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Homeland Security agent pleads not guilty to drug distribution conspiracy chargePresident-elect Donald Trump reveals Republicans will attempt to eliminate ‘inconvenient’ daylight saving timeThe Abbotsford School District is putting out a call for parents with newborn babies to sign up for the Roots of Empathy program, which helps teach school children about proper prosocial skills development. Nine times throughout the school year, these parents are expected to bring their two- to four-month-old baby into an Abbotsford school, where the baby will actually be turned into an educator for the students. The Abbotsford School District explained that by observing and analyzing the infant's body language, the students learn to develop empathy and other similar skills. This program was originally launched in Canada in 1996 and has since grown to reach more than one million children throughout 11 countries, according to the Roots of Empathy website. Any Abbotsford parents interested in participating in this program can contact Abbotsford School District YCW-social emotional learning instructor Leslie Carter at .

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William H. Phillips (1830-1916) had a long and varied career as a Williams College student, telegraph operator, state senator, magazine editor, Pittsfield Sun publisher and publisher and primary contributor to a monthly, The Berkshire Hills, which he packed with local lore. He was impressive in his liberality, including subjects of both genders, white and Black, well-to-do and not. Phillips also once profiled a bird. It was a rooster that lived next door to Dr. Alvah Harvey (1823-1897), a homeopathic physician for 30 years who lived on Quincy Street in North Adams. Harvey when first arriving in town had started a manufactory, said to have produced the first Marseilles bedspread ever made in this country. He also made Balmoral skirts. He changed professions and later moved to Springfield. The Lanesborough humorist Josh Billings once announced: “I luv a rooster for two things: One is for the crow that iz in him, and the other iz, the spurs that air on him to back him up.” Harvey wouldn’t have been amused to hear this. The Berkshire Hills telling of the doctor’s encounter with a neighbor’s game rooster — likely gleaned during Phillips’ days as Hoosac Valley News publisher and when Harvey still lived in North Adams — is too good to be paraphrased. Here it is, slightly shortened, from the July 1, 1902 issue: “This lordly masculine fowl, who was gorgeously arrayed in fine feathers and evidently felt himself to be a born aristocrat in the poultry family, persisted in flying over the fence into the doctor’s back yard to indulge in nearly all of his triumphant voicings. Really he had become an especial discomfort to the physician in the early morning hours I which he was accustomed to secure his soundest naps. “The doctor had previously hurled numerous bricks, much stove wood, many chunks of hard coal and no end of stones at this persistent offender against his peace and quiet, never hitting or frightening him once, and therefore without avail. “But the time came at last when the final straw snapped in the doctor’s stock of patience, and a wreck of friendship with hits neighbor or in fact the whole citizenship of the county resolved itself into a thoroughly unconsidered question. The doctor had just invested in a new $250 buggy and had it drawn from his carriage house out in the back yard and entered his dining room for breakfast. On coming out of the house to his utter astonishment he found this now thoroughly despised barnyard king perched upon the top of a rear wheel of his new vehicle, flapping his wings and crowing his loudest. White-heated anger was no name for the doctor’s state of mine in face of this high-handed affront. “He hastened back into the house from which he soon emerged with a six shooter in hand and death in his eyes. He halted on his piazza and taking deliberate aim at this brazen fowl, fired, but to his infinite surprise, instead of dropping from his perch upon the earth, he flapped his wings and crowed for all he was worth in lung power. “Again he fired with sure aim, and again the same astonishing results. Again and again he fired until he held his smoking weapon in his hand with every cartridge empty, and with the same evident harmless effects. Did that rooster bear a charmed life, he was asking himself mentally, when with a final triumphant salute he hopped down from the wheel and made a hasty exit from the premises “The doctor at once made a careful tour of inspection to discover just where those six bullets went to, and was not long in ascertaining their exact location. He had shot his buggy dashboard and seat into kindling wood, and it cost him a round $50 for necessary repairs.” Certainly it is inadvisable, and illegal, to fire a weapon in a settled area. A hard lesson of this came in Williamstown in 1902, when young Clarence Goodrich, who had borrowed a .22 rifle and with friends, spotted a rooster near the entrance to Weston Field. He fired a shot. The bullet missed the bird but struck a boy, 9-year-old Edward Yarter Jr., who was playing football with pals 150 yards away. “Before entering the body [the bullet] passed through a heavy coat, a shirt and then a heavy flannel undershirt and that it did not lose its force is considered strange...,” the North Adams Transcript reported. “The bullet struck the boy on [the] lower part of the shoulder blade and glancing, entered the back, inflicting a small wound.” A physician was unable to locate the projectile and worried that it had entered a lung. But young Yarter didn’t seem much the worse for wear and within a week was outdoors at play again. Young Goodrich, it turned out, had had no experience with firearms. The rifle belonged to another boy, who planned to go hunting. Roosters aren’t universally popular, by any means. A man named Columbus who lived on Francis Street in North Adams in 1909, sought police action to arrest a rooster on the charge of assault and battery. A neighboring family raised fowl including “a large rooster about as big as a four years old boy the size of Mr. Columbus’ son,” The Transcript said. “Every time the boy had gone into the yard to play recently, the rooster has flown over the fence and attacked the little fellow. Yesterday morning the boy started out of the house on an errand and the rooster came over the fence on a hop, skip and jump and before the lad could be rescued the big bird had raised a sizeable bunch on the boy’s head.” Columbus was disappointed to learn the law applied only to humans. 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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the Delhi government is in the process of extending the old-age pension scheme to 80,000 more beneficiaries to cover a total of 5.30 lakh senior citizens. He said the Delhi government had reopened the portal a day earlier and had received 10,000 fresh applications so far. “Why do you need a double-engine government when a single-engine can do much better,” he said. Addressing a press conference, Mr. Kejriwal alleged that following his arrest, in March this year, many Delhi government projects “were stalled, including the pension scheme, which was especially painful to me”. Sharing details of the programme, the former CM said beneficiaries aged 60-69 will receive ₹2,000 monthly while those aged 70 and above will receive ₹2,500 like earlier. However, an additional ₹500 will be given to beneficiaries from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and minority communities. In response, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said if his party wins the Assembly election in February next year, it will provide old-age pensions to “100% of the senior citizens”. He said nearly 10 lakh senior citizens in the city need the financial assistance and claimed that the scope of the existing scheme had been expanded due to “BJP’s efforts and political pressure”. Published - November 26, 2024 01:09 am IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Delhi / politics / state politics / election

Preview: Benfica vs. Estrela Amadora - prediction, team news, lineupsCelebrity Life Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. A judge has delayed a scheduled resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers sentenced to life in prison for murdering their parents in 1989. Judge Michael Jesic said the hearing, which could lead to the brothers being freed after decades in prison and was originally scheduled for December 11, would be pushed to January 30. The brothers, currently jailed in California, appeared virtually for the court hearing on Tuesday (AEDT), their first court appearance since their 1996 conviction. Technical issues prevented them from being shown on video, CNN reports. Erik Menendez and his brother Lyle, pictured at their original trial, faced court by videolink. Picture: AFP Joan VanderMolen, the sister of Kitty Menendez and a longtime supporter of the brothers who wants to see them released, arrives at the Van Nuys West Courthouse to attend the hearing. Picture: AFP “I want the new administration to be able to go through the documents and have a say,” Judge Michael Jesic said at the hearing in a Los Angeles County courtroom. Lyle, 56, and Erik, 53, have spent 30 years behind bars after being found guilty of murdering their parents. Entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty were gunned down by the brothers in the TV room of the family’s Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. The brothers during their original trial. Picture: Getty Images The 1989 murders shocked the US and the pair’s blockbuster televised trial in the 1990s became almost compulsory viewing for millions. Prosecutors painted the crime as a cold-hearted bid by the then-young men — Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 — to get their hands on their parents’ fortune. But their lawyers described the 1989 killings as an act of desperate self-defence by young men subjected to years of sexual abuse and psychological violence at the hands of an abusive father and a complicit mother. The brothers were tried together in 1993 but in front of separate juries, each of which deadlocked. After a mistrial was declared, they were tried a second time and much of the testimony and evidence about the claims that Jose Menendez had sexually abused his sons was excluded. In 1996, the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. The case saw a huge surge of renewed interest this year with the release of the Netflix hit Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, starring Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez, Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Lyle and Cooper Koch as Erik. The hearing comes after a campaign to secure their release, supported by Kim Kardashian and other celebrities. “Set them free before the Holidays!” wrote Tammi Menendez, who has been married to Erik since 1999, on social media last week. Nick Bonanno, a former high school classmate of Erik’s, was the first to arrive at the court for the hearing, taking his place at the head of the line. “I wanted to show support to... Erik and Lyle,” he told AFP. “It’s all about supporting and healing, not just for the families, but for us as a culture.” The Menendez family had a picture-perfect image but sons Lyle and Erik claim they were subjected to horrific abuse. Picture: Screengrab/abc news Jose Menendez with sons Erik and Lyle as children. A group takes a selfie outside the Menendez death house, which has become a macabre drawcard for tourists in Beverly Hills. Picture: AFP It comes after Lyle’s wife, Rebecca Sneed, who he married in 2003, shared in a post on Facebook that they were separating after 21 years, with the information verified by the brother’s lawyer to NBC news. The push to re-examine the case began in 2023, when a Peacock docuseries featured another alleged victim, Roy Rossello, a former member of the Latin boyband Menudo, saying he was raped by Jose Menendez when he was aged 13. Lawyers for the Menendez brothers filed a habeas petition asking the court to reconsider the conviction and sentence in light of new evidence from the other alleged victim and from a letter Erik wrote about the abuse prior to the killings. With excitement over the case near fever pitch, tourists are regularly making pilgrimages to the Beverly Hills home where the killings took place. Australian Christian Hannah, who was born almost two decades after the double murders, made sure the home was a stop on his tour of celebrity hotspots, because of his fascination with the Netflix show. “It’s really awesome seeing it in person,” he told AFP. “It’s just because you see it on TV and you see it in person, just feels really cool.” — with AFP More Coverage Naomi Watts shares devastating family news Merryn Johns ‘Trying to escape’: New theory in Liam Payne death Merryn Johns, Maria Bervanakis, Zoe Smith Originally published as Major update in Menendez brothers case as pair face court More related stories Celebrity Life Star’s gender revelation on Aussie podcast Comedian David Walliams has opened up about his gender and sexuality during an appearance on an Aussie radio podcast. Read more Entertainment Megan Fox wears see-through dress, lingerie Megan Fox has always loved a totally sheer fabric – and that certainly hasn’t changed now she’s expecting baby number four. 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California could offer rebates for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump administration eliminates a federal tax credit for people who buy electric cars , Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. Newsom, a Democrat, will propose creating a new version of the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which was phased out in 2023 after funding 594,000 cars and saving 456 million gallons of fuel, Newsom’s office said. “Consumers continue to prove the skeptics wrong – zero-emission vehicles are here to stay,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future — we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.” Newsom’s proposal is part of his plan to protect California’s progressive policies ahead of Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. He called the state Legislature to convene in a special session to help “Trump-proof” state laws by giving the attorney general’s office more funding to fight federal challenges. | But a budget shortfall could complicate California’s resistance efforts. Early budget projections show the state could face a $2 billion deficit next year, according to a report released last week by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. That’s an improvement from an estimated $46.8 billion deficit the state faced last year, but the shortfall could still curtail the state’s ability to expand new programs and fight federal legal challenges. Legislative leaders in both chambers have said the state needs to stay prudent in anticipation of future budget deficits. Money for the new rebate system could come from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which is funded by polluters under the state’s cap-and-trade program, the governor’s office said. Officials didn’t say how much the program would cost or how the rebates would work. Newsom is expected to offer more details of the possible rebate program during an appearance in Kern County later Monday. California has surpassed 2 million zero-emission vehicles sold, according to Newsom’s office. The state has passed policies in recent years to transition away from fossil fuel-powered, cars, trucks, trains and lawn mowers. Trump previously vowed to end federal electric vehicle tax credits, which are worth up to $7,500 for new zero-emission vehicles. There’s also a $4,000 credit for used ones. But Trump later softened his stance as Tesla CEO Elon Musk became a supporter and adviser. Trump criticized Newsom on social media after the governor called for a special session, calling out the high cost of living in California and the state’s homelessness crisis. Trump said Newsom was “stopping all of the GREAT things that can be done to ‘Make California Great Again.'” Newsom said on his podcast earlier this month that he reached out to Trump after the election. He said at a news conference last week that he still hadn’t heard back from the president-elect. California’s defunct Clean Vehicle Rebate Program offered rebates on electric cars as high as $2,500. Any new rebate program “would include changes to promote innovation and competition” in the zero-emission vehicles market, the statement said. The application deadline for Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards is Friday, December 6, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.

A meetingbetween the First Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations ofAzerbaijan, Lieutenant General Rafail Mirzoyev, and the Minister ofCivil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences ofNatural Disasters of Russia, Lieutenant General Alexander Kurenkov,was held in Moscow, reports. The prospects for cooperation in the field of prevention andelimination of consequences of natural disasters and man-madeaccidents were discussed at the meeting. The successful implementation of the joint Action Plan for2024-2026, signed by the parties at the beginning of the year inBaku, was noted at the meeting. As part of this agreement,Azerbaijani specialists visited the Center for Conducting SpecialRisk Rescue Operations of the Russian Emergencies Ministry"Leader", took part in a seminar on international search and rescueoperations based on the "Centrospas" detachment and the Noginskrescue center, as well as in the events of the XV InternationalSalon "Integrated Security - 2024". Also in September, anobservation of exercises to eliminate a simulated accident and oilspills in the northern part of the Caspian Sea was conducted inAstrakhan. It was also noted that during the year, with the support of theInternational Civil Defense Organization, three joint scientificand practical conferences and two advanced training courses wereheld through the relevant universities of the Russian EmergenciesMinistry. The importance of expanding cooperation between the departmentsof the two countries next year was emphasized at the meeting. Inthis regard, at the end of January next year, the RussianEmergencies Ministry plans to hold interdepartmental experimentaland research exercises "Safe Arctic - 2025" in Arkhangelsk, inwhich the Azerbaijan Emergencies Ministry intends to participate asan observer. Kurenkov noted during the meeting that this will not only allowtesting modern approaches and technologies in the fight againstnatural and man-made disasters in the Arctic, but will also becomea source of new interesting ideas for preparing for the jointinternational exercises "Caspian-2026". The meeting emphasized the great potential for mutuallybeneficial cooperation within the CIS. It was noted that theAzerbaijani side positively evaluates the initiative to raise themeetings of the Interstate Council for Emergency Situations ofRussia and Belarus to the level of ministers. The parties noted that cooperation within the InternationalCivil Defense Organization is one of the important aspects ofinterstate relations in the field of emergency situations.COMMERCE, Texas (AP) — Jalen Jackson's 16 points helped Purdue Fort Wayne defeat Texas A&M-Commerce 77-57 on Saturday. Jackson also had six rebounds for the Mastodons (5-3). Corey Hadnot II shot 6 for 9, including 3 for 5 from beyond the arc to add 15 points. Eric Mulder shot 6 of 7 from the field and 2 for 4 from the line to finish with 14 points, while adding six rebounds. Maximus Nelson hit four 3s and scored 14 points. Scooter Williams Jr. led the Lions (1-7) in scoring, finishing with 19 points and six rebounds. Khaliq Abdul-Mateen added 15 points for Texas A&M-Commerce. Josh Taylor also had seven points and nine rebounds. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

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BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 25, 2024-- To her nearly 1 million followers , Kendall Mariah is known as a mom with big southern charm and big-time family finds for any occasion. The holidays are especially her time to shine with recommendations for parents and families who appreciate her genuine reviews and practical advice. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241125424595/en/ Sparkle and shine this holiday season with the hottest device and gadget gifts from T-Mobile, handpicked by beloved Instagram mom and military spouse Kendall Mariah (Graphic: Business Wire) “I love the holidays because it’s a time to unwind, reconnect and celebrate what feels like home,” says Mariah. “Being with family and friends and sharing meaningful experiences is everything. For gifts, I love tech because it brings ease, fun and a bit of magic to everyday life. I’m thoughtful about what I recommend, only sharing things that feel authentic and special enough to enrich my friends' and followers' lives.” As a military spouse who is always searching for the latest tech to help her family stay connected, Mariah has a unique blend of mobile device know-how and heartfelt storytelling. She teamed up with T-Mobile to hook her up with some of the gadget gifts she handpicked for family members of all ages, friends, or when just treating yourself. Check out these top tech gift ideas from Mariah that are sure to impress while staying on budget. For the Parent Who’s Always Putting Family First Mariah says she plans to deck the halls and someone’s wrist with the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra this year. 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‘No excuse’: Crackdown to take ‘knives off streets’NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK: HYATT CENTRIC SOUTH BEACH MIAMI DEBUTS ELEVATED STYLE AND LUXURY1 2 3 Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee govt's focus on human capital formation through a bottom-up approach is leading to an information technology boom in the state, attracting top companies like Infosys, according to principal chief adviser to the CM, Amit Mitra. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Rising Asia-BCC&I summit on Friday. According to Mitra, 905 new primary schools, 6,095 upper primary schools, 747 secondary schools and 2,096 higher secondary schools had been set up during Banerjee's time in office. Besides, 52 new govt colleges, 543 private colleges and 19 state-aided universities came up during this period. The CM, during the inauguration of the Infosys campus on Wednesday, had said that 45,000 engineers would graduate every year, with a large chunk of them being computer engineers and this would create the backbone of human capital for the IT industry. Mitra pointed out that every dollar spent on human resources result in an addition to GDP of $11. "In the US, 40% of growth is based on human capital," he said According to him, the east constitutes 12.8% of the GDP of the country and this will only increase. "Bengal constitutes 44.3% of the GDP of the east, so once the state grows, the region would grow as well," Mitra added. The summit was also attended by BCC&I president Arnab Basu, Rising Asia president Aniruddha Lahiri, Patton MD Sanjay Budhia and Luxmi Group MD Rudra Chatterjee.

