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The Utah Jazz and Chicago Bulls have something in common heading into their Monday night matchup in Salt Lake City.
Gut-wrenching losses on the road set the stage for the Monday date. The Bulls stumbled in Oklahoma City, losing 123-119 in overtime to the Thunder on Friday night after picking up impressive wins over the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks earlier in the week.
Chicago held a 108-104 lead with 2:33 to go in regulation and was on the verge of its first three-game winning streak this season. But Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hit a couple of free throws to help the Thunder force overtime and then drained five straight in the extra period to boost OKC during his latest 30-point night.
DeMar DeRozan scored 30 points for Chicago, but he fouled Gilgeous-Alexander on a 3-point attempt to help the Thunder take the late lead in overtime.
Zach LaVine chipped in with 27 points.
The loss was the second leg of a six-game Western trip for Chicago.
“We’ve just got to be able to stay the course and respond,” Bulls head coach Billy Donovan said. “Like I said, this wasn’t going to be easy.”
For the Jazz, an early 10-point lead at Phoenix on Saturday was erased by the Suns. Deandre Ayton proved to be too much for slumping Utah, with 29 points and 21 rebounds.
Ayton’s big performance, which included a key steal in the final minute, led Devin Booker to joke, “I don’t know what he ate for Thanksgiving, but I wish I went over there.”
Ayton ate up the Jazz on Saturday night, dishing out three assists, blocking two shots and grabbing the game-clinching offensive rebound with two seconds remaining.
“We played hard against a good team on the road on the second night of a back-to-back, I’m very proud of that,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said. “Our defense let us down in the fourth quarter. We got one stop in the first 11 minutes. … We did not rebound down the stretch at all and we did not execute defensively on the last play.”
The setback was Utah’s fourth loss in a row and its seventh in nine outings. The Jazz’s once-sparkling 10-3 record continues to decline, and Utah enters the game with a 12-10 mark.
“One game, one stretch of the season doesn’t define your season,” Jazz big man Kelly Olynyk said. “You’ve got to go through ups-and-downs. Adversity — learn from it and come out the other side better for it.”
While the Jazz have missed Mike Conley, who’s been out with a knee injury, they did get double-figure scoring in Phoenix from three bench players: Malik Beasley (14 points), Nickeil Alexander-Walker (12) and Talen Horton-Tucker (10).
Collin Sexton contributed 20 points and five assists in a starting point guard role.
“He’s continuing to grow in his understanding on the offensive end and how he can help his teammates,” Hardy said. “I thought defensively, he had some really good moments guarding the ball. … That’s going to be a huge emphasis for him going forward.”
Monday’s game in Salt Lake will be just the ninth home game for the Jazz, who are 6-2 at Vivint Arena. The Bulls are 3-6 on the road.
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The Utah Jazz and Chicago Bulls have something in common heading into their Monday night matchup in Salt Lake City.
Gut-wrenching losses on the road set the stage for the Monday date. The Bulls stumbled in Oklahoma City, losing 123-119 in overtime to the Thunder on Friday night after picking up impressive wins over the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks earlier in the week.
Chicago held a 108-104 lead with 2:33 to go in regulation and was on the verge of its first three-game winning streak this season, but Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hit a couple of free throws to help the Thunder force overtime and then drained five straight in the extra period to boost OKC during his latest 30-point night.
DeMar DeRozan scored 30 points for Chicago, but he fouled Gilgeous-Alexander on a 3-point attempt to help the Thunder take the late lead in overtime.
Zach LaVine chipped in with 27 points.
The loss was the second leg of a six-game Western trip for Chicago.
“We’ve just got to be able to stay the course and respond,” Bulls head coach Billy Donovan said. “Like I said, this wasn’t going to be easy.”
An early 10-point lead at Phoenix on Saturday was erased by the Suns. Deandre Ayton proved to be too much for slumping Utah with 29 points and 21 rebounds.
Ayton’s big performance, which included a key steal in the final minute, led Devin Booker to joke, “I don’t know what he ate for Thanksgiving, but I wish I went over there.”
Ayton ate up the Jazz on Saturday night, dishing out three assists, blocking two shots and grabbing the game-clinching offensive rebound with two seconds remaining.
“We played hard against a good team on the road on the second night of a back-to-back, I’m very proud of that,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said. “Our defense let us down in the fourth quarter. We got one stop in the first 11 minutes. … We did not rebound down the stretch at all and we did not execute defensively on the last play.”
The setback was Utah’s fourth loss in a row and its seventh defeat in nine outings. The Jazz’s once-sparkling 10-3 record continues to decline, and Utah enters the game with a 12-10 mark.
“One game, one stretch of the season doesn’t define your season,” Jazz big man Kelly Olynyk said. “You’ve got to go through ups-and-downs. Adversity — learn from it and come out the other side better for it.”
While the Jazz have missed Mike Conley, who’s been out with a knee injury, they did get double-figure scoring in Phoenix from three bench players: Malik Beasley (14 points), Nickeil Alexander-Walker (12) and Talen Horton-Tucker (10).
Collin Sexton contributed 20 points and five assists in a starting point guard role.
“He’s continuing to grow in his understanding on the offensive end and how he can help his teammates,” Hardy said. “I thought defensively, he had some really good moments guarding the ball. … That’s going to be a huge emphasis for him going forward.”
Monday’s game in Salt Lake will be just the ninth home game for the Jazz, who are 6-2 at Vivint Arena. The Bulls are 3-6 on the road.
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Seeing the Golden State Warriors might be the inspiration the Dallas Mavericks need to end a four-game losing streak when last year’s Western Conference finalists meet for the first time this season on Tuesday night in Dallas.
The Mavericks weren’t convinced the better team had won after the Warriors took advantage of a cold-shooting Dallas squad to claim a berth in the 2022 NBA Finals with a 4-1 triumph. Golden State outshot the Mavericks 51.8% to 43.7% from the field, allowing the Warriors to overcome nine more turnovers and 14 fewer free-throw points in the series.
Since they last met in June, the Mavericks have made the most significant transaction, replacing steady guard Jalen Brunson (lost to the New York Knicks in free agency) with talented big man Christian Wood, who came over from Houston.
Wood is tied for second on the team in scoring (17.1) and second in rebounds (7.6) while shooting 56.6 percent overall and 43.9 percent on 3-pointers. Wood had 21 points in Sunday’s 124-115 loss at Milwaukee and put up a 26-point, 12-rebound double-double in a defeat four nights earlier at Boston at the start of the Mavericks’ three-game trip.
Those losses don’t sting as much as earlier defeats at the hands of a five-win Houston Rockets club and a Denver Nuggets team missing Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and Aaron Gordon.
“This is why you can’t drop the winnable ones,” Spencer Dinwiddie said of the tough trip. “Or the 20-point leads, or Denver without their players, or the Rockets … Those are the ones that you’ve got to have.”
The nationally televised affair pits the league’s top two scorers in the Mavericks’ Luka Doncic (33.1 points a game) and Warriors’ Stephen Curry (31.4).
Doncic outscored Curry by an average of 32.0-23.8 in last year’s playoff series, but Curry was far more efficient, shooting 44.4 percent overall and 43.9 from 3-point range, while Doncic finished at 41.5 and 34.0 percent.
Like last June, Curry has lately been getting much more support than Doncic. He’s been almost five points below his average while putting up 26.7 points a night during Golden State’s current three-game winning streak, making 14 of his 34 3-point attempts (41 percent).
Meanwhile, Klay Thompson has heated up with a 19.7 scoring average and 14 threes during the run, while Andrew Wiggins has chipped in with 22.7 points and 12 threes.
Thompson has shot 52 percent on 3-pointers in the three games, Wiggins 55 percent. Newcomer Donte DiVincenzo got into the long-distance act Sunday with a season-best four 3-pointers in eight attempts in 137-114 romp at Minnesota.
“To get everybody playing well at the same time is great,” said Draymond Green, who contributed 19 points and 11 assists to Sunday’s win. “We’re starting to put it together. If we can keep building at this rate, we’ll be poised for a run pretty soon.”
The win over the Timberwolves was just the Warriors’ second on the road in 11 tries, a big reason they are residing ninth in the Western Conference.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — A 16-year-old teenager from Beaumont could soon stand trial as an adult after an assault at West Brook High School was caught on camera.
(Editor's note: The above video is from a September 30, 2022 newscast.)
A hearing to determine if Jordon Savoy would be certified as an adult took place Monday at the Minnie Rogers Juvenile Detention Center before Judge Randy Shelton. He was certified and now faces adult charges.
Savoy has been at the Minnie Rogers Juvenile Detention Center since September 7, 2022.
Videos of the fight surfaced on social media and appeared to have been taken in the boy's bathroom. 12News has seen at least three versions of the fight from different angles
A teenage boy can be seen punching another boy, who is on the floor, in the face and head at least 14 times before kicking him in the face.
The boy on the floor tries to cover his face as he is hit multiple times.
Other teens can be seen in the bathroom when the incident is taking place. None of the teens standing around appear to offer the boy on the ground any assistance.
The boy who was hit multiple times can be seen standing up in one of the videos after the altercation with blood on his face around one eye and blood can be seen on the floor in the background.
In one of the videos, a teen can be heard after the altercation commenting how the boy got "beat the **** up" and suggesting he needs to go to the nurse.
The boy who was seen punching and kicking the other was arrested and could face robbery and assault charges, Councilman Mike Getz said in a September Facebook post.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP)Deion Sanders said Monday that a report stating Colorado has offered him its head coaching job is true and he has also received interest from other schools.
The Jackson State coach didn’t say whether he’s considering any of the opportunities, including trying to turn around the Buffaloes’ beleaguered program.
Sanders didn’t specify in a teleconference for the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game participants who else has reached out besides Colorado, saying, ”I’m not going to sit here and tell all my business, but they’re not the only ones.”
The university hasn’t commented on any candidates to replace Karl Dorrell, who was dismissed in October. Interim coach Mike Sanford finished out the Buffaloes’ 1-11 season.
On Saturday, Fox reported without citing sources that Colorado had offered Sanders the job.
The Pro Football Hall of Famer has guided Jackson State, a historically black college that plays in the second tier of NCAA Division I football, to an 11-0 mark this season. The Tigers host Southern in the SWAC championship Saturday.
Known as ”Prime Time” during his playing career, the magnetic Sanders prefers ”Coach Prime” these days. He said the offer to coach the Buffaloes isn’t a distraction.
”To someone else that hasn’t been that dude, it’s intoxicating. I’ve been `Prime’ for a long time, dawg,” Sanders with a laugh. ”Attention ain’t nothing knew to me. Like, come on. I’m not being braggadocious – that’s a wonderful word, isn’t it? I just came up with that – but this isn’t new to me. Being in the spotlight isn’t new to me.”
Whoever takes over in Boulder has their work cut out. The Buffs went 1-8 in the Pac-12 and concluded their gloomy season with a 63-21 blowout loss to No. 12 Utah at Folsom Field on Saturday.
Before the season, Colorado lost several starters through the transfer portal, an area Sanders could surely shore up should he accept the Buffaloes’ job.
Hired by Jackson State in September 2020 after coaching his sons at a Texas high school, Sanders called the fit ”a match made in heaven.” He quickly lifted the school in Mississippi’s capital to SWAC champion in one calendar year.
The Tigers followed up a 4-3 finish in a pandemic-delayed spring season with an 11-2 showing last fall, a remarkable jump led by Sanders’ son, Shedeur Sanders, at quarterback. They lost to South Carolina State in the Celebration Bowl.
Jackson State’s performance was significant beyond earning its first conference title since 2007. A program that has produced Hall of Famers such as Walter Payton, Lem Barney, Jackie Slater and Robert Brazile was relevant again among HBCUs, and Sanders was determined to keep it that way.
Sanders has also scored on the recruiting trail, landing five-star defensive back Travis Hunter and four-star receiver Kevin Coleman for this year’s unbeaten squad. Sanders told The Associated Press in an October podcast that both players chose JSU because he and his staff will prepare them for careers in the NFL.
Yet, Sanders has noted schools such as Jackson State remain at an inherent disadvantage in recruiting.
”So now it’s becoming an option,” Sanders said of top recruits choosing HBCUs. ”But it’s not truly a balanced option because of facilities, because of the housing. Because of all the aesthetics at HBCUs. We’re underfunded and overlooked. So it’s not the same.”
Sanders’ success in lifting the Championship Subdivision program’s profile – not to mention drawing attention to Black college football and the challenges JSU and other programs face in fielding programs – sparked speculation about Power Five schools pursuing him for coaching vacancies.
On the ESPN show ”Keyshawn, JWill & Max,” longtime NFL receiver Keyshawn Johnson urged Sanders to take the Buffaloes job.
”This is a perfect situation,” Johnson said. ”Here’s why: Prime can recruit. He can get me to hang out in Colorado for sure, there’s no question about that. He can recruit California, Texas, Arizona, Florida. He can get the best players in Colorado to stay in Colorado.”
Even before Sanders took the Jackson State job, he met with officials at Power Five schools about their coaching vacancies and impressed with his preparation.
Sanders was a All-American at Florida State before a stellar NFL career with five teams that included the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, where he won a Super Bowl with each.
The 55-year-old Sanders – or whoever it may be – would step into a Colorado program that’s a long way from its glory days under Hall of Fame coach Bill McCartney, who led CU to a national championship following the 1990 season.
The Buffaloes have had only one full-length winning season since joining the Pac-12 in 2011.
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HOUSTON — The body of Delano Burkes, the Houston man that has been missing for almost two weeks, has been found, according to medical examiners.
His body was found Friday in the Houston Ship Channel, officials confirmed. Details on how the body was found and recovered have not been released.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The above video originally aired on Nov. 17.
We are working to gather more details on this update and will provide more information as it becomes available.
What happened
Burkes, 26, was last seen on video stumbling near some bars in the Heights in the early-morning hours on Nov. 13.
He reportedly went out with some friends, one of which was driving his car when they pulled over into a restaurant parking lot near Bevis and West 19th and 20th Streets in the Heights. That’s when they said Delano went next door to McIntyre’s to use the bathroom.
Burkes was last seen on surveillance around 1 a.m. that Sunday. One video shows Delano leaving McIntyre’s after he was apparently asked to leave. In other videos, he appears to run and stumble nearby.
According to his family members, Delano's friends left without him and his phone ran out of battery. He also didn’t have an ID.
“He was with a friend that he hadn’t seen in a while ... they left him at the club," Delano's mother, Karen Jeffly said. “They had been there for a while, they were watching a fight, so he was tipsy. In the video, you can tell he was tipsy but we also feel like there was more involved ... we feel like he was drugged, too."
Police said they're still trying to figure out what happened that night.
“We do not have any information to suggest that he was drugged or slipped anything, (but) we can’t rule that out ... not saying it didn’t happen,” HPD Asst. Chief K.J. Deese said.
The search for Burkes
Burkes' loved ones spent days passing out flyers with his name and picture in the area in which he was last seen.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee helped them amplify their efforts by bringing awareness to Burkes' disappearance and announcing a $5,000 reward via Crime Stoppers for information that helps lead investigators to his whereabouts.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP)Georgia’s recent frustrations in the Southeastern Conference championship game are providing extra motivation for the Bulldogs to remain focused this week.
