideline, ‘Love you. I’m sorry. We’re going to get it back.’ He was already on to the next one, ‘How can we complete the mission?’ “I have a lot of respect for him. First was from afar and now seeing it on the field in front of me, it’s a blessing to have someone who plays a game with such a passion and want-to. You can’t ask for a better teammate when they take those things to heart and they want to play for you like we’re actually brothers and that’s what we have to attain. That brotherhood.” What's working Winston has done something else Watson couldn't: move the offense. The Browns scored more than 20 points for just the second time this season, and like Joe Flacco a year ago, Winston has shown that Stefanski's system works with a quarterback patient enough to let plays develop and unafraid to take shots downfield. What needs help The conditions certainly were a factor, but the Browns were a miserable 1 of 10 on third down, a season-long trend. However, Cleveland converted all four fourth-down tries, including a fourth-and-3 pass from Winston to Jerry Jeudy with 2:36 left that helped set up Nick Chubb's go-ahead TD run. Stock up RT Jack Conklin. Garrett outplayed Steelers star T.J. Watt in their rivalry within the rivalry partly because Conklin did a nice job containing Pittsburgh's edge rusher, who was held without a sack and had one tackle for loss. Conklin has made a remarkable comeback since undergoing reconstructive knee surgery last year. Stock down Owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam. Their desire to build a dome is well intended, but an indoor game could never come close to matching the surreal setting of Thursday night, when snow swirled throughout the stadium and covered nearly all the yard lines and hash marks. “It was beautiful,” Winston said. Injuries WR Cedric Tillman is in the concussion protocol. He had two catches before taking a big hit on the final play of the third quarter. Key numbers 9 — Consecutive home wins for the Browns in Thursday night games. Three of those have come against Pittsburgh. What's next An extended break before visiting the Denver Broncos on Dec. 2. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL Tom Withers, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Football (NFL) Brock Purdy will miss Sunday's game for the 49ers with a shoulder injury Nov 22, 2024 3:28 PM 49ers attempt to bounce back and boost their postseason chances as they visit Green Bay Nov 22, 2024 3:09 PM 49ers' visit gives Packers a chance to damage the playoff hopes of their postseason nemesis Nov 22, 2024 2:57 PMSmart Money Is Betting Big In NOW OptionsWoman dead, 2 injured in Lanark Highlands crash

Chris McCausland and Lee Mack are becoming the UK's favourite comedy duo (Picture: Natalie Seery/Sky) Strictly star Chris McCausland and Lee Mack have contributed to the Christmas film canon with Bad Tidings – but how well did they know each other before? In the movie, which has been compared to Home Alone, warring neighbours Scott (McCausland) and Neil (Mack) have to put their differences aside to solve a neighbourhood crime. The film has already been hailed as an instant classic, with viewers on social media calling it 'easily one of the best comedy Christmas films I have watched in years.' Chris, 47, was one of the writers on Bad Tidings and approached Lee, 56 – who agreed to star in the Christmas caper without having seen the script in advance. Chris said: 'I had an idea about a Christmas heist involving a blind character taking down the villains, with lots of visual comedy and action. He added to What To Watch: 'So I thought, "Let's get that idiot involved, too. He's the best in his price range".' However, Bad Tidings is not the first time Lee and Chris have shared a screen togethers. Here's a look back over their years long friendship. How long have they known each other? Chris and Lee have both appeared togather on UK panel TV shows including Would I Lie To You? (Picture: BBC/Zeppotron, an Endemol Shine Company/Brian Ritchie) Chris and Lee have known each other for 'years' on the TV comedy circuit. Both have appeared on multiple channel shows, including an episode of the BBC's Would I Lie To You? together. As Lee explained their friendship to What To Watch: 'I'd worked with Chris on panel shows over the years, but we did a speech at the Baftas in 2022 that seemed to... Ruth Lawes

Jimmy Carter's environmental legacy set the foundation for today's climate actionMajor League Baseball announced some changes to its 2025 schedule as a result of the in Tampa next season due to the during Hurricane Milton. "These proactive schedule adjustments have been made to optimize the number of games played in the best weather conditions given the Rays’ transition to an outdoor ballpark," a statement issued by MLB said. MLB announces changes to the Rays' schedule (as well as the Angels' and Twins' schedules) because of move to Steinbrenner Field — Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) To avoid the summer humidity, which can reach levels of 90% or higher in July and August, MLB has moved an April three-game series (April 7-9) between the Rays and from Anaheim's Angel Stadium to Steinbrenner Field. The three-game set the two clubs were scheduled to play in August (Aug. 4-6) in Tampa will instead be played in Anaheim. Two series involving the Rays and will also swap places on the schedule. A three-game set previously scheduled to be played in Minneapolis from May 26 to 28 will move to Tampa, and the series scheduled for July 4-6 at Steinbrenner Field will instead be played at Target Field. As a result of these changes, the Rays will play 64 of their last 108 games on the road, . The team is only scheduled to play eight home games in both July and August. Steinbrenner Field, with a capacity of 11,000, is the spring training ballpark for the and their Class-A affiliate, the Tampa Tarpons. The Tarpons will play their home games on other fields on the Yankees' complex during the Florida State League season. Tropicana Field suffered damage to its fabric roof panels when they as Hurricane Milton made landfall, allowing rain and wind to also harm the interior of the stadium. After assessing the damage, the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, determined that fixing the facility would cost approximately $55.7 million and would not be completed until 2026. The St. Petersburg City Council initially voted to approve the funds, only to hours later.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A proposal to open Oklahoma primaries is drawing criticism. Earlier this week, supporters announced State Question 835 that seeks to obtain 172,993 signatures to get the issue on the November 2026 ballot. Under the proposal, Oklahoma primaries would be open to all voters with the top two vote getters advancing to the general election. Supporters said they expect a challenge to the measure. Gov. Kevin Stitt on social media voiced his opposition. “Oklahomans made decisions at the polls that these third party groups don’t like – so now they want to upend the way we run our elections,” Stitt said. “Open primaries are a hard no in Oklahoma.” Likewise, Lt. Gov Matt Pinnell, former Oklahoma Republican Party chairman, opposes the proposal. “At best, the push to mandate open primaries is a solution in search of a problem, and at worst, it is a thinly veiled attempt to weaken Republican voters in choosing the nominees to represent our party,” Pinnell said. “Oklahoma is a conservative state, and Republicans hold all the statewide and federally elected positions and super majorities in the Legislature for a simple reason: our values and principles represent the will of our state voters.” But not all Republicans have panned the idea. Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, a former Republican state senator, embraced it. He said the system in which a mayor is elected allows all residents to vote. “Our voters get to see all the candidates and our candidates have to face all voters,” Holt said. “As a result, our leadership delivers unity and consensus outcomes that are clearly moving us forward.” The state question is being backed by Oklahoma United, a nonpartisan organization that says the change will increase voter participation, reduce polarization and force candidates to be responsive to all voters. It will also benefit independent voters, who can’t vote in Republican or Libertarian primaries. Democrats currently allow independents to vote in their primaries. The idea is not new. In 2017, the Oklahoma Academy recommended a top-two election system. Its report said a top-two system could increase turnout, reduce partisanship and “eliminate fringe special interest involvement in campaigns because candidates would be forced to respond to more moderate, general voters rather than play to the extremes of either party.” The Oklahoma Academy is a nonpartisan group that works to educate Oklahomans about public policy. Republican political consultant Fount Holland said he doubted Oklahoma voters would approve the proposal should it make the ballot. “At the end of the day, it is about moderating the Republican primary,” Holland said. He said the Republican Party takes things to the extreme, which is not the best way to govern. Holland said no one enters the Republican primary as a moderate or very few can survive campaigning as a moderate. “They might be moderate, but they don’t campaign that way,” Holland said. He said he tells his clients to run to win. If approved, the measure would be advantageous to Democrats or people who want a more moderate group of elected officials, Holland said. Republican Superintendent Ryan Walters is considered by many to be ultra-conservative, while his predecessor Joy Hofmeister was considered a moderate member of the GOP, said Holland, who worked on her two successful races for superintendent. Walters has focussed on putting Bibles in the classroom and removing some books from schools, while Hofmeister prioritized across-the-board teacher pay increases and boosting counseling services in schools. Hofmeister ultimately switched parties and made an unsuccessful run as a Democrat for governor. “If you hate politics the way they are, then you need to be on our team, because we want to change it and we want to make it better,” said Margaret Kobos, Oklahoma United CEO and Founder. She was asked about the partisan reaction to the proposal. She said it misses the point because the issue is about people and not political parties. Rep. Andy Fugate, D-Del City, supports the measure, saying it takes power away from the political parties and gives it to the people. “Every voter. Every election,” he said. “That is the way democracy is supposed to work.” Oklahoma Voice is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Oklahoma Voice maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Janelle Stecklein for questions: info@oklahomavoice.com .Palantir and 3 More Stocks That Can ‘Join the AI Party’

