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Cyber Monday deals lure in consumers amid high inflation
NEW YORK (AP) — Days after flocking to stores on Black Friday, consumers are turning online for Cyber Monday to score more discounts on gifts and other items that have ballooned in price because of high inflation. Adobe Analytics, which tracks transactions for top online retailers, forecasts Cyber Monday will remain the year’s biggest online shopping day and rake in up to $11.6 billion in sales. Some analysts expect the amount of items consumers purchase could remain unchanged - or even fall - compared to prior years. And profit margins are expected to be tight for retailers offering deeper discounts to attract budget-conscious consumers and clear out their bloated inventories.
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2 Fed officials favor keeping key rate at peak through 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Federal Reserve officials said they favor raising the Fed’s key rate to roughly 5% or more and keeping it at its peak through next year — longer than many on Wall Street have expected. John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said that the central bank has “more work to do” to reduce inflation closer to its 2% target. And James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Fed, suggested that financial markets are underestimating the likelihood the Fed will have to be more aggressive in its fight against the worst inflation bout in four decades.
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Irish watchdog fines Meta 265M euros in latest privacy case
LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators have slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million euro fine in what is the company’s latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules. The Data Protection Commission said Meta Platforms infringed sections of the EU rules that cover technical and organizational measures aimed at protecting user data. The watchdog opened an investigation last year into news reports that data on more 533 million users was found dumped online. Meta says the data had been “scraped” from Facebook using tools designed to help people find their friends through phone numbers using search and contact import features. The company said it had “cooperated fully” with the Irish watchdog.
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BlockFi files for bankruptcy, latest crypto company to fail
NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, the latest casualty of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. New Jersey-based BlockFi had been struggling for much of this year, but was given a lifeline this summer in the form of an FTX line of credit. FTX’s own bankruptcy, however, all but sealed BlockFi’s financial fate. BlockFi suspended withdrawals after FTX’s failure, and it had hired bankruptcy specialists in recent days. BlockFi was one of several crypto currency lenders to pop up in recent years. The company gave loans to customers using their crypto assets as collateral.
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Russian energy giant says no further gas cuts to Moldova
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Russian energy giant Gazprom announced Monday that it will not further reduce natural gas to Moldova as it had threatened to do after claiming that bills went unpaid and that flows crossing through Ukraine were not making it to Moldova. Gazprom tweeted Monday that Moldovagaz has “eliminated the violation of payment” for November supplies and that “funds for the gas deposited on the territory of Ukraine, intended for consumers in Moldova, have been received.” Last week, Moldova and Ukraine hit back at Gazprom’s claim that Russian gas moving through the last pipeline to Western Europe was being stored in Ukraine. They said all supplies Russia sends through the war-torn country get “fully transferred” to Moldova.
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US stock indexes fall as lockdown protests spread in China
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street as protests spread in China calling for President Xi Jinping to step down amid growing anger over severe restrictions imposed as part of his “zero COVID” strategy in the world’s second-largest economy. The S&P 500 fell 1.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.4%. The Nasdaq lost 1.6%. Small-company stocks fell even more. Technology companies were the biggest weights on the broader market. Bond yields mostly rose. Markets will get another key piece of data on the economy later this week when the Labor Department issues its monthly jobs report.
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Biden eases Venezuela sanctions as opposition talks resume
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is easing some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opposition. The Treasury Department is allowing Chevron to resume “limited” energy production in Venezuela after years of sanctions that have dramatically curtailed oil and gas profits that have flowed to President Nicolás Maduro’s government. Earlier this year the Treasury Department again allowed the California-based Chevron and other U.S. companies to perform basic upkeep of wells it operates jointly with state-run oil giant PDVSA. Under the new policy, profits from the sale of energy would be directed to paying down debt owed to Chevron, rather than providing profits to PDVSA.
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Whole Foods decision to pull lobster divides enviros, pols
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Environmental groups are once again at odds with politicians and fishermen in New England in the wake of a decision by high-end retail giant Whole Foods to stop selling Maine lobster. Whole Foods recently said that it will stop selling lobster from the Gulf of Maine at hundreds of its stores around the country. The company cited decisions by a pair of sustainability organizations to take away their endorsements of the U.S. lobster fishing industry. The organizations, Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch, both cited concerns about risks to rare North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear. Entanglement in gear is one of the biggest threats to the whales.
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The S&P 500 shed 62.18 points, or less than 1.5%, to 3,963.94. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 497.57 points, or 1.4%, to 33,849.46. The Nasdaq tumbled 176.86 points, or 1.6%, to 11,049.50. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 38.23 points, or 2%, to 1,830.96. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/business/article/Business-Highlights-Cyber-Monday-BlockFi-17616618.php | 2022-11-28T23:29:49 | en | 0.950196 |
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The Dallas Mavericks are close to a deal with four-time All-Star guard Kemba Walker, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press on Monday.
Walker’s career has been on hold because of knee injuries, but the 32-year-old could give superstar Luka Doncic some much-needed backcourt help for the struggling Mavericks.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal isn’t finalized and is pending a physical. The deal was first reported on Substack by longtime NBA reporter Marc Stein.
Dallas is on a season-worst four-game losing streak to drop below .500 after reaching the Western Conference finals last season.
The Mavericks lost Jalen Brunson to the New York Knicks in free agency after he flourished playing next to Doncic, and Brunson played a big role in Dallas winning playoff games without its three-time All-Star.
The loss of Brunson also cost the Mavericks one of their two primary ball-handlers behind Doncic. Spencer Dinwiddie has had to carry most of that load this season.
The shooters around Doncic also have been struggling, with Dorian Finney-Smith, Reggie Bullock and Tim Hardaway going in and out of slumps so far.
Walker was limited to 37 games last season, his only one with the New York Knicks, because of knee issues that have been affecting him for years.
The No. 9 overall pick in 2011, Walker blossomed as an All-Star in the last three of eight seasons with Charlotte before he signed as a free agent with Boston.
Walker played most of the pandemic-altered 2019-20 season, the last of five consecutive seasons in which he averaged at least 20 points per game.
Walker played just 43 games in his second season with the Celtics before an offseason trade to the Knicks.
The Mavericks announced they have waived guard Facundo Campazzo, a move that clears a roster spot for Walker. Campazzo played sparingly after signing the day before the season started.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has carried a key lesson for public health officials, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday: When talking to Americans, be clear that science is often a moving target.
“What we knew [about Covid-19] in January was very different from what we knew at the end of January, the beginning of February, and then very different from March,” Fauci, who is stepping down next month after 38 years at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“Hopefully, we could have been more on top of appreciating the dynamic nature of how things change, thinking that it wasn’t aerosol spread in the beginning, and then you find out it is aerosol spread. Thinking that, well, symptomatic people spread it, and then you find out that 50% to 60% of the transmissions occur from someone who has no symptoms.”
Many Americans see these changes as signs of scientists “flip-flopping,” he said, when in reality “it’s that the data are evolving in a very dynamic way.”
Fauci announced in August that he would be stepping down from NIAID and as chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden “to pursue the next chapter of my career.”
Asked about Republican lawmakers’ intent to hold hearings on the origins of the coronavirus and any relation to US funding of viral research, Fauci told Tapper that it would be “essentially molecularly impossible” for the viruses involved in funding from the National Institutes of Health to turn into SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19.
Experts agree that the virus almost certainly jumped into humans from an animal market in China but that they may never know for sure. “It’s possible that there was a lab leak,” Fauci said. “But if you look at the viruses that the NIH funded – and it was a very small grant, $120,000, $130,000 a year of granting – to study bat viruses in a surveillance way to see what’s out there. … If you look at those viruses and you look at what was done with the viruses, it would be essentially molecularly impossible for those viruses to turn into SARS-CoV-2 because they are so evolutionarily different.”
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Fauci criticized China’s controversial zero-Covid policy, saying shutdowns “should always be a temporary phenomenon, not a long-range strategy,” and should be done with an end point in mind, such as buying time to secure PPE or provide vaccinations. “When you want to shut down in order to interrupt immediately a process that’s going on, like the spread of infection, there should be a purpose to it.”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee panel on Monday approved a $40 million state economic incentive for a company that plans to invest $3.2 billion to develop a cathode materials plant for electric vehicle batteries.
The State Funding Board cast the vote to sign off on the FastTrack grant for LG Chem.
The manufacturing facility will be built in Clarksville, Tennessee, and create 860 jobs. The new Tennessee positions for the Seoul, South Korea-based company will pay about $33 an hour on average.
Construction will begin next year, with the goal to start mass production in 2025.
Once operational, the goal is to produce 120,000 tons of cathode battery materials annually — or enough to power 1.2 million electric vehicle batteries.
The state incentives will support construction costs, among other expenses, for the facility. The company has committed to create the new jobs and make the $3.2 billion investment within eight years.
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The Supreme Court legal counsel said there is no evidence that Justice Samuel Alito violated ethics standards, according to a letter on Monday in response to questions from congressional Democrats about allegations that Alito revealed the outcome of a 2014 decision before it was released.
“There is nothing to suggest that Justice Alito’s actions violated ethics standards,” wrote Ethan Torrey, legal counsel for the Supreme Court. “Relevant rules balance preventing gifts that might undermine public confidence in the judiciary and allowing judges to maintain normal personal friendships.”
Torrey pushed back on allegations from an evangelical minister, Rev. Rob Schenck, published in The New York Times earlier this month. The story alleged that there had been an earlier Supreme Court breach in a landmark religious liberty case years before last term’s leak of a draft of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
“Justice Alito has said that neither he nor Mrs. Alito” told Gayle Wright, a guest at his home years ago, “about the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or about the authorship of the opinion from the court,” Torrey wrote.
Torrey also said Alito and his wife became acquainted with Wright and her now-deceased husband because of their support for the Supreme Court Historical Society, and “they had a casual and purely social relationship.”
“The Justice never detected any effort on the part of the Wrights to obtain confidential information or to influence anything he did in either an official or private capacity,” Torrey wrote.
Wright previously denied Schenk’s claims in an interview with CNN.
The letter was in response to questions Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Henry Johnson posed to Torrey and Chief Justice John Roberts for answers last week after the Times story ran.
The congressmen had asked Roberts to “assist our investigation” into the allegations and warned that the new allegations suggest “that the orchestrators of this judicial lobby campaign may have used their access to certain justices to secure confidential information about pending cases that only deepens our concerns about the lack of adequate ethical and legal guardrails at the court.” | https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/politics/supreme-court-samuel-alito-ethics-letter/index.html | 2022-11-28T23:29:57 | en | 0.965901 |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Argentina’s 2-0 win over Mexico was the most-watched Spanish-language World Cup group stage broadcast in U.S. history, drawing 8.9 million viewers on Telemundo television and the streaming services of Telemundo and Peacock.
The game, which started at 2 p.m. EST Saturday, topped the previous group stage mark of 5.7 million set in Brazil’s 2-0 win over Serbia, a 2 p.m. EST kickoff on Nov. 24. The overall U.S. Spanish-language record is 9.2 million on television for the Netherlands’ 2-1 win over Mexico in a round of 16 game on June 29, 2014, a Sunday match that kicked off at noon EDT.
The Argentina-Mexico match set a record with 2.08 million viewers of the streams on Telemundo and Peacock, topping the 1.35 million for Mexico’s 0-0 draw against Poland on Tuesday, the networks said.
Telemundo and Peacock are part of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast Corp.
Fox has U.S. English-language television rights.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden calls on Congress to impose tentative agreement on railroads, workers to avoid 'potentially crippling' shutdown.
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Make some room, Phi Slama Jama. Another Houston team has reached the top of men’s college basketball.
Nearly four decades after Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon took the Cougars to No. 1, the latest bunch led by Marcus Sasser and star freshman Jarace Walker took over the top spot in the AP Top 25 on Monday. They received 45 of 63 first-place votes from the national media panel, easily outdistancing second-place Texas and third-place Virginia.
“It’s not like we went online and applied for it and waited for a response back. We’ve been working for this,” said Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, whose team is coming off a Final Four and Elite Eight trip the past two seasons. “But remember, it’s a rental. You don’t own it. You’re just renting it because someday somebody else is going to be No. 1.”
North Carolina had been No. 1 all season, but the Tar Heels lost to Iowa State and in a four-overtime thriller to Alabama at the Phil Knight Invitational to cede the top spot to Houston, which beat Kent State in its only game last week.
The last time the Cougars ascended to No. 1 was the final poll of the 1982-83 season, when “The Glide” and “The Dream” along with coach Guy Lewis were the favorites to win it all. They rolled through the NCAA Tournament before falling to Jim Valvano and North Carolina State in an iconic championship game in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“I’ve never been ranked No. 1,” said Sampson, now in his 34th season as a college basketball coach. “We were ranked all 12 years at Oklahoma. I’m sure we were ranked at Indiana. Then we’ve been ranked five or six straight years. We’re used to having a high level of success.”
Texas received eight first-place votes and Virginia received two. Arizona climbed from 14th to fourth after emerging from a stacked field to win the Maui Invitational. Purdue jumped from 24th all the way to fifth and scooped up eight first-place votes after beating West Virginia, Gonzaga and Duke at the Phil Knight Legacy tourney.
“Our guys are competitive. They’re fun to coach. They get along. They’re out there playing with purpose and that’s what you have to have,” said Boilermakers coach Matt Painter, whose team was briefly No. 1 about this time last season.
“Early in the season, very few teams play with the purpose collectively,” he said. “I thought our guys played with a purpose.”
Baylor was sixth, Creighton seventh and U Conn climbed from 20th to eighth after beating Oregon, Alabama and Iowa State to win the Phil Knight Invitational. Kansas fell from third to ninth after losing to Tennessee in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis, while Indiana rounded out the top 10.
There was a tie for 11th between SEC rivals Alabama and Arkansas with the Volunteers, another conference foe, right behind them. Gonzaga dropped from sixth to 14th, its first time outside the top 10 since Feb. 5, 2018, and Auburn was 15th.
Illinois was next followed by Duke and North Carolina in a tough week for Tobacco Road. The Blue Devils fell from eighth after their 75-56 loss to the Boilermakers.
Kentucky and Michigan State joined UCLA, Maryland, Iowa State, San Diego State and Ohio State in rounding out the poll.
RISING AND FALLING
Purdue made a rare 19-spot jump as the poll underwent a massive shakeup. UConn climbed 12 spots, Arizona moved up 10, Tennessee climbed nine and Alabama seven. On the flip side, the Tar Heels tumbled 17 spots, Duke dropped nine, Gonzaga fell eight and San Diego State fell seven.
IN AND OUT
Despite all the movement, Iowa State was the only newcomer this week, checking in at No. 23 after beating Villanova and North Carolina before falling to UConn. The Cyclones replaced Iowa, which dropped out after a one-week stay following its loss to TCU in the title game of the Emerald Coast Classic.
CONFERENCE WATCH
There are six difference conferences represented in the first seven teams in the poll. The Big Ten leads the way with six in the Top 25 while the SEC has five and the Big 12 has four, though three of them are in the top 10.
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge on Monday halted a lawsuit filed by basketball legend Julius Erving against a brand-development and marketing company, ruling that the dispute must go to arbitration.
The lawsuit by the Hall of Fame player known as “Dr. J” stems from a 2016 agreement to sell a majority interest in his trademark and other intellectual property to Authentic Brands Group LLC.
According to court records, ABG and its controlling member and CEO, James Salter, promised to grow Erving’s brand through new licensing agreements, promotional appearances, and other marketing opportunities.
The lawsuit, which was filed last year, alleges that ABG and Salter failed to devote adequate resources to grow the “Dr. J” brand and focused instead on more profitable brands.
Among specific allegations, the lawsuit argues that ABG wrongfully diverted funds to itself to pay an unauthorized 30% management fee, and used the wrong metric to determine distribution amounts.
ABG filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the operating agreement requires the parties to arbitrate the dispute.
In his ruling Monday, Vice Chancellor Nathan Cook agreed that, under a dispute resolution provision in the operating agreement, the court cannot exercise jurisdiction until the case is first submitted to an arbitrator.
He also said that, under the Federal Arbitration Act, it was appropriate to halt the lawsuit, rather than dismiss it, pending a decision from the arbitrator.
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AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Mohammed Kudus said there wasn’t much difference between the way Ghana played in its opening World Cup match against Portugal or its second game against South Korea.
Except the result, of course.
Kudus scored twice, including the go-ahead goal after the South Koreans evened the match in the second half, and Ghana staved off elimination with a 3-2 victory on Monday.
Mohammed Salisu also scored for the Black Stars, who were disappointed after a close 3-2 opening loss to Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal and were in need of points against South Korea for a chance to reach the knockout round in Qatar.
“I think the game against Portugal was one of the best games you can have. The energy and the commitment from the whole team was good. So we approached this game the same way,” Kudus said. “We have the same mentality game after game after game, so we are going in the same direction with the same energy no matter who we play.”
Down 2-0, Cho Gue-sung scored both of South Korea’s goals about three minutes apart early in the second half to even the game at 2-2.
But Kudus’ low left-footed goal in the 68th minute sailed out of the reach of goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu to give the Black Stars back the lead. Ghana goalkeeper Lawrence Ati-Zigi preserved the victory with a leaping save off Cho’s attempt in stoppage time.
“We conceded goals a bit early in the game, and that forced us to play a chasing-style game that wasn’t easy. After the first half, we vowed to keep trying until the end,” Cho said. “We never gave up and eventually caught up (to them), but the last goal we conceded was regrettable. We kept pounding for an equalizer but couldn’t break through.”
