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As a father of three young children, state Sen. Donovan Fenton has learned how to be patient. The Keene Democrat says he’ll likely have to use that skill a lot next year in the N.H. Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, 16-8. In this year’s session, the GOP had a 14-10 edge. In any case, Fenton, who represents much of the Monadnock Region, said in a recent interview that he is always ready to work across the political aisle on any bill, no matter the partisan split. Among those sitting across that aisle will be Ruth Ward, R-Stoddard, a five-term senator, whose district includes Acworth, Charlestown, Gilsum, Langdon, Marlow and Stoddard. One issue they differ on is the Education Freedom Accounts program, New Hampshire’s school voucher system. The program uses taxpayer dollars to pay for parents to send their children to private, religious or home schools, which Fenton says drains sorely needed money from public schools. Ward would like to see the program expanded. To qualify, a student’s family income may not exceed 350 percent of the poverty level, or $109,200 per year for a family of four. Ward, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, is the co-sponsor of a bill that would open Education Freedom Accounts to everybody, no matter how much they earn. “You should not need to undergo a means test for the program,” she said in an interview Thursday. “If you want to leave your local school and go somewhere else, you should be able to do that without having to worry about how much money you earn.” She acknowledged that proposals to expand the voucher system are contingent in part on the state’s revenue picture. Lawmakers will be drawing up a new, two-year budget next year. House Bill 1665, which would have increased the allowable income to qualify for the program, did not pass earlier this year. It would have upped that income amount to five times the federal poverty level, or $156,000 a year, and would have cost taxpayers $43.4 million, bringing the program’s annual price tag to $66 million. Fenton called it “an absolutely horrible bill.” He said the school voucher system lacks academic and financial accountability. “We have no idea if this program is successful,” he said. “Whereas when we spend money on public education, we audit it, we track it, we test it. This program has none of that.” On other topics, Fenton said he will be backing legislation in 2025 to promote housing stability, improve veterans’ benefits, make free lunches available to more public school students and increase funding for rail trails. He is also supporting creation of a study committee to look at the problem of school bullying. These bills are in the proposal stage and actual legislative wording is not available yet. Fenton, who was reelected in November to his second Senate term, also said he will be supporting a renewed legislative attempt by Rep. Terry Roy, R-Deerfield, to have the state join most others in reporting to the national background check system when courts have determined that a person poses a danger to themselves or others. Such people are prohibited under federal law from acquiring or possessing a gun, and the national system would advise a gun seller not to go through a transaction in these cases. Roy’s bill passed the N.H. House this year but died in the Senate. Ward joined other Senate Republicans in a party-line vote to table the bill, removing it from further consideration. She is co-sponsoring proposals for the next legislative session that would invalidate out-of-state driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants. “If you have somebody here who is not a legal citizen but has a driver’s license issued by another state that is more lenient than New Hampshire, I think we indeed need to take a good look at that issue,” Ward said. She has also signed on to a proposal that would raise the minimum age for sports betting in New Hampshire. That age now is 18, while most states set it at 21. “A lot of kids get hooked on this kind of betting,” Ward said. “They are spending a lot of money and sometimes get into trouble with their finances with that.” On a different educational issue, N.H. House Speaker Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, is backing an effort next year to create “a parental bill of rights,” the third time over the past two years that this kind of legislation has been proposed. Ward has been supportive of such legislation, while Fenton has been adamantly against. Such bills are aimed at protecting or strengthening parental rights as related to their public school students. Proponents argue that this would ensure they are properly informed of what their child is experiencing at school. Opponents say parents already have the rights being sought, and that these measures, nevertheless, would put school teachers and administrators in untenable situations. The N.H. Legislature returns to session on Jan. 8.

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NoneWatch Wicked Movie’s ‘What Is This Feeling?’ Performance by Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo By has released a , showing off and ‘s performance of “What Is This Feeling?” from the recently released movie. What happens in the Wicked video? The new video shows off the performance of “What Is This Feeling?” in its entirety. The song itself is about Galinda (Grande) and Elphaba (Erivo) rooming together at Shiz University, and their initial disdain for one another as they get to know each other. Check out the song below: The movies are directed by Jon M. Chu from a screenplay written by the musical’s book writer Winnie Holzman. It is based on Gregory Maguire’s bestselling novel and the Tony-winning stage musical. The ensemble cast is led by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, who play Galinda Upland and Elphaba Thropp in the film, respectively. The rest of the cast includes Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar, Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard of Oz, Peter Dinklage as Doctor Dillamond, Bowen Yang as Pfannee, Keala Settle as Miss Coddle, Marissa Bode as Nessarose Thropp, Bronwyn James as ShenShen, Ethan Slater as Boq, and more. “The film tells the untold story of the witches of Oz: Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power; and Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart,” reads the official synopsis. “The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences on her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.” Wicked: Part One is out now in theaters. The sequel, , is currently set for November 21, 2025. Anthony Nash has been writing about games and the gaming industry for nearly a decade. When he’s not writing about games, he’s usually playing them. You can find him on Twitter talking about games or sports at @_anthonynash. Share article

Sportscaster Greg Gumbel dies from cancer at age 78Pep Guardiola’s side avoided the indignity of a sixth successive defeat in all competitions and looked on course for a welcome victory thanks to a double from Erling Haaland – the first from the penalty spot – and a deflected effort from Ilkay Gundogan. Yet Guardiola was left with his head in hands as Feyenoord roared back in the last 15 minutes with goals from Anis Hadj Moussa, Sergio Gimenez and David Hancko, two of them after Josko Gvardiol errors. FULL-TIME | A point apiece. 🩵 3-3 ⚫️ #ManCity | #UCL pic.twitter.com/6oj1nEOIwm — Manchester City (@ManCity) November 26, 2024 Arsenal delivered the statement Champions League win Mikel Arteta had demanded as they swept aside Sporting Lisbon 5-1. Arteta wanted his team to prove their European credentials, and goals from Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz, Gabriel, Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard got their continental campaign back on track in style following the 1-0 defeat at Inter Milan last time out. A memorable victory also ended Sporting’s unbeaten start to the season, a streak of 17 wins and one draw, the vast majority of which prompted Manchester United to prise away head coach Ruben Amorim. Putting on a show at Sporting 🌟 pic.twitter.com/Yi9MgRZEkl — Arsenal (@Arsenal) November 26, 2024 Paris St Germain were left in serious of danger of failing to progress in the Champions League as they fell to a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. Kim Min-jae’s header late in the first half was enough to send PSG to a third defeat in the competition this season, leaving them six points off the automatic qualification places for the last 16 with three games to play. Luis Enrique’s side, who had Ousmane Dembele sent off, were deservedly beaten by Bayern who dominated chances and possession. 🔔 FULL TIME – Victory at home! +3 in the #UCL 👏❤️ #FCBayern #MiaSanMia | #FCBPSG #UCL pic.twitter.com/BYE23dXXih — FC Bayern (@FCBayernEN) November 26, 2024 Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid were 6-0 winners away to Sparta Prague, Julian Alvarez and Angel Correa each scoring twice whilst there were also goals from Marcos Llorente and Antoine Griezmann. Barcelona ended tournament debutants Brest’s unbeaten start with a 3-0 victory courtesy of two goals from Robert Lewandowski – one a penalty – and Dani Olmo. Lewandowski’s first was his 100th Champions League goal, only the third man to reach the mark after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. A Castello Lukeba own goal saw Inter Milan go top of the standings with a narrow 1-0 win over RB Leipzig at San Siro, whilst Bayer Leverkusen were emphatic victors against Red Bull Salzburg, Florian Wirtz scoring twice to move Xabi Alonso’s side into the automatic qualification places. Atalanta continued their strong start, albeit whilst conceding a first goal in Europe this season in a 6-1 win away to Young Boys, whilst Tammy Abraham scored the decisive goal as AC Milan beat Slovan Bratislava 3-2.

Tyrone GAA are winning the war against organised crime gangs who have intercepted live streams of their championship matches. A number of pirate operations have been shut down due to a combination of prosecutions and enhanced computer software. A dramatic drop in revenue from its streaming service has been reversed, and Tyrone GAA TV is flourishing once again. Read more: Recap as Slaughtneil suffer more All-Ireland semi-final heartbreak as Sarsfield claim controversial one-point win Read more: Queen's manager gives his take on new Gaelic football rules not being applied in the Sigerson Cup The county’s IT officer, Gerard Bradley, confirmed that subscriptions to coverage of the Tyrone Championship have recovered to healthy levels. “The live stream of this year’s championship attracted a very substantial increase in subscribers,” he said in his annual report. “The increase was due to range of factors including the deployment of software technologies and identification of the accounts used by the IPTV pirates, “ Bradley confirmed. “Tyrone GAA has to strike a delicate balance between a highly secure service for genuine subscribers that requires a level of IT expertise to access the live stream and a service that is open to piracy. “Making the pirate services unreliable did lead to many of those with ‘dodgy firesticks’ not being willing to take a risk with an unreliable illegal service for subsequent fixtures. “The civil authorities have recently successfully prosecuted a number of pirates, including high profiles cases north and south of the border.” Every championship game, in all three grades, senior, intermediate and junior, is broadcast live by Tyrone GAA TV. The Tyrone GAA website, meanwhile, is on course to hit the three million mark in hits this year. “By the time this report is published it is likely to have exceeded three million views in this calendar year,” added Bradley. "The website continues to be the most popular online platform for Tyrone GAA, dominated by viewers looking at club fixtures and results. While not on the same scale as Fixtures and Results, there are also significant numbers using the website for reference material and club information. "The website peaked for views on the biggest championship Sunday of the year in September of this year, when it attracted 48,243 visitors." Sign up to our free sports newsletter to get the latest headlines to your inboxFORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Dallion Johnson scored 25 points as FGCU beat Florida Tech 79-62 on Sunday. Johnson shot 9 for 16, including 6 for 12 from beyond the arc for the Eagles (4-8). Keeshawn Kellman added 14 points while shooting 6 of 8 from the field while he also had nine rebounds. Rahmir Barno shot 5 of 6 from the field and 2 for 3 from the line to finish with 12 points, while adding seven assists and six steals. The Panthers were led in scoring by Donovan Brown, who finished with 26 points, six rebounds and six assists. Can Kaan Turgut added 13 points and six rebounds for Florida Tech. Logan Allen also had nine points. FGCU visits Richmond in its next matchup on Saturday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here . > 24/7 San Diego news stream: Watch NBC 7 free wherever you are U.S. government shutdown suspended The U.S. government narrowly avoided a shutdown after President Joe Biden signed a stopgap government funding bill on Saturday. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk thwarted an initial, negotiated funding plan Wednesday by harshly criticizing its provisions, and specifically insisted on suspending the U.S. debt limit for two years. Slight chill in price increases U.S. headline inflation in November rose just 0.1% from October , according to the personal consumption expenditures price index. On an annual basis, prices increased 2.4%. Both readings were 10 basis points lower than expected. Core inflation also came in 10 basis points below forecast. The PCE is the U.S. Federal Reserve's preferred gauge of inflation. U.S. and Asia-Pacific markets rise On Friday, the S&P 500 rose 1.09%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.18% and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.03%. But all indexes fell on the week . Asia-Pacific stocks rose on Monday, following a positive finish on Wall Street on Friday. Japan's Nikkei 225 advanced around 1.2% as Honda , Nissan and Mitsubishi reportedly informed the country's industry ministry about beginning merger talks. CEOs see the door Blue-chip companies, such as Boeing , Intel and Starbucks , announced changes in their chief executive officers this year. They're not alone. There were 327 CEO departures in U.S. public companies this year through November, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That's the highest level since the firm started tracking data in 2010. [PRO] Betting on Broadcom Nvidia is undeniably the king of the artificial intelligence chip space, and it's hard to see any company dethroning it in terms of market capitalization. But one portfolio manager told CNBC that Broadcom is "the next Nvidia in terms of outperformance potential Money Report Honda and Nissan officially begin merger talks to create world's third-largest automaker Meet Botto, the AI ‘machine artist' making millions of dollars Stocks sold off on Wednesday after the Fed indicated it sees two quarter-point rate cuts in the year ahead, fewer than the four previously projected. "We have been moving sideways on 12-month inflation," said Fed Chair Jerome Powell at his news conference. But November's PCE came in cooler than expected. "Sticky inflation appeared to be a little less stuck this morning," said Chris Larkin, managing director of trading and investing at E-Trade Morgan Stanley. The Fed has emphasized again and again that it's "data-dependent." Would the Fed, then, have presented the world with a slightly different dot plot, if they'd had the chance to review the PCE data first? Giving slight credence to that train of thought, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee told CNBC's Steve Liesman he's hopeful November's inflation reading "suggests that the couple of months of firming were more of a bump than a change in path." In other words, the economy is "still on path to get to 2%," said Goolsbee. Then again, Powell said in July that the central bank would be "data dependent, but not data-point dependent" in determining when to cut rates. Even if November's PCE index did signal inflation returning to its downward trajectory, one month's data wouldn't have shifted the dots around. Perhaps two consecutive months of cooler reading might have? Those questions are rhetorical. Conditional questions are unanswerable, especially in markets. But in their indeterminacy and circuitous nature, they highlight the fact that trying to time or game the market, especially in volatile times like these, might not be the best idea. Instead, dig deep into the fundamentals — earnings, cash flow, future income — which sway stocks even as inflation and interest rates rise and fall. Remember the days when inflation reports and Fed meetings were just another day in markets? — CNBC's Jesse Pound, Brian Evans and Sean Conlon contributed to this report. Also on CNBC With cooler-than-expected PCE, would the Fed’s dot plot have looked different? In search of certainty, markets find volatility instead More certainty of increased volatilitySparks scores 20 off the bench, Ball State knocks off Evansville 80-43Report: Iowa CB Jermari Harris opts out of rest of seasonThe list of President-elect Donald Trump's legal cases is shrinking — or being delayed. On Monday, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion to dismiss the Washington, D.C. election subversion case. He also asked a federal appeals court to stop reviewing the classified documents case in Florida. On Tuesday, that court granted dismissal of the case against Trump — though not against other appellees. In dismissing the cases, the Special Counsel cited the Department of Justice's long-standing policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents. "After careful consideration, the Department has determined that OLC's prior opinions concerning the Constitution's prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President apply to this situation and that as a result this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated," Smith wrote in his court filing regarding the election subversion case. "We've used the word unprecedented a lot over the course of the last four years, and yet again this is something that is unprecedented, and Smith himself said this in his motion," former state and federal prosecutor David S. Weinstein told Scripps News. "He took great detail to point out that this was not based on the strength or weakness of the case." In a post on Truth Social , Trump said in part "These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless." RELATED STORY | Special counsel evaluating how to wind down federal cases against Trump Earlier this year, Trump faced four on-going criminal cases. He was convicted in his New York hush money case in May, but sentencing — which was scheduled for this week — has been delayed . After Smith's actions Monday, Trump now faces only the Georgia election interference case. In Georgia, Trump was indicted along with 18 allies, accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. But that case is now on hold after the state appeals court unexpectedly removed a December hearing from its calendar. That court will issue a new order on how this case will move forward, but with less than two months before the inauguration, the future of the Georgia and New York hush money cases are still being decided. "The two state cases are likely to recede into the background — at best," former Department of Justice attorney and current partner at Gelber, Schachter & Greenberg, Barbara Llanes, told Scripps News. "We probably won't hear much about these cases following the inauguration of President-elect Trump." Defense attorneys for Trump believe his election victory is enough for the hush money case to be dismissed. They need to file a motion by Dec. 2 making that argument. Then prosecutors have until Dec. 9 to file a rebuttal. They still believe Trump should be sentenced — even if it's after he leaves office. Judge Juan Merchan will then make a decision on how this case should move forward. There's no set date on exactly when he will make that decision.

Fitch upgrades Sri Lanka to ‘CCC+’LOS ANGELES — As Joan Benoit Samuelson negotiated the hairpin turn into the Coliseum tunnel, ran past the USC locker room and onto the stadium’s red synthetic track for the final 400 meters of the 1984 Olympic marathon, her focus wasn’t only on finishing, but on finishing strong. Women never had been allowed to run farther than 1,500 meters in the Olympics because the Games’ all-male guardians long harbored antiquated views of femininity and what the female body could do. If Samuelson struggled to the line, or worse yet dropped to the ground after crossing it, that would validate those views and set back for years the fight for gender equality in the Olympics. “They might have taken the Olympic marathon off the schedule,” Samuelson said by phone two days before Thanksgiving. “This is an elite athlete struggling to finish a marathon. It never happened, thank goodness. But that could have changed the course of history for women’s marathoning.” Actually, that race did change the course of history because nothing remained the same after a joyous Samuelson, wearing a wide smile and waving her white cap to the sold-out crowd, crossed the finish line. This year marked the 40th anniversary of that victory, and when the Olympics return to Los Angeles in four years, the Games will be different in many ways because of it. Since 1984, the number of Summer Olympic events for women has nearly tripled, to 151, while last summer’s Paris Games was the first to reach gender parity, with women accounting for half of the 10,500 athletes in France. Fittingly the women’s marathon was given a place of honor on the calendar there, run as the final event of the track and field competition and one of the last medal events of the Games. None of that seemed likely — or even possible — before Samuelson’s win. “I sort of use marathoning as a way to storytell,” Samuelson said from her home in Maine. “And I tell people LA 84 and the first women’s Olympic marathon was certainly the biggest win of my life.” It was life-changing for many other women as well. Until 1960, the longest Olympic track race for women was 200 meters. The 1,500 meters was added in 1972, yet it wasn’t until the L.A. Games that the leaders of the International Olympic Committee, who had long cited rampant myths and dubious sports-medicine studies about the dangers of exercise for women, approved the addition of two distance races, the 3,000 meters and marathon. Which isn’t to say women had never run long distances in the Olympics. At the first modern Games in Athens in 1896, a Greek woman named Stamata Revithi, denied a place on the starting line on race day, ran the course alone a day later, finishing in 5 hours and 30 minutes, an accomplishment witnesses confirmed in writing. Her performance was better than at least seven of the 17 male runners, who didn’t complete the race. But she was barred from entering Panathenaic Stadium and her achievement was never recognized. Eighty-eight years passed before a woman was allowed to run the Olympic marathon. “There are men that are raised with resentment for women, except for their own mothers. That’s just a part of their nature,” Hall of Fame track coach Bob Larsen said. “A lot of good things have happened in the last couple of decades. Old men are passing away and opening doors [for] people who have a more modern understanding of what women are capable of.” In between Revithi and Samuelson, women routinely were banned even from public races like the Boston Marathon, which didn’t allow females to run officially until 1972. Even then, women had to bring a doctor’s note declaring them fit to run, said Maggie Mertens, author of “Better, Faster, Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women.” Seven years later Norway’s Grete Waitz became the first woman to break 2:30 in the marathon, running 2:27.32 in New York, a time that would have been good for second in the elite men’s race in Chicago that same day. Because of that, Samuelson said she hardly was blazing a trail in L.A. Instead she was running in the wake of pioneers such as Kathrine Switzer, Bobbi Gibb and Waitz. “I ran because there was an opportunity, not because I wanted to prove that women could run marathons,” said Samuelson, who still is running at 67. “Women had been proving themselves long before the ’84 Games. “If anything, maybe my win inspired women to realize that if marathoning were a metaphor for life, anything in life is possible.” Still, when Samuelson beat Waitz in Los Angeles, running in prime time during a race that was beamed to television viewers around the world, “that was the game-changer,” Switzer, the first woman to run Boston as an official competitor, told Mertens. “When people saw it on television ... they said, ‘Oh my God, women can do anything.’ “ A barrier had fallen and there was no going back. “You could make the argument that in women’s sports in general, we had to see, we had to have these women prove on the biggest stage possible that they were capable so that these gatekeepers would let women come in and play sports and be part of this world,” Mertens said. “I think it really did help burst open those ideas about what we could do and what we could see.” As a result, the elite runners who have followed in Samuelson’s footsteps never have known a world in which women were barred from long-distance races. “I grew up believing that women ran the marathon and that it wasn’t a big deal,” said Kara Goucher, a two-time Olympian and a world championship silver medalist who was 6 when Samuelson won in L.A. “I grew up seeing women run the marathon as the norm. That 100 percent is a credit to Joanie going out there on the world’s biggest stage and normalizing it.” Paige Wood, a former U.S. marathon champion, said her high school coach was inspired to run marathons by Samuelson’s story and passed that inspiration on to her runners. “She used her as an example of why we shouldn’t put any mental limitations on ourselves or shouldn’t let others tell us what we are capable of,” Wood said. Wood was born in 1996 and remembers her mom, who was very athletic, saying that cheerleading was the only sport available to her in high school in the pre-Samuelson days. “It’s undeniable, right? The courage she gave other women to start running and start competing,” Wood continued. “The trickle-down effect, it’s not even limited to running. It affected all sports and just made women less afraid to be athletic and try all different sports.” A year after Samuelson’s victory, the U.S. women’s soccer team played its first game, although it was more than a decade before the WNBA, the country’s first professional women’s league. There are now leagues in six other sports, from ice hockey and lacrosse to rugby and volleyball, and female athletes like Caitlin Clark, Alex Morgan, Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky are household names. Last summer in Paris, Sifan Hassan won the women’s marathon in an Olympic-record 2:22.55 after taking bronze in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, events that weren’t even on the Olympic calendar when Samuelson won her race. Two months later Kenyan Ruth Chepng’etich became the first woman to run under 2:10 when she won the Chicago Marathon in 2:09:56, averaging 4:57 a mile. Until 1970, two years before the Boston Marathon was opened to women, only one man had broken 2:10 in the race. “It says so much about sport and the way that humans don’t quite know what we’re capable of until we do it,” Mertens said. “We’re going to keep pushing those goalposts back. We’ve come so far, and I think that’s more to do with just having the opportunities and know that there aren’t really limits. “That’s the power of sports. These people are inspiring us; [they] help us see women as powerful athletes but also powerful in politics, as leaders.” Did Samuelson make that happen? Or did she simply make it happen faster? “You’d have to decide whether it was a huge defining moment or just a general wave of athletic events that made this possible,” Larsen said. “You know, the more times you put someone up at the plate, sooner or later somebody’s going to hit it out. “Now it’s acceptable to have a woman running for president. So things are happening and it’s more acceptable to the general public. Was Joanie a big part of it? I would think so.”

Spurred no doubt by , OpenAI today took its Sora generative AI video creation tool out of preview. “Our Sora⁠ video generation model can create realistic videos from text,” . “Sora serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world.” Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! , but OpenAI says it’s even more impressive now, and there’s a new Sora Turbo version that is dramatically faster. It can generate Full HD (1080p) resolution videos up to 20 seconds in length, in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios using a prompt or your own assets. And there’s a new storyboard tool so you can specify inputs for each frame. to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users. Plus users can generate up to 50 videos at 480p resolution or fewer videos at 720p each month, while Pro users get 10 times more usage, higher resolutions, and longer video durations. More plans will be made available next year. . Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books. He is the owner of and the host of three tech podcasts: with Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell, , and with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows from 1999 to 2014 and the Major Domo of Thurrott.com while at BWW Media Group from 2015 to 2023. You can reach Paul via , or . Join the crowd where the love of tech is real - become a Thurrott Premium Member today! Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday

