j-park hotel I find the possible actions of the Trump Administration and Republican controlled Senate/House to be frightening, but I am aware that there is little I can do to alter those actions. My attention is focused on Arizona State politics. Fortunately this paper provides us with Howard Fischer’s excellent coverage of Arizona state politics. Due to current Legislative Districts' voter registration imbalances, little can be done in the next two Legislative elections to wrest control away from the Republicans. The next Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) meets in 2031 to establish revised voter balances in the 30 Districts. The districts, as created in 2021, assure Republican control of the Legislature until the 2031 IRC redraw. In 2026, the Governor’s office is up for election. Which Party wins that office will have a major impact on the selection process of the five 2031 IRC members ... most importantly the one independent member. Because of this, if change is to occur, it is imperative that a Democratic governor is elected in 2026. Randy Garmon North side Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star. Follow these steps to easily submit a letter to the editor or guest opinion to the Arizona Daily Star. Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!Brazil’s Bolsonaro planned and participated in coup plot, police report alleges

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Nigel Farage said he is weighing up what action to take if the Conservatives do not apologise for accusing Reform UK of “fakery” over its membership numbers. The Reform UK leader pushed back against reports suggesting that legal action would be the next step, saying he would make a decision in the next couple of days about his response if there is no apology for the “crazy conspiracy theory”. Mr Farage also said the party has “opened up our systems” to media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times, in the interests of “full transparency to verify that our numbers are correct”. His remarks came after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused Mr Farage of “fakery” in response to Reform claiming they had surpassed the Tories in signed-up members. Mrs Badenoch said Reform’s counter was “coded to tick up automatically”. A digital counter on the Reform website showed a membership tally before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past the 131,680 figure declared by the Conservative Party during its leadership election earlier this year. Mr Farage, on whether he was threatening legal action or not, told the PA news agency: “I haven’t threatened anything. I’ve just said that unless I get an apology, I will take some action. “I haven’t said whether it’s legal or anything.” He added: “All I’ve said is I want an apology. If I don’t get an apology, I will take action. “I will decide in the next couple of days what that is. So I’ve not specified what it is.” Mr Farage, on the move to make membership data available to media organisations, said: “We feel our arguments are fully validated. “She (Mrs Badenoch) has put out this crazy conspiracy theory and she needs to apologise.” The accusations of fraud and dishonesty made against me yesterday were disgraceful. Today we opened up our systems to The Telegraph, Spectator, Sky News & FT in the interests of full transparency to verify that our data is correct. I am now demanding @KemiBadenoch apologises. — Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) December 27, 2024 On why Mrs Badenoch had reacted as she did, Mr Farage said: “I would imagine she was at home without anybody advising her and was just angry.” Mr Farage, in a statement issued on social media site X, also said: “The accusations of fraud and dishonesty made against me yesterday were disgraceful. “Today we opened up our systems to The Telegraph, Spectator, Sky News and FT in the interests of full transparency to verify that our data is correct. “I am now demanding Kemi Badenoch apologises.” A Conservative Party source claimed Mr Farage was “rattled” that his Boxing Day “publicity stunt is facing serious questions”. They added: “Like most normal people around the UK, Kemi is enjoying Christmas with her family and looking forward to taking on the challenges of renewing the Conservative Party in the New Year.” Mrs Badenoch, in a series of messages posted on X on Thursday, said: “Farage doesn’t understand the digital age. This kind of fakery gets found out pretty quickly, although not before many are fooled.” There were 131,680 Conservative members eligible to vote during the party’s leadership election to replace Rishi Sunak in the autumn. Mrs Badenoch claimed in her thread that “the Conservative Party has gained thousands of new members since the leadership election”. Elsewhere, Mr Farage described Elon Musk as a “bloody hero” and said he believes the US billionaire can help attract younger voters to