South Korea forward Son Heung-min remained without a goal in Qatar. The Tottenham forward wore a mask to protect a broken left eye socket he sustained in a Champions League game against Marseille earlier this month.
South Korea coach Paulo Bento was handed a red card in the moments following the match after a heated exchange with English referee Anthony Taylor. The Portuguese coach was furious when South Korea won a corner at the end of 10 minutes of stoppage time but the whistle was blown before it could be taken.
The red card means that Bento will not be on the sideline for South Korea’s final match against Portugal on Friday.
Assistant coach Sergio Costa said “the result at the end was totally unfair” and added that he did not hear Bento say anything “inappropriate.”
South Korea played to a 0-0 draw in its opener with Uruguay. The team was making its sixth straight World Cup appearance.
But now the South Koreans are in danger of elimination. Costa suggested the anger of Bento would unite the team.
“Count on us for the next match,” he said.
Ghana became the third African nation to make it to the World Cup quarterfinals at the 2010 tournament. Black Stars captain Andre Ayew was also on that squad. No African team has reached the World Cup semifinals.
Known for its controlled possession, South Korea dominated the first 20 minutes. Ghana broke through in the 24th when Salisu scored in a scramble in front of the net off a free kick. After a spirited celebration encircled by his teammates, Salisu nervously crouched on the field while the goal was confirmed by video review.
Kudus, a 22-year-old midfielder for Ajax, doubled the lead with a header off a long cross from Jordan Ayew, despite the desperate efforts of defender Kim Jin-su.
Cho did a knee slide in front of South Korea’s bench and was dogpiled by his teammates after his first goal in the 58th minute. His second came in the 61st.
Now Ghana turns to its Group H finale on Friday against Uruguay.
“It feels good, but it feels even better because we got the whole three points. That was the most important thing,” Kudus said. “The whole team played their part and I think the energy is very good now in Ghana and it’s a good boost for our next game.”
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The capital murder trial began Monday of a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in South Texas, telling investigators he wanted to “clean up the streets” of his border hometown.
If convicted of capital murder, Juan David Ortiz, 39, faces life in prison without parole because prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.
At the time of his arrest, Ortiz, a Navy veteran, was a Border Patrol intel supervisor. He was arrested in Laredo on Sept. 15, 2018, after Erika Pena escaped from him and asked a state trooper for help. Ortiz pleaded not guilty Monday to capital murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful restraint and evading arrest.
“You will see and you will hear, through his own words, how he took each woman to their last resting place, how he executed them," Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz told jurors during opening statements. “You will hear in his own words the indifference, the disrespect, the degradation that he has for these people.”
“You will hear the evidence in this own words: ‘I wanted to clean up the streets,’” Alaniz said, adding that Ortiz in Spanish called the women “dirt."
Ortiz is standing trial in San Antonio, in Bexar County, following a defense request to move the trial from Webb County due to extensive media coverage.
Alaniz also said that during the confession, Ortiz told investigators where to find the body of one of his victims.
Ortiz’s attorney, Joel Perez, told jurors in opening statements that investigators had jumped to conclusions, and that his client’s confession was “coerced.” He said his client was “broken” and “suicidal” when he made the confession after being questioned for over eight hours. Months earlier, the veteran had been put on “a bunch of psychotic pills” after seeking help when he was unable to sleep and having nightmares, Perez said.
Ortiz told investigators he’d had blackouts as well, Perez said.
“This is a defeated man,” Perez said.
Melissa Ramirez, 29, was killed on Sept. 3, 2018, and 42-year-old Claudine Luera was killed on Sept. 13, 2018.
On Sept. 14, 2018, Ortiz picked up Pena, who told investigators that Ortiz acted oddly when she brought up Ramirez's slaying. Pena testified Monday that she took off running when Ortiz pointed a gun at her in a truck at a gas station, and was crying as she approached a state trooper who was refueling his vehicle.
Ortiz fled and, he later told investigators, picked up and killed his last two victims, 35-year-old Guiselda Alicia Cantu and 28-year-old Janelle Ortiz. Authorities eventually tracked Ortiz to a hotel parking garage where he was arrested.
Each of his victims was shot in the head and left along rural Laredo-area roads. One died of blunt force trauma after being shot.
“Through the evidence, we will take you … to those last moments of these women’s lives,” Alaniz told jurors on Monday.
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DENVER (AP) — Two Colorado sheriff’s deputies needlessly escalated a fatal standoff with a 22-year-old man experiencing a “mental health crisis,” leading him to brandish a knife in “a state of complete panic and self defense,” indictments released Monday showed.
The death last June of Christian Glass drew national attention and prompted calls for police reforms focused on crisis intervention. Glass was shot after calling 911 for help getting his car unstuck in the hamlet of Silver Plume, an hour west of Denver.
Clear Creek County Sheriff Deputy Andrew Buen, who shot Glass, was verbally aggressive toward the “paranoid” young man and muted his body worn camera when speaking to the shift supervisor, deputy Kyle Gould, just before the situation was escalated, according to the indictment.
Buen was indicted on charges of second-degree murder, official misconduct, and reckless endangerment. The indictment was announced last week, months after Glass' death, but the details were only made public with Monday's release.
Gould, who was not at the scene, was indicted on charges of reckless endangerment and criminally negligent homicide
The death has become a flashpoint for demands for police reforms focused both on crisis intervention and de-escalation training to address 911 calls police may not be fully equipped to handle.
Carrie L. Slinkard, an attorney representing Buen, did not immediately return a request for comment. No telephone listing or attorney could be found for Gould.
Nichole Lentz, spokesperson for the Clear Creek County Sheriff, said in a statement that both officers were terminated following the indictments.
The sheriff office’s ongoing internal investigation found “policy and procedural failures,” Lentz said, adding that the office’s initial news release following the shooting “does not reflect the entirety of what happened on that terrible night.”
Glass, who called police late on June 10 to help get his Honda Pilot unstuck, appeared to be “paranoid” and having a “mental health crisis," according to the indictment. Once law enforcement arrived, body camera videos show Glass refusing to get out of his car while telling police he is “terrified” and making heart shapes with his hands to officers.
Officers tried to speak with Glass, establish a rapport and persuade him to leave the car, but Buen oscillated between aggressive language and a conversational tone with the young man, according to the indictment.
Eventually, Buen spoke with Gould, the shift supervisor, over the phone but muted his body camera during the conversation, according to the indictment. After the call, Buen told another officer at the scene that the decision to forcefully remove Glass from the vehicle had been made, the indictment claims.
The decision to breach the car came without a determination that there was probable cause or a reasonable suspicion by officers on the scene that a crime had been, or was being, committed, according to the indictment.
Once the window was shattered, Glass seemed to panic, and police then shot Glass with bean bag rounds and shocked him with a stun gun, causing the young man to “scream in agony and panic,” according to the indictment.
Glass then brandished a knife in “a state of complete panic and self defense," according to the indictment. It added that Glass had previously offered to throw two knives out of the window though the video shows officers told him not to.
The footage then shows Glass twisting in his seat and thrusting a knife toward an officer who approaches the rear driver window before Buen fired his gun five times into Glass, according to the documents.
The grand jury alleged that at no point was the officer in imminent danger of being stabbed and Glass never attempted to get out of his vehicle.
“But for the decision by Gould to remove Mr. Glass from the vehicle there is no reason to believe that Mr. Glass would have been a danger to any law enforcement personnel, to himself, or to any member of the public,” the grand jury wrote, “And the decision to remove him from the vehicle directly lead to the death of Mr. Glass.” | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Grand-jury-Deputies-escalated-standoff-with-man-17616597.php | 2022-11-28T23:30:20 | en | 0.97716 |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — In one corner, Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez. In the other, Lionel Messi.
The Argentina star may have gotten into trouble with the wrong person after moving the Mexican national team jersey with his foot while celebrating his team’s much-needed World Cup win against Mexico on Saturday.
The Mexican boxer said on Twitter that Messi “ was cleaning the floor ” with the Mexican shirt. He said it was a disrespectful attitude by the Argentina star toward the Mexicans.
“He better ask God not to run into me,” Canelo tweeted.
Messi was taking his right shoe off when he — apparently without intention — moved the Mexico shirt which he had exchanged with a Mexican player after Argentina’s 2-0 win. The shirt was on the floor as the Argentines celebrated in the locker room.
Former Argentina forward Sergio “Kun” Aguero came out on Messi’s defense.
“Mr. Canelo, don’t go finding excuses or creating trouble, certainly you don’t know soccer or what happens in a locker room,” he said on Twitter. “The shirts are always on the floor after a match as they are sweaty.”
Former Spain player Cesc Fabregas also defended Messi, saying it’s normal for players to leave the shirts on the floor before they can be taken to be washed.
The 35-year-old Messi is trying to win his first World Cup title with Argentina. The win over Mexico kept the Argentines in position to advance to the knockout round.
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South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll released Monday as the Gamecocks keep close watch on the foot injury of reigning Player of the Year Aliyah Boston.
The Gamecocks received all 29 first-place votes in the poll released Monday, a day after Boston left a game with her injury. Coach Dawn Staley said Boston was “questionable” going forward but added that the “team doctor wasn’t too, too concerned.”
South Carolina’s next game is Tuesday at home against No. 15 UCLA.
Stanford remained No. 2 after cruising through a tournament in Hawaii. It’s the 618th appearance for Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer, tying the late Pat Summitt for most all-time. Summitt’s teams only missed being in the poll 14 times during her Hall of Fame career at Tennessee.
UConn, Ohio State and Indiana rounded out the top five.
The Huskies are one of four Big East teams to be ranked this week as Marquette entered the poll at No. 24. It’s the first time the Big East has four ranked teams since the conference realigned in 2014. The league is 56-14 so far this season, including going 8-2 against ranked teams.
“We’ve been trying to earn a little more respect,” Marquette coach Megan Duffy said of the Big East. “Tried to schedule tougher non-conference (games). ‘Nova’s playing people. Us going to the Bahamas was great. Creighton’s doing what they’ve been doing since last season. Getting some of those quality wins is everything.”
North Carolina moved up two spots to No. 6 after rallying to beat then-No. 5 Iowa State in the Phil Knight tournament. The Cyclones fell to eighth.
The Tar Heels visit the Hoosiers on Tuesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Indiana returns home after winning two games in Las Vegas at a subpar venue that lacked basic necessities.
Notre Dame remained No. 7 while Virginia Tech and Iowa finished off the top 10. At No. 9, Virginia Tech has matched its best ranking ever and is in the top 10 for the first time since 1999.
Tennessee fell out of the poll this week marking the 56th time in the 827-week history of the poll that the Lady Vols weren’t ranked. Kansas State also fell out with Gonzaga moving in at No. 23.
FALLING CARDINALS
Louisville dropped to 18th in the poll this week after falling to South Dakota State in the fifth place game at the Battle 4 Atlantis last week. It’s the Cardinals lowest ranking since Jan. 11, 2016.
Louisville entered the top 10 in the preseason poll in 2017 and hadn’t been out since, a span of 98 consecutive weeks. It was the longest active streak.
“It’s a compliment to the consistency that we built here,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said of being ranked in the top 10 for so long. “Obviously are goal would have been to stay in the top 10, but it’s a new team and growing.”
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Swift Current 5 Edmonton 2
Winnipeg 6 Saskatoon 3
Lethbridge 4 Brandon 3
Medicine Hat 3 Red Deer 2 (SO)
Prince Albert 5 Calgary 2
Moose Jaw 3 Kamloops 2
Seattle 6 Portland 1
Kelowna 4 Everett 2
Regina 3 Vancouver 0
Saturday's results
Lethbridge 6 Brandon 4
Swift Current 5 Edmonton 3
Saskatoon 5 Winnipeg 2
Red Deer 6 Prince Albert 1
Kamloops 4 Prince George 1
Calgary 5 Medicine Hat 2
Regina 9 Victoria 5
Tri-City 4 Spokane 2
Moose Jaw 4 Kelowna 3
Sunday's results
Vancouver 3 Portland 1
Prince Albert 4 Medicine Hat 2
Tri-City 4 Seattle 3
Red Deer 3 Calgary 2 (OT)
Everett 8 Spokane 3
Tuesday's games
Moose Jaw at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Regina at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Saskatoon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.
Regina at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Prince Albert at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Portland, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Portland at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is making a fuller reopening to the public following more than two and a half years of closures related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Beginning Dec. 1, the high court will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the Supreme Court’s website. The high court closed to the public in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In October, the high court began allowing the public to attend arguments in the courtroom again on the approximately six days a month the court hears arguments, but the court building remained closed to visitors at other times.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday in a letter to Congress that there is “nothing to suggest” that Justice Samuel Alito violated ethics standards following a report that a 2014 decision he wrote was leaked in advance of its announcement.
The letter was in response to an inquiry from lawmakers following a New York Times report earlier this month. That report said that a former anti-abortion leader was told in advance the outcome of the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores case involving health care coverage of contraception. In a 5-4 decision, Alito wrote that some companies with religious objections can avoid the contraceptives requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care legislation.
Earlier this year, Alito's opinion in a different case, the court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was leaked. But while that leak was a public disclosure of the text, the new report alleged that in the 2014 case, the disclosure wasn't as broad.
In the Times story, Rev. Rob Schenck said he was told the outcome of the 2014 decision by Gail Wright, a donor to an organization he headed who had dined with Alito and his wife. In the story, Wright denied obtaining or sharing any information and Alito also emphatically denied disclosing the case's outcome in a statement.
The Supreme Court's letter Tuesday to Congress included language Alito used previously denying the case's outcome had been disclosed.
“There is nothing to suggest that Justice Alito's actions violated ethics standards,” Supreme Court legal counsel Ethan Torrey wrote in a letter addressed to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia. The two Democrats chair courts subcommittees.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A Fort Wayne man was given life in prison Monday in the death and dismemberment of another man.
Allen Superior Court Judge David Zent sentenced Mathew J. Cramer II, 22, after a jury convicted him of murder, abuse of a corpse and resisting law enforcement in the slaying of Shane Van Nguyen, 55, on April 23, 2021. The jury had recommended the life sentence.
Cramer apologized to Nguyen's family.
“I’m really sorry for what happened,” Cramer said.
Family friends Rob Evans and Don Cochran presented a victim impact statement on behalf of Nguyen's widow, Don Nguyen.
“His murder took away my husband,” Don Nguyen’s statement said. “His murder took away a father of two sons.”
During his trial, the defense claimed Cramer was homeless and living in a storage unit. It said Nguyen saw Cramer walking along a street, asked Cramer if he needed a ride, drove Cramer to the storage unit and the two had sex. It said Cramer was the victim of a sexual predator and acted in a panic.
Investigators said Cramer slammed Nguyen’s head to the ground, killing him. They say Cramer and an accomplice, 21-year-old Jacob Carreon-Hamilton, dismembered Nguyen’s body at a storage unit before placing them in the victim’s van.
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than 150 literary agents, whose clients include Danielle Jackson, V.E. Schwab and L.A. Chandlar, have signed an open letter to HarperCollins vowing to “omit” the publisher from upcoming book submissions until it reaches an agreement with striking employees.
Around 250 entry- and mid-level staff members, from publicists to editorial assistants, have been on strike since Nov. 10, with the two sides differing over wages, workforce diversity and other issues that have become increasingly prominent across the industry. No new talks are scheduled.
"While many consider publishing to be a labor of love, we agents know how quickly that labor can lead to burnout, tension, missed opportunities for advancement, and mistakes," the letter reads in part.
“This generation of rising publishing professionals must contend with student loan debt, the rising cost of living, and the barriers inherent in working long hours without adequate compensation. These employees, many of whom bring with them the diverse viewpoints our industry lacks, have been essential to the production of the books we are so proud of.”
Agents endorsing the letter come from Janklow & Nesbit Associates, Aevitas Creative Management, Root Literary and other firms. The letter was organized by Chelsea Hensley of the KT Literary Agency, who noted that the effort comes during a traditionally slow time of year for deal making.
“I wanted them (HarperCollins) to know that even if they don’t think they’re seeing the effects of the strike now, they’ll definitely be seeing it come January, which is when agents will have the most new projects to share,” Hensley told The Associated Press.
HarperCollins is the only major New York publisher with a union; striking employees are members of Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers. A spokesperson for the publisher did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
“HarperCollins has agreed to a number of proposals that the United Auto Workers Union is seeking to include in a new contract,” according to a statement released Monday by the publisher. We are disappointed an agreement has not been reached and will continue to negotiate in good faith." | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/More-than-150-agents-back-striking-HarperCollins-17616567.php | 2022-11-28T23:30:57 | en | 0.96325 |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Struggling and unconvincing without Neymar on the field, Brazil still played well enough to secure a spot in the next round of the World Cup.
The five-time champions overcame the absence of their injured star to beat Switzerland 1-0 with a late goal Monday and make it to the round of 16 with a match to spare in Group G.
“Of course we miss a player like Neymar,” Brazil coach Tite said. “The team loses a lot without him. But we also have other players who can get the job done, as we saw it today.”
Casemiro got the only goal in the 83rd minute of a game in which Brazil had difficulties creating scoring chances without its main playmaker. The defensive midfielder scored with a one-timer into the far corner, using the outside of his right foot for a shot that deflected slightly off defender Manuel Akanji.
“We knew that it wasn’t going to be easy. We had to be patient,” Casemiro said. “Out first objective was to advance and we achieved that.”
