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Forest owner says Richard Masters’ ‘small clubs’ comments were ‘a bit careless’
Evangelos Marinakis believes Premier League chief executive Richard Masters did not speak appropriately when appearing to describe Nottingham Forest and Everton as “small clubs” at a parliamentary hearing.
Masters, under questioning at the Culture, Media and Sport Committee two weeks ago, was criticised after seeking to justify the league’s profit and sustainability rules to MPs.
Asked whether “big clubs” were treated differently under the rules, with deliberation over the 115 charges levelled against Premier League champions Manchester City ongoing, Masters said: “The standard directions (on PSR) are for everybody, they’re not just for the small clubs.”
Forest owner Marinakis responded to those comments at the racial and gender equity in European football conference being hosted by his club.
“I think that was not appropriate,” Marinakis said. “I think it was a bit careless. I think that Nottingham Forest and Everton are very big clubs and maybe are bigger than the ones that we consider today big clubs.
“Big team and small teams is maybe not an appropriate expression.”
At the same conference Thierry Henry, Lilian Thuram, Viv Anderson and Anthony Elanga joined other prominent footballers in signing a pledge to committing themselves to publicly push for racial equality in football.
The statement comes after players and Harvard academics discussed how to further anti-discriminatory aims and references recent cases of racist abuse faced by black professionals involving AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan and Coventry midfielder Kasey Palmer.
Henry said the onus must be put on to football’s governing bodies to make change, saying: “Sometimes you have the sense that the players on the field are alone.”
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Boeing released its 2023 earnings Wednesday, but the company's CEO spent most of a call with investors talking about safety and quality.
Boeing is facing big questions about quality control after a door plug panel blew off one of its 737 Max 9 jets in midair earlier this month.
"We are not issuing financial outlook for 2024 today. Now is not the time for that," chief executive Dave Calhoun said during an earnings call.
Instead, Calhoun focused much of the call seeking to reassure analysts — and the flying public — that the plane maker is taking the incident seriously.
"We will simply focus on every next airplane, and ensuring we meet all the standards that we have, all the standards that our regulator has and that our customers demand," he said.
Calhoun did not offer any information about the cause of the incident on January 5th, which is still under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. No one was seriously injured, but the incident touched off another crisis for Boeing. The troubled plane maker was still working to rebuild public trust after 346 people died in two 737 Max 8 jets that crashed in 2018 and 2019.
Boeing said Wednesday it lost $30 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. That's a better performance than the final quarter of 2022, when the company lost more than $600 million. Overall, Boeing lost $2.2 billion last year — its best result in 5 years.
But any improvement in the company's financials has been overshadowed by the latest safety incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing Boeing 737 Max 9 planes to fly again after an inspection and maintenance. Calhoun said airlines have now returned 129 Max 9 planes to service, out of a total of 171 that were grounded by the FAA.
Earlier this week, Boeing formally withdrew its request for an exemption from federal safety rules in order to speed up certification of its new Boeing Max 7 jet to start flying. The company had been hoping to begin delivering those smaller planes to airlines this year, despite a design flaw with the Max's engine de-icing system that could be potentially catastrophic.
Boeing wanted to use the same workaround that's already in use on its Max 8 and Max 9 jets. Now the company says it will focus on a permanent engineering fix instead.
Calhoun told analysts on Wednesday that process is expected to take about nine months, likely pushing certification of the Max 7 back into 2025.
The FAA has also taken the unusual step of ordering production caps at Boeing's factories. Calhoun said the company will continue producing 737s at the rate of 38 per month until the FAA agrees to lift that limit. And Calhoun told analysts that slowing down production at the behest of regulators would help the company fix problems in its factory and supply chain.
"I'm sort of glad they called out a pause. That's an excuse to take our time, and do it right," Calhoun said. "This is what we do, and how we get better."
But some longtime observers are skeptical that Boeing management is ready to confront the true scale of the problem.
"I'm sure they're hoping for a quick fix," said Peter Lemme, a former Boeing engineer who's now an aviation consultant. "But this is like a cancer in the system. And how far has it infiltrated, and what are you gonna do to eradicate it? I think it's going to take years for Boeing to really get back to where they should be on quality and manufacturing."
The NTSB is expected to release preliminary findings from its investigations of the Alaska Airlines incident in the coming days.
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LAHORE - The Lahore Region Cricket Association (LRCA) Under- 16 Cricket Championship 2023-24 commenced with an exciting start as six matches were played on the first day at different venues.
In the first match at Azhar Ali Cricket Academy, Valencia, Lahore Falcons thrashed Lahore Hawks by 258 runs. Falcons set a massive score of 353/6 in 40 overs. Player of the match Aaliyan Salman smashed super 104 while Ali Khokhar hit 87 and Naqeeb Ullah 71. Lahore Hawks were bundled out for 95 in 24.1 overs, with Mustafa Abbas taking5/21.
In the second match at New Ittefaq Cricket Ground, Lahore Shalimar toppled Lahore Thunders by 8 wickets. Lahore Shalimar chased down Lahore Thunders’ total of 153 with ease, reaching 266/8 in 40 overs. M Ali Sattar hammered 104 and M Khizer Butt 108. Earlier, Abdul Hanan’s 4/28 restricted Lahore Thunders. Sattar and Butt were the joint players of the match.
In the third match at Pindi Gymkhana Ground, Lahore Dolphins thumped Lahore Tigers by 134 runs. Player of the match Shafiullah Khan struck unbeaten 126 and Arham Danish hit half century to steer Dolphins to 263/6. Lahore Tigers managed only 129/9 in their 40 overs, succumbing to M Usman Safdar’s 5/21.
In the fourth match at Model Town Club Ground, Lahore Leopards edged out Lahore Lions by 14 runs. Player of the match Zain Tasleem Qureshi’s 84 runs were crucial in setting up Lahore Leopards’ total of 232/5. Lahore Lions fell short by 14 runs, being all out for 218.
In the fifth match at Township Whites Ground, Lahore Panthers recorded fourwicket win against Lahore Stallions. After dismissing Lahore Stallions for a meager 97, Lahore Panthers comfortably chased down the target, scoring 231/6. Arman Ali’s unbeaten 99 was the highlight. Muhammad Ahsan, with a spell of 5/12, was named man of the match.
At LCCA Ground, the sixth match between Lahore Eagles and Lahore Ravi ended in a draw. In a nail-biting finish, both Lahore Eagles and Lahore Ravi scored 224, resulting in a rare tie.
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People are raving about how much easier it is to read with 'bionic reading' font
This viral tool could be a game-changer for some.
Reading is a fundamental tool of learning for most people, which is why it's one of the first things kids learn in school and why nations set literacy goals.
But even those of us who are able to read fluently might sometimes struggle with the act of reading itself. Perhaps we don't read as quickly as we wish we could or maybe our minds wander as our eyes move across the words. Sometimes we get to the end of a paragraph and realize we didn't retain anything we just read.
People with focus or attention issues can struggle with reading, despite having no actual reading disabilities. It can be extremely frustrating to want to read something and have no issues with understanding the material, yet be unable to keep your mind engaged with the text long enough to get "into" what you're reading.
But what if there were a font that could help you stay focused? That could help you not only read faster but better retain what you've just read?
That's what the creators of Bionic Reading claim is possible with their font tool."Bionic Reading revises texts so that the most concise parts of words are highlighted," the Swiss company's website reads. "This guides the eye over the text and the brain remembers previously learned words more quickly."
Give it a try:
The gist is that our eyes don't need to focus on the entire word because our brains can fill in the rest for us. By bolding the first part of the word, we're more quickly able to move from word to word.
"Bionic Reading aims to play a supporting role in the absorption of volume text," states the website. "We see technological progress as an opportunity for all those who want to increase the pleasure of reading in a noisy and hectic world in a focused way and without distraction."
While there are no studies cited on this method of reading, there are plenty of anecdotes about it being helpful. The example shared by @WhattheADHD on Twitter got people's attention and many people responded with enthusiasm at how much easier the bionic reading text was for them to read.
"This is amazing! I have ADHD and I didn’t even realize that I was having trouble fixating when I read," wrote one person. "My eye latches right on to the bold face. Can’t wait to try reading a book again. It’s been all audiobooks for a while."
"It's incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain," wrote another.
However, not everyone was impressed or thrilled with the sample. Some people said that they had a harder time reading the bionic text or that it distracted or slowed them down. Both positive and negative responses came from a diverse pool of people. Some who described themselves as neurodivergent said that they loved it and some said it was harder. The same went for people who said they were neurotypical, so it's hard to say who this tool may specifically help the most. Everyone's brains work differently, and different people will find different things helpful.
Bionic reading might be a game-changer for some, but it's not the only tool of its kind. There are speed-reading programs that train you to stop reading each word and allow your brain to read visually instead of auditorily. There are also various methods of making reading easier by adjusting how your eyes move across the text.
For instance, check out this "space reading" technique:
Bionic Reading has a free text converter on its website that you can use to try out its font changes. A YouTube clip from the company also shows possibilities for how the font can be adjusted to individual preferences, making more or less of the initial letters bolded.
And again, if this doesn't work for you, then it's probably not made for you. For people who struggle with reading, something like Bionic Reading could make a huge difference.
Three cheers for technology being used to help people overcome difficulties and make learning easier and more efficient.
This article originally appeared on 5.30.22.
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https://www.upworthy.com/bionic-reading-could-be-a-game-changer-rp5
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 January 2024, 17:53 by Denis Chabrol
The Guyana Stock Exchange’s (GSE) efforts to modernise its operations has hit several stumbling blocks for almost 20 years now, and this has been compounded by the fact that none of the public companies is listed on tier one of that secondary market, the GSE Chairman Nikhil Ramkarran said Wednesday.
While expressing concern that he was not contacted before to react to concerns by Chairman of Banks DIH Limited, Clifford Reis, Mr Ramkarran said there was no local public company listed on the GSE. “There is no local company in Guyana that is officially listed on the stock exchange and that includes Banks DIH. All they are, is traded on the stock exchange,” he told Demerara Waves Online News.
When the GSE was established it provided for tier one listing of companies that want to trade their shares publicly, and tier two trading without the GSE, Guyana Securities Council (GSC), other charges or other requirements. Every public company must have 50 or more shareholders and must be registered with the GSC after which it could apply to trade on the GSE. He said any company that is listed to trade on the GSE goes through no special process for that service, pays no fees and there is very little or no regulation for those companies.
According to Mr Ramkarran, the GSE has tried for more than 10 years to get the big companies to list but “they do not wish to list because there are costs associated with listing, there are requirements associated with listing and there is increased scrutiny.” He could not immediately say what are the initial one-time and annual costs associated with listing on the stock exchange, but said he believed it was linked to the number of shares. He said the GSE offered to make listing financially attractive but there was no uptake. “We offered several companies, including Banks DIH, to completely waive the initial cost and to give them a discount on the annual cost. They did not avail themselves of that opportunity. They have absolutely no call to criticise anything that they with us because they have not made or taken any of the numerous opportunities they have been offered,” he said.
Mr Reis last weekend recommended that an odd-lot market be put in place to avoid the trading in less than 1,000 shares affecting the overall share price of companies, but Mr Ramkarran said the GSE would refuse to do so until publicly trading companies enlist with the GSE and pay the necessary fees. “That system is not going to be offered to people who are on the second tier and paying us no money. Banks DIH earns significant value from having their shares publicly known to be a specific value. If they want to have that value controllable in the manner that they wish, then they need to start paying for the service they have been accessing for free for decades,” he said. Mr Ramkarran promised that if Banks DIH lists officially on the stock exchange, he would “ensure the day after that his shares are not subject to fluctuations on quantity of shares sold and the value.” He explained that the system would be a “cut out” to avoid the share price from being affected by low volume trading or share value assessment based on the number and price to minimise the impact. “There are odd-lot systems. There are a number of different systems that can be implemented but we have no reason to implement that now because there is no benefit to us… They don’t pay us anything at the moment,” he said.
He said not that it could not be done free of cost but “it will not be done free of cost” because those companies on tier two were already benefitting from the GSE and were now asking that those benefits be further refined. “They are asking for an additional service to be provided to them and want to have that service provided free of cost. It would not be provided free of cost,” he said.
He said the odd-lot has not been introduced because the GSE is unable to introduce the necessary rules because there has been no clearance.
The GSE Chairman acknowledged that the Banks DIH Limited Chairman’s concern about trading were valid, and said dating back to 2005 he had asked successive Ministers of Finance and other officials under the People’s Progressive Party Civic and A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration to address a number of concerns. “This is continuously for 20 years, meeting with these people, sending papers with respect to what is necessary and what should be done,” he said, adding that the GSE’s Chief Executive Officer had also met with Mr Reis.
Mr Ramkarran said it was only last year that a commercial company convinced the government within one or two months that the school’s curriculum should include financial market education after the GSE had tried previously through the Minister of Education and the Minister of Finance.
The GSE Chairman said the local stock exchange was badly underfunded, only getting a low double digit subsidy from the government. He said things were so bad that it was still selling shares on a decades-old computer system. “We cannot get the things that we want. Our computer system is 20 years old. It’s the same system that was initially used that is our trading system; numerous requests to just get a little money to just get a trading system,” he said. He said the GSE was denied funding to acquire trading software: “Nothing in the budget!” Most of the GY$10 million to GY$15 million government subsidy, he said, is for rental of the building, electricity and other expenses.
The GSE, he said, could not even afford a modern real-time electronic trading system that is being used in Developed Nations and several other Caribbean stock exchanges.
Among the things that need to be fixed, he said, was the need for the cost to be changed so that it is skewed in favour of the stock exchange. He noted that the cost of doing a trade on the stock exchange works out to the same as if it was done privately. “We have completed proposals that we have put to the various Ministers of Finance. There are issues with the Securities Council and the reporting issuers. That is not my business but there are long-standing issues,” he said. Mr Ramkarran said he was confident in saying that stockbrokers “make absolutely no money on the stock exchange and haven’t for 20 years.”
Even if the GSE acquires a high-tech real-time trading system, Mr Ramkarran said the legislation would have to be updated. Currently share trading is done via a largely paper-based system whose transactions take as much as two weeks week to finalise the transfer. “No stock exchange can operate without an electronic repository…With an electronic repository, trades are instantaneous. This is what is done in every modern country around the world and several in the Caribbean. He said other stock exchanges have offered to sell the GSE an electronic repository worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars. “They have been trying to sell us what they use, but we have no money to purchase it. We have no finances with which to make those purchases. We have asked for it. It has been refused,” he said. He added that the GSE could not even afford an electronic noticeboard to publicly display trading, although the exchange favoured transparency and information.
According to the GSE Chairman, before an electronic repository is put in place, the legislation would have to be changed. He said he has heard of legislative reform but neither the government nor the regulator, the Guyana Securities Council, has contacted the exchange. “We have asked for copies of this draft legislation. That has not been provided. We have absolutely no input or information from anybody that will tell us what stage this is at. We don’t even know what changes are being made,” he said. He said the GSE had provided unsolicited information to the government dating back as late as “some time after 2020.”
Reacting to a report that the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GGCI) was spearheading efforts to set up a second stock exchange with assistance from the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Mr Ramkarran queried whether it would still be the existing legal architecture that would be used to govern it. “That’s fine. They can go ahead. That’s not a problem. Who are going to be their brokers because brokers have to be licensed by the Securities Council,” he said.
The GSE Chairman noted that the Securities Council has not given the green-light to the existing secondary market to charge certain fees.
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Healthcare executives said adopting a conventional, data-centric method for implementing generative AI might be overly limited, emphasizing the possible need for a more comprehensive strategy, according to a new report from Deloitte.
Deloitte's "2024 Health Care Generative AI Outlook" survey gathered insights from 60 healthcare executives about the technology and found that:
- More than 70% of executives place significant emphasis on data aspects such as availability, quality, compliance, security and privacy during implementation.
- Healthcare executives said there are potential pitfalls (considerations that fewer than 60% of executives prioritize) that could hinder organizations' efforts to incorporate generative AI into their workflows.
- According to the survey, healthcare executives may be overlooking critical aspects of effective data governance, including the development of a governance model and addressing data biases, despite their importance in ensuring the quality of data, promoting equitable design and safeguarding patient privacy. These blind spots may hinder the establishment of trust with consumers and employees.
- Executives are placing less emphasis on building consumer trust in generative AI — improving data-sharing — and educating patients about AI risks, compared to their traditional focus on data considerations, according to the survey. This misalignment with consumer priorities may result in decreased trust and engagement.
- The survey found that investing in and responding to workforce needs, such as upskilling and addressing concerns, are low priorities for healthcare executives, potentially overlooking the essential role of workforce development in successful generative AI implementation.
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https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/data-driven-approach-to-generative-ai-is-too-narrow-report.html
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Border Convoy Grows Significantly as It Rolls Toward Texas: 'We Have to Protect Our House'
The next freedom convoy, this one headed toward the Texas border, is still growing as Americans fed up with Joe Biden’s border crisis come together in protest.
Like the truckers who shocked Canada several years ago, a convoy of Americans is coming together to protest a failed government — this time over Joe Biden’s refusal to close the border to law-breaking illegal immigrants who are streaming across by the tens of thousands a month.
Trucker Convoy heading to the border
Do you stand with Texas? pic.twitter.com/smZwfiom1L
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) January 25, 2024
The column of trucks and other vehicles is being labeled “God’s Army” and is now coursing through the state of Louisiana as it continues its journey to the Texas border with Mexico, according to NewsNation.
After a stopover in Denham Springs, Louisiana, the convoy is headed to Dripping Springs, Texas, near Austin, the news outlet added.
“When they said they were gonna cut the wire down there and let them start crossing the border again, nah uh, they need to close the borders. I grew up in Arizona, man, there was never a problem like that. This is crazy, our country is being overtaken,” one Nashville participant said, according to WAFB.
🇺🇸 Take our Border back Convoy starts (Jan-29- Feb-3rd) 👇 Truckers for Texas
— Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) January 27, 2024
Louisiana state Sen. Valarie Hodges was on hand during the convoy’s stop in her state, and she urged her own governor to come to the support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
“Honestly I would love to see Gov. [Jeff] Landry support Gov. Abbott with the National Guard, with whatever resources that we can do to help. Because really all states in America have become a border state, we’re all seeing this influx and being invaded as Gov. Abbott said. It is an invasion,” Hodges said.
“I don’t really know how it’s going to play out. I just applaud Gov. Abbott’s courage and the other governors who stand with him. Hopefully, it will make a difference. Hopefully, this is a wake-up call for President Biden and for Congress to say people are sick of it,” she added.
Driver Bruce Poppy insisted that it is time to “stand up” against the Biden government’s dangerous border failures.
“We need to stand up,” Poppy said. “Our voices need to be heard. We need to bring people together. … That’s our right, our First Amendment right to peacefully assemble and redress our grievances for our government. We have not be able to do that.”
Participant Y. G. Nyghtstorm also spoke to NewsNation about why many of the convoy participants have hit the road to make a statement about the state of the country and the failures at the border.
“With our President Joe Biden, I say that he’s been an absentee father for our country,” Nyghtstorm exclaimed. “He can protest everybody else and send resources to everybody else, but what about your family here at home? Charity begins at home.”
“You just can’t break into our home,” Nyghtstorm said of the millions of illegal border crossers. “We have to protect our house, and that’s what this is about. It’s not about violence. It’s about our love for our country and people coming together, standing for the right thing.”
Nyghtstorm also blasted the “propaganda” of the leftists who say that the members of the convoy are armed and dangerous.
“I tell ya, propaganda is so funny,” Nyghtstorm said, waving off the concerns as ridiculous. “We are not coming with violence … Anytime you try and do something good, there’s always somebody that’s going to have something negative to say.”
“The law is the law. Right is right. And we got to protect our house,” he said.
The organizers of the convoy said they also plan to stop in Eagle Pass, Texas, and San Ysidro, California. And they expect the convoy to continue growing as they go along.
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Traffic dispute in suburban Chicago erupts into gunfire, with 4 shot
DOLTON, Ill. (AP) — A traffic dispute in suburban Chicago erupted into gunfire Wednesday, with four people taken to hospitals after being shot, authorities said.
Saul Mazon told the Chicago Tribune said he was headed to a store when he saw several cars traveling quickly down a street, one car hit another, and the vehicles pulled into a parking lot where people got out and were yelling and arguing before he heard several shots.
Dolton Village Trustee Kiana Belcher said she was in the drive-thru lane at a Dunkin Donuts when people in two vehicles started shooting at each other.
“The people involved were taken to the hospital,” Belcher said.
Four patients, all adults suffering gunshot wounds, were taken to several hospitals, Dolton Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeremy Cole said.
The shooting happened around 10 a.m.
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Space shuttle Endeavor moves into final position at California Science Center
The last space shuttle ever built is in place at the California Science Center. Now work begins building the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center around the shuttle.
The space shuttle Endeavour was lifted in the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center early Tuesday, making Los Angeles home to the only “ready-to-launch” space shuttle in the world.
No stranger to large crowds, the orbiter arrived in Los Angeles in 2012 after flying on the back of a specially outfitted Boeing 747. It then took a three-day journey to the California Science Center, where it stayed on display through December last year.
Once constructed, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, like the California Science Center, will be free and open to the public, inviting all Angelenos to marvel at the last space shuttle ever built.
No stranger to large crowds, the orbiter arrived in Los Angeles in 2012 after flying on the back of a specially outfitted Boeing 747. It then took a three-day journey to the California Science Center, where it stayed on display through December last year.
Once constructed, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, like the California Science Center, will be free and open to the public, inviting all Angelenos to marvel at the last space shuttle ever built.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/space-shuttle-endeavor-has-lift-off-at-california-science-center-123
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President Biden will turn to longtime Democratic strategist and climate aide John Podesta to handle international climate policy after climate envoy John Kerry steps down from the job in coming weeks, the White House said on Wednesday.
Podesta has worked in the Biden White House since Sept. 2022, overseeing the implementation of the climate incentives and funding in the $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act.
He will continue to lead the rollout of the landmark climate law even as he takes the reins on international climate talks from Kerry, who was an outsized figure on the world stage as a former secretary of state, senator and presidential candidate.
Podesta is well-known in Washington and Democratic circles as a chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton and a climate adviser to former President Barack Obama. He was chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016.