On today’s episode of You Asked: What are the differences between HDMI 2.1 , 2.1a, and 2.1b? Are older OLED TVs compatible with the PlayStation 5 Pro ? Why 4K Blu-ray-quality digital downloads don’t exist? What screens sizes are best for achieving a cinematic experience at home? Plus, TCL’s Bruce Walker joins Caleb in the studio to discuss TCL’s giant TVs, holiday deals, and what might be coming at CES 2025. HDMI 2.1 vs. 2.1a vs. 2.1b Kbarso who writes: What is the difference between HDMI 2.1, HDMI 2.1a and HDMI 2b?. Is a 2019 OLED TV (with standard HDMI 2.1) good for the PS5 Pro that has HDMI 2.1b? So, short answer: Yes, your LG C9 is a great match for a PS5 Pro. Here’s why. HDMI 2.1 — without the A or B — includes just about every modern HDMI feature you could want. That includes up to 48 gigabits per second bandwidth, Auto Low Latency Mode, 4K 144Hz, 8K 60Hz — almost all the stuff that you want out of the latest HDMI version. HDMI 2.1a added support for source-based tone mapping. Source-based tone mapping allows a device like a game console or PC to dynamically adjust the HDR tone mapping based on the TV’s capabilities, which takes the tone mapping out of the TV’s control without — and this is the key — without the user having to do any calibration. But, the PS5 Pro — and prior versions of the PS5 — allow you to use HGiG tone mapping, where you do a quick calibration on the PS5, and that controls the tone mapping rather than the TV. The only difference is that it requires a bit of input from you. HDMI 2.1b basically added some stability fixes for the source-based tone-mapping feature that came with HDMI 2.1a. So, again, the LG C9 will work great with the PS5, and you’ll get the best HDR picture possible by doing that manual HDR calibration. 4K Blu-ray-quality digital downloads Michael Grundle writes: Hi, are there any digital stores that sell Blu-ray-quality digital downloads? I couldn’t find any. It seems like this is the solution to physical media’s slow demise. I understand that Blu-rays are massive storage-wise, but we live in a world where you buy to own games that you download, why can’t we have this for movies? It would be cool to own digital versions of Blu-rays including menus and special features. Thanks for your question, Michael. I’ll start by saying that I wish this were a thing as well — I’d love to be able to just buy a 4K Blu-ray-quality version of a movie as a digital download, or maybe pay extra on top of the disc price to get that. Unfortunately, this does not exist — not as you and I are envisioning it, anyway. The closest thing to owning the digital download version of a 4K Blu-ray is through Kaleidescape — they make high-end home theater movie servers. But those downloads are proprietary, and so is the equipment you must use to play back those digital files. It’s not like you can play it back using your PC or through a media server like Plex. Outside of that, the closest thing is streaming your digital movies through iTunes, Fandango at Home (that’s what VUDU has become), or Movies Anywhere. You can also rip your 4K Blu-rays and make your own copies, which is legal so long as you own the movie on disc and don’t distribute or otherwise screen that movie for commercial purposes. But, yeah, with storage getting less and less expensive, I think it would be cool if we could move toward purchasing digital versions of our movies that are at that quality level. It would still be expensive, but it seems like a low lift for production houses, so why not? They would for sure make more profit margin by not involving disc manufacturing and distribution. Cinema experience at home Will writes: You recently covered some really big TV screens. In your experience, considering typical domestic room sizes and average viewing distances, what screen size really starts to feel like a cinema experience? Well, Will, I’ll do my best here. The thing is, I’m just not sure what the typical domestic room size is anymore. I mean, in the United States alone, the room size in which someone is watching their TV and, by some extension anyway, the viewing distance, seems super varied. In my own life, I’ve been anywhere from 8 to 12 feet away from my screen, but I’ve seen some homes with so-called great rooms where folks are 15 feet or more away. I think we can simplify this by relying on a tried and trusted calculator to get us started. THX suggests that you take your viewing distance in inches and multiply that by 0.835 to get the screen size, in inches, that will come off as cinematic. So, if we take a viewing distance of 10 feet — that’s 120 inches — and we multiply that by 0.835, we get about 100 inches. I think that is a good starting point. I think a 98-inch TV, viewed at about 10 feet away, is awesome. From there, you could go a little bigger and be OK, and you can go a little smaller and still have a great experience. Now, that calculator isn’t concerned with resolution or whether you can see pixelation or any of that stuff — it’s about occupying your field of view in a manner that is similar to what you might experience in a commercial movie theater. But keep in mind that even in a commercial theater, there is a sweet spot, sure, but you may be farther away than “ideal” if you sit in the back, or closer than ideal if you’re sitting in the front. I think that calculator is a really solid starting point for someone whose main goal is to try to get the most cinematic experience possible. Now, if we take the largest TV screen size available now — 120 inches, which is also a very popular projector screen size — and we work backward, that means the “ideal” viewing distance would be 12 feet. This section is sponsored by TCL Interview with Bruce Walker of TCL North America Speaking of huge TVs, I’m excited to bring in Bruce Walker, Product Evangelist at TCL – the company responsible for bringing us massive TVs like the 120-inch QM891G as well as the 98-inch Q6 and 98-inch QM7. Time to learn a little more about how TCL is doing what it’s been doing, and I’m gonna see if I can squeeze a little bit about what we might see at CES 2025 out of him, too. Caleb : Bruce Walker, thank you for literally flying across the country this morning to join us in our studio. This is the first time that we’ve hosted a guest here in the studio. I’m honored. And, yeah, I mean, you literally flew across the country. Thank you for doing that. Bruce : Thank you for hosting me. I’m very excited to be here. Excited to talk to you and your audience and talk about exciting TCL stuff. Caleb : Look, I feel like we need to talk about the TCL story because, from my seat, I mean, we’ll go back to the first TCL TV I reviewed. It was a 6-series TV. What was the model number? The P607. That really started it all right, because that TV landed in my testing lab, and anybody who goes back and watches the review will see that we were shocked. Like, it kind of came out of nowhere for us. What was that like for somebody in your seat? Because previously, let’s be honest, TCL was more of a budget-oriented brand that you might find at Walmart or wherever and now you’ve got this TV that’s competing with the best out there. What was that like for you guys? Bruce : It was really fun. It was a watershed moment for us. You know, when we were talking to members of the media and people at CES, saying, This is going to be one of the brightest Dolby Vision TVs on the market this year, the general response was, “Yeah, right. We’ll see.” And it really paved the way and allowed customers to believe in TCL as a premium offering. Caleb : From my seat, it seemed like that set off a bit of a shift in the product planning. So, what was that like at TCL? Bruce : Yeah, it was a fun domino effect. We started getting better placement at retail partners, so people could see premium TCL TV sets. Then we were able to leverage all the things we do great in terms of innovation. You know, we introduced the world’s first big-screen quantum-dot TV back in 2015. I’m very excited that many of the reviews we see now — back when the P605 came out around that time, it was all about value, value, price, value, value, price. Oh, by the way, it performs pretty well too. Now, we’re shifting that narrative. So many of the reviews we see don’t even mention price until maybe as a footnote: This TV compares with this, this, and this from the big three. Oh, by the way, it’s also really good value. Caleb : Something a lot of people might consider inside baseball, but it actually has everything to do with how TCL makes its TVs and how you make engineering decisions. TCL is a vertically integrated company, right? What does that mean, and what does that allow TCL to do that other manufacturers maybe can’t? Bruce : So, the overarching picture is that we make every component that goes into a TV set. Your audience, the tech-savvy people out there, might say when they see a TV, “Who makes the panel for that TV?” All the stuff we’re talking about, we do. We make the panel, the backlight, the processors, the feet. We make every component that goes into a TV set. And there are a whole host of benefits that go with that. If we control the entire manufacturing process, we can control the quality. We can make sure that component A works perfectly with component B when it’s all put together. And they’re going to last a long time and be a good-quality product. Then that dovetails into the value story: Why can I get a 75-inch TCL for the same price as a 65-inch and have all the same features? If you look at the reviews, they’re comparable. It’s part of that vertical integration story. Caleb : So, does that mean because you’re buying less parts from other manufacturers, you’re not paying the markup on those parts Bruce : The middleman markup? Exactly. Because we’re making it ourselves. Our panel manufacturing facility, CSOT, makes our panels for all the TVs we talk about. Because we make it ourselves, we can pivot and say, “Oh, 98-inch TVs are hot now.” We can make 98-inch panels and now we make more 98-inch panels than any other panel manufacturing facility in the world. And because we make it ourselves, we’re not paying a middleman markup, and we can bring incredible value to the market. Caleb : See, it’s all starting to make a lot more sense for me now. I don’t think I was aware of that. Is that also why you’re going to see more consistency in the panels across the different sizes? Because, I mean, we look at some other brands, and you might get a VA panel in one size and then an ADS Pro in another size. But you’re consistent across the board. Bruce : We make our own high-performance VA panels, and on our QD-LED lines, it’s actually a new HVA panel, which improves the contrast within the mini-LED ecosystem. Caleb : Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe TCL was the first brand to release a mini-LED television, right? Bruce : Yes! Mini-LED has really reinvented LED TV technology. We introduced the world’s first mini-LED TV in 2019, the 8-series. Caleb : It’s been that long? Bruce : Yeah. And now, it’s everyone’s flagship TV. It’s mini-LED. All of our flagship TVs this year are QD mini-LED. We just want to make sure people understand that that’s an important distinction in the marketplace because, unfortunately, when you talk about mini-LED, there isn’t really a definition for it. A mini-LED is a small OLED? If you took it to the absurd, you could make a TV with one mini-LED in the back of the backlight, and we’d call it a mini-LED TV. You know, not all mini-LED is created equally, and when you see QD-LED, you can be assured that it’s going to give you top-tier performance. Caleb : So what we’re seeing here, on the right-hand side, first of all, you made this, right? Tell me the story about how you made this thing. Bruce : Most of the cuts have healed, but these are actual, backlights. The TCL QD mini-LED backlight is from a QM8 TV. The other mini-LED backlight is an off-the-shelf backlight, cut up into pieces, sent up to an amazing company in California and made these for us so that we, really put, you know, kind of a face to the name of what is QD mini-LED. And you can see in there, the things that make our secret sauce, as it were. And with QD being LED, you get things like our own HEXA mini-LED chips for incredible brightness. But also, Pirelli famously once said, “Power without control is nothing.” So we make all this incredible brightness, but we’ve also got our own in-house designed and manufactured UWA ultra-wide-angle lenses that take all that light and steer it to the front of the cabinet. So it comes out through all the layers of the TV. But it’s our own HVA panel, which does a very good job of, when there’s no light, it closes up to give you deep, rich blacks. And when it opens up, you get a super-bright picture on that panel type. Caleb : I feel like that’s kind of important because I’ve noted in my reviews in the past that, let’s say, the number of mini-LEDs, the number of zones that were involved — everything else — let’s say those were more or less equal. The TCL ends up coming out on top in terms of the black levels. And now I’m hearing part of it is because of the VA panel that you’re making. That makes sense because you can actually see it. Bruce : And then the last part of the equation that I find really exciting is, you know, processing. Candidly, in our industry, people talk about processing and motion handling. It’s Sony, and then everybody else. To their credit, this year, we have not only one processor but a family of AiPQ processors starting in our S-Class TV. And when we get to our QD mini-LED, we have our AiPQ Pro processor. With that powerful backlight — again, with control — you get up to about 65,000 levels of gradation. So you not only get incredible bright whites, but you’ve measured specs that outperform what we claim they do: deep, rich blacks. You get an incredible grayscale, so you get great shadow detail. Caleb : But I do want to get back to this prop because, on the right-hand side, what you’re seeing, if I’m not mistaken, are three mini-LED lights that are kind of hiding behind this sort of dome lens. And what you notice is that they’re spaced fairly far apart, so there’s a decent amount of gap in between those. And then on the left, we’re looking at the TCL QD mini-LED, where you’re using individual mini-LED diodes, and they’re spaced much more closely together. Bruce : Yep. Very densely packed. You get better uniformity. You get better brightness. Because there’s so many and so densely packed, you can have better zone control — all the benefits that come from doing that. And great picture performance. Caleb : From the backlight level, I think what we’re seeing here is that, rather than use a tight cluster of mini-LEDs and then use some kind of lens to broaden it out, you’re using individual mini-LEDs. And if I heard you correctly, you can individually address every single one of those mini-LEDs, right? So it’s not like you put a cluster on one board and can just turn that board on and off. You can actually turn each individual light on and off. Bruce : That’s very exciting. Caleb : Now we’re starting to understand how it’s actually done. Bruce : We’re in the golden era of TV sets. And the fact that we’re now producing products that compete with the best of the best — we are proud of the fact that we think that, compared to an OLED (perfect blacks, infinite contrast ratio), we think in the dark man-cave environment, sets like our QM7 and QM8 compete very well. But then, in the arena of a normal lighting environment where most people watch their TVs, is really where we kind of stand apart. When you’ve got 5,000 nits of peak brightness on our flagship TV sets, we think it’s the best choice for most people. Caleb : And also, like, no burn-in, right? Bruce : With the TCL TV, the official TV partner of Call of Duty, if you’re a gamer out there, you can game all day and all night and not have to worry about it. Caleb : And I’ve seen this question from viewers more times than I can count. How is TCL actually doing that? I’m starting to get the sense that it’s about that vertical integration, right? Bruce : Yep. But it also boils down to that manufacturing. You know, the fact that — you look at that 98 inch Q6 — it’s our backlight, it’s our panel, it’s our processor. Caleb : We’re back to the whole, “There is no middleman charging markup on all these different parts.” You can actually make it in a way that others simply can’t. Bruce : And it’s just been a resounding success. You know, through the end of last year, we were No. 2 in sales for five years in a row. Caleb : All right, so I know that you don’t have a crystal ball, but, like, how big do you think we’re going to go here? I mean, 98 inches is — I still think — is a larger size than most people are currently prepared to accept in their home. But obviously, we’re seeing those sell. So that’s changing. It used to be 65 inches was a huge TV, and now it’s kind of like if you don’t have it, it’s not a huge TV. That’s like the No. 1 size in the U.S. right now. Is going big a big priority for TCL? Bruce : It’s big for us. And I have to say — sorry — it’s a huge growth part of the market. The fact that I mentioned earlier — we make more 98-inch panels than anybody out there. So a lot of the marketing we’ve been doing is, you know, giving people the permission to get a TV that big in their house. And once you do, I say your childlike wonderment — talking about these, you know, 115-inch screens and watching — it’s just so much fun. It’s a whole different ball of wax watching. Caleb : I know that you can’t talk about CES — nobody can. It’s a super-secret thing. But how excited should I be about what TCL is bringing? Bruce : It’s going to be another fun year. I mean, our 2024 product is the best that we’ve ever made. I know we’re going to be showing some great stuff next year as well, and we’re going to be talking about it before we know it. Caleb : Yeah, I know. It’s coming up super soon. And that’s when I’m going to see you next — is down in Las Vegas. Well, listen, man, thank you so much for coming all this way to give us some insight into it. It’s all starting to make a bit more sense now because it all seemed kind of, “How do they pull it off?” Now I think I understand a little bit better. And hopefully, the audience does as well. Obviously, TCL is a remarkable choice. And look, the holiday shopping season is not over, you know? Yeah. And so, I imagine that a lot of folks are going to be looking to do that big upgrade. Bruce : Measure that wall. Measure that stand. Find room for it. 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On Friday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Guatemala is open to accepting President-elect Donald Trump's Central American deportees from other countries. USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer discusses why a center for coordinating U.S. efforts to counter foreign disinformation shut down this week . Sources say a Russian air-defense system downed an Azerbaijan plane this week, killing dozens. USA TODAY Health Reporter Karen Weintraub takes a look at the FDA's new rules on "healthy" food labels , set to take effect in February. Do you qualify for an IRS stimulus check ? Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it. This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text. Podcasts: True crime, in-depth interviews and more USA TODAY podcasts right here Taylor Wilson: Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, December 27th, 2024. This is The Excerpt. Today, Guatemala is open to accepting Central American deportees from other countries in the region, plus a state department center to fight foreign disinformation has shut down. And the FDA issues new rules on healthy food labels. ♦ Guatemala is open to receiving citizens of other Central American countries who are deported from the US, that comes as the country looks to build a positive relationship with the incoming Trump administration. A Guatemalan official who requested anonymity told Reuters that there has to be a regional response a nation wants to be part of the solution. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to deport record numbers of immigrants living in the US illegally. But due to strained relations, the US has struggled to deport nationals from places like Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti. Trump's team has already reached out to the governments of several countries about taking on Deportees from third countries. Many US neighbors, including Mexico and The Bahamas have said they do not want to do so. In 2022, more than 40% of immigrants living in the US illegally came from Mexico, followed by Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, which together counted for more than a fifth of the total. ♦ The state Department's Global Engagement Center used for coordinating US efforts to counter foreign disinformation, especially by Russia and China, shut down this week amid GOP opposition. I spoke with USA TODAY domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer for more. Hello again, Josh. Josh Meyer: Hey Taylor. Taylor Wilson: So Josh, what was this Global Engagement Center and how did it originally come to be? Josh Meyer: Yeah, so the State Department's Global Engagement Center was initially named something else, and it was created in 2011 to fight terrorism and foreign disinformation and recruiting by terrorist organizations. In 2016, it was renamed and expanded, so it could go after foreign disinformation, including by foreign governments like Russia and China, especially those that were using propaganda and disinformation to undermine or influence the policies, security and stability of the US government and its allies. Taylor Wilson: Okay. So Josh, what is actually formally found over the years, especially as it pertains to those two countries you just mentioned, China and Russia. Josh Meyer: So yeah, the GEC, it's basically a very small organization that punches above its weight. It's got about a staff of 120 and a $60 million budget, but it uses a combination of intelligence and data analysis and so forth. And it's really found some damning things about Russia and China in a series of reports that, in a lot of detail, showed how China was creating fake narratives about how the US government was actually the one that created the COVID-19 virus, which created narratives that the US government had bioweapons, then bio warfare manufacturing plants in Ukraine and so forth. And also that called out Russia and to a lesser extent, China for meddling in US elections. So it's done a lot of good work. It had a lot of support, even some bipartisan support by some Republican senators. Taylor Wilson: So it's now shut down here this week, Josh, at the end of the year, just a few weeks ahead of the Trump administration. I know there's a lot of GOP opposition here. Was that the formal driver on this decision? Josh Meyer: Yeah, correct. So basically Elon Musk starting '23, there was a thing called the Twitter files, and there was some basically conservative-driven propaganda from those that said that the GEC was going after Americans, spying on Americans and shutting down free speech. There was nothing to indicate that that actually happened, but it became a Republican narrative, especially fueled by Elon Musk. And so when they were looking at the budget during the fights over the last couple of weeks of looking for things to cut, basically the Republicans said that they were going to get rid of it. And just quietly without anybody really paying attention, its funding got cut and the State Department quietly shut it down, basically starting on Tuesday, the day before Christmas. Taylor Wilson: And Josh, what are we hearing from the other side of the aisle or any democratic lawmakers speaking out about this move? Josh Meyer: Yeah, Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut especially has been very vocal about this, but so has Senator John Cornyn from Texas who's a Republican. What Murphy said is that shutting this thing down basically will unnecessarily undermine US national security. And he said that the Global Engagement Center has played quote, "an indispensable role in combating Russian and Chinese disinformation". And so he was still fighting for it. And it's not clear right now what's going to happen, but with the Republicans in control of the House and the Senate and Trump about to take office, nobody's really expecting this thing to survive, which I think that its bipartisan support shows the value of this. And I think it's fallen victim to sort of uninformed politics. Taylor Wilson: So then Josh, for now, there are no plans for a replacement version, maybe one that some of these Republican critics are more friendly towards. I mean, what do we hear on that from? Josh Meyer: Well, I mean if you look on Twitter or X, as it's now called, people that were opponents of this are saying we need to watch and make sure the State Department doesn't hide it within some other budget. I do think the State Department would try to continue doing this. I mean, it had made a lot of progress creating a network around the world of allies that were united in going after this kind of disinformation. And so it had basically set up an infrastructure there that would be hard to just immediately take it down. So we will be on the lookout to see if it surfaces somewhere else, or at least these efforts to go after Russian and Chinese foreign disinformation exists somewhere else in the State Department. Taylor Wilson: And Josh Meyer, great breakdown, as always covers domestic security for USA TODAY. Thanks, Josh. Josh Meyer: My pleasure, Taylor. ♦ Taylor Wilson: Russian Air defenses downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed into Kazakhstan this week. That's according to four sources to Reuters with knowledge of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijan's investigation into the disaster, at least 38 people were killed. The plane crashed Wednesday after diverting from an area of southern Russia where Moscow has repeatedly used air defense systems against Ukrainian drone strikes. One of the Azerbaijani sources familiar with the investigation into the crash said that preliminary results showed the plane was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system. Its communications were paralyzed by electronic warfare systems. Pictures of the plane wreckage showed what appeared to be shrapnel damage to the plane's tail section. Russian officials earlier this week when asked about the idea that the aircraft had been shot at by Russian Air Defenses said it would be improper to comment until an inquiry was concluded. ♦ The Food and Drug Administration has issued new rules on healthy food labels. I spoke with USA TODAY health reporter, Karen Weintraub, to learn more. Hello, Karen. Karen Weintraub: Hello. Thanks for having me. Taylor Wilson: Thanks for coming on on this, Karen. So what did the FDA decide here as it pertains to healthy foods? Karen Weintraub: So they have updated the definition of healthy foods and what foods can call themselves can be called healthy, which has not been done since the '90s. So it's been a while. We've learned a little bit since then. And back then fat was bad. And so anything that had fat in it was considered bad. So olive oil, for instance, was not considered healthy and now it is. And anything that was fatty like fish was not considered healthy, and now it is. So salmon can now be labeled healthy, which we have known for a very long time is healthy. And olive oil, as I said, has long been considered healthy and can now be labeled as such. So that's the kind of thing also can now be labeled healthy. So it's basically an updating for everything we've learned in the last 30 years is now official. Taylor Wilson: And this is essentially voluntary guidance. I mean, what does this actually mean for consumers? Karen Weintraub: Yeah, it's a little early yet for consumers to see it, but the hope is that eventually you'll be able to get almost a traffic light on a package. That's what it is in other countries where there's a red, yellow, green on a package, this is healthy food. This is sort of healthy food, and this is something you should eat in moderation, if at all. And the idea being that you can kind of make better choices that way very quickly in a grocery store when the kids are screaming or whatever, and you're just trying to make quick decisions. So actually the biggest impact may be things like children's cereals, which have been considered healthy because they have lots of vitamins in them that are added later, but they also have a lot of sugar. And so under the new rules, they will not be considered healthy. Cap'n Crunch, all those kinds of things that kids love, they're not going to be considered healthy anymore. Taylor Wilson: There's a new presidential administration coming in in the new year. Does that mean anything for guidance like this or not really? Karen Weintraub: It could. It's hard to say. These took, as I mentioned, a very long time to implement. The FDA does not move quickly. It is possible. Robert F. Kennedy, who has been nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services has named his own picks for FDA. They could move faster. It's not clear yet, but like I said, this tends to be a very slow process, a process by committee. This committee has taken a very long time to come here, so we don't know. Taylor Wilson: All right. Karen Weintraub covers health for USA TODAY. Thank you, Karen. Karen Weintraub: Thank you. ♦ Taylor Wilson: A check from the IRS is set to make the end of the holiday season a little greener for a million taxpayers. The amount issued for a payment will vary on several factors, but the maximum payment is up to $1400 per person, about $2.4 billon worth of stimulus checks will be distributed among some taxpayers in the coming weeks according to an IRS announcement yesterday. Internal data reviewed by the IRS found that many people who filed a tax return in 2021 failed to claim the recovery rebate credit, prompting the revenue service to issue the batch of special automatic payments. All eligible taxpayers will receive payments by late January that will either be automatically deposited directly into their account or sent by paper check in the mail. No action from eligible recipients is needed to receive the money. You can read more with a link in today's show notes to see if you qualify. Thanks for listening to The Excerpt. We're produced by Shannon Rae Green and Kaely Monahan, and our executive producer is Laura Beatty. You can get the podcast wherever you get your audio, and if you're on a smart speaker, just ask for The Excerpt. I'm Taylor Wilson, and I'll be back tomorrow with more of The Excerpt from USA TODAY.

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ABUJA – A pro-democracy and public interest organization, The Citizens, has commended President Bola Tinubu for his unwavering commitment to addressing Nigeria’s economic and security challenges through robust measures. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja today, the group commended the Federal Government and the judiciary for their roles in strengthening democracy, particularly through recent rulings on the financial autonomy of local governments. They also lauded the affirmation of the legal status of key anti-corruption institutions, including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). They, however, expressed strong disapproval of the relentless efforts by certain paid agents to tarnish the reputation of key officers in the current administration. The group commended the Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, for his unwavering diligence in service and steadfast loyalty to President Bola Tinubu. In a press release, they stated: “We call on the federal government to consider amending existing laws to address the spread of false information, cyberbullying, and criminal defamation of character through electronic, print, and social media platforms. Such acts pose a serious threat to public peace and must be tackled decisively.” He firmly resisted all offers and courageously led the “2007 Movement” in the House of Representatives, which successfully thwarted the infamous Third Term Agenda. These actions are a testament to his unwavering integrity and impeccable character, the release noted. A man of enviable qualities, he stands out for his good character, refined personality, and exceptional spirit. His contributions to the legislature have earned him a place among the finest lawmakers ever produced by the Nigerian Parliament. While commending President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his courage and political will to push through the financial autonomy of the Local Governments, they urged him to ensure effective implementation of the policy so that the desired development gets to the grassroots. We make bold to state our readiness as Nigerian Citizens to support Government at all levels to making Nigeria better for us all, the release concluded. Also lending his voice, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of The Citizens, Nnanna Raphael Igbokwe, expressed his dismay at the activities of certain individuals he described as “mercantile agents.” According to Igbokwe, these agents are merely acting out a script handed down by their masters, targeting Femi Gbajabiamila for refusing to bow to pressure aimed at frustrating the passage of the 2022 Electoral Act. Igbokwe noted that these detractors were vehemently opposed to the inclusion of a clear definition of “consensus candidate” in the Act. He alleged that their ultimate goal was to manipulate the process in favor of a weak candidate emerging from the All Progressives Congress (APC). Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on his part reiterated his commitment to upholding democratic principles, emphasizing that the qualifications or disqualifications of any candidate must strictly adhere to the provisions outlined in the Constitution. He stressed that candidates should emerge through transparent and democratic processes, such as party primaries, rather than being imposed by a select few under the pretext of a consensus arrangement. According to him, this approach ensures fairness and respects the will of the people. “Democracy thrives when the people have a voice in determining their leaders, not when decisions are made arbitrarily in the guise of consensus,” Gbajabiamila declared. The press conference, held under the auspices of The Citizen, also had in attendance notable members of its Board of Trustees, including Dr. Ibrahim Olaifa, Hon. Lawal Abubakar, Hon. Matthew Omeghara, and Dr. Elijah Auta.Why Are Investors Suddenly So Excited About This Database Giant?

