Faith leader who heads up First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, told Fox News Digital about the meaning of Thanksgiving, plus shared a recent conversation with President-elect Donald Trump. FIRST ON FOX: As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his new Cabinet, Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, has a message not just of hope and healing as the nation moves forward after the presidential election but also for Thanksgiving and the entire holiday season. "We did have a very contentious election," Jeffress told Fox News Digital in an exclusive on-camera video. (See the video at the top of this article.) "We've had many contentious elections throughout history. But I think now that the election is over, now that President Trump has been re-elected, I really sense on both sides of the aisle there's a desire to come together and get something positive done for the country," said the faith leader who is known nationwide. BIBLE BELIEVING CHRISTIANS WERE KEY TO TRUMP'S VICTORY, AMERICAN FAITH LEADER BELIEVES "And I sense a very upbeat spirit with President Trump," said Jeffress. "I talked to him a few days ago, and he is focused, no doubt about it, on his agenda that he ran on." Pastor Robert Jeffress, at left, with President Donald Trump during the first Trump administration. Said Jeffress of Trump this week, "He's extremely upbeat about the future of the country." (Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg via Getty Images) And "he's extremely upbeat and positive about the future of the country." Added Jeffress, "You know, I think people who worried or [even] heard that, if he's elected, he's going to create this dystopian theocracy that's going to oppress people — I don't think any of that is true." HUMANITY CALLED TO 'COMPLETE,' NOT 'COMPETE' WITH EACH OTHER, SAYS VIRGINIA PASTOR "I've seen and I've known the president for 10 years," he continued. "And I think he is able to transcend political differences and able to work on what's best for America. So I hope all Americans will pray for him and give him a chance to do what he promised to do." "That's the key to having that heart of gratitude — finding the good things to concentrate on." Will Jeffress advise Trump in any formal way on faith or prayer matters as the new administration prepares to take office? The pastor responded, "Back in 2016, when President Trump ran for the first time, his campaign created a spiritual advisers committee. Once he won that 2016 election, that ended and it morphed into a more informal group of people who talked with the president when he requested that." AMERICA'S COMBAT CHAPLAINS OF ‘ALL FAITHS’ ARE THE FOCUS OF NEW FILM Added Jeffress, "So I think that will continue. I've known President Trump, as I said, for 10 years, and we've been friends . And we stay in frequent contact either through text or phone calls. "And I look forward to that friendship continuing for many years," he said. President-elect Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on Nov. 6, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) This Thanksgiving , the pastor said his message for all "would really be God's message from Scripture. It's found in I Thessalonians 5:18, in which Paul said, ‘In everything we should give thanks.’" Jeffress went on, "Most people don't know that the first proclamation for Thanksgiving was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, right in the middle of the Civil War when our nation was being torn apart. "Lincoln said, ‘There are some things we should be grateful for.’ And I think that's the key to having that heart of gratitude — finding the good things to concentrate on." As millions of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this week, a noted pastor reminds people of the need to stay grateful for a myriad of blessings. (iStock) The pastor noted that even though the nation has gone through a tense and divisive election season, "we should be grateful that we had the opportunity to choose our leaders." Yes, "there are economic hardships that many families are facing" — no doubt about that, he noted. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "But the fact is the average family of four making $50,000 a year is wealthier than 89% of the rest of the world." And yes, while "there are hurricanes and floods, those are the exceptions most of the time," he said. Americans can be grateful, said Jeffress, "that we had the opportunity to choose our leaders." (Ildar Abulkhanov) "There are so many things we can be thankful for. And I know people sometimes say to me, 'Pastor, I don't feel thankful.' Well, I have found that it's a lot easier to ‘act yourself’ into a feeling than to ‘feel yourself’ into an action." After all, he added, "there's a reason this holiday is called Thanksgiving — and not Thanks-feeling." For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle He also said, "God is in control of everything that happens, and we can trust in that. And I would also just remind Christians, especially, that the Bible teaches that government's responsibility is to leave us alone as we practice our faith." "God is in control of everything that happens, and we can trust in that." He added, "We're never going to bring about spiritual change through government. It's not government's job or ability to change the hearts of people. Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can do that. And that's something we have to practice." Jeffress is senior pastor of his 16,000-member church in Dallas and is a Fox News contributor. His daily radio program, "Pathway to Victory," is heard on more than 1,400 stations nationwide. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP His weekly television program is seen in 195 countries around the world, including Fox Nation . He is the author of nearly 30 books. Sydney Borchers and Brooke Singman, both of Fox News Digital, contributed reporting. Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.Superb Shamrock Rovers win in Europe again to move up to 6th in tableBOULDER, Colo. — A 72-year-old lifelong Colorado fan with end-stage kidney failure waited to the side of the field in his wheelchair for Travis Hunter and the rest of the Buffaloes. One by one, players strolled over and signed a football for Riley Rhoades, his face lighting up with each signature. Standing close by and taking in the scene was Jeremy Bloom. He's become a wish facilitator for older adults. Bloom, the former Colorado wide receiver and Olympic freestyle skier, started the Wish of a Lifetime foundation in 2008, which has made thousands of aspirations turn into reality for older adults. The list of granted wishes range from taking veterans back to the beaches of Normandy to helping late-in-life authors publish a book. He's staged concerts for musicians, assisted some in daredevil feats such as jumping out of an airplane and even lined up a meeting between an Olympic medalist and former President Barack Obama. For Rhoades, his wish was simply to return to Folsom Field again, the place where he used to have season tickets but hasn't attended a game since 2004. "Everybody has somebody in their life —a grandparent, friend, neighbor — at that age where you wish you had more resources to help," said Bloom, whose college career was cut short two decades ago when the NCAA denied his reinstatement to play football and still ski professionally after receiving endorsement money to fuel his Olympic dreams. "Nothing can compare to seeing someone else's eyes light up because you helped make their dream come true." The foundation is a tribute to his grandparents. But the concept began to take root when he was a teenager. He was in Japan for a World Cup freestyle skiing competition when a woman tried to hop on a crowded bus. There was no room, but everyone in front rose from their seats to make space. That stuck with him, along with seeing these acts of kindness for older adults all over Europe and Asia as he traveled. An idea formed — bring that same level of appreciation to the United States, with a wish-granting element. Bloom's organization has been a charitable affiliate of AARP since 2020. It was the yearning of Rhoades that brought the two of them to Folsom Field last weekend. Rhoades, who had season tickets at Colorado for 27 years, wanted to see the Buffaloes in person after watching the team's resurgence on television. A few years ago, Rhoades, who was born with spina bifida, was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. Being among the 54,646 fans Saturday stirred up plenty of emotions for Rhoades, as he watched the 16th-ranked Buffaloes (8-2, 6-1 Big 12, No. 16 CFP) beat Utah. Colorado remains in the race for not only a conference title but a spot in the College Football Playoff. "It's just great to be back here again," Rhoades said as he pointed out the section where he used to watch games. "It's just ... so cool." For Bloom, the success that coach Deion Sanders has brought to the program means more reunions with teammates as they pass through town. "I've been through many years where nobody comes to visit," Bloom said. "It's fun that Boulder has become the epicenter of college football." Leading the way for Colorado this season have been quarterback Shedeur Sanders and two-way star Hunter, who's the Heisman Trophy frontrunner. But what particularly pleases Bloom is that Sanders, Hunter and the rest of college football players are able to finally profit through name, image and likeness. In his day, Bloom got caught in the NCAA crosshairs for wanting to play both sports and to have sponsors in one (skiing) so he could fund his Olympic aspirations. How time have changed. "I'm just really grateful that this generation of athletes gets to monetize their skills and ability," said Bloom, who finished sixth in moguls at the 2006 Winter Games in Italy. "It's the right thing." He's thrown his passion into fulfilling wishes such as learning ballet, riding in a Formula 1 pace car or taking a flight in a fighter jet. He's also helped reconnect families and friends, including a reunion for a trio of centenarian sisters who hadn't seen each other in more than a decade. This granted wish has stuck with Bloom: A person in Alabama wasn't able to travel after being diagnosed with end-of-life emphysema. So he asked for postcards to be sent, just to learn what made someone's town so special. He received 2,000 postcards from 26 different countries. "There's no end to the things that they've done for us in the world," Bloom said of older adults. "We're one of the organizations that reminds them that their dreams still do matter and that we still appreciate them and we cherish them." Get local news delivered to your inbox!sg777 download app apk 。

Blake Lively is picking up broad support in her battle against her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni, days after the US actor filed and retaliation complaint against him on Friday in what was rapidly becoming the most dynamic #MeToo event of the dying year. “Never change. Never wilt,” Colleen Hoover, author of the book that inspired and shares a title with the film, posted on Instagram. Hoover later added, “Blake’s ability to refuse to sit down and ‘be buried’ has been nothing short of inspiring.” Lively’s co-stars in , America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel said, “We stand with her in solidarity as she fights back against the reported campaign waged to destroy her reputation.” And , the actor who defended a defamation claim by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, said on US morning TV that Baldoni had retained the same PR crisis manager as Depp during their court battle – and had witnessed “firsthand” how social media misinformation is “as horrifying as it is destructive”. According to Deadline, Amy Schumer posted the message “I believe Blake” on Instagram, while Gwyneth Paltrow posted a queen emoji alongside a mention of Lively’s hair products. The film-maker Paul Feig, who directed Lively in A Simple Favor, wrote on X: “She truly did not deserve any of this smear campaign against her. I think it’s awful she was put through this.” The voices of support come after a rumored feud between Lively, 35, and Baldoni, 40, broke into the open over the weekend. Lively accused Baldoni, the film’s director, of sexual harassment, hostile work environment and trying to tarnish her reputation with a targeted social media campaign. The complaint stated that Baldoni retained the prominent PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, to smear her through “social manipulation” campaign to “destroy” her reputation. According to Lively’s complaint, an all-hands-on-deck meeting was held during filming to address her claims of a hostile work environment – a gathering attended by her husband and fellow actor Ryan Reynolds. Lively reportedly demanded that Baldoni stop the following alleged actions: showing nude videos or images of women to the actor, purportedly mentioning his previous “pornography addiction”, discussing his sexual experiences in front of Lively and others, mentioning the cast and crew’s genitalia, and asking about Lively’s weight. The lawsuit includes 22 pages of texts from Baldoni’s publicist to Nathan about how he “wants to feel like [Ms Lively] can be buried”, to which Nathan replied: “we can’t write we will destroy her.” Baldoni, who has since been dropped by the talent agent WME, has disputed Lively’s claim, calling them “shameful” and a “desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film”. But the dispute threatens to go further amid claims that Baldoni had created a public image identifying as a feminist and a staunch ally of women as a pre-emptive professional cover. “We are appalled to read the evidence of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice,” Lively’s Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-stars said in their response. “Most upsetting is the unabashed exploitation of domestic violence survivors’ stories to silence a woman who asked for safety. The hypocrisy is astounding.” Heard said Baldoni’s alleged use of a PR crisis team to smear Lively by creating negative stories about her online was something, “I saw ... firsthand and up close. “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying, ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on.’” Heard added: “It’s as horrifying as it is destructive.” Rumors of a dispute between Lively and Baldoni surfaced in August when the pair failed to attend promotional events together. Fans soon noticed that the film’s stars, including Lively and Jenny Slate, did not follow Baldoni on social media. In her complaint, Lively alleges that Baldoni planned to use her decade-long friendship with Taylor Swift against her. According to the lawsuit, a “Scenario Planning Document” was sent from Nathan’s PR firm that laid out three likely scenarios that Lively and her team might use – and how Baldoni’s team would respond if she chose to “make her grievances public”. One course of action would be to “explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people in BL [Lively]’s circle, like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want”. According to the document, other ideas to counteract any negative narrative included citing Baldoni’s “stellar reputation among colleagues and industry peers – numerous quotes and interviews sharing positive experiences” and his support of the #MeToo movement.A Manipur Police team that went to destroy illegal opium cultivation in the hills of Kangpokpi district were stopped by "80-90 armed miscreants" and forced to return without clearing the illegal farms, a police officer said in a first information report (FIR). The police team had a mix of 25 personnel, and volunteers from the Liangmai Naga tribe and five drivers. The team carried only three assault rifles as it is a physically demanding and difficult task to destroy poppy farms with farm tools while also carrying AK-type guns, a source who has first-hand information about the incident told NDTV. "You can't hold a weapon and also destroy poppy efficiently in such a sensitive area. The authorities should have deployed other forces along with the police," the source said, requesting anonymity. The small police team had no choice but to turn back when the armed miscreants tried to snatch the few guns the team had, the source said. The area was remote and reinforcements would have taken a long time, so a decision was taken to ensure the safety of the joint team, the FIR stated. While there is no official confirmation, there is a strong buzz in the security establishment in Manipur of a major operation involving central forces to clear new illegal opium poppy farms. The forces will retaliate if any armed miscreant threatens to stop the anti-poppy cultivation drive or fires at them, sources said. The Kuki tribes in their demand for a separate administration carved out from Manipur often include Kangpokpi district in many unrecognised hand-drawn maps used for social media consumption. Kangpokpi is also the turf of the insurgent group Kuki National Front (KNF), headed by ST Thangboi Kipgen, and this group is one of the over two dozen Kuki-Zo militant groups that have signed the controversial suspension of operations (SoO) agreement, which the Manipur government has been demanding to be scrapped. The SoO agreement's last renewal deadline was in February this year. Civil society groups of the Meitei community have alleged the hand of Kuki insurgent groups in growing illegal opium poppy in areas dominated by them. The Kangpokpi police chief in a flash message on November 18 ordered officers in charge of Kangpokpi and G Saparmeina police stations to destroy the illegal opium poppy farms in Makhan hill range, police sources told NDTV. The area of operation fell under the jurisdiction of the police in G Saparmeina, some 35 km north of the state capital Imphal. READ | Exclusive: End Of Opium Poppy Cultivation In Manipur Soon? Satellite Imagery Data Shows... "The team further proceeded by foot for about three hours and just before reaching the spot, some unknown armed miscreants numbering around 80-90 people blocked the team. The unknown miscreants were carrying guns, dagger and wooden cubs and threatened to even kill the team members if they proceeded for destroying the illegal poppy plantations," the incident details in the FIR stated. "Considering the isolation of the location for reinforcement to reach in time and the number of miscreants with weapons and the safety and security of the life of the [poppy] destruction team, the joint team returned without destroying the illicit poppy plantations at 3 pm," the FIR stated. The joint team which also included officers from the forest department and the executive magistrate had started out from G Saparmeina police station at 8.30 am. The Makhan village authority in a statement said the government should clear the land encroachment by "opium poppy planters" and clear all the illegal cultivation from their area in four days, otherwise things would turn "repulsive and abominable". Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh in an interview to NDTV on November 21 had said the authorities have found five villages in Kangpokpi that have been growing illegal opium poppy, while the security forces were busy monitoring other sensitive areas in the ethnic crisis-hit state, adding the farms would be destroyed in a few days.2 convicted in human smuggling case after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border