Saturday’s matchup against No. 11 LSU in Atlanta will be No. 1 Georgia’s fifth SEC championship game in the last six seasons under coach Kirby Smart. The Bulldogs’ only SEC title in that span came in 2017, when they beat Auburn 28-7.
Georgia is the defending national champion, but most players are still looking for their first conference championship.
The players say that’s more than enough reason to avoid the temptation to look ahead to the four-team College Football Playoff.
”It definitely means a lot to me,” senior safety Chris Smith said Monday. ”It’s definitely one of our team goals to be able to win the SEC. I’ve played in this game three times and haven’t been able to win. Hopefully the fourth time is the charm.”
Georgia (12-0, No. 1 CFP) completed back-to-back undefeated regular seasons for the first time in school history with last week’s 37-14 win over Georgia Tech. The Bulldogs sit atop the AP Top 25 for the eighth straight week.
Georgia strengthened its case to be considered the successor to Alabama as the nation’s most powerful program. Ending the streak of three consecutive SEC championship game losses would boost those bragging rights.
The Bulldogs’ recent record of futility in the SEC championship game includes a 37-10 loss to LSU in 2019.
”They gave us a beatdown and left a bitter taste in our mouth,” Smith said. ”I was here for that and that definitely gives me extra motivation for this game as well.”
A win over LSU would leave no doubt about Georgia’s position atop the playoff rankings. The Bulldogs could make the four-team playoff field even with a loss this week, but Smart says the first priority is winning the conference. He says there’s no reason to think his players could be tempted to look ahead to the playoff.
”No, we’re worried about winning the SEC championship,” Smart said. ”That’s the most important thing on our agenda, is to have an opportunity to do something that rarely gets done. I mean, it’s tough to win an SEC championship. I’ve been part of this league for a long time. I have almost as many national championships as I do SEC championships. They’re really hard to come by. We’re focused on LSU.”
LSU coach Brian Kelly said he thinks the SEC championship game will remain important even after the playoff expands to 12 teams.
”I think the conference championships still carry such a high regard in college football and how they’re perceived,” Kelly said. ”I think in particular the SEC championship game, I think of that as such a big game and celebrated, that I think that’s always going to carry its place in college football.”
Georgia lost to Alabama 41-24 in last year’s SEC championship game before beating the Crimson Tide to end a 41-year national title drought. Alabama also beat Georgia 35-28 in the 2018 SEC title game.
The SEC championship game losses are an obvious void on the Bulldogs’ otherwise impressive seven-year run with Smart.
Smart is 1-1 in national championship games and 1-3 in SEC championship games at Georgia.
”It’s more about checking a box,” Smart said Monday before looking at a wall in the team’s meeting room which lists every year Georgia won a conference title.
”It’s about that next step and having an opportunity to put a number on the wall that stays there forever. It’s an SEC championship. You don’t belittle those. Those are hard to come by. They’re what you do what you do for. … I think our players take a lot of pride in that.”
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BEAUMONT, Texas — Trial is set to begin Tuesday for a man accused of a 2021 murder in Beaumont.
Joaquin Garcia was indicted on September 1, 2021 on one count of murder for the April 2021 stabbing death of 40-year-old Norlan Moreno.
The trial will be held before the Judge Raquel West in the 252nd District Court.
Garcia is currently being held in the Jefferson County Jail on a $1 million bond, according to jail records.
Garcia was arrested the night of April 20, 2021, after Beaumont Police received a call from a woman who said she had reason to believe her husband was being stabbed in their home, at the 2900 block of Charles Street, according to a previous Beaumont Police Department release.
When police arrived at the scene, they found the body of Moreno.
Beaumont Police requested other police departments be on the lookout for Garcia, who had fled the scene of the fatal stabbing.
Garcia was taken into custody by the Victoria Police Department later that night and was held there until being transferred to the Jefferson County Jail.
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP)Person familiar with negotiations tells The Associated Press that Liberty’s Hugh Freeze agrees to become Auburn’s coach.
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP)David Shaw helped build Stanford into a physical powerhouse that was one of the top college football programs in the nation last decade.
Shaw now believes a new coach will be best positioned to return the Cardinal to that level, leading to his decision to step down after a 16-year run on The Farm, including the last 12 as the head coach who won the most games in school history.
”It’s time. It’s time for me to step away. Time for Stanford to find that next person to lead,” Shaw said at a news conference Monday, two days after announcing his decision following a season-ending loss to BYU.
”I hope the next person beats (our accomplishments). I really do. … We’ve got a lot of great young people here, a lot of recruits I know are waiting to see what’s going to happen. But this place is special. This place is magical and I can’t wait for Stanford to be on top again.”
But pulling off a similar turnaround to the one that started when Shaw was an assistant on Jim Harbaugh’s first staff in 2007 and then built on as head coach starting in 2011 could be even more difficult now.
The Cardinal are 14-28 over the last four seasons as the program has struggled to keep up in a rapidly changing college football landscape with players transferring more freely and earning money for name, image, and likeness.
”Stanford can be successful in football on the national stage and has done it before, and we’ll do it again,” athletic director Bernard Muir said.
Muir said the university remains committed to fielding a top-flight football program on par with its dozens of other teams that consistently compete for national championships.
Muir said the administration is figuring out how it can utilize NIL and the transfer portal to help in that regard without violating Stanford’s principles.
”We know others are a little more aggressive in that space right now, and we just have to find what is the right fit for Stanford,” Muir said. ”Striking the appropriate balance is important. As it relates to the transfer portal. I think we can dabble in it. We’re not going to build an entire roster from transfers. That’s not Stanford.”
While many of Stanford’s rivals have had success by bringing in several transfers each year, the Cardinal had only one on the roster this year in defensive back Patrick Fields.
Stanford lost two undergraduate transfers this year in running backs Austin Jones (Southern California) and Nathaniel Peat (Missouri) and finished the season with converted safety Mitch Leigber as the only healthy running back.
Shaw said adding only five key transfers could be the difference in success and the struggles Stanford had this year.
”Add a few more to certain positions and that changes the fortunes of the football team,” he said. ”I think that this next group is going to have that opportunity to really take where we are now and build a winning program.”
The Cardinal had a winning program not too long ago. Harbaugh took over a one-win team from 2006 and went 12-1 and finished fourth in the nation in his final season in 2010.
Shaw built on from there with a physical style dubbed ”Intellectual Brutality” and finished his tenure with a 96-54 record.
In his first five seasons in charge, Stanford was tied for the sixth most wins in the nation, went to three Rose Bowls and went to another BCS game by dominating in the trenches on both sides of the ball.
That began to deteriorate in recent years and then bottomed out in the last two when an injury-depleted roster posted back-to-back nine-loss seasons for the first time in school history.
The Cardinal ranked near the bottom in the nation in both run offense and defense as their days of physically imposing their will on the opposition were long in the past.
”This team’s not that far away,” Shaw said. ”We had a lot of injuries this year. If any of our top three running backs were healthy, I think we’re getting ready for a bowl game right now. I truly believe that.”
Shaw was clear that he is not retiring from coaching but has no immediate plans to look for another job. He has worked in the past on the NFL Network’s draft coverage and could do more television work while also recharging and spending more time with family.
Muir now is in charge of his first search for a football coach since being hired at Stanford in 2012 before the start of Shaw’s second season.
Muir said the search has started but will be deliberate.
”There’s not a set list of criteria other than we want to have somebody that values the balance between athletics and academics, which is really important at this place,” he said. ”Do it with integrity, which is what David did for 12 years here as head coach. We want to grow and allow our program to continue to thrive and compete at a national level. So that’s what we’re looking for. I do believe, based on the interest thus far, we’re going to be able to find that.”
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LAS VEGAS (AP)When UNLV began this season 4-1, coach Marcus Arroyo’s job security wasn’t in question.
Then the Rebels lost six games in a row to seemingly fall out of bowl contention, and even a victory over their biggest rival Saturday wasn’t enough to save Arroyo’s job.
Just two days after UNLV defeated Nevada 27-22, athletic director Erick Harper announced his decision Monday to move on from Arroyo, who went 7-23 over three seasons.
Arroyo had two years left on his $7.7 million contract. Harper said Arroyo would be paid a $2.3 million buyout over the remainder of that term. UNLV spokesman Andy Grossman said the money for the buyout would be privately raised.
”Anyone coaching Division I football, Division II, Division III, it does not matter, the ultimate goal is to win and win consistently,” Harper said.
Arroyo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Associate head coach and linebackers coach Kenwick Thompson will serve as the interim coach if UNLV, which is 5-7, is invited to a bowl. The Rebels could play in the postseason because there might not be enough six-win teams to fill all the bowl slots.
Harper said he would not use a firm to conduct the search, and that he prefers a candidate with head coaching experience.
”That is a big key to the learning curve,” Harper said.
Such a criteria could make Bryan Harsin an attractive candidate. Harsin was fired in just his second season at Auburn, but he went 69-19 over seven seasons at Mountain West rival Boise State and was ranked in the final AP poll four times.
No matter who follows Arroyo, that coach will be the latest to try to turn around a program that has made just four bowl appearances in its history, the last in the 2013 season at the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
UNLV has undergone consistent turnover because of the lack of success, though Arroyo’s three-year tenure ties for the program’s shortest since Ron Meyer in 1973-75. Meyer left to become the coach at SMU after going 27-8.
Arroyo was the 12th coach in the history of the program, which dates to 1968.
”There’s been turnover at the athletic director’s position,” Harper said. ”There’s been turnover in the (university) presidential position. There has been turnover in other areas of this department. That revolving door has to stop, and to do that, we have to be in lockstep together at all times.”
Harper said UNLV now has something substantial to offer candidates with the $35 million Fertitta Football Complex where the team trains to the $2 billion Allegiant Stadium where it plays.
”There is a lot of interest across the board, and we’re going to pick the best person possible for our program,” Harper said.
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Houston will take the court as the nation’s top-ranked team for the first time in nearly 40 years Tuesday when the Cougars host Norfolk State.
Houston (6-0) ascended one spot by receiving 45 of 63 first-place votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll of national media. North Carolina (5-2), which had been No. 1 all season, dropped all the way to 18th after absorbing losses last week to Iowa State and then-No. 18 Alabama.
“It’s not like we went online and applied for it and waited for a response back. We’ve been working for this,” Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said. “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.”
If the Cougars want to extend their first trip atop the poll since the days of Phi Slama Jama, they likely will have to play better against Norfolk State (5-2) than they did in a 49-44 win over visiting Kent State on Saturday.
Marcus Sasser scored 19 points and Jamal Shead hit the go-ahead jumper with 48 seconds left as Houston overcame a sluggish start against the Golden Flashes.
Sasser added five rebounds and two assists, while J’Wan Roberts added 11 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Shead finished with six points and five rebounds.
Houston, which trailed 30-24 early in the second half, shot a season-low 32 percent (16 of 50) from the field, including 2 of 17 (11.8 percent) from 3-point range, winning largely due to outrebounding the Golden Flashes 56-33.
“‘That’s the first time all year someone has punched us in the mouth,” Sampson said. ”We’re used to punching other people in the mouth around here.”
The last time the Cougars were ranked No. 1, in the final poll of the 1982-83 season, Clyde “The Glide” Drexler and Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon went on to lead Phi Slama Jama to the national title game before failing to NC State in the final seconds.
Norfolk State, meantime, extended its winning streak to three games with a 91-41 win over visiting St. Mary’s (MD), a Division III school, on Nov. 22.
The Spartans jumped out to a 26-3 lead on St. Mary’s and never looked back. Three Norfolk State players contributed 15 points to the effort: Dane Tate Jr., Kris Bankston and Daryl Anderson.
Norfolk State is led by Joe Bryant Jr., the reigning Mid-American Athletic Conference player of the year, who averages a team-high 14.4 to go along with 3.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
Caheim Brown averages 13.3 points and 3.5 rebounds, while Bankston chips in 13.0 points and a team-high 7.7 rebounds. Christian Ings adds 11.6 points and 4.4 assists, with Tate posting 8.8 points and 6.0 rebounds.
“The rest of the crew is what helped Joe become Joe and Joe gets a lot of attention,” Norfolk State coach Robert Jones, whose team has won the past two MEAC tournaments, said. “But we have a lot of pieces around him.”
Norfolk State will be facing its third top-10 team already this season, losing at No. 5 Baylor 87-70 on Nov. 11 and falling 86-56 at No. 8 UCLA on Nov. 14.
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Illinois had plenty to be satisfied about Friday during a 33-point victory over Lindenwood, and right at the top of the list was the efficient play of Skyy Clark.
The No. 16 Fighting Illini hope their first-year point guard can author another strong performance Tuesday when they host Syracuse in Champaign, Ill., as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Clark, a 6-3 freshman from Los Angeles, averaged 7.6 points on 52.6-percent shooting over his first five games for Illinois (5-1). Clark then took his play to another level against Lindenwood, shooting 8 of 9 from the field for a career-high 19 points, while adding four assists.
“As a point guard, you just have to learn how to run your team,” Clark said. “That was one of the biggest things I had to learn coming into college. This team makes my job a lot easier because they’re all great players, they all listen and there aren’t any egos on the team. They also have the same mentality as me, which is to work hard.”
RJ Melendez also worked hard on Friday as the sophomore guard registered a career-high 17 points on 7-of-11 shooting. Afterward, he was happy to talk about his backcourt mate.
“(Clark is) a great point guard; he’s changed so much since I saw him in the summer,” Melendez said. “He was the type of guy who was kind of shy, but now he’s getting a lot of confidence — from the scrimmage game to now, it’s just a whole different Skyy. We’re proud of him. He’s come so far, and he has a lot more to go.”
Another player who has come on quickly is Syracuse freshman Justin Taylor, who scored seven total points in his first four games before erupting for 25 in Saturday’s 73-72 loss to Bryant.
Fellow freshman Chris Bell added a career-high 14 for the Orange, while veteran center Jesse Edwards pulled in a personal-best 21 rebounds, only to watch his team fall on a floater by Bryant with 0.8 seconds to play.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim had a feeling his team might struggle to score without starting forward Benny Williams, who was limited to nine minutes with a stomach bug, and talented freshman Judah Mintz, who was ejected following a first-half skirmish.
“Without Benny, without Judah, we’re really in a hard situation,” Boeheim said, yet noting that Taylor and Bell came up big. “They both really played well, really played well.”
On the other hand, Joe Girard made just one of 12 shots from the field for five points, and is just 2-for-22 over the past two games.
“Joe’s been struggling. No explanation for it,” Boeheim said. “We obviously need him to play better.”
The Illini and Orange have met only three times – and not since Syracuse pulled out a 75-64 triumph in 1995 on a neutral court in Honolulu. The previous matchup was a 1989 Elite 8 showdown at Minneapolis, won by Illinois 89-86.
Syracuse is 4-5 all-time in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, while Illinois is 10-13 in the event.
