U.S. women's national team goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, known for her unflappable demeanor in the face of pressure, is retiring from international soccer. Naeher was on the team's roster for a pair of upcoming matches in Europe but those games will be her last after a full 11 years playing for the United States. Naeher was the starting goalkeeper for the U.S. team that won the Women's World Cup in 2019 and the gold medal at this year's Olympics in France. She's the only U.S. goalkeeper to earn a shutout in both a World Cup and an Olympic final. She made a key one-handed save in stoppage time to preserve the Americans' 1-0 victory over Brazil in the Olympic final. Mallory Swanson, who scored the only goal, ran down the length of the field to embrace Naeher at the final whistle. Naeher announced her retirement on social media Monday . “Every tear shed in the challenging times and disappointments made every smile and celebration in the moments of success that much more joyful. This has been a special team to be a part of and I am beyond proud of what we have achieved both on and off the field," she wrote. “The memories I have made over the years will last me a lifetime.” Naeher has been known throughout her career for her calm and steady leadership. She is one of just three goalkeepers to make more than 100 appearances for the United States. Naeher made her debut with the national team in 2014 and was a backup to Hope Solo at the 2015 World Cup, which the United States won. She became the team’s regular starter following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and was on the squad that repeated as World Cup winners in 2019. For her career, Naeher has appeared 113 games with 110 starts, 88 wins and 68 shutouts. She had four shutouts over the course of the Olympic tournament in France. In all, she was on the U.S. roster for three World Cups and three Olympic teams. The 36-year-old has also played for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women’s Soccer League since 2016. She plans to play for Chicago next season. The United States is headed to Europe for a match against England at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and on Dec. 3 against Netherlands in The Hague. In addition to her save at the Olympics, Naeher has had many other memorable moments. In the 2019 Women's World Cup semifinals against England, she stopped Steph Houghton’s penalty kick in the 83rd minute. The Americans won 2-1 before downing the Netherlands 2-0 in the final. Earlier this year in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup, Naeher made three saves during a penalty shootout with Canada and also converted a penalty kick herself — tucking the ball neatly into the corner of the net. Afterward she said: “Winning is the best feeling.” AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
Clemson added a quarterback to its 2025 recruiting class on Tuesday with Chris Denson announcing his decision to flip from Coastal Carolina. The 6-foot-2, 175-pounder from Plant City High School in Florida had been committed to the Chanticleers since April and has yet to visit Clemson's campus. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney has been putting a push on to flip Denson in recent weeks following the decommitment of Blake Hebert last month. "I just feel like my development will be through the roof," Denson told On3.com about his decision to switch. "Playing under one of the best coaches in the country and knowing that I haven't reached my potential yet, I know that they will take me to that level." A three-star recruit, Denson is ranked as the No. 50 quarterback in the nation by the 247 Composite. He is the 14th player to commit to the Tigers, who have also seen six players decommit this cycle, according to The Greenville News. "What makes Clemson special is just the level of ball that they are playing at," Denson said. "And the way they compete. I'm a huge competitor, so that's the type of place and people I want to surround myself around." --Field Level Media
Wake up the ghosts! Texas, Texas A&M rivalry that dates to 1894 is rebornHassan: The inauguration ceremony of the ‘ Nishidhi Mantapa ', honouring the revered Charukeerthi Bhattaraka Swami of Shravanabelagola and recipient of the Bhagwan Sri Mahaveer Shanti Award, will be held on December 6. The installation of the revered swami's sacred footwear, along with a commemorative inscription and the inauguration of the Nishidhi Mantapa, was announced by Abhinava Charukeerthi Panditacharyavarya Bhattaraka Swami on Saturday. Charukeerthi Bhattaraka Swami contributed in every way to society. Over five decades, he elevated the religious, educational, social, and cultural stature of the place to global recognition. He served as the head of the Shravanabelagola Dakshinacharya Peetha from 1970 to 2023. The event will be graced by Nirmalanandanatha Swami of the Adichunchanagiri Mutt, Vishwa Prasannathirtha Swami of Pejawar Mutt, Siddhalinga Swami of Siddaganga Mutt, and Shambhunath Swami of the Adichunchanagiri Mutt's Hassan branch. The Nishidhi Mantapa will be inaugurated in the presence of Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari D Veerendra Heggade and Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah . Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, Union minister HD Kumaraswamy and ministers D Sudhakar and KN Rajanna, as well as former chief minister Veerappa Moily, and other elected representatives will attend the event. The Bhatarkas of 15 Jain monasteries will also be present. In the presence of over 10,000 devotees, the installation of the sacred footwear, along with various religious rituals and ceremonies, will be conducted, he said.Liam Dann: No more economic booms - RBNZ’s grim warning as productivity woes come to a headSPOKANE — Luis Cortes, the lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court in 2019 to defend a visa program allowing undocumented immigrants to temporarily reside legally in the United States, is now urging recipients to prepare for a future without it. Cortes, an immigration attorney for Novo Legal Group LLC in Seattle, spoke at Gonzaga University last Wednesday about the uncertain future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The people who came to the country through this program are colloquially called "dreamers." In preparation for President-elect Donald Trump, Cortes said he and Alejandra Perez, a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, plan to hold weekly community meetings for support and resources across the state. At the local level, groups like Latinos en Spokane have also been preparing for these challenges. "We're lucky in Washington that we have a lot of privileges already, like driver's licenses are not contingent on DACA, professional licenses are not contingent on DACA, but we want to also make sure that we have pipelines to certain career paths," said Cortes, a DACA recipient. The Obama administration created the DACA Program in 2012 to provide renewable two-year permits allowing young people brought to the U.S. as children to work, study and be protected from deportation. In 2017, the Trump administration moved to rescind the program. In response, Cortes became the first undocumented attorney