Reform. Tech entrepreneur Mr Musk met Mr Farage earlier this month at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, amid rumours of a possible donation to either Mr Farage or Reform. Mr Farage told The Daily Telegraph newspaper: “The shades, the bomber jacket, the whole vibe. Elon makes us cool – Elon is a huge help to us with the young generation, and that will be the case going on and, frankly, that’s only just starting. “Reform only wins the next election if it gets the youth vote. The youth vote is the key. Of course, you need voters of all ages, but if you get a wave of youth enthusiasm you can change everything. “And I think we’re beginning to get into that zone – we were anyway, but Elon makes the whole task much, much easier. And the idea that politics can be cool, politics can be fun, politics can be real – Elon helps us with that mission enormously.”FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Looking for hard-to-find bottles of Kentucky bourbon to toast the holidays or add to a collection? Get your bids ready as the Bluegrass State launches its first online auction of confiscated alcohol. Whiskeys up for sale include two bottles of Old Rip Van Winkle, a Blanton’s Single Barrel Gold in box with Japanese markings and a bottle of Four Roses Small Batch Barrel Strength 2011. The sale is the result of a new Kentucky law, which allows alcohol confiscated from closed criminal investigations by the state’s alcoholic beverage control agency to be auctioned. Online bidding opens Wednesday and closes at midnight on Dec. 11. Proceeds will support programs promoting responsible alcohol use by adults and awareness programs for youths. “This is a really good auction,” Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, said by phone Tuesday. “There are some hard-to-find and rare bottles on there.” No estimate has been given on how much the auction might raise. “We look forward to seeing the response to this auction and have started planning additional auctions for 2025,” said Allyson Taylor, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The auction features 32 bottles of alcohol and includes a “stock the bar” bundle with bottles of wine, vodka, rum and whiskey, the agency said. But the stars are the hard-to-find and rare bourbons up for sale. “It’s not every day you go to a liquor store and find a bottle of Blanton’s Gold,” Gregory said. “You never go to a liquor store and find a bottle of Four Roses 2011.” The lineup includes bottles of E.H. Taylor bourbon, Blanton’s Single Barrel, Eagle Rare 10 yr., Weller Antique 107, Willett Family Estate Single Barrel Rye, Michter’s, an Old Forester gift set and more. A link to the online auction is available at ABC.ky.gov . Auction items cannot be shipped, so winning bidders must pick up items in Frankfort, the state said. The auctions will become a “can’t miss opportunity” for bourbon connoisseurs, Gregory said. Until this year’s change in the law, Kentucky regulators were required to destroy confiscated alcohol once a case was closed, the agency said. “We don’t like to see good bourbon poured down the drain,” Gregory said. Kentucky distillers produce 95% of the global bourbon supply, the Kentucky distillers’ group says.German president dissolves parliament

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The first guest invited to ring the bell to open trading at the New York Stock Exchange in 1956 wasn’t a company executive, a politician or a celebrity. It was a 10-year-old boy, Leonard Ross, who received the honor by winning a television quiz show. Since then, business titans, political giants and global film stars have all been among those ringing the opening bell at the NYSE. Ronald Reagan rang the bell as president in 1985. Billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr. have also rung the bell. The list even includes famous Muppets: Miss Piggy was once a bell ringer. President-elect Donald Trump joined that list Thursday when he opened trading at the famous stock exchange on Wall Street. He was accompanied by his wife, Melania, who interestingly enough received the honor before her husband. As first lady, she rang the bell in 2019 as part of her “Be Best” program. 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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly.PHILIPPE CLEMENT makes a HUGE call up front as Rangers take on Nice in the South of France. The Rangers boss could cool some of the sacking talk with a huge win away from home in the Europa League . Advertisement 2 Philippe Clement is a man under pressure at Ibrox Credit: Kenny Ramsay And the Belgian has gone for broke after watching his side fall 11 points behind Celtic in the Premiership title race after slumping to a 1-1 draw against Dundee United at Ibrox . It's only December and their chances of pipping the Hoops to the league looks extremely unlikely. However, they are still very much in the running in Europe after being unbeaten in their two away trips to Malmo and Olympiacos - winning in Sweden and holding the Greek giants to a 1-1 draw. 