Welp. This season is officially off the rails. Ohio State thoroughly handled Indiana. Oklahoma trounced Alabama. Florida dashed Mississippi's playoff hopes. Auburn upset Texas A&M. Arizona State and Kansas sent the Big 12 into chaos with their wins over BYU and Colorado. Notre Dame resoundingly ended Army's magical run. And that was all in one week! There are more than 60 voters on the AP Top 25 panel. There’s at least one voter from each state that has an FBS team and a handful of national folks. For the state of Nebraska, there’s one voter. Each week I will break down my ballot compared with the actual Top 25 and write on some pressing topics. Without further ado, here is my ballot ahead of Week 14: People are also reading... And here is the actual AP Top 25 for Week 14: Overall thoughts Nothing makes sense. I think Ohio State is the best team in the nation right now. However, the Buckeyes remain No. 2 behind undefeated Oregon. Penn State, even at 10-1, doesn't feel inspiring. Barely beating Minnesota? Not cause to be optimistic. I think Indiana still deserves more credit than it gets. The whole "who have they played" narrative is tired. Of their 10 wins, three teams are bowl-eligible in Nebraska, Washington and Michigan. And Michigan State is at five wins ahead of a Week 14 game against Rutgers. I don't know what to make of the SEC or the Big 12. The SEC might be lucky to get three teams into the College Football Playoff. Two feels reasonable, but three feels like a stretch — especially depending on the final week of the regular season. Every game is winnable for the ranked SEC teams. But every game is losable, too. Auburn could beat Alabama. Texas A&M could beat Texas. Vanderbilt could beat Tennessee. And, man, how about Florida? The Gators, after everything, could finish the season 7-5. Heck, even winless Mississippi State could pull off an Egg Bowl miracle over Mississippi. But regardless of what happens, thanks to tiebreakers, Georgia has clinched the SEC championship game. Kansas running back Devin Neal runs the ball against Colorado on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. There's a possibility that the Big 12 gets left out of the CFP. If Boise State runs the table in the Mountain West and Tulane runs the table in the American, there's a possibility that both of them, in two weeks, are ranked ahead of whichever Big 12 team decides it wants to win the conference. Kansas, after being left for dead at 2-6, has rattled off three straight wins over ranked teams and could be bowl-eligible with a win over Baylor. Who's going to even make the Big 12 title game? Four teams are tied at 6-2 heading into the final week of the regular season, and there's plenty of potential chaos on the horizon. And Army... congrats on a great start to the season. Apologies that it had to end the way it did against Notre Dame. Now, was Army's schedule — in retrospect — pretty cupcakey? You betcha. Florida Atlantic, Rice, Temple, Tulsa and East Carolina have all already fired their coaches. And UAB probably should, too. Did I still have them ranked this week? I did. Mostly out of the notion that winning games, above all else, is the most important piece of the puzzle here. And because, honestly, the bottom of the poll is an absolute dumpster fire that's impossible to ascertain. Also, with one week left in the regular season, 77 teams have clinched bowl eligibility out of the possible 82 spots. Two more teams are guaranteed to reach their sixth win this week as there are two games both featuring 5-win teams. There are also 12 other teams that could win and reach a sixth win. It's been a while since there were too many bowl-eligible teams — another sign of the chaos that's unfolded this year. Trending up and in Three teams rose five or more spots this week and one team made a return to the Top 25. Arizona State: The biggest riser of the week? The Sun Devils. They jumped up seven spots to No. 14 after their chaotic victory over BYU. That's three straight wins for Arizona State, two of which came over teams that were ranked at the time. Clemson : The Tigers jumped five spots this week to No. 12 after their convincing victory over The Citadel paired with other teams dropping spots with losses. Iowa State : The Cyclones also rose five spots after narrowly beating an injury-riddled Utah squad. That's two straight wins for the Cyclones, putting them at 9-2 and in a must-win spot this week in Farmaggedon. Missouri: Tigers fans must have whiplash. Missouri is back in the Top 25 this week after a brief stint on the outside looking in. The Tigers vaulted back in at No. 24 after beating Mississippi State, 39-20, to move to 8-3 on the season. Trending down and out Seven teams dropped five or more spots this week, and one team dropped out. Army: Losing like that to Notre Dame? That'll send you tumbling. Army fell seven spots this week, narrowly holding onto the No. 25 spot. Colorado: Colorado also dropped seven spots after losing to Kansas, 37-21, falling to No. 23. The Buffaloes are still in the hunt, but they're in a must-win situation against Oklahoma State this week. Alabama : The Crimson Tide is on red alert this week after they not only lost to Oklahoma, which is bad enough, but only scored three points in the game. For that, Alabama fell six spots to No. 13. Indiana : Well, the fun story of an undefeated Indiana is over. The Hoosiers lost to Ohio State and dropped five spots to No. 10. The Hoosiers could still eclipse their 11th win of the season this week when they host the struggling Purdue Boilermakers to close out the regular season. Mississippi: Mississippi said goodbye to its playoff hopes with a loss to Florida, tumbling six spots down the rankings to No. 15. BYU : The Cougars have now lost two in a row — one to Kansas and now to Arizona State. The Cougars, once the Big 12's best story of the season, fell five spots this week to No. 19. Texas A&M: Texas A&M, after losing a close game to Auburn, 43-41, dropped five spots to No. 20. Oddly enough, though, Texas A&M is still in position to make the SEC title game. Just have to get through ~checks notes~ Texas this week to get there. Washington State: The Cougars lost the de facto Pac-2 Championship Game, so they fell out this week. Quirks I didn't want any three-loss teams on my ballot at all last week, but after the chaos of this week, it was impossible to do that again. So, I kept all the three-loss teams below No. 15. And that makes my ballot a little funky compared to the consensus poll. The biggest "miss" I had was Tennessee. I had the Volunteers at No. 11, while they came in at No. 7. Their most recent win came over a struggling UTEP that's 2-9 on the season. Before that, they lost to Georgia. Before that, they beat the only winless team in SEC play in Mississippi State. Now, I'm of the mindset that you have to win the games on your schedule, but they're pretty tough to figure out. Also, I had Memphis ranked instead of Missouri. Week 14 highlights Here are the games I have circled for this week: No. 16 South Carolina (8-3, 5-3) at No. 12 Clemson (9-2, 7-1) : It's been a long time since the Palmetto Bowl featured two ranked teams — 11 years, in fact. Going to be a fun one in Clemson. 11 a.m. kick Saturday on ESPN. No. 3 Texas (10-1, 6-1) at No. 20 Texas A&M (8-3, 5-2): The Lone Star Showdown is back after a 12-year hiatus, and the stakes are incredibly high as the winner will advance to the SEC title game to face Georgia. 6:30 p.m. kick on Saturday on ABC. Kansas State (8-3, 5-3) at No. 17 Iowa State (9-2, 6-2) : The Big 12 is a mess, and this game will directly influence who makes the Big 12 title game. 6:30 p.m. kick on FOX. Photos: Nebraska football hosts Wisconsin on senior day — Nov. 23 Nebraska players carry the Freedom Trophy after defeating Wisconsin, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson (21) escapes a tackle by Wisconsin's Tackett Curtis (4) during the fourth quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Carter Nelson (29) celebrates a tackle on special teams during the third quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen looks over his notes during the fourth quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg runs the ball during the fourth quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson (21) escapes a tackle by Wisconsin's Tackett Curtis (4) during the fourth quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Riley Van Poppel (44) runs on to the field before the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska fans celebrate as time winds down in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Jordan Ochoa (94) is pictured on the field in the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Micah Mazzccua (from left) Jahmal Banks, Isaiah Neyor, and Henry Lutovsky celebrate a touchdown by Dante Dowdell (23) in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson (21) runs the ball while pursued by Wisconsin's Austin Brown (9), Max Lofy (12), and Ben Barten (68) on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska celebrates an interception by DeShon Singleton (8) during the fourth quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska senior Ty Robinson said Saturday's win was "kind of like a Cinderella ending to my career here at Memorial (Stadium)." Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola (15) celebrates a touchdown during the fourth quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola "bowls" the football after a touchdown during the fourth quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Braedyn Locke (18) has his throw blocked by Nebraska's Mikai Gbayor (42) in the third quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Gunnar Gottula (77) is pictured on the field in the second quarter against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. In a play that was called back, Nebraska's Isaiah Neyor (18) signals for a touchdown after a catch in the endzone during the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Stefon Thompson (left) tries to tackle Wisconsin's Tawee Walker (3) as he runs the ball in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Jahmal Banks (4) reacts after making a catch for a first down against Wisconsin on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Jahmal Banks (4) is tackle by Wisconsin's Xavier Lucas (10) in the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Nyzier Fourqurean (3) and Jay Harper (26) tackle Nebraska's Luke Lindenmeyer (44) as he makes a catch in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Max Lofy (12) pops a the ball out of the hands of Nebraska's Isaiah Garcia-Castaneda (13) in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Brian Buschini (13) holds the ball as John Hohl (90) kicks a field goal against Wisconsin on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Tucker Ashcraft (38) tries to make a catch while defended by Nebraska's Javin Wright (33) in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola (15) throws under pressure by the Wisconsin defense on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Keelan Smith (85) and Mikai Gbayor (42) carry the Freedom Trophy off the field after the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's MJ Sherman (48) smiles up at the crowd while walking off the field after the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska won 44-25. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola (top right) is swarmed by fans and other players after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska won 44-25. Nebraska lifts up the Freedom Trophy after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska won 44-25. Nebraska coach Matt Rhule and Troy Dannen celebrate after NU beat Wisconsin on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska lifts up the Freedom Trophy after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska won 44-25. Nebraska lifts up the Freedom Trophy after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska won 44-25. Nebraska lifts up the Freedom Trophy after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday. Nebraska fans storm the field after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska won 44-25. For more coverage on the game, see Section C . Nebraska defenders Blye Hill (from left), Stefon Thompson and DeShon Singleton take down Wisconsin's Riley Nowakowski, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Marques Buford (from left), Isaac Gifford (center right) and MJ Sherman (right) celebrate a defensive play next to Wisconsin's Cody Raymond, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen calls a play during the game against Wisconsin, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule talks with Ceyair Wright after defeating Wisconsin, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Dante Dowdell (23) dives over the Wisconsin defense for a fourth-quarter touchdown on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Dante Dowdell (center) is swarmed by Wisconsin defenders as he tries to force his way into the endzone in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's John Bullock (5) tries to break past Wisconsin's Riley Nowakowski (37) in the third quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson (21) celebrates after a run in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson (21) celebrates after a run in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson (21) spins out of a tackle attempt by Wisconsin's Tackett Curtis (4) and Nyzier Fourqurean (3) in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin lines up against Nebraska in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Ty Robinson (9) embraces his mother Tresha Robinson after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule speaks withis family after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Isaiah Neyor (18) celebrates as he walks off the field after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola (15) takes a selfie with fans after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Keelan Smith (85) and Nebraska's MJ Sherman (48) carry the freedom trophy off the field after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska players and fans crowd around the Freedom trophy after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola walks off the field after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Brice Turner celebrates on the field after winning the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola (15) and Dana Holgorsen celebrate a touchdown during the second quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska coach Matt Rhule (left) high-fives Janiran Bonner as offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen looks on Saturday. Nebraska's Dante Dowdell (23) runs into the end zone for a touchdown during the second quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Jahmal Banks (4) catches a pass during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Jahmal Banks (4) catches a pass while defended by Wisconsin's Justin Taylor during the first quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Janiran Bonner (16) fumbles the ball as he is tackled by Wisconsin's Jake Chaney (1) during the first quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin recovered the fumble. Nebraska offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen looks over his notes during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg (10) runs through a tackle by Wisconsin's Austin Brown (9) and Preston Zachman (14) into the end zone for a touchdown during the first quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg (center) leaps over Dante Dowdell (23) as he runs into the end zone for a touchdown during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Jahmal Banks (4) catches a touchdown pass while defended by Wisconsin's Ricardo Hallman (2) during the second quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. In a play that was ruled incomplete, Nebraska's Isaiah Neyor (18) catches a pass in the endzone while defended by Wisconsin's Xavier Lucas (10) in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Ceyair Wright (15) and Nash Hutmacher (0) try to block a field goal kick by Wisconsin's Nathanial Vakos (90) in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Dante Dowdell (23) runs in to the endzone for a second quarter touchdown on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Austin Brown (9) tries to tackle Nebraska's Dante Dowdell (23) as he runs the ball in for a touchdown in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Tawee Walker (3) fends off Nebraska's Marques Buford (3) as he runs the ball in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Braedyn Locke (18) is sacked by Nebraska's Willis McGahee (12) in the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Marques Buford (3) defends Wisconsin's Bryson Green (9) as he catches a touchdown in the endzone in the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's John Hohl (90) scores a filed goal in the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska defenders Vincent Shavers (1) and Marques Buford (3) and Isaac Gifford (2) tackle Wisconsin's Darrion Dupree (13) in the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg (left) celebrates his touchdown with quarterback Dylan Raiola during the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg (left) celebrates his touchdown with quarterback Dylan Raiola during the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska players take the field after the tunnel walk on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Trech Kekahuna (left) escapes a tackle from Nebraska's Isaac Gifford, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Javin Wright (right) breaks up a pass intended for Wisconsin's Tucker Ashcraft, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg scores a touchdown against Wisconsin on Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. Nebraska's Jacory Barney (right) celebrates his opening kickoff return against Wisconsin with teammate Janiran Bonner and Kwinten Ives, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Joey Mancino (67) embraces head coach Matt Rhule during a senior day ceremony before the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's MJ Sherman embraces head coach Matt Rhule during a senior day ceremony before the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Fans arrive at Memorial Stadium before the Wisconsin, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. The Cornhusker Marching Band arrives at Memorial Stadium before the Wisconsin, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. Chris Sayer of Lincoln plays a melodeon before the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Sayer said he has been playing outside of Husker football games for 42 years. Nebraska fans walk around campus before the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Hudson Meyer of Hooper, 6, throws leaves in the air before the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Members of the Cornhusker marching band enjoy a meal of Valentinos pizza together before the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Jimari Butler (10) and Nebraska's Ty Robinson (9) pressure Wisconsin's Braedyn Locke (18) as he throws during the first quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola reacts to a fumble recovered by Wisconsin during the first quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola (15) leads the team onto the field before the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Dante Dowdell (23) leaves behind Wisconsin's Austin Brown (9) as he runs into the end zone for a touchdown during the second quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg (center) leaps over Dante Dowdell (23) as he runs into the end zone for a touchdown during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Dylan Raiola (15) and Nebraska's Jacory Barney (17) celebrate during the third quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's offense lines up on the field during the third quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Nathanial Vakos (90) reacts to missing a field goal during the first quarter of the game against Nebraska on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson (21) celebrates a 6-yard gain during the fourth quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Johnson escaped three tackles during the play. Nebraska's Vincent Genatone (left) and Carter Nelson celebrate during the fourth quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Tommi Hill (left) and Rahmir Johnson walk out onto the field before the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola celebrates a field goal during the second quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg (10) stores his mouthguard in his helmet during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Ty Robinson (left) and Isaac Gifford (2) celebrate a missed field goal by Wisconsin during the first quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Heinrich Haarberg (10) celebrates his touchdown during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska celebrates a touchdown by Heinrich Haarberg (center) during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin's Christian Alliegro (28) tackles Nebraska's Jahmal Banks (4) during the second quarter of the game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule (left) and offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen stand on the sideline during the second quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska's Dylan Raiola (15), Heinrich Haarberg (10) and Nebraska's Ben Scott (66) celebrate a touchdown by Haarberg during the first quarter of the game against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Subscribe for the best Husker news & commentary Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Husker sports reporter/columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.Seibert misses an extra point late as the Commanders lose their 3rd in a row, 34-26 to the Cowboys

