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Ranked teams are on Monday’s college basketball schedule in five games, including the Auburn Tigers taking on the Iowa State Cyclones. Watch men’s college basketball, other live sports and more on Fubo. What is Fubo? Fubo is a streaming service that gives you access to your favorite live sports and shows on demand. Use our link to sign up for a free trial. Memphis Tigers at No. 2 UConn Huskies Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks at No. 20 Arkansas Razorbacks No. 4 Auburn Tigers at No. 5 Iowa State Cyclones Little Rock Trojans at No. 25 Illinois Fighting Illini Dayton Flyers at No. 10 North Carolina Tar Heels Catch tons of live college basketball , plus original programming, with ESPN+ or the Disney Bundle.Tulsa fires coach Kevin Wilson a day after blowout loss to South FloridaAnge Postecoglou vowed to keep fighting to revive Tottenham’s fortunes after receiving “some direct feedback” from disgruntled fans following a limp 1-0 Premier League loss to Bournemouth. Spurs boss Postecoglou was booed and heckled by a frustrated away end at the Vitality Stadium, having seen his toothless side condemned to defeat by Dean Huijsen’s 17th-minute header. The Australian refused to go into detail about the heated exchange but said he understood the supporters’ emotional reaction. “I didn’t like what was being said because I’m a human being but you’ve got to cop it,” said Postecoglou, whose team have won only one of their last six games in all competitions. “I’ve been around long enough to know that when things don’t go well you’ve got to understand the frustration and the disappointment. “They’re rightly disappointed tonight because we’ve let a game of football get away from us. I’m OK with all that. “They’re disappointed and rightly so. They gave me some direct feedback, which I guess is taken onboard. “All I can say is, I’m really disappointed with tonight and I’m determined to get it right and I will keep fighting until we do.” Asked what was said by the travelling support, Postecoglou replied: “Probably not for here, mate.” Tottenham began brightly in Dorset but created little during the 90 minutes and were fortunate not to lose by a bigger margin. Bournemouth midfielder Ryan Christie struck a post and the impressive hosts failed to capitalise on a host of other chances to put the result beyond doubt. Spurs dropped below the Cherries, into 10th position, ahead of Sunday’s London derby at home to high-flying Chelsea following the latest setback in a patchy season so far. To compound a miserable evening for the injury-hit north London club, defender Ben Davies limped out of his 300th Premier League appearance and faces a spell on the sidelines. “It looks like he’s done his hamstring,” said Postecoglou. “Him and Radu (Dragusin) have played every game, it’s the one sort of position we can’t rotate. “He’ll obviously be out for a period of time now, we’ll just have to wait and see how long it is. “It’s kind of the consequence of us having the squad we have at the moment.” Match-winner Huijsen became Bournemouth’s youngest Premier League goalscorer by nodding in Marcus Tavernier’s corner. The Spain Under-21 defender, who is aged 19 years and 235 days, was making only his third top-flight start since a summer switch from Juventus, in place of the injured Marcos Senesi. Cherries boss Andoni Iraola said: “Dean has shown from the beginning that he is someone with confidence in himself. With the injury of Marcos, for sure he will have to play more. “It’s a very good win. I liked especially the second half; the first half we were playing decently, we were not conceding chances but probably we were not being a threat as we’ve been in the second one. “Now we will not regret it because we finished winning but when we started missing the chances in the second half it was a dangerous moment. Luckily for us, we could finish the job.” Speaking about Senesi, who sustained a quad injury in Saturday’s 4-2 win at Wolves, Iraola said: “It’s quite significant so probably he will be out for some time but we still have to do more assessment.”SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In an era of rising authoritarianism, at the heels of a six-hour martial law decree that unfolded while many South Koreans slept, something noteworthy happened: Democracy held. The past week in Seoul, officials and academics warn, is what a threat to democracy looks like in 2024. It's a democratically-elected president declaring martial law over the nation he leads, asserting sweeping powers to prevent opposition demonstrations, ban political parties and control the media. It's members of the military attempting to block lawmakers from exercising their power to vote on cancelling the power grab. And here's what it took to defeat President Yoon Suk Yeol 's lurch toward government by force: Unified popular support for democracy. Legislators storming the National Assembly past midnight, live-streaming themselves climbing over fences. A politician grabbing at a soldier's rifle and yelling “Aren't you ashamed?” until he retreated. And finally, decisively, Parliament assembling a quorum and voting unanimously to cancel martial law. It was a victory for a hard-won democracy — and for the idea that checks and balances among branches of government must work to counteract each other's ambitions, as the American founders wrote in the Federalist Papers in 1788. But as the drama played out in Seoul, the scaffolding of democracy rattled around the world. In other countries, the grab for power might have worked. Other would-be authoritarians might have been better prepared than Yoon. In deeply polarized societies — the United States, for example, where Republicans