Young men swung to the right for Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appealsCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has had an "excellent conversation" with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club following the US president-elect's threat to impose significant tariffs on Canada and Mexico. It was unclear, as Trudeau headed back to Canada from Florida, whether the conversation had alleviated Trump's concerns. A person familiar with the details of the leaders' hastily arranged meeting on Friday night said it was a "positive wide-ranging dinner that lasted three hours". The official, who was not authorised to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said topics included trade, border security, fentanyl, defence, Ukraine, NATO, China, the Middle East and pipelines as well as a G7 meeting in Canada next year. A photo of Trudeau sitting next to Trump during dinner was posted on X by Pennsylvania senator-elect Dave McCormick. The Republican president-elect has threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if the governments there do not stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders. Honored to have dinner with @realDonaldTrump and to celebrate two big wins in PA! Ready to join him in Washington to shake things up and fight for every single Pennsylvanian! pic.twitter.com/uKap3kkUkx— Dave McCormick (@DaveMcCormickPA) November 30, 2024 He said he would impose a 25 per cent tax on all products entering the US from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders when he takes office in January. As he was leaving his West Palm Beach hotel, Trudeau stopped briefly to answer a reporter's question about the dinner meeting, saying it was "an excellent conversation". Trump's transition team did not respond to questions about what the leaders had discussed. Trump, during his first term as president, once called Trudeau "weak" and "dishonest" but it was the prime minister who was the first G7 leader to visit Trump since the November 5 election. "Tariffs are a crucial issue for Canada and a bold move was in order. Perhaps it was a risk, but a risk worth taking," Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University, said. Among those at the dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump's pick for commerce secretary; North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, in line to lead the Interior Department; and Mike Waltz, Trump's choice to be his national security adviser. Accompanying Trudeau were Canada's public safety minister Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include border security, and Katie Telford, Trudeau's chief of staff. Trudeau had said earlier on Friday that he would resolve the tariffs issue by talking to Trump. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said a day earlier after speaking with Trump that she is confident a tariff war with the United States will be averted. Trudeau said Trump got elected because he promised to bring down the cost of groceries but now he is talking about adding 25 per cent to the cost of all kinds of products including potatoes from Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada. To Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, Trump "doesn't need convincing that new tariffs on Canadian products would not be in US interests. He knows that but cannot say it because it would detract from what he has said publicly. His goal is to project the image that he gets action when he talks." When Trump imposed higher tariffs during his first term in office, other countries responded with retaliatory tariffs of their own. Canada, for instance, announced billions of new duties in 2018 against the US in a response to new taxes on Canadian steel and aluminium. Canada is the top export destination for 36 US states. Nearly $C3.6 billion ($A4.1 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day.Jimmy Carter’s ascent to the White House was something few people could have predicted when he was governor of the US state of Georgia. It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s. It took meeting several presidential candidates and then encouragement from an esteemed elder statesman before the young governor, who had never met a president himself, saw himself as something bigger. He announced his White House bid on December 12 1974, amid fallout from the Vietnam War and the resignation of Richard Nixon. Then he leveraged his unknown, and politically untainted, status to become the 39th president. That whirlwind path has been a model, explicit and otherwise, for would-be contenders ever since. Mr Carter’s journey to high office began in Plains, Georgia where he received end-of-life care decades after serving as president. David Axelrod, who helped to engineer Mr Obama’s four-year ascent from state senator to the Oval Office, said Mr Carter’s model is about more than how his grassroots strategy turned the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary into his springboard. “There was a moral stain on the country, and this was a guy of deep faith,” Mr Axelrod said. “He seemed like a fresh start, and I think he understood that he could offer something different that might be able to meet the moment.” “In 1976, it was just Jimmy Carter’s time,” she said. Of course, the seeds of his presidential run sprouted even before Mr Nixon won a second term and certainly before his resignation in August 1974. In Mr Carter’s