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Willy Adames wasted little time making one thing clear: He wants to play all 162 games for the San Francisco Giants. So when introduced as their new shortstop Thursday, Adames looked to his left and gently put a hand on manager Bob Melvin's right shoulder, smiled and said, “if he lets me.” Melvin might not need much convincing, thrilled to suddenly have stability at a position that lacked continuity this year in his first season as skipper. Adames didn't hesitate to also offer a thought to new boss Buster Posey: He plans to win a few championships with the Giants just like the catcher-turned-executive did here. Surrounded by his parents and other family and friends, Adames was formally introduced and welcomed at Oracle Park after signing a $182 million, seven-year contract — the first big, splashy move made by Posey since he became President of Baseball Operations in late September. “There’s no words to describe my feeling right now to be here in this beautiful city, I’m just so happy to be here,” Adames said. "... This is a dream come true for me. I’m thrilled to be here, I’m so excited. Hopefully we can win a few championships like you did, and that’s one of the main reasons I’m here.” Everyone who has encountered Adames so far can’t wait for him to get to work as an example both on the diamond and in the clubhouse. “He’s a unique connector of people,” Posey shared from Craig Counsell's description of the 29-year-old infielder from the Dominican Republic. “That really struck me because I think to win championships you have to have personalities like Willy that they're able to identify with everybody in the clubhouse, and that's not just players. I heard from multiple people that Willy treats everybody with the utmost respect. He plays with energy, he plays with joy and I know that our fans are just going to be thrilled to watch him compete on a daily basis.” Adames' deal marks the richest contract for San Francisco since Posey reached a $167 million, nine-year pact in 2013. “I didn’t know 'til it was done. I was like ‘wow,’" Adames said. From afar, Adames watched the legacy left by his hero Derek Jeter that went far beyond the baseball diamond. And that's as important to Adames as playing all 162 after he appeared in 161 games last season for Milwaukee. He considers part of his role to help the young players learn “to be a professional" and lead a club that has missed the playoffs the past three years in winning the right way. “For me that comes first, it comes first to be a great human being. I've got to thank my parents for that, they raised me the right way, to try to treat everybody the same, it doesn't matter what you're doing,” Adames said. “I think that's something that I'm really proud of, just to be the same guy every day, to be kind, just to give love back to people because there's a lot of hate out there and I don't really like that.” The Giants know Adames' positive influence could go far. Asked about the instability at shortstop, Melvin noted, “Well, it's not a problem now.” Adames gives the Giants a power bat and reliable defense at his position. This year for the Brewers, he produced his best offensive season in the big leagues, batting .251 with a career-high 32 home runs and 112 RBIs. “Look, every team wants a Willy Adames on their team. I think the thing that strikes me the most is when I'd watch him play a couple times a year on the other side was he never looked like he had a bad day,” Melvin said. “It always looked like every day was opening day to him. That enthusiasm when your best players are like that — Matt Chapman is like that, too — it's easy for everybody to have to fall in and play in that type of style. It's easier said than done but really for me that's the thing that struck me most is how much he loved playing baseball.” Adames is close friends with former Giants third baseman Matt Duffy, who shared his own experiences being part of the San Francisco franchise. It all became real when Adames pulled on his new cream-colored Giants jersey and buttoned it up, saying, “I'm a little nervous about this." A few moments later, the cap went on his head and he felt right at home. “It looks amazing.” AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLBQuest Partners LLC Raises Holdings in Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTNX)

Southern California jumped to No. 4 in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll on Monday after edging UConn. The Trojans moved up three spots in the AP Top 25 after beating the then-No. 4 Huskies 72-70 on Saturday night in a rematch of last season's Elite Eight game that UConn won. "It feels great to get the dub always," USC star JuJu Watkins said after the victory. "I think it hit a little different knowing the history of last year and how they sent us home." This was the Trojans' first win ever over UConn. "This is a really significant win, and it's a really significant win because of the stature of UConn's program and what Geno Auriemma has done for our sport," USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. "It doesn't matter to me that they haven't won a championship in a couple years. There's still a way that they prepare, a way that they play, that makes you better, and it made us better." UCLA, South Carolina and Notre Dame remained the top three teams. The Bruins received 30 of the 32 first-place votes from a national media panel. The Gamecocks and the Fighting Irish each got one first-place vote. UConn fell to seventh behind Texas and LSU. Maryland, Oklahoma and Ohio State rounded out the top 10 teams. Duke dropped five spots to No. 14 after losing to South Florida on Saturday. The Blue Devils' other two losses this season were to Maryland and South Carolina. The Bulls are 7-6 on the season, with four of those losses coming against ranked opponents (UConn, Louisville, TCU and South Carolina). Alabama jumped back into the poll at No. 20 two weeks after falling out. The Crimson Tide had an impressive 82-67 victory over Michigan State, handing the Spartans their first loss of the season. It was Alabama's first victory over a ranked opponent this year. The Southeastern Conference has eight teams in the poll this week with Alabama's return. The Big Ten is next with seven. The ACC has six while the Big 12 has three and the Big East one. No. 23 Michigan at No. 4 USC, Sunday. The Wolverines start Big Ten play with a trip to Los Angeles to face the Trojans on Sunday and then the Bruins a few days later. Coach Kim Barnes Arico's young team is off to a 10-2 start. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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Adventures on special teams made the Washington-Dallas showdown a clumsy affair, yet Joe Davis and Greg Olsen saw to it that the broadcast of the chaotic finish was pure gold. After Terry McLaurin weaved his way past five defenders for an 86-yard touchdown catch from Jayden Daniels to cut the Cowboys lead to 27-26 with 21 seconds left, Fox's No. 2 broadcast crew captured the chaos before admonishing the audience not to count on anything as a certainty on this helter-skelter afternoon. "Lightning strikes twice in Washington!" Davis shouted in an homage to Daniels' 52-yard Hail Mary to Noah Brown that stunned the Bears last month. "They dropped 11 guys in coverage," Olsen marveled. "If they just tackle him inbounds the game is over. I don't even know what to say. I'm absolutely speechless." Not for long he wasn't. Olsen quickly cautioned the audience that "Automatic" Austin Siebert had already missed an extra point along with a field goal Sunday in his return from a right hip injury. "Before anyone in Washington gets too fired up, remember, we've seen a missed PAT already," Olsen said. "Yeah, you hold your breath with anything special teams-related on this day," Davis agreed. After all, this was the first game in NFL history to feature two kickoff returns for touchdowns, two errant extra points and a blocked punt. In the 41-point fourth quarter that erased the game's snoozer status, Washington allowed KaVontae Turpin's 99-yard kickoff return for a score. Earlier, the Cowboys missed a field goal and saw another one blocked along with a punt. Sure enough, the snap was low ... the hold was better ... "It is no good!" Davis hollered. "And the worst special teams day in history has a fitting finish!" Actually, no. More ruckus remained. Siebert's onside kick bounced twice in front of safety Juanyeh Thomas, who gathered it in and returned it 43 yards for Dallas' second kickoff return for a touchdown. If Thomas takes a knee short of the goal line, he effectively seals the Cowboys' win. Instead, the score, while pushing Dallas' lead to 34-26, also left enough time for Daniels and the Commanders for a shot at yet another miracle touchdown. Austin Ekeler returned the kickoff to the Washington 36 and after a short gain, Daniels' Hail Mary was intercepted by Israel Mukuamu as time expired. And that's how what Davis called the "worst special teams day in NFL history" came to an end. "What a wild special teams moment of blocked punts, kicks, kickoff returns, blocked field goals," Commanders coach Dan Quinn said. In keeping with the not-so-special-teams theme, there were several foibles in the kicking game across the NFL in Week 12, where the Broncos gave up a 34-yard pass completion on a fake punt that Denver coach Sean Payton swore the team saw coming — and not as it was unfolding, either, but five days earlier. "We met Tuesday as a staff. It wasn't a matter of if, it was when they were going to run a fake punt," Payton said. "You're struggling as a team like this, we had it on the keys to victory, so credit them, they executed it." Thanks to AJ Cole's 34-yard pass to linebacker Divine Deablo that set up a second-quarter field goal, the reeling Raiders took a 13-9 advantage into the locker room, just their second halftime lead of the season. In the second half, the Raiders succumbed to surging rookie QB Bo Nix and veteran wide receiver Courtland Sutton in their 29-19 loss. That's seven straight losses for the Raiders, their longest skid in a decade. The Broncos (7-5), who blew a chance to beat the Chiefs in Week 10 when their 35-yard field goal try was blocked as time ran out, also allowed a 59-yard kickoff return that led to Las Vegas' only touchdown Sunday. The Texans (7-5) lost for the third time in four games after Ka'imi Fairbairn shanked a 28-yard field goal try that would have tied the Titans just after the two-minute warning. Like the Broncos, the Vikings (9-2) overcame a special teams blunder and escaped Soldier Field with a 30-27 overtime win against the Bears after allowing Chicago (4-7) to recover an onside kick with 21 seconds left. Caleb Williams followed with a 27-yard pass to D.J. Moore to set up Cairo Santos' tying 48-yard field goal as the fourth-quarter clock hit zeros.

