what does 9/9 mean Jharkhand to transfer hiked monthly amount of Rs 2,500 to 5.5m womenVANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pender Growth Fund Inc. (the “Company”) today announced its financial and operational results for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2024. The completion of the sale of Copperleaf in the third quarter of 2024 and the resulting injection of $70 million cash, substantially changed the Company’s portfolio. At June 30, 2024, the Company’s Net Assets were 95.7% publicly listed companies, 13.3% private unlisted companies and (-9.0%) cash and other assets net of liabilities. At September 30, 2024, Pender’s Net Assets were 38% publicly listed companies, 12.5% private unlisted companies, and 49.5% cash and other assets net of liabilities. Since the Copperleaf closing, Pender has been deploying cash into opportunities that it believes show promise and by September 30, 2024, the portfolio included $58 million of cash. By October 31, 2024, the cash balance was $35 million and by November 15, 2024, a further $8 million had been deployed into investments, and the Company’s Net Assets were 49% publicly listed companies, 28% private unlisted companies and 23% cash and other assets net of liabilities. In October, subsequent to the quarter end, the Company closed the purchase of four private technology companies from Pluribus Technologies. The acquisition was made by Pender Software Holdings (or “PSH”) a new entity owned 86% by Pender, with the balance owned by Acorn Partners Inc. (“Acorn”) and its principals. Acorn (www.acorncappartners.com) is a Vancouver based company that invests in tech companies and provides advisory services to clients. The four software companies acquired are each cash flow positive and stable. PSH is leaving existing management in place to facilitate a focus on operational excellence with strategic support and access to capital managed by Pender and Acorn. Ampere Chan, the founder and CEO of Acorn is the CEO of PSH. Pender intends to use PSH as a vehicle for investing in additional software companies. We believe this new enterprise has great potential. We believe that the Company continues to be well-positioned today to pursue its investment objectives and we continue to find attractive investments opportunities as valuations in micro and small cap stocks in North America remain attractive despite the recent rally this year. Investment results may be affected by future developments and new information that may emerge about broad economic conditions, inflation, central bank measures, geopolitical risks, market risk, unexpected judicial or regulatory proceedings, geopolitical and other global events, factors that are beyond the Company’s control. While macro events have driven investor sentiment, we have remained focused on our bottom-up fundamental research to identify companies that can thrive in a wide range of economic scenarios. We believe that this environment provides compelling opportunities for long-term focused investors and that the Company is well-positioned to continue to pursue its investment objectives. As always, this quarter we worked closely with our private portfolio companies and certain of our public portfolio companies. We continued to acquire shares of the Company in the market under our NCIB because we believe the shares are trading at a discount to their intrinsic value. On February 15, 2024, the Company launched a new NCIB, under which the Company may purchase a maximum of 630,188 shares, or 10% of the Company’s public float on launch date, during the one-year period ending February 14, 2025. We encourage you to refer to the Company’s MD&A and quarterly unaudited financial statements for September 30, 2024, the annual audited financial statements for the year-ended December 31, 2023, and other disclosures available under the Company’s profile at for additional information. Pender Growth Fund Inc is an investment firm. Its investment objective is to achieve long-term capital growth. The Company utilizes its small capital base and long-term horizon to invest in unique situations, primarily small cap, special situations, and illiquid public and private companies. The firm invests in public and private companies principally in the technology sector. It trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “PTF” and posts its NAV on its website, generally within five business days of each month end. Please visit . For further information, please contact: Corporate Secretary Pender Growth Fund Inc. (604) 653-9625 Toll Free: (866) 377-4743 This news release may contain forward-looking statements (within the meaning of applicable securities laws) relating to the business of the Company and the environment in which it operates. Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as “believe”, “anticipate”, “project”, “expect”, “intend”, “plan”, “will”, “may”, “estimate” and other similar expressions. These statements are based on the Company’s expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections and include, without limitation, statements regarding the Company’s decreased portfolio risk and future investment opportunities. The forward-looking statements in this news release are based on certain assumptions; they are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to control or predict. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual information form available at . There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate as actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Readers, therefore, should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Further, these forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and, except as expressly required by applicable law, the Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

If you know an exceptional Caledon citizen, you might want to nominate them for a Civic Award from the Town. On November 15, the Town of Caledon announced that the nomination period for its Civic Awards Program had opened. Civic Awards are handed out annually by the Town to recognize residents who “have made a significant impact towards the development and advancement of recreational sports, arts, culture, environmental leadership or community and social services.” In a statement, Mayor Annette Groves said she encourages residents to submit nominations for those who strive to constantly improve Caledon and make it a great place to live. “This is the time of year for residents to come together and nominate someone they think deserves to be recognized for their efforts to better our community,” said Groves. There are two types of awards in the program: volunteer service awards and citizen achievement awards. As its name implies, volunteer service awards recognize Caledon residents who have made an amazing positive impact on their community through volunteerism. Citizen achievement awards recognize residents who have competed or have been recognized at the provincial, national, or international levels in sports, arts and culture. The citizen achievement award category includes the Town’s Distinguished Citizen and Community Champion awards. The winners of this year’s Civic Awards will be determined by Caledon’s Community Recognition Task Force. The Task Force consists of five volunteers, all with experience supporting the Caledon community. The Task Force will review all nominations and make recommendations on award winners to Caledon Council for approval. Residents may nominate someone for an award at the following link: . Nominations are open until January 10, 2025. Award winners will be recognized next Caledon Day, which is set for June 14, 2025.Bluesky finds with growth comes growing pains — and bots

AUSTON Trusty has revealed how the impromptu Huddle which the Celtic players formed during their Champions League encounter with Club Brugge tonight gave them the wake-up call they needed and helped to spark their fightback. And the centre-half revealed that he and his team mates had all let Cameron Carter-Vickers know they were firmly behind him after the own goal he scored to give the visitors the lead in the league phase match at Parkhead. The Scottish champions' players come together as a team to listen to a pep talk from their captain Callum McGregor before kick-off in every game – but this evening they did so immediately after their opponents had gone ahead for the first time ever. However, Trusty, the United States internationalist who moved to Glasgow from Sheffield United in a £6m transfer during the summer, felt that it helped the hosts, who equalised through Daizen Maeda in the second half and drew the match 1-1, to regroup. “They are clearly a good side,” he said. “We didn't start off as strong, as fast as we normally do, so they kind of got on top of us in the first half. But in the second half we changed things and we saw how the game shifted into our favour. “We just weren't playing in our character in the first half, so I think we all felt it. Sometimes you need that little huddle to wake everybody up and say, ‘Okay, what's happened has happened, now we can move on from it’. So that was a moment for us to make some changes and get some momentum back in the game." Asked what the message to Carter-Vickers had been, Trusty said: “We have his back. I don't think any defender, any player, wants that to happen to him. But, you know, sometimes it's part of football . I've had own goals as well, so it's one where you need a team mate to get your back. “The game happened so fast, so I'm not in that position. I'm looking away, I'm also looking, I'm trying to find my next pass as well. So I have to go back and watch it. But either way, he made the decision and we have his back. “So I went over to him, made sure his head was up. With all of us, he knows that we have his back. You don't want to make mistakes, but you feel fine to make mistakes, because you know your team mates have your back. “I haven't been here for the whole time he's been here, but I don't think anybody would try to do that or let that happen. But we bounced back. He showed his character and also the team showed its character. We bounced back and the game went on and we had plenty of life left in it.” Trusty also revealed the Celtic players had been angry that they failed to beat Brugge and pick up another three Champions League points when they returned to their dressing room at full-time – even though the draw kept them in the top 24 of the table and on course for the knockout round play-off. “I've been in locker rooms when you get away from this kind of game and guys are excited,” he said. “But you go back in the locker room tonight and see guys p****d off and really, really upset and that shows a lot of the character that’s in the team. “We weren't happy with how we played in the first half, but we thought that we should have won this game and it was a real opportunity for us, not just to get one point but to get three points. Obviously, you take the point, but it's good to see that guys are angry going into the locker room and sitting there just quiet. “That's the level we play at and that's the level of the team. When we train, it’s the same level. We have to keep it that way because if you make a mistake, you may do something and you get punished. Even in training, it’s just as intense as the games, if not more intense. “We train that way and that's the level we're at and I think we've shown that we have the quality and we can play with any team and we back ourselves. We're confident and the team's confident. We know our ability and we've shown to you guys but also shown to ourselves that we're here. So we’re in good shape.”

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The India Energy Week , which will have its third edition in February, began in 2023 as a novel initiative to leverage India's increasing prominence in the global energy landscape through collaborative dialogue. Startups especially made their presence felt in the first two editions with their inventive solutions. In green hydrogen (GH), some PSUs showcased new electrolyser technologies, even as startups have reached out to GoI to demonstrate their membrane-less electrolyser tech. Other firms have focused on building carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies, including direct air capture and enhanced oil recovery methods. Much progress has been made in advanced battery storage solutions, including solid-state batteries, lithium-ion improvements and flow batteries, which promise better efficiency, longevity and reduced costs. All major oil and gas MNCs have their GCCs in India, where Indian engineers are conducting cutting-edge design, engineering, data processing and decision analytics for major drilling operations, refinery operations and seismic data processing globally. A gradual journey of reforms and schemes to promote the entrepreneurial spirit has resulted in a tech boom, India's reputation as 'IT nation' giving way to that of a 'deeptech hub'. GoI has launched various initiatives like India Semiconductor Mission and PLI scheme in electronics and battery storage, National Quantum Mission to seed and scale quantum computing research, NIDHI PRAYAS (National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations - Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups) programme, and IndiaAI Mission. Establishment of 10,000 Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) since 2016 has fostered entrepreneurship at the grassroots. 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Nasscom's 'Indian DeepTech Startup Landscape Report 2023' states that there were over 3,600 deeptech startups worth $14 bn in 2023. Nearly $350 mn of investments flowed into growth and late-stage deeptech startups last year. Since 2019, assets under management (AUM) for India-focused private capital funds have doubled, reaching $124.3 bn in December 2023. VCs are investing deeply in startups in AI, chip design, space, advanced battery technologies, battery recycling, biosciences, green hydrogen, chip design, robotics and genomics. AI is so widespread in India's software services now that it borders on ubiquity. A recent EY-Nasscom report notes that 99% of Indian B2B SaaS companies have embraced deeptech innovations, mostly in AI. Considerable resources to initiate deeptech programmes in India are being leveraged, focusing particularly on AI and IoT technologies to future-proof businesses. In the last five years, Indian entrepreneurs filed more than 1,400 patents in deeptech. Across startups, the number of patents granted grew 8x, from 4,226 in 2013-14 to 34,134 in 2022-23, while patent applications more than doubled in the same period, crossing 1 lakh filings last year. India now has the third-largest startup ecosystem, with more than 1 lakh startups and nearly 120 unicorns, compared to 442 startups and 4 unicorns in 2016. Reforms such as GST, IBC, asset monetisation, labour law reforms and Startup India have brought regulatory clarity. By end-2023, GoI had done away with more than 25,000 compliances, and repealed more than 1,400 laws. Creditable improvements in global rankings in Logistics Performance Index (38th in 2023 vs 54th in 2014), and WIPO's Global Innovation Index rankings (39th in 2023 from 81st in 2014) underscore the progress made. Advantages like our human capital, massive data economy, top-notch digital public infrastructure and the ongoing 5G and imminent 6G rollouts will accelerate data-driven innovation. 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Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], December 25 (ANI): On the occasion of Good Governance Day, Gujarat's Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday, launched several innovative initiatives focused on leveraging technology to enhance citizen-centric schemes and public services. Gujarat CM mentioned that the true essence of good governance lies in providing the maximum possible support to even the most ordinary individuals in the state. Also Read | Gujarat High Court Seeks Government's Response After Man Files Habeas Corpus Plea Claiming Daughter Eloped With Priest of Iskcon. According to the Gujarat CMO, these initiatives include the Government Performance Index, Scholarship Monitoring System, Revenue Monitoring System, CM Fellowship Website, Swar (a speech-to-text platform), and the modernization of the Gujarat India Portal. The Government Performance Index facilitates the evaluation of state-level citizen-centric schemes, services, projects, and grievance redressal mechanisms across various departments. Key performance parameters have been established to ensure effective monitoring, with departments ranked based on a comprehensive assessment of their performance. Also Read | Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: Indian Railways To Run Special Trains for Mahakumbh Devotees, Check Complete List and Details Here. To efficiently track and manage the scholarships provided by various state government departments for youth education, a dedicated Scholarship Monitoring System has been integrated into the CM Dashboard. A separate "Revenue Dashboard" has been developed and launched by the Chief Minister to monitor various portals under the Revenue Department, including iORA, Khedut Kharai, Sudhara Hukam, eDhara, City Survey, iMojani, Collector Portal, and case management systems. The CM Fellowship Website has been launched to promote the CM Fellowship Program and encourage youth to engage with good governance initiatives. This platform enhances awareness and facilitates participation in the program. Leveraging Bhashini, an AI-based app developed by the Government of India to promote regional languages, the CMO introduced the "Swar" platform. This platform allows citizens to submit applications or representations through speech. Its speech-to-text feature, integrated with the "Write to CMO" section of the Chief Minister's Office website, was inaugurated by the Chief Minister. The modernized Gujarat India Portal, launched by the Chief Minister, provides single-window access to accurate and comprehensive information about state government services and initiatives, catering to citizens and other stakeholders. While inaugurating these initiatives, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel remarked that true good governance can only be achieved by remaining committed to the welfare of the people and working with genuine intent. He encouraged citizens to provide feedback to enhance these initiatives further and reaffirmed the government's strong commitment to citizen-centric governance. The Chief Minister also urged officers and staff to continuously evaluate their responsibilities and contribute with excellence to enhance the state government's prestige. He highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's approach as an example of how one person can bring transformative and impactful changes in governance. Earlier on Good Governance Day 2023, the Chief Minister's Office and the Wadhwani Institute signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to improve data-driven governance, data quality, and the implementation of standardized protocols on dashboards and other platforms. The chief minister was also presented with a report detailing the progress made during the first year of this collaboration. Secretary to the Chief Minister, Avantika Singh stated that technology plays a pivotal role in enhancing transparency and delivering swift public solutions. Inspired by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel's vision, this approach aims to strengthen citizen engagement and improve grievance redressal mechanisms. She assured that the CMO staff remains committed to making technology-driven governance more dynamic through the newly launched initiatives. On this occasion, Chief Secretary Raj Kumar, Advisor to the Chief Minister SS Rathore, Additional Chief Secretaries to the Chief Minister Pankaj Joshi, MK Das, and other senior officers and CMO staff were present. Since 2014, inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, December 25, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has been observed nationwide as Good Governance Day. (ANI) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)

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Canada thumped Trinidad and Tobago 38-0 to win the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens on Sunday and qualify for World Rugby’s second-tier Challenger Series. The tournament-favourite Canadian men outscored their opposition 169-0 over five matches in a first step back up the rugby sevens ladder since being relegated from the elite HSBC SVNS circuit in June. The top four teams from the three-event Challenger Series will face off against the bottom four from the HSBC SVNS at the SVNS World Championships May 3-4 in Carson, Calif., in a promotion/relegation playoff. “I think it’s just about continually building,” said Canada captain Elias Hancock. “We know what we’re capable of. We’ve shown it at times. It’s just time to get back to that place where we know we belong.” Prior to relegation, Canada had been a core team on the top sevens circuit since 2012-13 and lifted the trophy in Singapore in 2017. The Canadian men finished eighth at the Tokyo Olympics. Trinidad had plenty of the ball in the first half of Sunday’s final at Larry Gomes Stadium. But Canada, helped by several penalties, scored first with Hancock touching down under the posts for a try converted by Thomas Isherwood. Matt Oworu, beating two defenders, added another converted try for a 14-0 lead at the break. Cooper Coats added a converted try early in the second half. And Hancock, Jack Shaw and Noah Bain added late tries after Trinidad lost a man to the sin-bin for two minutes midway through the second half for an infraction off a Canadian kickoff. Earlier Sunday, the Canadians defeated Jamaica 26-0 in semifinal play and the Cayman Islands 38-0 in the quarterfinal. Trinidad and Tobago made it to the final — for the first time since 2013 — with a 19-7 comeback win over Mexico. Jamaica defeated Mexico 12-0 to finish third. Weather was a factor during the three-day tournament in Arima, some 30 kilometres east of Port of Spain. After enduring 30-plus C heat and humidity Friday, their final Pool A game against Barbados was abandoned Saturday due to a storm. On Sunday, the Canadians played the Cayman Islands in a downpour and the skies opened again at halftime of the Jamaica game. Alex Russell, Josiah Morra, Coats and Hancock scored tries against Jamaica for Canada, which led 12-0 at the break. Thomas Isherwood added three conversions. Morra and Hancock each scored two tries against the Caymans and Ethan Hager and D’Shawn Bowen added singles for Canada, which led 19-0 at the half. Canada added four conversions. Canada, which blanked Guyana 29-0 Friday, dispatched Bermuda 38-0 Saturday and was leading Barbados 10-0 when the game was halted in the first half due to heavy rain and high winds. While play eventually resumed, the interrupted Canada game was ruled a scoreless draw. The Canadian men are coming off a disastrous 3-36-0 HSBC SVNS season that ended with a 22-14 loss to Spain with relegation on the line. It was a 29th straight defeat. After being relegated, coach Sean White’s team fell short in an Olympic repechage tournament in late June in Monaco, finishing fourth after losing 26-0 to eventual winner South Africa in the semifinals. The Blitzboks went on to claim bronze in Paris. The 13-man roster for the RAN 7s includes six players who were part of the relegation playoff in Madrid: Hancock, Isherwood, Morra, Coats, Oworu and David Richard. Morra, Coats and Oworu joined the sevens team from Bucharest where they were part of Kingsley Jones’ Canadian 15s squad for test matches against Chile and Romania. The Canadian men are scheduled to play in an invitational men’s sevens tournament taking place at B.C. Place Stadium alongside the HSBC SVNS Vancouver stop in February. The Canadian women left Sunday for Dubai and the opening stop of the 2005 HSBC SVNS season. The Olympic silver-medallist Canadians open play next Saturday against Japan before facing Brazil and Olympic champion New Zealand.