Joe Biden begins final White House holiday season with turkey pardons for 'Peach' and 'Blossom'Sony is reportedly in the early stages of developing a new PlayStation handheld device which would likely play PS4 and PS5 games natively. The report arrives courtesy of the ever-reliable , which posited a portable console, while years away, was being discussed privately, as a means to expand Sony’s reach into a new market. The PlayStation Portal, a cloud-based streaming handheld, is reportedly being used as a building block for Sony’s future plans. In fact, was told the device was originally meant to function as a standalone gaming handheld, much like the Steam Deck, before plans were changed. Sony is seemingly looking to revisit this intent in a new handheld device, with the aim for this to be “more accessible and appealing to a wider audience.” notes Sony has been aiming to expand PlayStation’s appeal for several years now, as it aims to make its games more widely accessible, beyond the PS5 ecosystem. Should Sony release a new PlayStation handheld device, it will likely be in contention with Microsoft – the company is – as well as Nintendo, which will announce a Nintendo Switch successor within the next six months, and Valve’s Steam Deck PC handheld. The handheld gaming market is heating up In the last few years, the race to create new gaming handhelds that allow a freedom for users has heated up significantly. What’s worth noting is Sony was formerly an expert in the gaming handheld market. The PlayStation Portable (PSP) was a very early experiment with the technology, and proved to be wildly popular in its era, thanks to robust developer support. It’s estimated the console sold around 80 million units in its ten-year life cycle, making it the 12th best-selling console of all time. Sadly, Sony’s followup device, the PlayStation Vita, fared much worse, selling an estimated 10-15 million units in its life cycle. While many factors influenced this lack of popularity, it’s commonly put down to a lack of developer support, with few major titles releasing on the console. Following this release, Sony largely abandoned its handheld gaming ambitions, instead focussing on launching home consoles for the next decade. Now, it appears the ambition and desire for dedicated handheld gaming devices may have returned – and Sony may once again dip its toes into the market. While believes a potential new PlayStation handheld device isn’t a sure thing, and Sony may choose to leave the idea behind should the market prove volatile, we’ll certainly be keeping an eye out for more updates.

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate won't hold votes on four of President Joe Biden's appellate court nominees as part of a deal with Republicans to allow for speedier consideration of other judicial nominations and bring Biden within striking distance of the 234 total judicial confirmations that occurred during President-elect Donald Trump's first term. Currently, the number of judges confirmed under Biden totals 221. Republicans forced numerous procedural votes this week and late-night sessions as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attempted to move ahead in getting more of Biden's nominees confirmed before Congress adjourns and Republicans take control of the chamber in January. A Senate Democratic leadership aide said Thursday a time agreement had been reached to allow for consideration of seven district court judges the week following Thanksgiving. Plus, another six district judges would be placed on the Senate executive calendar, making it possible for them to be considered on the Senate floor in December. Excluded from that list were four circuit judge nominations awaiting a floor vote: Adeel Abdullah Mangi of New Jersey, nominated for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals; Karla M. Campbell of Tennessee, nominated for the Sixth Circuit; Julia M. Lipez of Maine, First Circuit; and Ryan Young Park of North Carolina, Fourth Circuit. Mangi would have been the first Muslim American to serve as a federal appellate court judge if he had been confirmed. Mangi received law degrees from Oxford and Harvard. He works in a prestigious law firm and has secured significant legal victories. But his limited volunteer work with two outside groups has imperiled his nomination. He faced opposition from some Democrats as well. The confirmation battles over circuit court judges are generally much harder fights given their role in hearing appeals from district courts and often having the last word on legal matters. Schumer's office said the four circuit nominees lacked the support to be confirmed, and that they received more than triple the amount of other judges moving forward as part of the agreement. Liberal groups in recent weeks have been pressuring Senate Democrats to do what it takes to get all of Biden's judicial nominees confirmed before Trump takes office again. And some expressed disappointment with the deal. "Reports that there is a deal that would leave behind critical circuit court nominees are unacceptable. All of these nominees must be confirmed expeditiously before the end of the 118th Congress," said Lena Zwarensteyn, an advisor at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. "When senators return from the holiday break, Leader Schumer and senators must do whatever it takes — for as long as it takes — to confirm every single pending judicial nominee, including all circuit court nominees, to provide an important guardrail for our democracy. No matter what, this must get done,” Zwarensteyn said. Schumer has dedicated much of the Senate schedule to getting Biden’s judicial nominees confirmed. He called it a basic responsibility of the Senate. “We'll take that responsibility very seriously between now and the end of the year,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. ___

Syrian government forces withdraw from central city of Homs as insurgent offensive acceleratesAccording to Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, Apple has no ‘meaningful’ plans to refresh AirPods Max after the introduction of the USB-C model earlier this year. If you were waiting for a bigger refresh with a newer chip, improved noise cancellation, or anything else – you’re out of luck. Apple introduced AirPods Max in December 2020 at the high price of $549, and left them unchanged for nearly four years. We later got a USB-C version in September 2024, with some refreshed colors, but that was it. No upgrade to the H2 chip, no adaptive audio, or anything substantial. According to Gurman, AirPods Max at their $549 price tag aren’t quite worth Apple’s time: The headphones aren’t a hot enough seller to justify pouring money into development, but they’re also not a big enough flop to kill them outright. If you’ve ever been to an upscale gym in Los Angeles or New York, you can see these $550 headphones have a market — even with the high price and outdated technology. Gurman believes that Apple will keep AirPods Max around in their current form for the “foreseeable future”, so it might be a couple years before we see a truly updated model. What do you think of AirPods Max in their current form? Let us know in the comments. According to Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, Apple has no ‘meaningful’ plans to refresh AirPods Max after the introduction of the USB-C model earlier this year. If you were waiting for a bigger refresh with a newer chip, improved noise cancellation, or anything else – you’re out of luck. Apple introduced AirPods Max in December 2020 at the high price of $549, and left them unchanged for nearly four years. We later got a USB-C version in September 2024, with some refreshed colors, but that was it. No upgrade to the H2 chip, no adaptive audio, or anything substantial. According to Gurman, AirPods Max at their $549 price tag aren’t quite worth Apple’s time: The headphones aren’t a hot enough seller to justify pouring money into development, but they’re also not a big enough flop to kill them outright. If you’ve ever been to an upscale gym in Los Angeles or New York, you can see these $550 headphones have a market — even with the high price and outdated technology. Gurman believes that Apple will keep AirPods Max around in their current form for the “foreseeable future”, so it might be a couple years before we see a truly updated model. What do you think of AirPods Max in their current form? Let us know in the comments.

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The waiting game is nothing new to Kyle Walters. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * The waiting game is nothing new to Kyle Walters. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? The waiting game is nothing new to Kyle Walters. Patience is a necessity at this time of year when you’re the general manager of a successful organization that every other franchise wants a piece of. There are dozens of balls in the air once again for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ experienced GM, who may need to navigate personnel changes in the front office and to the coaching staff before he truly begins the negotiation process with the club’s pending free agents. JOHN WOODS / THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Bombers GM Kyle Walters could have a number of vacancies to fill on his coaching staff this offseason. “It’s an interesting one this year with where we’re at,” Walters said Tuesday during his 25-minute end-of-season press conference at Princess Auto Stadium. “(Head coach) Mike (O’Shea) and I have had a couple of preliminary conversations on this sort of stuff. But it’s an interesting year that until we get our staff settled... at some point we’ll have a little bit more in-depth discussions.” Potential changes on the coaching staff could come at offensive co-ordinator, as Buck Pierce is being interviewed for head coaching positions in B.C. and Edmonton. The Bombers have also given permission to the Ottawa Redblacks to interview respected defensive assistant Richie Hall for their vacant defensive co-ordinator position. Then there’s assistant GMs Ted Goveia and Danny McManus, who are reportedly both being interviewed for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats GM position. When the dust settles on those names, there will be 28 players in need of a new contract, and Walters will need to make several tough decisions on who stays and who goes before free agency begins Feb. 11, while staying below the CFL’s salary cap of $5.76 million. He already took care of one, signing kicker Sergio Castillo to a one-year deal last week. Another player, who Walters would not name, was offered a workout with a team in the National Football League. “This year we’re slightly better off than in years past by just the number of guys that are back and where we’re at,” said Walters, who had to navigate 36 pending free agents last off-season. “It never goes quick or smooth once the agents get involved. You may have an idea of a plan and that plan may go awry and there’s so many different discussions you have to be able to pivot depending on how things go through the next couple of months.” The biggest names include Brandon Alexander, Stanley Bryant, Liam Dobson, Tyrell Ford, TyJuan Garbutt, Evan Holm, Willie Jefferson, Tony Jones, Kenny Lawler, Eric Lofton, Patrick Neufeld, Jake Thomas and Kyrie Wilson. Ford and Holm are expected to be two of the most coveted young talents if they reach the open market. Losing Ford would be especially costly, as he is a Canadian playing a position that is traditionally occupied by an American player. The trickiest negotiations, Walters explained, can be with players who are working their back from a season-ending injury. There can be a big difference in the perceived value of the player between the organization and the agent. This year, that includes Adam Bighill, Dalton Schoen, Chris Streveler and Jamal Parker Jr. “(Head coach) Mike (O’Shea) and I have had a couple of preliminary conversations on this sort of stuff. But it’s an interesting year that until we get our staff settled... at some point we’ll have a little bit more in-depth discussions.” “Nobody’s interested in taking pay cuts. That’s the first one right there. Every single agent and every single player at the very least would expect to come back for what they’ve made. That’s the bare minimum, from their end, starting point,” Walters said. “Now, organizationally we may have a different view of, ‘At this point in your career we no longer see you at this price point, but we see you at this price point.’ And that’s when the fun starts, I guess.” There are a couple of factors that make this off-season particularly interesting for the Blue and Gold and how the team’s architects will approach it. None are greater than Winnipeg hosting the 112th Grey Cup next season. The timing of it couldn’t be better for where the organization is. The Bombers are coming off a third consecutive loss in the Grey Cup and many of its core players are on the wrong side of 30, leaving one more opportunity to run it back with its aging nucleus before transitioning to a new era. That transition already started last off-season when the club let some key veterans walk while giving raises to the likes of Schoen and Brady Oliveira. That also meant the team had to sacrifice at some critical positions such as returner, which was a sore spot all season and most noticeably during the playoffs as Lucky Whitehead fumbled in the Western Final and the Grey Cup. On that note, Walters is comfortable with the young talent in the building. He also isn’t buying the idea that there’s more pressure on the Bombers to be aggressive during a year it is hosting the big game. “The experience they got was invaluable,” said Walters. “...the thought process certainly is in our league, Canadian or American, (that) the growth from your first year of contributing to your second year is monumental. So we expect our young guys to come back and they’ll be much further along, you’re going to see that.” “There’s no secret to we’re really going to try this year because we’re hosting the Grey Cup. I mean, it’s no different from year to year and once we get settled in the offseason and start putting our roster together that we think can really win the Grey Cup,” he said, while adding the club would not exceed the salary cap next season. While Walters hinted the situation would need to align perfectly, this offseason also serves up an opportunity for the Bombers to set themselves up for an easy transition to their next era of quarterbacks. While Zach Collaros did not directly say next year would be his last, the lasting impression from last week’s player portion of end-of-season interviews was the veteran pivot would hang em’ up after 2025. With his contract expiring at the end of next season, things could align perfectly for a quarterback — young or experienced — to sit for a season before taking the reins. “It’ll be an interesting off-season from a quarterback standpoint of Tre (Ford), McLeod (Bethel-Thompson), where do all these free agents end up, and who’s kind of the odd man out in regards to a starting position,” said Walters. PETER POWER / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Finding an eventual heir for quarterback Zach Collaros is something the Bombers will be considering in the offseason. “And then can you add an experienced player maybe as a No. 2 in your room that’s won some games, that’s started some games.” Shortly after Walters’s press conference ended, news broke the B.C. Lions had traded quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. to the Calgary Stampeders, toppling the biggest player domino of the offseason less than a week after the season ended. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Ideally, Walters said, the Bombers would land a younger talent that could set them up for another long run of great play at the most important position. He also believes there could be another veteran option out there for the club to target once Collaros retires. “(The) primary focus is putting a roster together to win the Grey Cup next year, and then worrying about the following year. Which is interesting in our league with all the one-year contracts. You’ve seen teams have massive turnaround on their roster. “All the frustration of one-year contracts, there is certainly the option for a quick fix for lack of a better term. It does allow you to focus year-to-year at times.” joshua.frey-sam@freepress.mb.ca X: @jfreysam Josh Frey-Sam reports on sports and business at the . Josh got his start at the paper in 2022, just weeks after graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College. He’s reported primarily on amateur teams and athletes in sports and writes a weekly real estate feature for the business section. . Every piece of reporting Josh produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support. Josh Frey-Sam reports on sports and business at the . Josh got his start at the paper in 2022, just weeks after graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College. He’s reported primarily on amateur teams and athletes in sports and writes a weekly real estate feature for the business section. . Every piece of reporting Josh produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support. Advertisement Advertisement

New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers got some good news on Monday, as he was removed from the NFL's commissioner's exempt list. According to the Boston Herald's Doug Kyed , the 29-year-old was removed because " the baseline suspension for a violation of the personal conduct policy involving the actions for which he's accused is six games, and he's already missed seven games." After the news was announced, Peppers took to social media to share his reaction to his reinstatement. On Instagram, the former Michigan Wolverine posted a photo of himself smiling with the caption"Smitle through it all, it's gon be alright!" A post shared by Jabrill Peppers (@teamjreall) As Kyed notes, the NFL may still impose additional discipline at the end of this process. The next step is the jury trial which will take place on Jan. 22. At this point, the league has permitted Peppers to return to the practice field and play for the Patriots. We will see if New England does the same. MORE PATRIOTS NEWS Winners and losers from Patriots’ Week 12 matchup vs. Dolphins Takeaways from New England’s loss to Miami Where Patriots sit in 2025 NFL draft order after Week 12 Patriots should consider coaching/front office changesNEW DELHI: The Nifty Pharma index traded around 10:25AM(IST)on Tuesday in a weak market. Granules India Ltd.(up 1.28 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(up 0.87 per cent), Biocon Ltd.(up 0.76 per cent), J B Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(up 0.51 per cent) and Alkem Laboratories Ltd.(up 0.11 per cent) were among the top gainers. Ipca Laboratories Ltd.(down 2.35 per cent), Lupin Ltd.(down 1.77 per cent), Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(down 1.65 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.(down 1.33 per cent) and Sanofi India Ltd.(down 1.32 per cent) were the top losers on the index. The Nifty Pharma index was 0.67 per cent at 22028.25 at the time of writing this report. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 52.11 points at 24169.8, while the BSE Sensex was 188.23 points at 79921.62. Stock Trading Macroeconomics Made Easy: Online Certification Course By - Anirudh Saraf, Founder- Saraf A & Associates, Chartered Accountant View Program Stock Trading Options Trading Made Easy: Options Trading Course By - Anirudh Saraf, Founder- Saraf A & Associates, Chartered Accountant View Program Stock Trading Market 104: Options Trading: Kickstart Your F&O Adventure By - Saketh R, Founder- QuickAlpha, Full Time Options Trader View Program Stock Trading Options Scalping Made Easy By - Sivakumar Jayachandran, Ace Scalper View Program Stock Trading Cryptocurrency Made Easy: Cryptocurrency Course By - elearnmarkets, Financial Education by StockEdge View Program Stock Trading RSI Trading Techniques: Mastering the RSI Indicator By - Dinesh Nagpal, Full Time Trader, Ichimoku & Trading Psychology Expert View Program Stock Trading Introduction to Technical Analysis & Candlestick Theory By - Dinesh Nagpal, Full Time Trader, Ichimoku & Trading Psychology Expert View Program Stock Trading RSI Made Easy: RSI Trading Course By - Souradeep Dey, Equity and Commodity Trader, Trainer View Program Stock Trading Point & Figure Chart Mastery: A Comprehensive Trading Guide By - Mukta Dhamankar, Full Time Trader, 15 Years Experience, Instructor View Program Stock Trading Market 103: Mastering Trends with RMI and Techno-Funda Insights By - Rohit Srivastava, Founder- Indiacharts.com View Program Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 18 were trading in the green, while 32 were in the red. Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Sagility India, Tata Teleservices and Zomato were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of 3P Land Holdings, Pix Trans, Aries Agro, Marksans Pharma and Shree Rama Multi hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Adani Green, Digjam, Adani Transmission, Tree House Edu and Dhanvarsha Finvest hit fresh 52-week lows in trade. (You can now subscribe to our ETMarkets WhatsApp channel )