Neymar stayed at the team’s hotel to treat a right ankle injury sustained in the opener in Qatar. He posted an Instagram story showing him watching the match on television while undergoing treatment on his foot.
“Casemiro has been the best defensive midfielder in the world for a long time,” Neymar wrote on Twitter.
Team doctors have not yet given a timetable for Neymar’s return — or said if he will return at all. Vinícius Júnior said Neymar also had a fever on Monday, though the team had not officially said anything about it.
“We know that Neymar is a great player and that he makes a difference,” Brazil defender Marquinhos said. “In difficult moments he takes on the responsibility and creates the opportunities, but we showed once again that we have quality players to make up for his absence.”
The win gave Brazil six points from two matches, leaving Switzerland with three. Serbia and Cameroon, which drew 3-3 earlier Monday, have one point each.
Switzerland, which had no attempts on target, needs a win in the last match against Serbia to guarantee its spot in the next stage. A draw may be enough depending on the match between Brazil and Cameroon.
The result extended Brazil’s unbeaten run in the group stage to 17 matches, with 14 wins and three draws. It has lost only one of its last 29 group games, with the last defeat coming against Norway in 1998 in France.
Switzerland had lost only two of its last 13 group matches at the World Cup.
“I can’t really blame the team, it did a good job for quite some time,” Switzerland coach Murat Yakin said through a translator. “I don’t think it’s a disappointment. We have a lot of good takeaways here. The next game is something we have control over.”
It was an even match early on, with both teams trying to control the game but not creating many significant chances. Without Neymar, Brazil struggled to get near Switzerland’s area until Casemiro’s goal. The assists came from Vinícius Junios and Rodrygo, the Real Madrid players who until recent had Casemiro as their teammate. Casemiro now plays for Manchester United.
Tite replaced Neymar with Fred, Casemiro’s teammate at Man United, freeing up Lucas Paquetá to play closer to the attack. Éder Militão, who plays as a central defender at Real Madrid, came in for Danilo in the right back position, instead of veteran Dani Alves.
With Paquetá not being able to create much for Brazil, Tite began the second half with Rodrygo in the team. Richarlison, who scored both of Brazil’s goals in the opener, was not as effective and was substituted in the second half.
Vinícius Júnior thought he had given Brazil the lead with a shot from inside the area after a pass by Casemiro in the 64th, but video review determined there was offside in the buildup. Few had noticed it until the VAR call was announced at Stadium 974.
LIGHTS OUT
The lights dimmed for a few seconds before halftime at Stadium 974, prompting a brief stoppage in play. Brazil was about to take a corner when it suddenly started turning dark at the temporary stadium.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Incoming and returning Republicans to the North Carolina Senate chose on Monday a key lawmaker on tax, voting and energy issues to become the chamber's majority leader for the next two years.
The Senate Republican Caucus, meeting privately, elected Sen. Paul Newton of Cabarrus County to the majority leader's post, according to a news release. Newton is a retired Duke Energy president for North Carolina first elected to the Senate in 2016.
In a separate meeting Monday, Senate Democrats reelected Sen. Dan Blue of Wake County to another term as minority leader.
Newton succeeds outgoing Sen. Kathy Harrington, who didn't seek reelection this fall to her Gaston County seat. When Republicans chose her two years ago, Harrington was the first woman to hold the Senate majority leader job since the chamber created it over 40 years ago.
The majority leader presides at caucus meetings in which the majority party discusses policy issues and votes, and is usually considered a top lieutenant to the Senate president pro tempore.
The GOP caucus on Monday also agreed to nominate Phil Berger of Rockingham County to a seventh term as president pro tem when the entire chamber votes for the post when the two-year term convenes Jan. 11.
Republicans will hold 30 of the 50 Senate seats — a two-seat increase with the November elections — so Berger is all but assured of retaining the chamber’s most powerful position. His time holding the job — dating to 2011 — ranks second all-time to late Democratic Sen. Marc Basnight of Dare County, who served 18 years at the top.
Newton has been a co-chairman of the Senate finance and redistricting and elections committees. He also was heavily involved in negotiations over a bipartisan 2021 law that directs the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by electric energy producers, chiefly Duke Energy.
"I’m so appreciative of the support I have received from my colleagues and am ready to build on our prior success of lowering taxes, improving the quality of education, and spending responsibly,” Newton said in a news release.
The Senate GOP caucus also on Monday nominated Sen. Ralph Hise of Mitchell County to another term as deputy president pro tempore and reelected Sens. Tom McInnis of Richmond County and Jim Perry of Lenoir County as majority whips.
Blue, elected on Monday to his fifth term as Senate Democratic leader, originally joined the General Assembly in 1981 in the House. He was the first Black speaker in North Carolina history, serving from 1991 through 1994. Sen. Jay Chaudhuri of Wake County also was reelected minority whip.
House Republicans earlier this month agreed to nominate Rep. Tim Moore of Cleveland County to what would be a record fifth two-year term as speaker. House Democrats will meet Dec. 5 to choose their leaders. Current House Minority Leader Rep. Robert Reives of Chatham County has said he will seek another two years at the job. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/NC-Sen-Newton-new-majority-leader-Berger-gets-17616614.php | 2022-11-28T23:31:03 | en | 0.961313 |
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CHICAGO (AP)The Chicago White Sox bolstered their rotation, agreeing to a one-year contract with right-hander Mike Clevinger, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Monday because the deal was subject to a successful physical.
The 31-year-old Clevinger went 7-7 with a 4.33 ERA in 23 games, including 22 starts, for San Diego this year. He missed the 2021 season after he had Tommy John surgery.
Chicago is looking to bounce back from a disappointing 2022 season, when it went 81-81 and finished 11 games back of surprising AL Central champion Cleveland. Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa stepped down in October and Pedro Grifol was hired on Nov. 1.
The White Sox got a big lift from Johnny Cueto this year, but the 36-year-old right-hander is a free agent after going 8-10 with a 3.35 ERA in 25 appearances. Clevinger slots into a rotation that likely will include Dylan Cease, Lance Lynn, Lucas Giolito and Michael Kopech.
The move puts the 6-foot-4 Clevinger back in the AL Central after he made his major league debut with Cleveland in 2016. He went 42-22 with a 3.20 ERA in four-plus seasons with Cleveland before he was traded to San Diego in a multiplayer deal in August 2020.
Clevinger was selected by the Los Angeles Angels in the fourth round of the 2011 amateur draft. He was traded to Cleveland in 2014.
Clevinger is 51-30 with a 3.39 ERA in 128 career big league games. He also has 694 strikeouts in 656 2/3 innings.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday his administration has launched a promised review of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The administration hired regional law firm Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads — which has offices in the state as well as Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York — along with management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group to conduct the review, Murphy said in a statement Monday.
The review is expected to end with a report in late 2023, the governor said.
“The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest challenges our State — and nation — has ever faced,” Murphy said. “Throughout the pandemic, my responsibility as Governor demanded that I make every decision based on the available data, facts, and science in order to preserve the health and safety of all 9.3 million residents, regardless of the politics.”
New Jersey was among the first states hit by the pandemic, announcing its first positive case in early March 2020. New Jersey dropped its indoor mask mandate for vaccinated people in May 2021. In June, the governor said the state had reached a goal of vaccinating 4.7 million people within six months. By December, Murphy was advising residents to “use common sense” in response to questions about reinstating the mandate.
Murphy had long promised the review but did not reveal any details about it until Monday. The Democrat-led Legislature did not take up Republican requests for a tough review of the administration's handling of the pandemic. Nursing and veterans homes in the state were particularly hard hit, with Republicans clamoring to hold the administration accountable.
It's unclear how much the report will cost taxpayers.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — More than 700 K-12 schools in Ohio will share in $57.8 million for security upgrades in the latest grants awarded through a state program.
The 708 schools in 57 counties are getting up to $100,000 each for “physical security expenses” such as new security cameras, public address systems, automatic door locks, visitor badging systems and exterior lighting.
The program was launched last year with an initial $5 million, then expanded with $100 million in grants this year.
In August, the state awarded $47 million to over 1,100 schools, but some declined the funding at that point, leaving that total at $42.2 million. The difference was included in the newest round of grants.
GOP Gov. Mike DeWine had announced plans to provide more money for school security upgrades in the days after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. This year's grants are supported by federal pandemic relief funding the state received through the American Rescue Plan Act.
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LeBron James is back, and the Los Angeles Lakers’ offense is firing better than it has all season, with another test waiting at home Monday night from the Indiana Pacers.
After missing five games because of a groin injury, James returned for a two-game road set against the San Antonio Spurs beginning Friday. The Lakers won both contests, including a 143-point offensive eruption on Saturday.
After a 2-10 start to the season, the Lakers have won five of six.
That the most recent victory came without Anthony Davis made it even more impressive.
James scored a season-best 39 points on Saturday — making seven 3-pointers — and added 11 rebounds.
There was the matter of the Lakers’ defense allowing 138 points in the second victory over the Spurs. That type of effort could spell doom against the Pacers, who have won eight of their past 11 games, even with a 114-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday.
The Spurs delivered a season-high output in points against the Lakers while plummeting toward an eighth consecutive defeat.
Davis, who had been dealing with back tightness this season, was out because of a bruised left calf, although his absence was characterized as precautionary.
“It’s just the smart and right thing to do,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said about sitting one of his stars. “We don’t want to push him this early in the season. And when you’re talking about different muscles and ligaments, it’s something that can easily turn into a yearlong issue.”
The Lakers received another scare during the game when Russell Westbrook came away with a bloody forehead after receiving an elbow from San Antonio’s Zach Collins. Despite a significant amount of bleeding, Westbrook returned to the game. Collins was ejected.
“Yeah, it was fine,” Westbrook said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “Doctor looked at it and closed it up and I came back out.”
The Pacers played a Sunday matinee against the Clippers and led by eight points less than nine minutes into the game, were tied just before halftime and watched it slip away from there. Indiana went down by double digits midway through the third quarter and never mustered a late run.
Jalen Smith had 23 points and nine rebounds for Indiana, while Tyrese Haliburton had 15 points and 11 assists. But 12 total third-quarter points were a season low as the team went 0 of 12 from 3-point range in the period. The Pacers entered with an average of 30.2 points in the third quarter this season.
The Pacers shot a season-worst 38.3 percent for the game, 21.4 percent (9 of 42) from 3-point range and never seemed to find Clippers big man Ivica Zubac on the court. Zubac delivered 31 points and a career-high 29 rebounds in 36 minutes.
“I think our shot selection was rough,” Haliburton said. “Not getting stops didn’t help. We want to play in transition as much as possible. We didn’t get a ton of stops and didn’t really rebound very well. That didn’t allow us to play in transition.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday said Donald Trump “demonstrated profoundly poor judgment” and called on him to apologize after the former president had dinner last week with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West days after launching his third campaign for the White House.
“President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite and Holocaust denier, a seat at the table and I think he should apologize for it. And he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification,” Pence said in an interview with NewsNation's Leland Vittert airing Monday night.
Still, Pence, who is considering his own potential run against his former boss, said he does not believe Trump is antisemitic or racist and said he would not have served as Trump's vice president if he was.
“But I think the President demonstrated profoundly poor judgment in giving those individuals a seat at the table and as I said, I think he should apologize for it," he added. “He should denounce them without qualification.”
Trump had dinner last Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago club with West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, a far-right activist with a long history of antisemitic and white nationalist commentary.
Trump has said that he had “never met and knew nothing about” Fuentes, who had accompanied Ye, before the meeting. But he has so far refused to acknowledge or denounce the positions of ether Fuentes or Ye, who has made his own series of antisemitic comments in recent weeks, leading to his suspension from social media platforms and the end of his ties with major companies like Adidas.
The meeting has been criticized by Jewish groups like the Zionist Organization of America, which honored Trump just two days before his campaign launch, Trump's former ambassador to Israel, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another potential Trump 2024 rival, who has become an outspoken Trump critic.
“This is just another example of an awful lack of judgment from Donald Trump, which, combined with his past poor judgments, make him an untenable general election candidate for the Republican Party in 2024,” Christie told The New York Times.
On Saturday, Trump's former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, another potential 2024 rival, denounced antisemitism as “a cancer,” without directly referencing the dinner or the president under whom he served.
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The Philadelphia 76ers will try to extend their winning streak to three games when they host the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night.
The Sixers won two games in Orlando, including 133-103 on Sunday, and will play the 76ers in Philadelphia before beginning a three-game trip. The Hawks have dropped two in a row after Sunday’s 106-98 home loss to the Miami Heat.
Philadelphia and Atlanta have split two games this season.
Each team hopes to get a key piece back in the lineup. Philadelphia star Joel Embiid has missed four games with a mid-foot strain but could play on Monday. Atlanta center Clint Capela, who averages a double-double of 11.1 points and 11.9 rebounds a game, has missed two games with dental pain.
Philadelphia’s Tobias Harris has picked up some of the slack in Embiid’s absence. He scored a season-high 25 points on Sunday after posting 23 points and 10 rebounds on Friday. He is averaging 16.5 points and 6.3 rebounds this season.
“Honestly, just doing my part, but bringing guys along,” Harris said. “We’ve got a lot of guys who haven’t been in many of these situations and we’ve got guys who have, and then we’ve got new guys coming in and playing big minutes. So there’s a lot of emotions with that as well because you want to go out and play your best every single night. Just monitoring where we’re at as a group and keeping guys level-headed through it all. Ups and downs.”
Shake Milton, who had his first career double-double on Friday, returned on Sunday to score 29 points. Milton has 20-plus points in three straight games and in four of his last five.
“He’s really setting the tone with his pace out there and being able to allow teams to figure out how he’s going to pick apart the defenses,” Harris said. “He’s in a great rhythm, a great flow.”
Atlanta has struggled from the perimeter this year against the zone defenses used by the opposition. On Sunday, the Hawks made only 39.8 percent of their field-goal tries and rank 22nd in the league at 46 percent. Trae Young, the team’s leading scorer at 28.2 points, scored 22 but was 4-for-16 from the floor, and Dejounte Murray was 5-for-16.
“The zone became a stop sign, and it can’t become a stop sign,” Atlanta coach Nate McMillan said. “I thought we did a pretty good job in the first half attacking the gaps and making the plays. The second half it became a stop sign. You have to be aggressive, and we weren’t aggressive.”
Young and Murray combined for 83 points in Friday’s 128-122 loss to Houston. But the shots weren’t falling on Sunday.
“We can’t get down when we’re not making shots,” McMillan said. “Or if the offense is not in flow. We have a tendency when a shot is not falling to get down. And that is the time when you’ve got make sure you pull together. Maybe you grab a teammate who may be struggling and say we’ve got to keep our heads up.”
McMillan shook up the rotation and gave playing time to Trent Forrest, who scored his first basket of the season, and Frank Kaminsky. McMillan did not use Aaron Holiday or his brother, Justin Holiday.
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Two women were found dead after a car crash and police shooting in suburban Detroit, and authorities in Tennessee were checking whether one discovered in the trunk could be a person reported missing days ago.
The car had a Tennessee license plate.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, police detectives “have been in touch with Michigan State Police, the lead investigating agency, and are awaiting the results of their investigation and including identities of parties involved,” Officer Larry Flowers said Monday.
The incident occurred Sunday. Dearborn police were approaching a black Dodge Charger, but the driver hit the gas and fled when officers got closer, state police said.
Moments later, the car crashed into a house.
“As officers approached the crash scene, there was an exchange of gunfire between the officers and the suspect,” state police said.
The 36-year-old female driver died in the shooting. A 34-year-old woman who was a passenger was injured. Police found the body of a 31-year-old woman in the car trunk.
Autopsies were planned Monday, The Detroit News reported.
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Nets take on Magic, look to get back to .500
Players returning from injuries or offseason surgery normally sit out a portion of a back-to-back set, but the way Brooklyn’s Seth Curry performed Sunday afternoon against the Portland Trail Blazers might make it a harder-than-usual decision for the Nets.
After Curry’s 29 points and seven 3-pointers helped the Nets successfully start their season-high seven-game homestand, Brooklyn will attempt to reach the .500 mark for the second time this season when it hosts the Orlando Magic on the back end of a back-to-back on Monday night.
Brooklyn is attempting to reach .500 for the first time since it beat Toronto in the second game of the season after getting blown out by New Orleans in the season opener. The Nets were one game under .500 twice last week but followed both instances with losses (in Philadelphia and Indiana).
After collapsing in the fourth quarter Friday, Curry helped the Nets pull away in the final 12 minutes of Sunday’s 111-97 victory over the Blazers. He scored 13 points in the quarter, including 11 in the time Kevin Durant spent getting a rest.
The 29 points was Curry’s highest total in 30 regular-season games since becoming a Net along with Ben Simmons in the trade for James Harden. Following offseason ankle surgery, Curry is averaging 11.4 points a game and shooting 43.9 percent (25-of-57) from 3-point range.
“You see the confidence that he has in his shot and the rhythm that he started to regain just from not playing and, you know, having offseason surgery, so it adds a dynamic to our group just because of the pace that we can play with,” Nets coach Jacque Vaughn said.
Curry played 18 minutes in his season debut Oct. 29, he and scored 22 points on the front end of a back-to-back against the Los Angeles Clippers on Nov. 12 before sitting the next night against the Lakers.
“Increasing his minutes, which is good, and next stage hopefully he’s playing back-to-backs,” Vaughn said. “I’m hoping so.”