are staunchly loyal to president-elect Donald Trump — there might not have been decisive support from the public or the opposition. The military might have used force. And the members of the legislature might not have voted as one to snuff out the attempted takeover. “President Yoon's attempt to declare martial law reveals the fragility of the rule of law in divided societies, especially those with governments in which the chief executive cannot be easily dismissed by the legislature," said Tom Pepinsky, a government professor at Cornell University who studies backsliding among democracies in Southeast Asia. Notably, he said in an email, “No members of President Yoon’s own party were willing to defend his actions in public." Nevertheless, Yoon’s surprise attempt to impose martial law revealed both the fragility and resilience of the country’s democratic system. Within three hours of his stunning announcement to impose military rule — claiming the opposition was “paralyzing” state affairs — 190 lawmakers voted to cancel his actions. In so doing, they demonstrated the strength of the country’s democratic checks and balances. Yoon’s authoritarian push, carried out by hundreds of heavily armed troops with Blackhawk helicopters and armored vehicles sent to the National Assembly, harked back to an era of dictatorial presidents. The country’s democratic transition in the late 1980s came after years of massive protests by millions that eventually overcame violent suppressions by military rulers. Civilian presence was again crucial in shaping the events following Yoon’s late night television announcement on Tuesday. Thousands of people flocked to the National Assembly, shouting slogans for martial law to be lifted and Yoon to step down from power. There were no reports of violent clashes as troops and police officers. “We restored democracy without having a single casualty this time,” said Seol Dong-hoon, a sociology professor at South Korea’s Jeonbuk National University. It’s virtually impossible for any leader of a democracy to pull off a transition toward martial law without a public willing to support it, or at least tolerate it. Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost to Yoon in the 2022 presidential election, attracted millions of views as he began live-streaming his journey to the National Assembly, pleading for people to converge to the parliament to help lawmakers get inside. The shaky footage later shows him exiting his car climbing over a fence to get onto the grounds. The vote at the National Assembly was also broadcast live on the YouTube channel of Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik, who also had to scale a fence to get in. Yoon’s sense of crisis clearly wasn’t shared by the public, whose opinions, Seol said, were shaped predominantly by the shocking videos broadcast to their devices. “Ultimately, democracy is all about moving public opinion,” he said. “What was most crucial in this case was that everything was broadcast live on smartphones, YouTube and countless other media.” Opposition lawmakers are now pushing to remove Yoon from office, saying he failed to meet the constitutional requirement that martial law should only be considered in wartime or a comparable severe crisis — and that he unlawfully deployed troops to the National Assembly. On Saturday, an opposition-led impeachment motion failed after most lawmakers from Yoon’s party boycotted the vote. Yet the president’s troubles persist: The vote’s defeat is expected to intensify nationwide protests and deepen South Korea’s political turmoil, with opposition parties preparing to introduce another impeachment motion when parliament reconvenes next Wednesday. Han Sang-hie, a law professor at Seoul’s Konkuk University, said the martial law debacle highlights what he sees as the most crucial flaw of South Korea’s democracy: that it places too much power in the hands of the president, which is easily abused and often goes unchecked. Political scientists call what happened in South Korea an “autogolpe” — a “self-coup” — defined as one led by incumbent leaders themselves, in which an executive takes or sponsors illegal actions against others in the government. Yoon qualifies because he used troops to try to shut down South Korea's legislature. Self-coups are increasing, with a third of the 46 since 1945 occurring in the past decade, according to a study by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Penn State University. About 80% of self-coups succeed, they reported. In 2021, a power grab by Tunisian President Kais Saied raised similar concerns around the world after the country designed a democracy from scratch and won a Nobel Peace Prize after a largely bloodless revolution. In the United States, some have expresed worry about similar situations arising during the second administration of Donald Trump. He has vowed, after all, to shake some of democracy's pillars . He's mused that he would be justified if he decided to pursue “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” That’s in contrast to the oath of office he took in 2017, and will again next year, to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” as best he can. Nearly half of voters in the Nov. 5 election, which Trump won, said they were “very concerned” that another Trump presidency would bring the U.S. closer to authoritarianism, according to AP Votecast survey data. Asked before a live audience on Fox News Channel in 2023 to assure Americans that he would not abuse power or use the presidency to seek retribution against anyone, Trump replied, “except for day one," when he'll close the border and “drill, drill, drill.” After that, Trump said, "I'm not a dictator.” Kellman reported from London.