Rising Voices Season 5: Highlighting BIPOC Storytellers And Reimagining The Future Of WorkUnique finds that are just so smart. Amazon is a treasure trove of weird stuff that’s low-key brilliant. This list is packed with quirky finds under $20 that make you wonder how you ever lived without them. From bizarre gadgets that solve oddly specific problems to “why didn’t I think of that?” items, these picks are the perfect blend of weird and genius. Get ready to shake up your routine — and maybe confuse your friends (in the best way). Oven liners that prevent baked-on messes Keep your oven clean and free from spills and messes (and the smoke that comes along with them), thanks to these . Designed to fit most standard-size ovens, they can be trimmed with scissors for a more custom fit and are a more effective and budget-friendly alternative to aluminum foil. Use them in temperature up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. 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Coasters for your car to contain condensation Whether it’s iced coffee or a sticky soda, your car cupholders could use some extra protection, which is why these are pretty genius. Crafted from absorbent ceramic stone and featuring finger grooves for easy handling, the coasters fit most car cupholders, where they soak up moisture and prevent messes. Double-decker snack bowl for shells & pits This ingeniously designed helps you hide food waste like shells and pits while still presenting your favorite snacks in an aesthetically pleasing way. Perfect for olives, pistachios, cherries, and more, it keeps everything neatly contained in one sleek, modern package. It’s dishwasher safe for easy cleaning. Stretchy straps that keep your fitted sheet in place With these , you don’t have to deal with a fitted sheet popping off the mattress in the middle of the night. Each suspender-like strap clips to the corner of your sheet, stretching up to 25 inches and holding everything taut. 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Smartphone kickstand that doubles as a wireless charger Designed for iPhones series 12 and up, this and kickstand delivers faster charging, bringing an iPhone 13 from 0 to 100% in just two-and-a-half hours. It provides a stable, angled viewing surface, which makes FaceTime or watching videos a breeze. It also has a sleek aluminum body available in seven different colors. Universal pet food can covers — plus a paw-shaped spatula These are must-haves for any pet owner. The “paw” has notches that offer leverage when opening the tab on a can, then serves as a spatula to spoon out food. The lids are universally sized to fit most cans, helping to keep contents fresh (and odors under wrap) between meals. Insulated jacket to keep your favorite beverages cold Keep your canned and bottled beverages cold in the most unique way possible with this . Crafted with two layers of thermal insulation, it fits 12-ounce cans and bottles by zipping up around them to keep in the chill. They’re available in four colors and are perfect for camping, tailgating, or just sipping while on the couch. Sleek & modern soap dish that drains water This modern helps keep your counters clean, your soap dry, and reduces product waste, all while looking super sleek, too. The removable bamboo tray allows your bar of soap to drain, while the dish below catches the excess water, so you can dump it later. Choose from eight colors to suit your decor. Countertop butter keeper that keeps things soft & spreadable Never struggle with your butter again, thanks to this . It neatly allows you to keep your butter at room temperature while sealing out air and keeping it at a perfectly soft, spreadable consistency. Just fill the base with water, add your butter to the top, close it, and flip it upside down. Voilà — perfect butter, every time. Rug grippers that prevent corners from curling in If you have an area rug that tends to curl up at the edges, then you need to give these a try. They’re designed to adhere to the bottom of your rug at the corners, with a strong adhesive and nonslip grip that keeps the rug in place. “I was a bit worried that the corners of the rug would be too thick with this gripper in place, but they are not,” one shopper , noting that these work great. Shoe deodorizers that use charcoal to freshen Remedy stinky shoes with these . Filled with unscented bamboo charcoal, these linen bags soak up moisture and eliminate odor. Plus, they’re reusable for up to two years — just set them in the sun every couple months to recharge. Portable seat covers to use on public toilets Stop relying on public bathrooms to offer seat covers you can use and start bringing your own. This comes with pocket-sized packs of covers you can easily stash in almost any handbag. They are simple to use and a cinch to dispose of since you can flush them right down the toilet when you’re done. Toothpaste caps that contain messes & prevent waste Stop wasting toothpaste and keep messes contained with these designed for a cleaner, more efficient dental hygiene routine. Each one keeps your toothpaste tube mess free by sealing itself, so nothing drips out. They’re easy to install and each pack comes with three. Clip-on storage that gives you more desk space Maximize storage space with this that brings both efficiency and style to any workspace with a ledge. It has two slots for holding a coffee mug, your phone, and other essentials, along with a headphones hook underneath that rotates 360 degrees. The storage unit is easy to install without drilling and the anti-slip pads keep it in place. Genius bag carrier, so you only need to make one trip The genius makes hauling heavy items easier and more manageable. As seen on the gadget uses a patented design complete with comfy gel padding to evenly distribute weight across your hand or shoulder. Use it for your groceries, sports gear, or any other heavy load. It’s lightweight, ergonomic, and supports up to 100 pounds. Just-add-water cleaning kit for streak-free glass & mirrors Keep your mirrors, screens, and windows in tip-top shape with this that doesn’t require any cleaning fluid. The reusable kit includes two cloths — dampen the waffle-weave cloth and apply to your surface, then use the smooth cloth to dry it to a streak-free shine. It’s a great money saver in the long run and is perfect for anyone bothered by the smell of cleaning fluids. A scrub brush that reaches into the garbage disposal This helps to make an annoying task just a little bit easier. The super stiff brushes help to break up gunk and get rid of caked-on debris, while the shape allows it to get into even the tiniest nooks and crannies. This offers a universal fit that should work with any garbage disposal and is dishwasher-safe for simple cleaning. Heated hand lotion dispenser that feels so freakin’ good Avoid the “ick” feeling of applying cold lotion, thanks to this In just two minutes, it gently warms your favorite moisturizer to a soothing temperature that also helps promote absorption for deeper hydration. It’s ideal for hand and body lotions and lets you channel the vibe of a spa treatment from the comfort of your own home. Pivoting spice storage that installs under a shelf Short on storage space? This lets you turn unused space underneath a shelf into an instant spice rack. Uniquely designed to mount underneath an existing shelf, it can store up to seven standard-size spice jars within a convenient pull-down compartment. It’s also easy to install with no tools required. Tiny but efficient scrub brushes for hard-to-reach spaces Clean even the toughest, tiniest crevices with this The set includes a U-shaped silicone brush, a stranded slit brush, and a stiff-bristled corner brush. Try them on lids, tumblers, peelers, small storage containers, and so much more. Super satisfying earbud cleaning putty Easily remove wax and other gunky buildup from your earbuds with this Just press one of the putty squares into the earbuds, then gently pull it away, leaving the surface spotless and able to deliver clearer and more comfortable sound. The putty is made from eco-friendly materials and is safe to use on all components. A comfy & squishy cushion to help relieve pain This can be added to any seat out there, whether that’s at home, in an office, or even in your car. It’s soft, breathable, and perfectly squishy, for a more comfortable seated position that helps to reduce and relieve pain. This is a more affordable option compared to purchasing a new chair and is pretty simple to move around as needed. Set of travel shoe bags for neater, cleaner packing The next time you pack for a trip, use these to keep your kicks free from dust and damage, while protecting other items from dirty soles, too. The four-pack includes two standard-size bags and two extra-large bags to fit shoes up to size 14. Made of waterproof nylon, each has convenient zippers for easy access and use. A container that keeps coins at the ready in your car Your car can quickly become a place where coins magically disappear underneath seats and in the crevices between cushions. This , made specifically with your car in mind, fits into the cup holder and allows you to not only safely stow your coins but also organize them. Four slots give specific spaces for pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, and they’re spring-loaded so when you remove one, another slips into place. Space-saving measuring cups & spoons perfect for baking Save on space without getting rid of necessary kitchen gadgets by using these . Each set comes with a 1-liter measuring cup, six measuring spoons, one funnel, one scraper, and a lid to keep everything in place. The 1-liter cup is great for accurate liquid measurements and even doing a little mixing, and everything is dishwasher-safe for convenient cleaning. Soda can organizer for a neater fridge with extra storage Keep your favorite sodas, seltzers, or beers organized and neat with this . It has the ability to hold up to eight cans at a time, with a rolling mechanism that makes it easy to grab a drink and go. It’s lidded, so you can stack two on top of each other for double the storage, or simply place other items on top to make use of vertical space. Handy deodorant wipes for on-the-go freshening Stay smelling and feeling fresh, even when you’re on the go, thanks to these that take up much less space than a standard dispenser stick. Each pack includes 50 individually wrapped wipes that are free from aluminum, parabens, and sulfates, and instead use natural extracts for a gentle refresh. Choose from scents like rose, mint, and cucumber — or try them all with the variety pack. Microwave cooker that makes perfect rice every time Make perfect steamed rice every single time thanks to this With this, you can measure, rinse, cook, and serve perfectly fluffy rice and other grains with minimal effort. The set comes with a 2-liter cooking pot, colander, measuring cup, and rice paddle, and is even complete with carrying handles that makes serving easier, too. Upright eyeglasses holders with plush lining that won’t scratch lenses Keep your eyewear safe and accessible when you need it with this Designed with a vegan leather exterior, they keep your specs upright and the lenses scratch free, thanks to the plush lining. Keep one on your nightstand and one on your entryway table for sunglasses. Magnetic phone holder that delivers a double-screen situation This makes multitasking a breeze, securely holding your phone right where you can see it as you work. It’s backed with adhesive that secures to your laptop and features a magnetic panel that grips your phone. It’s compatible with MagSafe-enabled devices and folds inward, so it’s out of the way when you don’t need it. A 5-in-1 cord that can charge just about anything Lately, it seems like every tech item has a different charging port, and keeping track of all of them can be hard, especially when on the go. This makes it simpler: with micro, USB-C, USB-A, and lightning connectors, it can power up various devices. It’s small and portable, with fast charging capabilities and a durable braided nylon cord. Silicone can lids that replace wasteful wraps Seal in freshness without using wasteful plastic wrap, thanks to these by Food Huggers. Each lid fit snugly over cans, jars, and cups, creating an airtight seal that’s a great plastic-free alternative. Made from BPA-free silicone, the lids are durable and dishwasher safe. A microfiber brush to clear dust from almost anywhere This is a must for keeping your home as neat as possible. The thin and flat shape of the brush head allows it to get into slim spaces you otherwise wouldn’t be able to reach easily, like underneath appliances, while the retractable handle gets you into high spaces. The microfiber cloth (it comes with two) is gentle enough so it won’t scratch surfaces and effectively brushes away dust and grime. Hat racks for organizing a baseball cap collection Keep your baseball cap collection organized with this two-pack of . They have self-adhesive backing for easy installation on smooth surfaces or can be drilled into uneven walls. Each rack holds up to 15 caps in either a vertical or horizontal orientation. Tea bag holders inspired by snails Perfect for tea lovers, this ten-piece set of is a fun but practical addition for your daily cuppa. The set includes a range of brightly colored snails that slide onto the rim of your mug, so you can wrap your tea bag string around one as your brew steeps. Collapsible food storage containers that save space Ideal for small kitchens, these containers pop up to full size when you need them, then fold down for easy storage when you don’t. Available in 11 different colorways, each container is made from silicone and features a lid with an airtight rubber gasket to keep food fresh. The containers are safe for freezer, microwave, and dishwasher use. Grooved sponges that help get dust out of every spot What makes this simple-looking really stand out is the grooves along one side — they help scrape off dust particles and hair from any surface you’re cleaning, and they’re even great for annoying spots like blinds. These sponges are very absorbent, and once fully soaked, they become soft enough to gently clean almost any surface. These are reusable and easy to grip in your hand as well. A garlic chopper that is so easy to use Save time on chopping garlic with a knife by using this . The clever design allows you to wheel it back and forth to cut your garlic into tiny pieces — more rolling creates fine pieces, less allows for larger chunks. It’s easy to get the minced garlic out and comes apart for simple cleaning. A stone toilet bowl brush that gets rid of hard stains While this doesn’t look like your traditional , it still works just as well — or maybe even better. It’s made of pumice stone, which makes it easier to get rid of hard water stains and mineral deposits, while still being gentle enough so it doesn’t leave scratches behind. “Almost like having a new toilet,” one shopper about the cleaning process. Personal blender that doubles as a to-go cup This is perfect for anyone who wants a quick, nutrient-packed drink as they head out the door. Its unique and lightweight design lets you create smoothies and shakes directly in the 14-ounce travel jar, which doubles as a to-go cup for sipping. Durable stainless steel blades easily crush ice and frozen fruits, and with dishwasher-safe parts, cleanup is a breeze. A large bib that makes shaving less messy While this may seem silly, it’s actually an ingenious way to make shaving facial hair less messy. This is worn like an apron, with suction cups on one end that stick to the mirror and create a space for hair to fall. Once filled with hair, you can simply empty the bib for a fast clean. A waterproof pen that makes grout look good as new Cleaning up your grout can make a big difference in how your tile looks. This helps grout look like new by hiding stains and brightening up the color. “Once applied, it creates a protective layer that seals and waterproofs the grout, preventing any future staining or water damage,” one shopper , calling it “the perfect solution for grout refreshing.” A handheld massage gun for soothing sore muscles at home Skip the expensive massage at a salon and soothe achy, sore muscles at home with this . It has 20 speed settings that allow you to customize the way it feels and comes with six heads meant to target pretty much every part of your body. A large LED touchscreen on the front makes it easy to operate and see the battery life. A portable charging bank with a magnetic backing This stands out among others thanks to the magnetic backing — it can attach to the back of the phone, making it super easy to continue using your device even while it’s recharging. It also has the added benefit of charging your phone while the battery itself recharges. The compact size and slim design make it easy to take anywhere. Stackable measuring spoons that save on space These make a great addition to any kitchen. They stack into a neat pile to save on storage space and to ensure you never lose just one. They’re also double-sided — one side is a narrow spoon that fits into most seasoning jars, while the other side is round and great for liquid ingredients. The set also comes with a leveler to ensure even measurement. A fun night-light made from soft silicone Made of soft silicone, this is both adorable and functional. It can glow in a warm white shade or seven different bright colors and can be recharged via a USB cord. “Pretty easy to use by pressing it for color change,” one shopper , while another , “It’s so cute and squishy.” A gadget that adds extra USB ports to your laptop If you need extra USB ports for your laptop, this is an excellent purchase. It adds four extra USB-A ports, which is great for connecting other devices to your laptop. Small and portable, this is easy to take on the go or to keep with you when commuting into the office. Leaf-shaped clips that improve the look of your plants These are great for propping up plants and placing them in the direction you want them to grow. The leaf shape and green color make them blend right into the plant itself for a subtle look, while the transparent acrylic adhesive stickers adhere them to the wall or elsewhere, keeping everything firmly in place. A bath mat that scrubs your feet while you shower Made of hundreds of flexible bristles, this helps massage your feet, helping them to feel less tired and achy. And with just a little movement, the bristles can also scrub your feet clean, even getting in between your toes with very little effort. Suction cups on the bottom keep it in place even in the shower. “Foams up nice and my feet get very clean,” one shopper , while another , “It feels like a gentle massage.” A convenient phone holder & hook for your car Make your car more comfortable for passengers by adding these to each of your front seats. They act as a little mount for a cell phone, propping it up and making it easier for passengers to stream videos while riding around. The hooks are great for keeping handbags, shopping bags, or jackets off the floor, making your car look a lot more neat and organized. An AirTag holder that attaches to your dog’s collar Placing an AirTag on your dog can be a smart way to keep an eye on them and give you some peace of mind, especially if their favorite hobby is trying to escape the yard. This attaches to almost any collar, keeping the AirTag safe and protected so your dog can’t manage to get it off.

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Michigan aims to cap lost season by beating Ohio StateWisconsin 67, Nebraska-Omaha 65ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Maverick McNealy steadied himself after a rugged start Saturday with a 4-under 66 and caught up with Vince Whaley in a wild third round at the RSM Classic in which a half-dozen players had at least a share of the lead. McNealy looked as though he might have the lead when he hit wedge on the final hole that rolled just by the cup and settled 8 feet away. He missed the putt, still in great position to go after his first PGA Tour victory. Whaley, also winless on tour, birdied the 18th for a 63 and will be playing in the final group for the first time on the PGA Tour. McNealy, who joined him at 14-under 198, also shared the 54-hole lead in 2021 at the season opener in Napa, California. Whaley was playing with a sense of freedom not everyone has at the final PGA Tour event this year. He was playing on a medical extension and fulfilled the necessary points in July. The next step was finishing in the top 125 in the FedEx Cup. He secured that last week with a tie for fifth in the Bermuda Championship. Everything else feels like a bonus, and there could be no greater perk than a victory to get into the Masters and PGA Championship, along with a two-year exemption. “I've really got nothing to lose and everything to gain, so I'm just excited for the opportunity,” Whaley said. Opportunity abounds going into the final round. Daniel Berger shot a 63 and played his way into the final group, just two shots behind. He was tied with former Sea Island winner Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., (65), Michael Thorbjornsen (67) and Patrick Fishburn (69). Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., (71) dropped 23 spots to tie for 47th at 3 under. Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., (70) was 1 under. Berger and Thorbjornsen were among those who arrived at Sea Island outside the top 125, the number required to keep full status on tour on next year. Thorbjornsen already has that locked up as the No. 1 player in the PGA Tour University ranking. Berger needed a big week and he's delivering, even though he says he doesn't feel stress. Berger missed 19 months with a back injury that he feared might end his career. Now he's healthy enough to have played 27 times this year. “Regardless when I play well, I'm going to be fine,” said Berger, who played in the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. "When you miss that much amount of time it takes a little bit of a while to get back. It's just a matter of being patient and eventually good things come around.” Henrik Norlander and Hayden Springer, also on the wrong side of No. 125, each shot 63 and were among those tied for 12th, a position that currently would let them move into the top 125. Joel Dahmen, who had to make a 5-foot par putt on Friday to make the cut, shot 70 and was tied for 61st. He is at No. 124 and his future depends on a big round Sunday, along with how Thorbjornsen, Berger, Norlander and Springer fare. Closer to the top, eight players were separated by three shots. That includes Luke Clanton, the Florida State sophomore and No. 1 amateur in the world who already has three top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour and was going after another one. ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf The Associated Press50.jili 。

Students at the Campus School at Boston College got a surprise visit from “Spider-Man” star Tom Holland last week. Holland, whose girlfriend Zendaya is filming a movie in Boston , visited The Campus School on Thursday, Boston College said in an X post . The school educates students ages 3 and 22 who have extensive support needs. Holland spent several hours at the school where he spoke with students and played music with them during a music therapy session, the school wrote in an online article . “He couldn’t have been more down to earth,” Jennifer Miller, the Campus School’s marketing manager, said in the article. “Every single student was engaged, they were vibing off the room for sure,” Miller said. “The way he engaged with them was really quite beautiful. He was just so natural and so caring.” Last year, Miller received a call from a former volunteer’s mother who knew the Holland family, the school said. Through her recommendation, the Campus School applied for a grant from Holland’s family foundation, The Brothers Trust . Through this, the Campus School received a $25,000 grant. The grant will be used to buy assistive technology as well as a ceiling lift for physical therapy exercises. “We are so grateful to Tom Holland for taking the time to visit our small special needs school,” Campus School Interim Director Thomas Miller said in the article. “He participated in a music session, posed for photos, and fully immersed himself into our students' activities and their hearts.” The surprise visit was just one stop on Holland’s recent trip to Boston . The “Uncharted” actor posted on his Instagram story Sunday that he and Zendaya went to Foxhole on Newbury Street for a beer. “I’m heading out to a bar to go and have my first Bero in the wild,” Holland said in another Instagram story that showed Zendaya in the background. He later posted a photo with the “Euphoria” actress smiling and leaning over the table at Foxhole. This was not the first time Zendaya and Holland have been to Boston. The two were spotted together at the Tatte on Boylston Street, right across from Boston Common, in 2022 . Zendaya was in town then to shoot the film, “Challengers,” which Boston.com reported at the time . The celebrity couple was also seen walking their dog in the city earlier this month . Zendaya is in Boston for a new film. The 28-year-old is set to star in a new romance movie called " The Drama " alongside “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson , who was spotted shooting scenes in the Financial District on Oct. 31. Plans for “The Drama” were revealed in August, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline . The upcoming film is directed by Kristoffer Borgli (“Dream Scenario”) and produced by Ari Aster (“Midsommar,” “Hereditary”). Production on the film started on Oct. 22, according to IMDb Pro. A24 , the film’s production company, was unable to provide exact filming locations for “The Drama” because they are confidential, the company told MassLive. However, Zendaya has been spotted at several locations around Boston, according to several videos on social media. One TikTok with the caption, “Zendaya blending in with the locals in beacon hill,” captured the “Dune” actress having a pastry at the Tatte. Another clip from inside the same Tatte showed Zendaya standing outside. The “Euphoria” actress was also seen at Philips Academy in Andover, according to two other TikToks as well as a post on X . Phillips spokesperson Tracy Sweet told Andover News that a film crew was on campus, but could not provide more information. Another video also captured Pattinson at the same school. The 38-year-old actor arrived in Boston on Oct. 30, Just Jared reported . “The Drama” is shooting from now until the end of November in Boston, according to a casting page that is seeking extras for the film. More Boston stories

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A hernia happens when part of an organ protrudes through your muscle wall, usually in your abdomen or groin. Spearheaded by the Chinese medical team in Rwanda, the centers, which were unveiled on November 25, under the China-Rwanda health cooperation, are expected to improve the quality of patient care by offering more professional, standardized, and refined treatments for various diseases and conditions. ALSO READ: Chinese medics offer free care to Rwamagana residents At Masaka Hospital in Kicukiro District, the newly launched facilities include the centre for obstetric analgesia, one for hernia, another for orthopaedic trauma, and one for day surgery. Kibungo Hospital in Ngoma District has a centre for hernia and a specialized clinic for pain. The Centre for Day Surgery at Masaka Hospital is designed to provide simple, non-invasive surgeries that do not require an overnight stay. This will allow patients to receive treatment and return home on the same day. ALSO READ: Towards a new chapter for China and Rwanda Surgeries performed at the center will include ganglion cyst removal, lipoma removal, sebaceous cyst removal, hemangioma treatment, abscess removal, among other services. These surgeries are typically quick and less complex, offering patients a more efficient treatment experience. These centers will help equip Rwandan doctors with the necessary skills. Initially, Chinese doctors will perform surgeries while Rwandan doctors observe. Later, both Chinese and Rwandan doctors will work together on surgeries. Eventually, Rwandan doctors will gain the skills to perform surgeries independently. “Over the past two years, we have attended to over 200 hernia cases. This recurring issue led the medical team to prioritize it,” said Jean-Damascène Hanyurwimfura, the Director of Masaka Hospital. “Here, we offer maternity services, and everyone knows how painful delivery can be. The team wanted to provide assistance by offering obstetric analgesia to alleviate that pain. This is just the beginning, and we hope other services will follow soon.” Hanyurwimfura said the initiative provides an opportunity for Rwandan doctors to acquire necessary skills to perform the various types of surgeries independently. This will also help the country make another in the training of professional medical personnel. ALSO READ: Unpacking Rwanda's plan to become a medical tourism hub “Rwandans are learning, and they share these skills with their peers. This not only enhances service delivery but will eventually benefit everyone, both locals and foreigners staying in Rwanda,” he said. The Chinese Ambassador to Rwanda, Wang Xuekun, acknowledged the significance of these healthcare developments, which were possible thanks to the collaboration between the two countries in the health sector. “I’m quite glad today that we unveiled six new specialized treatment centers which are based on the long term cooperation between our two countries. These centers will provide a platform to deepen cooperation, especially providing treatment and resources to the local people. It’s good progress made in the medical field,” Wang said. “Chinese doctors are bringing in new technology for the treatment, not forgetting to mention the Centre for Hernia and more. 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NonePHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ethan Gettman kicked what proved to be the game-winning field goal from 31-yards out midway through the fourth quarter and Brendan Bell added an insurance touchdown a minute later as Villanova pulled away from Delaware in the second half to post a 38-28 victory in the season finale on Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats now have won 17 of their last 19 meetings with the Blue Hens, who played their final regular season game as an FCS-member. Delaware will join the FBS and join Conference USA for the 2025 season. Villanova (9-3, 6-2 Coastal Athletic Association) took a 21-0 lead five minutes into the second quarter after David Avit scored from a yard out, Brendan Bell returned an interception 38 yards for a touchdown and Watkins fired a 36-yard touchdown pass to Kenyon Miles. But Delaware (9-2, 6-2) scored three times in the final eight minutes of the half, with JoJo Bermudez scoring from 14-yards out and Marcus Yarns punching in from the 1, then catching a Nick Minicucci pass for a 65-yard touchdown with :32 left. Connor Watkins ran up the middle on a quarterback draw for a 38-yard touchdown to put the Wildcats in front, but Minicucci answered with a six-yard touchdown to Jo'Nathan Silver to send the game into the fourth quarter tied at 28-28. Gettman put the Wildcats in top for good with 8:41 left and Bell scored on a six-yard run with 7:39 remaining. Watkins was 13 of 30 passing for 203 yards with a touchdown and an interception and carried eight times for 79 yards. Minicucci was 18 of 33 for 195 yards with two touchdowns and a pair of interceptions. Yarns carried 20 times for 100 yards and caught three passes for 74 yards. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more.LAS VEGAS — Formula 1 on Monday at last said it will expand its grid in 2026 to make room for an American team that is partnered with General Motors. "As the pinnacle of motorsports, F1 demands boundary-pushing innovation and excellence. It's an honor for General Motors and Cadillac to join the world's premier racing series, and we're committed to competing with passion and integrity to elevate the sport for race fans around the world," GM President Mark Reuss said. "This is a global stage for us to demonstrate GM's engineering expertise and technology leadership at an entirely new level." The approval ends years of wrangling that launched a U.S. Justice Department investigation into why Colorado-based Liberty Media, the commercial rights holder of F1, would not approve the team initially started by Michael Andretti. Andretti in September stepped aside from leading his namesake organization, so the 11th team will be called Cadillac F1 and be run by new Andretti Global majority owners Dan Towriss and Mark Walter. The team will use Ferrari engines its first two years until GM has a Cadillac engine built for competition in time for the 2028 season. Towriss is the the CEO and president of Group 1001 and entered motorsports via Andretti's IndyCar team when he signed on financial savings platform Gainbridge as a sponsor. Towriss is now a major part of the motorsports scene with ownership stakes in both Spire Motorsports' NASCAR team and Wayne Taylor Racing's sports car team. Walter is the chief executive of financial services firm Guggenheim Partners and the controlling owner of both the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Premier League club Chelsea. "We're excited to partner with General Motors in bringing a dynamic presence to Formula 1," Towriss said. "Together, we're assembling a world-class team that will embody American innovation and deliver unforgettable moments to race fans around the world." Mario Andretti, the 1978 F1 world champion, will have an ambassador role with Cadillac F1. But his son, Michael, will have no official position with the organization now that he has scaled back his involvement with Andretti Global. "The Cadillac F1 Team is made up of a strong group of people that have worked tirelessly to build an American works team," Michael Andretti posted on social media. "I'm very proud of the hard work they have put in and congratulate all involved on this momentous next step. I will be cheering for you!" The approval has been in works for weeks but was held until after last weekend's Las Vegas Grand Prix to not overshadow the showcase event of the Liberty Media portfolio. Max Verstappen won his fourth consecutive championship in Saturday night's race, the third and final stop in the United States for the top motorsports series in the world. Grid expansion in F1 is both infrequent and often unsuccessful. Four teams were granted entries in 2010 that should have pushed the grid to 13 teams and 26 cars for the first time since 1995. One team never made it to the grid and the other three had vanished by 2017. There is only one American team on the current F1 grid — owned by California businessman Gene Haas — but it is not particularly competitive and does not field American drivers. Andretti's dream was to field a truly American team with American drivers. The fight to add this team has been going on for three-plus years, and F1 initially denied the application despite approval from F1 sanctioning body FIA. The existing 10 teams, who have no voice in the matter, also largely opposed expansion because of the dilution in prize money and the billions of dollars they've already invested in the series. Andretti in 2020 tried and failed to buy the existing Sauber team. From there, he applied for grid expansion and partnered with GM, the top-selling manufacturer in the United States. The inclusion of GM was championed by the FIA and president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who said Michael Andretti's application was the only one of seven applicants to meet all required criteria to expand F1's current grid. "General Motors is a huge global brand and powerhouse in the OEM world and is working with impressive partners," Ben Sulayem said Monday. "I am fully supportive of the efforts made by the FIA, Formula 1, GM and the team to maintain dialogue and work towards this outcome of an agreement in principle to progress this application." Despite the FIA's acceptance of Andretti and General Motors from the start, F1 wasn't interested in Andretti — but did want GM. At one point, F1 asked GM to find another team to partner with besides Andretti. GM refused and F1 said it would revisit the Andretti application if and when Cadillac had an engine ready to compete. "Formula 1 has maintained a dialogue with General Motors, and its partners at TWG Global, regarding the viability of an entry following the commercial assessment and decision made by Formula 1 in January 2024," F1 said in a statement. "Over the course of this year, they have achieved operational milestones and made clear their commitment to brand the 11th team GM/Cadillac, and that GM will enter as an engine supplier at a later time. Formula 1 is therefore pleased to move forward with this application process." Yet another major shift in the debate over grid expansion occurred earlier this month with the announced resignation of Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei, who was largely believed to be one of the biggest opponents of the Andretti entry. "With Formula 1's continued growth plans in the US, we have always believed that welcoming an impressive US brand like GM/Cadillac to the grid and GM as a future power unit supplier could bring additional value and interest to the sport," Maffei said. "We credit the leadership of General Motors and their partners with significant progress in their readiness to enter Formula 1." Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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IU Indianapolis 88, Alabama A&M 83RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leaving his job after eight years in which the southern Democrat picked his moments against a Republican-dominated legislature, winning big on Medicaid expansion and clean energy while falling short in fights over private-school vouchers and abortion rights. Cooper, who steered the state through the coronavirus pandemic, Hurricanes Helene and Florence and an early flashpoint in the culture wars over access to public restrooms, was barred from seeking a third consecutive term. He is wrapping up 24 consecutive years in statewide office — the first 16 as attorney general. In a December interview with The Associated Press at the executive mansion, Cooper reflected on his gubernatorial terms with an emphasis on the positive — an easier undertaking compared with many Democrats around the country in the aftermath of this year's election. "To be able to wake up every morning and get to lead the state that you love has been humbling, challenging and fulfilling. I have really valued every day,” said Cooper, who will be succeeded by state Attorney General Josh Stein, a fellow Democrat, in early January. Faced with veto-proof majorities for almost half of his time as governor, Cooper was unable to stop many GOP initiatives, including deep income tax cuts, taxpayer-funded vouchers to help public school students attend private schools and new restrictions on abortion. But Cooper, one of several Democratic governors seen as potential contenders for federal office, managed last year to persuade GOP legislative leaders to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act — something he had sought since getting sworn in as governor in 2017. Now 600,000 low-income adults are enrolled in the program a year ahead of expectations. “This is a generational investment in people’s health,” Cooper said during a farewell address last week in Nash County, where he grew up and launched his first gubernatorial campaign in 2015 . Another bipartisan agreement was reached in 2021 on a milestone energy bill that ordered sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Cooper takes credit for conditions that led to big corporate expansions that he says have contributed to hundreds of thousands of new jobs being created during the past eight years, including those in the clean energy sector. But he also gives his rare praise to Republican lawmakers for all working together on offering economic incentives that have lured companies such as Apple, Toyota and Boom Supersonic to build in the state. Still, Republicans contend Cooper receives too much acclaim for the state’s broad economic success and has pushed for reckless state spending at every turn. Half of his record 100-plus vetoes were overridden. “There has not been a governor who has had less of his agenda enacted and North Carolina has succeeded in spite of his leadership failures," state GOP spokesperson Matt Mercer said. Regardless, Cooper’s perceived accomplishments in a swing state raised his national profile during this year’s presidential campaign, making him as a potential running mate for Kamala Harris until he said it "just wasn’t the right time" for him and for North Carolina. Now Cooper, 67, will have to decide whether trying to unseat U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican, in 2026 is in the cards after holding what he calls the “best job I have ever had.” While North Carolina Democrats have won eight of past nine gubernatorial elections, they haven’t won a U.S. Senate race since 2008. “If you’re going to run for public office again, you must have your heart and soul in it, you must have the fire in the belly,” Cooper told the AP. With that in mind, he said he planned to take a couple of months to clear his head before deciding what’s next: “I’m going to think about how I can best contribute to the things that I care about.” It’s little wonder why many North Carolina Democrats want Cooper to remain on the political stage. He has never lost a race for state office, from the legislature in the mid-1980s and including a 10,000-vote win over then-GOP Gov. Pat McCrory in 2016. “What he’s done really from my perspective is he’s kept the progressive flame alive in North Carolina in a difficult time,” said Gary Pearce, a longtime Democratic political consultant who worked with four-term Gov. Jim Hunt. “I’m not sure anybody else could have done it as well as he did.” Cooper took on Republicans even before he was sworn in. As governor-elect he began a series of lawsuits challenging legislation approved weeks before he took office that shifted executive branch powers to the legislature. The legal results were mixed, and even now litigation over his appointment powers remains in court. This month, Republican lawmakers enacted more changes that would weaken Stein's gubernatorial authority. Two lawsuits related to that law have been filed so far. In his first three months in office, Cooper worked with lawmakers to partially repeal the 2016 “bathroom bill,” which had required transgender people to use public bathrooms aligned with the gender on their birth certificate. The law had lost the state business, including canceled sporting events and job expansions, and “North Carolina’s reputation was in tatters,” Cooper said. Eight years later, “we built a North Carolina that is healthier, better educated, with more money in people’s pockets, and we stand ready to welcome prosperity with open arms for generations to come,” Cooper said. Republicans cite several shortcomings in Cooper's administration. They include spending overruns at the state Department of Transportation; continued delays to rebuild or renovate homes for eastern North Carolina residents after Hurricanes Matthew in 2016 and Florence in 2018; and executive orders that helped extend restrictions on businesses and school instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s been painful dealing with the governor fiscally,” Republican state Sen. Warren Daniel said. “I just think he’s not very good at managing government.” Cooper has defended his actions, particularly his pandemic leadership, saying North Carolina came out better than many other states. Even in policy defeats, Cooper secured the admiration of supporters. The Democratic governor used lots of political capital in 2023 trying unsuccessfully to block a law that changed the state’s ban on most abortions from after 20 weeks of pregnancy to 12 weeks. Republicans overrode his veto. “There’s simply no governor who’s ever fought as hard or as publicly as Gov. Cooper has to protect access to abortion,” said Paige Johnson with Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Plenty of North Carolinians see that differently. Cooper’s opposition to the abortion bill reflects an administration that “has been consistently hostile to policies that serve the best interests of North Carolina families,” said Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the NC Values Coalition. Cooper said he has confidence that Stein, who succeeded him as attorney general, will “continue a lot of the progress that we have made.” Cooper hired Stein two decades ago, while attorney general, to be his consumer protection chief. Otherwise, Cooper knows that he’ll miss “having the opportunity every single day to do something to make a real difference.” “That’s what you can do in this job,” he added. "And whatever I decide to do, that’s going to be hard to replicate."