telling, he did not run for governor in 1966, he lost, or in 1970 thinking about Washington. Even when he announced his presidential bid, neither he nor those closest to him were completely confident. “President of what?” his mother, Lillian, replied when he told her his plans. But soon after he became governor in 1971, Mr Carter’s team envisioned him as a national player. They were encouraged in part by the May 31 Time magazine cover depicting Mr Carter alongside the headline “Dixie Whistles a Different Tune”. In October 1971, Carter ally Dr Peter Bourne, an Atlanta physician who would become US drug tsar, sent his politician friend an unsolicited memo outlining how he could be elected president. On October 17, a wider circle of advisers sat with Mr Carter at the Governor’s Mansion to discuss it. Mr Carter, then 47, wore blue jeans and a T-shirt, according to biographer Jonathan Alter. The team, including Mr Carter’s wife Rosalynn, who died aged 96 in November 2023, began considering the idea seriously. “We never used the word ‘president’,” Mr Carter recalled upon his 90th birthday, “but just referred to national office”. Mr Carter invited high-profile Democrats and Washington players who were running or considering running in 1972, to one-on-one meetings at the mansion. He jumped at the chance to lead the Democratic National Committee’s national campaign that year. The position allowed him to travel the country helping candidates up and down the ballot. Along the way, he was among the Southern governors who angled to be George McGovern’s running mate. Mr Alter said Mr Carter was never seriously considered. Still, Mr Carter got to know, among others, former vice president Hubert Humphrey and senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Eugene McCarthy of Maine and Mr McGovern of South Dakota, the eventual nominee who lost a landslide to Mr Nixon. Mr Carter later explained he had previously defined the nation’s highest office by its occupants immortalised by monuments. “For the first time,” Mr Carter told The New York Times, “I started comparing my own experiences and knowledge of government with the candidates, not against ‘the presidency’ and not against Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It made it a whole lot easier”. Adviser Hamilton Jordan crafted a detailed campaign plan calling for matching Mr Carter’s outsider, good-government credentials to voters’ general disillusionment, even before Watergate. But the team still spoke and wrote in code, as if the “higher office” were not obvious. It was reported during his campaign that Mr Carter told family members around Christmas 1972 that he would run in 1976. During another private confab in Atlanta, Mr Rusk told Mr Carter plainly: “Governor, I think you should run for president in 1976.” That, Mr Carter wrote, “removed our remaining doubts.” Mr Schale said the process is not always so involved. “These are intensely competitive people already,” he said of governors, senators and others in high office. “If you’re wired in that capacity, it’s hard to step away from it.” “Jimmy Carter showed us that you can go from a no-name to president in the span of 18 or 24 months,” said Jared Leopold, a top aide in Washington governor Jay Inslee’s unsuccessful bid for Democrats’ 2020 nomination. “For people deciding whether to get in, it’s a real inspiration,” Mr Leopold continued, “and that’s a real success of American democracy”.mega b sm megamall 。

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Aidan O'Connell shows in loss to Chiefs that he is the Raiders' QB for the rest of seasonHere are the player ratings of Plymouth Live's Argyle reporter Chris Errington from the Pilgrims' 4-0 defeat by Bristol City at Ashton Gate. You can give your marks too using our special widget further down this story. Had it not been for Argyle's goalkeeper they would have conceded long before Bristol City finally broke the deadlock in the 58th minute and their eventual defeat would have been by a much wider margin. Grimshaw made a number of fine saves before City's relentless attacking play proved too much even for him. The Iceland international was at right-back after playing on the left of a central defensive trio in the 6-1 midweek mauling by Norwich City. Could do little about City's attacking threat down their left from Cam Pring and Anis Mehmeti throughout the game. Palsson booked for a blatant foul on Luke McNally in the first half. Pleguezuelo lined up as the right-side centre-back in a 4-1-4-1 formation. He and his team-mates dug in reasonably well in the first half but they simply had no answer to the rampant Robins in the second period. Returned to action after sitting out the 6-1 drubbing at Norwich City last Tuesday. As he usually does, Gibson made some important blocks and cut crosses threatening crosses in the first half but once the floodgates opened with Scott Twine's 58th minute opener there was nothing even he could do to prevent another rout. This was just his fourth start for Argyle after joining them in the summer but struggling in previous matches this season. The left-back had his hands full all game with City's Yu Hirakawa, who had much the better of their individual battle. Handed the captain's armband as he was one of six changes to the team from the thrashing at Norwich, which he had missed due to a family matter. The hope would have been that he would help to protect Argyle defensively but City did all their attacking