"Having served the three most recent Democratic presidents over three decades, he is an American statesman, a fierce champion for bold climate action, and a leader who without a doubt the world will know has the trust of and speaks for the president of the United States," White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said in a statement.
Biden came to office pledging to make curbing climate one of his top priorities. Earlier this year, he faced backlash — particularly from young voters — for approving a large drilling project, known as Willow, in Alaska. Polling shows many young voters are not aware of the climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act.
But as he heads into his reelection race, his administration won praise last week from climate groups for a decision to pause approvals for new exports of liquified natural gas where Biden explicitly nodded to "the calls of young people" to take more climate action.
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Get into a UFC cage – Postecoglou tells Spurs to focus on football not fighting
Ange Postecoglou was pleased Tottenham regained their composure to storm back to earn a crucial 3-2 home win over Brentford but told both sets of players to enter the UFC ring if they want to focus on grappling over goals.
Spurs were sluggish in the first half and trailed to Neal Maupay’s 15th-minute opener, which saw him mock James Maddison’s darts celebration and appeared to be the catalyst for a fiery contest between the London rivals.
Whatever Postecoglou said at half-time did the trick though with Tottenham scoring twice in 72 seconds through Destiny Udogie and substitute Brennan Johnson before Richarlison made it three goals in eight second-half minutes when he steered home with 56 minutes on the clock.
Ivan Toney set up a grandstand finish when he pounced on Udogie’s error to score in front of England boss Gareth Southgate, but Spurs held on to leapfrog Aston Villa and reclaim fourth spot following a chaotic encounter.
Asked if Maupay’s darts celebration had fired up his team, Postecoglou replied: “I hope not because that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
“I’m not a fan of it. I don’t like the whole bravado, pushing people around. If you’re that brave about things, my players and their players, get into a UFC cage and I’ll see how brave they are.
“We’re out there to play football and that’s what I want our guys to do, focus on playing football and they shouldn’t get motivated by things that aren’t really that important to us.
“Like I said, we got sucked in first half. Second half was better.
“I think we started the game well, started with good intensity and good tempo, obviously they score and then we lost our way.
“We lost focus. I was a bit frustrated with our inability to stay disciplined, just too many stops and starts, it kind of plays into their hands, lots of set pieces and throw ins.
“We spent more time talking to the referee than playing the game. I was a bit frustrated we lost our real clear focus.
“Second half, I think for 25-30 minutes we were outstanding, scored three great goals and probably should have had a couple more.”
Spurs started on the front foot but were rocked when Udogie gave away possession to Christian Norgaard, who sent Toney away and while Guglielmo Vicario denied him, Maupay was on hand to bundle home and score for a fourth consecutive match.
If you’re that brave about things, my players and their players, get into a UFC cage and I’ll see how brave they are
Tottenham got sucked into Brentford’s game-plan after with the rest of the first 45 stop-start and containing plenty of melees, but a double substitution at the break inspired the hosts’ comeback with Johnson and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg introduced.
Udogie slotted home after a slick one-two with Werner, who then set up Johnson at the back post in the 49th-minute.
When Richarlison fired in for his seventh league goal in as many matches, after Maddison’s shot had been blocked, Spurs were on track for three points but another poor Udogie pass allowed Toney to tee up a dramatic finale in N17.
Maddison was forced off late on with cramp, but Postecoglou’s side survived seven minutes of stoppage-time to return to the top four.
Opposite number Thomas Frank stoked the fire further after full time when he questioned why Tottenham had allowed Maupay’s darts celebration to irritate them.
“If that’s what’s irritating them, then they have a problem,” Frank said.
“Is that fair enough? If they are talking about darts celebrations winding them up, then I think they have an issue, personally.”
On Postecoglou’s UFC suggestion, Frank added: “Yeah, I agree. Just in general concentrate on playing football.”
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George Carlin's brilliant 'whiny Boomer' rant was decades ahead of its time
This might be the original and best "OK Boomer" mic drop.
"OK Boomer" is a catchphrase that has come to perfectly encapsulate the generational divide in modern American politics. It has also led to some moments of pure comedy gold.
But it turns out that one of the great all-time standup comedic minds was literally decades ahead of the game when it came to dragging Boomers for selfish, hypocritical, and entitled behavior. In his 1996 stand up special "Back in Town" George Carlin devoted a glorious two minutes and twenty-seven seconds to putting Boomers in their place.
"A lot of these cultural crimes I'm complaining about can be blamed on the Baby Boomers," Carlin says, beginning what would become a now legendary rant.
"I'm getting tired of hearing about Boomers," Carlin continues. "Whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: 'GIMME IT, IT'S MINE!' 'GIMME THAT, IT'S MINE!' These people were given everything. Everything was handed to them. And they took it all: sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and they stayed loaded for 20 years and had a free ride."
"But now they're staring down the barrel of middle-age burnout, and they don't like it. So they've turned self-righteous. They want to make things harder on younger people. They tell 'em, abstain from sex, say no to drugs; as for the rock and roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago...so they could buy pasta machines and Stairmasters and soybean futures."
Or, as one person on Reddit commented on Carlin's video: "My feeling about baby-boomers is that they were one of the first generations to really adulate and idolize the idea of youth, and youth empowerment but when they themselves reach senior ages their own ideas were working against them so they changed to demonizing youth."
But Carlin wasn't done there. He says the Boomers have not only become hypocrites, they turned their own generational shift into cutthroat, corporate catchphrases that guilt and shame others who don't comport to their world view.
"You know something? They are cold, bloodless people," Carlin says.
"These people went from 'Do Your Own Thing' to 'Just Say No.' They went from 'Love is All You Need' to 'Whoever Winds Up With the Most Toys, Wins.' And they went from cocaine to Rogaine."
Carlin's bit concludes in epic fashion with an all-encompassing take down that applies to, well, literally everyone. But the next time you hear a Boomer ridiculing young people or defending their own legacy, just show them this clip and remind them that Boomer criticism is something that transcends age, gender or race. Heck, even if you're from the Boomer generation, this clip is just too good to not enjoy and share.
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ISLAMABAD - With the onset of snowy weather coupled with rain, various parts of the country are witnessing a majestic look with its picturesque views which have become an adventurous charm for tourists coming from other plain cities of the country. The snowfall and rain have boosted the tourism sector as tourists made a beeline to the valleys to experience the scenic views, according to a report aired by a private news channel. Despite biting cold, a great rush of tourists was witnessed on Sunday at popular tourist destinations including Murree, Malam Jaba, Kalam, Naran, Kaghan, Swat, Hunza, Ziarat, Chitral and Kashmir, like every year. The first snowfall of the year in the upper areas of Swat, Malam Jabba, Murree hills has covered the high peak mountains and also spread a white sheet on the lakes located in the high altitude turning the area into a fairy world, said a visitor of GB. The charm of the snowfall season in Murree is a captivating experience and offers a range of activities and sights to make it a must-visit destination, said a tourist while enjoying 4 inches of snow. The capital city of Pakistan after rain also added majestic colours to the city that lies at the foot of Margalla Hills, said a visitor of the city. Islamabad is a beautiful city with well-planned development and plenty of greenery, said a visitor from Punjab, adding, It would not be an exaggeration to say that Islamabad is amongst the most beautiful capitals in the world. “Trail 3 and 5 are the most attractive place for residents of the capital after a tough day at the office”, said a local in Islamabad. The Kalam Valley is an awe-inspiring tourist resort, with high peak and snowcapped mountains, majestic lakes, magnificent waterfalls, thick forests and lush green meadows, said a foreign tourist. Tourists while enjoying snowy weather and adrenaline junkies alike say that Malam Jabba has a variety of options for the discerning traveler, said another visitor. Another local said Swat is also the best travel destination during winter. “The valley offers a variety of spots.
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The biggest safety concern in health technology for 2024 is the difficulties faced by patients and caregivers when using medical devices at home, a new report from nonprofit patient safety organization ECRI found.
The report highlights the things that might be dangerous and need the most attention in 2024. Here are ECRI's top 10 health technology hazards for 2024:
- Usability challenges with medical devices in the home
- Insufficient cleaning instructions for medical devices
- Drug compounding without technology safeguards
- Environmental harm from patient care
- Insufficient governance of AI in medical technologies
- Ransomware as a critical threat to the healthcare sector
- Burns from single-foil electrosurgical electrodes
- Damaged infusion pumps risk medication errors
- Defects in implantable orthopedic products
- Web analytics software and the misuse of patient data
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Watch: Travis Kelce Goes on Profanity-Laced Rant About Kicker Justin Tucker as He Tries to Justify Tossing His Equipment
The viral incident involving the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce engaging in a run-in with the Baltimore Ravens’ Justin Tucker before the Chiefs’ AFC win Sunday brought an explanation later in the week from Kelce.
Detailing the incident on the Wednesday “New Heights” podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, the Chiefs tight end said kicker Tucker broke an unwritten rule regarding pregame practice, and that prompted Travis Kelce to toss his equipment aside.
Recognizing that Tucker, in invading the Chiefs’ territory as they warmed up, was jokingly playing a competitive mind game, Travis Kelce indicated Chiefs players were focused on the game and in no mood to joke around.
“So we’re warming up,” Travis Kelce said in the podcast. “And we do our same warm-up every single time on our side of the field.
“For those of you who don’t know what happens in pregames,” he continued, “The Ravens have their side of the field, and the Chiefs have our side of the field.
“Now specialists — because of, like, the wind factor and …
“They go to both sides,” interjected Jason Kelce.
“They get a chance to kick at both field goals,” continued Travis Kelce, “and a punt from both sides of the field.”
If someone like a kicker goes to the opposition’s side of the field, “You kind of stay out of their way,” according to Travis Kelce. “You know, you don’t interfere with what they have going on.”
“That is the unwritten rule, “said Jason Kelce.
“That’s the unwritten rule,” responded his brother. “If you want to be a f*** d*** about it, you keep your helmet and your football and your f*** kicking tee right where the quarterbacks are warming up.”
He noted that in their warmups, quarterbacks’ eyes are scanning the field, implying — with Justin Kelce seconding — that a kicker’s stray helmet could be a hazard.
“If you’re not going to pick that up, I’ll happily move that for you,” Travis Kelce said.
“Justin came out and he said it was more of a joking gesture, kind of a fun competitive [thing]. And I get it. And he was kind of winking at me and being a d*** about it, trying to get under the skin.”
Travis Kelce and Mahomes were not amused. “Me and Pat, we’ve been having the same mentality for this game all week long, man,” according to Kelce.” And it was, you gotta go in there and have the right mindset.
“And we just weren’t in a joking mood.”
WARNING: The following video contains language that may offend some viewers.
Yet, both Kelce brothers complimented Tucker as an exceptional kicker and recognized how he tends to play psychological games with opponents.
Travis Kelce summed up the incident, saying, “Don’t paint me as the bad guy,” while Jason Kelce noted how Tucker got under his brother’s skin.
But it didn’t work, Jason Kelce noted, since the Chiefs won. That makes for their fourth trip to the Super Bowl in five years.
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U.S. sportsbooks won’t take bets on possible Taylor Swift appearance at the Super Bowl
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fans have been wondering for days whether Taylor Swift will make it to the Super Bowl next week to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs and, if so, how many times she’ll show up on TV during the game. They can speculate all they want, but they won’t be able to bet on it legally in the United States.
Those types of wagers can be made offshore with sportsbooks such as BetUS, which is based in Costa Rica, and potentially in the Canadian province of Ontario. BetMGM public relations manager John Ewing said he was waiting for word from Canadian authorities there if such bets will be OK.
But in the U.S., where betting laws vary from state to state, the general rule is that wagering is limited to what happens on the field. A handful of states allow bets to be placed on the color of Gatorade dumped on the winning coach — red or pink is this year’s plus-260 favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook — but even that type of wager is not allowed in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, the longtime epicenter of sports betting in the U.S., has some of the strictest rules regarding the kinds of wagers made.
Swift’s romance with Kelce became one of the prominent stories this NFL season and she has attended several Chiefs games, including their victory in the AFC championship game at Baltimore on Sunday, where she joined the team for its on-field celebration and greeted Kelce with a kiss. Since she’s performing in Japan the weekend of the Super Bowl, fans began wondering whether she’ll make it to Las Vegas to watch Kelce and Kansas City face the San Francisco 49ers.
It seems only natural they would be able to put money on it in Vegas.
As a matter of principle, though, Ewing said it makes sense not to allow bets on things apart from the on-field action, such as the length of the national anthem.
“We don’t want any subjectivity in a prop (bet),” Ewing said. “We want it to be either it won or it didn’t win or went over or went under, and that’s the concern for regulators as well. That’s why typically we stick to if it’s in the box score, it can be posted.”
Caesars Sportsbook assistant trading director Adam Pullen’s position is the more bets, the merrier.
“We’ve come a long way, but some stuff like we’re talking about here (about Swift) or betting on elections, there still might be a few years before we get to that point,” Pullen said. “But I like anything that drives action and gets people to bet. But we’re dependent on what the regulators in each particular state has to say.”
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For Juventus sporting chief Cristiano Giuntoli, trying to sign Argentine midfielder Carlos Alcaraz is not a new thing. During Giuntoli’s time at Napoli, Alcaraz was very much a target of the man who constructed last season’s Scudetto-winning side, only for Southampton — who were still in the Premier League at the time — to swoop in and offer more money.
Giuntoli, who traded in southern Italy for the north last summer, wasn’t going to miss out on a chance to sign the young Argentine again.
Juventus announced Wednesday, the final day of the January transfer window, that they have signed the 21-year-old Alcaraz on loan with an option to buy from Southampton. In a deal that has a lot of numbers attached to it, Juve will pay an initial €3.7 million loan fee with another €1.9 million add-ons attached to it for the rest of the season. The big thing is the option to buy price, which is set at a whopping €49.5 million — which is much more than the €35-€40 million range that we had heard over the last day since the news first broke of Juventus being close to finalizing the deal.
Alcaraz, who had signed a brand new five-year deal with Southampton in early October, will wear the No. 26 shirt at Juventus, the first player to (officially) wear that number since Stephan Lichtsteiner’s seven-year run of Swiss awesomeness in Turin.
According to reports, Alcaraz will officially land in Italy on Thursday after working out final visa issues that allowed him to travel from England to Turin.
Carlos Alcaraz arriva alla Juventus in prestito dal Southampton ⚪️⚫️
— JuventusFC (@juventusfc) January 31, 2024
Benvenuto, Carlos! I dettagli dell'accordo ➡️ https://t.co/GKSnxOu2TM pic.twitter.com/oVEv7nTVaU
The official details of the deal, courtesy of Juventus’ press office:
Turin, 31 January 2024 - Juventus Football Club S.p.A. announces that an agreement with Southampton Football Club for the temporary acquisition, until 30 June 2024, of the registration rights of the player Carlos Jonas Alcaraz Duran has been finalized for a consideration of € 3.7 million, with the addition of ancillary costs of € 0.2 million, which might be increased up to a maximum of € 1.9 million upon achievement of specific sporting performance objectives.
The agreement further entails the right for Juventus to definitively acquire the player’s registration rights for an agreed consideration of € 49.5 million, payable in three years, which might be increased upon achievement of further sporting performance objectives over the duration of the employment contract with the player.
That right there, if everything is achieved and options are picked up, is the kind of transaction well over €50 million that you have to believe is Giuntoli planning for the future. (And obviously hoping that there will be plenty of Champions League money to spend next season.)
Alcaraz arrives at Juventus after spending the last 12 1⁄2 months with Southampton. They have come during some very interesting times at the club, with his first half-season coming during a relegation battle, and the second half of that in England’s second division after they ended up finishing at the bottom of the Premier League table.
During his half a season in the Premier League, which spanned 18 total appearances and just over 1,100 minutes for a Saints squad that got relegated, Alcaraz scored four goals and added two assists.
This season, Alcaraz has scored three goals in 23 appearances (13 starts).
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All Blacks and Flying Fijians will play a rugby test match in San Diego on July 19
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The New Zealand All Blacks are moving a home test match abroad for the first time when they face South Pacific rival Fiji at San Diego State University’s Snapdragon Stadium on July 19. It will be the first time the All Blacks and the Flying Fijians will meet at a neutral site, as well as Fiji’s inaugural visit to the United States. The All Blacks have played several exhibition matches in the United States throughout the years, including a 53-6 victory against the U.S. at what was then known as San Diego Stadium on Oct. 8, 1980.
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Army National Guard of the Week: Lance Jones talks playing at Mackey, dance moves, more
Mackey Arena is widely considered one of the toughest road venues in college basketball. The fans are loud, passionate, and go to all extremes to make sure they get under their opponents' skin.
So, it should serve as no surprise that the idea of playing in front of those fans at Mackey was a major selling point for Lance Jones when he was deciding where he would call home ahead of the 2023-204 college basketball season.
"You don't really get a full feel for it until you play there," Jones said of Mackey Arena. "Nothing can really describe it."
Jones, who played four years at Southern Illinois before entering the transfer portal this past offseason, made the decision to head to West Lafayette for his fifth and likely final year of college hoops. The decision has paid major dividends, as he's helped the Boilermakers get out to an impressive 19-2 start to the season and the No. 2 ranking in the latest AP Top 25 poll.
The senior guard from Evanston, Illinois is averaging 12.1 points and a team-best 1.5 steals per game this season for Purdue. He has scored in double figures in eight of the Boilermakers' last 10 games and has developed into a lockdown defender on the perimeter. Jones' impressive play has led to him being named this week's FOX Sports Army National Guard of the Week. With that, we discussed several engaging topics in our conversation, including how the Boilermakers stay focused, the allure of playing in front of 15,000 screaming fans, and even his viral dance moves.
"This place has been nothing short of amazing," Jones said of playing in Mackey. "The fans and everything they do — the chants, how they cheer for us, the way they get on opponents and feed off our energy, they help us more than they know."
Something that Purdue fans have latched onto is Jones' penchant for dancing during games. While fans can be seen dancing to "Sandstrom," which blares through the Mackey Arena speakers, Jones shows off his own moves down on the court, which has become a viral sensation as of late.
"I've been doing it every home game, and now, they put it on the jumbotron," Jones said of his dance moves. "It's just a different way to connect with the fans."
Jones' dancing skills should be on full display Wednesday night when the Boilermakers host Northwestern in a Big Ten clash. Purdue sits at 8-2 in the conference standings, good for second place, while the Wildcats are 6-3, tied for third with Illinois. Wisconsin currently sits in first place atop the Big Ten standings at 8-1 in conference play.
"This season is a grind. I don't think everybody realizes how hard it is to stay locked in as long as we need to stay locked in," Jones said. "This is a long season. If we stay hungry, stay focused on our goals, then I like our chances."
Watch my complete interview with Jones below and follow along at FOXSports.com and on social media, @CBBonFOX, for our next FOX Sports Army National Guard of the Week interview.
Michael Cohen covers college football and basketball for FOX Sports with an emphasis on the Big Ten. Follow him on Twitter at @Michael_Cohen13.
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Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.
Months of negotiations between the Republicans, Democrats and the Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Trump, the GOP's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been publicly slamming the deal and urging lawmakers to oppose it.
Negotiators started the week promising to release a bill in the coming days. But by Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to signal he's ready to move on, and focus on getting money to two key U.S. allies at war.
"It's time for us to move something, hopefully including the border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and Ukraine, quickly," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
McConnell has consistently argued that divided government is the moment to extract demands on border policy from Democrats.
Pressed about what voters would think of GOP lawmakers who sink a bill because Trump directed them to, McConnell sidestepped the question. "I still favor trying to make law when you can" and said what the bipartisan group is working on is better than current immigration law, adding, "you're asking me, a question I can't answer right now, which is the fate of it."
Senators already know key details
The top Democratic negotiator working on a border plan, Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has signaled for days that the deal is basically done, but getting sign off from the GOP to move ahead is the hold up.
"We have a bipartisan agreement to help address the crisis at the border. Republicans have been desperate for that. Why would they walk away from it?"
Senate Republicans huddled at their weekly lunch on Wednesday to discuss next steps, but the consensus coming out of the meeting was that lawmakers want to see the details.
But after weeks of negotiations, the key provisions have already been explained to lawmakers from both parties.
The bill includes several tools to address the border, including: giving the president the ability to shutdown the border if the numbers of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. climbs above a certain threshold, adjusting the rules for who qualifies for asylum and allowing migrants authorization to work while awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim.
Extended negotiations opened space for critics
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the effort is "an uphill climb" because as the talks have continued, some members have impressions about what the proposal will do and "there are certain people who will never change their mind."
Tillis has said a border plan needs to get the majority of Senate Republicans in order to move ahead. But Trump injecting himself into the process has caused many lawmakers to refrain from backing the framework, making it tougher to meet that test.
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Lankford is crafting the plan along with Murphy and Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lankford spent time on Sunday talk shows swatting down leaks about the plan that conservative media outlets are painting as a green light for 5,000 additional migrants a day.
Texas Republican Sen, John Cornyn, who was an early advocate of linking money for Ukraine to changes to the Biden administration's policies, said people need time to see an official piece of legislation.
"People are talking about what they think is in it, and what they've heard is in it, what's not in it,' Cornyn told reporters. "I think the first thing we need to do is see where the conference is based on the text rather than just based on rumors and hearsay."
Tillis called Wednesday's meeting "a good discussion." But added, "I would ask those same members who are calling for time to read it, but not judge something they haven't read."
Others who came out against the bill already are already dismissing the proposals.
"I think this is a bad bill," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., told reporters. "And the simplest reason is it doesn't solve the problem."
Cruz blamed Senate Democrats for crafting a bill that "allows Joe Biden to continue the open borders," despite the months of bipartisan negotiations that have taken place. President Biden endorsed the proposal and said last week if Congress passes it he would immediately shutdown the border.
Some optimisim remains
Murphy remained optimistic on Wednesday that the deal would survive and come to the floor for a vote, possibly as soon as this week.
He said a "sizable, important group of Republican senators" are making a good faith effort to get something done on the border, and suggested that others are making disingenuous arguments about needing to see the full text.
"This is not a detailed study of the issue. This is a question as to whether they are going to put Trump before solving the problem," Murphy said.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.
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Pep Guardiola admits he is spoilt for choice with fully-fit Man City squad
Pep Guardiola admits he faces a selection headache now that all of his Manchester City stars are back fit as the Premier League title race heats up.
