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Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) said despite Democrats’ best efforts over the previous four years, President-elect Donald Trump could not be “canceled.” The Alabama Republican included Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who recently attended a meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “Look, I am thrilled about the results on November 5 and so is the rest of America,” she said. “You know this week, as I got to spend time with family, I was with my husband’s entire family starting on Wednesday for a Thanksgiving meal, moving into Thursday, seeing my hometown friends. And then today, I was at craft day with all of my cousins and all of their children and my extended family.” Britt continued, “And let me tell you, the theme in every one of those conversations was hope. It’s hope not only for tomorrow but hope for a brighter long-term future for our children. You know, it’s seems that people finally have resiliency back because they believe in our nation, and we’re seeing this, as just as you were talking with the speaker before me, other countries are realizing this as well. Donald Trump is bringing strength back to the White House and strength back to our nation, and it’s not going to happen on January 20. It’s happening today.” “So yes, Republicans are not only going to be on board but you’re going to find Democrats that are seeing the writing on the wall as well,” she continued. “Just as you mentioned, Mark Zuckerberg coming down to Mar-a-Lago, you know, I think he learned an important lesson the hard way and that’s that you can’t cancel Donald Trump. You can’t cancel conservatives either and our voices are going to be louder than ever starting on January 20. We’re going to get to work and get things done.” Follow Jeff Poor on X @jeff_poor
Santa Claus is coming to HumboldtTORONTO — Canada's main stock index eked out a gain Friday as a rise in tech stocks helped outweigh losses in energy, while U.S. markets were mixed after employment reports on both sides of the border. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 11.76 points at 25,691.80. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 123.19 points at 44,642.52. The S&P 500 index was up 15.16 points at 6,090.27, reaching another all-time high, while the Nasdaq composite was up 159.05 points at 19,859.77, another record. Both Canada and the U.S. got fresh jobs data on Friday, but the two reports painted very different pictures, said Pierre-Benoît Gauthier, vice-president of investment strategy at IG Wealth Management. U.S. employers hired more than expected last month but the unemployment rate also ticked higher to 4.2 per cent. “This report was just good enough,” said Gauthier — not too weak, but also not too strong. The report sealed expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will announce a quarter-percentage-point interest rate cut later in December, said Gauthier. It shows the economy continues to handle higher rates well, he added. In Canada, the economy added 51,000 jobs in November, while the unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent. The jobs number was undermined by the fact the gain was mainly public-sector hiring, said Gauthier. “The federal government creating jobs is in no way, shape or form an indication of the strength of the Canadian economy,” he said. The Bank of Canada is set to cut next week, and Gauthier thinks it could be an outsized half-percentage-point cut. “The rate cuts here cannot come fast enough,” he said. But the Bank of Canada will need to keep an eye on the increasing differential between rates in the U.S. and Canada, he added, which could put further downward pressure on the already weak Canadian dollar. “The Bank of Canada will be stuck between a rock and a hard place, because at some point they'll still have to defend the Canadian dollar," he said. A lower Canadian dollar could also result in some inflation as imports from the U.S. cost more. The Canadian dollar traded for 70.74 cents US compared with 71.24 cents US on Thursday. The January crude oil contract was down US$1.10 at US$67.20 per barrel and the January natural gas contract was essentially unchanged at US$3.08 per mmBTU. The February gold contract was up US$11.20 at US$2,659.60 an ounce and the March copper contract was up a penny at US$4.20 a pound. — With files from The Associated Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 6, 2024. Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD) Rosa Saba, The Canadian PressSlowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022. In new research, we have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf, likely in a binary orbit with a white dwarf, the core of another star that exploded long ago. A slowly pulsing mystery In 2022, our team made an amazing discovery: periodic radio pulsations that repeated every 18 minutes, emanating from space. The pulses outshone everything nearby, flashed brilliantly for three months, then disappeared. We know some repeating radio signals come from a kind of neutron star called a radio pulsar, which spins rapidly (typically once a second or faster), beaming out radio waves like a lighthouse. The trouble is, our current theories say a pulsar spinning only once every 18 minutes should not produce radio waves. So we thought our 2022 discovery could point to new and exciting physics – or help explain exactly how pulsars emit radiation, which despite 50 years of research is still not understood very well. The source of the radio waves, as seen by the MWA at low resolution (magenta circle) and MeerKAT at high resolution (cyan circle). The white circles are all stars in our own Galaxy. Hurley-Walker et al. 2024 / Astrophysical Journal Letters More slowly blinking radio sources have been discovered since then. There are now about ten known “long-period radio transients”. However, just finding more hasn’t been enough to solve the mystery. Searching the outskirts of the galaxy Until now, every one of these sources has been found deep in the heart of the Milky Way. This makes it very hard to figure out what kind of star or object produces the radio waves, because there are thousands of stars in a small area. Any one of them could be responsible for the signal, or none of them. An artist's impression of the AR SCO system: a binary red dwarf and white dwarf that interact to produce radio emission. Picture: YouTube/ European Southern Observatory (ESO) So, we started a campaign to scan the skies with the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Western Australia, which can observe 1,000 square degrees of the sky every minute. An undergraduate student at Curtin University, Csanád Horváth, processed data covering half of the sky, looking for these elusive signals in more sparsely populated regions of the Milky Way. And sure enough, we found a new source! Dubbed GLEAM-X J0704-37, it produces minute-long pulses of radio waves, just like other long-period radio transients. However, these pulses repeat only once every 2.9 hours, making it the slowest long-period radio transient found so far. Where are the radio waves coming from? We performed follow-up observations with the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, the most sensitive radio telescope in the southern hemisphere. These pinpointed the location of the radio waves precisely: they were coming from a red dwarf star. These stars are incredibly common, making up 70 per cent of the stars in the Milky Way, but they are so faint that not a single one is visible to the naked eye. Combining historical observations from the Murchison Widefield Array and new MeerKAT monitoring data, we found that the pulses arrive a little earlier and a little later in a repeating pattern. This probably indicates that the radio emitter isn’t the red dwarf itself, but rather an unseen object in a binary orbit with it. Based on previous studies of the evolution of stars, we think this invisible radio emitter is most likely to be a white dwarf, which is the final endpoint of small to medium-sized stars like our own Sun. If it were a neutron star or a black hole, the explosion that created it would have been so large it should have disrupted the orbit. It takes two to tango So how do a red dwarf and a white dwarf generate a radio signal? The red dwarf probably produces a stellar wind of charged particles, just like our Sun does. When the wind hits the white dwarf’s magnetic field, it would be accelerated, producing radio waves. This could be similar to how the Sun’s stellar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field to produce beautiful aurora, and also low-frequency radio waves. We already know of a few systems like this, such as AR Scorpii, where variations in the brightness of the red dwarf imply that the companion white dwarf is hitting it with a powerful beam of radio waves every two minutes. None of these systems are as bright or as slow as the long-period radio transients, but maybe as we find more examples, we will work out a unifying physical model that explains all of them. On the other hand, there may be many different kinds of system that can produce long-period radio pulsations. Either way, we’ve learned the power of expecting the unexpected – and we’ll keep scanning the skies to solve this cosmic mystery. Natasha Hurley-Walker is a radio astronomer at Curtin University This story originally appeared on The Conversation and reproduced with permission Originally published as Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space Space Don't miss out on the headlines from Space. Followed categories will be added to My News. More related stories Space Astronaut returns to earth devastated, crying Emily Calandrelli became the 100th woman in space this week but was in tears after a “moaning” controversy erupted on social media. 