BROOKINGS, S.D., Dec. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Daktronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: DAKT), a leading global designer and manufacturer of best-in-class dynamic video communication displays and control systems for customers worldwide today announced that Reece Kurtenbach, Chief Executive Officer and Sheila Anderson, Chief Financial Officer will be presenting at The Benchmark Company’s 13th Annual Discovery One-on-One Investor Conference to be held Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 at the New York Athletic Club in New York City. The conference offers emerging growth and dynamic publicly traded companies access to institutional and individual investors in a unique one-on-one format during which Kurtenbach and Anderson will be participating in one-on-one meetings with investors and analysts throughout the day. To schedule a one-on-one meeting with Reece Kurtenbach and Sheila Anderson, you may submit your request online via the registration link provided. To register for the conference, please visit: https://www.meetmax.com/sched/event_112571/investor_reg_new.html?attendee_role_id=INVESTOR About The Benchmark Company The Benchmark Company is an institutionally focused, research driven, sales trading and investment banking firm. We were founded in 1988 and are headquartered in New York City. Our focus is on fostering the long-term success of our corporate clients through raising capital, providing strategic advisory services, generating insightful research, and developing institutional sponsorship by leveraging the firm’s sales, trading, and equity research capabilities. https://www.benchmarkcompany.com . ABOUT DAKTRONICS Daktronics has strong leadership positions in, and is the world's largest supplier of, large-screen video displays, electronic scoreboards, LED text and graphics displays, and related control systems. The company excels in the control of display systems, including those that require integration of multiple complex displays showing real-time information, graphics, animation, and video. Daktronics designs, manufactures, markets and services display systems for customers around the world in four domestic business units: Live Events, Commercial, High School Park and Recreation, and Transportation, and one International business unit. For more information, visit the company's website at: www.daktronics.com, email the company at investor@daktronics.com, call (605) 692-0200 or toll-free (800) 843-5843 in the United States, or write to the company at 201 Daktronics Dr., P.O. Box 5128, Brookings, S.D. 57006-5128. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Cautionary Notice: In addition to statements of historical fact, this news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is intended to enjoy the protection of that Act. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's expectations or beliefs concerning future events. The Company cautions that these and similar statements involve risk and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations, including, but not limited to, changes in economic and market conditions, management of growth, timing and magnitude of future contracts and orders, fluctuations in margins, the introduction of new products and technology, the impact of adverse weather conditions, increased regulation and other risks described in the company's SEC filings, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its 2024 fiscal year. Forward-looking statements are made in the context of information available as of the date stated. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise such statements to reflect new circumstances or unanticipated events as they occur. Forward-looking statements are made in the context of information available as of the date stated. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise such statements to reflect new circumstances or unanticipated events as they occur. For more information contact: INVESTOR RELATIONS: Sheila M. Anderson, Chief Financial Officer Tel (605) 692-0200 Investor@daktronics.com Alliance Advisors IR Carolyn Capaccio / Jody Burfening DAKTIRTeam@lhai.comLarson Financial Group LLC grew its stake in Ambarella, Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMBA – Free Report ) by 6,014.3% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 856 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 842 shares during the quarter. Larson Financial Group LLC’s holdings in Ambarella were worth $48,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of AMBA. Algert Global LLC increased its position in shares of Ambarella by 76.2% during the third quarter. Algert Global LLC now owns 94,999 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $5,358,000 after buying an additional 41,094 shares during the period. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Ambarella by 1.2% during the 3rd quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 320,319 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $18,068,000 after acquiring an additional 3,700 shares during the period. Intech Investment Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Ambarella during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $722,000. Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. raised its position in shares of Ambarella by 18.9% in the 3rd quarter. Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. now owns 226,502 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $12,776,000 after acquiring an additional 35,977 shares in the last quarter. Finally, KBC Group NV lifted its stake in shares of Ambarella by 1.3% in the 3rd quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 41,835 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $2,360,000 after purchasing an additional 525 shares during the period. 82.09% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Insider Activity at Ambarella In other Ambarella news, CEO Feng-Ming Wang sold 4,382 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $56.02, for a total transaction of $245,479.64. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 803,574 shares in the company, valued at approximately $45,016,215.48. The trade was a 0.54 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink . Also, VP Yun-Lung Chen sold 5,963 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $57.56, for a total value of $343,230.28. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now owns 62,026 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,570,216.56. This trade represents a 8.77 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Insiders have sold a total of 24,423 shares of company stock worth $1,356,402 over the last quarter. Company insiders own 5.70% of the company’s stock. Ambarella Trading Down 1.2 % Ambarella ( NASDAQ:AMBA – Get Free Report ) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, August 27th. The semiconductor company reported ($0.13) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.19) by $0.06. Ambarella had a negative net margin of 62.38% and a negative return on equity of 23.52%. The business had revenue of $63.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $62.10 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned ($0.76) EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 2.6% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts forecast that Ambarella, Inc. will post -3 EPS for the current year. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Several equities research analysts recently weighed in on AMBA shares. Susquehanna upped their price target on Ambarella from $70.00 to $85.00 and gave the stock a “positive” rating in a research note on Wednesday. Roth Mkm reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $60.00 price target on shares of Ambarella in a research note on Wednesday, August 28th. Northland Securities reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $95.00 price target (up from $75.00) on shares of Ambarella in a research report on Wednesday. Rosenblatt Securities restated a “buy” rating and issued a $85.00 price objective on shares of Ambarella in a report on Friday, August 23rd. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus lifted their target price on shares of Ambarella from $80.00 to $95.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Ambarella currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $81.67. Read Our Latest Stock Report on Ambarella Ambarella Profile ( Free Report ) Ambarella, Inc develops semiconductor solutions that enable high-definition (HD) and ultra HD compression, image signal processing, and artificial intelligence processing worldwide. The company's system-on-a-chip designs integrated HD video processing, image processing, artificial intelligence computer vision algorithms, audio processing, and system functions onto a single chip for delivering video and image quality, differentiated functionality, and low power consumption. Featured Articles Want to see what other hedge funds are holding AMBA? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Ambarella, Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMBA – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Ambarella Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Ambarella and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Limited again, 49ers QB Brock Purdy still fighting sore shoulder

Warrington Tesco stores to stock pre-packed charity donation bagsA flagstick is seen on the 16th green during the fourth round of the LPGA Qualifying School at LPGA International on December 6, 2008 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Scott Halleran/Getty Images) Welcome to the Fox News Sports Huddle Newsletter. NEW RULES – An updated policy states that players who have gone through male puberty are barred from competing in the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour and all other elite LPGA competitions. Continue reading ... WARM WELCOME – San Jose State volleyball player Blaire Fleming's collegiate career likely came to a close after a recent Mountain West Tournament final loss to Colorado State. Continue reading ... TEAM BONDING? – Blaire Fleming, Brooke Slusser, and other San Jose State volleyball players recently spent time together in Las Vegas during what was likely their final time as teammates. Slusser remains engaged in lawsuits challenging Fleming. Continue reading ... SJSU trans player Blaire Fleming and teammate Brooke Slusser went to a magic show and had Thanksgiving together in Las Vegas despite an ongoing lawsuit over Fleming being transgender. (Thien-An Truong/San Jose State Athletics) NFL POWER RANKINGS – The Chiefs survived again. The Eagles and Bills look like Super Bowl contenders. Here's a look at the latest Power Rankings brought to you by Fox News Digital Sports. Continue reading ... SUSPENDED – Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was suspended for three games for the late hit on Trevor Lawrence, which led to a concussion diagnosis. Continue reading ... 'UNFAIR' – Texans general manager Nick Caserio pushed back against the narratives concerning Azeez Al-Shaair that he believes the NFL floated in its announcement of the linebacker's suspension. Continue reading ... Dec 1, 2024; Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) slides down in front of Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair (0) in the second quarter in the second quarter at EverBank Stadium. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images) WINNERS AND LOSERS – Michigan upset Ohio State. Miami suffered a second loss of the season at an inopportune time. Here's a look at the college football landscape powered by Fox News Digital Sports. Continue reading ... FROM FOX SPORTS – Steelers QB Russell Wilson delivered a brilliant performance. The Bills and Chiefs are locked in playoff spots. But, Kirk Cousins struggled mightily. Continue reading ... FROM OUTKICK – The Miami Dolphins buckled once again when forced to play in cold conditions. Did the Pro Football Hall of Fame's selection committee for senior categories snub anyone? OutKick's Armando Salguero answers your NFL questions. Continue reading ... WATCH NOW – FOX Sports' Tom Brady discusses Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair's controversial hit on Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Watch here ... FOLLOW FOX NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS Fox News First Fox News Opinion Fox News Lifestyle Fox News Autos Fox News Health DOWNLOAD OUR APPS Fox News Fox Business Fox Weather Fox Sports Tubi WATCH FOX NEWS ONLINE Fox News Go OUTKICK COVERAGE OutKick Sign up for OutKick's daily newsletter STREAM FOX NATION Fox Nation This article was written by Fox News staff.4 journalists, police officer killed by gangs at reopening of Haiti’s largest hospitalGettman kicks go-ahead FG as Villanova ends Delaware's FCS-era with a 38-28 win in finale

CCAR_McKie 10 pass from Vasko (Hensley kick), 8:15. GAST_FG Rickman 28, 14:07. GAST_Brock 19 run (Rickman kick), 8:38. CCAR_Courtney 5 pass from Vasko (Hensley kick), 4:16. CCAR_FG Hensley 43, :01. CCAR_C.Washington 18 run (Hensley kick), 10:56. GAST_FG Rickman 30, 7:06. CCAR_McKie 31 pass from Vasko (Hensley kick), 2:44. GAST_Brock 1 run (pass failed), :25. CCAR_Vasko 10 run (Hensley kick), 9:50. CCAR_FG Hensley 23, 8:33. CCAR_Fletcher 39 interception return (Hensley kick), 7:13. GAST_Fleming 6 pass from Lowe (Hurst pass from Lowe), 4:36. RUSHING_Coastal Carolina, Washington 20-124, Vasko 13-68, Bennett 8-43, Price 5-26, Lloyd 3-10, Taylor 1-5, Duplessis 1-1, (Team) 2-(minus 2). Georgia St., Brock 14-71, Veilleux 11-62, Lowe 3-47, Dukes 2-11, Beasley 3-11. PASSING_Coastal Carolina, Vasko 13-17-1-200, (Team) 0-1-0-0, Duplessis 0-1-1-0, Kim 0-1-0-0. Georgia St., Veilleux 15-26-4-205, Lowe 2-6-0-21. RECEIVING_Coastal Carolina, McKie 5-81, Tucker 3-31, Karr 2-35, Duplessis 1-41, Berrong 1-7, Courtney 1-5. Georgia St., Hurst 8-131, Dukes 3-15, Riles 2-26, Fleming 2-18, Brock 1-21, Milton 1-15. MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

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Madikeri: Karnataka Minister for Minor Irrigation, Science and Technology, NS Boseraju, announced that a Swabhimani Sammelan (Self-respect convention) will be held in Hassan, similar to the one conducted earlier in Raichur. The event will be held under the banner of the party and will focus on addressing issues faced by backward classes, minorities, and economically disadvantaged sections. Speaking to the media in Madikeri, Minister Boseraju responded to questions about the upcoming gathering, which will be organised by the Ahinda community and supported by Congress. He stated that the event in Hassan would see participation from KPCC President and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, Congress workers, and people from the Ahinda community. He clarified that the purpose of the gathering was to raise a voice against the ongoing conspiracies against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, the Congress government, and their efforts to protect the interests of the marginalized. Boseraju further criticised the BJP, accusing them of undermining development work happening in the state. He condemned BJP leaders, particularly opposition leader Ashoka, for making baseless allegations daily. According to Boseraju, such statements were aimed at diverting attention from the development progress and were likely intended to assert internal power struggles within the BJP. The Minister also discussed the upcoming winter session of the state legislature, noting that the Chief Minister had instructed all Cabinet members to be prepared to answer questions effectively and confidently, particularly in response to allegations made by opposition parties. On the topic of BJP leaders’ approach to constitutional issues, Boseraju accused them of hypocrisy. He noted that while BJP leaders criticised others for their statements against the Constitution, they themselves were involved in similar actions without facing consequences. Boseraju also addressed concerns regarding JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy's decision to field his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy in the upcoming by-election. He revealed that BJP leaders were already aware of this development months ago, and feared that a victory by Nikhil would undermine BJP’s position in the state. Referring to comments by Congress leader DK Shivakumar, Boseraju suggested that BJP leaders were indirectly providing support to Congress in this political manoeuvre.

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- In its continued support of those experiencing food insecurity, the Church of Scientology Los Angeles helps launch the holidays with its 4th Annual Turkey Drive - LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 3, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The bright yellow tents of the Volunteer Ministers of the Church of Scientology Los Angeles had something special at their weekly food drive on the Saturday before Thanksgiving: 300 turkeys for local families. The economic impact of the pandemic in 2020 marked the beginning of widespread unemployment and financial hardship. Although lockdowns have been over for several years, and many people have regained or found new employment, food insecurity remains a growing concern. A 2023 study by USC Dornsife Public Exchange revealed that nearly one-third of Los Angeles County residents experience food insecurity. According to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank , more than half of the parents surveyed in May 2024 reported difficulty accessing food, particularly as pandemic-era benefits phased out. It also reported that L.A. County has more food-insecure children than any other county in the U.S. In response to this urgent need, the Church of Scientology Los Angeles began providing a weekly food drive in 2020 and has continued to offer this service, helping hundreds of families each week. The Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers program is a religious social service created in the mid-1970s by L. Ron Hubbard. It constitutes one of the world’s largest independent relief forces. A Volunteer Minister’s mandate is to be “a person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and spiritual values to the lives of others.” Their creed: “A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.” Their motto is no matter the circumstances, “Something can be done about it.” For more information on the technology used by the Volunteer Minister, watch Scientology Tools for Life and the documentary Operation: Do Something About It on the Scientology Network on DIRECTV 320 or at www.Scientology.tv . LEARN MORE: https://www.scientologynews.org/press-releases/ https://www.scientology-losangeles.org VIDEO: https://youtu.be/B0xMnowNCYo?si=DDYMrYdRbb-XAG-1 https://www.scientology.tv/watch/series/inside-scientology/inside-a-church.html PHOTO link for media: https://www.Send2Press.com/300dpi/24-1203-s2p-COS-TurkeyDrive-300dpi.jpg PHOTO CAPTION: Cars line up at the Church of Scientology Los Angeles for a special addition to its weekly food drive. TAGS: #ChurchOfScientologyLosAngeles #TurkeyDrive #FoodDrive #Thanksgiving #ScientologyVolunteerMinisters NEWS SOURCE: Church of Scientology International Keywords: Religion and Churches, Church Of Scientology Los Angeles, Turkey Drive, Food Drive, Thanksgiving, LOS ANGELES, Calif. This press release was issued on behalf of the news source (Church of Scientology International) who is solely responsibile for its accuracy, by Send2Press® Newswire . Information is believed accurate but not guaranteed. Story ID: S2P122625 APDF15TBLLI To view the original version, visit: https://www.send2press.com/wire/church-of-scientology-food-drive-makes-thanksgiving-special-for-300-local-families/ © 2024 Send2Press® Newswire, a press release distribution service, Calif., USA. Disclaimer: This press release content was not created by nor issued by the Associated Press (AP). Content below is unrelated to this news story.50jili com login 。

NoneTexas A&M signed the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class three years ago believing it had built a potential national title contender. Plenty of players from that heralded 2022 class could indeed be participating in the first 12-team College Football Playoff this month. They just won’t be doing it for the Aggies, who no longer have nearly half their 2022 signees. The list of 2022 recruits now with playoff contenders elsewhere includes Mississippi defensive lineman Walter Nolen, Oregon wide receiver Evan Stewart, Alabama defensive lineman LT Overton, SMU offensive tackle PJ Williams and injured Boise State receiver Chris Marshall. Texas A&M has done all right without them, going 8-4 as transfers filled about half the starting roles. Texas A&M represents perhaps the clearest example of how recruiting and roster construction have changed in the era of loosened transfer restrictions. Coaches must assemble high school classes without always knowing which of their own players are transferring and what players from other schools could be available through the portal. “It used to be you lost 20 seniors, you signed 20 incoming freshmen,” Duke coach Manny Diaz said. “You just had your numbers right. Now you might lose 20 seniors, but you might lose 20 underclassmen. You just don’t know.” Coaches emphasize that high school recruiting remains critical, but recent results suggest it isn’t as vital as before. The last two College Football Playoff runners-up – TCU in 2022 and Washington in 2023 – didn’t sign a single top-15 class in any of the four years leading up their postseason runs, according to composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports. This year’s contenders have shown there’s more than one way to build a championship-caliber roster. About half of No. 1 Oregon’s usual starters began their college careers elsewhere. No. 5 Georgia, which annually signs one of the nation’s top high school classes, has only a few transfers making major contributions. Colorado’s rise under Deion Sanders exemplifies how a team can win without elite high school recruiting. None of Colorado’s last four classes have ranked higher than 30th in the 247Sports Composite. Three ranked 47th or lower. “If anybody ever did the homework and the statistics of these young men – people have a class that they say is the No. 1 class in the nation – then five of those guys play, or four of those guys play, then the rest go through the spring and then they jump in the portal,” Sanders said. “Don’t give me the number of where you rank (in recruiting standings), because it’s like an NFL team," he added. "You always say who won the draft, then the team gets killed all year (and) you don’t say nothing else about it. Who won the draft last year in the NFL? Nobody cares right now, right?” Wisconsin's Christian Alliegro tries to stop Oregon's Evan Stewart, right, during the first half of a Nov. 16 game in Madison, Wis. Star quarterback Shedeur Sanders followed his father from Jackson State to Colorado in 2023, and Heisman Trophy front-runner Travis Hunter accompanied them. According to Colorado, this year’s Buffaloes team has 50 transfer newcomers, trailing only North Texas’ 54 among Bowl Subdivision programs. Relying on transfers comes with caveats. Consider Florida State's rise and fall. Florida State posted an unbeaten regular-season record last year with transfers playing leading roles. When those transfers departed and Florida State's portal additions this year didn't work out, the Seminoles went 2-10. “There has to be some type of balance between the transfer portal and high school recruiting,” said Andrew Ivins, the director of scouting for 247Sports. “I compare it to the NFL. The players from the transfer portal are your free agents and high school recruiting is your NFL draft picks.” A look at the composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports for the 2020-22 classes shows at least 40 of the top 100 prospects each of those years ended up leaving their original school. Coaches must decide which positions they’re better off building with high school prospects and which spots might be easier to fill through the portal. “The ones that have a ton of learning to do - tight end, quarterback, interior offensive line, inside linebacker, safety, where they are the communicators - they are the guys that are processing a lot of information,” Florida’s Billy Napier said. “Those are the ones in a perfect world you have around for a while. “It’s easier to play defensive line, edge, corner, receiver, running back, tackle, specialists. Those are a little bit more plug-and-play I’d say, in my opinion," Napier said. "Either way, it’s not necessarily about that. It’s just about we need a certain number at each spot, and we do the best we can to fill those roles.” Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, right, congratulates place kicker Cristiano Palazzo after he kicked an extra point during the second half of Friday's game against Oklahoma Stat in Boulder, Colo. Power Four programs aren’t the only ones facing a balancing act between recruiting high schools and mining the transfer portal. Group of Five schools encounter similar challenges. “We’re recruiting every position and bringing in a high school class,” Eastern Michigan coach Chris Creighton said. “That’s not going to be maybe 24 scholarship guys like it used to be. It might be more like 16. It’s not four d-linemen necessarily, right? It might be three. It might not be three receivers. It might be two. And it might not be five offensive linemen. It’s two to three.” The extra hurdle Group of Five schools face is the possibility their top performers might leave for a power-conference program with more lucrative name, image and likeness financial opportunities. They sometimes don’t know which players they’ll lose. “We know who they’re trying to steal,” Miami (Ohio) coach Chuck Martin quipped. “We just don’t know who they’re going to steal.” The obstacles facing coaches are only getting steeper as FBS teams prepare for a 105-man roster limit as part of the fallout from a pending $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement. While having 105 players on scholarship seems like an upgrade from the current 85-man scholarship limit, many rosters have about 125 players once walk-ons are included. Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said last week his program would probably end up with about 30-50 players in the portal due to the new roster restrictions. All the added dimensions to roster construction in the college game have drawn parallels to the NFL, but Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck believes those comparisons are misleading. “When people talk about college football right now, they’re saying, ‘Oh, we have an NFL model,’ or it’s kind of moving toward the NFL,” Fleck said. “First of all, it’s nothing like the NFL. There’s a collective bargaining agreement (in the NFL). There’s a true salary cap for everybody. It’s designed for all 32 fan bases to win the Super Bowl maybe once every 32 years – and I know other people are winning that a lot more than others – but that’s how it’s designed. In college football, it’s not that way.” There does seem to be a bit more competitive balance than before. The emergence of TCU and Washington the last couple of postseasons indicates this new era of college football has produced more unpredictability. Yet it’s also created many more challenges as coaches try to figure out how to put together their rosters. “It’s difficult because we’re just kind of inventing it on the fly, right?” Diaz said. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, foreground right, dives toward the end zone to score past San Francisco 49ers defensive end Robert Beal Jr. (51) and linebacker Dee Winters during the second half of an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus) Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green goes up for a dunk during the second half of an Emirates NBA cup basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) South Carolina guard Maddy McDaniel (1) drives to the basket against UCLA forward Janiah Barker (0) and center Lauren Betts (51) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer) Mari Fukada of Japan falls as she competes in the women's Snowboard Big Air qualifying round during the FIS Snowboard & Freeski World Cup 2024 at the Shougang Park in Beijing, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) LSU punter Peyton Todd (38) kneels in prayer before an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. LSU won 37-17. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) South Africa's captain Temba Bavuma misses a catch during the fourth day of the first Test cricket match between South Africa and Sri Lanka, at Kingsmead stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley, left, is hit by Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey, center, as Eagles wide receiver Parris Campbell (80) looks on during a touchdown run by Barkley in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) Los Angeles Kings left wing Warren Foegele, left, trips San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini, center, during the third period of an NHL hockey game Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez) Olympiacos' Francisco Ortega, right, challenges for the ball with FCSB's David Miculescu during the Europa League league phase soccer match between FCSB and Olympiacos at the National Arena stadium, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru) Brazil's Botafogo soccer fans react during the Copa Libertadores title match against Atletico Mineiro in Argentina, during a watch party at Nilton Santos Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) Seattle Kraken fans react after a goal by center Matty Beniers against the San Jose Sharks was disallowed due to goaltender interference during the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, in Seattle. The Sharks won 4-2. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) New York Islanders left wing Anders Lee (27), center, fight for the puck with Boston Bruins defensemen Parker Wotherspoon (29), left, and Brandon Carlo (25), right during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Jiyai Shin of Korea watches her shot on the 10th hole during the final round of the Australian Open golf championship at the Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake) Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland competes in the women's Freeski Big Air qualifying round during the FIS Snowboard & Freeski World Cup 2024 at the Shougang Park in Beijing, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) Lara Gut-Behrami, of Switzerland, competes during a women's World Cup giant slalom skiing race, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, in Killington, Vt. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin cools off during first period of an NHL hockey game against the Boston Bruins, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Brazil's Amanda Gutierres, second right, is congratulated by teammate Yasmin, right, after scoring her team's first goal during a soccer international between Brazil and Australia in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Pat Hoelscher) Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers (89) tries to leap over Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Joshua Williams (2) during the first half of an NFL football game in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga) Luiz Henrique of Brazil's Botafogo, right. is fouled by goalkeeper Everson of Brazil's Atletico Mineiro inside the penalty area during a Copa Libertadores final soccer match at Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) England's Alessia Russo, left, and United States' Naomi Girma challenge for the ball during the International friendly women soccer match between England and United States at Wembley stadium in London, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Gold medalists Team Netherlands competes in the Team Sprint Women race of the ISU World Cup Speed Skating Beijing 2024 held at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones (33) reaches for an incomplete pass ahead of Arizona Cardinals linebacker Mack Wilson Sr. (2) during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) Melanie Meillard, center, of Switzerland, competes during the second run in a women's World Cup slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Killington, Vt. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Get local news delivered to your inbox!

Kiffin calls crammed calendar ‘a dumb system’Fiji's preparation for the 2024 Oceania Pacific Cup hockey tournament at the Laucala Hockey Turf in Suva, starting Monday, has been a mixed bag. The event, which has attracted seven countries and a total of 16 teams competing in the men's and women's competition, is making a return after a lapse of six years. With the shorter, five-a-side version, there is excitement as the competing teams get into their final preparation before competition begins. The Fiji men's hockey teams are racing against time to be ready for the tournament, as they round up the preparation of their two teams, the Fiji nationals and the Fiji Warriors. Men's team work hard Head coach Shaun Corrie said they hope to be ready for the challenge, as they have had some challenges, especially with players from the West who do not have the privilege of training on a synthetic turf like the one in Laucala Bay. Work commitments keeps most of the players off the grass and turf too. "Preparation has been tough, with the boys coming back from the World Cup and getting back into their normal daily lives," Corrie said. "The boys out in the West are without a turf and we have had a delayed season. We had a delayed season, so trying to get everybody back into the groove and trying out for fives has been tough for us. "The guys in the West, a lot of them work shift work, and they don't have a proper facility like this. The guys that were in the squads for Pacific Games and the World Cup just getting back after two years in training and it's been tough trying to get them back here, but we're moving along slowly. "Hopefully we we can prepare well enough for the tournament." Core said as a result they have had to select players they know will fit into the game plan and produce the results on the pitch. "Because of the lack of time, we selected the core group of players from districts that we knew could fit the Fiji standards, to come and try also, so we giving them that opportunity," the former Fiji national rep said. "So with two Fiji teams been given spots to play in the tournament, we're very happy and pleased that we're able to expose more players to this fold, and the new, young players, coming to the fold and getting exposed to the standard Fiji training is also exciting for them. "So we've brought in also some juniors and exposed them to give them a taste of what it's like training with the Fiji teams, and we were very pleased with the response that we got from the players." Fiji women on track It is a different story with the Fiji women, their coach Alison Southey said they are on track. She said a lot of things have worked well for the teams and helped made their work easier. Part of that is the support team she has been able to have, assisting in the preparations. "Preparations have been very good," she said. "We've had the women come out of the Hockey League season as well as the last Marist tournament. And you know, having them at that certain level and moving into national requirements has has had its challenges the last five weeks. "But being where we are right now, with the assistance of a strength and conditioning coach as well as someone helping with skills and drills, I'm really positive and happy with where they are. "We've been fortunate enough to have the different helps and I'm very grateful for what they bring to the table with all their experience and expertise." Southey said she is confident the two Fiji teams will be ready to compete and do well against the other competitors. "It's exciting. I look forward to the challenges that come with it," she said. "I enjoy coaching the women, and I thank the support from home for all the athletes. This is what makes it possible for us as coaches to come and take them during the sessions, because it's hard work. I mean, if it was easy, every single person, every second person, would be a national rep. "But because they have the support from home, it just makes it so much easier for us to be able to, you know, coach them and have them on the team. So a special mention to everyone back home, family, friends, employers who make it possible to allow the athletes to come and just focus on what they do best, which is play hockey and represent the country." The Pacific Cup ran from 2008 through to 2018, starting as an 11 aside competition, which turned into a five-a-side competition in 2017. Australia and New Zealand sent invitation teams namely the Australian Country Under-21 teams and New Zealand Barbarians and Maori Men's teams, President's and Maori Women's teams. Teams competing this year Men's Division Women's Division

A celebrated author argues that it's not at all impractical to study subjects like writing, languages, music and historyCommunity news for Bishop's Waltham, Upham, Swanmore and Meon ValleyThe Social Democrats made mistakes in how the controversy involving Eoin Hayes was handled and the party has taken a knock as a result, its acting leader has admitted. Cian O'Callaghan said that how events unfolded on Tuesday were completely unacceptable and had left him feeling "very angry". He said: Embarrassed would be an understatement in terms of how I feel about it. The Social Democrats is to hold a full review after Mr Hayes was suspended from the party for providing untrue statements to the media about when he divested of shares in a US software company which has ties to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Mr Hayes had repeatedly claimed at a press conference on Tuesday that he had fully divested his shares in Palantir, where he had worked from 2015 to 2017, before he had entered into politics. However, he issued a statement hours later stating "this was not true". Prior to this, the party had asked Mr Hayes for information about the shares, according to Mr O'Callaghan, but as acting leader he himself had not put the question to the new TD. The information Mr O'Callaghan said he was given was that the shares were sold before entering politics but there was no specific date provided. Mr O'Callaghan confirmed that it was only after Tuesday's press conference that Mr Hayes was asked for more detail on when the shares in Palantir were sold despite questions first being raised a week earlier. "We got the dates and at that point it was clear that the information given to us was not correct," said Mr O'Callaghan, who is acting leader of the party while Holly Cairns is on maternity leave. Mr O'Callaghan spoke to Ms Cairns about the matter and said she is "extremely disappointed" and shares the party's concerns. He said: I do think it is a situation for us that has affected our standing and I think we have a lot of work to do on this now in the future. There was no offer made by Mr Hayes to resign from the Social Democrats or the Dáil after he clarified that he had not sold his shares until one month after he had been elected to Dublin City Council, according to Mr O'Callaghan. Following his suspension, Mr Hayes said that he would take his seat in the Dáil next week as an independent but hoped to regain the trust of the Social Democrats. Asked whether there was a route for Mr Hayes to return to the party fold, Mr O'Callaghan said the process is not at the point in terms of knowing what will happen in the future. Mr Hayes' profile has been removed from the Social Democrats website. Gary Gannon, who had contacted Mr Hayes on Wednesday as part of a welfare check, confirmed that the newly elected TD intends to refund part of a large donation made to his election campaign. Mr Gannon faced questions regarding comments he made on a podcast where he criticised journalists who had been raising concerns about Mr Hayes' Palantir shares. Speaking to the Echo Chamber podcast, which was recorded last week before Mr Hayes admitted when he sold the €200,000 worth of shares, Mr Gannon claimed that "a couple of journalists" were putting "front pages out" because they were interested in government special advisor jobs. Mr Gannon apologised for the comments calling them "grossly silly" and said he had let the Social Democrats down and it does not reflect the views of his party. He told reporters that the comments were made in the days coming out of a "heavy general election" and he was "tired, I wasn't being my best self".