Wednesday’s 3-1 win over Burnley saw Kevin De Bruyne make his first start since the opening day of the season following a hamstring injury, while Erling Haaland returned from a foot problem as a second-half substitute.
But it was again Julian Alvarez who was the star for City, with the Argentinian World Cup winner scoring twice in the first half as City cruised to victory.
The hosts took complete control when Rodri added a third early in the second half before Ameen Al-Dakhil got a late consolation for Vincent Kompany’s men.
Alvarez has enjoyed an extended run in Guardiola’s side this season, in large part thanks to De Bruyne’s absence and his brace took him to 15 goals for the campaign.
“For his age, for the numbers in the Premier League, for what he gives to all the team it is unbelievable,” Guardiola said.
“He’s a world champion playing alongside (Lionel) Messi, (Angel) Di Maria and Enzo Fernandez. If you are not good you cannot play in that team.
“He can play in three different positions and have an incredible sense with the intensity to run. He’s really good.”
That versatility could be key to Alvarez’s hopes of retaining his place in the City starting eleven.
“They can play together,” added. “They are exceptional players. It gives me more of a headache for selection but they need to compete with each other.”
After missing 10 games with a bone injury, Haaland started the night on the bench and came on to replace De Bruyne in the 71st minute. His first attempt at goal was a mis-kick, but Guardiola was pleased with the way he led the line.
Asked if he needed to be eased back in, Guardiola said: “If it was 7-0 at half-time he would have played more minutes. If it was 0-0 maybe he wouldn’t have played a minute.
“I saw him sharp, the feeling that he was there. He didn’t have clear chances but he has three or four, and the moment when Jeremy (Doku) didn’t see him but he can score with his quality.
It has been really good without him for the last two months but with him we are a better team and we are really pleased that he is back
“It has been really good without him for the last two months but with him we are a better team and we are really pleased that he is back.”
Burnley, without a top-flight win away to Manchester City since 1963, probably knew what to expect from the night, but at least took consolation from Al-Dakhil’s late goal, their first at the Etihad since 2019.
But the loss leaves them still deep in trouble, seven points adrift of safety with only 12 points from 22 games.
“It’s never great when you lose,” former City captain Kompany said. “They’re a great side, we know that. It felt like a lot had to go our way for us to get something.
“In moments we were dangerous. We could’ve avoided the goals. We have to move on against Fulham (on Saturday).
“My job is to give the guys support in these moments and hold them accountable. But we’re playing against a team that exploits every mistake… we’re showing bits that should make us confident.”
Kompany indicated he is still hopeful of some business before Thursday’s transfer deadline, but admitted finding game-changing signings was highly unlikely.
“I hope something will happen tomorrow,” he said. “We have to rely on the boys we have. You can make miracle transfers but they’re very difficult to find.”
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Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (38-14) has some fight left in the tank.
The former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight champion took to Twitter to announce his return to combat sports today (Weds., Jan. 31, 2024). Jackson, 45, will make his boxing debut (excluding his two-on-two Fight Circus match alongside Bob Sapp) against the 52-year-old former Heavyweight boxing champion, Shannon Briggs (60-6-1, 1 no contest), in Qatar on June 1, 2024. The embedded video of Jackson’s announcement can be seen in the embedded player above.
“I finally got the contract,” Jackson said. “It’s been over two years in the making of me hearing Mr. Shannon Briggs’ mouth. I get to shut him up once and for all in Qatar, June 1. I gotta sign this contract.
“Shannon, you’re gonna regret even calling me out all those years ago and you’ve been posting just ungodly videos of me, tagging me in ungodly videos, and I just endured it,” he continued. “I got the contract. Thank, God. I’m gonna shut your mouth once and for all. Sign this s—t.”
Briggs has been one of his division’s master trolls throughout his career and carried over his antics to social media in pursuit of the Jackson fight, as the one-time UFC champ alluded to. Briggs’ nautical distraction of a paddle-boarding Wladimir Klitschko is still one of the funniest things you’ll ever see, period.
It’s been eight years since Briggs last fought, as he extended his current winning streak to nine with a first round knockout of Emilio Zarate. Jackson, on the other hand, last fought in a longtime fantasy match up against one of his idols, Fedor Emelianenko. Unfortunately for Jackson, he lost the fight via a first round technical knockout at Bellator 237 in Japan in December 2019.
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Jodie Foster names two movies 'everybody should see' and one of them may surprise you
Who knew the award-winning actress was a "Team America" fan?
With a lengthy list of credits in critically acclaimed films like “Taxi Driver” and “Silence of the Lambs,” not to mention being a highly successful director for decades, you can probably trust any movie recommendations Jodie Foster gives you.
Recently Foster was asked in Interview magazine to pick one movie she thought everyone should see at least once in their lifetime.
Pulling a pretty badass move, the legendary filmmaker gave not one, but two movies. And one of her recommendations might come as a surprise.
First up, Foster listed A24’s “Everything, Everywhere All At Once,” which probably isn’t that shocking. After all, it won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2023, and is kind of on the top of practically everyone’s list right now.
But “Everything, Everywhere” is actually her number two choice. Number one is…drumroll please…”Team America: World Police.”
Yes, the movie where the world is saved from a global terrorist group by an elite team of puppets. That’s the one.
And look, her reasoning is quite relatable.
“A sense of humor is my touchstone, and I have a very dumb sense of humor. Sometimes with actors, even in the most dramatic circumstances, I like to laugh with them. I like to laugh about really intense things,” she said.
Fair point, we all (hopefully) have a “dumb” movie or television show that gives us a good giggle. For Foster, it’s “Team America.” For me, it’s “Frasier” reruns. For you, it’s something else.
Since promoting “True Detective: Night Country,” which Foster stars in, we’ve caught a bit more of her sense of humor in interviews, like a recent article in The Guardian where she joked about Gen Zers being “irritating” to work with.
“They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’” she quipped.
This cheekiness isn’t a side of Foster the public hasn't seen much over the years. But then again, the actress has understandably valued her privacy—especially after overcoming the inherent challenges of childhood stardom, enduring stalkers and having to hide her sexuality for so many years. So the very fact that she is playfully defending the brilliance of “Team America” or teasing Gen Z for their laidback-ness, seems like she has maybe reached a new chapter in her life.
"True Detective: Night Country" is currently airing on HBO.
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LAHORE - UET Taxila in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) organized the PM Youth Sports Talent Hunt Trials for Men Handball from January 22-23, 2024 at the City Campus in MUST Mirpur AJK. The event aimed to discover and nurture young talent of handball. The talent hunt program contained extensive trials and assessments to identity the most promising male handball players. It is pertinent to add here that more than 70 players appeared in the two days trials to represent Mirpur and surrounding areas. After an elaborate trials and competitions showcasing the participants skills and teamwork, the promising and budding 17-players were selected to represent the Mirpur region for league to be announced by the HEC later on. The opening ceremony of the talent hunt was graced by the presence of esteemed guests namely Brig Prof Dr Younis Javed, SI(M), Director Business School, Prof Dr Zafar Ahmed, Treasurer, Dr Khalique Ahmed, Abid Hussain, Director Sports, MUST, Umer Mehmood, Secretary RHA, Dawood Siddiqui and sizeable spectators. M Akmal Hussain, Director Sports, UET Taxila was organizing secretary.
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Chessie Mooney was selected as vice president of business development for Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Parkridge Health System, part of HCA Healthcare.
Ms. Mooney comes to her new role from HCA Healthcare's East Florida Division, where she served as director of physician alignment and strategy, according to a Jan. 23 Parkridge news release.
In her new role, Ms. Mooney will focus on growing Parkridge's services to meet the community's growing healthcare needs, according to the release.
Becker's also reported other executive appointments at HCA hospitals since Jan. 17.
- Bill Rutherford is retiring as CFO of HCA Healthcare after 10 years in the role.
- Zach Riggins was named CFO of Independence, Mo.-based Centerpoint Medical Center, which is part of HCA Healthcare.
- Garrett Allen was named senior vice president of business development for HCA Midwest Health in Overland Park, Kan.
- Jacob Stercula was named COO of Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, part of HCA Healthcare.
HCA Healthcare is based in Nashville, Tenn.
Click here to view additional moves within HCA reported by Becker's in January.
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US says it disrupted a China cyber threat, but warns hackers could still wreak havoc for Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Wednesday they disrupted a state-backed Chinese effort to plant malware that could be used to damage civilian infrastructure, as the head of the FBI warned that Beijing is positioning itself to disrupt the daily lives of Americans if the United States and China ever go to war.
The operation, announced just before FBI Director Chris Wray addressed House lawmakers, disrupted a botnet of hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home routers owned by private citizens and companies that had been hijacked by the Chinese hackers to cover their tracks as they sowed the malware. Their ultimate targets included water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation systems across the United States.
Speaking before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Wray said there’s been far too little public focus on a cyber threat that affects “every American.”
“China’s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has come to strike,” Wray said.
Jen Easterly, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, voiced a similar sentiment at the hearing.
“This is a world where a major crisis halfway across the planet could well endanger the lives of Americans here at home through the disruption of our pipelines, the severing of our telecommunications, the pollution of our water facilities, the crippling of our transportation modes — all to ensure that they can incite societal panic and chaos and to deter our ability” to marshal a sufficient response, she said.
The comments align with assessments from outside cybersecurity firms including Microsoft, which said in May that state-backed Chinese hackers had been targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and could be laying the technical groundwork for the potential disruption of critical communications between the U.S. and Asia during future crises.
At least a portion of that operation, attributed to a group of hackers known as Volt Typhoon, has now been disrupted after FBI and Justice Department officials obtained search-and-seizure orders in Houston federal court in December. U.S. officials did not characterize the disruption’s impact, and court documents unsealed Wednesday say the disrupted botnet was just “one form of infrastructure used by Volt Typhoon to obfuscate their activity.” The hackers have infiltrated targets through multiple avenues, including cloud and internet providers, disguising themselves as normal traffic.
The U.S. has in the past few years become more aggressive in trying to disrupt and dismantle both criminal and state-backed cyber operations, with Wray warning Wednesday that Beijing-backed hackers aim to pilfer business secrets to advance the Chinese economy and steal personal information for foreign influence campaigns.
“They are doing all those things. They all feed up ultimately into their goal to supplant the U.S. as the world’s greatest superpower,” he said.
Complicating the threat is that state-backed hackers, especially Chinese and Russian, are good at adapting and finding new intrusion methods and avenues.
U.S. officials have long been concerned about such hackers hiding in U.S.-based infrastructure, and the end-of-life Cisco and NetGear routers exploited by Volt Typhoon were easy prey because they were no longer supported by their manufacturers with security updates. Because of the urgency, law enforcement officials said, U.S. cyber operators deleted the malware in those routers without notifying their owners directly — and added code to prevent re-infection.
A Justice Department official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the government said officials were determined to disrupt the Volt Typhoon operation as soon as possible because the hackers were using the botnet as a stepping stone to hide in U.S. internet traffic while burrowing into the networks of critical infrastructure, ready to maliciously exploit that access at a time of their choosing.
“The truth is that Chinese cyber actors have taken advantage of very basic flaws in our technology,” Easterly said. “We’ve made it easy on them.”
Cybersecurity veteran Amit Yoran, the CEO of Tenable, called Wray’s warning “an urgent call to action. Continuing to turn a blind eye to the risk sitting inside our critical infrastructure is the definition of negligence.”
Cybersecurity experts say major software providers too often sacrifice security for convenience, and that’s biting back.
On the eve of a June visit to China by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, state-backed Chinese hackers foiled Microsoft cloud-based security in hacking the email of officials at multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China.
On Wednesday, U.S. officials said allies were also affected by Volt Typhoon’s critical infrastructure hacking but, asked by reporters, would not discuss any countermeasures they might be taking.
China has repeatedly denounced the U.S. government’s hacking allegations as baseless. Beijing has accused the U.S. of “almost daily” and “huge amounts of intrusions against Chinese government, with Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, saying last year that “China is the biggest victim of cyber attacks.”
But Gen. Paul Nakasone, the outgoing commander of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, said “responsible cyber actors” do not target civilian infrastructure.
“There’s no reason for them to be in our water,” Nakasone said. “There’s no reason for them to be in our power.”
On Tuesday, testifying before the same committee, Leon Panetta, who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the defense secretary in the Obama administration, said he believed that the Chinese agents had “planted malware within our own computer networks” and warned that the Chinese government would use artificial intelligence to spread disinformation.
The committee, chaired by Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, was established last year with a mandate of countering China, kicking off with a prime-time hearing. The Chinese government has lashed out at the committee, demanding that its members “discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality.”
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Bajak reported from Boston.
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Dem Rep Opens Can of Worms After Saying Impeachment Shouldn't be Used 'for Revenge'
Sometimes the utter lack of self-awareness shown by died-hard leftists can be truly breathtaking, no matter how much we’ve come to expect it.
Demonstrating this phenomenon this week is Democrat Representative for Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee, who decided to run her mouth about the impeachment inquiries against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, commenting that impeachment “is not a tool meant to be used for revenge.”
But, first some context: Over the past few weeks, the House GOP has moved to begin an impeachment inquiry against Mayorkas over his disastrous mishandling of the current border crisis.
While Democrats have ridiculed Republicans for supposedly embarking on a “witch hunt,” and accused them of callousness in their aggressive border policies and refusal to sign off on a bill authorizing yet more spending to “secure the border,” the House GOP has moved forward undeterred with their impeachment inquiries against Mayorkas.
According to a report in Fox News, the “House Homeland Security Committee met Tuesday to advance two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas … A vote is expected to take place later in the day … moving the articles to a House vote at a future date.”
Jackson Lee is on the Homeland Security Committee. In a social media post on Tuesday, she shared a video of her comments during the impeachment hearings where she claimed that “we are being fooled that work is being done against an individual for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“The American people understand that that is not the actions that we are here for today. Revenge, vengefulness, is why we are here. Otherwise, they would understand that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is an individual whose family fled the Nazis and then Cuba before arriving here in the U.S.”
She continued, reminding her colleagues that he “is the first immigrant to serve as head of the Department of Homeland Security, and yet, this committee seeks to suggest that he is violating the Constitution, when in essence, his freedom is based upon our Constitution.”
That’s nice, Representative, but aren’t politicians of any stripe notorious for having “rules for me and not for thee?”
Anyway, she retweeted the video with her infamous caption, “Impeachment is not meant as a tool to be used for revenge. #RevengeImpeachment.”
Impeachment is not meant as a tool to be used for revenge. #RevengeImpeachment https://t.co/mqnR0U0X7S
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 30, 2024
Where to even begin?
Aaron Ray Hermes, a Republican running for the GOP nomination to challenge Jackson Lee in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, wasted no time in calling her out, retweeting her remark and commenting, “Oh so wanting to protect the country is just ‘revenge’ now? … Then why did you impeach Trump for making a perfectly valid phone call in 2019?”
Oh so wanting to protect the country is just “revenge” now? lol. Then why did you impeach Trump for making a perfectly valid phone call in 2019? Keep lying and we’ll keep showing up with receipts. Can’t wait to take your seat.
— Aaron Ray Hermes (@realAaronHermes) January 30, 2024
And Hermes had plenty of company:
Haha! Says the Impeachment Democratic Party.
— JC Howell (@AuthorJCHowell) January 30, 2024
As if that’s not EXACTLY what you did to Trump. Twice!
— Michael 🇺🇸 Distinguished Fellow of Shankapotomi (@click4mrh) January 31, 2024
Is that why you impeached Trump twice? Revenge?
— Bob Dog (@BobDog19006) January 31, 2024
You are absolutely out of your mind, woman! You don’t even deserve a single cent from the hardworking taxpayers. You should have been kicked out a long time ago. You’ve been leeching off the people for far too long. You’re nothing but evil and pathetic. Tell me, what good have…
— Jones (@cjones2022) January 31, 2024
As usual, it seems that Democrats only care about whether impeachment is used for revenge or just purposes if their own people are the target.
In Democratic eyes, former President Bill Clinton was unfairly targeted for taking advantage of a young, female White House intern in the 1990s, then lying about it on national television — and under oath.
To Democrats, President Joe Biden is an innocent victim accused of the crime of “helping” his poor son, and Mayorkas’ impeachment is fueled by some unspecific Republican “revenge.”
But Donald Trump, who was twice impeached for offenses he did not commit, or for actions that were grossly twisted out of context?
Why, the Democrats then were only trying to “preserve our democracy” (how they do love that phrase) from the “threat” of a “tyrant” like Trump.
The hypocrisy on display from folks like Representative Jackson Lee is nothing short of sickening.
It was crystal clear to Americans with their eyes open that Trump’s impeachments were motivated by nothing other than revenge, revenge for his having the audacity to win the 2016 election.
The Democratic push to persecute Trump, which is still ongoing in the flimsy criminal cases against him, is motivated almost entirely by a perverse desire for revenge.
That Jackson Lee can seriously accuse her colleagues of using impeachment as a form of revenge, without acknowleging that Democrats themselves used impeachment as a revenge against Trump is simpy appalling.
We expect politicians, especially Democrats, to express a profound lack of self-awareness at this point, but Jackson Lee’s is almost unprecedented.
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2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am odds, predictions: Favorites and picks from the field
By Vik Chokshi
FOX Sports Gambling Lead
One of the most unique events in the PGA Tour schedule takes place this weekend, as the top golfers on the tour are set to play in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
The event will take place in Pebble Beach, California, on the Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill courses.
Not only are the top golfers on the tour playing, but Tom Brady, Josh Allen, and Aaron Rodgers are among the athletes expected to play this week.
This also marks the first year that this is a "PGA Tour Signature Event," so there's a smaller 80-player field, but there won't be any cuts made during the tournament.
Last year's champion, Justin Rose, is a long shot to win the tournament at +10000.
As for betting on the tournament, we've got you covered with everything you need, from the odds to best bets.
Let's dive into the action.
FAVORITES
Scottie Scheffler is back on the tour this week and is the favorite to win, sitting at +800. Rory McIlroy is a co-favorite, also holding +800 odds to win this weekend as he makes his season debut.
Xander Schauffele and Viktor Hovland hold the third-best odds, each at +1200.
Now that we teed off with the basics, let's approach the top favorites and my portfolio for this tournament.
ODDS & FIELD
Scottie Scheffler: +800 (bet $10 to win $90 total)
Rory McIlroy: +800 (bet $10 to win $90 total)
Xander Schauffele: +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 total)
Viktor Hovland: +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 total)
Max Homa: +1600 (bet $10 to win $170 total)
Patrick Cantlay: +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)
Jordan Spieth: +2000 (bet $10 to win $210 total)
Collin Morikawa: +2000 (bet $10 to win $210 total)
Justin Thomas: +2500 (bet $10 to win $260 total)
Ludvig Aberg: +2800 (bet $10 to win $290 total)
LONG-SHOT OUTRIGHT BETS TO MAKE
If you follow me on Twitter or read this column, you know I love betting on golf long shots (+2000 or longer). There's just something thrilling about holding a lottery ticket deep into Sunday. It also presents you with multiple hedging opportunities if you want to eliminate some of your risks.
I know there are some big names in this week's event, but I can see the trend of long shots continuing to roll this year. Most of my bets this week are based on course history. Here are a couple of guys worth sprinkling pizza money on:
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AP Sports SummaryBrief at 6:14 p.m. EST
Seahawks to hire Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald as new coach, AP source says
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks are hiring Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald as their new head coach, a person informed of the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the Seahawks haven’t announced the hiring. Macdonald, 36, spent the past two years running Baltimore’s defense, including this past season when the Ravens finished with the NFL’s best regular-season record and reached the AFC championship game before losing to Kansas City. This will be the first head coaching position at any level for Macdonald.
Early money heavily on Kansas City Chiefs to repeat as Super Bowl champions
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The early money is heavily on Kansas City to repeat as Super Bowl champion when the Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Feb. 11. That caused sportsbooks to drop the opening number that favored the Niners by 2 or 2 1/2 points to 1 or 1 1/2 points. FanDuel Sportsbook opened the Niners as 2 1/2-point favorites. That number was 1 1/2 on Tuesday night.
Super Bowl-bound Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce to Taylor Swift: ‘Thanks for joining the team’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce thanked his girlfriend, pop superstar Taylor Swift, for “joining the team” during his podcast with his brother, Eagles center Jason Kelce. Swift began dating the younger Kelce after he invited her to a Chiefs game early in the season, and she has been a frequent attendee every since. Whether she makes it to Las Vegas to watch the Chiefs play the 49ers in the Super Bowl remains to be seen. She resumes her Eras Tour next week with four shows in Tokyo, and the last of them ends on Saturday about 10 p.m. local time. That could give her enough time to make the trip for Sunday’s game.
With scoring up less than 1% over last season, the NBA is not seeing cause for alarm
Joe Dumars went to an NBA game a couple of weeks ago that came down to the very last shot, and he thought it was one of the best games of the season to this point. The final score was Denver 102, Boston 100. It was a reminder that defense still can get played in the NBA. Amid a flurry of big individual performances — Luka Doncic scoring 73, Joel Embiid scoring 70, Devin Booker and Karl-Anthony Towns each scoring 62 — in the last two weeks alone, Dumars said Wednesday that NBA officials aren’t alarmed by such numbers because the league’s scoring average is up only slightly compared to last season.
PGA Tour strikes $3 billion deal with Fenway-led investment group. Players to get equity ownership
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The PGA Tour is getting a $3 billion investment from Strategic Sports Group. The deal gives players access to more than $1.5 billion as equity owners in the new PGA Tour Enterprises. The launch of PGA Tour Enterprises comes eight months after the PGA Tour signed a framework agreement with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf. That led to private equity groups wanting to join. The tour still is negotiating with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. The PIF is not yet part of the new venture. The tour says its partnership with SSG allows for the Saudis to be co-investors.
Tennessee, Virginia AGs suing NCAA over NIL-related recruiting rules with Vols under investigation
The attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA that challenged its ban on the use of name, image and likeness compensation in the recruitment of college athletes. The legal challenge comes in response to the NCAA’s investigation of University of Tennessee athletics for potential recruiting infractions. The lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee claims the NCAA is enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image and likeness. The NCAA already is facing other antitrust suits challenging transfer rules, employment status for athletes and athlete compensation rules.