FOOTBALL fans are convinced they've spotted a Celtic cult hero playing in the Premier League. He might have played for two English clubs but it's been a decade since he starred in the top flight . 3 They say the resemblance is uncanny Credit: Alamy 3 Can you guess which ex-Celtic star he looks like? Credit: Getty In fact it's actually Liverpool star Dominik Szoboszlai who punters have mistaken for the Celtic icon. Supporters have taken to social media to pinpoint the striking resemblance between the pair. And the man many believe is Szoboszlai's doppelganger is no other than Parkhead cult hero Georgos Samaras. They both have very distinctive looks but it's hard to argue with fans now that the resemblance has been picked out. read more football stories EUR ON Brendan Rodgers explains Celtic's Champions League 'trampoline effect' FAB FORTY Celtic vs Club Brugge: Get up to £40 in free bets for football with talkSPORT BET They could very well look like twins if the Hungarian had Samaras' iconic long hairdo. The Match of the Day Facebook page shared a snap of the two players side by side with a post from a fan which read: "Today I discovered that Samaras is Szoboszlai with long hair and now I can’t unsee it." Replying to a picture of Samaras on social media platform X, one fan agreed and said: "For a second I thought that was Szoboszlai." Someone else wrote: "I always feel like I knew Szobozlai somewhere." Most read in Football HISTORY MAKER Ex-Scotland women coach 'lands key role at Prem club' working with MALE stars TOP OF THE CHARTS SPFL has TEN players tied for top scorer - with club having THREE on list THIS IS THE STRIFE Amy Macdonald slams BBC's Scottish football coverage in X-rated blast FAMILIAR FACE Celtic hero set for shock Rangers UEL start - five years from last Ibrox game While many agreed there were similarities between the two players, some Celtic fans reacted to the post on social media saying it's Szoboszlai who looks like Samaras - and not the other way around. One comment read: "Its the other way around, Szobo is Samaras without long hair." Watch ex-Celtic star Georgios Samaras send a special message to Jay Beatty A second said: "You mean Szoboszlai is Samaras with short hair?" While a third replied: "Szoboszlai is Samaras with a haircut. Don’t short change Georgios." Samaras, now 39, spent six-and-a-half years at Celtic after initially joining on loan from Manchester City before making the move permanent months later. The Greek forward quickly became a cult figure in the East End of Glasgow and won seven trophies with the club. He left the Hoops in 2014 after lifting the league title four times, Scottish Cup twice and League Cup on one occasion. 3 Samaras playing for Celtic in 2014 Credit: Kenny Ramsay - The Sun Glasgow Keep up to date with ALL t h e latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football pageScorpio – (23rd October to 21st November) Daily Horoscope Prediction says, no challenge scares you Be ready to fall in love today. Do not let challenges overcome your professional performScorpio Daily Horoscope Today, November 27, 2024 predicts new business dealsnewance. Minor monetary issues may cause trouble. Avoid junk food today. Keep the love happy and put in the effort to deliver the best professional results. 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Live streams of Taylor Swift’s sold-out Eras Tour concerts in Toronto give devoted fans a window into the spectacle of outfits, surprise songs and elaborate stages from one of the biggest cultural events in recent memory. As the massive tour inches toward its final three shows in Vancouver early next month, feeding Swifties’ insatiable appetite has become a nightly tradition for a handful of live stream hosts based all over the world. They act as ringleaders for tens of thousands of viewers witnessing Swift’s constantly evolving show through unofficial channels. “I never saw it being as big as it is,” said Tess Bohne, one of the personalities credited as a pioneer of the Swift live streams. “There is a big idea of community (and) being present without being there.” Broadcasting unauthorized concert live streams on social platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Facebook isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, but it’s one that’s been amplified with Swift’s tour. As their popularity grows, the streams are sparking conversations about copyright law and the delicate balance between protecting intellectual property and allowing listeners to embrace their fandom. “We’ve gone beyond art being a one-way conversation from the artist to the audience,” said Jay Kerr-Wilson, an IP lawyer and co-leader of Fasken’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group in Ottawa. “Copyright owners, generally speaking, are being more flexible and they’re not necessarily (thinking) black-and-white.” Representatives for the singer did not respond to requests for comment. For fans, the lines are already blurred. Bohne got wrapped up in the Swift live-streaming phenomenon nearly two years ago after she attended the second night of the Eras Tour, in Glendale, Ariz., and found herself consumed by the experience for days afterward. “(Often) you go to a concert and you’re like, ‘That was great, let’s move on with my life,’” the 33-year-old explained in a video call from Salt Lake City. “But there was something different. It was like, ‘No, that wasn’t enough. I’m not done.’” Eager to relive the high she felt, Bohne chased down the TikTok profiles of fellow Swifties streaming other stops on the tour. With little technical experience, she began rebroadcasting their videos, with credit, on her own TikTok profile. She would place an iPad playing their feed in front of her phone’s camera, and then swap it out with her other iPad when she found a user with a better angle of the concert. The crude setup initially drew a few thousand viewers, she said, and with more effort put into the productionher audience has grown to 100,000 to 200,000 during peak moments. Since her initial broadcast, Bohne estimates she’s streamed more than 110 of Swift’s concerts in a split-screen format, streaming the concert in one corner and munching on snacks in the other while discussing all things Swift with a chat room of strangers. Some fans donate cash, and her social media status has helped attract influencer partnerships. But the stay-at-home mom of three children said this is primarily a labour of love. Bohne is credited by many of her contemporaries as the one who inspired them to take a shot at hosting their own Eras Tour with live commentary. “A lot of people say it’s like religion for them,” explained Lucas Chalub, a Twitch streamer and longtime Swiftie. Chalub first experimented with hosting streams in August 2023. Rumours swirled that the singer might announce the release date for one of her re-recorded albums on stage in Los Angeles, so many Swifties sought out live feeds, which included his impromptu setup that night. “A lot of people joined,” remembered the 27-year-old sports journalist from Argentina. “That’s the first night that I said, ‘Why not do this every night?’” Chalub said he usually draws on streams from 10 to 15 concertgoers who are often aware their recordings might get picked up by the streaming hosts. Many bring power banks to recharge their devices and sometimes a backup phone. “We are not the heroes that people think we are,” Chalub added of his fellow streamers, crediting fans on the ground who do their work pro bono. “The real heroes are the people in the venue spending — or wasting — their time trying to live stream for us instead of enjoying the show.” The legality around live streaming Swift’s concerts is murky. In the simplest terms, the rebroadcasting of copyrighted music without a licence isn’t allowed, and platforms such as YouTube and TikTok have sometimes shut down live feeds mid-stream at the behest of record labels. It happened to Ammir Shar, a 25-year-old streamer from Blackpool, U.K., who saw his YouTube feed for the fourth Toronto concert yanked down while the show was in progress. Hosts say they worry about racking up too many takedown notices, which can risk permanently shutting down their channels. Usually after a live stream ends, they delete the footage from platforms like YouTube. However, they say attempts to silence them won’t amount to much. When one streamer falls, sometimes two others turn up. Copyright owners are still grappling with that perspective, especially when unsanctioned live streams can impact other financial stakes, said Kerr-Wilson. In Swift’s case, she sold the streaming rights to her “The Eras Tour” film to Disney Plus for US$75 million. Arguably, the lawyer suggested, a company might take issue with similar options on the market, such as a live stream. But even that seems to be an evolving conversation. “People have realized that social media and user-generated content isn’t the enemy, and, in fact, can be a powerful way to engage with fans and to be part of the conversation,” he said. “I think the trend is going to continue.” While Swift hasn’t publicly said much about the streams, several streamers believe she is aware of them. They also argue the vast majority of people tuning into their feeds already have an investment in Swift’s success. Last November, a group of technologically savvy Swifties launched Swift Alert, a phone app that sends out alerts for the highlights of each Eras Tour show. Inside the app, the creators also launched a game called Mastermind — named after a Swift song, of course — where fans can win prizes by guessing which of Swift’s rotating selection of outfits she’ll wear for each “era” of her performance. Using Swift Alert in tandem with the live streams, many fans tune in for the standout moments of the three-hour concert. “A lot of people compare it to fantasy football,” Shah said. “This kind of stuff brings us closer together.” With the Eras Tour set to end in Vancouver on Dec. 8, many live streamers say they’re uncertain how the future looks. Recently, Bohne experimented with a live stream from pop singer Meghan Trainor’s concert to see if there’s similar interest. While it was enjoyable, she said the experience wasn’t quite the same. Others have started streaming Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet Tour. They say her shows are closest to Swift’s because Carpenter is a natural at witty banter, performs nightly surprise songs and changes up her outfits. “I’ve considered doing a few other (musicians, but they) are more like normal concerts — the artist on the stage with a microphone in one outfit, just singing their songs,” said Shah. “It’s not something that people at home will be like, ‘What outfit is she going to wear?’” Some wonder how live streaming will look without the intrigue of Swift’s tour. Added Bohne: “No concert is like The Eras Tour.”49ers look to maintain 'urgency' against rival Rams

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In a historic moment at the IPL 2025 auction held at the Abadi Al Johar Arena in Jeddah on Sunday, November 24, Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) secured Rishabh Pant for a staggering Rs 27 crore, the highest-ever bid in the tournament’s history. Previously the captain of the Delhi Capitals (DC), Rishabh Pant was released by his former team ahead of the auction despite his impressive record of 3,284 runs in 111 matches. The intense bidding war saw strong competition from Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). Earlier in the day, Shreyas Iyer who led Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to the IPL 2024 title became the second-most expensive player in IPL history, going to Punjab Kings (PBKS) for Rs 26.75 crore. Iyer’s acquisition marked PBKS’s aggressive strategy given their substantial Rs 110.5 crore auction purse. PBKS during the IPL auction 2025 also added Yuzvendra Chahal to their roster for Rs 18 crore after outbidding Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in a nail-biting contest. The franchise used their RTM card to retain Arshdeep Singh ensuring the team’s bowling arsenal remains formidable. Gujarat Titans (GT) entering the auction with a Rs 69 crore purse made strategic acquisitions, including Jos Buttler for Rs 15.75 crore and pacer Mohammad Siraj for Rs 12.25 crore. Both players bring a wealth of experience and firepower to the team, complementing retained stars like Rashid Khan and Shubman Gill. As the IPL auction 2025 continues, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), after missing out on marquee players like Pant and Arshdeep, landed Indian pacer Mohammed Shami for Rs 10 crore. Shami’s return to form post-surgery promises to bolster SRH’s bowling attack. Delhi Capitals added Mitchell Starc for Rs 11.75 crore, a significant drop from his Rs 24.75 crore bid last year, while Lucknow Super Giants picked up South African star David Miller for Rs 7.5 crore. The IPL auction 2025 will continue until November 25, with the list being updated accordingly. Earlier, the IPL announced the dates for the next three seasons. The 2025 season is set to run from March 14 to May 25, followed by the 2026 season from March 15 to May 31, and the 2027 season from March 14 to May 30. ( The IPL 2025 auction is still going on. Fresh details will be added as and by)

Every morning, the staff at the Rotorua Blue Lake TOP 10 Holiday Park collect a bag of rubbish from the lakefront carpark. Rotorua Lakes Council removed the public bins from Blue Lake (Tikitapu) in March 2023 and said at the time it was to deter wasps and was on a trial basis. Now, the holiday park's operations manager, Kelsi Hira, said the council should take responsibility for the rubbish her team collects daily every morning and reinstate the bins. She believes the problem will get worse over summer. "We're taking it out of the water too." While the council said it removed the bins for a wasp problem and encouraged people to take home their rubbish, Hira believed it was because it did not want the expense of emptying the bins at the lake. She believed if it was really about waste minimisation and encouraging people to take their rubbish away then other places, such as the Rotorua lakefront, would not have bins either. Hira said the Blue Lake was arguably just as popular with visitors as the lakefront was but, in her view, the council did not take the same pride with Tikitapu. In her opinion: "It's 100 percent cost driven." She said the cost of cleaning up was falling on the holiday park because its bins were filled instead. "We let them ... better to go in a bin than the alternative. "Just annoying we pay for that." Waste that staff collected included takeout rubbish. Used nappies were another common find. It was embarrassing having people come to the area and see that, she said. "We are very aware of the privilege we have being in an area like this and what will happen to a lake like ours if it becomes polluted. "We want to respect the place we have got." She did not feel that the council was listening to her concerns when she made contact through social media. The council later told Local Democracy Reporting, that under its social media policy, people who have a problem to report need to contact its customer service team by phone or email so a request for service can be logged and "the matter can be resolved appropriately". Hira did not believe people would report seeing the uncollected rubbish to the council and so it would not have complaints. She wanted the bins to be reinstated, have more of them than before and for them to be serviced the same as at the town's lakefront. She did not think wasps would be an issue since the council had traps put up, as she had at the park. Council waste and climate change manager Craig Goodwin said there were 11 rubbish-related callouts in the past year. Five were from the public and the rest from staff and contractors in the area. Goodwin said the park had not contacted the council about its concerns but he would "be happy to discuss this with them if they wish". The council's expectation was for the public to take responsibility for their rubbish and where there were no bins to take it home with them or to transfer stations. "While it is not our expectation that people pick up others' rubbish in public spaces, we are very appreciative of those in the community who do help to keep our spaces and our local environment clean and tidy on a voluntary basis. "We work with people and groups that do this regularly and can provide the likes of bags and gloves." He said council staff and contractors in reserves, including Tikitapu, cleaned up when working. "These patrols increase during the summer months." Misuse of public litter bins has increased over the years, he said, including at the Blue Lake, with illegal dumping of household and business waste. "The removal of bins in popular reserves is becoming more common around New Zealand. "In Auckland, all regional parks operate on a 'take your rubbish with you' policy and it is our understanding this has worked well and is strongly supported by the public." Other areas in the district did not have bins and "rubbish is not an issue". These included Te Pūtake o Tawa, the Mountain Bike Hub near Tikitapu, "which is a destination hotspot with hundreds passing through each week". "We know that our community - and visitors to our district - place a high value on our lakes, forest and green spaces and in general care about the environment and keeping it looking great for generations to come." Questions unanswered included whether the impact on businesses was considered when the bins were removed and whether the impact on visitor perception was considered. The council also did not answer how often the bins were serviced before prior to removal or the cost. - LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air