in 2019 to argue before the Supreme Court, defending DACA after filing a lawsuit on behalf of recipients nationwide. "When the Supreme Court took the case, there were two questions that they wanted answered. One was 'Is the DACA program legal?' And two, 'Can the Trump administration end the program the way that they ended it?' " Cortes said. The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration had unlawfully ended the program and sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court, where it has since remained in limbo. Because the Court never addressed the core question of DACA's legality, however, the program is likely to face new challenges. As of Dec. 31, 2022, there are roughly 580,000 active DACA recipients across the country, with an estimated 13,530 living in Washington, one of the few states willing to offer resources and support for undocumented immigrants. Michael Baumgartner, the newly elected congressman from Spokane, spoke on immigration issues in Eastern Washington during his candidacy and seemed to favor a reform for some visa programs, including for guest workers, skilled workers and "well-educated, highly capable and talented folks" like conservative South African-born tech mogul Elon Musk — although didn't specify what visa programs this would include. When it comes to undocumented immigrants, however, he has said policies such as "Remain in Mexico" need to be reinstated and the sanctuary city experiment ended. Cortes said it's important for people in and outside of Washington to tap into pre-existing organizations like Rising Dreamers, Scholar Fund or United We Dream to understand how to organize — and not just post on social media. "Community organizing means showing up and being consistent about it, not just when it's convenient, but to actually be committed to it," Cortes said. "That's what has worked in the past, not just for dreamers, but for other civil rights movements." Jennyfer Mesa, executive director of Latinos en Spokane, said her group has been preparing, even before the results, and is working with other state agencies, such as leaders from the Washington Working Act, on planning, defense and political education. Some of their priorities include training on immigration rights, advocating for unemployment insurance for undocumented workers, strengthening legal and community defense, and protecting health insurance for immigrants. "We want to ramp up our efforts, on doing more information and going back to what we used to do, which is a lot of deportation defense, providing 'Know Your Rights' information," Mesa said. Latinos en Spokane got its start through advocacy work in 2016, right around Donald Trump's first presidency. The organization started off with volunteers, including Mesa, and others in the community who wanted to spread awareness on deportation defense and ICE arrests in Spokane. Officially established in 2017, it continued to address key issues, including racial profiling from U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in 2019, who were stopping Greyhound bus passengers in Spokane to question them about their immigration status. The group's advocacy resulted in new laws in Spokane limiting Border Patrol's ability to search buses and access nonpublic city property, as well as the Keep Washington Working Act, which strengthened protections for immigrants across the state. "None of the rights that we have today were created just because they were given to us," Mesa said. "We had to fight for them, and that comes from everything from worker rights to housing rights to human rights to our health." United We Dream, a nonprofit immigrant advocacy organization, was marching and rallying for immigrant rights as early as 2008, around the beginning of Barack Obama's first presidency, as a way to unify immigrant youth across the country after Obama made many promises to the immigrant community. As time passed without significant progress on immigration reform — instead, millions even faced deportation under the Obama Administration — communities across the country protested. They organized marches, holding signs directed at Obama with messages like "Deporter-in-Chief" and "Let us be the change." With their push, in the summer of 2012, Obama announced an executive action for DACA, granting relief to thousands of undocumented families across the country. "It's really important to know that DACA was not a gift from Obama," Cortes said. "It was a political concession that was made after students got together and did the work. "They pushed and pushed and pushed until they got the executive branch of the U.S. government to continue." Mesa also said she doesn't expect ICE arrests and racial profiling to go anywhere, and that their advocacy work is going to be crucial at the local level, considering Idaho is only 20 minutes away without state policies protecting undocumented immigrants. "We have a lot of people who live and work within both parts of the state, and as soon as you are driving while Brown in Idaho, and you cross that border, as soon as you have an accent there, their police will call Border Patrol," Mesa said. "... I would advise immigrants and people who are at risk to not travel to those areas. It's very hostile, and Border Patrol is very present there." Idaho has 2,330 active DACA recipients and 35,000 undocumented immigrants. It doesn't have any state policies to protect the group, according to the Migration Policy Institute. In a news release this fall, Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris said "rewarding illegal aliens with a Driver's License will only encourage more illegal migration into Idaho." But Cortes said that, even with individuals and state officials' concerns throughout the state, Idaho's approach is more complex. He said that while state-level support remains uncertain, institutions and smaller communities can often step in to offer resources and assistance, such as with scholarships and community organizing through clubs. "We're hoping that catches on and that Idaho will continue to support its community despite what the federal government wants," Cortes said. Norris didn't respond to The Spokesman-Review's request for a comment. Mesa said Latinos en Spokane will continue leading free immigration clinics, both through its partnership with Gonzaga University and through its own legal department, Poder Legal. She said the group is also accredited by the Department of Justice, which allows it to provide legal immigration services without the need for an attorney. "That helps us with all of our cases," Mesa said. "The best way that we can support our community is through legal action." Cortes said while he continues to work on community organizing across the state, it's important to contact nearby nonprofits and schools — even if they don't have the resources — as a starting point to help you get connected to the right people. "And if you're a student, look at what student groups are doing work, and tap into other schools too," Cortes said. "So, for example, if students at Gonzaga are wanting to organize, and there's two or three people, look at what WSU is doing. Reach out to them and say, 'Hey, can we start a coalition between these two schools?' and try to build a community that way."