Brain injuries or pre-existing conditions are the root cause of speech or non-verbal communication challenges. For some infants, this can lead to difficulties with feeding and swallowing. Life for children with disabilities, developmental delays, and medical conditions. In India, developmental disabilities affect every 1 in 6 children, which accounts for 15% of the entire child population of the country. Paediatric rehabilitation adapts to the changing needs of growing children by taking a comprehensive, patient-centred approach. Why Is Paediatric Rehabilitation Necessary? The process supports multiple stages of development in toddlers, including developing motor and cognitive skills or guiding an adolescent toward independence. The specialised treatment addresses a variety of diagnoses, including neurodevelopmental disorders, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, spina bifida, muscular disorders, peripheral neuropathies, connective tissue disorders, chronic pain, and musculoskeletal injuries. How Does Paediatric Rehabilitation Work For Children Facing Diverse Challenges? The critical factor is collaboration. The process involves a multidisciplinary team that includes physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) physicians, physical therapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs), speech-language pathologists (SLPs), neuropsychologists (NPs), orthotists, prosthetists, and medical equipment specialists. The team addresses different aspects of a child's development. They practise a holistic approach that covers the children's physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being. The collaborative plan is then tailored to meet each child's unique needs. Physical Therapy Essential for children with developmental delays, genetic disorders, muscle coordination issues, congenital disabilities, and orthopaedic disabilities, physical therapy in paediatric rehabilitation primarily focuses on improving physique, range of motion, flexibility, and balance. Physical therapy can enhance mobility and coordination in children with developmental delays or genetic disorders. The different types of physical therapeutic training include: var firstScrolled3 = false; window.addEventListener("scroll",(event) => { if(!firstScrolled3) {window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: "thumbnails-m", container: "taboola-mid-article-thumbnails", placement: "Mid Article Thumbnails", target_type: "mix" }); firstScrolled3 = true; } }); Every method has its way of treating the children based on the diagnosis requirement. For instance, hippotherapy improves muscle symmetry in children with spastic cerebral palsy, whereas aquatic treatment has demonstrated positive outcomes for children to build strength and coordination. Occupational Therapy Getting to age-appropriate milestones is crucial for any child. Occupational therapists assess a child's abilities in daily tasks and compare them with these goals. The therapy improves fine motor skills, sensory integration, and visual-motor coordination, essential for socialising and other daily activities. Brushing, contrast bath, sensory integration, multi-sensory stimulation, hand-arm bimanual training, assistive technology, therapeutic listening, or incorporating play to enhance academic and social abilities are some methods used in occupational therapy. Speech-Language Therapy Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use multiple therapy methods, including a sequential oral sensory (SOS) approach to feeding, verbal cueing, and functional communication training, to assist children in making consistent progress with phonological or vocabulary challenges.Self-regulation is the only way to avoid government interference in regulating news media, two industry bodies representing news channels, magazines and newspapers told the parliamentary standing committee on communication and information technology on Thursday. The Editors Guild of India (EGI) and the News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA), along with senior officials from the ministry of information and broadcasting, deposed before the committee led by BJP Lok Sabha MP Nishikant Dubey. The discussion centered on weaponisation of laws to curb press freedom, functioning of the government’s fact-check unit, and issues with communal and fake news on news channels. EGI, NBDA and the ministry have been given 10 days to submit written responses to the Lok Sabha secretariat addressing questions raised by committee members. EGI said various laws, including the Information Technology Act, were being weaponised to curb press freedom. The guild highlighted section 353 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita that carries up to three years in jail and/or a fine for publishing false information with intent to create enmity. The EGI said the definitions under the law are vague and prone to abuse. The guild also noted that in September 2024, the Bombay high court had struck down the central government’s attempt to establish a state-run fact-check unit through a 2023 amendment to the IT Rules as unconstitutional. Ministry officials, including joint secretary C Senthil Rajan, said since the amendment was struck down, the Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit could only label misleading content related to the central government but couldn’t issue takedown notices. To be sure, the amendment did not clarify whether the government’s FCU would have had takedown powers, a point of confusion that was argued at length during the court proceedings in Bombay HC. In the meeting, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale cited two instances where false information was spread by government officials themselves but was not fact checked by the PIB FCU. First, when Randhir Jaiswal, the spokesperson for the ministry of external affairs, in a public statement said that the blocking of the social media handles of Australia Today in Canada after it carried an interview with foreign minister S Jaishankar “highlights the hypocrisy of Canada towards freedom of speech” even though the handles had been blocked by Meta because of the platform’s May 2023 decision to end the availability of news content on its platforms in Canada. Second, when Jaishankar and defence minister Rajnath Singh claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had got the Ukraine-Russia war paused. Gokhale asked whether the government of India and its ministers and officials were exempted from being fact checked by the PIB FCU even as the unit fact checks individuals on social media and news organisations. He also asked for details about the FCU’s methodology and for information about how many misleading or false claims by the central government itself had been fact checked by the PIB FCU. MIB officials said that the PIB FCU did not take suo motu cognisance of content to fact check through its social media handles; it relied on complaints being made to it and no complaints had been made about false claims by government officials. The parliamentarians asked for a written submission to that effect. Dubey, in the meeting, said that PIB was set up to spread information about the central government and was responsible for and answerable to the government, not to the people. Gokhale asked MIB officials about the watermarked version of the Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill that was circulated among select stakeholders in July which was ultimately withdrawn. Regulating news channels NBDA chairperson Rajat Sharma told the committee that the news broadcasters who are members of the NBDA do not interfere with the functioning of its adjudicatory arm, the News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA), which is chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Justice AK Sikri. Sharma told the committee that a number of media houses become members of the NBDA but when the NBDSA issues orders against them, they leave the self-regulatory body so that they do not have to comply. He said that the NBDA cannot force people to join as it is a voluntary exercise. Anuradha Prasad, honorary treasurer of the NBDA (chairperson and MD of News24), suggested to the committee that the government should make registering with a self-regulatory body an obligatory licence condition for news channels, a suggestion that Dubey echoed to MIB officials. Gokhale said that penalty amounts imposed by NBDSA are restricted to a maximum of ₹ 5 lacs, a paltry amount for shows such as Sharma’s whose advertising revenue for an hour-long show runs in high double digit lacs. The TMC MP asked how such small amounts could act as effective deterrent. Sharma informed the committee that the NBDA was considering revising the penalty to ₹ 25 lacs. Gokhale also said that there was no separate mechanism for channels that repeatedly flouted standards and instead, each offence was treated as the first offence. Sharma said that that would be placed before the board. Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also alleged that NBDA/NBDSA was not acting against repeat offenders such as News18 that routinely broadcast “communally-charged, misleading and false news”. She cited independent fact checker AltNews’s data as per which despite there being more than 300 instances of News18 broadcasting communal programming, NBDA/NBDSA took action in only five instances. Lok Sabha MPs Devesh Shakya (Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh) and Rajesh Verma (Lok Jan Shakti Party (Ram Vilas), Bihar) raised the issue of local cable news channel operators and YouTubers who ran “extortion rackets” where they blackmail politicians into paying them money for not running false and damaging stories about them. MIB officials said local cable operators were regulated by the district collector or magistrate. Dubey said that it was unfair of the MIB to hold the district collector or the magistrate responsible for this when they were already burdened by other duties. He told the MIB that the ministry couldn’t absolve itself of responsibility. Gokhale also raised the question of how social media posts from personal accounts and public appearances from channel editors and owners were regulated by the NBDA. AI generated false news Sharma said that he himself had been a target of deepfakes where deepfakes of him selling some medicines for diabetes were being shared on social media. Chaturvedi raised the issue of news channels broadcasting the AI generated voice notes posted by the BJP on the eve of the Maharashtra assembly elections on Tuesday. She said that all channels continued to run the synthetic voice notes as fact without comparing them to their existing archives with the voices of the public personalities. It is only on Wednesday, after independent fact checker Boom said that three of the four voice notes were definitely fake, that some news channels started fact checking the BJP’s tweets, she said in the meeting. She asked the NBDA if it circulated any advisories to its members, telling them to fact check if one of the members had done so, and how the agenda for prime time debate shows was set. In response, Prasad, in the meeting, said that political parties also had to take responsibility for the amount of fake news being put out as they had entire ecosystems (referring to ‘troll armies’ and ‘IT cells’) spreading misinformation. Issues with the Press Council of India The EGI also raised concerns about the Press Council of India, especially about the selection of its chairperson. The EGI said that the PCI had become partisan and instead of being accountable to the Parliament, as required under the Press Council of Act, 1978, it had been cornered by the executive. Dubey said that the rules around the selection of the PCI chairperson had remained unchanged since 1978 to which EGI said that it was not just the current government but each successive government that had made the PCI toothless. The guild offered to submit a written submission about the problems with the selection of the PCI chair, an offer that was accepted by Dubey. Under the PCI Act, the PCI chair is nominated by a committee made up of the Rajya Sabha chairperson, the Lok Sabha Speaker and a person elected by a Council that is nominated by the central government.None

Undefeated Oregon and No. 23 Texas A&M will collide Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas in the second game of the new Players Era Festival. Both teams are in the "Power" group of the eight-team event. All eight teams are receiving $1 million for their name, image and likeness (NIL) collectives, but placing fourth or higher in the tourney in order will net them anywhere from $1.1 million to $1.5 million. The Aggies (4-1) opened the season with a three-point loss at UCF, but since then have won four straight, all in convincing fashion. Texas A&M upset then-No. 21 Ohio State 78-64 on Nov. 15 at home in College Station, Texas. Then the Aggies crushed Southern 71-54 last Wednesday, when Wade Taylor IV led the way with 17 points and six assists. All of Texas A&M's wins have been by double digits. The Aggies and Ducks (5-0) have split the two previous meetings against each other. Until March 2022 in an NIT second-round game, they had not met since the 1970-71 season. Texas A&M tied the overall series with a 75-60 win at home in 2022. The only player on the Ducks' current roster who played in that game was 7-foot senior Nate Bittle, who has been one of Oregon's best players so far this season. Bittle's 16.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game lead the Ducks so far this season, and the big man also averages two blocked shots per game. Texas A&M guard Zhuric Phelps, a transfer from SMU, leads the Aggies in scoring at 16 points per game. Taylor adds 14 points per game. The Aggies could be the best defensive team the Ducks will have seen this season. A&M is allowing teams to shoot only 36.6 percent in games. Head coach Buzz Williams and his staff are hoping the team gets better at taking charges on defense, as the Aggies have just one so far this season. "I guess the thing that you work on most is verticality around the rim," Texas A&M assistant coach Steve Roccaforte told KBTX television. "‘Hey, once you get there, if you try and take a charge, it's going to be a block. Just jump as high as you can, stay vertical, try to go chest-to-chest. Make it a hard shot.'" Oregon is coming off a 78-75 win at Oregon State, the Ducks' first road game of the season. The Ducks trailed by 10 points at halftime but, as they have in several games this season, they found a rhythm on offense in the second half and came up with a comeback win. Bittle's 23 points and 14 rebounds led the way. Jackson Shelstad had 15 points and Jadrian Tracey and Keeshawn Barthelemy both added 10. "We started rebounding the ball a little better. Nate really got it going inside and our guys got him the ball," Oregon head coach Dana Altman told the school's athletics website. "He had a heck of a game." --Field Level MediaGurman: Apple has no ‘meaningful’ AirPods Max plans after USB-C refresh

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Whales with a lot of money to spend have taken a noticeably bullish stance on Palantir Technologies . Looking at options history for Palantir Technologies PLTR we detected 41 trades. If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 53% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 34% with bearish. From the overall spotted trades, 2 are puts, for a total amount of $55,145 and 39, calls, for a total amount of $1,942,101. Predicted Price Range Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $20.0 to $100.0 for Palantir Technologies over the last 3 months. Volume & Open Interest Development In today's trading context, the average open interest for options of Palantir Technologies stands at 9104.64, with a total volume reaching 96,652.00. The accompanying chart delineates the progression of both call and put option volume and open interest for high-value trades in Palantir Technologies, situated within the strike price corridor from $20.0 to $100.0, throughout the last 30 days. Palantir Technologies Option Activity Analysis: Last 30 Days Noteworthy Options Activity: Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Ask Bid Price Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume PLTR CALL SWEEP BULLISH 12/27/24 $4.0 $3.95 $4.0 $80.00 $113.6K 19.9K 4.3K PLTR CALL TRADE BULLISH 06/20/25 $10.3 $10.2 $10.3 $100.00 $103.0K 2.6K 0 PLTR CALL TRADE BULLISH 04/17/25 $24.5 $24.1 $24.5 $65.00 $98.0K 7.4K 41 PLTR CALL SWEEP NEUTRAL 12/27/24 $3.65 $3.6 $3.6 $80.00 $80.7K 19.9K 5.4K PLTR CALL SWEEP BULLISH 12/27/24 $3.55 $3.5 $3.51 $80.00 $71.4K 19.9K 2.1K About Palantir Technologies Palantir is an analytical software company that focuses on leveraging data to create efficiencies in its clients' organizations. The firm serves commercial and government clients via its Foundry and Gotham platforms, respectively. The Denver-based company was founded in 2003 and went public in 2020. After a thorough review of the options trading surrounding Palantir Technologies, we move to examine the company in more detail. This includes an assessment of its current market status and performance. Current Position of Palantir Technologies Currently trading with a volume of 1,988,024, the PLTR's price is up by 0.96%, now at $81.47. RSI readings suggest the stock is currently may be overbought. Anticipated earnings release is in 41 days. What The Experts Say On Palantir Technologies A total of 5 professional analysts have given their take on this stock in the last 30 days, setting an average price target of $68.8. Unusual Options Activity Detected: Smart Money on the Move Benzinga Edge's Unusual Options board spots potential market movers before they happen. See what positions big money is taking on your favorite stocks. Click here for access .* Maintaining their stance, an analyst from B of A Securities continues to hold a Buy rating for Palantir Technologies, targeting a price of $75. * Reflecting concerns, an analyst from UBS lowers its rating to Neutral with a new price target of $80.* An analyst from Wedbush persists with their Outperform rating on Palantir Technologies, maintaining a target price of $75. * An analyst from Baird has revised its rating downward to Neutral, adjusting the price target to $70. * An analyst from Mizuho persists with their Underperform rating on Palantir Technologies, maintaining a target price of $44. Trading options involves greater risks but also offers the potential for higher profits. Savvy traders mitigate these risks through ongoing education, strategic trade adjustments, utilizing various indicators, and staying attuned to market dynamics. Keep up with the latest options trades for Palantir Technologies with Benzinga Pro for real-time alerts. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

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Why Crypto firm, Patricia recommence payment to customersEuro zone business activity took a surprisingly sharp turn for the worse this month as the bloc’s dominant services industry contracted and manufacturing sank deeper into recession, a survey showed on Friday. HCOB’s preliminary composite euro zone Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by S&P Global, sank to a 10-month low of 48.1 in November, below the 50 mark separating growth from contraction. A Reuters poll had predicted no change from October’s 50.0. “The November PMI is another wake-up call for euro zone policymakers that the economy continues to show signs of weakness,” said Bert Colijn at ING. “New business is weakening again for both manufacturing and services with export orders in particular being down sharply as the euro zone economy battles weak demand from abroad.” The data pushed euro zone government bond yields lower and knocked the euro EUR= to its lowest against the dollar since December 2022 as investors bet on faster rate cuts from the European Central Bank. The central bank has cut rates three times this year to 3.25% amid increasing concerns about the bloc’s lacklustre growth outlook. Money markets expect another quarter-point cut next month and a further 125 basis points of cuts next year that would take the main rate to 1.75% by end 2025. A composite new business index fell to 46.6 from 47.9, its lowest reading this year, suggesting no imminent improvement. The economic downturn accelerated in both Germany and France with business activity falling at the quickest rate since early this year, the survey showed. Political uncertainty in the bloc’s two biggest economies may be partly to blame. Germany’s three-way coalition collapsed earlier this month, leaving the country in political limbo until snap elections in February, while in France a far-right party is threatening to topple Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s fragile coalition government over a dispute about the 2025 budget. Germany’s economy grew less than previously estimated in the third quarter, the statistics office reported on Friday, in further bad news for a country set to be the worst performer among the Group of Seven rich democracies this year. Adding to the gloomy outlook, German industry expects a 3% fall in production in 2024, a third year of decline, with no recovery in sight for 2025, the country’s BDI industry body said on Friday. To boot, President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed trade tariffs will have a significant effect on the euro zone economy in the coming years, according to a strong majority of economists in a Reuters poll. A PMI index of euro zone services, which had been offsetting the decline among manufacturers, fell to a 10-month low of 49.2 from 51.6. The poll forecast was for no change. Firms did increase headcount again but were less optimistic about the year ahead. The business expectations index fell to a two-year low of 55.0 from 59.9. The manufacturing PMI index fell to 45.2 from 46.0, confounding expectations for no change. An index measuring output, which feeds into the composite PMI, dropped to 45.1 from 45.8. That was despite factories cutting their charges for a third month and at a steeper pace than in October. The output prices index dropped to 47.9 from 48.2. In Britain, outside the European Union, business output shrank for the first time in more than a year and tax increases in the new government’s first budget hit hiring and investment plans, its PMI showed, a fresh setback for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s push for economic growth. British retail sales fell much more than expected in October, according to official data on Friday that added to signs of a loss of momentum in the economy. Source: Reuters (Reporting by Jonathan Cable, Editing by Christina Fincher)

Global Star Acquisition Inc. recently submitted a definitive extension proxy to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosing plans for a special meeting of its stockholders scheduled for November 27, 2024. The purpose of this “Special Meeting” is to propose amendments to the company’s charter and trust agreement. The proposed changes include a reduction in the required payment and an extension of the deadline by which Global Star Acquisition must finalize a business combination. The original deadline of December 22, 2024, is now being extended until June 22, 2025. This extension includes the option for six one-month extensions, pending the deposit by the Sponsor (or its affiliates or permitted designees) of an amount equivalent to the lesser of $60,000 or $0.02 per share for each public share not redeemed during the Special Meeting. In case of any discrepancies or concerns regarding the proposed extension, stockholders can contact the proxy solicitor, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, providing the necessary details for clarification or changes. The contact information for Laurel Hill Advisory Group is as follows: 2 Robbins Lane, Suite 200, Jericho, NY 11753; Toll Free: 855-414-2266; Email: [email protected] . The company, in accordance with regulatory requirements, has signified the submission of this report through the duly authorized signature of Anthony Ang, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Star Acquisition Inc., dated November 22, 2024. This article was generated by an automated content engine and was reviewed by a human editor prior to publication. For additional information, read Global Star Acquisition’s 8K filing here . About Global Star Acquisition ( Get Free Report ) Global Star Acquisition, Inc does not have significant operations. It focuses on effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in McLean, Virginia. Further Reading

