Week of Live Coverage Brings Free Music to Audiences Anywhere DALLAS , Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The JAMBALOO Music Festival is excited to announce a major expansion to its artist lineup and a new partnership with WFAA+ to bring live streaming coverage to audiences nationwide. From February 1st – 8th 2025, the festival will feature performances from a diverse array of local and touring artists across venues throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, with WFAA+ offering free, live streaming of the event to viewers everywhere. The lineup for JAMBALOO continues to grow, with the addition of renowned artists such as The Black Angels, Kolton Moore , RJD2, Mystery Skulls, Lou CharLe$, Black Tie Dynasty, and Daiistar. These new performers will join a diverse selection of local favorites and emerging talent at four iconic venues: Ferris Wheelers ( Dallas ), Club Dada (Deep Ellum), Tulips ( Fort Worth ), and Andy's ( Denton ). Alongside the in-person festival experience, JAMBALOO is partnering with WFAA+ to livestream all shows taking place at the Tulips venue in Fort Worth throughout the festival week. This collaboration ensures that audiences around the world can experience the energy of JAMBALOO in real time, completely free of charge. Fans can tune in through WFAA+'s innovative streaming platform, available on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and other smart devices, bringing the excitement of Tulips' performances directly to their screens. "JAMBALOO is all about celebrating the rich and diverse music scene of the DFW Metroplex, and with the addition of these incredible artists, we're ensuring there's something for every music lover," said Joe Morrison of Mullen & Mullen, a JAMBALOO co-founder. "Partnering with WFAA+ allows us to extend this celebration beyond the venues and into homes across the globe, so everyone can experience the magic of live music, no matter where they are." How to Watch and Attend: Download WFAA+ : Tune in to daily live streams of JAMBALOO performances from February 1-8, 2025 . The WFAA+ app is available for free on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and other smart platforms. RSVP for In-Person Shows : Visit the JAMBALOO website to reserve spots for free performances at your favorite venues. About JAMBALOO: The JAMBALOO Music Festival is more than just a music event—it's a celebration of the DFW music scene, with a mission to revitalize the local music community and support independent artists and venues. Kicking off with a JAMBALOO Symposium on February 1 , the festival will offer a week of performances, community engagement, and special events that will leave a lasting impact on the area's cultural landscape. About Our Partners: Mullen & Mullen Law Firm For over 41 years, Mullen & Mullen has been representing injured North Texans, and is committed to supporting the local community and music scene. Website: mullenandmullen.com Spune Productions A leader in Texas music events, Spune Productions curates experiences that bring people together through the power of music. Website: spune.com WFAA+ A next-generation streaming platform, WFAA+ offers live news, special reports, and event coverage. With its cutting-edge technology, it bridges the gap between traditional broadcasting and modern streaming, making it easier than ever for communities to stay connected. Website: WFAA.com KXT 91.7 North Texas' premier public radio station, KXT 91.7 showcases the region's best local and emerging musical talent. Website: kxt.org View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jambaloo-announces-lineup-additions--wfaa-streaming-partnership-302329427.html SOURCE Mullen & Mullen Law Firm © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
Pep Guardiola denies rumours of a rift with Kevin De Bruyne1. First, here's Ariana Grande during one of her earliest auditions for Glinda in Wicked, where she performs "Popular" vs. the final scene from the film: In an interview on the Sentimental Men podcast , Ariana recalled hearing about the Wicked audition for the first time, saying, "I was on the Sweetener tour, and I said to my team, I said, 'If this is happening now. We have to figure it out. We have to pull the plug on this tour. I'm going home. I'm getting into voice lessons. I'm getting into acting lessons. And I'm going to turn this shit out. You need to hear from me now. If this is happening. I'm going home and I'm training, and I'm getting ready. This is all I want.'" In her recent interview with Variety for Actors on Actors , she revealed to Paul Mescal that it was a "three-and-a-half month" audition process for Wicked . 2. And here's Cynthia Erivo during her audition for Elphaba in Wicked, where she performed "Defying Gravity" vs. the final scene from the film: In the documentary, Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked , Cynthia explained that she had a three-hour audition where she worked with a few other actors, none of whom were Ariana Grande. 3. Here's Pedro Pascal's self-tape audition for Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones vs. the final scene in Season 4, Episode 3: In an interview with Late Night with Seth Meyers , Pedro explained that he found out about the role after offering to help a younger actor actually audition for the role of Oberyn. "He goes to the bathroom, and I text my manager right away," Pedro added, saying he then put himself on tape for the role. 4. Here's Tom Holland during his audition for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War vs. a final scene from the movie: In a behind-the-scenes featurette about Tom's audition, producers explained that they looked at roughly 7,500 tapes of young actors who wanted to be the next Spider-Man. "It was a pretty daunting process," Tom explained. "I went through a phase of just doing self-tapes after self-tapes after self-tapes." 5. Here's Zendaya during her audition for MJ in Spider-Man: Homecoming vs. her in the movie: In an interview on The Tonight Show , Zendaya explained that she had no idea she was auditioning for Spider-Man while auditioning. She said, "I knew I was auditioning for 'Girl in Movie.' And I actually didn't even know what kind of character." 6. Here's Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron during their chemistry test for Gabriella and Troy in High School Musical vs. the final scene in the movie: Looking back on meeting the cast for the first time during auditions, Vanessa told The Kelly Clarkson Show , "I remember meeting Zac for the first time, meeting Lucas [Grabeel] for the first time. Me and Ashley [Tisdale] had already met cause we did a commercial together a month prior. It’s wild. The time just keeps flying." 