The Latest: Police believe gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO has left New York CityNew Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the ICA Global Cooperative Conference 2024 and launch the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2025 at the Bharat Mandapam here on Monday. The ICA Global Cooperative Conference and the ICA General Assembly are being organised in India for the first time in the 130-year-long history of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), the premier body for the global cooperative movement. The global conference, hosted by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), in collaboration with the ICA, the Government of India and Indian cooperatives AMUL and KRIBHCO, will be held from November 25 to November 30. Modi will inaugurate the ICA Global Cooperative Conference 2024 and launch the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2025 at the Bharat Mandapam at around 3 pm on Monday. The theme of the conference — “Cooperatives Build Prosperity for All” — aligns with the government’s vision of “Sahkar Se Samriddhi” (prosperity through cooperation), according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The event will feature discussions, panel sessions and workshops, addressing the challenges and opportunities faced by cooperatives worldwide in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in areas such as poverty alleviation, gender equality and sustainable economic growth. The prime minister will also launch the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2025, which will focus on the theme, “Cooperatives Build a Better World”, underscoring the transformative role cooperatives play in promoting social inclusion, economic empowerment and sustainable development. The UN SDGs recognise cooperatives as crucial drivers of sustainable development, particularly in reducing inequality, promoting decent work and alleviating poverty, the statement said. The year 2025 will be a global initiative aimed at showcasing the power of cooperative enterprises in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges, it said. Modi will also launch a commemorative postal stamp, symbolising India’s commitment to the cooperative movement. The stamp showcases a lotus, symbolising peace, strength, resilience and growth, reflecting the cooperative values of sustainability and community development. The five petals of the lotus represent the five elements of nature (“Panchatatva”), highlighting cooperatives’ commitment to environmental, social and economic sustainability. The design also incorporates sectors like agriculture, dairy, fisheries, consumer cooperatives and housing, with a drone symbolising the role of modern technology in agriculture. Prime Minister of Bhutan Dasho Tshering Tobgay, Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji Manoa Kamikamica and around 3,000 delegates from more than 100 countries will also be present, the statement said. PTI ASK RC This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. var ytflag = 0;var myListener = function() {document.removeEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);lazyloadmyframes();};document.addEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {if (ytflag == 0) {lazyloadmyframes();ytflag = 1;}});function lazyloadmyframes() {var ytv = document.getElementsByClassName("klazyiframe");for (var i = 0; i < ytv.length; i++) {ytv[i].src = ytv[i].getAttribute('data-src');}} Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );None

Emily Andre has shared a rare glimpse of the kids she shares with Peter Andre . The 35-year-old is mum to Amelia, who will turn 10 in January, eight-year-old Theo, and baby Arabella - known as 'Belle' - who was born in April this year. Though the NHS doctor is careful not to show their kids' faces on social media, she did upload a sweet clip of the children going wild when they spotted their famous dad on the TV. Taking to her Instagram stories, Emily posted the cute video. She is heard saying 'Who's that?' as the older kids shout 'Daddy!' and baby Belle is heard making noises suggesting she recognises it's dad Pete she can see on the screen. Emily captioned the post: "Daddy's biggest fans." Pete, 51, was appearing on ITV News to talk about headlining the New Year's Parade, which will go through the streets of central London on January 1, with the singer set to perform some of his biggest hits such as Mysterious Girl, Flava, Only You and I Feel You. But just hours before he is booked to play a New Year's Eve set in Dubai, so it will be a mad dash to get back to London in time for his New Year's Day gig. Despite his career spanning 30 years, Pete revealed the last few months had been the 'busiest of my life.' He told ITV News : "At 51, I thought it was going to really slow down now, but I'm very grateful. There's lots going on." Giving fans a preview of what's to come, he continued: "I'm filming a TV drama at the moment overseas, so I'm coming backwards and forwards. Then we've got the New Year's Day Parade and New Year's Eve in Dubai. It's crazy." One of the reasons Pete is so keen to sing in the show is so his own mum and dad, who can no longer travel for health reasons and older age, can watch from Australia . He said: "Not a lot of people know this, but it's actually televised around the world . This means my mother and father can watch from Australia, which for me is a huge thing because they'll be watching me live. That for me is a massive, massive plus so I'm very honoured to do it." Though Pete has found massive success as a music artist - with his 19-year-old son Junior, who he shares with ex-wife Katie Price following in his footsteps - he revealed his first love is acting. And he's actually starred in a feature film and has more plans to act in the future. He shared: "I'm doing film at the moment. I've actually just finished my first feature film, which isn't out until next year. And we're now doing this TV drama, so I'm now moving into that area. And getting to write songs for - I've written a song for the drama and for the film. For me, that's a way of kind of evolving a bit because I don't think anyone wants to see me standing there singing the same old songs from 30 years ago constantly." Pete added: "You've got to evolve in other ways. I do try, I'm very driven and now that I've got so many children I have to make sure that I keep working to provide." As well as his three children with wife Emily, Pete shares two older kids with ex-wife Katie. They are Junior, 19, and 17-year-old Princess. Do you have a story to share? Email me at katie.wilson01@reachplc.com Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and ThreadsStorm Bert batters Britain: Hundreds of flights are cancelled as strong winds sweep across the country and downpours cause 'unprecedented' flooding - with the wild weather already claiming four lives By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN and FRANKIE ELLIOTT Published: 21:50 GMT, 24 November 2024 | Updated: 21:56 GMT, 24 November 2024 e-mail 10 View comments Hundreds of flights have been cancelled as Storm Bert continues to batter Britain - with the extreme weather already claiming four lives. Torrential downpours, gale-force winds and unprecedented flooding has sparked travel chaos with trains being axed and roads closed across the UK. More than 200 flights have been cancelled so far at Heathrow according to travel data site FlightAware. Meanwhile, Greater Anglia which operates trains from London Liverpool Street to Stanstead Airport, cancelled 52 services on Sunday afternoon as fallen trees damaged the railway’s overhead electric wires. And entry into London Euston yesterday was being limited as a power cut caused chaos with the lighting and customer information boards. Entry into the station was being restricted for around 30 minutes due to it being 'extremely busy' leaving people stranded outside in the cold. Passengers were allowed to go into the station again at just after 6.40pm. It comes as officials in South Wales declared a major incident due to river flooding - as the body of 75-year-old Brian Perry was found after he went missing in the bulging River Conwy on Saturday. Mr Perry is the fourth victim of the killer storm, after yesterday's extreme weather saw thousands of homes left without power and three motorists killed in fatal traffic incidents. North Wales Police said a body had been found in the search for 75-year-old Brian Perry (pictured), who went missing in the River Conwy on Saturday Young farmers with a 4x4 on Clay Lane near Chudleigh Knighton near Newton Abbot in Devon making the most of the flooding from Storm Bert to waterski along the submerged road In Devon, a huge search and rescue mission is also currently underway after there were reports of a person floating in the River Sid during the storm. Yesterday's torrential downpours and high-speed gales also forced the Royal Parks to close all nine of its sites in London - including Kensington Parks, Primrose Hill and Hyde Park . The latter venue was currently hosting the Winter Wonderland event, but bosses confirmed the Christmas extravaganza would not go ahead due to 'the inclement weather conditions'. People's travel plans have also been left in tatters, as no trains are running between Paddington and Cornwall because of the flooding, with severe delays found across all lines. Residents attempt to clear drains to allow the water to subside in Abercarn, Newport Cars in the Cross Keys Rugby Club car park have been submerged in water as a result of Storm Bert Images of underwater cars, fallen trees and closed-off roads were a common scene up and down the country yesterday morning after last night's dramatic storm battered the nation. Communities across the UK had been told to remain on high alert yesterday as well, with more than 200 flood warnings in place for England, Wales and Scotland. There are more than 100 of these warnings in Wales alone, as pictures shared online showed dozens of homes, businesses and a number of schools were affected by flooding. A major incident was declared in the southern region of the country - as rising waters were reported in several towns including Pontypridd, Ebbw Vale and Aberdare. Chris Bryant, the MP for Rhondda and Ogmore, said Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council will work with emergency services to deal with the flooding. In a statement, Mr Bryant added: 'I am deeply saddened to witness the devastation caused by last night's storm and the severe flooding across our communities. 'The flooding across areas in the Rhondda and Ogmore is unprecedented. I have never seen it on this scale before. 'My team and I are working tirelessly to support those impacted, and I want to assure everyone that the Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, Bridgend County Borough Council and Dwr Cymru teams are doing everything in their power to respond to this crisis.' People pour water out of the front garden in Pontypridd, Wales, as officials declare a major incident due to river flooding A temporary damn holding back water from the flooding at Cross Keys Rugby Club in Newport The view of flooding at Cross Keys Rugby Club which includes the Changing rooms and Club house with three vehicles submerged in water People in London battle with the strong winds brought in by Storm Bert A resident in a playground in Abercarn attempts to clear the drains to allow water to subside Some of the lit-up model dinosaurs at Longleat House in Wiltshire toppled over in the 70mph wind Many people have woken up this morning to see broken fences, fallen trees and flooded roads in their neighbourhoods Firefighters pump water from Sion Street on November 24 in Pontypridd Paula Williams, outside her house Pontypridd, Wales which started flooding on Sunday morning Ms Williams at her home in Pontypridd, Wales, where rainwater has managed to get inside Ventusky Privacy Policy Winter Wonderland posted a statement on social media explaining why they Christmas event would not be running on Sunday There are more than 100 of these warnings in Wales alone, as pictures shared online showed homeowners bailing out of their properties next to the River Taff. The A4061 on Bwlch Road, in South Wales, has been closed in both directions following a mountain landslide A car is left stranded after Bwlch Road was forced to shut following the landslide during Storm Bert Firefighters pumping water from a street by the River Taff, in Pontypridd, Wales A family looks at a tree that fell on a car across a residential street due to strong winds in east London People cross London Bridge on a windy bridge in London as national severe weather warnings are in place Residents in Pontypridd, Wales, have shared astonishing pictures of the River Taff flooding Residents in Pontypridd have been forced to wade through the water as their streets were flooded Flood water rushes over a walkway, as rising waters have been reported in towns across the country, including Pontypridd, Ebbw Vale and Aberdare Emergency crews were called as the roaring winds and swirling river ripped through Pontypridd Residents in Wales pour water back into the River Taff near Pontypridd Museum Chris Bryant, the MP for Rhondda and Ogmore, said Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council will work with emergency services to deal with the flooding A dog walker on Wimbledon Common, south west London, braves the strong winds Police had put an appeal out to find Mr Perry after he was last seen at around 4.30pm wearing a red Berghaus waterproof jacket and accompanied by his wife and dog. He had been walking near Gower Road, which has been affected by severe flooding due to Storm Bert. There has been no formal identification but his family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers. Residents of a flood-hit street in Wales have criticised Natural Resources Wales for not doing enough to prevent the flooding. Paula Williams, whose house on Sion Street in Pontypridd flooded, said: 'We do as much prep as we can when we know there's going to be an issue. 'The river levels were going down last night when we went to bed. 'We only knew something was happening because we had a neighbour knocking us. She was shouting 'get the cars moved'. 'We managed to get the dog out down my parents so we didn't have to worry about her and then it was all hands to the pump.' James Green car which was hit by a falling tree in St Botophls Road in Worthing Rising waters were reported in several towns in Wales The flooding across areas in the Rhondda and Ogmore has been described as 'unprecedented' Residents attend to their properties on Sion Street in Pontypridd, Wales, following flooding Firefighters pumping water from Sion Street by the River Taff, in Pontypridd Residents rescue a car from flood water on Sion Street, in Pontypridd Mounted Police officers at Hyde Park in London, which has been closed to the public during Storm Bert Shopkeepers sweep out floodwater from a shop on Mill Street in Pontypridd A woman's hair is caught in the wind near Hyde Park in London which has been closed to the public during Storm Bert Flooding at a book shop which was due to open on Mill Street in Pontypridd, Wales Ms Williams blamed Natural Resources Wales for not listening to them the last time there was flooding. 'This time, there's only about four inches of water come in but it's in exactly the same place that we told NRW about last time, and they didn't do anything about it. 'They've tried to convince everybody that the flood defences worked. I have got videos proving the flood defences don't work.' She said the water was not coming over their walls and barriers, but up from underneath, forcing its way through their floorboards. 'We had one flood alert yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, which is just the general keep an eye out alert. 'We had the actual flood warning, which is the risk to flooding properties, at about 7.40am this morning but the river had already flooded, it was too late by then.' She said it was the work of them and neighbours fighting to protect the homes that stopped the flooding being as bad as in 2020. She said her neighbours bought pumps from Screwfix to hold back the water and they were lucky the water had come in during the morning when people were awake. More than 200 flood warnings in place for England, Wales and Scotland overnight on Saturday High winds overnight downed trees as Storm Bert swept through Somerset Fields are flooded at Colyford in Devon after the River Axe burst its banks after persistent heavy rain from Storm Bert Claire Instrell, whose home in Pontypridd was flooded four years ago but has avoided water this time, said: 'At eight o'clock this morning, I got knocked up out of bed. 'The neighbours were going around locking everyone's gates last night. 'The council, Natural Resources Wales, haven't done anything, nothing at all.' She said she did not want to sleep in her home on Sunday evening because she worried water could come in during the night. The council said 'significant' flooding has taken place with the 'impact looking to be more significant than the severe impact experienced during Storm Dennis' in 2020. Rest centres have been set up for residents impacted at Pontypridd Library, Ystrad Sports Centre, Sobell Leisure Centre and Cynon Valley Indoor Bowls Centre. A council spokesperson said: 'Throughout the evening the severity of the weather has resulted in widespread impact with over 100 properties potentially flooded, both commercial and residential. 'Council assets have also been damaged, with Lido Ponty, Park and Dare Theatre and a number of schools impacted. Impacted schools will send out direct communications to families to make them aware. Met Office yellow warnings for rain and wind covering large swathes of the country are in force on Sunday Firefighters work to pump water away from flooded residential streets near Moat Park in Dundonald on the outskirts of Belfast after Storm Bert battered the UK on Saturday Fencing has been blown down by strong winds caused by Storm Bert on the set of Bridgerton at Rangers House near Greenwich Park in South East London 'There are a number of highways closures, with a landslip on the Bwlch Mountain Road at Nantymoel closing this road, and South Wales Police closing bridges in Pontypridd. 'The advice to everyone is only travel if absolutely necessary.' In England, emergency crews have swarmed Sidmouth to follow up reports that a person had been seen in the River Sid at 10am yesterday. Police, fire crews, urban search and rescue teams, the ambulance service, coastguard rescue teams and a coastguard helicopter all taking part in the search. Teams searched the river and 'spotters' were placed along the river in 'very testing' conditions due to heavy rain and rough seas. Exeter racecourse also abandoned its day of racing due to having a 'significant amount of rain and strong winds of up to 50mph' this morning. The Met Office says the milder temperatures are causing the snow which covered the north of England and much of Scotland to melt, whilst the high-speed gales are exacerbating the impact of the hefty showers. Residents and business owners in some areas had been told to 'act now' after their communities were placed under red flood warnings - meaning extreme weather is expected and damage is likely. A flooded Cardiff Road in Nantgarw, South Wales as heavy rain is expected to continue falling on Sunday Walkers and sightseers brave the coast in the town of Dawlish, Devon, as Storm Bert hits with huge waves A sign put out at Sandringham House warning of the high winds in the area All nine of London's royal parks have also been closed off from the public, which includes all the cafes, kiosks, park roads & cycleways on the grounds. In a statement posted on social media, the charity said all the parks would be subject to a delayed opening on Monday following a safety inspection. Storm Bert is likely to continue causing 'dangerous coastal conditions' and disruption across southern England and parts of Wales until 9pm on Sunday with a yellow wind warning in place. Some communities may be cut off by flooded roads and closed off bridges, particularly in the west of England. Persistent downpours are also set to hit the south-west of England into Sunday, with a chance that some places over Dartmoor could see 100-150mm of rainfall, the Met Office said. Travel disruption continues into Sunday and ferry operator DFDS has cancelled services on some routes until Monday, including its Newhaven to Dieppe sailings. It comes after as much as 79.8mm of rain fell in Capel Curig, in Snowdonia, on Saturday while in Kinbrace, in the Highlands, it reached lows of -12.4C. Tens of thousands of homes have been without power, with 4,000 homes affected in the Midlands, south-west England and South Wales and 27,000 customers affected in the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire. Police are appealing for any witnesses to come forward after a 34-year-old man died in Shipley, West Yorkshire when his blue Renault Captur smashed into a wall The accident happened just before 1am this morning, with the unknown driver being given emergency treatment but tragically being pronounced dead at the scene Police remained in the area on Saturday to continue investigations into the death of the man A series of emergencies were caused by Storm Bert on Saturday. Police were reportedly searching for a dogwalker they feared could have been swept away by floodwaters in North Wales. The man went missing on Saturday around the river Conwy in the village of Trefriw. Fields around the river often flood in heavy rain, sparking fears he may have been swept up in the swollen waters. The search was launched shortly after 4pm when the alarm was raised by a family member. The fire service rushed water rescue specialist teams to the scene, where they were joined by police, the ambulance service and a Coastguard helicopter, the Daily Post reported. The dog has been safely located, but the man remains missing despite hours of searching. Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team told the outlet that the rain, melting ice and snow had combined with a high tide to make raise water levels. Maps showing the route of the helicopter, which was fitted with thermal imaging cameras, can see it tracking the river close to the Welsh town. A spokesperson for the coastguard said: 'HM Coastguard was tasked to assist North Wales Police with a search for a missing runner at Llanrwst on 23 November at around 6.15pm. Pictured: A fallen power line in Stokesley, Teesside, as Storm Bert hits the UK A bus had run off the road on the A70 near Lugar in East Ayrshire as Storm Bert bites Traffic at a standstill in bad weather conditions on the M80 near Castlecary, North Lanarkshire A train departs from Waverley Station amidst snowfall during Storm Bert, in Edinburgh, Scotland 'The Coastguard helicopter from Caernarfon was sent alongside Ogwen Mountain Rescue Team. The helicopter concluded the search and has now been stood down.' Airports across the UK have shut and football matches have been cancelled following 16-inch snowfall. And in the Yorkshire town of Todmorden, flood sirens released a terrifying wail as they echoed up the Calder Valley. Winds measuring 70mph are battering coastal areas and melting snow and heavy rain are causing flooding. Gusts of up to 105mph were recorded at Cairngorm Summit in Moray at 10am, Met Office data showed, while temperatures plummeted to -11C in the Highlands. This includes fears of power cuts, travel cancellations, damage to buildings and a danger to life both from large waves and flying debris. In a post on X on Saturday evening, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said: 'My thoughts are with all those affected by Storm Bert. 'For those who have lost power, my department will be keeping in close touch with the energy companies as they seek to ensure it is restored as swiftly as possible and help those affected.' Motorists get a push as the battle the strong winds and heavy snow showers in the Cumbrian village of Nenthead this morning A lone vehicle is driven along the snow covered M9 motorway near Stirling People help to push a vehicle uphill in the snow at Stirling Castle, Scotland Two busses are stuck in the snow during Storm Bert, along Frederick Street in Edinburgh And in Leeds the weather is no match for revellers - who headed out on the infamous Otley Run despite the wind and rain Racegoers in Ascot also battled the savage winds - struggling to hang onto their fancy outfits as they attended the plush event A snow plough and gritter clears snow on the M80 near Castlecary, North Lanarkshire An AA vehicle during heavy snowfall at Bannockburn, near Stirling Read More BREAKING NEWS Storm Bert claims three motorists' lives with two crashes and one crushed by a tree Earlier, a 34-year-old man in Shipley, West Yorkshire, was killed when his blue Renault Capture smashed into a wall in icy conditions. Then a man in his 60s died when a tree fell onto his black Mercedes E350. He was confirmed deceased at the scene. Northamptonshire Police have also reported that a man died in a two-car collision on the A45 near Flore at around 8.20am this morning. Five adults and five children had to be rescued from a house in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, near Llangollen in north Wales, following a landslide. A North Wales Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said they are all being assessed by ambulance services away from the scene 'somewhere warm'. A further landslide has been reported in the area but it is understood no one has been affected. The strongest gust recorded so far by the Met Office is 82mph at Capel Curig in Conwy, north Wales, with winds of 70mph expected around coastal areas. The storm has been described as a multi-hazard event with snow being followed by warm air moving northwards - bringing high winds. James Green nearly died when a tree fell on his car because of storm Bert Winds measuring 70mph are battering coastal areas and melting snow and heavy rain are causing flooding Heavy rain and brisk winds for parts of England and Wales through Sunday morning 🌧️ Brighter elsewhere, with blustery showers in the northwest 🌦️ #StormBert #WeatherAware ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/cx587Q7aGa — Met Office (@metoffice) November 23, 2024 Traffic at a standstill in bad weather conditions on the M80 near Castlecary, North Lanarkshire Narly 27,000 customers have had their power supply disrupted across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire A view of the M90 motorway clear of traffic, as the Queensferry Crossing is closed due to the risk of falling ice Read More Taking the pub by storm! Students refuse to let Storm Bert deter them from fancy dress pub crawl Ross Easton, of Energy Networks Association (ENA) - which represents the UK's power network operators, said: 'Forecasters are describing this as a 'multi-hazard event' with the worst of the weather yet to arrive, and so our members have extra engineers and contact centre teams available, and control rooms are monitoring the storm closely as it develops.' Savage winds across the UK have seen trees dangerously falling across roads. One man James Green narrowly escaped death when a tree fell on his car in Worthing. The M48 Severn Bridge in Gloucestershire was closed because of strong winds, and the A66 in County Durham was closed both ways between the A67 and A645 due to snow. Traffic has been at a standstill on the M80 near Castlecary, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. There was also chaos at Newcastle airport as s ome incoming flights were diverted to Belfast and Edinburgh while the airport's snow team tried to minimise disruption. Holidaymakers shared images showing snow-covered runways at both Newcastle and Yorkshire airport, with some even claiming there are 'seven hours plus delays'. Six weather warnings remain in place. Further south, heavy showers are hitting England. A look at the snow covering the runways of Newcastle International Airport Holidaymakers at Newcastle International Airport said the runway was 'decimated' by snow as Storm Bert batters the country Amber warnings have come into place bringing a 'potential risk to life and property' Holidaymakers at Newcastle and Yorkshire airport have reported seven hour plus delays due to heavy snow People are seen sledging at Antony Gormley's Angel of the North Forecasters have warned that the worst of Storm Bert is yet to come People walking in the snow at Stirling Castle in Scotland Read More Jaw-dropping moment kitesurfer battling Storm Bert gales takes off into the air Avanti West Coast cancelled its service between Edinburgh and Carlisle all day on Saturday with the next direct service from Carlisle not scheduled to run until Sunday afternoon. A number of matches in the EFL were called off due to heavy snow and rain battering the pitches, including Bradford against Accrington Stanley and Fleetwood against MK Dons. The Championship football match between Blackburn Rovers at Portsmouth at Ewood Park, Lancashire, was postponed due to torrential rain flooding the pitch. Many fans had already begun their journeys up and down the country to see their teams play on Saturday. Perth and Kinross Council cancelled its annual Perth Christmas lights switch-on event over safety and travel concerns. Ferry operator CalMac - which serves the west coast of Scotland - has cancelled several sailings on Saturday with disruption expected on many other services. A man looks up at the statue of King Robert the Bruce during heavy snowfall at Bannockburn, near Stirling National Highways issued a 'severe weather alert' for snow affecting Yorkshire and north-east England. Pictured: Dore train station in Sheffield covered in snow Storm Bert hits the coastal town of Dawlish, Devon as the sea batters the coast as walkers and sightseers come out to see the spectacle and get engulfed in the surf A trains makes it's way along the track towards Exeter as the sea batters the coastal defenses in Dawlish, Kent P&O Ferries also said it had cancelled the 4am sailing between Larne in Northern Ireland and Cairnryan in Scotland's south west on Saturday. Met Office warnings for this weekend Amber warning for snow Northern Scotland Saturday, 7am to 5pm Up to 1ft 4in (40cm) Yellow warning for rain and snow Scotland, Northern England and East Midlands Saturday 4am to Sunday 9am Up to 8in (20cm) of snow Up to 1.6in (40mm) of rain Yellow warning for wind Coastal areas across UK Saturday 5am to Sunday 7pm Wind gusts of up to 70mph Yellow warning for rain and snow Northern Ireland Saturday 00.01am to 11am Up to 8in (20cm) of snow Up to 1.6in (40mm) of rain Yellow warning for wind Southern England Saturday 3pm to 9pm Wind gusts of up to 70mph Yellow warning for rain Wales and South West England Saturday 6am until Sunday 6am Up to 5in (150mm) Advertisement A second amber warning will be in place between 7am and midday on Saturday covering parts of Yorkshire and the north east of England. Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said the storm's arrival was following a 'relatively quiet' night on Friday with temperatures at around minus 4C across parts of Scotland and minus 1C in eastern England. 'We'll see two to four hours of heavy snow across parts of northern England and Scotland during Saturday morning,' Mr McGivern said. 'This snow will accumulate thick and fast, with five to 10cm at lower levels and as much as 20 to 40cm over hills accompanied by strong winds. 'You can expect blizzards over hills across northern England and Scotland, atrocious conditions for travelling and going over the hills and also the risk of power interruptions because of snow build up on power lines. 'So all in all, a multiple hazard event as we go into Saturday morning.' He said temperatures will rise quickly as the storm brings with it milder air from the Atlantic, resulting in a 'rapid thaw' by the afternoon. 'The melting snow and the heavy rain could lead to localised flooding in places but the wettest spots would be Wales, in the South West, particularly over south-facing hills, that's where we're likely to see gales and certainly the risk of impacts from wind as well as from rain,' the meteorologist said. Rail companies issued announcements of service changes ahead of the weekend. In Scotland, there will be speed restrictions on the West Highland Line, Highland Mainline, Stranraer line, Glasgow South Western Line, Far North Line, and West Coast Mainline between Carstairs and the border. ScotRail has withdrawn services from Inverness to Elgin, Aberdeen to Inverurie, and Glasgow Queen Street to Oban while trains from Glasgow Central to Carlisle will terminate at Dumfries. South Western Rail (SWR) asked passengers to only travel west of Basingstoke if their journeys are essential. A group of girls enjoy the night out in fancy dress - refusing to let the freezing cold affect their fun Others laughed as they headed out on their night out on the Otley Run in the northern city But groups of pals all laughed as they vowed to make the most of the night - whatever the weather Racegoers were struggling to hang onto their umbrellas at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire Storm Bert wreaked havoc at the plush event as it destroyed umbrellas and carefully-prepared hairdos Some attendees laughed through the chaotic weather, making the most of the day of racing Others continued to forge ahead with fancy outfits and hats as they attended the historic event People wait in the snow for the Christmas Market to open during Storm Bert, along Princes Street in Edinburgh A man clears snow at the M9 motorway services near Stirling as Storm Bert batters the country Rail companies are urging passengers to avoid travelling to certain areas and some warned of reduced services. Pictured: a cyclist in Sheffield battles snow Tree surgeons clear up a fallen tree on Wimbledon Common south-west London this morning as the Met office issue yellow weather warnings for Storm Bert A look at the chaos that is being caused on the roads on the A66 as well as thick snow in East Durham Shoppers and commuters rush for shelter as they brave strong winds and teeming rain in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside Dog walkers brave strong winds and teeming rain in North Tyneside this morning Yellow wind, rain and snow warnings cover much of the rest of the UK on Saturday and into Sunday Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said the storm's arrival was following a 'relatively quiet' night on Friday Heavy snow falls at the Lagangarbh Hut in Glencoe, Scotland. The Met Office said Storm Bert is expected to bring 'heavy rain, strong winds and disruptive snow to parts of the UK' Corgarff Castle in Aberdeenshire, surrounded by snow on Friday An abandoned car by the A635 Holmfirth Road on Saddleworth Moor in West Yorkshire on Friday Network Rail Western tweeted this image of snow on a train in Devon on Friday, saying: 'Heavy snow means that no trains are able to run to Barnstaple until noon, or Okehampton until 4pm' Ryan Phillips walks Arty the Siberian Husky through the snow in the grounds of Balmoral on Friday Rough seas near the Tynemouth Pier lighthouse on the River Tyne on Friday morning SWR announced services between Exeter and London Waterloo will start and finish at Basingstoke, that journey times will be longer between Salisbury and Exeter and between Bournemouth and Weymouth due to speed restrictions, and services across its network will start later than usual on Sunday and Monday because of safety inspections. Met Office UK storm names for 2024/2025 Ashley Bert Conall Darragh Éowyn Floris Gerben Hugo Izzy James Kayleigh Lewis Mavis Naoise Otje Poppy Rafi Sayuri Tilly Vivienne Wren Advertisement In the capital, Shepherds Bush tube station was closed due to flooding. An emergency response unit was dispatched by TfL to reopen it. TransPennine Express 'strongly' urged customers not to travel north of Carlisle on Saturday while Avanti West Coast advised passengers not to travel north of Preston - including Lancaster, Oxenholme, Penrith, Carlisle, Glasgow and Edinburgh. UK airports were not anticipating disruption. A spokesperson for Birmingham Airport said: 'Whilst we are not anticipating disruption at this time... we will continue to keep a close eye on the situation, as Storm Bert moves in.' Manchester Airport said 'we're expecting bad weather but aren't anticipating any disruption' while Newcastle Airport said it will be operating as normal overnight with teams 'fully prepared to respond should conditions deteriorate'. Clean-up operations are now under way after Storm Bert swept across Ireland, causing flooding and thousands of power outages. Power cuts affected 60,000 customers at the height of the outage; ESB teams are still working to restore supplies to the thousands still left without electricity. Status red rain warnings were in place for Cork and Galway until 10am on Saturday, with an orange alert for rain in place for counties Waterford, Kerry, Clare, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim. Bridge Street in Killybegs, Co Donegal, is among the areas worst-hit by the storm - with homes, businesses and charities along the street affected by dramatic flooding overnight. A car in a ditch down a winding country lane during an icy spell in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, on Friday In the capital, Shepherds Bush tube station was closed due to flooding. An emergency response unit (pictured) was dispatched by TfL to reopen it A road is closed as the Queensferry Crossing is closed due to the risk of falling ice, as a result of Storm Bert, near Edinburgh The River Blackwater bursts its banks and floods Mallow Racecourse in Mallow, County Cork A car drives through water along the A90, as a result of Storm Bert, in Cramond near Edinburgh Storm Bert hits the coastal town of Dawlish, Devon as the sea batters the coast as walkers and sightseers come out to see the spectacle Cars are driven in snowy conditions in Stirling, Scotland after Storm Bert hits A man helps to clear snow in Stirling, Scotland after Storm Bert blocked roads Rebecca Mullen, of The Flour House bakery in Riverstick, Co Cork, said that Storm Babet flooded the bakery last October, and the bakery had flooded again after Storm Bert There was also bad flooding in west Limerick, where the Feale River burst its banks, and on roads in Galway and Cork. Rebecca Mullen, of The Flour House bakery in Riverstick, Co Cork, said that Storm Babet flooded the bakery last October, and the bakery had flooded again after Storm Bert. They had received grants from the Red Cross to help them through the last flood where a lot of damage was done. In Northern Ireland, the Department for Infrastructure said its roads and rivers teams responded to more than 500 incidents since the yellow alert for rain and snow was issued overnight. It said that roads across counties Tyrone, Down and Antrim were blocked by trees and flood waters, and properties were flooded in Dundonald, Kilcoo, Coalisland and Ballinamallard as well a Royal Mail property in Mallusk. 'The Emergency Flooding Payment Scheme has been activated by the Department for Communities,' it said. 'The weather warning has now passed and although most rivers have now peaked, staff continue to liaise with multi-agency partners and to monitor water levels and remove debris from watercourses to help floodwaters to get away. 'Flooding was prevented in many areas due to the proactive screen maintenance work being undertaken by staff who continue to monitor watercourses. 'Please report any incidents of flooding to the Flooding Incident Line 0300 2000 100.' Wales Perth Share or comment on this article: Storm Bert batters Britain: Hundreds of flights are cancelled as strong winds sweep across the country and downpours cause 'unprecedented' flooding - with the wild weather already claiming four lives e-mail Add comment