SNP urges Sarwar to ‘stand up’ for pensioners after Starmer ‘betrayal’WASHINGTON (AP) — A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel's “near-total blockade,” after the U.S. asked for its retraction, U.S. officials told the Associated Press. The move follows public criticism of the report from the U.S. ambassador to Israel. The rare public dispute drew accusations from prominent aid and human-rights figures that the work of the U.S.-funded Famine Early Warning System Network , meant to reflect the opinion of unbiased international experts, has been tainted by politics. A declaration of famine would be a great embarrassment for Israel, which has insisted that its 15-month war in Gaza is aimed against the Hamas militant group and not against its civilian population. U.S. ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew earlier this week called the warning by the internationally recognized group inaccurate and “irresponsible ." Lew and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funds the monitoring group, both said the findings failed to properly account for rapidly changing circumstances in north Gaza. Humanitarian and human rights officials expressed fear of U.S. political interference in the world's monitoring system for famines. The U.S. Embassy in Israel and the State Department declined comment. FEWS officials did not respond to questions. “We work day and night with the U.N. and our Israeli partners to meet humanitarian needs — which are great — and relying on inaccurate data is irresponsible,” Lew said Tuesday. USAID confirmed to the AP that it had asked the famine-monitoring organization to withdraw its stepped-up warning issued in a report dated Monday. The report did not appear among the top updates on the group's website Thursday, but the link to it remained active . The dispute points in part to the difficulty of assessing the extent of starvation in largely isolated northern Gaza. Thousands in recent weeks have fled an intensified Israeli military crackdown that aid groups say has allowed delivery of only a dozen trucks of food and water since roughly October. FEWS Net said in its withdrawn report that unless Israel changes its policy, it expects the number of people dying of starvation and related ailments in north Gaza to reach between two and 15 per day sometime between January and March. The internationally recognized mortality threshold for famine is two or more deaths a day per 10,000 people. FEWS was created by the U.S. development agency in the 1980s and is still funded by it. But it is intended to provide independent, neutral and data-driven assessments of hunger crises, including in war zones. Its findings help guide decisions on aid by the U.S. and other governments and agencies around the world. A spokesman for Israel's foreign ministry, Oren Marmorstein, welcomed the U.S. ambassador's public challenge of the famine warning. “FEWS NET - Stop spreading these lies!” Marmorstein said on X . In challenging the findings publicly, the U.S. ambassador "leveraged his political power to undermine the work of this expert agency,” said Scott Paul, a senior manager at the Oxfam America humanitarian nonprofit. Paul stressed that he was not weighing in on the accuracy of the data or methodology of the report. “The whole point of creating FEWS is to have a group of experts make assessments about imminent famine that are untainted by political considerations,” said Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch and now a visiting professor in international affairs at Princeton University . “It sure looks like USAID is allowing political considerations -- the Biden administration’s worry about funding Israel’s starvation strategy -- to interfere." Israel says it has been operating in recent months against Hamas militants still active in northern Gaza. It says the vast majority of the area’s residents have fled and relocated to Gaza City, where most aid destined for the north is delivered. But some critics, including a former defense minister, have accused Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza’s far north, near the Israeli border. North Gaza has been one of the areas hardest-hit by fighting and Israel’s restrictions on aid throughout its war with Hamas militants. Global famine monitors and U.N. and U.S. officials have warned repeatedly of the imminent risk of malnutrition and deaths from starvation hitting famine levels. International officials say Israel last summer increased the amount of aid it was admitting there, under U.S. pressure. The U.S. and U.N. have said Gaza’s people as a whole need between 350 and 500 trucks a day of food and other vital needs. But the U.N. and aid groups say Israel recently has again blocked almost all aid to that part of Gaza. Cindy McCain , the American head of the U.N. World Food Program, previously called for political pressure to get food flowing to Palestinians there. Israel says it places no restrictions on aid entering Gaza and that hundreds of truckloads of goods are piled up at Gaza’s crossings and accused international aid agencies of failing to deliver the supplies. The U.N. and other aid groups say ongoing combat, looting and insufficient security by Israeli troops make it impossible to deliver aid effectively. Lew, the U.S. ambassador, said the famine warning was based on “outdated and inaccurate” data. He pointed to uncertainty over how many of the 65,000-75,000 people remaining in northern Gaza had fled in recent weeks, saying that skewed the findings. FEWS said in its report that its famine assessment holds even if as few as 10,000 people remain. USAID in its statement to AP said it had reviewed the report before it became public, and noted “discrepancies” in population estimates and some other data. The U.S. agency had asked the famine warning group to address those uncertainties and be clear in its final report to reflect how those uncertainties affected its predictions of famine, it said. “This was relayed before Ambassador Lew’s statement,” USAID said in a statement. “FEWS NET did not resolve any of these concerns and published in spite of these technical comments and a request for substantive engagement before publication. As such, USAID asked to retract the report.” Roth criticized the U.S. challenge of the report in light of the gravity of the crisis there. “This quibbling over the number of people desperate for food seems a politicized diversion from the fact that the Israeli government is blocking virtually all food from getting in,” he said, adding that “the Biden administration seems to be closing its eyes to that reality, but putting its head in the sand won’t feed anyone.” The U.S., Israel’s main backer, provided a record amount of military support in the first year of the war. At the same time, the Biden administration repeatedly urged Israel to allow more access to aid deliveries in Gaza overall, and warned that failing to do so could trigger U.S. restrictions on military support. The administration recently said Israel was making improvements and declined to carry out its threat of restrictions. Military support for Israel’s war in Gaza is politically charged in the U.S., with Republicans and some Democrats staunchly opposed any effort to limit U.S. support over the suffering of Palestinian civilians trapped in the conflict. The Biden administration’s reluctance to do more to press Israel for improved treatment of civilians undercut support for Democrats in last month’s elections. Sam Mednick and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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Nebraska's Matt Rhule: 'Total overhaul' of special teams coming after Pinstripe Bowl disasterHeld in the petrostate country of Azerbaijan, COP29 saw countries from across the world come together to discuss, negotiate, and form commitments and agreements to mitigate the effects of climate change. This year, India was re-elected as President of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) for the 2024-2026 term. ISA, an organisation with over 120 members and signatory countries, hosted 48 sessions in COP29 presenting business models, innovative solutions, and strategies with the agenda to push solar energy everywhere. Ajay Mathur, Director General, International Solar Alliance, talks to ET Digital about ISA and India’s stint this year in Baku. Edited excerpts: Economic Times (ET) : How was ISA’s experience in COP conferences this year? What have been some of the major outcomes? Ajay Mathur (AM): There were two COPs happening in Baku at the same time this year. The first was where the countries were negotiating, and successfully decided on the rules for carbon trading, and where negotiations for the NCGQ (New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance) were going on. The second COP that was going on concurrently was where countries, companies and organizations were discussing the initiatives that they are undertaking for carbon emission reductions and for enhancing resilience to climate change. This event, where ISA participated, was very successful. This time, for example, we saw a huge amount of interest in solar from several countries which are members of the ISA, but also from countries who are not members of ISA. We also saw interesting developments. For example, we saw the launch of the Regional Council for Pacific and Asia- a private sector body looking at developing the relationships and providing technical and financial expertise to the Pacific Island states. 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View Program In this COP, there were also several issues under discussion. The biggest issue was that the developing countries could not agree on the amount of resources the developed countries would provide them. As a stopgap measure, we got an agreement of $300 billion a year. It’s reasonable enough to start with, but not adequate. Further, after 10 years of its discussion, we finally got the rules complete for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which deals with the carbon trading mechanism. Similarly, we had a declaration for Green Digital Action, which aims to push climate-positive digitalisation. ET: What were ISA’s engagement strategies in COP29 and what are the key messages that you have sent? AM: The first message is that for almost every country, solar is a possibility that provides energy at prices that are the same or lower than fossil fuels and the prices are declining for solar. Message number two was that while this is true that there is an adequate amount of money for renewable energy in the world, we have seen that this money has largely gone into a few countries. Developed countries like China get about 80-82% of the total amount of money, another 6-8% goes to India and Brazil and the rest, all of Africa gets 3%. That hole needs to be fixed. The third issue is the people and experience. If any country wants to go ahead with renewable energy, it needs people who can design policies, projects and can manage the projects. You need to do this capacity building through local people. The last message was that the developing countries which need investments from the private sector need to make changes to their regulations so that the private sector can come in and returns could go out, much as we did in India in the post-2003 regime. So these are the kinds of challenges which are particularly faced by developing countries. At ISA, we spoke about the best practices. We got the people where the best projects were being done and countries where it could be done, together. We helped foster a debate between the people who have done it and the people who have not yet done it. So, for us, it was a huge opportunity because everybody was there and we could translate our successes to other countries as well. ET: How has India's position in the renewable energy sector has evolved over the years in the COP conferences? AM: If you look at COP1 onwards, India has become a lot more confident about what it can do and what it cannot. India has also achieved a degree of reality check where it has understood that it has to implement the agreements and in order to achieve this global goal, where it can and cannot compromise. For example, on the issue of climate finance where India, along with other developing countries, did not budge. At the same time, this is becoming a bit of a challenge. We have got massive differences on both sides. We have reached an impasse between the developed and developing countries around the speed of development (to mitigate climate change, net zero targets, etc.) I think we'll have to re-look at how we negotiate in COP. ET: One of the announcements in COP29 was that endorsers have committed to deploying 1,500 GW of energy storage globally by 2030 and adding or refurbishing 25 million kilometres of grids globally by 2030. How important will this commitment be for India? AM: Earlier this year, there were four tenders in India around battery storage. Two were brought out by the Solar Energy Corporation of India , one brought up by the Railway Energy management company and one more, I think, by one of the Gujarat entities. The interesting thing was that all these four tenders called for round-the-clock renewable electricity supply. And what they did was that they used solar, wind and storage. Combining these three, they were able to provide round-the-clock renewable electricity at prices between Rs 4-5, comparable or less than the price of new coal power stations. This shows the importance of batteries. As you will note, there are a large number of solar projects during the day for which we are unable to find distribution companies who can be buyers. This is because they are providing electricity during the day but demand is increasing in the day and night. So, the solar projects can provide electricity during the day, but what happens at night? Do I set up a coal power plant only to supply me with electricity at night? But these four projects have shown that it is possible to do solar, wind and storage and get electricity at any time. So, the old problem of the availability of cost-effective solar electricity during the night has disappeared. Now we are moving to other problems- the availability of land for transmission infrastructure, availability of the investment money because even though the cost of electricity is less, the investment money is more. So, the focus now changes on how quickly can we upgrade it So, for India, this is a game-changing moment as far as batteries are concerned. ET: You talked about an imbalance in investment towards countries with China receiving a lion’s share of 80-82% of investment, India, and Brazil about 6-7% and all of Africa receiving only 3%. How do you think this imbalance can be fixed? AM: When we first understood this problem, we looked out to the various investors who had enough money to be able to invest in solar around the world. Then we said, why are you not investing in Africa? So, we looked at solar loans in Africa and we found that the repayment rates were more than 98%. That means that the non-repayment rate was less than 2%. Whereas the non-repayment rate in Europe, for example, is 6%. The missing key in Africa was ‘guarantee.’ We realised that even after having such a good repayment rate, there is a perceived risk in the loans that are provided to Africa. If there is a perceived risk, then we need to be able to provide guarantees to investors about payments of returns. The second thing that is essential is that we need to ensure that there are enough projects in these countries. Because investors don't come for one project, they come for a pipeline of projects. Therefore, what we started doing was looking at startups and last year, we identified 20 startups in Africa. This year we have identified 30 startups in East Asia and the Pacific. Next year, we'll identify 20 startups in Latin America. We help these startups to raise money, we help them with technological partnerships and we help them with brand building because ultimately, we want them to become the Amazons of tomorrow. These are the guys who produce multiple projects. So, guarantees and building up the startup ecosystem. Those are the two things that you need in order to get a better share of the developed world’s investments. Nominations for ET MSME Awards are now open. The last day to apply is December 15, 2024. Click here to submit your entry for any one or more of the 22 categories and stand a chance to win a prestigious award.As bad as many of us believed a Trump 2.0 administration would be, President-elect Donald Trump ’s promises and actions since he won underscore that it will be even worse than we could have imagined. Look no further than the basket of deplorables he has put forward for Cabinet and White House posts: radical right-wing polemicist Stephen Miller as deputy White House chief of staff ; Russia sympathizer Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence ; defender of soldiers charged with war crimes Pete Hegseth for defense secretary (who paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault but denies her allegations); former wrestling executive Linda McMahon for education ; pseudoscience promoter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services ; and snake-oil-peddling TV doctor Mehmet Oz for Medicare and Medicaid , to name a few. What can be done before Trump and his gang of delinquents start running the show? The first line of defense occurs over the next nine weeks. Joe Biden is still president until noon on Jan. 20. Democrats still have the majority in the Senate until Jan. 3. It is incumbent on them to use their powers to the maximum to lessen the damage that lies ahead, by highlighting the threats from unqualified and unacceptable nominees and from the dangerous policies that Trump and his team are set to implement. Let’s start with the president. Biden has already acted to protect Ukraine as much as he can from Trump’s virtual promise to sell Ukraine out to Vladimir Putin’s Russia . In addition to this week lifting restrictions on Ukraine so they can launch U.S. missiles into Russian territory, he has agreed to send U.S. land mines and allow U.S. military contractors to deploy to Ukraine . He can follow up by delivering as much aid and as many weapons as possible, and by releasing to Ukraine several billion dollars we hold in frozen Russian assets and convincing our allies to do the same. It is critical that Biden put Ukraine in the best standing and negotiation position before Trump takes over and presses the nation to accept any press deal. Neal Urwitz Nov. 21, 2024 Biden cannot prevent Trump from eviscerating NATO, withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea, withholding support from Taiwan and creating a global trade war, but he can use his bully pulpit now to lay out why the political, security and economic framework crafted since World War II is far better than the hellscape Trump proposes with an alliance of vicious dictators and a regime of huge tariffs that will raise prices for all of us. Whatever pain America endured in fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a world where our allies in Europe, South Korea and Taiwan are threatened could drag America into bigger wars and create global economic catastrophe, a small version of which would occur with a trade war over tariffs. Whatever the limits of our global trade structure, it has avoided a global depression. Biden should also wield his pardon power to protect the innocent people whom Trump could target with bogus prosecutions – starting with retired members of the U.S. military whom Trump and his defense secretary nominee are threatening to charge with treason over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump has vowed to prosecute a long list of his perceived political enemies , from the three Democrats against whom he ran for president – Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – to Special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, former FBI Director James Comey and the Democrats in Congress who ran his impeachment hearings, among others. He’s also threatened Republicans who dared to challenge him, from outspoken former House GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to lawyer and Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, as well as those closer to him – his niece Mary Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen. President Gerald Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon on Sept. 8, 1974 occurred before any prosecution against Nixon, so we know it can be done. Of course, even with preemptive pardons for imagined offenses, that does not mean that Trump and his attorney general cannot invent new charges. But prosecutions of that sort would look even more punitive and illegitimate than what Trump has threatened so far. The fact that Trump could also use the pardon power for malignant ends should not stop Biden from employing it for legitimate ones. As for the Senate, its first and most urgent responsibility is to act as a judicial confirmation machine before the next Congress begins on Jan. 3, working night and day to fill every federal judicial vacancy for district and appeals courts. Senate Democrats have confirmed a slew of Biden-nominated judges , and they are confirming more. But the pace is still too slow, and the willingness to cut deals with Republicans is too great. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin must not be swayed by the use of the so-called blue slip – a norm that allows senators to block the confirmation of judges in their home states. There is zero doubt that if Durbin allows seats to stay vacant for this reason, the GOP will ignore the blue slip when they take power, only to fill seats entirely with right-wing Trump loyalists. Albert R. Hunt Nov. 6, 2024 These judicial appointments are particularly important to ensure the legal system can be used after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 to impede maneuvers by Trump and his cronies to bypass laws and conventions. If lower court judges who can be appointed now put up some speed bumps and stop signs to slow down Trump’s reckless policies, even this pliant Supreme Court is unlikely to green-light all of them. The Senate can also act immediately to oppose Trump’s nominees and raise the alarm over White House officials and policy who are not subject to Senate approval. Once the GOP controls the chamber in early January, it is unlikely to give the president-elect’s picks the scrutiny they deserve. Some appointees, like anti-immigrant extremist Tom Homan for border czar ; tycoons and political dilettantes Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for the made-up Department of Government Efficiency ; and Miller for a senior White House job, are not subject to Senate confirmation despite wielding enormous power. Trump’s destructive plans – from detaining and deporting immigrants and awarding ginormous tax cuts to the rich to eviscerating health protections and destroying the civil service – need to be spotlighted and stopped before they are inflicted on the country and the world. We need every Senate committee to mobilize for pre-confirmation hearings on this rogue’s gallery of Hegseth, Gabbard, Kennedy and Oz, not to mention Pam Bondi for attorney general , John Ratcliffe for the CIA and others. This isn’t what Democratic senators and their leader, Chuck Schumer, want to do over the holiday period. But it’s vital that they frame for America the very dangerous consequences of Trump’s victory, and the dire implications for all of us if his worst excesses aren’t blocked. This is no ordinary time, and it cannot be met by ordinary responses. Norman Ornstein is an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-host of the podcast “Words Matter” on the DSR Network.