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ZURICH (AP) — Saudi Arabia scored a major win in its campaign to attract major sports events to the kingdom when it was formally appointed as the 2034 World Cup host on Wednesday. Still, many questions remain about the tournament as well as the 2030 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with three games in South America. Here are some of the key issues that need to be answered over the next decade: Saudi Arabia proposes 15 stadiums — eight still on paper — in five cities: Eight in the capital Riyadh, four in the Red Sea port city Jeddah, and one each in Abha, Al Khobar and Neom, the planned futuristic mega-project. Each would have at least 40,000 seats for World Cup games. The opening game and final are set for a 92,000-seat venue planned in Riyadh. Some designs are vivid . In Neom, the stadium is planned 350 meters (yards) above street level and one near Riyadh is designed to be atop a 200-meter cliff with a retractable wall of LED screens. Saudi Arabia aims to host all 104 games, though there has been speculation that some games could be played in neighboring or nearby countries. Surely not in the traditional World Cup period of June-July, when temperatures in Saudi Arabia routinely exceed 40 Celsius (104 degrees). FIFA moved the Qatar-hosted World Cup to November-December 2022, though those dates were not loved by most European clubs and leagues whose seasons were interrupted. Also, that slot is complicated in 2034 by the holy month of Ramadan through mid-December and Riyadh hosting the multi-sport Asian Games. January 2034 could be a possibility even though that would be just before the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The International Olympic Committee has signaled it won’t be opposed to back-to-back major events. In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Saudi World Cup bid official Hammad Albalawi said the precise dates of the tournament are up the world soccer body. “That’s a decision by FIFA. We stand ready to be part of this conversation. But ultimately it’s a FIFA decision together with the confederations,” Albalawi said. Giving more rights and freedoms to women in a traditionally conservative society is fundamental to Saudi messaging around the modernization program known as Vision 2030. The kingdom decided in 2017 to let women attend sports events, initially in major cities and in family zones separate from men-only sections. By 2034, at the promised pace of social reforms, female fans should not be restricted. Saudi Arabia launched a women’s professional soccer league in 2022 with players joining from clubs in Europe. They face no restrictions playing in shorts and with hair uncovered. The Saudi prohibition of alcohol is clear and understood before FIFA signs any sponsor deals for 2034. But will there be any exceptions? The alcohol issue was problematic for the World Cup in Qatar because the expectation was created that beer sales would be allowed at stadiums even before Qatar won its bid in 2010. One year later, FIFA extended a long-time deal to have Budweiser as the official World Cup beer through 2022. Qatar then backtracked on that promise three days before the first game, causing confusion and the sense of a promise broken. In Qatar, alcohol was served only at luxury suites at the stadiums. Visitors could also have a drink in some hotel bars. But Saudi Arabia has even stricter rules on alcohol — and there is no indication that will change. Albalawi noted that Saudi Arabia has successfully hosted dozens of sports events where alcohol wasn't served. “We’re creating a safe and secure family environment for fans to bring their families into our stadiums,” he said. Saudi promises to reform and enforce labor laws, and fully respect migrant workers, have been accepted by FIFA but face broad skepticism from rights groups and trade unions. A formal complaint is being investigated by the U.N.-backed International Labor Organization. Protecting the migrant workers needed to build stadiums and other tournament projects — a decade after it was a defining issue for Qatar — looms as a signature challenge for Saudi Arabia. Saudi-Israeli relations had been improving when FIFA all but gave the 2034 World Cup to the kingdom on Oct. 4 last year. Three days later Hamas attacked Israel and diplomacy got more complicated. Any soccer federation bidding to host a FIFA tournament accepts a basic principle that whichever team qualifies is welcome. That did not stop Indonesia putting up barriers last year to Israel coming for the men’s Under-20 World Cup. Indonesia does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel which had qualified through a European tournament nine months before the issue flared. FIFA moved the entire tournament to Argentina and the Israeli team reached the semifinals. Israel played at the 1970 World Cup but has never advanced through qualifying in Europe, where it has been a member of UEFA for 30 years. Europe should have 16 places in the 48-team World Cup in Saudi Arabia. Most of the attention at the FIFA Congress on Wednesday was on the Saudi decision, but the soccer body and its members also formally approved the hosts of the 2030 World Cup — the most spread out and longest ever. One game each in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, the original host in 1930, will be played from June 8-9. The tournament resumes four days later for the other 101 games shared between Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Six countries, three continents, multiple languages and currencies. Fans traveling on planes, trains, automobiles and boats across about 14 kilometers (10 miles) of water between Spain and Morocco. The final is due on July 21, 2030 and a decision on where it will be played could cause some tension between the host countries. Morocco wants it in the world’s biggest soccer venue — the planned 115,000-seat King Hassan II Stadium in Casablanca. Spain, meanwhile, has proposed to host the final in either of the remodeled home stadiums of club giants Real Madrid or Barcelona. Associated Press writer Baraa Anwer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contributed to this report.NewMarket Corporation Authorizes New Share Repurchase ProgramChicago mayor releases 2023 tax returns

TORONTO, Dec. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Onex Corporation (the “ Company ”) (TSX: ONEX) announced today the amendment of the terms of the Company’s ongoing substantial issuer bid (the “ Offer ”), pursuant to which the Company has offered to purchase from its shareholders (“ Shareholders ”), for cancellation, up to $400,000,000 of its subordinate voting shares (the “ Subordinate Voting Shares ”). All amounts in this press release are in Canadian dollars. The Offer has been amended to increase the price range offered to Shareholders who tender their Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to the Offer to a price of not less than $108.00 per Subordinate Voting Share and not more than $117.00 per Subordinate Voting Share (in increments of $0.25 per Subordinate Voting Share) (the “ New Range ”). The New Range varies the original price range of the Offer of not less than $105.00 and not more than $112.00 per Subordinate Voting Share. In connection with the variation of the price range of the Offer, the expiry date of the Offer has been extended to 11:59 p.m. (Toronto time) on December 23, 2024 (the “ Expiry Date ”), unless further extended, varied or withdrawn by the Company. All other terms of the Offer remain unchanged. The Company anticipates announcing the results of the Offer by no later than December 27, 2024, following the close of markets. The Offer is for up to approximately 5% of the Company’s total number of issued and outstanding Subordinate Voting Shares (based on a purchase price equal to the minimum purchase price per Subordinate Voting Share and 73,973,642 Subordinate Voting Shares issued and outstanding as at the close of business on December 11, 2024). As a result of the variation of the Offer, any Shareholder who previously tendered their Subordinate Voting Shares to the Offer prior to the date hereof is advised that SUCH TENDER IS NO LONGER VALID and that the Shareholder WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROPERLY RETENDER THEIR SUBORDINATE VOTING SHARES in the manner described in the Notice of Variation (as defined below) in order to participate in the Offer. For greater certainty, any and all Subordinate Voting Shares previously tendered will be deemed to be withdrawn and will not be accepted for take-up and payment unless the Shareholder takes the additional steps described in the Notice of Variation. If you previously tendered your Subordinate Voting Shares and you do not properly retender your Subordinate Voting Shares in accordance with the procedures described in the Notice of Variation, your Subordinate Voting Shares will be returned to you by TSX Trust Company, the depositary for the Offer, promptly after the Expiry Date. For registered Shareholders who do not receive physical delivery of the Offer Documents by mail due to a postal disruption as a result of a Canada Post labour disruption or any other cause, the amended letter of transmittal (the “Amended Letter of Transmittal”) for use by registered Shareholders is available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and will also be posted on the Company’s website at www.onex.com . Registered Shareholders who wish to participate in the Offer should deliver a properly completed and duly executed Amended Letter of Transmittal (or a manually executed photocopy thereof) and any other documents required by the Amended Letter of Transmittal, to the Depositary at its address set forth on the Letter of Transmittal, prior to 11:59 p.m. (Toronto time) on the Expiry Date. A non-registered Shareholder who desires to deposit Subordinate Voting Shares under the Offer should immediately contact such Shareholder’s investment dealer, stock broker, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee in order to take the necessary steps to be able to deposit such Subordinate Voting Shares under the Offer. This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction. The solicitation and the offer to buy the Subordinate Voting Shares will only be made pursuant to the offer to purchase and issuer bid circular dated November 8, 2024, as amended by the notice of variation and extension dated December 13, 2024 (the “ Notice of Variation ”), the Amended Letter of Transmittal and the amended notice of guaranteed delivery (collectively, the “ Offer Documents ”). Details of the Offer, including instructions for tendering Subordinate Voting Shares, are included in the Offer Documents. The Offer Documents will be mailed to shareholders, filed with applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities and made available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca , and will also be posted on the Company's website at www.onex.com . Shareholders should carefully read the Offer Documents prior to making a decision with respect to the Offer. ABOUT ONEX Onex invests and manages capital on behalf of its shareholders and clients across the globe. Formed in 1984, we have a long track record of creating value for our clients and shareholders. Our investors include a broad range of global clients, including public and private pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, family offices and high-net-worth individuals. In total, Onex has approximately $50 billion in assets under management, of which $8.5 billion is Onex’ own investing capital. With offices in Toronto, New York, New Jersey and London, Onex and its experienced management teams are collectively the largest investors across Onex’ platforms. Onex is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ONEX. For more information on Onex, visit its website at www.onex.com . Onex’ security filings can also be accessed at www.sedarplus.ca . CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS This press release may contain, without limitation, statements concerning possible or assumed future operations, performance or results preceded by, followed by or that include words such as “believes”, “expects”, “potential”, “anticipates”, “estimates”, “intends”, “plans” and words of similar connotation, which would constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees. The reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information because they involve significant and diverse risks and uncertainties that may cause actual operations, performance or results to be materially different from those indicated in these forward-looking statements. Except as may be required by Canadian securities law, Onex is under no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained herein should material facts change due to new information, future events or other factors. These cautionary statements expressly qualify all forward-looking statements in this press release. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:Bathinda: By the eighth day of prominent farmer unionist Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s fast-unto-death at Punjab-Haryana’s Khanauri border, the scope of his protest has widened to water pollution, unfair compensation, and overdue appointments, while his union readies for a Dec-6 foot march to Delhi. Dallewal, addressing the protesters, vowed to continue the struggle until their demands were met. He condemned police crackdowns on demonstrators in Ludhiana who opposed the discharge of polluted water into the Buddha Nullah, while he expressed solidarity with assistant professors and librarians who await appointments. Three candidates now sit on a fast outside the Sangrur residence of Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann. Farmers’ forum Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) criticised the way Greater Noida police had used force to evict farmers from protest sites despite prior agreements with Uttar Pradesh officials. The SKM said suppressing protests would not address the grievances of farmers who had lost land and livelihoods due to “insufficient compensation and aggressive land acquisition policies”. Farmer unionist Sarvan Singh Pandher said he had talked with Ambala’s superintendent of police on Monday evening to seek permission for the Delhi march, and now awaited response. An online page went active for the interested participants. The farmers of the region are in an 18-year fight for their land rights, enduring police violence that claimed six comrades between 2008 and 2012. As subsequent policies undermine the 2013 Land Acquisition Act (called RFCTLARR) that was designed to ensure fair compensation and rehabilitation, the farmers are left without adequate restitution. We also published the following articles recently 'Don't cause inconvenience': Supreme Court asks farmer leader Dallewal to ensure peaceful protests The Supreme Court has urged farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal to ensure protests do not hinder highways or public convenience, emphasizing that peaceful protests are a democratic right but must be conducted responsibly. Dallewal, after being allegedly detained and released from a hospital, vowed to continue his hunger strike demanding legal backing for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for farmers. 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WESTLAKE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2024-- Nordson Corporation (Nasdaq: NDSN) today reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter ended October 31, 2024. Sales were $744 million, a 4% increase compared to the prior year’s fourth quarter sales of $719 million. The increase in fourth quarter 2024 sales included the favorable 6% impact of acquisitions and favorable currency translation of 1%, offset by an organic sales decrease of 3%. Net income was $122 million, or earnings per diluted share of $2.12, compared to prior year’s fourth quarter net income of $128 million, or earnings per diluted share of $2.22. Adjusted net income was $160 million, an increase from prior year adjusted net income of $156 million. Fourth quarter 2024 adjusted earnings per diluted share were $2.78 compared to prior year adjusted earnings per diluted share of $2.71. EBITDA in the fourth quarter was $241 million, or 32% of sales, an increase of 4% compared to prior year EBITDA of $227 million, also at 32% of sales. Commenting on the Company’s fiscal 2024 fourth quarter results, Nordson President and Chief Executive Officer Sundaram Nagarajan said, “I appreciate our team’s focus and commitment to our customers, which delivered results above our fourth quarter guidance expectations. Our Advanced Technology Solutions segment delivered year-over-year fourth quarter sales growth, as electronics demand continued to steadily improve at fiscal year-end. During the down electronics cycle, our ATS team holistically implemented the NBS Next growth framework, making them responsive to the needs of our customers while also delivering a strong incremental operating performance. Our industrial product lines performed well against record comparisons from prior year. I’m also pleased with the early integration of our Atrion Medical acquisition, which contributed positively to the quarter.” Industrial Precision Solutions sales of $392 million decreased 3% compared to the prior year fourth quarter, driven by a 5% organic sales decrease, a favorable acquisition impact of 1%, and a favorable currency impact of 1%. The organic sales decrease, following record organic sales in prior year fourth quarter, was driven by our industrial coatings, polymer processing and precision agriculture product lines, partially offset by double-digit growth in nonwovens product lines. Operating profit was $126 million in the quarter, or 32% of sales, a decrease of 4% compared to the prior year operating profit. The decrease in operating profit was driven by lower sales. EBITDA in the quarter was $143 million, or 37% of sales, a 3% decrease from the prior year fourth quarter EBITDA of $148 million, which also was 37% of sales. Medical and Fluid Solutions sales of $200 million increased 19% compared to the prior year fourth quarter, driven primarily by the acquisition of Atrion, which offset an organic sales decrease of 3% and a favorable currency impact of 1%. The organic sales decrease was driven by softness in medical interventional solutions product lines, partially offset by modest growth in our medical fluid components and fluid solutions product lines. Operating profit totaled $44 million in the quarter, or 22% of sales, a decrease of 8% compared to the prior year operating profit. EBITDA in the quarter was $72 million, or 36% of sales, an increase versus the prior year fourth quarter EBITDA of $62 million, or 37% of sales. Advanced Technology Solutions sales of $152 million increased 5% compared to the prior year fourth quarter, driven by an organic sales increase of 4% and a favorable currency impact of 1%. The organic sales increase was driven by double-digit growth in select test and inspection product lines and modest growth in our electronics processing product lines. Operating profit totaled $33 million in the quarter, or 22% of sales, an increase of 6% compared to the prior year operating profit due to higher sales and improved profit margins. EBITDA in the quarter was $41 million, or 27% of sales, an increase from the prior year fourth quarter EBITDA of $35 million, or 24% of sales. Sales for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024, were a record $2.7 billion, an increase of 2% compared to the prior year. This sales growth was driven by a favorable acquisition impact of 5%, partially offset by a 3% decrease in organic volume. Net income was $467 million, or earnings per diluted share of $8.11, compared to prior year’s net income of $487 million, or earnings per diluted share of $8.46. Adjusted net income was $561 million, a decrease from prior year adjusted net income of $567 million. Adjusted earnings per diluted share were $9.73 compared to prior year adjusted earnings per diluted share of $9.85. EBITDA was $849 million, or 32% of sales, compared to prior year EBITDA of $819 million, or 31% of sales. Free cash flow for the full-year was $492 million, which was a conversion rate of 105% of net income. Reflecting on fiscal 2024, Mr. Nagarajan continued, “In 2021, we launched our Ascend strategy with the milestone of achieving $3 billion in annual sales and greater than 30% EBITDA margins by 2025. The strategy is delivering results and has ample runway to accelerate. Our diversified portfolio, built on our leadership in niche end markets with differentiated products, is delivering balanced results in the ever-changing macro environment. Our acquisition strategy is generating growth, and I am pleased with the integration and deployment of the NBS Next growth framework. We also continued to generate strong free cash flow in the year, allowing us to consistently reinvest in the business while returning cash to our shareholders.” Following four consecutive years of record-setting performance, we enter fiscal 2025 with approximately $580 million in backlog. Based on the combination of order entry, backlog, current exchange rates and anticipated end market expectations, we anticipate delivering sales in the range of $2,750 to $2,870 million in fiscal 2025. Full year fiscal 2025 adjusted earnings are forecasted in the range of $9.70 to $10.50 per diluted share. First quarter fiscal 2025 sales are forecasted in the range of $615 to $655 million with adjusted earnings in the range of $1.95 to $2.15 per diluted share. Commenting on fiscal 2025 guidance, Nagarajan said, “Considering the evolving global macro-environment, we are entering 2025 with a conservative viewpoint. The fiscal first quarter is seasonally Nordson’s weakest quarter due to the holiday and calendar year-end slowdowns and cautious customer spending. While we remain confident about the long-term growth drivers of our end markets, we are being prudent about our expectations for end market recovery timing, particularly for our electronics and agricultural product lines. Even in uncertain times, our team delivers operational excellence and strong cash flow due to our close-to-the-customer business model, diversified niche end markets, differentiated products and the NBS Next growth framework.” Nordson management will provide additional commentary on these results and outlook during its previously announced webcast on Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. eastern time, which can be accessed at . Information about Nordson’s investor relations and shareholder services is available from Lara Mahoney, vice president, investor relations and corporate communications at (440) 204-9985 or . Certain statements contained in this release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “outlook,” “guidance,” “continue,” “target,” or the negative of these terms or comparable terminology. These statements reflect management’s current expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, U.S. and international economic conditions; financial and market conditions; currency exchange rates and devaluations; possible acquisitions, including the Company’s ability to successfully integrate acquisitions; the Company’s ability to successfully divest or dispose of businesses that are deemed not to fit with its strategic plan; the effects of changes in U.S. trade policy and trade agreements; the effects of changes in tax law; and the possible effects of events beyond our control, such as political unrest, including the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, acts of terror, natural disasters and pandemics, including the recent coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the other factors discussed in Item 1A (Risk Factors) in the Company’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and in its Forms 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which should be reviewed carefully. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement in this press release. Nordson Corporation is an innovative precision technology company that leverages a scalable growth framework through an entrepreneurial, division-led organization to deliver top tier growth with leading margins and returns. The Company’s direct sales model and applications expertise serves global customers through a wide variety of critical applications. Its diverse end market exposure includes consumer non-durable, medical, electronics and industrial end markets. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, the Company has operations and support offices in over 35 countries. Visit Nordson on the web at , , or . NORDSON CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands except for per-share amounts) Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Sales $ 744,482 $ 719,313 $ 2,689,921 $ 2,628,632 Cost of sales 341,658 335,220 1,203,792 1,203,227 Gross profit 402,824 384,093 1,486,129 1,425,405 Gross margin % 54.1 % 53.4 % 55.2 % 54.2 % Selling & administrative expenses 223,932 199,054 812,128 752,644 Operating profit 178,892 185,039 674,001 672,761 Interest expense - net (27,282 ) (25,921 ) (84,011 ) (56,825 ) Other income (expense) - net (3,538 ) 1,462 (4,509 ) (597 ) Income before income taxes 148,072 160,580 585,481 615,339 Income taxes 25,904 32,802 118,197 127,846 Net Income $ 122,168 $ 127,778 $ 467,284 $ 487,493 Weighted-average common shares outstanding: Basic 57,188 57,020 57,176 57,090 Diluted 57,603 57,552 57,616 57,631 Earnings per share: Basic earnings $ 2.14 $ 2.24 $ 8.17 $ 8.54 Diluted earnings $ 2.12 $ 2.22 $ 8.11 $ 8.46 NORDSON CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands) October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Cash and cash equivalents $ 115,952 $ 115,679 Receivables - net 594,663 590,886 Inventories - net 476,935 454,775 Other current assets 87,482 67,970 Total current assets 1,275,032 1,229,310 Property, plant & equipment - net 544,607 392,846 Goodwill 3,280,819 2,784,201 Other assets 900,508 845,413 $ 6,000,966 $ 5,251,770 Notes payable and debt due within one year $ 103,928 $ 115,662 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 424,549 466,427 Total current liabilities 528,477 582,089 Long-term debt 2,101,197 1,621,394 Other liabilities 439,100 450,227 Total shareholders' equity 2,932,192 2,598,060 $ 6,000,966 $ 5,251,770 NORDSON CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands) Twelve Months Ended October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Cash flows from operating activities: Net Income $ 467,284 $ 487,493 Depreciation and amortization 136,175 111,898 Other non-cash items 5,883 16,105 Changes in operating assets and liabilities and other (53,149 ) 25,786 Net cash provided by operating activities 556,193 641,282 Cash flows from investing activities: Additions to property, plant and equipment (64,410 ) (34,583 ) Acquisitions of businesses, net of cash acquired (789,996 ) (1,422,780 ) Other - net 10,008 20,484 Net cash used in investing activities (844,398 ) (1,436,879 ) Cash flows from financing activities: Issuance (repayment) of long-term debt 464,353 976,043 Repayment of finance lease obligations (6,148 ) (6,840 ) Dividends paid (161,438 ) (150,356 ) Issuance of common shares 31,067 21,373 Purchase of treasury shares (33,339 ) (89,708 ) Net cash provided by financing activities 294,495 750,512 Effect of exchange rate change on cash (6,017 ) (2,693 ) Net change in cash and cash equivalents 273 (47,778 ) Cash and cash equivalents: Beginning of period 115,679 163,457 End of period $ 115,952 $ 115,679 NORDSON CORPORATION SALES BY GEOGRAPHIC SEGMENT (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands) Three Months Ended Sales Variance October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Organic Acquisitions Currency Total Industrial precision solutions $ 392,150 $ 405,436 (5.5 )% 1.2 % 1.0 % (3.3 )% Medical and fluid solutions 200,223 168,632 (3.2 )% 21.4 % 0.5 % 18.7 % Advanced technology solutions 152,109 145,245 3.9 % — % 0.8 % 4.7 % Total sales $ 744,482 $ 719,313 (3.0 )% 5.7 % 0.8 % 3.5 % Americas 323,170 315,635 (6.0 )% 8.9 % (0.5 )% 2.4 % Europe 185,350 184,297 (6.6 )% 4.6 % 2.6 % 0.6 % Asia Pacific 235,962 219,381 4.2 % 2.0 % 1.4 % 7.6 % Total sales $ 744,482 $ 719,313 (3.0 )% 5.7 % 0.8 % 3.5 % Twelve Months Ended Sales Variance October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Organic Acquisitions Currency Total Industrial precision solutions $ 1,484,249 $ 1,391,046 0.1 % 6.6 % — % 6.7 % Medical and fluid solutions 695,452 660,316 (0.2 )% 5.4 % 0.1 % 5.3 % Advanced technology solutions 510,220 577,270 (11.4 )% — % (0.2 )% (11.6 )% Total sales $ 2,689,921 $ 2,628,632 (2.5 )% 4.8 % — % 2.3 % Americas 1,178,626 1,149,760 (1.9 )% 4.3 % 0.1 % 2.5 % Europe 726,100 682,676 (5.1 )% 10.2 % 1.3 % 6.4 % Asia Pacific 785,195 796,196 (1.0 )% 1.0 % (1.4 )% (1.4 )% Total sales $ 2,689,921 $ 2,628,632 (2.5 )% 4.8 % — % 2.3 % NORDSON CORPORATION RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES - NET INCOME TO EBITDA (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands) Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Net income 122,168 127,778 467,284 487,493 Income taxes 25,904 32,802 118,197 127,846 Interest expense - net 27,282 25,921 84,011 56,825 Other expense - net 3,538 (1,462 ) 4,509 597 Depreciation and amortization 36,528 31,261 136,175 111,898 Inventory step-up amortization (1) 4,759 4,556 7,703 8,862 Severance and other (1) 12,717 — 17,332 5,487 Acquisition-related costs (1) 8,200 6,244 13,957 19,966 EBITDA (non-GAAP) (2) 241,096 227,100 849,168 818,974 (1) Represents severance as well as fees and non-cash inventory charges associated with acquisitions. (2) EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure used by management to evaluate the Company's ongoing operations. EBITDA is defined as operating profit plus certain adjustments, such as severance, fees and non-cash inventory charges associated with acquisitions, plus depreciation and amortization. NORDSON CORPORATION RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES - EBITDA (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands) Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Industrial precision solutions $ 392,150 $ 405,436 $ 1,484,249 $ 1,391,046 Medical and fluid solutions 200,223 168,632 695,452 660,316 Advanced technology solutions 152,109 145,245 510,220 577,270 Total sales $ 744,482 $ 719,313 $ 2,689,921 $ 2,628,632 Industrial precision solutions $ 126,254 $ 131,450 $ 470,559 $ 460,889 Medical and fluid solutions 44,264 48,041 187,731 189,367 Advanced technology solutions 33,464 31,526 94,231 101,662 Corporate (25,090 ) (25,978 ) (78,520 ) (79,157 ) Total operating profit $ 178,892 $ 185,039 $ 674,001 $ 672,761 Industrial precision solutions $ 2,899 $ 4,658 $ 8,976 $ 4,658 Medical and fluid solutions 10,761 — 10,761 1,479 Advanced technology solutions 3,816 — 5,895 14,304 Corporate 8,200 6,142 13,360 13,874 Total adjustments $ 25,676 $ 10,800 $ 38,992 $ 34,315 Industrial precision solutions $ 14,035 $ 12,062 $ 56,856 $ 33,228 Medical and fluid solutions 17,239 13,547 58,061 54,988 Advanced technology solutions 3,340 3,529 13,433 15,185 Corporate 1,914 2,123 7,825 8,497 Total depreciation & amortization $ 36,528 $ 31,261 $ 136,175 $ 111,898 Industrial precision solutions $ 143,188 37 % $ 148,170 37 % $ 536,391 36 % $ 498,775 36 % Medical and fluid solutions 72,264 36 % 61,588 37 % 256,553 37 % 245,834 37 % Advanced technology solutions 40,620 27 % 35,055 24 % 113,559 22 % 131,151 23 % Corporate (14,976 ) (17,713 ) (57,335 ) (56,786 ) Total EBITDA $ 241,096 32 % $ 227,100 32 % $ 849,168 32 % $ 818,974 31 % (1) Represents severance as well as fees and non-cash inventory charges associated with acquisitions. (2) EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure used by management to evaluate the Company's ongoing operations. EBITDA is defined as operating profit plus certain adjustments, such as severance, fees and non-cash inventory charges associated with acquisitions, plus depreciation and amortization. NORDSON CORPORATION RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES - ADJUSTED NET INCOME AND EARNINGS PER SHARE (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands) Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 October 31, 2024 October 31, 2023 Operating profit $ 178,892 $ 185,039 $ 674,001 $ 672,761 Other / interest expense - net (30,820 ) (24,459 ) (88,520 ) (57,422 ) Net income 122,168 127,778 467,284 487,493 Diluted earnings per share $ 2.12 $ 2.22 $ 8.11 $ 8.46 Shares outstanding - diluted 57,603 57,552 57,616 57,631 Inventory step-up amortization $ 4,759 $ 4,556 $ 7,703 $ 8,862 Severance and other 12,717 — 17,332 5,487 Acquisition costs 8,200 6,244 13,957 19,966 $ 19,560 $ 17,880 $ 76,972 $ 59,719 908 6,817 908 6,817 Total adjustments $ 46,144 $ 35,497 $ 116,872 $ 100,851 Adjustments net of tax $ 38,071 $ 28,247 $ 93,278 $ 79,898 EPS effect of adjustments and other discrete tax items $ 0.66 $ 0.49 $ 1.62 $ 1.39 Adjusted net income (1) $ 160,239 $ 156,025 $ 560,562 $ 567,391 Adjusted earnings per share (2) $ 2.78 $ 2.71 $ 9.73 $ 9.85 (1) Adjusted net income is a non-GAAP measure defined as net income plus tax effected adjustments and other discrete tax items. (2) Adjusted earnings per share is a non-GAAP measure defined as GAAP EPS adjusted for tax effected adjustments and other discrete tax items. NORDSON CORPORATION RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES - OPERATING CASH FLOW TO FREE CASH FLOW (Unaudited) (Dollars in thousands) Year to Date October 31, 2024 July 31, 2024 April 30, 2024 January 31, 2024 Net cash provided by operating activities $ 556,193 $ 459,812 $ 294,964 $ 172,356 Additions to property, plant and equipment (64,410 ) (43,786 ) (21,907 ) (7,530 ) Free Cash Flow - Year to Date (1) 491,783 416,026 273,057 164,826 Free Cash Flow - Quarter to Date (2) 75,757 142,969 108,231 164,826 Net Income - Year to Date $ 467,284 Free Cash Flow Conversion (3) 105 % Year to Date October 31, 2023 July 31, 2023 April 30, 2023 January 31, 2023 Net cash provided by operating activities $ 641,282 $ 478,072 $ 287,905 $ 123,337 Additions to property, plant and equipment (34,583 ) (24,244 ) (15,349 ) (9,302 ) Free Cash Flow (1) 606,699 453,828 272,556 114,035 Free Cash Flow - Quarter to Date (2) 152,871 181,272 158,521 114,035 (1) Free Cash Flow - Year to Date is a non-GAAP measure used by management to evaluate the Company's ongoing operations and is defined as Net cash provided by operating activities minus Additions to property, plant and equipment. (2) Free Cash Flow - Quarter to Date is a non-GAAP measure used by management to evaluate the Company's ongoing operations and is equal to Free Cash Flow - Year to Date less prior period Free Cash Flow - Year to Date. (3) Free Cash Flow Conversion - Year to Date is a non-GAAP measure used by management to evaluate the Company's ongoing operations and is defined as Free Cash Flow - Year to Date divided by Net Income - Year to Date. Management uses certain non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted net income, adjusted EPS and EBITDA, internally to make strategic decisions, forecast future results, and evaluate the Company's current performance. Given management's use of these non-GAAP measures, the Company believes these measures are important to investors in understanding the Company's current and future operating results as seen through the eyes of management. In addition, management believes these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors in enabling them to better assess changes in the Company's core business across different time periods. Because non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized, it may not be possible to compare these financial measures to other companies' non-GAAP financial measures, even if they have similar names. Amounts may not add due to rounding. View source version on : CONTACT: Lara Mahoney Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications 440.204.9985 KEYWORD: OHIO UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION PACKAGING ENGINEERING SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING OTHER MANUFACTURING SOURCE: Nordson Corporation Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/11/2024 04:30 PM/DISC: 12/11/2024 04:32 PM