Maverick McNealy and Vince Whaley share the lead in an RSM Classic that is wide openCanadian economists believe there could be an unusual solution to the problems befalling the G7 economy: return to the White House. The United States president-elect might have already threatened a on all exports from its northern neighbour and played a role in the resignation this month of finance minister . But some say a second Trump term is the impetus Canada needs to deal with a severe backlog of structural problems that have left it trailing the U.S. in productivity, growth and wages. William Foster, a senior vice-president in the sovereign risk group at Moody’s, said the Trump “stress test” was an opportunity to realign Canada’s economic focus. “It has the resources, it just needs to figure it out,” Foster said. Social-economic indicators across Canada show large parts of the population are being left behind. In March 2024, there were more than 2 million visits to food banks in Canada the highest number in history a six per cent increase compared with 2023, and a 90 per cent increase compared with 2019, according to the NGO Food Banks Canada. , at about seven per cent, and Canada’s is the highest in the G7, making the population particularly vulnerable to a recession. , along with exchange rate movements, have meant Canadian wages and salaries are now lower than those in all 50 U.S. states, according to an October report from the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver-based think-tank. Robert Asselin, a former government adviser who is now at the Business Council of Canada, said the country’s economy had become “structurally weak” as it mainly relied on consumption and real estate. Last week, when announcing another interest rate cut, governor Tiff Macklem said there were “mixed signals in the data”, adding population growth and public sector spending were keeping Canada’s GDP afloat. is now within Canada’s two per cent target range — down from seven per cent in 2022 — but when Freeland resigned, on the day she was due to present the country’s Fall Economic Statement, an Angus Reid Institute (ARI) poll found that 38 per cent of Canadians said they were worse off now than 12 months ago. “This is the lowest this measure has been since 2021 but is still much higher than data seen in ARI’s 14 years of tracking those data,” the pollsters said. Alex Whalen, policy director at the Fraser Institute, said Canada’s troubles stemmed from an “investment crisis”. “We need restrained government spending, widespread tax reform and an improved investment climate beginning with, among other policies, reversing the recent capital gains tax hike, for large profits on asset sales, and phaseout of accelerated depreciation,” he said. Productivity and innovation the twin pillars that have helped the U.S. economy race ahead of its G7 counterparts in recent years have become a sore point for Canada. “An innovative, productive and competitive economy will result in higher wages and better job opportunities for Canadian workers,” Asselin said. Canada was the 18th most productive economy in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2022; in 1970 it was sixth. This year, labour productivity was 1.2 per cent below pre-pandemic levels, having fallen for 14 of the past 16 quarters. Jonathan Garbutt, a Toronto-based tax lawyer, said that despite numerous government funds for research and development, Canada did not foster a competitive technology and innovation sector. “When young Canadian entrepreneurs ask me for my best tax advice, I say, go someplace south that values entrepreneurship and rewards people for taking risks,” he said. While the U.S.’s stellar growth may be envied in Canada, the country has benefited from a centuries-old trading relationship with its southern neighbour that is worth about $1.3 trillion annually. About 80 per cent of Canada’s exports flow to the United States, with the automotive industry, oil and gas, steel and critical minerals such as uranium central to the relationship. Should Trump carry out his threat to rip up the North American free trade deal, the USMCA, with Canada and Mexico when he returns to office on January 20, it would remove one of the remaining strengths of the Canadian economy and likely tip it into recession. Differences between Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over how to respond to what the former minister described as Trump’s “aggressive economic nationalism” prompted her to quit after four years in the post. Her resignation letter criticized a number of Trudeau’s pre-election giveaways including tax-free Christmas trees and a proposed $250 cheque for nearly half the population at a time when Ottawa “faces a grave challenge” from the U.S. president-elect. An election must be held by October and Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre is significantly ahead in the polls. Using slogans such as “axe the tax”, Poilievre, a 45-year-old career politician, has hammered Trudeau on the struggling economy. Regardless of who wins the next election, Trump’s victory in the U.S. was “a wake-up call”, said Jim Thorne, chief market strategist for Wellington-Altus Private Wealth. “We are witnessing the great deterioration of the Canadian economy in the post-WWII era and Ottawa and Bay Street have yet to fully recognize the rapid decline.”Fran Brown calls out College GameDay to come for SU-Miami game

Fraserburgh manager Mark Cowie was delighted after lightning struck twice as the Broch drew Rangers again in the Scottish Cup. The Breedon Highland League outfit will visit Ibrox on the weekend of Saturday January 18 2025 in the fourth round of the national tournament. Fraserburgh – – hosted the Gers at Bellslea in January 2018. While that tie, which the Buchan club lost 3-0, was a great occasion, this meeting is likely to be substantially more lucrative for Fraserburgh. A crowd of 1,800 crammed into Bellslea nearly seven years ago, but Ibrox’s capacity is 52,000, and the Broch will due half the gate receipts and the match is almost guaranteed to be selected for live TV broadcast. ‘We’ve been luckily enough to get it twice’ Speaking to The Press and Journal seconds after the draw had been made, Cowie said: “Wow – we’ve been lucky enough to do it once and now we’re away to do it again! “This time the stresses won’t quite be the same for our board because it’s not at Bellslea and we’ve got a day to look forward to at Ibrox. “I would say it’s a once lifetime thing – but we’ve been luckily enough to get it twice! “We’ve had three tough home games and we’ve managed to get through them to reach this stage. “I’m delighted for the players, because there’s a lot of them getting towards the end of their careers. “How many folk can say they’ve played Rangers twice in a competitive game, once at home and once at Ibrox? I’m delighted for them. It’s a great thing to look forward to. “It’s a reward for Finlay Noble (club secretary and former chairman), the new chairman Michael Murray and all the board members. “They all do their utmost to ensure the club gets by season to season. We’ve done the hard work to get here and now we can enjoy it.” Another occasion to remember The meeting between Fraserburgh and Rangers in 2018 is still recalled fondly in the Broch. However, the Highland League side had to overcome some challenges to ensure they could stage the game at home, with the clash initially postponed due to frost. Cowie added: “The game in 2018 was an unbelievable occasion for the town and the club, but there was also a lot of stress for the board. “People think it was big money coming in, but there were also a lot of outgoings and a lot of things the club had to do to ensure we could host the game. “Everything was planned and then the game was postponed and we had to reschedule. “There was a lot of stress involved, but with this tie we won’t have any of that stress – we’ll have to organise a bus and that’ll be about it! “We earned the chance to be in the draw and we’ve been lucky enough to get an unbelievable draw. “I’m not daft enough to think it will be the same game as it was at Bellslea. Bellslea has got a lot of advantages for us because of how tight and cramped it is. “We’re away to play at Ibrox, which is a different kettle of fish – my players have played in front of 1,500 or 2,000 before. “But now, hopefully, we’ll be playing in front of a massive crowd. Hopefully the Rangers fans come out and support the game. “Times are hard for every club, so hopefully it’s a bumper crowd and a good payday for the club.” Other ties Elsewhere, in the draw, League Two leaders Elgin City secured a mouthwatering meeting with Premiership Aberdeen at Borough Briggs. League One Cove Rangers will host Forfar Athletic of League Two at the Balmoral Stadium and Ross County will have home advantage against Livingston. The other Highland League side in the draw, Brechin City, will welcome Hearts to Glebe Park. The full Scottish Cup fourth round draw is as follows (ties to be played the weekend of Saturday January 18 2025): Cove Rangers v Forfar Athletic, Ross County v Livingston, Rangers v Fraserburgh, Elgin City v Aberdeen, Brechin City v Hearts, Dumbarton v Airdrieonians, Dundee v Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic v Stenhousemuir, Falkirk v Raith Rovers, St Johnstone v Motherwell, Hibs v Clydebank, Queen of the South v St Mirren, Queen’s Park v Montrose, Hamilton Academical v Musselburgh Athletic, Broxburn Athletic v Ayr United, Celtic v Kilmarnock.Alice Camera review: reinventing the camera for the smartphone age

50jili com login DALLAS (AP) — Boopie Miller scored 24 points and added seven assists and Yohan Traoire posted a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds to help power SMU to its seventh straight win, closing out its nonconference schedule with a 98-82 victory over Longwood on Sunday. The Mustangs (11-2) shot 62% from the field for the game, knocking down 10 of 20 shots from behind the 3-point arc to earn their seventh win in eight home games. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.NEW YORK — Victor Wembanyama had 19 points, seven rebounds and six blocks, Jeremy Sochan had 12 points and 14 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Brooklyn Nets 96-87 on Friday night. Julian Champagnie scored 18 points, and Keldon Johnson had 15 points and six rebounds to help the Spurs end a two-game skid. Keon Johnson scored a game-high 25 points and Shake Milton chipped in with 16 points and 12 assists for Brooklyn, which fell for the ninth time in its past 12 games. Takeaways San Antonio: After an abysmal shooting first half, where they shot just 27.5% from the field, the Spurs lit it up in the second half by making 21 of 37 field goals (56.7%). Brooklyn: Playing the second of a back-to-back, and without leading scorer Cam Johnson (hip contusion) and assist leader Ben Simmons (lower back management), the Nets struggled to generate offense, shooting just 38.9% from the field and scoring a season low for points. Key moment After a quiet four-point first half, Wembanyama came alive in the third quarter by scoring 11 points and knocking down three 3-pointers during the Spurs’ 22-9 run that turned a two-point deficit in to a 69-58 lead. The Spurs survived a brief third-quarter scare when Wembanyama went to the locker room after catching Jalen Wilson’s accidental head butt with 4:43 left. San Antonio outscored Brooklyn 12-8 with Wembanyama out of the game and 33-21 overall in the third quarter. San Antonio Spurs' Devin Vassell, left, shoots the ball against Brooklyn Nets' Nic Claxton, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in New York. Credit: AP/Pamela Smith Key stat Wembanyama had at least four blocks in his fifth straight game. He also recorded at least one 3-pointer and at least one block for the 22nd straight game. Up next San Antonio: at Minnesota on Sunday. Brooklyn: at Orlando on Sunday.

Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 1 South Carolina cruises past Coppin St.Greg Gumbel, the renowned CBS Sports anchor and commentator, has died at the age of 78. His family confirmed the news in a statement on Friday, saying: It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of our beloved husband and father, Greg Gumbel. He passed away peacefully surrounded by much love after a courageous battle with cancer. Greg approached his illness like one would expect he would, with stoicism, grace, and positivity. He leaves behind a legacy of love, inspiration and dedication to over 50 extraordinary years in the sports broadcast industry; and his iconic voice will never be forgotten. Greg's memory will forever be treasured by his family, dearest friends, colleagues and all who loved him. — Marcy & Michelle Gumbel Gumbel served as a play-by-play announcer and studio host for CBS Sports , and previously spent years on air for NBC Sports. He won legions of fans with his work hosting coverage ranging from The NFL Today to several Super Bowls and Olympic Games. Gumbel worked for CBS Sports from October 1989 through May 1994, then went to NBC Sports as a host and play-by-play announcer before returning to CBS Sports in 1998 as host and play-by-play announcer for college basketball and The NFL on CBS. In 2022, he celebrated his 50th year of broadcasting. "The CBS Sports family is devastated by the passing of Greg Gumbel. There has never been a finer gentleman in all of television. He was beloved and respected by those of us who had the honor to call him a friend and colleague," said David Berson, the president & CEO of CBS Sports. "A tremendous broadcaster and gifted storyteller, Greg led one of the most remarkable and groundbreaking sports broadcasting careers of all time. He was a familiar and welcoming voice for fans across many sports, including the NFL and March Madness, highlighted by the Super Bowl and Final Four," Berson said. "Greg broke barriers and set the standard for others to follow. It is an extremely sad day for all of us at CBS Sports and the entire sports community. We will miss Greg dearly, and send our deepest condolences to his wife Marcy, daughter Michelle, and his entire family." Gumbel was born in New Orleans on May 3, 1946, and grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1967. This is a developing story and will be updated.“We’ve always been a rock group, The Beatles”: How the White Album sowed the seeds for music’s entire future

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Drew Lock is likely going to start at quarterback for the New York Giants against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday when they try to end a franchise-record 10-game losing streak. Lock started against Atlanta last weekend and his status became an issue after the 34-7 loss when coach Brian Daboll said the 28-year-old was having an issue with his right shoulder. An MRI was done Monday and Daboll announced Tuesday that Lock would be his starter if he stayed healthy. “It came back good so rocking and rolling,” Lock said, noting he was hurt on a third down pass to Daniel Bellinger in the first quarter when Falcons linebacker Matthew Judon pulled his arm on the play. He finished the game. There were questions whether Daboll would switch back to Tommy DeVito after Lock threw two pick-6s and lost a fumble on a strip-sack against the Falcons. Lock has had three interceptions returned for scores in three starts this season, including two on tipped passes. Daboll said it was important to give Lock a couple of starts in which he was able to get all the reps in practice. “Knowing what we did the week before, take the things we need to get better at into this week and actually be able to go out there and do it is something I’m looking forward to,” Lock said. “Similar cadences with the guys, being in the huddle together. I think it can only be a positive for such a roller coaster out of that spot.” The one thing that might change this week is the Giants center. John Michael Schmitz has an ankle injury and he did not practice Tuesday. He left the locker room with a boot on his right foot. New York has moved veteran guard Greg Van Roten to center when Schmitz was hurt and Lock also worked with guard Austin Schlottmann as his center while playing in Denver. “I’m pretty familiar with all the guys that are rotating in there,” Lock said. The Giants have the NFL's worst scoring offense, averaging 14.3 points. They benched Daniel Jones coming out of their bye week and days later released him after he requested it. DeVito has started two games and Lock three since Jones was released. New York has scored 59 points in those games, with 20 coming against Dallas in a seven-point loss on Thanksgiving. Running back Tyrone Tracy (ankle), wide receiver Malik Nabers (knee-foot), cornerback Greg Stroman (shoulder-shin), defensive tackle Cory Durden (shoulder), inside linebacker Micah McFadden (neck) and cornerback Dru Phillips (shoulder) also did not practice on Tuesday, which is usually a day off. The team will have off on Christmas Day and return to practice on Thursday. The Giants opened practice on Tuesday with the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” blaring on the loudspeakers in their indoor practice facility. Jones, who is on the Minnesota Vikings practice squad, sent the Giants offensive linemen Christmas gifts. “DJ comes in, saves me and Tommy once again, and then takes care of the guys,” Lock said. “I expected nothing less from the guy. That’s just who he is, and cares about these guys still.” AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflThe Arizona Diamondbacks made one of the biggest moves of the MLB offseason early Saturday morning when they inked Corbin Burnes to a six-year, $210 million contract, emerging seemingly out of nowhere to reel in one of the biggest fish of the offseason. With Blake Snell, Max Fried, Sean Manaea, Nathan Eovaldi and Yusei Kikuchi also already signed in free agency, and both Garrett Crochet and Jesús Luzardo on the move via trade, the starting pitching market has dwindled considerably since the start of the offseason. However, there are still some impact arms looking for a new home, led by Japanese League star Roki Sasaki and World Series champion Jack Flaherty. Ahead is an updated look at the top remaining free agency and trade targets on the starting pitching market in the wake of the Burnes signing. Free Agents RHP Kyle Gibson RHP Lance Lynn LHP Martín Pérez RHP Cal Quantrill LHP José Quintana RHP Colin Rea RHP Spencer Turnbull RHP Trevor Williams LHP Ryan Yarbrough Trade Candidates LHP Steven Matz, STL LHP Jordan Montgomery, ARI 10. RHP Michael Lorenzen, Free Agent (Age: 32) Stats: 26 G, 24 GS, 7-6, 3.31 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 60 BB, 97 K, 130.1 IP, 2.6 WAR After an All-Star selection in 2023, Lorenzen was one of the last notable free agents to sign last winter, agreeing to a one-year, $4.5 million deal with the Rangers on March 22. He doesn't miss many bats, striking out just 18.1 percent of the hitters he faced this past season, but he is a solid back-of-the-rotation option capable of pitching above that level at times. 9. RHP Justin Verlander, Free Agent (Age: 41) Stats: 17 GS, 5-6, 5.48 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 27 BB, 74 K, 90.1 IP, -0.3 WAR Verlander had a 4.16 ERA over 67 innings through his first 12 starts in 2024 before a brutal month of September, so his overall performance was not as bad as his final numbers might suggest. He no longer possesses elite velocity, but he is a future Hall of Famer who knows how to pitch, and he is still capable of being an effective back-of-the-rotation option. 8. RHP Max Scherzer, Free Agent (Age: 40) Stats: 9 GS, 2-4, 3.95 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 10 BB, 40 K, 43.1 IP, 0.4 WAR A shoulder issue limited Scherzer to just nine starts last season, so his health is a question mark, but he was still an effective option when he did take the mound. He profiles more as a four- or five-inning guy at this point rather than a workhorse, but in the right situation he can still be an asset to the staff. 7. LHP Andrew Heaney, Free Agent (Age: 33) Stats: 32 G, 31 GS, 5-14, 4.28 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 41 BB, 159 K, 160.0 IP, 0.8 WAR Heaney led a banged up Rangers staff with 31 starts and eclipsed 150 innings pitched for the second time in his career in 2024, and he more than earned his two-year, $25 million deal the past two seasons. With 1,070 strikeouts in 1,014.1 career innings, he has always missed plenty of bats, and he could provide solid value on a similar deal. 6. RHP Erick Fedde, Trade Candidate (Age: 31) Stats: 31 GS, 9-9, 3.30 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 52 BB, 154 K, 177.1 IP, 5.6 WAR Fedde won KBO MVP honors in 2023 when he finished 20-6 with a 2.00 ERA, 0.95 WHIP and 209 strikeouts in 180.1 innings, and he returned stateside a different pitcher last year after inking a two-year, $15 million deal with the White Sox. He was traded to the Cardinals at the 2024 deadline, and now that they are headed for a youth movement, he is squarely on the trade block and carries wide appeal thanks to a team-friendly $7.5 million salary. Age: 31 Stats: 27 G, 26 GS, 6-12, 4.14 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 36 BB, 172 K, 145.2 IP, 1.8 WAR Nick Pivetta was one of the few legitimate candidates to potentially accept a qualifying offer this winter, but he ultimately turned down the one-year, $21.05 million contract in favor of testing the free agency waters. The right-hander has quietly posted four straight seasons with at least 170 strikeouts, and he also posted a career-low 2.2 walks per nine innings during the 2024 season, down significantly from 3.5 BB/9 over the first seven years of his career. The draft pick compensation tied to signing him is a factor, but he can slot in as a solid No. 3 starter on a contending team thanks to his swing-and-miss stuff. Age: 32 Stats: 30 GS, 11-12, 3.64 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 47 BB, 175 K, 175.1 IP, 1.8 WAR The emergence of up-and-coming arms Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Bryce Miller and Bryan Woo has put the Seattle Mariners in an enviable position where they can potentially trade from an area of strength by shopping Luis Castillo. The three-time All-Star had another solid overall season in 2024, and while his stuff took a slight step backward and his strikeout rate dropped from 27.3 to 24.3 percent, he was still a solid No. 2/3 starter. He will make $24.15 million annually each of the next three seasons, and he also has a $25 million vesting option for 2028 based on health and innings pitched. Age: 29 Stats: 28 GS, 13-7, 3.17 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 38 BB, 194 K, 162.0 IP, 3.1 WAR After years of battling injuries and then command issues in 2023, Jack Flaherty signed a one-year, $14 million deal with the Tigers last winter hoping to rebuild his stock, and he ended up being one of the best value signings of the offseason. He ended up serving as the co-ace of the staff for the Dodgers during their run to the World Series after joining them at the trade deadline. He struggled to a 7.36 ERA in 22 innings of work during the playoffs, though he did turn in a terrific start in Game 1 of the NLCS (7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 ER). His age is a major chip in his favor in a market littered with pitchers on the other side of 30 years old, and he has strikeout stuff when everything is clicking, but his inconsistent track record and shaky October might be the reason he is still looking for his next contract. Age: 29 Stats: 33 GS, 14-11, 3.47 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 65 BB, 224 K, 189.1 IP, 4.2 WAR Could the San Diego Padres be major players on the trade market once again this offseason? Last winter, they traded away Juan Soto ahead of his final season of arbitration control, only to turn around and acquire Dylan Cease from the Chicago White Sox. Now they are reportedly shopping Cease. "There is no indication any deal is imminent, but this is more than just fielding phone calls. League sources characterized the talks regarding Cease as being anywhere from "trying to unload Cease" to the Padres being "open to" trading the right-hander," wrote Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune shortly after the winter meetings. Cease is poised to be one of the most sought after pitchers on the free-agent market next winter, and if the Padres don't plan to sign him long-term, then now is the time to sell high. Trading him could also be part of a domino effect set off by them signing the No. 1 player on this list... Age: 23 Stats: 18 GS, 10-5, 2.35 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 32 BB, 129 K, 111.0 IP It's not every day that a 23-year-old who is capable of stepping right into a big league rotation and potentially pitching at an ace-caliber level hits the open market. Roki Sasaki has officially been posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines, and teams now have until Jan. 23 to negotiate with the Japanese League star, though spending will be limited by the international bonus pool limitations. The assumption is that he will wait to sign until after the new international signing period begins on Jan. 15, when all 30 teams will have a full bonus pool at their disposal, though money will likely not be the determining factor in where he lands. The Dodgers and Padres are the heavy favorites to sign him, but there is still time for a mystery team to make its move. Armed with a 70-grade fastball that regularly touches triple-digits, a lethal splitter and a plus slider, he checks all the boxes to be a star on the mound for the next decade.