with cross balls out to the left and right, bypassing him. Houghton picked up an injury late on and could not continue playing. The 18-year-old played wide on the right for Argyle but had little chance to do any attacking and City kept getting in behind him, which exposed Victor Palsson too much. Issaka moved across to the left during the first half as he and Bali Mumba swapped positions, but without much effect. You could tell the fight was there from the 24-year-old, especially in the first half as he won his share of 50-50 challenges in central midfield, but Argyle were over-run in the second period. Did not have the best of starts to the game as his weak back pass almost let in City striker Nahki Wells, but Dan Grimshaw was just able to get to the ball first and clear it away. Forshaw became Argyle's third player to be booked in the game, following Victor Palsson and Grimshaw, after a foul on Max Bird which seemed to be borne out of frustration and tiredness. He was able to do little about the problems caused by Cam Pring and Anis Mehmeti after he switched positions with Freddie Issaka. Had a thankless task to play up front on his own with Argyle barely putting together any moves going forward. The fit-again striker, who had missed two matches due to a groin issue, did have a shot on target at the start of the second half but it was saved by Max O'Leary. That was just one of two on-target attempts all game from the Pilgrims. Was ready to be sent on as a 62nd minute substitute, along with Michael Obafemi, as part of a tactical switch by boss Wayne Rooney when City took a 2-0 lead through Anis Mehmeti. Gray took over from Ryan Hardie before play restarted. Took over from Freddie Issaka at the same time as Andre Gray was introduced into the action. Had a coupe of rare promising attacking moments from the Pilgrims, including a powerful shot saved by Max O'Leary in the closing stages of the game. The 19-year-old was a midfield replacement for the injured Jordan Houghton in the 80th minute. By that stage, it was 3-0 and there was still time for City to add one more goal to really rub in the misery for the Pilgrims. Marko Marosi, Callum Wright, Mustapha Bundu, Darko Gyabi, Rami Al Hajj, Matty Sorinola. and we want you to join us. Once you sign up for our updates, we'll send all the latest straight to your phone. To join our community, you need to already have WhatsApp. All you need to do is click this link and select 'Join Community'. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the PlymouthLive team. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'Exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our . .

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Washington — Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Defense Department, returned to Capitol Hill on Monday as he tries to solidify support among Senate Republicans as he faces allegations of sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement of veterans' charities and excessive drinking. Hegseth met with at least two Republican senators on Monday who had expressed concern about the allegations. In statements after the meetings, both Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina appeared more comfortable with Trump's pick. "As I support Pete through this process, I look forward to a fair hearing based on truth, not anonymous sources," Ernst said. Graham shared a similar sentiment about those anonymously making accusations involving the former Fox News personality's conduct. "The accusations being made regarding financial management of veterans service organizations and personal misconduct should only be considered by the committee if they are supported by testimony before Congress — not anonymous sources," he said. Hegseth has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Amid the reports on his alleged conduct, several Republican senators said they found the allegations "disturbing," including Graham. Before meeting with Hegseth on Monday, Ernst said she needed to hear more from him on his stance about women in combat and sexual assault in the military before she decided whether to back him. Ernst is a survivor of sexual assault and a military veteran. She said Monday she had received assurances from Hegseth about how both will be handled if he leads the Pentagon. "I appreciate Pete Hegseth's responsiveness and respect for the process. Following our encouraging conversations, Pete committed to completing a full audit of the Pentagon and selecting a senior official who will uphold the roles and value of our servicemen and women — based on quality and standards, not quotas — and who will prioritize and strengthen my work to prevent sexual assault within the ranks," her statement said. Pentagon Pete Hegseth Lindsey Graham Joni Ernst Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tanner McKee’s first career NFL touchdown pass was thrown to a Philadelphia Eagles fan named Patrick. OK, McKee actually threw the 20-yard TD to Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J Brown, who — in a momentary lapse of reason — chucked the souvenir football into the Lincoln Financial field stands. Uh-oh. “I felt so bad,” Brown said, “because I threw it so far.” McKee, a sixth-round pick out of Stanford in 2023, is a career third-string QB who had never played a regular-season snap until he was pressed into emergency duty Sunday against Dallas. Jalen Hurts did not start because of a concussion and