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While health is a devolved matter, the ban applies across the UK, the department said, adding that the decision had been taken in consultation with the Scottish and Welsh governments, and in agreement with the Northern Ireland government. Mr Streeting, making a statement in the House of Commons, acknowledged the decision will not be welcomed by everyone but sought to reassure young trans people. He said he had met many of them since taking up his post in July, and listened to their concerns, fears and anxieties. In a message directly to them and referencing having come out as gay, he said: “I know it’s not easy being a trans kid in our country today, the trans community is at the wrong end of all of the statistics for mental ill health, self-harm and suicide. “I can’t pretend to know what that’s like, but I do know what it’s like to feel you have to bury a secret about yourself, to be afraid of who you are, to be bullied for it, and then to experience the liberating experience of coming out. “I know it won’t feel like it based on the decisions I’m taking today, but I really do care about this and so does this Government. I am determined to improve the quality of care and access to healthcare for all trans people.” Green MP Sian Berry said she was “extremely worried and fearful” about the decision, describing it as “discriminatory”, while Labour’s Alex Sobel suggested it was “an attack on trans young people”. Mr Streeting said decisions were being taken “based on the evidence and advice of clinicians, not politics or political pressure”. The decision came after the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) concluded puberty blockers for people with gender dysphoria presented “an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people under 18 years without significant additional safeguards”. NHS England said the decision “closes a loophole that posed a risk to the safety of children and young people” through private provision. The ban applies to new patients only, with NHS and private patients already receiving these medicines for gender dysphoria continuing to have access. Puberty blockers will also still be available in cases of young people experiencing early puberty, with Mr Streeting saying they are “safe and proven for use” in this way. The Cass Review into children’s gender care had concluded the quality of studies claiming to show beneficial effects of puberty blockers for children and young people with gender dysphoria was “poor”. Its author Dr Hilary Cass, now Baroness Cass, welcomed the Government’s announcement, describing puberty blockers as “powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks”. She said: “That is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol. “I support the Government’s decision to continue restrictions on the dispensing of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria outside the NHS where these essential safeguards are not being provided.” Despite opposition from some, plans remain in place to set up a clinical trial into the use of puberty blockers next year, with an aim to recruit the first patients by spring. Mr Streeting said the trial will help to “establish a clear evidence base for the use of this medicine”. Recognising division on the subject, he told the Commons: “There are some who have called on the Government n ot to go ahead with the clinical trial recommended by Dr Cass. “Others on the opposite side of this debate want the Government to ignore the recommendations of the independent expert Commission on Human Medicines. “We are taking a different approach. The decisions we take will always be based on the evidence and advice of clinicians, not politics or political pressure.” James Palmer, NHS medical director for specialised services, welcomed the ban but recognised it “will be a difficult time for young people and their families who are affected”, adding that targeted support through local mental health services was on offer. A third NHS children’s gender clinic for patients in England and Wales opened in Bristol in November, following in the footsteps of two hubs, led by London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, which opened in April. In total, up to eight new NHS children’s gender clinics – for children of any age – are due to open by 2026. These clinics have been set up following the closure of the Gender Identity Development Service, which had been run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, at the end of March. Meanwhile, Mr Streeting also revealed the latest waiting lists for children’s gender care have risen to more than 6,200, having stood at just over 5,700 at the end of May. He said: “As in common with all NHS waiting lists, I want to see those fall.” Anyone affected by the announcement can contact agem.cyp-gnrss@nhs.net or call 0300 131 6775 and select option 3. Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond. 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NOVATO, Calif. , Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Hennessy Advisors, Inc. (Nasdaq: HNNA) today reported results for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024 . "So far in 2024, the U.S. stock market and economy have thrived on a wave of optimism," said Neil Hennessy , Chairman and CEO. "With the presidential election and initial Federal Reserve rate cuts now behind us, investors can return their focus to core fundamentals of the U.S. economy, which appear solid." Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Things can go sour in life, but there's often a way to make those situations better. That's why insurance upstart Lemonade ( LMND 2.22% ) chose its quirky name. Lemonade shareholders should be feeling a bit sweeter these days. After three quarters of ups and downs, the stock is now up 180% year to date as we get close to the end of 2024. However, it's still 74% off of its all-time highs. Here's what's happening now, and how to think about this growth stock going into the new year. No more sour lemons Lemonade electrified the market when it went public in July 2020 -- but many other tech stocks did too during that period's bull market. Valuations went through the roof in the excitement, Lemonade's along with them. Then came the 2022 tech slump, and the stock was quickly and deeply humbled, falling by more than 90% from its peak. Since then, the stock has plodded along, largely moving sideways. But recently, its business has displayed incredible momentum, and that has translated into fantastic share price gains. The market's new enthusiasm stems from Lemonade's improving loss ratio and profitability. For years, the company has touted its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, claiming that its system gave it significant advantages over legacy insurers. But as it produced unexceptional results and mounting losses, that was starting to look like wishful thinking. Now, it's finally beginning to deliver on the hype. It's still reporting robust growth, with in-force premiums up 24% year over year in the third quarter, and a 17% increase in customer count. But its loss ratio went down by 10 percentage points to 73% -- a level within Lemonade's target long-term range. It also generated $16 million in cash from operations and $48 million in net cash flow . Stocks tend to move based on quarterly reports, but something Lemonade noted in the latest report was that its trailing-12-month loss ratio was 77%, down 11 percentage points, and it was the fifth consecutive decrease in the trailing-12-month figure. That's a more telling metric, signaling that the quarterly improvement was not a fluke. However, loss ratios are down for the entire industry as inflation eases, and Lemonade's loss ratio movement is still something for investors to keep an eye on. Sweetening the deal Lemonade just had its first investor meeting in two years, and while there were many highlights, the most exciting part was that management is expecting to 10x its business, boosting its in force premiums to $10 billion, in the same amount of time it took to reach $1 billion -- about 10 years. It made a compelling argument. The company noted that insurance is one of the biggest industries there is, and disrupters have a meaningful shot at becoming its new leaders. Since the industry is dominated by centuries-old companies, Lemonade -- built around new digital systems -- has a structural advantage. From the beginning, it maintained that it would take time for its platform to get enough data and perform enough modeling to start demonstrating superior results. The company is just getting into that phase, and as its revenue growth exceeds its expenses, it expects to become not just profitable, but massively profitable. This chart offers investors a sense of how this is playing out. IFP is the average total premium in-force in a given period of time, Opex refers to operating expense, and CAC is customer-acquisition costs. Lemonade has kept headcount flat even as it achieved steady growth. That's because it relies on technology to do the heavy lifting. But this chart is focused on fixed expenses and leaves out Lemonade's biggest expense, CAC. Lemonade will reach a level of scale when sales outdo expenses, including CAC. Management is expecting growth to accelerate over the next two years and for the company to report positive net income in 2027. The stock's recent jump already reflects the improved performance and confidence in the future. But if one tries to peer far into the future -- say, 20 years -- it's easy to imagine that Lemonade's platform could be completely outperforming the models of traditional insurance companies. Is there more upside? After a share price run-up like the one Lemonade has enjoyed in the past few months, investors might be worried that there's not much more upside potential. No one can know what will happen in the near term, but the long-term opportunity looks very exciting. Lemonade's valuation might still be called reasonable. It's not a regular insurance company because it has the tech element and it's a growth stock, and it's not profitable, so it's not easy to value. It trades at 5.5 book value, which is in line with some other insurance companies, although price-to-book value has soared along with Lemonade's price. It's trading at 6 times trailing-12-month sales , which isn't objectively cheap, but it's nowhere near the astronomical ratios of more than 50 that it traded at back at the stock's peak. Don't expect linear upward movement from this stock, but if you have some appetite for risk and a long-term investing horizon, Lemonade should be on your buy list.Dover’s waterfront development to be known as The Waterfront District

President-elect Donald Trump this week transferred his entire stake of shares in Trump Media to a revocable trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, regulatory filings revealed Thursday evening. > Philadelphia news 24/7: Watch NBC10 free wherever you are Trump did not receive any money for the gift of his 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media stock to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust on Tuesday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . Because Trump is the beneficiary of the trust, he now "indirectly" owns the Trump Media shares he transferred, the SEC filing noted. The president-elect's son, Donald Trump Jr., is the sole trustee of the trust, and has sole voting and investment power over securities held by the entity, according to a separate SEC filing Thursday. Trump Media, which trades under the DJT ticker, closed at $35.41 per share Thursday, making the value of the transferred stock more than $4 billion. Trump, who is set to be sworn in as president for a second non-consecutive term on Jan. 20, had been the largest individual shareholder in the social media company, which operates the Truth Social app. His stake represented nearly 53% of the company's outstanding shares. CNBC has requested comment on the transfer from spokespeople for Trump and for Trump Media. The SEC filing on Thursday said that after Trump transferred his shares, he "directly owned 0 shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. and indirectly owned 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp." "The reporting person [Trump] is the settlor and sole beneficiary of the Trust," the filing said. The type of transfer Trump used this week is not new for the president-elect, although the dollar value of his shares outpaces the value of any assets he previously moved. Before his first inauguration as president in 2017, Trump made similar transfers to the same revocable trust. At that time, Trump transferred various real estate holdings, assets and liabilities to the trust, according to reports produced by Mazars , which then was his accounting firm. He also made transfers to the trust in February 2016, when he was campaigning for president. Trump has not held an executive position in Trump Media, whose shares began public trading earlier this year after the then-privately held company merged with a public company, Digital World Acquisition Corp. Trump has nominated two Trump Media's board members to high-level positions in his administration. Trump tapped former pro-wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to become secretary of Education and Kash Patel, a former Trump White House official, to become the next FBI director. Trump also recently named Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes to chair the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. That position does not require Senate confirmation. Trump has said that Nunes, who previously represented a California district in the House of Representatives, will remain CEO of Trump Media. - CNBC's Christina Wilkie contributed to this report.O P I N I ON The recent vote of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BoMA) to yet again delay work on the new Beech Street School is disappointing at best, downright harmful at worst. The community at large depends on a lively, vigorous school system. This move will stifle our current growth and momentum as a city. I suppose though, that is what people wanted. By voting for the same people over and over again, whose only real interest in politics is personal gain, we continue as a community to elevate the worst examples of public service. People love the drama, but this isn’t an episode of reality TV—far removed from our every day life. The vote on Tuesday night has real consequences for Manchester. I’d like to remind the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the history of a few things they cited as being reasons not to move forward with the new Beech Street School. The Manchester Board of School Committee (MBOSC) asked for a tax cap budget—we were denied. Furthermore, the BoMA took $4.2 million out and told us to do more with less; now they want to cite funding issues with the Manchester School of Technology (MST) building projects as evidence of the MBOSC and the School District’s “inability” to manage our finances. The BoMA denied the sale of two of those plots of land from the MST building project stating they wanted to help MST “find a way” to retain them for the benefit of the students, yet have fallen short (see BoMA Committee on Lands and Building minutes from March 21, 2023). MST came with their own solution to fund the building project, were denied, and now the BoMA is wondering why it can’t move forward? Why are we sitting on potential houses that could be built and sold to benefit the city and our education system? Because the BoMA doesn’t want to fund education at even a base level. They want to enfold the School District and the MBOSC as a city department, bringing it under their full control. Aldermen have made it no secret that they would prefer the MBOSC not exist. However, we must persist. The BoMA believes they are in a position to refute professional architects, developers, and contractors, having no experience themselves, who say it is in our community’s best interests financially to build a new Beech Street School. At the MBOSC, we value the education and experience those professionals bring. We listen, we ask questions, and we discuss (pragmatically) how to move forward—making compromises on wish list items recognizing that the project in its totality is more important than the desire of one committee member’s over another’s. As for transparency, let’s not forget the combined (public) BoMA and MBOSC meeting on March 4 th —where the BoMA were all afforded the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers about the Long Term Facilities Projects. SMMA gave a full presentation on both Phases 1 and 2, answering questions about how cost differentials between renovations and new builds function. We have nothing to hide. It’s all on the School District’s website and in the meeting minutes posted on the City’s website. It’s clear though, that the BoMA is fragmented by partisan politics—even though “alderman” is supposed to be a nonpartisan position. Tuesday’s vote was a clear representation of this issue. Mayor Ruais cast the tie breaking vote—with GOP/conservative members voting in opposition to the land transfer and Democratic members supporting the measure. There is no compromise with them, yet we continue to vote the same people into office year after year and wonder why so little seems to get done? With such a dysfunctional BoMA, MBOSC must continue to exist. We are a functioning body that respects one another and respects the trust the community has placed in us to ensure an effective and successful school district. If the School District and the MBOSC were to be folded into a city department, the chaos of the BoMA would only further infect the city. Just look at the damage they’ve done by their continuous attempts to sabotage the progress the MBOSC has made on behalf of the city. Look at the BoMA’s inability to own any of it. The BoMA slashed the budget and is now parading a recent $6.5 million supplemental appropriation from last year’s Free & Reduced Lunch enrollments as if they are somehow being extra generous this year—never mind those funds come the State (see the packet from 10/30/24 BoMA meeting). They denied the sale of two plots of land making false promises of help to MST, and now the BoMA has decided they are construction experts—led by a man who is a personal injury attorney. Look at us and look at them. Don’t fall for it. They aren’t effective. They want you to think they are, though. They act as if they are saving you money by slashing our education budget, when, in the long run, we will suffer more as a community if we don’t invest now. They simultaneously demand more of a system that has been historically, systematically, and unconstitutionally underfunded—all to appear as if they “care.” All to get your vote again in November 2025. At the end of the show, it’s all smoke and mirrors. Don’t be fooled. Jessica Spillers is the Manchester Board of School Committee Member for Ward 8 Beg to differ? Agree to disagree? Comment below. Got issues of your own? Get up on The Soapbox. 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Meadville Medical Center’s account of how a financing package from the Buhl Regional Health Foundation collapsed last Friday to buy Sharon Regional Medical Center differs greatly from that organization. Both organizations offered statements on how events unfolded. The timing, the amount of funding sought and its terms often contrast from each other. “For the sake of transparency and the good of the Sharon community, MMC needs to clarify the interactions it had with the Buhl Regional Health Foundation,’’ Meadville Medical said in its statement. Sharon Regional’s owner, Steward Health Care, has been selling most of its 31 hospitals as it’s mired in bankruptcy. Meadville Medical has been searching for financing to buy Sharon Regional without much luck. In its account Meadville Medical referred to itself as MMC and the foundation as BRHF. The first contact between the two non-profit organizations, MMC’s statement said, was when it wrote an April 22 letter to the foundation’s chair, Angela Palumbo. The letter asked the foundation for a $45 million financial package to help it buy and operate Sharon Regional. The foundation has assets totaling about $43 million, according to tax records. The breakdown given by MMC: • A $5 million grant to develop primary care resources over a two-year period. • A $10 million grant to be used over a two-year period for essential clinical technology and physical improvements at the Sharon hospital. • A $30 million line-of-credit from the foundation or a separate lender that would be used as needed for immediate items to operate and stabilize the hospital. The line-of-credit would be treated as a loan that MMC promised to repay to the foundation or lender at an interest rate to be agreed upon with the foundation. MMC said it told the foundation it would be available at any time to discuss this proposal. The foundation, MMC’s statement said, took three weeks to respond in a May 15 letter from Palumbo to Philip Pandolph, Meadville Medical’s president and CEO. The letter, MMC said in its statement, had two sentences which were: “Dear Mr. Pandolph: Thank you for your correspondence, dated April 22, 2024. The Buhl Regional Health Foundation’s Board of Directors is in the information gathering stage, and is not in a position to vote on any proposals at the present time.” “BRHF never made a single, specific request for information from MMC thereafter,’’ Meadville Medical’s statement said. In an e-mail MMC and State Sen. Michele Brooks, R-50th District, Jamestown, requested a meeting with the BRHF board, the statement said. Story continues below video BRHF’s executive director, Jennifer Barborak, didn’t request any supporting documents, Meadville Medical’s statement said. Further, MMC’s financial forecast was not completed at that time, nor was it the purpose of the requested meeting. In early July Brooks and Pandolph asked Barborack to arrange a meeting with the full BRHF board to discuss a potential collaboration to save SRMC, as well as, explain the MMC funding request and answer questions, the statement said. Barborak responded that she and Ms. Palumbo wouldn’t arrange a meeting for Brooks and Pandolph with the full board, as requested, MMC’s statement said. Instead, Barborak suggested that perhaps she could arrange a meeting with Brooks and Pandolph with the BRHF’ s executive committee – but that could not occur until sometime in September at the earliest. BRHF never scheduled any meetings for Brooks and Pandolph with either the foundation’s executive committee or the full board to pursue discussions designed to save Sharon Regional, MMC’s statement said. “In a last-ditch effort to save SRMC, Gov. Shapiro’s staff contacted BRHF leadership on Dec. 12 requesting an immediate $25 million grant to MMC’’ the statement said. The governor’s staff reiterated that request to the foundation’s full board on Friday, Dec. 13, the statement said “On the same day – and for the first time in eight months of crisis – BRHF finally invited MMC to discuss its plan for SRMC,’’ Meadville Medical’s statement said. The presentation lasted one hour between 3 to 4 p.m. – and at around 4 p.m. Palumbo halted discussions between the board and MMC concerning financial details to save SRMC, the statement said. “MMC shared during the presentation the findings of its independent financial expert including the projections it made in a very detailed seven-year operational and cash flow analysis,’’ MMC’s statement said. “MMC will leave it to the citizens of the Sharon region to determine if that one-hour discussion reflects adequate due diligence on the part of BRHF.’’ Given the passage of time and worsening condition of Sharon Regional, MMC said it needed a $25 million grant by Dec. 13, compared to the $15 million grant request it made in April. Meadville Medical’s statement added it also made clear that since April it needed a $30 million operating line of credit to give Sharon Regional adequate time to reverse its beleaguered finances left behind by Steward Health System, Sharon Regional’s owner. BRHF offered MMC only an $11 million line of credit,’’ Meadville Medical’s statement said. “The BRHF board members fully knew from the MMC presentation by Mr. Pandolph and MMC CFO (chief financial officer) Rene Suntay that an $11 million loan would in no way suffice to allow MMC to proceed with the SRMC transaction,’’ Meadville Medical’s statement said. “ BRHF’s inadequate funding commitment made it impossible for MMC to proceed and take necessary steps to attempt to save SRMC,’’ Meadville Medical’s statement said. “To our knowledge, throughout the entire process the BRHF never offered a single dollar toward the effort to save SRMC without the expectation of repayment.’’ In addition, all of the funds requested were to go the hospital in Sharon, not MMC, its statement added. “MMC shares the disappointment of the entire Sharon community that sufficient funds were not committed to allow MMC to work with Bob Rogalski, (Sharon Regional’s president) and all of SRMC’s wonderful doctors, nurses and support staff to save and rejuvenate SRMC,’’ Meadville Medical’s statement ended.A t first, in mid-November, the mysterious lights were seen blinking across the night skies of New Jersey. Then, they spread. Reports of incandescent flying objects were logged in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Bystanders in Virginia Beach said they saw an aircraft “unlike any other they’ve seen”. Sightings have now come from as far afield as Louisiana, Florida and Arizona. People across the US are looking up. No one seems to know for certain where these enigmatic flying objects are from or who is controlling them. But several lawmakers and much of the general public seem dead-set on one answer: a swarm of drones. “The American people deserve answers as to what the hell is going on,” the representative Pat Ryan, a New York Democrat, said on Tuesday . “We’ve got a serious national security issue.” The representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, raised even more alarms on Saturday, attributing the “elusive maneuvering” of the drones to “major, military-power sophistication”, perhaps that of Russia, China, Iran or North Korea. On Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) banned drones from flying at all in parts of New Jersey for a month. Drone and national security experts are telling people to please calm down. They say they’re taking the matter seriously and there’s little to worry about. What appears to be happening in New Jersey right now is a perfect storm that’s coalesced around a lack of concrete information, confusion about what drones actually look like in night skies and a contagion effect. “In my experience, it was very, very common for objects in the night sky, such as manned aircraft, planets and even satellites or the International Space Station to be mistaken for a drone at night,” Tom Adams, a retired FBI special agent on the agency’s counter-unmanned aircraft team, said. A group of federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the FAA and the Department of Defense, issued a joint statement on Tuesday saying they had examined the tips from concerned citizens and assessed that the sightings are a mix of lawful drones, airplanes, helicopters and “stars mistakenly reported as drones”. Nothing about the sightings should cause alarm, the agencies said. “We have not identified anything anomalous and do not assess the activity to date to present a national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the north-east,” they added. People started reporting the drones in the skies over northern New Jersey just before Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel times of the year in the US. People said the aerial objects appeared to be hovering in formation and returned night after night. “We’re all completely unnerved,” one local resident, Julie Shavalier, told NBC News in early December, saying she repeatedly saw the lights floating in the sky up through dawn. “I didn’t sleep last night.” More people in the north-east started going out after dark and gazing at the sky – and more supposed drone sightings racked up. The FBI said it’s gotten more than 5,000 reports over the last few weeks; only about 100 required further investigation. The New York City police department said it received 120 calls just last weekend, more than in the whole month of November. The timing of the sightings coincides with air traffic delays at nearby Newark airport , which can lead to longer in-air holding patterns, and a bustling holiday season in a region packed with airports. What many people in New Jersey are actually seeing are those airplane holding patterns, said Will Austin, president of Warren County Community College, which specializes in drone training programs. “Much like that old saying: ‘To a hammer, the whole world’s a nail.’ Well, in New Jersey right now ... to the person on the ground staring intensely at the sky, every light is a drone,” said Austin. The retired FBI agent, Adams, agreed. He’s now the director of public safety for DroneShield, which provides counter-drone defense systems. “With some of the hysteria going on, I think there’s some misidentification of those types of activities as ‘Hey, here comes a drone swarm’ or ‘There’s a swarm of drones flying over the ocean’, when it’s just a lot of aircraft stacked up to land at JFK [airport],” Adams said. Night skies can be deceiving, many drone experts say. In the dark, there’s an optical illusion that makes it hard to tell whether an object is close or far away. “I spent 30 years flying a helicopter in the navy,” said John Slaughter, director of the University of Maryland’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research and Operations Center. “And I’ll tell you, if it’s 100 metres away or if it’s 40 miles away, you don’t know how far that is.” “People are seeing lights in the night sky – that’s the only fact we really know,” he said. Slaughter said people are still likely seeing drones, but it’s not the mass swarms being reported. Around 1 million drones are registered with the FAA nationwide, and on an average day about 8,500 are in flight, according to the Department of Defense . Drones and airplanes can have the same combinations of red, green and white light systems, making it difficult to distinguish between them at night, especially without an indication of distance. Sign up to TechScape A weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives after newsletter promotion Last weekend, drones were spotted hovering near the Wright-Patterson air force base in Ohio. Officials said the base wasn’t affected, but they did close the airspace for nearly four hours. This also happened at Boston’s Logan airport, which ended in the arrest of two men , and at New York’s Steward airfield. Federal security officials have maintained that they’re taking drone sightings seriously but have offered little information about what exactly is going on, frustrating local lawmakers and residents. “Security officials always walk a thin line between offering too much information, which could highlight vulnerabilities, and too little, which can stoke undue fear,” said Brett Feddersen, chair of the counter-uncrewed aircraft systems working group for the Security Industry Association. “I think the US government initially underestimated the public concern and did not offer the right information.” Feddersen said that it’s gotten better over the last couple of days. The FAA temporarily grounded all drones in parts of New Jersey and created a “what to know about drones” page . Federal agencies have held press conferences and released statements outlining what they’re doing to track the drones. And homeland security said it had deployed an advanced drone-detection radar to New Jersey, according to the New York Times , and it hasn’t yet found anything out of the ordinary. “The vast majority of these drones are going to probably be recreational or hobbyist,” said air force Maj Gen Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary, on Tuesday . It’s possible some could be up to malign activities, he continued, “but for the vast majority that is not the case”. Slaughter, from the University of Maryland, said that, in the drone world, people talk about threats with “the three C’s”. “You’ve got the clueless, the careless and the criminal,” Slaughter said. “The vast majority just don’t even know they’re doing something wrong – that’s the clueless. Then you have a group of people who understand they’re doing something wrong and just don’t care ... And then you’ve got this tiny, tiny little group of people who’s doing something criminal, dropping contraband into a prison, that kind of thing.” One way to tell the difference between a drone and an airplane is how they fly, Slaughter said. The drones people see are known as multi-copters, which have several rotors that let them take off and land vertically and take quick sharp turns. “Aircraft can’t do that,” Slaughter said. “They move in a very smooth and straight, steady way.” James McDanolds, a drone expert who teaches at the Sonoran Desert Institute, said there are apps, like Drone Scanner, that are helpful in identifying drones. He advises people to check these before calling the police. Other apps like Flightradar24 show nearby airplanes. McDanolds said he was driving in north-eastern Pennsylvania last week and thought he saw a drone. He pulled over and checked Flightradar24. No immediate aircraft appeared. After studying the flying object, he concluded it was likely a drone. “People are definitely sighting drones,” McDanolds said. “But, by checking those tools ... it helps diminish a lot of calls that go into law enforcement that may have just been a manned aircraft.” As security officials have tried to tamp down worries, Donald Trump weighed in on the drone drama last week. “Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge,” he wrote on Truth Social . “I don’t think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!” Other elected officials, including Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, and Jeff Van Drew, the Republican representative from New Jersey, have also called for the drones to be shot down . Drone experts say that’s a bad idea. Not only is it illegal, but it could put the public at risk of falling debris. Austin, from Warren County Community College, said that if someone were up to nefarious deeds, they probably wouldn’t turn the drone’s lights on. “I’m going to go completely in pitch-dark, probably paint my drone black,” he said. “You’re never going to know I’m out there.” Austin says the fact that airports have been shut down because of drone sightings is actually a good sign. It means the FAA caught something that was violating controlled airspace and took it seriously enough to temporarily ground planes. He says that if swarms of drones were actually near sensitive locations, the public would know about it. “I feel for the people at the FAA,” Austin said. “They’ve created the safest airspace in the history of the United States, but like everybody else, they can’t prove a negative.”