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Coach John Calipari and the No. 19 Kentucky Wildcats found themselves in unfamiliar territory last week – plummeting 11 spots in the second Top 25 rankings of the young season.
Kentucky will look to notch another early-season nonconference victory Tuesday night when it hosts Bellarmine at Lexington, Ky.
That plunge to No. 15 in the poll was a result of the Wildcats (4-2) losing twice in their past four games. There was a double-overtime thriller in the Champions Classic on Nov. 15 in Indianapolis, where Kentucky fell 86-77 to Michigan State in an atmosphere akin to an Elite Eight NCAA Tournament game in late March.
Calipari offered no excuses and put the onus on himself.
“When you talk about late-game situations, that’s on me as a coach,” said Calipari, who is in his 14th season as coach of the Wildcats. “They executed better than us, and that’s on me.”
Losing 88-72 at No. 2 Gonzaga five days later didn’t make matters any better.
The Wildcats trailed the Zags 41-25 at the half and didn’t shoot the ball well at all: 39.1 percent from the field, 24 percent from deep. They were also outrebounded 39-29.
“We can’t miss every open shot,” said Calipari of his team shooting 25 percent in the opening 20 minutes. “In the first half, it was so embarrassing we couldn’t run a play.”
Wildcats forward Jacob Toppin set career highs in each of his past two games. The Brooklyn native scored 16 in the loss at Gonzaga then followed that up with a 20-point effort in just 21 minutes in Wednesday’s 96-56 domination of North Florida.
“As the season goes on, I’m going to get more confident, but that’s because of my teammates,” said the 6-foot-9 Toppin. “I’m not worried about scoring right now. I’m worried about defense and rebounding, and the offense will come.”
Bellarmine (2-5) lost 81-60 on the road to then-No. 19 UCLA on Sunday night in legendary Pauley Pavilion, falling behind by 16 at halftime and never threatening in the second half as they lost their fourth straight game.
Ben Johnson scored 20 points on 8-of-14 shooting, while Curt Hopf set career-highs with 16 points and four of Bellarmine’s season-high 11 3-pointers.
The Knights defense had a tough time as the Bruins shot 60.8 percent from the field and held a massive 54-20 edge on points in the paint and a 17-0 advantage on fastbreak scoring.
On Friday afternoon in Los Angeles, Bellarmine fell 80-59 to Loyola Marymount, which held just a three-point halftime lead. The Knights left Los Angeles on the red eye late Sunday night empty handed.
“I saw fight tonight (and) there were a lot of positives, “Bellarmine coach Scott Davenport said. “That (UCLA) pressure was extraordinary. We couldn’t simulate that with seven guys, but we adjusted, and we never quit.”
Adding to the extraordinary challenge was that the Knights played without starting guard Juston Betz, who was injured.
“I thought top to bottom, everybody learned (Sunday),” Davenport said. “There’s not going to be one ‘What if?’ How are we going to learn to learn from Duke? From Clemson? From Louisville? From UCLA? They’re smart young men. I had 17 heads bobbing, ‘yes, yes, yes.’ And that’s how we left the locker room.”
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Last season, the similarities between Maryland and Louisville were hard to ignore.
While the Terrapins witnessed the resignation of coach Mark Turgeon on their way to their first losing season since 1992-93, the Cardinals fired Chris Mack en route to posting their first losing mark since 2000-01.
So far this season however, the fortunes of the programs have diverged. While No. 22 Maryland (6-0) has rebounded under new coach Kevin Willard, Louisville (0-6) has continued its stunning free fall in the debut season of Kenny Payne.
Tuesday night when the teams meet in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Louisville, a game that once figured to pit teams on common ground now finds a mismatch.
Maryland’s perfect record isn’t the product of a cupcake schedule. Last weekend, the Terps captured the title in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off, dominating previously unbeaten teams Saint Louis 95-67 and Miami (Fla.) 88-70.
Maryland is coming off a 95-79 win Friday over Coppin State in another demonstration of the progression of forward Julian Reese, who scored a career-high 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.
After averaging 5.7 points and 4.4 rebounds per game last year in 18 minutes a game off the bench as a freshman, Reese is averaging 15 points and 8 boards while hitting 80.4 percent of his shots from the floor.
“He was a monster. He’s really being aggressive on the offensive glass,” Willard said. “He’s not going once or twice. He’s going there every time.”
Also in the win over Coppin, Hakim Hart had 22 points and eight rebounds while Jahmir Young tallied 21 points, five assists and five rebounds. It was the first time since 2002 that the Terps had three players score at least 20 points in a game.
The winless mark for Louisville is the result of both poor play and misfortune. The Cardinals’ first three losses came at home to mid-major squads, all by a single point.
But then in games in the Maui Invitational against No. 9 Arkansas, No. 21 Texas Tech and unranked Cincinnati, Louisville lost by an average margin of 25.7 points.
The Cardinals struggled defensively in Hawaii, as opponents made 51.2 percent of their shots. Of the 84 field goals opponents made in the tournament, 50 were from in the paint.
“We saw some of the best teams in the country and we learned from them,” Payne said. “We learned that Arkansas rebounds, forces turnovers, fights on every possession. We learned from Texas Tech that you can win by being a great defensive team and it’s about your will, not your skill.”
Louisville is not starting from scratch. Holdover El Ellis leads the Cardinals in scoring (17.2 points per game) and assists (3.5 per game). Another returner, Jae’Lyn Withers is second on the team in points (8.7 per game) and rebounds (5 per game).
Sydney Curry, who emerged as a force late last season, averaging 17.6 points and 9 rebounds in Louisville’s final five games, has struggled early in this one, posting 1.7 points and 4.5 rebounds in 16 minutes per game.
Louisville and Maryland have met eight times with the Cardinal winning six, including last November in the title game of the Bahamas Championship, 63-55. Six days later, Turgeon quit eight games into his 11th season with the Terps.
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No. 3 Virginia already has victories over a pair of ranked teams yet sees Tuesday’s road matchup against unranked Michigan as perhaps the biggest obstacle to date.
The teams will square off in the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Ann Arbor, Mich.
“Every game will present different challenges,” Virginia head coach Tony Bennett said. “Now you’ll go in a hostile environment against a high-quality team with size and ability, and you’ll have to do the same and outlast ’em.”
The Cavaliers (5-0) defeated then-No. 5 Baylor and then-No. 19 Illinois in a three-day span at Las Vegas before their latest victory, a 72-45 home triumph Friday over Maryland-Eastern Shore.
Forward Jayden Gardner had 26 points in 25 minutes against the undersized Hawks. Gardner averaged 15.3 points last season but was averaging just 7.8 points this season before his outburst.
“That was good to see,” Bennett said. “I think he’s been a little bit rushed at times, but we’re going to need that offensive punch that he gives us, because when he’s aggressive, but not rushing, that’s when he’s at his best and I think that really helps us.”
The Wolverines (5-1) haven’t played since Wednesday, when they defeated Jackson State at home 78-68. Michigan led by 21 with 8:49 to go and held off the Tigers’ late charge.
“The last five minutes, they made some shots and there were a couple of turnovers by us which were uncharacteristic turnovers,” Michigan coach Juwan Howard said. “We’ll grow from it.”
Michigan’s Hunter Dickinson had a quiet offensive night with nine points. He was a force in other areas, grabbing 12 rebounds and blocking four shots.
Virginia’s Kadin Shedrick (11.2 points, 5.2 rebounds) will match up against Dickinson on Tuesday.
“He’s an elite talent,” Shedrick said. “I’m looking forward to the challenge.”
The Wolverines swatted 13 shots on Wednesday, tying the second-most blocks in a single game in program history.
“We have guys that are very competitive,’ Howard said. “They take the one-on-one challenge, and they also do a very good job of contesting shots.”
Howard’s son Jett had a team-high 19 points along with three blocks.
In the previous two games, the Wolverines were blown out by Arizona State 87-62 on a neutral court at New York and needed overtime to subdue Ohio at home 70-66.
The team is having its issues from 3-point range (31.8 percent) and from the free-throw line (66.9). The Wolverines showed improvement in those areas against Jackson State, making 40 percent of their 3-pointers and 84.2 percent of their foul shots.
“When you get open looks, our young men are smart enough to be able to take what the defense gives them,” Howard said. “We shot 30 (3-pointers). I don’t find anything wrong with that. Forty percent? I’ll take that any day.”
Tuesday’s game will be Michigan’s first against a ranked opponent. The Wolverines will match up against another ranked team, No. 19 Kentucky at London on Sunday.
“It’s early in the season. I’m sure a lot of teams like us are not playing their best basketball,” Howard said. “We will get better and better, game-by-game. I look at every game that we play as high-profile opponents.”
Michigan hasn’t faced Virginia since an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game in November 2011, which ended in a 70-58 Cavaliers victory.
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No. 6 Baylor will hit the road to face Marquette on Tuesday and both teams will bring some concerns along with some momentum when they square off in a Big East/Big 12 Battle matchup at Milwaukee.
The Bears (5-1) head north after an 89-60 victory at home over visiting McNeese State on Thanksgiving eve. Keyonte George scored 17 points and LJ Cryer added 16 as Baylor overcame some early doldrums and asserted itself in the second half.
Adam Flagler scored 13 points, Langston Love had 11 and Dale Bonner dished out a career-high 12 assists as the Bears outshot the Cowboys 60 percent to 32.1 percent after halftime. Baylor has won two straight after losing to then-No. 16 Virginia in the Main Event at Las Vegas on Nov. 18, including a victory over then-No. 8 UCLA, also at Las Vegas.
“First half, I didn’t know if we had gotten back from Vegas or not,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “Second half, we did a much better job defensively and imposing our will. That leaves a much better taste in our mouths.
“The energy level — that’s always a coach’s biggest concern coming off of a tournament. You’ve got to have depth, and I thought our depth really helped us (beat McNeese).”
Baylor led 39-30 at halftime in the win over McNeese State but doubled that lead nine minutes into the second half after a 12-0 run. The Bears made all four of their shots over a nearly three-minute span that began at the 14-minute mark while McNeese State missed all four of its attempts.
“(The defense) was a difference-maker, for sure,” said George, who hit three straight 3-pointers in a 64-second stretch late in the game to seal the victory. “Being in a stance, communicating to one another, and just picking up the energy and turning them over, we were able to get fast break points. And that’s how we play.”
Baylor has a challenging week ahead, with a game against No. 6 Gonzaga in the inaugural Peacock Classic on Friday at Sioux Falls, S.D.
The Golden Eagles (5-2) struggled at times with Chicago State in an 82-68 win on Saturday in their third game in a six-day stretch. Marquette was down by six midway through the first half but cranked up its defense and transition game to take charge.
Olivier-Maxence Prosper led the Golden Eagles with 18 points and 11 rebounds, as Marquette forced 20 turnovers and scored 35 fast-break points. Kam Jones added 15 points and Oso Ighodaro had 13 points in the victory.
“At one point we had 10 or 11 straight stops,” Marquette coach Shaka Smart said. “So we had some stretches where we were really locked in. And then others that were simply not good enough. Why is that? It’s probably a lot of things that go into it. We still have some growing up to do.”
The Golden Eagles led 40-33 at the break and removed all suspense by scoring the first 10 points of the second half.
It also is a big week for Marquette, with state-rival Wisconsin coming into town on Saturday.
“You have to understand that certainly the margin for error goes down in those type of games,” Smart said. “But at the same time, you have to play with an approach-goal mindset. Which is going after winning and the things that go into winning. As opposed to trying to avoid mistakes. Because that doesn’t work.”
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NEW YORK (AP)POLL ALERT: South Carolina, Stanford, UConn top women’s AP Top 25; Louisville out of top 10 for first time in five years.
POLL ALERT: South Carolina, Stanford, UConn top women’s AP Top 25; Louisville out of top 10 for first time in five years
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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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CINCINNATI (AP)Joe Burrow is cementing his reputation for being able to use whatever he’s got and do whatever is necessary – sometimes just enough – to win.
With top receiver Ja’Marr Chase still out with a hip injury and running back Joe Mixon in concussion protocol, the Bengals quarterback leaned on receiver Tee Higgins, backup running back Samaje Perine and little-used players such as running back Trayveon Williams and receiver Trenton Irwin.
Burrow and the Bengals gritted out a 20-16 win at Nashville, supported by a physical defense that limited Derrick Henry, one of the NFL’s best backs, to 38 rushing yards.
”This is the kind of game that great teams win,” Burrow said. ”It’s not always going to be pretty. It’s the NFL. It’s not going to be pretty all the time.”
The Bengals (7-4) have won seven of the past nine, including three in a row for the first time this season.
With Baltimore’s loss at Jacksonville, Cincinnati is tied with the Ravens for first place in the AFC North. The AFC West-leading Chiefs visit next Sunday.
”I think it was a game that we just needed to win,” coach Zac Taylor said. ”Our guys were ready to roll, (we) had a great mindset. We know we’ve got another big one next week.”
Perine gained a season-high 58 yards on 17 carries. Williams caught a 24-yard pass late in the first half to set up a 7-yard TD run by Perine.
Irwin, on third-and-12 from the Tennessee 43 in the fourth quarter, moved the chains with a fantastic 16-yard sideline catch, setting up Burrow’s 27-yard TD toss to Higgins.
WHAT’S WORKING
Burrow doesn’t care about style points. He’s protecting the ball and adapting to what defenses are giving him. Against the Titans, he was 22 of 37 for 270 yards and a TD, using seven different receivers. He also ran for 32 yards and was sacked only once.
”We wouldn’t trade our quarterback for anybody on the planet,” Taylor said.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
A half dozen penalties in the first half cost the Bengals 46 yards and killed some momentum. They finished the game with nine for 80 yards. … Cincinnati was just 5 for 14 on third downs.
STOCK UP
Higgins had a great game as the go-to guy in the absence of Chase, catching seven passes for 114 yards. That included a 24-yard grab to move the chains and then the leaping 27-yard catch that gave Cincinnati a 20-13 lead in the fourth quarter.
STOCK DOWN
Punter Kevin Huber is the longest-tenured Bengals player at 14 years. He started the year as the No. 1 punter, but was a healthy scratch again Sunday. He lost his job to Drue Chrisman, who averaged 51.8 yards in his five kicks, placing two inside the 20.
KEY NUMBER
63 – net rushing yards by Tennessee, a team averaging more than 120 yards per game on the ground. Henry averaged just 2.2 yards per carry.
INJURIES
Chase, who has missed four games since going out with a hip injury in Week 7, was back at practice last week and could be close to returning. RB Joe Mixon went out with a concussion in the Nov. 20 win over Pittsburgh and missed Sunday’s game.
NEXT STEPS
The Bengals will get a boost if Mixon and Chase are ready to go when they host Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs (9-2). A week later, the Bengals will get another chance at the Browns, who stunned them 32-13 on Halloween night.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)The Kansas City Chiefs moved the ball well against the Los Angeles Rams between the 20s, though drives too often fizzled in the red zone, and their defense shut down a team missing most of its offensive playmakers.