‘Don’t want to rush’: Ontario holds steady on not declaring intimate partner violence an epidemicNew guidance on ethical use of AI in public sector rolesThe San Francisco 49ers' Week 12 game with the Green Bay Packers is close to a must-win for the defending NFC champions, but their star-studded roster appears in poor shape to attack the challenge of coming away from Lambeau Field with a victory. San Francisco practiced for the second time this week on Thursday, but seemingly did so without quarterback Brock Purdy, defensive end Nick Bosa and left tackle Trent Williams. If you were listing the players most important to the 49ers' hopes of victory on Sunday, that trio would likely be at the top. Per Matt Barrows of The Athletic, Purdy was throwing at the very start of the section of practice open to the media but left the field soon after. There was no Nick Bosa, Trent Williams or Brock Purdy at the start of practice. Purdy, who is dealing with a right shoulder injury, was throwing at the very start of the session but left the field soon thereafter. He has been dealing with shoulder soreness sustained in last Sunday's upset loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Purdy did not throw in Wednesday's practice. Bosa suffered another hip/oblique injury in the defeat to Seattle, doing so on a third-quarter sack of Geno Smith. Williams, meanwhile, battled through an ankle injury in Week 11. Both Bosa and Williams sat out the opening session of the week on Wednesday. A second straight missed practice does not necessarily mean they will miss the Packers game, with head coach Kyle Shanahan insisting they will be given every chance to prove their fitness to play. "When it comes to a guy like Bosa, when it comes to a guy like Trent [Williams], their position, the veterans they are, how they play. Those guys have all the way until kickoff for me," said Shanahan. "Towards the end of the week I'll have a better feel and he'll have a better feel and that's when we'll discuss." The likelihood is that the 49ers are being cautious with Purdy ahead of the most important game of the season so far. Still, it is far from an ideal turn of events for the Niners and, if they are put in a situation when they are starting Brandon Allen at quarterback without Williams and Bosa, then Shanahan's team may soon find themselves in too deep of a hole from which to climb out and rescue their season. This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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AP Trending SummaryBrief at 4:39 p.m. ESTWild return to the ice rested and, they hope, a little healthierNagpur: The city police on Monday formally began preparations to outline the security blueprint for the forthcoming winter assembly session, with commissioner of police Ravinder Singal chairing the preview meeting. The cops, even though exhausted after a gruelling Maharashtra state assembly elections, have started their assembly preparations in real earnest. The winter assembly is set to commence in the second week of December with the new govt being sworn in. IPL 2025 mega auction IPL Auction 2025: Who went where and for how much IPL 2025: Complete list of players of each franchise The approximately two-week affair will require elaborate security arrangements for VVIPs and VIPs camping in the city. The assembly is also set to witness agitations against the new govt over various issues like soyabean and cotton prices, price rise, and so on, with the decimated Maha Vikas Aghadi trying to reinforce its relevance after the poll debacle. Around 3,000 police personnel and seven companies of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) were summoned for the winter assembly election last year, when CM Eknath Shinde-led govt and the opposition stayed for two weeks. Apart from the outside forces, around 5,000 city cops were also deployed. Additionally, home guards were deployed. Sources said that deputy commissioner of police, Special Branch, Shweta Khedkar gave a PowerPoint presentation to the senior officials assembled for the first assembly preparation meeting under Singal. She informed them of the security plan from last year, including the numbers of the deployment, their strategic positions, morcha stopping points, routes, and other political activities, including dharnas, rasta roko or blockades. She also briefed them on how the cops faced challenges in tackling some of the aggressive agitations, like those of Rohit Pawar. Singal invited suggestions from the officials with experience from last year's assembly session. He also reminded the brass that fresh situations and circumstances would require further improvisation. He was accompanied by Jt CP Nisar Tamboli. The assembly will be a challenge for Tamboli, who will be managing it for the first time at the helm with Singal. DCP, Traffic, Archit Chandak, who was part of the meeting, is believed to have suggested wrapping up the morchas and dharnas by 6pm so that they do not affect rush hour traffic and commuters are not held up. He also emphasised diversion routes where four to five junctions can be allotted to an officer of inspector rank for seamless coordination with the cops deployed at the fixed points, and to ensure two-way flows for quick decongestion. He was keen to implement measures to decongest diversion routes, as key junctions like Morris College and LIC Square will see political agitations. Chandak also said that parking and diversion decisions would need to be implemented to ensure the carriageways are relatively free for vehicular movements.