The shooting percentage inside the CSU field house matched the weather outside for the CSU men’s basketball team on Saturday as they hosted Furman. Furman led from start to finish on their way to a 67-46 win, improving to 6-0 on the season. CSU dropped to 1-6 overall and will play games at Georgia Tech and Miami next week. Son of Silkk the Shocker and nephew of Master P helps LSU rally past CSU Cooler weather invaded the Lowcountry on the weekend and that cold snap was reflected in the Buccaneers’ field goal percentage. CSU shot only 31.5 percent from the field, including a four-of-23 performance from beyond the arc. Furman, on the other hand, shot 49.1 percent from the field and won despite missing 10 free throws. CSU men lose to VMI, 80-69 Furman led, 34-22, at the half, using a late spurt to solidify their double-digit lead. The lead would stay in double digits throughout the second half with Furman building its biggest lead of 57-36 with 7:43 to play in the game. Guard Daylen Berry led CSU with 16 points while guard RJ Johnson added nine points. CSU’s leading scorer, forward Taje Kelly, was limited to three points. Bucs drop road game matinee in West Virginia Nick Anderson paced Furman with 14 points with PJay Smith adding 13 points.Findlay's Vacuum and Sewing shutters for good after more than 40 years, Lee's Music to take over locationNORAD's Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kidsBy BILL BARROW, Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter’s in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Carter’s path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That’s a very narrow way of assessing them,” Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn’t suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he’d be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter’s tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter’s lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor’s race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama’s segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival’s endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King’s daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters’ early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan’s presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan’s Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.

A Boston city councilor was arrested by FBI agents Friday morning after she was indicted in an alleged kickback scheme that netted her thousands of dollars in cash from a staffer in exchange for a large bonus. Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, 45, represents District 7 in Boston, which includes Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway and part of the South End. Sister station WCVB was outside her Dorchester home Friday when FBI agents placed her under arrest at about 6 a.m. According to court documents, Fernandes Anderson faces five federal counts of wire fraud and one federal count of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds. "These six felony charges stem from an alleged kickback scheme that she orchestrated to obtain several thousand dollars in taxpayer money in exchange for a bribe she paid to a staffer who she gave a very large bonus," U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy said. Fernandes Anderson was going to use the money from the scheme to pay a fine issued following an ethics investigation, Levy said. Fernandes Anderson is expected to appear in federal court Friday afternoon. According to a federal indictment , Fernandes Anderson gave extra bonus money to "Staff Member A" with the agreement that the staffer would give a portion of the money back to the councilor. That staff member is a relative of Fernandes Anderson, something the councilor lied about, investigators said. Since staff bonus information is publicly available, Fernandes Anderson said the larger bonus for Staff Member A was to compensate them for previous volunteer work, court documents said. Staff Member A's $13,000 bonus was more than double the amount given to other staffers, investigators said. "But that supersized bonus came with a hitch. Ms. Fernandes Anderson told Staff Member A she would need to fork over $7,000 in cash back to Ms. Fernandes Anderson. Staff Member A agreed," Levy said. Over the course of several bank transactions in June 2023, the staffer withdrew $7,000 from the deposited bonus payout, according to the indictment. That money was then surreptitiously handed over to Fernandes Anderson on June 9, 2023, according to the indictment. “At approximately 4:11 p.m., Staff Member A texted FERNANDES ANDERSON, ‘Bathroom’ to let FERNANDES ANDERSON know that Staff Member A was waiting in the bathroom to hand the $7,000 in cash to FERNANDES ANDERSON. Within seconds, FERNANDES ANDERSON texted Staff Member A, ‘Ready’ to confirm that FERNANDES ANDERSON was ready to accept the $7,000 cash kickback from Staff Member A. Shortly following these texts, Staff Member A handed FERNANDES ANDERSON approximately $7,000 in cash at a bathroom in City Hall,” the indictment states. Read the full indictment here. Officials said the investigation is ongoing, and no one else has been charged. In 2023, the state ethics commission found Fernandes Anderson violated the conflict of interest law by hiring her sister and son at city hall and raising their salaries to $70,000 a year. Fernandes Anderson agreed to pay a fine of $5,000. Investigators said Friday the relative involved in the kickback scam was hired after the ethics fine was levied against her, and the scheme was hatched to pay the fine. "Ms. Fernandes Anderson chose to violate her fiduciary duty and defraud the city of Boston, the indictment alleges, rather than find a legal means to pay off that debt," Levy said. Last month, the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance sent her campaign a letter which said it had not timely filed deposit information and had taken contributions over the legal limit. Earlier this week, Fernandes Anderson said she was "not thinking about quitting. I'm not thinking about stepping down." After the arrest, Mayor Michelle Wu said Fernandes Anderson has a "right to a fair legal process," but urged the councilor to step down. "The serious nature of these charges undermine the public trust and will prevent her from effectively serving the city," Wu said in a statement. "I urge Councilor Fernandes Anderson to resign." City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune said a resignation would prevent disruption to the council while Fernandes Anderson's case is litigated. "Given the severity of the allegations brought against her, and the direct impact that they have on residents’ ability to see the Boston City Council as their faithful stewards, it is in the best interest of the body that she resign," Louijeune wrote in a statement. Councilor At-Large Erin Murphy, District 2 Councilor Ed Flynn and District 8 Councilor Sharon Durkan also called for Fernandes Anderson to resign. Fernandes Anderson has represented District 7 since 2021 and won re-election in 2023.

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The disturbing sight of young people from traveller communities up and down the country - many of them children - being herded onto trains by police at Manchester Victoria railway station on Saturday has prompted anger, consternation and concern. The obvious upset, however, isn't confined to people from those traveller communities. The question being privately asked of Greater Manchester Police bosses by the Mayor's Office is whether it was really proportionate to use a so-called 'section 34' order to cover the whole of Manchester city centre . For some, it is an indiscriminate, blunt weapon that risks collateral damage. The order, made under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act, allows police to turn people away from a specified geographical area if they think there might be trouble - and arrest those who refuse. READ NEXT: Traveller girl, 13, ended up 'hysterical' in Grimsby after being herded onto train by police in Manchester The Manchester Evening News understands that the senior officers were well aware their decisions might well attract some public flak, but they sanctioned the order to prevent a repeat of trouble from previous years. The arrival of hundreds of young people from traveller communities from all across the country to enjoy Manchester's Christmas markets has become an important date in the social calendar of those communities. But it has also proved something of a headache, particularly for security and retailers in the Arndale centre which has been a particular focal point for young visitors. In November 2022, police were called to break up a 'huge' gathering of young traveller people at the Arndale amid reports that fire alarms had been triggered, fireworks set-off and people were 'running up and down the tram tracks' in Exchange Square. The crowds which gathered outside the Arndale in November 2022 (Image: Pat Karney) Police were, and are, sensitive to perceptions that senior officers appeared powerless to act despite what appeared to be widespread disorder. An even larger gathering of youths happened at the Arndale again on Saturday. Councillor Pat Karney, the council's city centre spokesman, was there and he tweeted that there were about 400 youths gathered, aged between nine and 19. He told the Manchester Evening News he saw no trouble 'unlike previous occasions' as he praised the efforts of police and security staff. However, the mass gatherings seen at the Arndale in previous years formed part of the decision-making of GMP bosses when they decided to sign the dispersal order. The city was also packed with people out Christmas shopping and football fans heading to the Etihad stadium for Manchester City's match against Tottenham Hotspur. It was very busy. The dispersal order, signed by a senior police officer at 12.13pm on Saturday, was 'in response to a rising number of reports, and in the interest of protecting the public from excessive anti-social behaviour, disorder, and criminality over the weekend', said the officer who signed it. GMP later clarified the order was 'due to intelligence' that groups of people were en route to Manchester on trains 'causing antisocial behaviour', with similar reports of trouble in the city centre already coming in. The order was signed and the effect was that cops were dispatched to Victoria and Piccadilly railway stations under instruction to stop the groups and send them back. Mobile footage shared widely online showed uniformed officers escorting young people into trains at Victoria, with many of them clearly unclear where exactly they were going to end up. One girl, aged 13, who had come from Doncaster, ended up in Grimsby. (Image: UGC) Her mother contacted the Manchester Evening News and said her daughter had called while she was being 'pushed' onto the train and was 'hysterical'. She said: "She didn't have a clue where it was going. She was crying and screaming. I could hear the police officers saying 'we don't care where you go, just get back on that train and get off now'. I was saying to put the police officers on the phone but I could hear them saying 'I don't want to speak to your mother - get on that train'." Jonny O'Brien, 26, claimed his 14-year-old sister was 'bullied' onto a train to Manchester Airport . A woman from Lancashire, 34, who declined to be named, said she was 'pushed, pulled and shouted at' by police at Victoria before being forced onto a train to York. "I haven't done anything wrong apart from going to the Christmas markets. It was an absolutely horrible experience," she said. Other footage showed police officers preventing some young travellers from entering stores in the city centre. The force confirmed later that they had broken up two fights and at least 40 individual dispersal orders were made telling people to leave town. The Traveller Movement, a national charity, said the police action was 'shocking' and 'completely unacceptable'. It is considering legal action. Greater Manchester's deputy mayor, Kate Green, called for a 'full report' from GMP. Most of those who visited on Saturday came from the north west and the Welsh borders. It was supposed to be a day out 'in their finery', according to the charity, which confirmed some visitors were as young as 11 although these were said to be accompanied by older siblings. Greater Manchester Police operating a dispersal order covering Manchester city centre (Image: men) As an MP, Ms Green was a co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, a forum for parliamentarians to address issues facing those communities. The group also called for a 'full investigation' saying 'over-policing and targeting of minority ethnic communities is never acceptable'. It's notable that, despite numerous requests by the Manchester Evening News , Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell has so far refused to comment. Tomorrow (Tuesday) the charity, Ms Green and senior officers of GMP will hold a crunch meeting at her offices. It will be a key test of the 'back to basics' policing promised by Stephen Watson when he was installed as chief constable in 2021. As well as an increase in the scale of arrests and the use of stop and search powers, a central plank of his approach was the increased use of 'dispersal orders'. They have typically been adopted following outbreaks of serious disorder or violence, for instance stabbings. But the geographical area covered by Saturday's dispersal order - virtually the entire city centre - was huge, and for the first time it appeared to target a specific community. Senior officers at GMP are believed to be confident the legislation was used correctly, but whether that position will survive a storm of protest and obvious anger within travellers communities is a question that only time will answer.Vikings' passing attack is as potent as ever with Addison's surge as Bears prepare for a rematchNikita Hand, who accused the sportsman of raping her in a Dublin hotel in December 2018, won her claim against him for damages in a civil case at the High Court in the Irish capital. The jury delivered its verdict on Friday. The total amount of damages awarded to Hand by the jury was 248,603.60 euros (£206,714.31). Mr McGregor made no comment as he left court but later posted on social media that he intends to appeal. The Irish athlete has featured in multiple video games, including voice-acting a character bearing his likeness in additional downloadable content in the Hitman series. Mr McGregor’s character featured as a target for the player-controlled assassin in the game. IO Interactive, the Danish developer and publisher of Hitman, said in a statement: “In light of the recent court ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the decision to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effective immediately. “We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications. “Consequently, we will begin removing all content featuring Mr McGregor from our storefronts starting today.” Mr McGregor had faced an accusation that he “brutally raped and battered” Ms Hand at a hotel in south Dublin in December 2018. The Irish sports star previously told the court he had consensual sex with Ms Hand in a penthouse at the Beacon Hotel. Ms Hand was taken in an ambulance to the Rotunda Hospital the following day where she was assessed in the sexual assault treatment unit. A paramedic who examined Ms Hand the day after the assault had told the court she had not seen “someone so bruised” in a long time.