All good things from Sunday’s 26-10 victory.
Special teams, on the other hand? It was another rough day for coordinator Dave Toub, who watched Skyy Moore fumble a punt for the third time this season, then watched the Rams execute a fake punt that kept another drive alive.
Those two miscues didn’t cost the Chiefs any points, thanks mostly to the fact that the Rams were missing quarterback Matthew Stafford, wide receivers Cooper Kupp and Allen Robinson II and two starting offensive linemen. But against just about any other NFL team, including the Bengals this coming weekend, that sort of execution isn’t going to cut it.
”We had the fake on us this time – it’s the second time we’ve had one – which is true, obviously, but we anticipated that happening and worked on it and they just got us,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday.
”I think one great learning place for the players, especially the young players, is to put them on special teams, and then you just continually progress and get better as the season goes on,” Reid continued. ”There are going to be some early issues as we go here and you hope it picks up as we go forward. That’s where we’re at right now.”
It’s not early in the season, though. The Chiefs (9-2) are well past the halfway point, and despite all the special teams mishaps this season, they are in first place in the AFC. The stakes couldn’t be a whole lot higher over the final six games, the first three of them on the road, as they try to secure the No. 1 seed and lone first-round playoff bye.
”I’m happy with the `W,’ like everybody else, but you don’t want to get complacent looking at the win and forgetting about the other underlying issues with this,” Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark said. ”Sean McVay, that shows what type of coach they have. They are playing their (third teamers) and not giving no quit – not showing no quit or surrender. My hat’s off to those boys. We were able to get the ‘dub but there’s some more work to do.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was 27 of 42 for 320 yards with a touchdown and an interception, which are pedestrian numbers by his lofty standards. But those 27 completions went to a whopping 10 different players, and all of those receivers had a catch of at least 9 yards. That makes the Kansas City offense a nightmare to defend.
WHAT NEEDS WORK
Take away some nice scrambles by Mahomes and the Chiefs only averaged about 3 yards per carry. They were hard yards, too, and Isiah Pacheco and Ronald Jones fought for every one. So it falls upon the offensive line, which gave up just two QB hits and no sacks, to create some better holes for the running game.
STOCK UP
Nick Bolton picked off a pass for the second straight game while deflecting a pass and leading the Chiefs with 11 tackles. It was another excellent performance that ultimately could help the second-year pro earn his first Pro Bowl appearance.
STOCK DOWN
Toub has long been one of the best special teams coordinators in the game, going back to his days coaching Devin Hester and Robbie Gould in Chicago. Reid is confident that he will turn things around this season, but time is running out.
INJURIES
There were no new injuries against the Rams. The bigger question is whether Kadarius Toney, who missed the game with a hamstring injury, will return this week. His history of injuries is one reason the Giants were willing to trade him.
KEY NUMBERS
5 – The Chiefs have won five straight games, giving them at least one five-game winning streak in each of the past 10 seasons. The longest has been 10 consecutive wins during the 2015 and 2020 seasons.
WHAT’S NEXT
The Chiefs begin a three-game trip in Cincinnati, which rallied to beat them in last year’s AFC title game and deny Kansas City a third straight Super Bowl appearance. The Chiefs then head to Denver and Houston before finally returning home on Christmas Eve to face the Seahawks.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)Jalen Hurts ran and ran and he ran so much that Green Bay couldn’t catch him as he raced his way into Philadelphia’s record book. Hurts outran the Packers and he eclipsed all the other fleet-footed Pro Bowl quarterbacks in Eagles’ history.
Better than Randall Cunningham, better than Donovan McNabb, better than even Michael Vick.
”I have a ton of respect for them and their support,” Hurts said about the QBs. ”They don’t even know how they’ve affected me, impacted me in my time here. It’s an understatement to say how I appreciate them, because I do. They guided me in more ways than they even know.”
Hurts ran for 157 yards to set an Eagles record for a quarterback, he also threw for 153 yards and two touchdowns and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers injured his ribs in Philadelphia’s 40-33 victory over Green Bay on Sunday night.
Hurts topped Michael Vick’s 130 yards rushing set in December 2010 against the New York Giants as tops for an Eagles QB. Hurts became the first player since at least 1950 with 150-plus yards rushing and 150-plus yards passing with multiple pass touchdowns in a game and cemented his status as the NFL MVP front-runner.
He seems poised to take the MVP torch from Rodgers.
Hurts helped the Eagles move to 10-1 for the fifth time in history. Miles Sanders ran for 143 yards and two scores as Philadelphia rushed for 363 overall, the second-best total for the franchise.
Run, Eagles, Run.
”It’s chasing greatness every week,” Sander said. ”Just trying to be as dominant as possible.”
This was pretty dominant: Philly’s rushing record is 376 yards against Washington on Nov. 21, 1948.
”How close were we? How close?” coach Nick Sirianni said of the record.
So close. Maybe just one more carry for Hurts could have set the mark.
Rodgers left in the third quarter with his team trailing 34-23 after grimacing his way through a drive that led to a Packers field goal. He had already been playing with a broken thumb and took several hard hits.
”The pain was tough,” he said. ”I couldn’t really breathe or rotate my upper body.”
Rodgers said he planned to start Sunday at Chicago, if healthy.
Rodgers’ replacement, Jordan Love, kept the Packers (4-8) in the game by connecting with Christian Watson for a 63-yard catch-and-run touchdown that cut Philly’s lead to 37-30.
But the Packers ran out of time against Hurts, who had 17 rushes for a 9.2 average.
Hurts had 254 combined yards, including 126 on the ground, and threw a TD pass in the first half as the Eagles built a 27-20 lead. He ripped off runs of 42, 28 and 24 yards.
”You work so hard for this,” Hurts said. ”You work late nights and early mornings, go out there and give it your all.”
In the second half, he hit A.J. Brown for a 6-yard TD pass and a 34-20 lead that just added to his staggering numbers on one of the great nights ever for an Eagles QB. Hurts topped Michael Vick’s 130 yards rushing set in December 2010 against the New York Giants.
Rodgers was 11 of 16 passing for 140 yards, two touchdowns and two first-half interceptions.
Hurts put on a show in a lively first half that saw two Eagles get their first career picks and both teams miss an extra point while combining for seven touchdowns.
Bettors could have cashed in on the over in the first 30 minutes.
Philadelphia’s high-octane offense had slowed of late – notably during the first loss of the season in the previous home game against Washington and last week’s win over Indianapolis that needed a fourth-quarter rally – but Hurts put the Packers on notice with early rushes that would make an All-Pro running back envious. He ran for 52 yards on the opening drive and set up Kenneth Gainwell’s 4-yard TD.
Easy enough.
Then the game got wild. Rodgers had his second pass attempt batted by cornerback Darius Slay and snagged by Josiah Scott. Three plays later, Sanders scored on a 15-yard run. But Jake Elliott missed the PAT.
Rodgers led the Pack right back. A.J. Dillon scored on a 20-yard run, Rodgers hit Randall Cobb for an 11-yard score, and it was 14-13 late in the first quarter.
Hurts, though, closed the half with a 42-yard run and a 1-yard run, close enough to the end zone to set up Sanders’ 2-yard scoring run on the first play of the second quarter.
Rodgers again came back and threw a 23-yard TD pass to Aaron Jones. Mason Crosby matched Elliott with a missed extra point and it was 20-20.
That was about all Rodgers could muster.
Hurts took it from there and threw a 30-yard TD pass to Quez Watkins – whose fumble against the Commanders played a pivotal role in the Eagles’ lone defeat.
”I’ve never been 10-1, so this still is my big picture,” Slay said. ”I don’t know how I feel but I know I’m going to turn up. I’ve never been 10-1 so continue to live it up.”
INJURIES
Packers: S Darnell Savage injured a foot.
Eagles: C.J. Gardner-Johnson, the NFL interception leader with six, suffered a rib injury in the first half.
WINNING HISTORY
The Eagles won NFL championships after starting 10-1 in 1949 and 2017. The other times they did it, they lost the Super Bowl (1980, 2004).
RARE DUO
Hurts and Sanders became the first teammates to run for at least 125 yards apiece since San Francisco’s Frank Gore (158) and Colin Kaepernick (151) on Dec. 20, 2014.
UP NEXT
Packers: At Chicago next Sunday.
Eagles: Host Tennessee next Sunday.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)Aaron Rodgers entered the Packers’ game against the Eagles as the reigning two-time NFL MVP. Jalen Hurts showed in the head-to-head matchup why he could be the one to take the award from Rodgers.
Hurts cemented his status as a top MVP candidate with a game that goes down as one of the greatest for a QB in Eagles’ history. Yes, even for a franchise that boasts Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick and Randall Cunningham, Hurts topped them all in the rushing department.
Hurts ran for 157 yards in the 40-33 victory to set an Eagles record for a quarterback. He also threw for 153 yards and two touchdowns and became the first player since at least 1950 with 150-plus yards rushing and 150-plus yards passing with multiple passing touchdowns.
Consider as well that Hurts had 254 combined yards, including 126 on the ground, and threw a TD pass in the first half.
How so dominant?
Let Jalen sum it up:
”I ran,” he said, ”and they couldn’t get me.”
Hurts topped Michael Vick’s 130 yards rushing set in December 2010 against the New York Giants as best for an Eagles QB.
”To be in a city like this with a quarterback history that this city has, and that he set a record for most yards by a quarterback rushing, is pretty special,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. ”Those are some unbelievable names that he is following.”
The personal milestones are a nice touch for the 24-year-old QB, but it’s team goals he is chasing. Hurts helped the Eagles move to 10-1 for the fifth time in history, which puts them in pretty heady company. The Eagles won NFL championships after starting 10-1 in 1949 and 2017. The other times they did it, they lost the Super Bowl (1980, 2004).
”I know in a profession where things change all the time, we really want to appreciate the time we are having now and just take advantage of our moments, take advantage of the opportunities when they present themselves and just play ball the way we want to play ball,” Hurts said.
WHAT’S WORKING
Led by Hurts and Miles Sanders, the Eagles ran for 363 yards, the second-most in franchise history. The record is 376 yards rushing on Nov. 21, 1948, against Washington. Steve Van Buren ran for 171 yards in that one. Seems like Hurts could challenge that mark at some point in his career.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The nightmare scenario for the Eagles is a dazzling outing from Hurts and a sack-happy defense leading the team to the brink of a playoff victory until the effort is derailed by special teams. The unit has largely been disaster, especially on coverage, and it crumbled against the Packers. Keisean Nixon had a 38-yard kickoff return to set up Green Bay’s first touchdown, he opened the second half with a 52-yard kickoff return and then had a stunning 53-yard kickoff return with 2:09 left in a 10-point game.
Even kicker Jake Elliott missed an extra point that would have put the final at 41-33 – yes, the final score of the Eagles’ lone Super Bowl championship. Special teams coach Michael Clay has been on the hot seat for most of the season because of a glaring weakness that has yet to get corrected and could cost Philadelphia a shot at a second Super Bowl win.
STOCK UP
How often does a player rush for 143 yards and still not lead the team? Put Sanders on that list. He had a career-best outing for yards rushing and scored two touchdowns. He had a long run of 28 yards and averaged 6.8 yards on 21 carries. Hurts and Sanders became the first teammates to run for at least 125 yards apiece since San Francisco’s Frank Gore (158) and Colin Kaepernick (151) on Dec. 20, 2014.
STOCK DOWN
WR A.J. Brown. Brown missed practice and lost weight because of an illness that he couldn’t shake on game day. Yet even the usually sure-handed Brown would not make excuses for a second straight game with a lost fumble (he had three total over his first three seasons) and a dropped pass. Hurts showed his faith in the No. 1 target and hit him with a 6-yard TD in the third quarter for a 14-point lead, but ball security is suddenly an issue with Brown.
”I wouldn’t change how aggressive I am with the ball in my hand because that’s who I am,” Brown said. ”But I’ve just got to do a better job with the details and protecting the ball.”
INJURED
C.J. Gardner-Johnson, the NFL’s interception leader with six, suffered a rib injury in the first half.
KEY NUMBER
14 – The number of 10-plus win seasons since Jeffrey Lurie’s first full year of ownership in 1995, which ranks fifth in the NFL over that span. Also of note, each of Lurie’s five head coaching hires have won at least 10 games in a season within their first two years: Sirianni (10-1 in 2022), Doug Pederson (13-3 in 2017), Chip Kelly (10-6 in 2013; 10-6 in 2014), Andy Reid (11-5 in 2000) and Ray Rhodes (10-6 in 1995; 10-6 in 1996).
NEXT STEPS
Brown gets his first shot at his old team when the Eagles host the Titans on Sunday. Brown had wanted a new deal that the Titans were unwilling to pay, so they traded him to the Eagles. The Eagles gave him a $100 million, four-year contract with $57 million guaranteed upon completing the trade.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)Trevor Lawrence finally looks like the generational quarterback the Jacksonville Jaguars drafted with the No. 1 overall pick in 2021.
He no longer is making progress or showing flashes or offering glimpses. The former Clemson star has emerged as the team’s primary playmaker, the ultimate centerpiece for a franchise that spent the last two decades longing for one.
He’s THE guy now, someone who makes everyone around him better. It was evident in Jacksonville’s 28-27 victory against Baltimore on Sunday, with Lawrence hitting throw after throw and rallying the Jaguars (4-7) down the stretch with big play after big play. It resulted in the highest passer rating (129.8) of his career and his third consecutive game in triple digits.
”He’s still a very, very young player,” receiver Zay Jones said. ”I don’t know how many comebacks or close games that he’s had in his career that he’s came in and closed it out, hitting everybody . using his legs, commanding the offense, going down against a tough opponent where it looked bleak for a second.
”To come out on top and win, it’s got to boost his confidence.”
The way Lawrence has played the last three games, the Jaguars feel like they have a chance every time they step on the field.
He completed 76.9% of his passes for 815 yards, with six touchdowns and no interceptions against Las Vegas, Kansas City and Baltimore. Although he was sacked nine times in that stretch and lost two fumbles – turnovers that resulted in 14 points for opponents – he is rebounding from poor plays and handling adversity like a seasoned veteran.
”This guy throws an incredibly good football and he’s smart and he sees the field, and he can make all the throws,” coach Doug Pederson said. ”You’re just seeing that. You’re just seeing that execution with him and that maturity with him. . So it’s a step in the right direction for Trevor. Excited for his growth obviously.”
With three consecutive passer ratings above 100, Lawrence can become the first Jaguars QB since David Garrard in 2007 to accomplish the feat in four straight games when Jacksonville plays at Detroit (4-7) on Sunday.
”We said it’s a new season once we got back from the bye week,” Lawrence said. ”You can’t win seven games (in a row) until you win one. We had to start today. Obviously there was some adversity and we had to battle through it, and we just found a way. It was incredible.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Jacksonville retooled its struggling defense during its bye week and found some success against Baltimore, specifically in the red zone. The Ravens settled for three short fields and scored one touchdown in three goal-to-go situations.