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Jimmy Carter, the longest living former president, whose term was marred by the Iran hostage crisis and rampant inflation but who went on to build a humanitarian legacy that was recognized with a Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday. He was 100. No cause was announced. In February 2023 he entered hospice care. The peanut farmer from Georgia was a virtual unknown when he launched his long-shot 1976 presidential bid that took him from “Jimmy Who?” to his inauguration as the nation’s 39th president. The Democrat took office at a time when the country was still reeling from battles over civil rights, Vietnam, inflation and Watergate. The defining moment of Carter’s presidency, though, is often thought to have occurred Nov. 4, 1979, when Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took more than 50 U.S. hostages who were held for 444 days. A rescue mission in April 1980 was a dismal embarrassment, as eight U.S. crewmen died and no hostages were released. Carter left the White House in 1981 at age 56, trounced by Republican Ronald Reagan. A year later, he established the Carter Center in Atlanta with the stated mission of human rights, preventing and resolving conflicts, and improving freedom and democracy. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, cited “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.” He continued to teach Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. He and his wife, Rosalynn, traveled to Nashville in 2019 for their 36th project helping build homes with Habitat for Humanity. He and Rosalynn Carter, who died at age 96 on November 19, 2023, were married for 77 years. Jimmy Carter lived in the house he built in 1961 in Plains, Georgia, about two-and-a-half hours south of Atlanta. “Across life’s seasons, President Jimmy Carter, a man of great faith, has walked with God,” Sen. Raphael Warnock , D-Ga., wrote after news of Carter’s deteriorating condition earlier this year. “In this tender time of transitioning, God is surely walking with him.” Life in Plains, Georgia James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. was born on Oct. 1, 1924, to Lillian and James Earl Carter Sr. The father is described by the Plains Historical Preservation Trust as “an insurance broker, farmer, fertilizer dealer, Baptist and Democrat.” They lived in Plains, a town of about 700 people nestled in an area of cotton and peanut fields. Jimmy Carter had ambitions beyond Plains. Inspired by an uncle, he attended the Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. During a visit home, he asked Rosalynn Smith, whose family had known the Carters for years, on a date. Jimmy and Rosalynn, then a college student in Georgia, stayed in touch, and in July, a few weeks after he graduated from the Naval Academy, they were married. It was Adm. Hyman Rickover who would be an influence on Carter’s naval and political career. Rickover ran the nation’s nascent nuclear submarine program, and during their job interview, asked Carter if he had done his best at Annapolis. Carter, who said he graduated 59th in his class of 820, conceded, “I didn’t always do my best.” “He looked around me for a long time,” Carter recalled as recounted by James Wooten in his book, “Dasher.” Then Rickover asked one final question, which Carter said, “I have never been able to forget — or to answer. He said, ‘Why not?’ I sat there for a while shaken, and then slowly left the room.” Carter went on to work for Rickover, and “Why Not the Best?” became a Carter catchphrase, the title of his 1976 campaign autobiography. He would often cite Rickover as one of the greatest influences on his life. Carter’s Navy career was short-lived. His father died in 1953, and his family needed him to run the business in Plains. Rosalynn protested, but the family headed back to Georgia. Entering state politics Carter won a state Senate seat in 1962, and in 1966 ran for governor. It was a long shot. The civil rights movement was redefining Southern politics. The changes rocked Georgia, and Lester Maddox, who had gained fame when he pushed potential Black customers away from his Atlanta cafeteria with an ax handle, would beat Carter in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Carter returned to Plains, devastated and introspective.“ At a crossroads, he turned increasingly for solace to his faith,” wrote Peter Bourne in his biography of Carter. “There followed a series of events that would reshape both his relationship with his faith and the central guiding motivation in his life.” With the help of his sister, Ruth, an evangelist, Carter “was recommitting himself to Christ, through deep ongoing study and meditation about Christ’s life.” Through this study, Bourne wrote, “he sought to gain the fullest possible understanding of what the Christian message meant in modern life.” When he ran again for governor in 1970, Carter publicly softened his stance toward segregationists. He had kinder words for Maddox and defended all-white academies, where many whites fled as public schools became integrated. Once elected, though, Carter made it clear he would be a scion of the new, inclusive South. “No poor, rural, weak or Black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job or simply justice,” he said in his inaugural address — stunning words from a Georgia governor at the time. He hung a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. outside his office at the state Capitol. By the early 1970s, national politics was in turmoil. Richard Nixon won 49 states in 1972, leaving Democratic nominee George McGovern and his party dazed with no clear path forward. McGovern was boosted by his anti-Vietnam War stance, but the war was winding down. Unknown, but not for long It was a time of enormous uncertainty. Runaway inflation, and later long lines for gasoline, rocked the economy. Nixon would be dogged by the Watergate scandal and resigned in August 1974. Trust in government was sinking. Along came Jimmy Carter. He announced his campaign for the White House in December 1974 in Washington, and few paid attention. But top aide Hamilton Jordan had a plan, and Carter presented himself as not only a fresh voice unencumbered by Washington tradition or scandal, but as a politician with a strong moral compass. He campaigned as a calm antidote to the turmoil of Washington. “I will never lie to you,” Carter told voters. It worked. He beat President Gerald Ford in a close election, and on Inauguration Day 1977 vowed to set a new course and new standard. He, Rosalynn and daughter Amy stepped out of their limousine during the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue and walked. He later addressed the nation in 1977 wearing a sweater. Carter’s initial priority would be energy efficiency to ease what he called “the moral equivalent of war” in a speech to the nation three months after he took office. Carter won some important battles. He was able to open relations with mainland China, secure approval of a treaty to end U.S. control of the Panama Canal, and perhaps most significantly, broker a historic peace accord between Israel and Egypt after nearly two weeks of talks at Camp David. Issues with the economy But the nation’s turmoil persisted. The economy remained shaky, and by the end of his term inflation and interest rates were hitting double-digit levels. Gas lines reappeared in many places in 1979. Carter was able to secure an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union, but Senate efforts to ratify it were thwarted by anger over the Soviet Union’s 1979 Afghanistan invasion. Carter appeared more and more to be losing control. He and his top advisers retreated to Camp David in the summer of 1979 to reassess how to run the government, and when it ended Carter delivered what came to be called the “malaise speech.” He told the nation, “We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.” The speech only exacerbated his political problems. Though Congress was run by Democrats, leaders were cool to Carter, and by late 1979, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts announced he would challenge the president for the party’s nomination. The Mariel Boatlift Carter’s election-year problems faced another daunting challenge: the Mariel Boatlift. The administration had been seeking better ties with Cuban President Fidel Castro, and in April 1980 Castro said Cubans could leave. But Castro opened his country’s mental health facilities and prisons, and they flocked to South Florida. The White House was uncertain how to deal with the situation. On May 6, 1980, in an address to the nation, Carter declared a state of emergency in the areas of Florida most “severely affected” by the exodus, and an “open heart and open arms” policy to all refugees fleeing Cuba. Miami was overwhelmed with the refugees. Many were criminals. The boatlift ended in October, but Carter suffered political damage. Carter won his party’s nomination that summer, but only after a bitter battle with Kennedy. He ran against the upbeat, optimistic Reagan, losing 44 states as he became the first elected president to lose a reelection bid since Herbert Hoover in 1932. The Iran hostages were released minutes after Reagan was sworn into office. Carter went back to Plains. The Carter Center would become a popular site for international forums. It also took on a mission to spread Carter’s vision for fighting poverty and hunger. Global 2000 was a bid to boost food production in Africa. Prolific author Carter became a prolific author, writing about a variety of topics from memoirs to treatises on the Middle East to “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis.” Among his books: “The Craftsmanship of Jimmy Carter.” “I like to see what I have done, what I have made,” Carter said. “The pleasure does not fade as the years go by; in fact, with age my diminished physical strength has eliminated some of the formerly competing hobbies and made woodworking even more precious to me.” He and Rosalynn were very involved with Habitat for Humanity and worked on their 36th project in 2019. They first volunteered with the organization, which helps build homes in the U.S. and overseas, near their home in Georgia in March 1984. On February 18, 2023, following a series of short hospital stays, the Carter Center released a statement that Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.” Carter is survived by children John William “Jack,” James Earl III “Chip,” Donnel “Jeff” Jeffrey and Amy Lynn, 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchlldren. A grandson died in 2015. ©2024 The Charlotte Observer. Visit charlotteobserver.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.NEW YORK : Several key players in President-elect Donald Trump's new cryptocurrency venture head to Abu Dhabi on Monday for the largest bitcoin gathering in the Gulf region as the digital currency sets record highs. Speakers include the president-elect's son Eric and billionaire Steve Witkoff, the new White House envoy for the Middle East and co-founder of World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform launched in September that Donald Trump and his family helped form. Eric Trump will deliver Tuesday's keynote address at the Bitcoin MENA conference, which is projected to draw more than 6,000 people, and will then hold a "whale-only" chat in the conference's VIP lounge, according to the event's agenda. Witkoff will also speak separately to that more exclusive crowd, which requires a $9,999 "whale" pass, a nickname for large players who have potential to move a market. The president-elect is World Liberty Financial's chief crypto advocate, and sons Eric, Don Jr. and Barron are ambassadors, according to the WLF website. Company filings show Donald Trump is entitled to 22.5 billion WLF tokens and a share of its revenues. "The bitcoin conference carries a lot of significance for crypto as it's one of the longest-running conferences focused on bringing our industry together," said Marshall Beard, chief operating officer of Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Trump backers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. "It’s been incredible to see the rise of bitcoin alongside the growth of the conference ... and crypto became a major campaign issue in this year’s presidential election." Other speakers also have close ties to World Liberty Financial, including Justin Sun, the 32-year-old Chinese founder of blockchain platform Tron. Three weeks after Trump won the Nov. 5 election, Sun posted on X that he bought $30 million worth of WLF tokens, making him the venture's largest investor. Sun was charged with crypto-related fraud and securities violations under the Biden administration. The Gulf gathering is occurring at an inflection point for the industry as Trump, once a crypto skeptic, has vowed he will be the "crypto president" and make America the new "crypto capital of the planet." Buoyed by these promises, bitcoin smashed records last week when it hit $100,000. Trump also named a White House czar for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies, former PayPal executive David Sacks, a close friend of Trump adviser and megadonor Elon Musk. Musk, whose companies include X, SpaceX and Tesla, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump in 2024, records show. Other technology and digital asset veterans also gave millions to candidates friendly to the industry, according to analytics firm Breadcrumbs. Trump's 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort, will address the conference on "A Life of Politics with the Man Closest to Donald Trump." Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who served a four-month U.S. prison sentence this year for crypto-tied money-laundering law violations, will also hold a whale session at the conference. Trump, his family members, other speakers and their firms did not respond to requests for comment. (Reporting By Michelle Conlin; editing by Megan Davies and Cynthia Osterman)ATLANTA (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. As reaction poured in from around the world, President Joe Biden mourned Carter’s death, saying the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and he lost a dear friend. Biden cited Carter’s compassion and moral clarity, his work to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless and advocacy for the disadvantaged as an example for others. “To all of the young people in this nation and for anyone in search of what it means to live a life of purpose and meaning – the good life – study Jimmy Carter, a man of principle, faith, and humility,” Biden said in a statement. “He showed that we are a great nation because we are a good people – decent and honorable, courageous and compassionate, humble and strong.” Biden said he is ordering a state funeral for Carter in Washington. 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 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. 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.” 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.” Sanz is a former Associated Press reporter.

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This strategic investment will enable the company to advance its mission of delivering Secure Environments-as-a-Service, bringing unparalleled privacy and security in an increasingly vulnerable digital landscape. With this round, Andy Brown , CEO of SandHill East , former CTO of UBS, and current board member of ZScaler and PureStorage, will be joining the Board of Directors as will Dennis Shaya , Partner at Capri Ventures. In addition, Don Duet , Former Head of Technology at Goldman Sachs, and Tim Estes , founder of Angel Kids AI and former CEO at Digital Reasoning, will be joining the advisory board, complementing an already strong team including: Christopher Caine (CEO – Mercator XXI), Gary Cubbage (fmr. EVP – Booz Allen Hamilton ), Nick Donofrio (fmr. EVP Innovation – IBM), Todd Helfrich (VP Federal – Censys). The Replica platform offers Secure Environments-as-a-Service, revolutionizing how organizations protect and enable high risk activities. This includes targeting Russian misinformation campaigns in Ukraine , safe testing of new tech with proprietary data, disrupting financial scams and fraud aimed at seniors, and identifying and mitigating insider threats within organizations, among other scenarios. By integrating patented technology, intelligence tradecraft, and Zero Trust architecture, Replica quickly creates realistic IT environments that encompass hardware, operating systems, applications, networks, and data layers. This innovative solution not only protects user and organizational privacy but also delivers the data, tools and workflows needed for users to be productive in their most sensitive work. Kristopher Schroeder , CEO of Grey Market Labs, emphasized the significance of this funding round: "Replica is the culmination of over 20 years of experience in embedded tradecraft, intelligence operations, and cutting edge software. Our engineering team, with extensive backgrounds in offensive and defensive cyber warfare, has developed a product that is comprehensive with the protection and efficiency needed for today's enterprises and their users." Schroeder goes on to say, "This funding will allow Grey Marketing Labs to accelerate our vision to deliver even more impactful solutions for our customers." Capri Ventures, the lead investor in this funding round, expressed their excitement about partnering with Replica. "We are thrilled to support Grey Market Labs in their mission to redefine cybersecurity with the Replica platform," said Dennis Shaya , Partner with Capri Ventures. "Their innovative approach and deep expertise position them as a frontrunner in the industry, especially financial services, and we believe this partnership will drive significant advancements in digital privacy and security." Available as both a SaaS product and a hosted service, Replica enables secure work even in a global ecosystem, while reducing burden on the IT organization. The platform's flexible architecture supports rapid deployments (noted as some of the fastest in Financial Services), continuous updates, and seamless integration with existing enterprise services, including single-sign-on, proxies, and data governance. Additionally, Replica offers rich audit and reporting functionalities to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and provide the critical observability needed for leadership. Replica has solved critical problems for major Banks, Health Systems, Global Consulting, and Governments with use cases like: Protected Research (deep/dark web, social, automated collects, OSINT), Isolating Acquired (M&A) tech and activities, Advanced Sandboxing for Malware/ Unknown Files , Complex Training Environments, Enabling Fraud /Cyber Investigations, Secure DevOps with Data Controls, Intellectual Property Sharing and Protection, and more. With this new round of funding, Replica is poised to expand its value to customers, enhance its offerings, and further solidify its position as a leader redefining how to protect and enable high-risk activities. For more information about Replica, please visit ReplicaCyber.com . About Grey Market Labs Founded as Grey Market Labs® (dba Replica Cyber ), a Certified B-Corp with the mission to protect life online. Our work protecting the United States from foreign intelligence evolved to the creation of ReplicaTM, the world's first Secure Environments-as-a-Service platform. This patented SaaS platform simplifies creation of comprehensive hybrid-computing systems, delivering privacy and security while giving control to business users and reducing the burden on IT by 99.73%. We have solved critical problems for major Banks, Health Systems, Global Consulting, and Governments with use cases like: Protected Research (deep/dark web, social, automated collects, OSINT), Isolating Acquired (M&A) tech and activities, Advanced Sandboxing for Malware/ Unknown Files , Complex Training Environments, Enabling Fraud /Cyber Investigations, Secure DevOps with Data Controls, and more. For anyone that has tried to build complex, secure systems and platforms - Replica replaces this expensive work with the automation of secure environments. About Capri Ventures Capri Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on Enterprise Technology. The team is composed of former software executives and leaders from Fortune 500 enterprises, bringing significant resources early in a company's lifecycle to help drive commercialization and market adoption. About AFG Partners AFG Partners < https://www.afgvc.com/ > is an Asian-based VC fund investing in B2B fintech and enabling tech startups addressing the critical needs of financial institutions and corporates globally, particularly in Asia . A core part of the strategy is to invest and help companies in Europe and the US who are interested in expanding across Asia via our network of LPs and ecosystem partners. Previous investments of the principals include N26, Unit, Blockdaemon, Airbnb, Transferwise, Gocardless and Wefox amongst others. About Blu Ventures Blu Ventures, a venture capital firmed based in Washington, DC , provides strategic funding and expert guidance in Seed to Series A companies in cybersecurity, healthtech, and B2B software startups. Blu leverages the deep domain expertise of its partners—all former operators with extensive industry experience—to empower visionary entrepreneurs. Learn more at www.bluventureinvestors.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grey-market-labs-announces-8m-series-a-funding-led-by-capri-ventures-to-accelerate-growth-of-its-replica-platform---first-of-its-kind-secure-environment-as-a-service-302313584.html SOURCE Grey Market LabsEven when Luigi Mangione was surrounded by people who cared about him, he was isolated by a spinal defect that gave the athletic young man crippling pain and contributed to a jaundiced view of the US healthcare system. Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Credit: nna\josh.hohne Authorities have charged Mangione, 26, with murder in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York and police said on Wednesday they believe the motive was animosity toward the health insurance industry and corporate America. New York police found a three-page, handwritten document on Mangione that expressed disdain for the health business, they’ve said. Mangione foreshadowed that scepticism about the healthcare industry on Reddit in April as he offered advice for getting a doctor to perform spinal surgery. “Tell them you are ‘unable to work’ / do your job,” he wrote. “We live in a capitalist society. I’ve found that the medical industry responds to these key words far more urgently than you describing unbearable pain and how it’s impacting your quality of life.” Mangione’s Reddit posts, under the name mister_cactus, had once linked to his personal programming site and offered numerous matching personal details. Reddit declined to confirm whether the account, which was deactivated this week, belonged to him. Reporters reviewed the posts in an internet archive. A poster depicting Luigi Mangione hangs outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in New York. Credit: AP Nothing in his Reddit posts reviewed by The Washington Post presaged violence. Authorities have not laid out their case for what they think drove Mangione to escalate his frustration with the health system, which is common in the United States, into an allegedly premeditated murder of a prominent executive. Thomas M. Dickey, an attorney for Mangione, didn’t respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. Mangione’s arrest has stunned his friends and family, most of whom appeared to have lost touch with him in the last six months. “We all condemn violence of any kind,” said Josiah Ryan, a spokesman for Surfbreak HNL, a co-living community in Honolulu where Mangione lived for six months in 2022. He added: “There’s sadness because he was a person who was well-loved and no one saw this coming.” Ryan said Mangione’s back pain was well-known within the Surfbreak community. “It was a real problem for him, and he had to think about that in a way that most 24-year-old young men living in Hawaii would not have to worry about their health,” Ryan said. Mangione at the police station in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Credit: Pennsylvania State Police/AP Mangione’s struggles with his back pain offer a glimpse into the interior life of a man who outwardly lived a charmed existence – the scion of a wealthy family in Maryland who was valedictorian of his prestigious private school in Baltimore and earned degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. In archived Reddit comments, Mangione doesn’t express anger toward UnitedHealthcare or other health insurers. But the posts chronicle his struggle over the years to deal with back pain that became increasingly debilitating. “From childhood until age 23, my back would always ache if I stood too long, but it wasn’t too bad,” he wrote in February. But as he entered his mid-20s, the pain began to disrupt his life. He once described the sensation of an unstable spine as being able to “feel the bones moving/grinding.” Loading He also struggled with cognitive issues, according to his posts. In a Reddit group focused on brain fog, he wrote, “The people around you probably won’t understand your symptoms – they certainly don’t for me.” By January 2022, Mangione was living at Surfbreak in Hawaii, where a surfing accident exacerbated his spinal condition, according to his Reddit posts and interviews with friends. He had a spinal fusion surgery – a procedure that stabilises the spine with surgical screws – in July 2023, according to his Reddit posts, and he seemed pleased with the results for months afterward. “Haven’t had a bad day since,” he wrote in November 2023. Mangione’s discussion of surgery aligns with an image of an X-ray prominently displayed on his profile for the social media platform X. An orthopedic surgeon who reviewed the image for The Post described it as a “lumbar spine with posterior spinal instrumentation, possible fusion”. It’s a common procedure for people with spondylolisthesis, a condition where a vertebra shifts forward and can cause excruciating pain in the lower back. Loading He found a community on Reddit dedicated to spondylolisthesis, which he described as “my injury” in handwritten notes uploaded to his profile on the book-review site Goodreads in 2019. Mangione regularly offered advice to others, sometimes with an edge of bitterness about the reluctance of the medical profession to provide the care he considered necessary. To persuade doctors reluctant to perform surgery, he suggested an extreme option would be to “fake a foot drop” (difficulty lifting the front part of the foot) “or piss yourself. This is the absolute nuclear option, but there comes a point where it’s just ridiculous that people won’t operate on your broken spine.” His struggles drew empathy from people close to him. Surfbreak’s owner RJ Martin told the New York Times that Mangione “knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn’t possible”. In a text message to The Post , Martin said he was overwhelmed and exhausted and deferred comment to Ryan, his spokesman. Martin found Mangione “to be a really special person,” Ryan said. “He expected to have a lifelong friendship with him.” Mangione’s arrest “was pretty devastating for him”. Marc McCoy, 59, owner of Moped Garage, a store near Surfbreak, said that he sold Mangione a moped and that they had multiple conversations. The Maryland native was eager to talk to McCoy, who has lived in Hawaii for a half-century, about how to fit in and respect the local culture and not be an ugly American stereotype, McCoy said. “He was well-spoken, intelligent, conscientious,” he said. “I’m in complete shock.” Mangione spent some time in Japan this year. A picture posted to X in late February by Japanese professional poker player Jun Obara shows him appearing to enjoy a meal at a Tokyo restaurant with a smiling Mangione and others. “He came in by himself and we talked to him and treated him to a meal and drinks because we wanted him to enjoy Japan,” Obara wrote in a subsequent post this week. “He said he was on vacation from Hawaii.” Most friends and family appear to have lost touch with Mangione since May. That appears to be when he last posted to his accounts on Goodreads and Reddit, where he linked to a video shared by another user in a group for discussing Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Members of the New York police crime scene unit photograph bullets lying on the footpath. Credit: AP His apparently last post on X, formerly Twitter, was a retweet of a podcast episode on how smartphones and social media impact mental health on June 10. June 10 also was the last time Gurwinder Bhogal, a UK-based writer, said he received a message from Mangione, who was seeking advice about curating his social media feeds. The two had struck up a correspondence in April after Mangione subscribed to his Substack publication. They discussed politics, said Bhogal, who recalled him complaining “about how expensive health care in the U.S. was.” In comments circulated to reporters, Bhogal wrote, “Overall, the impression I got of him, besides his curiosity and kindness, was a deep concern for the future of humanity, and a determination to improve himself and the world.” United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson. Credit: AP He added, “He was so polite and thoughtful it was hard to conceive of him murdering someone.” Mangione’s movements in the summer and fall are still not clear. Mangione’s mother, Kathleen Mangione, called the San Francisco police on Nov. 18 and said her son had not been heard from since July, according to local media reports. A source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Post that a missing-person report was filed. The San Francisco Police Department declined to comment on the case and referred questions to New York police. An NYPD spokesperson declined to comment on the missing-person report. Washington Post Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here . Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Crime For subscribers USA Healthcare Most Viewed in World Loading

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A is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after trying to squeeze between two trucks on a freeway. or signup to continue reading The 24-year-old Werribee man was riding on Melbourne's West Gate Freeway, near the Williamstown Road exit, in Spotswood when he collided with the trucks at 4.30pm on December 12. One of the truck drivers stopped after the crash but police are searching for the other driver, who they said left the scene, and was last spotted driving west on the freeway. "Investigators would like to speak to the driver of the truck and are appealing for anyone with dash cam vision, or who witnessed the collision, to contact police," Victoria Police said. Witnesses told police the motorcyclist was 'lane filtering' between the trucks when they collided. Lane filtering is where a motorcycle rider moves between cars in stopped or slow-moving traffic at 30 kilometres per hour or less. It is legal in Victoria. The motorcycle rider was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The collision caused major traffic disruptions in the area for several hours, police said. Anna Houlahan reports on crime and social issues affecting regional and remote Australia in her role as national crime reporter at Australian Community Media (ACM). She was ACM’s Trainee of the Year in 2023 and, aside from reporting on crime, has travelled the country as a journalist for Explore Travel Magazine. Reach out with news or updates to anna.houlahan@austcommunitymedia.com.au Anna Houlahan reports on crime and social issues affecting regional and remote Australia in her role as national crime reporter at Australian Community Media (ACM). She was ACM’s Trainee of the Year in 2023 and, aside from reporting on crime, has travelled the country as a journalist for Explore Travel Magazine. Reach out with news or updates to anna.houlahan@austcommunitymedia.com.au DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. 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AS IT HAPPENS Be the first to know when news breaks. DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily! Advertisement AdvertisementNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes fell Thursday following some potentially discouraging data on the economy . The S&P 500 slipped 0.5% for its fourth loss in the last six days. It’s a pause for the index, which has been rallying toward one of its best years of the millennium . The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 234 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.7% from its record set the day before. A report early in the morning said more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected. A separate update, meanwhile, showed that inflation at the wholesale level, before it reaches U.S. consumers, was hotter last month than economists expected. Neither report points to imminent disaster, but they dilute one of the hopes that’s driven the S&P 500 to 57 all-time highs so far this year : Inflation is slowing enough to convince the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates, while the economy is remaining solid enough to stay out of a recession. Of the two reports, the weaker update on the job market may be the bigger deal for the market, according to Chris Larkin, managing director, trading and investing, at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. A surge in egg prices may have been behind the worse-than-expected inflation numbers. “One week doesn’t negate what has been a relatively steady stream of solid labor market data, but the Fed is primed to be sensitive to any signs of a softening jobs picture,” he said. Traders are widely expecting the Fed will ease its main interest rate at its meeting next week. If they’re correct, it would be a third straight cut by the Fed after it began lowering rates in September from a two-decade high. It’s hoping to support a slowing job market after getting inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower rates would give a boost to the economy and to prices for investments, but they could also provide more fuel for inflation. A cut next week would have the Fed following other central banks, which lowered rates on Thursday. The European Central Bank cut rates by a quarter of a percentage point, as many investors expected, and the Swiss National Bank cut its policy rate by a steeper half of a percentage point. Following its decision, Switzerland’s central bank pointed to uncertainty about how U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory will affect economic policies, as well as about where politics in Europe is heading. Trump has talked up tariffs and other policies that could upend global trade. He rang the bell marking the start of trading at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday to chants of “USA.” On Wall Street, Adobe fell 13.7% and was one of the heaviest weights on the market despite reporting stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company gave forecasts for profit and revenue in its upcoming fiscal year that fell a bit shy of analysts’. Warner Bros. Discovery soared 15.4% after unveiling a new corporate structure that separates its streaming business and film studios from its traditional television business. CEO David Zaslav said the move “enhances our flexibility with potential future strategic opportunities,” raising speculation about a spinoff or sale. Kroger rose 3.2% after saying it would get back to buying back its own stock now that its attempt to merge with Albertsons is off . Kroger’s board approved a program to repurchase up to $7.5 billion of its stock, replacing an existing $1 billion authorization. All told, the S&P 500 fell 32.94 points to 6,051.25. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 234.55 to 43,914.12, and the Nasdaq composite sank 132.05 to 19,902.84. In stock markets abroad, European indexes held relatively steady following the European Central Bank’s cut to rates. Asian markets were stronger. Indexes rose 1.2% in Hong Kong and 0.8% in Shanghai as leaders met in Beijing to set economic plans and targets for the coming year. South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.6% for its third straight gain of at least 1%, as it pulls back following last week’s political turmoil where its president briefly declared martial law. In the bond market, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose to 4.33% from 4.27% late Wednesday. AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.

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News junkies will find much to love in “September 5,” a fictionalized account of ABC’s live coverage of the hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics . There are spirited debates about reporting with only one source, use of words like “terrorism” and what to do if violence breaks out during a live shot. There are negotiations with rival networks over satellite usage, disguises and fake badges made to get reels of 16mm film in and out of the locked down Olympic village and plenty of confused men (and a few women) trying to keep up with an ever-escalating situation. The film is a moment by moment retelling of how a group of sports broadcasters brought this story to the world in real time, despite the technical limitations and their own inexperience across a confusing 22 hours. Everyone came to the studio that night ready for breaking sports news, scores and pre-packaged interviews. Even that was going to be a test for the man running the control room for the first time. Geoffrey Mason, portrayed by John Magaro , was a 28-year-old coordinating producer. Someone wonders about his experience and is assured that he’s covered minor league baseball games. But in the early hours of Sept. 5, 1972 , eight members of a Palestinian group called Black September broke into the Olympic village and attacked the Israeli delegation killing wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossi Romano. Some escaped, but nine others were taken hostage. While the tragedy of the Munich Olympics has certainly been told many times, writer and director Tim Fehlbaum saw an opportunity in the team behind the live broadcast. And he commits fully to staying in the newsroom, with all of its glorious old technologies, from the walkie-talkies they used to stay in touch and to taking time to show how they had to manually add text to the screens. He and his screenwriter were able to reconstruct the events almost minute-by-minute, which helped shape the screenplay. The players are many in this large ensemble. Peter Sarsgaard , who’s looked right in a newsroom since “Shattered Glass,” gives gravitas to Roone Arledge, then-president of ABC Sports, and Ben Chaplin is operations engineer Marvin Bader. Leonie Benesch is Marianne Gebhardt, a German-speaking interpreter who is the only person there able to understand the language of the country. She might be a bit of a composite who checks off a lot of boxes as both an entrepreneurial woman and a younger German offering perspective and insight into what this moment might mean for the country trying to put on a good front in the aftermath of World War II. An actor (Benjamin Walker) plays broadcaster Peter Jennings, and real archival footage of anchor Jim McKay from that day is used in the film. And while they all rise to the occasion, mistakes are made – including a rather big one at the end, following imperfect secondhand information from the Fuerstenfeldbruck airfield. They don’t call it the first draft of history for nothing, after all, and it may be illuminating for audiences to see how it’s handled. The film looks of its time, but it also feels fairly modern in its sensibilities which makes it always seem more like a re-telling than an in-the-moment experience. This may be to its detriment, yet it’s still an undeniably riveting and compelling watch. The word thrilling doesn’t seem appropriate, however. This is not “Apollo 13” after all. The end is not a happy one. But at time when trust in the media is in crisis, this film is a great humanizer, reminding audiences that the media is far from a monolith, but a group of individuals under immense pressure to get the story right, get the story out and go back and do it again the next day. “September 5,” a Paramount Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for language. Running time: 94. Three stars out of four. Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray told bureau workers Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden's term in January, an announcement that came a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job. Wray said at a town hall meeting that he would be stepping down “after weeks of careful thought,” roughly three years short of the completion of a 10-year term during which he tried to keep the FBI out of politics even as the bureau found itself entangled in a string of explosive investigations, including two that led to separate indictments of Trump last year as well as inquiries into Biden and his son. “My goal is to keep the focus on our mission — the indispensable work you’re doing on behalf of the American people every day,” Wray told agency employees. “In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work.” The intended resignation was not unexpected considering that Trump had settled on Patel to be director and had repeatedly aired his ire at Wray, whom he appointed during his first term. But his departure is nonetheless a reflection of how Trump's norm-breaking style has reshaped Washington, with the president-elect yet again flouting tradition by moving to replace an FBI director well before his term was up and Wray resigning to avert a collision with the incoming administration. “It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway — this is not easy for me," Wray said. “I love this place, I love our mission, and I love our people — but my focus is, and always has been, on us and doing what’s right for the FBI.” Wray received a standing ovation following his remarks before a standing-room-only crowd at FBI headquarters and some in the audience cried, according to an FBI official who was not authorized to discuss the private gathering by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press. Trump applauded the news on social media, calling it “a great day for America as it will end the Weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice" and saying that Patel's confirmation will begin “the process of Making the FBI Great Again.” If confirmed by the Senate, Patel would herald a radical leadership transformation at the nation's premier federal law enforcement agency. He has advocated shutting down the FBI's Washington headquarters and called for ridding the federal government of “conspirators," raising alarms that he might seek to wield the FBI's significant investigative powers as an instrument of retribution against Trump's perceived enemies. Patel said in a statement Wednesday that he was looking forward to "a smooth transition. I will be ready to serve the American people on day one.” It's extremely rare for FBI directors to be ousted from their jobs before the completion of their 10-year terms, a length meant to insulate the agency from the political influence of changing administrations. But Trump has done it twice, placing Wray in the job in 2017 after firing Director James Comey amid an investigation into ties between Russia and the Republican president’s campaign. Despite having appointed Wray, Trump had telegraphed his anger with the FBI director on multiple occasions throughout the years, including as recently as the past week. In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, Trump said, “I can’t say I’m thrilled with him. He invaded my home,” a reference to the FBI search of his Florida property , Mar-a-Lago, two years ago for classified documents from Trump’s first term as president. That search, and the recovery of boxes of sensitive government records, paved the way for one of two federal indictments against Trump. The case, and another one charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election, have both been dismissed by the Justice Department special counsel that brought them in light of Trump's November victory. Attorney General Merrick Garland praised Wray for having “served our country honorably and with integrity for decades.” He said: “Under Director Wray’s principled leadership, the FBI has worked to fulfill the Justice Department’s mission to keep our country safe, protect civil rights, and uphold the rule of law.” Natalie Bara, the president of the FBI Agents Association, said in a statement that Wray had led the FBI “through challenging times with a steady focus on doing the work that keeps our country safe. ” Throughout his seven years on the job, the self-professed "low-key, understated" Wray brought a workmanlike approach to the job, repeatedly preaching a “keep calm and tackle hard” mantra to bureau personnel despite a steady drumbeat of attacks from Trump and his supporters. He also sought to avoid public conflict when possible with the Trump White House, distancing himself and his leadership team from the FBI's Russia investigation over errors that took place before he took office and announcing dozens of corrective actions meant to prevent the recurrence of the surveillance abuses that plagued the inquiry. But there were other instances when he memorably broke from Trump — he did not agree, for instance, with Trump’s characterization of the Russia investigation as a “witch hunt." He made known his displeasure when the White House blessed the declassification of materials related to the surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide and contradicted a Trump talking point by stating that Ukraine had not interfered in the 2016 election. He repeatedly sought to keep the focus on the FBI's day-to-day work, using the bulk of his resignation announcement to praise the bureau's efforts in countering everything from violent crime and cyberattacks to Chinese espionage and terrorism. Yet as he leaves office at a time of heightened threats , much of the public focus has been on the politically sensitive investigations of his tenure. Besides the inquiries into Trump, the FBI in recent years also investigated Biden's handling of classified information as well as Biden's son Hunter for tax and gun violations. Hunter Biden was pardoned by his father last week. A particular flashpoint came in August 2022, when FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago — an action officials defended as necessary given the boxes of documents that were being concealed at the Palm Beach property and the evidence of obstruction that the Justice Department said had been gathered. Trump railed against the FBI over that search and has kept up his criticism ever since. Trump was angered by Wray's comment at a congressional hearing that there was “some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel” that struck Trump's ear during an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July. The FBI later stated unequivocally that it was indeed a bullet. Before being named FBI director, Wray worked at a prestigious law firm, King & Spalding, where he represented former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the “Bridgegate” scandal. He also led the Justice Department’s criminal division for a period during President George W. Bush’s administration.MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of the national battle over union rights. That law, known as Act 10, effectively ended the ability of most public employees to bargain for wage increases and other issues, and forced them to pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits. Under the ruling by Dane County Circuit Judge Jacob Frost, all public sector workers who lost their collective bargaining power would have it restored to what was in place prior to 2011. They would be treated the same as the police, firefighter and other public safety unions that were exempted under the law. Republicans vowed to immediately appeal the ruling, which ultimately is likely to go before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That only amplifies the importance of the April election that will determine whether the court remains controlled 4-3 by liberal justices. Former Gov. Scott Walker, who proposed the law that catapulted him onto the national political stage, decried the ruling in a post on the social media platform X as “brazen political activism.” He said it makes the state Supreme Court election “that much more important.” Supporters of the law have said it provided local governments more control over workers and the powers they needed to cut costs. Repealing the law, which allowed schools and local governments to raise money through higher employee contributions for benefits, would bankrupt those entities, backers of Act 10 have argued. Democratic opponents argue that the law has hurt schools and other government agencies by taking away the ability of employees to collectively bargain for their pay and working conditions. The law was proposed by Walker and enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature in spite of massive protests that went on for weeks and drew as many as 100,000 people to the Capitol. The law has withstood numerous legal challenges over the years, but this was the first brought since the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped to liberal control in 2023. The seven unions and three union leaders that brought the lawsuit argued that the law should be struck down because it creates unconstitutional exemptions for firefighters and other public safety workers. Attorneys for the Legislature and state agencies countered that the exemptions are legal, have already been upheld by other courts, and that the case should be dismissed. But Frost sided with the unions in July, saying the law violates equal protection guarantees in the Wisconsin Constitution by dividing public employees into “general” and “public safety” employees. He ruled that general employee unions, like those representing teachers, can not be treated differently from public safety unions that were exempt from the law. His ruling Monday delineated the dozens of specific provisions in the law that must be struck. Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he looked forward to appealing the ruling. “This lawsuit came more than a decade after Act 10 became law and after many courts rejected the same meritless legal challenges,” Vos said in a statement. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state's largest business lobbying organization, also decried the ruling. WMC President Kurt Bauer called Act 10 “a critical tool for policymakers and elected officials to balance budgets and find taxpayer savings." The Legislature said in court filings that arguments made in the current case were rejected in 2014 by the state Supreme Court. The only change since that ruling is the makeup of Wisconsin Supreme Court, attorneys for the Legislature argued. The Act 10 law effectively ended collective bargaining for most public unions by allowing them to bargain solely over base wage increases no greater than inflation. It also disallowed the automatic withdrawal of union dues, required annual recertification votes for unions, and forced public workers to pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits. The law was the signature legislative achievement of Walker, who was targeted for a recall election he won. Walker used his fights with unions to mount an unsuccessful presidential run in 2016. Frost, the judge who issued Monday's ruling, appeared to have signed the petition to recall Walker from office. None of the attorneys sought his removal from the case and he did not step down. Frost was appointed to the bench by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who signed the Walker recall petition. The law has also led to a dramatic decrease in union membership across the state. The nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum said in a 2022 analysis that since 2000, Wisconsin had the largest decline in the proportion of its workforce that is unionized. In 2015, the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature approved a right-to-work law that limited the power of private-sector unions. Public sector unions that brought the lawsuit are the Abbotsford Education Association; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Locals 47 and 1215; the Beaver Dam Education Association; SEIU Wisconsin; the Teaching Assistants’ Association Local 3220 and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 695.