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NoneThe year 2025 is poised to bring significant transformations in careers and finances, driven by planetary movements in March and May. These celestial shifts suggest an atmosphere of growth, innovation, and adaptation. ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? India's car race: How far EVs went in 2024 Investing in 2025: Six wealth management trends to watch out for Here's a detailed look at how each zodiac sign will fare in their professional journey this year, as mentioned in a report by Times Of India. Aries: Embrace Professional Change For Aries, 2025 signals a year of evolution in the workplace. Until March, Saturn aids in achieving long-term goals and expanding professional networks. This period is ideal for job seekers to leverage connections for new roles. From April, Saturn’s position encourages skill enhancement and strategic planning, making it vital to focus on personal development for career advancement. Taurus: Steady Growth and Rewards Taurus will experience a year of consistent growth. Saturn’s transit through the 10th house until March demands disciplined efforts and responsibility. 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Promotions and cooperative projects are likely in this phase. Gemini: Expansion and Recognition Gemini natives will find 2025 packed with opportunities. The first quarter emphasizes personal growth, education, and new ventures, thanks to Saturn’s placement in the 9th house. Post-April, career progression gains momentum as Saturn moves into the 10th house, offering recognition for diligent efforts. Cancer: Transformation and Learning For Cancer, the early months of 2025 call for introspection and financial reorganization. The 8th house transit of Saturn encourages clearing debts and refining strategies. From April, new learning opportunities and challenges await, offering a chance to rebuild and prepare for future milestones. Leo: Focus on Professional Relationships Leo’s 2025 career horoscope highlights the importance of collaboration. Until March, efforts should concentrate on fortifying professional relationships. Post-April, Saturn’s transit prompts strategic planning around financial management, offering opportunities to adapt and thrive amid workplace changes. Virgo: Hard Work Pays Off Virgo’s professional life in 2025 revolves around diligence and collaboration. Early in the year, enhancing work habits and meeting responsibilities are key. From April, Saturn emphasizes the importance of networking and balance in personal and professional realms, paving the way for meaningful partnerships. Libra: Creativity and Discipline Libra natives must align creativity with discipline in early 2025. This phase demands organization in all pursuits. From April, daily routines and health take precedence, with hard work being a significant driver for overcoming challenges and achieving career growth. Scorpio: A Year of Transition For Scorpio, 2025 bridges internal reflection and external action. The year starts with a focus on building stability and rethinking career strategies. Post-April, creativity and passion take center stage, offering an opportunity to transform aspirations into well-structured plans. Sagittarius: Communication is Key Sagittarius individuals must prioritize communication and skill-building in early 2025. This phase is ideal for networking and knowledge acquisition. From April, the focus shifts to establishing security and achieving work-life balance, creating a solid foundation for future success. Capricorn: Financial Focus Capricorn’s career journey in 2025 starts with a focus on financial prudence and value reassessment. As Saturn transitions to the third house in April, improving communication and establishing valuable connections become pivotal for career advancement. Aquarius: Growth and Financial Planning Aquarius will experience personal and financial growth in 2025. Until March, self-improvement takes precedence. 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Astrologers foresee a year of extraordinary growth and prosperity for three zodiac signs in 2025. With planetary movements creating transformative energy, individuals under these signs are set to experience luck, success, and personal growth. ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? India's car race: How far EVs went in 2024 Investing in 2025: Six wealth management trends to watch out for Whether it’s stepping out of their comfort zones, embracing new opportunities, or aligning with their true purpose, 2025 promises to be a remarkable year. Here’s a closer look at what’s in store for Gemini, Cancer, and Pisces, as mentioned in a report by Hindustan Times. Gemini: Embracing Change and Breaking Barriers For Geminis, 2025 signals the beginning of a transformative era. From July 7 to November 7, Uranus enters Gemini, offering a preview of a seven-year cycle that will fully take shape in 2026. This period encourages Gemini to break free from routine and embrace bold changes that will redefine their lives. 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By venturing beyond their comfort zones, Geminis can align with their true purpose and unlock their potential. This pivotal year marks the start of a journey that promises to elevate them to new heights with renewed confidence and perspective. Cancer: A Year of Abundant Opportunities Luck and growth are on the horizon for Cancerians in 2025, thanks to Jupiter's entry into Cancer in June. The planet of expansion and abundance will remain in this sign for about a year, bringing with it a cascade of opportunities for success. Jupiter’s presence encourages Cancer to broaden their horizons, explore new possibilities, and embrace their natural talents. Their inherent warmth and kindness will attract supportive individuals and create meaningful connections. By staying true to themselves and their values, Cancerians can seize the chances that come their way, leading to personal and professional achievements. Pisces: Embracing Destiny and Self-Transformation Pisces is set for a year of profound growth and alignment with their true purpose in 2025. With the North Node moving into Pisces in January, this cosmic shift propels them toward a life of balance and fulfillment. Pisces will feel an undeniable call to deepen their self-awareness and embrace personal transformation. Trusting their intuition will be crucial during this time, as it will guide them toward decisions that align with their destiny. By nurturing self-love and focusing on their inner journey, Pisces can unlock their full potential and create a harmonious life that reflects their deepest aspirations. How to Harness 2025’s Astrological Energy While 2025 brings unique opportunities for Gemini, Cancer, and Pisces, everyone can benefit from the year’s transformative energy by trusting their instincts and pursuing their goals. Checking your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs can provide additional insights into how these celestial shifts may influence your journey. FAQs What is the #1 zodiac sign? As the first sign of the zodiac, Aries thrives on being number one. This energetic fire sign is always up for a challenge, approaching even the toughest situations with boldness and ambition. Fearless and driven, Aries is determined to emerge victorious every time. Who was the father of astrology? Alan Leo, originally named William Frederick Allan, was a renowned British astrologer, author, publisher, astrological data collector, and theosophist. He is frequently hailed as "the father of modern astrology." (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter's in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Carter's path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That's a very narrow way of assessing them," Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn't suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he'd be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter's tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter's lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor's race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival's endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King's daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters' early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan's presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan's Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.

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Defence counsel Charles Petero advised Justice of the Peace John Whitta of this. JP Whitta informed the counsel that the defendant must appear in court. If the defendant is unable to do so due to health reasons, he should liaise with the court to arrange a Zoom appearance. The man, who has an interim name suppression, is charged with nine counts of inducing an indecent act on a girl under the age of 12 years, and indecent assault on a girl under 12 years. Police prosecutor senior sergeant Fairoa Tararo said the file against the accused was serious. The accused is currently on bail. ___________________ Defence lawyer Michelle Tangimama requested the court to allow Marsela Kareroa to travel to Mangaia on December 13 for family reasons. Kareroa is charged with three counts of theft. JP Whitta said the accused could travel to Mangaia, as long as it was within the Cook Islands The prosecution did not object. The matter has been adjourned to February 27, 2025, and the defendant was told not to apply for a new passport. Meanwhile, Tangimama has received the video footage from police in regards to the charges against Kareroa. ___________________ Well-known offender Lucas Kamana, who faces a joint burglary charge, and three counts of burglary, has admitted to all four charges. He will be sentenced on February 19, 2025, by three Justices of the Peace. The 23-year-old was arrested earlier this year and was bailed in July. He is accused of breaking in and entering three different homes in Tupapa on June 21 with the intent to commit a crime. On the morning of June 22, police alerted the public on their social media page that through their swift work, they apprehended an offender after a string of break-ins were reported in Kiikii, overnight. Police had said the first of three complaints came in at 11.23pm when a bag containing cash was stolen from a house. Police had said a 23-year-old male, who is “known to Police”, was caught during a search of the area. He was arrested and remanded into custody. ______________________ Tangata Maru, charged for careless driving and excess breath alcohol, entered a guilty plea and had her case adjourned to February 27, 2025 for sentencing. Maru was represented by defence Tangimama who two months ago, requested for police disclosure and a traffic history of her client. Maru was ordered not to apply for a passport. __________________ Dominic Matapo, whose excess blood alcohol case had been adjourned since March while he sought legal aid assistance, will be sentenced on February 27, 2025 after he entered a guilty plea on Thursday. Three months ago, the matter had been adjourned from March to October, because the application had not been received by the Court, and there was no record of it on file.PHILADELPHIA, PA — Change is here. Philadelphia has introduced Philly Stat 360 , a bold and groundbreaking digital tool aimed at revolutionizing city government transparency and accountability. Launching earlier this month, this state-of-the-art website is no empty political gesture—it’s Mayor Cherelle Parker’s answer to a widespread demand for real-time access to the facts driving the city’s progress. Philly Stat 360 isn’t just about numbers on a screen. It’s a call to action. With over 30 metrics tracking everything from public safety statistics to how many trees have been planted, this interactive dashboard turns data into a conversation between city officials and residents. It’s designed to make government tangible—something you can “see, touch, and feel,” as Mayor Parker so often underscores. A hallmark of Parker’s administration, Philly Stat 360 gives everyday people a front-row seat to City Hall. Want to know how Philadelphia is tackling crime? Click the “Safer” category. Curious about efforts to combat climate change? Click “Greener.” Each metric dives deep, explaining how the information is collected, why it’s important, and even offering historical comparisons to track progress over time. This isn’t just a window into government activity—it’s a magnifying glass. “Philly Stat 360 is not only a tool for measuring progress but also for identifying areas where we need to invest more resources,” said Mayor Parker during the launch. “I believe in a city government that our citizens can see, touch, and feel with visible actions that help people at the neighborhood level, and this is a key link in creating that.” Backing this revolutionary tool is a collaboration between the Mayor’s Office of Philly Stat 360, the Office of Innovation and Technology led by Chief Information Officer Melissa Scott, and the Office of Integrated Data for Evidence and Action (IDEA). Together, they’ve built a portal that simplifies the complexities of government operations for the average Philadelphian. Kristin Bray, Chief Counsel to Mayor Parker and Director of Philly Stat 360, summed it up perfectly, saying, “Philly Stat 360 is a manifestation of that vision—an accessible and interactive tool that empowers residents, enhances transparency, and makes government operations easier to understand.” Each of Philly Stat’s five categories—Safer, Cleaner, Greener, Economic Opportunity, and Core Services—offers insight into significant areas of city functioning. These analytics go beyond sterile statistics. They reflect how Philadelphia is handling critical challenges like crime, neighborhood revitalization, and employment growth. They invite accountability not in speeches but in tangible, visible outcomes. Importantly, the website remains a living project. Expect more metrics and features in the coming months to fully capture the dynamic nature of Philadelphia’s evolution. For government critics, spectators, and the simply curious, Philly Stat 360 is Philadelphia’s bold statement for the future. It’s a tool for progress, a watchdog for accountability, and a tangible sign that the city isn’t just talking about change—it’s delivering it. The launch of Philly Stat 360 signals a new era where accessible data meets actionable results. With the nation’s eyes constantly on Philadelphia’s historic significance, it’s clear the city is ready to be just as celebrated for its forward-thinking government as for its storied past. If you want to see government work in real-time, Philly Stat 360 is where your attention should be. For the latest news on everything happening in Chester County and the surrounding area, be sure to follow MyChesCo on Google News and MSN .

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Everyone wants Casey Mittelstadt to shoot the puck more — the Avalanche front office, the coaching staff, even the diehard in Section 320 yelling, "Shoot!" Everyone, including Mittelstadt himself. "I want to shoot more, for sure," the forward told The Gazette. "I think everyone I've ever been coached by has told me that, so yeah, it's definitely a focus." Mittelstadt at the moment is in the midst of a slump he hasn't experienced in the NHL — a slump he hasn't witnessed since he was "really young." Sure, he's had goal-scoring slumps before, even extended ones at the NHL level, but those slumps were different. He was getting shots and opportunities, but the puck just wasn't going in the net. He's not getting those shots or opportunities at the moment. That's a big reason why he has only five points in his past 18 games. All five of those points were assists, which shouldn't come as a surprise when you dig a little deeper. In eight of his last nine games, Mittelstadt has been held without a shot on net. In Friday's matchup against Utah, his frustration was visible. Mittelstadt was battling in the slot for the puck and it bounced over his stick right as he went to shoot, which caused the forward to fire a frustrated look toward the ceiling of the Delta Center. To his credit, he's not making excuses. When asked if he's injured, he quickly shrugged it off. "Sadly, just not my best hockey," he said. While the Avalanche want Mittelstadt to shoot more, they knew his game when they acquired him. He's always been a player whose natural instinct is to set up a teammate as opposed to putting the puck on net himself. If that's the case, what more can the coaching staff do that it hasn't already done? "There's not a lot," Jared Bednar said. "We've shown him some things from last year. I love the way he played for us last year when he came in. I liked the start of the year and it's gone cold, so it's obviously a confidence thing. There's a mental side of it that he has to take care of on his own." While Mittelstadt might not look like a confident player at the moment, the coaching staff and his teammates are fully behind him. "He knows that I really like him as a player," Bednar said. "I am a big fan. I'm a supporter of his and know what he's capable of, so he's just going to have to work through it. He's got his teammates' support; he's got the coaching staff's support. He's going to have to work through it a little bit here to get his confidence back." Putting in the work isn't an issue for Mittelstadt. He's still on the ice early and staying out late with Nathan MacKinnon. Even though he's going through it right now, he's trying to stay positive. He knows what he's doing on practice days will eventually transfer over to game days. "I guess I'm not worried," Mittelstadt said. "I work hard, and my whole life pretty much revolves around this game, so I feel like that usually takes over and wins at some point." His whole life revolving around hockey is an understatement. Over the NHL's Christmas break, the 26-year-old went home to Minnesota to be with friends and family. When asked what the weather was like, he said it was "great," claiming it was a brisk 25-degrees outside. "Perfect pond hockey weather," he said. A guy who thinks like that will eventually break through. The Avalanche — and Mittelstadt — are hoping it happens sooner rather than later.

Charleston Southern grabs late lead, stuns host MiamiLas Vegas quarterback Gardner Minshew is out for the season due to a broken collarbone, head coach Antonio Pierce confirmed on Monday, leaving the Raiders with a short week to determine their starter. Minshew suffered the injury when he was sacked and landed on his left shoulder late in the fourth quarter of Las Vegas' 29-19 home loss to the Denver Broncos. Former starter Aidan O'Connell, who was sidelined by a thumb injury in Week 7, could return off injured reserve in time for the Raiders (2-9) to face the two-time reigning Super Bowl champion Chiefs (10-1) on Friday in Kansas City. "We'll see if Aidan is good to go," Pierce said. "He's been ramping up." O'Connell entered the 21-day practice window on Monday as the Raiders determine when to activate him. "Seeing him able to grip the ball comfortable, hopefully, no pain there, and just being able to be efficient," Pierce said. "To put a player out there that's hurting or injured still, that's not to the benefit of the player or our team." O'Connell, 26, has played in four games this season, starting two (both losses). He is 52 of 82 (63.4 percent) for 455 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. As a rookie last season, O'Connell started 10 of 11 games, going 5-5, and completed 213 of 343 passes (62.1 percent) for 2,218 yards, 12 TDs and seven interceptions. The Raiders selected O'Connell in the fourth round of the 2023 NFL Draft. "Obviously at the quarterback position, you've got to be smart," Pierce said. "I think with Aidan, his future's much brighter looking ahead. ... I'll have to really rely on our doctors and medical staff." Desmond Ridder replaced Minshew and went 5 of 10 for 64 yards. Ridder, 25, has appeared in three games this season for Las Vegas and is 16 of 26 (61.5 percent) for 138 yards and one TD. Ridder played the previous two seasons for the Atlanta Falcons, who selected him in the third round of the 2022 draft. For his career, he is 338 of 529 (63.9 percent) for 3,682 yards, 15 TDs and 12 interceptions in 22 games (17 starts, 8-9 record). Minshew, 28, completed 25 of 42 passes for 230 yards with one touchdown and one interception against the Broncos. He finished his first season with the Raiders with 2,013 yards, nine TDs and 10 picks on 66.3 percent passing. He joined the Raiders in free agency after stints in Jacksonville (2019-20), Philadelphia (2021-22) and Indianapolis (2023) and won the starting job in camp. But he was benched multiple times for O'Connell as the Raiders struggled as a team. --Field Level Media