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vegas 777 game WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore. With a rapid assembly of his second administration — faster than his effort eight years ago — the former and incoming president has combined television personalities , former Democrats, a wrestling executive and traditional elected Republicans into a mix that makes clear his intentions to impose tariffs on imported goods and crack down on illegal immigration but leaves open a range of possibilities on other policy pursuits. “The president has his two big priorities and doesn’t feel as strongly about anything else — so it’s going to be a real jump ball and zigzag,” predicted Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence during Trump’s 2017-21 term. “In the first administration, he surrounded himself with more conservative thinkers, and the results showed we were mostly rowing in the same direction. This is more eclectic.” Indeed, Secretary of State-designee Marco Rubio , the Florida senator who has pilloried authoritarian regimes around the world, is in line to serve as top diplomat to a president who praises autocratic leaders like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon has been tapped to sit at the Cabinet table as a pro-union labor secretary alongside multiple billionaires, former governors and others who oppose making it easier for workers to organize themselves. The prospective treasury secretary, Scott Bessent , wants to cut deficits for a president who promised more tax cuts, better veterans services and no rollbacks of the largest federal outlays: Social Security, Medicare and national defense. Abortion-rights supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Trump's choice to lead the Health and Human Services Department, which Trump’s conservative Christian base has long targeted as an agency where the anti-abortion movement must wield more influence. Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich allowed that members of Trump’s slate will not always agree with the president and certainly not with one another. But he minimized the potential for irreconcilable differences: “A strong Cabinet, by definition, means you’re going to have people with different opinions and different skills.” That kind of unpredictability is at the core of Trump’s political identity. He is the erstwhile reality TV star who already upended Washington once and is returning to power with sweeping, sometimes contradictory promises that convinced voters, especially those in the working class, that he will do it all again. “What Donald Trump has done is reorient political leadership and activism to a more entrepreneurial spirit,” Gingrich said. There's also plenty of room for conflict, given the breadth of Trump's 2024 campaign promises and his pattern of cycling through Cabinet members and national security personnel during his first term. This time, Trump has pledged to impose tariffs on foreign goods, end illegal immigration and launch a mass deportation force, goose U.S. energy production and exact retribution on people who opposed — and prosecuted — him. He's added promises to cut taxes, raise wages, end wars in Israel and Ukraine , streamline government, protect Social Security and Medicare, help veterans and squelch cultural progressivism. Trump alluded to some of those promises in recent weeks as he completed his proposed roster of federal department heads and named top White House staff members. But his announcements skimmed over any policy paradoxes or potential complications. Bessent has crusaded as a deficit hawk, warning that the ballooning national debt , paired with higher interest rates, drives consumer inflation. But he also supports extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that added to the overall debt and annual debt service payments to investors who buy Treasury notes. A hedge-fund billionaire, Bessent built his wealth in world markets. Yet, generally speaking, he’s endorsed Trump's tariffs. He rejects the idea that they feed inflation and instead frames tariffs as one-time price adjustments and leverage to achieve U.S. foreign policy and domestic economic aims. Trump, for his part, declared that Bessent would “help me usher in a new Golden Age for the United States.” Chavez-DeRemer, Trump promised, “will achieve historic cooperation between Business and Labor that will restore the American Dream for Working Families.” Trump did not address the Oregon congresswoman’s staunch support for the PRO-Act, a Democratic-backed measure that would make it easier for workers to unionize, among other provisions. That proposal passed the House when Democrats held a majority. But it’s never had measurable Republican support in either chamber on Capitol Hill, and Trump has never made it part of his agenda. When Trump named Kennedy as his pick for health secretary, he did not mention the former Democrat’s support for abortion rights. Instead, Trump put the focus on Kennedy’s intention to take on the U.S. agriculture, food processing and drug manufacturing sectors. The vagaries of Trump’s foreign policy stand out, as well. Trump's choice for national security adviser , Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, offered mixed messages Sunday when discussing the Russia-Ukraine war, which Trump claims never would have started had he been president, because he would have prevailed on Putin not to invade his neighboring country. Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Waltz repeated Trump’s concerns over recent escalations, which include President Joe Biden approving sending antipersonnel mines to Ukrainian forces. “We need to restore deterrence, restore peace and get ahead of this escalation ladder, rather than responding to it,” Waltz said. But in the same interview, Waltz declared the mines necessary to help Ukraine “stop Russian gains” and said he’s working “hand in glove” with Biden’s team during the transition. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence , the top intelligence post in government, is an outspoken defender of Putin and Syrian President Bashar al Assad, a close ally of Russia and Iran. Perhaps the biggest wildcards of Trump’s governing constellation are budget-and-spending advisers Russell Vought, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Vought led Trump’s Office of Management and Budget in his first term and is in line for the same post again. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, and Ramaswamy, a mega-millionaire venture capitalist, are leading an outside advisory panel known as the “Department of Government Efficiency.” The latter effort is a quasi-official exercise to identify waste. It carries no statutory authority, but Trump can route Musk’s and Ramaswamy’s recommendations to official government pathways, including via Vought. A leading author of Project 2025 , the conservative movement’s blueprint for a hard-right turn in U.S. government and society, Vought envisions OMB not just as an influential office to shape Trump’s budget proposals for Congress but a power center of the executive branch, “powerful enough to override implementing agencies’ bureaucracies.” As for how Trump might navigate differences across his administration, Gingrich pointed to Chavez-DeRemer. “He might not agree with her on union issues, but he might not stop her from pushing it herself,” Gingrich said of the PRO-Act. “And he will listen to anybody. If you convince him, he absolutely will spend presidential capital.” Short said other factors are more likely to influence Trump: personalities and, of course, loyalty . Vought “brought him potential spending cuts” in the first administration, Short said, “that Trump wouldn’t go along with.” This time, Short continued, “maybe Elon and Vivek provide backup,” giving Vought the imprimatur of two wealthy businessmen. “He will always calculate who has been good to him,” Short said. “You already see that: The unions got the labor secretary they wanted, and Putin and Assad got the DNI (intelligence chief) they wanted. ... This is not so much a team-of-rivals situation. I think it’s going to look a lot like a reality TV show.”None

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NEW YORK (AP) — In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs — including Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January. “The first term, everybody was fighting me,” Trump said in remarks at Mar-a-Lago . “In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” Tech companies and leaders have now poured millions into his inauguration fund, a sharp increase — in most cases — from past pledges to incoming presidents. But what does the tech industry expect to gain out of their renewed relationships with Trump? Clearing the way for AI development A clue to what the industry is looking for came just days before the election when Microsoft executives — who’ve largely tried to show a neutral or bipartisan stance — joined with a close Trump ally, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, to publish a blog post outlining their approach to artificial intelligence policy. “Regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs,” said the document signed by Andreessen, his business partner Ben Horowitz, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and the company’s president, Brad Smith. They also urged the government to back off on any attempt to strengthen copyright laws that would make it harder for companies to use publicly available data to train their AI systems. And they said, “the government should examine its procurement practices to enable more startups to sell technology to the government.” Trump has pledged to rescind President Joe Biden’s sweeping AI executive order, which sought to protect people’s rights and safety without stifling innovation. He hasn’t specified what he would do in its place, but his campaign said AI development should be “rooted in Free Speech and Human Flourishing.” Easier energy for data centers Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, has spoken openly about the need to boost electricity production to meet increased demand from data centers and artificial intelligence. “The AI battle affects everything from defense to healthcare to education to productivity as a country,′′ Burgum said on Nov. 15, referring to artificial intelligence. “And the AI that’s coming in the next 18 months is going to be revolutionary. So there’s just a sense of urgency and a sense of understanding in the Trump administration′′ to address it. Demand for data centers ballooned in recent years due to the rapid growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and local governments are competing for lucrative deals with big tech companies. But as data centers begin to consume more resources, some residents are pushing back against the world’s most powerful corporations over concerns about the economic, social and environmental health of their communities. Changing the antitrust discussion “Maybe Big Tech should buy a copy of ‘The Art of The Deal’ to figure out how to best negotiate with this administration,” suggested Paul Swanson, an antitrust attorney for the law firm Holland & Hart. “I won’t be surprised if they find ways to reach some accommodations and we end up seeing more negotiated resolutions and consent decrees.” Although federal regulators began cracking down on Google and Facebook during Trump’s first term as president — and flourished under Biden — most experts expect his second administration to ease up on antitrust enforcement and be more receptive to business mergers. Google may benefit from Trump’s return after he made comments on the campaign trail suggesting a breakup of the company isn’t in the U.S. national interest, after a judge declared its search engine an illegal monopoly . But recent nominations put forward by his transition team have favored those who have been critical of Big Tech companies, suggesting Google won’t be entirely off the hook. Fending off the EU Cook’s notoriously rocky relationship with the EU can be traced back to a 2016 ruling from Brussels in a tax case targeting Apple. Cook slammed the bloc’s order for Apple to pay back up to $13.7 billion in Irish back taxes as “total political crap.” Trump, then in his first term as president, piled on, referring to the European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who was spearheading a campaign on special tax deals and a crackdown on Big Tech companies, as the “tax lady” who “really hates the U.S.” Brussels was eventually vindicated after the bloc’s top court rejected Apple’s appeal this year, though it didn’t stop Cook from calling Trump to complain, Trump recounted in a podcast in October. Trump hosted Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly. Neither Apple nor the Trump transition team has commented on the nature of their discussions. Making amends? Altman , Amazon and Meta all pledged to donate $1 million each to Trump’s inaugural fund. During his first term, Trump criticized Amazon and railed against the political coverage at The Washington Post, which billionaire Bezos owns. Meanwhile, Bezos had criticized some of Trump’s past rhetoric. In 2019, Amazon also argued in a court case that Trump’s bias against the company harmed its chances of winning a $10 billion Pentagon contract. More recently, Bezos has struck a more conciliatory tone. He recently said at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York that he was “optimistic” about Trump’s second term, while also endorsing president-elect’s plans to cut regulations. The donation from Meta came just weeks after Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago. During the 2024 campaign, Zuckerberg did not endorse a candidate for president, but voiced a more positive stance toward Trump. Earlier this year, he praised Trump’s response to his first assassination attempt. Still, Trump in recent months had continued to attack Zuckerberg publicly. And Altman, who is in a legal dispute with AI rival Elon Musk, has said he is “not that worried” about the Tesla CEO’s influence in the incoming administration. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year alleging that the maker of ChatGPT betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits.

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Sean Casten, D-Ill., who introduced one of the bills to force the release, said that if Republicans reject the release, they will have “succeeded in sweeping credible allegations of sexual misconduct under the rug.” Gaetz has repeatedly denied the claims. Earlier Thursday, the Ethics panel met to discuss the Gaetz report but made no decision, saying in a short statement that the matter is still being discussed. It's unclear now whether the document will ever see the light of day as lawmakers have only a few weeks left before a new session of Congress begins. It's the culmination of weeks of pressure on the Ethics committee's five Republicans and five Democrats who mostly work in secret as they investigate allegations of misconduct against lawmakers. The status of the Gaetz investigation became an open question last month when he abruptly resigned from Congress after Trump's announcement that he wanted his ally in the Cabinet. It is standard practice for the committee to end investigations when members of Congress depart, but the circumstances surrounding Gaetz were unusual, given his potential role in the new administration. Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., the committee chairman, said Wednesday that there is no longer the same urgency to release the report given that Gaetz has left Congress and stepped aside as Trump's choice to head the Justice Department. “I’ve been steadfast about that. He’s no longer a member. He is no longer going to be confirmed by the Senate because he withdrew his nomination to be the attorney general,” Guest said. The Gaetz report has also caused tensions between lawmakers on the bipartisan committee. Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the panel, publicly admonished Guest last month for mischaracterizing a previous meeting to the press. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and said last year that the Justice Department’s separate investigation against him into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls ended without federal charges. His onetime political ally Joel Greenberg, a fellow Republican who served as the tax collector in Florida’s Seminole County, admitted as part of a plea deal with prosecutors in 2021 that he paid women and an underage girl to have sex with him and other men. The men were not identified in court documents when he pleaded guilty. Greenberg was sentenced in late 2022 to 11 years in prison.Collaboration will accelerate restoration and protection of hundreds of thousands of hectares in the Global South to sequester and store carbon at scale, provide tangible benefits to local communities, and restore ecosystems LOS ANGELES , Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Climate finance company Catona Climate is teaming up with global nonprofit Eden: People+Planet through its full-service carbon project development company Compassionate Carbon, a wholly-owned subsidiary, to finance landscape-scale high-integrity nature-based Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) projects that will restore hundreds of thousands of hectares across the Global South and remove millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, while generating substantive benefits to local communities and regional biodiversity. Eden's Compassionate Carbon draws on nearly 20 years of experience and its work in ten countries to engage local communities and develop and operate large-scale nature-based projects. Compassionate Carbon and Catona Climate will look for opportunities to collaborate on project design to maximize ecological, biodiversity and social benefits. Catona Climate will help projects get off the ground and deliver sustained impact by securing project financing; bolstering both on-the-ground and tech-driven remote monitoring and engagement activities; driving sales through forward offtake agreements with its deep network of enterprise buyers; and providing storytelling support for projects. "Compassionate Carbon is excited for an opportunity to bring mission critical elements to the forefront of the carbon marketplace through careful and strategic project design and holistic implementation of ecosystem restoration efforts for the benefit of people+planet, " said Bryan Adkins , CEO of Eden. 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Screenshots of the Instagram stories linked to Sakoma-Fadugba show Reddit posts lamenting the loss of Christian values in the face of immigration and criticized "woke culture" as well gender transitions. The alleged statements cost Sakoma-Fadugba her job on the police board and drew criticism from various corners of the political spectrum, including Sturko, a former RCMP officer and member of the LGBTQ2S+ community. “When we have statements being made that erode the public’s trust, or their comfort with their police service, it makes it that much harder on the front-line officers," Sturko told the CBC in November. But this statement did not sit well with her 13 colleagues, calling on Rustad to ask Sturko for the apology "and to encourage the Vancouver Police Board to advance conciliatory discussions with (Sakoma-Fadugba)." But that is not their only demand. "If Ms. Sturko declines your invitation, we ask that you offer this apology and encouragement on behalf of the Conservative caucus," they write. This double-demand appears to put Rustad in a double-bind. He either follows the demands from his part of his caucus ostensibly aimed at one of their own or he undermines the position of Sturko by issuing an apology on her behalf. "The way he responds will tell us something about where his own loyalties lie," UBC political scientist Stewart Prest said. "We do know that he is quite supportive of articulations of these kinds of more critical views of modernity ... so it may be that he has a certain amount of sympathy with the letter writers and his response will tell us whether that's the case. At the same time, a leader has another responsibility to the larger caucus as well. It may be that there are other members of the caucus who feel (Sturko) was quite correct in offering that assessment, and then has nothing to apologize for." Found within the letter is also a larger expression of sympathy for Sakoma-Fadugba's statements and a request to Rustad to give those views room by reminding him of what the signatories consider Rustad's own views to be. "The posts express views many Conservatives (including Conservative MLAs and staff) hold in support for parental rights, religious faith, and the pursuit of shared Canadian values," it reads. "Under your leadership, the Conservative Party of BC has consistently denounced 'cancel culture' and stood for the Charter rights British Columbians enjoy to free expression and freedom of religion," it reads. "The very first question you raised in the (legislature) as leader was in defence of parental rights." “Will the minister admit this SOGI 123 has been divisive and an assault on parents’ rights and a distraction to student education?” Rustad asked on Oct. 3, 2023. That question drew a rebuke from Premier David Eby, who called the question "outrageous" in accusing Rustad of leveraging children for culture-war purposes. “Shame on him," Eby said. "Choose another question." Prest called the letter a "deliberately provocative approach" that speaks to the ideological divisions within the party now for everyone to see. "It's putting right out in the open something we knew was going to be part of this, this challenging political coalition bringing together more populist-style conservatives with more, if you like, centrist or politically moderate types such (Sturko)." None of the 13 signatories once sat with Sturko when she was part of BC United and all were elected on Oct. 13 as first time Conservative candidates. Of note, is also the geographical representation of the MLAs. Eleven signatories represent ridings outside of Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria including areas in the Fraser Valley and the Okanagan. Three signatories – Dallas Brodie (Vancouver-Quilchena), Brent Chapman (Surrey-South) and Anna Kindy (North Island) – have also found their names in the news over comments that they had made before or during the election campaign, with Chapman being perhaps the most widely reported one following his comments about Palestinian children made in 2015. "I would suggest that we are seeing to emerge, perhaps the makings of which you could almost call a Freedom Caucus in the (Conservative Party of B.C.), the sense that there's a group within a group that looks at the world quite differently than other members of that caucus," Prest said. This is not the first time that Sturko has been the object of criticism from within the Conservative Party of B.C. While still with B.C. United, Conservative candidate Paul Ratchford had called her a "woke, lesbian, social justice warrior." At the same time, Sturko had also been critical of the Conservatives, while still with B.C. United. In early October 2023, Sturko called on Rustad to apologize after appearing to draw a comparison with harms caused by residential schools and parental concerns about SOGI 123. Rustad denied making such a comparison. Sturko also called on Rustad to apologize after he had referred to being LGBTQ2S+ as a "lifestyle" in a media interview. When asked to comment on the letter from her colleagues, Sturko said deferred to Rustad. "This letter was addressed to John. I'm going to allow him the opportunity to speak to it at this time." Black Press Media has reached out to the Conservative Party of B.C., including Rustad's spokesperson and Rustad himself for comment.

