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NoneUS stocks tumble at end of holiday weekThe Edmonton Oilers will be very involved in trade discussions in the months leading up to the NHL’s Trade Deadline, but who do they have to give up? Rumours about potential Oilers targets have popped up over recent weeks, with defencemen like and being linked to the team. Even goaltender . Yet, not much discussion has been had about the type of assets that Edmonton may give up in any of those potential deals. Draft picks will, of course, be expendable for an Oilers team hoping to finally capture the Stanley Cup, but are there any players in the organization who could be moved out? Possibly. Here are three potential players that the Oilers could dangle in trade talks this season: Though the , his name will be mentioned plenty by fans who are discussing potential trades. There is a lot to like about Savoie, who is a former top-10 pick in the 2022 NHL draft, as he torched the WHL last season. He’s got the pedigree of a high pick and the high-end talent that you want to see in your prospect pool. The problem is that he is unlikely to help the Oilers win a Stanley Cup this season, making him somewhat expendable if the team is looking to upgrade the NHL roster. Savoie is currently the team’s top prospect in a pretty barren pipeline, so there is always a risk in trading him, but the option is there. It might be shocking to see Evander Kane’s name here as the 33-year-old has yet to play a game this season due to a bevy of injuries, but it’s not without merit. and that will cause quite a crunch for the forward group. The team is in need of a scoring bump, but betting on Kane to provide that after such an extended period off would be risky. He found himself playing third-line minutes at times last season, and considering his $5.125 cap hit, it might be in the Oilers’ best interest to see if they can find him a new home. It’s tough to say what Kane’s value is on the trade market right now, and the recent injuries combined with the high cap hit may make it a difficult sell for some teams. The Oilers are no stranger to trading first-round picks less than a year after they draft them, and Sam O’Reilly could be next. during the 2024 NHL draft, signalling that the team felt strongly about adding him to the system. That alone might point to the Oilers preferring to keep O’Reilly over trading him, but GM Stan Bowman won’t have a lot of assets to work with if he wants to make a trade to improve this team. While O’Reilly did have a good training camp, he could be the main target of a rebuilding team in any trade with the Oilers. Think Reid Schafer when the Oilers traded him to the Nashville Predators in a package for Mattias Ekholm back in 2023.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that at least eight telecommunications companies , as well as dozens of nations, had been affected by the Chinese hacking blitz known as Salt Typhoon. But deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger told reporters Friday that a ninth victim had been identified after the administration released guidance to companies about how to hunt for Chinese culprits in their networks. The update from Neuberger is the latest development in a massive hacking operation that has alarmed national security officials, exposed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the private sector and laid bare China's hacking sophistication. The hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of what officials have said is a a limited number of individuals. Though the FBI has not publicly identified any of the victims, officials believe senior U.S. government officials and prominent political figures are among those whose whose communications were accessed. Neuberger said Friday that officials did not yet have a precise sense how many Americans overall were affected by Salt Typhoon, in part because the Chinese were careful about their techniques, but that a “large number" were in the Washington-Virginia area. Officials believe the goal of the hackers was to identify who owned the phones and, if they were “government targets of interest,” spy on their texts and phone calls, she said. The FBI said most of the people targeted by the hackers are "primarily involved in government or political activity.” Neuberger said the episode highlighted the need for required cybersecurity practices in the telecommunications industry, something the Federal Communications Commission is to take up at a meeting next month. In addition, she said, the government was planning additional actions in coming weeks in response to the hacking campaign, though she did not say what they were. “We know that voluntary cyber security practices are inadequate to protect against China, Russia and Iran hacking of our critical infrastructure,” she said. The Chinese government has denied responsibility for the hacking.Rivers crisis necessary enabler in governance — Fubara