Kenny Pickett — who ran and threw for a TD in the Eagles' 41-7 win — was knocked of the game with injured ribs. That opened the door for the 24-year-old McKee to play in a game in which the Eagles clinched the NFC East. He did his part — including the 20-yard strike in the third that made it 34-7. The celebration was temporarily muted when he realized his ball — a milestone keepsake for any player — was somewhere in the stands. Little did McKee know the ball was coming back to him. Eagles fans kicked off a bit of a relay with the ball once they realized its significance to McKee. The fan who caught the ball was promised a jersey from Brown. He sent the ball to one fan, who passed it to Eagles security chief “Big” Dom DiSandro to hand to another Eagles employee to Brown and finally to McKee. Souvenir secured. “I appreciate whoever gave the ball back,” McKee said. “(Brown) was like, ‘I’m sorry, bro. I got the ball back.’ So, yeah, it was good. He made a great play, and obviously a great catch.” It was Brown's throw that needed work. Brown stripped off and signed his game jersey and handed it to a fan named Patrick as a thank-you for returning the football — all while fans chanted “E-A-G-L-E-S!” around him. “We've got great fans here,” Brown said. McKee needed more room on the trophy shelf — he threw a second TD pass in the fourth quarter. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL

It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s. It took meeting several presidential candidates and then encouragement from an esteemed elder statesman before the young governor, who had never met a president himself, saw himself as something bigger. He announced his White House bid on December 12 1974, amid fallout from the Vietnam War and the resignation of Richard Nixon. Then he leveraged his unknown, and politically untainted, status to become the 39th president. That whirlwind path has been a model, explicit and otherwise, for would-be contenders ever since. “Jimmy Carter’s example absolutely created a 50-year window of people saying, ‘Why not me?’” said Steve Schale, who worked on President Barack Obama’s campaigns and is a long-time supporter of President Joe Biden. Mr Carter’s journey to high office began in Plains, Georgia where he received end-of-life care decades after serving as president. David Axelrod, who helped to engineer Mr Obama’s four-year ascent from state senator to the Oval Office, said Mr Carter’s model is about more than how his grassroots strategy turned the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary into his springboard. “There was a moral stain on the country, and this was a guy of deep faith,” Mr Axelrod said. “He seemed like a fresh start, and I think he understood that he could offer something different that might be able to meet the moment.” Donna Brazile, who managed Democrat Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, got her start on Mr Carter’s two national campaigns. “In 1976, it was just Jimmy Carter’s time,” she said. Of course, the seeds of his presidential run sprouted even before Mr Nixon won a second term and certainly before his resignation in August 1974. In Mr Carter’s telling, he did not run for governor in 1966, he lost, or in 1970 thinking about Washington. Even when he announced his presidential bid, neither he nor those closest to him were completely confident. “President of what?” his mother, Lillian, replied when he told her his plans. But soon after he became governor in 1971, Mr Carter’s team envisioned him as a national player. They were encouraged in part by the May 31 Time magazine cover depicting Mr Carter alongside the headline “Dixie Whistles a Different Tune”. Inside, a flattering profile framed Mr Carter as a model “New South” governor. In October 1971, Carter ally Dr Peter Bourne, an Atlanta physician who would become US drug tsar, sent his politician friend an unsolicited memo outlining how he could be elected president. On October 17, a wider circle of advisers sat with Mr Carter at the Governor’s Mansion to discuss it. Mr Carter, then 47, wore blue jeans and a T-shirt, according to biographer Jonathan Alter. The team, including Mr Carter’s wife Rosalynn, who died aged 96 in November 2023, began considering the idea seriously. “We never used the word ‘president’,” Mr Carter recalled upon his 90th birthday, “but just referred to national office”. Mr Carter invited high-profile Democrats and Washington players who were running or considering running in 1972, to one-on-one meetings at the mansion. He jumped at the chance to lead the Democratic National Committee’s national campaign that year. The position allowed him to travel the country helping candidates up and down the ballot. Along the way, he was among the Southern governors who angled to be George McGovern’s running mate. Mr Alter said Mr Carter was never seriously considered. Still, Mr Carter got to know, among others, former vice president Hubert Humphrey and senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Eugene McCarthy of Maine and Mr McGovern of South Dakota, the eventual nominee who lost a landslide to Mr Nixon. Mr Carter later explained he had previously defined the nation’s highest office by its occupants immortalised by monuments. “For the first time,” Mr Carter told The New York Times, “I started comparing my own experiences and knowledge of government with the candidates, not against ‘the presidency’ and not against Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It made it a whole lot easier”. Adviser Hamilton Jordan crafted a detailed campaign plan calling for matching Mr Carter’s outsider, good-government credentials to voters’ general disillusionment, even before Watergate. But the team still spoke and wrote in code, as if the “higher office” were not obvious. It was reported during his campaign that Mr Carter told family members around Christmas 1972 that he would run in 1976. Mr Carter later wrote in a memoir that a visit from former secretary of state Dean Rusk in early 1973 affirmed his leanings. During another private confab in Atlanta, Mr Rusk told Mr Carter plainly: “Governor, I think you should run for president in 1976.” That, Mr Carter wrote, “removed our remaining doubts.” Mr Schale said the process is not always so involved. “These are intensely competitive people already,” he said of governors, senators and others in high office. “If you’re wired in that capacity, it’s hard to step away from it.” “Jimmy Carter showed us that you can go from a no-name to president in the span of 18 or 24 months,” said Jared Leopold, a top aide in Washington governor Jay Inslee’s unsuccessful bid for Democrats’ 2020 nomination. “For people deciding whether to get in, it’s a real inspiration,” Mr Leopold continued, “and that’s a real success of American democracy”.Savion Williams rushed for two touchdowns and Josh Hoover threw for 252 yards as TCU pulled away from Arizona in the second half, winning 49-28 on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas. The Horned Frogs (7-4, 5-3 Big 12) scored touchdowns on five consecutive possessions, starting late in the first half after the Wildcats (4-7, 2-6) pulled within 14-13. Williams carried nine times for 80 yards, scoring on runs of 1 and 20 yards in the first half. Hoover completed 19 of 26 passes, with one touchdown and one interception, before being pulled midway through the fourth quarter when the Frogs were up by 21. TCU took control after leading 21-13 at halftime, going up 35-13 on a 38-yard reception to JP Richardson midway through the third. Arizona kept its hopes alive, ending a 15-play, 75-yard drive with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Chris Hunter on fourth down on the first play of the fourth quarter. The two-point conversion made it 35-21. But the Horned Frogs responded with another TD drive, capped by a 6-yard run by Cam Cook for a 42-21 advantage. Arizona added a 70-yard fumble return touchdown with one minute to go for the game's final score. Tetairoa McMillan caught nine passes for 115 yards to become the Arizona career leader in receiving yardage with 3,355. He surpassed his receivers coach, Bobby Wade (3,351), at the top spot. The Wildcats' Noah Fifita completed 29 of 44 passes for 284 yards with two touchdowns and an interception, which happened on the game's first snap. TCU promptly scored on a 4-yard run by Trent Battle, and Williams added a 1-yard TD run late in the first quarter for a 14-0 lead. But the Wildcats fought back, getting a 17-yard touchdown reception by Hunter and field goals of 53 and 43 yards from Tyler Loop to climb within 14-13 with 1:55 go before halftime. That's almost how the half ended, but the Horned Frogs converted third-and-18 on the ensuing drive and then gained 24 yards on third-and-25 to the Arizona 20. That set up a 20-yard run by Williams on fourth-and-1 with 13 seconds left for a 21-13 lead. --Field Level Media

Saquon Barkley becomes ninth running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a seasonHENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Aidan O'Connell might not be Mr. Right for the Raiders, but he is Mr. Right Now. He did enough in Friday's 19-17 loss at Kansas City to show that Las Vegas' quarterback job will be his for the rest of the season — barring, that is, another injury. O'Connell didn't look like a quarterback who hadn't played in nearly six weeks because of a broken thumb . Plus, the Raiders had a short week to prepare for the Chiefs, meaning O'Connell only went through a series of walk-through practices. Even so, he completed 23 of 35 passes for 340 yards, including touchdown passes of 33 yards to tight end Brock Bowers and 58 yards to wide receiver Tre Tucker. He didn't throw any interceptions. “Thought he competed,” coach Antonio Pierce said Saturday morning. “I thought for what we knew we were getting with Spags (Kansas City defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo) and that defense, that he stood in the pocket, made some tough throws, took some hits, took the shots down the field like we wanted. We had some opportunities to take shots down the field, he threw them. And I thought our skill guys did a hell of a job competing and making some really good plays for us.” O'Connell's performance would've shined even more if not for the Raiders' final offensive play. He led the Raiders from their 8-yard line to the Chiefs 32 with 15 seconds left. The plan was for O'Connell to take the snap and throw the ball away to run off a few more seconds, then send Daniel Carlson out for the potential winning field goal without giving Patrick Mahomes enough time to mount one of his signature comebacks. But rookie center Jackson Powers-Johnson snapped the ball before O'Connell was expecting it, and the Chiefs recovered to secure another close, last-minute victory. The Raiders were called for illegal shift, which Kansas City declined. But there was some question