Repeating in NFL used to be more common, but Chiefs aim to be first back-to-back champs in 19 years
Repeat championships in the NFL used to be more common. Over the first 39 Super Bowls, it happened eight times. But no team has done it since Tom Brady and the New England Patriots won two in a row following the 2003-04 seasons. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are aiming to become the first back-to-back Super Bowl champs in 19 years when they face the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas. The Chiefs had a chance to do it three years ago, but lost 31-9 to Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
U.S. sportsbooks won’t take bets on possible Taylor Swift appearance at the Super Bowl
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fans have been wondering for days whether Taylor Swift will make it to the Super Bowl next week to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs and, if so, how many times she’ll show up on TV during the game. They can speculate all they want, but they won’t be able to bet on it legally in the United States. Betting laws vary from state to state, but the general rule of thumb is that wagering is limited to what happens on the field. Wagers on Swift and other off-the-field events can be made with offshore sportsbooks.
Taylor Swift + Super Bowl = conspiracy theories. The claims are baseless
Superstar Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce, have become the focus of a raft of false claims and political conspiracy theories on social media this week as the team advances to the Super Bowl on Feb. 11. Baseless posts range from allegations that Swift has played a part in Pentagon psychological operations to the idea that she and Kelce, a two-time Super Bowl champion, are key assets in a secret plot to help President Joe Biden get reelected in 2024, and that the Chiefs’ success was rigged as part of the plan.
Formula One rejects Michael Andretti’s bid to join series, will reconsider when GM has engine built
Formula One has rejected Andretti Global’s application to join the global racing series in 2025 or 2026. It says it is willing to revisit the issue in 2028 when General Motors has an engine ready for competition. Governing body FIA had approved Michael Andretti’s application to expand the grid by two cars for his new team. F1 took six months to do its own review. The series is only interested in allowing Andretti in when GM has its engine ready. Former F1 champion Mario Andretti tweeted that he was “devastated” by the decision.
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2023 was a rough year for top-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight contender, Rafael Fiziev.
Fiziev, 30, has been one of the most exciting talents at 155 pounds since his promotional debut in April 2019. His run in the Octagon got off to a rough start when he lost by first round knockout against Magomed Mustafayev, but he’s gone 6-2 (12-3 overall) to follow it up and establish himself as a Top 10 contender.
In Fiziev’s biggest fight to date, he took on two-time title challenger and one-time interim titlist, Justin Gaethje, at UFC 286 in March 2023. Unfortunately for “Ataman,” Gaethje snapped his six-fight winning streak when he earned the majority decision nod in their Fight of the Night battle. However, Fiziev believes it could have been even better had “The Highlight” fought in a more vintage fashion.
“[Gaethje] ran away from me for two rounds,” Fiziev told The AllStar. “He started to win only after an eye poke because my eye doesn’t see anything. It was a big wide circle on my right eye all fight. I didn’t see anything with my right eye. So, he fight only going good after the eye poke and round three when I started to get tired.
“He run away for two rounds,” he continued. “Run, run, run. Maybe it’s his gameplan, my gameplan is s—t and I do a lot of s—t on this fight, don’t listen to my corner, don’t follow the gameplan, but sti,ll he run away two rounds.”
Now the official Baddest Motherf—ker (BMF) champion with his knockout of Dustin Poirier (watch highlights) after his Fiziev win, Gaethje wasn’t too keen on the comments.
“Not a good look here,” Gaethje responded on Twitter. “I hit him so hard he forgot which eye got poked. Your right eye got torched by my right hand, kid.”
Fiziev has been on the mend in life post-Gaethje, as he suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) against Mateusz Gamrot in September 2023 (watch highlights). Meanwhile, Gaethje is gearing up for a big BMF title defense opposite former UFC Featherweight champion, Max Holloway, at UFC 300 on April 13, 2024.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza By Aya Batrawy Published January 31, 2024 at 3:39 PM MST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:17 NPR visits an emergency hotline center in the West Bank assisting first responders in the Gaza Strip. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Science
A 6-year-old asks Neil DeGrasse Tyson an adorable question. He gives her an awesome answer.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." — Albert Einstein
01.31.24
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I recently spent some time with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. He's known not only for breaking down stereotypes about what kinds of people go into science, but he has actively stood up and spoken against those who would close its doors, especially to young women.
So when Neil was asked this question by a little girl during a public speech, he gave one of the best answers I've ever heard. It may drive some parents crazy, but it also might just help change the world.
This article originally appeared on 01.14.15
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UCSF Health Benioff Children's Hospitals has named Nicholas Holmes, MD, to serve as president and senior vice president of UCSF Health Children's Services.
Dr. Holmes will step into the role March 11 and will lead the strategic direction and operations for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco, as well as all systemwide pediatric clinical services. He will report to the health system's president and CEO, Suresh Gunasekaran, according to a Jan. 31 news release from San Francisco-based UCSF Health.
He has spent more than 30 years in clinical care and operations. Before joining UCSF Health, Dr. Holmes served as senior vice president and COO of Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, where he spent nearly a decade.
Dr. Holmes succeeds Matthew Cook, who is now CEO of the Children's Hospital Association.
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LAHORE - An array of distinguished speakers underscored paramount importance for Muslims to adhering to life and teachings of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him); not only for character building but for ultimate success in temporal world and the hereafter. They said this at a simple but an impressive award ceremony arranged for the winners of the first-ofits kind “Seerat-un-Nabi Competition” at Alhamra on Wednesday. Seventeen years old Muhammad Ismael from Lahore won grand prize of Rs2 million, daughter of a farmer from Mandi Bahauddin Iqra Riaz won second prize of Rs400,000/- while Eman from Sialkot won third prize of Rs250,000/-. The top 12 winners were also given special gifts brought from Madina. Hailing from all parts of country, participants and winners emerged triumphant after rigorous screening through verbal and quiz competitions based on the insightful book over a two-month period. The driving force behind this unique initiative, aimed at elucidating life of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) in the book titled “Seerat-un-Nabi” is the dynamic bureaucrat Rai Manzoor Nasir, who accomplished this project independently, without soliciting donations or financial backing from any source. Chief Guest of the ceremony Governor Punjab Muhammad Galigh-ur-Rahman said, while addressing, that by emulating the life of the Prophet (PBUH), individuals can achieve success in both worldly endeavours and in the eternal realm. He appreciated the selfless efforts of Rai Manzoor for spreading the Seerat-un- Nabi amongst masses. Former Punjab Governor Ch Muhammad Sarwar said that Rai Manzoor’s “Seerat-un-Nabi” book is a valuable resource for aligning lives with lofty principles of Prophet (PBUH), offering a roadmap for personal and spiritual growth. Renowned religious scholar Nazir Ghazi extolled the efforts of Rai Manzoor Nasir for creating this book that presents the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in a manner easily comprehensible to the common reader. Senior Journalist Mujeeb-ur-Rahman Shami expressed that the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) serves as a timeless example of humility, piety and devotion to Allah, inspiring millions around the world to strive for righteousness and compassion. Renowned Columnist and Scholar Hassan Nisar said that “Seerat-un-Nabi” book is a valuable resource for aligning lives with lofty principles of Prophet (PBUH), underscoring its significance as a roadmap for personal and spiritual growth. Senior columnist Toufeeeq Butt commended the transformative potential of the book’s simple yet profound narratives, asserting that embracing the life and teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is pivotal for personal and collective enlightenment. He emphasized the book’s role in fostering character development among Muslims, positioning them as exemplary figures for future generations. Rai Manzoor Nasir underscored the book’s global accessibility, ensuring dissemination worldwide through free PDF distribution. He announced forthcoming English and French versions of the book, along with audio format availability as well. Additionally, he said, plans were underway to host similar competitions in major cities of Pakistan this year, with future replication in Muslim countries also. The overall project expenditure totaled Rs.20 million, encompassing the distribution of Rs.10 million books free of cost and administrative cost of Rs.4 million. Further, Rs.5 million were given in award to 100 top winners of the competition, while Rs.1 million were conferred upon 100 participants as encouragement award. Prominent religious scholars, top-tier bureaucrats, members of judiciary, media personalities, showbiz icons and leading business magnates graced the occasion.
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Wisconsin election officials urge state Supreme Court to reject Phillips’ effort to get on ballot
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips sued too late after being left off of Wisconsin’s primary ballot and the state Supreme Court should reject his lawsuit, the state elections commission and a special bipartisan panel said Wednesday.
Phillips last week asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to order that his name be added to the primary ballot in the battleground state after he was excluded by the state’s top Democrats who only put President Joe Biden’s name on the April 2 primary ballot.
The bipartisan presidential selection committee that didn’t forward his name in time, as well as the Wisconsin Elections Commission, told the Supreme Court in a joint response on Wednesday that Phillips waited too long.
“Phillips did nothing until the eleventh hour,” they said in their response filed with the court.
Since Jan. 2, Phillips know that his name had not been included as a candidate, but he didn’t start a petition drive to get on the ballot as the law allows or file a lawsuit until Jan. 26, the filing noted.
The elections commission and presidential selection committee said that ballots must be mailed to military and overseas voters no later than Feb. 15 and to meet that deadline, county clerks need to begin drafting and distributing ballots “as soon as possible.”
They asked the court to reject Phillips’ lawsuit by Friday because after that “it will become increasingly difficult each day for the clerks to feasibly get the ballots ready, delivered, and mailed on time.”
The joint group said that Phillips’ arguments should be dismissed because he had a recourse to gather 8,000 signatures to get on the ballot but didn’t. They also argued that Phillips has no standing to bring the challenge because the presidential selection committee has the sole discretion to decide who gets on the ballot.
They further argued that because of that sole discretion given to the committee, the court has no role to play in deciding who it should have placed on the ballot.
Phillips, who represents neighboring Minnesota in Congress, is running a longshot bid to defeat Biden. He is the only Democrat in elected office who is challenging Biden.
In Phillips’ lawsuit, he argues that his request to be put on the ballot was illegally ignored by the Wisconsin Presidential Preference Selection Committee, which is comprised of Republican and Democratic leaders who bring forward names for the ballot, and the Wisconsin Election Commission.
Phillips argued that he met the test in Wisconsin law for gaining ballot access that says a candidate must be “generally advocated or recognized in the national news media.”
The committee put Biden, former President Donald Trump and five other Republican challengers, including four who have since ceased campaigning, on the ballot.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission traditionally just accepts the recommendations from party leaders that come forward through the presidential selection committee.
Phillips had no comment Wednesday on the response to his lawsuit.
“As we fight Trump’s attacks on democracy we must also be vigilant against efforts by people in our own Party to do the same,” Phillips said in a statement Monday. “Voters should choose the nominee of our Party without insiders trying to rig the process for Joe Biden.”
Biden easily won last week’s New Hampshire primary as a write-in candidate, with Phillips getting about 20% of the vote. Phillips has been certified to appear on the primary ballot in other states.
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Consumer Alert: Ruby Gordon set to close after filing for bankruptcy in 2023
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Wednesday’s Consumer Alert looks at the end of a Rochester staple. Ruby Gordon will close before the end of the year. The owners filed bankruptcy last November.
The big question concerns the customers. What happens to all those folks who ordered furniture they never got?
Customer Joe Polizza needed a new couch, and he knew where to go: Ruby Gordon.
“Beautiful couch I picked out, but it was snow white. I wanted a different color,” says Polizza. “The salesman said we can get it to you, but it will take time to arrive. I says ‘I got no problem. I’m not going anywhere.'”
That was October 21, and all was well. Or so he thought.
“Four weeks later, I’m watching Channel 10. Ruby Gordon’s going in bankruptcy,” Polizza explains.
According to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, the company owes a long list of businesses and suppliers totaling $486,719,000.32.
“Couple of weeks went by and I started thinking to myself, ‘Bankruptcy is bankruptcy.’ I call up every button I push…elevator music. Can’t get ahold of nobody,” says Polizza.
So, at the advice of News10NBC’s Chief Investigative Reporter Berkley Brean, Joe called up his credit card company and got his money back.
That’s apparently not the case for 43 customers listed in the bankruptcy filing, all folks who paid for furniture they never got. Total owed to these folks? Around $5,480,000.23.
What a difference a few months make. Last July — just four months before filing bankruptcy — Ruby Gordon’s leaders told News10NBC they were optimistic and committed to continuing the nearly century old business.
<aaron ruby/ceo ruby gordon:”90 percent of third generation businesses close. I’m in the third generation, so that’s up there,” says Ruby Gordon’s CEO AAron Ruby. “We’d like something to pass onto our kids, the fourth generation. The way things have been, as Janetta said, we don’t want to become a statistic.”=
But, a statistic they are. Part of the third generation owners forced to close the business their grandparents built.
So, Wednesday News10NBC’s Deanna Dewberry had a lengthy conversation with Ray Stilwell, the bankruptcy lawyer representing Ruby Gordon. He says the judge and all parties have agreed that in this bankruptcy proceeding they’ll give customers priority. So they’re establishing a fund just for customers.
Stilwell says you can either get your furniture or a full refund. And every customer will be made whole.
As for the store, it’s having a liquidation sale that will last exactly 180 days. After that, Ruby Gordon will be no more.
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Fmr. QB Robert Griffin III Puts Out Post Bashing Critics of Taylor Swift, Immediately Obliterated in His Own Comment Section
Ex-NFL star Robert Griffin III took a stick to critics of pop megastar Taylor Swift and her dalliance with the NFL, but he soon found that his own fans were not so tolerant of Swift as the former quarterback may have hoped.
The whole topic of Taylor Swift has sent many NFL fans over the edge as they have become increasingly sick and tired of having their football games turned into a stream of coverage about the pop star instead of football.
But Griffin seemed unaware of the growing annoyance hardcore football fans have developed over the pop singer.
In what may have been an unwise move, RG III jumped to his X account on Sunday to praise Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce for his romance with Swift.
“Good for you Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. You gotta be a real hater to see this level of happiness and be like, ‘Yea I don’t like it,'” he wrote.
Good for you Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. You gotta be a real hater to see this level of happiness and be like, “Yea I don’t like it.” pic.twitter.com/2I0PuXVz8w
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) January 29, 2024
Like too many do, Griffin apparently imagines that football fans are somehow jealous over Kelce and Swift’s “love.” But, that really isn’t the case.
Few are mad at the pair’s relationship — or even care much about it.
What they are mad at is the wall-to-wall coverage of their affair that seems to be squeezing football coverage out of the picture as the NFL continues to go all in to pander to Taylor Swift and her “Swifties.”
And RG III’s own X fans were ready to blast the former Pro-Bowl player star over his assumptions.
“Football fans wanna see football,” not do Swiftie stuff, Anthony Perez replied.
Football fans wanna see football
If U wanna see Taylor Swift buy a ticket & go to 1 of her concerts
— Anthony Perez (@APFromNY) January 29, 2024
Yall forcing it to much on the public we just care about football lol
— Ring Savvy (@Ring_Savvy_) January 29, 2024
It’s interesting how the NFL never made this much of a fuss about any other player and his wife/girlfriend in the over 75 years of the NFL.
But now they are making a fuss and those who notice how manufactured and forced this is are called haters by a former QB with a lot to say.
— Matt Roberts (@RecruitBoss) January 29, 2024
I don’t like it, Robert
— Ben Dackiw (@BenDackiw) January 29, 2024
The NFL executives are desperate to gain new fans they have made themselves look like starstruck teens by pandering to Taylor Swift.
While it is true that viewership for the NFL’s games — well, the ones involving the Chiefs, anyway — has skyrocketed among young female viewers, it is highly unlikely that any of those girls will stick around and become actual football fans once Swift gets tired of Kelce and moves on and stops attending games.
Meanwhile, the league is making its actual fans upset. And moves like this from RG III are not helping any.
And even Swift herself seems to be getting tired of the constant focus on her at NFL games.
Maybe Griffin and the NFL ought to start taking the hint.
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Ben Verlander's top 10 MLB players for 2024: Nos. 10-6
As we draw closer to the 2024 season, I've been revealing my top 50 players in Major League Baseball on "Flippin' Bats." We've now reached the top 10, the elite of the elite in the sport.
As a reminder, this ranking is only for the upcoming season.
Without further ado, let's dive into Nos. 10-6.
10. Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
2023 stats: .263/.367/.490, 18 home runs, 44 RBIs, 2.9 Wins Above Replacement
As my co-host Alex Curry put it, Trout is already a future first-ballot Hall of Famer who probably held the top spot on lists like these for a good five or six years — when Alex was covering him every day as the Angels' dugout reporter.
He's dealt with a lot of different injuries and been overshadowed on his own team by Shohei Ohtani over the past few seasons, but I think Trout is due for a bounce-back season in terms of both health and on-field production. He still deserves to be included in a top-10 list of MLB players and I believe he will remind us why in 2024.
9. Yordan Álvarez, Houston Astros
2023 stats: .293/.407/.583, 31 home runs, 97 RBIs, 4.6 Wins Above Replacement
There's an argument for Álvarez being the best pure hitter in baseball. He's certainly in the top three. Some guys are just different at the plate, and Álvarez is clearly one of them. The Astros have boasted one of the game's best lineup for years, and no one in it is more feared than Álvarez.
How many times have we seen a team bring in a left-handed reliever specifically to face the lefty slugger, only for Álvarez to hit one out of the park and make his opponent look like a fool? Two moments from the Astros' 2022 World Series run that fans perhaps remember fondest involve that exact scenario. (Apologies to Phillies and Mariners fans.) And that's to say nothing of the many, many home runs he hit during the 2023 playoffs for Houston.
8. Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers
2023 stats: .331/.410/.567, 29 home runs, 102 RBIs, 6.5 Wins Above Replacement
Freeman is Mr. Consistency to the point that I half expect him to still be on this list when he's 50 years old and still near the top of the MLB leaderboards in hits, batting average and RBIs. It really is remarkable how the now-34-year-old seems to just keep getting better as he gets older. That's just a testament to — and I've heard him speak about it — believing and trusting in his approach. That is so much easier said than done.
It's natural for hitters to feel like they have to change something up when they struggle, even at the highest level. But Freeman approaches every plate appearance with the confidence that his approach works. It can be extremely difficult to maintain your production after you've changed teams, moved to the opposite side of the country and advanced further into your thirties. Freeman is not only doing all that — he's still improving.
7. Juan Soto, New York Yankees
2023 stats: .275/.410/.519, 35 home runs, 109 RBIs, 5.5 Wins Above Replacement
Soto is already a batting champion, a World Series champion, and now the latest potential Yankees savior — and he's still only 25 years old. One of the things I'm most excited for this upcoming season is to watch him hit at Yankee Stadium and hit back-to-back with Aaron Judge in that Bronx Bombers lineup. Soto was not himself at pitcher-friendly Petco Park during his year and a half with the San Diego Padres, but he was still elite just about everywhere else.
Last season on the road, Soto hit .307 with a 1.026 OPS. Overall, he set a career high with 35 home runs. Expect that number to go up now that he's swapping out Petco for the short porch at Yankee Stadium. I'm predicting he'll hit at least 40 this next season, especially since Soto will likely end up hitting ahead of Judge. Oh, and this is also a contract year for Soto. He's primed for a massive 2024, and I can't wait to watch.
6. Trea Turner, Philadelphia Phillies
2023 stats: .266/.320/.459, 26 home runs, 76 RBIs, 3.4 Wins Above Replacement
One of the coolest stories in baseball last year was how, amid a dismal start to his first season in Philadelphia, Turner turned his year around after Phillies fans organized a standing ovation for him at Citizens Bank Park. That took place at the beginning of August, and that month, Turner had an incredible .333/.376/.685 slash line with a 179 OPS+. In the second half of the season overall, Turner hit .292 and slugged 16 of his 26 total home runs.
I think, and Turner has hinted as much, that the pressure of the first year of his massive contract in Philadelphia and living up to his "Captain America" star turn for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic played a huge factor in his slow start last year. But that's all way behind him now.
Because of four quiet months to open the season, Turner finished with a .266 average, and anyone who has watched him over the past decade knows that's not his game. He's a high-average, high-contact, high-stolen base guy whose bat also packs some pop. I believe his final two months of 2023 are a more accurate preview of what he'll produce in 2024, with 30 homers and 30 steals on the table for this year.
Stay turned next week as I reveal my top five MLB players for the 2024 season! The order might surprise you.
Here's my full list thus far:
50. J.T. Realmuto, Philadelphia Phillies
49. Dansby Swanson, Chicago Cubs
48. Carlos Correa, Minnesota Twins
47. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays
46. Max Fried, Atlanta Braves
45. Corbin Burnes, Milwaukee Brewers
44. Luis Castillo, Seattle Mariners
43. Cody Bellinger, free agent
42. Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals
41. Pete Alonso, New York Mets
40. Gunnar Henderson, Baltimore Orioles
39. Zac Gallen, Arizona Diamondbacks
38. Alex Bregman, Houston Astros
37. Xander Bogaerts, San Diego Padres
36. Blake Snell, free agent
35. Justin Verlander, Houston Astros
34. José Altuve, Houston Astros
33. Zack Wheeler, Philadelphia Phillies
32. Luis Arráez, Miami Marlins
31. Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay Rays
30. Luis Robert Jr., Chicago White Sox
29. Adley Rutschman, Baltimore Orioles
28. Manny Machado, San Diego Padres
27. Nolan Arenado, St. Louis Cardinals
26. Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals
25. Spencer Strider, Atlanta Braves
24. Rafael Devers, Boston Red Sox
23. Bo Bichette, Toronto Blue Jays
22. Francisco Lindor, New York Mets
21. Adolis García, Texas Rangers
20. José Ramírez, Cleveland Guardians
19. Marcus Semien, Texas Rangers
18. Matt Olson, Atlanta Braves
17. Austin Riley, Atlanta Braves
16. Corbin Carroll, Arizona Diamondbacks
15. Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees
14. Fernando Tatís Jr., San Diego Padres
13. Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
12. Kyle Tucker, Houston Astros
11. Julio Rodríguez, Seattle Mariners
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Ben Verlander is an MLB Analyst for FOX Sports and the host of the "Flippin' Bats" podcast. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Verlander was an All-American at Old Dominion University before he joined his brother, Justin, in Detroit as a 14th-round pick of the Tigers in 2013. He spent five years in the Tigers organization. Follow him on Twitter @BenVerlander.