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OpenAI’s Sora, the Text-to-Video Tool That Caught Hollywood Off Guard, Rolls Out to PublicPresident Joe Biden’s pardon of his son was an “a ttack on the j udicial s ystem,” longtime Biden adviser Anita Dunn said Wednesday. The statement reveals division within the Democrat party about whether or not the pardon was helpful to the future of the party. “We saw some Democrats publicly criticizing the pardon,” journalist Mark Halperin said Wednesday on his 2Way show, “but not somebody like Anita Dunn, not someone who was a top staffer to both the President and the Vice President, and someone who’s been with him and loyal to him for a long time.” “[It] reflects what I believe is more criticism that’s coming,” he added. A majority, 51 percent, oppose the pardon, according to an Associated Press poll , while only 21 percent support it. Just 38 percent of Democrats approve, along with 12 percent of independents. A Monmouth poll, however, found most Democrats, 65 percent, support the president’s pardon. Dunn was asked about the pardon while attending a New York Times roundtable event with Republicans and fellow Democrats. Dunn stated she agreed with the decision but disagreed with the timing and attack on the judicial system. She also said the pardon was done in a way that undermines the president’s previous statements of respecting the judicial process. She claimed the president just simply changed his mind about the pardon after Biden alleged for months that he would not pardon Hunter Biden. WATCH — White House Insisted Joe Biden Wouldn’t Pardon Hunter Right After Trump Won Election: Dunn said: I do not believe, and I don’t think most people believe, that Hunter Biden should go to jail, and that, you know, he had a serious addiction, that he broke the law, that he has pled guilty to that, that he has been held accountable and has actually been publicly pilloried in a way that very few people who commit these crimes have ever been pilloried, so he has paid a certain price. He’s also someone who has turned his life around, who has been sober now since 2019, who has a young child and is actually going to be a grandfather sometime next year. And had this pardon been done at the end of the term, in the context of compassion, the way many pardons will be done — I am sure many commutations will be done — I think would have been a different story. So, I will say I absolutely agree with the president’s decision here. I do not agree with the way it was done. I don’t agree with the timing, and I don’t agree, frankly, with the attack on the judicial system. ... The president’s statement has to be taken at its face value, and clearly, like everybody else in the world, he has the prerogative of changing his mind, and that is indeed what he kind of said he did there. I think that you know, as you know, from a Democratic Party perspective, from a democratic perspective, as we were in the midst of the president-elect rolling out his nominees, and in particular, in the middle of a Kash Patel weekend, kind of throwing this into the middle of it was exceptionally poor timing, and that the argument is one that I think many observers are concerned about a president who ran to restore the rule of law, who has upheld the rule of law, who has really defended the rule of law, kind of saying, ‘Well, maybe not right now.’ So you know, Maggie, as I say, I agree with the decision to pardon. I absolutely think that Hunter deserves a pardon here, but I disagree on the timing, the argument, and sort of the rationale. Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.

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Mr Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Charles Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker”. Mr Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a real estate firm. Jared Kushner is a former senior Trump adviser who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka. The elder Mr Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was co-operating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation. Mr Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife, prosecutors said. Mr Kushner eventually pleaded guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison – the most he could receive under a plea deal, but less than what Chris Christie, the US attorney for New Jersey at the time and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, had sought. Mr Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Mr Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has called Charles Kushner’s offences “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney”. Mr Trump and the elder Mr Kushner knew each other from real estate circles and their children were married in 2009.