The Jaguars replaced linebacker Devin Lloyd, the 27th overall pick in April’s NFL draft, in the starting lineup with another rookie, Chad Muma, and relied on a heavy nickel scheme (three safeties) against the Ravens. They also played stretches with three inside linebackers, designed to slow down quarterback Lamar Jackson.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The defense still allowed Baltimore to convert 8 of 14 third downs. Jacksonville had been 0-4 this season when allowing six or more third-down conversions. Pass rush remains a major concern. The Jaguars managed to sack Jackson once – he had been sacked three times in each of his previous four games – and finished with just three QB hits.
STOCK UP
Zay Jones caught 11 passes for 145 yards, both career highs, and was on the receiving end of a 2-point conversion that put the Jaguars ahead for good with 14 seconds remaining. Running back JaMycal Hasty totaled 95 yards and a touchdown, including 67 yards receiving, while subbing for Travis Etienne (foot). Linebacker Foye Oluokun finished with a career-high 18 tackles, including 13 solo stops.
STOCK DOWN
Lloyd played a season-low 27 snaps after being replaced by Muma in the starting lineup. He finished with two tackles. Muma had nine tackles and is expected to retain the starting spot against the Lions.
INJURED
Pederson said Monday that Etienne has a sprained left foot but should be good to go against Detroit. It’s the same foot that Etienne had surgery on as a rookie last year. . Starting CB Shaquill Griffin (back) is eligible to return from injured reserve this week.
KEY NUMBER
19 – Number of consecutive losses by the Jaguars against NFC teams. It’s an NFL record.
NEXT STEPS
Jacksonville has a chance to end two skids over the next two weeks. First up is the NFC losing streak against the Lions and then the Jaguars play at Tennessee, where they last won in 2013. The Titans have won eight in a row against Jacksonville in Nashville.
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HOUSTON (AP)The Houston Texans benched Davis Mills for Kyle Allen this week with coach Lovie Smith saying the switch gave them their best chance to win against the Miami Dolphins.
Instead, it led to yet another embarrassing loss in a season full of them to keep the Texans (1-9-1) stuck on just one win.
Allen threw for 215 yards with two interceptions in his first game this season as the Dolphins raced to a 30-point halftime lead in a 30-15 victory Sunday.
”We as an offense can’t allow that to happen,” Smith said of the terrible first half. ”And our quarterback starts it all. So, Kyle didn’t start, and the offense didn’t start the way we needed to.”
Despite his awful performance, Allen will start again Sunday against Cleveland, with Smith saying it wouldn’t be fair to give him the job and then yank him after one game.
”We want to see him,” Smith said. ”We’ve got to eliminate those turnovers. But I thought he did some good things throughout the game. But we’re not quite there yet as a team.”
Allen, who is in his fifth NFL season but has mostly served as a backup, remains confident that he can help the team improve.
”I know I’m a much better player than what I showed (Sunday),” he said. ”Every team is still building, especially us. We have one win. We’re trying to just get a win every week. So, we’ve just got to keep pushing.”
Smith saw it as a positive sign that his team fought back in the second half to cut the deficit after falling into the huge early hole. But veteran receiver Brandin Cooks said that didn’t matter.
”No positives,” he said ”We lost 30-0 at half. We got to beat bad, so no.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The Texans had five sacks Sunday, including four of Tua Tagovailoa before he ended his day in the third quarter. Maliek Collins led the team with two.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
As usual, there’s plenty to pick from here, but the Texans must find a way to get their running game going again if they hope to even be competitive the rest of this season. Houston had just 36 yards rushing Sunday for the second-worst rushing performance of the season after finishing with a season-low 21 yards rushing last weekend.
Rookie Dameon Pierce, who had 772 yards rushing after nine games, has managed just 8 yards rushing in each of the past two games to keep the running game stalled.
”We’re in the dump right now,” Pierce said. ”But we’re going to figure something out and we’re going to get our thing back on track and going where we need to be moving forward.”
STOCK UP
RB Dare Ogunbowale had a 3-yard touchdown in the third quarter Sunday. It was his first score since Dec. 26 of last season with the Jaguars.
STOCK DOWN
The Texans hoped Allen would take better care of the ball following the benching of Mills after he threw an NFL-high 11 interceptions 10 games this season. Instead, his two interceptions Sunday were a big factor in the team’s sixth straight loss.
INJURIES
LB Christian Harris injured a shoulder in the first quarter and didn’t return. … RB Rex Burkhead left the game to be evaluated for concussion in the fourth quarter.
KEY NUMBER
3 – Houston had a season-high three turnovers Sunday. Along with Allen’s two interceptions, Jordan Akins fumbled after a reception in the second quarter. The ball was recovered by Miami and returned for a touchdown that made it 27-0.
NEXT STEPS
The Texans will search for ways to improve this week before hosting a Cleveland team that will start former Houston quarterback Deshaun Watson in his season debut after serving an 11-game suspension for sexual misconduct allegations.
Houston selected Watson 12th overall in 2017 and he started four seasons before demanding a trade before last season and refusing to play for the Texans. He was traded to the Browns in March.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)The Tennessee Titans must work through some offensive issues to relieve the pressure on both two-time NFL rushing champ Derrick Henry and one of the league’s stingiest defenses.
A team that has been one of the NFL’s best under coach Mike Vrabel scoring touchdowns inside the red zone had to settle for field goals instead of TDs on three chances in a 20-16 loss to Cincinnati.
Worse, the Titans (7-4) have a much bigger problem.
Entering Monday, only six NFL teams score fewer points than Tennessee’s average of 19 a game, and all six below the Titans all have losing records.
Luckily for Tennessee, two of those teams – Indianapolis and Houston – reside in the AFC South where the Titans still sit atop looking for a third straight division title.
”We know that we have to be much better in those opportunities, and we have been, there’s evidence for many years of us doing that this year, Last year,” Vrabel said Monday.
”The only thing that matters is what we’re going to do against Philly moving forward.”
The Titans have to better counter opponents focused on shutting down Henry. Blocking better for both Henry and Ryan Tannehill would help.
”I would say the shots are there,” said veteran wide receiver Robert Woods who caught two of six passes thrown to him. ”I mean, we just got to click on them.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The defense. Tennessee may have had only one sack against Cincinnati after taking down Joe Burrow nine times in their divisional playoff loss in January. But the Titans have not allowed an opponent to score more than 20 points in eight straight games, the franchise’s longest such streak since 11 games in 1993.
The Titans snapped a franchise record at eight consecutive games without allowing 100 yards rushing to an opponent. The Bengals managed to get to 108 yards.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The offense. Their lone touchdown came off a fumble recovered in the end zone by rookie wide receiver Treylon Burks after Henry was stripped of the ball after a 69-yard catch-and-run.
Henry, the first running back in the NFL to reach 1,000 yards this season, was held to his second-lowest rushing total with 38 yards and a 2.2-yard average. He had the best receiving game of his career with 79 yards.
Ryan Tannehill completed passes to seven of the eight receivers he threw to, one a costly drop by tight end Geoff Swaim on Tennessee’s first play inside the Cincinnati 20. Burks, who had the longest catch of the game at 51 yards to set up a tying field goal late in the third, was blocking on that play.
STOCK UP
CB Tre Avery. Vrabel praised the undrafted rookie out of Rutgers for being ”excellent” after being challenged six times by Cincinnati and allowing only one catch on 18 defensive snaps.
”He was probably the best of the group of corners and did everything that he could do with the snaps that he got,” Vrabel said.
STOCK DOWN
Offensive coordinator Todd Downing. The Titans scored a season-high 27 points in their best offensive performance this season in a 27-17 win at Green Bay on Nov. 17. Downing was arrested hours later on charges of speeding and driving under the influence.
Downing continuing to work during the NFL’s investigation and the pending legal process leaves the coordinator’s play-calling, and the Titans, open to criticism.
INJURED
C Ben Jones has missed two straight games trying to clear the concussion protocol. DL Denico Autry, the team sack leader, missed his first game with a knee injury that knocked him out of the win at Green Bay. Vrabel said they’ll see if rookie WR Kyle Philips (hamstring) and OLB Ola Adeniyi can start practicing in an attempt to return from injured reserve.
KEY NUMBER
29 – The Titans’ rank in total offense in averaging 298.8 yards per game.
NEXT STEPS
Fix some mistakes and find a way to defend the run better. A unit that had been the NFL’s best in winning seven of eight allowed a league-low 60.4 yards rushing in that span. Now the Titans visit the NFL’s best team with Philadelphia (10-1) having just rushed for 363 yards in the Eagles’ latest win.
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Widespread contributions have been key to the success of both the Colorado Avalanche and Winnipeg Jets this season.
The Avalanche look to extend their season-high road win streak to four as they open a four-game road trip, while trying to keep the Jets from an overall third consecutive victory, on Tuesday night.
Dallas sits atop the Central Division in the final days of November, but Winnipeg and the reigning Stanley Cup champion Avalanche are close behind. Colorado has won eight of 10, while the Jets are 11-3-1 since losing three of their first five to open the season.
The Avs have managed to stay strong while dealing with injuries to the likes of budding star Valeri Nichushkin (ankle), Evan Rodrigues (lower body) and captain Gabriel Landeskog — the latter who has yet to play in 2022-23 due to knee surgery.
Stars Mikko Rantanen (29 points), Nathan MacKinnon (28 points) and Artturi Lehkonen (four goals, seven assists during a nine-game point streak) have certainly paced Colorado, but Dryden Hunt scored his first goal in 15 games since coming over from the New York Rangers during Saturday’s 4-1 home victory over Dallas.
“I think a lot of the top guys here have been carrying the weight a little bit, I guess,” Hunt told NHL.com.
“Anytime the fourth line, or third line, can chip in, I think it’s huge.”
Meanwhile, the Jets had 13 players record at least one point during Sunday’s 7-2 road rout of Chicago. Saku Maenalanen posted his second and third goals, while Josh Morrissey had three assists to increase his team points lead to 23 for Winnipeg, which has totaled 12 goals in winning two straight after scoring four times in losing two of the previous three.
“If you want to be a successful team in this league, the only way to do it through the whole 82-game season is like that, when everybody contributes,” said Winnipeg’s Pierre-Luc Dubois, who recorded two goals Sunday and has six points in the past four games.
“Some nights, some lines might contribute more offensively or defensively. For it to be sustainable, that’s how it’s going to have to look this year.”
The Jets’ lesser-known performers shined brightest during a 4-3 overtime win at Colorado on Oct. 19. Defenseman Neil Pionk scored twice (including the OT winner), Cole Perfetti had a goal and an assist and Sam Gagner also registered a goal.
Connor Hellebuyck (10-5-1, 2.43 goals-against average) made 30 saves against the Avs. Meanwhile, backup David Rittich has made the most of his limited time, going 3-1-0 with a 2.77 GAA.
Colorado’s Alexander Georgiev made 41 saves against Dallas and has stopped 95 of the 98 shots he’s faced during a three-game winning streak. He made 24 saves versus Winnipeg in October.
With two goals and an assist against the Jets this season, Rantanen has four goals with 11 assists during an eight-game point streak versus Winnipeg. However, Rantanen has just six points in 10 games this season on the road.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks, following pressure by business groups on the stalled negotiations.
“Let me be clear: a rail shutdown would devastate our economy,” Biden said in a statement. “Without freight rail, many U.S. industries would shut down.”
Congress has the power to impose contract terms on the workers, but it’s not clear what lawmakers might include if they do. They could also force the negotiations to continue into the new year.
Both the unions and railroads have been lobbying Congress while contract talks continue. Four rail unions that represent more than half of the 115,000 workers in the industry have rejected the deals that Biden helped broker before the original strike deadline in September and are back at the table trying to work out new agreements. Eight other unions have approved their five-year deals with the railroads and are in the process of getting back pay for their workers for the 24% raises that are retroactive to 2020.
Biden said that as a “a proud pro-labor president” he was reluctant to override the views of people who voted against the agreement. “But in this case — where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt millions of other working people and families — I believe Congress must use its powers to adopt this deal."
Biden's remarks came after a coalition of more than 400 business groups sent a letter to congressional leaders Monday urging them to step into the stalled talks because of fears about the devastating potential impact of a strike that could force many businesses to shut down if they can’t get the rail deliveries they need. Commuter railroads and Amtrak would also be affected in a strike because many of them use tracks owned by the freight railroads.
The business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers and National Retail Federation said even a short-term strike would have a tremendous impact and the economic pain would start to be felt even before the Dec. 9 strike deadline. They said the railroads would stop hauling hazardous chemicals, fertilizers and perishable goods up to a week beforehand to keep those products from being stranded somewhere along the tracks.
“A potential rail strike only adds to the headwinds facing the U.S. economy,” the businesses wrote. “A rail stoppage would immediately lead to supply shortages and higher prices. The cessation of Amtrak and commuter rail services would disrupt up to 7 million travelers a day. Many businesses would see their sales disrupted right in the middle of the critical holiday shopping season.”
A similar group of businesses sent another letter to Biden last month urging him to play a more active role in resolving the contract dispute.
On Monday, the Association of American Railroads trade group praised Biden’s action.
“No one benefits from a rail work stoppage — not our customers, not rail employees and not the American economy,” said AAR President and CEO Ian Jefferies. “Now is the appropriate time for Congress to pass legislation to implement the agreements already ratified by eight of the twelve unions."
Congressional leaders and the White House have said they are monitoring the contract talks closely but haven't indicated when they might act or what they will do. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said leaders are aware of the situation with the rail negotiations and will monitor the talks in the coming days.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said on “Fox News Sunday” that congressional intervention is a last resort but that lawmakers will have to be ready to act.
“Congress will not let this strike happen. That’s for sure,” said Fitzpatrick, who helps lead a bipartisan group of 58 lawmakers. “It would be devastating to our economy. So, we’ll get to a resolution one way or another.”
“It certainly could end up in Congress’ lap, which is why we are headed to D.C. this week to meet with lawmakers on the Hill from both parties,” said Clark Ballew, a spokesman for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division, which represents track maintenance workers. “We have instructed our members to contact their federal lawmakers in the House and Senate for several weeks now.”
The unions have asked the railroads to consider adding paid sick time to what they already offered to address some of workers' quality of life concerns. But so far, the railroads, which include Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CSX and Kansas City Southern, have refused to consider that.
The railroads want any deal to closely follow the recommendations a special board of arbitrators that Biden appointed made this summer that called for the 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses but didn't resolve workers' concerns about demanding schedules that make it hard to take a day off and other working conditions.
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On November 28th 2002 SteynOnline slipped quietly onto the Internet, and here we are twenty years later, going stronger than ever in a far less agreeable media environment for individual websites.
We celebrated our first two decades all weekend long, with special editions of our Clubland Q&A, The Hundred Years Ago Show, our Song of the Week and a panoramic Steyn Show special that you won't want to miss. We also have a selection of print, audio and video highlights from across our first twenty years, and we've announced our first post-Covid Mark Steyn Cruise. If you're more focused on Christmas, well, we're offering 20 per cent off store-wide over at the Steyn Store.