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Auburn hires longtime defensive coordinator DJ Durkin to run defense
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn coach Hugh Freeze has hired former Maryland head coach and Texas A&M defensive coordinator DJ Durkin to run his defense. Durkin was with the Aggies the past two years after two seasons at Mississippi and has also made stops at Michigan and Florida. He spent one season in the NFL as a consultant for the Atlanta Falcons in 2018 after two seasons as Maryland’s head coach. Maryland fired Durkin in October 2018, about five months after offensive lineman Jordan McNair collapsed on the practice field and later died of heatstroke.
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Top tech CEOs were being grilled in Washington by lawmakers, who said the companies have failed to protect children from being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation on their websites.
The executives include Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, X's Linda Yaccarino and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew, among others.
The social media apps have "given predators powerful new tools to exploit children," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at the kickoff of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. He noted that the powerful apps "have changed the way we live, work and play."
The hearing is one of several over the past year as pressure builds for federal regulators to do more to hold tech companies accountable for children's safety online. Lawmakers have spoken out, have written letters to the CEOs and are pushing five separate bills that cover social media and child safety.
States have also targeted the social media companies. Last year, 13 states passed laws to protect kids on social media, and more states are expected to do the same.
"You have blood on your hands," Sen. Lindsey Graham tells Zuckerberg
Of the companies testifying on Wednesday, Meta has especially come under fire for allegedly creating a toxic environment for children. In October, a group of more than 40 states sued the company for allegedly designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive.
Separately, New Mexico's attorney general filed another suit against Meta, alleging it fails to remove child sexual abuse material from its platforms and also makes it easy for adults to solicit minors.
That lawsuit came after a Facebook whistleblower, Arturo Bejar, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in November. Based on data he collected while working at Facebook, he said he found that 24% of teens had received unwanted sexual advances. And when harmful posts are reported, he said, only 2% are taken down.
During Wednesday's hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., laid into Zuckerberg.
"Mr. Zuckerberg," Graham began, "you have blood on your hands. You have a product that's killing people."
The packed audience, which included parents, survivors and child advocates, erupted in applause.
Zuckerberg has testified several times before members of the Senate, and he voluntarily agreed to speak again on Wednesday. In his opening statement, he said, "Keeping young people safe online has been a challenge since the internet began."
"No matter how much we invest or how effective our tools are, there's always more to learn and more improvements to make," Zuckerberg added.
Internal emails show Zuckerberg declined to hire staff to protect children online
In the lead-up to Wednesday's hearing, Meta rolled out new tools geared toward protecting kids online. Those include barring children under age 18 from seeing posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The company says it has around 40,000 people working on safety and security issues.
But just hours before the hearing began, lawmakers released 90 pages of internal emails that showed Meta has refused to fully commit to improving child safety on its platforms. At one point in 2021, the emails show, Zuckerberg declined a proposal to hire 45 new staff members dedicated to children's well-being.
The emails show top executives at Meta discussing budget and head count, as well as the fact that if they didn't address the issue they'd face increased regulatory risk and external criticism.
"This work & narrative has of course become a more critical focal point for policymakers, regulators et al in recent weeks — this is not likely to diminish going forward," Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs wrote in a 2021 email to Zuckerberg.
The internal emails were produced in response to a letter that Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sent to Meta in November.
Five federal bills introduced
Of the other executives to testify, TikTok's Chew has also appeared before Congresslast year, but this is the first time lawmakers have grilled X's Yaccarino and the two other CEOs: Snap's Evan Spiegel and Discord's Jason Citron. Chew volunteered to speak on Wednesday, but Yaccarino, Spiegel and Citron agreed only after being subpoenaed.
Snap has come out as the sole social media company to throw its support behind the Kids Online Safety Act, which is one of the bills that lawmakers are hoping to bring to the Senate floor this year. If passed, it would hold tech companies accountable for feeding teens toxic content.
"Many of the largest and most successful internet companies today were born here in the United States of America, and we must lead not only in technical innovation but also in smart regulation," Snap's Spiegel said in his opening remarks on Wednesday.
Throughout the hearing, several of the senators tried to get the tech CEOs to agree to back legislation. All of the executives said more had to be done and they agree with regulation, but besides Spiegel, none said they'd fully back one of the bills.
At one point Senator Chris Coons, D-Del., tried to get the CEOs to support legislation he and several other senators introduced, the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act.
"Is there any one of you willing to say now that you support this bill?" Coons asked the CEOs.
After the question didn't elicit a response, he followed up with: "Mr. Chairman, let the record reflect a yawning silence from the leaders of the social media platforms."
Child safety groups and parents joined lawmakers for several press conferences on Wednesday. They echoed the senators' demands that more has to be done to protect kids online.
"Parents used to worry about where their kids were at 10 p.m.," said Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. "These days, they may be physically present, but we don't know who they're spending time with online and what they're being exposed to every day."
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
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Woman’s shocking before-and-after pictures reveal the truth about panic attacks
Appearances aren’t always what they seem.
Last week, Amber Smith from Warwickshire, England, revealed something about herself that many of her Facebook friends didn't know:
She suffers from crippling panic attacks.
Smith shared her story by posting two completely different pictures of herself and the powerful imagery has been shared over 7,500 times.
"Top Picture: What I showcase to the world via social media. Dressed up, make-up done, filters galore. The 'normal' side to me.”
Dressed up and ready.
"Bottom picture: Taken tonight shortly after suffering from a panic attack because of my anxiety. Also, the 'normal' side to me that most people don't see."
Suffering the panic attack.
Full post:
God knows why I'm doing this, but people need some home truths..
Top picture: What I showcase to the world via social media. Dressed up, make up done, filters galore. The 'normal' side to me.
Bottom picture: Taken tonight shortly after suffering from a panic attack because of my anxiety. Also the 'normal'' side to me that most people don't see.
I'm so sick of the fact that it's 2016 and there is still so much stigma around mental health. It disgusts me that so many people are so uneducated and judgmental over the topic. They say that 1 in 3 people will suffer with a mental illness at some point in their life. 1 in 3! Do you know how many people that equates to worldwide?! And yet I've been battling with anxiety and depression for years and years and there's still people that make comments like 'you'll get over it', 'you don't need tablets, just be happier', 'you're too young to suffer with that'
F*** YOU. F*** all of you small minded people that think that because I physically look 'fine' that I'm not battling a monster inside my head every single day.
Someone actually said this to me one day 'aren't you too young to be suffering with anxiety and depression? What do you actually have to be depressed about at your age?'' Wow, just wow.
I'm a strong person, I've been through my fair share of crap in life (the same as anyone else) and I will be okay. I have the best family and friends around me and I am thankful everyday that they have the patience to help and support me.
To anyone who is going through the same, please do not suffer in silence. There is so much support around - Don't be scared to ask for help.
This is why I can't stress enough that it costs nothing to be nice to others. Don't bully others, don't put others down and the hardest one of them all (as we have all done it at some point) don't judge another person. We're all human regardless of age, race, religion, wealth, job. So build one another up instead of breaking each other down.
Peace & love guys
Smith's before-and-after photos perfectly symbolize how panic attacks feel, because they often come on without any warning. People suffering from attacks can experience shortness of breath, heart palpitations, trembling, hot and cold flashes or myriad other debilitating symptoms.
According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, over four million Americans suffer from panic attacks, and although they are emotionally debilitating, they can be overcome through cognitive/behavioral therapy. According to Thomas A. Richards, Ph. D, "Today, panic attacks and agoraphobia can be treated successfully with a motivated client and a knowledgeable therapist."
This article originally appeared on 09.26.17
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Physicians have been saving time and seeing more patients at health systems that have been early adopters of artificial intelligence-powered clinical documentation tools, the Association of American Medical Colleges reported.
Health systems using the DAX co-pilot tool from Microsoft subsidiary Nuance include Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health, Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care and Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, according to the Jan. 30 story.
"We're not at a place where I would say you should absolutely give this to every doctor," Patricia Garcia, MD, associate chief medical information officer for ambulatory healthcare at Stanford Health Care, told AAMC. "If I had to describe it in one word, I would say, 'Hopeful.'"
For one, the technology still needs to improve its note-taking accuracy and brevity, while privacy and cybersecurity concerns have to be addressed, according to the article. Nuance says physicians deploying DAX are spending two to seven minutes less on each appointment and half the time on documentation, adding five more patient visits to the average day.
"We have to focus on burden reduction for our clinicians," David McSwain, MD, chief medical informatics officer at UNC Health, told AAMC. "If we only use this technology to improve revenue, that would be an extremely negative outcome of this innovation."
Similar tools include an Epic-based version of DAX, the Oracle Digital Assistant, an emergency room app from Meditech and Google, and an eClinicalWorks platform with sunoh.ai, according to the article.
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First Alert Weather In-Depth: Do the numbers add up for winter?
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — If you are a winter enthusiast, you already know this has not been one of our more typical winter seasons so far for Western New York.
If we analyze just the temperature for the month of December, Rochester measured a good eight degrees above normal. And even though all the numbers are not in, the month of January is running well above normal as well. Right now it stands at four degrees above normal.
So where is all the cold, arctic air? It is out there, but you have to go all the way up to Hudson’s Bay before you reach temperatures that are even close to zero. And in the short term, there appear to be nothing to drive or push that cold air to the south towards Western New York.
Looking ahead in time, what can we expect for Rochester for the remainder of the snow season? Climatological data can be revealing. This is the data that shows the typical weather for the future as tabulated from the average over a 30 year period. What do we typically get for the month of February?
The average temperature is 27 degrees and the average snowfall is a little over 23 inches for the month. Looking even further in time, the month of March, April, and May are typical what is left of winter weather. From March through the month of May the average temperature will rise from 35 degrees to 59 degrees and snowfall drops from an average of 18 inches in March down to less than an inch in the month of May.
I guess you can say the end is in sight, but we still have a long way to go.
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Welcome to The Callboard, Queerty’s curtain-raising theater news, where we share the latest news from Broadway and beyond. From casting announcements and openings to viral moments with our favorite stars, here’s a front-row seat to all the drama happening onstage and off!
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Hillary Clinton on Broadway? Dreams really do come true! Longtime patrons of the arts, the former President and Secretary of State can often be spotted attending the theater, but Hillary went one step further last week, taking to the stage. The recently closed Gutenberg! The Musical! (featuring original The Book of Mormon co-stars Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad) featured a cameo appearance at the end of each performance. And who better to rally the audience than should-have-been president Hillary Clinton? The crowd went wild. Hillary’s also dipping her toe (and her bank account) into producing this spring, joining the backers of Suffs, a new musical about the fight for women’s right to vote.
@gutenbergbway Bud & Doug, while it can sting to have the historical accuracy of your bio-musical called into question, this one famous Broadway producer loves you. You’re both so much more than GUT! #GutenbergBway #hillaryclinton #andrewrannells #joshgad #musicals #musicaltheatre ♬ original sound – Gutenberg! the Musical
Casting coups
Broadway heats up this spring with familiar queer faces in unsuspecting places!
Wayne Brady eases on down the road: ‘Coming Out for Good’ Queerties nominee Wayne Brady steps into the legendary platform heels of The Wiz in the new revival of the musical, which has been touring the country before landing on Broadway this spring.
Marquis Theatre, New York City. Performances begin on March 29
Boy George brings his signature flair to Moulin Rouge: Grammy winner Boy George takes over the role of club owner Harold Zidler in the wildly over-the-top stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s film. But this isn’t the Grammy winner’s first time on Broadway, having written and co-starred in the short-lived Taboo, which earned him a Tony nomination for Best Original Score.
Al Hirschfeld Theatre, New York City. Boy George as Harold Zidler February 6-May 12
The ‘Drag Race’ to Broadway pipeline continues: Jinkx Monsoon made a splash last season, stepping into the role of Matron “Mama” Morton in the long-running hit Chicago. The trend continues with season 15’s Marsha Marsha Marsha (Marty Lauter), who just booked the hotly anticipated Cabaret revival starring Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee. But landing the gig wasn’t as easy as a kick-ball-change. Lauter turned to TikTok to explain the casting process…
August Wilson Theatre, New York City. Performances begin on April 1
@marciax3nyc Chaotic #storytime of how i booked cabaret on #broadway ♬ original sound – Marcia Marcia Marcia!
Dolly can you hear me?: Dolly Parton has been working on a new musical about her life, but why have one Dolly when you can have three? Following the the footsteps of The Cher Show, which cast three actresses to embody the icon (including a Tony-winning performance by Stephanie J. Block), Parton hopes to do the same, telling People she’s looking for a “little Dolly, an “earlier years Dolly,” and an older Dolly.”
“We’re going to be auditioning and trying to find them through different means,” Parton said. “I think that’ll be fun for people, too. You never know where you’re going to find them. They may never have been on stage before, or maybe in some local theater somewhere, but we’re going to look for them and that’s going to be part of the fun, I think.”
Michael Urie’s princely charm
New York City Center Encores! returns, presenting reimagined staged concert versions of our favorite musicals. The 30th season kicks off with a fresh take on Once Upon a Mattress, the 1959 musical that made Carol Burnett a star and also earned a Best Musical Revival nomination for the 1996 version starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
Broadway favorte Sutton Foster takes on the role this time around with the help a trifecta of Queerty favorites, including Michael Urie, Cheyenne Jackson, and Tony winner J. Harrison Ghee.
Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Gilmore Girls) gives the musicalization of The Princess and the Pea a fresh take as Foster’s Princess Winifred refuses to compromise her authenticity for a preconceived idea of what royalty should look like.
Urie, sporting turquois tights and a whimpering disposition, wins hearts as Prince Dauntless, finally summoning the courage to stand up against his domineering mother, Queen Aggravain (Harriet Sansom Harris). Foster fans will appreciate the reunion with Harris, who played her foe in 2002’s Thoroughly Modern Millie. Cheyenne Jackson also gallops aboard as the dim-witted Sir Harry opposite Nikki Renée Daniels as Lady Larken.
The award for most over-worked leading lady should go to Foster, who’s been pulling double duty rehearsing the role of Mrs. Lovett, as she prepares to step into Sweeney Todd beginning February 9.
New York City Center, New York City. Through February 4
‘Kiss today goodbye…’
Bye bye, Barry: After decades of trying to get Harmony to Broadway, Barry Manilow and longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman say goodbye to the musical about the Comedian Harmonists, a singing troupe caught in the atrocities of World War II.
Etthel Barrymore Theatre, New York City. Closing February 4
Last dance: Starring seven autistic actors, How to Dance in Ohio broke ground for visibility on Broadway in this heartfelt musical based on the documentary film of the same name. Queer identity also found its way into the story, making it a win-win for a new generation of theatergoers seeking reflections of themselves onstage. Too soon!
Belasco Theatre, New York City. Closing February 11
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Gays go global
After a six-year hiatus, the Queer New York International Arts Festival returns for an epic run, including artists from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, and Germany. From multimedia installations to an entangled queer exploration that combines classical music with professional wrestling, no queer stone is left unturned. NYU Skirball, New York City. February 7-17
Final bow
There are Broadway triple threats, and then there was Chita Rivera. With 18 Broadway credits to her name, including three Tony Awards, Rivera wowed audiences in dramatic roles like Anita in West Side Story as well as musical comedy, such as Rose in Bye Bye Birdie. Rivera passed away on January 30 at age 91.
Described by the New York Times as a “whirling, bounding, high-kicking elemental force of the dance; a seductive singer of smoky ballads and sizzling jazz; and a propulsive actress of vaudevillian energy,” Rivera also had deep connections to the LGBTQ+ community, and was a longtime muse of gay musical theater composers John Kander and Fred Ebb. She originated roles in four of their works, including Chicago, The Rink (co-starring Liza Minnelli), Kiss of the Spider Woman, and The Visit. In 2003, Rivera became a trustee of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Here’s a look at some of our favorite Chita moments:
From the archives
Hello, Dolly! is the gift that keeps on giving. While nobody can replace OG Dolly Levi, Carol Channing, plenty have given her a run for her money, including Bette Midler’s 2017 Tony-winning turn. British favorite Imelda Staunton takes on the role on the West End beginning July 6, and hopefully she’ll keep her feet firmly planted on the stage. We couldn’t resist looking back at Channing’s recount of a particularly precarious performance where she brought new meaning to audience participation.
@canaan.composer #carolchanning on falling off the stage during #hellodolly. #theater #broadway #fyp #foryoupage ♬ original sound – Canaan J. Harris
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Americans have mixed reactions when it comes to single-use plastic bag bans. Some people don't mind having a ban in place because they can carry more groceries in a reusable tote. But some people hate it because they find having to remember that tote every time they go to the grocery store, inconvenient.
But no matter your stance on plastic bag bans, there's new research showing they are making a difference for the environment.
The nonprofit Environment America looked at plastic bag numbers in five locations with bans; New Jersey, Vermont, Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, and Santa Barbra, CA.
Altogether, just these five cities and states have prevented the use of 6 billion single-use plastic bags per year. That's enough bags to wrap around the Earth 42 times.
In all, there are more than 500 cities and 12 states that ban single-use plastic bags.
"It has a huge impact on the environment, you know. Plastic bags are one of the most wasteful, single-use plastic products. They're really rarely reused, they're really difficult to recycle, and the bottom line is that we just need to be reducing the plastics that we truly don't need," said Celeste Meiffren-Swango with Environment America.
Along with this new research, the nonprofit has also created an interactive tool so you can see what a plastic bag ban is doing, or would do, for your city or state.
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She blames social media for contributing to her daughter’s death. On Wednesday this Colorado mom took her pain to Capitol Hill
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Five big tech CEOs testified in front of the Senate about social media and child safety, but it was the room full of grieving parents, holding up photos of their children, who had their voices heard.
Lori Schott of Sterling was one of those parents who said their child was irreparably harmed by social media.
She carried a framed 8x10 photo of her daughter, Annalee, captured with a bright smile, rosy cheeks, and a black cowboy hat over her long blonde hair, standing next to a horse amidst the backdrop of the green Eastern Plains.
Annalee died by suicide in November 2020 at the age of 18.
“I went down to her room and I read her journals where she cited things from TikTok that said, ‘I might as well kill myself. I have no future.’ And other things where she compared her profile to other girls. ‘How would somebody love somebody as ugly as me?’” Schott recalled. “It erodes at your internal well-being. It erodes your mental health.”
Schott also learned afterward that Anna had witnessed a live-streamed suicide on the “For You” page of TikTok, an app they had forbidden her to use.
Learning the extent to which social media affected her daughter’s well-being motivated Schott to come to the hearing, with the hope of preventing another family from going through the pain hers has.
“If it can save other kids and inform other parents to the dangers of these products, [then] I think I need to be (Anna’s) voice,” she said. “It’s the right thing to do, even though it’s the hardest thing to do.”
But more than anything, Schott wants to see Congress act. “We need to let the message be told that social media is a dangerous place. We need to get legislation in place that holds them accountable or we’re just going to continue to lose children.”
Senators slam social media for not protecting kids
While none of the parents in the cavernous room testified at the hearing, the struggle children and families have gone through — from sexual exploitation to obtaining drugs through social media to damaging mental health — were center stage, starting with a video that opened the hearing. Young victims and parents shared their experiences with what Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin described as an online child sexual exploitation crisis in America.
In the hours that followed, lawmakers excoriated the heads of Meta, Discord, TikTok, X, and Snapchat.
At one point, urged by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Meta head Mark Zuckerberg turned around to the rows of parents present and apologized.
“I’m sorry for everything you’ve all gone through,” Zuckerberg said, after getting up to face the families, many of whom held photos of their children over their heads. “It’s terrible…This is why we invest so much and are going to continue doing industry-leading efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things your families have had to suffer.”
That was tough to hear, Schott said, because of everything else he and the other social media executives said in defense of their platforms.
“It didn’t do any good with the statements he was saying. It didn’t do any good to say he wouldn’t support (the Kids Online Safety Act). Where’s their moral compass in all this?”
The Kids Online Safety Act is one of several bipartisan child safety bills the committee has passed that the tech executives would not commit to supporting.
They did stress steps their companies have and continue to take to protect kids on their platforms, ranging from time limits to parental approvals to blocks on direct messages from strangers.
The head of X, Linda Yaccarino, said her company does back the STOP CSAM Act, which aims to combat sexual exploitation of children by promoting accountability and transparency in the tech industry. Additionally, Zuckerberg said he’d support legislation that “delivers what parents say they want: a clear system for age verification and parental control over what apps their kids are using. For example, three out of four parents want app store age verification, and four out of five parents want parental approval whenever teens download apps. We support this.”
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who introduced the Kids Online Safety Act with GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn and which counts Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper as a co-sponsor, said the hearing showed Big Tech can’t be trusted to safeguard children or “grade their own homework.”
“We need strong rules and guardrails to give tools to parents and kids so they can take back control of their online lives,” he said during a break in the hearing.
Meta and TikTok said they each have around 40,000 employees focused on trust and safety, X said they had 2,300, Snapchat said they had 2,000 and Discord said they had “hundreds” of employees doing the work.
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet has also offered a bill to create a new independent agency to hold Big Tech accountable.
Senators on both sides of the aisle said they would continue to push for floor votes on a variety of bills to protect kids and hold social media companies accountable.
Ranking Member Sen. Lindsey Graham has a message to the families: Don’t quit.
“You’re making a difference. Through you we will get to where we need to go so other people won’t need to show a photo of their family,” he said, looking out at the crowded hearing room. “Hopefully, we can take your pain and turn it into something positive so nobody else has to hold up a sign.”
For her part, Schott wants social media companies’ feet held to the fire. “It shouldn’t take a bunch of parents with dead children to get change.”
She also had a message for kids: “Don’t let the social media platforms tell you who you are, what you are, how you look. You need to walk away from that.”
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The first-wave lineup for the first-ever Brightside Music Festival has been announced. Sublime (featuring Bud Gaugh, Erick Wilson, and Jakob Nowell), 311, Goldfinger, Story of the Year, Face to Face, Save Ferris, Unwritten Law, and Zebrahead will be playing the festival. Brightside Music Festival will take place on April 27 at Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando.
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Guardians' home opener on collision course with solar eclipse in Cleveland
Talk about high drama.
By the time the first pitch is thrown at the Cleveland Guardians' home opener on April 8 at Progressive Field, fans will have seen something more unusual than a no-hitter, more rare than a perfect game and astronomically more exciting than an unassisted triple play.
It will be truly an out-of-this-world moment.
At 3:13 p.m. EDT, Cleveland will experience a total solar eclipse — a once-in-generations event — for the first time since 1806, 13 years before the birth of Abner Doubleday, the Civil War hero some have credited with inventing baseball.