MARRIED At First Sight star Jordan Gayle has revealed he has split from his girlfriend after five months together. Earlier this year, Jordan , 27, went Instagram official with Australian beauty Melissa Golik,32, who works as a nurse. But the pair have called time on their relationship, leaving the E4 star heartbroken just nine months after splitting from co-star Erica Roberts , 26 . Jordan took to his Instagram story to share the sad news. He wrote: "It's with a heavy heart that I announce I've gone through another break-up," followed by a broken heart emoji. Jordan continued: "When you are from the other sides of the world it makes it very difficult to work." He added: "I wish nothing but happiness for Mel." Back in August, Jordan shared a slew of snaps with Melissa. In the images, the new couple were seen sipping on cockatils as they enjoyed romantic nights out in London. Jordan couldn't keep his eyes off the beauty as they partied in China Town and cosied up in a swanky-looking club. Jordan wrote in his caption: "Life with you," followed by heart and lock emojis and an Australian flag. In July, the reality star reignited a very bitter feud with Erica, accusing her of recording '14 TikToks about him'. Jordan hit back at his ex in a podcast and claimed she has 'dragged his name through the mud' with her videos. Erica, however, clapped back and insisted her videos are NOT about him. But Jordan said on The Bro'Cast Podcast : "So she's done 14 TikToks where everyone has assumed it's about me. "Everyone has flooded to my page, viewed my Stories, sent me messages, saying, 'Look what she's saying about you'... that I'm toxic or my behaviour was horrible. I've done this, this, this. "She's aware that people are assuming it's about me. "Whether it is about me or it isn't, the fact that people are assuming it's about me is bringing all this negativity. It's making people look negatively at me. "It's dragging my name through the mud. To me, I would never do that because it's not worth social media views and I wouldn't do that to anyone." Jordan added: "If I don't start defending myself, it's going to run away. This has been going on for four months now." Jordan shared a clip from the podcast on his Instagram account and added screenshots from Erica's TikTok account to it. One was from a video of Erica rolling her eyes with the caption: "I focused on myself after the breakup and you had to go seek validation from multiple women." Erica has insisted the TikToks are nothing to do with Jordan, however, and hit back on his Instagram page. She blasted: "You are genuinely clutching at straws here. "Did I not message you 3 weeks ago to clear up that my TikTok’s were NOT about you as I’d seen you on multiple podcasts trying to run with this false narrative, so why are you still going please stop flattering yourself. "I’ve not spoken about you or the break up once online you’re the only one still yapping on." She added: "Please go heal and move on." Jordan and Erica appeared on last year's series of Married At First Sight and tied the knot within seconds of setting eyes on each other. Their relationship appeared to be going well once outside of the TV experiment, but The Sun revealed they had split in February. A source said at the time: "It was Erica that ended her marriage with Jordan... she did everything possible to make it work but sadly they struggled and in the end, she had no choice but to give up." Jordan previously spoke out and said he felt "a mug" for falling so hard and fast for Erica on the show last year. The fitness fanatic admitted in another podcast: “I feel like a mug for falling as hard as I did. "It’s weird because I’ve not got emotional about it for a long time because I think I've been holding it back a bit." He added: "I didn’t care about any of the fame or the opportunities or any of the money, so losing the relationship was like the be all and end-all for me.”Support Independent Arts Journalism As an independent publication, we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider becoming a member today . Already a member? Sign in here. Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism for as little as $8 per month. Become a Member Jewish-American artist and activist Nan Goldin criticized the German state and its unconditional allegiance to Israel in an incendiary speech during the opening reception for her retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin last Friday evening, November 22. Her 14-minute address drew immense support from a crowd of pro-Palestine activists and artists onsite, whose chants drowned out the words of Museum Director Klaus Biesenbach who spoke shortly after. Goldin’s speech has sparked intense criticism from German politicians and administrators as the nation continues its crackdown on any speech critical of Israel or Zionism. Upon taking the podium at the opening of her traveling exhibition This Will Not End Well , Goldin first led a moment of silence in honor of the tens of thousands of civilians killed in Gaza and Lebanon and the 815 Israeli civilians killed on October 7. After thanking the museum for maintaining its commitment to allowing her to speak, Goldin refuted the institution’s claim that her art and activism were separate. “The last year has been Palestine and Lebanon for me. I feel the catastrophe in my body, but it’s not in this show,” Goldin said. “Why can’t I speak, Germany?” she asked rhetorically, referring to the state’s conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism. “This is a false equivalency used to maintain the occupation of Palestine and to suppress those who speak out. The word antisemitism has been weaponized; it’s lost its meaning,” Goldin continued. “In declaring all criticism against Israel as antisemitic, it makes it harder to define and stop violent hatred against Jews.” Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Daily Weekly Opportunities Highlighting how Berlin’s Palestinian community is the demographic’s largest diasporic population in Europe, Goldin stated that the German government has ignored Islamophobia, thus embracing state violence against Palestinians and suppressing “180 artists, writers, and teachers since October 7,” many of them Jewish. “What have you learned, Germany?” she asked, after underscoring the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli military’s US-backed attacks against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. Wielding banners, flags, and signs, the keffiyeh-clad crowd shouted in response: “Nothing!” Goldin ended her speech with a call for pro-Palestine activists to unify under the cause and amplify the voices of Palestinians, inviting cheers. When Biesenbach approached the podium, his words were practically drowned out as the crowd continued to chant. “As I mentioned in my introduction earlier, I disagree with your opinion,” Biesenbach began in response to Goldin’s speech. “Still, I stand for your right to express yourself freely.” “Israel’s right to exist is beyond question for us,” Biesenbach continued, speaking on behalf of the Neue Nationalgalerie. “The attack on the Jewish state on October 7th, 2023 was a cruel act of terror that cannot be justified by anything.” Biesenbach noted that he and the museum also empathize with the civilians of Gaza and Lebanon, adding that “all people in the Middle East have the right to live without fear and with the assurance of their safety.” The director ended his speech with a rejection of the cultural boycott of Israel, citing the museum’s commitments to freedom of expression and its historical responsibility to the Jewish state, and that it will not allow “calls for or incitement to violence, the legitimization or trivialization of acts of terrorism, the injury and killing of civilians or support of terrorist organizations.” In response to Hyperallergic ‘s request for comment, a Neue Nationalgalerie spokesperson said that “slogans were shouted that do not align with the institution’s Code of Conduct.” “The Neue Nationalgalerie explicitly distances itself from the statements made by the protesters and emphasizes its commitment to freedom of expression, respectful dialogue, and mutual respect,” the representative said. While Goldin’s confrontational speech was met with approval by the pro-Palestine attendees, German Culture Minister Claudia Roth lambasted the photographer for her “unbearably one-sided political views,” saying she was “appalled” at the way people in the audience chanted slogans such as “Free Palestine” during Biesenbach’s address. Berlin’s Culture Senator Joe Chialo also condemned Goldin’s “one-sidedness” and “obliviousness to history,” and Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said that the artist’s speech “does not correspond to our understanding of freedom of expression.” Conflicts simmering at the Neue Nationalgalerie in the previous weeks reached a boiling point during Goldin’s opening reception. The museum had planned a symposium titled “Art and Activism in Times of Polarization: A Discussion Space on the Middle East Conflict” for November 24 — two days after the opening of the retrospective. The boycott advocacy group Strike Germany called attention to the event, curated by Pakistani-German political analyst Saba-Nur Cheema and Israeli-German writer Meron Mendel, in an Instagram post , claiming that the symposium would be “dominated by genocide-denying Zionists while pretending to offer multiple ‘nuanced’ positions.” Reached by Hyperallergic , Cheema and Mendel said that the symposium was meant to “create a controversial yet respectful space to discuss the role of the Israel-Palestine-conflict in the art world.” Event panelists included South African, anti-Zionist Jewish artist Candice Breitz, Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman, Israeli artist Ruth Patir of the intentionally shuttered Venice Biennale pavilion , Palestinian artist Osama Zatar, and Turkish-German artist Raphael Malik, among others, with filmmaker Hito Steyerl meant to deliver the keynote speech. Steyerl, Weizman, Breitz, and Malik withdrew from the symposium after Goldin communicated that she had not approved the program and had asked for it to be canceled. In their emails to Biesenbach withdrawing from the symposium, both Steyerl and Breitz mentioned that their participation was contingent on Goldin agreeing to the event and fair treatment to the photographer respectively. “It is clear to me that the museum organized this symposium as a prophylactic to secure its position in the German discussion – in other words, to prove they do not support my politics,” Goldin said in a comment on Strike Germany’s post. We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading, please consider supporting Hyperallergic ’s journalism during a time when independent, critical reporting is increasingly scarce. Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden to large corporations or billionaires. Our journalism is funded by readers like you , ensuring integrity and independence in our coverage. We strive to offer trustworthy perspectives on everything from art history to contemporary art. We spotlight artist-led social movements, uncover overlooked stories, and challenge established norms to make art more inclusive and accessible. With your support, we can continue to provide global coverage without the elitism often found in art journalism. If you can, please join us as a member today . Millions rely on Hyperallergic for free, reliable information. By becoming a member, you help keep our journalism free, independent, and accessible to all. Thank you for reading. Share Copied to clipboard Mail Bluesky Threads LinkedIn Facebook

Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 3 Notre Dame dominates VirginiaPresident-elect Donald Trump has nominated Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department after Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration amid allegations of sexual misconduct. "This is a good choice, in my opinion," said Republican Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Bondi, Florida's first female attorney general, has more than 18 years of experience as a prosecutor. She challenged the Affordable Care Act and pushed for Florida's "Show Me Your Papers" immigration law. "Her priorities are right in line with Donald Trump's, not only his policies, but even going after some of the people that he wants gone after as retribution," said political analyst Marc Sandalow. Bondi endorsed Trump for president in 2016 and was on his legal team during his first impeachment trial. "Now, her loyalty to Trump is going to draw complaints that maybe she is going to serve as Trump's attorney at the Justice Department," Sandalow added. Under Trump's administration, the Justice Department is expected to change course on corporate enforcement, civil rights, and the prosecution of Jan. 6 defendants, whom Trump has pledged to pardon. Analysts say Bondi should not have trouble getting confirmed, unlike Gaetz, who faced significant opposition . "Simple math, I think was made clear that there's not a path," said Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer, of North Dakota. Bondi may face tough questions from lawmakers over declining to sue Trump University over fraud allegations after receiving a $25,000 campaign contribution from Trump in 2013. A prosecutor declined to press charges, and both Trump and Bondi deny wrongdoing. Gaetz called Bondi a "stellar selection" and said that even though he's not returning to Congress , he'll still be in the fight.

Olivia Miles notched a triple-double (11 points, 10 rebounds, 14 assists) and Sonia Citron added 25 points and 11 rebounds as No. 3 Notre Dame dominated Virginia 95-54 in an Athletic Coast Conference matchup Sunday in South Bend, Ind. Hannah Hidalgo scored 28 points and Liatu King chipped in eight points and 12 rebounds as the Fighting Irish (11-2, 2-0) jumped out to a 37-9 lead behind a 28-0 run, easily winning the battle of the boards (54-31), points in the paint (44-26) and fastbreak points (39-10). Winning its sixth straight game, Notre Dame shot 51.4 percent from the floor and 38.5 from 3-point range while dishing out 32 assists on 38 made baskets. For the Cavaliers (8-6, 0-2), Kymora Johnson led the way with 12 points on a day the visitors shot just 29.7 percent from the floor, including 23.8 percent on 3-point attempts. No. 2 South Carolina 93, Wofford 47 Joyce Edwards scored 16 points off the bench to lead five players in double figures as the Gamecocks trounced the Terriers in Columbia, S.C. Tessa Johnson added 14 points, Raven Johnson had 13, Te-Hina Paopao tallied 12 and MiLaysia Fulwiley netted 11 for South Carolina (12-1), which rattled off 17 straight points in the second quarter to open up a 36-14 lead. The Gamecocks never trailed and scored the game's final 22 points to win their seventh straight. Wofford (6-5) got 20 points from Rachael Rose but shot just 21.1 percent as a team and suffered its third straight loss. Evangelia Paulk managed five points on 1-of-18 shooting, though she did grab a game-high 11 rebounds. No. 6 LSU 83, Albany 61 Aneesah Morrow tallied 10 points during the Tigers' game-ending 25-2 run that helped them pull away from the pesky Great Danes in Baton Rouge, La. LSU trailed 59-58 before Morrow's three-point play with 7:41 left sparked the decisive surge. She finished with 20 points and 18 rebounds, including 10 of each in the fourth quarter alone. Mikaylah Williams scored 18 points, while Flau'Jae Johnson bundled 15 points with nine rebounds as the Tigers (15-0) wrapped up an unbeaten nonconference slate. Kaci Donovan notched 17 points to lead Albany's upset bid before fouling out with 4:15 left in the game. Kayla Cooper and Lilly Phillips each had 14 points for the Great Danes (10-3), who led by as many as 12 in the second quarter but missed their final 11 shots in the fourth. No. 7 UConn 67, Providence 41 Paige Bueckers scored 14 of her game-high 23 points during a dominant first quarter that propelled the Huskies to a blowout win over the visiting Friars in Hartford, Conn. Bueckers shot 5-of-5 from the floor in the first period and contributed eight points to a 15-0 run that helped UConn build a 28-6 lead after one. The All-American finished 8-of-12 overall, while Sarah Strong chipped in 14 points as the Huskies (11-2, 2-0 Big East) rebounded from a two-point home loss to then-No. 7 Southern California on Dec. 21. Grace Efosa had 11 points and seven rebounds and Olivia Olsen paired eight points with 11 boards for Providence (7-8, 0-2), which surrendered 40 points off 31 turnovers. No. 8 Maryland 72, No. 19 Michigan State 66 The Terrapins narrowly avoided their first loss of the season, thanks in part to Kaylene Smikle's team-high 19 points in a hard-fought Big Ten Conference victory over the Spartans in College Park, Md. Maryland (12-0, 2-0 Big Ten) led by nine entering the fourth period, but Michigan State (11-2, 1-1) staged a 9-0 run to tie the game at 57. Saylor Poffenbarger (14 points, 10 rebounds) halted the run with a 3-pointer as the Terrapins -- who shot 42.9 percent from the field -- took the lead for good with 5:06 left. Theryn Hallock (20 points) and Julia Ayrault (17 points, 12 rebounds) kept the Spartans in it, but the visitors shot just 32.4 percent from the field, including 25 percent from 3-point range. No. 10 Ohio State 77, Rutgers 63 Cotie McMahon and Ajae Petty each posted a double-double to help the Buckeyes earn a conference road win over the Scarlet Knights in Piscataway, N.J. McMahon recorded 16 points and 11 rebounds, while Petty added 16 points with 10 boards before fouling out late in the fourth quarter. Chance Gray chipped in 15 points for Ohio State (13-0, 2-0 Big Ten), which racked up 22 takeaways and held a 29-7 advantage in points off turnovers. Rutgers (8-5, 0-2) fell despite getting 31 points and 17 rebounds from Destiny Adams, who also had five steals and two blocks. The Scarlet Knights trailed 46-25 at halftime and never got closer than nine the rest of the way. Rutgers visits No. 8 Maryland next before hosting No. 4 USC. No. 13 Georgia Tech 100, Pitt 61 Freshman Dani Carnegie poured in a season-high 24 points to help the Yellow Jackets pummel the Panthers in Atlanta. Kara Dunn racked up 28 points for Georgia Tech (14-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), which shot 50.7 percent and hit triple digits for the first time this season. Chazadi Wright had 16 points and Tonie Morgan contributed 15 with eight assists. Khadija Faye led Pitt (8-7, 0-2) with 22 points, while Brooklynn Miles scored 11 and Aislin Malcolm chipped in 10 off the bench. The Panthers finished 39.3 percent from the floor and committed 21 turnovers. No. 20 Alabama 93, Jacksonville 46 Aaliyah Nye poured in 30 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the floor, including a scorching 8-for-10 from 3-point range, as the Crimson Tide throttled the Dolphins in Tuscaloosa, Ala. In its final tune-up before opening Southeastern Conference play on Thursday against visiting Florida, Alabama (13-1) only led by two after the first quarter but outscored Jacksonville 32-11 in the second quarter. Three other Crismon Tide players -- Eris Lester (14 points, eight rebounds), Zaay Green (13 points) and Sarah Ashlee Barker (12 points) -- scored in double figures as the team shot 54.2 percent from the field and a red-hot 53.8 percent from beyond the arc. For the Jaguars (6-6), Saniyah Craig scored a team-high 11 points as the visitors struggled from the field, shooting just 29.5 percent. --Field Level MediaZverev helps champions Germany knock Brazil out of United CupSome quotations from Jimmy Carter: We have a tendency to exalt ourselves and to dwell on the weaknesses and mistakes of others. I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment. Political and religious leaders must attempt to provide a society within which these human attributes can be nurtured and enhanced. — from 1975 book “Why Not the Best?” Our government can express the highest common ideals of human beings — if we demand of government true standards of excellence. At this Bicentennial time of introspection and concern, we must demand such standards. — “Why Not the Best?” I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and among other things a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry. — “Why Not the Best?” Christ said, “I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery.” I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it. But that doesn’t mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock. — Interview, November 1976 Playboy. This inauguration ceremony marks a new beginning, a new dedication within our Government, and a new spirit among us all. A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it. — Inaugural address, January 1977. It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper — deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation and recession. ... All the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America. ... It is a crisis of confidence. — So-called “malaise” speech, July 1979. But we know that democracy is always an unfinished creation. Each generation must renew its foundations. Each generation must rediscover the meaning of this hallowed vision in the light of its own modern challenges. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival; liberty is human rights; the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. — Farewell Address, January 1981. We appreciate the past. We are grateful for the present and we’re looking forward to the future with great anticipation and commitment. — October 1986, at the dedication of the Carter Presidential Library and Museum. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. — December 2002, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Fundamentalists have become increasingly influential in both religion and government, and have managed to change the nuances and subtleties of historic debate into black-and-white rigidities and the personal derogation of those who dare to disagree. ... The influence of these various trends poses a threat to many of our nation’s historic customs and moral commitments, both in government and in houses of worship. — From 2005 book “Our Endangered Values.” I think that this breakthrough by Barack Obama has been remarkable. When he made his speech (on race) a few months ago in Philadelphia, I wept. I sat in front of the television and cried, because I saw that as the most enlightening and transforming analysis of racism and a potential end of it that I ever saw in my life. — August 2008, commenting on then-Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy. I think it’s based on racism. There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president. ... No matter who he is or how much we disagree with his policies, the president should be treated with respect. — September 2009, reacting to Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout of “You lie!” during a speech to Congress by President Barack Obama. I’m still determined to outlive the last guinea worm. — 2010, on The Carter Center’s work to eradicate guinea worm disease. You know how much I raised to run against Gerald Ford? Zero. You know how much I raised to run against Ronald Reagan? Zero. You know how much will be raised this year by all presidential, Senate and House campaigns? $6 billion. That’s 6,000 millions. — September 2012, reacting to the 2010 “Citizens United” U.S. Supreme Court decision permitting unlimited third-party political spending. I have become convinced that the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge is the deprivation and abuse of women and girls, largely caused by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare, unfortunately following the example set during my lifetime by the United States. — From 2014 book “A Call to Action.” I don’t think there’s any doubt now that the NSA or other agencies monitor or record almost every telephone call made in the United States, including cellphones, and I presume email as well. We’ve gone a long way down the road of violating Americans’ basic civil rights, as far as privacy is concerned. — March 2014, commenting on U.S. intelligence monitoring after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks We accept self-congratulations about the wonderful 50th anniversary – which is wonderful – but we feel like Lyndon Johnson did it and we don’t have to do anything anymore. — April 2014, commenting on racial inequality during a celebration of the Civil Rights Act’s 40th anniversary. I had a very challenging question at Emory (University) the other night: “How would you describe the United States of America today in one word?” And I didn’t know what to say for a few moments, but I finally said, “Searching.” I think the country in which we live is still searching for what it ought to be, and what it can be, and I’m not sure we’re making much progress right at this moment. — October 2014 during a celebration of his 90th birthday. The life we have now is the best of all. We have an expanding and harmonious family, a rich life in our church and the Plains community, and a diversity of projects at The Carter Center that is adventurous and exciting. Rosalynn and I have visited more than 145 countries, and both of us are as active as we have ever been. We are blessed with good health and look to the future with eagerness and confidence, but are prepared for inevitable adversity when it comes. — From 2015 book, “A Full Life.”