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Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Foo Fighters legend Dave Grohl is set to spend Christmas with his wife Jordyn Blum and their kids, despite the stir caused by his bombshell revelation of being unfaithful. The 55 year old rock icon took everyone by surprise when he confessed to cheating and fathering another child, separate from his marriage. Married since 2003 to director and actress Jordyn , Dave is a doting dad to Violet Maye, 18, Harper Willow, 15, and Ophelia Saint, 10. But the massive news came in September when he announced on social media that he had a fourth daughter "outside of my marriage" and was committed to mending fences with Jordyn and their children. There was a buzz among fans, worried whether this would spell the end of his marriage; but now, it seems the couple may be healing and choosing to remain united. People magazine got the inside scoop from a source confirming: "They are all spending Christmas as a family," reports the Mirror US . Plus, another insider shared, "Dave's been prioritizing his family. He knows he messed up. It's one of those situations where you don't realize what you have until you're about to lose it. He doesn't want to lose his family." Dave left fans stunned with his personal announcement earlier this year. The rock icon took to social media to reveal a bombshell, confessing: "I've recently become the father of a new daughter, born outside of my marriage. I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her." He continued, expressing his commitment to his family: "I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and their forgiveness. We're grateful for your consideration toward all the children involved, as we move forward together." Fans were left in a state of shock, taking to various platforms to voice their astonishment. One fan even injected a bit of humour into the conversation, quipping on X: "Dave Grohl is having a child out of wedlock and announced it like a football team firing its coach lol." One fan was clearly not entertained, posting in disbelief: "Not Dave Grohl making a text post to announce he cheated on his wife, fathered a child through the cheating, and lost the trust of his wife and 3 daughters, but plans to 'be a good father' to the new baby. What the f**k!!!!!!!" After confessing to his affair, Dave's previous comments have resurfaced and are biting him in the backside, like when he called Jordyn his "future ex-wife". Reminiscing about their first encounter, he shared with Q Magazine how he was hit on by a stunner while he was all scruffy from a Tenacious D jam session, saying, "Some bombshell comes up and starts talking to Taylor. I was just out of a Tenacious D session. I've got Vans trainers on, no socks, dirty shorts and a dirty T-shirt." "So I'm just having some drinks and acting like a jackass. And by the end of the night I was pissed and I'm staring at her going, 'You're my future ex-wife,'" he recalled. "'So she gave me her number: 'Jordyn, your future ex-wife.'"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has given an exclusive interview to conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson this week. The two talked about a wide range of topics of international concern, primarily the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as the state of US-Russia relations. Here’s the full text of the conversation. Carlson: Minister Lavrov, thank you for doing this. Do you believe the United States and Russia are at war with each other right now? Lavrov: I wouldn’t say so. And in any case, this is not what we want. We would like to have normal relations with all our neighbors, of course, but generally with all countries, especially with a great country like the United States. And President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly expressed his respect for the American people, for American history, for American achievements in the world, and we don’t see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot cooperate for the sake of the universe. Carlson: But the United States is funding a conflict that you’re involved in, of course, and now is allowing attacks on Russia itself. So that doesn’t constitute war? Lavrov: Well, we officially are not at war. But what is going on in Ukraine is what some people call a hybrid war. I would call it a hybrid war as well, but it is obvious that the Ukrainians would not be able to do what they’re doing with long-range modern weapons without the direct participation of American servicemen. And this is dangerous, no doubt about this. We don’t want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia as it were, we are sending signals. We hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapon system called Oreshnik , was taken seriously. However, we also know that some officials in the Pentagon and in other places, including NATO, started saying in the last few days something like that NATO is a defensive alliance, but sometimes you can strike first because the attack is the best defense. Some others in STRATCOM, Thomas Buchanan is his name, representative of STRATCOM, said something which allows for an eventuality of exchange of limited nuclear strikes. And these kinds of threats are really worrying. Because if they are following the logic which some Westerners have been pronouncing lately, that don’t believe that Russia has red lines, they announced their red lines, these red lines are being moved again and again. This is a very serious mistake. That’s what I would like to say in response to this question. It is not us who started the war. Putin repeatedly said that we started the special military operation in order to end the war which the Kiev regime was conducting against its own people in parts of Donbass. And just in his latest statement , President Putin clearly indicated that we are ready for any eventuality. But we strongly prefer a peaceful solution through negotiations on the basis of respecting the legitimate security interest of Russia, and on the basis of respecting the people who live in Ukraine, who still live in Ukraine, being Russians. Their basic human rights, language rights, religious rights, have been exterminated by a series of legislation passed by the Ukrainian parliament. They started long before the special military operation . Since 2017, legislation was passed prohibiting Russian education in Russian, prohibiting Russian media operating in Ukraine, then prohibiting Ukrainian media working in the Russian language, and the latest, of course there were also steps to cancel any cultural events in Russian. Russian books were thrown out of libraries and exterminated. The latest was the law prohibiting the canonic Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. You know, it’s very interesting when people in the West say we want this conflict to be resolved on the basis of the UN Charter and respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and Russia must withdraw. The Secretary General of the United Nations says similar things. Recently his representative repeated that the conflict must be resolved on the basis of international law, the UN Charter and General Assembly resolutions, while respecting the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It’s a misnomer, because if you want to respect the United Nations Charter, you have to respect it in its entirety. The United Nations Charter, among other things, says that all countries must respect the equality of states and the right of people to self-determination. And they also mentioned the United Nations General Assembly resolutions, and this is clear that what they mean is the series of resolutions which they passed after the beginning of this special military operation which demand the condemnation of Russia, that Russia get out of Ukraine; territory in its 1991 borders. But there are other United Nations General Assembly resolutions which were not voted on, but which were consensual, and among them is a declaration on principles of relations between states on the basis of the Charter. And it clearly says, by consensus, everybody must respect the territorial integrity of states whose governments respect the right of people for self-determination, and because of that represent the entire population living on a given territory. To argue that the people who came to power through military coup d’état in February 2014 represented Crimeans or the citizens of eastern and southern Ukraine is absolutely useless. It is obvious that Crimeans rejected the coup. They said, leave us alone, we don’t want to have anything with you. So we did: Donbass and Crimeans held referendums, and they rejoined Russia. Donbass was declared by the putschists who came to power a ‘terrorist group’. They were shelled, attacked by artillery. The war started, which was stopped in February 2015. The Minsk agreements were signed. We were very sincerely interested in closing this drama by seeing the Minsk agreements implemented fully. It was sabotaged by the government which was established after the coup d’état in Ukraine. There was a demand that they enter into a direct dialogue with the people who did not accept the coup. There was a demand that they promote economic relations with that part of Ukraine. And so on and so forth. None of this was done. The people in Kiev were saying we would never talk to them directly. And this is in spite of the fact that the demand to talk to them directly was endorsed by the [UN] Security Council. The putschists said they are terrorists, we would be fighting them, and they would be dying in cellars because we are stronger. Had the coup in February 2014 not happened and the deal which was reached the day before between the then president and the opposition [been] implemented, Ukraine would have stayed in one piece by now, with Crimea in it. It’s absolutely clear. They did not deliver on the deal. Instead they staged the coup. The deal, by the way, provided for the creation of a government of national unity in February 2014, and holding early elections, which the then president would have lost. Everybody knew that. But they were impatient and took the government buildings the next morning. They went to this Maidan Square and announced that they had created the government of the winners. Compare the government of national unity to prepare for elections and the government of the winners. How can the people whom they, in their view, defeated, how can they pretend that they respect the authorities in Kiev? You know, the right to self-determination is the international legal basis for the decolonization process which took place in Africa on the basis of this charter principle, the right to self-determination. The people in the colonies, they never treated their colonial powers, colonial masters, as somebody who represents them, as somebody whom they want to see in the structures which govern those lands. By the same token, the people in the east and south of Ukraine, people in Donbass and Novorossiya, they don’t consider the Zelensky regime as something which represents their interests. How can they do that when their culture, their language, their traditions, their religion, all this was prohibited? The last point is that if we speak about the UN Charter , resolutions, international law, the very first article of the UN Charter, which the West never, never recalls in the Ukrainian context, says, “Respect human rights of everybody, irrespective of race, gender, language, or religion.” Take any conflict. The United States, UK, Brussels, they would interfere, saying, “Oh, human rights have been grossly violated. We must restore the human rights in such and such territory.” On Ukraine, never, ever have they mumbled the words “human rights,” seeing these human rights for the Russian and Russian-speaking population being totally exterminated by law. So when people say, “Let’s resolve the conflict on the basis of the Charter,” - yes. But don’t forget that the Charter is not only about territorial integrity. And territorial integrity must be respected only if the governments are legitimate and if they respect the rights of their own people. Carlson: I want to go back to what you said a moment ago about the introduction or the unveiling of the hypersonic weapons system that you said was a signal to the West. What signal exactly? I think many Americans are not even aware that this happened. What message were you sending by showing it to the world? Lavrov: Well, the message is that you, I mean the United States, and the allies of the United States who also provide these long-range weapons to the Kiev regime, they must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call the strategic defeat of Russia. They fight for keeping the hegemony over the world on any country, any region, any continent. We fight for our legitimate security interests. They say, for example, 1991 borders. Lindsey Graham, who visited some time ago Vladimir Zelensky for another talk; he bluntly, in his presence, said that Ukraine is very rich with rare earth metals and they cannot leave this richness to the Russians. We must take it. We fight. So they fight for a regime which is ready to sell or to give to the West all the natural and human resources. We fight for the people who have been living on these lands, whose ancestors were actually developing those lands, building cities, building factories for centuries and centuries. We care about people, not about natural resources which somebody in the United States would like to keep and to have Ukrainians just as servants sitting on these natural resources. So, the message which we wanted to send by testing in real action this hypersonic system is that we will be ready to do anything to defend our legitimate interests. We hate even to think about war with the United States, which will take nuclear character. Our military doctrine says that the most important thing is to avoid a nuclear war. And it was us, by the way, who initiated in January 2022 the message, the joint statement by the leaders of the five permanent members of the Security Council saying that we will do anything to avoid confrontation between us, acknowledging and respecting each other’s security interests and concerns. This was our initiative. And the security interests of Russia were totally ignored when they rejected at about the same time the proposal to conclude a treaty on security guarantees for Russia, for Ukraine in the context of coexistence and in a context where Ukraine would not ever be a member of NATO or any other military bloc. These security interests of Russia were presented to the West, to NATO and to the United States in December 2021 . We discussed them several times, including during my meeting with Antony Blinken in Geneva in January 2022 . And this was rejected. So we would certainly like to avoid any misunderstanding. And since the people, some people in Washington and some people in London, in Brussels, seemed to be not very capable of understanding, we will send additional messages if they don’t draw the necessary conclusions. Carlson: The fact that we’re having a conversation about a potential nuclear exchange and it’s real... thought I’d never see. And it raises the question, how much back-channel dialogue is there between Russia and the United States? Has there been for the last two and a half years? Is there any conversation ongoing? Lavrov: There are several channels, but mostly on the exchange of people who serve [prison] terms in Russia and in the United States. There were several swaps. There are also channels which are not advertised or publicized, but basically the Americans send through these channels the same message which they send publicly. You have to stop, you have to accept the way which will be based on the Ukrainian needs and position. They support this absolutely pointless ‘peace formula’ by Vladimir Zelensky, which was additioned recently by [his] ‘victory plan’. They held several series of meetings, Copenhagen format, Burgenstock. And they brag that [in the] first half of next year they will convene another conference and they will graciously invite Russia that time. And then Russia would be presented an ultimatum. All this is seriously repeated through various confidential channels. Now we hear something different, including Vladimir Zelensky’s statements that we can stop now at the line of engagement, line of contact. The Ukrainian government will be admitted to NATO, but NATO guarantees at this stage would cover only the territory controlled by the government, and the rest would be subject to negotiations. But the end result of these negotiations must be the total withdrawal of Russia from Ukrainian soil. Leaving Russian people to the Nazi regime, which exterminated all the rights of the Russian and Russian-speaking citizens of their own country. Carlson: If I could just go back to the question of nuclear exchange. So there is no mechanism by which the leaders of Russia and the United States can speak to each other to avoid the kind of misunderstanding that could kill hundreds of millions of people. Lavrov: No. We have this channel which is automatically engaged when a ballistic missile launch is taking place. As regards this Oreshnik hypersonic mid-range ballistic missile. 30 minutes in advance, the system sent the message to the United States. They knew that this was the case and that they don’t mistake it for anything bigger and really dangerous. Carlson: I think the system sounds very dangerous. Lavrov: Well, it was a test launch, you know. Carlson: Yes. Oh, you’re speaking of the test, okay. But I just wonder how worried you are that, considering there doesn’t seem to be a lot of conversation between the two countries. Both sides are speaking about exterminating the other’s populations. That this could somehow get out of control in a very short period and no one could stop it. It seems incredibly reckless. Lavrov: No, we are not talking about exterminating anybody’s population. We did not start this war. We have been, for years and years and years, sending warnings that pushing NATO closer and closer to our borders is going to create a problem. In 2007, Putin started to explain [this] to the people who seemed to be overtaken by the ‘end of history’ and being dominant, no challenge, and so on and so forth. And of course, when the coup took place, the Americans did not hide that they were behind it. There is a conversation between Victoria Nuland and the then-American ambassador in Kiev when they discuss personalities to be included in the new government after the coup. The figure of $5 billion spent on Ukraine after independence was mentioned as the guarantee that everything would be like the Americans want. So we don’t have any intention to exterminate Ukrainian people. They are brothers and sisters to the Russian people. Carlson: How many have died so far, do you think, on both sides? Lavrov: It is not disclosed by the Ukrainians. Vladimir Zelensky was saying that it is much less than 80,000 persons on the Ukrainian side. But there is one very reliable figure. In Palestine during one year after the Israelis started their operation in response to this terrorist attack, which we condemned . And this operation, of course, acquired the proportion of collective punishment, which is against international humanitarian law as well. So during one year after the operation started in Palestine, the number of Palestinian civilians killed is estimated at 45,000. This is almost twice as many as the number of civilians on both sides of Ukrainian conflict who died during ten years after the coup. One year and ten years. So it is a tragedy in Ukraine. It’s a disaster in Palestine, but we never, ever had as our goal killing people. And the Ukrainian regime did. The head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky once said that we will make sure that cities like Kharkov, Nikolaev will forget what Russian means at all. Another guy in his office stated that Ukrainians must exterminate Russians through law or, if necessary, physically. Ukrainian former ambassador to Kazakhstan Pyotr Vrublevsky became famous when giving an interview and looking into the camera (being recorded and broadcast) he said: “Our main task is to kill as many Russians as we can so that our children have less things to do” . And statements like this are all over the vocabulary of the regime. Carlson: How many Russians in Russia have been killed since February of 2022? Lavrov: It’s not for me to disclose this information. In the time of military operations special rules exist. Our ministry of defense follows these rules. But there is a very interesting fact that when Vladimir Zelensky was playing not in international arena, but at his comedy club or whatever it is called, he was (there are videos from that period) bluntly defending the Russian language. He was saying: “What is wrong with Russian language? I speak Russian. Russians are our neighbors. Russian is one of our languages” . And get lost, he said, to those who wanted to attack the Russian language and Russian culture. When Vladimir Zelensky became president, he changed very fast. Before the military operation, in September 2021, he was interviewed, and at that time he was conducting war against Donbass in violation of the Minsk agreements . And the interviewer asked him what he thought about the people on the other side of the line of contact. He answered very thoughtfully there are people and there are species. And if you, living in Ukraine, feel associated with the Russian culture, my advice to you, for the sake of your kids, for the sake of your grandkids, get out to Russia. And if this guy wants to bring Russians and people of Russian culture back under his territorial integrity, I mean, it shows that he’s not adequate. Carlson: So, what are the terms under which Russia would cease hostilities? What are you asking for? Lavrov: Ten years ago, in February 2014, we were asking only for the deal between the president and the opposition to have government of national unity, to hold early elections, to be implemented. The deal was signed. And we were asking for the implementation of this deal. They were absolutely impatient and aggressive. And they were, of course, pushed, I have no slightest doubt, by the Americans, because if Victoria Nuland and the US ambassador agreed the composition of the government, why wait for five months to hold early elections? The next time we were in favor of something was when the Minsk Agreements were signed. I was there. The negotiations lasted for 17 hours (well, Crimea was lost by that time because of referendum ). And nobody, including my colleague John Kerry, meeting with us, nobody in the West was worried about the issue of Crimea. Everybody was concentrated on Donbass. And the Minsk Agreements provided for territorial integrity of Ukraine, minus Crimea (this was not even raised) and a special status for a very tiny part of Donbass, not for the entire Donbass, not for Novorossiya at all. Part of Donbass, under these Minsk Agreements, endorsed by the Security Council, should have the right to speak Russian language, to teach Russian language, to study in Russian, to have local law enforcement (like in the states of U.S.), to be consulted when judges and prosecutors are appointed by the central authority, and to have some facilitated economic connections with neighboring regions of Russia. That’s it. Something which President Macron promised to give to Corsica and still is considering how to do this. And when these agreements were sabotaged all along by Pyotr Poroshenko and then by Vladimir Zelensky. Both of them, by the way, came to presidency, running on the promise of peace. And both of them lied. So when these Minsk Agreements were sabotaged to the extent that we saw the attempts to take this tiny part of Donbass by force, and we, as President Putin explained, at that time, we suggested these security arrangements to NATO and the United States, which was rejected. And when the Plan B was launched by Ukraine and its sponsors, trying to take this part of Donbass by force, it was then that we launched the special military operation . Had they implemented the Minsk Agreements Ukraine would be one piece, minus Crimea. But even then, when Ukrainians, after we started the operation, suggested to negotiate, we agreed, there were several rounds in Belarus, and one later they moved to Istanbul. And in Istanbul, Ukrainian delegation put a paper on the table saying: “Those are the principles on which we are ready to agree.” And we accepted those principles. Carlson: The Minsk Principles? Lavrov: No. The Istanbul Principles. It was April 2022. Carlson: Right. Lavrov: Which was: no NATO, but security guarantees to Ukraine, collectively provided with the participation of Russia. And these security guarantees would not cover Crimea or the east of Ukraine. It was their proposal. And it was initialed. And the head of the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, who is now the chair of the Vladimir Zelensky faction in the parliament, he recently (a few months ago) in an interview, confirmed that this was the case. And on the basis of these principles, we were ready to draft a treaty. But then this gentleman who headed the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul said that Boris Johnson visited and told them to continue to fight. Then there was... Carlson: But Boris Johnson, on behalf of... Lavrov: He said no. But the guy who initialed the paper, he said it was Boris Johnson. Other people say it was President Putin who ruined the deal because of the massacre in Bucha . But they never mentioned any more massacre in Bucha . I do. And we do. In a sense, they are on the defensive. Several times in the United Nations Security Council, sitting at the table with Antonio Guterres, I (last year and this year) at the General Assembly, I raised the issue of Bucha and said, guys, it is strange that you are silent about Bucha because you were very vocal when BBC team found itself on the street where the bodies were located. I inquired, can we get the names of the persons whose bodies were broadcast by BBC? Total silence. I addressed Antonio Guterres personally in the presence of the Security Council members. He did not respond. Then at my press conference in New York after the end of the General Assembly last September, I asked all the correspondents: guys, you are journalists. Maybe you’re not an investigative journalists but journalists normally are interested to get the truth. And Bucha thing, which was played all over the media outlets condemning Russia, is not of any interest to anyone - politicians, UN officials. And now even journalists. I asked when I talked to them in September , please, as professional people, try to get the names of those whose bodies were shown in Bucha. No answer. Just like we don’t have any answer to the question, where is the results of medical analysis of Alexey Navalny, who died recently, but who was treated in Germany in the fall of 2020. When he felt bad on a plane over Russia, the plane landed. He was treated by the Russian doctors in Siberia. Then the Germans wanted to take him. We immediately allowed the plane to come. They took him. In less than 24 hours, he was in Germany. And then the Germans continued to say that we poisoned him. And now the analysis confirmed that he was poisoned. We asked for the test results to be given to us. They said, no, we give it to the organization on chemical weapons. We went to this organization, we are members, and we said , can you show to us, because this is our citizen, we are accused of having poisoned him. They said that the Germans told us not to give it to you. They found nothing in the civilian hospital, and the announcement that he was poisoned was made after he was treated in the military Bundeswehr hospital. So it seems that this secret is not going... Carlson: So how did Navalny die? Lavrov: Well, he died serving the term in Russia. As far as it was reported, every now and then he felt not well. Which was another reason why we continued to ask the Germans: can you show us the results which you found? Because we did not find what they found. And what they did to him, I don’t know. Carlson: What the Germans did to him? Lavrov: Yeah, because they don’t explain to anybody, including us. Or maybe they explain to the Americans. Maybe this is credible. But they never told us how they treated him, what they found, and what methods they were using. Carlson: How do you think he died? Lavrov: I am not a doctor. But for anybody to guess, even for the doctors to try to guess, they need to have information. And if the person was taken to Germany to be treated after he had been poisoned, the results of the tests cannot be secret. We still cannot get anything credible on the fate of Skripals - Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The information is not provided to us. He is our citizen, she is our citizen. We have all the rights and the conventions which the UK is party to, to get information. Carlson: Why do you think that Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the UK, would have stopped the peace process in Istanbul? On whose behalf was he doing that? Lavrov: Well, I met with him a couple of times, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was motivated by some immediate desire or by some long-term strategy. He is not very predictable. Carlson: But do you think he was acting on behalf of the US government, on behalf of the Biden administration, or he was doing this independently. Lavrov: I don’t know. And I wouldn’t guess. The fact that the Americans and the Brits are leading in this “situation” is obvious. Now it is becoming also clear that there is a fatigue in some capitals, and there are talks every now and then that the Americans would like to leave it with the Europeans and to concentrate on something more important. I wouldn’t guess. We would be judging by specific steps. It’s obvious, though, that the Biden administration would like to leave a legacy to the Trump administration as bad as they can. And similar to what Barack Obama did to Donald Trump during his first term. Then late December 2016, President Obama expelled Russian diplomats. Just very late December. 120 persons with family members. Did it on purpose. Demanded them leave on the day when there was no direct flight from Washington to Moscow. So they had to move to New York by buses with all their luggage, with children, and so on and so forth. And at the same time, President Obama announced the arrest of pieces of diplomatic property of Russia. And we still never were able to come and see what is the state of this Russian property. Carlson: What was the property? Lavrov: Diplomatic. They never allowed us to come and see it though under all conventions. They just say that these pieces we don’t consider as being covered by diplomatic immunity, which is a unilateral decision, never substantiated by any international court. Carlson: So you believe the Biden administration is doing something similar again to the incoming Trump administration. Lavrov: Because that episode with the expulsion and the seizure of property certainly did not create the promising ground for beginning of our relations with the Trump administration. So I think they’re doing the same. Carlson: But this time President Trump was elected on the explicit promise to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. So I mean, he said that in appearance after appearance. So given that, there is hope for a resolution, it sounds like. What are the terms to which you’d agree? Lavrov: Well, the terms, I basically alluded to them. When President Putin spoke in this Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 14th of June he once again reiterated that we were ready to negotiate on the basis of the principles which were agreed in Istanbul and rejected by Boris Johnson, according to the statement of the head of the Ukrainian delegation. The key principle is non-bloc status of Ukraine. And we would be ready to be part of the group of countries who would provide collective security guarantees to Ukraine. Carlson: But no NATO? Lavrov: No NATO. Absolutely. No military bases, no military exercises on the Ukrainian soil with participation of foreign troops. And this is something which he reiterated. But of course, he said, it was April 2022, now some time has passed, and the realities on the ground would have to be taken into account and accepted. The realities on the ground are not only the line of contact, but also the changes in the Russian Constitution after referendum was held in Donetsk, Lugansk republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. And they are now part of the Russian Federation, according to the Constitution. And this is a reality. And of course, we cannot tolerate a deal which would keep the legislation which are prohibiting Russian language, Russian media, Russian culture, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, because it is a violation of the obligations of Ukraine under the UN Charter , and something must be done about it. And the fact that the West (since this russophobic legislative offensive started in 2017) was totally silent and it is silent until now, of course we would have to pay attention to this in a very special way. Carlson: Would sanctions against Russia be a condition? Lavrov: You know, I would say probably many people in Russia would like to make it a condition. But the more we live under sanctions, the more we understand that it is better to rely on yourself, and to develop mechanisms, platforms for cooperation with ‘normal’ countries who are not unfriendly to you, and don’t mix economic interests and policies and especially politics. And we learned a lot after the sanctions started. The sanctions started under President Obama. They continued in a very big way under the first term of Donald Trump. And these sanctions under the Biden administration are absolutely unprecedented. But what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, you know. They would never kill us, so they are making us stronger. Carlson: And driving Russia east. And so the vision that I think same policymakers in Washington had 20 years ago is why not to bring Russia into a Western bloc, sort of as a balance against the rising east. But it doesn’t seem like that. Do you think that’s still possible? Lavrov: I don’t think so. When recently President Putin was speaking at Valdai Club to politologists and experts, he said we would never be back at the situation of early 2022. That’s when he realized (for himself, apparently, not only he, but he spoke publicly about this) that all attempts to be on equal terms with the West have failed. It started after the demise of the Soviet Union. There was euphoria, we are now part of the ‘liberal world’, democratic world, ‘end of history’. But very soon it became clear to most of the Russians that in the 1990s we were treated as - at best as junior partner, maybe not even as a partner, - but as a place where the West can organize things like it wants, striking deals with oligarchs, buying resources and assets. And then probably the Americans decided that Russia is in their pocket. Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton, buddies, laughing, joking. But even at the end of Boris Yeltsin’s term, he started to contemplate that this was not something he wanted for Russia. And I think this was very obvious when he appointed Vladimir Putin prime minister, and then left earlier, and blessed Vladimir Putin as his successor for the elections which were coming and which Putin won. But when Vladimir Putin became president, he was very much open to cooperation with the West. And he mentions about this quite regularly when he speaks with interviewers or at some international events. I was present when he met with George Bush Jr., with Barack Obama. Well, after the meeting of NATO in Bucharest, which was followed by NATO-Russia summit meeting in 2008, when they announced that Georgia and Ukraine will be in NATO. And then they tried to sell it to us. We asked: why? There was lunch and President Putin asked what was the reason for this? Good question. And they said this is something which is not obligatory. How come? Well, to start the process of joining NATO, you need a formal invitation. And this is a slogan - Ukraine and Georgia will be in NATO. But this slogan became obsession for some people in Tbilisi first, when Mikhail Saakashvili lost his senses and started the war against his own people under the protection of OSCE mission with the Russian peacekeepers on the ground. And the fact that he launched this was confirmed by the European Union investigation, which they launched and which concluded that he gave the order to start. And for Ukrainians, it took a bit longer. They were cultivating this pro-Western mood. Well, pro-Western is not bad, basically. Pro-Eastern is also not bad. What is bad is that you tell people, either/or, either you go with me or you’re my enemy. What happened before the coup in Ukraine? In 2013, the president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych negotiated with the European Union some association agreement which would nullify tariffs on most of the Ukrainian goods to the European Union and the other way around. And at some point, when he was meeting with Russian counterparts, we told him, Ukraine was part of the free trade area of the Commonwealth of Independent States. No tariffs for everybody. And we, Russia, negotiated agreement with World Trade Organization for some 17 years, mostly because we bargained with European Union. And we achieved some protection for many of our sectors, agriculture and some others. We explained to the Ukrainians that if you go zero in your trade with European Union, we would have to protect our customs border with Ukraine. Otherwise the zero tariff European goods would flood and would be hurting our industries, which we tried to protect and agreed for some protection. And we suggested to the European Union: guys, Ukraine is our common neighbor. You want to have better trade with Ukraine. We want the same. Ukraine want to have markets both in Europe and in Russia. Why don’t we sit three of us and discuss it like grownups? The head of the European Commission was the Portuguese José Manuel Barroso. He responded it’s none of your business what we do with Ukraine. And then the president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych convened his experts. And they said, yes, it would be not very good if we have opened the border with European Union, but the customs border with Russia would be closed. And they would be checking, you know, what is coming. So that the Russian market is not affected. So he announced in November 2013 that he cannot sign the deal immediately, and he asked the European Union to postpone it for until next year. That was the trigger for Maidan, which was immediately thrown up and ended by the coup. So my point is that this either/or. Actually, the first coup took place in 2004, when after second round of elections, the same Viktor Yanukovych won presidency. The West raised hell and put pressure on the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to rule that there must be a third round. The Constitution of Ukraine says there may be only two rounds. But the Constitutional Court, under the pressure of the West, violated the Constitution for the first time then. And pro-Western candidate was chosen. At that time, when all this was taking place and boiling, the European leaders were publicly saying Ukrainian people must decide: are they with us or with Russia? Carlson: But it is the way that big countries behave. I mean, there are certain orbits, and now it’s BRICS versus NATO, US versus China. And it sounds like you’re saying the Russian-Chinese alliance is permanent. Lavrov: Well, we are neighbors. And of course geography is very important. Carlson: But you’re also neighbors with Western Europe. And you’re part of it, in effect. Lavrov: Through Ukraine the Western Europe wants to come to our borders. And there were plans that were discussed almost openly to put British naval bases on the Sea of Azov. Crimea was eyed. Dreaming about creating NATO base in Crimea and so on and so forth. Look, we have been very friendly with Finland, for example. Overnight, the Finns came back to the early years of preparation for World War II when they were best allies of Hitler. And all this neutrality, all this friendship, going to sauna together, playing hockey together, all this disappeared overnight. So maybe this was deep in their hearts, and the neutrality was burdening them, and niceties were burdening for them. I don’t know. Carlson: They’re mad about the ‘winter war’. That’s totally possible. Can you negotiate with Zelensky? You’ve pointed out that he has exceeded his term. He’s not democratically elected president of Ukraine anymore. So do you consider him a suitable partner for negotiations? Lavrov: President Putin addressed many times this issue as well. In September 2022, during the first year of the special military operation , Vladimir Zelensky, in his conviction that he would be dictating the terms of the situation also to the West, he signed a decree prohibiting any negotiations with Putin’s government. During public events after that episode, President Vladimir Putin is asked why Russia is not ready for negotiations. He said, don’t turn it upside down. We are ready for negotiations, provided it will be based on the balance of interest, tomorrow. But Vladimir Zelensky signed this decree prohibiting negotiations. For starters, why don’t you tell him to cancel it publicly? This will be a signal that he wants negotiations. Instead, Vladimir Zelensky invented his ‘peace formula’. Lately, it was complemented by a ‘victory plan’. They keep saying, we know what they say when they meet with European Union ambassadors and in other formats, they say no deal unless the deal is on our terms. I mentioned to you that they are planning now the second summit on the basis of this peace formula, and they don’t shy away from saying, we will invite Russia to put in front of it the deal which we agreed already with the West. When our Western colleagues sometimes say nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine in effect, this implies that anything about Russia without Russia. Because they discuss what kind of conditions we must accept. By the way, recently they already violated, tacitly, the concept nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. There are passes, there are messages. They know our position. We are not playing double game. What President Putin announced is the goal of our operation. It’s fair. It’s fully in line with the United Nations Charter . First of all, the rights: language rights, minority rights, national minority rights, religious rights, and it’s fully in line with OSCE principles. There is an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe which is still alive. And well, several summits of this organization clearly stated that security must be indivisible, that nobody should expand his security at the expense of security of others, and that, most important, no organization in Euro-Atlantic space shall claim dominance. This was last time it was confirmed by OSCE in 2010. NATO was doing exactly the opposite. So we have legitimacy in our position. No NATO on our doorsteps because OSCE agreed that this should not be the case if it hurts us. And please restore the rights of Russians. Carlson: Who do you think has been making foreign policy decisions in the United States? This is a question in the United States. Who is making these decisions? Lavrov: I wouldn’t guess. I haven’t seen Antony Blinken for years. When it was the last time? Two years ago, I think, at the G20 summit. Was it in Rome or somewhere? In the margins. I was representing President Putin there. His assistant came up to me during a meeting and said that Antony wants to talk just for ten minutes. I left the room. We shook hands, and he said something about the need to de-escalate and so on and so forth. I hope he’s not going to be angry with me since I am disclosing this. But we were meeting in front of many people present in the room, and I said, “We don’t want to escalate. You want to inflict strategic defeat upon Russia.” He said, “No. It is not strategic defeat globally. It is only in Ukraine.” Carlson: You’ve not spoken to him since? Lavrov: No. Carlson: Have you spoken to any officials in the Biden administration since then? Lavrov: I don’t want to ruin their career. Carlson: But have you had meaningful conversations? Lavrov: No. Not at all. When I met in international events one or another person whom I know, an American, some of them say hello, some of them exchange a few words, but I never impose myself. It’s becoming contagious when somebody sees an American talking to me or a European talking to me. Europeans are running away when they see me. During the last G20 meeting, it was ridiculous. Grown-up people, mature people. They behave like kids. So childish. Unbelievable. Carlson: So, you said that when in 2016, in December, the final moments of the Biden administration, Biden made the relationship between the United States and Russia more difficult. Lavrov: Obama. Biden was vice-president. Carlson: Exactly. I’m so sorry. The Obama administration left a bunch of bombs, basically, for the incoming Trump administration. In the last month since the election, you have all sorts of things going on politically in bordering states in this region. In Georgia, in Belarus, in Romania, and then, of course, most dramatically in Syria, you have turmoil. Does this seem like part of an effort by the United States to make the resolution more difficult? Lavrov: There is nothing new, frankly. Because the US, historically, in foreign policy, was motivated by making some trouble and then to see if they can fish in the muddy water. Iraqi aggression, Libyan adventure - ruining the state, basically. Fleeing from Afghanistan. Now trying to get back through the back door, using the United Nations to organize some ‘event’ where the US can be present, in spite of the fact that they left Afghanistan in very bad shape and arrested money and don’t want to give it back. I think this is, if you analyze the American foreign policy steps, adventures, most of them are the right word - the pattern. They create some trouble, and then they see how to use it. When the OSCE monitors elections, when it used to monitor elections in Russia, they would always be very negative, and in other countries as well, Belarus, Kazakhstan. This time, in Georgia, the monitoring mission of OSCE presented a positive report. And it is being ignored. So when you need endorsement of the procedures, you do it when you like the results of the election. If you don’t like the results of elections, you ignore it. It’s like when the United States and other Western countries recognized unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, they said this is the self-determination being implemented. There was no referendum in Kosovo - unilateral declaration of independence. By the way, after that the Serbs approached International Court of Justice, which ruled that (well, normally they are not very specific in their judgment, but they ruled) that when part of a territory declares independence, it is not necessarily to be agreed with the central authorities. And when a few years later, Crimeans were holding referendum with invitation of many international observers, not from international organizations, but from parliamentarians in Europe, in Asia, in post-Soviet space, they said, no, we cannot accept this because this is violation of territorial integrity. You know, you pick and choose. The UN Charter is not a menu. You have to respect it in all its entirety. Carlson: So who’s paying the rebels who’ve taken parts of Aleppo? Is the Assad government in danger of falling? What is happening exactly, in your view, in Syria? Lavrov: Well, we had a deal when this crisis started. We organized the Astana process (Russia, Türkiye and Iran). We meet regularly . Another meeting is being planned before the end of the year or early next year, to discuss the situation on the ground. The rules of the game are to help Syrians to come to terms with each other and to prevent separatist threats from getting strong. That’s what the Americans are doing in the east of Syria when they groom some Kurdish separatists using the profits from oil and grain sold, the resources which they occupy. This Astana format is a useful combination of players, if you wish. We are very much concerned. And when this happened, with Aleppo and surroundings, I had a conversation with the Turkish minister of foreign affairs and with Iranian colleague. We agreed to try to meet this week. Hopefully in Doha at the margins of this international conference. We would like to discuss the need to come back to strict implementation of the deals on Idlib area, because Idlib de-escalation zone was the place from where the terrorists moved to take Aleppo. The arrangements reached in 2019 and 2020 provided for our Turkish friends to control the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone and to separate the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (former Nusra) from the opposition, which is non-terrorist and which cooperates with Türkiye. And another deal was the opening of M5 route from Damascus to Aleppo, which is also now taken completely by the terrorists. So we, as ministers of foreign affairs, would discuss the situation, hopefully, this coming Friday. And the military of all three countries and the security people are in contact with each other. Carlson: But the Islamist groups, the terrorists you just described, who is backing them? Lavrov: Well, we have some information. We would like to discuss with all our partners in this process the way to cut the channels of financing and arming them. The information which is being floated and it’s in the public domain mentions among others the Americans, the Brits. Some people say that Israel is interested in making this situation aggravated. So that Gaza is not under very close scrutiny. It’s a complicated game. Many actors are involved. I hope that the context which we are planning for this week will help stabilize the situation. Carlson: What do you think of Donald Trump? Lavrov: I met him several times when he was having meetings with President Putin and when he received me twice in the Oval Office when I was visiting for bilateral talks. Well, I think he’s a very strong person. A person who wants results. Who doesn’t like procrastination on anything. This is my impression. He’s very friendly in discussions. But this does not mean that he’s pro-Russian as some people try to present him. The amount of sanctions we received under the Trump administration was very big. We respect any choice which is made by the people when they vote. We respect the choice of American people. As President Putin said, we are and we have been open all along to the contacts with the current administration. We hope that when Donald Trump is inaugurated, we will understand. The ball, as President Putin said, is on their side. We never severed our contacts, our ties in the economy, trade, security, anything. Carlson: My final question is: how sincerely worried are you about an escalation in conflict between Russia and the United States, knowing what you do? Lavrov: Well, we started with this question, more or less. Carlson: It seems the central question. Lavrov: Yes. The Europeans whisper to each other that it is not for Vladimir Zelensky to dictate the terms of the deal - it’s for the US and Russia. I don’t think we should be presenting our relations as two guys decide for everybody. Not at all. It is not our style. We prefer the manners which dominate in BRICS , in Shanghai Cooperation Organization , where the UN Charter principle of sovereign equality of states is really embodied. The US is not used to respect sovereign equality of states. When the US says we cannot allow Russia to win on Ukraine because this would undermine our rules-based world order. And rules-based world order is American domination. Now, by the way, NATO, at least under Biden administration, is eyeing the entire Eurasian continent, Indo-Pacific strategies, South China Sea, East China Sea, is already on NATO agenda. NATO is moving infrastructure there. AUKUS, building ‘quartet’ Indo-Pacific Four as they call it (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea). US, South Korea, and Japan are building military alliance with some nuclear components. And Jens Stoltenberg, the former Secretary General of NATO, last year after the summit he said that the Atlantic security is indivisible from Indo-Pacific security. When he was asked does it mean that you go beyond territorial defense, he answered - no, it doesn’t go beyond territorial defense, but to defend our territory, we need to be present there. This element of preemption is more and more present. We don’t want war with anybody. And as I said, five nuclear states declared at the top level in January 2022 that we don’t want confrontation with each other and that we shall respect each other’s security interests and concerns. And it also stated nuclear war can never be won, and therefore nuclear war is not possible. And the same was reiterated bilaterally between Russia and the United States, Putin-Biden, when they met in 2021 in Geneva in June . Basically, they reproduced the statement by Reagan-Gorbachev of 1987 ‘no nuclear war’. And this is absolutely in our vital interest, and we hope that this is also in vital interest of the United States. I say so because some time ago John Kirby, who is the White House communications coordinator, was answering questions about escalation and about possibility of nuclear weapons being employed. And he said, “Oh, no, we don’t want escalation because then if there is some nuclear element, then our European allies would suffer.” So even mentally, he excludes that the United States can suffer. And this is something which makes the situation a bit risky. It might – if this mentality prevails, then some reckless steps would be taken, and this is bad. Carlson: What you’re saying is American policy makers imagine there could be a nuclear exchange that doesn’t directly affect the United States, and you’re saying that’s not true. Lavrov: That’s what I said, yes. But professionals in deterrence, nuclear deterrence policy, they know very well that it’s a very dangerous game. And to speak about limited exchange of nuclear strikes is an invitation to disaster, which we don’t want to have.