Whether Curry plays or not, the Nets hope to follow one of their better defensive efforts of the season. Brooklyn allowed 40 points after halftime and allowed 36.8 percent shooting from the floor in the second half.
Orlando will try to avoid matching a season high with its fifth straight loss and is 1-6 over its past seven games. Since allowing 87 and 97 points in consecutive wins over Dallas and Phoenix Nov. 9-11, Orlando is allowing an average of 117.4 points on 50.3 percent shooting from the field.
Orlando’s latest loss also was its most lopsided, as the Magic allowed 72 points in the paint and tied a team record by allowing 64.9 percent shooting in a 133-103 home setback to Philadelphia on Sunday night.
“We didn’t play any (defense),” Orlando coach Jamahl Mosley said. “That’s the reality of it right there.”
While rookie Paolo Banchero scored 18 points in his second game following a seven-game absence due to a sprained left ankle, Orlando had little else to help the top overall pick of the 2022 draft.
Jalen Suggs sat out with an ankle injury, Wendell Carter Jr. missed a fourth straight game with a foot injury, and Markelle Fultz had his season debut pushed back to at least Wednesday due to a fractured toe. The Magic also lost Mo Bamba to back spasms and Terrence Ross to an illness, though both could play Monday.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea extradited a 42-year-old murder suspect to New Zealand two months after she was arrested over her possible connection to the bodies of two long-dead children found in abandoned suitcases in August.
South Korea’s Justice Ministry said Tuesday that the unidentified woman was handed over to New Zealand authorities Monday evening at the Incheon international airport near Seoul. The ministry said it also has provided New Zealand with unspecified “important evidence” on the case.
“With the extradition, we hope that the truth of the case, which has garnered worldwide attention, will be revealed through the fair and strict judicial process of New Zealand,” the ministry said in a statement.
South Korean Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon issued an order for the woman’s extradition earlier this month. The Seoul High Court had earlier granted approval of her extradition after she expressed her consent in writing to be sent back to New Zealand.
South Korean police arrested the woman at a southern port city in September, based on a domestic court warrant issued after New Zealand requested her provisional arrest. New Zealand’s Justice Ministry then submitted a formal request for her extradition to the South Korean ministry.
New Zealand police said the South Korean warrant for the suspect’s arrest was in connection with two murder charges. The children’s bodies were discovered in August after a New Zealand family bought abandoned goods, including two suitcases, from a storage unit in an online auction.
The children were between 5 and 10 years old, had been dead for years, and the suitcases had been in storage in Auckland for at least three or four years, according to police.
South Korean police say the woman was born in South Korea and later moved to New Zealand, where she gained citizenship. Immigration records show she had returned to South Korea in 2018.
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The Toronto Raptors hope to have some of their injured players in the lineup soon, perhaps as early as Monday night against the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers.
“It looks like we’re getting some guys back,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said Sunday. “I think it remains to be seen yet until we get to (Monday), but we’re certainly getting closer. They’re moving much better out there, so it’s a good sign.”
Pascal Siakam (adductor strain) and Scottie Barnes (sprained knee) were among the injured players who participated in Toronto’s practice on Sunday and appear close to a return.
Toronto will catch Cleveland on the second night of back-to-back games. The Cavaliers, also dealing with injuries, had only 10 available players Sunday for their 102-94 road win over the Detroit Pistons.
If Siakam does not play Monday, he could be ready for the road game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday.
“I think, for me, I’m just taking it one day at a time,” Siakam said Sunday. “I’m progressing, though, so that’s a good thing.”
After defeating the visiting Dallas Mavericks 105-100 on Saturday, the Raptors are 5-5 since Siakam was injured on Nov. 4. Barnes has missed the past two games.
Both players were listed early Monday morning as questionable for the Cavaliers’ game, as were Dalano Banton (sprained ankle) and Justin Champagnie (lower back).
Precious Achiuwa (sprained ankle) and Otto Porter Jr. (dislocated toe) were listed as out.
“It looks like (Barnes) is moving good,” Nurse said. “He’s still questionable (for Monday). To me, he looks like he’s doing OK out there.”
Fred VanVleet, who missed the loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday because of illness, returned on Saturday to score 26 points — 18 in the first half. O.G. Anunoby also had 26 points, and reserve Chris Boucher scored a season-best 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds.
Cleveland’s injury list on Sunday included Jarrett Allen (lower-back contusion) and Caris LeVert (sprained left ankle).
They joined Kevin Love (fractured thumb) and Lamar Stevens (illness) on the sidelines in Detroit on Sunday for the middle game of a three-game trip. LeVert has not played since Nov. 20. Allen played 12 minutes in the 117-102 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday.
Robin Lopez, who made his first start for Cleveland in Allen’s place on Sunday, but played just less than four minutes.
The Cavaliers still had Donovan Mitchell (32 points) and Darius Garland (19 points, 10 assists) on Sunday. Cleveland outscored Detroit 29-16 in the fourth quarter, led by Mitchell’s 14 points.
With Allen unavailable, Evan Mobley had more responsibility at both ends of the court, particularly on defense. He responded with 20 points, 13 rebounds and one blocked shot.
“I thought Evan was phenomenal on both ends of the floor,” Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “He scored well. We’ve been pushing to get more 3s out of him; he’s taking his shots, he rebounded the ball.”
“He’s really being aggressive,” Mitchell said. “He was the reason we stayed in the game for the first three quarters.”
Bickerstaff was disappointed by his team’s shooting — 42.9 percent overall and 28.6 percent from long range.
“It wasn’t a terrible game, but we missed a lot of shots we usually make,” Bickerstaff said. “We didn’t want to put everything on Donovan and Darius, which is why Evan was so important on both ends of the floor. He saved us when everyone was struggling.”
Toronto defeated the Cavaliers 108-105 at home on Oct. 19 in the opening game of the season for both teams.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Democratic lawmaker whose resume includes ministry work and a career in the military announced Monday that she will run for Kentucky attorney general next year.
State Rep. Pam Stevenson, an attorney from Louisville, filed paperwork to begin running for the job as Kentucky’s chief law enforcement officer. She won a second term to the Kentucky House this month.
Stevenson referred to the job of attorney general as serving as the “people’s lawyer.” The incumbent, Republican Daniel Cameron, is running for governor next year.
“I’m looking forward to traveling the commonwealth and having conversations with Kentuckians about what matters to them," Stevenson said in a statement announcing her candidacy.
She vowed to engage in battling the opioid epidemic and “making sure that extreme laws from Frankfort don’t take away our freedoms,” though she offered no specifics.
Stevenson, a retired Air Force colonel, pointed to her experience as an attorney at the federal level, having served as a chief prosecutor, criminal defense attorney and an “operations law expert supporting aircrews with over 1,000 sorties over Iraq.”
She also pointed to her background as a non-profit leader and a Baptist minister.
“My life’s work has been service to others — as a mother I have raised a family, as a minister I have empowered congregations, as a colonel in the United States Air Force I fought for our country globally — including in the Middle East, Croatia, Africa, Europe and many other places," she said.
"Now, as a state representative, I work to ensure that our laws give every Kentuckian a fair shot at the American Dream,” she said.
On the Republican side, former U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman entered the attorney general's race in the spring. He has campaigned on such issues as cracking down on violent crime and drug trafficking while pointing to his extensive criminal justice resume.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared Monday that the U.K.'s “golden era” of ties with China was over in his first major speech on foreign policy, describing China's growing authoritarianism as a “systemic challenge to our values and interests."
But Sunak stopped short of calling China a threat, disappointing China hawks in his Conservative Party who had until recently expected him to class China as a “threat” to U.K. security as part of an update of the government's foreign and defense policies.
In his speech to the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London, Sunak said the U.K. would stand up to global competitors like China — “not with grand rhetoric but with robust pragmatism" and by boosting its ties with like-minded global allies including the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan.
“We recognize China poses a systemic challenge to our values and interests, a challenge that grows more acute as it moves towards even greater authoritarianism," he said.
Referring to Beijing's handling of widespread protests across China against the country's strict “zero COVID” strategy, Sunak said that “instead of listening to their people’s protests, the Chinese government has chosen to crack down further, including by assaulting a BBC journalist.”
In July, during a Conservative leadership race to pick a successor to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sunak said China represented the “largest threat” to Britain and the world’s security and prosperity.
At the time, he pledged to close all Confucius Institutes, the partially Chinese government-funded organizations that promote Chinese culture and language at U.K. universities. He also said he would lead an international alliance against Chinese cyberthreats, and help British companies and universities counter Chinese spying.
Lawmaker Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative Party leader and a vocal China critic, said Sunak's “robust pragmatism” meant “anything you want it to mean” and amounted to “appeasement.” And David Lammy, the opposition Labour Party's foreign affairs spokesman, described Sunak's speech as “as thin as gruel.”
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The Minnesota Timberwolves have been among the NBA’s most inconsistent teams, which could be expected considering all of their offseason changes.
The Wolves’ search for an identity will continue on the road Monday night against the Washington Wizards, who are battling their own consistency issues.
Minnesota has lost two straight following a five-game winning streak. The Wolves were outrebounded 47-31 and allowed their highest point total this season in a 137-114 loss to the Golden State Warriors on Sunday.
“Our identity right now is super inconsistent, very Jekyll and Hyde,” Minnesota coach Chris Finch said. “We’re not as physical or tough as I’d like us to be.”
The Wolves shook up their roster in July by acquiring center Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz for Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Leandro Bolmaro, Walker Kessler, Jarred Vanderbilt and four first-round draft picks.
The early results have been mixed for Minnesota, which has made the playoffs only twice in the past 18 seasons. Some nights, Gobert looks like a perfect fit and the Wolves are nearly unstoppable. Other times, the team’s offense appears stagnant.
Gobert is averaging 12.7 rebounds a game and remains a force on the defensive end. He also is averaging 13.5 points and figures to contribute more offensively as the season progresses.
Point guard D’Angelo Russell, who is averaging 16.7 points over the last three games, said the Wolves need to be patient.
“Everybody’s coming from different places and things like that, used to doing things different from wherever else they came from,” Russell said. “It’s a process of just trusting and committing to it as a group.”
Minnesota has lost its last five meetings against Washington, which has dropped three straight. The Wizards trailed by as many as 26 in a 130-121 loss to the Boston Celtics on Sunday.
Bradley Beal scored 30 points to lead Washington, while Kristaps Porzingis had 21. The Wizards were without injured players Johnny Davis (groin soreness), Rui Hachimura (right-ankle soreness) and Kyle Kuzma (lower-back pain).
Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr. is optimistic that Kuzma could return as soon as Monday.
“I wouldn’t say it was an injury,” Unseld said. “He’s played a lot of minutes. He was complaining of a sore back and got some treatment.”
Beal has at least 20 points in eight consecutive games to lead the Wizards, who are 7-4 at home this season compared with 3-6 on the road.
Washington’s defense has clearly struggled without Hachimura and Kuzma. The team trailed 72-55 at the half against Boston and has allowed an average of 117.7 points during its three-game losing streak.
Point guard Monte Morris returned on Sunday after missing three games due to right-ankle soreness and had 16 points and eight assists in 24 minutes.
The Wizards have received a spark from rookie guard Jordan Goodwin, who was signed to a two-way contract before the season.
The 24-year-old Goodwin is averaging 6.8 points in 13 games while becoming a key part of the team’s rotation.
“He’s getting the opportunity to play, he’s getting the opportunity to showcase what he can do and taking full advantage of it,” Beal said. “I can’t be more proud of him.”
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LONDON (AP) — The British government on Monday abandoned a plan to force tech firms to remove internet content that is harmful but legal, after the proposal drew strong criticism from lawmakers and civil liberties groups.
The U.K. has watered down its Online Safety Bill, an ambitious but controversial attempt to crack down on online racism, sexual abuse, bullying, fraud and other harmful material. Similar efforts are underway in the European Union and the United States, but the U.K.’s was one of the most sweeping. In its original form, the bill gave regulators wide-ranging powers to sanction digital and social media companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.
Critics expressed concern that a requirement for the biggest platforms to remove “legal but harmful” content could lead to censorship and undermine free speech.
The Conservative government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who took office last month, has now dropped that part of the bill, acknowledging that it could “over-criminalize” online content.
Digital Secretary Michelle Donelan said the change removed the risk that “tech firms or future governments could use the laws as a license to censor legitimate views.”
Instead, the bill says companies must set out clear terms of service, and stick to them. Companies will be free to allow adults to post and see offensive or harmful material, as long as it is not illegal. But platforms that pledge to ban racist, homophobic or other offensive content and then fail to live up to the promise can be fined up to 10% of their annual turnover.
The legislation also requires firms to help people avoid seeing content that is legal but may be harmful -- such as the glorification of eating disorders, misogyny and some other forms of abuse -- through warnings, content moderation or other means.
Companies also will have to show how they enforce user age limits designed to keep children from seeing harmful material.
The bill still criminalizes some online activity, including cyberflashing — sending someone unwanted explicit images — and epilepsy trolling, sending flashing images that can trigger seizures. It also makes it an offense to assist or encourage self-harm, a step that follows a campaign by the family of Molly Russell, a 14-year-old who ended her life in 2017 after viewing self-harm and suicide content online.
The government hopes the changes will be enough to get the bill through Parliament, where it has languished for 18 months amid widespread opposition. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/UK-waters-down-online-restrictions-after-free-17616621.php | 2022-11-28T23:31:52 | en | 0.947063 |
Balenciaga, the luxury fashion brand that sparked back-to-back controversies over two recent ad campaigns, has signaled its plans to sue the production company North Six for its role in creating one of the ads.
The backlash began when online scrutinizers noticed a page from the 2008 Supreme Court decision United States v. Williams in the backdrop for an ad showcasing a $3,000 purse.
The ruling upheld the constitutionality of a child pornography conviction.
The ad, which has since been removed from the company's website, was part of the fashion house's Spring 2023 collaboration with the activewear brand Adidas.
Balenciaga watchers might not have noticed the Supreme Court decision excerpt had it not been for a controversy earlier this month with another ad – one from the brand's holiday collection.
That ad campaign also drew backlash because it featured images of children holding plush bears wearing fishnet tops and leather harnesses, surrounded by objects like flasks and chain necklaces.
The ad was photographed by famed documentary photographer Gabriele Galimberti, who shot in a similar style (though with less provocative objects) for a series called "Toy Stories".
The ad was met with accusations that the fashion house was condoning the sexual abuse of children. Social media users and media commentators described it as "creepy," "demonic" and "horrifying."
Galimberti wrote in a statement that he had no oversight over the products or models used for the Balenciaga shoot.
"As is usual for a commercial shooting, the direction of the campaign and the choice of the objects displayed are not in the hands of the photographer," he said.
He added that the hate messages sent to him "are addressed against wrong targets, and distract from the real problem, and criminals."
Balenciaga apologized for both ads in two different statements last week and then again on Monday, saying first "our plush bear bags and the Gift Collection should not have been featured with children," and that all the items used as props in the second ad shoot were "provided by third parties that confirmed in writing that these props were fake office documents."
"They turned out to be real legal papers most likely coming from the filming of a television drama," the company said, adding that it was internally investigating the incident and exploring ways to work with organizations that combat child abuse.
"We want to learn from our mistakes and identify ways we can contribute. Balenciaga reiterates its sincere apologies."
On Friday, the brand issued a lawsuit summons to the production company, North Six, and set designer, Nicholas Des Jardins, for their role in creating the second ad.
Balenciaga says North Six included documents in the campaign "without Balenciaga's knowledge or authorization," according to the lawsuit. The company will seek $25 million in damages.
Neither Balenciaga nor an agent for Nicholas Des Jardins immediately responded to NPR's request for comment. North Six responded to confirm it received the summons, but said it had no comment on the allegations.
Balenciaga says that [North Six]'s inexplicable acts and omissions were malevolent or, at the very least, extraordinarily reckless".
"As a result of [North Six]'s misconduct, members of the public, including the news media, have falsely and horrifically associated Balenciaga with the repulsive and deeply disturbing subject of the court decision," the court document reads.
In an industry that's long been accused of under-prioritizing morality and ethics, Balenciaga has long walked the fine line between edgy and offensive.
In 2021, the brand was lambasted by fashion and history experts for selling a $1,190 pair of sweatpants with boxers peeking out from the waistband, a garment that critics said was appropriating Black culture.
More recently, Balenciaga was criticized last month for being slow to end its limited brand collaborations with Kanye West after he made antisemitic comments.
Some of the company's recent products have included Croc stilettos, a $2,000 tote bag that mimics the company's paper shopping bags, and white cotton socks that sell for $130 per pair.
The brand is famously popular with celebrities like Kim Kardashian, who came under fire for being slow to respond to the teddy bear ads, especially from right-wing media figures.
She said on social media Sunday that she was "re-evaluating" her ambassadorship with the fashion house.
"I appreciate Balenciaga's removal of the campaigns and apology," she wrote. "In speaking with them, I believe they understand the seriousness of the issue and will take the necessary measures for this to never happen again."
I have been quiet for the past few days, not because I haven’t been disgusted and outraged by the recent Balenciaga campaigns, but because I wanted an opportunity to speak to their team to understand for myself how this could have happened.
— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) November 27, 2022
Other social media users are viewing the lawsuit as an attempt to place blame elsewhere, which is only reigniting public interest in seeing the ads in the meantime.
"No apology can ever be enough for what they let happen," one user wrote. "Canceled for good."