Almost the first feeling that I have as an Indian towards our late prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh is one of profound guilt: We as people were extremely unfair to the sensitive, suave leader who was all things except one — a politician. And our betrayal of him came when he most needed his people to know how the people of tomorrow’s India matter more than today’s politics and politicians. It should always haunt the conscience of our nation that we allowed the worthiest incumbent to be called an “accidental prime minister”. Or perhaps it was a reflection of our own priorities that virtues such as integrity and humility appeared as “accidents” to us. In a country where corruption, political rowdyism and megalomania pass for “political strength and stature of a leader”, Dr Singh’s self-effacing refusal to demand and hog the limelight were sure to puzzle his country, especially the press and politicians, and the people. To those for whom their own ugly disdain for decency, culture and unpretentious honesty is the new “normal”, Dr Singh’s unassuming insistence on modesty, quiet efficiency and professional integrity were bound to appear as “accidental”. Dr Singh never claimed credit for achievements My memories of Dr Singh are of a person for whom doing the right thing the right way was the only normal way to do anything. No surprises then that he never claimed credit either for his path-breaking economic reforms or for his absolute insistence on administrative efficiency, transparency and accountability. For him, this was the only “normal” way a government could and should function. I am not surprised then that his media adviser felt uncomfortable working for a prime minister who believed that the news needed no “doctoring” and that the media could not be dishonest and therefore required no goading or “management”. I was fortunate that I worked with a leader who shared Dr Singh’s approach to and respect for the media and allowed his adviser to function as an adviser rather than a manipulator of public opinion. So, I was never made to think of him as an “accidental” leader. But I think Dr Singh must have been a media adviser’s worst nightmare. He always preferred me to address him as “Doctor Saab” rather than “PM Saab”. I once asked him how he felt being described as an accidental PM by his own adviser. His response was typically respectful of his former aide: “Perhaps, he was trying to be helpful. He probably thought accidents make better news than prime ministers.” Bond between Dr Singh and Badal Saab One of the great memories of my own professional career centres around being a close witness to an incident of amazing sensitivity involving the relationship between two truly great leaders – Dr Manmohan Singh and Parkash Singh Badal. Both shared much more than the background of a common religious faith and a common ancestral state. Both were humble and modest about their own achievements. Both had a distaste for the high-profile and spotlight – and both were passionate about rural development, health and education, especially the education of the girl child. And both were gentlemen in politics, born democrats and extremely respectful of the Opposition. For both, consensus rather than confrontation was the essence of politics, especially in a country where federal approach is the only way to address issues of diversity. Both were at once devotees as well as champions of dignified decorum in public life. And even while being devoutly religious, both believed in the power of religion to function as a binding glue rather than a divisive potion injected with fanatical poison. For both, peace and communal harmony remained cardinal principles of politics and religious faith. Sympathetic to Punjab, Sikh community Whenever the issues of Punjab and the Sikh community came up for discussion, Badal Saab found a most sympathetic heart and ears waiting for him on the other side of the table. Two instances come immediately to my mind. One: The then chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh was on a personal rampage to decisively finish the political career of Parkash Singh Badal. He and Akali stalwart Gurcharan Singh Tohra had personal grouses to settle with Badal and he was not averse to taking the Congress government’s help to achieve his goals. As election to the 2002 Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) executive poll drew closer, the holy city of Amritsar turned khaki and the police entered Harmandar Sahib to block the Badal supporters from voting. Dr Singh saw this as a dangerous development in Sikh politics, fraught with dangers for Punjab and the country. It was an unsolicited but firm prime ministerial intervention by Dr Singh which stopped Captain Amarinder dead in his tracks, and normalcy was restored. I recall Badal Saab personally thanking Dr Singh much later for his intervention. Dr Singh’s response was typically modest and understated: “Oh, I am glad it was resolved. These things must never happen.” Badal Saab was touched to tears by the then prime minister’s modesty. Foiled bid to weaken SGPC The second instance was when the Congress government in Haryana launched a dangerous course to split and weaken the apex Sikh religious body, the SGPC, by bifurcating it with a separate body in that state. It was and it is a step that can come back to haunt the country. And all this just for petty political gains. A divided Sikh community is not the best recipe for stability in Punjab nor is it in the larger and long-term interests of the country as a whole. No one understood this better than Dr Singh. When Badal Saab broached the subject with Dr Singh in his office, I watched the late PM go silent, profound pain and anxiety writ large on his face. Soon, he would emerge as if from the depths of anguished