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NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump's incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic mayor expressing an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration to pursue violent criminals in the city while Trump promises mass deportations. The mayor's meeting with Tom Homan, who will oversee the southern and northern borders and be responsible for deportation efforts in the Trump administration, came as Adams has welcomed parts of the president-elect's hardline immigration platform. Adams told reporters at a brief news conference that he and Homan agreed on pursuing people who commit violent crimes in the city but did not disclose additional details or future plans. “We’re not going to be a safe haven for those who commit repeated violent crimes against innocent migrants, immigrants and longstanding New Yorkers," he said. “That was my conversation today with the border czar, to figure out how to go after those individuals who are repeatedly committing crimes in our city.” The meeting marked Adams' latest and most definitive step toward collaborating with the Trump administration, a development that has startled critics in one of the country's most liberal cities. In the weeks since Trump’s election win, Adams has mused about potentially scaling back the city’s so-called sanctuary policies and coordinating with the incoming Trump administration on immigration. He has also said migrants accused of crimes shouldn’t have due process rights under the Constitution, though he eventually walked back those comments. The mayor further stunned Democrats when he sidestepped questions last week on whether he would consider changing parties to become a Republican, telling journalists that he was part of the “American party.” Adams later clarified that he would remain a Democrat. For Adams, a centrist Democrat known for quarreling with the city's progressive left, the recent comments on immigration follow frustration with the Biden Administration over its immigration policies and a surge of international migrants in the city. He has maintained that his positions have not changed and argues he is trying to protect New Yorkers, pointing to the law-and-order platform he has staked out throughout his political career and during his successful campaign for mayor. At his news conference Thursday, Adams reiterated his commitment to New York’s generous social safety net. “We’re going to tell those who are here, who are law-abiding, to continue to utilize the services that are open to the city, the services that they have a right to utilize, educating their children, health care, public protection,” he said. “But we will not be the safe haven for those who commit violent acts.” While the education of all children present in the U.S. is already guaranteed by a Supreme Court ruling, New York also offers social services like healthcare and emergency shelter to low-income residents, including those in the country illegally. City and state grants also provide significant access to lawyers, which is not guaranteed in the immigration court as they are in the criminal court. Still, Adams’ recent rhetoric has been seen by some critics as an attempt to cozy up to Trump, who could potentially offer a presidential pardon in his federal corruption case. Adams has been charged with accepting luxury travel perks and illegal campaign contributions from a Turkish official and other foreign nationals looking to buy his influence. He has pleaded not guilty. Homan, who was Trump’s former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, also met this week with Republicans in Illinois, where he called on Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, to start negotiations over how Trump's mass deportation plans, according to local media. Separately, New York City officials this week announced continued efforts to shrink a huge emergency shelter system for migrants because of a steady decline in new arrivals. Among the planned shelter closures is a massive tent complex built on a federally owned former airport in Brooklyn, which advocates have warned could be a prime target for Trump's mass deportation plan. Elsewhere, Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. ___ Izaguirre reported from Albany, N.Y.None

50jili con THE Police Service of Northern Ireland has launched an investigation into an alleged incident involving some members of the All-Ireland winning Armagh squad. An alleged incident is reported to have occurred during a recent visit to the United States. PSNI confirmed that they're investigating the complaint that apparently happened during the trip to Miami last month. The trip was to celebrate the Orchard County’s historic All-Ireland victory over Galway earlier this year. Armagh claimed their second Sam Maguire title after after a 1-11 - 0-13 win over the Tribesmen. However, the celebrations have been marred by the allegations linked to the trip, which are now the subject of a police inquiry. A PSNI spokesperson confirmed the news in a statement. It read: "A report was made to the Police Service of Northern Ireland regarding an incident which is believed to have occurred in the United States in November. "Enquiries are currently being carried out, and no further details are available at this time." When further quizzed if any arrests had been made, the PSNI did not provide a direct response to the question. Claims about the alleged incident have been circulating widely on social media, fuelling further speculation about an alleged incident. Armagh county board officials, and the Ulster Council were contacted for comment by Irish News but are yet to respond.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 21, 2024-- Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) (“Skillsoft” or the “Company”), a leading platform for transformative learning experiences, today announced it will release its third quarter fiscal 2025 financial results after market close on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. The Company will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the results on the same day at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Conference Call Details The conference call can be accessed by dialing (877) 413-9278 from the United States and Canada, or (215) 268-9914 from international locations. The live webcast can be accessed from the Investor Relations page of Skillsoft’s website at investor.skillsoft.com , and a replay will be available for six months. About Skillsoft Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) delivers transformative learning experiences that propel organizations and people to grow together. The Company partners with enterprise organizations and serves a global community of learners to prepare today’s employees for tomorrow’s economy. With Skillsoft, customers gain access to blended, multimodal learning experiences that do more than build skills, they grow a more capable, adaptive, and engaged workforce. Through a portfolio of best-in-class content, a platform that is personalized and connected to customer needs, world-class tech and a broad ecosystem of partners, Skillsoft drives continuous growth and performance for employees and their organizations by overcoming critical skill gaps and unlocking human potential. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com . View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241121476832/en/ CONTACT: Investors: Ross Collins or Stephen Poe SKIL@alpha-ir.comMedia : Cameron Martin cameron.martin@skillsoft.com KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY SECURITY SOFTWARE NETWORKS INTERNET CONTINUING TRAINING DATA MANAGEMENT EDUCATION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOURCE: Skillsoft Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 11/21/2024 04:15 PM/DISC: 11/21/2024 04:15 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241121476832/enIn her centenary year, a look at Janaki Ramachandran, the first CM to lose power due to “political deadlock”THE HAGUE: Kuwait reaffirmed its commitment to addressing global climate challenges through multilateral cooperation, underscoring the critical role of the United Nations (UN) in tackling issues such as climate change. Kuwait emphasized that the principles enshrined in the UN Charter provide a vital framework for international efforts, including the fight against climate change. The statement was made by Kuwait’s Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna Talal Al-Fassam, during the country’s oral argument at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands. This landmark case was initiated by Vanuatu in 2021, driven by the country’s and other small island nations’ vulnerability to climate change. Vanuatu, with the support of 132 countries, successfully pushed for a UN General Assembly resolution (A/RES/77/276) in March 2023, calling for the ICJ’s advisory opinion. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) climate change hearings, scheduled from December 2 to 13, 2024, focus on the legal responsibilities of states in addressing climate change and the consequences for those who fail to meet these obligations. The court has been asked to clarify two central questions: The first question being considered is the legal obligation of states under international law to protect the climate system from human-caused emissions, ensuring the well-being of both present and future generations. The second question addresses the legal consequences for states whose actions or omissions cause significant harm to the environment, with particular focus on vulnerable nations, such as small island developing states, that are disproportionately affected by climate change. The ICJ’s advisory opinion will help clarify international law on climate change, providing important guidance for future global climate action and ensuring that vulnerable nations receive the protection they need. Individual nations not liable Kuwait’s argument focused on the country’s long-standing dedication to global climate initiatives and its active role in international agreements aimed at combating climate change. Kuwait’s legal team argued that while climate change is a pressing global issue, the duty to prevent transboundary harm—often cited in environmental disputes—should not be applied in the context of climate change. Kuwait stressed that climate change is a shared global challenge that requires cooperative, multilateral action, as outlined in the UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement, rather than unilateral legal obligations between individual countries. Kuwait’s argument at the ICJ also highlighted that the Paris Agreement and other international climate treaties do not provide a basis for strict liability on individual nations for preventing climate change. Instead, they advocate for cooperative efforts to mitigate and adapt to its effects through collective global action. In the context of international law, Kuwait emphasized the need for a holistic, coordinated approach to climate change rather than attributing responsibility for transboundary harm to individual nations. Kuwait’s climate initiatives Kuwait was one of the first countries to sign the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and has been a strong supporter of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. These international accords have formed the backbone of global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and Kuwait reiterated its full commitment to these agreements, emphasizing the country’s proactive measures to mitigate climate change’s impact. The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly visible in Kuwait, including rising temperatures, desertification, reduced rainfall, and a growing reliance on desalinated water. The country is addressing these challenges through various national, regional, and international initiatives. On the national front, Kuwait launched its National Adaptation Plan in alignment with the UNFCCC, setting Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that aim for net-zero emissions by 2060. This commitment is backed by substantial investments in green technologies and sustainable energy. Notably, Kuwait is undertaking a $15.5 billion initiative focused on producing petroleum products with significantly lower emissions. Additionally, Kuwait has set ambitious goals for renewable energy, aiming to generate 50 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2050. Kuwait’s Public Authority for Environment, established in 1995, works to regulate and protect the environment, supported by the Environment Protection Law No. 42 of 2014. These policies are part of a broader effort to integrate environmental sustainability into Kuwait’s national development. On the international stage, Kuwait continues to support climate action through initiatives like the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, which finances climate-related projects in developing countries. Kuwait’s oil industry, too, has positioned itself as one of the least carbon-intensive oil producers globally and is committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Largest in ICJ history The Kuwaiti legal team, which included Reham Al-Ghanem, Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Al-Dai, First Secretary at the Kuwaiti Embassy in the Netherlands, and Jaber Al-Sabah, Third Secretary, presented a compelling case for enhanced international cooperation, emphasizing that tackling climate change requires a united global effort. The hearings are among the largest in ICJ history. A record 91 written statements have been submitted, along with 62 comments on those statements, and 97 states and 11 international organizations are participating in the oral proceedings. This provides an opportunity for countries and organizations to elaborate on their positions and testify directly to the court. Kuwait’s participation in the ICJ hearing underscores the country’s dedication to global climate action and its call for solidarity among nations to ensure a sustainable future for generations to come. — Agencies

California urges Buttigeg to grant last-minute cash for LA-SF bullet train as DOGE loomsGuwahati (Assam) [India], November 30 (ANI): Under the aegis of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Ministry of Earth Sciences, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) inaugurated the 10th edition of India International Science Festival 2024 (IISF 2024) on Saturday at IIT Guwahati, in association with Vijnana Bharathi, the nodal institute of the event being CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram. Celebrating India's scientific achievements and fostering innovation, the festival was graced by esteemed dignitaries, including Asam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as the Chief Guest, and Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology who delivered the Presidential address. Other dignitaries included Dasanglu Pul, Cabinet Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, and Keshab Mahanta, Minister for Science & Technology, Govt of Assam. Also Read | Khargone Road Accident: 4 Killed, 21 Injured As Speeding Bus Overturns at Jiratpura Crossing in Madhya Pradesh (Watch Video). Key stakeholders present during the event included Prof Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, DST; Dr Rajesh Gokhale, Secretary, DBT; Dr M Ravichandran, Secretary MoES; Prof Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Secretary, DAE; Dr Ravi Kota, Chief Secretary, Government of Assam; and Prof Devendra Jalihal, Director, IIT Guwahati, accompanied by Dr N Kalaiselvi, DG-CSIR; Dr C Anandharamakrishnan, Director, CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, and several other distinguished figures from India's science and technology ecosystem. Speaking on the occasion, Assam CM Biswa Sarma remarked, "IISF 2024 is a celebration of collective efforts in scientific innovation and collaboration. This festival would not have been possible without the unwavering support of the Prime Minister." Also Read | Relations with India Changed After August 5, Says Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Advisor Mohammed Touhid Hossain. "IISF 2024 stands as a grand celebration of scientific innovation and collaboration, featuring numerous innovations catering to a diverse audience. It showcases India's remarkable achievements, such as Chandrayaan-2, and includes a science expo that highlights cutting-edge research and technology. The festival promises a dynamic exploration of science through events like the Young Scientists' Conclave, Science Safari, and Tinker Labs, aimed at igniting curiosity and fostering innovation among students," the Assam Chief Minister said. Further, he added, "With special features like Nari Shakti celebrating women in STEM, Science Beyond Borders fostering global partnerships, and initiatives like Sagrika and Science Village, IISF 2024 is a true celebration of innovation and sustainability. With India ranking among the top three in scientific research and excelling in startups, we are poised to become a global leader in innovation, supported by being the third-highest producer of PhDs worldwide." Delivering the Presidential Address, Minister Jitendra Singh, said, "India's remarkable growth story is deeply rooted in its advancements in science, technology, and innovation." "Over the past decade, under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, we have seen a profound transformation across sectors--from the rise of start-ups to revolutionary breakthroughs in biotechnology, space technology, and quantum science. The Northeast region, once on the periphery of development, has become a shining example of growth, embodying both economic progress and scientific innovation. As we approach India@2047, empowering youth and fostering innovation are key. Initiatives like the National Research Foundation and the bioeconomy revolution are driving India toward self-reliance and global leadership, with young innovators leading the way," the Union Minister said. A key highlight of the event was the launch of the India Science, Technology & Innovation (ISTI) Portal by Jitendra Singh. This centralised platform will serve as a comprehensive repository for content related to Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) within India's ecosystem. With a strong focus on engaging students, scientists, researchers, youth, and the public, the portal will provide access to valuable information on fellowships, scholarships, funding opportunities, and startup initiatives, enabling users to explore and leverage opportunities within India. The four-day festival, running until December 3 aims to popularise science and technology across diverse communities. IISF 2024 is expected to attract over 8,000 delegates, researchers, and leading scientific organisations, along with an additional 10,000 students from schools and colleges, fostering collaboration and innovation across disciplines. The event also featured the inauguration of multiple exhibitions by the Chief Guests, highlighting key advancements, such as Chandrayaan - Museum of The Moon Exhibition: The exhibition, created by British artist Dr Luke Jerram, features a life-sized, seven-meter replica of the moon with detailed NASA imagery. The exhibition aims to engage the public in discussions about space, exploration, and humanity's connection to the cosmos, highlighting India's Chandrayaan Mission; Science-Technology-Defence-Space Exhibition: Highlighting achievements in defence, space, and science, this expo showcases key initiatives like AatmaNirbhar Bharat and Digital India, with hands-on learning opportunities and networking platforms for young scientists and technologists; Reimagining Bharat Exhibition: Showcasing India's roadmap for a technologically advanced future, this exhibition emphasizes innovations in AI, robotics, quantum computing, renewable energy, and space exploration. It also provides interactive experiences such as live demos and virtual realities. North East Food Street - A culinary celebration of the diverse flavours of the Northeast, offering traditional dishes alongside cultural music, and immersing visitors in the region's rich heritage. Additionally, the day featured several events that provided opportunities for participants to engage directly with the key stakeholders of the Indian scientific community, including: Science Institutional Leaders Meet - Vision Sansad - The event brought together leaders from science ministries and industry CEOs to discuss transformative S&T policies and initiatives. Science through Games and Adventures - Science Safari - This first-of-its-kind initiative in the Northeast brought together 173 school science teachers, including 45 from the Northeast, and features innovative educational toys by 20 teacher-entrepreneurs. Round Table on India as the Global Manufacturing Hub through S&T - The discussion features stakeholders from the Government and industries exploring initiatives, policies, and strategies to strengthen India's manufacturing capabilities and discuss the country's vision to become a global leader in manufacturing. Students Science & Technology Village - The event will engage 3,000 students from across India, including 75% from the Northeast and border districts offering interactive exhibits, hands-on experiments, educational games, and STEM challenges to ignite curiosity and critical thinking among school students.and many more sessions. The festival promises a packed schedule of exhibitions, workshops, and interactive sessions, making IISF 2024 a beacon of inspiration, bridging science, society, and innovation in a meaningful way. (ANI) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)

The Atlanta Falcons drafting of Michael Penix Jr. just six weeks after signing Kirk Cousins to a $180 million contract doesn't seem like that much of a head-scratcher anymore. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * The Atlanta Falcons drafting of Michael Penix Jr. just six weeks after signing Kirk Cousins to a $180 million contract doesn't seem like that much of a head-scratcher anymore. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? The Atlanta Falcons drafting of Michael Penix Jr. just six weeks after signing Kirk Cousins to a $180 million contract doesn’t seem like that much of a head-scratcher anymore. Penix, the eighth overall pick in this year’s draft, was supposed to serve as Cousins’ understudy for a year or two, a plan that was scuttled when Cousins quickly lost the zip and accuracy on his passes and his grip on the starting job. It was hard to argue with making the change after Cousins had nine picks and one touchdown pass in his last five starts — but it was a daring move nonetheless with the Falcons trailing first-place Tampa Bay by a single game with three weeks left. Penix made the move pay off with a solid first NFL start in the Falcons’ 34-7 rout of the New York Giants on Sunday that bolstered Atlanta’s playoff hopes, and the Falcons (8-7) moved back into first place in the NFC South with the Buccaneers’ loss at Dallas on Sunday night. The left-hander was not at all overwhelmed by the moment, completing 18 of 27 passes for 202 yards — numbers that would’ve been better if not for at least three dropped passes, one of which Kyle Pitts bobbled right into the hands of a New York defender for Penix’s lone interception. “He went out and played almost flawless football,” coach Raheem Morris said. Cousins will almost certainly be looking for his fourth team in 2025. If the Falcons cut ties as expected, they’ll have paid Cousins $90 million for 14 games. Cousins’ career earnings are about $321 million and his record is 84-77-2, including a 1-3 mark in the playoffs and 7-7 this season. In the spirit of expedited judgments, let’s take a gander at how other quarterbacks have fared with their new teams in 2024. Russell Wilson The Pittsburgh Steelers landed the biggest bargain of the season in Wilson, whom they signed for the veteran’s minimum of $1.21 million, leaving his former team, the Denver Broncos, on the hook for the remaining $37.79 million of his 2024 salary. Wilson’s calf injury in camp forced the Steelers to start Justin Fields, who went 4-2 before Mike Tomlin made the risky switch to Wilson, who’s gone 6-3 with 15 TD throws and four interceptions. With the Steelers (10-5) playoff-bound, Wilson will make his first postseason appearance since 2020. The only question is whether it’ll be at home as AFC North champ or on the road as a wild-card. They’re tied with the Ravens atop the division but currently own the tiebreaker. Sam Darnold This was expected to be a rebuilding year in Minnesota after the Vikings lost Cousins in free agency. They signed Darnold, the third overall pick in 2018, to a $10 million, one-year contract and drafted national champion J.J. McCarthy with the 10th overall pick. McCarthy tore the meniscus in his right knee during the preseason opener and has undergone two surgeries, opening the way for Darnold’s breakthrough season. Darnold brought a 21-35 career record with him to Minneapolis and all he’s done is go 13-2 while setting career highs with 32 touchdown passes, 3,776 passing yards and a 67.2% completion percentage. The Vikings are tied with the Lions atop the packed NFC North and the division crown could come down to Minnesota’s season finale at Detroit on Jan. 5. Gardner Minshew The Las Vegas Raiders signed Minshew to a two-year, $25 million contract and he beat out incumbent Aidan O’Connell for the starting gig. But he only went 2-7 and sustained a season-ending broken collarbone in a Week 12 loss to the Broncos, opening the door for O’Connell (1-4) to return. The Raiders’ 19-14 win over Jacksonville on Sunday snapped a 10-game skid but might have taken them out of the Shedeur Sanders sweepstakes. They are 3-12, a game behind the Giants (2-13), who jettisoned QB Daniel Jones less than two years after signing him to a four-year, $160 million contract and have gone with Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito instead. Caleb Williams The Chicago Bears had high hopes after drafting Williams with the No. 1 overall pick, but it might turn out that the second QB taken — Washington’s Jayden Daniels — is better than the first as was the case last year when C.J. Stroud outperformed Carolina’s Bryce Young. Williams has a terrific TD-to-INT ratio of 19-5, but the Bears are 4-11 and have lost nine in a row. Their last win came way back on Oct. 13 against Jacksonville. Jayden Daniels The 2023 Heisman Trophy winner out of LSU has led the Washington Commanders (10-5) to the cusp of their first playoff appearance since 2020. His bolstered his Rookie of the Year credentials with a five-TD performance Sunday in leading the Commanders to a 36-33 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. For the year, Daniels has 22 TD throws and eight interceptions. Bo Nix The former Auburn and Oregon star hasn’t looked much like a rookie after starting an NCAA QB record 61 times in college. The Broncos (9-6) could snap an eight-year playoff drought with a win Sunday at Cincinnati thanks to Nix’s steady play, Sean Payton’s exhaustive guidance and Denver’s traditionally stingy defense. Nix was drafted 12th overall after the Broncos released Wilson despite a a whopping $85 million dead money charge on top of the $37.79 million they’re paying Wilson to play for Pittsburgh this year. With 22 TDs and 11 interceptions, Nix has almost matched Russell’s win total (11-19) in his two seasons in Denver. ___ Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. AP Sports Writer Paul Newberry in Atlanta contributed to this report. ___ Behind the Call analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL during the season. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl Advertisement Advertisement2024 in pop culture: In a bruising year, we sought out fantasy, escapism — and cute little animals

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Share this:Toronto police say three people have been arrested in connection with a stolen car that collided with a city bus earlier this week, injuring several people. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Toronto police say three people have been arrested in connection with a stolen car that collided with a city bus earlier this week, injuring several people. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Toronto police say three people have been arrested in connection with a stolen car that collided with a city bus earlier this week, injuring several people. Police say a BMW was stolen at gunpoint from the driver on Nov. 1 and that vehicle was then allegedly used in two residential break-ins on Nov. 13. On Monday, the stolen BMW collided with a Toronto Transit Commission bus shortly before 2 a.m. near Bathurst Street and Wilson Avenue. 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When baseball historian Bill Humber first heard about the golden at-bat idea that Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred floated on a recent podcast, he was a little taken aback. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * When baseball historian Bill Humber first heard about the golden at-bat idea that Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred floated on a recent podcast, he was a little taken aback. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? When baseball historian Bill Humber first heard about the golden at-bat idea that Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred floated on a recent podcast, he was a little taken aback. “I kind of laughed, actually,” Humber said Wednesday. “I thought it was one of the stupidest ideas I’d ever heard.” MLB has seen its share of change of late, but the thought of a team using one at-bat each game to send any hitter it wants to the plate — even if it’s not their turn in the batting order — was quite a curveball. “This can’t be real,” former Blue Jays pitcher and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens posted on social media. Wild-card playoff tinkering, pitch clocks, shift rules and automatic runners are some of the more significant changes to the game in recent years. All had varying levels of detractors and the golden at-bat discussion is no different. Critics are eyeing it like a meatball thrown across the middle of the plate. “It doesn’t really fit within the logic of the game in my mind,” said Humber, a Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer. “I look upon it quite askance to be honest with you. I don’t see the point of it in a way. “I mean to some extent, the magic of baseball is those unheralded batters who arrive at a situation that one wouldn’t have thought that they would ever have been in, and allowing them to bat in place.” Humber cited a number of grand baseball moments that might not have happened if a golden at-bat rule were in effect. “One can imagine when Bobby Thomson hit his famous home run against the (Brooklyn) Dodgers in 1951, Willie Mays was on deck,” he said of the ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ that gave the New York Giants the National League pennant. “What if they had a golden at-bat and put Mays at bat, maybe he would have struck out or popped up or hit into a double-play or who knows what. There’s lots of situations like that.” What about the two famous World Series-winning walkoffs? Would the skippers have used a golden at-bat to get their best pure hitter to the plate? Bill Mazeroski went deep to give Pittsburgh the Fall Classic in 1960 and Joe Carter’s walkoff blast in 1993 gave the Blue Jays their second straight World Series title. Mazeroski’s power numbers were middling while Carter, who led the Blue Jays in homers and RBIs that year, had a mediocre batting average. “I think the magic of the game are those moments that are unpredictable and yet kind of create some of the joy of the game in our memories,” Humber said. ” I think this kind of runs afoul of that tradition. “I’m not a fan, let me say that. But that’s not to say it won’t happen.” Manfred first mentioned the golden at-bat idea publicly in an interview with John Ourand on Puck’s “The Varsity” podcast. The commissioner said the subject came up at a recent owners’ meeting. Retired sportswriter Dave Perkins, who covered the Blue Jays for years over his long career at the Toronto Star, said use of a golden at-bat would be “a travesty.” “On the surface I say it’s absolutely stupid and ridiculous,” he said. “But a lot of other things I thought were stupid and ridiculous worked their way into the games and they’re even OK with me now.” The subject of potential rule changes like the golden at-bat came up when Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins met with the Toronto chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America earlier this week. “It’s interesting to me because we went through so much change over the last couple of years,” he said. “Getting to that change was a scratch and a claw and a climb. And then once the change happened, everyone — for the most part — thought, ‘OK, that went OK and it seems like there’s a better product on the field.’ Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. “So now the dialogue around change is with a much more open mind whether it be players, staff, the exchanges, the ideas, even if they seem very difficult to wrap your head around. They’re not getting stiff-armed as much as they were the first go-round.” Scott Crawford, operations director of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, said he prefers a traditional setup where any player can be a hero at any time. “I like the team aspect of the game where you get your shot,” he said. “You can be a No. 8 hitter and you can come up with a big hit and win a World Series and (a superstar like Shohei) Ohtani can strike out.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 4, 2024. Follow @GregoryStrongCP on X. Advertisement AdvertisementNoneGAZA STRIP, Dec 27 — The quiet resumption of operations at a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip last month marked a small but significant step toward restoring public services in the Palestinian territory ravaged by more than 14 months of war. The process of restarting the plant in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, involved both Israeli and Palestinian stakeholders who could have a hand in the territory’s future, especially amid renewed hopes for a ceasefire in recent days. While its reopening has had a limited tangible impact so far, diplomats close to the project suggest it could offer a tentative roadmap for Gaza’s post-war administration. Since being reconnected to Israel’s electricity grid, the station has been producing approximately 16,000 cubic metres of water per day, according to UNICEF. It serves more than 600,000 Gaza residents through tankers or the networks of Deir el-Balah and Khan Yunis governorates in central and southern Gaza, respectively. “Its production capacity remains limited in the face of immense needs,” an official within the Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority (PENRA) told AFP. Residents of the devastated Palestinian territory have struggled since the early days of the war between Israel and Hamas to secure even basic necessities, including food and clean water. Human Rights Watch last week accused Israel of committing “acts of genocide” in Gaza by restricting water access — a claim denied by Israeli authorities. The WASH Cluster, which brings together humanitarian organisations in the water sector, reports that distribution of water has become very complex in Gaza. The pipelines transporting water have been damaged, leaving Gazans — many of whom are living in makeshift shelters after being displaced by bombardments — without any means of storing the essential resource. The plant is one of three such seawater processing facilities in the Gaza Strip, which before the war met around 15 percent of the 2.4 million residents’ needs. In the months following the outbreak of war, sparked by the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the plant operated at minimal capacity, relying on solar panels and generators amid a persistent scarcity of fuel in Gaza. It could fully resume operations only after reconnecting to one of the power lines supplied by Israel, which charges the Palestinian Authority for the electricity. Practical solutions UNICEF, which provides technical support for the Deir el-Balah plant, indicated in late June that it had reached an agreement with Israel to restore electricity to the plant. Subsequently, COGAT, a division of Israel’s defence ministry overseeing civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories, announced that the desalination plant had been reconnected to the Israeli grid. But the line meant to supply the plant was heavily damaged. “It took five months to repair the line from Kissufim” in Israel, said Mohammed Thabet, spokesman for Gaza’s electricity company. “These are emergency, temporary solutions.” Several diplomatic sources told AFP that the episode showed the Palestinian Authority had proven it was in a position to have a hand in the future governance of Gaza, as its institutions were fixing the electricity line on the ground, coordinating with all actors. The Authority aims to play a central role in post-war Gaza, seeking to strengthen its influence in the territory after it was significantly weakened when Hamas took control in 2007. An Israeli security source told AFP that the Israeli partners involved had acted on “instructions from the political echelons”, and that the project was part of an effort to prevent an outbreak of disease, which could endanger the lives of hostages still held in Gaza. When Hamas militants attacked Israel last year, they abducted 251 hostages, of whom 96 are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel “facilitated the connection of the electric line specifically to the desalination plant”, the source said, adding that a mechanism was in place to track usage to “prevent electricity from being stolen”. Israeli authorities’ cooperation on the plant’s reopening comes soon after it agreed to work with a UN-led polio vaccination drive, pausing its bombing campaign in Gaza in areas where children were receiving the doses. — AFP50jili app 。