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Valery Zaluzhny , the former Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine, has stated that the Third World War has already begun, citing the direct involvement of two superpowers, Russia and the U.S., in the Ukraine conflict. According to Zaluzhny, this war has transcended Ukraine’s borders, drawing in nations like North Korea, Iran, and potentially China, indicating a broader international confrontation. "I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun," Zaluzhny said during a public event, as reported by Politico. He highlighted the increasing role of foreign powers, such as North Korean soldiers and Iranian drones targeting Ukrainian civilians. "Because in 2024, Ukraine is no longer facing Russia. Soldiers from North Korea are standing in front of Ukraine. Let's be honest," Zaluzhny remarked. He further criticized the use of Iranian Shahed drones, which he claimed are killing Ukrainian civilians without any shame. Zaluzhny, who was dismissed from his military post in February following disagreements with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over strategy, argued that the war could be ended on Ukrainian soil, but expressed frustration that "our partners refuse to understand this." He further emphasized that while Ukraine could endure with advanced technology, victory remains uncertain without greater international support. WWIII Underway? Putin’s Threats and the Escalating Conflict As tensions rise, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ramped up his threats, claiming that the U.S. and its allies are pushing the world closer to war. On Thursday, the Kremlin launched a new intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine in retaliation for Ukraine’s use of U.S. and British missiles capable of striking deeper into Russian territory. Putin declared that this missile, which he called the Oreshnik (hazelnut tree), could fly at ten times the speed of sound and could target any nation involved in attacking Russian military sites. In a televised address, Putin justified the missile strike, saying, “We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against military facilities of the countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities.” These remarks followed the Biden administration’s authorization for Ukraine to use U.S.-made ATACMS missiles for strikes inside Russia, a decision that has sparked fears of escalating the conflict. 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Former President Donald Trump , known for his blunt language, warned in a recent fundraising email, “It truly breaks my heart to see Crooked Joe—the weakest and most incompetent president in history—ruin our country as he pushes America to the brink of World War III.” Trump has signaled that peace could be reached quickly if Russia and Ukraine engaged in direct talks, though no such negotiations have taken place. President Biden has also mentioned the looming threat of World War III, acknowledging the fragile state of international relations. “We’re trying to avoid World War III,” Biden said last year, referencing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The growing rhetoric around World War III has been fueled by significant shifts in U.S. policy. Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russia has raised concerns about further escalation. Trump Jr. criticized the decision, claiming that the military-industrial complex is pushing the world toward a global conflict. Rep. Michael Waltz, a member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, echoed these concerns, warning that the situation risks spiraling out of control. What is India’s role in mitigating the next world war? The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, with its increasing involvement of global powers, has raised fears of a potential World War III. Amid these tensions, India's role has been crucial, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerging as a potential mediator in the crisis. Modi’s diplomatic efforts have focused on advocating for peace and working towards a ceasefire, highlighting India's strategic position as a voice of reason and moderation on the global stage. Since the conflict began in 2022, India has consistently called for a peaceful resolution and has emphasized dialogue between the warring parties. Prime Minister Modi's diplomatic approach has been one of caution, urging both Russia and Ukraine to engage in talks and avoid escalating the conflict further. Unlike Western powers, which have supported Ukraine with military aid, including long-range missiles, India has maintained a balanced stance, abstaining from actions that would further fuel the war. Modi’s call for a ceasefire and peace negotiations is seen as essential in preventing the conflict from spilling over into a larger global war. What has PM Modi stance been on Russia-Ukraine conflict? India’s stance on the Ukraine crisis has been characterized by its neutral position, which is rooted in its long-standing foreign policy principles of non-alignment and respect for sovereignty. India has not joined Western sanctions against Russia and continues to engage with Moscow diplomatically and economically. This approach has allowed India to maintain strong ties with Russia, which is a significant defense partner, while also fostering its relationships with Western powers, particularly the United States. This balanced strategy gives India a unique position to act as a mediator in the conflict, with the potential to influence both sides. The Geopolitical Significance of India’s Role In the broader geopolitical context, India’s importance as a stabilizing force in the Russia-Ukraine war cannot be overstated. With its growing influence in global affairs, India is increasingly seen as a key player in shaping international responses to conflicts. Modi’s ability to maintain constructive relations with both Russia and the West places India in a prime position to facilitate dialogue and potentially broker a ceasefire. This unique diplomatic leverage is seen by many as India’s potential contribution to avoiding the catastrophic consequences of an expanded global war. The Potential for Modi to Mediate a Ceasefire Given the complexities of the Ukraine conflict and the high stakes involved, the role of India in bringing about peace is critical. With President Biden’s administration facing increasing pressure over its handling of the war and potential escalation risks, Modi could serve as a bridge between the warring parties. If the situation deteriorates further, and if the U.S. recognizes the urgency of India’s position, Prime Minister Modi could be asked to lead the diplomatic efforts to mediate an end to the conflict. His influence and standing on the world stage make him uniquely positioned to offer a path toward de-escalation, preventing a further slide into World War III. Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine and Global Reactions In the wake of these developments, Russia has adjusted its nuclear doctrine to include potential nuclear responses to conventional attacks involving non-nuclear states, such as Ukraine, but backed by nuclear powers like the U.S. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in such cases. These developments have led to increased security measures across Europe. In Germany, the government has issued new guidelines advising citizens to prepare for potential threats, including the installation of diesel generators and wind turbines. Swedish and Norwegian officials have also issued preparedness literature to their citizens, underscoring the global concern about the war’s potential spread. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock voiced alarm over the growing risks, stating, "Putin is playing with our fear" and urging Europe to invest in its security. These fears have been amplified by Russia's increasingly provocative actions, including seeking military support from North Korea, and the potential for further nuclear escalation. The current trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine war, with its increasing involvement of global powers and the growing nuclear risks, has many worried that World War III may be closer than ever. The situation is compounded by the complex political dynamics in the U.S., where both Biden and Trump have invoked the specter of a global conflict. As the U.S. and its allies continue to support Ukraine with advanced weaponry, Russia’s responses become increasingly aggressive, including missile strikes and adjustments to its nuclear strategy. The situation is a precarious balancing act, with global powers at odds and the risk of a broader conflict growing daily. Whether the Third World War is already underway, or merely on the horizon, remains uncertain, but the stakes have never been higher. World leaders, particularly those from nuclear powers, will need to tread carefully to avoid the catastrophic consequences of a full-scale global war. As the situation unfolds, it is clear that the international community remains on high alert, watching for signs of further escalation. (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Louie Semona scored 15 points off of the bench to lead Stonehill over Lafayette 70-65 on Sunday. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Louie Semona scored 15 points off of the bench to lead Stonehill over Lafayette 70-65 on Sunday. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Louie Semona scored 15 points off of the bench to lead Stonehill over Lafayette 70-65 on Sunday. Semona had six rebounds for the Skyhawks (8-7). Hermann Koffi scored 13 points, shooting 4 for 8 (2 for 5 from 3-point range) and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line. Josh Morgan had 13 points and shot 4 of 9 from the field, including 1 for 3 from 3-point range, and went 4 for 4 from the line. The Leopards (5-8) were led by Caleb Williams, who recorded 15 points. Lafayette also got 14 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks from Justin Vander Baan. Alex Chaikin also recorded 12 points, two steals and two blocks. Stonehill went into the half leading Lafayette 28-27. Semona put up seven points in the half. Stonehill used a 7-0 second-half run erase a five-point deficit and take the lead at 47-45 with 11:20 remaining in the half before finishing off the victory. Todd Brogna scored nine second-half points. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. AdvertisementThis whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities. Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner. Traders often look for circumstances when the market estimation of an option diverges away from its normal worth. Abnormal amounts of trading activity could push option prices to hyperbolic or underperforming levels. Below are some instances of options activity happening in the Consumer Discretionary sector: Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume TSLA CALL SWEEP BEARISH 11/22/24 $350.00 $29.7K 23.6K 117.1K AMZN CALL SWEEP BULLISH 11/29/24 $202.50 $53.1K 17.7K 16.6K ABNB PUT SWEEP BULLISH 12/20/24 $135.00 $76.3K 3.4K 2.4K MBLY CALL SWEEP BEARISH 01/16/26 $20.00 $55.2K 1.8K 371 RIVN CALL SWEEP BEARISH 03/21/25 $10.00 $27.6K 4.2K 311 HD CALL TRADE BULLISH 03/21/25 $420.00 $32.4K 635 68 CROX CALL TRADE BEARISH 01/16/26 $50.00 $302.5K 6 50 BKNG CALL TRADE NEUTRAL 01/17/25 $4900.00 $37.0K 1.1K 13 WSM PUT TRADE BEARISH 05/16/25 $180.00 $25.1K 14 12 Explanation These itemized elaborations have been created using the accompanying table. • For TSLA TSLA , we notice a call option sweep that happens to be bearish , is expiring today. Parties traded 67 contract(s) at a $350.00 strike. This particular call needed to be split into 17 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $29.7K , with a price of $434.0 per contract. There were 23682 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 117162 contract(s) were bought and sold. • Regarding AMZN AMZN , we observe a call option sweep with bullish sentiment. It expires in 7 day(s) on November 29, 2024 . Parties traded 443 contract(s) at a $202.50 strike. This particular call needed to be split into 14 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $53.1K , with a price of $120.0 per contract. There were 17717 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 16635 contract(s) were bought and sold. • For ABNB ABNB , we notice a put option sweep that happens to be bullish , expiring in 28 day(s) on December 20, 2024 . This event was a transfer of 270 contract(s) at a $135.00 strike. This particular put needed to be split into 9 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $76.3K , with a price of $283.0 per contract. There were 3443 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 2477 contract(s) were bought and sold. • For MBLY MBLY , we notice a call option sweep that happens to be bearish , expiring in 420 day(s) on January 16, 2026 . This event was a transfer of 97 contract(s) at a $20.00 strike. This particular call needed to be split into 13 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $55.2K , with a price of $570.0 per contract. There were 1864 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 371 contract(s) were bought and sold. • Regarding RIVN RIVN , we observe a call option sweep with bearish sentiment. It expires in 119 day(s) on March 21, 2025 . Parties traded 150 contract(s) at a $10.00 strike. This particular call needed to be split into 13 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $27.6K , with a price of $185.0 per contract. There were 4230 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 311 contract(s) were bought and sold. • Regarding HD HD , we observe a call option trade with bullish sentiment. It expires in 119 day(s) on March 21, 2025 . Parties traded 15 contract(s) at a $420.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $32.4K , with a price of $2160.0 per contract. There were 635 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 68 contract(s) were bought and sold. • Regarding CROX CROX , we observe a call option trade with bearish sentiment. It expires in 420 day(s) on January 16, 2026 . Parties traded 50 contract(s) at a $50.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $302.5K , with a price of $6050.0 per contract. There were 6 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 50 contract(s) were bought and sold. • Regarding BKNG BKNG , we observe a call option trade with neutral sentiment. It expires in 56 day(s) on January 17, 2025 . Parties traded 1 contract(s) at a $4900.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $37.0K , with a price of $37000.0 per contract. There were 1111 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 13 contract(s) were bought and sold. • For WSM WSM , we notice a put option trade that happens to be bearish , expiring in 175 day(s) on May 16, 2025 . This event was a transfer of 11 contract(s) at a $180.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $25.1K , with a price of $2290.0 per contract. There were 14 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 12 contract(s) were bought and sold. 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Off to its best start since the 2017-18 season, Georgetown will look to continue its winning ways on Saturday afternoon against struggling Coppin State in Washington, D.C. The Hoyas (10-2) have won three in a row and eight of their last nine overall. While the improvements didn't happen overnight, coach Ed Cooley's impact has been felt during his second season on the sideline. Georgetown already surpassed its win totals of each of the past three seasons. Cooley brought in 14 new players after his first season at Georgetown ended with a disappointing 9-23 record. Freshman center Thomas Sorber is second on the team in scoring at 15.2 points per game and leads the Hoyas with 8.0 rebounds per contest. "One of the more unique personalities we've coached," Cooley told 106.7 The Fan on Friday. "He's an energy giver. He's one of these men that doesn't have a bad day. He's an inspiration to be around." So far Sorber has inspired many to remember Georgetown teams of the past that typically featured a talented post presence. Sorber had 19 points and eight rebounds to help Georgetown to a 61-60 win at Seton Hall on Sunday. Georgetown has had to play its last two games without backcourt starter Malik Mack (lower body). Mack, a transfer from Harvard, collected nine points, eight assists and six rebounds in the Hoyas' 75-71 victory at Syracuse on Dec. 14. "I feel his impact on the team is getting better and better," Cooley said about Mack. "He's coming off an injury. Hopefully he's ready to play on Saturday." After opening the season with 12 consecutive losses, Coppin State (1-12) found the win column with a 68-60 victory over Navy last Saturday. The Eagles used an opportunistic defense to snap their losing streak, forcing 20 turnovers and turning them into 24 points. Toby Nnadozie, who scored a career-high 20 points, was one of three Eagles with three steals. Nnadozie is second on the team in scoring at 9.2 points per game. Leading scorer Derrius Ward (12.4 points per game) last played on Nov. 14 against UMBC. Coppin State has faced five power conference teams to start the season, going 0-5 and losing by an average of 24 points. Despite the losses, coach Larry Stewart's teams held Wake Forest, Virginia and North Carolina State to 66 or fewer points. --Field Level Media

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The past two years have marked the two highest increases in water rates and fees by the Erie County Water Authority, and next year will be no different. The water authority board last week unanimously approved an across the board 11% hike in its rates and fees, the second highest percentage increase in decades. Authority officials say the median residential water bill will rise by $40 a year, though they use a lower annual water use estimate than other local water utility companies. And if you're wondering when water users might get a break, the answer from water authority leaders is probably not for a long time. The Erie County Water Authority is sharply raising rates and fees again. And no one thinks that pattern is going to change anytime soon, particularly with new federal mandates for lead pipe removal. The Erie County Water Authority provides water to more than 550,000 users throughout most of Erie County but not the City of Buffalo. The 11% hike falls just short of the 12% increase in 2023, which was the highest recorded jump since at least 2000, when The Buffalo News began tracking rate changes. The officials say ratepayers will face a growing burden over the coming decade because of an ambitious effort to upgrade the county's aging water system and meet expensive, new unfunded mandates by the Environmental Protection Agency to replace lead and galvanized steel pipes. The authority's push to improve the county's largest water network means customers will be paying more than 50% more than what they paid for water five years ago, which significantly outpaces inflation. And authority executives expect the sharp increases to continue for a decade or more. "I have to be honest you," said authority Chairman Jerome Schad. "I don’t see how we aren’t going to be in that spot." The authority's operating costs have fallen by a little under 1%, said Chief Financial Officer Joyce Tomaka, but it's project construction costs are climbing by 17%. Here's more context to the most basic questions regarding the increased water costs. Q: Why are costs going up so much? For each of the past two years, water authority officials attributed higher costs to spikes in chemical prices, power and contracts with third-party contractors. This year, Tomaka said supply costs have leveled off or fallen, but the federal government's new Lead and Copper Rule has thrown a heavy burden on all water utilities, which must identify and replace all lead lines within the next 10 years. Galvanized steel pipes, which can also absorb lead, must be replaced within the next 13 years. The new EPA rules also require more testing of drinking water and require that communities take action sooner to protect people from water-based lead exposure. ECWA officials say they estimate that the rules will require the replacement of roughly 30,000 lines. For next year, the authority plans to spend $16 million as part of its "Get the Lead Out" program. The authority did receive a $20 million grant from Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2023, and another $960,000 from Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand this year. Schad said without those grants, the increased costs to customers would be even higher. The typical customer will pay $484 a year for water, a 7% increase. In 2023, the Buffalo Water Board raised the bill paid by the typical residential customer by $41 a year, or 10%. The Lead and Copper Rule is not deterring the water authority from taking steps that leaders say they must to make critical improvements to the authority’s aging plants, lab technology, pumping stations, water lines and residential water meters. That will add another $66.8 million to construction costs. Schad said keeping water costs low used to be the overriding priority of the authority, but as a result, it has spent less on maintenance than other comparable water systems. Having cheap water is less important to the local economy than having access to a reliable and safe water system without interruption and outages, he said. Consultants for the authority agree that the current rate structure is fairest to residential consumers, who represent the bulk of all water authority customers, he said. Compared with other major upstate counties and cities, ECWA's water costs may be the highest next year, except for the City of Buffalo, which has a concentration of older water lines. Within the county, however, 20 other local governments – primarily rural villages and towns – have higher rates than ECWA, which delivers water to most suburban communities. Q: So how much will I be paying this year? Pull out your calculator. The Water Authority charges two costs to water users. One is a rate charged for every 1,000 gallons of water used. Next year, the water rate for residential customers will rise from $4.64 per thousand to $5.15 per thousand. So if you accept the water authority's average water usage figure of 56,000 gallons a year, you'd multiply 56 by $5.15, to get $288.40. If you have a family with children, expect to pay more. If you live alone, expect to pay less. But that's not all. Since 2011, the water authority has also been charging customers a flat quarterly "infrastructure fee." That fee has risen from $27.72 per quarter to $30.78. Multiply the new quarterly fee by four and you'll get $123.12 a year, for a total annual water bill of $411.52, an increase of $40.80 over what the average residential customer paid this year. Note that the ECWA calculates average water usage by taking it's three highest residential water usage months of April through June, and using that as a quarterly average that amounts to 56,000 gallons, according to Tomaka. That is low compared with the Buffalo Water Board, which estimates residential usage at 70,000 gallons per household. That's more in line with what the ECWA calculated as its average water usage three years ago. Of course, the higher the average water usage figure, the bigger the average water bill looks. Commercial customers, who pay a much heftier quarterly infrastructure fee but a lower water rate, will also see an 11% increase across the board. Get Government & Politics updates in your inbox! Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter. Reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.1,966 route km of NFR identified for advanced technological system ‘Kavach’ : Official