7. Here's Rachel McAdams during her first audition for Allie in The Notebook opposite Ryan Gosling vs. the final scene in the movie: In a behind-the-scenes featurette about The Notebook auditions, the producers revealed they tested 10 different actors alongside Ryan, with "nine of them very well known." Rachel was a "last minute" audition, and the producers didn't know who she was. Ryan explained that when Rachel came in, she was the only one who didn't want to talk about the scene and characters before the audition; she just did it perfectly. 8. Here's Sam Heughan during his Outlander audition for Jamie vs. the final scene from the second episode of the series: Speaking about Sam's Outlander audition, casting director Suzanne Smith told Daily Express , "We did audition other actors, and the casting process is not just one audition, you do a couple, so it’s a process of each role that we do on the show. He just embodied the role and also being a wonderful human being, which is so important." 9. And here's Caitríona Balfe during her chemistry read as Claire alongside Sam Heughan for Outlander vs. the scene from Season 1, Episode 9: Looking back on this chemistry test, Sam recalled in his memoir, "It was intense, physically and emotionally. It left us breathless. She was wrapped in my arms and I think we both know that Jamie and Claire had just come into existence together." 10. Here's Stephanie Hsu during her audition for Joy Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once vs. the final scene from the film: Speaking about her audition video for the film that went viral, Stephanie told NPR , "That audition video was from 2019. I had never seen it. It was kind of amazing and actually really healing for me to see because the movie is so wild and spectacular that you want to talk about the bigness of it, the costumes, the craziness, and it was quite healing actually to witness; oh wow I guess I did really bring something to this? I know I knew that, but just to see the very bare bones of that performance and the magic that happened in that audition room that day." 11. Here's Miley Cyrus during one of her first auditions for Hannah Montana when she was 12 years old vs. the final scene from the first episode: Reflecting on her audition process on the 10-year anniversary of Hannah Montana, Miley wrote on Instagram, per Rolling Stone , "There was a very long auditioning process, and many chemistry reads which really is what sold the show to the producers and channel because no matter what went on over the years (which none of you have any clue about but it was like The Real World but [with] more hormonal teenagers), our love for each other was unquestionable. Even though I feel disconnected to who I was at that time I will always feel eternally grateful for the opportunity and platform I was given..." 12. Here's Selena Gomez during one of her earliest Disney Channel auditions vs. her as Alex Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place : Reflecting on her early Disney audition days, Selena told CNBC , "When I was 12 years old, Disney Channel had a nationwide casting search, and we could never really afford to fly out to California. So I sent in tapes, and [I] guess they liked me." 13. Here's Patrick J. Adams during his audition for Mike Ross in Suits vs. the final scene from the very first episode: In an interview with BuzzFeed , Patrick recalled his audition, saying, "My audition was really fueled by the fact that I had been fired from a job not long prior to this audition. And so, I don't really remember the specifics, other than I just really went into the audition process for Suits like somebody who had already been through hell. I was just like, Throw it all away. Nothing can hurt me now , which I think helped me get the part. I'd been through it so badly that I was just very eager and excited to just have fun and throw caution to the wind." 14. Here's Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones during their first chemistry read for Connell and Marianne in Normal People vs. the duo in the final scene in Episode 2: Normal People producer and director Lenny Abrahamson said after Daisy and Paul did a few scenes together in their audition together, he looked around and "three or four of the people in the room were in tears." He added, "And that [was] just on a first read with the two of them. It was all sort of there at that point." Lenny continued, saying , "And then you know you've got this alive energy that feels correct for the book and the adaptation, and at that point you can go, 'Great! We can really make it now.'" 15. Here's Riley Keough during her first audition for Daisy Jones in Daisy Jones and the Six vs. the final scene in Episode 5: In an interview with BuzzFeed , Riley recalled her audition, saying, "I read the book. I mean, I listened to the audiobook, and I met with Hello Sunshine, like, very early on. Then, I auditioned. I sent a self-tape in. This was before the singing, just acting. I think I sent about three acting tapes in." 16. Here's Xolo Maridueña during one of his earliest auditions for Miguel in Cobra Kai vs. the final scene in Season 1, Episode 2: While re-watching his chemistry read with William Zabka, Xolo remembered being "really nervous" for this audition. He added, "Those early scenes with Billy are some of my favorite to film." 17. Here's Walker Scobell's self-tape audition for Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson and the Olympians vs. the final scene in the first episode: In an interview with Teen Vogue , Walker recalled filming the self-tape while filming The Adam Project . He filmed his first audition with his siblings playing the other characters in the scene with Percy offscreen. "My little brother played the teacher, Mrs. Dodds, and to get into character, he put, like, my mom's high heels on, and he talked in a really high-pitched voice. And so you can see me kind of cracking up in my audition. It took, like, maybe, like 30 or 40 takes. I have no idea how I got it," Walker said. 18. Here's Daisy Ridley during her audition for Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens vs. the final scene in the movie: In a behind-the-scenes featurette looking back on Daisy's audition, writer and director JJ Abrams recalled, "She just blew my mind. She's reaching this depth of struggle, and tears were streaming down her face. I thought, This is unbelievable ." 19. And finally, here's Dacre Montgomery during his audition for Billy in Stranger Things vs. the final scene from Season 2, Episode 2: Dacre's audition tape for Stranger Things notably went viral once it was released. Recalling his audition to GQ , Dacre said, "I just kind of wanted to make a bit of a splash with the Duffers because I assumed they would be getting so many tapes. I had the audition details for about a day, and I did the whole thing in the first day because I was so overwhelmingly excited about it. I got [the audition details] when I woke up, so that's 7 o'clock. It was one scene, the scene of me and Max in the car, and there was a scene from Stand By Me ." We can't fit everyone into one post, so are there any other audition stories (or videos) of actors before they landed their iconic roles? Tell us in the comments below!