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Without Gordon Hayward, Hornets try to alter Celtics’ home success
The Charlotte Hornets will be without guard Gordon Hayward when they visit the Boston Celtics on Monday night.
According to multiple reports, Hayward has a fractured left shoulder and is expected to be out for an extended period of time.
Hayward, 32, missed eight consecutive games earlier this month with what was originally termed a shoulder contusion. He played in three consecutive games before sitting out Friday night’s 110-108 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves due to the shoulder injury.
Hayward has appeared in 11 games this season. He’s averaging 16.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists while shooting 44.5 percent from the field and 38.1 percent from 3-point range. He spent three seasons with the Celtics, who sent him to the Hornets in a sign-and-trade agreement in 2020.
Boston was without star forward Jason Tatum (ankle) for Sunday night’s 130-121 victory over the Washington Wizards. It was the third game of a six-game homestand for the Celtics, who have won three in a row. It was also the first game Tatum has missed this season.
Tatum injured his ankle against the Chicago Bulls last Monday, but he played in Wednesday’s 125-112 victory over the Dallas Mavericks and in Friday’s 122-104 victory over the Sacramento Kings. He was Boston’s leading scorer and rebounder in each game.
Tatum is averaging 36.9 minutes, 30.5 points, 7.9 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game this season. He is listed as day to day.
“I think it just depends,” Boston head coach Joe Mazzulla said when asked if Tatum would play against Charlotte. “We’ll collaborate on what we think’s important for him and our team in the short-term and long-term.”
Jaylen Brown poured in a game-high 36 points in Sunday’s win and was one of seven Boston players who scored in double figures. Malcolm Brogdon (17 points), Derrick White (15), Al Horford (14), Marcus Smart (14), Sam Hauser (14) and Luke Kornet (12) were the others.
The Celtics had a 26-6 edge in points off turnovers and led by as many as 26.
Charlotte’s Kelly Oubre scored 28 points in Friday’s victory over Minnesota. Terry Rozier added 22 points and eight assists in the win, which gave Charlotte back-to-back victories for the first time this season. The Hornets beat the Philadelphia 76ers 107-101 on Wednesday.
“We’re figuring out how to play,” Charlotte forward PJ Washington said. “The game we played (against Minnesota) and the one before are two that we can grow from. If we play to our strengths it is going to be hard for teams to beat us.”
Charlotte also received career highs in points (nine) and rebounds (12) from second-year pro Kai Jones, a 6-foot-11 forward who is averaging 7.2 minutes per game this season.
“I don’t see that he’s doing anything that he can’t do every night,” Charlotte head coach Steve Clifford said. “He’s playing to his real strengths — he’s tough, he’s a terrific athlete, he’s got a nose for the ball and he’s playing very smart. All our coverages and stuff like that he’s doing a good job with so we’re organized on both ends of the floor when he’s in the game. Usually that’s a big challenge for younger players.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department on Monday proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on public lands, the latest action by the Biden administration to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming.
The proposal by Interior's Bureau of Land Management would tighten limits on gas flaring on federal land and require energy companies to better detect methane leaks that add to planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution.
The actions follow a more comprehensive methane-reduction plan announced by President Joe Biden earlier this month. The Nov. 11 proposal, announced as Biden attended a global climate conference in Egypt, targets the oil and gas industry for its role in global warming even as the president has pressed energy producers for more oil drilling to lower prices at the gasoline pump.
Oil and gas production is the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, the primary component of natural gas, and is a key target for the Biden administration as it seeks to combat climate change.
The proposal announced Monday would prevent billions of cubic feet of natural gas from being wasted through venting, flaring and leaks, boosting efficiency while at the same time reducing pollution, administration officials said.
“This proposed rule will bring our regulations in line with technological advances that industry has made in the decades since the BLM’s rules were first put in place, while providing a fair return to taxpayers,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
Venting and flaring activity from oil and gas production on public lands has significantly increased in recent decades. Between 2010 and 2020, total volumes of natural gas lost to venting and flaring on federal and tribal lands averaged about 44.2 billion cubic feet per year — enough to serve roughly 675,000 homes, Interior said. The figure represents a sharp increase from an annual average of 11 billion cubic feet lost to venting and flaring in the 1990s.
“No one likes to waste natural resources from our public lands,'' said BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning. She called the draft rule a common-sense, environmentally responsible solution to address the damage that wasted natural gas causes. The rule "puts the American taxpayer first and ensures producers pay appropriate royalties,” she said.
Interior had previously announced a rule to restrict methane emissions under former President Barack Obama. The plan was challenged in court and later weakened under former President Donald Trump. Competing court rulings blocked enforcement of the Trump and Obama-era rules, leading the agency to revert to rules developed more than 40 years ago.
The Environmental Protection Agency rule announced in Egypt targets emissions from existing oil and gas wells nationwide, including smaller drilling sites that now will be required to find and plug methane leaks.
The rule comes as Biden has accused oil companies of “war profiteering” and raised the possibility of imposing a windfall tax on energy companies if they don’t boost domestic production.
Besides the EPA rule, a sprawling climate and health law approved by Congress in August would impose a fee on energy producers that exceed a certain level of methane emissions. The fee, set to rise to $1,500 per metric ton of methane, marks the first time the federal government has directly imposed a fee, or tax, on greenhouse gas emissions.
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When Dylan Brandt looks back on the time before he started receiving gender-affirming care, he remembers feeling trapped "in a pretty bad place." He wasn't comfortable leaving the house, and he struggled with anxiety and depression.
It was right around his 15th birthday that Brandt began hormone therapy. He says the treatment was "lifesaving."
"When I started these hormones, not only did it change my physical appearance, but it changed my mind," Brandt, now 17, says. "I felt better because I was looking better. I felt free. I felt happy."
Today, that joy is overshadowed by fear that his access to treatment may soon disappear because of a 2021 law passed in Arkansas, Brandt's home state, that bans gender-affirming care for transgender youth like himself. Brandt is now part of an ACLU lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban, and says that if the law is upheld, he and his family would have to leave the state.
"We wouldn't have any other choice, because this isn't something I can live without," says Brandt.
The Arkansas ban is part of a wave of new state laws that has begun to radically reshape life for trans youth across the nation, bringing restrictions on everything from health care to how their gender identity is treated at school.
An NPR analysis of this fast-changing landscape found that over the past two years, state lawmakers introduced at least 306 bills targeting trans people, more than in any previous period. A majority of this legislation, 86%, focuses on trans youth.
While not every proposal has succeeded — about 15% of the bills have become law — the surge of legislative activity reflects what many advocates see as an increasingly hostile environment for LGBTQ rights in statehouses across the country and even some corners of Congress.
Some of the new laws have been temporarily blocked by the courts. But legal challenges have done little to slow the pace of new proposals, according to Katie Eyer, a professor at Rutgers Law School. It's an echo, she says, of the period after Brown v. Board of Education, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation in schools, but many states kept trying to pass laws to obstruct the ruling.
"This phenomenon of states just ... churning out legislation as it's struck down is one that has a long history in civil rights," says Eyer. "And it can really stymie efforts for people to actually experience what the courts have said should be their constitutional rights."
It's also a phenomenon that advocates for the trans community fear will have disastrous consequences for trans youth in particular. A January poll from the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis support for the LGBTQ community, found that 85% of trans and nonbinary youth said their mental health was negatively affected by these laws. A subsequent poll found that more than half of trans and nonbinary youth "seriously considered" suicide in the past year.
"Regardless of if these bills pass ... it is already having a negative impact for LGBTQ youth generally," says Sam Ames, director of advocacy and government affairs at the Trevor Project. For many, Ames says, "we are talking about life and death."
More than half the states have sought to restrict gender-affirming health care
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For some trans youth, proposed restrictions would make it significantly harder to access gender-affirming health care. For others, it would make it virtually impossible.
In four states — Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona and Tennessee — lawmakers have enacted either a partial or total ban on access to gender-affirming care, though in Alabama and Arkansas the laws are not currently in effect due to court injunctions. At least 20 others have tried.
Many of these proposals have sought to restrict anyone under the age of 18 from care that includes puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy or transition-related surgery. In some of those states, health care providers now face the threat of jail time for offering gender-affirming care.
Restrictions also have come by way of executive order or regulation rather than legislation. Earlier this year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the state's child welfare agency to investigate parents and health care providers who give gender-affirming care to trans youth, characterizing those actions as child abuse. The order continues to be challenged in court. And earlier this month, Florida's State Medical Board effectively banned doctors from providing gender-affirming care for new patients under the age of 18.
Advocates fear the overall fallout could be dramatic. An estimated 300,000 American youth ages 13 to 17 identify as transgender, and according to a March study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, at least 53,800 were at risk of losing gender-affirming medical care.
Many of the proposed laws have come despite what critics see as a drumbeat of misinformation about gender-affirming care. Trans-rights advocates say some bills have sought to ban procedures that are rarely available to young patients. For example, a Tennessee law blocks health care providers from providing hormone treatments to prepubescent minors, even though the World Professional Association for Transgender Health only recommends treatment once a minor has entered puberty.
"One of the really concerning trends that we see is that these bills are becoming more extreme over time," says Alex Petrovnia, president of the Trans Formations Project, an advocacy group. "Frankly, I really do think that the end goal is to ban trans-affirming medical care, period, ... which should scare people a lot more than it does because access to gender-affirming care is fundamentally an issue of bodily autonomy."
Schools have emerged as the front line for anti-trans legislation
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Legislation targeting the trans community isn't new. In 2016, North Carolina sparked nationwide outrage with a so-called "bathroom bill" that sought to block trans people from using public restrooms that don't correspond with the gender that appears on their birth certificate. The backlash would later push the state to reverse course.
Six years later, the environment has changed considerably. Bathroom bills are back, and this time they are taking aim at school restrooms and locker rooms. At least nine states have moved to block trans students from using restrooms that don't correspond with the sex assigned to them at birth. Three of them — Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee — have succeeded. But unlike the public backlash that pushed North Carolina to backpedal, this most recent crop of legislation has moved through state capitols with far less controversy.
The focus on trans students underscores the extent to which schools, perhaps more than any other area of American life, have emerged as the front line for restrictions on trans rights. Of the more than 126 bills introduced so far in 2022, some 63% have centered on schooling.
Most of these bills would prevent transgender female students from participating in female sports. The bills largely draw inspiration from Idaho, which in 2020 became the first state in the nation to ban transgender women and girls from kindergarten through college from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. That ban is currently blocked by a court injunction. Nevertheless, since Idaho's ban, 18 states have followed suit with their own laws.
Supporters of these bills, like Republican state Rep. Scott Cepicky of Tennessee, say their efforts have more to do with fairness in competition than with gender identity. Earlier this year, Cepicky sponsored legislation that says student-athletes can only compete in sports under the gender they were assigned at birth. The bill was signed by Gov. Bill Lee in May.
"The whole premise behind the bill was to separate out the politics from this, because sports is about competition," Cepicky says. "It's about everybody having an equal opportunity on the playing field to compete. And we want to make sure that females were competing against females and males were competing against males on the athletic fields so that the opportunities for competition were balanced, the opportunities for scholarships and awards were balanced."
Critics, however, see a solution in search of a problem. They point to a 2021 investigation by The Associated Press that found that most Republican sponsors of bills seeking to ban transgender girls from competing on girls' sports teams were unable to cite a single example from their state or region where the lack of any such ban caused a problem.
Similarly, a growing number of states are pursuing parental disclosure laws. Some of these measures require educators to seek permission from parents before they can teach students about topics like gender identity or sexuality. Others say that if a school employee is aware that a student identifies as trans, they can't withhold that information from the student's parents, nor can they encourage the student to withhold the information.
Other legislation, like Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law, bans discussion of gender identity or sexual orientation in a manner that is not "age-appropriate" or "developmentally-appropriate." In the time since the bill was signed into law by the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, similar measures have passed in Alabama and Arizona.
New laws go beyond restrictions on trans youth only
The anti-trans restrictions have been embraced almost exclusively by Republican lawmakers, a reflection of how the issue of trans rights has emerged as a galvanizing force for many within the base of the party.
Lawmakers who have sponsored these bills say they're needed to protect the rights of parents in raising their children, or to help uphold their religious beliefs.
"Parents need to know what's happening with their kids when they're at school," says Jay Richards, director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion and Family at the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank. "Parents have the primary responsibility and prerogative to educate their children. They may delegate that to schools, but they don't give up their rights."
Richards also says he does not think "children can consent" to such consequential medical decisions as gender-affirming care.
Defenders also point to a handful of nations in Europe — including England, Finland and Sweden — that have moved in recent months to limit gender-affirming care for minors. Those restrictions – though generally more permissive than those in some U.S. states – have been driven by questions about the levels of screening and support for a large wave of new patients, as well as questions about the potential long-term health effects of puberty blockers, even though they've long been used to treat children with the medical condition known as "precocious puberty."
Many medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association, have publicly stated support for age-appropriate gender-affirming care and publish their own guidelines for care. Several have acknowledged the limited research into the potential long-term effects of puberty blockers, but still recommend it based on other research, especially studies that show positive improvements in mental health for patients.
In some cases, bills have been given a boost by conservative advocacy groups like the Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), according to lawmakers and advocates. The Southern Poverty Law Center has classified ADF as an anti-LGBTQ hate group. The group, which was involved in the Idaho ban on trans women and girls in sports, disputes the designation, writing in a statement that its legal cases in support of conservative causes "frequently draw broad support across ideological lines.
Many of the legislative proposals have gone beyond trans youth to target the trans community more broadly. Several states have moved — with mixed success — to limit access to public restrooms over the past two years, including Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Idaho and Montana have tried to restrict residents from changing the sex that appears on their birth certificates. More recently, Oklahoma enacted a law that prevents gender markers other than male or female on birth certificates.
Other states, including Mississippi and Montana, have adopted laws that, according to critics, make it easier to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation. Supporters say the laws are needed to safeguard religious freedom.
Efforts to restrict trans rights haven't been limited to state capitols. In recent months, some Republican lawmakers in Congress have unsuccessfully sought to pass legislation restricting access to gender-affirming care for children, as well as discussion of gender identity in school curriculum and access to school sports for trans youth.
Advocates for trans rights have struggled to keep pace
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Advocates for LGBTQ rights have struggled to keep pace with the crush of new restrictions.
In June, President Biden signed an executive order aimed at increasing access to gender-affirming care and developing ways to combat state efforts to restrict such treatments for youth. And while states like California and Connecticut have moved to become safe havens for youth seeking gender-affirming care, the broader push to pass nondiscrimination protections on the basis of gender identity has had mixed success.
"It's a difficult moment to be passing proactive legislation because this is such a hot button issue all of a sudden," says Ames from the Trevor Project.
In all, less than half of all states explicitly ban discrimination in housing, jobs and public spaces on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation, according to the Pew Research Center. These are protections that enjoy the support of 64% of Americans, according to Pew.
In many cases, the fight for new protections is being waged on the local level, according to Logan Casey, a senior policy researcher and adviser at Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank based in Colorado. But with all the changes happening on the state level, Casey says, the need for stronger federal protections is all the more vital.
"Your ability to be economically secure or to be safe in your community, to access best practice medical care should not depend on where you live," says Casey. "But unfortunately, it does."
The landscape has left Brandt, the Arkansas teen, fearful for his future. He knows he can always leave Arkansas if the state's ban on transgender care survives court challenges. But there's no guarantee he'll always be safe in a different state.
"It makes me worry that if I were to go somewhere else, if this happened here, why couldn't it happen somewhere else?" he says. "It's sad."
Methodology
NPR used data from several organizations that track anti-trans legislation, including ACLU, Freedom for All Americans, Movement Advancement Project and Trans Formations Project. Data on state level nondiscrimination protections was sourced from Pew Research Center.
NPR verified each piece of legislation by checking it against bill tracking or state legislature databases. NPR's analysis includes all states that have enacted anti-trans laws since 2021.
Laws in some states may be currently blocked due to court challenges. Some states may have other anti-trans policies beyond laws, such as executive orders. Other governing bodies or local entities within states, such as school boards or counties, may have their own restrictive policies.
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Tennessee finished the regular season as the Football Bowl Subdivision leader in total offense and scoring while Washington and Air Force were first in the other major offensive categories.
The Volunteers’ 56-0 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday left them with season averages of 538.1 yards and 47.3 points per game.
Washington has thrown for 376.7 yards per game and Air Force has rushed for 330.9 yards per game.
Team defensive leaders are Georgia in scoring (11.3 points per game) and rushing (79.4 yards per game), Air Force in total yards (256.4 per game) and Texas A&M in passing (156.2 ypg).
DeWayne McBride, who set the UAB single-game rushing record with 272 yards against Louisiana Tech, leads the nation in total rushing yards (1,713) and average (155.7 per game).
Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. is first in passing yards (4,354) and average (362.8 per game).
SMU’s Rashee Rice (112.9 per game) holds a narrow edge over Houston’s Nathaniel Dell (112.8) in receiving yards per game.
LEG UP
Western Michigan’s Nick Mihalic set the school record for punts with 14 against Toledo, the most in an FBS game since Central Michigan’s Jack Sheldon punted 15 times against the Rockets in 2018.
Mihalic also set the WMU career record with 242 punts, and his 71 for the season are the ninth-most in the FBS.
STRONG ARMED
Temple’s E.J. Warner set the national season high for pass completions when he connected on a school-record 45 of 63 attempts in a loss to East Carolina. Warner’s 527 passing yards made him the first Temple quarterback to throw for more than 500 yards.