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49.jili Bruins return experienced girls basketball teamTROY, Ala. (AP) — Amir "Primo" Spears led UTSA with 29 points, including a three-point play with 25.8 seconds left, as the Roadrunners knocked off Merrimack 76-74 on Wednesday. Spears added five rebounds for the Roadrunners (2-3). Jonnivius Smith scored 11 points while shooting 5 of 7 from the field and added 20 rebounds. Marcus Millender went 3 of 9 from the field (2 for 6 from 3-point range) to finish with 10 points. Adam Clark led the way for the Warriors (1-6) with 28 points, six rebounds and four steals. Devon Savage added 15 points for Merrimack. Bryan Etumnu finished with 12 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks. The loss was the Warriors' sixth in a row. Damari Monsanto put up eight points in the first half for UTSA, who led 37-36 at halftime. Spears scored a team-high 24 points for UTSA in the second half. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .ears of closely working with President have meant that Maj. Teddy Indra Wijaya has been entrusted with a crucial role in the President’s Red and White Cabinet, that of disciplining cabinet members embroiled in controversies. Born into a military family, the mid-ranking officer came to public attention when serving as Prabowo’s aide-de-camp in 2019, closely following the then-defense minister’s every step. He remained within Prabowo’s inner circle after the former Army general took office as president in October, appointed as cabinet secretary; a position usually responsible for supporting the sitting president in managing the cabinet. Since then, Prabowo has appeared to rely on his cabinet secretary to instill discipline among more than 100 cabinet members, as witnessed in how the President’s administration responded to a series of controversial remarks and misconduct by several officials. Among the recent instances that have occurred is Religious Development Envoy Miftah Maulana Habiburrahman getting himself embroiled in an online brouhaha. In a video that went viral on social media, Miftah, who is also a popular preacher, made inappropriate remarks toward a beverage seller by calling him “stupid” and mocking him for selling iced tea on a rainy day to attendees at a religious gathering. The video was reportedly made during an event in Magelang, Central Java, on Nov. 20. Delivered straight to your inbox three times weekly, this curated briefing provides a concise overview of the day's most important issues, covering a wide range of topics from politics to culture and society. By registering, you agree with 's Please check your email for your newsletter subscription. The video quickly sparked protests and condemnation by the public who slammed Miftah for demeaning the dignity of the seller who was simply trying to make a living. Netizens then urged the President to dismiss him.

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NoneATLANTA — As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women’s March on Washington. As a Black woman, she just couldn’t see herself helping to replicate the largest act of resistance against then-President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2017. Even in an election this year where Trump questioned his opponent’s race, held rallies featuring racist insults and falsely claimed Black migrants in Ohio were eating their neighbors’ pets, he didn't just win a second term. He became the first Republican in two decades to clinch the popular vote, although by a small margin. Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris hold their fists in the air after she delivered a concession speech after the 2024 presidential election Nov. 6 on the campus of Howard University in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press “It’s like the people have spoken and this is what America looks like,” said Smith, the Los Angeles-based founder of the advocacy social media agency, Get Social. “And there’s not too much more fighting that you’re going to be able to do without losing your own sanity.” People are also reading... After Trump was declared the winner over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, many politically engaged Black women said they were so dismayed by the outcome that they were reassessing — but not completely abandoning — their enthusiasm for electoral politics and movement organizing. Black women often carry much of the work of getting out the vote in their communities. They had vigorously supported the historic candidacy of Harris, who would have been the first woman of Black and South Asian descent to win the presidency. Harris' loss spurred a wave of Black women across social media resolving to prioritize themselves, before giving so much to a country that over and over has shown its indifference to their concerns. AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters, found that 6 in 10 Black women said the future of democracy in the United States was the single most important factor for their vote this year, a higher share than for other demographic groups. But now, with Trump set to return to office in two months, some Black women are renewing calls to emphasize rest, focus on mental health and become more selective about what fight they lend their organizing power to. AP VoteCast takeaways: Gender voting gap was unremarkable compared with recent history “America is going to have to save herself,” said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the national voting rights group Black Voters Matter. She compared Black women’s presence in social justice movements as “core strategists and core organizers” to the North Star, known as the most consistent and dependable star in the galaxy because of its seemingly fixed position in the sky. People can rely on Black women to lead change, Brown said, but the next four years will look different. “That’s not a herculean task that’s for us. We don’t want that title. ... I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me,” she said. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts Supporters cheer during a community rally with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on Oct. 27 in Philadelphia. Susan Walsh, Associated Press AP VoteCast paints a clear picture of Black women's concerns. Black female voters were most likely to say that democracy was the single most important factor for their vote, compared to other motivators such as high prices or abortion. More than 7 in 10 Black female voters said they were “very concerned” that electing Trump would lead the nation toward authoritarianism, while only about 2 in 10 said this about Harris. About 9 in 10 Black female voters supported Harris in 2024, according to AP VoteCast, similar to the share that backed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. Trump received support from more than half of white voters, who made up the vast majority of his coalition in both years. Like voters overall, Black women were most likely to say the economy and jobs were the most important issues facing the country, with about one-third saying that. But they were more likely than many other groups to say that abortion and racism were the top issues, and much less likely than other groups to say immigration was the top issue. Despite those concerns, which were well-voiced by Black women throughout the campaign, increased support from young men of color and white women helped expand Trump’s lead and secured his victory. Politically engaged Black women said they don’t plan to continue positioning themselves in the vertebrae of the “backbone” of America’s democracy. The growing movement prompting Black women to withdraw is a shift from history, where they are often present and at the forefront of political and social change. One of the earliest examples is the women’s suffrage movement that led to ratification in 1920 of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. Black women, however, were prevented from voting for decades afterward because of Jim Crow-era literacy tests, poll taxes and laws that blocked the grandchildren of slaves from voting. Most Black women couldn’t vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Black women were among the organizers and counted among the marchers brutalized on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, during the historic march in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery that preceded federal legislation. Decades later, Black women were prominent organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police and vigilantes. In his 2024 campaign, Trump called for leveraging federal money to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government and discussions of race, gender or sexual orientation in schools. His rhetoric on immigration, including false claims that Black Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating cats and dogs, drove support for his plan to deport millions of people. Tenita Taylor, a Black resident of Atlanta who supported Trump this year, said she was initially excited about Harris’ candidacy. But after thinking about how high her grocery bills have been, she feels that voting for Trump in hopes of finally getting lower prices was a form of self-prioritization. “People say, ‘Well, that’s selfish, it was gonna be better for the greater good,''' she said. “I’m a mother of five kids. ... The things that (Democrats) do either affect the rich or the poor.” Trump hammered Democrats on transgender issues. Now the party is at odds on a response The 25 best cities for Black women to flourish financially The 25 best cities for Black women to flourish financially Where can Black women feel supported and flourish financially? When posed that question, Dr. Lori Martin, a professor of African and African American studies and sociology at Louisiana State University, had this to say: "A livable place for Black women is safe, and for women with children, it is home to schools where all students have access to an excellent education. It would also be diverse, with a visible and thriving Black community, including Black businesses." While the socioeconomic realities of our current time touch all corners of the country, there are pockets of the U.S. where the wealth gap narrows and Black women have more opportunities. MoneyGeek analyzed data on income, the cost of crime , homeownership , and poverty levels from 164 cities across the United States to rank the best — and worst — cities for Black women to live and financially flourish in. Key findings Suburban cities of large metropolitan areas ranked highest. Southfield — outside of Detroit — and Pearland — a suburb of Houston — ranked highest in the analysis. The South is home to 13 of the top 25 cities for Black women, led by Pearland, Texas; Port St. Lucie, Florida; and Garland, Texas. Minneapolis, Minnesota, ranks at the bottom due to significant income and health insurance disparities for Black women compared to white men. Miami has the second-lowest overall ranking and second-largest income gap of the cities analyzed, with Black women earning only over a third of what white men make. SNEHIT PHOTO // Shutterstock The best cities for Black women MoneyGeek ranked 164 cities with populations greater than 65,000 from the best to the worst for Black women. The ranking includes analysis of income, poverty rate, homeownership, educational attainment and health insurance gaps between Black women and the entire population nationally and locally. The size of the local Black population and the cost of crime in the area were included in the ranking to reflect the presence of the Black community and safety, respectively. Southfield — a suburb of Detroit — and Pearland — a Houston suburb — ranked as the top two cities in the analysis. Notably, Southern cities make up the majority of cities in the top 25, with 13 located in this region. MoneyGeek The worst cities for Black women In contrast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, ranked as the worst city for Black women. In Minneapolis, Black women face high poverty rates in absolute and relative terms and have low rates of health insurance coverage compared to the cities analyzed. Meanwhile, Miami ranks as the second least favorable city, with a significant local income gap — there, white men earn almost triple the income of Black women. MoneyGeek The economic realities Black women face Income disparity is a key measure of how well Black women are doing today. For each city in the analysis, we calculated the local Equal Pay Day — the day in the following year when Black women would make an equivalent amount as white men — using the median income of Black women working full time and the median income of white men working full time in each locality. In Carson, California, the median pay of Black women is higher than the median pay of white men. However, in Evanston, Illinois, Black women make just over a third of white men's earnings, meaning they would need to work until September 24, 2024, to earn the equivalent of a white man's 2022 pay. Economic challenges faced by Black women include restricted career advancement opportunities, insufficient health insurance, and inadequate retirement savings. Survey data from Goldman Sachs indicates that 42% of Black women perceive limited career growth opportunities compared to 35% of U.S. adults, and merely 43% are able to obtain health insurance through their employer, in contrast to 53% nationwide. Additionally, 71% of Black women feel they are living paycheck to paycheck, compared to 63% of the general population. The intersection of racial and gender bias contributes to these challenges, resulting in low-wage jobs and a considerable wealth gap. Our analysis validates this, demonstrating that Black women who work full-time, year-round, earn 64 cents for every dollar white men earn working full-time, year-round. Less access to economic opportunities puts Black women at a disadvantage in building wealth. The FDIC's National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households found that 11.3% of Black households were unbanked compared to just 2.1% of white households. Unbanked households are credit invisible — that is, they don't have a credit history and, therefore, can't build credit. Having no credit history makes it difficult to utilize credit cards to manage cash needs and mortgages to buy homes. Advocating for economic opportunities for Black women The struggle for economic equity remains a persistent challenge for Black women in America, who have historically faced systemic wage disparities and employment obstacles. However, there are tools and resources that can provide Black women with economic opportunities and empowerment. Dr. Ukanwa shares additional solutions, such as: 1. Invest in education: Research has already shown that degrees increase lifetime earnings, close some societal gaps, and increase job security. But if degrees are not your path, it also means continuing to build that knowledge and expertise in something you can be the best at. Figure out your expertise and what you bring to the table. 2. After building your expertise in a field, build your reputation and personal brand: With an excellent reputation and personal brand, people will start to seek you out rather than the other way around. This increases the worth of your expertise. 3. Find out what your expertise is worth: Educate yourself on how to negotiate . Negotiate to be paid what you are worth. 4. Get into the habit of ownership: Build your own equity, which decreases the dependence on someone else for your income. For example, this could be your own business, stocks , or real estate. Methodology To rank the best cities for Black women, MoneyGeek analyzed data from the American Community Survey , MoneyGeek's Safest Cities and Safest Small Cities and Towns studies, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The analysis started with over 500 places in America with populations of 65,000 or more. Places without granular data about Black women or lacking other data points for the analysis were removed to get to the final set of 164 cities. The ranking of the best cities for Black women was based on eight factors: safety, Black population, educational attainment, poverty rates, income, employment, health insurance, and homeownership. Each factor was weighted equally and scaled to a score between 0 and 1. The factors were calculated as follows: Safety (full weight): This metric equally comprises two metrics. Crime cost per capita (50%): This metric is based on the per capita cost of crime calculated in MoneyGeek's Safest Cities series. Racially motivated hate crimes per 1 million people (50%): This metric indicates the number of racially motivated hate crimes for 2022 per 1,000,000 population, with data sourced from the FBI's Crime Data Explorer. Percent of local population that is Black (full weight): This percentage represents the proportion of Black individuals within a city's total population, as reported by the United States Census Bureau's five-year American Community Survey (ACS) from 2021, the most recent data available. Educational attainment (full weight): This metric equally comprises two metrics. High school diploma gap (50%): The difference in percentage points of the rate of female Black high school diploma achievement compared to the national rate of male white high school diploma achievement. Higher education diploma gap (50%): The difference in percentage points of the rate of female Black bachelor's degree or greater educational attainment compared to the national rate of male white bachelor's degree or greater educational attainment. Poverty rate (full weight): The percentage point difference between the city's rate of Black women earning at or above the poverty level and the rate of all women living above the poverty level nationally. This finding comes from the 2021 Census ACS five-year data, the latest available source covering over 200 cities. Income (full weight): This factor equally comprises two metrics. Local Income Gap (50%): The ratio of Black female median income as a percentage of the local median income of white males. National Income Gap (50%): The ratio of Black female median income adjusted for purchasing power as a percentage of the national median income of white males. Employment (full weight): The difference in percentage points between the Black female employment rate and the white male employment rate in the locality. Health insurance (full weight): This metric reveals the percentage point difference between Black women (ages 19-64) and white men (ages 19-64) with health insurance. This information comes from the Census ACS five-year data from 2021, the most recent data source available. Black female homeownership (full weight): This factor comprises three metrics. Local Black homeownership (25%): Proportion of Black-owned homes compared to all local owner-occupied housing. National Black homeownership (25%): Proportion of Black-owned homes compared to all national owner-occupied housing. Mortgage cost percentage relative to income (50%): Black homeowners' monthly costs as a percentage of Black women's median monthly income. The full data set can be found here . This story was produced by MoneyGeek and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media. 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Bitcoin tumbles after failing to break $100,000—but expert says ‘round number’ pullbacks are normal - FortuneUruguayans went to the polls Sunday for a second round of voting to choose their next president, with the conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff after failing to win an outright majority in last month's vote. The staid election has turned into a hard-fought race between Álvaro Delgado, the incumbent party's candidate, and Yamandú Orsi from the Broad Front, a coalition of leftist and center-left parties that governed for 15 years until the 2019 victory of center-right President Luis Lacalle Pou. The Broad Front oversaw the legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage and the sale of marijuana in the small South American nation of 3.4 million people. Orsi's Broad Front took 44 per cent of the vote while Delgado's National Party won 27 per cent in the first round of voting Oct. 27 . But other conservative parties that make up the government coalition — in particular, the Colorado Party — notched 20 per cent of the vote collectively, enough to give Delgado an edge over his challenger. Congress ended up evenly split in the October vote. Most polls have shown a virtual tie between Delgado and Orsi, with nearly 10 per cent of Uruguayan voters undecided even at this late stage. Many said they believed turnout would be low if voting weren't compulsory in the country. “Neither candidate convinced me and I feel that there are many in my same situation," said Vanesa Gelezoglo, 31, in the capital, Montevideo, adding she would make up her mind at “the last minute.” Analysts say the candidates' lackluster campaigns and broad consensus on key issues have generated extraordinary indecision and apathy in an election dominated by discussions about social spending and concerns over income inequality but largely free of the anti-establishment rage that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere . “The question of whether Frente Amplio (the Broad Front) raises taxes is not an existential question, unlike what we saw in the U.S. with Trump and Kamala framing each other as threats to democracy," said Nicolás Saldías, a Latin America and Caribbean senior analyst for the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit. “That doesn't exist in Uruguay.” Both candidates are also appealing to voter angst over a surge in violent crime that has shaken a nation long regarded as one of the region’s safest, with Delgado promising tough-on-crime policies and Orsi advocating a more community-oriented approach. Delgado, 55, a rural veterinarian with a long career in the National Party, campaigned on a vow to continue the legacy of current President Lacalle Pou — in some ways making the election into a referendum on his leadership. He campaigned under the slogan “re-elect a good government." Alvaro Delgado, candidate for the ruling National Party, waves to supporters after voting in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Orbach) While a string of corruption scandals rattled Lacalle Pou's government last year, the president — who constitutionally cannot run for a second consecutive term — now enjoys high approval ratings and a strong economy expected to grow 3.2 per cent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. Inflation has also eased in recent months, boosting his coalition. Delgado served most recently as Secretary of the Presidency for Lacalle Pou and promises to pursue his predecessor's pro-business policies. He would continue pushing for a trade deal with China that has raised hackles in Mercosur, an alliance of South American countries promoting regional commerce. "We have to give the government coalition a chance to consolidate its proposals,” said Ramiro Pérez, a street vendor voting for Delgado on Sunday. Orsi, 57, a former history teacher and two-time mayor from a working-class background, is widely seen as the political heir to iconic former President José “Pepe” Mujica, an ex-Marxist guerilla who raised Uruguay's international profile as one of the region's most socially liberal and environmentally sustainable nations during his 2010-2015 term. “He's my candidate, not only for my sake but also for my children's,” Yeni Varone, a nurse, said of Orsi. “In the future they'll have better working conditions, health and salaries.” Yeni Varone, a nurse, casts her vote in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Mujica, now 89 and recovering from esophageal cancer, was among the first to cast his ballot after polls opened. “Uruguay is a small country, but it has earned recognition for being stable, for having a citizenry that respects institutional formalities,” he told reporters from his local polling station. “This is no small feat.” While promising to forge a “new left” in Uruguay, Orsi plans no dramatic changes. He proposes tax incentives to lure investment and social security reforms that would lower the retirement age but fall short of a radical overhaul sought by Uruguay's unions. The contentious plebiscite on whether to boost pension payouts failed to pass in October, with Uruguayans rejecting generous pensions in favor of fiscal constraint. Both candidates pledged full cooperation with each other if elected. “I want (Orsi) to know that my idea is to form a government of national unity,” Delgado told reporters after casting his vote in the capital's upscale Pocitos neighborhood. He said that if he won, he and Orsi would chat on Monday over some yerba mate, the traditional herbal drink beloved by Uruguayans. Orsi similarly pledged a smooth and respectful transition of power, describing Sunday's democratic exercise as “an incredible experience" as he voted in Canelones, the sprawling town of beaches and cattle ranches just north of Montevideo where he served as mayor for a decade. “The essence of politics is agreements,” he said. “You never end up completely satisfied.” __ Associated Press writer Isabel DeBre in Villa Tunari, Bolivia, contributed to this report.None