about whether officials intended to call a false start instead. Though that infraction would have cost Las Vegas 5 yards, the pre-snap penalty still would've given Carlson a shot at the field goal. Pierce said his team heard an official's whistle before the snap, and that will be included in the Raiders' report to the NFL. “We do that every game,” Pierce said. “Typically, anywhere from three to five questions, and then we’ll get a letter within 24 to 36 hours, and we’ll read it and learn from it.” Bowers had another sensational game. He was targeted 14 times, catching 10 passes for 140 yards. For the season, he has 84 receptions for 884 yards and four TDs, making him a strong contender for Offensive Rookie of the Year. “We’re seeing double-teams and them really shifting their zone to him, and I don’t really think it matters,” Pierce said. “I think we've got a really special player on our hand.” The Raiders need to do better on first and second downs to set up more favorable third-down conversions. They have faced 47 third downs from 7 to 10 yards, tied with the Dallas Cowboys for fifth most. Las Vegas' conversion rate on those plays is 36.2%, which actually is favorable compared to the rest of the league, but the Raiders are still creating too many of those situations. Las Vegas made life difficult for Mahomes, sacking him five times. And it wasn't just Maxx Crosby bringing the heat. Four players had at least one-half sack, including K’Lavon Chaisson, who had 1 1/2. It was a season-high total for the Raiders, and they have taken down the opposing quarterback in 30 consecutive games, the third-longest active streak. Carlson is usually money, but he missed field goals from 56, 55 and 58 yards. Hardly chip shots, but he is capable of converting from those distances. He had made 30 of 38 field goals from 50-plus yards entering the game, with a career long of 57 yards. WR DJ Turner injured his knee in the second half. 12 — The Raiders are one of three teams to fall behind double digits in each of their first 12 games of a season. The others were the 1986 Indianapolis Colts and 1972 New England Patriots. The Raiders visit Tampa Bay on Dec. 8. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

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Jimmy Carter’s ascent to the White House was something few people could have predicted when he was governor of the US state of Georgia. It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s. It took meeting several presidential candidates and then encouragement from an esteemed elder statesman before the young governor, who had never met a president himself, saw himself as something bigger. He announced his White House bid on December 12 1974, amid fallout from the Vietnam War and the resignation of Richard Nixon. Then he leveraged his unknown, and politically untainted, status to become the 39th president. That whirlwind path has been a model, explicit and otherwise, for would-be contenders ever since. “Jimmy Carter’s example absolutely created a 50-year window of people saying, ‘Why not me?’” said Steve Schale, who worked on President Barack Obama’s campaigns and is a long-time supporter of President Joe Biden. Mr Carter’s journey to high office began in Plains, Georgia where he received end-of-life care decades after serving as president. David Axelrod, who helped to engineer Mr Obama’s four-year ascent from state senator to the Oval Office, said Mr Carter’s model is about more than how his grassroots strategy turned the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary into his springboard. “There was a moral stain on the country, and this was a guy of deep faith,” Mr Axelrod said. “He seemed like a fresh start, and I think he understood that he could offer something different that might be able to meet the moment.” Donna Brazile, who managed Democrat Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, got her start on Mr Carter’s two national campaigns. “In 1976, it was just Jimmy Carter’s time,” she said. Of course, the seeds of his presidential run sprouted even before Mr Nixon won a second term and certainly before his resignation in August 1974. In Mr Carter’s telling, he did not run for governor in 1966, he lost, or in 1970 thinking about Washington. Even when he announced his presidential bid, neither he nor those closest to him were completely confident. “President of what?” his mother, Lillian, replied when he told her his plans. But soon after he became governor in 1971, Mr Carter’s team envisioned him as a national player. They were encouraged in part by the May 31 Time magazine cover depicting Mr Carter alongside the headline “Dixie Whistles a Different Tune”. Inside, a flattering profile framed Mr Carter as a model “New South” governor. In October 1971, Carter ally Dr Peter Bourne, an Atlanta physician who would become US drug tsar, sent his politician friend an unsolicited memo outlining how he could be elected president. On October 17, a wider circle of advisers sat with Mr Carter at the Governor’s Mansion to discuss it. Mr Carter, then 47, wore blue jeans and a T-shirt, according to biographer Jonathan Alter. The team, including Mr Carter’s wife Rosalynn, who died aged 96 in November 2023, began considering the idea seriously. “We never used the word ‘president’,” Mr Carter recalled upon his 90th birthday, “but just referred to national office”. Mr Carter invited high-profile Democrats and Washington players who were running or