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Genetic Changes Tied to Social Behavior in Autism, Schizophrenia - Mirage NewsOn an X account where she shared occasional selfies, life updates and memes, Sara Mason, 26, posted about a man in a motorcycle helmet being outside her home the night of Dec. 18, less than 20 minutes before police were called to the scene. "Trying not to be scared suburban white woman about the dude waiting outside of my house for a .... While now? Wanting to speak to my brother while wearing a motorcycle helmet (drive in a car)," she posted at 9:22 p.m. Within a minute, she added, "He like left but will probably be back. Anyway." Mahomet police were called at 9:41 p.m. to the residence on Riverside Court, where they discovered Mason, who was pronounced dead at the scene; and her mother, 61-year-old Janis Mason, and brother, 23-year-old Caleb Mason, who both died a little later after being taken to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. It does not appear that Sara Mason recognized John R. Lyons, 24, the man police suspect in the triple homicide. Lyons fled to suburban Chicago, where he was killed in a confrontation with police in Berwyn. Champaign County court records indicate that in June, Lyons filed a lawsuit alleging Caleb Mason had harmed him in some way and requesting compensation in an amount between $15,000 and $50,000. Mahomet police Chief Mike Metzler said Lyons knew one of the victims. Police reports thus far have not included details about whether Lyons was wearing a motorcycle helmet. However, on Thursday, Dec. 19, far-right political pundit and streamer Nicholas Fuentes posted that an armed individual who arrived at his house late Wednesday night wearing a motorcycle helmet had "committed a triple homicide in southern Illinois." "Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently doxed on this platform," Fuentes wrote. He said the killer broke into his neighbor's home in Berwyn, where police said Lyons broke in and killed two dogs while attempting to evade arrest. Fuentes posted multiple clips of footage from Ring security cameras that show a man in brown pants, a blue coat and a white motorcycle helmet who is carrying a firearm and crossbow. In the footage, the man gets out of a car while wearing a motorcycle helmet and appears to ring the doorbell and knock on the front door, then attempt to gain access through multiple entry points. The only audio in any of the clips is while the man is at the front door and apparently says "Yo, Nick." Timestamps on footage Fuentes posted indicate the events around his home in Berwyn beginning at 11:29 p.m., about one hour and 50 minutes after police were called to the home in Mahomet. About 10 minutes later, at 11:38 p.m., Berwyn police responded to a report of a man with a gun.AMP streamer Agent suddenly banned on Twitch

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after the Apollo missions. or signup to continue reading Administrator Bill Nelson on Thursday said the next mission in the Artemis program - sending four astronauts around the moon and back - is now targeted for April 2026. It had been on the books for September 2025, after slipping from this year. The investigation into heat shield damage from the capsule's initial test flight two years ago took time, officials said, and other spacecraft improvements are still needed. This bumps the third Artemis mission - a moon landing by two other astronauts - to at least 2027. NASA had been aiming for 2026. NASA's Artemis program, a follow-up to the Apollo moonshots of the late 1960s and early 1970s, has completed only one mission. An empty Orion capsule circled the moon in 2022 after blasting off on NASA's new Space Launch System rocket. Although the launch and lunar laps went well, the capsule returned with an excessively charred and eroded bottom heat shield, damaged from the heat of re-entry. It took until recently for engineers to pinpoint the cause and come up with a plan. NASA will use the Orion capsule with its original heat shield for the next flight with four astronauts, according to Nelson, but make changes to the reentry path at flight's end. To rip off and replace the heat shield would have meant at least a full year's delay, officials said. During the flight test, the capsule dipped in and out of the atmosphere during re-entry and heat built up in the shield's outer layer, explained Pam Melroy, NASA deputy administrator. That resulted in cracking and uneven shedding of the outer layer. The commander of the lunar fly-around, astronaut Reid Wiseman, took part in Thursday's news conference at NASA headquarters in Washington. His crew includes NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. "Delays are agonising and slowing down is agonising and it's not what we like to do," Wiseman said. But he said he and his crew wanted the heat shield damage from the first flight to be fully understood, regardless of how long it took. Twenty-four astronauts flew to the moon during NASA's vaulted Apollo program, with 12 landing on it. The final bootprints in the lunar dust were made during Apollo 17 in December, 1972. DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. WEEKDAYS Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening. WEEKLY Get the editor's insights: what's happening & why it matters. WEEKLY Love footy? We've got all the action covered. WEEKLY Every Saturday and Tuesday, explore destinations deals, tips & travel writing to transport you around the globe. WEEKLY Going out or staying in? Find out what's on. WEEKDAYS Sharp. Close to the ground. Digging deep. Your weekday morning newsletter on national affairs, politics and more. TWICE WEEKLY Your essential national news digest: all the big issues on Wednesday and great reading every Saturday. WEEKLY Get news, reviews and expert insights every Thursday from CarExpert, ACM's exclusive motoring partner. TWICE WEEKLY Get real, Australia! Let the ACM network's editors and journalists bring you news and views from all over. AS IT HAPPENS Be the first to know when news breaks. DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily! Advertisement AdvertisementIHDG: Wrapping Up A Soft Year For Foreign Quality Stocks

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1 jollibee spaghetti calories TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli soldiers raided a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcing all the patients and most of the doctors to leave, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday. The Israeli military confirmed its troops had entered the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Jabaliya as part of an operation searching for Hamas fighters. Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 15-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain. In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian city of Bethlehem was marking a somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza, with most festivities cancelled and crowds of tourists absent. Israel's bombardment and ground invasion in Gaza has killed over 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its count. The war was sparked by Hamas’s attack on southern Israel in October 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage by Palestinian militants. Around 100 hostages are still being held in Gaza, although only two thirds are believed to still be alive. Here’s the latest: WASHINGTON — A leading global food crisis monitor says deaths from starvation will likely pass famine levels in north Gaza as soon as next month. The U.S.-created Famine Early Warning System Network says that’s because to a near-total Israeli blockade of food and other aid in that part of Gaza. The finding, however, appears to have exposed a rift within the Biden administration over the extent of starvation in northern Gaza. The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jacob Lew, disputes part of the data used in reaching the conclusion and calls the intensified famine warning “irresponsible.” Northern Gaza has been one of the areas hardest-hit by fighting and Israel’s restrictions on aid throughout its 14-month war with Hamas militants. UNITED NATIONS — Israel’s foreign minister has requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to condemn recent missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and to condemn the group's Iranian allies for allegedly providing the group with weapons. Gideon Saar said in a letter Tuesday to Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield of the United States, which holds the council presidency this month, that the Houthis are violating international law and council resolutions. “This Iranian-backed terrorist group continues to endanger Israel’s and other nations’ security, as well as the freedom of maritime navigation, in flagrant violation of international law,” Saar said. “All of this malign activity is done as part of a broader strategy to destabilize the region.” The U.S. Mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to an email asking when the council meeting will be held. The Houthis have said they launched attacks on shipping in the Red Sea – and on Israel -- with the aim of ending Israel’s devastating air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli war in Gaza followed Hamas’ deadly October 2023 attacks in southern Israel. TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli military investigation has concluded that the presence of troops inadvertently contributed to the deaths of six hostages killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. The hostages' bodies were discovered in a tunnel in late August, an event that shook Israel and sparked some of the largest anti-war protests since the war began. The investigation found that the six hostages were killed by multiple gunshots from their captors after surviving for nearly 330 days. The Israeli military’s “ground activities in the area, although gradual and cautious, had a circumstantial influence on the terrorists’ decision to murder the six hostages,” the report found. According to the investigation, the Israeli military began operating in the area where the hostages were being held in southern Gaza about two weeks before their discovery, under the assumption that the chances of hostages in the area was medium to low. On August 27, hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi was found alone in a tunnel , causing the Israeli military to halt operations for 24 hours to determine if there could be other hostages in the area. The military discovered the opening leading to the tunnel where the bodies of the six hostages were located on August 30. A pathological report estimated the six hostages were killed on August 29. The six hostages killed were Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Ori Danino, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin , whose American-Israeli parents became some of the most recognized spokespeople pleading for the hostages’ release, including addressing the Democratic National Convention days before their son’s killing. “The investigation published tonight proves once again that the return of all hostages will only be possible through a deal,” the Hostages Families Forum said in response to the investigation. “Every passing moment puts the hostages’ lives in immediate danger.” JERUSALEM — The Israeli negotiating team working on a ceasefire returned from Qatar to Israel on Tuesday, the prime minister’s office said, after what it called “a significant week” of talks. After months of deadlock, the U.S., Qatar and Egypt resumed their mediation efforts in recent weeks and reported greater willingness by the warring sides to reach a deal. According to Egyptian and Hamas officials, the proposed agreement would take place in phases and include a halt in fighting, an exchange of captive Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, and a surge in aid to the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel says Hamas is holding 100 hostages, over one-third of whom are believed to be dead. On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was “some progress” in efforts to reach a deal, but added he did not know how long it would take. CAIRO — Israeli soldiers took control of a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcing all the patients and most of the doctors to leave, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday. Some of the patients had to walk to another hospital while others were driven by paramedics, according to Health Ministry spokesperson Zaher al-Wahidi. He did not specify how many patients had evacuated. The Israeli military confirmed its troops had entered the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Jabaliya as part of an operation searching for Hamas fighters. The army later said its soldiers had left the hospital. The military said it had assisted with evacuating the patients and had not ordered the hospital closed. However, al-Wahidi said only one doctor and maintenance person were left behind. The Indonesian Hospital is one of three hospitals left largely inaccessible in the northernmost part of Gaza because Israel has imposed a tight siege there since launching an offensive in early October. The Israeli army said Tuesday’s operation at the Indonesian Hospital came after militants carried out attacks from the hospital for the past month, including launching anti-tank missiles and planting explosive devices in the surrounding area. The Health Ministry accused Israel of “besieging and directly targeting” the three hospitals in northern Gaza. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said Israeli drones detonated explosives near the hospital and that 20 people were wounded, including five medical staff. The Israeli military declined to comment on the operation around the hospital. DAMASCUS — Scores of Syrian Christians protested in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, demanding greater protections for their religious minority after a Christmas tree was set on fire in the city of Hama a day earlier. Many of the insurgents who now rule Syria are jihadis, although Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the main rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has renounced longtime ties to al-Qaida and spent years depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance. It remains unclear who set the Christmas tree on fire Monday, which was condemned by a representative of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham who visited the town and addressed the community. “This act was committed by people who are not Syrian, and they will be punished beyond your expectations," the HTS representative said in a video widely shared on social media. "The Christmas tree will be fully restored by this evening.” On Tuesday, protesters marched through the streets of Bab Touma in Damascus, shouting slogans against foreign fighters and carrying large wooden crosses. “We demand that Syria be for all Syrians. We want a voice in the future of our country,” said Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church as he addressed the crowd in a church courtyard, assuring them of Christians’ rights in Syria. Since HTS led a swift offensive that overthrew President Bashar Assad earlier this month, Syria’s minority communities have been on edge, uncertain of how they will be treated under the emerging rebel-led government. “We are here to demand a democratic and free government for one people and one nation,” another protester said. “We stand united — Muslims and Christians. No to sectarianism.” DOHA — Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said that ceasefire negotiations to end the war in Gaza were ongoing in Doha in cooperation with Egyptian, Qatari, and American mediators. “We will not leave any door unopened in pursuit of reaching an agreement,” said Majid al-Ansari, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday. Al Ansari added that rumors the ceasefire would be reached before Christmas are “speculation.” The ceasefire negotiations come at a time when winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 15-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain. Families of the approximately 100 hostages who have been held for 445 days in Gaza are also worried their loved ones will not survive another winter. In a press conference, al-Ansari also called on the international community to lift sanctions on Syria as quickly as possible on Tuesday. “The reason was the crimes of the previous regime, and that regime, with all of its authority, is no longer in place, therefor the causes for these sanctions no longer exist today,” he said. DAMASCUS, Syria — American journalist Austin Tice is believed to be still alive, according to the head of an international aid group. Nizar Zakka, who runs the Hostage Aid Worldwide organization, said there has never been any proof that Tice, who has been missing since 2012, is dead. Zakka told reporters in Damascus on Tuesday that Tice was alive in January and being held by the authorities of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad. He added that U.S. President Joe Biden said in August that Tice was alive. Zakka said he believes Tice was transferred between security agencies over the past 12 years, including in an area where Iranian-backed fighters were operating. Asked if it was possible Tice had been taken out of the country, Zakka said Assad most likely kept him in Syria as a potential bargaining chip. Biden said Dec. 8 that his administration believed Tice was alive and was committed to bringing him home, although he also acknowledged that “we have no direct evidence” of his status. TEL AVIV, Israel — Hannah Katzir, an Israeli woman who was taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, and freed in a brief ceasefire last year, has died. She was 78. The Hostages Families Forum, a group representing the families of people taken captive, confirmed the death Tuesday but did not disclose the cause. Her daughter, Carmit Palty Katzir, said in a statement that her mother’s “heart could not withstand the terrible suffering since Oct. 7.” Katzir’s husband, Rami, was killed during the attack by militants who raided their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Her son Elad was also kidnapped and his body was recovered in April by the Israeli military, who said he had been killed in captivity. She spent 49 days in captivity and was freed in late November 2023. Shortly after Katzir was freed, her daughter told Israeli media that she had been hospitalized with heart issues attributed to “difficult conditions and starvation” while she was held captive. TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's military said the projectile was intercepted before crossing into Israeli territory, but it set off air raid sirens overnight in the country's populous central area, sending residents looking for cover. Israel’s rescue service Magen David Adom said a 60-year-old woman was seriously wounded after being hurt on her way to a protected space. There was no immediate comment from Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. It was the third time in a week that fire from Yemen set off sirens in Israel. On Saturday, a missile slammed into a playground in Tel Aviv, injuring 16, after Israel’s air defense system failed to intercept it. Earlier last week, Israeli jets struck Yemen’s rebel-held capital and a port city, killing nine. Israel said the strikes were in response to previous Houthi attacks.