NEW YORK , Dec. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Why: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG ) between February 8, 2024 and October 29, 2024 , both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") and those who purchased Chipotle call options or sold put options during the Class Period, of the important January 10, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action first filed by the Firm. So what: If you purchased Chipotle securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. What to do next: To join the Chipotle class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=30587 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. 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A.'We can take a lot of confidence from that' - McKenna on 1-0 loss at ArsenalATHEX: Ellaktor spurs Athens bourse with momentumNvidia reported Q3 revenue of $35.1 billion, up 94% from last year with data center sales reaching $30.8 billion. Fellow tech firms showed mixed results, with Snowflake growing 29% to $900 million in revenue, while artificial intelligence (AI) startup BEN recorded $50,000 in its first significant quarterly sales amid mounting losses. Nvidia’s Results Hit $35.1B on AI Surge Nvidia reported third-quarter revenue of $35.1 billion , up 94 % from a year ago and 17% from the previous quarter, as AI computing drives unprecedented chip demand. The Santa Clara, California, semiconductor maker’s data center segment reached $30.8 billion in revenue, up 112% from last year and 17% from the previous quarter. This division now represents 88% of total revenue. “The age of AI is in full steam, propelling a global shift to Nvidia computing,” CEO Jensen Huang said in the earnings release . “Demand for Hopper and anticipation for Blackwell — in full production — are incredible.” Net income increased 109% to $19.3 billion, with earnings per share of $0.78, up 111% year over year. The company forecast fourth-quarter revenue of $37.5 billion, plus or minus 2%. Gaming revenue grew 15% year over year to $3.3 billion, and automotive revenue reached $449 million, up 72% from last year. The results cement Nvidia’s dominance in AI computing hardware as companies expand their AI infrastructure globally. Snowflake Grows as Cloud Adoption Expands Snowflake , which markets itself as “the AI Data Cloud company,” reported third-quarter product revenue of $900.3 million, up 29% from a year earlier, while forecasting slower growth ahead . “Our obsessive drive to produce product cohesion and ease of use has built Snowflake into the easiest and most cost-effective enterprise data platform,” CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said in a news release . The company’s remaining performance obligations, representing contracted future revenue, grew 55% to $5.7 billion. Snowflake expanded its base of large customers, now serving 542 organizations with trailing 12-month product revenue exceeding $1 million, up 25% year over year. Snowflake raised $2.27 billion in September through convertible notes offerings due 2027 and 2029. Looking ahead, the company expects fourth-quarter product revenue between $906 million and $911 million, indicating year-over-year growth of approximately 23%. The company posted a net loss of $327.9 million for the quarter , compared with $214.7 million a year earlier. BEN Reports Mixed Results Brand Engagement Network , an AI solutions provider, reported its first significant quarterly revenue of $50,000 while recording wider losses as it expands its healthcare AI partnerships. “We made significant progress in delivering secure, scalable AI solutions and advancing our mission to transform industries with intelligent technology,” said CEO Paul Chang in a news release . The Wyoming company struck deals to deploy its AI assistants with KangarooHealth for remote patient monitoring and IntelliTek for healthcare operations. These partnerships aim to use BEN’s conversational AI technology to enhance patient engagement and chronic care management across multiple regions. However, operating losses widened to $5.82 million from $2.58 million a year earlier, reflecting heavy investment in AI development and expansion. The company secured a $50 million equity purchase agreement with Yorkville Advisors to fund growth and plans to acquire German tech firm Cataneo for $19.5 million by year end. The company’s aggressive push into healthcare AI marks its strategy to commercialize its conversational AI technology in high-value sectors despite cash reserves dropping to $72,878 from $1.69 million at the start of the year.
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