The alignment of sun, earth and moon will plunge the city into darkness, and as long as the maddeningly unpredictable Northeast Ohio weather cooperates, people will view a spectacle that lasts just under four minutes but occurs only three times in a 638-year span above the city.
The next one isn't until 2444.
"It's a really, really, really big deal," said Jay Ryan, a self-described "astronomy nerd" and eclipse educator. "It's hard to communicate to people how big of a deal this is. They've seen a partial eclipse in the past, and were like, meh. This is breathtaking."
Undoubtedly exciting for many, the eclipse does create some logistical concerns for others, especially the Guardians, who are trying to decide an ideal time to start the opener while balancing transportation, parking and other concerns.
Cleveland will be jam-packed.
Officials are estimating 200,000 visitors will descend upon the city strictly to view the eclipse, with 50,000 expected to attend an event at the Great Lakes Science Center, where NASA is setting up one of three national broadcasting hubs.
Throw in any college basketball fans still in town from the NCAA Women's Final Four from April 5-7, on top of the 35,000 coming to see the Guardians game, and downtown Cleveland will be bursting at the seams.
The Guardians have started their home openers in recent years with a 4:10 p.m. first pitch. This year, though, that falls in the partial-eclipse window when fans may still be distracted by the overhead phenomenon and not focused on seeing All-Star third baseman José Ramírez step into the batter's box against the Chicago White Sox.
The team has spent months weighing whether to embrace the eclipse and open the ballpark early to allow fans to watch it together — an opening act on opening day — or wait until it's over and play a night game.
The Guardians, who start on an 11-game trip, are expected to announce their decision on the opener in coming days.
Ryan believes the social element of the eclipse can't be underestimated. As he excitedly described the moon's 124-mile shadow gradually fading and then temporarily extinguishing the sun's brightness, Ryan said the moment before darkness is overwhelming.
"The color of the sky goes from bluish, grayish to black," he said. "And then, boom! Totality. You are in nighttime. It's heart pounding. It's exciting. People are screaming. I'll tell you what, to be with a sports crowd, just imagine someone hitting a grand slam. To be down there with a bunch of fans would be great."
There could be one problem: Cleveland's wacky weather.
"You had to go there," Ryan said.
The Guardians have dealt with snow on opening day before. In 2007, their first four games in Cleveland were snowed out from April 6-9, forcing the team to play its "home" opener in Milwaukee.
Ryan has been closely monitoring the long-term forecast and Cleveland's weather history. He feels somewhat encouraged that April 8 in 2020 and 2023 there were "blue, crystal-clear skies," while also noting that wasn't the case in 2021 and 2022.
"It's a coin toss," he said with a laugh.
Who knows. Maybe the eclipse could be a sign of something bigger on the way in Cleveland, which hasn't celebrated a World Series title since 1948.
"If we get a beautiful day," Ryan said. "This is going to beat the 1948 World Series."
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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Barcelona edges Osasuna in 1st game since coach Xavi announced decision to leave. Atletico also wins
MADRID (AP) — Barcelona got back on track with a 1-0 win over Osasuna in the Spanish league in its first match since coach Xavi Hernández announced he will leave at the end of the season. Young Brazil forward Vitor Roque scored his first goal since joining the club. The 18-year-old forward scored in the 63rd minute. Xavi said he hoped his announcement would lower the stress and tension surrounding both the team and himself. But Barcelona still struggled at home against an opponent that played with 10 men from the 67th. Atletico Madrid stayed in third place ahead of Barcelona after a 2-1 win over Rayo Vallecano.
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World From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza By Aya Batrawy Published January 31, 2024 at 2:39 PM PST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:17 NPR visits an emergency hotline center in the West Bank assisting first responders in the Gaza Strip. Copyright 2024 NPR
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6 too-real comics show what happens when work gets too heavy
Finding a good balance between working and relaxing can be difficult, but it doesn't have to be.
Everyone gets antsy about their jobs sometimes.
Maybe you notice you're less motivated than usual. Maybe you acknowledge that you're no longer going the extra mile, and you're not quite sure why. Maybe professionalism is a term you've long since forgotten.
For many of us, the struggle can be so, so real. That's why Willie Muse wrote these all-too-relatable comics for College Humor, illustrated by Karina Farek.
These six funny comics perfectly illustrate what a typical first day at your job looks like versus the 101st day:
1. Who doesn't look at at least one viral video a day?
To tune or not to tune.
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2. You suddenly find the time to fit in a breakfast sandwich.
How do you miss out on a breakfast quickly served?
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3. You go from wanting your boss's approval to hating his or her guts.
Getting to know your coworkers...
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4. All the details that were once so important become nuisances.
An evolution in responsibility and ethics?
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5. Your (lack of) motivation can take you from hero to zero — quick!
When an opportunity evolves into a responsibility.
Image courtesy of College Humor
6. And you most certainly DO NOT want to end up like this.
Getting on the right side of fear.
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Let's be real: These comics are funny, but they also aren't ideal.
In a perfect world, we'd all have jobs that still look and feel like Day 1 on Day 101. And one of the only ways to get there is to intentionally strive for a life that's full of work-life balance. We really do have the power to not let things play out like this.
What can we do?
At a most basic level, we can make sure we're getting enough sleep, eating well, and doing at least a little exercise. We also shouldn't underestimate the benefits of detaching from computer screens and smartphones every once in a while. Plus, we can also minimize our stress levels by not multitasking and instead concentrating on one task at time.
The most overlooked advice for maintaining a healthy work-life balance is to actually take time off.
Disconnect from your daily work routine. Make a conscious effort to recharge.
Perhaps if we dedicate more time to enjoying life outside of work, there's more of a chance that we'll be on Day 1 for months, feeling grateful for our jobs rather than impatiently waiting for the clock to strike 5. Let's get to it!
This article originally appeared on 10.25.16
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NPR News A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 3:39 PM MST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:06 As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Maui fires, we look at the biggest issues that people on the island are still facing. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Dem Rep Opens Can of Worms After Saying Impeachment Shouldn't be Used 'for Revenge'
Sometimes the utter lack of self-awareness shown by died-hard leftists can be truly breathtaking, no matter how much we’ve come to expect it.
Demonstrating this phenomenon this week is Democrat Representative for Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee, who decided to run her mouth about the impeachment inquiries against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, commenting that impeachment “is not a tool meant to be used for revenge.”
But, first some context: Over the past few weeks, the House GOP has moved to begin an impeachment inquiry against Mayorkas over his disastrous mishandling of the current border crisis.
While Democrats have ridiculed Republicans for supposedly embarking on a “witch hunt,” and accused them of callousness in their aggressive border policies and refusal to sign off on a bill authorizing yet more spending to “secure the border,” the House GOP has moved forward undeterred with their impeachment inquiries against Mayorkas.
According to a report in Fox News, the “House Homeland Security Committee met Tuesday to advance two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas … A vote is expected to take place later in the day … moving the articles to a House vote at a future date.”
Jackson Lee is on the Homeland Security Committee. In a social media post on Tuesday, she shared a video of her comments during the impeachment hearings where she claimed that “we are being fooled that work is being done against an individual for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“The American people understand that that is not the actions that we are here for today. Revenge, vengefulness, is why we are here. Otherwise, they would understand that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is an individual whose family fled the Nazis and then Cuba before arriving here in the U.S.”
She continued, reminding her colleagues that he “is the first immigrant to serve as head of the Department of Homeland Security, and yet, this committee seeks to suggest that he is violating the Constitution, when in essence, his freedom is based upon our Constitution.”
That’s nice, Representative, but aren’t politicians of any stripe notorious for having “rules for me and not for thee?”
Anyway, she retweeted the video with her infamous caption, “Impeachment is not meant as a tool to be used for revenge. #RevengeImpeachment.”
Impeachment is not meant as a tool to be used for revenge. #RevengeImpeachment https://t.co/mqnR0U0X7S
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 30, 2024
Where to even begin?
Aaron Ray Hermes, a Republican running for the GOP nomination to challenge Jackson Lee in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, wasted no time in calling her out, retweeting her remark and commenting, “Oh so wanting to protect the country is just ‘revenge’ now? … Then why did you impeach Trump for making a perfectly valid phone call in 2019?”
Oh so wanting to protect the country is just “revenge” now? lol. Then why did you impeach Trump for making a perfectly valid phone call in 2019? Keep lying and we’ll keep showing up with receipts. Can’t wait to take your seat.
— Aaron Ray Hermes (@realAaronHermes) January 30, 2024
And Hermes had plenty of company:
Haha! Says the Impeachment Democratic Party.
— JC Howell (@AuthorJCHowell) January 30, 2024
As if that’s not EXACTLY what you did to Trump. Twice!
— Michael 🇺🇸 Distinguished Fellow of Shankapotomi (@click4mrh) January 31, 2024
Is that why you impeached Trump twice? Revenge?
— Bob Dog (@BobDog19006) January 31, 2024
You are absolutely out of your mind, woman! You don’t even deserve a single cent from the hardworking taxpayers. You should have been kicked out a long time ago. You’ve been leeching off the people for far too long. You’re nothing but evil and pathetic. Tell me, what good have…
— Jones (@cjones2022) January 31, 2024
As usual, it seems that Democrats only care about whether impeachment is used for revenge or just purposes if their own people are the target.
In Democratic eyes, former President Bill Clinton was unfairly targeted for taking advantage of a young, female White House intern in the 1990s, then lying about it on national television — and under oath.
To Democrats, President Joe Biden is an innocent victim accused of the crime of “helping” his poor son, and Mayorkas’ impeachment is fueled by some unspecific Republican “revenge.”
But Donald Trump, who was twice impeached for offenses he did not commit, or for actions that were grossly twisted out of context?
Why, the Democrats then were only trying to “preserve our democracy” (how they do love that phrase) from the “threat” of a “tyrant” like Trump.
The hypocrisy on display from folks like Representative Jackson Lee is nothing short of sickening.
It was crystal clear to Americans with their eyes open that Trump’s impeachments were motivated by nothing other than revenge, revenge for his having the audacity to win the 2016 election.
The Democratic push to persecute Trump, which is still ongoing in the flimsy criminal cases against him, is motivated almost entirely by a perverse desire for revenge.
That Jackson Lee can seriously accuse her colleagues of using impeachment as a form of revenge, without acknowleging that Democrats themselves used impeachment as a revenge against Trump is simpy appalling.
We expect politicians, especially Democrats, to express a profound lack of self-awareness at this point, but Jackson Lee’s is almost unprecedented.
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A California man convicted multiple times for healthcare fraud was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his latest scheme.
Imran Shams, 65, of Glendale, was sentenced to prison for conspiring to conceal his involvement in operating a laboratory and billing Medicare $234 million for various lab tests despite his decadeslong exclusion from the Medicare program, according to a Jan. 30 Justice Department news release.
He was previously convicted of Medicare and Medicaid fraud in separate 1990 and 2001 cases in New York and California, respectively, according to the release. After each conviction, he was barred from participating in federal healthcare programs.
He was required to submit a written application to be considered for reinstatement but never did so, according to the release. Despite that, he continued to operate clinics in New York that billed federal healthcare programs. In 2017, Mr. Shams pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay and receive healthcare kickbacks and other charges connected to his operation of these clinics.
In 2018, Mr. Shams was an owner, operator and manager of a Baldwin Park, Calif.-based clinical testing laboratory, according to the release. To keep the lab's status as a Medicare provider, Mr. Shams and a co-conspirator fraudulently concealed his role. Between 2018 and 2022, the lab fraudulently billed Medicare $234 million, of which Medicare paid $31.7 million.
In addition to his prison sentence, he was ordered to forfeit $31.7 million and pay $31.7 million in restitution.
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‘It has to stop’: Family of murder victim speaks out as day 2 of trial ends
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Nearly three years ago, 29-year-old Devon Wilburn was shot and killed outside of a corner store on Dewey Avenue. Over two years after Charles Holley’s arrest for that murder, his family is hoping for justice.
Day two of Holley’s trial ended early Wednesday after several first responders took the witness stand. The 911 dispatchers, technicians, and officers all recounted their role in processing the scene on March 24, 2021. Prosecutors also played a video from a corner store security camera that had captured Wilburn’s last moments as he was shot several times.
While his family had been prepped for the video, it was their first time seeing it, and many left the room in tears.
“Just to see him go down like that was enough for me,” his mother Lila Anderson said. “I knew it was him because of the clothing he had on when he left my house that day. And his body was just limped over.”
“He looked like he was dead then,” his aunt Cookie Nelson added.
The shooting happened just before 7 p.m. at the corner of Dewey and Magee avenues. The sun was still up when police say Holley pulled out a gun and shot Wilburn.
He died later that night in the hospital. Holley was charged with second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
In the three months leading up to the murder, Holley had been on parole for a robbery conviction. Police had been looking for him before the murder because he’d failed to check in with his probation officer.
Nelson told News10NBC the two had known each other for well over a decade, and went to high school together.
“And Devon took care of his son,” said Nelson. “Took care of his son while he was somewhere else. And this is the thanks he gave him.”
Prosecutors didn’t get into a motive Thursday, but Nelson said she had no idea why Holley would have shot her nephew. Wilburn left behind a daughter named Khloee. She’s eight years old now.
“How do you say goodbye to him? You can’t. She just can’t,” relative Deborah Lindsey said through tears. “This is justice for Khloee too. She’s gonna get justice too. And I wish that she could come to see, but she can’t — because she’s too young.”
When Wilburn was shot nearly three years ago, it was the sixth murder in two weeks. His family said over and over again — something has to change.
“It cannot keep going on — all this gun violence has to stop,” Anderson said. “It has to stop. For no reason, people are getting killed. Young people are getting killed. And it has to stop! Yes it does.”
If convicted, Holley could face up to life in prison. The trial continues Thursday.
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Need a boost to get over Hump Day? The Hot Sheet is Queerty’s midweek pop culture catch-up, highlighting the entertainment stories everyone’s talking about, the ones you might’ve missed, and the notable LGBTQ+ film & TV releases in the days ahead. Here’s everything you need to stay in-the-know:
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- Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans — Jan. 31 (FX), Feb. 1 (Hulu): A dramatic look back at the gossip-fueled story of author Truman Capote and his NYC socialite frenemies, with a star-studded cast.
- Shortcomings — Feb. 1 (Netflix): The Umbrella Academy‘s Justin H. Min and Queerties nominee Sherry Cola co-star in this rom-com directed by Fresh Off The Boat funnyman Randall Park.
- Dick: The Musical — Feb. 2 (Max): A lewd, crude, and riotously funny musical about long lost twins, with iconic supporting turns from Nathan Lana, Megan Mullally, and Megan Thee Stallion.
- Departing Seniors — Feb. 2 (VOD): A queer high school senior discovers he has a psychic gift, which he uses to stop a masked murderer in this sharp slasher comedy.
- Kokomo City — Feb. 2 (Paramount+): Emerging filmmaker D. Smith helms this provocative and electrifying documentary that gives Black trans sex workers space to tell their stories.
- She Is Conann — Feb. 2 (Select Theaters): A time and genre-hopping queer fantasy about a mythical woman named Conann, following her from the Sumerian era to the near future.
Culture Catch-Up
MOTHER HAS ARRIVED: This just in—Queen Of Queens Jinkx Monsoon will be hosting this year’s Queerties Awards on March 12 (which you can vote for every day between now and February 22!), and we could not be more excited to have this icon cast her spell over us. Here, she gives her first interview about why she’s eager to host—and the importance of making your voice heard! [The Wrap]
COLD OPEN: On this past weekend’s SNL, Dave Chappelle‘s surprise random appearance on stage during the goodnights clearly threw Bowen Yang for a loop, and queer fans are cheering the sketch MVP’s iciest of cold shoulders. [Read all about it on INTO]
POWER OF TWO: We’re excited to share your exclusive first look at the teaser for musical romance Glitter + Doom which will hit theaters on March 8. Using the powerful songs of The Indigo Girls, the film tells a star-crossed love story of a circus dreamer (Alex Diaz) and a struggling musician (Alan Cammish) who find new purpose in each other. From the producer of Moulin Rouge and Kinky Boots, the crowd-pleaser also stars Lea DeLaria, Tig Notaro, Peppermint, Ming Na-Wen, Missi Pyle, and the B-52s’ Kate Pierson.
BYE BYE CHITA: This week, the lights went out on Broadway as we mourned the passing of stage legend Chita Rivera, who originated musical roles like Anita in West Side Story, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie, and Velma Kelly in Chicago. Her friends and contemporaries remember her unrivaled talent and beautiful spirit. [Playbill]
MOTHER OF DILFS: Stormy Daniels is back as the host of OUTtv’s bonkers, addictive For The Love Of DILFs, and we’ve got the juicy interview all about the drama-filled second season, her many, many gay fans, and all the dirt she has on the Trumps.
A MOUNTAIN OF MOVIES: The 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival wrapped up this past weekend, and we’ve got your recap of all best, funniest, and sexiest LGBTQ+ films to debut this year, from a sensual sex worker drama to a documentary that’s going to make you cry happy tears. [Read all about it on Queerty]
MANDATORY READING: In a moving new interview, RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 queen Amanda Tori Meating has come out as trans, sharing how she’s more ready than ever to advocate for herself after dealing with an unsupportive ex and bullies in and out of the Werk Room. [EW]
NO FOOL: One of the streaming hits of 2024 thus far is Netflix’s mystery thriller Fool Me Once, and out star Dino Fetscher is speaking up about the importance of playing a character who “just happens to be gay.” We’re all for visibility for the community—and especially for Festcher because… well, look at the material! [BBC News]
ARE YOU READY FOR IT?: With 10 months to go until the 2024 election, Republicans are panicked that Taylor Swift might be in her “political era” and could endorse Joe Biden, potentially swaying the polls by mobilizing a very crucial voting bloc: The Swifties. [Read all about it on LGBTQNation]
LISTEN UP: Beloved U.K. based radio & TV presenter Nigel May just launched an exciting new LGBTQ+ interview podcast called A Gay Old Time—and though it bears the same name as a movie retrospective column on this very site, we’ll be tuning in, especially because he’ll be chatting with members of our community of all ages, including EastEnders‘ John Partridge, comedy hero Margaret Cho, and the indomitable Peppermint.
FIGHT CLUB: Jake Gyllenhaal may be flashing some serious muscle in the upcoming Road House remake, but he’ll never hold a candle to the sweaty, homoerotic glory of the original 1989 movie starring a never-hotter Patrick Swayze. [Read all about it on INTO]
CURTAINS UP: If you’re in New York City on February 9, you won’t want miss actor/model-signer Wyatt Sepa-Newell‘s special one-night-only cabaret show at The Green Room 42, playing tribute to legends like Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra with his show What Is This Thing Called Love? And, from the looks of Sepa-Newell’s spciy Instagram page, you’re going to want front row seats! [The Green Room 42]
And don’t forget: The polls are open for the 2024 Queerties Awards! From now until February 22, you can vote once a day for your favorite LGBTQ+ stars and moments from the past year of entertainment and pop culture, so make your voice heard!
The Final Hump
We here at Queerty love a good slasher, especially one that has a sense of humor about itself, so the upcoming Departing Seniors—on VOD Feb. 2!—promises to be right up our alley. The indie tells the story of queer Mexican-American teen Javier (Primo‘s Ignacio Diaz-Silverio), who’s been bullied his entire time at high school and just can’t wait to graduate in a few weeks and leave it all behind. After an accident leaves him with the mysterious ability to see people’s pasts and futures at random, he soon realizes his special gift might be the only way to save his classmates when a masked killer begins to pick them off one-by-one. So, yeah… this sounds wild! But, before all that, Javier’s just a teen hanging with his bestie (Ireon Roach)—and sneaking in makeouts with his secret jock boyfriend (Sasha Kuznetsov). Check it out in this Queerty exclusive clip below!
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Oregon officials have announced a 90-day state of emergency in Portland due to a serious public health and safety crisis linked to the widespread use of fentanyl.
“Our country and our state have never seen a drug this deadly and addictive, and all are grappling with how to respond,” Gov. Tina Kotek said in a press release Tuesday. “The Chair, the Mayor, and I recognize the need to act with urgency and unity across our public health and community safety systems to make a dent in this crisis. We are all in this together. The next 90 days will yield unprecedented collaboration and focused resources targeting fentanyl and provide a roadmap for next steps.”
The declaration will allow the city, state, and county to use available resources from human services, state police, health authorities, and emergency departments to set up a command center in Central City, which is composed of 10 districts, to serve as the focal point for daily communication, coordination, and efforts to address the fentanyl crisis.
“The Command Center will serve to refocus existing resources. It will also share and publicly report data on the impacts of fentanyl in downtown, use data to identify and respond to acute needs and gaps in service, identify any specific resources necessary to address gaps, and establish a system to coordinate that can be sustained beyond the 90-day startup period,” the press release notes.
While the state’s health department will launch educational campaigns across town to promote drug prevention and treatment, the county will “distribute and train partners on the use of Narcan and issue reports on overdose data.”
The fentanyl crisis has led to a staggering surge in fatalities in Oregon, as reported by health authorities. In 2022, the total number of unintentional opioid overdose deaths reached a grim milestone of 956. Although data for 2023 is still being compiled, by June, the toll from unintentional overdoses had already reached 628, and it is anticipated to surpass 1,250 once all the data is collected, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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Should churches and others be held accountable for past sex abuse? Colorado voters may decide
More people who survived childhood sexual abuse could gain the ability to sue the perpetrators and their employers — if Colorado voters agree to a constitutional amendment proposed by state lawmakers.
If it’s eventually passed this November, the amendment would open the door for lawsuits that go back years or decades against organizations from churches to the Boy Scouts of America. Currently, those kinds of lawsuits can only go back a few years.
“You will not be forgotten. The state of Colorado is not going to forget you. And we’re going to pass this measure to make sure that there is accountability assigned to the harm that was caused,” said Sen. Rhonda Fields, a Democrat, flanked by survivors of sex abuse at a Capitol press conference Tuesday morning.
State lawmakers have already tried to expand survivors’ legal powers. A law passed in 2021 similarly allowed retroactive lawsuits for survivors of childhood sexual abuse — but it was struck down by the Colorado Supreme Court this year.