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With which country are the Magdalene Laundries associated? a) Scotland b) France c) England d) Ireland 8. In which period did World War II occur? a) 1939-1945 b) 1914-1918 c) 1937-1946 d) 1955-1975 9. Which Australian breakdancer went viral during the 2024 Paris Olympics? ( Hint ) a) WaterGun b) LightSaber c) RayGun d) PaperClip 10. Who wrote the novel Ulysses ? a) Alan Joyce b) James Joyce c) Barnaby Joyce d) Brenda Joyce 11. Which 2024 U.S. presidential candidate used John Farnham’s ‘You’re the Voice’ in their political advertising? ( Hint ) a) Robert F Kennedy Jr b) Donald Trump c) Kamala Harris d) Cornel West 12. In which country did the game of chess originate? a) Spain b) India c) China d) Greece 13. True or False: Sydney is north of Perth. a) True b) False 14. Who is the current Federal Minister for Health? a) Chris Bowen b) Clare O’Neil c) Bill Shorten d) Mark Butler 15. To what threat level was Australia's National Terrorism Threat Level raised on 5 August 2024? 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( Hint ) a) Dubai, United Arab Emirates b) Baku, Azerbaijan c) Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt d) Belém, Brazil ANSWERS 1. d) Enshittification 2. d) A 13th Century architectural complex 3. d) The King's Speech 4. a) Chicago 5. a) True 6. b) Without A Fight 7. d) Ireland 8. a) 1939-1945 9. c) Raygun 10. b) James Joyce 11. c) Kamala Harris 12. b) India 13. b) False 14. d) Mark Butler 15. c) Probable 16. c) Reykjavik 17. a) Vanessa Hudson 18. d) 19 November 19. a) 206 20. b) Baku, Azerbaijan SCORE: 5 and under — need more coffee | 6 -10 — read IA more often | 11-15 — savvy IA reader | 16-20 — in line to take over editorial duties! Compiled by IA columnist Belinda Jones . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License Support independent journalism Subscribe to IA. Related Articles IA's election QUIZ: How well do you know Australia’s treasurers? (No 3) LIFE & ARTS QUIZ trivia general knowledge current affairs puzzles IA Interrogates Independent Australia enshittification International Mens Day Australia's threat level Share ArticleEAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Sam Darnold pinballed around his collapsed pocket to dodge a sack on third-and-8, before slicing through a skinny opening to sprint right in search of more space as Justin Jefferson's hand shot up downfield. Darnold let rip an on-the-run throw that sailed 45 yards in the air and straight into Jefferson's arms, where he was stunningly wide open inside the 10. He danced his way into the end zone to give the Minnesota Vikings a 21-13 lead, the harbinger of a fourth-quarter surge past the Atlanta Falcons . “I’m not going to tell you what I told him in regards to my opinion on how many guys make that throw,” coach Kevin O'Connell said with a smile. The 42-21 decision on Sunday not only gave the Vikings (11-2) their sixth consecutive victory but further validated their decision to let Kirk Cousins leave in free agency for a cheaper replacement. With O'Connell directing the quarterback development program and calling the plays and Jefferson leading a dangerous and diverse group of pass-catchers, Darnold has finally found a place he can thrive in after such an environment had long eluded the third overall pick in the 2018 draft — even in this roundabout way after the season-ending injury to rookie J.J. McCarthy. Factor in a defense that's allowing only 18.5 points per game, sixth best in the NFL , and leads the league in interceptions (20), and these Vikings are going to be a tough team to outscore in the playoffs. Darnold became the ninth quarterback in NFL history and the first since Aaron Rodgers in 2019 to hit these benchmarks in a game: at least 325 passing yards, five touchdown passes, a 75% completion rate, no interceptions and a 155-plus passer rating. Jefferson and Jordan Addison combined for 15 catches, 265 yards and five scores. “This is definitely the ball that we want to play every single game,” Jefferson said. “Just the energy, the tempo that we had, just going out there and executing the plays.” None more spectacular than that on-the-run 52-yard touchdown pass from Darnold to Jefferson, who started the play in motion from left to right into a three-man bunch with Addison and Jalen Nailor to set up a favorable matchup with nickel cornerback Dee Alford. Addison ran a clear-out route toward the opposite corner, initially drawing the attention of three defenders. Pro Bowl safety Jessie Bates, who was in a single-high alignment while the other Pro Bowl safety Justin Simmons blitzed, diverted from Addison toward an uncovered Nailor on the other side while ignoring Jefferson streaking behind him. Cornerback Clark Phillips left Nailor to try to catch Jefferson, who'd blown by Alford. “He absolutely cooked the dude on the route,” Darnold said. The Falcons couldn't have played their coverage worse, leaving three receivers open, but that's the type of stress the Vikings can put on a defense with the way Darnold is throwing the ball. “We already knew what he was about once we got him on our team, that he could throw any pass,” Addison said. “He’s just put it on display for everybody else.” What's working Though Darnold has been sacked 40 times this season, he has the athleticism and instinct to extend plays and find one of his tough-to-cover receivers on longer-developing routes even if pressure comes. What needs help The Vikings have allowed their two highest rushing yardage totals of the season in the last two weeks for an average of 4.95 yards per attempt, a trend worth watching for a defense that still ranks second in the NFL against the run. Their final two games against division rivals Green Bay and Detroit will pit them against two of the top five rushing teams in the league. Stock up Rookie Jalen Redmond made his first career start and played 39 of 74 snaps, the most among the interior defensive linemen, and had two tackles for loss and two deflected passes at the line. One came on a third-and-goal throw by Cousins that forced Atlanta to settle for a short kick right before halftime. Redmond went undrafted last year out of Oklahoma, was released by Carolina during the preseason and played this spring in the United Football League. Stock down Will Reichard made all six extra point attempts in his return from a four-game absence to let a quadriceps strain heal, but his only field goal try from 47 yards in the third quarter clanked off the left upright. Injury report CB Stephon Gilmore (hamstring) and backup OLB Patrick Jones (knee) were held out on Sunday. LB Ivan Pace (hamstring) must miss at least two more games. Key number .660 — O'Connell's winning percentage at 31-16 during the regular season is the highest in Vikings history, ahead of Bud Grant (.621). He's fourth among active NFL coaches, trailing Nick Sirianni (.703), Jim Harbaugh (.682) and Matt LaFleur (.677). Up next The Vikings finish their three-game homestand next Monday night against Chicago (4-9), three weeks after beating the Bears 30-27 on the road in overtime. The Vikings have a two-game edge on the Packers for the first NFC wild card, the No. 5 seed, and will clinch a spot in the playoffs with one more win or one more loss by the Los Angeles Rams, who were the last team to beat them on Oct. 24. The tiebreaker outlook in the NFC North, however, will likely require an additional loss by the Lions (12-1) in the next three games, even if the Vikings were to win their next three, to set up a division title game on the final weekend at Detroit. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL Dave Campbell, The Associated Press

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Illinois (6-0) moved to 6-0 for the second time under third-year coach Shauna Green. Illinois scored the opening nine points of the game and took a double-digit lead for good with 2:11 left in the first quarter when Makira Cook made a 3-pointer to begin 13-2 run. UMES scored 13 straight points midway through the second quarter to get as close as 32-22, but Cook answered with a basket to end Illinois' three-minute drought. Bryant finished the first half with 14 points and Cook added 13 to help Illinois build a 43-26 lead. The pair combined to make seven of Illinois’ 14 field goals. UMES was 9 of 36 (25%), including 0 of 7 from 3-point range at halftime. Illinois also got 15 points from Cook and a career-high 11 rebounds from Brynn Shoup-Hill. Bryant, who reached double figures in the first quarter, scored 20-plus for the first time this season. Zamara Haynes led UMES (4-3) with 20 points and Mahogany Lester added 14. Illinois stays in Nashville to play No. 14 Kentucky on Wednesday. UMES travels to Piscataway, New Jersey, to face Georgia Southern in the Battle on the Banks on Friday. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketballFurthermore, big data analytics can help e-commerce companies identify new opportunities for growth and expansion. By analyzing market trends and consumer behavior, businesses can uncover untapped markets, identify emerging trends, and develop innovative products and services that cater to changing customer preferences. This allows companies to stay ahead of the competition and continue to grow their market share in an increasingly crowded and competitive industry.Recently, an incident at Shanxi University has sparked controversy and concern within the academic community. Reports emerged that an international student at the university had allegedly touched a female student inappropriately by placing his hand on her buttocks. The incident has raised questions about campus safety, cultural differences, and the rights and responsibilities of both domestic and international students. In response to the incident, Shanxi University has issued a statement addressing the situation and reaffirming its commitment to creating a safe and respectful campus environment.

Kushner "is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests," Trump said on his Truth Social website, adding that Jared "worked closely with me in the White House." The choice is in keeping with Trump's pattern, so far, of selecting people, often wealthy, who are close to his family or of proven loyalty. Kushner is a multimillionaire real estate executive and former attorney; his son was a senior adviser during Trump's first term. Trump did not mention, however, that the elder Kushner once served jail time -- a two-year sentence, most of it served in a federal prison. Kushner, who is now 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign contributions. The case, which was prosecuted by then US attorney Chris Christie, included sordid details, to which Kushner admitted: that he had hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, a man cooperating in a campaign finance inquiry, and then videotaped the encounter and sent it to the man's wife, Kushner's sister, to dissuade her from testifying against him. Christie, who worked on Trump's first presidential transition team and then opposed him in this year's Republican primary contests, later said Kushner had committed a "loathsome" and "disgusting crime." In 2020, Trump issued a pardon to Kushner, whose conviction had resulted in him being disbarred in three states. Nominees for key ambassadorships are often business associates of a president-elect, or major political donors. But it is rare, if not unprecedented, to name a convicted felon. The first two men to fill the prestigious Paris post were famed inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin and a future president, Thomas Jefferson. If confirmed, Kushner would succeed Denise Bauer, a former ambassador to Belgium who was a major Democratic fundraiser and donor. md/bbk/mdOne of the key features of Answers is its ability to surface answers from within Reddit threads, even if the specific keyword used in the search query is not present in the thread title or body. This intelligent search functionality enables users to discover valuable insights and information that may have been buried deep within the vast sea of Reddit discussions. Additionally, Answers takes into account user preferences, browsing history, and engagement patterns to personalize search results and offer a more tailored experience for each individual.As the clock ticks down to the final showdown, Romaine and his teammates are fully focused on their goal: to lift the Champions League trophy and make history for their club. They know that the road ahead will be tough, but with dedication, determination, and a strong belief in themselves, they are ready to take on the challenge and prove that they have what it takes to emerge victorious.

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jilibet bonus In a message to the American people, the King expressed “great sadness” at the news of Mr Carter’s death, describing him as “a committed public servant” who “devoted his life to promoting peace and human rights”. He added: “His dedication and humility served as an inspiration to many, and I remember with great fondness his visit to the United Kingdom in 1977. “My thoughts and prayers are with President Carter’s family and the American people at this time.” Mr Carter, a former peanut farmer, served one term in the White House between 1977 and 1981 and spent his post-presidency years as a global humanitarian, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Carter had “lived his values in the service of others to the very end” through “decades of selfless public service”. Praising a “lifelong dedication to peace” that saw him win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Sir Keir added: “Motivated by his strong faith and values, President Carter redefined the post-presidency with a remarkable commitment to social justice and human rights at home and abroad.” Tributes to Mr Carter followed the announcement of his death by his family on Sunday, more than a year after he decided to enter hospice care. His son, Chip Carter, said: “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love.” US President Joe Biden, one of the first elected politicians to endorse Mr Carter’s bid for the presidency in 1976, said the world had “lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian”. He said: “Over six decades, we had the honour of calling Jimmy Carter a dear friend. But, what’s extraordinary about Jimmy Carter, though, is that millions of people throughout America and the world who never met him thought of him as a dear friend as well. “With his compassion and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil rights and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless, and always advocate for the least among us.” Vice President Kamala Harris said Mr Carter “reminded our nation and the world that there is strength in decency and compassion”. “His life and legacy continue to inspire me — and will inspire generations to come,” she said. “Our world is a better place because of President Carter.” Other UK politicians also paid tribute to Mr Carter. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said he was “an inspiration” who “led a truly remarkable life dedicated to public service with a genuine care for people”. Scottish First Minister John Swinney described the former president as “a good, decent, honest man who strove for peace in all that he did”, while Welsh First Minister said he was “a remarkable man” and “a humanitarian and scholar”. Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair said Mr Carter’s “life was a testament to public service”. He added: “I always had the greatest respect for him, his spirit and his dedication. He fundamentally cared and consistently toiled to help those in need.” Mr Carter is expected to receive a state funeral featuring public observances in Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington DC before being buried in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. A moderate democrat born in Plains in October 1924, Mr Carter’s political career took him from the Georgia state senate to the state governorship and, finally, the White House, where he took office as 39th president in the wake of the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War. His presidency saw economic disruption amid volatile oil prices, along with social tensions at home and challenges abroad including the Iranian revolution that sparked a 444-day hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran. But he also brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, which led to a peace treaty between the two countries in 1979. After his defeat in the 1980 presidential election, he worked more than four decades leading The Carter Centre, which he and his late wife Rosalynn co-founded in 1982 to “wage peace, fight disease, and build hope”. Under his leadership, the Carter Center virtually eliminated Guinea Worm disease, which has gone from affecting 3.5 million people in Africa and Asia in 1986 to just 14 in 2023. Mrs Carter, who died last year aged 96, had played a more active role in her husband’s presidency than previous first ladies, with Mr Carter saying she had been “my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished”. 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Let me take you back to those halcyon days of December 1994, when footballers were still allowed to tackle, just, VAR wasn’t even a twinkle in an evil inventors eye, the offside rule was almost understandable and everyone knew what handball meant. East 17s Christmas Classic, Stay Another Day , was top of the charts in the UK, Dumb & Dumber had just been released in the cinemas, and a certain Eric Cantona was bestriding the Premier League like a colossus. It was also the last time Nottingham Forest won at Old Trafford, or least that was the case until a few hours ago when Manchester United’s fall hit another new low. So, let’s start with some painful home truths for the red half of the city, courtesy of owner Jim Ratcliffe. You know things are bad when a club’s owner is talking about making “difficult and unpopular” decisions, and describing their own team as mediocre. Even before his side’s 3-2 defeat at home to Forest, Jim Ratcliffe was telling fanzine United We Stand that the club “was not elite” and major change was needed to reverse that. Having only just arrived, manager Ruben Amorim can be fairly certain of his position, although whether the same can be said for goalkeeper Andre Onana and the rest of the United defence remains to be seen. Nikola Milenkovic, Morgan Gibbs-White and Chris Wood did the damage for the visitors, with Rasmus Hojlund and Bruno Fernandes scoring for the home side. Defeat left United 13th in the table, and their 19 points from 15 games is the team’s lowest tally at this stage of a season since 1986-87. Forest, in contrast, are up to fifth. Spotting a theme yet? We’ve gone from East 17 to Elvis, which would be a fun six degrees of separation to work out. Anyway, enough of the mournful musings of the king of rock 'n' roll, its time to focus on the suffering of the blue half of Manchester.