THE 200 CLUB
UAB’s McBride had the nation’s top rushing performance with his 272 yards against Louisiana Tech. Six other players had 200-yard games.
East Carolina’s Keaton Mitchell carried 27 times for 222 yards against Temple; Texas State’s Lincoln Pare ran 28 times for 221 against Louisiana-Lafayette; Michigan’s Donovan Edwards carried 22 times and had 206 of his 216 yards against Ohio State in the second half; Arizona’s Michael Wiley had 12 carries for 214 yards against Arizona State; and Troy’s Kimani Vidal ran 19 times for 208 yards against Arkansas State.
UTAH ONSLAUGHT
Utah turned in one of its most dominant road performances in a 63-21 win at Colorado.
The 63 points tied for the Utes’ most in a road conference game since at least 2000. They had 63 at San Diego State in 2008 when they were in the Mountain West.
Utah’s 662 total yards against the Buffaloes were its most in any game since 2004 and third all-time, and its 9.9 yards per play were its most against an FBS opponent since at least 2000, according to Sportradar.
CLEMSON COLLAPSE
It was a rare collapse for Clemson in its game against rival South Carolina. The Tigers went into the game 126-2 when leading by 14 points or more at any point in a game under 15th-year coach Dabo Swinney, according to ESPN Stats & Info.The Tigers led 14-0 in the first quarter and lost 31-30.
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Should robots working alongside law enforcement be used to deploy deadly force?
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is weighing that question this week as they consider a policy proposal that would allow the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to use robots as a deadly force against a suspect.
A new California law became effective this year that requires every municipality in the state to list and define the authorized uses of all military-grade equipment in their local law enforcement agencies.
The original draft of SFPD's policy was silent on the matter of robots.
Aaron Peskin, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, added a line to SFPD's original draft policy that stated, "Robots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person."
The SFPD crossed out that sentence with a red line and returned the draft.
Their altered proposal outlines that "robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to the SFPD."
The SFPD currently has 12 functioning robots. They are remote controlled and typically used to gain situational awareness and survey specific areas officers may not be able to reach. They are also used to investigate and defuse potential bombs, or aide in hostage negotiations.
Peskin says much of the military-grade equipment sold to cities for police departments to use was issued by the federal government, but there's not a lot of regulation surrounding how robots are to be used. "It would be lovely if the federal government had instructions or guidance. Meanwhile, we are doing our best to get up to speed."
The idea of robots being legally allowed to kill has garnered some controversy. In October, a number of robotics companies – including Hyundai's Boston Dynamics – signed an open letter, saying that general purpose robots should not be weaponized.
Ryan Calo is a law and information science professor at the University of Washington and also studies robotics. He says he's long been concerned about the increasing militarization of police forces, but that police units across the country might be attracted to utilizing robots because "it permits officers to incapacitate a dangerous individual without putting themselves in harm's way."
Robots could also keep suspects safe too, Calo points out. When officers use lethal force at their own discretion, often the justification is that the officer felt unsafe and perceived a threat. But he notes, "you send robots into a situation and there just isn't any reason to use lethal force because no one is actually endangered."
The first time a robot was reported being used by law enforcement as a deadly force in the United States was in 2016 when the Dallas Police Department used a bomb-disposal robot armed with an explosive device to kill a suspect who had shot and killed five police officers.
In an email statement to NPR, SFPD public information officer Allison Maxie wrote, "the SFPD does not own or operate robots outfitted with lethal force options and the Department has no plans to outfit robots with any type of firearm." Though robots can potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach certain structures, they would only be used in extreme circumstances. The statement continued, "No policy can anticipate every conceivable situation or exceptional circumstance which officers may face. The SFPD must be prepared, and have the ability, to respond proportionally."
Paul Scharre is author of the book Army Of None: Autonomous Weapons And The Future Of War. He helped create the U.S. policy for autonomous weapons used in war.
Scharre notes there is an important distinction between how robots are used in the military versus law enforcement. For one, robots used by law enforcement are not autonomous, meaning they are still controlled by a human.
"For the military, they're used in combat against an enemy and the purpose of that is to kill the enemy. That is not and should not be the purpose for police forces," Scharre says. "They're there to protect citizens, and there may be situations where they need to use deadly force, but those should be absolutely a last resort."
What is concerning about SFPD's proposal, Scharre says, is that it doesn't seem to be well thought out.
"Once you've authorized this kind of use, it can be very hard to walk that back." He says that this proposal sets up a false choice between using a robot for deadly force or putting law enforcement officers at risk. Scharre suggests that robots could instead be sent in with a non-lethal weapon to incapacitate a person without endangering officers.
As someone who studies robotics, Ryan Calo says that the idea of 'killer robots' is a launchpad for a bigger discussion about our relationship to technology and AI.
When it comes to robots being out in the field, Calo thinks about what happens if the technology fails and a robot accidentally kills or injures a person.
"It becomes very difficult to disentangle who is responsible. Is it the people using the technology? Is it the people that design the technology?" Calo asks.
With people, we can unpack the social and cultural dynamics of a situation, something you can't do with a robot.
"They feel like entities to us in a way that other technology doesn't," Calo says. "And so when you have a robot in the mix, all of a sudden not only do you have this question about who is responsible, which humans, you also have this strong sense that the robot is a participant."
Even if robots could be used to keep humans safe, Calo raises one more question: "We have to ask ourselves do we want to be in a society where police kill people with robots? It feels so deeply dehumanizing and militaristic."
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday to discuss how robots could be used by the SFPD.
This story has been updated to include portions of an email statement to NPR by the SFPD.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Robbie Avila scored 16 points as Indiana State beat Trinity Christian 105-68 on Sunday.
Avila also had 11 rebounds for the Sycamores (6-1). Kailex Stephens scored 16 points and added eight rebounds. Xavier Bledson recorded 14 points and shot 6 for 12, including 2 for 6 from beyond the arc.
The Trolls were led in scoring by Michael Wright Jr., who finished with 18 points and four assists. Troy Glover added 13 points, eight rebounds and three blocks for Trinity Christian. John Cison also put up 13 points and four assists.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The Big Ten has disciplined Michigan State and Michigan for their roles in stadium tunnel altercations that led to seven Spartans being charged with crimes.
The conference announced Monday that it is fining Michigan State $100,000 for its football players “hitting, kicking or using of their helmet” to hit Michigan players and suspending cornerback Khary Crump, who is facing a felony charge, for the first eight games of next season.
The Big Ten is also reprimanding Michigan for not providing adequate protection for both teams as they left the playing surface.
“The Big Ten Conference has a standard of excellence both academically and athletically that has been built over 127 years,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, who attended the game a month ago and has a son, Powers Warren, who is a walk-on tight end for the Spartans. “Our standards require that our student-athletes, coaches and staff members represent the conference, and their member institutions, with the highest level of decorum and sportsmanship.
“We are taking disciplinary action and will continue to work with our member institutions to strengthen their game day procedures and ensure our honored traditions.”
The Big Ten said the suspensions that ended the season for seven other Michigan State players was sufficient. The conference also said the schools properly addressed a football staff member who violated the Big Ten's sportsmanship policy that was unrelated to the tunnel altercations.
Last Wednesday, the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office charged seven Michigan State football players for their actions Oct. 29 following the game at Michigan Stadium.
The most serious charge is against Crump, who faces one count of felonious assault, and the other six players are charged with misdemeanors. Crump in one video appears to swing his helmet at a Michigan player. That could account for the more serious charge, which carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison. State law describes felonious assault as an attack “using knife, iron bar, club, brass knuckles or other dangerous weapon without intending to commit murder or to inflict great bodily harm.”
Linebacker Itayvion “Tank” Brown, safety Angelo Grose, cornerback Justin White, defensive end Brandon Wright and defensive end Zion Young are each charged with one count of aggravated assault while linebacker Jacoby Windmon faces one count of assault and battery. A conviction for a misdemeanor count of assault carries a prison term of up to one year, while misdemeanor assault and battery carries a maximum sentence of 93 days behind bars.
Spartans cornerback Malcolm Jones, one of the suspended players, is not facing charges, nor are any players from Michigan.
Following the Wolverines' 29-7 win over their in-state rivals, social media posts showed Michigan State players roughing up Michigan’s Ja’Den McBurrows in and near a hallway that doesn’t lead to either locker room. Brown, Grose and Young are clearly seen on video getting physical with McBurrows.
McBurrows skipped into the tunnel after the game and defensive back Gemon Green walked up it alongside Spartans while much of Michigan’s team was waving the Spartans off the field.
Green, in another post, is seen surrounded by police while shouting across the tunnel at Michigan State players.
The prosecutor’s office did not provide detail on the allegations, including who is accused of hitting whom. It was not clear when the charged players will make initial appearances in court.
No. 2 Michigan secured the Big Ten East Division title by beating rival Ohio State, and is preparing to face unranked Purdue in the conference championship game. A win would give the Wolverines a spot in the College Football Playoff.
Michigan State won five games under third-year coach Mel Tucker, who helped them go 11-2 last season with a second straight win over the Wolverines.
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KYIV, Ukraine — As bells rang out at a centuries-old monastery, Ukrainians stepped out into a cold, misty night to light candles in memory of the devastating famine of 1932-33.
This annual commemoration was especially poignant this year, marking 90 years since the famine gripped Ukraine. Many here say Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was trying to destroy Ukraine then, and the current Kremlin leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, is trying to do the same thing now.
They call it the Holodomor, which means "death by hunger."
At the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide, one visitor, Roman Vashchenko, 44, spoke in somber tones of suffering old and new. First, he recalled stories his grandmother told him.
"She was one of 10 children. They were not allowed to leave their village. So they didn't know what was happening elsewhere," he said. "But they had a cow, and that's why they survived, because they had milk."
Then he spoke of pain that's much more recent.
"In March, the Russians shot and killed my sister and her husband," he said softly. Their sons, ages 12 and 6, survived.
Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union when Stalin seized private farms and turned them into state-run operations. It was an absolute disaster in this fertile farming region known as the "breadbasket of the Soviet Union."
Other farming regions also suffered famine, including Kazakhstan. But no place was hit as hard as Ukraine.
An estimated 4 million Ukrainians died within two years, though there's no precise figure and some historians say the toll may have been significantly higher.
Ukraine calls it a genocide, and nearly 20 other countries now agree — though not Russia.
Drawing parallels between Stalin and Putin
One country that shares Ukraine's position is Poland, and its prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, visited Kyiv this weekend.
"If we allow Putin to continue, he will become the Stalin of the 21st century," Morawiecki said.
Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelenskyy also made the link between then and now.
"We see what is happening today in the world, what is happening in Ukraine. They want to destroy us with bombs, bullets, cold and hunger again," Zelenskyy said.
There are no official figures, but most estimates point to tens of thousands of Ukrainian deaths among soldiers and civilians since Russia invaded in February.
Nearly 8 million Ukrainians fled the country. While some have returned, it remains the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
Millions more Ukrainians have fled their homes in the east and the south of the country, the scene of the heaviest fighting, and taken refuge in other parts of the country.
Zelenskyy marked the anniversary of the famine by hosting an international conference Saturday on food security, called "Grain from Ukraine."
Many European leaders attended, either in person or virtually. A total of 20 countries pledged $150 million to to help deliver Ukraine's farm exports by ship.
Russia blocked Ukraine from using its main export channel via the Black Sea in the early months of the war. Ukrainian wheat and other products are now flowing, though at lower than normal levels. Prices for basic foods remain expensive on the international market, straining the budgets of developing countries in Africa and Asia in particular.
"We do not just send Ukrainian foodstuffs to those countries that suffer the most from the food crisis. We affirm that never again should hunger be used as a weapon," Zelenskyy said.
Documenting the famine
At the Holodomor museum, there are books as thick as encyclopedias, some more than 1,000 pages. They're filled with the names of those who died in the famine. Visitors page through them, often looking for relatives they never knew.
Many say they heard firsthand accounts of the famine from grandparents or great-grandparents who survived.
"People were trying to live by eating grass and roots. My great-grandfather was a miner, and they got 100 grams of bread every day. Because of this bread, they survived," said Iryna Kopalova, a 37-year-old engineer.
This past spring, Kopalova said that as the fighting neared their village outside Kyiv, her 6-year-old daughter understood that the Russians were the enemy.
"When she heard the first explosions, she asked me, 'Mother, should I speak Russian now?' But we just fled our home, we didn't wait for the Russians to arrive," Kopalova said.
That famine, and today's war, speak to a country that's endured so much hardship.
It explains why the national anthem begins with the words, "Ukraine has not yet perished."
As NPR was about to leave the museum, Roman Vashchenko, the man who lost his sister and brother-in-law this spring, came over to say more about the couple's two orphaned children.
The 12-year-old, Tymofiy, has kept a journal during the war. When his parents were killed, he didn't believe it at first, hoping they might still be alive. Eventually he accepted the loss, writing, "Dreams don't come true."
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Matt Rhule said he had plenty of options after he got fired by the Carolina Panthers. He could have taken a year off from football or worked in television.
Or he could jump back into college coaching. A number of schools reached out to him, he said, but only one appealed to him and his family.
Nebraska introduced Rhule as its coach on Monday, exactly seven weeks after the Panthers fired him five games into his third season. Awaiting him is the daunting task of taking over a team coming off a sixth straight losing season and a program that's a shell of what once was one of the biggest brands in the college game.
“I am here because this is the right fit, it’s the right time,” Rhule said. “And if I have one message for you: We can absolutely do it. We can absolutely get University of Nebraska football exactly where it’s supposed to be. It will be hard. It may take time, but it will be done.”
Rhule signed an eight-year, $74 million contract that makes him the third highest-paid coach in the Big Ten behind Ohio State's Ryan Day and Michigan State's Mel Tucker and among the top 10 nationally.
Athletic director Trev Alberts said the contract is 90% guaranteed and that some of the compensation is deferred. Rhule will have a pool of $7 million to spend on assistant coaches.
When the Panthers fired Rhule, he was still owed $34 million on his seven-year contract. Alberts said the Panthers were involved in Rhule's negotiations with Nebraska.
“Structuring a business arrangement that everybody was willing to sign off on was a bit of a challenge,” Alberts said, “and there were some fits and starts to it."
Alberts said there was a period when it looked like the deal would fall through, but the sides reached an agreement on Thanksgiving morning.
Rhule's starting salary is $5.5 million and rises by at least $1 million each year, topping out at $12.5 million if he's still coach in 2030. Asked if he thought he would need to spend an average of $9 million per year on a football coach, Alberts said the salary scale is rising in the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference because of dramatically increasing revenues tied to record-setting television rights deals.
“Let's be honest, there's a Power Two now,” Alberts said. “Certainly not to denigrate any of the other conferences, but that's kind of where we're heading. ... If we're going to be serious about having Nebraska football competing at the upper level of the Big Ten Conference, there's going to be resources needed to acquire that talent.”
Rhule, who was 11-27 in two-plus seasons with the Panthers, was hired because of the success he had in his two college head coaching jobs.
He had Temple playing for and winning the American Athletic Conference championship in his third and fourth seasons (2015-16). He had Baylor playing for the Big 12 championship in his third season (2019) after taking over a Bears program emerging from the sexual assault scandal under Art Briles.
Rhule emphasized toughness in practices and games and said the only way to win games is to win the line of scrimmage. The Huskers have notably struggled on the offensive and defensive lines.
Rhule, who grew up in New York City as a Penn State fan, was a walk-on linebacker for the Nittany Lions. He said he attended the Huskers' 44-6 Kickoff Classic win over Penn State in 1983 and was heartbroken when Nebraska beat out the unbeaten Nittany Lions for the 1994 national title.
Rhule said he respected the physical brand of football the Huskers played back then and that he wants to bring it back.
About 750 boosters and former players turned out at the Hawks Championship Center for a welcome event and news conference. Among them were Gov.-elect Jim Pillen, a Republican who played defensive back for the Huskers in the 1970s, and 1972 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers. The band played and fireworks went off next to the podium as Rhule and Alberts entered the building.
Rhule, 47, is the sixth coach to lead the program since College Football Hall of Famer Tom Osborne won or shared three national championships in four years before retiring after the 1997 season.
The Huskers' most recent conference championship came in 1999 under Osborne's successor, Frank Solich. Bill Callahan, Bo Pelini and Mike Riley followed before the program bottomed out under Scott Frost, who was 16-31 in four-plus seasons and never finished higher than fifth in the Big Ten West.
Rhule's arrival came three days after the Huskers closed a 4-8 season under Mickey Joseph — named interim coach after Frost's firing Sept. 11 — and just a few months before the opening of Nebraska's $165 million football facility.
“There’s not a game that I expect to ever walk into where we don’t expect to win,” Rhule said. “It is not a burden but a responsibility on me as the coach to know that there will be people from all across the state who take the money that they’ve made with their hands and with their work and their daily toil — and they spend it to come watch our team play. You can’t win every game every year, but you can certainly be a team that people are proud to watch.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)Donovan Clingan had 15 points and 10 rebounds to power No. 20 UConn to a 71-53 win over Iowa State in the championship game of the Phil Knight Invitational on Sunday night.
Tristen Newton scored 13 points for the Huskies (8-0), who went 20 for 25 at the free-throw line. Alex Karaban and Andre Jackson, Jr. each had 10 points.