The court found the earlier law exceeded the legislature’s constitutional power because it applied retroactively to past events. The only way around that defeat may be to change the state constitution itself — which is what the lawmakers and advocates are now trying to do.
Randy Kady, 57, stood at Tuesday’s press conference alongside a photograph of him as a young boy. Around the time the photo was taken in the early 1970s, he was being preyed upon at Village East Elementary School in Aurora, he said.
“I want you to take a good look at me,” he told the audience. “I’m here to do what I couldn’t do when I was being molested by my first-grade teacher — to speak out.”
Kady and his parents had always been open with each other about what happened, he said. But the full details of the situation — including the teacher’s alleged abuse of more than 30 other boys — only came into focus after Kady’s mother’s death, when he found newspaper clippings in her belongings.
“To realize that she had saved all this information — at the time, I was like, ‘Why would she do this?’” he said in an interview. “But [now] I understand that she wanted me to have an understanding of what was going on around me in the world and how it was handled.”
Kady now believes that school officials covered up the molestation, allowing the teacher to resign for “personal reasons.” And he says the proposed constitutional amendment could allow him and others to seek justice.
“People need to heal, and that's what this amendment will do,” he said.
Organizations such as the Colorado Catholic Conference have warned that retroactive lawsuits could expose them to unsustainable financial costs, saying that they are already taking action to address the past. Settlements and judgments in individual cases can easily run into the millions — and others have grown much larger, including the Boy Scouts of America’s multi-billion dollar settlement with more than 80,000 plaintiffs.
In Colorado, the Catholic Church has paid more than $6 million to survivors under an agreement with the state’s attorney general. But survivors and advocates say that’s not enough, and they want to help survivors from organizations far beyond the church’s walls.
The proposed amendment is starting out at the legislature. If it wins approval from supermajorities in the House and Senate, it can appear on the Nov. 2024 ballot. Alternatively, if the legislature doesn’t pass the measure, then advocates would instead have to gather tens of thousands of signatures from across the state to put the question to voters — a very costly endeavor.
If it does appear on the ballot, the amendment would need to win ‘yes’ votes from at least 55 percent of voters to take effect. And even then, one more thing would be left to do: In 2025, the legislature would have to pass another law to actually allow for the survivor’s retroactive lawsuits.
“We have to amend the constitution or else there's no chance that we could ever come back and pass the kind of laws that could protect these kids,” said Sen. Jessie Danielson, a Democratic cosponsor.
The measure is being cosponsored by Danielson, Fields, Rep. Monica Duran, and Rep. Mike Weissman. All are Democrats, but they are expecting strong Republican support.
The amendment follows other changes meant to increase accountability. Colorado no longer has civil or criminal statutes of limitations for sex abuse against children. But those changes did not apply to many people already living with trauma.
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Japanese melodic hard rock band Waterweed released a brand new single titled "Cure". The track will be featured as the opening theme of the anime series Chiyu Maho No Machigatta Tsukaikata. See below to check out the track.
Japanese melodic hard rock band Waterweed released a brand new single titled "Cure". The track will be featured as the opening theme of the anime series Chiyu Maho No Machigatta Tsukaikata. See below to check out the track.
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NBA approves plan to conduct draft over two-day event for first time
The NBA Draft is moving to a two-day format for the first time.
The league on Wednesday announced the change, which had been in the works for several months. Round 1 of the draft this year will be on Wednesday, June 26, at Barclays Center in New York. Round 2 will follow on June 27 at ESPN’s Seaport District Studios in New York.
Last year's draft — with Victor Wembanyama going No. 1 overall to the San Antonio Spurs — lasted nearly five hours and ended around 12:45 a.m. ET, which is one of the primary reasons for stretching it over two days.
The time between picks in the first round will remain five minutes. It will increase from two minutes to four minutes in the second round.
Teams have a slew of business to tend to in the hours following the draft, such as reaching agreements with undrafted free agents and finding players to fill rosters for the looming summer leagues. The league also expects that having draft broadcasts ending at a more reasonable hour will be more viewer-friendly.
The June 26 start date for the draft is three days after Game 7 of this season's NBA Finals, if the series goes the full distance. The finals are scheduled to begin on June 6.
The order for this season's draft will be finalized at the draft lottery on May 12. That's followed by the draft combine in Chicago, scheduled this year for May 13-19 under new rules.
All prospects who are invited by the NBA must attend the combine — where they'll have to participate in certain skills evaluation, height and wingspan measurements, medical examinations, team interviews, media sessions and more — in order to be eligible for the draft. Prospects will not be required to take part in scrimmage games that are part of the combine's offerings. This is a significant change from past years, when many top draft picks chose to skip the combine entirely.
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James Paxton and the Dodgers lower guarantee to $7 million from $11 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Paxton and the Los Angeles Dodgers have reworked their one-year contract, lowering the guarantee to $7 million from $11 million while still allowing the 35-year-old left-hander to earn up to $13 million. Paxton’s original deal called for a $3 million signing bonus, an $8 million salary, $1 million in a roster bonus and $1 million in performance bonuses. His revised agreement keeps the signing bonus, lowers the salary to $4 million, increases the roster bonus to $2 million and allows $4 million in performance bonuses for starts. The restructured agreement was first reported by The Athletic.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Fmr. QB Robert Griffin III Puts Out Post Bashing Critics of Taylor Swift, Immediately Obliterated in His Own Comment Section
Ex-NFL star Robert Griffin III took a stick to critics of pop megastar Taylor Swift and her dalliance with the NFL, but he soon found that his own fans were not so tolerant of Swift as the former quarterback may have hoped.
The whole topic of Taylor Swift has sent many NFL fans over the edge as they have become increasingly sick and tired of having their football games turned into a stream of coverage about the pop star instead of football.
But Griffin seemed unaware of the growing annoyance hardcore football fans have developed over the pop singer.
In what may have been an unwise move, RG III jumped to his X account on Sunday to praise Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce for his romance with Swift.
“Good for you Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. You gotta be a real hater to see this level of happiness and be like, ‘Yea I don’t like it,'” he wrote.
Good for you Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. You gotta be a real hater to see this level of happiness and be like, “Yea I don’t like it.” pic.twitter.com/2I0PuXVz8w
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) January 29, 2024
Like too many do, Griffin apparently imagines that football fans are somehow jealous over Kelce and Swift’s “love.” But, that really isn’t the case.
Few are mad at the pair’s relationship — or even care much about it.
What they are mad at is the wall-to-wall coverage of their affair that seems to be squeezing football coverage out of the picture as the NFL continues to go all in to pander to Taylor Swift and her “Swifties.”
And RG III’s own X fans were ready to blast the former Pro-Bowl player star over his assumptions.
“Football fans wanna see football,” not do Swiftie stuff, Anthony Perez replied.
Football fans wanna see football
If U wanna see Taylor Swift buy a ticket & go to 1 of her concerts
— Anthony Perez (@APFromNY) January 29, 2024
Yall forcing it to much on the public we just care about football lol
— Ring Savvy (@Ring_Savvy_) January 29, 2024
It’s interesting how the NFL never made this much of a fuss about any other player and his wife/girlfriend in the over 75 years of the NFL.
But now they are making a fuss and those who notice how manufactured and forced this is are called haters by a former QB with a lot to say.
— Matt Roberts (@RecruitBoss) January 29, 2024
I don’t like it, Robert
— Ben Dackiw (@BenDackiw) January 29, 2024
The NFL executives are desperate to gain new fans they have made themselves look like starstruck teens by pandering to Taylor Swift.
While it is true that viewership for the NFL’s games — well, the ones involving the Chiefs, anyway — has skyrocketed among young female viewers, it is highly unlikely that any of those girls will stick around and become actual football fans once Swift gets tired of Kelce and moves on and stops attending games.
Meanwhile, the league is making its actual fans upset. And moves like this from RG III are not helping any.
And even Swift herself seems to be getting tired of the constant focus on her at NFL games.
Maybe Griffin and the NFL ought to start taking the hint.
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Columbia, Md.-based MedStar has reached an agreement with the Justice Department after allegedly depriving individuals with disabilities access to medical care by excluding the presence of their support persons.
The Justice Department alleges that the health system violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not adjusting its COVID-19 visitor rules to accommodate people with certain disabilities.
According to the complaint, this affected people with certain disabilities' ability to get medical care independently, as they couldn't have their support persons with them. As a result, they couldn't receive equal care without their support person's help.
In the proposed consent decree, which the court needs to accept, MedStar has agreed to pay $440,000 to compensate several eligible individuals who were affected by the policy.
The health system also said it would change their policies to follow the Americans with Disabilities Act, train their staff on the new rules, and inform the department if they exclude support persons in the future, as stated in the agreement.
The Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland worked together on this issue, according to a Jan. 30 news release from the Justice Department.
A MedStar spokesperson told Becker's that in May of 2021 the Department of Justice brought to its attention concerns raised by certain patients who were impacted by the visitor restrictions it put in place during the peak of COVID-19.
"Delivering exceptional care to all our patients is at the core of all we do, and we have always wholeheartedly encouraged support persons accompanying patients with disabilities to ensure equal access to high-quality health care. As a result of the resolution, we have clarified our visitation policies and will provide training for associates who regularly may be called upon to recognize when a patient requires a support person," the spokesperson said. "We are pleased to address the government's concerns and will continue to welcome support persons as we provide the best possible care to all our patients."
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Marc Jacobs never goes out of style.
The fashion designer has been one of the most influential forces in the industry from his early days at Perry Ellis to his more than 15 years as creative director of Louis Vuitton and to his eponymous brand, which he launched four decades ago.
Earlier this week, the 60-year-old style savant proved he was pure fire after he went viral attempting to blow out a birthday cake celebrating the brand’s 40th anniversary and nearly caused his NYC office to go up in flames.
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Despite not being able to put out the sugary blaze, Jacobs made sure to hold on tight to his iconic “The Tote Bag” as he exited the pending towering inferno.
As the off-screen applause can attest, it was social media genius:
Jacobs has enlisted a slew of famous faces to commemorate the brand’s big 4-0.
For the Spring Summer 2024 campaign, actress Dakota Fanning, musicians FKA twigs, Lil Uzi Vert, Bladee, supermodel Lila Moss and artist Cindy Sherman all star in new ads for the fashion house.
But Jacobs himself has been setting trends as his personal style has evolved over the years and it happens to resonate with some of the same eras many gay men experience throughout their own lives.
The Geek Chic Twink Era
In the late 1980s and ’90s, Jacobs staked his claim in the fashion world with his brand of nerdy fashionista in preppy ensembles, awkward baggy fits or in the Manhattan Garment District’s de rigueur all black uniform.
While cavorting with supermodels and A-list celebs, Jacobs let his designs or the luxurious getups of his plus ones take center stage and kept a more low-key profile with his then-signature look of long hair and glasses.
The Hipster Muscle Queen Era
At some point in the mid-aughts, Jacobs, now in his 40s, reinvented himself with an entirely new look and way of living. He cut his hair, enlisted the services of a nutritionist, started working out hard and began showing off his gym gains and body ink in fitted lewks. Looking good, bro!
During this time, Jacobs was often photographed on Speedo-clad vacations with a series of gorgeous boyfriends, including Brazilian businessman Lorenzo Martone and adult film star Harry Louis. His personal life was also the subject of tabloid fodder as his party boy status was called into question with claims of wild weekends and Grindr hookups. Been there, done that!
Debonair Married Zaddy Era
These days, Jacobs, 60, is still living his best life but doing it much quieter. After meeting candlemaker and former model Charly Defrancesco in 2015, the duo got engaged at a Chipotle in 2018 and married the following year.
The pair even purchased a home in the ‘burbs, albeit a waterfront $9 million Frank Lloyd Wright house in the tony enclave of Rye, New York 25 miles north of NYC.
Still, the suburban zaddy life definitely looks good on him and we can’t wait to see what he and the Marc Jacobs brand have in store next!
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Colorado’s classical musicians celebrate Black History Month
Black History Month on CPR Classical recognizes the legacy of African American composers and the contributions of today’s Black artists and creatives. Check out these events taking place in February around the Denver metro and across our state.
Tune in to CPR Classical daily for artist spotlights and more music discovery during Black History Month. Listen at 8 a.m., 1 p.m., and 4 p.m. for the brilliance of composers like William Grant Still, Florence Price and contemporary artists who are shaping the classical scene.
CU Presents: Step Afrika! (Feb. 2) | >> More info
Step Afrika! blends percussive dance styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities, traditional Western and Southern African dances, and an array of contemporary dance and art forms into one compelling artistic experience. Performances are much more than dance shows — they integrate songs, storytelling, humor and audience participation.
Black Violin: 2024 Live Tour: Experience (Feb. 2-4) | >> More info
Black Violin upends cultural and musical stereotypes with a blend of classically trained musicianship, hip-hop beats and inventiveness. A previous Newman Center Presents favorite, Black Violin has just received a Grammy nomination for “Best Americana Performance” for the track "The Message" in collaboration with The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Fort Collins Symphony: Dvorak Discovery (Feb. 3) | >> More info
In a special Black History Month tribute, the Fort Collins Symphony honors the legacy of pioneering Black American composer Florence Price. The tribute includes the Colorado premiere of Price’s work "Ethiopia’s Shadow in America" and the unveiling of a new painting inspired by Price’s music by artist Louise Cutler. Following the performance, Cutler’s painting will be up for auction to benefit the Symphony.
Littleton Symphony Orchestra: A Painter’s Palette (Feb. 9) | >> More info
A program titled "A Painter’s Palette" includes music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Associate Conductor Héctor Jardón and the LSO perform "The Bamboula," which musically portrays both an African drum and a dance brought to America by Haitian slaves.
Dazzle Denver: Wil Alston: Spirituals According to Jazz (Feb. 9) | >> More info
This show delivers jazz-based interpretations of sacred and African American spirituals. The show “desires to expose new listeners to these powerful songs of hope, struggle, and faith in God; and ensure they remain relevant in today’s musical landscape.” The ensemble includes vocalist Wil Alston, Daniel Moran (keyboard), Derek Woodbury (double bass), Skip Lynch (drums), Chris Hansen (trumpet) and Steve Shurack (guitar).
UNC Presents: Day Break of Freedom: A Journey Through Black History (Feb. 22) | >> More info
The UNC School of Music presents "Seven Last Words of the Unarmed" written by Atlanta composer Joel Thompson. Each of the featured piece’s seven movements quotes the last words of an unarmed Black man before he was killed. With the UNC Chamber Choir and UNC Bands.
DAMTA: Musicale Celebrating Black History Month with Leah Claiborne (Feb. 25) | >> More info
The Denver Area Music Teachers Association (DAMTA) partners with the Lamont School of Music piano preparatory program to bring Dr. Leah Claiborne to Colorado for a pedagogy masterclass and presentation. The presentation centers around Dr. Claiborne's new piano method series and features a compilation of music from black composers for beginning and intermediate piano students.
CU Presents: Jamaican Choral Music Symposium: Mona In Concert (Feb. 25) | >> More info
The University Singers, with guest artist Mona from Kingston, Jamaica, present a full-length Jamaican choral music concert chronicling the country’s journey in finding its musical voice.
Edward W. Hardy, violin: Southard Music Competition Winners Concert (Feb. 26) | >> More info
The Southard Music Competition is the University of Northern Colorado’s premiere music showcase. This free concert features the top three prize winners starting with the Bear Lake Wind Quintet followed by a performance of “Born Free,” a song cycle composed and performed by violinist Edward W. Hardy, featuring soprano Courtney Caston and pianist Jordan Ortman.
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Punk In The Park has announced its first-wave lineup for this year. Descendents, The Vandals, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Exploited, T.S.O.L., Adolescents, The Dickies, and The Dwarves will be playing. Punk In The Park will take place on May 4 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.
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With scoring up less than 1% over last season, the NBA is not seeing cause for alarm
Joe Dumars went to a game a couple of weeks ago that came down to the very last shot, and he thought it was one of the best games of the season to this point. Final score: Denver 102, Boston 100.
It was a reminder that defense still can get played in the NBA.
Amid a flurry of big individual performances — Luka Dončić scoring 73, Joel Embiid scoring 70, Devin Booker and Karl-Anthony Towns each scoring 62 — in the last two weeks alone, Dumars said Wednesday that NBA officials aren't alarmed by such numbers because the league's scoring average is up only slightly compared to last season.
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"It's where the game is today," said Dumars, the NBA's executive vice president and head of basketball operations. "It's the pace of the game. It's the amount of 3s guys are shooting now. You're going to have some offensive eruptions like that."
There hadn't been an instance since April 1978 of two players scoring at least 60 points in the same day. That is, until it happened twice last week: Embiid and Towns had their huge games on Jan. 22, Dončić and Booker put on their scoring shows on Jan. 26.
Having those events happen twice in the span of a few days is a statistical oddity, for certain. But the numbers show it's not really much more than that.
Scoring leaguewide this season is up just 0.78% over last season entering Wednesday, from 114.7 points per game to 115.6 points per game. The jump was far bigger last season, when scoring rose 3.7% over the rate of 110.6 points per game that the league saw in 2021-22.
There have been more high-scoring games, but the averages suggest things also tend to balance out. Entering Wednesday, there had been 78 instances of teams scoring at least 135 points in a game this season — already the second most for a full season in league history and on pace to smash the record of 112, set last season. The previous mark was 74 games of 135 or more, done in 2019-20.
"We're going to see offensive eruptions with this kind of pace and the amount of 3s people shoot," Dumars said. "But there's no push here at the league office from me or anyone else that we want to see a certain score. I left that Boston-Denver game saying, ‘wow, great game.’ That's what fans want. Fans want to leave a game or watch a game and at the end say, ‘that was incredible.’ The score is secondary to that. Fans just want to see great games."
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Jazz Chisholm Jr. and the Miami Marlins go to salary arbitration hearing
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. and the Miami Marlins have gone to salary arbitration. The outfielder asked a three-person panel to be paid $2.9 million this year, and the team argued for $2,625,000. A decision by Margaret Brogan, Jeanne Vonhof and Scott Buchheit is expected Thursday, which is Chisholm’s 26th birthday. Chisholm hit .250 with 19 homers, 51 RBIs and 22 stolen bases in 25 tries last year, when he was shifted to center field from second base and shortstop. He went 0 for 8 with four strikeout as the Marlins were swept by Philadelphia in their NL Wild Card Series.
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health System is facing a lawsuit that accuses it of sharing patient information with third parties, ClassAction.org reported Jan. 30.
The lawsuit, filed Jan. 19, alleges that Adena used web-tracking technology on its website and MyChart patient portal that collected and shared users' information and online messages with other companies, which then used the data for personalized advertising.
The web-tracking tools used were from Google and Facebook. The lawsuit alleges that the use of these tools violates state and federal privacy laws.
Adena isn't the only health system facing a lawsuit regarding web-tracking technologies. Currently, more than 18 hospitals and health systems are facing lawsuits regarding the pixel technology on websites and patient portals.
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Queerties season is upon us, and earlier this week we surpassed 1 million votes (and counting) with three more weeks left to go!
We’re celebrating the LGBTQ+ community’s brightest stars, tastemakers, storytellers, and innovators for the twelfth year in a row.
From binary-busting artists topping to the music charts, to the fiercest drag queens, to the brave notables who shook up mainstream America with their coming out stories, to more LGBTQ+ TV shows and movies than ever before, these are the names that have kept us entertained and inspired all year long.
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Voting for the 2024 Queerties is officially open.
Now, you may have noticed a few changes in this year’s Queerties Awards categories.
In honor of the fashionable trend-setters and boundary-breaking athletes who’ve made the world a better, queerer place, we’ve added two new categories to celebrate even more corners of pop culture: Style Icon and Sports Hero!
We’ve also updated the film categories so that you can pick two of your favorite movies this year, one comedy and one drama.
And because we simply love mess, we’re excited to introduce the Best Feud category, where you can help us decide which two celebs have the juiciest, wildest, most riveting rivalry of all time.
Voting runs through February 22, and remember, you can vote once per day per device in each category. Winners will be announced live at a special reception hosted by Jinx Monsoon, with a special appearance by ally Paula Abdul, in Los Angeles on March 12. Use hashtag #Queerties to share your votes and help promote your favorites.
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Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes jokes about 'DadBod' in viral social media clip
Patrick Mahomes has continued to make NFL history through his first six seasons as a starting quarterback, but he had a moment on social media on Wednesday that showed he isn't perfect.
In a clip shown on the most recent episode of "Inside the NFL," NFL Films captured Andy Reid's speech to the Chiefs in the locker room following their win over the Ravens in the AFC Championship Game. Mahomes then took his turn to address the team.
Mahomes is shirtless in the video, and his physique was the subject of comments when the clips made the rounds on social media. But the Chiefs quarterback simply poked fun at the situation.
"Yoooo why they have to do me like that!?!?!?" Mahomes wrote in a social media post, adding a few crying laughing emojis and #DadBodSZN.
"Like i got kids!!!!" Mahomes added in a second social media post, tagging the Chiefs, "Inside the NFL" and the NFL.
As for what was said in the clip, Reid and Mahomes were both ecstatic about clinching their fourth ticket to the Super Bowl in the past six seasons.
"In case you didn't know, we're going to the Super Bowl, bay," Reid said to his team. "Yeah, that's right. And we're not finished. We've still got one more. But in the meantime, we're enjoying this son of a gun right here."
"Great job today," Mahomes added. "Like I've been saying, we ain't done yet!"
Mahomes and the Chiefs are set to take on the 49ers in the Super Bowl for the second time in five years. Kansas City beat the Niners in Super Bowl LIV to conclude the 2019 season.
Mahomes isn't surprised that the Chiefs are facing the 49ers again in the Super Bowl.
"I knew when we played them that time they were a great team and would probably get back," Mahomes told The Drive 610 AM in Kansas City. "You never know that you'll get back. The fact we're both back in the Super Bowl and playing each other again, it'll be a great challenge for us.
"I know they'll want to win because they didn't win the last one, so they're going to be fired up, and it'll be a great opportunity. They've won a lot of games for a reason: They have great players and a great coached team."
Now, Mahomes is looking to add his second Super Bowl win over the 49ers and his third Super Bowl ring overall.