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NoneThe Toronto Maple Leafs have a chance to add a big piece to their roster as long as they take advantage of a struggling rival. It's not a secret that Brad Treliving and his crew want to bring aboard one more key piece in order to complete his roster for a long playoff push. There are a variety of options he can choose from and they would all no doubt bring an impact to the team. But Toronto would be able to not only add to their roster but also be taking a big part of a heated division rival's team. Per Elliotte Friedman's latest '32 Thoughts' blog , he notes that playoff teams and contenders will be checking in on Trent Frederic of the Bruins and Toronto should take that leap. Trent Frederic Will Help the Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto would be helping themselves by adding Frederic ; a 6'3, 220-pound center with solid defensive metrics and offensive potential but not only because he would help their lineup but it gives Toronto a rare opportunity to steal from one of their most heated rivals. It's not the flashiest trade in the world but it would give the Leafs stability even though he's struggling this season. With only nine points in 28 games, it's a far cry from last season where he had 18 goals and a career-high 40 points. Frederic would help Toronto's Top 9 immensely by not only adding scoring potential but his defensive skills and presence on the ice is a huge factor for his previous success. He throws hits, doesn't make too many mistakes with the puck, and is another gritty big-bodied forward for Craig Berube to utilize. Also not the most expensive option at $2.3M, Frederic would offer Toronto a cheaper alternative than some other options on the market and also give their rivals a little gut punch when it comes to taking one of their younger players. It wouldn't be the flashiest trade for the Maple Leafs but if Brad Treliving and company want to make the best team possible, adding a young power forward who plays center and also handicapping your most heated rivals is a pretty good start. This article first appeared on Hockey Patrol and was syndicated with permission.Sydney MP’s bombshell election move

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Richard A. Grafmyre CFP®, Chief Executive Officer of Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc., (NASDAQ:PWOD) has announced that the Company's Board of Directors declared a fourth quarter 2024 cash dividend of $0.32 per share. The dividend is payable December 23, 2024 to shareholders of record December 10, 2024. About Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc. Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc. is the bank holding company for Jersey Shore State Bank and Luzerne Bank. The banks serve customers in North Central and North Eastern Pennsylvania through their retail banking, commercial banking, mortgage services and financial services divisions. Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc. stock is listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol PWOD. Previous press releases and additional information can be obtained from the company's website at www.pwod.com .

Women will for the first time make up a majority of state legislators in Colorado and New Mexico next year, but at least 13 states saw losses in female representation after the November election, according to a count released Thursday by the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics. While women will fill a record number of state legislative seats in 2025, the overall uptick will be slight, filling just over third of legislative seats. Races in some states are still being called. "We certainly would like to see a faster rate of change and more significant increases in each election cycle to get us to a place where parity in state legislatures is less novel and more normal," said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the CAWP, which is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. As of Wednesday, at least 2,450 women will serve in state legislatures, representing 33.2% of the seats nationwide. The previous record was set in 2024 with 2,431 women, according to the CAWP. The number of Republican women, at least 851, will break the previous record of 815 state lawmakers set in 2024. "But still, Republican women are very underrepresented compared to Democratic women," Debbie Walsh, director of the CAWP, said. From left, House Maj. Whip Reena Szczepanski, D-Santa Fe, Rep. D. Wonda Johnson, D-Church Rock and Rep. Cristina Parajon, D-Albuquerque, talk July 18 before the start of a special session, in Santa Fe, N.M. By the most recent count, 19 states will have increased the number of women in their state legislatures, according to the CAWP. The most notable increases were in New Mexico and Colorado, where women will for the first time make up a majority of lawmakers. In New Mexico, voters sent an 11 additional women to the chambers. Colorado previously attained gender parity in 2023 and is set to tip over to a slight female majority in the upcoming year. The states follow Nevada, which was the first in the country to see a female majority in the legislature following elections in 2018. Next year, women will make up almost 62% of state lawmakers in Nevada, far exceeding parity. Women in California's Senate will make up the chamber's majority for the first time in 2025 as well. Women also made notable gains in South Dakota, increasing its number by at least nine. Four of South Carolina's Sister Senators, from left, Sen. Margie Bright Matthews, D-Walterboro, Sen. Mia McLeod, I-Columbia, Sen. Katrina Shealy, R-Lexington, and Sen. Penry Gustafson, R-Camden, stand in front of the Senate on June 26 with their John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award in Columbia, S.C. At least thirteen states emerged from the election with fewer female lawmakers than before, with the most significant loss occurring in South Carolina. This year, the only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries after they stopped a total abortion ban from passing. Next year, only two women, who are Democrats, will be in the 46-member Senate. No other state in the country will have fewer women in its upper chamber, according to the CAWP. Women make up 55% of the state's registered voters. Half the members in the GOP dominated state were elected in 2012 or before, so it will likely be the 2040s before any Republican woman elected in the future can rise to leadership or a committee chairmanship in the chamber, which doles out leadership positions based on seniority. A net loss of five women in the legislature means they will make up only about 13% of South Carolina's lawmakers, making the state the second lowest in the country for female representation. Only West Virginia has a smaller proportion of women in the legislature. West Virginia stands to lose one more women from its legislative ranks, furthering its representation problem in the legislature where women will make up just 11% of lawmakers. Many women, lawmakers and experts say that women's voices are needed in discussions on policy, especially at a time when state government is at its most powerful in decades. Walsh, director of the CAWP, said the new changes expected from the Trump administration will turn even more policy and regulation to the states. The experiences and perspectives women offer will be increasingly needed, she said, especially on topics related to reproductive rights, healthcare, education and childcare. "The states may have to pick up where the federal government may, in fact, be walking away," Walsh said. "And so who serves in those institutions is more important now than ever." November 7, 2024: Trump Victory Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.

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By Alec Lewis, Kevin Fishbain, Adam Jahns and Amos Morale III John Parker Romo ’s 29-yard overtime field goal gave the Minnesota Vikings a 30-27 win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday. Romo’s kick capped a 10-play, 68-yard drive that featured big connections from Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold to T.J. Hockenson , Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison , who finished with a career-high 162 yards and a touchdown. Advertisement Chicago forced overtime behind a wild final minute in the fourth quarter, as the Bears scored a touchdown, converted a 2-point conversion, and then recovered an onside kick. In the final seconds of regulation, quarterback Caleb Williams found D.J. Moore for a 27-yard gain to set up Cairo Santos’ game-tying 48-yard field goal. The Bears got the ball first in overtime but were forced to punt, leaving Minnesota with the chance to win on a field goal. VIKINGS WIN IN OVERTIME pic.twitter.com/2KieGMIIbq — NFL (@NFL) November 24, 2024 Addison goes off Last week, Jefferson, the Vikings’ superstar wide receiver, was asked how he’d defend himself. His reply? Shut him down, make the other Vikings receivers beat them. That’s the approach the Bears took Sunday afternoon at Soldier Field, and Vikings No. 2 receiver Addison torched them. The second-year receiver finished with his career-high yardage on eight catches. He also hauled in his fourth touchdown pass of the season. Jefferson, meanwhile, only caught one pass for seven yards during regulation. Addison displayed his entire skillset with the Bears focused on Jefferson. He snatched a 45-yard pass with Bears safety draped all over his back. His touchdown grab was also a highly-contested catch. In the second half, Darnold found Addison on a crossing route, and Addison tightroped his way down the sideline for a 69-yard gain. He supplied the same level of explosiveness, route-running and ball-tracking ability that Vikings fans have become accustomed to watching with Jefferson. — Alec Lewis, Vikings beat writer Darnold shows toughness Darnold delivered when the Vikings needed him most. He completed all six of his attempts in overtime and found Hockenson for a game-sealing 29-yard pass down the field. Darnold had exited in the fourth quarter after getting rolled up on his ankle following a pass. Advertisement In overtime, he was also shaking his hand. The toughness was emblematic of his entire season; Darnold has been on the injury report for multiple weeks with knee and foot injuries. The outing was also pretty emblematic of his career. He threw for 330 yards and two touchdowns on 22-of-34 passing, stringing together his second straight impressive game. It’s not all perfect. Inaccuracies surfaced at times, and he threw the ball into harms way over the middle of the field. All in all, though, Darnold produced when the Vikings needed him to, which is a theme in Minnesota’s 9-2 season. — Lewis Chicago’s unlucky streak continues The Bears have to lead the league in heart-breaking losses this season. A week after losing to the Green Bay Packers on a blocked field goal as time expired, the Vikings won on Romo’s 29-yard field goal in overtime. They’ve lost five games in a row, starting with the Hail Mary loss against the Washington Commanders . The Bears defense couldn’t stop Darnold in overtime. He found Hockenson wide open for a 29-yard gain to set up Romo’s game-winner. It was a wild game for the Bears. Safety Tarvarius Moore recovered an onside kick. But the Vikings also blocked kicker Santos’ 48-yard field goal attempt in the second quarter, while returner D’Andre Carter also muffed a punt. Two pass inference penalties were called on cornerback Jaylon Johnson against Jefferson. Add it all up and the Bears are only good enough to scare their division rivals right now. — Adam Jahns, Bears beat writer Another good day for Williams The talk all week was about how the rookie quarterback Williams would handle Brian Flores’ defense. He passed the test, including a 27-yard strike to help set up overtime. The series in overtime included Williams’ worst play — taking a 12-yard sack — but overall, this was a good sign of progress. Advertisement This season has quickly turned into Williams’ development and progress being the priority, with playoffs virtually out of the picture. For the second week in a row, Bears fans can feel better about the future because of Williams. He got the ball out quick. He made some big-time throws on third down. He seemed calm in the hectic pocket. And he protected the football. The Bears would prefer to see his positive performance come in wins, but in a season like this, they’ll take a game like he had Sunday. Williams finished 32-of-47 passing for 340 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. — Kevin Fishbain, Bears beat writer Required reading (Photo: Luke Hales / Getty Images)Bitcoin last up 5.05% at $96,286

The Sabarmati Report, starring Vikrant Massey, Ridhi Dogra and Raashii Khanna, is garnering praise from prominent political figures. It has also been declared tax-free in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and other states. Amid the support, the film performed well in its second weekend at the box office. The Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 10 In its second Sunday at the box office, The Sabarmati Report grossed Rs 3.10 crore. The film's total box office collection has now reached Rs 18.60 crore. Check out its day-wise box office performance here: The Sabarmati Report Box Office DayThe Sabarmati Report Box Office CollectionThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 1Rs 1.25 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 2Rs 2.1 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 3Rs 3 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 4Rs 1.15 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 5Rs 1.30 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 6Rs 1.55 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 7Rs 1.15 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 8Rs 1.4 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 9Rs 2.6 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 10Rs 3.10 CroreThe Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection TOTALRs 18.60 Crore The next few days will decide the fate of the film. The Sabarmati Report Box Office Collection Day 10 Earlier today, the movie was given a tax-free status in Uttarakhand. Vikrant met Chief Minister Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami for a special screening and shared a post. "It feels great when your efforts are appreciated. Honorable Chief Minister Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami's words have inspired me a lot. I would like to express my gratitude to our film 'The Sabarmati Report' for declaring tax-free," he wrote. Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from Box Office, Entertainment News and around the world.NoneNone

The starts may not look like locks at first, but they should come through in Week 13. Conversely, I’ve included some players who might otherwise seem like safe plays to avoid as well. Quarterbacks Start: Sam Darnold, Vikings vs Cardinals Darnold had a rough patch a few weeks ago, but he’s back in good form, putting up five combined TDs in his past two games. Even against the Bears top-notch pass defense last week, Darnold threw for a season-high 330 yards to go along with his two scores. His opponent this week, the Cardinals, have a decent secondary, but they pale in comparison to Chicago’s. Other locks: —Jalen Hurts at Ravens —Baker Mayfield at Panthers —CJ Stroud at Jaguars —Justin Herbert at Falcons Avoid: Jared Goff, Lions vs Bears Goff doesn’t force the ball through the air if he doesn’t have to and he would be remiss to do so against a top rated Bears secondary that will be looking to vindicate themselves after giving up some big plays to Sam Darnold last week. He’s also got the best 1 and 2 punch in football in his backfield. Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery are a force and they’ll likely have a much easier time finding holes in Chicago’s run defense than Goff will in the passing game. Running backs Start: Chuba Hubbard, Panthers vs Buccaneers Hubbard fantasy owners were anxious last week, upon hearing the news that rookie running back Jonathon Brooks would be seeing his first game action this season. Fears were assuaged when Brooks only got two carries the entire game for 7 yards. Brooks’ carries could increase as he gets more comfortable in the offense, but Hubbard should have at least one more week as the starter in Carolina. It will come against a Buccaneers run defense that is a top-10 matchup for opposing runners in Week 13. Other locks: The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . —Bucky Irving at Panthers —Jonathan Taylor at Patriots —Josh Jacobs vs Dolphins —Tyrone Tracy Jr., at Cowboys Avoid: James Conner, Cardinals at Vikings The Week 11 bye didn’t do Conner any favors as he only ran for 8 yards on seven carries in his Week 12 return. He was able to salvage his day through the air, catching five passes for 41 yards, but it was an underwhelming game from a fantasy perspective against the Seattle run defense. He’ll face a Vikings defense that ranks as a top-two run stopper going into Week 13 — Conner only gained 25 combined yards against Detroit’s top-three run defense in Week 2. Trey Benson is also gaining steam in the Arizona offense. It’s best to fade Conner this week, if you have that luxury. Wide receivers Start: DJ Moore, Bears at Lions Moore is finally starting to make waves again in fantasy, after slumping from Weeks 6 to 10. He’s had his best two-game stint of the season thus far in Weeks 11 and 12 though, going for a season-high 119 combined yards and a score in the latter game. New offensive coordinator Thomas Jones has sparked the offense and Moore has been a prime beneficiary. The Bears will have fits trying to run at the Lions’ stout run defense, so they could attack them through the air. Moore is a prime contender to keep up his recent run in Week 13. Other locks: —Ladd McConkey at Falcons —Puka Nacua at Saints —Jaxon Smith-Njigba at Jets —Jakobi Meyers at Chiefs Avoid: Quentin Johnston, Chargers vs Ravens Johnston is the definition of boom or bust, either scoring double-digit fantasy points or gaining fewer than 25 yards in nearly every game he’s appeared in this season. On “Monday Night Football,” he had zero catches on five targets. Johnston has a great matchup this week, but there’s no guarantee he’ll capitalize on it. Johnston is anything but a lock this week. Tight ends Start: Luke Schoonmaker, Cowboys vs Giants Schoonmaker had three catches for 55 yards and a score against Washington in a thrilling game. Schoonmaker provided another dependable option to QB Cooper Rush. Jake Ferguson is still in concussion protocol and it’s a short week as Dallas is playing on Thanksgiving, so Schoonmaker is likely to start once again. With CeeDee Lamb nursing nagging injuries as well, look for Rush to lean heavily on Schoonmaker this week. Other locks: —Jonnu Smith at Packers —Trey McBride at Vikings —Taysom Hill vs Rams —Dallas Goedert at Ravens Avoid: Sam LaPorta, Lions vs Bears LaPorta just can’t find any consistency in the Detroit offense, going weeks between decent fantasy outings at times. He had just three catches for 19 yards in Week 12 after missing Week 11 with a shoulder injury and things aren’t looking up for him this week as the Lions are playing a stalwart Chicago defense on short rest. Look for the Lions to go run heavy this week, taking the onus off LaPorta and the rest of the Lions receiving group. ___ This column was provided to The Associated Press by RosterWatch, www.rosterwatch.com.Stocks Mixed Ahead Of Fed Minutes, Mexican Peso Tumbles To Over 2-Year Lows On Tariffs Fears: What's Driving Markets Tuesday? - Benzinga