soul to speak in his trademark gentle voice: “Badal Saab, please relax. This won’t happen, not as long as I am in this office.” And then, almost as an afterthought, he added: “My father took part in ‘Jaitu da morcha’ and other movements to set up the SGPC.” Each in his own right, Dr Singh and Badal Saab were unquestionably the tallest leaders of the era and the undefined and unspoken bond between the two kept Punjab free of needless turmoil for over two decades. Nothing would sum up this silent emotional fibre of their relationship better than an incident that happened at the peak of the Lok Sabha polls in 2009. Both leaders were slated to campaign against each other in Punjab. We were in Amritsar when the news of Dr Singh’s impending surgery was flashed on my laptop. When I passed the news to Badal Saab, he was immediately on line with the PMO to inquire about the PM’s health. Minutes afterwards, he told me he would start “akhand path” at Harmandar Sahib for Dr Singh’s successful surgery and speedy recovery. Badal Saab remained in Amritsar all three days of the “akhand path”. Will this remain a mere nostalgia or will our country ever return to this era of dignified democracy wherein political opposition is merely an expression of alternative paths to the promotion of the national interest and the people’s welfare? Dr Manmohan Singh leaves us at a time when we were just beginning to realise how unfair we had been to him – and exactly when we needed him the most. (The author is a freelance writer and was adviser to former CM Parkash Singh Badal)How Climate Affects Pressure Washing in Bellevue, WAFirst treatment in 50 years for serious asthma attacks is ‘game-changer’Fasenra: AstraZeneca's Game-Changing Asthma Treatment
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Blake Horvath set a Navy record with a 95-yard touchdown run and then scored a go-ahead 6-yarder with 4:34 left as the Midshipmen overcame an early two-touchdown deficit and stopped a late 2-point conversion attempt to beat Oklahoma 21-20 in the Armed Forces Bowl on Friday. The Sooners (6-7) got a 10-yard touchdown pass from Michael Hawkins Jr. to Jake Roberts with six seconds left. They then went for the win, but Hawkins was sacked by Justin Reed on the conversion try. “It was a great play that I was able to make,” Reed said, quickly crediting the rest of the defense. “We just made sure that we stayed composed after them just getting that touchdown.” Just two weeks after a dominating win over Army for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, the Midshipmen (10-3) reached 10 wins for the sixth time. The last 10-win season had been in 2019, which had been their last winning season. “Well, it’s the perfect ending,” second-year Navy head coach Brian Newberry said. “You’re down 14-0, I think it kind of symbolizes everything that these guys have been through, especially the seniors, symbolizes how things started. Things looked bleak, things weren’t going great, adversity and they kept scratching and clawing and fighting.” Horvath's record run on a sprint down the middle of the field tied the game at 14 late in third quarter. He then put Navy ahead for the first time on his 6-yard TD run, one play after he converted a fourth-and-3 with a 16-yard pass to Eli Heidenrich. “I thought if we go score right there, that might be the difference in the game. And it was,” Newberry said of going for it on fourth down in that 12-play, 66-yard drive that took 7 1/2 minutes. Horvath ran 18 times for 155 yards, and completed 7 of 12 passes for 92 yards. Alex Tecza had an 11-yard TD run for the Midshipmen. Oklahoma went up after Gavin Sawchuk’s 21-yard TD on the opening drive, when he had 37 yards after only 61 in his other eight games this season. It was 14-0 with 5:56 left in the first quarter after Hawkins rolled left, reversed field and got almost to the other side of the field before throwing to Zion Kearney for a 56-yard catch-and-run TD. “Came out pretty strong, but second quarter I think we got a little relaxed ... we weren't together as a team,” Hawkins said. “We got back on track after that, but going into a game like this, you have to stay on track the whole game.” Oklahoma wrapped up its first season in the Southeastern Conference with their second 6-7 record in coach Brent Venables' three seasons. The Sooners had a much different-looking roster than the regular season. More than two dozen players went into the transfer portal, and the Sooners were also without standout linebacker Danny Stutsman and safety Billy Bowman, who bypassed playing to begin preparation for the NFL draft. “Obviously not the year we wanted to have, but although there’s a lot of disappointment, there’s been a ton of growth,” Sooners hometown tight end Jake Roberts said. “You learn how to fight through adversity.” Oklahoma: While the Sooners played in a bowl for the 26th consecutive season, they had 23 winning seasons in a row before Venables took over as head coach. ... Hawkins was hampered by at least six dropped passes while throwing to a group whose only scholarship receivers were freshmen. Navy: The Midshipmen are 2-0 against Oklahoma, the only other meeting a 10-0 win at Norman in 1965. They beat an SEC team for the first time since a 21-0 win over Mississippi in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day 1955. 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