Ancient meets modern as a new subway in Greece showcases archaeological treasures THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, is opening a new subway system, blending ancient archaeological treasures with modern transit technology like driverless trains and platform screen doors. The project, which began in 2003, uncovered over 300,000 artifacts, including a Roman-era thoroughfare and Byzantine relics, many of which are now displayed in its 13 stations. Despite delays caused by preserving these findings, the inaugural line has been completed, with a second line set to open next year. Conor McGregor must pay $250K to woman who says he raped her, civil jury rules LONDON (AP) — A civil jury in Ireland has awarded more than $250,000 to a woman who says she was raped by mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor in a Dublin hotel penthouse after a night of heavy partying. The jury on Friday awarded Nikita Hand in her lawsuit that claimed McGregor “brutally raped and battered” her in 2018. The lawsuit says the assault left her heavily bruised and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. McGregor testified that he never forced her to do anything and that Hand fabricated her allegations after the two had consensual sex. McGregor says he will appeal the verdict. At least 15 people are sick in Minnesota from ground beef tied to E. coli recall U.S. health officials say at least 15 people in Minnesota have been sickened by E. coli poisoning tied to a national recall of more than 160,000 pounds of potentially tainted ground beef. Detroit-based Wolverine Packing Co. recalled the meat this week after Minnesota state agriculture officials reported multiple illnesses and found that a sample of the product tested positive for E. coli O157:H7, which can cause life-threatening infections. Symptoms of E. coli poisoning include fever, vomiting, diarrhea and signs of dehydration. Kendrick Lamar surprises with new album 'GNX' LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present with a new album. The Grammy winner released his sixth studio album “GNX” on Friday. The 12-track project is the rapper’s first release since 2022’s “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.” Lamar’s new album comes just months after his rap battle with Drake. The rap megastar will headline February's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans. The 37-year-old has experienced massive success since his debut album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” in 2012. Since then, he’s accumulated 17 Grammy wins and became the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize. Actor Jonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend drops assault and defamation lawsuit against once-rising star NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend has dropped her assault and defamation lawsuit against the once-rising Hollywood star after reaching a settlement. Lawyers for Majors and Grace Jabbari agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice Thursday. Jabbari is a British dancer who had accused Majors of subjecting her to escalating incidents of physical and verbal abuse during their relationship. Representatives for Majors didn’t respond to emails seeking comment Friday. Jabbari’s lawyer said the suit was “favorably settled” and her client is moving on with “her head held high.” Majors was convicted of misdemeanor assault and harassment last December and sentenced to a yearlong counseling program. Hyundai, Kia recall over 208,000 electric vehicles to fix problem that can cause loss of power DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are recalling over 208,000 electric vehicles to fix a pesky problem that can cause loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash. The recalls cover more than 145,000 Hyundai and Genesis vehicles including the 2022 through 2024 Ioniq 5, the 2023 through 2025 Ioniq 6, GV60 and GV70, and the 2023 and 2024 G80. Also included are nearly 63,000 Kia EV 6 vehicles from 2022 through 2024. The affiliated Korean automakers say in government documents that a transistor in a charging control unit can be damaged and stop charging the 12-volt battery. Dealers will inspect and replace the control unit and a fuse if needed. They also will update software. Christmas TV movies are in their Taylor Swift era, with two Swift-inspired films airing this year Two of the new holiday movies coming to TV this season have a Taylor Swift connection that her fans would have no problem decoding. “Christmas in the Spotlight” debuts Saturday on Lifetime. It stars Jessica Lord as the world’s biggest pop star and Laith Wallschleger, playing a pro football player, who meet and fall in love, not unlike Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. On Nov. 30, Hallmark will air “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story.” Instead of a nod to Swift, it’s an ode to family traditions and bonding, like rooting for a sports team. Hallmark’s headquarters is also in Kansas City. Top football recruit Bryce Underwood changes commitment to Michigan instead of LSU, AP source says ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Top football recruit Bryce Underwood has flipped to Michigan after pledging to play at LSU. That's according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the recruit’s plans to join the Wolverines. Underwood pinned a post on his Instagram account, showing a post in which On3.com reported that he has committed to Michigan. The 6-foot-3 quarterback played at Belleville High School about 15 miles east of Michigan's campus, and told LSU nearly a year ago he intended to enroll there. Emperor penguin released at sea 20 days after waddling onto Australian beach MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach. The adult male was found on Nov. 1 on sand dunes in temperate southwest Australia about 2,200 miles north of the Antarctic coast. He was released Wednesday from a boat that traveled several hours from Western Australia state's most southerly city of Albany. His caregiver Carol Biddulph wasn't sure at first if the penguin would live. She said a mirror was important to his rehabilitation because they provide a sense of company. Biddulph said: “They’re social birds and he stands next to the mirror most of the time.” Shohei Ohtani wins third MVP award, first in NL. Aaron Judge earns second AL honor in 3 seasons NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani won his third Most Valuable Player Award and first in the National League, and Aaron Judge earned his second American League honor on Thursday. Ohtani was a unanimous MVP for the third time, receiving all 30 first-place votes and 420 points in voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor was second with 263 points and Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte third with 229. Judge was a unanimous pick for the first time. Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. got all 30 second-place votes for 270 points, and Yankees outfielder Juan Soto was third with 21 third-place votes and 229 points.www.nuebe9.gaming 。

Israeli airstrikes killed a hospital director at his home in northeastern Lebanon and six others, while at least five paramedics were killed by Israeli strikes in the country's south on Friday, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. The United Nations reported heavy clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Four Italian peacekeepers were lightly wounded when a rocket, likely fired by Hezbollah, hit their base, the U.N. said. A full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah erupted in September after nearly a year of lower-intensity conflict. More than 3,640 people have been killed in Lebanon and 15,350 wounded, the majority following Israel’s escalation and ground invasion, the Health Ministry said Friday. In Gaza, Israeli strikes hit Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the few hospitals still partially operating in the northernmost part of the territory, wounding nine medical staff and damaging its generator and oxygen systems, the hospital director said Friday. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but it has said that more than half of the fatalities are women and children. Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 250 . Around 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead. Here’s the Latest: DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes hit Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the few hospitals still partially operating in the northernmost part of Gaza, wounding nine medical staff and damaging its generator and oxygen systems, its director said Friday. Hossam Abu Safiya said strikes before dawn Friday hit the entrance of the emergency unit as well as in the hospital courtyard. He said six staff were wounded, including two critically. Friday night, he said an armed drone hit the entrance again, wounding three staffers. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Abu Safiya said the strikes caused damage to the functioning of the generator and disrupted oxygen supplies. The hospital is currently treating 85 wounded, 14 children in the pediatric ward and four newborns in the neonatal unit, he said. During the past month, Kamal Adwan Hospital has been hit several times, was put under siege and was raided by Israeli troops, who are waging a heavy offensive in the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp and towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya. The Israeli military says it detained Hamas fighters hiding in the hospital, a claim its staff denies. BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike killed the director of a university hospital and six others at his home in northeastern Lebanon, state media said. The strike targeted Dr. Ali Allam’s house near Dar Al-Amal Hospital, the largest health center in Baalbek-Hermel province, which has provided vital health services amid Israel's campaign of airstrikes, the Health Ministry said. State-run media reported that the strike came without warning. The ministry described his death as a “great loss,” and provincial governor Bachir Khodr said in a post on X that, “Mr. Allam was one of the best citizens of Baalbek.” In two separate episodes on Friday, Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed five paramedics with Hezbollah's medical arm, the Health Ministry said, describing it as “war crime.” The militant group provides extensive social services, including running schools and health clinics. In a report published Friday, the World Health Organization said nearly half of all attacks on health care in Lebanon since Oct. 7, 2023, have resulted in fatalities. “This is a higher percentage than in any active conflict today across the globe,” WHO said. In Lebanon, 226 health workers and patients were killed and 199 were injured between Oct. 7, 2023, and Nov. 18, 2024, the report said. The Health Ministry said Friday that 3,645 people have been killed in nearly 14 months of war between Hezbollah and Israel, while 15,356 were wounded, the majority following Israel’s escalation in late September. The death count includes 692 women and 231 children. UNITED NATIONS – Two rockets hit a headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, injuring four Italian peacekeepers, the United Nations says. U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the rockets were likely launched by Hezbollah militants or by affiliated groups Friday, impacting a bunker and a logistics area in the southwest headquarters at Chamaa. One of the structures that was hit caught fire, and the blaze was swiftly put out by U.N. staff, he said. According to Italy’s Defense Ministry, some glass shattered due to the explosion, hitting the four soldiers. Dujarric said the four injured peacekeepers were receiving treatment at the medical facility of the mission, known as UNIFIL. “Thankfully, none of the injuries are life-threatening,” he said. Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto called the attack on the UNIFIL base “intolerable.” He reiterated that the Italian contingent remains in southern Lebanon “to offer a window of opportunity for peace, and cannot become hostage to militia attacks.” Dujarric said Friday’s attack was the third on Chamaa in a week and came amid heavy shelling and ground skirmishes in the Chamaa and Naqoura areas in recent days. UNIFIL’s main headquarters is in Naqoura. Friday’s attack follows a rocket attack on a UNIFIL base east of the village of Ramyah on Tuesday that injured four peacekeepers from Ghana. Dujarric said UNIFIL strongly urges Hezbollah and its affiliates and Israel to avoid fighting near its positions, which are supposed to be protected. “We remind all parties that any attack against peacekeepers constitutes a serious violation of international law” and the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, he said. BEIRUT — Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs and the southern port city of Tyre on Friday, after the Israeli army issued several evacuation warnings saying it is targeting Hezbollah sites. The strikes in Beirut came dangerously close to central Beirut and Christian neighborhoods. One strike hit a building housing a gym and medical and beauty clinics, located just meters (yards) from a Lebanese army base. “What is there in the building to target? This attack they carried out on us in this building is a criminal and vile act,” resident Hassan Najdi told The Associated Press. “Because if their intention is targeting Hezbollah, this building has nothing to do with Hezbollah.” Najdi said he purchased an apartment in the building last year but had not yet moved in. He allowed a displaced family to move in and urgently asked them to evacuate after receiving the Israeli warning. The blasts sent plumes of smoke into the air and shattered glass in the vicinity. No casualties have been reported, but the strikes caused damage to nearby infrastructure and a key road connecting central Beirut to its southern suburbs. “We remain steadfast,” said Ali Daher, an employee at a mall facing the targeted building. “Everything that is lost can be replaced, and whatever is destroyed can be rebuilt in (no time).” In Tyre city, the Israeli military conducted multiple airstrikes after a series of warnings, claiming the targets belonged to Hezbollah’s Aziz unit, accusing it of firing projectiles into Israel. The Israeli military carried out other airstrikes across Lebanon, many without warnings, as heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in villages along the Lebanon-Israel border intensified. ROME — Italy said Friday it plans to discuss the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court over the Israel-Hamas war when it hosts Group of Seven foreign ministers next week. Premier Giorgia Meloni insisted that one point remained clear for Italy: “There can be no equivalence between the responsibilities of the state of Israel and the terrorist organization of Hamas.” Italy is a founding member of the court and hosted the 1998 Rome conference that gave birth to it. But Meloni’s right-wing government has been a strong supporter of Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, while also providing humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza. In a statement Friday, Meloni said Italy would study the reasonings behind the decision to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas’ military chief. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Italy respects the ICC and supports it. “But at the same time we are also convinced that the court must have a judicial role, and should not take up a political role.” Tajani will host G7 foreign ministers Monday and Tuesday outside Rome for the final meeting of the Italian G7 presidency. “As far as decisions are concerned, we will take them together with our allies,” Tajani said. During the G7 meetings, “we will talk about this with my allies there, and we will see what to do next.” Another member of the governing coalition, the outspoken Transport Minister Matteo Salvini was more defiant in supporting Israel. “If Netanyahu comes to Italy he will be welcomed,” Salvini was quoted by Italian media as saying. This item has been updated to correct that Salvini spoke of a potential Netanyahu visit to Italy, not Israel. ROME — Four Italian soldiers were slightly injured after two exploding rockets hit the United Nations' peacekeeping mission base on Friday in Chamaa in southern Lebanon, Italy's defense ministry said. Initial information suggested that two rockets hit a bunker and a room of the mission base, damaging the surrounding infrastructure, the ministry said. Shattered glass hit the four soldiers. The incident was the latest in which UN peacekeeping posts have been hit since Israel began its ground invasion of Lebanon on Oct. 1, leaving a number of peacekeepers wounded. Defence Minister Guido Crosetto called Friday's attack “intolerable.” He said he will try to speak to the new Israeli Defense Minister to ask him “to avoid using the UNIFIL bases as a shield.” Crosetto said the conditions of the four Italian soldiers “did not cause concern.” He reiterated that the Italian contingent remains in southern Lebanon “to offer a window of opportunity for peace and cannot become hostage to militia attacks.” Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday said she learned about the new attack with “deep indignation and concern.” Meloni reiterated that “such attacks are unacceptable,” renewing her appeal for the parties on the ground “to guarantee, at all times, the safety of UNIFIL soldiers and to collaborate to quickly identify those responsible.” GENEVA — The World Health Organization says nearly half of the attacks on health care in Lebanon have been deadly since the Middle East conflict erupted in October last year, the highest such rate anywhere in the world. The U.N. health agency says 65 out of 137, or 47%, of recorded “attacks on health care” in Lebanon over that time period have proven fatal to at least one person, and often many more. WHO’s running global tally counts attacks, whether deliberate or not, that affect places like hospitals, clinics, medical transport, and warehouses for medical supplies, as well as medics, doctors, nurses and the patients they treat. Nearly half of attacks on health care in Lebanon since last October and the majority of deaths occurred since an intensified Israeli military campaign began against Hezbollah militants in the country two months ago. The health agency said 226 health workers and patients have been killed and 199 injured in Lebanon between Oct. 7, 2023 and this Monday. JERUSALEM — Israel’s new defense minister said Friday that he would stop issuing warrants to arrest West Bank settlers or hold them without charge or trial — a largely symbolic move that rights groups said risks emboldening settler violence in the Israeli-occupied territory. Israel Katz called the arrest warrants “severe” and said issuing them was “inappropriate” as Palestinian militant attacks on settlers in the territory grow more frequent. He said settlers could be “brought to justice” in other ways. The move protects Israeli settlers from being held in “administrative detention,” a shadowy form of incarceration where people are held without charge or trial. Settlers are rarely arrested in the West Bank, where settler violence against Palestinians has spiraled since the outbreak of the war Oct. 7. Katz’s decision was celebrated by far-right coalition allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. National Security Minister and settler firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir applauded Katz and called the move a “correction of many years of mistreatment” and “justice for those who love the land.” Since Oct. 7, 2023, violence toward Palestinians by Israeli settlers has soared to new heights, displacing at least 19 entire Palestinian communities, according to Israeli rights group Peace Now. In that time, attacks by Palestinian militants on settlers and within Israel have also grown more common. An increasing number of Palestinians have been placed in administrative detention. Israel holds 3,443 administrative detainees in prison, according to data from the Israeli Prison Service, reported by rights group Hamoked. That figure stood around 1,200 just before the start of the war. The vast majority of them are Palestinian, with only a handful at any given time Israeli Jews, said Jessica Montell, the director of Hamoked. “All of these detentions without charge or trial are illegitimate, but to declare that this measure will only be used against Palestinians...is to explicitly entrench another form of ethnic discrimination,” said Montell. BERLIN — A German official has suggested that his country would be reluctant to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. The ICC’s warrants for Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant put Germany, a staunch ally of Israel, in an awkward position. The government said in a statement Friday that it is one of the ICC’s biggest supporters, but “at the same time, it is a consequence of German history that unique relations and a great responsibility connect us with Israel.” The government said it takes note of the arrest warrants and that “we will examine conscientiously the domestic steps.” It said that any further steps would only be an issue if a visit by Netanyahu or Gallant were “foreseeable.” Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit was pressed repeatedly at a regular news conference on whether it would be conceivable to arrest an Israeli prime minister. He replied: "It’s hard for me to imagine that we would carry out arrests in Germany on this basis.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Friday refused to comment on the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, saying that the court's rulings are “insignificant” for Russia, which doesn’t recognizes the court’s jurisdiction. The ICC last year issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and a number of other top Russian officials, accusing them of war crimes in Ukraine. The Kremlin has brushed off the warrants, saying that in Moscow’s eyes they’re “null and void.” Asked if the ICC warrants for Netanyahu and others can help resolve the tensions in the Middle East, Peskov said: “Well, in general, the actions of the ICC are unlikely to help anything. That’s the first thing. And secondly, we don’t see any point in commenting on this in any way, because for us these rulings are insignificant.” DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Large crowds of displaced people crammed themselves in front of a bakery in the Gaza Strip for the second day in a row, desperate to get their share of bread after bakeries closed for five days due to a flour shortage and the lack of aid. “I am a 61-year-old man. This is the third day that I have come to Zadna Bakery and I still cannot get bread ... I have children to feed,” said Majdi Yaghi, a displaced man from Gaza City. The price of a small bag of pita bread increased to $16 by Friday, a stark increase from about 80 cents last month. A bag of pasta now costs $4 and a small bag of sugar costs nearly $14. That has left many Palestinian families surviving on one meal a day and reliant on charitable kitchens to survive. In Khan Younis, women and children lined up at the al-Dalu charitable kitchen for bulgur, the only food available at the makeshift charity. One of the workers there, Anas al-Dalu, told the AP that they cook ten pots every day of either rice, beans, or bulgur. But that hardly fills the need for the thousands of people displaced in the area. “The charity here is in a difficult situation. It is a drop in the ocean, and there is no aid or charities. There is nothing," said Nour Kanani, a displaced man from Khan Younis. “It is a crisis in every sense of the word. There is no flour, no charities, and no food.” BEIRUT — Israeli troops fought fierce battles with Hezbollah fighters on Friday in different areas in south Lebanon, including a coastal town that is home to the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. A spokesperson for the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL told The Associated Press that they are monitoring “heavy clashes” in the coastal town of Naqoura and the village of Chamaa to the northeast. UNIFIL’s headquarters are located in Naqoura in Lebanon’s southern edge close to the border with Israel. “We are aware of heavy shelling in the vicinity of our bases,” UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said. Asked if the peacekeepers and staff at the headquarters are safe, Tenenti said: “Yes for the moment.” Several UNIFIL posts have been hit since Israel began its ground invasion of Lebanon on Oct. 1, leaving a number of peacekeepers wounded.