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BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns have again restructured quarterback Deshaun Watson's massive contract to create salary-cap space and give them future flexibility, a person familiar with the move told The Associated Press on Friday. Watson has been limited to just 19 games in three seasons because of an NFL suspension and injuries with the Browns, who signed him to a five-year, $230 million fully guaranteed contract in 2022. The restructuring allows the team to spread out the salary-cap hit after the 2026 season, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the team does not disclose contract specifics. The 29-year-old Watson has two years remaining on his contract with an average of $46 million a year, and with a salary-cap hit of $72.9 million in those seasons. The latest move adds a voidable year for 2028, giving the Browns cap flexibility following 2026, the final year on Watson’s deal. The agreement to restructure Watson's contract will not preclude the Browns from adding talent at the quarterback position in 2025, the person said. Watson played in only seven games this season before suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon. He's 9-10 as a starter with Cleveland. The Browns (3-12) have been a major disappointment after making it to the playoffs a year ago behind Joe Flacco, who was signed as a free agent after Watson suffered a season-ending shoulder injury. Watson had surgery in October and is expected to make a full recovery. While the team hasn't disclosed its plans at quarterback, it's assumed Watson will be in the mix to be the starter next season. It's also possible the Browns will draft a quarterback in the first round. The team hasn't had a first-round pick the past three years after trading three to the Houston Texans to acquire Watson, who was once considered one of the league's elite QBs. Watson's disappointing tenure — he hasn't thrown for 300 yards in any game — has been a sore spot with Cleveland fans, who had hoped the team had finally resolved its interminable QB issues when they signed the three-time Pro Bowler three years ago. But it hasn't worked out, and the major investment in Watson and the salary-cap ramifications of his contract — the largest fully guaranteed deal in league history — have made it difficult for the Browns to upgrade their roster. Watson has shown flashes of being a competent starting quarterback, but there have been just as many moments in which he's looked hesitant in the pocket or unable to connect with receivers down field. Watson was suspended for the first 11 games of his first season in Cleveland after an independent arbiter ruled he violated the conduct policy after he was accused by more than two dozen women of sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions. Since having surgery, Watson has been rehabbing his Achilles injury. He has not spoken to reporters for months. On Thursday, he posted a photo of himself on Instagram standing without wearing a walking boot. The caption read: “Back on My Feet! MOREGLORY!” Last week, Browns defensive star Myles Garrett caused a stir by saying he did not want to be part of a rebuild in Cleveland. Garrett also made it clear he wanted to know the team's offseason plans, including what the Browns intended to do at quarterback. On Friday, Garrett said he had “a few” discussions this week with the team's front office following his surprising comments. The reigning Defensive Player of the Year didn't reveal any specifics of the talks. “They just wanted to see where my head was at and what I was thinking and just trying to keep things in house, in house,” said Garrett, who will turn 29 on Sunday. Garrett was asked if he got a favorable reaction from teammates. “They want to know what’s coming next as well,” he said. “So I haven’t really heard too many people speak up on whether they liked my comments or not. Everyone’s kind of feeling the same way. But I’m not going to assume and I’ll have my answer at the end of the year.” NOTES: TE David Njoku (knee), DE Ogbo Okoronkwo (knee) and WR Cedric Tillman (concussion) were ruled out for Sunday's game. ... Backup QB Jameis Winston (shoulder) is questionable. If he can't play, Bailey Zappe will be Cleveland's No. 2 QB behind Dorian Thompson-Robinson. ... Coach Jason Tarver said LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah is in “good spirits” after sustaining a neck injury on Oct. 27. Owusu-Koramoah was hurt in a collision with Ravens running back Derrick Henry. The Browns have been vague about Owusu-Koramoah's injury and recovery. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL

A new year is only a few days away, and do you realize what that means? There’s still time for Chicago’s professional sports teams to kick yet another coach to the curb before 2024 is in the books. It probably won’t happen. Then again, this is a year whose final seconds one could spend counting down all the coaches and managers fired or otherwise replaced before the city lights up the downtown sky with fireworks over the river. “Ten ... nine ... Grifol ... Weatherspoon ... Eberflus ...” You get the idea. Indeed, Chicago sports dropped the ball like never before in 2024. Our teams partied like it was 1999 — probably the worst previous year on record — when, for the most part, they ranged in quality from terrible to, “Man, don’t you wish these guys were merely terrible?” But helmsmen such as the Bears’ Dick Jauron, the Bulls’ Tim Floyd and the White Sox’ Jerry Manuel were still in the early going, so at least pink slips didn’t drive the news cycle. Cheating just a little, we can flip the 2024 calendar back to October of 2023, when, after a last-place finish, the Red Stars fired Chris Petrucelli, who would be replaced by Lorne Donaldson. Of greater note, in November, the Cubs fired David Ross — “He’s our guy,” chairman Tom Ricketts had said at season’s end — and replaced him with Craig Counsell, enticing Counsell with a record-setting $8 million-a-year contract. In June of this year, the Wolves hired Cam Abbott to replace Bob Nardella, who six months earlier had been suspended by the AHL for using a homophobic slur during a game, a charge Nardella denied. Nardella, a former championship player with the Wolves, no longer is with the organization. When baseball’s All-Star break arrived in July, the city had two last-place teams on its hands. The Sox were 27-71 — a major-league record for losses at the break — on the way to a record 121 for the season. The Cubs had followed a promising 24-17 start with an excruciating 15-31 stretch and reached the break 81⁄2 games behind the first-place Brewers, Counsell’s former team, in no discernible way, shape or form any better off than they’d been with Ross. By the time Grifol was relieved of his duties in August, his overall Sox winning percentage at an almost unfathomable .319, GM Chris Getz characterized things as “broken.” In firing Grifol, Getz cited “underperformance, some misalignments along the way, some different belief systems,” and those were some of the nicer things being said at the time about the beleaguered skipper. Counsell’s first Cubs team failed to make the playoffs and finished in third place, 10 games back. After the Brewers clinched, Counsell lamented the “big gap” between the teams and called it “daunting” — an urgent message to management, no doubt, but also a bitter concession speech. At least he’s far closer to winning than the Bulls’ Billy Donovan is. In his fifth season, which is heading nowhere, Donovan has one winning record and one playoff series to show for his time here. But he’s still clocking into work every day, which is saying something. In September, the Sky fired Teresa Weatherspoon, who hadn’t lasted a full calendar year in her first WNBA head-coaching post. Angel Reese, the rookie star to whom Weatherspoon had perhaps catered too much, posted on social media, “I’m heartbroken. I’m literally lost for words knowing what this woman means to me at such a pivotal point in my life.” They were lovely words, though little about the 13-27 Sky had been lovable. The Fire’s coaching turnstile never stops spinning. In October, they hired Gregg Berhalter, a fitting appointment given he’d been fired a few months before as coach of the U.S. men’s national team. That meant another passing of the whistle from Frank Klopas, who multiple times has stepped in on an interim basis. The Fire, who wouldn’t recognize success if it kissed them on the mouth, have had two first-round playoff appearances in 15 years. But now we’re into November, and that means — who else? — the coach who stood dumbfounded like a deer in headlights with a timeout in its back pocket as the clock melted to zeros in a humiliating Thanksgiving fiasco at Detroit. No, a pocketed deer makes no sense at all, but neither did Matt Eberflus during his run with the Bears, which ended at 14-32. “I like what we did there,” Eberflus said of the final Bears drive on his watch, unwittingly uttering an absolutely perfect epitaph. Ah, well, Eberflus and Grifol are free to make the world’s worst buddy movie together now. Not to miss its chance, December brought the firing of the Blackhawks’ Luke Richardson. The team’s record at the time — 8-16-2 — was almost exactly on par with Richardson’s full Hawks record of 57-118-15, one of the NHL’s worst of all time. Richardson never had much of a roster with which to work, but he failed to get young superstar Connor Bedard going and juggled lines worse than a bad improv comic. “The results did not match our expectations for a higher level of execution this season,” GM Kyle Davidson said. But the results sure fit the city’s year in sports. Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi might as well have been speaking for all of us when he said of the team’s historic loss No. 120, “Same as every other loss — they all suck.” The year is ending, and none too soon. Even if it’s too late to use the one in our collective back pocket, we all deserve a timeout.StockTune Expands Free Stock Music Collections with New Tunes for Download 12-27-2024 09:42 PM CET | Leisure, Entertainment, Miscellaneous Press release from: ABNewswire StockTune exemplifies innovation in the world of creative arts through its AI-driven platform, which is continually evolving to provide an expansive library of royalty-free music. 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