Our third decade kicked off with Monday's edition of The Mark Steyn Show. An opening reference to Albanian Independence Day proved to have more relevance to the day's events than Mark realised, as he'll discuss on tomorrow's show. Afterwards, SDP leader William Clouston returned to GB News to assess the ongoing migrant crisis, while Lois Perry revealed the results of her poll on Net Zero.
Former diplomat Matthew Henderson was on hand to analyse the protests in China, and we rounded out the hour with the Reverend William Pearson-Gee's take on an Anglican dean's decadent trashing of Advent.
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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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The surprising Montreal Canadiens will look for a third consecutive victory — which would be their second three-game winning streak this month — when they host the reeling San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.
Consider that Montreal had one winning streak longer than two games only once last season, when they had the worst record in the league, but this November are a solid 6-5-1.
San Jose, meantime, lost for the fifth time in six games Sunday when Vancouver’s Andrei Kuzmenko scored the 4-3 game-winner 1:12 into overtime.
The Canadiens are coming off a 3-2 shootout victory over host Chicago on Friday when Kirby Dach provided the difference against his former team with the final shootout goal.
Montreal had a 2-1 lead in the third when Chicago’s Taylor Raddysh tied the score 2-2 with 3:54 remaining in regulation.
In the shootout, Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal, while Jonathan Toews and Andreas Athanasiou scored for Chicago, but Patrick Kane failed to get the puck past Canadiens goalie Sam Montembeault (5-2-1, 2.48 GAA).
Dach ended the game against his former team by beating Arvid Soderblom.
“It’s definitely built for the dramatic, for sure,” Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said of Dach’s game-winning goal. “You want to play a big game coming back here. I liked his game. To have the opportunity to be that guy that seals the deal at the end, it’s good that he was in that position. Obviously, he delivered for us.”
Dach posted 59 points (19 goals, 40 assists) in 152 regular-season games for Chicago, who drafted him with the third overall pick of the 2019 NHL draft. The Blackhawks traded him to Montreal on the day of this year’s draft for a first- and third-round pick that night.
Dach has flourished in Montreal, where he has 17 points (four goals, team-high 13 assists) in 21 games this season after recording a career-high 26 points (nine goals, 17 assists) in 70 games with the Blackhawks last season.
Suzuki is tied for the team lead with 12 goals to go along with 12 assists for a team-high 24 points, while Caufield has 12 goals and nine assists. No other Canadien has more than five goals.
San Jose has given up 89 goals, with only Anaheim’s 94 worse in the league. The Sharks have allowed 17 goals during their three-game losing streak.
The Sharks squandered a 2-1 third-period lead Sunday before Luke Kunin scored his second goal of the game with 5:15 remaining to send the game to overtime. Kuzmenko beat San Jose goalie Kaapo Kahkonen (2-5-2, 3.81 GAA) just 72 seconds into the extra session.
Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks, while Nick Bonino had two assists.
“There’s no quit in this group,” Kunin said. “I think we’ve said that a lot, and I think it shows. It’s never a lack of work ethic, it’s never a lack of will to want to win. It’s just being smarter in different situations.”
Erik Karlsson leads the Sharks with 32 points on 11 goals and a team-high 21 assists that are tied for third-most in the league. Tomas Hertl has five goals and 16 assists, while Timo Meier and Couture each have a team-high 12 goals, with Meier adding 10 assists and Couture eight.
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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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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – It seems like holiday songs play in stores, restaurants and homes earlier and earlier. According to the music software company Blòkur, there are nearly 50,000 songs with the word “Christmas” in them, and it seems everyone has their favorite… or do they?
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The Pittsburgh Penguins and visiting Carolina Hurricanes enter their game Tuesday having ended very different streaks in their previous outings.
Carolina arrested a five-game losing streak Saturday with a 3-2 home win over the Calgary Flames, while the Penguins’ five-game winning streak ended with a 4-1 loss to the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Hurricanes went 0-1-4 during their skid, managing to pull out four points, so a regulation win provided some relief after they felt like they were playing well enough to win before the breakthrough.
“Things haven’t been easy, but we’ve been sticking with it, and I thought we got what we deserved (Saturday),” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said.
The Hurricanes’ power play has come back to life. After they went six games without a power-play goal, they got two Friday in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Boston Bruins and then Saturday, Carolina followed up with another two goals with the man-advantage.
“It was huge,” said Martin Necas, who scored on one of the power plays Saturday, as did Brett Pesce. “This can help us get going a little bit and get the confidence going. … We have to keep it up.”
The Hurricanes also got goaltender Antti Raanta back Saturday. He got hit in the knee with a puck during a morning skate and because of the swelling dressed as the backup for four games in a row, with Pyotr Kochetkov starting those games.
“The way (Kochetkov) has been playing, you trust him as much as anyone,” Raanta said.
It’s not clear who will start Tuesday, although Raanta would seem likely.
Pittsburgh likely will go with No. 1 goalie Tristan Jarry against the Hurricanes, but not because backup Casey DeSmith let the Penguins down Saturday against Toronto.
Rather, the Penguins were fuming at themselves after that loss, which included a series of gaffes and sloppy plays.
In particular, Pittsburgh’s top line made a bad change at the end of the game’s first shift, with four of the five skaters on the ice heading to the bench at once, and the Maple Leafs capitalized by scoring just 40 seconds into regulation.
Team captain Sidney Crosby, one of those who went for that ill-advised change, let out a rare overt sign of frustration when Toronto scored, angrily kicking the inside of the bench wall several times.
Things went downhill from there, with the Maple Leafs afforded several odd-man breaks and other chances.
“For whatever reason, we couldn’t pull it together (after the early goal), and that kind of set us back a little bit,” Pittsburgh center Jeff Carter said.
“They really took it to us.”
It was a departure from the disciplined, structured game the Penguins played during their preceding winning streak.
“We got outplayed,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan said tersely.
The lopsided level of play gave Toronto the chance to fire off 41 shots on DeSmith — “We left him out to dry a couple times,” top-line winger Jake Guentzel said — and the frustrated Penguins dished out 57 hits that did not appear to appreciably slow the Maple Leafs.
“We’ve got to do a better job pushing back (and) we need to defend harder,” Sullivan said.
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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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Supervisors in Arizona’s Maricopa County voted unanimously to certify their election canvass ahead of a state deadline on Monday, defying Republican objections.
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) and others in the GOP have seized on printer malfunctions in Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous jurisdiction that includes Phoenix, making it an epicenter for election challenges as they called on supervisors to vote against certification.
The Republican-controlled board voted unanimously to certify the canvass on Monday at the conclusion of a tense meeting, insisting no voter was disenfranchised. Dozens of residents spoke about their concerns, at times interrupting supervisors, including some attendees who were escorted out of the room.
“These conversations need to focus on real issues. We can spend the next two years as we’ve spent the last two, fighting over conspiracy theories promoted on social media by people who know nothing about —” Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R) said at the meeting before he was cut off by boos from attendees.
Board Chairman Bill Gates (R), who repeatedly admonished attendees for the interruptions, reiterated his acknowledgement of the Election Day printer malfunctions and indicated the board will conduct an “even deeper dive” to fix the problem moving forward.
“Let me be abundantly clear: There has never been a perfect election, and this was not a perfect election,” Gates said. “There were issues, but we were transparent about that.”
Lake, a Trump ally who called on supporters to show up to the meeting, repeatedly posted clips on her Twitter and Truth Social accounts touting supporters who spoke at the meeting.
“Watching you pledge allegiance to my flag was disgusting, the way that you’ve sold us out,” said resident David Clements.
“Instead of praising the people that were running the election, you need to fire them for incompetence, because this whole thing was a sham,” said resident Randy Miller, who also criticized the two-minute limit per speaker, along with multiple other attendees.
“You are violating the Constitution. You are violating our rights by saying you can only petition the government for two minutes. Where’s your authority to do that? Who died and made you King?” Miller said.
Under state law, counties have until Monday to certify their vote canvasses unless they meet a specific exception. Most county boards voted to certify.
But in Cochise County, a rural jurisdiction in Arizona’s southeastern corner, the board’s two Republicans voted against certification on Monday. The Arizona secretary of state’s office has promised to sue the county by 5 p.m. local time.
Mohave County, a GOP-controlled county in the opposite corner of the state that last week delayed its certification in protest of the Maricopa malfunctions, unanimously voted to certify on Monday afternoon.
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The Anaheim Ducks have not had many positive experiences so far this season.
They enter the week with the fewest points in the NHL (13) and the worst goal differential (minus-36), with special teams woes keying their shortcomings. They are last in the league on the penalty kill (65.4 percent) and second-to-last on the power play (15.2).
Going on the road can sometimes bring a team closer and turn around their fortunes. The Ducks will give that another try starting with a four-game road trip at the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night, although the team’s road mark of 2-9-1 is the worst in the Western Conference.
The Predators should be well rested after having to postpone two games because of a water main break just outside Bridgestone Arena that flooded the arena’s main concourse and event levels. The two postponed games have yet to be rescheduled.
Nashville hasn’t played since a 3-0 loss at the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday. Before that game, the Predators had won four of five.
“It’s obviously nothing any of us wanted,” Predators forward Matt Duchene said of the postponements. “The team’s been playing great lately, it gets the momentum (going) and it’s disappointing not to have two great games at home on Thanksgiving weekend.”
The Predators went 3-0 against the Ducks last season, outscoring them 13-6 with Duchene collecting four goals and two assists in those games, and Filip Forsberg totaling three goals and five assists in two of the games.
Juuse Saros won all three games in goal against Anaheim, posting a 2.02 goals-against average and .931 save percentage. He’s expected to start against the Ducks on Tuesday after going 4-0-1 in his past five starts.
Forsberg is the hottest offensive player for Nashville coming in, owning 12 points (five goals, seven assists) in 11 games this month.
Anaheim completed a three-game homestand in disappointing fashion on Sunday evening.
The Ducks battled back from three two-goal deficits against the Seattle Kraken to tie the score late in the second period, but their comeback grinded to a halt in the third period and they eventually lost 5-4.
The homestand began with Anaheim’s first regulation win of the season, 3-2 against the New York Rangers on Wednesday, but finished up with two more disappointing losses.
“It just seems like it’s been this cycle (with) us where we come out tentative, we’re not making plays, we’re backing off,” Ducks right wing Troy Terry said. “We get down 1-0 or 2-0 and then it’s like, ‘We’ve got to make a push here.’ We play hard. We play together. We make plays going up the ice. We tie the game and then we sit back again.”
To make things more difficult, Ducks goalie John Gibson left early in the third period after Anaheim defenseman Keven Shattenkirk fell on him during a Seattle scoring play, causing Gibson’s lower body to bend awkwardly.
Gibson didn’t appear to be limping when he exited the arena, and the Orange County Register reported Monday that Gibson made the trip to Nashville.
One of the bright spots from Sunday’s loss was the Ducks finishing 3-for-4 on the power play, scoring three power play goals in a game for the first time since a 4-1 win against the visiting Vancouver Canucks Nov. 9, 2017.
“We got that part done,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. “We need to do that more often.”
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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.
But other top Republicans, including many considering challenging Trump for the GOP nomination, have so far remained silent, underscoring the hold Trump maintains over the party, even as he has been blamed for their worse-than-expected showing during the midterm elections.
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Late Saturday night was all right for fighting for both the New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers.
But with an immediate rematch looming, both teams seem focused on two entirely different long-term outlooks.
The Islanders will look to stay hot and the Flyers will look to snap another long losing streak when the longtime division rivals conclude a home-and-home set at Philadelphia on Tuesday night.
Both teams have been off since Saturday night, when the host Islanders scored four unanswered goals in a span of 15 minutes bridging the second and third periods in a 5-2 victory at Elmont, N.Y.
The outcome of the game was long determined when the squads combined for 42 penalty minutes in the final 3:16, including 36 minutes in a brawl that began with Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov delivering what appeared to be a routine check to Flyers right winger Kevin Hayes.
The subsequent fracas included the Flyers’ Tony DeAngelo challenging the Islanders’ Oliver Wahlstrom to a fight but Wahlstrom getting the better of DeAngelo, after delivered several punches while holding the Philadelphia defenseman in a hunched-over position.
Afterward, Islanders head coach Lane Lambert said “not at all” when asked if he was perturbed by the game taking a pugnacious turn in the final minutes and said he wasn’t concerned about any spillover for Tuesday night.
“All I know is that we take each game individually, so we’re going in there to win a hockey game,” Lambert said. “And we’ll see. We’ll just go from there.”
The win closed out a 4-0 week for the Islanders, who are 13-4-0 since a 2-4-0 start. New York plays just two games this week, with the Nashville Predators slated to visit on Friday night.
“That’s a good week, nice to cap it off the right way,” said Islanders center Brock Nelson, who scored the game-winner Saturday after also collecting the game-winner in Friday’s 3-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. “Now try to get some rest and take advantage of a little bit of a slow week (this) week.”
The loss was the 10th straight (0-7-3) for the Flyers, who have been outscored 45-20 during their third double-digit losing streak in the last 12 months. Philadelphia dropped 10 in a row (0-8-2) from Nov. 18 through Dec. 8, 2021, and 13 straight (0-10-3) from Dec. 30, 2021 through Jan. 25, 2022.
Nelson’s goal 2:57 into the third period Saturday marked the fourth time during the current skid the Flyers have given up the game-tying or go-ahead goal in the third period.
“We’re going to keep just banging away at it, that’s all — that’s all we can do,” Flyers head coach John Tortorella said. “I thought we did a lot of good things. We just have certain situations (where) we lose ourselves for a few minutes and it hurt us tonight in the third.”
The rematch against the Islanders opens a five-game homestand for the Flyers, who are slated to face a trio of 2021-22 playoff teams — including the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning, who squared off for the Stanley Cup last spring — as well as the Metropolitan Division-leading New Jersey Devils.
“It’s not fun, what’s going on now,” Hayes said. “The only way to get out of it is us. So get back to work and hopefully these couple home games can help that.”
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The Federal Reserve head in St. Louis expects the central bank’s fight to curb high inflation in the U.S. economy to stretch into 2024.
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told MarketWatch’s economics editor Greg Robb the Fed could slowly raise interest rates to a range of 5 percent to 7 percent.
“I think we’ll probably have to stay there all during 2023 and into 2024,” Bullard said of that range.
The Fed has raised interest rates six times this year as the U.S. struggles with a roughly 40-year high inflation rate.
In early November, the bank hiked interest rates to a range of 3.75 to 4 percent, the fourth consecutive increase of 75 basis points.
Meeting minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) suggested that its next meeting in December, board members were open to raising interest rates by 50 basis points instead of another 75 basis point hike.
While hiking interest rates raises borrowing costs to help curb demand in an overheated economy, it can also eat into other sectors of the economy that are now healthy, including low unemployment rates and consumer spending levels.
But Bullard told MarketWatch that it was beneficial for the Fed to fight inflation while unemployment is low.
“The fact that the labor market is so strong gives us license to pursue our disinflationary strategy now and try to get the inflation under control now,” he said. “So we don’t replay the 1970s, where the FOMC at that time took 15 years to get inflation under control.”