Last week, Parliament passed sweeping reforms to Australia's aged care system. These "once-in-a-generation" changes, set to begin next year on July 1, aim to improve how care is provided to older Australians at home, in their communities and in nursing homes. The new Aged Care Act focuses on improving quality and safety, protecting the rights of older people and ensuring the financial sustainability of aged care providers. A key change is the introduction of a new payment system, requiring wealthier people to contribute more for non-clinical services. If you – or a loved one – are planning for aged care, here's what the changes could mean for you. What to expect from the home care overhaul Over the past decade, there's been a noticeable shift towards "ageing at home". The number of Australians using home care has more than quadrupled, surpassing those in nursing homes. To meet growing demand, the government is adding 107,000 home care places over the next two years, with a goal to reduce wait times to just three months. Starting July 1 2025, Support at Home will replace the Home Care Packages program. The table below shows some of the key differences between these two programs. Department of Health 2024 Home Care Packages are currently delivered under four annual government subsidy levels, covering care and provider management costs. Under Support at Home, the number of home care budget levels will double to eight, with the highest level increasing to A$78,000. This aims to provide more tailored support and accommodate those needing higher levels of care. Under the new system, recipients will receive quarterly budgets aligned to their funding level and work with their chosen provider to allocate funds across three broad service categories: clinical care, such as nursing or physiotherapy independence support, including personal care, transport and social support everyday living assistance, such as cleaning, gardening and meal delivery. Clinical care...Innovative design solutions unveiled at SEDA exhibition

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NEW YORK (AP) — Gerard O'Keefe's 25 points helped Columbia defeat Merchant Marine 98-49 on Saturday. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * NEW YORK (AP) — Gerard O'Keefe's 25 points helped Columbia defeat Merchant Marine 98-49 on Saturday. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? NEW YORK (AP) — Gerard O’Keefe’s 25 points helped Columbia defeat Merchant Marine 98-49 on Saturday. O’Keefe added five rebounds for the Lions (9-1). Blair Thompson scored 11 points while going 5 of 9 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and added six rebounds. Josiah Cunningham had nine points and went 3 of 6 from the field (1 for 4 from 3-point range). Drew Zalescik led the Mariners in scoring, finishing with 21 points and six rebounds. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. Advertisement

But the City boss has vowed to stay on and lift the club back to the top even if they are sent all the way down to the National League. Guardiola ended speculation over his immediate future this week by extending his contract, which had been due to expire at the end of the season, through to the summer of 2027. That has given the club some stability at a time of great uncertainty as they fight 115 charges related to alleged breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations. City have denied all wrongdoing but their punishment if found guilty could be severe, with demotion even a possibility. Guardiola has strongly defended the club in the past and is happy to continue doing so. The Spaniard said: “I don’t enjoy it, I prefer not to be in that position, but once it’s there I love it because, when you believe in your club, and the people there – I believe what they say to me and the reasons why. “I cannot say yet because we’re awaiting the sentence in February or March – I don’t know when – but at the same time, I like it. “I read something about the situation and how you need to be relegated immediately. Seventy-five per cent of the clubs want it, because I know what they do behind the scenes and this sort of stuff. “I said when all the clubs accused us of doing something wrong, (and people asked) what happens if we are relegated, (I said) I will be here. “Next year, I don’t know the position of the Conference they are going to (put) us, (but) we are going to come up and come up and come back to the Premier League. I knew it then and I feel it now.” The immediate priority for Guardiola, who said his contract negotiations were completed in “just two hours”, is to arrest a run of four successive defeats in all competitions. Yet, ahead of their return to action against Tottenham at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, the champions continue to grapple with a lengthy injury list. Mateo Kovacic is their latest casualty after sustaining a knock on international duty that could keep him out for up to a month. On the positive side, defenders Nathan Ake, John Stones and Manuel Akanji could feature and Jack Grealish is also closing in on a return after a month out. Much to Guardiola’s frustration, Grealish was called up by England for their recent Nations League games, although he later withdrew. Guardiola said: “I want the best for Jack and I want the best for Jack with the national team but the doctor said to me that he was not ready to play. “I know (England) want him but they have 200 players to select from and Jack was not fit. He had to recover from many things.” Kyle Walker played for England against both Greece and the Republic of Ireland despite limited game time since suffering injury in the October international break. Guardiola said: “If he is fit I like him to play in the national team. It is not a problem, don’t misunderstand me. “Kyle has a dream to make 100 caps for the national team. Do I want to cancel this dream? Absolutely not. “But if you are not fit, if you cannot play here, you cannot play for the national team. It is quite obvious.”MoD launches £75m scheme to recognise ‘moral stain’ of armed forces’ historic ban on homosexualityThe assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has sparked a surge of conspiracy theories online surrounding suspect Luigi Mangione and his possible motivations. Amateur sleuths have focused on cryptic symbols, video games, biblical references, and the number 286, which some believe holds the key to unraveling the mystery. Thompson was shot and killed outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 7, 2024, as he was leaving a private dinner. Days later, authorities arrested Mangione, 26, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an extensive manhunt. He was recognized by a McDonald's employee, leading to his capture. Mangione's arrest ignited widespread interest online, with users diving deep into his digital footprint. They searched for clues in his social media presence and linked certain details from the crime scene to his online activities, fueling a variety of conspiracy theories. One of the most popular theories centers on the number 286, with many internet users speculating that the crime had symbolic underpinnings. Several apparent connections to the number 286 have led some to believe the figure holds hidden significance. The most discussed link is Mangione's use of the Pokémon character Breloom in his social media banner. Breloom, a grass-type Pokémon, is listed as #286 in the franchise's Pokédex. Internet users also noted that Mangione had exactly 286 posts on his X (formerly Twitter ) account, under the handle @PepMangione, before his arrest. Adding to the intrigue, Mangione was arrested 286 miles from the location of Thompson's murder. Some TikTok users have tied the number to the Bible's Proverbs 28:6, which reads, "Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways." #foryou #funny #funnyvideos #fyp #pov #foryoupage #fypシ #foryou Another unusual link comes from the world of healthcare billing. Denial code 286 is used when a healthcare claim is rejected due to failure to meet appeal deadlines. Given Mangione's alleged grievances with the healthcare system, some online sleuths believe the use of this specific number may have been intentional. Beyond the obsession with the number 286, Mangione's alleged actions and writings have offered possible clues into his state of mind. Cryptic messages found at the crime scene — the words "delay" and "deny" inscribed on bullet casings — have been seen as symbolic. Some have speculated that the phrases point to the title of the 2010 book "Delay, Deny, Defend," which argues that insurance companies boost profits by withholding payments for legitimate claims. Delay Deny Defend get your bag! #unitedhealthcare #ceo #book #insurance Police also reportedly recovered a three-page handwritten manifesto from Mangione's possessions. The document allegedly contained harsh criticisms of corporate healthcare executives, referring to them as "parasites [who] simply had it coming." According to New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the manifesto "speaks to both his motivation and mindset." Other posts attributed to Mangione on platforms like Goodreads suggest a fascination with revolutionary manifestos. For example, he allegedly reviewed Ted Kaczynski's "Industrial Society and Its Future" (commonly known as the Unabomber Manifesto) and reflected on its predictions about modern society. Meanwhile, some online users have questioned the FBI 's identification of Mangione, suggesting that his eyebrows do not match those of the suspect shown in NYPD-released images. These images, which show the alleged shooter smiling at a hostel clerk in the Upper West Side of New York, have prompted further scrutiny from conspiracy theorists. I think Luigi wasn't working alone. He isn't the sh00ter. #luigimangione #unitedhealthcareceo #brianthompsoncase His glabella, the space between the eyebrows is not matching, And, How Luigi Nicholas Mangione's unibrows grown in few days 😆☕. pic.twitter.com/pKcV6WC9N4 However, law enforcement officials have presented substantial evidence linking Mangione to the crime. At the time of his apprehension, he was carrying a firearm that matched the shell casings found at the crime scene. Additionally, the handwritten manifesto critical of the healthcare industry was discovered in his possession. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny noted that Mangione was not a client of UnitedHealthcare, suggesting that the company's prominence may have made Thompson a symbolic target.

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Cerity Partners LLC lifted its stake in Zebra Technologies Co. ( NASDAQ:ZBRA – Free Report ) by 45.3% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 10,668 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after acquiring an additional 3,328 shares during the period. Cerity Partners LLC’s holdings in Zebra Technologies were worth $3,950,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Point72 Asia Singapore Pte. Ltd. acquired a new position in Zebra Technologies during the second quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc. boosted its stake in Zebra Technologies by 185.3% during the 2nd quarter. Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc. now owns 97 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $30,000 after purchasing an additional 63 shares during the period. Concord Wealth Partners acquired a new stake in shares of Zebra Technologies in the third quarter worth $30,000. Transcendent Capital Group LLC bought a new position in Zebra Technologies during the second quarter worth $32,000. Finally, Massmutual Trust Co. FSB ADV raised its stake in Zebra Technologies by 38.8% during the 2nd quarter. Massmutual Trust Co. FSB ADV now owns 118 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $36,000 after purchasing an additional 33 shares during the last quarter. 91.03% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Zebra Technologies Trading Up 0.3 % Shares of ZBRA opened at $407.00 on Friday. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $380.51 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $344.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.61, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a current ratio of 1.37. Zebra Technologies Co. has a 52-week low of $232.29 and a 52-week high of $409.03. The company has a market cap of $20.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 55.37 and a beta of 1.64. Insider Transactions at Zebra Technologies In other news, CFO Nathan Andrew Winters sold 1,837 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, October 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $381.73, for a total transaction of $701,238.01. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 11,421 shares in the company, valued at $4,359,738.33. The trade was a 13.86 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link . 1.06% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders. Analyst Ratings Changes Several equities research analysts recently weighed in on ZBRA shares. Morgan Stanley increased their target price on shares of Zebra Technologies from $290.00 to $305.00 and gave the company an “underweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. Needham & Company LLC lifted their price objective on Zebra Technologies from $394.00 to $430.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. Truist Financial reissued a “hold” rating and set a $383.00 price objective (up previously from $379.00) on shares of Zebra Technologies in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. Robert W. Baird lifted their price objective on Zebra Technologies from $380.00 to $415.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. Finally, UBS Group raised their target price on Zebra Technologies from $390.00 to $445.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 30th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating, eight have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Zebra Technologies has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $385.18. Check Out Our Latest Stock Report on Zebra Technologies Zebra Technologies Profile ( Free Report ) Zebra Technologies Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise asset intelligence solutions in the automatic identification and data capture solutions industry worldwide. It operates in two segments, Asset Intelligence & Tracking, and Enterprise Visibility & Mobility. The company designs, manufactures, and sells printers that produce labels, wristbands, tickets, receipts, and plastic cards; dye-sublimination thermal card printers that produce images, which are used for personal identification, access control, and financial transactions; radio frequency identification device (RFID) printers that encode data into passive RFID transponders; accessories and options for printers, including carrying cases, vehicle mounts, and battery chargers; stock and customized thermal labels, receipts, ribbons, plastic cards, and RFID tags for printers; and temperature-monitoring labels primarily used in vaccine distribution. See Also Want to see what other hedge funds are holding ZBRA? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Zebra Technologies Co. ( NASDAQ:ZBRA – Free Report ). 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JERUSALEM/BEIRUT >> Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel on Sunday, and the Israeli military said houses had been destroyed or set alight near Tel Aviv, after a powerful Israeli airstrike killed at least 29 people in Beirut the day before. Israel also struck Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, where intensified bombardment over the last two weeks has coincided with signs of progress in U.S.-led ceasefire talks. Hezbollah, which has previously vowed to respond to attacks on Beirut by targeting Tel Aviv, said it had launched precision missiles at two military sites in Tel Aviv and nearby. Police said there were multiple impact sites in the area of Petah Tikvah, on the eastern side of Tel Aviv, and that several people had minor injuries. The Israeli military (IDF) said a direct hit on a neighbourhood had left “houses in flames and ruins”. Television footage showed an apartment damaged by rocket fire. The IDF said Hezbollah had fired 240 rockets at Israel, of which many were intercepted, with sirens sounding across most of the country. At least four people had been injured by shrapnel. Video obtained by Reuters showed a projectile exploding as it smashed into the roof of a building in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya. The military warned on social media that it planned to target Hezbollah facilities in southern Beirut before strikes that demolished two apartment blocks, according to security sources in Lebanon. Afterwards, the IDF said it had hit command centres “deliberately embedded between civilian buildings”. On Saturday, it had carried out one of its deadliest and most powerful strikes on the centre of Beirut. Lebanon’s health ministry on Sunday raised the death toll from 20 to 29. It said 84 people had been killed in all on Saturday, taking the death toll to 3,754 since October 2023. The IDF did not comment on Saturday’s strike in the capital or say what it had attacked. Israel went on the offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah in September, pounding the south, the Bekaa Valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes after nearly a year of hostilities ignited by the Gaza war. U.S. CEASEFIRE PROPOSAL AWAITS ISRAEL’S RESPONSE The Israeli offensive has uprooted more than 1 million people in Lebanon. Israel says its aim is to secure the return home of tens of thousands of people evacuated from its north due to rocket attacks by Hezbollah, which opened fire in support of Hamas at the start of the Gaza war in October 2023. U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein highlighted progress in negotiations during a visit to Beirut last week, before travelling to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz, and then returning to Washington. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday said a U.S. ceasefire proposal was awaiting final approval from Israel. “We must pressure the Israeli government and maintain the pressure on Hezbollah to accept the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire,” he said in Beirut after meeting Lebanese officials. Israeli media reported that Netanyahu had convened a meeting of his security cabinet for 5 p.m. (1500 GMT). Diplomacy has focused on restoring a ceasefire based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a 2006 Hezbollah-Israel war. It requires Hezbollah to pull its fighters back around 30 km (19 miles) from the Israeli border, and the Lebanese army to deploy in the buffer zone. The Lebanese army said on Sunday at least one soldier had been killed and 18 more injured in an Israeli strike that caused severe damage at an army centre in Al-Amiriya near the southern city of Tyre. The Israeli military said it regretted and was investigating the incident, and that it was fighting against Hezbollah, not the Lebanese Army. Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said the attack “represents a direct bloody message rejecting all efforts to reach a ceasefire, strengthen the army’s presence in the south, and implement ... 1701”. Borrell said the EU was ready to allocate 200 million euros ($208 million) to support the Lebanese army. ($1 = 0.9600 euros)

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A ban on New Zealanders wearing or displaying symbols of gang affiliation in public took effect on Thursday, with police officers making their first arrest for a breach of the law three minutes later. The man was driving with gang insignia displayed on the dashboard of his car and was among more than a dozen people arrested or summoned to appear in court for exhibiting such symbols since the law took force, New Zealand’s police said Friday. The prohibition on displaying gang insignia anywhere outside private homes, including on clothing or in vehicles, is among a suite of new measures intended to bolster police powers to disrupt the groups. Wearing or displaying the insignia of 35 listed gangs will now prompt a fine of up to 5,000 New Zealand dollars ($2,940) or up to six months in jail. New Zealand’s center-right government, which pledged ahead of last October’s election to tackle gang crime, says the measures will reduce the membership of groups responsible for violence and drug offenses. But detractors say the law breaches civil liberties and could drive gang activities underground. "Gangs aren’t community groups. They’re not a Rotary club," Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wrote on social media Thursday. “They thrive on destroying the lives of other New Zealanders, whether that’s by peddling drugs or through brutal acts of violence that leave communities in fear.” Under the new law, officers can also disperse public gatherings of three or more members, bar some gang affiliates from associating with each other, and enter homes of those who keep breaking the law to search for banned items. Gang membership will now be considered by the courts when sentencing offenders. Police Minister Mark Mitchell told reporters Thursday that two people were arrested hours after the law took effect for wearing gang “patches,” which are large insignia often worn by gang members on the backs of leather jackets or vests. The government says the patches are intimidating because members are required to earn them through violent acts. The measures shift New Zealand's response to gangs closer to that of neighboring Australia, which also uses a law to suppress the public visibility of gangs, and away from jurisdictions like the U.S. and Britain, which use criminal law to respond to specific activities carried out by organized crime groups, according to a report published by Treasury officials in February. Facial tattoos that display gang insignia are exempt from the ban, as is the wearing of gang colors. The government was criticized by some for not including white supremacist groups in its list of 35 organizations targeted by the new law. That means displaying swastikas and making Nazi salutes remains legal in New Zealand -– unlike in Australia, which banned both in a law that took effect in January. There are nearly 9,400 people on a New Zealand police list of known gang members. New Zealand’s population is 5 million. Successive governments have vowed to tackle criminal gangs, which often are linked to poverty and other deprivation. The previous center-left government was decried by Luxon’s administration for working with gangs on social initiatives, including COVID-19 vaccination efforts, while the current government has been denounced for advancing policies that are likely to ensnare some of New Zealand’s most marginalized groups, including Indigenous Māori. Official reports say three-quarters of those on the national gang list are Māori, who make up less than 20% of New Zealanders, and that 80% to 90% of those in two of the most notorious gangs are former wards of the state. Luxon made a formal apology this month for the widespread abuse of children and vulnerable adults in state care over the past seven decades.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. The 39th president of the United States was a Georgia peanut farmer who sought to restore trust in government when he assumed the presidency in 1977 and then built a reputation for tireless work as a humanitarian. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He died Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia. Recommended Videos At age 52, Carter was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 1977, after defeating President Gerald R. Ford in the 1976 general election. Carter left office on Jan. 20, 1981, following his 1980 general election loss to Ronald Reagan. Here's the latest: A somber announcement The longest-lived American president died Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” The Carter Center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. A Southerner and a man of faith In his 1975 book “Why Not The Best,” Carter said of himself: “I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and among other things a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry.” A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. After he left office and returned home to his tiny hometown of Plains in southwest Georgia, Carter regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world. Former Vice President Gore remembers Carter for life "of purpose” Former Vice President Al Gore praised Jimmy Carter for living “a life full of purpose, commitment and kindness” and for being a “lifelong role model for the entire environmental movement.” Carter, who left the White House in 1981 after a landslide defeat to Ronald Reagan. concentrated on conflict resolution, defending democracy and fighting disease in the developing world. Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, remains a leading advocate for action to fight climate change. Both won Nobel Peace Prizes. Gore said that “it is a testament to his unyielding determination to help build a more just and peaceful world” that Carter is often “remembered equally for the work he did as President as he is for his leadership over the 42 years after he left office.” During Gore’s time in the White House, President Bill Clinton had an uneasy relationship with Carter. But Gore said he is “grateful” for “many years of friendship and collaboration” with Carter. The Clintons react to Jimmy Carter's death Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, remember Carter as a man who lived to serve others. “Hillary and I mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter and give thanks for his long, good life. Guided by his faith, President Carter lived to serve others — until the very end." The statement recalled Carter's many achievements and priorities, including efforts “to protect our natural resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, make energy conservation a national priority, return the Panama Canal to Panama, and secure peace between Egypt and Israel at Camp David." After he left office, the Clinton statement said, Carter continued efforts in "supporting honest elections, advancing peace, combating disease, and promoting democracy; to his and Rosalynn’s devotion and hard work at Habitat for Humanity — he worked tirelessly for a better, fairer world,” the statement said.Alison McConnell: Scotland must step up after uninspiring Euro 25 playoff first legHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania conceded his reelection bid to Republican David McCormick on Thursday, as a statewide recount showed no signs of closing the gap and his campaign suffered repeated blows in court in its effort to get potentially favorable ballots counted. Casey’s concession comes more than two weeks after Election Day, as a grindingly slow ballot-counting process became a spectacle of hours-long election board meetings, social media outrage, lawsuits and accusations that some county officials were openly flouting the law. Republicans had been claiming that Democrats were trying to steal McCormick’s seat by counting “illegal votes.” Casey’s campaign had accused of Republicans of trying to block enough votes to prevent him from pulling ahead and winning. In a statement, Casey said he had just called McCormick to congratulate him. “As the first count of ballots is completed, Pennsylvanians can move forward with the knowledge that their voices were heard, whether their vote was the first to be counted or the last," Casey said. The Associated Press called the race for McCormick on Nov. 7, concluding that not enough ballots remained to be counted in areas Casey was winning for him to take the lead. As of Thursday, McCormick led by about 16,000 votes out of almost 7 million ballots counted. That was well within the 0.5% margin threshold to trigger an automatic statewide recount under Pennsylvania law. But no election official expected a recount to change more than a couple hundred votes or so, and Pennsylvania's highest court dealt him a blow when it refused entreaties to allow counties to count mail-in ballots that lacked a correct handwritten date on the return envelope. Republicans will have a 53-47 majority next year in the U.S. Senate. Follow Marc Levy at twitter.com/timelywriter

In today's Daily Fix:Star Wars Outlaws got a huge update that brought some quality-of-life improvements, and even removed an aspect of the gameplay. Many gamers complained about Outlaws' stealth elements, so Ubisoft decided to make it a lot more forgiving. In missions where you previously could not alert the enemy, you can now go guns blazing, and you won't "fail" the mission. There's also some gunplay improvements and other things, so check out IGN.com for the full patch notes. In other news, CD Projekt Red isn't working on a PS5 Pro update for Cyberpunk 2077. In a response to a tweet, CDPR confirmed they aren't currently working on an update (though it doesn't mean one won't come at some point), and it's likely the developer is focusing on new games, like the next Cyberpunk or Witcher titles. And finally, don't expect a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth 'Intergrade' update like FF7 Remake got. The game's director confirmed the company would rather focus on Part 3 rather than DLC for the existing game.