President Biden was adamant that his son “Hunter was treated differently” when he broke his public pledge and issued a rare sweeping pardon spanning almost 11 years for his troubled son late Sunday. But the 54-year-old is far from the only one to have been charged with similar firearm and tax evasion crimes. Several legal experts believe that he already received favorable treatment than others who have committed comparable transgressions. Here are other cases where famous defendants served prison time for their offenses. Darryl De Sousa Former Baltimore police commissioner Darryl De Sousa spent 10 months in jail after being accused of skipping out on some $67,000 in taxes. Hunter, by contrast, admitted to failing to pay $1.4 million to the IRS. De Sousa, who had grown up in a poor household in Queens, New York, decried the pardon as a slap in the face. “It’s unfair. It’s unfortunate,” he lamented to The Post. “The first thing that came to my mind is this two-tiered justice system that exists. It has always existed, and I don’t think it’s ever going to go away.” “Those who are in power and privilege, that come from established communities., vs. those who come from historically underserved communities, are going to be at the opposite end of that.” De Sousa recounted experiencing that “two-tiered” system firsthand while patrolling the streets of Baltimore for almost three decades. “The message that I really would like everyone to know is that the criminal justice system is in dire need of reform,” he added before shifting gears to Hunter Biden’s situation and expressing some sympathy. “[The two cases] should be treated differently. But I have never walked heel to toe in Hunter Biden’s shoes, with his addiction,” he added. “The pardon, I don’t agree to that. There needs to be some consequences.” As for his own tax evasion, De Sousa says there is “no excuse” and he takes “full responsibility” and pinned the blame on negligence. “I put my job first and that was it,” he reflected. “I neglected myself. I neglected my personal responsibilities in life, almost to the point of forgetting about my health.” Notably, prosecutors Leo Wise and Derek Hines, who argued the firearm case against Hunter Biden in June, also prosecuted the case against De Sousa. De Sousa’s charges stemmed from 2013 through 2015. Ultimately, he was forced to resign as Baltimore police commissioner following the 2019 indictment. Rapper Kodak Black Roughly five years ago, Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to 46 months behind bars at the age of 22 for writing down a wrong Social Security number in his application to purchase three guns. Prosecutors alleged the “Bodak Yellow” rapper was trying to hide his criminal record, which made it illegal for him to own firearms. Hunter Biden was similarly precluded from purchasing the .38-caliber revolver he bought on Oct. 12, 2018, but lied a form to purchase it anyway, a jury concluded back in June. Black’s attorney had previously railed against a plea agreement the first son was set to receive last year, which ultimately imploded. “2 tiers of justice? Kodak was charged for the same crime. Got over three years. Mr. Biden will not serve a day. Feels right? Do FBI agents and federal authorities take cases personally?” Black’s attorney Bradford Cohen vented last year when the Biden scion appeared poised to get off on a plea deal. “After 26 years, I have yet to have a plea in a case with an illegal possession of a weapon and tax evasion, that did not come with some kind of prison sentence. Indigents charged the same way would be getting jail time,” Cohen wrote in a post on X . “Even in the case of paying off coaches to get their kids into college came with a prison sentence. One even got 2 weeks, even though she was scoring no jail time. The system was so petty that they made her surrender to a federal prison for 2 weeks! But in this case nothing,” he added. Ultimately, President-elect Donald Trump pardoned Black on the last day of his first term. Wesley Snipes Actor Wesley Snipes, famous for roles such in flicks like “Blade” and “Demolition” was convicted on three counts of tax evasion in 2008 for bilking Uncle Sam on taxes of up to $15 million. Snipes was later sentenced to three years in prison, though he had been acquitted of felony charges of filing a false claim conspiracy to defraud the government. The actor had claimed that he was “a non-resident alien” of the US despite being a citizen by birth and the IRS said he owed taxes between 1999 through 2004. Ultimately, he served 28 months in federal prison and the rest on house arrest. Hunter Biden’s defense team has stressed that he ultimately “fully paid his past-due taxes with interest and penalties in 2021.” The Biden scion managed to pay back those taxes with assistance from his so-called “sugar brother” Kevin Morris. “As a criminal tax lawyer for a near quarter-century, I confirm how rare & extraordinary the #HunterBiden plea deal is. Indeed, the deal violates DOJ tax official policy, where Biden’s DOJ prohibit prosecutors from even offering this deal to people who did far less than Hunter,” Snipes’ attorney Robert Barnes previously wrote on X last year around the time of the Biden scion’s doomed plea deal. Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino Gym, Tan, Laundry and ... Prison. Five years ago, “Jersey Shore” star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino served out an eight-month sentence for skirting $2.3 million in taxes over a five-year stretch. His older brother, Marc, was similarly forced to serve out a 24-month prison stint for skimping on $8.9 million in taxes. Despite the similarities between the two cases, Sorrentino refrained from comparing himself to the Biden scion when asked by Fox News last year. “I’ll be honest with you, I really can’t compare us; we live two different lives,” the reality star told the network . “I wouldn’t be the man I am today if I didn’t make those mistakes. But again, I can’t compare myself to another man.” Sorrentino claimed that he was “very high” when pressed about taxes after seeing a sudden rise in his wealth. “That one decision haunted me for 15 years,” he reflected. Conservatives agree Hunter was treated differently... Conservative critics contend that President Biden, 82, was correct in saying that “Hunter was treated differently,” but they split sharply from him in their assessment of why. “During his campaign for president, President-elect Trump frequently spoke about the two-tiered justice system in America. Highlighting this unequal system has been a central focus of my work as a United States Congressman and as a member of the House Judiciary Committee,” Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) told The Post. “Joe Biden claimed that no one is above the law. We now know that not only is this statement untrue, but that no one is more above the law than those with the last name Biden.” Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project, a conservative legal group that targets what it describes as “lawfare,” estimated that about 97% of cases involving the gun charges Hunter Biden faced result in prison time. “Hunter Biden was certainly treated differently. Almost all other defendants charged with these gun crimes go to prison,” Davis told The Post. Defense attorneys for Hunter Biden have argued that many of those cases involved individuals with prior convictions or who purchases multiple weapons. The 54-year-old budding artist had that Colt Cobra handgun for about 11 days before his sister-in-law-turned-lover threw it in a public trash can. “Moreover, the Biden Justice Department protected Hunter Biden from much more serious foreign corruption charges for years because those charges would implicate Joe Biden,” Davis added. Republican lawmakers in Congress had wanted more scrutiny over Hunter Biden’s dealings in foreign countries amid concerns that he failed to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which could implicate his father. “They prosecuted him on the least that they could have, and he’s complaining about that,” Judicial Watch chief Tom Fitton told The Post. “There was money laundering, the Foreign Agents Registration Act and they came up with the most narrow set of charges.” Others have faced prison time for FARA violations. Former Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort, 75, was sentenced to 60 months for failure to register with the Justice Department about his work for a Ukrainian political party. Last year, Gul Luft was slapped with federal charges for working as an unregistered lobbyist for China, among other infractions. Luft had been a witness in Republicans’ probe of the Biden family business dealings. Ironically, President Biden had echoed some of Trump’s grievances with the justice system and issued a defacto rebuke of the DOJ under his Attorney General Merrick Garland in his statement on the pardon. “It is clear that Hunter was treated differently,” the lame duck president said. “The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election.” “There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me,” he added. “Enough is enough.” The pardon came after the Biden family huddled in Nantucket for Thanksgiving.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Workers pushing for an end to smoking in Atlantic City casinos say the main employee union has been won over by tobacco companies seeking allies in the fight against smoking restrictions. An official of a union involved in the anti-smoking push on Monday called for the head of the Atlantic City casino workers' union, Donna DeCaprio, to resign for failing to protect her members from the dangers of secondhand smoke. DeCaprio is president of Local 54 of the Unite Here union, which opposes a smoking ban on the grounds that so much business would be lost by smokers taking their money elsewhere that it could cause one or more casinos to shut down, costing thousands of workers their jobs. “She should be ashamed of herself,” said Ray Jensen, assistant director of United Auto Workers Region 9, which represents dealers at three Atlantic City casinos and is part of a lawsuit seeking to have the courts force an end to smoking in the gambling halls. “She should hand in her union card.” DeCaprio said her union supports the health and safety of its members, adding improvements to the workplace environment need to be made. “A balance needs to be reached that will both protect worker health and preserve good jobs,” she said. “We are protecting our members against multiple casino closures and job losses. The UAW is eager to sacrifice the entire casino industry and put 25,000 good jobs with benefits at risk.” DeCaprio said between 50% and 72% of all in-person casino revenue in Atlantic City comes from smoking sections, which occupy only 25% of the casino floor. She said her union “and the vast majority of the labor movement” support a proposal that would improve ventilation in casinos and prevent any employee from being assigned to work in a smoking section against their will. Whether to ban smoking is one of the most controversial issues not only in Atlantic City casinos but in other states where workers have expressed concern about secondhand smoke. They are waging similar campaigns in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Kansas and Virginia. Workers have been pushing for four years to end an exemption in New Jersey’s clean air law that allows smoking inside the nine casinos. They say they or their co-workers are becoming ill with cancer, heart disease and other conditions related to exposure to second-hand smoke. Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, has said he will sign a bill to end casino smoking if it reaches his desk. The casinos, joined by Local 54, oppose that effort, saying it will cost Atlantic City thousands of jobs and lead to decreased tax revenue for state programs for senior citizens and the disabled. On Monday, the workers group that calls itself CEASE (Casino Employees Against Smoking’s Effects) filed an appeal of a court ruling in August that allowed smoking to continue in the nine casinos. The Casino Association of New Jersey declined to comment Monday. Attorney Nancy Erika Smith said as far back as 1993, tobacco companies targeted labor unions in the hospitality industry as potential allies to work against smoking bans in the restaurant and hospitality industries. That effort included the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, a precursor of the Unite Here union. “HERE and the related AFL-CIO affiliates are critical allies which should be cultivated as supporters of the effort to prevent smoking bans,” a public relations firm wrote in a memo to Philip Morris Companies that was made public during several states' litigation against tobacco companies. The memo said having HERE “as an ally in this effort would be a very powerful voice.” As far back as 2001, HERE was part of a 12-member coalition including labor unions advocating for improved indoor ventilation instead of government-imposed smoking bans, according to another document cited in Monday's appeal. The anti-smoking campaigners cite a 2022 report by Las Vegas-based C3 Gaming, a consulting firm, showing that casinos that went smoke-free "appear to be performing better than their counterparts that continue to allow smoking.” Follow Wayne Parry on X at www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more.BEIRUT (AP) — Insurgents' stunning march across Syria gained speed on Saturday with news that they had reached the suburbs of the capital and with the government forced to deny rumors that President Bashar Assad had fled the country. The rebels' moves around Damascus, reported by an opposition war monitor and a rebel commander, came after the Syrian army withdrew from much of southern part of the country, leaving more areas, including two provincial capitals, under the control of opposition fighters. The advances in the past week were among the largest in recent years by opposition factions, led by a group that has its origins in al-Qaida and is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the United Nations. As they have advanced, the insurgents, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, have met little resistance from the Syrian army. The U.N.’s special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, on Saturday called for urgent talks in Geneva to ensure an “orderly political transition.” Speaking to reporters at the annual Doha Forum in Qatar, he said the situation in Syria was changing by the minute. In Damascus, people rushed to stock up on supplies. Thousands rushed the Syria border with Lebanon, trying to leave the country. Many shops in the capital were shuttered, a resident told The Associated Press, and those that remained open ran out of staples such as sugar. Some shops were selling items at three times the normal price. “The situation is very strange. We are not used to that,” the resident said, insisting on anonymity, fearing retributions. “People are worried whether there will be a battle (in Damascus) or not.” It was the first time that opposition forces reach the outskirts of Damascus since 2018, when Syrian troops recaptured the area following a yearslong siege. Amid the developments, Syria’s state media denied rumors flooding social media that Assad has left the country, saying he is performing his duties in Damascus. Assad's chief international backer, Russia, is busy with its war in Ukraine . Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah, which at one point sent thousands of fighters to shore up Assad's forces, has been weakened by a yearlong conflict with Israel. Iran, meanwhile, has seen its proxies across the region degraded by regular Israeli airstrikes. Pedersen said a date for the talks in Geneva on the implementation of U.N. Resolution 2254 would be announced later. The resolution, adopted in 2015, called for a Syrian-led political process, starting with the establishment of a transitional governing body, followed by the drafting of a new constitution and ending with U.N.-supervised elections. Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said insurgents were in the Damascus suburbs of Maadamiyah, Jaramana and Daraya. Opposition fighters were also marching from eastern Syria toward the Damascus suburb of Harasta, he added. A commander with the insurgents, Hassan Abdul-Ghani, posted on the Telegram messaging app that opposition forces had begun the “final stage” of their offensive by encircling Damascus. Syria’s military, meanwhile, sent large numbers of reinforcements to defend the key central city of Homs, Syria’s third largest, as insurgents approached its outskirts. The shock offensive began Nov. 27, during which gunmen captured the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest, and the central city of Hama , the country’s fourth largest city. HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani told CNN in an interview Thursday from Syria that the aim is to overthrow Assad’s government. The Britain-based Observatory said Syrian troops have withdrawn from much of the two southern provinces and are sending reinforcements to Homs, where a battle is looming. If the insurgents capture Homs, they would cut the link between Damascus, Assad’s seat of power, and the coastal region where the president enjoys wide support. The Syrian army said in a statement Saturday that it has carried out redeployment and repositioning in Sweida and Daraa after its checkpoints came under attack by “terrorists.” The army said it is setting up a “strong and coherent defensive and security belt in the area,” apparently to defend Damascus from the south. The Syrian government has referred to opposition gunmen as terrorists since conflict broke out in March 2011. After the fall of the cities of Daraa and Sweida early Saturday, Syrian government forces remained in control of five provincial capitals — Damascus, Homs and Quneitra, as well as Latakia and Tartus on the Mediterranean coast. Tartus is home to the only Russian naval base outside the former Soviet Union while Latakia is home to a major Russian air base. In the gas-rich nation of Qatar, the foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey met to discuss the situation in Syria. Turkey is a main backer of the rebels. Qatar's top diplomat, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, criticized Assad for failing to take advantage of the lull in fighting in recent years to address the country’s underlying problems. “Assad didn’t seize this opportunity to start engaging and restoring his relationship with his people,” he said. Sheikh Mohammed said he was surprised by how quickly the rebels have advanced and said there is a real threat to Syria’s “territorial integrity.” He said the war could “damage and destroy what is left if there is no sense of urgency” to start a political process. After the fall of the cities of Daraa and Sweida early Saturday, Syrian government forces remained in control of five provincial capitals — Damascus, Homs and Quneitra, as well as Latakia and Tartus on the Mediterranean coast. On Friday, U.S.-backed fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces captured wide parts of the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq as well as the provincial capital that carries the same name. The capture of areas in Deir el-Zour is a blow to Iran’s influence in the region as the area is the gateway to the corridor linking the Mediterranean to Iran, a supply line for Iran-backed fighters, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah. With the capture of a main border crossing with Iraq by the SDF and after opposition fighters took control of the Naseeb border crossing to Jordan in southern Syria, the Syrian government's only gateway to the outside world is the Masnaa border crossing with Lebanon. Karam reported from London. Associated Press writers Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria and Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to a “sudden loss of consciousness at home,” the hospital said in a statement. “Resuscitative measures were started immediately at home. He was brought to the Medical Emergency” at 8:06 p.m., the hospital said, but “despite all efforts, he could not be revived and was declared dead at 9:51 p.m.” Singh was being treated for “age-related medical conditions,” the statement said. A mild-mannered technocrat, Singh became one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers for 10 years and leader of the Congress Party in the Parliament's Upper House, earning a reputation as a man of great personal integrity. He was chosen to fill the role in 2004 by Sonia Gandhi, the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi . But his sterling image was tainted by allegations of corruption against his ministers. Singh was reelected in 2009, but his second term as prime minister was clouded by financial scandals and corruption charges over the organization of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. This led to the Congress Party’s crushing defeat in the 2014 national election by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party under the leadership of Narendra Modi . Singh adopted a low profile after relinquishing the post of prime minister. Prime Minister Modi, who succeeded Singh in 2014, called him one of India’s “most distinguished leaders” who rose from humble origins and left “a strong imprint on our economic policy over the years.” “As our Prime Minister, he made extensive efforts to improve people’s lives,” Modi said in a post on the social platform X. He called Singh’s interventions in Parliament as a lawmaker “insightful” and said “his wisdom and humility were always visible.” Rahul Gandhi, from the same party as Singh and the opposition leader in the lower house of the Indian Parliament, said Singh’s “deep understanding of economics inspired the nation” and that he “led India with immense wisdom and integrity.” “I have lost a mentor and guide. Millions of us who admired him will remember him with the utmost pride,” Gandhi wrote on X. Born on Sept. 26, 1932, in a village in the Punjab province of undivided India, Singh’s brilliant academic career took him to Cambridge University in Britain, where he earned a degree in economics in 1957. He then got his doctorate in economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University in 1962. Singh taught at Panjab University and the prestigious Delhi School of Economics before joining the Indian government in 1971 as economic advisor in the Commerce Ministry. In 1982, he became chief economic adviser to the Finance Ministry. He also served as deputy chair of the Planning Commission and governor of the Reserve Bank of India. As finance minister, Singh in 1991 instituted reforms that opened up the economy and moved India away from a socialist-patterned economy and toward a capitalist model in the face of a huge balance of payments deficit, skirting a potential economic crisis. His accolades include the 1987 Padma Vibhushan Award, India’s second-highest civilian honor; the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress in 1995; and the Asia Money Award for Finance Minister of the Year in 1993 and 1994. Singh was a member of India’s Upper House of Parliament and was leader of the opposition from 1998 to 2004 before he was named prime minister. He was the first Sikh to hold the country’s top post and made a public apology in Parliament for the 1984 Sikh Massacre in which some 3,000 Sikhs were killed after then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards. Under Singh, India adopted a Right to Information Act in 2005 to promote accountability and transparency from government officials and bureaucrats. He was also instrumental in implementing a welfare scheme that guaranteed at least 100 paid workdays for Indian rural citizens. The coalition government he headed for a decade brought together politicians and parties with differing ideologies that were rivals in the country’s various states. In a move hailed as one of his biggest achievements apart from economic reforms, Singh ended India’s nuclear isolation by signing a deal with the U.S. that gave India access to American nuclear technology. But the deal hit his government adversely, with Communist allies withdrawing support and criticism of the agreement growing within India in 2008 when it was finalized. Singh adopted a pragmatic foreign policy approach, pursuing a peace process with nuclear rival and neighbor Pakistan. But his efforts suffered a major setback after Pakistani militants carried out a massive gun and bomb attack in Mumbai in November 2008. He also tried to end the border dispute with China, brokering a deal to reopen the Nathu La pass into Tibet, which had been closed for more than 40 years. His 1965 book, “India’s Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth,” dealt with India’s inward-oriented trade policy. Singh is survived by his wife Gursharan Kaur and three daughters. Associated Press writer Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi contributed to this report.US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance. "In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more breathing space to address these issues," Trump's legal team wrote, to give him "the opportunity to pursue a political resolution." Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

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For many people, this time of year is all about the shopping. And there's a fair chance many feel less than joyful about the prospect. If fulfilling your lengthy list feels overwhelming, learning what brain science and evolutionary psychology say about shopping and gift-giving might help you understand exactly why you're stressed – and even point you toward a healthier, happier holiday season. Our reactions are encoded into our nervous system, said Dr. Beth Frates, a part-time associate professor in the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "By understanding these brain responses, people can develop strategies to manage stress better, such as setting realistic expectations, focusing on mindfulness and simplifying holiday preparations," said Frates, who also is the immediate past president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. The idea of exchanging gifts at this time of year can be traced back to pagan solstice celebrations. But the drive to share with another is as old as humanity itself, said Dr. Diego Guevara Beltran, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at the University of Arizona in Tucson who studies cooperation and generosity. The science of generosity is more about survival than stocking stuffers, Guevara Beltran said. Sharing food gave early humans an evolutionary advantage. "Generosity is just one of the ways by which we can accumulate resources, be it wealth itself or friendships or work partners or more attractive, more intelligent mates," he said. Sharing with other people, Guevara Beltran said, is "a signal that communicates how much you value them, their welfare, your relationship with them." Research has shown that helping people makes us feel good. Part of that, he said, is because when someone is part of a community, they feel protected. One way this manifests is through the act of giving gifts. But to derive happiness from gift-giving, the giver needs to feel both that it was not an obligation and that it was effective, according to the 2019 World Happiness Report. That means it could be stressful to be in a culture where gift-giving feels mandatory, or if we can't see that a gift helped someone, Guevara Beltran speculated. It also might be stressful if gift-giving becomes a competition to show that you care about somebody more than the others around them. Our brains on shopping Stressful shopping can cause several physiological responses to kick in, Frates said. First is the "fight or flight" reaction that comes with stress. The release of chemicals that increase our heart rate, raise our blood pressure and intensify our breathing evolved to give us bursts of energy to escape danger. Frates said that while holiday stressors are not life-threatening, they can still trigger the stress response. The pressure to stay within budget could create a sense of scarcity, she said. "This taps into an evolutionary response, where the fear of losing resources like money can feel urgent and distressing." The holiday season also involves a lot of choices. "The brain has limited capacity for decision-making, and making multiple decisions can lead to decision fatigue," Frates said. "This fatigue reduces the ability to self-regulate and cope, which can lead to heightened stress responses when confronted with even minor setbacks, like a long line or out-of-stock item." The stress of needing to complete tasks within a limited time can intensify the fight-or-flight response, she said, as the brain interprets the ticking clock as a sense of urgency or threat. Meanwhile, Frates said, holiday shopping can also trigger brain chemicals that affect our feelings. "Dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and reward, is released when we anticipate something exciting or enjoyable, like finding a great gift or finding a good deal," she said. "This anticipation can feel rewarding even before any actual purchase is made." For some people, this dopamine boost can make shopping a relaxing experience. "It provides a temporary distraction from other stressors and allows them to focus on something positive, creating a 'holiday high,'" Frates said. For some people, that can be problematic. "When shopping becomes a way to chase that next dopamine hit, it can lead to excessive spending or impulsive purchases," she said. "This can become a trap, particularly during the holidays, when deals, sales and gift-giving pressures are everywhere." Understanding how all these processes work can help people recognize why they feel the way they do and adopt strategies to cope, Frates said. Here are some of her suggestions. Start with self-care before shopping Prioritizing self-care means people can be their best selves and make good decisions, Frates said. So, "eat food that is delicious and nutritious. Get seven to nine hours of sleep. Make sure to enjoy physical activity. Take walks when you can and invite friends along. Practice stress reduction like meditation or yoga to help you calm your body and mind." Before going shopping, try taking deep breaths using stress-relieving techniques such as 4-7-8 breathing (inhale through your nose for four counts, hold for seven counts, and exhale through your mouth for eight) or box breathing (inhale through the nose for four counts, hold your breath for four, exhale for four, then hold for four). Be strategic Don't shop when you're hungry, tired, lonely or stressed, Frates said. And don't start shopping 15 minutes before a store closes or a website's online deals end, she said. That's setting yourself up for triggering the fight-or-flight response. Be mindful Before making a purchase, take a moment to consider whether it's truly needed or whether it's an impulsive choice. To avoid overindulging, set a specific budget or limit yourself to a couple of hours or specific shopping days. "This keeps dopamine-driven spending in check while still allowing for the enjoyable aspects of holiday shopping," Frates said. Look for post-shopping activities that provide rewards without the financial cost. That can satisfy your brain's desire for more dopamine in a healthier way. "Plan enjoyable, stress-relieving activities after shopping, like going for a walk, spending time with friends or indulging in a hobby," she said. Bring a friend Not only does this support healthy social connections, Frates said, but if things start feeling stressful, "you have a buddy, and you have a support system right there for you." Rethink the focus of the season "With gift-giving, we need to change mindsets in order to be able to manage the stress," Frates said. The holidays could be used to emphasize social connections, she said. "Thinking about the connection with the person and making gift-giving more about deepening the connection than anything else, I think, will really help to reduce the stress around the process," she said. So instead of scouring shops and websites for the "perfect" gift, think about making a meaningful and personal one, she suggested. It could be a poem, a painting, a song or a framed photograph that captured a special time. Lessons for children It's easy to get caught up in the hunt for a hard-to-get item, Frates said. But ask yourself what the holiday means in your family's traditions. "Is it about getting that perfect gift for the child? Or is it about celebrating the meaning of that holiday?" So instead of having children ask for one specific toy, or a specific brand of clothing, teach them to leave a little leeway on their lists. "It is a good reminder to express to children that this season is about giving and sharing what we can in the best way that we can," she said, "and sometimes the exact gift is not available." Encouraging such an attitude can be a tall order, Frates said, but it's a place to start. "A simple mindset shift could be the difference between a stressful holiday shopping season or a joyful journey to find meaningful gifts for people you care about."