Some leading economists expect the U.S. to enter a recession next year, largely because of the Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes.
Bullard said a recession is not inevitable, but it is possible the economy hits a “shock” that tips the U.S. into one. The St. Louis Federal Reserve president predicted slow growth in the economy rather than a serious contraction.
The annual inflation rate fell from 8.2 percent in September to 7.7 percent in October, but that’s still much higher than the 2 percent goal for the Fed.
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said during an appearance at the Economic Club of New York on Monday that “inflation is far too high.”
“Persistently high inflation undermines the ability of our economy to perform at its full potential,” Williams said, according to comments shared on Twitter.
Williams said “we’ve seen significant improvement in global supply chains” but that it would “not be enough to get inflation” down to the central bank’s 2 percent goal.
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LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — A protester ran onto the field Monday carrying a rainbow flag and wearing a blue Superman T-shirt that said "SAVE UKRAINE" on the front and "RESPECT FOR IRANIAN WOMAN" on the back during a World Cup match between Portugal and Uruguay.
Security officials chased the protester down and the flag was dropped on the field before the person was escorted away. The referee then picked up the flag and left it on the sideline, where it stayed for a few moments before a worker came and collected it.
The protester was ushered away through a tunnel. It wasn’t immediately clear if the person faced any charges or had been detained by police.
Thierry De Backer, FIFA’s media officer at the game, told The Associated Press he had “no idea” what happened to the protester. Local Qatari organizers would not comment.
In the first week of the tournament in Qatar, seven European teams lost the battle to wear multi-colored "One Love" armbands during World Cup matches. Fans also complained they weren't allowed to bring items with rainbow colors, a symbol of LGBTQ rights, into the stadiums of the conservative Islamic emirate.
Qatar’s laws against gay sex and treatment of LGBTQ people were flashpoints in the run-up to the first World Cup to be held in the Middle East. Qatar has said everyone was welcome, including LGBTQ fans, but that visitors should respect the nation’s culture.
The incident occurred during the second half of the game at Lusail Stadium.
Portugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes, who scored both goals in his team's 2-0 win, said he was so focused on the game that he didn't really notice what the protester's intent was, and that he thought the protester might have wanted to take a picture with Cristiano Ronaldo, his star teammate.
“To be honest I didn’t really see what was the message that was trying to be conveyed,” Fernandes said through a translator. “But we’ve already spoken about that many times. ... We respect all human rights but those are political issues where we unfortunately don’t really have much strength, where we can’t really change anything.”
Before the World Cup started, Fernandes said soccer should be “for everyone,” adding that he wasn’t happy about workers who died building stadiums in Qatar.
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Twitter owner Elon Musk publicly slammed Apple on Monday for suspending some of its advertising on the social media platform, asking if leaders of the tech company “hate free speech.”
“Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter,” Musk announced.
“Do they hate free speech in America?”
Musk called out Apple CEO Tim Cook in a second tweet, writing: “What’s going on here @tim_cook?”
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who acquired Twitter in a $44 billion deal closed last month, has described himself as a “free speech absolutist” and promised to advocate for it using his ownership of the platform.
Racist language and misinformation have reportedly surged on Twitter since Musk’s acquisition, and left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America found that 50 of Twitter’s leading 100 advertisers appear to have halted their work with the site.
Those 50 companies made up $750 million in spending on Twitter over the course of 2022, according to the analysis.
Musk claimed that Apple “has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why.”
The Hill has reached out to Apple for comment on the alleged threats.
Musk posted a parade of tweets criticizing Apple for its “monopoly” on tech products and its censorship of some language.
Content sharing and publishing platform LBRY posted over its official Twitter account that “Apple may make good products, but they have been opposed to free speech for some time.”
“During Covid, Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned. If we did not filter the terms, our apps would not be allowed in the store,” the account wrote in response to Musk’s question about Apple and free speech.
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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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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – What should have been a weekend spent celebrating Thanksgiving, for many, was instead a weekend spent mourning lives lost after more mass shootings.
Because of the string of recent mass shootings, including one at a Virginia Walmart on Tuesday, President Joe Biden is again calling for a federal assault weapons ban among other gun control measures.
“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” Biden said.
Following the shootings, President Biden made the case that semi-automatic assault weapons shouldn’t be sold, explaining there is “not a single solitary rationale for it, except profit for gun manufacturers.”
Biden also expressed frustration at reports that red flag laws may not have been enforced in the shooting at a Colorado LGBTQ club where the gunman reportedly used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle.
On CBS’ Face the Nation, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said that neither the gunman’s parents nor authorities tried to have the shooter’s weapons removed through the use of red flag laws.
“In this case, it wasn’t pursued by the local sheriff agency,” Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) said.
Congressional Democrats say a patchwork of differing state laws is part of the problem that allows mass shootings to happen time and time again.
Congressman Bobby Scott says so far in 2022, there have been at least 600 mass shootings in the United States.
“We know we can do better, there’s no other country suffers gun violence like America,” Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) said.
Lawmakers have not been in Washington due to the Thanksgiving break, but for years, Republicans have blocked a federal assault weapons ban — arguing that many weapons are illegally obtained in the first place.
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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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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — On this week’s episode of Inside West Virginia Politics, Mark Curtis talks to guests about the election in 2022 and the upcoming election in 2024, skiing and healthcare.
Segments One and Two are about the previous and upcoming elections. Segment One brings on Republican Candidate for WV US House District 2 Treasurer Riley Moore. Segment Two brings in Del. Mike Pushkin (D) Chairman, WV Democratic Party to talk about a worthy opponent for Moore.
Segment Three brings in Joe Stevens, WV Ski Areas Assocation, to talk about the impact that skiing has on West Virginia.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia held back Monday from launching a new round of strikes that have been expected against power stations and other key infrastructure in Ukraine, as officials warned a lingering energy and water crisis from earlier attacks could prompt more evacuations from the capital.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, hosting the largest delegation of top foreign officials since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a Russian invasion of Ukraine over nine months ago, insisted that better air defenses were needed from allies “to break this vicious cycle" of Russian air strikes followed by Ukrainian rebuilding of damaged infrastructure.
"Every time we will be restoring it, the Russians will be destroying it,” he told counterparts from seven Baltic and Nordic countries.
The foreign ministers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland pledged more military, economic and humanitarian aid as an energy crisis deepens and Ukrainian forces seek to move on with a counteroffensive against Russian troops.
Sweden said it had provided a 270-million-euro ($279 million) package of air defense systems, ammunition, all-terrain vehicles and personal winter gear for troops. Finland pledged to take in more Ukrainian refugees. In Washington, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. is working with partners and allies to provide energy and water replacement equipment to Ukraine
In Israel — which has straddled a fine political line in the conflict — Channel 13 reported that a high-level Ukrainian delegation recently visited to discuss an Israeli pledge to provide a system that detects incoming missiles. Israel’s Defense Ministry declined comment.
Israel has voiced support for Ukraine but has refused so far to provide it arms or impose sanctions against Moscow because of its sensitive ties with Russia. Israel's and Russia's militaries communicate to avoid conflict in Syria. Israel also does not want to endanger the large Jewish community in Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned late Sunday that Russian troops “are preparing new strikes, and as long as they have missiles, they won’t stop.” He met Monday with senior government officials to discuss what actions to take.
"The upcoming week can be as hard as the one that passed," he predicted.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insisted Putin was intent on using frost, snow and ice to his advantage, not only on the battleground but against Ukrainian civilians.
“President Putin is now trying to use the winter as a weapon of war against Ukraine, and this is horrific and we need to be prepared for more attacks,” he said on the eve of a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers — including those who visited Kyiv on Monday — in Bucharest, Romania. “That’s the reason why NATO’s allies have stepped up their support to Ukraine.”
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said some of the city's 3 million people might have to be evacuated to where essential services would be less prone to shutdowns caused by missile attacks.
For weeks, Russia has been pounding energy facilities around Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with missile strikes, usually on Mondays at the work week's beginning, resulting in outages of power and water supplies.
Based on the pattern of infrastructure attacks and the Russian military's preparation time, an advisor to Ukraine's interior minister said on national TV that the next strikes could occur in another week. A Ukrainian military spokesman also said on national TV that Russian aircraft had intensified their activity over Ukraine on Monday.
With temperatures hovering around freezing, and expected to dip as low as minus 11C (12 Fahrenheit) in little more than a week, international help was increasingly focused on items like generators and transformers, to make sure blackouts that affect everything from kitchens to operating rooms are as limited and short as possible. The power situation was so dire that Ukraine's energy trader — in normal times an exporter — tested importing electricity from neighboring Romania.
Putin “continues trying to make Ukraine a black hole — no light, no electricity, no heating to put the Ukrainians into the darkness and the cold,” said European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who is leading a meeting of EU ministers in Bucharest to help Ukraine with its humanitarian crisis. “So we have to continue our support providing more material for the Ukrainians to face the winter without electricity.”
Ukraine’s energy provider Ukrenergo said Monday it is still short 27% of output and that “the scale and complexity of the damage are high, and repair works have continued around the clock."
Power supply was restored to 17% of residents in the southern city of Kherson, which Ukraine reclaimed earlier this month. The Russians have continued pounding the city with artillery barrages from newly consolidated positions across the Dnieper River. Britain's Defense Ministry reported that the strikes reached a record high, 54, on Sunday.
Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address Monday that Russian forces had fired 258 times on 30 settlements of in the Kherson region over the past week, and had damaged a water pumping station for Mykolaiv.
Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday that at least four civilians were killed and 11 others wounded in the latest Russian attacks. It said intense fighting is continuing in the east, with the Russians shelling Bakhmut and Toretsk.
“People are sheltering in the basements, many of which are filled by water,” said Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko. “They have been living in catastrophic conditions without power or heating.”
Also Monday, Russia denied that it plans to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which it has occupied since the early days of the war.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a call with reporters that it was pointless to look for signs of a pullback from the plant “when there are none and there can’t be.”
Peskov's comments were in response to Ukrainian claims that Russian forces were bound to retreat from the plant as they face a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The plant was shut down because of repeated shelling, for which Russia and Ukraine have traded blame. The U.N. nuclear watchdog and international leaders have urged Russia to demilitarize the plant to avoid a nuclear disaster, but Moscow has rejected the demands, arguing that it needs to maintain troops there to ensure its safety.
Also Monday, a Russian official told the Tass news agency that nuclear workers who have refused to sign contracts with a Russian company claiming to have take over the plant's operations are barred from entry.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Two men are facing charges in connection to a robbery that happened in Charleston last week.
Authorities say Jaquise Jackson, 18, of Charleston, and Makhail Patterson, 20, of Charleston, were arrested on robbery and burglary charges after a break-in at a woman’s apartment.
According to criminal complaints filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, the incident happened on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Authorities say six suspects forced entry into an apartment on Renaissance Circle in Charleston, West Virginia.
The complaint states one of the men, identified as Jaquise Jackson, 18, of Charleston is accused of shoving the victim into the kitchen and “pistol whipping” her in the side of the head “causing noticeable injuries.” The victim stated Jackson then allegedly began yelling at her asking for “the money and the gun.” According to the complaint, Jackson and another suspect held the woman at gunpoint and again pistol whipped her while Patterson and the three other suspects ransacked the apartment.
The complaint states the victim told authorities the suspects left after looking through her apartment, and that she had feared for her life.
Jackson and Patterson were identified as suspects and later arrested in Kanawha County.
Authorities say Patterson is also a suspect in a robbery that happened on Nov. 4, 2022. In that incident, the victim told authorities identified Patterson as the person who was allegedly with an unknown Black male who pointed a gun at them and threatened them to give up their vehicle. The victim also stated Patterson and the unknown male then threatened the passenger with the firearm before getting into the vehicle and fleeing the scene.
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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.”
“All it shows is that once again the Conservative government is flip-flopping its rhetoric on China,” Lammy said.
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – “Frosty the Snowman” has been a staple of the holidays ever since it was written back in 1950. However, the guy who helped make it had more than his fair share of hits that we listen to to this very day.
Born in Scottdale, Penn. on September 15, 1906, raised in Keyser, W.Va. and died on January 1, 1973, Walter E. “Jack” Rollins is most known as the guy who wrote the lyrics to “Frosty the Snowman,” “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” and even “Smokey the Bear,” among other works.
When making these tracks, Rollins was assisted by his writing partner, Steve Nelson, who helped compose the songs.
According to the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, Rollins didn’t just write fun little characters, he co-wrote many country songs as well, including “the No. 1 hit ‘I Don’t Hurt Anymore’ for Hank Snow and ‘A Prison Without Walls,’ a Top 10 hit for Eddy Arnold.”
He also created songs that were recorded by Fred Astaire, Martina McBride, Dinah Washington, Henry Mancini, The Carpenters, Nat King Cole, Gene Autry, Rosemary Clooney, Willie Nelson, Anne Murray, Kenny G and 2008 West Virginia Music Hall of Fame inductee Frankie Yankovic.
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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.
The law includes $1.5 billon in grants and other spending to improve monitoring and data collection of methane emissions, with the goal of finding and repairing natural gas leaks.
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WAYNE COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – A man from Huntington is facing charges in connection to brush fires set in Wayne County in early November.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Wayne County, Robert Pelfrey is charged with two counts of setting fires to lands, which is a felony. He turned himself in today, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022.
Investigators say several eyewitnesses told them that they heard Pelfery say he was going to start a wildfire on Mary and Plymale Ridge.
Three people told police they actually saw him set the fire which authorities say sparked two wildfires.
The large fires kept crews busy for several days and endangered homes.
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A 79-year-old man with dementia is the subject of an Endangered Missing Adult Alert.
Sisay Mulualem was last seen at 9 a.m. Monday and is believed to have walked away from his home in West Chester Twp.
He stands 5 feet, 8 inches, weighs 146 pounds and has brown eyes and hair.
He was last seen wearing a red jacket, black or gray sweatpants and black shoes.
Anyone who spots him or who has information on his whereabouts is urged to call 911 or the Ohio Attorney General Missing Persons Unit at 1-888-673-1113.
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HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) – A Cabell County woman has been charged with child neglect after finding drugs in a hotel room allegedly within reach of a child.
According to a criminal complaint filed with the Cabell County Magistrate Court, Kassandra Mitchell, 29, of Huntington, is facing child neglect and drug charges.
The complaint states authorities were called to a hotel on Kinetic Drive in Huntington around 11:30 a.m. Nov. 23, 2022, for a “disturbance ” in one of the rooms.
Authorities said they learned from the staff that Mitchell had been staying in the room, which allegedly had an outstanding balance of more than $1,600 and was also rented to “a separate party.”
According to the complaint, when authorities went to the hotel room where they found more than six grams of a white crystalline substance and 10 alprazolam pills and a digital scale. According to authorities, a majority of the suspected narcotics were in “plain view” and were allegedly within easy access of Mitchell’s child who was also in the room. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/west-virginia-mother-charged-after-drugs-found-in-hotel-room-near-child/ | 2022-11-28T23:42:04 | en | 0.984137 |
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Deshaun Watson won’t have a playbook for everything that lies ahead.