The CBI has arrested a senior official of Bridge and Roof Company (India) Limited, a central PSU, in connection with a bribery case after Rs 10 lakh was seized from a luxury car in which he was travelling in Bhubaneswar, officials said Sunday. Besides Chanchal Mukherjee , Group General Manager (GGM) of Bridge and Roof Company, two private persons -- Santosh Moharana, Director of Penta A Studio Private Limited and middleman Debadutta Mohapatra -- were also arrested for allegedly bribing Mukherjee, they said. The central probe agency had conducted a trap operation after registering a case against four persons including the three arrested accused. According to the CBI, the accused were allegedly indulging in corrupt and illegal activities in the matter of awarding work orders of the PSU and clearing bills in lieu of undue advantage in the form of bribe. It was alleged that accused Moharana met the group general manager (Mukherjee) at his Bhubaneswar office on December 6 during which the GGM demanded Rs 10 lakh and promised to adjust the said amount in future billings, a CBI spokesperson said. After doing preliminary verification, the CBI laid a trap on Saturday where Mukherjee was caught taking Rs 10 lakh bribe in a Mercedes Maybach car. 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Pedro Martinez Losa made all the right noises in the aftermath of Scotland’s fairly insipid draw with Finland at Easter Road on Friday night. Scotland only need one goal. The result is the same for both teams. The tie is very much alive. All true. But equally true is that the balance of the tie is tipped in favour of Finland who will feel emboldened by the point they took against Scotland. With home advantage in Helsinki for Tuesday’s second leg, one suspects they will ask deeper questions of Scotland. Martinez Losa’s remit when he was appointed as manager of the women’s national team in 2021 was to get Scotland back to a major tournament. The World Cup in 2019 was still fresh in the minds, albeit the wounds of the fallout at that time remained visible. Defeat to the Republic of Ireland at Hampden to deny Scotland a place at last summer’s Women’s World Cup was no barrier to a fresh contract offer for the Spaniard who signed an extension to his deal last September. Read more: Scotland manager admits Finland game was 'not the nicest to watch' Hearts to appoint former Scotland manager in transformative new role This time last year Scotland were battered by England at Hampden in a Nations League group that was more than simply sobering. Scotland have regrouped since then. They went into these play-offs on the back of solid results, encouraging performances and with lots of talk that this is a team who deserve to be competing on the biggest stages, against the best teams. Yet there was nothing of that aggression or conviction on show. If Scotland are to prevail – and it is still within their grasp – the performance needs to be night and day from what it was on Friday night. Eartha Cumings was by far the busier of both goalkeepers while her opposite number had little of note to cope with. It is worth pointing out that Scotland are the last team to beat Finland in Finland so anyone looking for a bit of hope can find it, should they tend to a glass half full philosophy. But they won’t find it on the evidence of Friday’s night game. It was a turgid and flat affair. That may not be entirely unusual in a two-legged play-off final when the stakes are so high for both teams and there is an inevitable anxiety within the game. What was notable, though, was the lack of courage within the game. Scotland looked inhibited by the challenge rather than excited by it. Erin Cuthbert had suggested before the game that she was sick of talking about it and wanted to give everything she had to say on the matter into a performance on the pitch. But she was unable to influence or dictate in the middle of the park. Ditto Caroline Weir. The Real Madrid midfielder has been flying in Spain after her return from an ACL injury but Finland shackled her – and Scotland – on Friday night. For a team who had gone into the game on the back of a sequence of eight games unbeaten, the confidence ought to have been oozing out of Scotland, as it was when they played Hungary last month to get to the play-off final. Perhaps it is a mental thing; Finland ended Scotland’s last European Championships campaign four years ago at the same venue around the same time of year. There is historically very little between the teams – the Finns beat Scotland in a penalty shoot-out in the Pinatar Cup in February this year – but it was the visitors who looked the more assured at Easter Road. Scotland need to ramp it up in Helsinki if they are to harbour any serious ambition of being at the Euros rather than with their noses pressed against the glass this summer. Read more: Celtic to honour passing of former player against Ross County Why Rodgers is sure Arne Engels will come good at Celtic AND ANOTHER THING Celtic manager Elena Sadiku was named Women’s Manager of the Year at an awards dinner at Hampden last night. It would have felt a little parochial when compared to the company she ended the week keeping. While the Swede would have been delighted to accept the accolade, of far more significance is her name on FIFA’s ‘The Best’ shortlist. It is unlikely that Sadiku would be oblivious to the attention she has received in recent months but her presence on such a prestigious and globally renowned celebration would underline how much of a hot ticket she is at the minute. The Swede, the youngest coach in the men’s or women’s Champions League, has made a bit of a name for herself since taking over the Celtic job at the start of the year. Having led Celtic to the their first ever title and to a place in the group stages of the Champions League for the first time, it will be interesting to see whether or not she is still at the club after this season. AND FINALLY Who can name the recent winners of the BBC Women’s Player of the Year? This year’s winner, Barbra Branda, has his hit the headlines and for obvious reasons. The cynic within would suggest that there was a reason for why Branda was given the award and it would be interesting to read the details of the reasons why the player was designated to be the best in the women’s game. The award’s shortlist was decided by a panel of independent football experts with the winner selected by public vote. But there is a serious need for legislation of what constitutes a male and female player. The danger here for women is that women’s sport, which has been the subject of a longstanding battle for equality and recognition, is under threat of erosion.New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Sunday that his government considers India’s eastern region as the country’s growth engine, while the area was considered backward earlier. Addressing a gathering at the “Odisha Parba” event here, the Prime Minister said investments of Rs 45,000 crore have been approved within 100 days of the formation of a new government in the state. “Odisha has always been a land of seers and scholars. The way the scholars here took our religious texts to every household and connected the public with those, it has played a crucial role in the cultural prosperity of India. “There was a time when India’s eastern region and the states there were called backward. However, I consider India’s eastern region as the country’s growth engine. That is why we have prioritised the development of India’s eastern region,” he said. “The budget that we now allocate to Odisha is three times higher than what it was 10 years ago. We are working rapidly in every sector for Odisha’s development and the budget has been increased by 30 per cent this year,” Modi added. The Prime Minister informed that the Centre is committed to promoting ease of doing business in Odisha and said investments of Rs 45,000 crore have been approved within 100 days of the formation of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state. “Last year, the G20 Summit was held in India. During the G20 Summit, we showcased the photo of the Sun Temple (in Konark). I am also glad that all four doors of the Jagannath temple (in Puri) are open now. Besides, the Ratna Bhandar of the temple is also open,” he added. “Odisha Parba” is a flagship event conducted by the Odia Samaj, a Delhi-based trust engaged supporting promotion of Odia heritage. This year, “Odisha Parba” was organised from November 22 to November 24 to showcase the rich heritage of Odisha, displaying colourful cultural forms and exhibiting the vibrant social, cultural and political ethos of the state.

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The Latest: Former President Jimmy Carter is Dead at age 100ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said. A president from Plains A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed hostage rescue in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter acknowledged in his 2020 “White House Diary” that he could be “micromanaging” and “excessively autocratic,” complicating dealings with Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He also turned a cold shoulder to Washington’s news media and lobbyists, not fully appreciating their influence on his political fortunes. “It didn’t take us long to realize that the underestimation existed, but by that time we were not able to repair the mistake,” Carter told historians in 1982, suggesting that he had “an inherent incompatibility” with Washington insiders. Carter insisted his overall approach was sound and that he achieved his primary objectives — to “protect our nation’s security and interests peacefully” and “enhance human rights here and abroad” — even if he fell spectacularly short of a second term. And then, the world Ignominious defeat, though, allowed for renewal. The Carters founded The Carter Center in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind base of operations, asserting themselves as international peacemakers and champions of democracy, public health and human rights. “I was not interested in just building a museum or storing my White House records and memorabilia,” Carter wrote in a memoir published after his 90th birthday. “I wanted a place where we could work.” That work included easing nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiating cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, The Carter Center had declared at least 113 elections in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be free or fraudulent. Recently, the center began monitoring U.S. elections as well. Carter’s stubborn self-assuredness and even self-righteousness proved effective once he was unencumbered by the Washington order, sometimes to the point of frustrating his successors . He went “where others are not treading,” he said, to places like Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had wandered across the border in 2010. “I can say what I like. I can meet whom I want. I can take on projects that please me and reject the ones that don’t,” Carter said. He announced an arms-reduction-for-aid deal with North Korea without clearing the details with Bill Clinton’s White House. He openly criticized President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also criticized America’s approach to Israel with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And he repeatedly countered U.S. administrations by insisting North Korea should be included in international affairs, a position that most aligned Carter with Republican President Donald Trump. Among the center’s many public health initiatives, Carter vowed to eradicate the guinea worm parasite during his lifetime, and nearly achieved it: Cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to nearly a handful. With hardhats and hammers, the Carters also built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Nobel committee’s 2002 Peace Prize cites his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter should have won it alongside Sadat and Begin in 1978, the chairman added. Carter accepted the recognition saying there was more work to be done. “The world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place,” he said. “The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.” ‘An epic American life’ Carter’s globetrotting took him to remote villages where he met little “Jimmy Carters,” so named by admiring parents. But he spent most of his days in the same one-story Plains house — expanded and guarded by Secret Service agents — where they lived before he became governor. He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the small sanctuary where Carter will receive his final send-off after a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral. The common assessment that he was a better ex-president than president rankled Carter and his allies. His prolific post-presidency gave him a brand above politics, particularly for Americans too young to witness him in office. But Carter also lived long enough to see biographers and historians reassess his White House years more generously. His record includes the deregulation of key industries, reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign oil, cautious management of the national debt and notable legislation on the environment, education and mental health. He focused on human rights in foreign policy, pressuring dictators to release thousands of political prisoners . He acknowledged America’s historical imperialism, pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders and relinquished control of the Panama Canal. He normalized relations with China. “I am not nominating Jimmy Carter for a place on Mount Rushmore,” Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy director, wrote in a 2018 book. “He was not a great president” but also not the “hapless and weak” caricature voters rejected in 1980, Eizenstat said. Rather, Carter was “good and productive” and “delivered results, many of which were realized only after he left office.” Madeleine Albright, a national security staffer for Carter and Clinton’s secretary of state, wrote in Eizenstat’s forward that Carter was “consequential and successful” and expressed hope that “perceptions will continue to evolve” about his presidency. “Our country was lucky to have him as our leader,” said Albright, who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter should be remembered for “an epic American life” spanning from a humble start in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing through decades on the world stage across two centuries. “He will likely go down as one of the most misunderstood and underestimated figures in American history,” Alter told The Associated Press. A small-town start James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains and spent his early years in nearby Archery. His family was a minority in the mostly Black community, decades before the civil rights movement played out at the dawn of Carter’s political career. Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery’s tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery. His mother, Lillian , would become a staple of his political campaigns. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — Carter won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains. His decision angered Rosalynn, even as she dived into the peanut business alongside her husband. Carter again failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions — but this time, she was on board. “My wife is much more political,” Carter told the AP in 2021. He won a state Senate seat in 1962 but wasn’t long for the General Assembly and its back-slapping, deal-cutting ways. He ran for governor in 1966 — losing to arch-segregationist Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. Carter had spoken out against church segregation as a Baptist deacon and opposed racist “Dixiecrats” as a state senator. Yet as a local school board leader in the 1950s he had not pushed to end school segregation even after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration. And in 1970, Carter ran for governor again as the more conservative Democrat against Carl Sanders, a wealthy businessman Carter mocked as “Cufflinks Carl.” Sanders never forgave him for anonymous, race-baiting flyers, which Carter disavowed. Ultimately, Carter won his races by attracting both Black voters and culturally conservative whites. Once in office, he was more direct. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he declared in his 1971 inaugural address, setting a new standard for Southern governors that landed him on the cover of Time magazine. 'Jimmy Who?' His statehouse initiatives included environmental protection, boosting rural education and overhauling antiquated executive branch structures. He proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the slain civil rights leader’s home state. And he decided, as he received presidential candidates in 1972, that they were no more talented than he was. In 1974, he ran Democrats’ national campaign arm. Then he declared his own candidacy for 1976. An Atlanta newspaper responded with the headline: “Jimmy Who?” The Carters and a “Peanut Brigade” of family members and Georgia supporters camped out in Iowa and New Hampshire, establishing both states as presidential proving grounds. His first Senate endorsement: a young first-termer from Delaware named Joe Biden. Yet it was Carter’s ability to navigate America’s complex racial and rural politics that cemented the nomination. He swept the Deep South that November, the last Democrat to do so, as many white Southerners shifted to Republicans in response to civil rights initiatives. A self-declared “born-again Christian,” Carter drew snickers by referring to Scripture in a Playboy magazine interview, saying he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” The remarks gave Ford a new foothold and television comedians pounced — including NBC’s new “Saturday Night Live” show. But voters weary of cynicism in politics found it endearing. Carter chose Minnesota Sen. Walter “Fritz” Mondale as his running mate on a “Grits and Fritz” ticket. In office, he elevated the vice presidency and the first lady’s office. Mondale’s governing partnership was a model for influential successors Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Biden. Rosalynn Carter was one of the most involved presidential spouses in history, welcomed into Cabinet meetings and huddles with lawmakers and top aides. The Carters presided with uncommon informality: He used his nickname “Jimmy” even when taking the oath of office, carried his own luggage and tried to silence the Marine Band’s “Hail to the Chief.” They bought their clothes off the rack. Carter wore a cardigan for a White House address, urging Americans to conserve energy by turning down their thermostats. Amy, the youngest of four children, attended District of Columbia public school. Washington’s social and media elite scorned their style. But the larger concern was that “he hated politics,” according to Eizenstat, leaving him nowhere to turn politically once economic turmoil and foreign policy challenges took their toll. Accomplishments, and ‘malaise’ Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He designated millions of acres of Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and nonwhite people to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter left office. He built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. But he couldn’t immediately tame inflation or the related energy crisis. And then came Iran. After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the hostages broke down repeatedly ahead of the failed rescue attempt. The same year, Carter signed SALT II, the new strategic arms treaty with Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, only to pull it back, impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise” speech, although he didn’t use that word. He declared the nation was suffering “a crisis of confidence.” By then, many Americans had lost confidence in the president, not themselves. Carter campaigned sparingly for reelection because of the hostage crisis, instead sending Rosalynn as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Carter famously said he’d “kick his ass,” but was hobbled by Kennedy as Reagan rallied a broad coalition with “make America great again” appeals and asking voters whether they were “better off than you were four years ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, eviscerating him in their lone fall debate with the quip: “There you go again.” Carter lost all but six states and Republicans rolled to a new Senate majority. Carter successfully negotiated the hostages’ freedom after the election, but in one final, bitter turn of events, Tehran waited until hours after Carter left office to let them walk free. 'A wonderful life' At 56, Carter returned to Georgia with “no idea what I would do with the rest of my life.” Four decades after launching The Carter Center, he still talked of unfinished business. “I thought when we got into politics we would have resolved everything,” Carter told the AP in 2021. “But it’s turned out to be much more long-lasting and insidious than I had thought it was. I think in general, the world itself is much more divided than in previous years.” Still, he affirmed what he said when he underwent treatment for a cancer diagnosis in his 10th decade of life. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said in 2015 . “I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” ___ Former Associated Press journalist Alex Sanz contributed to this report.

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Gilbert makes clutch layup, steal as No. 7 LSU beats Washington 68-67 in the BahamasLeBron James at 40: A milestone birthday arrives Monday for the NBA's all-time scoring leader When LeBron James broke another NBA record earlier this month, the one for most regular-season minutes played in a career, his Los Angeles Lakers teammates handled the moment in typical locker room fashion. They made fun of him. Dubbed The Kid from Akron, with a limitless future, James is now the 40-year-old from Los Angeles with wisps of gray in his beard, his milestone birthday coming Monday, one that will make him the first player in NBA history to play in his teens, 20s, 30s and 40s. He has stood and excelled in the spotlight his entire career. 'Sonic 3' and 'Mufasa' battle for No. 1 at the holiday box office Two family films are dominating the holiday box office, with “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” winning the three-day weekend over “Mufasa” by a blue hair. According to studio estimates Sunday, the Sonic movie earned $38 million, while “Mufasa” brought in $37.1 million from theaters in the U.S. and Canada. The R-rated horror “Nosferatu” placed third with an unexpectedly strong $21.2 million. Thanksgiving release holdovers “Wicked” and “Moana 2” rounded out the top five. Christmas Day had several big film openings, including the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” the Nicole Kidman erotic drama “Babygirl” and the boxing drama “The Fire Inside.” Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes in a first for the EU BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations. Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke tells The Associated Press that the inexpensive e-cigarettes have turned into a health threat since they are an easy way for teenagers to be drawn into smoking and get hooked on nicotine. 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The Skamania County Sheriff’s Office says the 59-year-old and 37-year-old appear to have died from exposure. The sheriff's office says it based that conclusion on the weather and their lack of preparedness. Both men were from Portland. They were found in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest northeast of that city. Family reported them missing after they failed to return from a Christmas Eve outing. Sasquatch is a folkloric beast thought by some to roam the forests, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.Neal Maupay aims savage jibe at parent club Everton after nightmare spell with the club - before boxing star and Toffees fan Tony Bellew hits back with x-rated response Neal Maupay trolled Everton after their 2-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest Former boxing star Tony Bellew was enraged by the striker's post and responded LISTEN NOW: It's All Kicking Off! New formation, some new faces, but the optimism has gone at Old Trafford By YASEEN ZAMAN Published: 22:32 GMT, 29 December 2024 | Updated: 22:32 GMT, 29 December 2024 e-mail View comments Neal Maupay took to social media to poke fun at his parent club Everton after they suffered a 2-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest on Sunday. The Frenchman joined the Toffees in August 2022 from Brighton and left this summer to join Marseille on loan. He is still contracted to Everton, but his deal at the Ligue 1 club lasts until the end of the season with an obligation to buy for £6million, rising to £10m if certain requirements are met. Despite this, Maupay is clearly content with his parent club's struggles this season, as Sean Dyche 's side lie just three points clear of the relegation zone in 16th place. Speaking on X, the striker said: 'Whenever I'm having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile.' Former boxer and Everton fan Tony Bellew took offence to the post, replying: 'P***k' Neal Maupay aimed multiple jibes at his parent club Everton after their 2-0 defeat on Sunday Ex-WBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew is a life-long Everton fan and Merseyside native Bellew issued an x-rated response to Maupay after a cheeky dig towards his hometown club Bellew, the former WBC cruiserweight champion, is a Merseyside native and has even been paraded by his boyhood club during half-time at Goodison Park. In his boxing career, he entered the ring to the 'Theme from Z-Cars', the same song to which Everton enter the pitch at their home ground. Maupay's jibes did not stop at that one post, as he followed up by issuing a reply to a frustrated Everton fan. The fan wrote: 'Next time you play Everton you're going to get snapped. That will pipe you right down.' The forward responded, 'See you in the Championship next season!' before writing '*championship', implying that Everton will be relegated from the Premier League. During his time on Merseyside, Maupay scored just one goal in 32 games. His spell at Everton included a season-long loan to his former club Brentford in 2023-24, where he netted eight times in 31 games. This fiasco is not the first time the 28-year-old has trolled Everton on social media. Maupay gave a savage response to an Everton fan on X who was frustrated at his initial post The Frenchman has scored two goals in 12 games since moving to Marseille in the summer His woeful record in front of goal at Everton saw him net once in 32 games in all competitions Upon the public announcement of his move to Marseille in August, he posted a video of Andy Dufresne from the film The Shawshank Redemption online. The clip showed Dufresne celebrating his escape from prison, before ripping off his shirt as he screams in elation in the rain. Since moving back to his home country, Maupay has scored twice in 12 games. Roberto De Zerbi's side lie second in Ligue 1 and are in good shape to contend for a Champions League qualification spot for next season's competition. Everton Tony Bellew Share or comment on this article: Neal Maupay aims savage jibe at parent club Everton after nightmare spell with the club - before boxing star and Toffees fan Tony Bellew hits back with x-rated response e-mail Add comment