considering running in 1972, to one-on-one meetings at the mansion. He jumped at the chance to lead the Democratic National Committee’s national campaign that year. The position allowed him to travel the country helping candidates up and down the ballot. Along the way, he was among the Southern governors who angled to be George McGovern’s running mate. Mr Alter said Mr Carter was never seriously considered. Still, Mr Carter got to know, among others, former vice president Hubert Humphrey and senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Eugene McCarthy of Maine and Mr McGovern of South Dakota, the eventual nominee who lost a landslide to Mr Nixon. Mr Carter later explained he had previously defined the nation’s highest office by its occupants immortalised by monuments. “For the first time,” Mr Carter told The New York Times, “I started comparing my own experiences and knowledge of government with the candidates, not against ‘the presidency’ and not against Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It made it a whole lot easier”. Adviser Hamilton Jordan crafted a detailed campaign plan calling for matching Mr Carter’s outsider, good-government credentials to voters’ general disillusionment, even before Watergate. But the team still spoke and wrote in code, as if the “higher office” were not obvious. It was reported during his campaign that Mr Carter told family members around Christmas 1972 that he would run in 1976. Mr Carter later wrote in a memoir that a visit from former secretary of state Dean Rusk in early 1973 affirmed his leanings. During another private confab in Atlanta, Mr Rusk told Mr Carter plainly: “Governor, I think you should run for president in 1976.” That, Mr Carter wrote, “removed our remaining doubts.” Mr Schale said the process is not always so involved. “These are intensely competitive people already,” he said of governors, senators and others in high office. “If you’re wired in that capacity, it’s hard to step away from it.” “Jimmy Carter showed us that you can go from a no-name to president in the span of 18 or 24 months,” said Jared Leopold, a top aide in Washington governor Jay Inslee’s unsuccessful bid for Democrats’ 2020 nomination. “For people deciding whether to get in, it’s a real inspiration,” Mr Leopold continued, “and that’s a real success of American democracy”. We do not moderate comments, but we expect readers to adhere to certain rules in the interests of open and accountable debate.

It is exactly one week since the Maha Yuti was re-elected with a massive mandate (230 out of 288 seats) by the people of Maharashtra, but the government is still to be formed. Sources said the intense power struggle within the Sangh Parivar is the primary reason for the delay. The RSS wants Devendra Fadnavis as the CM. However, the senior leadership of the BJP wants a non-Brahmin (preferably a Maratha) as the CM. For the past several months, the RSS and the BJP leadership have not been able to see eye to eye on several issues. A clear indication of the ongoing tussle was the open statement by BJP president J.P. Nadda that the BJP does not need the support of the RSS anymore. The delay in selecting a CM for Maharashtra is yet another indication of this intra-Sangh Parivar struggle. Sanjay Shirsat, Shiv Sena MLA and close confidante of caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde, told the FPJ on Saturday that "there is no problem from my party. It's the internal problem of the BJP (that it is unable to handpick a man for the chief ministership)." Asked if the delay is because of the Shiv Sena insisting on key portfolios like home and revenue, Shirsat said, "Ministry formation is a subsequent matter. Let the BJP first decide whom it wants as the chief minister. It is still to take a call on the issue." Shirsat later told a news channel that Shinde, who is currently sulking in his village in Satara, will make a "big announcement" on Sunday evening. He did not elaborate. Soon after the results were declared on November 23, Shinde had staked his claim to the CM's post even though the BJP had a standalone majority of 132 MLAs. His reasoning was that the crucial election was fought under his leadership and that he was the architect of the victory because of the hugely popular Ladki Bahin scheme. However, it is learnt that Union home minister Amit Shah shot down this idea since he was clear that a BJP man will be the CM. Shah asked Shinde to back down, following which a crestfallen Shinde held a press conference on Thursday at his Thane residence and meekly declared that he will abide by "whatever decision" the central leadership of the BJP takes. It was widely assumed in political circles that since Shinde has opted out of the race for the CM's gaddi, it is only a matter of time before the BJP declared the name of Fadnavis. However, that has not happened. For some strange reason, two senior leaders of the BJP appear to be not in favor of Fadnavis. "The fact of Fadnavis being a Brahmin cannot be the reason since after the 2014 polls he was appointed as the CM and allowed to complete his full five-year term. Was not the party leadership in Delhi then aware that he was a Brahmin?" a source in the RSS asked. A senior RSS activist said on condition of anonymity that the BJP leadership was being "over smart." "They think that they are doing something great by not selecting Fadnavis. The fact is that there is absolutely no logic in its thinking. Fadnavis is the