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Thanksgiving Weekend Sports Guide: Your roadmap to NFL matchups, with other games, times and oddsSouth Carolina, the No. 1 team in the country, suffered a stunning upset loss on Sunday. The Gamecocks, undefeated on the year, hadn't lost a road game in nearly three years. South Carolina, led by head coach Dawn Staley, faced UCLA on the road on Sunday afternoon. The Gamecocks were not able to emerge with the win, falling on the road to the Bruins in historic fashion. ESPN was pretty stunned. "NO. 5 UCLA BEATS NO. 1 SOUTH CAROLINA TO WIN ITS FIRST GAME AGAINST AN AP NO. 1 TEAM IN PROGRAM HISTORY," ESPN announced on Sunday. Steph Chambers/Getty Images UCLA, in its first season in the Big Ten, knocked off the undefeated South Carolina Gamecocks, which won last season's national championship, on Sunday afternoon. No. 5 @UCLAWBB knocks off No. 1 South Carolina 🤯 #B1GWBBall pic.twitter.com/mgViLTI7QP College hoops fans were pretty stunned. "Best odds you’ll get for SC to win it all is right now," one fan wrote. "It was gonna happen at some point. There’s still a tournament to be played," one fan added. "So glad to get that win streak over with😅 now we can go back to normal basketball," one fan added. "South Carolina ain’t the same smh," one fan added. "This win will be remembered as a turning point, potentially leading UCLA to further success in the ongoing season and possibly beyond, establishing them as legitimate contenders for the national title," one fan added. Mike Lawrie/Getty Images While it's a tough loss for the Gamecocks, it's an even bigger win for the Bruins, who should head into Big Ten play riding extremely high. It could be a pretty thrilling season in the women's college basketball world.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has chosen Keith Kellogg, a highly decorated retired three-star general, to serve as his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. Kellogg, who is one of the architects of a staunchly conservative policy book that lays out an “America First” national security agenda for the incoming administration, will come into the role as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third year in February. Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social account, and said “He was with me right from the beginning! Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!” Kellogg, a retired Army lieutenant general who has long been Trump’s top adviser on defense issues, served as national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence , was chief of staff of the National Security Council and then stepped in as an acting security adviser for Trump after Michael Flynn resigned. As special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Kellogg will have to navigate an increasingly untenable war between the two nations. The Biden administration has begun urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilization laws to allow for the conscription of troops as young as 18. The White House has pushed more than $56 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s February 2022 invasion and expects to send billions more to Kyiv before Biden leaves office in less than months. Trump has criticized the billions that the Biden administration has poured into Ukraine. Washington has recently stepped up weapons shipments and has forgiven billions in loans provided to Kyiv. The incoming Republican president has said he could end the war in 24 hours, comments that appear to suggest he would press Ukraine to surrender territory that Russia now occupies. As a co-chairman of the American First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security, Kellogg wrote several of the chapters in the group’s policy book. The book, like the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” is a move to lay out a Trump national security agenda and avoid the mistakes of 2016 when he entered the White House largely unprepared. Kellogg in April wrote that “bringing the Russia-Ukraine war to a close will require strong, America First leadership to deliver a peace deal and immediately end the hostilities between the two warring parties.” Kellogg was a character in multiple Trump investigations dating to his first term. He was among the administration officials who listened in on the July 2019 call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which Trump prodded his Ukrainian counterpart to pursue investigations into the Bidens. The call, which Kellogg would later say did not raise any concerns on his end, was at the center of the first of two House impeachment cases against Trump, who was acquitted by the Senate both times. On Jan. 6, 2021, hours before pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Kellogg, who was then Pence’s national security adviser, listened in on a heated call in which Trump told his vice president to object or delay the certification in Congress of President Joe Biden ’s victory. He later told House investigators that he recalled Trump saying to Pence words to the effect of: “You’re not tough enough to make the call.” Baldor reported from Washington. AP writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.DENVER — Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colorado, refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl that they are not pursuing. JonBenet Ramsey, who competed in beauty pageants, was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in the college town of Boulder the day after Christmas in 1996. Her body was found several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. The details of the crime and video footage of JonBenet competing in pageants propelled the case into one of the highest-profile mysteries in the United States. The police comments came as part of their annual update on the investigation, a month before the 28th anniversary of JonBenet’s killing. Police said they released it a little earlier due to the increased attention on the case, apparently referring to the three-part Netflix series “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.” In a video statement, Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn said the department welcomes news coverage and documentaries about the killing of JonBenet, who would have been 34 this year, as a way to generate possible new leads. He said the department is committed to solving the case but needs to be careful about what it shares about the investigation to protect a possible future prosecution. “What I can tell you though, is we have thoroughly investigated multiple people as suspects throughout the years and we continue to be open-minded about what occurred as we investigate the tips that come into detectives,” he said. The Netflix documentary focuses on the mistakes made by police and the “media circus” surrounding the case. JonBenet was bludgeoned and strangled. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever prosecuted. Police were widely criticized for mishandling the early investigation into her death amid speculation that her family was responsible. However, a prosecutor cleared her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and brother Burke in 2008 based on new DNA evidence from JonBenet’s clothing that pointed to the involvement of an “unexplained third party” in her slaying. The announcement by former district attorney Mary Lacy came two years after Patsy Ramsey died of cancer. Lacy called the Ramseys “victims of this crime.” John Ramsey has continued to speak out for the case to be solved. In 2022, he supported an online petition asking Colorado’s governor to intervene in the investigation by putting an outside agency in charge of DNA testing in the case. In the Netflix documentary, he said he has been advocating for several items that have not been prepared for DNA testing to be tested and for other items to be retested. He said the results should be put through a genealogy database. In recent years, investigators have identified suspects in unsolved cases by comparing DNA profiles from crime scenes and to DNA testing results shared online by people researching their family trees. In 2021, police said in their annual update that DNA hadn’t been ruled out to help solve the case, and in 2022 noted that some evidence could be “consumed” if DNA testing is done on it. Last year, police said they convened a panel of outside experts to review the investigation to give recommendations and determine if updated technologies or forensic testing might produce new leads. In the latest update, Redfearn said that review had ended but that police continue to work through and evaluate a “lengthy list of recommendations” from the panel. • Copyright © 2024 The Washington Times, LLC. Click to Read More and View Comments Click to Hide
Erin Andrews Gets Her Camera-Ready, Pearly White Teeth With This Exact ProductGood afternoon, Chicago. Six years ago, Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis sat in House Speaker Michael Madigan’s office to break the news that he would not be seeking re-election to the City Council. Prosecutors allege the pivotal conversation, which was played for the jury in Madigan’s corruption trial today, is proof of a corrupt quid-pro-quo scheme where Solis introduced the powerful Democratic speaker to developers in his ward in exchange for Madigan’s help securing him a six-figure state board appointment. Here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Puzzles & Games | Daily horoscope | Asking Eric A homeless encampment in Humboldt Park on Nov. 26, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) Ald. Jessie Fuentes, 26th, said that the Humboldt Park encampment would be formally cleared on Dec. 6. Read more here. More top news stories: Judge who made controversial electronic monitoring decision not hearing domestic violence cases because of threats Former IIT student convicted of spying in Chicago released as part of Chinese prisoner swap: sources Ali Ahamad and his sons Aamir, 3, left, and Ali Jr., 5, clean up a lot next to their home, a two-flat greystone that Ahamad has owned since 2019, in North Lawndale on Nov. 19, 2024. He plans to skip the current application for the city’s Missing Middle Infill Housing Initiative because of lack of notice and its requirements. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) The West Side’s North Lawndale community is on the verge of receiving city investment. The program — called the Missing Middle Infill Housing Initiative — will begin as a pilot in North Lawndale and is part of the Chicago Department of Planning and Development’s $75 million initiative to build “missing middle housing” in neighborhoods on the South and West sides. Read more here. More top business stories: ICC administrative judges recommend Peoples Gas resume paused pipeline replacement program Beloved restaurant owner dies after being struck by vehicle in Oswego The Bulls’ Patrick Williams watches from the bench as the Timberwolves take the lead during the fourth quarter at the United Center on Nov. 7, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune) Between Zach LaVine and Nikola Vučević, the Chicago Bulls are awash with potential trade chips this season to add to their draft stock. But the front office may be turning its attention toward dealing younger players. Read more here. More top sports stories: 4 takeaways from the Chicago Bulls’ 2nd straight NBA Cup win, including a big night from the bench Whose line is it anyway? For the Chicago Blackhawks, playing musical chairs with the forwards isn’t improv — it’s a plan. Filmmaker Marielle Heller at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago on Oct. 21, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) Heller’s fourth feature stars Amy Adams as an artist who parks her career on a side street somewhere to devote a long road of days, nights and an ever-shrinking worldview to raise a son, mostly happily, always exhaustedly. Read more here. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: ‘Get Millie Black’ review: In Jamaica, a police detective is haunted by threats old and new Column: A new Netflix documentary brings us Elvis as he was meant to be President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference, followed by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and appointees have been targeted by bomb threats and “swatting attacks,” Trump’s transition said. Read more here. More top stories from around the world: What to know about the deal that’s stopped fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah Walmart’s DEI rollback signals a profound shift in the wake of Trump’s election victory
Philadelphia (8-2) at Los Angeles Rams (5-5) Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EST, NBC/Peacock Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Japanese chief of International Criminal Court lashes out at Russia, U.S. senatorNone