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The image of the two icons standing side by side will forever be etched in the memories of fans who were lucky enough to witness this historic moment.Syria’s former president Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies on Sunday, and a deal has been done to ensure the safety of Russian military bases. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said earlier that Assad had left Syria and given orders for a peaceful transfer of power, after rebel fighters raced into Damascus unopposed on Sunday, ending nearly six decades of his family’s iron-fisted rule. “Syrian President Assad of Syria and members of his family have arrived in Moscow. Russia has granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds,” the privately-owned Interfax news agency and state media quoted the unnamed Kremlin source as saying. Must Read Syrian rebels topple President Assad, prime minister calls for free elections Interfax cited the same Kremlin source as saying Russia favoured a political solution to the crisis in Syria, where Moscow supported Assad during the long civil war. The source said negotiations should be resumed under the auspices of the United Nations. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s ambassador to international organisations in Vienna, said on his Telegram messaging channel: “Breaking news! Bashar al-Assad and his family in Moscow. Russia does not betray friends in difficult situations.” Syrian opposition leaders had agreed to guarantee the safety of Russian military bases and diplomatic institutions in Syria, the source told news agencies. But some Russian war bloggers said the situation around the bases was extremely tense and the source did not say how long the security guarantee lasted. Moscow, a staunch backer of Assad whom it intervened to help in 2015 in its biggest Middle East foray since the Soviet collapse, is scrambling to salvage its position. Its geopolitical clout in the wider region and two strategically-important military bases in Syria are on the line. A deal to secure Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Syria’s Latakia province and its naval facility at Tartous on the coast would come as a relief to Moscow. The Tartous facility is Russia’s only Mediterranean repair and replenishment hub, and Moscow has used Syria as a staging post to fly its military contractors in and out of Africa. Losing Tartous would be a serious blow to Russia’s ability to project power in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Africa, say Western military analysts. Military presence in doubt Influential Russian war blogger “Rybar,” who is close to the Russian Defence Ministry and has over 1.3 million followers on his Telegram channel, said the situation around the bases was a serious cause for concern whatever Moscow’s official line. “Russia’s military presence in the Middle East region hangs by a thread,” Rybar said. “What anyone decided in high offices is absolutely irrelevant on the ground,” he added, suggesting Russian forces at the bases had not taken the initiative to defend their positions in the absence of orders from Moscow. Russian warships had left Tartous and taken up position off the coast for security reasons, the Hmeimim airbase had effectively been cut off after rebels took control of a nearby town, Kurdish forces had started to block Russian facilities beyond the Euphrates, and Russian positions at an oil facility in Homs had been blocked, Rybar said. Reuters could not independently confirm Rybar’s assertions. Earlier on Sunday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two military facilities had been put on a state of high alert, but played down any immediate risk. “There is currently no serious threat to their security,” the ministry said as it announced Assad’s departure from office and from Syria. “As a result of negotiations between B. Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, he decided to resign from the presidency and left the country, giving instructions for a peaceful transfer of power,” it added, saying Russia did not participate in those negotiations. 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This is indeed not the best of times for Nigeria’s economic managers, as international rating agencies, rather than applaud their efforts, have continued to express loss of confidence in the state of the country’s economy. The latest vote of no confidence came from SBM Intelligence Africa Country Instability Risk Index which classified the country as vulnerable to instability in its 2024 report. This position is a downgrade from the stable status, it was classed in 2023, a sign that the economic reform programmes of the present administration, is strangulating rather than building the economy. Since May 29 last year, Nigeria has struggled with high inflation and unstable currency value, with the naira losing over 70 per cent of its value to the dollar. The high energy cost arising from the removal of fuel subsidy, and the fluctuation of the exchange rate, arising from the floatation of the naira, two major economic reform decisions of the Tinubu administration, have escalated the cost of doing business and made the cost of living extremely high and pushing more citizens into poverty. Nigeria dropped six points on the Risk Index this year, scoring 45 compared with 39 in 2023. According to SBM Intelligence, a higher score in the risk index means a higher level of political risk to business. The implication of this is that Nigeria stands the risk of financial market turmoil, delayed consumption and investment decisions by both businesses and the citizens, and prompt lenders to tighten credit supply, all of which can lead the people into deeper poverty. The report highlights Nigeria’s deteriorating economic environment, worsened by factors such as rising food inflation, insecurity, and rising poverty level as the drivers of instability in the country. According to the report, “Nigeria’s economy continues to worsen, with rising food inflation, persistent insecurity across all geopolitical zones, and many people falling into extreme poverty. “It is more polarised now than ever after the 2023 election and the unpopular reforms of the new government, such as the removal of petrol subsidies, which has worsened living conditions and led to the closure of businesses.” Other African nations sharing this risk status include Ethiopia, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Togo, reflecting broader economic and governance concerns across the continent. Analysis of the 2024 SBM Intelligence Africa Country Instability Risk Index, shows that Sub-Saharan Africa recorded an average of 45.4 per cent in 2024, an improvement from 47.7 per cent in the previous year. Out of 48 countries, 31 reported improved performance, while the rest deteriorated. Angola, Burundi, Chad, Togo, and Madagascar were the biggest gainers. A cutback on governance costs drove Angola’s performance, while Madagascar’s GDP growth improved to 4.4 per cent in 2023 from 4.3 per cent in 2022. Botswana, Seychelles, Nigeria, Namibia, and Zimbabwe were the biggest losers. Botswana experienced a GDP decline of nearly two per cent in the first quarter of 2024, and Zimbabwe experienced economic challenges such as debt and currency crises. On a regional count, Central African countries had the most representation, in the top ten, with about 40 per cent of the lot having countries such as Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, and Gabon. Following closely is West Africa at 30 per cent with Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The regions with the lowest representations are East Africa, with 20 per cent represented by Burundi and Madagascar, and Southern Africa, at 10 per cent, with Eswatini as its sole representative. “The worst-performing entities are shared by Eastern and Southern Africa, at 40 per cent each–represented by countries such as Seychelles, Kenya, Mauritius, and Comoros on the East side and Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Zambia on the South,” SBM Intelligence stated. For the second year running, Southern Africa retained its spot as the most stable region, with a score change of -1.3.

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy was limited with the right shoulder injury that sidelined him last week and there is growing concern about the long-term status of left tackle Trent Williams. Wednesday's practice was not the start to the NFL workweek head coach Kyle Shanahan had hoped after Purdy was unable to bounce back from a shoulder injury in Week 11. Brandon Allen started at Green Bay and the 49ers (5-6) lost 38-10 with the backup-turned-starter committing three turnovers. Williams was reportedly spotted in the locker room with a knee scooter and is experiencing pain walking. He played through an ankle injury against the Seattle Seahawks Nov. 17. Defensive end Nick Bosa (hip, oblique) also missed practice Wednesday, leaving the 49ers to spend the holiday plotting to play the Buffalo Bills (9-2) without the three Pro Bowlers again. "I don't know anyone who gets Thanksgiving off unless maybe you have a Monday night game. You just start a lot earlier and get the players out," Shanahan said. "We cram everything in so the players get out, tries to be home with the family by 5. I usually get home by 7 and they're all mad at me, then get back to red-zone (installation)." The 49ers are in danger of a three-game losing streak for the first time since Oct. 2021. Injuries have been a common thread since September when running back Christian McCaffrey was a surprise scratch with an Achilles injury for the opener. Wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (ACL) is out for the season at a position dinged from top to bottom. Star linebacker Fred Warner also is ailing and said Wednesday that he fractured a bone in his ankle on Sept. 29 against the New England Patriots. The game against the Bills will mark his eighth straight game playing with the injury. "It's something I deal with every game," Warner said. "I get on that table before every game and get it shot up every single game just to be able to roll. But it's not an excuse. It's just what it is. That's the NFL. You're not going to be healthy. You've got to go out there, you've got to find ways to execute, to play at a high level and to win every single week." Shanahan wasn't interested in injury talk. He said the 49ers have not played well in the past two weeks, and puts part of his focus on getting more out of the running game with snow in the forecast on Sunday night. He's not in agreement with pundits who doubt McCaffrey's ability early into his return from injured reserve, with a per-carry average of 3.5 yards compared to 5.4 in 2023. "The speculation on Christian is a little unfair to him," Shanahan said. "Christian is playing very well. He's playing his ass off. To think a guy who misses the entire offseason is going to come back and be the exact same the day he comes back would be unfair to any player in the world." San Francisco opened the 21-day practice window for linebacker Dre Greenlaw, who tore his Achilles in the Super Bowl in February. His return date is unclear. --Field Level MediaLetters

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The connections are clear between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers, longtime NFC South rivals. The teams get together for a meeting on Sunday in Charlotte and showed recent signs they can play with any team. "It's an NFC South battle," Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said. "All of them are going to be hard, none of them (are) going to be easy. ... They're playing pretty good football. They missed some games here and there, but they're playing very good football. It's going to be a tough battle." Few introductions are needed on Sunday, as first-year Panthers coach Dave Canales came to Carolina after serving as Buccaneers offensive coordinator a season ago. Canales' prized pupil last season, Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield was with the Panthers for part of the 2022 campaign. "There's some familiarity," Canales said of his connection to the Buccaneers. "Knowing coach Bowles, he's got a really sophisticated system and he attacks each team with a specific game plan. There's some principles that carry over. I know that he's going to have some things up his sleeve." The Buccaneers (5-6) playing a division opponent for the first time since an Oct. 27 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. The goal will be notching back-to-back wins for the first time since the first two weeks of the season. Four different ball-carriers, including Mayfield, found the end zone on the ground during a 30-7 drubbing of the New York Giants last Sunday. Mayfield also completed 24 of 30 passes for 294 yards. "For me, the biggest thing was blocking and tackling," Bowles said of what his team did well last weekend. "We cleaned up the fundamental and technique part of it." Star wideout Mike Evans was back in action for Tampa Bay following a three-game absence due to a hamstring injury. He finished with five receptions for 68 yards against the Giants and now gets a crack at a Carolina team allowing a league-high 30.9 points per game this season. However, the Panthers have tightened up their play as of late, winning two games in a row before hanging with the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs in a 30-27 setback last Sunday. The outing against Kansas City may have been the most efficient performance of Panthers quarterback Bryce Young's two-year career. Young completed 21 of 35 passes for 263 yards and one score without throwing a pick. "It's not all Bryce, it's the whole unit," Canales said. "It's a collective effort, but he certainly needs to be the voice and driver of that." Wide receiver Jalen Coker (quadriceps), tight end Ja'Tavion Sanders (neck) and safety Lonnie Johnson (personal) were all missing from practice on Wednesday for Carolina. Defensive end LaBryan Ray is dealing with a hand issue and was among those limited. Safety Jordan Whitehead (pectoral) was one of four Buccaneers to miss practice on Wednesday. Evans practiced in full. Carolina and Tampa Bay might as well get used to each other, as the two teams will collide again in Week 17. --Field Level MediaThe streets stand still, blanketed in a pristine layer of snow that crunches underfoot. The trees bow under the weight of ice, their branches frozen in a delicate dance with winter's icy fingers. The air itself seems to crackle with frost, each breath turning into a misty cloud that hangs in the air before dissipating into the cold void.