A valve failure on an Enbridge Energy oil pipeline in Wisconsin caused a spill that dumped some 69,000 gallons of oil into the ground. The spill happened on the morning of Nov. 11, about four miles east of the village of Cambridge, between Milwaukee and Madison, according to an accident report released this week by the U.S. Department of Transportation. It released 1,650 barrels of crude oil. One barrel contains 42 gallons of oil. ADVERTISEMENT The failed carbon steel valve was more than five decades old, according to federal data, having been installed in 1973. “Based on the current volume estimates and observed release rate prior to the repair,” the federal report states, “this flange was likely leaking for an extended period of time.” The leak was identified that morning by field workers for Enbridge, who shut down the line and separated and disposed of the contaminated soil. A third party conducted soil sampling to confirm that the company had addressed the contamination. The spill was “totally contained on operator-controlled property,” according to federal officials. The spill will be the subject of a long-term impact assessment and anticipated remediation estimated in the federal report to cost $890,456. With the cost of emergency response and pipeline repairs, the incident is expected to cost nearly $1.1 million. There were no injuries reported in the incident. The company shut down the pipeline for about 10 hours after discovering the spill, according to federal data. Enbridge Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the company said it is “working with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as cleanup and restoration proceed.” Environmental advocacy groups said the spill shows the risks involved in operating oil pipelines. This week the Bad River tribe and environmental groups filed a legal challenge to state permits for a 41-mile stretch of new Enbridge pipeline in northern Wisconsin. Tony Wilkin Gibart of Midwest Environmental Advocates, which was part of that effort, pointed out in a statement that the Jefferson County spill was discovered the same week the state DNR determined the risk of spills along northern Wisconsin’s Line 5 would be “low.” ADVERTISEMENT “The faulty segment on Line 6 in Jefferson County has a leak detection system, but that system failed to even detect the leak—much less prevent tens of thousands of gallons of oil from contaminating surrounding land and water in Jefferson County,” Wilkin Gibart said. Wisconsin Public Radio can be heard locally on 91.3 KUWS-FM and at wpr.org. © Copyright 2024 by Wisconsin Public Radio, a service of the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and the University of Wisconsin-Madison The Trust Project is a global network of news organizations building "Trust Indicators" and working with technology platforms to affirm and amplify journalism's commitment to transparency, accuracy, inclusion and fairness so that the public can make informed news choices.
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The decision to cut P12 billion from the Department of Education’s (DepEd) budget for 2025 has sparked a heated debate, with various perspectives coming out on the effects and justifications of this fiscal adjustment. Despite the cuts, the DepEd’s annual budget for 2025 has actually increased by P20 billion compared to the 2024 budget. According to Sen. Grace Poe, chair of the Senate finance committee, this overall increase demonstrates the government’s continued commitment to prioritizing education. Additionally, the budget for teaching supplies allowance has more than doubled from P4.825 billion in 2024 to P9.948 billion in 2025, highlighting the government’s emphasis on directly supporting teachers and students. While this increase is a positive step, we have to note that further measures are definitely necessary to support teachers who are often overworked, underpaid, and forced to cover classroom expenses out of their own pockets. The reduction in specific programs, particularly the P10 billion cut from the DepEd Computerization Program, has raised significant concerns. Education Secretary Sonny Angara expressed disappointment, noting that this program was intended to bridge the digital divide, an issue that became glaringly evident during the Covid-19 pandemic. Critics argue that deprioritizing this initiative could worsen existing inequalities and leave millions of students unprepared to meet the demands of a technology-driven world, especially as AI technology continues to transform the modern landscape. This digital divide, while a significant issue, can actually be addressed through other initiatives such as public-private partnerships, community-based programs, and collaborations with technology companies. These alternative solutions may even be more cost-effective and sustainable in the long run. Moreover, reducing government funding for certain programs can actually create opportunities for private sector participation and investments in education, leading to more innovative and efficient solutions. Private entities often bring in new technologies, management practices, and funding models that can complement public efforts, enhancing the overall educational landscape. The decision to cut P12 billion from the DepEd budget for 2025 is a multifaceted issue involving various factors. Although the overall DepEd budget for 2025 has increased, the reductions in specific programs highlight the need for fiscal prudence and efficiency. By addressing systemic problems, balancing national priorities, and exploring alternative solutions, the government can strive to create a more sustainable and effective education system. Ultimately, we must remember that education is a right, not a privilege, and that investing in it is both a constitutional obligation and a moral imperative. The government must continue to prioritize education while ensuring that resources are used efficiently and effectively. The ultimate goal should be to establish a comprehensive education system that supports both teachers and learners, whileequipping them to face the many challenges of the modern world. Atty. Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II received his Law degree from Ateneo de Manila University in 1994. He is currently engaged in the General Practice of Law through the firm he established, Jose M. Rojas Law Office. Prior to getting his Law degree, Atty. Rojas graduated Cum Laude in Economics and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts. He used to chair the Philippine Racing Commission (Philracom) and, more recently, used to sit as Vice-Chairman and General Manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). Atty. Rojas is an opinion columnist for the Business Mirror and Pilipino Mirror, and 2014 awardee of People Asia’s “Men Who Matter.” He is a member of the Saturday Group of artists and is married to Atty. Patricia A.O. Bunye.