Osun Osunniyi led Iowa State (5-1) with 14 points. Tamin Lipsey had 12 points and Jaren Holmes finished with 11.
”They were the more aggressive team,” Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger said. ”We wanted a physical game. We didn’t want a physical game with them getting the rebounds and then also us putting them on the foul line. Lesson that we’ve got to learn is we need to embrace being the aggressor at both ends of the floor at all times.”
The Huskies had more offensive rebounds (20) than the Cyclones had total rebounds (19), and capitalized on that disparity with 20 second-chance points.
”Those guys are tough,” UConn coach Dan Hurley said. ”T.J.`s an excellent coach. They grind people up. To outrebound them, it just speaks to how tough we were.”
Clingan, who was named tournament MVP, scored eight points to help UConn to a 38-28 lead at the break.
Iowa State closed to 53-48 on Holmes’ 3-pointer midway through the second half. But Karaban made a 3 and a dunk, and Newton’s jumper made it 60-48 with 7:13 remaining.
BIG PICTURE
UConn: The Huskies couldn’t have asked for a better showing in Portland, winning all three of their games.
Iowa State: The Cyclones picked up nice wins over Villanova and top-ranked North Carolina in the earlier rounds but ended with their first loss of the season.
UP NEXT
UConn: The Huskies return home to face Oklahoma State on Thursday.
Iowa State: The Cyclones return home to face North Dakota on Tuesday.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Kalen DeBoer would much rather be preparing for the Pac-12 championship game than sitting around waiting to find out what the bowl destination will be for No. 9 Washington.
But the Huskies coach and the rest of his team have a rooting interest in what transpires on Friday night in Las Vegas between No. 4 Southern California and No. 12 Utah. A win by the Trojans could end up landing Washington a trip to the Rose Bowl in DeBoer’s first season in charge.
“We’ve become very selfish the last few weeks, haven’t we?” DeBoer joked on Monday.
USC could be headed to the College Football Playoff with a win. That would open up the Rose Bowl to select a team of their choosing from the Pac-12 to replace the Trojans.
That could be the Huskies, who wrapped up a 10-2 regular season and 7-2 Pac-12 campaign with a 51-33 win over Washington State in the Apple Cup last Saturday. Washington, Utah and Oregon all finished tied for second in conference play, but Utah won the tiebreaker putting the Utes in the championship game opposite USC.
“I guess I’m looking at it this way, we did Utah a favor already, right?” DeBoer joked, noting that Washington’s win over Washington State is what put Utah into the title game. “Selfish-wise, I certainly think there is a team we’re rooting for.”
If the Pac-12 still had divisions, which it did away with this season, Washington would have won the North Division and been headed for Las Vegas.
“It’s hard because there’s a tie for the second spot and we’re in that tie. We all agreed on it before the season. Those are the rules and that’s what you got to go with,” DeBoer said. “We’d certainly love to see if we’ve got that type of team. We feel we do, certainly, but we had our chances throughout the course of the year.”
The Rose Bowl is not required to take Utah despite being in the championship game, especially with Washington expected to be ranked higher in the CFP rankings. Utah also played in the Rose Bowl last year. Washington’s last trip came after the 2018 season.
The Huskies also feature one of the most exciting offenses in the country led by quarterback Michael Penix Jr., the nation’s leader in yards passing and a late candidate to be included in the Heisman Trophy conversation.
Penix said Monday he intends to play in Washington’s bowl game even as his draft stock is rising. And it could end up being the Granddaddy of Them All.
“That’d be really incredible coming back Year 1 after 4-8 and (going) 10-2 and having the chance of playing in the Rose Bowl, which is the dream for so many guys on the West Coast,” DeBoer said. “To be playing, not on New Year’s Day but Jan. 2 would certainly be a highlight.”
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Make some room, Phi Slama Jama. Another Houston team has reached the top of men’s college basketball.
Nearly four decades after Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon took the Cougars to No. 1, the latest bunch led by Marcus Sasser and star freshman Jarace Walker took over the top spot in the AP Top 25 on Monday. They received 45 of 63 first-place votes from the national media panel, easily outdistancing second-place Texas and third-place Virginia.
”It’s not like we went online and applied for it and waited for a response back. We’ve been working for this,” said Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, whose team is coming off a Final Four and Elite Eight trip the past two seasons. ”But remember, it’s a rental. You don’t own it. You’re just renting it because someday somebody else is going to be No. 1.”
North Carolina had been No. 1 all season, but the Tar Heels lost to Iowa State and in a four-overtime thriller to Alabama at the Phil Knight Invitational to cede the top spot to Houston, which beat Kent State in its only game last week.
The last time the Cougars ascended to No. 1 was the final poll of the 1982-83 season, when ”The Glide” and ”The Dream” along with coach Guy Lewis were the favorites to win it all. They rolled through the NCAA Tournament before falling to Jim Valvano and North Carolina State in an iconic championship game in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
”I’ve never been ranked No. 1,” said Sampson, now in his 34th season as a college basketball coach. ”We were ranked all 12 years at Oklahoma. I’m sure we were ranked at Indiana. Then we’ve been ranked five or six straight years. We’re used to having a high level of success.”
Texas received eight first-place votes and Virginia received two. Arizona climbed from 14th to fourth after emerging from a stacked field to win the Maui Invitational. Purdue jumped from 24th all the way to fifth and scooped up eight first-place votes after beating West Virginia, Gonzaga and Duke at the Phil Knight Legacy tourney.
”Our guys are competitive. They’re fun to coach. They get along. They’re out there playing with purpose and that’s what you have to have,” said Boilermakers coach Matt Painter, whose team was briefly No. 1 about this time last season.
”Early in the season, very few teams play with the purpose collectively,” he said. ”I thought our guys played with a purpose.”
Baylor was sixth, Creighton seventh and U Conn climbed from 20th to eighth after beating Oregon, Alabama and Iowa State to win the Phil Knight Invitational. Kansas fell from third to ninth after losing to Tennessee in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis, while Indiana rounded out the top 10.
There was a tie for 11th between SEC rivals Alabama and Arkansas with the Volunteers, another conference foe, right behind them. Gonzaga dropped from sixth to 14th, its first time outside the top 10 since Feb. 5, 2018, and Auburn was 15th.
Illinois was next followed by Duke and North Carolina in a tough week for Tobacco Road. The Blue Devils fell from eighth after their 75-56 loss to the Boilermakers.
Kentucky and Michigan State joined UCLA, Maryland, Iowa State, San Diego State and Ohio State in rounding out the poll.
RISING AND FALLING
Purdue made a rare 19-spot jump as the poll underwent a massive shakeup. UConn climbed 12 spots, Arizona moved up 10, Tennessee climbed nine and Alabama seven. On the flip side, the Tar Heels tumbled 17 spots, Duke dropped nine, Gonzaga fell eight and San Diego State fell seven.
IN AND OUT
Despite all the movement, Iowa State was the only newcomer this week, checking in at No. 23 after beating Villanova and North Carolina before falling to UConn. The Cyclones replaced Iowa, which dropped out after a one-week stay following its loss to TCU in the title game of the Emerald Coast Classic.
CONFERENCE WATCH
There are six difference conferences represented in the first seven teams in the poll. The Big Ten leads the way with six in the Top 25 while the SEC has five and the Big 12 has four, though three of them are in the top 10.
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Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said he spoke with Lamar Jackson on Monday about the star quarterback's profane postgame tweet directed at a fan a day earlier, saying the language Jackson used was out of character.
Jackson, meanwhile, insisted on Twitter that he did not intend to disrespect anyone's sexual orientation and has never done so.
After the Ravens lost 28-27 to Jacksonville on Sunday, a fan suggested Baltimore let Jackson leave via free agency. Jackson responded — in a tweet that was later deleted — by saying the person “never smelt a football field" and using vulgar language that members of the gay community said was offensive.
Jackson shot back at the idea that his tweet was anti-gay by tweeting Monday: “Not once have I ever mentioned or disrespect anyone’s Sexuality, sexual orientation, gender, Religion or Race.”
Harbaugh said he heard about Jackson’s tweet Sunday night and talked to him Monday morning.
“We talk a lot about football, but we also talk a little bit about that stuff too — what goes on in terms of the media and everything, and really, it’s just, beg guys not to get into the Twitter world right after the game, especially after a loss,” Harbaugh said. “It’s never going to be positive. It’s not going to be a nice place, and I think that’s kind of reflected in Lamar’s response.
“... He wants to win. I’m sure he’s frustrated, just like we all are, and that’s just a place you just don’t want to live right after a game. I know he understands that.”
Outsports.com, which covers LGBTQ sports news, published a piece about Jackson's comments that said: “Jackson might not be homophobic, but his comment was. He would have been better off apologizing for the tweet in the first place as opposed to trying to defend its contents.”
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HOUSTON (AP) — Deshaun Watson was a star with the Houston Texans. Then he became disgruntled and later disgraced. After sitting out an entire season, he was traded to the Cleveland Browns. There, he has missed most of another as punishment amid sexual misconduct allegations.
Come Sunday, he'll be back in H-Town, taking snaps in an NFL game for the first time in nearly two years.
“I think this will probably be the final piece to that story,” Texans coach Lovie Smith said.
Watson is set to return from an 11-game NFL suspension when the Browns visit the Texans on Sunday, an uncomfortable reunion with Houston after the team's acrimonious split with the former face of the franchise.
“Deshaun is back. He’s playing football," Smith said. "The way things go, his first game would be back down here.”
Sunday will be the first time Watson has played a regular-season game since the 2020 season finale on Jan. 3, 2021, when he threw for 365 yards and three touchdowns for the Texans in a 41-38 loss to Tennessee to cap a disappointing 4-12 season.
Less than a month later, Watson became unhappy with the direction of the team and requested a trade.
In the months after his request, more than 20 women filed civil lawsuits alleging that he sexually harassed or assaulted them during massages, sparking a police investigation. A grand jury in Houston declined to indict Watson on March 11, clearing the way for the Texans to trade him. He was dealt to the Browns a week later. The NFL suspended him and fined him $5 million in August.
Before that, he and the Texans spent more than a year in limbo, with Watson on the roster and required to report to the facility but refusing to play for the team. That prompted then-coach David Culley to withstand a barrage of questions about the quarterback.
“It was a little bit different last year,” said Smith, who was the team’s defensive coordinator. “Deshaun was in the building a little bit, but we didn’t have a whole lot of interaction with him. But that is in the past. Changed area codes and all that.
"Now it’s just about a great quarterback coming into town that we need to get ready for with a history with our franchise.”
Despite Houston’s struggles in 2020, the Texans were confident that Watson would be their long-term solution at quarterback after being plagued by woes at the position for most of their relatively short history.
In the three seasons before drafting Watson with the 12th pick in 2017, the Texans had nine players start at least one game. Watson started six games as a rookie, finding immediate success before a season-ending ACL tear.
He returned in 2018, and his dynamic play helped the Texans to an 11-5 record and an AFC South title. Watson led Houston to a 10-6 mark and another division crown the following season before losing in the divisional round of the playoffs.
By then, Watson was a fan favorite in Houston. On game days, you’d see as many people wearing his No. 4 jersey as those of established superstars like J.J. Watt and DeAndre Hopkins.
He endeared himself to the city not only with his play on the field but with multiple charitable endeavors across Houston. Watson made headlines as a rookie when the team released a video showing him giving his first rookie paycheck of about $27,000 to three Hurricane Harvey victims who worked in the team cafeteria.
Some fans became upset with him when he asked for the trade, but many blamed the problem on a team that had become somewhat dysfunctional after owner Bob McNair died in 2018 and his son Cal McNair took over.
But when the lawsuits began piling up and Watson remained out while the Texans struggled, some fans became ready to move on from the quarterback.
“I was a major Watson fan and thought he might finally get us to the Super Bowl,” Jose Rodriguez said at a sports bar Sunday while watching the Texans lose yet again. “But after everything that happened, I’m glad he’s gone and not our problem anymore.”
Houston (1-9-1), which finished with four wins for the second straight year last season, is struggling through another terrible season. With a team devoid of big names, it’s common to see jerseys of players no longer on the team at the stadium on game day.
Watt, Hopkins and Andre Johnson jerseys are commonplace. It’s rare to see Watson’s No. 4, so popular just two years ago.
Though the Texans and their fans are ready to move on from the Watson chapter, they are counting on the trade that sent him away to help turn things around. The Texans received three first-round draft picks in the trade, along with a third-round selection in 2023 and a fourth-round pick in 2024.
They used the first pick from the deal to take offensive lineman Kenyon Green with the 15th overall pick in this year’s draft. He’s started 10 games this season, and the Texans will use Cleveland’s first-round picks in the next two drafts to try and add talent to a team that seems overmatched in almost every way.
Despite their long history with Watson, the Texans will try to treat Sunday’s game as just the next one on the schedule as they try to snap a six-game skid. Smith was quick to point out that there probably won’t be much emotion toward the quarterback from Houston’s players since most of them never played with Watson.
“Did I tell you we’ve got a lot of young guys? They don’t know a whole lot about our past and what we’ve done,” he said. “They are just trying to get better and help us get another win.”
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KHARTOUM — Sudanese women protested outside U.N. offices in Khartoum on Sunday in conjunction with a campaign against gender-based violence (GBV). The protesters called for better protection of women and children in Sudan’s conflict areas and for justice and accountability. Sudan's head of combating violence against women admits GBV has increased in many parts of the country due to a lack of law enforcement.
Scores of Sudanese women, most dressed in black and holding black banners, protested outside U.N. offices calling on Sudan’s military rulers to better protect women and give power to the people.
They condemned violence used against women across Sudan and in recent unrest in the Blue Nile, Kordofan and Darfur regions.
Hala al-Karib heads the Sudan office for the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA). She says thousands of women are being killed, raped, and displaced across Sudan and the military is failing to hold the culprits accountable.
“What is happening is very scary and the losses among women and children, the destruction of the infrastructure, the destruction of schools; particularly in the Lagawa area, what happened in Blue Nile with the ethnic conflicts between the communities, the promotion of hate language, all these are concerns for us as women groups,” she said.
The U.N. in Sudan in October expressed concern at renewed inter-communal fighting in Blue Nile and West Kordofan that left at least 170 people dead and 300 wounded.
The U.N. in a statement said at least 1,200 households were displaced and called for an end to the violence and for protection of women and children.
Innas Muzamil joined the protest to express solidarity with the victims of violence.
“We are here today to tell the world that we cannot keep silent for this level of cruelty, raping women, killing them, attacking houses [and] making the lives of the people very miserable,” said Muzamil.
The Sudanese women were protesting for a campaign called 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
They handed over a petition to the office of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Khartoum, urging them to enforce justice.
A U.N. worker accepted the petition but a spokesperson did not immediately comment on it.
Suleima al-Khalifa is head of combatting violence against women at Sudan’s Ministry of Social Development.
Speaking to VOA Monday, she admits her office has seen an increase in violence and injustice against women.
“The lack of governance created this kind of lack of accountability, and we even lost the coordination mechanism we used to have," she said. "We have tried our best to visit places where there are conflicts and we tried to look out how we could find solutions. But actually, with the increase of gender-based violence and some cases of femicide, most of these cases are not well documented.”
Activist al-Karib also reiterated calls in Sudan for a return to civilian rule in the country for great accountability.
“It is really crucial for the international community to understand that the demands of Sudanese for civilian’s government is legitimate and the demand of Sudanese women for peace and security is hundred percent legitimate and their voices should be considered in any process,” she said.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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FREEZE WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
206 PM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM PST
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected.
* WHERE...Coastal Del Norte, Northern Humboldt Coast and
Mendocino Coast Counties.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and other
sensitive vegetation.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Provide
adequate shelter for outdoor pets or consider bringing them
indoors.
Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings are issued during the local
growing season as defined by climatology and local agriculture
experts. Once the growing season has ended these statements will
no longer be issued until the spring.
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
THURSDAY AFTERNOON ABOVE 2000 FEET...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible above 2000 feet. Total snow
accumulations of 7 to 24 inches possible. Winds could gust as
high as 40 mph.
* WHERE...Northern Humboldt Interior, Southern Humboldt
Interior, Northern Trinity and Southern Trinity Counties.
* WHEN...From Wednesday afternoon through Thursday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The
hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening
commute.
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
230 PM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Southwest to west winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph
expected. Isolated gusts to 50 mph in the hills.
* WHERE...Antelope Valley.
* WHEN...Until midnight PST tonight.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions expected with road debris
and crosswinds. Unsecured objects will be blown around. Blowing
dust may reduce visibility..
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highways 14 and 138 impacted.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM PST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph expected.
* WHERE...Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will make driving difficult and blow
around unsecured objects. Hazardous driving conditions expected
with road debris and crosswinds. Tree limbs could be blown down
and a few power outages may result.
...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM PST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Northwest to north winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to
50 mph expected.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast and Santa Ynez
Mountains Western Range.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions expected with road
debris and crosswinds. Unsecured objects will be blown around.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highways 101, 154, and 192 impacted.
* WHAT...Southwest to west winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50
mph, shifting to northwest to north overnight.
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains and Los Angeles County
Mountains.
and crosswinds. Unsecured objects will be blown around. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Interstate 5, Highways 33 and 14 impacted.
...FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible.
* WHERE...Cuyama Valley.
* WHEN...From late Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Plan for
extra time to defrost vehicle windshields.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)Jorell Saterfield hit four 3-pointers and finished with 15 points to help Portland State beat Oregon State for the second time in eight days, 83-71 in the seventh-place game of the Phil Knight Legacy tournament Sunday night.