In a significant boost to the construction sector, Senior Provincial Minister for Information Sharjeel Inam Memon and Provincial Minister for Energy Syed Nasir Hussain Shah attended the Sindh Premium Property Building Material and Home Decor Exhibition as chief guests at Abdullah Mall Qasimabad, Hyderabad. Addressing the event, Senior Provincial Minister for Information Sharjeel Inam Memon emphasized the importance of promoting trade in the country, which will provide employment opportunities and improve the lives of poor families. He assured that the government will provide all possible support to the construction sector, aiming to promote trade and increase investor confidence. Sharjeel Inam Memon highlighted the Sindh government’s ambitious project to build 2.1 million houses, the largest such project, in collaboration with international donors. He noted that every individual desires to own a home, and the Sindh Government is committed to providing the best possible support to the people of the province. The Information Minister also underscored the significance of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in addressing the problems of the poor and marginalized segments and credited the PPP with numerous achievements, including the establishment of a constitution of Pakistan, nuclear power, and a strong parliament. He praised the contributions of Shaheed Quaid-e-Awam Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who played a pivotal role in making Pakistan a nuclear power. He also acknowledged the achievements of Shaheed Bibi, and Benazir Bhutto, who introduced missile technology, established the First Women’s Bank, and initiated the Lady Health Workers Program. Memon further said that by highlighting the PPP’s commitment to democracy and the abolition of the 58 2B clause, which was transferred to parliament by President Asif Ali Zardari. Provincial Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has praised the visionary leadership of President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, who played a pivotal role in introducing the 18th Amendment, thereby empowering the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwan. Minister noted that national leaders like Asif Zardari have always understood the plight of the people and have worked tirelessly to address their deprivations. He also highlighted the instrumental role of President Zardari in launching the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a game-changing project that has transformed the economic landscape of Pakistan. Furthermore, he commended Chairman Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for his courageous stance on the Kashmir issue, despite facing opposition from the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s unwavering commitment to the rights of Kashmiris has earned him widespread acclaim. In his address, Sharjeel Inam also shed light on the numerous initiatives undertaken by the Sindh government to uplift the lives of its citizens. These include the construction of 2.1 million houses, the introduction of Hari cards for farmers, and labour cards for labourers. Additionally, the Sindh government is providing free medical treatment to people from all over Pakistan. The provincial minister also highlighted the establishment of cadet colleges for women, a significant step towards promoting women’s education and empowerment. Moreover, he emphasized the importance of Thar coal in generating thousands of megawatts of electricity, which will help alleviate the country’s energy crisis. Provincial Minister for Energy Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, who also addressed the ceremony, praised the effectiveness of the program and expressed his happiness at participating in it. He emphasized the need for such programs to promote commercial activities and restore investor confidence. The event was also attended by DIG Hyderabad Tariq Razzaq Dharejo, Deputy Commissioner Hyderabad Zain-ul-Abideen Memon, and representatives from various construction and material companies.

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NADA suspends Bajrang Punia for four years for violation of anti-doping codeBy Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald (TNS) MIAMI — As her students finished their online exam, Arlet Lara got up to make a cafe con leche . Her 16-year-old son found her on the kitchen floor. First, he called Dad in a panic. Then 911. “I had a stroke and my life made a 180-degree turn,” Lara told the Miami Herald, recalling the medical scare she experienced in May 2020 in the early months of the COVID pandemic. “The stroke affected my left side of the body,” the North Miami woman and former high school math teacher said. Lara, an avid runner and gym goer, couldn’t even walk. “It was hard,” the 50-year-old mom said. After years of rehabilitation therapy and a foot surgery, Lara can walk again. But she still struggles with moving. This summer, she became the first patient in South Florida to get an implant of a new and only FDA-approved nerve stimulation device designed to help ischemic stroke survivors regain movement in their arms and hands. This first procedure was at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Lara’s rehab was at at the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, part of a partnership between Jackson Health System and UHealth. Every year, thousands in the United States have a stroke , with one occurring every 40 seconds, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of strokes are ischemic, often caused by blood clots that obstruct blood flow to the brain. For survivors, most of whom are left with some level of disability, the Vivistim Paired VNS System, the device implanted in Lara’s chest, could be a game changer in recovery, said Dr. Robert Starke, a UHealth neurosurgeon and interventional neuroradiologist. He also serves as co-director of endovascular neurosurgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, part of Miami-Dade’s public hospital system. Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant, right, runs into her rehabilitation neurology physician Dr. Gemayaret Alvarez, before her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The implant is designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms, goes through exercises while her therapist activates the device during her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The activation works as positive reinforcement to her muscles when she completes the exercise correctly. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant, does an exercise while Neil Batungbakal, rehabilitation therapist, activates the implant with the black trigger during her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The implant is designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms. The activation works as positive reinforcement to her muscles when she completes the exercise correctly. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA- approved nerve stimulation implant, does an exercise while Neil Batungbakal, rehabilitation therapist, activates the implant with the black trigger during her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant, right, runs into her rehabilitation neurology physician Dr. Gemayaret Alvarez, before her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The implant is designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) The Vivistim Paired VNS System is a small pacemaker-like device implanted in the upper chest and neck area. Patients can go home the same day. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the stroke rehabilitation system in 2021 to be used alongside post-ischemic stroke rehabilitation therapy to treat moderate to severe mobility issues in hands and arms. Lara’s occupational therapist can activate the device during rehabilitation sessions to electrically stimulate the vagus nerve, which runs from the brain down to the abdomen and regulates various parts of the body’s nervous system. The electrical stimulation rewires the brain to improve a stroke survivor’s ability to move their arms and hands. Lara also has a magnet she can use to activate the device when she wants to practice at home. Her therapy consists of repetitive tasks, including coloring, pinching cubes and grabbing and releasing cylindrical shapes. After several weeks of rehabilitation therapy with the device, Lara has seen improvement. “Little by little, I’m noticing that my hand is getting stronger. I am already able to brush my teeth with the left hand,” she told the Miami Herald in September. Since then, Lara has finished the initial six-week Vivitism therapy program, and is continuing to use the device in her rehabilitation therapy. She continues to improve and can now eat better with her left hand and can brush her hair with less difficulty, according to her occupational therapist, Neil Batungbakal. Lara learned about the device through an online group for stroke survivors and contacted the company to inquire. She then connected them with her Jackson medical team. Now a year later, the device is available to Jackson patients. So far, four patients have received the implant at Jackson. Related Articles Starke sees the device as an opportunity to help bring survivors one step closer to regaining full mobility. Strokes are a leading cause of disability worldwide. While most stroke survivors can usually recover some function through treatment and rehabilitation, they tend to hit a “major plateau” after the first six months of recovery, he said. Vivistim, when paired with rehabilitation therapy, could change that. Jackson Health said results of a clinical trial published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet in 2021 showed that the device, “when paired with high-repetition, task-specific occupational or physical therapy, helps generate two to three times more hand and arm function for stroke survivors than rehabilitation therapy alone.” The device has even shown to benefit patients 20 years from their original stroke, according to Starke. “So now a lot of these patients that had strokes 10-15 years ago that thought that they would never be able to use their arm in any sort of real functional way are now able to have a real meaningful function, which is pretty tremendous,” Starke said. Vivistim’s vagus-nerve stimulation technology was developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas’ Texas Biomedical Device Center and is being sold commercially by Austin-based MicroTransponder, a company started by university graduates. Similar devices are used to treat epilepsy and depression . For Lara, the device is a new tool to help her recovery journey. “Everything becomes a challenge so we are working with small things every day because I want to get back as many functions as possible,” Lara said. Patients interested in Vivistim should speak with their doctor to check their eligibility. The FDA said patients should make sure to discuss any prior medical history, including concurrent forms of brain stimulation, current diathermy treatment, previous brain surgery, depression, respiratory diseases and disorders such as asthma, and cardiac abnormalities. “Adverse events included but were not limited to dysphonia (difficulty speaking), bruising, falling, general hoarseness, general pain, hoarseness after surgery, low mood, muscle pain, fracture, headache, rash, dizziness, throat irritation, urinary tract infection and fatigue,” the FDA said. MicroTransponder says the device is “covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance with prior authorization on a case-by-case basis.” To learn more about the device, visit vivistim.com. ©2024 Miami Herald. Visit at miamiherald.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.UBC Student Awarded for Remote Ultrasound InnovationThat Maharashtra’s politics was headed for a structural break became clear on October 25, 2019, when the undivided Shiv Sena stalled the then National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) government formation despite the alliance winning a clear majority (161 out of 288 ACs) in the assembly elections. When the Shiv Sena decided to join hands with its ideological and political rivals, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), to form a government in Maharashtra on November 28, 2019, a political realignment of fortunes became preordained. The only question was whether the combined strength of the Congress and the two regional parties would destroy the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state? Also Read | Maharashtra polls: Independents finish second in 19 constituencies It has taken five years for that question to be answered –– that local body polls were not conducted in the interim kept it in abeyance – but it seems to have become clear now. The BJP has turned the tables and now it looks like the Congress is left without any worthy allies in the state with the BJP-aligned factions of the Shiv Sena and the NCP registering big victories in the elections. The BJP-led NDA, which is now called Mahayuti, has returned with a much bigger (235 out of 288) majority in Maharashtra now. And the BJP itself would appear to be stronger than before. The political and geographical mechanics of this tectonic shift are worth looking at in detail. Let us look at the geographical change first In the 2019 assembly elections, the Congress and the BJP won a total of 149 ACs (BJP 105 and Congress 44) in Maharashtra. The BJP has won 98 of the 105 ACs it won in 2019 once again this time. Of the seven it did not win in 2024 but won in 2019, it did not contest one and gave it to its allies to fight. The remaining six have been won by the Congress or its allies. If one were to compare an NDA (BJP+Shiv Sena) to NDA (BJP+Shiv Sena+NCP) comparison between the 2019 and 2024 assembly elections, the alliance has retained a massive 87% of the 161 ACs it won in 2019 and gained another 95 ACs. NDA lost just 20 of the ACs it won in 2019 in these elections. There are 35 ACs which have been won by the Mahayuti in the 2024 elections which were never won by the BJP or any of its allies since 2009. This includes ACs won by the Shiv Sena in 2014 when Congress, BJP, NCP and Shiv Sena contested separately. A pre-2009 comparison is not possible because of a change in AC boundaries in the 2008 delimitation. Things are on the other extreme for the Congress-led Maharashtra Vikas Agadi (MVA). Of the 98 ACs the Congress-NCP alliance won in 2019, it has retained just 24 and lost 71 of them to the Mahayuti. To be sure, the MVA has won 26 ACs that the Congress-NCP alliance did not win in 2019. A large number of them (17) are because of the Shiv Sena (UBT). However, the number is insignificant in the larger scheme of things. The new assembly might not even have a leader of opposition. What explains this change in Maharashtra’s political map? This is where it becomes interesting. The political contest in Maharashtra in these elections was an eclectic mix of ideology and a battle for political inheritance. The first was in the contest between the BJP and the Congress-led alliances and two factions of the Shiv Sena and NCP. The second was within the Shiv Sena and the NCP in terms of claiming the legacy of the undivided parties. Voters seem to have decided both clearly. Also Read | ‘Everyone knows who is NCP founder’: Sharad Pawar on nephew Ajit after Maharashtra election results There were 73 head-to-head contests between the Congress-BJP in these elections. the BJP has won 86.3% of these, a big improvement from its 68.4% strike rate in similar contests in the 2019 assembly elections. The BJP has also done extremely well in contests against non-Congress MVA components with a strike rate of 87.2%. Congress’s strike rate against non-BJP Mahayuti is just 18.5%, only marginally higher than its performance against the BJP. Chart 1: The Shiv Sena (UBT) and Shiv Sena fought 53 head-to-head contests. Shiv Sena has won 69.9% of these contests. Almost a similar outcome can be seen in the contests between the NCP (Sharad Pawar) or NCP(SP) and the NCP, with the latter winning 70.7% of the 41 head-to-head contests. Chart 2: There is also another way to look at the political realignment in Maharashtra. The MLA count of the BJP and the combined count of the Shiv Sena and NCP has increased or almost remained the same in 2024 compared to 2019. The Shiv Sena had 56 MLAs in 2019 and the Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena (UBT) have won 57 and 20 MLAs in these elections. The NCP had 54 MLAs in 2019 and the NCP and NCP (SP) factions have won 41 and 10 ACs in these elections. The only party which has seen its MLA count fall drastically is the Congress which will have to contend with just 16 MLAs compared to 44 in 2019. The Shiv Sena and the NCP might have seen palace coups in the period between 2019 and 2024, but it is the Congress in Maharashtra that is facing a battle for survival now.

AP News Summary at 1:07 p.m. ESTPeavy's 24 help Georgetown beat Albany 100-68Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird (from left), Congressman Don Bacon, Sen. Pete Ricketts, NU President Jeffrey Gold and Google Public Policy and Government Affairs Manager Dan Harbeke clap as they listen during a news conference on Monday at the Nebraska Innovation Campus. KATY COWELL, Journal Star Google officials were in town Monday to celebrate what they said was a $930 million investment in the state this year through three data centers in Omaha, Papillon and the still-under-construction center in Lincoln. This year’s investment brings the total capital investment in the state to $4.4 billion, said Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector. “In addition to supporting our great government customers, in particular those in the national security area, these data centers are critical to making sure that Google’s investment in technologies can be leveragable by those missions,” she said. As part of the giant tech company’s effort to be a good neighbor, officials announced that its philanthropic arm donated $250,000 to the University of Nebraska and $100,000 to the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools. University of Nebraska President Jeffrey Gold said the Google dollars will help the university expand its new bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence, one of the first of its kind in Nebraska. “We will be investing these dollars in educational programming to understand as best we can how generative artificial intelligence and machine learning needs to touch every one of our educational programs, all of our research programs, and all of our outreach and clinical programs, our extension services," he said. "These dollars ... will give us a very, very solid foundation to build upon that." Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird said the money donated to the LPS Foundation will support Spark Summer Learning, a summer camp for elementary students focusing on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird speaks during a news conference on Monday at the Nebraska Innovation Campus. Google announced that it will invest an additional $930 million across its three data center campuses in Nebraska, including the one under construction in Lincoln. KATY COWELL, Journal Star Google’s investment will allow LPS to invest in more state-of-the-art technology and offer scholarships to 40 students, said Gaylor Baird, one of a number of local and state leaders on hand for the event at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Gaylor Baird said the new $600 million data center in northeast Lincoln will support hundreds of construction jobs in the short term and dozens of full-time well-paid positions in the future. In August 2023, Google officials confirmed that the company would build a data center on about 600 acres of land northwest of the 56th Street exit on Interstate 80 that will employ at least 30 people. Plans it submitted to the city indicate it could eventually grow to 2 million square feet of space. Google, through a subsidiary, paid about $18.6 million for the land , and another subsidiary applied for $600 million in state tax incentives. The timeline for construction is not finalized, but a Google spokeswoman said the company hopes to have it operational within the next 12 months. In 2019, Google broke ground on a data center in Papillion and has since created 120 jobs that include full-time positions at the site and for external suppliers, according to Google officials. A data center in northwest Omaha is now operational, and the tech giant also has a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The campuses are part of the company’s global network on 41 cloud regions that deliver services to large enterprises, startups and public sector organizations. Dahut said the company worked with local agencies to promote the health of the Platte River basin through collaborations with organizations to replenish 120% of the water it consumes. She said a collaboration with Omaha Public Power District enables Google to supply more than 1,000 megawatts of carbon pollution-free electricity to the state and execute “large-scale clean energy deals.” Sen. Pete Ricketts holds up his phone as he speaks during a news conference on Monday at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Google announced it will invest an additional $930 million across its three data center campuses in Nebraska, including the one under construction in Lincoln. KATY COWELL, Journal Star U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts said the state appreciates Google’s investment, which is appropriate, given Nebraska's location in the middle of the so-called “Silicon Prairie,” residents who believe in hard work, and its support of the U.S. military through Offutt Air Force Base. “I think this is a perfect synergy between what we do here in Nebraska, the people that we have here, and what Google wants to do for our economy and for our country,” he said. “This investment will just continue to build upon that great relationship.” More Nebraskans work two jobs; Election decided by coin toss; Pillen appoints Bohac to NSHS Southwest fans Kylea Stritt (from left), Peg Rice, and Stacey Wilson cheer on their team as the "horsemen" during a Class D-1 first-round match Thursday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Millard West players dogpile on the floor after defeating Lincoln Southwest in five set match during a Class A first-round match Wednesday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Lincoln Southwest's Shelby Harding dives to save the ball from hitting the ground in the first set during a Class A first-round match Wednesday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Second graders Eli Gonzalez (left) and Shrutoshome Datta look at drawings that first and second grade students made at the Monster Jam Art Show on Wednesday at Elliott Elementary School. The elementary school students made drawings of monsters to be turned into different types of art by Lincoln High School students. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star Norris players celebrate a point against Lincoln Pius X in a Class B state volleyball tournament match, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. JUSTIN WAN Journal Star U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (right) talks with supporters, including Darlene Starman of Lincoln, at her campaign office on Tuesday in Lincoln. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star A cutout of Jesus watches over voters on Tuesday at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Lincoln. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star Katie Goeling (left) fills out her ballot while her son Gunner, 4, holds her hand during Election Day on Tuesday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Malcolm. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star Abigail Webb votes on Tuesday at F Street Community Center. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star Nebraska's Rollie Worster (24) shoots a layup while defended by Texas Rio Grande Valley's Marshal Destremau (left) and Trey Miller (right) on Nov. 4 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. KATY COWELL, Journal Star file photo Nebraska's Allison Weidner (left) autographs a poster for Freeman Public Schools student Godwil Muthiani, 12 (center), after the game against UNO on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Muthiani's sign says, "#3 Allison Weinder is the GOAT! Sorry I'm only 12." KATY COWELL Journal Star Nebraska Head Coach Matt Rhule speaks to an official after a targeting call on Nebraska during the first quarter of the game against UCLA on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. The call was overturned after review. KATY COWELL Journal Star Nebraska's Dante Dowdell scores against UCLA in the fourth quarter on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star Cadet Elena Burgwald (left) and Cadet Mason Beck look up as a B-1B Lancer flies over Memorial Stadium before the UCLA game against Nebraska on Saturday. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star UCLA's K.J. Wallace (7) defends Nebraska's Jacory Barney (17) as he makes a diving 40-yard catch in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Lincoln Southeast quarterback Tre Bollen (left) and Tate Sandman react after losing a Class A football playoff game against Millard North on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, at Seacrest Field. Millard North won 10-3. KATY COWELL Journal Star After the field clears, Norris' Jarrett Behrends (17) kicks his helmet after the Titans fell to Waverly 16-17 in a Class B football playoff game on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, at Waverly High School. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star A line of people waiting to vote has been normal at the Lancaster County Election Commission Office at 601 N. 46th St., as it was Friday afternoon. The office will be open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to allow voters to cast an early ballot. If they wait until Election Day, they will need to go to their precinct or drop off their ballots at one of five drop boxes across the city. For more stories about about Tuesday's election, go to Journalstar.com . KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star Iris Gonnerman, 8 (from right), her brother Oliver, 6, and cousin Noreen Milana, 9, wave flags while watching Veterans Parade outside the state Capitol on Sunday. KATY COWELL, Journal Star Nebraska's Connor Essegian scores against Bethune-Cookma on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. JUSTIN WAN Journal Star Lincoln Lutheran players embrace one another as threy celebrate defeating Thayer Central in four sets to win the Class C-2 championship match Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Covered by a canopy of changing leaves, a car cruises along A street in a neighborhood north of Downtown Lincoln on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. Mild temperatures continue into the mid weeks of November. Wednesday calls for a chance of rain showers before noon with gusty winds. Most days this week are expected to be accompanied by mostly sunny skies and consistent breezes. KENNETH FERRIERA,Journal Star Norris' Anna Jelinek (left) lifts the the Class B championship trophy alongside Rya Borer on Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Superior players celebrate their three set win over EMF during the Class D-1 championship match Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Reflected in a ceiling beam, Leyton takes on Shelton in the first set of the Class D-2 championship match Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Omaha Skutt's Nicole Ott (left) and Addison West react after a point in the second set during a Class B semifinal match Friday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star Hasan Khalil, owner of Golden Scissors, trims the beard of Vitaliy Martynyuk on Friday at his barbershop in Lincoln. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star Second-time mother giraffe Allie nuzzles her new calf in the giraffe experience enclosure on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, at the Lincoln Children's Zoo. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star Nebraska celebrates during the first set of the match against Minnesota on Thursday at the Devaney Sports Center. KATY COWELL, Journal Star Luca Gustafson, 6, rides to school Tuesday with the bike bus at Riley Elementary School. Each Tuesday, students can bike to school with adult chaperones along a specific route. KATY COWELL, Journal Star Wahoo's Braylon Iversen celebrates with Warrior players after they defeated Auburn in a Class C-1 state semifinal game Friday in Wahoo. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star Lincoln Fire Fighters Association member Andy Evans works to assemble a headboard during a bed-building day hosted by Sleep in Heavenly Peace on Saturday at Hampton Enterprises. Volunteers helped build 20 beds for children in need. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star A Lincoln firefighter sprays water on to the roof from a ladder truck as they battle a fire at the former Village Inn at 29th and O streets the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. KENNETH FERRIERA,Journal Star