ORRVILLE, Ohio , Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The J. M. Smucker Company (the "Company") (NYSE: SJM) today announced that it has commenced cash tender offers (each, an "Offer" and collectively, the "Offers") for the maximum principal amount of validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) notes set forth below (collectively, the "Notes"), such that the aggregate purchase price, not including accrued and unpaid interest, payable in respect of such Notes will not exceed $300 million . The Offers are being made pursuant to an Offer to Purchase, dated December 3, 2024 (the "Offer to Purchase"), which sets forth a description of the terms of the Offers. A summary of the Offers to purchase the Notes is outlined below: Acceptance Priority Level (1) Title of Security CUSIP Number Outstanding Principal Amount Reference U.S. Treasury Security (2) Bloomberg Reference Page Fixed Spread (bps) Early Tender Premium (3) 1 2.750% Senior Notes due 2041 832696AV0 $300,000,000 4.625% UST due 11/15/2044 FIT 1 +85 $30 2 3.550% Senior Notes due 2050 832696AT5 $300,000,000 4.250% UST due 8/15/2054 FIT 1 +95 $30 3 2.125% Senior Notes due 2032 832696AU2 $500,000,000 4.250% UST due 11/15/2034 FIT 1 +50 $30 4 4.375% Senior Notes due 2045 832696AP3 $600,000,000 4.625% UST due 11/15/2044 FIT 1 +85 $30 5 5.900% Senior Notes due 2028 * 832696AW8 $750,000,000 4.125% UST due 11/30/2029 FIT 1 +30 $30 (1) The Company is offering to accept the maximum principal amount of validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) Notes in the Offer for which the aggregate purchase price, not including accrued and unpaid interest, does not exceed $300 million using a "waterfall" methodology under which the Company will accept the Notes in order of their respective Acceptance Priority Levels (as defined below). (2) The Total Consideration (as defined below) for Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) prior to or at the Early Tender Time (as defined below) and accepted for purchase is calculated using the applicable fixed spread as described in the Offer to Purchase. The Early Tender Premium (as defined below) of $30 per $1,000 principal amount is included in the Total Consideration for each series of Notes set forth above and does not constitute an additional or increased payment. Holders of Notes will also receive accrued and unpaid interest on Notes accepted for purchase up to, but excluding, the Early Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date (each as defined below), as applicable. (3) Per $1,000 principal amount. * Denotes a series of Notes for which the calculation of the applicable Total Consideration may be performed, subject to market practice, using the present value of such Notes as determined at the Price Determination Time (as defined in the Offer to Purchase) as if the principal amount of Notes had been due on the applicable Par Call Date (as defined in the Offer to Purchase) of such series rather than the maturity date. Each Offer is scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m. , New York City time, on January 2, 2025 , unless extended or earlier terminated by the Company (such date and time, as the same may be extended or earlier terminated with respect to each Offer, the "Expiration Time"). To receive the Total Consideration, holders of the Notes must validly tender and not validly withdraw Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m. , New York City time, on December 16, 2024 , unless such deadline is extended with respect to the applicable Offer(s) (such date and time, as the same may be extended with respect to each Offer, the "Early Tender Time"), to be eligible to receive the Total Consideration. Tenders of Notes may not be validly withdrawn after 5:00 p.m. , New York City time, on December 16, 2024 (the "Withdrawal Deadline"), unless extended by the Company with respect to the applicable Offer. After such time, Notes validly tendered may not be validly withdrawn unless such deadline is extended with respect to the applicable Offer, except in certain limited circumstances where additional withdrawal rights are required by law. Payments for Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) and accepted for purchase at or prior to the Early Tender Time are expected to settle on December 19, 2024 (the "Early Settlement Date"). The consideration paid in each of the Offers will be determined in the manner described in the Offer to Purchase by reference to a fixed spread over the yield to maturity of the applicable U.S. Treasury Security (the "Reference Treasury Security") specified in the table above and on the cover page of the Offer to Purchase in the column entitled "Reference U.S. Treasury Security." Holders who validly tender and do not validly withdraw Notes at or prior to the Early Tender Time that are accepted for purchase will be eligible to receive the "Total Consideration," which includes an early tender premium of $30 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes accepted for purchase (the "Early Tender Premium"). The Early Tender Premium is included in the Total Consideration for each series of Notes and does not constitute an additional or increased payment. Holders who validly tender Notes after the Early Tender Time but at or prior to the Expiration Time and whose Notes are accepted for purchase will be entitled to receive the Total Consideration minus the Early Tender Premium. In addition, in each case, holders whose Notes are accepted for purchase will receive accrued and unpaid interest on their Notes up to, but excluding, the applicable settlement date, payable on the settlement date. The Company will accept for purchase for cash the maximum principal amount of validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) Notes for which the aggregate purchase price, not including accrued and unpaid interest, payable in respect of such Notes does not exceed $300 million (the "Offer Cap"). Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions of the Offers, Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) prior to or at the Early Tender Time will be accepted based on the acceptance priority levels noted in the table above (the "Acceptance Priority Levels"). All Notes tendered prior to or at the Early Tender Time will have priority over Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time, regardless of the Acceptance Priority Levels of the Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time. Subject to applicable law, the Company may increase, decrease or waive the Offer Cap, as provided in the Offer to Purchase. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions of the Offers, the "Acceptance Priority Procedures" will operate as follows: (1) at the Early Settlement Date, the Company will accept for purchase all Notes of each Series validly tendered at or before the Early Tender Time and not validly withdrawn at or before the Withdrawal Deadline, starting with the 2.750% Senior Notes due 2041 (which have an Acceptance Priority Level of 1), followed by the 3.550% Senior Notes due 2050 (which have an Acceptance Priority Level of 2), followed by the 2.125% Senior Notes due 2032 (which have an Acceptance Priority Level of 3), followed by the 4.375% Senior Notes due 2045 (which have an Acceptance Priority Level of 4), followed by the 5.900% Senior Notes due 2028 (which have an Acceptance Priority Level of 5), subject to the Offer Cap; and (2) on January 6, 2025 (the "Final Settlement Date"), to the extent the Company has not already accepted Notes with an aggregate purchase price payable in respect of such Notes equal to the Offer Cap, it will accept for purchase validly tendered and not validly withdrawn Notes of each Series not previously purchased on the Early Settlement Date starting with the 2.750% Senior Notes due 2041, followed by the 3.550% Senior Notes due 2050, followed by the 2.125% Senior Notes due 2032, followed by the 4.375% Senior Notes due 2045, followed by the 5.900% Senior Notes due 2028 in accordance with their respective Acceptance Priority Levels, subject to the Offer Cap. None of the Offers is conditioned on any of the other Offers or upon any minimum principal amount of Notes of any series being tendered. The Company's obligation to purchase, and to pay for, any Notes validly tendered pursuant to the Offers is subject to and conditioned upon the satisfaction of, or the Company's waiver of, the conditions described in the Offer to Purchase. This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell securities. No offer, solicitation, purchase or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. The Offers are being made solely pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P Morgan Securities LLC are serving as Dealer Managers for the Offers (each, a "Dealer Manager" and together, the "Dealer Managers"). Questions regarding the Offers may be directed to Goldman Sachs at (800) 828-3182 (toll free) or (212) 357-­1452 (collect) or to J.P Morgan at (866) 834-4666 (toll free) or (212) 834-3554 (collect). Requests for the Offer to Purchase or the documents incorporated by reference therein may be directed to D.F. King & Co., Inc., which is acting as the Tender Agent and Information Agent for the Offers, at SJM@dfking.com or the following telephone numbers: banks and brokers at (212) 269-5550; all others toll free at (866) 620-2535. The J. M. Smucker Company Forward-Looking Statements This press release ("Release") includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. The forward-looking statements may include statements concerning our current expectations, estimates, assumptions and beliefs concerning future events, conditions, plans and strategies that are not historical fact. Any statement that is not historical in nature is a forward-looking statement and may be identified by the use of words and phrases such as "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "will," "plan," "strive" and similar phrases. Federal securities laws provide a safe harbor for forward-looking statements to encourage companies to provide prospective information. We are providing this cautionary statement in connection with the safe harbor provisions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made, when evaluating the information presented in this Release, as such statements are by nature subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of our control and could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements and from our historical results and experience. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: our ability to successfully integrate Hostess Brands' operations and employees and to implement plans and achieve financial forecasts with respect to the Hostess Brands' business; our ability to realize the anticipated benefits, including synergies and cost savings, related to the Hostess Brands acquisition, including the possibility that the expected benefits will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period; disruption from the acquisition of Hostess Brands by diverting the attention of our management and making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; the negative effects of the acquisition of Hostess Brands on the market price of our common shares; the amount of the costs, fees, expenses, and charges and the risk of litigation related to the acquisition of Hostess Brands; the effect of the acquisition of Hostess Brands on our business relationships, operating results, ability to hire and retain key talent, and business generally; disruptions or inefficiencies in our operations or supply chain, including any impact caused by product recalls, political instability, terrorism, geopolitical conflicts (including the ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas), extreme weather conditions, natural disasters, pandemics, work stoppages or labor shortages (including potential strikes along the U.S. East and Gulf coast ports and potential impacts related to the duration of a recent strike at our Buffalo, New York manufacturing facility), or other calamities; risks related to the availability of, and cost inflation in, supply chain inputs, including labor, raw materials, commodities, packaging, and transportation; the impact of food security concerns involving either our products or our competitors' products, including changes in consumer preference, consumer litigation, actions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or other agencies, and product recalls; risks associated with derivative and purchasing strategies we employ to manage commodity pricing and interest rate risks; the availability of reliable transportation on acceptable terms; our ability to achieve cost savings related to our restructuring and cost management programs in the amounts and within the time frames currently anticipated; our ability to generate sufficient cash flow to continue operating under our capital deployment model, including capital expenditures, debt repayment to meet our deleveraging objectives, dividend payments, and share repurchases; a change in outlook or downgrade in our public credit ratings by a rating agency below investment grade; our ability to implement and realize the full benefit of price changes, and the impact of the timing of the price changes to profits and cash flow in a particular period; the success and cost of marketing and sales programs and strategies intended to promote growth in our business, including product innovation; general competitive activity in the market, including competitors' pricing practices and promotional spending levels; our ability to attract and retain key talent; the concentration of certain of our businesses with key customers and suppliers, including primary or single-source suppliers of certain key raw materials and finished goods, and our ability to manage and maintain key relationships; impairments in the carrying value of goodwill, other intangible assets, or other long-lived assets or changes in the useful lives of other intangible assets or other long-lived assets; the impact of new or changes to existing governmental laws and regulations and their application; the outcome of tax examinations, changes in tax laws, and other tax matters; a disruption, failure, or security breach of our or our suppliers' information technology systems, including, but not limited to, ransomware attacks; foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations; and risks related to other factors described under "Risk Factors" in other reports and statements we have filed with the SEC. We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or circumstances. About The J. M. Smucker Company At The J. M. Smucker Company, it is our privilege to make food people and pets love by offering a diverse family of brands available across North America . We are proud to lead in the coffee, peanut butter, fruit spreads, frozen handheld, sweet baked goods, dog snacks and cat food categories by offering brands consumers trust for themselves and their families each day, including Folgers ® , Dunkin' ® , Café Bustelo ® , Jif ® , Uncrustables ® , Smucker's ® , Hostess ® , Milk-Bone ® and Meow Mix ® . Through our unwavering commitment to producing high quality products, operating responsibly and ethically and delivering on our Purpose, we will continue to grow our business while making a positive impact on society. The J. M. Smucker Company is the owner of all trademarks referenced herein, except for Dunkin' ® , which is a trademark of DD IP Holder LLC. The Dunkin'® brand is licensed to The J. M. Smucker Company for packaged coffee products sold in retail channels, such as grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, e-commerce and drug stores, as well as in certain away from home channels. This information does not pertain to products for sale in Dunkin' ® restaurants. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-j-m-smucker-company-announces-cash-tender-offers-302321621.html SOURCE The J.M. Smucker Co.Can sharing a good meal bring people together? One San Diego author thinks soConnor Bedard is the worst player in the NHL for face-offs.

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Ingredion Incorporated Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.80 per ShareEagles Announce Decision on Wide Receiver DeVonta Smith for Rams GameThe winter meetings are over, , and several of the have been on the move. But as teams started to , the biggest issue soon became that there was no franchise-altering player available once Soto was off the market. At least, that was the case until Astros outfielder Kyle Tucker became available. Since arriving in the big leagues in 2019, Tucker has been a force for the Astros and the true definition of a five-tool player. He owns a .274/.353/.516 slash line with 125 home runs and 94 stolen bases, and he’s an elite defender in right field. Tucker was on pace to have the best year of his career last season — with 23 homers in 79 games — before a shin fracture from a foul ball forced him to miss significant time. In recent weeks, it emerged that the Astros were open to moving the star outfielder. On Friday, in exchange for infielder Isaac Paredes, pitcher Hayden Wesneski and third-base prospect Cam Smith. The deal instantly makes Tucker the best player in Chicago. For Houston, Paredes has the ability to play third or first base with pull-side power that should play at Minute Maid Park. Wesneski is a versatile arm with good stuff who pitched in 68 games with 22 starts for the Cubs, with a respectable career 3.93 ERA. But the crown jewel of the trade for the Astros is Smith. The Cubs’ 2024 first-round draft pick was one of the best hitters in college baseball before Chicago took him with the 14th overall pick last year. He performed well during his first year in pro ball, slashing .313/.396/.609 with seven homers and 24 RBI, and finished the year in Double-A. The Astros have won a lot over the past decade, including two World Series titles. The only team that has won more games than Houston since 2015 is the Los Angeles Dodgers. But keeping their winning window open for that long comes at a cost, and it left the Astros’ prospect pool pretty thin. Sources aware of Houston’s thinking told Yahoo Sports that the hope was that a Tucker trade could help replenish the farm system that allowed the Astros to reach the ALCS in seven of the past eight seasons. With such a trade now complete, Paredes slots into the Astros’ infield and lineup immediately, and Wesneski could fill multiple roles for Houston, either in the bullpen or the rotation, depending on how the remainder of their offseason shakes out. And with Smith, who was ranked as the Cubs’ No. 7 prospect by MLB Pipeline, the Astros might’ve acquired their third baseman of the future. The other side of the equation for Houston was that the team’s owner, Jim Crane, doesn’t seem keen on going beyond six years in a contract offer for any player, whether that was Tucker or a free agent such as Alex Bregman, . The addition of Paredes likely makes re-signing Bregman less feasible, but Houston could, in theory, move Paredes to first if they still want to retain their longtime star. What the Cubs have lacked in recent years has been a true, difference-making bat in the middle of their lineup. They haven’t had one since the days of Kris Bryant. Now Tucker provides exactly that — a player who can produce consistently on offense and carry a lineup for weeks at a time. And with other teams in the National League having game-changing players, including Bryce Harper, Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr., Soto and Francisco Lindor, and the Dodgers’ three MVPs, Chicago now has an answer. The addition of Tucker also immediately makes the Cubs better on defense. With Tucker presumably in right field, Pete Crow-Armstrong in center and Ian Happ in left, you can make the case that the Cubs have one of the best defensive outfields in baseball. What the team will do with outfielders Cody Bellinger and Seiya Suzuki still needs to be figured out, but this deal gives Chicago moveable assets to continue to improve the roster. And in the aftermath of this trade, the Cubs have even more incentive to keep improving. The next step for Chicago will be to land one more starting pitcher; they’ve been active in the free-agent and trade markets for starters. Adding a high-leverage arm or two in the bullpen is also a significant need and would really put a stamp on what is shaping up to be an impactful winter for the Cubs. For the Cubs, the concern with acquiring Tucker has nothing to do with his talent, which at his best puts him among the top 10 players in MLB, and everything to do with his contract situation. The 27-year-old is entering his final season of club control before he’ll hit the free-agent market next winter. With the Yankees and Soto, we just witnessed a cautionary tale about making a move such as this. New York pulled the trigger on a Soto trade to acquire what they hoped would be the final piece of their championship puzzle, and they had great success, getting all the way to the World Series before falling to the Dodgers. Despite all that, Soto decided to leave in free agency and sign with the Mets, . Tucker entering free agency after the 2025 season is almost a certainty, according to sources. After Soto signed his record-breaking deal, players such as Tucker and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who is also set to be a free agent next winter, are even more incentivized to let the free-agent process play out, with potentially a $400 million-500 million payday awaiting them at the end. The Cubs traded for Tucker with full awareness that he might leave in 12 months and sign elsewhere. There is no guarantee that he will stay in Chicago or even that they will have an advantage in free-agent negotiations. In the case of the Yankees, they at least still have a top-five player in Aaron Judge following Soto’s departure, but the Cubs won’t likely have that type of security. The trio of players the Cubs gave up represent a steep price for a one-year rental. But it’s understandable that the price was so high. Tucker is the type of player who can take a team over the top as a contender or — perhaps more aptly in Chicago’s case — take a borderline playoff team and push it into October. With Soto signed, Tucker was the only player available with that kind of ability. But the Cubs need to be certain they have the rest of the pieces in place before Opening Day. Because they’ll likely get only one chance with Tucker on their roster.

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Kim Kardashian's face looks very different at SKIMS opening and fans think they know whyLiverpool manager Arne Slot celebrates victory over Leicester (Peter Byrne/PA) Liverpool head coach Arne Slot continued to play down the significance of their place at the top of the Premier League despite it being strengthened by their 3-1 win over Leicester. Chelsea’s surprise defeat by Fulham meant victory over the Foxes stretched their lead to seven points, with a match in hand, with the halfway point of the campaign fast approaching. But Slot is maintaining his level-headed approach despite the clamour growing around their chances of adding another title to the one won in 2020. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. “If you are in this game for a long time like the players and I am then 20 games before the end you don’t look at it as there are so many challenges ahead of you,” he said after Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones and Mohamed Salah scored to turn around an early deficit following Jordan Ayew’s strike. “Injuries and and a bit of bad luck can happen to any team, it is far too early to be already celebrating – but it is nice for us to be where we are. “I don’t think there was any easy win for us in any of these games; it could have been an easy win against Tottenham but we conceded two and it was then 5-2 – that tells you how difficult it is to win even when you have all your players available. “That is why we have to take it one game at a time. The league table is something of course we are aware of but we always understand how many games there are to go.” Ruud van Nistelrooy’s team led early on against Liverpool (Peter Byrne/PA) Leicester boss Ruud van Nistelrooy felt his side held their own until Salah scored in the 82nd minute. “I think we were in the contest for a result for a long time,” he said. “Three-one was the turning point in the sense the game was done there to get a result. “I think the 60th minute I remember a chanced for Daka to score the equaliser so we were in the game to get a surprising result. “We did well, we did what we could: a good start with the goal but if you speak of a turning point, 3-1 with Salah, the game was done.” Van Nistelrooy left goalkeeper Danny Ward out of the squad after he struggled in the defeat to Wolves and was jeered by his own fans. Danny Ward was left out by Leicester (Mike Egerton/PA) “The change in goal was one to make and the conversation with Wardy was impressive, the way he was thinking of the team and the club,” added the Dutchman. “I insisted on a conversation and of course it is a private conversation but what I want to share is the person and the professional he is. “I was impressed with that and his willingness for the team and the club to do well. “Really tough what happened for him. We are professionals but human beings as well, when frustration is being directed towards one person that is difficult.”

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The team looking for a missing Pennsylvania woman believed to have fallen into a sinkhole has determined that an abandoned coal mine is too unstable for people to safely search underground, authorities said Wednesday while still expressing hope Elizabeth Pollard will be found alive. Rescue workers continue to search for Elizabeth Pollard, who is believed to have disappeared in a sinkhole while looking for her cat, Wednesday in Marguerite, Pa. Emergency crews and others have been trying to find Pollard, 64, for two days. Her relatives reported her missing early Tuesday and her vehicle with her unharmed 5-year-old granddaughter inside was found about two hours later, near what is thought to be a freshly opened sinkhole above the long closed, crumbling mine. Authorities said in a noon update that the roof of the mine collapsed in several places and is not stable. The sinkhole is in the village of Marguerite, about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh. “We did get, you know, where we wanted, where we thought that she was at. We’ve been to that spot," said Pleasant Unity Fire Chief John Bacha, the incident's operations officer. “What happened at that point, I don’t know, maybe the slurry of mud pushed her one direction. There were several different seams of that mine, shafts that all came together where this happened at.” Trooper Cliff Greenfield said crews were still actively searching for Pollard. “We are hopeful that she’s found alive,” Greenfield said. Searchers were using electronic devices and cameras as surface digging continued with the use of heavy equipment, Bacha said. Search dogs may also be used. Rescue workers search through the night in a sinkhole for Elizabeth Pollard, who disappeared while looking for her cat, Tuesday in Marguerite, Pa. On Wednesday afternoon, machinery was removing material from the area around the hole while police and other government vehicles blocked a clear view of the scene. Sinkholes occur in the area because of subsidence from coal mining activity. Rescuers had been using water to break down and remove clay and dirt from the mine, which has been closed since the 1950s, but that increased the risk “for potential other mine subsidence to take place," Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Trooper Steve Limani said. Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole, but it detected nothing. Another camera lowered into the hole showed what could be a shoe about 30 feet below the surface, Limani said. Searchers have also deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment, to no avail. Marguerite Fire Chief Scot Graham, the incident commander, said access to the immediate area surrounding the hole was being tightly controlled and monitored, with rescuers attached by harness. The top of a sinkhole is seen Tuesday in the village of Marguerite, Pa., where rescuers searched for a woman who disappeared. “We cannot judge as to what’s going on underneath us. Again, you had a small hole on top but as soon as you stuck a camera down through to look, you had this big void,” Graham said. “And it was all different depths. The process is long, is tedious. We have to make sure that we are keeping safety in the forefront as well as the rescue effort.” Bacha said they were “hoping that there’s a void that she could still be in.” Pollard's family called police at about 1 a.m. Tuesday to say she had not been seen since going out at about 5 p.m. Monday to search for Pepper, her cat. The temperature dropped well below freezing that night. Her son, Axel Hayes, said Pollard is a happy woman who likes going out to have fun. She and her husband adopted Hayes and his twin brother when they were infants. Hayes called Pollard “a great person overall, a great mother” who “never really did anybody wrong.” He said at one point Pollard had about 10 cats. “Every cat that she’s ever come in contact with, she has a close bond with them,” Hayes said. His mother worked for many years at Walmart but recently was not employed, he said. “I’m just hoping right now that she’s still with us and she’s able to come back to us,” he said. Police said they found Pollard's car parked behind Monday's Union Restaurant in Marguerite, about 20 feet from the sinkhole. Hunters and restaurant workers in the area said they had not noticed the manhole-size opening in the hours before Pollard disappeared, leading rescuers to speculate that the sinkhole was new. “It almost feels like it opened up with her standing on top of it,” Limani said. Searchers accessed the mine late Tuesday afternoon and dug a separate entrance out of concern that the ground around the sinkhole opening was not stable. “Let’s be honest, we need to get a little bit lucky, right?” Limani said Wednesday. “We need a little bit of luck on our side. We need a little bit of God’s good blessing on our side.” Pollard lives in a small neighborhood across the street from where her car and granddaughter were located, Limani said. The young girl “nodded off in the car and woke up. Grandma never came back," Limani said. The child stayed in the car until two troopers rescued her. It's not clear what happened to Pepper. In an era of rapid technological advancement and environmental change, American agriculture is undergoing a revolution that reaches far beyond the farm gate. From the food on consumer plates to the economic health of rural communities, the transformation of U.S. farming practices is reshaping the nation's landscape in ways both visible and hidden. LandTrust explores how these changes impact everyone, whether they live in the heartland or the heart of the city. The image of the small family farm, while still a reality for many, is increasingly giving way to larger, more technologically advanced operations. According to the USDA, the number of farms in the U.S. has fallen from 6.8 million in 1935 to about 2 million today, with the average farm size growing from 155 acres to 444 acres. This shift has profound implications for rural communities and the food system as a whole. Despite these changes, diversity in farming practices is on the rise. A landmark study published in Science , involving data from over 2,000 farms across 11 countries, found that diversifying farmland simultaneously delivers environmental and social benefits. This challenges the longstanding idea that practices boosting biodiversity must come at a cost to yields and food security. The adoption of precision agriculture technologies is transforming how farmers manage their land and resources. GPS-guided tractors, drone surveillance, and AI-powered crop management systems are becoming commonplace on many farms. These technologies allow farmers to apply water, fertilizers, and pesticides with pinpoint accuracy, reducing waste and environmental impact while improving yields. However, the digital divide remains a challenge. More than 22% of rural communities lack reliable broadband internet access, hindering the widespread implementation of AI and other advanced technologies in agriculture. While technology offers new opportunities, farmers are also facing significant economic challenges. The USDA's 2024 farm income forecast projects a 4.4% decline in net farm income from 2023, following a sharp 19.5% drop from 2022 to 2023. This financial pressure is compounded by rising production costs and market volatility. Climate variability adds another layer of complexity. Extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, and shifting growing seasons are forcing farmers to adapt quickly. These factors could reduce agricultural productivity by up to 25% over the coming decades without significant adaptation measures. But adapting requires additional financial resources, further straining farm profitability. In the face of these challenges, many farmers are turning to diversification as a strategy for resilience and profitability. The Science study mentioned earlier found that farms integrating several diversification methods supported more biodiversity while seeing simultaneous increases in human well-being and food security. Agritourism is one popular diversification strategy. In 2022, 28,600 U.S. farms reported agritourism income, averaging gross revenue of $44,000 from these activities. Activities like farm tours, pick-your-own operations, and seasonal festivals not only provide additional income but also foster a deeper connection between consumers and agriculture. The changing face of agriculture is directly impacting consumers. The rise of farm-to-table and local food movements reflects a growing interest in where our food comes from and how it's produced. If every U.S. household spent just $10 per week on locally grown food, it would generate billions of dollars for local economies. However, the larger challenges in agriculture can also lead to price fluctuations at the grocery store. The USDA's Economic Research Service projects that food-at-home prices will increase between 1.2% and 2.2% in 2024. Looking ahead, several innovations are poised to reshape agriculture: The transformation of American agriculture affects everyone, from the food we eat to the health of our environment and rural communities. Consumers have the power to support sustainable and diverse farming practices through our purchasing decisions. As citizens, they can advocate for policies that support farmers in adopting innovative and sustainable practices. The challenges facing agriculture are complex, but they also present opportunities for innovation and positive change. By understanding and engaging with these issues, everyone can play a part in shaping a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable food system for the future. This story was produced by LandTrust and reviewed and distributed by Stacker. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

The San Francisco 49ers claimed running back Israel Abanikanda off waivers from the New York Jets on Tuesday, one day after placing running backs Christian McCaffrey and Jordan Mason on injured reserve. The Jets released Abanikanda on Monday after adding Kene Nwangwu to the active roster. Nwagwu had been a practice-squad elevation for the Jets last Sunday against Seattle and returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the game. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Stacker analyzed data from the National Retail Federation, NielsenIQ, and other sources to see how gifting is becoming greener this holiday season. Click for more. How to shop greener for the holidays. Tips for eco-conscious gifters of all levels.On Saturday at 4 p.m. ET, Amari Odom and the Wofford Terriers (5-6) will take on the South Carolina Gamecocks (7-3). Below we dive into all of the details you need to know about this contest, including how to watch on SEC Network+. Watch college football live without cable. Stream ACC, SEC, ESPN and more with Fubo. What is Fubo? Fubo is a streaming service that gives you access to your favorite live sports and shows on demand. Start your risk free trial today and start watching college football games now. Stop missing games and start streaming college football right now on Fubo. Stop missing games and start streaming college football right now on ESPN+. Get tickets for any college football game this season at Ticketmaster. Rep your favorite players with officially licensed gear. Head to Fanatics to find jerseys, shirts, hats, and much more.