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Title: A Teacher's Hand-Drawn Engine Cross-Section Drawing Inspires Over a Thousand Teaching Posters to Become ClassicsBy Ja'han Jones Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy visited Capitol Hill on Thursday to attempt to build support for the Department of Government Efficiency, the nongovernmental group President-elect Donald Trump created to slash government spending ( which apparently means suggesting drastic austerity measures ). Musk and Ramaswamy, who are co-heading the group, didn't stop to take questions from the media, according to T he Washington Post , which is too bad given there are many questions worth asking about their project. I’m on the record with my disbelief in Musk’s and Ramaswamy’s knowledge of how to effectively run the government, in part because they have no experience doing it. And yet, one of the more jarring things I’ve witnessed in recent weeks is budding Democratic support — some of it offered with cautious optimism — for Musk and Ramaswamy’s commission, which seems ripe for corruption and could spike America’s poverty rate if it leads to cuts in programs that help seniors and the poor. Still, multiple Democrats have been outspoken in touting what they deem to be the potential upsides (which, to be clear, will advise the White House from outside of the government). The list, as Business Insider reported , includes Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley and optimistically claimed the organization could “help bring accountability to defense contractors”; Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, who said he was “happy” to join the so-called “DOGE caucus” but said he would call out “stupid” stuff; independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who, like Khanna, claimed Musk could cut military spending; and New York Mayor Eric Adams, who, for some reason, thinks the group is going to improve U.S. education . As I wrote in late November, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware is also optimistic . I think it’s necessary to tamp down some of this naïveté. In that regard, I'm in alignment with Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greg Casar, who told Business Insider they're doubtful this Musk-led group will do much of anything productive. We have ample reason to believe them. The right-wingers who will be most empowered to carry out this organization’s mission of deep spending cuts have used some pretty ominous language to describe its goals. Musk has openly said his plan will require Americans to suffer “hardship.” Ramaswamy has vowed to “crush the bureaucracy.” House Speaker Mike Johnson has said the goal of the group is to take a “blowtorch” to the federal government (which he suggested he preferred to the chainsaw wielded by far-right, austerity-loving, Argentinian leader Javier Milei as a prop). This is the language of destruction. So, while some Democrats sound encouraged that this organization will do some good, others seem to be applying the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" principle. They all ought to ask themselves whether something designed to kneecap the government will do anything but that. Ja'han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer. He's a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include "Black Hair Defined" and the "Black Obituary Project."

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robbins LLP reminds investors that a shareholder filed a class action on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH) securities between April 25, 2023 and October 22, 2024. Enphase develops, manufactures, and sells solar microinverters, which are primarily used in residential solar installations to convert solar panel output from direct current to alternating current (which can be transmitted to the power grid). For more information, submit a form , email attorney Aaron Dumas, Jr., or give us a call at (800) 350-6003. The Allegations: Robbins LLP is Investigating Allegations that Enphase Energy, Inc. (ENPH) Misled Investors Regarding Conflicts of Interest According to the complaint, during the class period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts, about the Company’s business and operations. Specifically, defendants systematically overstated the Company’s ability to maintain its pricing levels and market share for microinverter products in Europe in the face of competition from low-cost, Chinese alternatives. Plaintiff alleges that investors fully learned the truth about Enphase’s competitive positioning in Europe after the market closed on October 22, 2024, when the Company announced its third quarter 2024 financial results and revealed an approximately 15% quarter-over-quarter decline in European revenue due to “further softening in European demand.” In response to Enphase’s continued poor performance in Europe, Guggenheim downgraded Enphase stock to a sell rating from a neutral rating and explained that Enphase is “losing share to Chinese competitors who are willing to sell at less than half [Enphase]’s level.” On this news, the price of Enphase common stock declined $13.76 per share, or nearly 15%, from a close of $92.23 per share on October 22, 2024, to close at $78.47 per share on October 23, 2024. What Now: You may be eligible to participate in the class action against Enphase Energy, Inc. Shareholders who want to serve as lead plaintiff for the class must submit their application to the court by February 11, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. You do not have to participate in the case to be eligible for a recovery. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member. For more information, click here . All representation is on a contingency fee basis. Shareholders pay no fees or expenses. About Robbins LLP: Some law firms issuing releases about this matter do not actually litigate securities class actions; Robbins LLP does. A recognized leader in shareholder rights litigation, the attorneys and staff of Robbins LLP have been dedicated to helping shareholders recover losses, improve corporate governance structures, and hold company executives accountable for their wrongdoing since 2002. Since our inception, we have obtained over $1 billion for shareholders. To be notified if a class action against Enphase Energies, Inc. settles or to receive free alerts when corporate executives engage in wrongdoing, sign up for Stock Watch today. Attorney Advertising. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/f14b620a-51df-42c4-b1b6-b88b286634aeSAG-AFTRA Supports Blake Lively After ‘Startling and Troubling’ Allegations Against Justin Baldoni

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a large area of Northern California on Thursday, knocking items off grocery store shelves, sending children scrambling under desks and prompting a brief tsunami warning for 5.3 million people along the U.S. West Coast. The quake struck at 10:44 a.m. west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County, about 130 miles (209 km) from the Oregon border, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was felt as far south as San Francisco, some 270 miles (435 km) away, where residents felt a rolling motion for several seconds. It was followed by multiple smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury. The tsunami warning was in effect for roughly an hour. It was issued shortly after the temblor struck and covered nearly 500 miles (805 km) of coastline, from the edge of California’s Monterey Bay north into Oregon. “It was a strong quake, our building shook, we’re fine but I have a mess to clean up right now,” said Julie Kreitzer, owner of Golden Gait Mercantile, a store packed with food, wares and souvenirs that is a main attraction in Ferndale. “We lost a lot of stuff. It’s probably worse than two years ago. I have to go, I have to try and salvage something for the holidays because it’s going to be a tough year,” Kreitzer said before hanging up. The region — known for its redwood forests, scenic mountains and the three-county Emerald Triangle’s legendary marijuana crop — was struck by a 6.4 magnitude quake in 2022 that left thousands of people without power and water. The northwest corner of California is the most seismically active part of the state since it’s where three tectonic plates meet, seismologist Lucy Jones said on the social media platform BlueSky. Shortly after the quake, phones in Northern California buzzed with the tsunami warning from the National Weather Service that said: “A series of powerful waves and strong currents may impact coasts near you. You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now. Keep away from the coast until local officials say it is safe to return.” Numerous cities urged people to evacuate to higher ground as a precaution, including Eureka. In Santa Cruz, authorities cleared the main beach, taping off entrances with police tape. Aerial footage showed cars bumper-to-bumper heading to higher ground Thursday morning on California highways 1 and 92 in the Half Moon Bay area south of San Francisco. “I thought my axles had fallen apart,” said Valerie Starkey, a Del Norte County supervisor representing Crescent City, a town of fewer than 6,000 near the Oregon border. “That’s what I was feeling ... ‘My axles are broken now.’ I did not realize it was an earthquake.” Cindy Vosburg, the executive director for the Crescent City-Del Norte County Chamber of Commerce, said she heard alarms sound just before shaking began and the city's cultural center downtown started to creak. “The earthquake seemed to go on for quite a few seconds. It was a rolling earthquake,” Vosburg said. “Just as it would start to subside, the building would roll again.” Vosburg, a former resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley, said it was the strongest earthquake she felt since the 1989 Loma Prieta quake struck Northern California. Gov. Gavin Newsom said he has signed off on a state of emergency declaration to quickly move state resources to impacted areas along the coast. State officials were concerned about damages in the northern part of the state, Newsom said. White House Spokesperson Jeremy Edwards said President Joe Biden was briefed on the earthquake and that FEMA officials are in touch with their state and local counterparts in California and Oregon. Crews in Eureka, the biggest city in the region, were assessing if there was any major damage from the quake, Eureka Mayor Kim Bergel said. Bergel, who works as a resource aid at a middle school, said lights were swaying and everyone got under desks. “The kids were so great and terrified. It seemed to go back and forth for quite a long time,” she said. Some children asked, “Can I call my mom?" The students were later sent home. In nearby Arcata, students and faculty were urged to shelter in place at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. The campus in was not in the tsunami hazard zone and after inspections, “all utilities and building systems are normal and operational,” the university said in a statement. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said residents experienced some cracks in their homes’ foundations, as well as broken glass and windows, but nothing severe. There also have been no major infrastructure problems, building collapses or roadway issues, and no major injuries or deaths have been reported, he said. Honsal said he was in his office in the 75-year-old courthouse in downtown Eureka when he felt the quake. “We’re used to it. It is known as ‘earthquake country’ up here,” he said. “It wasn’t a sharp jolt. It was a slow roller, but significant.” Michael Luna, owner of a Grocery Outlet in Eureka, said that besides a few items falling off shelves, the store on Commercial Street was unscathed by the earthquake. “We didn’t have any issues but a couple of deodorants fall off.... I think the way the earthquake rumbled this time, it was a good thing for our store because the last earthquake was a huge mess," he said. They evacuated customers and closed their doors temporarily until officials lifted the tsunami warning, he said, rushing off the phone to attend to a growing line of customers at check-out. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known as BART, stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland, and the San Francisco Zoo’s visitors were evacuated. Dave Snider, tsunami warning coordinator for the Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska, said the computer models indicated that this was the type of earthquake that was unlikely to cause a tsunami and gauges that monitor waves then confirmed it, so forecasters canceled the warning. This quake was a strike-slip type of temblor that shifts more horizontally and is less prone to cause tsunamis, unlike the more vertical types, said National Weather Service tsunami program manager Corina Allen in Washington state. The California Geological Survey says the state’s shores have been struck by more than 150 tsunamis since 1800, and while most were minor, some have been destructive and deadly. On March 28, 1964, a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake in Alaska smashed into Crescent City hours later. Much of the business district was leveled and a dozen people were killed. More recently, a tsunami from a 2011 earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast, much of it in Crescent City. Dazio reported from Los Angeles. AP writers Christopher Weber, Jaimie Ding and Dorany Pineda in Los Angeles; Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz, California; Sophie Austin and Tran Nguyen in Sacramento, California; and Seth Borenstein in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index rose Thursday, helped by strength in energy and utilities stocks, while U.S. markets moved lower ahead of reports on the labour market on both sides of the border. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 38.86 points at 25,680.04. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 248.33 points at 44,765.71. The S&P 500 index was down 11.38 points at 6,075.11, while the Nasdaq composite was down 34.86 points at 19,700.26. Friday will bring the monthly jobs reports in both the U.S. and Canada, which markets will be eyeing for clues on upcoming interest rate decisions by central banks, said Kevin Headland, co-chief investment strategist at Manulife Investment Management. The U.S. Federal Reserve has several key data reports coming before it makes its own decision on Dec. 18, said Headland, including inflation. Markets are currently leaning toward a quarter-percentage-point cut from the Fed, he said. But “there’s a lot of data for them to digest before the announcement.” The Bank of Canada’s decision is next week, and Headland said markets seem to think there’s a good chance the central bank could cut by an outsized half-percentage point. “In my belief, the bank is trying to front-run the mortgage renewals that are coming due over the next year or so, to just avoid some of the bigger hits to discretionary spending,” said Headland. “There’s no reason for them not to continue rate cuts unless there’s a surprise tomorrow.” Canadian bank earnings continued to roll in on Thursday. CIBC saw its profit rise while its provisions for loan losses dropped. TD also saw its profit rise, though its adjusted earnings were lower as the bank continues to work through the fallout from its anti-money laundering deficiencies. Meanwhile, BMO’s earnings were a miss on analyst expectations but the bank said it expects loan performance to improve in 2025. So far, there haven’t been any major surprises from bank earnings overall, said Headland. Bitcoin continued its meteoric rise, briefly breaching US$100,000 for the first time after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump tapped crypto advocate Paul Atkins to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. “US$100,000 is definitely a psychological threshold,” said Headland. “I guess time will tell whether it can remain at that level,” he added. “If we’re getting downside pressure to risk assets, I would assume that Bitcoin and other companies will be swept up in that negativity.” But for now, the surge is indicative of the broader positive momentum markets have enjoyed since Donald Trump’s election, said Headland. The Canadian dollar traded for 71.24 cents US compared with 71.09 cents US on Wednesday. The January crude oil contract was down 24 cents at US$68.30 per barrel and the January natural gas contract was up four cents at US$3.08 per mmBTU. The February gold contract was down US$27.80 at US$2,648.40 an ounce and the March copper contract was down a penny at US$4.19 a pound. — With files from The Associated Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2024. Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD) Rosa Saba, The Canadian PressAs soon as Sarah wakes up in the morning, the first thing she does is check her WeChat Moments. This feature allows her to see what her friends have been up to, share photos and thoughts of her own, and engage with others through likes and comments. It's a great way for her to start her day feeling connected to her social circle.

As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit WashingtonAs the Premier League season continues to unfold, it will be intriguing to see how the chances created standings evolve and which players will emerge as the standout creators in English football. With the likes of Palmer, Bernardo Silva, and Szoboszlai setting the benchmark for creativity and innovation, fans can expect more moments of magic and brilliance as these gifted individuals showcase their talents on the grand stage of the Premier League.

Colts Notebook: Lions add physicality to explosive attackSarawak Premier Makes Inaugural Visit To Mitsubishi Power's Takasago Hydrogen ParkMENLO PARK, Calif. , Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) board of directors today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share of the company's outstanding Class A common stock and Class B common stock, payable on December 27, 2024 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 16, 2024 . Contacts Investors: Kenneth Dorell investor@meta.com / investor.fb.com Press: Ryan Moore press@meta.com / about.fb.com/news/ View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/meta-announces-quarterly-cash-dividend-302324358.html SOURCE Meta Best trending stories from the week. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. You may occasionally receive promotions exclusive discounted subscription offers from the Roswell Daily Record. Feel free to cancel any time via the unsubscribe link in the newsletter you received. You can also control your newsletter options via your user dashboard by signing in.

Moreover, the inclusion of traditional Chinese New Year outfits and accessories for the female characters in the game adds a touch of authenticity and diversity to the character customization options. Players can dress their characters in elegant qipao dresses, elaborate hair ornaments, and intricate jewelry, allowing them to immerse themselves in the festive spirit of the Lunar New Year celebrations.