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Joel Embiid out of Thursday’s game at Utah with injured left knee
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid will miss Thursday’s game at Utah after the reigning MVP hurt his left leg Tuesday in a loss to the Golden State Warriors. The Sixers say Embiid will receive further evaluation on his knee over the next 24 hours. Embiid scored 14 points in Tuesday’s game before limping to the locker room with 4:04 remaining after Golden State’s Jonathan Kuminga fell on the 7-footer’s left leg. Sixers coach Nick Nurse said this issue is unrelated to the knee problem that prevented Embiid from playing Saturday at Denver or Monday at Portland. Embiid already has missed 12 games this season, jeopardizing his chances of being eligible for a second straight MVP award.
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Wednesday's announcement comes one day after Notes Live, the Sunset Amphitheater parent company, announced a merger with Fresh Vine Wine, Inc., a California-based wine company. The merger is an all-stock transaction and is expected to close in June, at which time the combined company will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Notes Live founder JW Roth will become chairman and CEO of the new company.
Sunset Amphitheater, according to Notes Live, is an 8,000-person open-air venue slated to host touring acts "in style and comfort" with views of Pikes Peak. It's expected to have 60 VIP luxury firepit suites and myriad restaurants.
The venue received initial approval from the Colorado Springs City Council in November 2022, but the plans have not been without controversy. A judge recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by neighbors claiming Sunset Amphitheater would exceed noise limits.
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Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.
Months of negotiations between the Republicans, Democrats and the Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Trump, the GOP's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been publicly slamming the deal and urging lawmakers to oppose it.
Negotiators started the week promising to release a bill in the coming days. But by Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to signal he's ready to move on, and focus on getting money to two key U.S. allies at war.
"It's time for us to move something, hopefully including the border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and Ukraine, quickly," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
McConnell has consistently argued that divided government is the moment to extract demands on border policy from Democrats.
Pressed about what voters would think of GOP lawmakers who sink a bill because Trump directed them to, McConnell sidestepped the question. "I still favor trying to make law when you can" and said what the bipartisan group is working on is better than current immigration law, adding, "you're asking me, a question I can't answer right now, which is the fate of it."
Senators already know key details
The top Democratic negotiator working on a border plan, Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has signaled for days that the deal is basically done, but getting sign off from the GOP to move ahead is the hold up.
"We have a bipartisan agreement to help address the crisis at the border. Republicans have been desperate for that. Why would they walk away from it?"
Senate Republicans huddled at their weekly lunch on Wednesday to discuss next steps, but the consensus coming out of the meeting was that lawmakers want to see the details.
But after weeks of negotiations, the key provisions have already been explained to lawmakers from both parties.
The bill includes several tools to address the border, including: giving the president the ability to shutdown the border if the numbers of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. climbs above a certain threshold, adjusting the rules for who qualifies for asylum and allowing migrants authorization to work while awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim.
Extended negotiations opened space for critics
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the effort is "an uphill climb" because as the talks have continued, some members have impressions about what the proposal will do and "there are certain people who will never change their mind."
Tillis has said a border plan needs to get the majority of Senate Republicans in order to move ahead. But Trump injecting himself into the process has caused many lawmakers to refrain from backing the framework, making it tougher to meet that test.
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Lankford is crafting the plan along with Murphy and Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lankford spent time on Sunday talk shows swatting down leaks about the plan that conservative media outlets are painting as a green light for 5,000 additional migrants a day.
Texas Republican Sen, John Cornyn, who was an early advocate of linking money for Ukraine to changes to the Biden administration's policies, said people need time to see an official piece of legislation.
"People are talking about what they think is in it, and what they've heard is in it, what's not in it,' Cornyn told reporters. "I think the first thing we need to do is see where the conference is based on the text rather than just based on rumors and hearsay."
Tillis called Wednesday's meeting "a good discussion." But added, "I would ask those same members who are calling for time to read it, but not judge something they haven't read."
Others who came out against the bill already are already dismissing the proposals.
"I think this is a bad bill," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., told reporters. "And the simplest reason is it doesn't solve the problem."
Cruz blamed Senate Democrats for crafting a bill that "allows Joe Biden to continue the open borders," despite the months of bipartisan negotiations that have taken place. President Biden endorsed the proposal and said last week if Congress passes it he would immediately shutdown the border.
Some optimisim remains
Murphy remained optimistic on Wednesday that the deal would survive and come to the floor for a vote, possibly as soon as this week.
He said a "sizable, important group of Republican senators" are making a good faith effort to get something done on the border, and suggested that others are making disingenuous arguments about needing to see the full text.
"This is not a detailed study of the issue. This is a question as to whether they are going to put Trump before solving the problem," Murphy said.
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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to another 10 years in jail after he was accused of exposing state secrets.
Journalists and some of Mr Khan's lawyers were denied access to the court - held inside the prison where he's been serving a three year sentence on corruption charges.
Mr Khan, who's denied all the allegations against him, has been barred from standing in next week's general elections
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Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi were sentenced to 10 years in prison by a special court on Tuesday for allegedly leaking state secrets.
Khan, who was ousted by his opponents as prime minister in 2022, is already serving a three-year jail term over corruption allegations.
Throughout the trials, Khan, has maintained his innocence and said that the charges are politically motivated and driven by Pakistan's influential army in collaboration with his opponents.
The latest conviction comes the week before general elections, in which is he has been barred from standing.
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The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has promoted two leadership positions to better situate it for support of the new Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick, N.J., set to open in early 2025.
Two associate directors will now assume deputy director positions to streamline decision-making about research and administrative operations ahead of the opening, according to a Jan. 30 news release.
Andrew Evens, DO, will now assume the role of deputy director for clinical services and will assist with strategic planning for the Rutgers Cancer Institute clinical enterprise.
Another employee, Linda Tanzer, will become the deputy director for administration and planning and chief financial and administrative officer.
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Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis just can’t seem to give up his dead presidential dreams. The Florida governor dropped out of the race last week and returned to the Sunshine State, but his mind still seems to be on Washington D.C.
That begs the question: Is “Meatball Ron” running a shadow campaign?
Political observers in his home state seem to think so.
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“I would say he’s waging a shadow campaign to preserve his eligibility for a presidential run,” Gregory Koger, a University of Miami political science professor, told the Tallahassee Democrat. “I can’t say whether his focus is on 2024 or 2028. Anyone can see Trump might be vulnerable and might not make it through the process, but that’s just an outside chance.”
Oh brother! DeSantis was humiliated on the campaign trail, dropping out before the New Hampshire primary. Once viewed as a presidential front-runner, and Donald Trump‘s possible heir apparent, he squandered his momentum before even entering the race last year.
First, he didn’t launch his campaign until May, six months after his gubernatorial re-election win. Then his big announcement came during a glitchy Twitter spaces with Elon Musk, and his fortunes went even further downhill from there. And before long, he wasn’t talking right-wing policy; but rather, denying embarrassing rumors that he wears high heels and eats pudding with his fingers.
Long considered a social pariah, DeSantis’ personality flaws were apparent whenever he got in front of voters. He struggled to connect with people, and on the rare occasions he did smile, it was really, really awkward.
At an Iowa fair, for example, he chided a young girl for eating an icee.
In the lead-up to his futile presidential run, he used his position as Florida governor to lay the groundwork for his national campaign, turning himself into a full-blown culture warrior, attacking LGBTQ+ folx at every turn.
During Florida’s last legislative session alone, he signed bills expanding the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, banned gender-affirming care for minors, criminalized transgender people using public restrooms that correspond with their gender identity and tried to curtail drag shows (most of these laws have since been halted in court).
In addition, DeSantis signed a six-week abortion ban and used taxpayer dollars to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
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Pundits from across the political spectrum are calling DeSantis’ futile presidential campaign an utter failure.
There was also his ridiculous and ongoing feud with Disney, Florida’s top private employer and tourism attraction.
None of those stunts worked, of course, but Ron’s still trying. One year later, the anti-gay governor is once again using his bully pulpit to sound off on national issues.
Within the last few days alone, he’s posted multiple videos about the border problem, called for multiple amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and perhaps most odiously, demanded Rep. Ilhan Omar be deported.
“DeSantis sparks 2028 speculation with post-campaign rhetoric,” writes Axios.
Given Trump’s myriad of legal issues–four criminal indictments, 91 felony charges plus numerous civil lawsuits–it’s possible that DeSantis is still counting on the disgraced ex-president being unable to finish the campaign.
“In the back of the minds of all the people who were running against Trump was what happens if Trump’s bad luck with litigation negates him from the presidency?,” said Charles Zelden, a political science professor at Nova Southeastern University.
There’s only one problem with that strategy: Trump voters abhor DeSantis.
Trump degraded DeSantis for months, insinuating he’s gay and groomed students as a high school teacher.
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Casey reportedly refused to fly commercial during her husband’s embarrassing presidential campaign.
Though DeSantis bent the knee and endorsed Trump last week, MAGA heads aren’t buying it. They say DeSantis betrayed their orange idol.
“I think he stabbed Trump in the back,” Trump voter Pamela Shinkwin told the Associated Press.
“He backstabbed President Trump. If he kept on the Trump train all along, stayed in Florida, supported him, then maybe he would become, eventually, a running mate with President Trump. And like everybody says in ’28. But no, he showed his true colors,” added Mary Sullivan, another Trump devotee.
It’s apparent DeSantis and his wife, Casey, want to be in the White House so, so, so, so badly. Especially after they got a taste of what it might be like on the campaign trail. Embarrassing financial disclosure forms reveal his campaign spent more money on private air travel than TV ads.
But in a way, that’s fitting. If DeSantis truly thinks he can still become president, his head is in the clouds. ☁️
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Chiefs star Travis Kelce to Taylor Swift: 'Thanks for joining the team'
Travis Kelce is happy to have Taylor Swift on the Kansas City Chiefs bandwagon heading to the Super Bowl.
As if that wasn't evident by their on-field smooch after the AFC title game.
On the latest episode of their "New Heights" podcast, the Chiefs tight end and his brother, Eagles center Jason Kelce, joked about how the 12-time Grammy winner has come along at just the right time. Swift began dating the younger Kelce after he invited her to a game earlier this season, and she has been a frequent attendee at Chiefs games ever since.
"Shout out to the newest member of the Chiefs Kingdom, Swift, who has officially reached the Super Bowl in her rookie year," Jason Kelce said in the podcast released Wednesday, before Travis added with a laugh: "Shout out to Tay. Thanks for joining the team."
Whether Swift makes it to the Super Bowl against the 49ers on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas remains to be seen.
Swift is scheduled to resume her Eras Tour next week with four shows in Tokyo. The finale is scheduled for Saturday night and should end around 10 p.m. local time, or about 5 a.m. in Las Vegas. If she took a private plane between the two cities, Swift could cover the distance in roughly 12 hours, giving her plenty of time to make it to Allegiant Stadium before kickoff.
Speaking of flights, American Airlines and United Airlines got on board, so to speak, with the Taylor-and-Travis romance this week. Flight 1989 — Swift was born that year and it's the title of her fifth studio album — will run twice from Kansas City to Las Vegas next week, while Flight 87 — Kelce's jersey number — leaves from Kansas City the day after the Super Bowl.
"To our customers who are huge sports fans, look what you made us do," American said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Kelce and Swift have tried to keep their relationship out of the spotlight, though it has become increasingly difficult. That's been especially true during game broadcasts, when networks have received pushback from NFL fans for showing too much of the "Shake It Off" singer's in-suite celebrations, often with Brittany Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Still, the Swift effect appears to be real when it comes to expanding the NFL audience.
CBS, which aired the Chiefs' 17-10 win over Baltimore on Sunday, shattered the AFC title game record with 55.473 viewers in the afternoon window; the previous record was 54.85 million for the Jets-Steelers game in the late window in 2011. That represented an uptick of 17% over last year's early conference championship game between San Francisco and Philadelphia.
In fact, the Chiefs-Ravens game was the most-watched non-Super Bowl program on CBS since the 1994 Winter Olympics.
That isn't all due to Swift, of course. The Chiefs, who are headed to their fourth Super Bowl in five years, are one of the league's most visible franchises. Mahomes and Kelce have played charity golf matches, the latter has hosted "Saturday Night Live" and both have become almost ubiquitous in TV ads selling everything from insurance to soup.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said last week that he appreciates the way Kelce has focused on his job amid everything else.
"I haven't really seen it affect him in any way," Reid said. "I haven't seen anything with his relationship, with his off-the-field stuff, with the commercials, ‘Saturday Night Live,' all that stuff. He just goes. I think all that plays into what he is. That's just part of it. He does all that stuff real easy. I don't think that gets him out of his personality and he has to change at all."
Kelce has certainly been playing his best during the playoffs this season. He had seven catches for 71 yards in a wild-card win over Miami, five catches for 75 yards and two scores in a divisional win in Buffalo, and then he ripped apart the Ravens' seemingly impregnable defense last weekend with 11 catches on 11 targets for 116 yards and a score.
Along the way, the four-time All-Pro passed Jerry Rice for the career record for postseason receptions with 156. He matched Rice with his record eighth playoff game of at least 100 yards receiving. And his 21 playoff starts are easily a franchise record.
That's a lot for Swift — and the Chiefs — to celebrate.
"Listen, she's been great," Reid said on SiriusXM this week. "I knew her before, from Philadelphia. Her dad played at Delaware and was a big football fan and good guy. So I had met him there, and her. And so that was the last thing Trav wanted to hear, that I knew her before him. She told him, ‘I know your coach,' and he went: ‘Oh, God. Come on!'
"She's a good girl," Reid added, "and I'm happy for Trav. And there have been no distractions that way at all. And Trav's handled it right. She's handled it right. And we just move forward. So it hasn't been a problem at all."
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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Kaiserslautern sweeps aside Hertha Berlin 3-1 to reach German Cup semifinals
BERLIN (AP) — Kaiserslautern has hushed the packed Olympiastadion to beat Hertha Berlin 3-1 and advance to the semifinals of the German Cup. Jan Elvedi scored the opening goal for Kaiserslautern in the fifth minute before Richmond Tachie and new signing Filip Kaloc scored to put the game out of Hertha’s reach. Fabian Reese scored for Hertha in stoppage time. Kaiserslautern joins fellow second-division club Fortuna Duesseldorf in the last four of a competition which saw several of Germany’s top teams knocked out in the early rounds.
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Top tech CEOs were being grilled in Washington by lawmakers, who said the companies have failed to protect children from being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation on their websites.
The executives include Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, X's Linda Yaccarino and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew, among others.
The social media apps have "given predators powerful new tools to exploit children," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at the kickoff of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. He noted that the powerful apps "have changed the way we live, work and play."
The hearing is one of several over the past year as pressure builds for federal regulators to do more to hold tech companies accountable for children's safety online. Lawmakers have spoken out, have written letters to the CEOs and are pushing five separate bills that cover social media and child safety.
States have also targeted the social media companies. Last year, 13 states passed laws to protect kids on social media, and more states are expected to do the same.
"You have blood on your hands," Sen. Lindsey Graham tells Zuckerberg
Of the companies testifying on Wednesday, Meta has especially come under fire for allegedly creating a toxic environment for children. In October, a group of more than 40 states sued the company for allegedly designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive.
Separately, New Mexico's attorney general filed another suit against Meta, alleging it fails to remove child sexual abuse material from its platforms and also makes it easy for adults to solicit minors.
That lawsuit came after a Facebook whistleblower, Arturo Bejar, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in November. Based on data he collected while working at Facebook, he said he found that 24% of teens had received unwanted sexual advances. And when harmful posts are reported, he said, only 2% are taken down.
During Wednesday's hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., laid into Zuckerberg.
"Mr. Zuckerberg," Graham began, "you have blood on your hands. You have a product that's killing people."
The packed audience, which included parents, survivors and child advocates, erupted in applause.
Zuckerberg has testified several times before members of the Senate, and he voluntarily agreed to speak again on Wednesday. In his opening statement, he said, "Keeping young people safe online has been a challenge since the internet began."
"No matter how much we invest or how effective our tools are, there's always more to learn and more improvements to make," Zuckerberg added.
Internal emails show Zuckerberg declined to hire staff to protect children online
In the lead-up to Wednesday's hearing, Meta rolled out new tools geared toward protecting kids online. Those include barring children under age 18 from seeing posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The company says it has around 40,000 people working on safety and security issues.
But just hours before the hearing began, lawmakers released 90 pages of internal emails that showed Meta has refused to fully commit to improving child safety on its platforms. At one point in 2021, the emails show, Zuckerberg declined a proposal to hire 45 new staff members dedicated to children's well-being.
The emails show top executives at Meta discussing budget and head count, as well as the fact that if they didn't address the issue they'd face increased regulatory risk and external criticism.
"This work & narrative has of course become a more critical focal point for policymakers, regulators et al in recent weeks — this is not likely to diminish going forward," Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs wrote in a 2021 email to Zuckerberg.
The internal emails were produced in response to a letter that Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sent to Meta in November.
Five federal bills introduced
Of the other executives to testify, TikTok's Chew has also appeared before Congresslast year, but this is the first time lawmakers have grilled X's Yaccarino and the two other CEOs: Snap's Evan Spiegel and Discord's Jason Citron. Chew volunteered to speak on Wednesday, but Yaccarino, Spiegel and Citron agreed only after being subpoenaed.
Snap has come out as the sole social media company to throw its support behind the Kids Online Safety Act, which is one of the bills that lawmakers are hoping to bring to the Senate floor this year. If passed, it would hold tech companies accountable for feeding teens toxic content.
"Many of the largest and most successful internet companies today were born here in the United States of America, and we must lead not only in technical innovation but also in smart regulation," Snap's Spiegel said in his opening remarks on Wednesday.
Throughout the hearing, several of the senators tried to get the tech CEOs to agree to back legislation. All of the executives said more had to be done and they agree with regulation, but besides Spiegel, none said they'd fully back one of the bills.
At one point Senator Chris Coons, D-Del., tried to get the CEOs to support legislation he and several other senators introduced, the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act.
"Is there any one of you willing to say now that you support this bill?" Coons asked the CEOs.
After the question didn't elicit a response, he followed up with: "Mr. Chairman, let the record reflect a yawning silence from the leaders of the social media platforms."
Child safety groups and parents joined lawmakers for several press conferences on Wednesday. They echoed the senators' demands that more has to be done to protect kids online.
"Parents used to worry about where their kids were at 10 p.m.," said Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. "These days, they may be physically present, but we don't know who they're spending time with online and what they're being exposed to every day."
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Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as the election board declined to remove him before the U.S. Supreme Court decides on Colorado case
By Sophia Tareen and Nicholas Riccardi/AP
Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from the presidency.
The board’s unanimous ruling comes after its hearing officer, a retired judge and Republican, found that a “preponderance of the evidence” shows Trump is ineligible to run for president because he violated a constitutional ban on those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. But the hearing officer recommended the board let the courts make the ultimate decision.
The eight-member board, composed of four Democrats and four Republicans, agreed with a recommendation from its lawyer to let Trump — the front-runner in the Republican primary — remain on the ballot by determining it didn't have the authority to determine whether he violated the U.S. Constitution.
Board member Catherine McCrory prefaced her vote with a statement: “I want it to be clear that this Republican believes that there was an insurrection on Jan. 6. There’s no doubt in my mind that he manipulated, instigated, aided and abetted an insurrection on Jan. 6.”
But McCrory said she agreed the board doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce that conclusion.
Trump's attorney urged the board not to get involved, contending the former president never engaged in insurrection but that wasn't something it could determine.
"We would recommend and urge the board to not wade into this,” attorney Adam Merrill said.
Trump cheered the decision in a post on his social media network, Truth Social: “The VOTE was 8-0 in favor of keeping your favorite President (ME!), on the Ballot,” he wrote.
An attorney for the voters who objected to Trump's presence on the ballot said they would appeal to Cook County circuit court.
“What’s happened here is an avoidance of a hot potato issue,” attorney Matthew Piers told reporters after the hearing. “I get the desire to do it, but the law doesn’t allow you to duck.”
The issue will likely be decided at a higher court, with the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled next week to hear arguments in Trump’s appeal of a Colorado ruling declaring him ineligible for the presidency in that state.
The nation’s highest court has never ruled on a case involving Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was adopted in 1868 to prevent former Confederates from returning to office after the Civil War but has rarely been used since then. Some legal scholars say the clause applies to Trump for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and encouraging his backers to storm the U.S. Capitol after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Dozens of cases have been filed around the country seeking to bar Trump from the presidency under Section 3. The Colorado case is the only one that succeeded in court. Most other courts and election officials have ducked the issue on similar grounds to Illinois, contending they don't have jurisdiction to rule on the obscure constitutional issue.
Maine’s Democratic secretary of state also ruled that Trump violated the 14th Amendment and is no longer eligible for the White House, but her ruling is on hold until the Supreme Court issues a decision.
Trump's critics argue he's disqualified by the plain language of Section 3, which forbids those who swore an oath to “support” the Constitution, then “engaged in insurrection” against it from holding office. They contend the former president is ineligible just as if he didn't meet the constitutional threshold of being at least 35 years old.
But Trump's attorneys have argued that the provision is vague and unclear and that Jan. 6 doesn't meet the legal definition of an insurrection. Even if it did, they argue that Trump was simply exercising his First Amendment rights and isn't liable for what occurred, and that the ban on holding office shouldn't apply to presidents.
Though Trump has blamed Biden for the lawsuits because several have been filed by liberal nonprofit groups, there is no evidence the president was involved. On Tuesday, before the Illinois ruling, Biden said he didn’t have a problem with Trump being on presidential ballots. Biden made the comment in response to a reporter’s question before flying to Florida for campaign fundraising.
Section 3 was heavily used immediately after the Civil War, but after Congress granted an amnesty to most former Confederates in 1872 it fell into disuse. Legal scholars can only find one example of it being deployed in the 20th century — against a socialist who was not seated in Congress because he objected to U.S. involvement in World War I. It has been used a handful of times since the Jan. 6 attack.
The Illinois board members ducked the issue by concluding that, under state law, all they can do is assess whether the basic paperwork candidates fill out is true. The only way to remove Trump would be by concluding he made a false statement when he swore under oath in that paperwork that he was eligible for the office he sought.
Board member Jack Vrett, a Republican, warned that would create a dangerous precedent, given the dozens of election boards in the state that follow the main one's lead.
“If we allowed them to say, ‘Don’t just look at the papers, look at the underlying allegations,’ that would open a floodgate,” Vrett said. “Every possible school board candidate would seek to challenge the qualification” of their rival “based on some alleged criminal conduct.”
Riccardi reported from Denver. Joshua Boak in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
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