The practices, meetings, film work, making handoffs, throwing passes for the Browns, all of that will be easy, second nature. The rest: protesters, heightened scrutiny and pointed questions, will be unscripted.
There's no blueprint for the once-revered quarterback now reviled in some circles.
Cleveland's controversial, $230 million QB was officially reinstated Monday by the NFL after serving his 11-game suspension for sexual misconduct allegations made by more than two dozen women.
Watson's return wasn't accompanied by any fanfare, simply a posting on the league's personnel notice.
He's now a starter again and poised to make his regular-season debut for the Browns on Sunday, coincidentally, in Houston, where he began his pro career and quickly rose to stardom before off-field decisions knocked him off course.
The 27-year-old quarterback isn't starting over, but anew.
He's coming back to the Browns (4-7), who are clinging to the hope that he can lead them to the playoffs despite his long layoff.
Browns coach Kevin Stefanski believes Watson, who returned to practice two weeks ago, is ready for what will be his first game in 700 days — and whatever's next.
"I have confidence in Deshaun based on his preparation and, really, the focus is on just him doing his job," Stefanski said a day after the Browns rallied for a 23-17 overtime win against Tampa Bay. "We're still gonna be all about the team effort, still offense, defense and special teams. So this is never, ever gonna be about one person.
“But as it relates to Deshaun, I believe in his preparation, I believe that he worked really hard on a bunch of things to be ready to go.”
In August, Watson ended months of legal entanglements by agreeing to the suspension, a $5 million fine and to undergo professional counseling and treatment after an independent arbitrator ruled he violated the league’s personal conduct policy.
Watson was accused of being sexually inappropriate with the women during massage therapy sessions. The three-time Pro Bowler has long maintained he didn't harass or assault any of the women, some of whom said he forced them to have sex.
Watson wasn’t indicted on criminal charges by two grand juries and reached financial settlements in 23 of 24 civil lawsuits.
While his return to Houston could be hostile, Stefanski said the Browns didn't consider delaying Watson's return. They didn't send three first-round draft picks to the Texans for him to watch.
Their wait is over. It's time for Watson to be a franchise quarterback.
"Deshaun is gonna come in and be Deshaun,” wide receiver Amari Cooper said Sunday. “We’ve seen that greatness on display a multitude of times. So can’t wait for him to get back, can’t wait to practice with him. Can’t wait to catch some balls from him.”
WHAT'S WORKING
The derided defense rebounded against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.
With All-Pro end Myles Garrett leading the way with 1 1/2 sacks while playing through a painful shoulder injury, Cleveland's defense came up with big stops when needed in one of its best games in week.
After giving up a touchdown in the third quarter, the Browns held the Bucs to 92 yards and forced six punts.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
How about some consistency?
One week, the Browns look like legitimate playoff contenders. The next, they're almost completely inept.
Stefanski has been puzzled by his team's inability to string together good quarters, let alone good games. But Sunday's performance — along with Watson's return — could give the Browns a perfect jolt heading into December.
STOCK UP
Starting in place of Greg Newsome (concussion), rookie cornerback Martin Emerson Jr. had a huge game.
He was credited with four pass breakups and didn't allow Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans a catch on the seven passes that were targeted to him with Emerson in coverage.
STOCK DOWN
Rookie kicker Cade York missed his sixth field-goal attempt, this one a 39-yarder that had no chance.
York did convert on a 51-yarder, but the Browns were counting on better production from the fourth-round pick. Stefanski wanted to speak with York before making any comment about the latest misfire.
INJURIES
Garrett could barely get dressed after aggravating a left shoulder sprain sustained two months ago when he flipped his car while speeding. Garrett acknowledged he may need surgery, and it's not out of the question the Browns will give him a week off to rest. ... CB A.J. Green is in concussion protocol after making a tackle in the first quarter. ... Stefanski said Newsome, who has missed the past two games, is trending toward a return.
KEY NUMBER
218 — Consecutive wins for Brady in games his team has led by seven points or more with two minutes left. The Browns ended that streak by scoring with 32 seconds left in regulation and winning with 19 seconds left in OT.
WHAT'S NEXT
The Watson era begins against the hapless Texans (1-9-1), who may be the perfect opponent for him to shake off any rust.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – The five New Haven, Connecticut police officers involved in the incident that left Richard “Randy” Cox paralyzed in June have been arrested.
On June 19, Cox, 36, was arrested for unlawfully possessing a firearm. He was handcuffed and placed inside a police van that had no seatbelts. When the van stopped abruptly, video released by authorities shows Cox being launched headfirst toward the front of the van’s holding area and smashing his head into the wall. Cox pleaded for help and said he couldn’t move but did not immediately receive medical attention.
Some of the officers instead mocked him and accused him of being drunk and faking his injuries. Then, the officers dragged him by his feet from the van and placed him in a holding cell prior to his eventual transfer to a hospital.
The incident left Cox paralyzed from the chest down.
The officers involved are Officer Oscar Diaz, Sgt. Betsy Segui, Officer Ronald Pressley, Officer Jocelyn Lavandier, and Officer Luis Rivera. They have been on paid administrative leave since this summer.
All five have been charged with second-degree reckless endangerment and cruelty to persons by state police, both misdemeanors. The officers turned themselves in at a state police barracks Monday. Each was processed, posted a $25,000 bond, and are due back in court Dec. 8, according to a news release from state police.
“We need to be transparent and accountable. Period,” said New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson during a press conference Monday. “You cannot treat people the way that Mr. Cox was treated.”
Following the arrests, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker released a statement saying:
“As I’ve said from day one, the City of New Haven is committed to accountability for all individuals involved in this tragic incident. Based on today’s arrests, it’s clear that the State’s Attorney has determined there is probable cause that the actions of these officers violated state criminal laws – and, ultimately, the final verdict will be appropriately decided through the criminal justice system. I’m glad to see the process is moving forward to help ensure that justice is served.
“The City of New Haven also remains committed to pursuing an expedited resolution to the related civil lawsuit and to continuing to advance the comprehensive police reforms and policy changes that the City has adopted and enacted since the incident.
“What happened to Randy was unacceptable, and we will work to make sure something like this never happens again.”
All charges against Cox from the day of the arrest have since been dropped.
In September, Cox’s family filed a lawsuit against the City of New Haven and the five officers involved in Cox’s transport, accusing them of negligence, use of excessive force, denial of medical treatment and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Last week, the officers involved filed documents with the court defending themselves and their involvement in the case.
Segui, Diaz, Pressley, and Rivera claim they are “entitled to qualified immunity from all liability” in the case. In addition, Lavandier “moves to dismiss in its entirety.”
Jacobson released a statement saying he has directed the New Haven Police Department’s Office of Internal Affairs to immediately resume its internal investigation into the incident. They will “determine whether the officers violated NHPD protocols and procedures.”
Following the internal investigation, Jacobson says he will review the findings and recommend discipline that “may be appropriate.” Under his authority, he can issue up to a 15-day suspension but anything “beyond that must be referred to the New Haven Board of Police Commissioners, who would then ultimately decide on the appropriate discipline, up to and including termination.”
New Haven officials announced a series of police reforms this summer stemming from the case, including eliminating the use of police vans for most prisoner transports and using marked police vehicles instead. They also require officers to immediately call for an ambulance to respond to their location if the prisoner requests or appears to need medical aid.
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MAUNA LOA, Hawaii (KHON) — The world’s largest active volcano is erupting for the first time in nearly four decades, causing quite the show.
Residents across Kona shared photos and videos of the glow from Mauna Loa overnight with Nexstar’s KHON.
The eruption can even be seen from space. NOAA’s GOES satellite caught the images below over a four-hour time period.
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The U.S. Geological Survey has webcams that show the rift zones and summit of Mauna Loa. They are also releasing photos on their Twitter page.
Mauna Loa started erupting on Sunday just before midnight on Hawaii Island.
According to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the lava exited the volcano summit through the northeast flank, an area that is not populated. Due to the direction of the lava flow, there is no threat to any communities at this time.
Rumbling small earthquakes had peaked in late September in a period that geologists have been referring to as elevated unrest. Mauna Loa’s activation was upgraded to a red warning Sunday night from the previous yellow color code.
Officials with the USGS and HVO are warning that “based on past events, the early stages of a Mauna Loa eruption can be very dynamic and the location and advance of lava flows can change rapidly.”
The biggest cities on the island are Kailua-Kona to the west of the volcano, which has about 23,000 people, and Hilo to the east, with about 45,000. Officials were most worried about several subdivisions about 30 miles to the south of the volcano, which are home to about 5,000 people.
An eruption from the northeast could send lava toward the county seat of Hilo or other towns in East Hawaii but it could take the lava weeks or months to reach populated areas. It’s possible the eruption may later shift to a rift zone on the southwest flank. Lava emerging from this area could reach nearby communities in hours or days.
The average Mauna Loa eruption is not typically prolonged, lasting a couple of weeks, said Ken Hon, the scientist-in-charge at the HVO.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — “We the People” is Jill Biden’s holiday theme with White House decorations designed for “the people” to see themselves in the tree ornaments, mantel displays, mirrors and do-it-yourself creations that have turned the mansion’s public spaces into a winter wonderland.
“The soul of our nation is, and has always been, ‘We the People,’” the first lady said at a White House event honoring the volunteers who decorated over Thanksgiving weekend. “And that is what inspired this year’s White House holiday decoration.”
“The values that unite us can be found all around you, a belief in possibility and optimism and unity,” Jill Biden said. “Room by room, we represent what brings us together during the holidays and throughout the year.”
Slideshow: White House Christmas Decorations 2022
Public rooms are dedicated to unifying forces: honoring and remembering deceased loved ones, words and stories, kindness and gratitude, food and traditions, nature and recreation, songs and sounds, unity and hope, faith and light, and children.
A burst of pine aroma hits visitors as they step inside the East Wing and come upon trees adorned with mirrored Gold Star ornaments bearing the names of fallen service members.
Winter trees, woodland animals and glowing lanterns placed along the hallway help give the feeling of walking through snow.
Likenesses of Biden family pets — Commander and Willow, the dog and cat — first appear at the end of the hallway before they are seen later in the Vermeil Room, which celebrates kindness and gratitude, and the State Dining Room, which highlights children.
Recipes contributed by the small army of volunteer decorators spruce up the China Room’s mantel. Handwritten ones — for apple crisp and pizzelle, an Italian cookie — are family recipes shared by the first lady.
Aides say she was inspired by people she met while traveling around the country and by the nation’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
A copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display in the library, while the always-show-stopping 300-pound (136 kilogram) gingerbread White House this year includes a sugar cookie replica of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the documents were signed.
The executive pastry chef used 20 sheets of sugar cookie dough, 30 sheets of gingerbread dough, 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of pastillage, 30 pounds (14 kilograms) of chocolate and 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of royal icing to create the gingerbread and sugar cookie masterpiece.
A new addition to the White House collection this year is a menorah, which is lit nightly during the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah. White House carpenters built the menorah out of wood that was saved from a Truman-era renovation and sterling silver candle cups.
Some 50,000 visitors are expected to pass through the White House for the holidays, including tourists and guests invited to nearly a month’s worth of receptions. Among them will be French President Emmanuel Macron, who will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday and be honored at a state dinner, the first of the Biden administration.
More than 150 volunteers, including two of the first lady’s sisters, helped decorate the White House during the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
The decorations include more than 83,000 twinkling lights on trees, garlands, wreaths and other displays, 77 Christmas trees and 25 wreaths on the White House exterior. Volunteers also used more than 12,000 ornaments, just under 15,000 feet (4,500 meters) of ribbon and more than 1,600 bells.
Some of the decorations are do-it-yourself projects that the first lady hopes people will be encouraged to recreate for themselves, aides said. They include plastic drinking cups turned into bells and table-top Christmas trees made from foam shapes and dollar store ramekins.
Groupings of snowy trees fill corners of the East Room, which reflects nature and recreation, and scenes from four national parks are depicted on each fireplace mantel: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah.
In the Blue Room, the official White House Christmas tree — an 18 1/2-foot (5.6-meter) Concolor fir from Auburn, Pennsylvania — is decorated to represent unity and hope with handmade renderings of the official birds from all 57 territories, states and the District of Columbia.
The State Dining Room is dedicated to the next generation — children — and its trees are decorated with self-portrait ornaments made by students of the 2021 Teachers of the Year, “ensuring that children see themselves” in the décor, the White House said.
Hanging from the fireplace in the State Dining Room are the Biden family Christmas stockings.
“We the People” are celebrated again in the Grand Foyer and Cross Hall on the State Floor, where metal ribbons are inscribed with the names of all the states, territories and the District of Columbia.
As part of Joining Forces, her White House initiative to support military families, Jill Biden was joined by National Guard leaders from across the country, as well as National Guard families. Her late son, Beau Biden, was a major in the Delaware Army National Guard.
She met before the event with children from National Guard families, telling them she wanted to hear their stories because “you have served right alongside of your parents and you deserve to have your courage, and your sacrifice, recognized, too.”
The White House noted that the holiday guide book given to visitors was designed by Daria Peoples, an African American children’s book author who lives in Las Vegas. Peoples is a former elementary school teacher who has written and illustrated a series of picture books to support children of color, including those who have experienced race-based trauma. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/photos-we-the-people-at-heart-of-white-house-holiday-decorations/ | 2022-11-28T23:42:22 | en | 0.947849 |
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers have returned to Washington after their Thanksgiving break and have just three weeks to tackle a long list of priorities, including keeping the government funded.
Starting this week it’s a race against the clock, especially for Democrats who will no longer have control over both chambers of Congress next years.
It’s set to be a busy few weeks for lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Democrats are working to pass the Marriage Equality Act and a bill to clarify the electoral college process. Following back-to-back mass shootings, President Joe Biden is also calling for gun reforms.
On the Senate floor Monday, Senate Majority Leader Rep. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats and Republicans must pass a government funding bill before the Dec. 16 deadline.
“There’s a lot we must do before the end of the calendar year,” Schumer said. “The last thing we can afford right now is to turn government funding into another political tit for tat.”
Schumer also said they must pass the Marriage Equality Act, “because millions of Americans deserve equal justice under the law.”
Following a spree of mass shootings in the days before the Thanksgiving holiday, Biden is now also urging Congress to pass gun reform.
When asked if he can do anything about gun reform during the lame duck, Biden said “I’m going to try … to get rid of assault weapons.”
But on NBC’s Meet the Press, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., pushed back.
“Simply passing more bills isn’t going to solve the problem,” he said. “We need to invest in more law enforcement.”
While tackling gun reform remains an uphill battle, Democrats and Republicans largely agree on getting more funding to the U.S. Military, as well as getting more aid to Ukraine.
But Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said there needs to be more oversight of the $37 billion in new aid the president is requesting.
“When we give them what they need, they win,” McCaul said on ABC This Week. “We’re not going to write a blank check.”
McCaul is promising to ramp up that oversight once Republicans take control of House in January. The shift of power in the House could make the next few weeks interesting on Capitol Hill.
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