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NoneNew York Jets running back Breece Hall is in a much better state to play in Week 15 than he was a week ago. That's an unexpected surprise for fantasy football players who have relied on Hall's output for most of the NFL regular season. Hall is officially listed as questionable, an upgrade from a week ago when he was doubtful before he was ruled out. There is also good news surrounding Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans, who was back at practice on Friday. He has been dealing with a hamstring issue. Below is a look at all of the significant injuries that will affect fantasy football matchups in Week 15. Breece Hall Expected to Play Breece Hall is in line to return to the field after one week out. Jets interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich said that Hall "looks good", per ESPN.com's Rich Cimini. Hall missed last week's clash with the Miami Dolphins, but he should be on the field for the showdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars. On paper, the matchup against Jacksonville looks terrific for Hall and the Jets. The Jags conceded over 100 rushing yards in six straight games. Five of Jacksonville's last six opponents ran for at least 125 yards, and a week ago it allowed 102 yards on 21 carries to Tennessee's Tony Pollard. Hall has only run for over 100 yards once this season, but he has been consistent with his production. The Jets star has had at least 60 rushing yards in four of his last five games and he's been over 50 rushing yards in all but three appearances. Hall could be in line for a few touchdowns as well on Sunday since the Jags are tied for the fourth-highest touchdown concessions to opposing running backs. Mike Evans Returns to Practice Friday Mike Evans is also trending in the right direction for Week 15. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver practiced on Friday after missing a few days of practice earlier this week. Evans followed a similar schedule last week and produced 69 receiving yards on four catches. Evans was not needed as much in Week 14 because the Bucs took care of the Las Vegas Raiders. He should take on more responsibilities in the passing game in a tougher matchup with the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers aren't the easiest matchup for Evans, Baker Mayfield and the Bucs' passing game, but they have given up over 200 passing yards in three of the last four weeks.
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FREIBURG, Germany (AP) — Freiburg survived a late comeback to beat Wolfsburg 3-2 and move into fifth place in the Bundesliga on Friday. The sides started the day equal on points and Wolfsburg had won its last five games in the league and cup. But Lukas Kübler scored an opportunist opener three minutes before the break and added a second with his head six minutes into the second half to put Freiburg in the driving seat. Michael Gregoritsch added the third in the 62nd. Jonas Wind came off the bench to score his third goal in two games and Mattias Svanberg cut the deficit seven minutes from time as Wolfsburg desperately looked for a way into the game. But it was too late, and Freiburg moved above Wolfsburg to fifth place on the table and equal on points with Leipzig, which has a game in hand. The match was an important one for two teams vying for a Champions League place next year. Although Bayern Munich have a six-point advantage over second-placed Eintracht Frankfurt, only eight points separate the next nine clubs. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerWall Street closes higher after business activity data
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has been elected to a new term as president of the International Fencing Federation while he faces ongoing sanctions. The federation, known as the FIE, said in an emailed statement that Usmanov won 120 votes for a majority at the congress on Saturday in Uzbekistan, where he was born. Usmanov was first elected FIE president in 2008 and his funding was key to fencing's growth. Usmanov said in March 2022 he would step aside from his duties as FIE president “until justice is restored” after he was placed under sanctions by the European Union following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Greek official Emmanuel Katsiadakis served as interim president since then. Usmanov thanked his supporters on Saturday and said he would work for a “bright future” for fencing. “As is well known, I am still subject to unjustified restrictions, which I am currently challenging in court," Usmanov said in a statement. "In this regard, I declare that I have always acted in the best interests of the FIE and will continue to take all necessary measures to prevent the legally unfounded restrictions imposed on me being extended to the FIE and its activities.” ___ AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a frequent critic of Elon Musk, clashing with the billionaire on numerous issues, including wealth inequality, foreign relations and space travel. But, now the pair are on the same page — at least when it comes to one issue. “Elon Musk is right,” Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats from Vermont, wrote in a Dec. 1 post on X, formerly Twitter. “The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions,” he wrote. “Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change.” Musk responded to the post with American flag emojis, and wrote in a separate post, “Maybe we can find some common ground.” In November, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE will “provide advice and guidance from outside of government and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform,” the president-elect wrote in a post on Truth Social. Musk, along with co-head Vivek Ramaswamy, plans to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government by recommending spending cuts and layoffs.