Mikal Starks had 13 points, five assists and three steals for Portland State (3-4). Bobby Harvey, Cameron Parker and Hunter Woods scored 11 points apiece and Keshaun Saunders added 10. Parker made 4 of 6 from the field, grabbed six rebounds and had six assists before picking up his second technical foul with 1:35 to play.
Portland State, which also beat the Beavers 79-66 on Nov. 20 in Corvallis, Oregon, improved to 2-16 all-time against Oregon State.
Woods and Saterfield hit back-to-back 3-pointers to open the scoring and the Vikings never trailed. Oregon State (3-4) made just 1 of 6 from the field and committed seven turnovers as Portland State opened the game with an 18-3 run over the first 7 minutes.
Jordan Pope answered with a 3-pointer and then made two free throws, Jayden Stevens also made two foul shots and Dexter Akanno hit a 3 as the Beavers scored the next 10 points to trim its deficit to five points midway through the first half but Saterfield hit a pair of 3s and Parker followed with another to ignite a 13-4 spurt and Oregon State got no closer.
Pope made 6 of 10 from the field and 10 of 10 from the free-throw line and finished with 23 for the Beavers.
Oregon State has lost four in a row after winning three straight to open the season.
UP NEXT
Portland State plays host to Portland Bible College on Wednesday
Oregon State opens its Pac-12 slate at home against Washington on Thursday
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WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 1, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
215 PM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
THURSDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 10
inches possible. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph in the
Shasta Valley and over the mountains.
* WHERE...This includes areas in the Shasta Valley from Gazelle
south and elevations above 3000 feet in central Siskiyou County.
This includes Interstate 5 near Weed and Gazelle and highway 97
east of Weed.
* WHEN...From Wednesday afternoon through Thursday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The
hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening
commute. Blowing snow may reduce significantly reduce visibility
and create near white out conditions at times.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heaviest snow is expected late Wednesday
evening through Thursday morning. Moderate snow of 2 to 5 inches
is possible near Yreka and Montague.
* View the hazard area in detail at
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?wfo=mfr
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
* Stock emergency kit with tire chains, flashlight, batteries,
blankets, food, water, and medications.
* The safest place during a winter storm is indoors.
* Plan now to avoid traveling during the storm.
* A Winter Storm Watch means there is potential for snow
accumulations that may create dangerous travel.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON ABOVE 3000 FEET...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible above 3000 feet. Total snow
accumulations of 8 to 18 inches except locally higher amount up
to 24 inches over the higher mountains above 5000 feet. Winds
could gust to 30 to 45 mph over exposed higher terrain.
* WHERE...Western Siskiyou County above 3000 feet. This includes
higher portions of Sawyers Bar Road and higher portions of
highway 3 west of Yreka and from Callahan south.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Patchy
blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. The
commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The heaviest snow is expected Wednesday
evening through Thursday morning. Snow levels will start out
around 4000 feet Wednesday afternoon, lowering to 3000 feet
Wednesday night. Snow levels may lower further down to 2000 feet
Thursday morning.
* A Winter Storm Watch means there is potential for significant
snow accumulations that may create dangerous travel.
THURSDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations 5 to 10
inches except higher amount of 10 to 20 inches in the south-
central and southeast Siskiyou County area including near Mount
Shasta City and from Tennant south. Winds are expected to gust
to 25 to 35 mph and locally to around 45 mph over the mountains.
* WHERE...This includes south-central and eastern Siskiyou County
and Modoc County in California and Klamath and western Lake
Counties in Oregon. This includes the communities of Mount
Shasta, Dunsmuir, McCloud, Tennant, Dorris, Tulelake, Klamath
Falls, Chemult, Newell, Canby and surrounding areas. This also
includes Interstate 5 near Mount Shasta City, and portions of
highways 97, 66, 62, 140, 139, 299, 395 and 31.
* WHEN...From Wednesday afternoon through Thursday evening.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Areas of
blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. Heavy wet
snow may result in trees down and power outages. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning and evening commute.
evening through Thursday afternoon. Moderate to heavy snow could
continue into Thursday evening.
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With the ball in Tom Brady’s hands, Todd Bowles played it safe and lost. Doug Pederson and Brandon Staley went for broke and celebrated wins.
Aggressive coaching paid off Sunday.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost 23-17 at Cleveland in overtime in a game that Brady had a chance to win in regulation with another one of his vintage drives in the final minute. His coach didn’t trust the GOAT to make it happen.
Bowles didn’t call a timeout and chose to play for overtime. It backfired.
Pederson and Staley avoided OT and went for 2-point conversions. It worked.
The Jacksonville Jaguars upset Baltimore when Pederson decided to go for a 2-pointer after Trevor Lawrence tossed a 10-yard touchdown pass to Marvin Jones with 14 seconds left to pull within a point. Lawrence connected with Zay Jones on the conversion and the Jaguars beat the Ravens 28-27.
The same scenario unfolded later in Arizona when Justin Herbert threw a 1-yard TD pass to Austin Ekeler with 15 seconds remaining to get the Chargers within a point. Herbert then hit Gerald Everett for the 2-pointer to give Los Angeles a 25-24 victory over the Cardinals.
Pederson and Staley are known for making bold decisions. In Jacksonville’s case, Pederson had nothing to lose because the Jaguars (4-7) are headed nowhere. The Chargers (6-5) are in the playoff chase, so Staley’s call was more risky.
Bowles didn’t even try. Calling a timeout with Brady on the field isn’t considered a gamble. It’s standard procedure when the seven-time Super Bowl champion is under center.
The Buccaneers had three timeouts and the ball at their 25 with 32 seconds to go in the fourth quarter after the Browns tied the game at 17-17.
In Week 9, Brady needed just 35 seconds with all of his timeouts to drive the Buccaneers 60 yards for a comeback win against the Rams. He has led a winning drive in fourth quarter/overtime an NFL-record 55 times in the regular season and 14 more in the playoffs.
This time, the Bucs needed 43 yards to give Ryan Succop an attempt at a 50-yard field goal to win.
Brady tossed a 1-yard pass to Rachaad White on first down and the Bucs could’ve stopped the clock with about 26 seconds to go.
Instead, Bowles let it tick, tick, tick.
After Brady fired a 26-yard completion to Julio Jones on the next play to reach the Cleveland 48, only 8 seconds remained when the Bucs finally used their first timeout. Following an incomplete pass, Brady could only try a Hail Mary on the final play before OT.
Fox analyst Jonathan Vilma called Bowles’ decision to not use a timeout after the first play of the series ”inexplicable.”
Bowles wasn’t asked about it after the game. He was questioned about not stopping the clock when the Browns were driving for the tying TD.
”No. That clock was going to run down. We didn’t have enough to stop it right there,” he said. ”There was overtime right there, right off the top. Once we couldn’t get there, it was going to overtime.”
Bowles coached scared to lose. The Buccaneers are fortunate they’re in the weak NFC South where 5-6 is still good enough for first place.
When Pederson was asked about going for the win, he said: ”We’ve got to think players, not plays, and trust our guys.”
Staley also trusted his team.
”I really believe in our offensive football team,” Staley said. ”I believe in our quarterback. I believed in the play call. We executed it well all week. We wanted to finish the game on our terms.”
Brady wasn’t even given the best chance to win by his coach.
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WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 1, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
149 PM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
THURSDAY EVENING ABOVE 2000 FEET...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 10 to
30 inches possible. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph.
* WHERE...Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County, Burney Basin
/ Eastern Shasta County and Mountains Southwestern Shasta County
to Western Colusa County Counties...including Interstate 5.
* WHEN...From Wednesday afternoon through Thursday evening.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Poor
visibility is possible from blowing snow.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...More snow is possible over the weekend.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH
FRIDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 1 to 3 feet
possible. Winds could gust as high 55 to 65 mph.
* WHERE...Western Plumas County/Lassen Park and West Slope
Northern Sierra Nevada Counties including Interstate 80 and
Highway 50.
* WHEN...From Wednesday evening through Friday morning.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Blowing
snow could significantly reduce visibility. Gusty winds could
bring down tree branches.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A dusting to up to 3 inches of snow is also
possible down into the foothills above 2500 feet. More snow is
possible over the weekend.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)Aaron Rodgers kept bending, wincing, the Green Bay star and reigning NFL MVP openly in pain.
Rodgers was forced out by injuries in a loss to the Eagles.
He’s not ready to wave the white flag on the season.
”As long as we are mathematically alive, I’d like to be out there,” Rodgers said.
Rodgers sustained rib injuries late in the third quarter to go with a broken right thumb suffered weeks ago. He was forced to leave early in another Packers’ loss that all but eliminated them from playoff contention.
Rodgers was 11-of-16 passing for 140 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions in a 40-33 loss at Philadelphia on Sunday night.
Now, the question is will Rodgers miss much – if any – time?
Green Bay coach Matt LaFleur said it was too early to determine if Rodgers will be healthy enough to play Sunday against Chicago.
”We’ve got to have more conversation before we ever get into that,” LaFleur said. ”As long as he’s able to go, I expect him to be out there.”
Rodgers, who turns 39 this week, said he was worried about a punctured lung as well. That scare turned out fine but Rodgers said he’ll need more tests on Monday to find out the severity of the rib injuries.
”The pain was tough,” he said. ”I couldn’t really breathe or rotate my upper body.”
But he expected to play.
The Packers (4-8) have little to play for and could shut down Rodgers to take a closer look at backup Jordan Love, their 2020 first-round pick.
Love connected with Christian Watson on a 63-yard, catch-and-run touchdown that cut Philly’s lead to 37-30 in the fourth. He was 6-of-9 passing for 113 yards.
”I’m not shocked to be honest with you that he went out there and played well and showed great poise,” LaFleur said. ”We see it on a daily basis in practice. People might not necessarily agree with that but I see it every day.”
The 2020 first-round pick from Utah State, Love has drawn much scrutiny ever since the Packers drafted him. He was only 6 of 9 for 73 yards and no touchdowns or interceptions in limited time this season.
Love made his first career start at Kansas City last year after Rodgers’ positive COVID-19 test and went 19 of 34 for 190 yards with a touchdown and an interception as the Packers lost 13-7.
”In my mind, it is just go and make the most of it,” Love said. ”Opportunities do not come around too often. You have to go make the most of it.”
Rodgers already played the last several weeks with a broken right thumb and appeared in pain during a drive in the third that led to a Packers field goal. Rodgers attempted only a few short throws and grimaced after he released the ball.
LaFleur said he was about to call a pass play in the third when it became obvious Rodgers could not really throw.
”So we kept going run after run after run,” he said.
Rodgers hurt his thumb Oct. 9 during a foiled Hail Mary attempt on the final play of the Packers’ 27-22 loss to the New York Giants in London. Although the Packers have listed Rodgers with a thumb injury ever since, the four-time MVP hadn’t said publicly until this week that it was broken.
Rodgers said his thumb ”felt pretty good this week” and he has not yet discussed potential surgery.
The Packers were 4-6 in 2016 when Rodgers predicted the team would ”run the table.” Sure enough, a victory at Philadelphia started an eight-game winning streak that sent the Packers to the NFC championship game, where they lost to Atlanta.
Not this week in Philly, not against Jalen Hurts and his 157 yards rushing – an Eagles record for a quarterback.
Rodgers said he’s still waiting until the offseason to make a decision on his future.
Rodgers hasn’t missed any games, but the injury has limited his practice time and he hasn’t approached the level he reached while earning MVP honors each of the last two seasons. That loss to the Giants started a 1-7 tailspin that has put the three-time defending NFC North champions’ playoff hopes in jeopardy.
”We have a five-game stretch, we need to win all five,” Rodgers said. ”And we probably need some help.”
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, November 28, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
246 PM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...
A few snow showers will continue into early this evening but heavy
snow accumulations are no longer expected.
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 8 to 14
inches possible. Highest amounts near the crest. Winds could
gust as high as 35 mph.
* WHERE...East Slopes of the Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...From Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Areas
of blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. The
hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening
commute.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 5
inches possible. Heaviest snow northwest of Ellensburg.
* WHERE...Kittitas Valley.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
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WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
236 PM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 1 to 2
feet possible. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph.
* WHERE...South Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...From Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
A Winter Storm Watch means there is a potential for significant
snow, sleet, or ice accumulations that may impact travel. Continue
to monitor the latest forecasts.
WEDNESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 8
inches possible.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Upper Hood River Valley and Central
Columbia River Gorge. In Washington, Central Columbia River
Gorge.
* WHEN...From Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)Claude Giroux scored on a breakaway 20 seconds into overtime, Brady Tkachuk had a goal and an assist and the Ottawa Senators beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 on Sunday night.
Alex DeBrincat had a power-play goal, Cam Talbot made 25 saves and the Senators won consecutive games for the first time since a four-game winning streak in late October.
”When you play well, and you look after the game and you’re happy with your game but you didn’t get the result, it’s easy to go off page and start doing your own thing,” Giroux said. ”But it’s good to know that we played the way we wanted to tonight and we have the result, so we know it works.”
Arthur Kaliyev scored two power-play goals for the Kings, winners of just one of their past five games. Kaliyev became the fifth Los Angeles player in the past decade to score twice on the man advantage in one period.
”He’s a great shot, and he knows where to be, and we just try to find him,” Kings forward Viktor Arvidsson said. ”Today, he buried two, and it was good.”
Jonathan Quick allowed three goals on 39 shots, and Phillip Danault had two assists, but Los Angeles did pick up at least one point for the seventh time in its past nine home games.
Giroux waited out Quick for his ninth goal on the breakaway set up by Tim Stutzle’s stretch pass. Stutzle had two assists, while Giroux had an assist for his fifth multipoint game of the season.
”I’m pretty sure it was a back-end saucer pass all the way down there. The whole goal was special,” Ottawa defenseman Thomas Chabot said. ”G, what a move. And, obviously, it was big for us. It’s a lot of confidence for our group, and to see that we can do it that way, it’s big for us.”
Tkachuk’s 99th career goal was the only scoring of the first period. He jammed the puck in at the near post after Chabot’s shot deflected wide and caromed off the boards to put Ottawa up 1-0 at 4:55.
The power play became a factor in the second period, with Kaliyev striking twice with the man advantage to tie it. His first came midway through the period, but DeBrincat had his own power-play goal less than two minutes later to give the Senators a 2-1 lead.
Kaliyev then unleashed a blistering wrist shot from the right circle to tie it with 2:25 left in the middle period. It was his first career game with multiple power-play goals, and his six tallies on special teams leads Los Angeles.
”We needed something because we sure didn’t start the game very well,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. ”Power play, obviously, gave us some life. It gave us a chance to crawl back into the game. For as poorly as we were playing, it didn’t get away on us, so that was a good thing.”
UNUSUAL STOPPAGE
There was a lengthy delay midway through the first after a deflected shot by Kings D Sean Durzi cracked the kick plate along the bottom of the boards on the Zamboni tunnel before arena personnel were able to replace it.
WORTH NOTING
Kings F Gabe Vilardi, the team’s leading scorer with 11 goals, did not play because of an upper-body injury. He is day to day.
UP NEXT
Senators: Host the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.
Kings: Host Seattle on Tuesday night.
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
303 PM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TUESDAY TO 10 AM
PST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to 3
inches.
* WHERE...Bellevue and vicinity, including Mill Creek, Kenmore,
Kirkland, and Issaquah and Seattle and vicinity, including
Shoreline, Vashon Island, Mercer Island, White Center, Kent,
and Algona.
* WHEN...From 1 PM Tuesday to 10 AM PST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow accumulation likely over the higher
hills of the area during heavy showers Tuesday afternoon.
Greater chance of snow accumulations during the overnight hours
into Wednesday morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
For the latest road conditions in Washington state, call 5 1 1.
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 12 to 24
inches in the high elevations and 6 to 12 inches in the valleys possible.
Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE...Cascade mountains and valleys of Whatcom and Skagit
Counties, including Maple Falls, the Mount Baker Ski Area,
Newhalem, Lyman, and Concrete, Cascade mountains and valleys
of Snohomish and King Counties, including Darrington, Index,
Skykomish, Stevens Pass, and Snoqualmie Pass and Cascade
mountains and valleys of Pierce and Lewis Counties, including
the Crystal Mountain Ski Area, Paradise on Mount Rainier,
Ashford, Randle, and Packwood.
* WHEN...From Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations 4 to 8
inches possible.
* WHERE...Lowlands of western Whatcom County, including Point
Roberts, Lummi Island, Bellingham, and Sumas, Lowlands of
western Skagit County, including Cypress Island, Guemes
Island, Anacortes, Mount Vernon, and La Conner, Everett and
vicinity, including Stanwood, Marysville, and Mountlake
Terrace and East Puget Sound Lowlands from Snohomish County to
Pierce County, including Arlington, Gold Bar, Duvall,
Snoqualmie, Buckley, and Eatonville.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Higher snow accumulations expected in the
higher hills of the area.
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of up to
6 inches possible. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Washington.
* IMPACTS...Plan on very difficult travel.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highest accumulations expected on the
5 inches possible.
* WHERE...Far southwest Mason County and the interior lowlands of
Grays Harbor County, including Matlock.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highest snow accumulations expected for the
northern portions of Grays Harbor County on the south side of
the Olympics.
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 14 to 28
inches possible. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE...Olympic mountains, including Hurricane Ridge.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highest accumulations in the high
elevations.
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