choice of the rank and file of the BJP. The leaders concerned should keep that in mind," he added. Fadnavis was the architect of the downfall of the Uddhav Thackeray government in June 2022. It was then widely expected by BJP cadres that he would be rewarded with the CM's ship for pulling off a huge coup. But Fadnavis himself and the cadres were stunned when party president J.P. Nadda asked him to settle for deputy chief ministership and let Shinde take the reins as the CM. After initial resistance, Fadnavis took the setback in his stride and wholeheartedly worked for the success of the Maha Yuti. "If again he is given the short shrift, then it will have serious implications for the party." The names of two Maratha leaders of the BJP, Vinod Tawde and Murlidhar Mohol, were reportedly being considered for the top post. However, Mohol, who is close to Fadnavis, dismissed the speculation. As for Tawde, he does not have the political gravitas that Fadnavis does. What is worrying BJP cadres is that the delay in selecting the CM goes against the spirit of the assembly mandate. "If the start is itself so controversial, we do not know what will happen in the coming five years," a senior BJP leader observed.(TNS) — A self-driving vehicle corridor on I-94 could connect Ann Arbor and Detroit, and the Michigan Department of Transportation wants feedback. The agency completed an environmental assessment, . Interested Washtenaw and Wayne county community members can provide comments about the assessment at an upcoming public hearing. The public participation sessions are scheduled for 10 to 11:30 a.m., 1 to 2:30 p.m. and 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2, in Van Buren Township Hall, 46425 Tyler Road. The proposed corridor would stretch 40 miles from Ann Arbor Saline Road in Ann Arbor to M-10, the Lodge Freeway, in Detroit, repurposing one travel lane in each direction on the highway with equipment meant to interact with connected and automated vehicle technology, . The new environmental report examines such topics as socioeconomic conditions and environmental justice, traffic, indirect impacts — such as traffic diversion — and natural resources like wetlands. The proposed project could come with lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, according to the assessment. The lanes would lower congestion, improve flow, and raise average speeds. The report also asserts the lane could encourage the use of newer, more fuel-efficient or zero-emissions vehicles. The project would take place along many areas where 40% or more of the population are considered disadvantaged under Environmental Protection Agency standards, which consider variables including low income, high or persistent poverty, high unemployment and underemployment, racial and ethnic residential segregation, linguistic isolation, high housing cost burden and substandard housing. An assistance program will be developed to provide discounts for low-income drivers to use the lane in the future, after a user fee is put in place. User fees would not go into effect until they receive both state and federal approvals. While the project isn’t expected to have a significant impact on the surrounding communities, potential traffic diversion from I-94 into low-income and minority neighborhoods will be reviewed two, five and 10 years after the user fees are in place, the report says. Compensatory mitigation is required for unavoidable wetland impacts on a potential 50.2 acre area. However, it’s expected that most of these areas will be deemed man-made, roadside ditches that aren’t regulated by state and federal standards. The absence of those areas could reduce the total amount of wetland impacts to less than five acres. Compensatory mitigation measures can involve the restoration, establishment or enhancement of wetlands, streams and other aquatic resources, according to the EPA. The proposed project will be completed in segments starting from Wiard Road to Wayne Road, according to the report. The lanes will likely be physically separated from the rest of the highway and accessible only at certain points. At the start of the project, all vehicles will be able to use them, but as self-driving vehicles become more common and their usage exceeds a certain threshold, the lanes may be restricted to only the high-tech vehicles, according to . Construction of the project is expected to be fully funded by Cavnue, a private company. A pilot project covering a three mile stretch of I-94 has been underway since May. Evenly spaced metal poles rising from the median and a row of white delineators line the leftmost lane of I-94 West between Belleville and Rawsonville roads. The pilot project involved placing the dividers separating the express lane traffic, installing improved pavement markings and guardrails, completing a high-friction surface treatment and positioning new lighting, officials said. The poles erected in the median are outfitted with cameras, radar sensors and wireless radio equipment meant to communicate with technology-enabled vehicles. Officials say no personal data is being collected, and all the testing is meant to evaluate safety and mobility technologies. The pilot is anticipated to operate through December 2025 , according to MDOT. Comments on the environmental assessment can be emailed to or . Feedback can also be mailed to Monica Monsma at Van Wagoner Transportation Building B245, 425 W. Ottawa St., Lansing, MI , 48933. ©