Rico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title with the Atlanta Braves, has diedAfter a far-right pro-Russia candidate secured a surprise lead in Romania's presidential election Monday, the eastern European NATO member is bracing for a high-stakes parliamentary vote on Sunday, amid fears it could bring about a strategic shift in the country. Calin Georgescu was in pole position with almost 23 percent after the first round of voting, a political earthquake in the country of 19 million people that has so far resisted nationalist appeals that have gained traction in Hungary and Slovakia. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

Santa Ana winds return means increased fire risk, possible power shut-offs for Southern CaliforniaEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield embarrassed the woeful Giants with his arm and legs, and if that wasn't enough, he rubbed it in by mimicking New York fan favorite Tommy DeVito's celebratory dance after scoring a touchdown. Mayfield catapulted into the end zone on a spectacular 10-yard scramble for one of Tampa Bay's four rushing TDs, and the Buccaneers beat the Giants and new starting quarterback DeVito 30-7 on Sunday, snapping a four-game losing streak and extending New York's skid to six. With both teams struggling and coming off byes, most of the focus leading up to the game was on the Giants' decisions this week to bench and then release quarterback Daniel Jones. The brash DeVito was given the starting job and asked to spark coach Brian Daboll's team, as he did last season. Instead, Mayfield provided the energy with his play and his trolling of DeVito. “Tribute to Tommy,” said a straight-faced Mayfield, who was 24 of 30 for 294 yards. “He’s a good dude, that’s why. Most of the times, I don’t know what I’m going to do. It’s spontaneous.” Mayfield was asked several times about the gesture and admitted he wanted to give Giants fans something they liked, adding he met DeVito at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas in February. “He had his chain blinged out, swag walking through the casino. It was awesome,” Mayfield said. “It was like a movie scene, honestly.” DeVito did nothing to help the NFL's lowest-scoring offense. He threw for 189 yards, mostly in the second half with New York well on its way to its sixth straight loss at home, where it is winless. Meanwhile, the Buccaneers dominated in every phase in a near-perfect performance that featured TD runs of 1 yard by Sean Tucker, 6 yards by Bucky Irving and 1 yard by Rachaad White. After recent losses to the Ravens, 49ers and Chiefs, Tampa Bay (5-6) moved within one game of idle Atlanta in the NFC South. “We’re hoping it builds confidence,” Mayfield said. “We have a belief that we are still sitting and controlling our own destiny.” Tampa Bay scored on five of its on first six possessions to open a 30-0 lead, and none was more exciting than Mayfield's TD run with 12 seconds left in the first half. On a second-and-goal from the 10, he avoided pressure and went for the end zone. He was hit by Cor'Dale Flott low and Dru Phillips high around the 2-yard line, and he was airborne when he crossed the goal line. The ball came loose when he hit the turf but he jumped up and flexed, DeVito-style, as the Bucs took a 23-0 lead. DeVito said players talked about the celebration in the locker room but he did not see it. Daboll was asked about the gesture and said Mayfield played well. He said the Giants' poor performance had nothing to do with Jones being released. “No excuse on that,” said Daboll, whose job is on the line despite making the playoffs in 2022. “We just didn’t do a good enough job.” “We played soft, and they beat the (expletive) out of us,” defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence added. Mayfield's favorite target Mike Evans returned to the lineup after missing three games with a hamstring injury and had five catches for 68 yards. Irving had 87 yards rushing and six catches for 64 yards. The Bucs held New York to three first downs and 45 yards in the first half, and they finished with 450 yards to the Giants' 245. DeVito had a 17-yard run in the fourth quarter to set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Devin Singletary. The brash New Jersey native was sacked four times, including once in the fourth quarter, which forced him to go to the bench for one play. Buccaneers: LT Tristan Wirfs (knee) did not play and Justin Skule replaced him. ... Tampa Bay lost OLB Joe Tryon-Shoyinka to an ankle injury in the second quarter and safety Jordan Whitehead to a pectoral injury in the fourth quarter. Giants: LT Jermaine Eluemunor (quad) and OLB Azeez Ojulari (toe) were hurt in the first quarter and did not return. Buccaneers: At Carolina next Sunday. Giants: At Dallas on Thanksgiving AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

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The Anaheim Ducks head into a matchup on Friday night with the Buffalo Sabres as winners of three games in a row. Game time from the Honda Center is 10 p.m. ET and you can watch it on ESPN+ (introductory discount). Anaheim (8-8-2, in the Pacific Division) won its third in a row on Tuesday night, as Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist in the third period in a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. Killorn tied it at 2 on a well-placed backhanded shot at 5:10. Then he made a perfect pass to Leo Carlsson for a backdoor tap-in with 10:22 left. Pavel Mintyukov also scored for Anaheim, which has won four of five overall. Trevor Zegras had two assists, and John Gibson made 18 saves. Anaheim has a 4-5-0 record at home and will have a chance to improve on that mark, playing six of its next seven games at home through Dec. 6. Troy Terry leads the Ducks with 12 points and Leo Carlsson has 10 points. The Sabres (9-9-1, in the Atlantic Division) are on the third of a four-game trip that will end Saturday at San Jose. WATCH: ESPN+ (introductory discount) They won 1-0 over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night as Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 24 shots and Jason Zucker scored the game’s only goal. Luukkonen had six saves in the first period, six in the second and 12 in the third to get his first shutout of the season in his return after being sidelined for two games because of a lower-body injury. The Sabres have won five of seven. With the game scoreless after two periods, Zucker scored 38 seconds into the third on the power play by redirecting Rasmus Dahlin’s shot past Rittich. Buffalo Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin, left, and Los Angeles Kings center Anze Kopitar vie for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun) AP Dahlin has points on the man advantage in four straight games, and he extended his point streak overall to seven straight with four goals and six assists in that span. Buffalo came into the night 2 for 19 (10.5%) on the power play away from home, which ranked 30th in the NHL, but went 1-for-3 against Los Angeles and that proved to be the difference in the game. Tage Thompson and Alex Tuch lead in points with 18 points, and Thompson tops all Buffalo goal-scorers with 11. Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin has 17 points. Luukkonen has been Buffalo’s No. 1 goalie, with a 7-4-1 record and a 2.61 goals-against average. More sports news Browns social media account takes shot at T.J. Watt after Steelers loss How to watch Warriors vs. Pelicans NBA game: Time, TV channel, FREE live stream Pittsburgh Steelers' Justin Fields package has cloudy future in offense Penn State's Abdul Carter is a finalist for another defensive player of the year award

NEW YORK , Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Why: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M) resulting from allegations that Macy's may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public. So What: If you purchased Macy's securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses. What to do next: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=31645 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email case@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. What is this about: On November 25, 2024 , The New York Times published an article entitled "Macy's Discovers Employee Hid Millions in Delivery Expenses." This article stated that "Macy's said on Monday that an employee had "intentionally" misstated and hidden up to $154 million in delivery expenses over the past few years, forcing the retailer to delay a much-anticipated earnings report that Wall Street uses to gauge the strength of holiday shopping." On this news, the price of Macy's, Inc. stock fell 2.2% on November 25, 2024 . Why Rosen Law: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company at the time. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers. Follow us for updates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rosen-law-firm , on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosen_firm or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rosenlawfirm/ . Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Contact Information: Laurence Rosen, Esq. Phillip Kim, Esq. The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. 275 Madison Avenue, 40th Floor New York, NY 10016 Tel: (212) 686-1060 Toll Free: (866) 767-3653 Fax: (212) 202-3827 case@rosenlegal.com www.rosenlegal.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rosen-law-firm-encourages-macys-inc-investors-to-inquire-about-securities-class-action-investigation--m-302327927.html SOURCE THE ROSEN LAW FIRM, P. A. Stay Informed: Subscribe to Our Newsletter Today8 Las Posadas events in Southern California to get you in the Holiday spiritjollibet gaming 。

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Ram Trucks Australia has confirmed it’ll bring the new twin-turbo, six-cylinder 1500 pickup to Australia in 2025 – more than 18 months after it was unveiled in North America. In November 2023 , Ram unveiled the facelifted DT-generation 1500 , resulting in its long-standing 5.7-litre Hemi V8 engine being axed and replaced by a newer 3.0-litre twin-turbo inline petrol six. While US deliveries have already started, the brand’s official Australian distributor has until now been tight-lipped about when – or even if – we would get the ‘Hurricane’-powered pickup in local showrooms. 100s of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now . That’s now changed, with Ram Trucks Australia general manager, Jeff Barber, confirming it’ll be released here at an undisclosed time in 2025. “We have been overwhelmed by the response to the Hemi V8 runout , and we understand some buyers who want one of the last V8s may miss out,” Mr Barber said in a media statement. “However, we hope to have enough stock to fulfil most orders. “We will have a very worthy successor next year powered by a new-generation turbocharged six-cylinder petrol engine, but we will have more to say about that closer to local showroom arrivals.” As reported in October , Ram has received approval from the Australian government to sell five variants of the 1500 across two body lengths and with two engine outputs. The standard-output 3.0-litre twin-turbo engine (named SST SO) produces 313kW and 636Nm, while a high-output version (called SST HO) develops 403kW and 706Nm. For context, the Hemi V8 produces 291kW and 556Nm. Regardless of output, the Hurricane engine will be mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission. Approved variants include the Big Horn short-wheelbase (SWB) and long-wheelbase (LWB), the Laramie (with or without Rambox) and the flagship Limited, which is the only grade available with the more potent engine. The six-cylinder Ram 1500 is classified as an NB1 vehicle – rather than the V8’s NA classification – which means its gross vehicle mass is between 3.5 and 4.5 tonnes, and it will be exempt from certain safety regulations such as ADR 85/00 (Pole Side Impact Performance). Not included in the approval documents are the fancy new Tungsten flagship, or the sportier Rebel or RHO variants. Also missing is the new Ramcharger , which features a range-extender powertrain with a large battery and a 3.6-litre petrol V6 used as a generator. It’s unclear if any of these variants will follow at a later point. Beyond the new engine, changes to the updated Ram 1500 include freshened exterior styling, as well as an improved 12-inch infotainment touchscreen or a new 14.5-inch unit, plus a 10.25-inch passenger display. The Ram 1500 will join the Ford F-150 and Toyota Tundra in only being available with six-cylinder power – though its rivals feature V6s, not straight-sixes – as the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 becomes the only model remaining in the segment with a V8 engine. MORE: Everything Ram 1500 MORE: Ram 1500 Hurricane six-cylinder pickups one step closer to Australia MORE: Ram 1500 Hemi V8s get runout deals as turbo six replacements loom

The collective frenzy surrounding Chinese concept stocks has not been without challenges and risks. Concerns over regulatory changes, geopolitical tensions, and market volatility have all contributed to investor uncertainty and heightened market fluctuations. Additionally, the valuation of some Chinese concept stocks has raised questions about sustainability and potential market corrections in the future. Amid these uncertainties, investors are advised to conduct thorough research, diversify their portfolios, and stay informed about the latest market developments to mitigate risks and make informed investment decisions.Deceit, the third and final character, underscores the prevalence of deception and dishonesty in various aspects of Taiwanese life. Whether it is individuals lying and cheating to achieve personal gain, or institutions manipulating information and spreading false narratives to maintain their authority, deceit has become a pervasive and destructive force in the fabric of society. This culture of deceit erodes trust and undermines the foundations of a healthy and functioning democracy.

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Privacy and SecurityThe recent sentencing of four public officials in Fujian province for their involvement in the production and sale of counterfeit "Eight Treasures Pill" has brought to light the pervasive issue of counterfeit drugs in China. The court's ruling not only serves as a warning to those involved in such illegal activities but also underscores the importance of ensuring the safety and efficacy of medications for the public.

Moving forward, it is imperative that authorities continue to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit drugs and hold those responsible accountable for their actions. By taking decisive action against counterfeiters, we can help ensure the safety and well-being of the public and safeguard the integrity of the healthcare system.

In the face of the impeachment proceedings against President Moon, the role of Defense Minister Suh Wook has become pivotal in ensuring that the military remains a neutral and reliable institution. His leadership and command over the armed forces will be essential in navigating the turbulent political waters and safeguarding the country's security interests.

UConn coach Dan Hurley told reporters Tuesday that star forward Alex Karaban is out for Wednesday's top-25 matchup against visiting Baylor. Karaban was transported to a hospital in Hawaii last Wednesday after sustaining a head injury during an 85-67 loss to Dayton on the final day of the Maui Invitational. Karaban hit the floor after being fouled on a contested layup with approximately 2 1/2 minutes left in the second half. He was later cleared to fly home with the rest of the team on Thursday. The junior sat out Saturday's 99-45 win over Maryland Eastern Shore, but now he will miss a more important game that pits the No. 25 Huskies (5-3) against the No. 15 Bears (5-2) in the Big 12-Big East Battle. Karaban has been UConn's leading scorer (15.9 ppg), adding 4.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. A starter for each of the Huskies' last two national championship-winning seasons, Karaban owns career averages of 11.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. Jaylin Stewart drew into the starting lineup in Karaban's place against UMES. --Field Level Media

The investigation into Samantha's disappearance is far from over, as the search for answers continues and the truth behind her ordeal slowly comes to light. The road to recovery may be long and arduous, but with the support of her family, friends, and the community, Samantha is on the path to healing and restoration.

Albertsons sues Kroger for failing to win approval of their proposed supermarket mergerNew York, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – December 11, 2024) – The AI Consulting Network, a leader in empowering businesses through artificial intelligence, today announced the launch of its comprehensive AI consulting services . Under the leadership of founder and CEO Avi Hacker, the company delivers strategic AI solutions to help businesses navigate digital transformation. Picture of Avi Hacker Diagnosed with Perthes disease as a child, Avi faced two major hip surgeries before the age of 25, each time relearning how to walk. This resilience, honed through countless hours of physical therapy, became a defining trait that Avi brings to his work today. His journey is a powerful reminder that no obstacle is too great to overcome. After graduating from Brooklyn College with a degree in Accounting, Business Management, and Finance, Avi joined PwC, where he gained valuable experience in IT controls, compliance, and operational efficiencies. Driven by a desire to deepen his understanding of complex business frameworks, he pursued a law degree, navigating personal complexities along the way. Rather than following a conventional career path, Avi set his sights on harnessing cutting- edge AI solutions to help businesses evolve. Drawing on his multidisciplinary background, he founded The AI Consulting Network, uniting insights from traditional industries with innovative AI applications. His vision is to guide organizations to thrive amid digital transformation. “The AI Consulting Network was born from a vision to make AI accessible and practical for everyone. We aim to make the promise of generative AI and deep learning a reality for all,” says Avi Hacker, CEO of The AI Consulting Network. Avi’s fascination with AI began during his legal studies, where he explored the potential of large language models. He discovered how custom AI development could make processes faster, smarter, and more efficient. Recognizing that many businesses were not tapping into this potential, Avi saw an opportunity to bridge the gap. The AI Consulting Network specializes in empowering businesses to unlock the potential of artificial intelligence through tailored, ethical, and accessible solutions. By offering expert guidance, customized strategies, and seamless AI integration, the company helps businesses enhance efficiency, drive innovation, and achieve their goals responsibly. Today, Avi shares his message with leaders across the globe: human resilience, coupled with strategic AI adoption, can redefine what’s possible for businesses and the people they serve. The AI Consulting Network is dedicated to making AI a transformative force, ensuring clients can confidently navigate their AI journeys and make impactful decisions aligned with their unique objectives. About The AI Consulting Network The AI Consulting Network LLC specializes in empowering businesses to unlock the potential of artificial intelligence through tailored, ethical, and accessible solutions. By offering expert guidance, customized strategies, and seamless AI integration, we help businesses enhance efficiency, drive innovation, and achieve their goals responsibly. Our commitment to clarity and understanding ensures that clients can confidently navigate their AI journeys, making impactful decisions that align with their unique objectives. Press Inquiries The AI Consulting Network https://theaiconsultingnetwork.com/ Avi Hacker info@theaiconsultingnetwork.com To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/233394 #distro

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Moreover, the release of the private photo album has raised ethical questions about the invasion of privacy and the manipulation of personal moments for political gain. By delving into Assad's personal life, the opposition forces have crossed a moral boundary that blurs the line between public scrutiny and private sphere.

The US, on the other hand, has been vocal in its criticism of Iran's involvement in Syria and its support for the Assad regime. The Trump administration has taken a hardline stance against Iran and has imposed sanctions on the country in response to its actions in the region. The Iranian Ambassador's warning can be seen as a direct response to US pressure and a signal of Iran's willingness to defend its interests in Syria.In a statement addressing the delay, JDI highlighted the importance of upholding the highest standards of performance and reliability in its products. The company emphasized that taking the extra time to fine-tune the eLEAP OLED technology would ultimately benefit consumers by delivering a superior product that meets and exceeds their expectations.