'Dark era' over, Bowling Green sizes up Arkansas State in 68 Ventures Bowl(Bloomberg) -- American Airlines Group Inc. said that a tech issue with DXC Technology Co., a third-party vendor that maintains the company’s flight-operating systems, caused a brief groundstop on all US flights on Christmas Eve. The carrier said Tuesday that a network hardware-related issue has been resolved and flights have resumed. American’s flight-operating system allows for air transport to be coordinated and dispatched, it said. The halt lasted for about an hour. “We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience this morning,” American said in a statement. “It’s all hands on deck as our team is working diligently to get customers where they need to go as quickly as possible.” The airline didn’t say if it expected any further delays or other knock-on effects. American Airlines had 3,320 domestic flights and 581 international flights scheduled for the day, according to aviation data provider Cirium. Only 19 of its flights were canceled by the early afternoon, in line with the typical 1% cancellation rate across airlines, Cirium said. But there were delays: Only about 37% of American Airlines flights were leaving on time as of the early afternoon, Cirium said, noting that most airlines aim for 80% of flights departing and arriving within 15 minutes of the scheduled time. The data provider said that most of the delays at American were under two hours. For example, 72% of flights departing out of American’s Dallas hub left within an hour of the scheduled time. “Based on previous such incidents, it appears American has been able to maintain its schedule, albeit with delays,” said Cirium spokesperson Mike Arnot. “There may be an uptick in cancellations later in the day as crews time out.” American Airlines shares rose 0.6% at 2:03 p.m. in New York, erasing an earlier decline. DXC Technology stock fell 2.1%. American Airlines had said earlier it was experiencing technical issues affecting all of its flights, disrupting operations on a day when the Federal Aviation Administration expects to see about 30,000 US flights across all carriers. Some online postings said the airline suffered a software outage preventing it from calculating weight and balance requirements for its flights. The incident comes after Delta Air Lines Inc. suffered a multi-day grounding in July affecting thousands of travelers due to a software glitch. Two years ago, Southwest Airlines Co. suffered a year-end meltdown involving computer-system issues. --With assistance from Jason Kao and Sana Pashankar. (Updates with data from Cirium on delays starting in the fourth paragraph.) More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com ©2024 Bloomberg L.P.
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President-elect Donald Trump was welcomed back to the world stage on Saturday, sitting down with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron with a dramatic backdrop: the reopening of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. With Trump set to return to the White House in January, the three leaders met at the Elysee Palace in Paris with diplomacy on the war in Ukraine in flux. Officials close to Macron and Zelenskyy said the meeting was positive, without providing details. “The world is going a little crazy right now and we’ll be talking about that,” Trump told reporters as he arrived for an initial two-way meeting with Macron. Macron had sought to engineer the talks to initiate a discussion on how to end the war in Ukraine, an official in his office said. Later, the French president hosted guests, including heads of state and global business leaders, at the cathedral that was painstakingly restored after a catastrophic 2019 fire. For Macron, the day’s events offered a brief fillip as he seeks a new prime minister after his government collapsed this week in a show of force by far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Almost three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Zelenskyy and his allies are anxiously watching Trump for signs of how he plans approach the conflict. U.S. weapons and financial aid have been a vital crutch for Kyiv, but Trump had promised he would engineer a swift end to the war on the campaign trail. That’s fueled concerns in Kyiv and other European capitals that the next U.S. administration might roll back support for Ukraine to pressure Zelenskyy to compromise. On the battlefield, Ukrainian forces have been on the back foot for most of the year and Russian gains have been accelerating in recent weeks. The incoming U.S. president faces a daunting range of geopolitical challenges, including war in the Middle East and long-running tensions with China. Shortly before arriving at the presidential palace, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform about the conflict in Syria, where rebels opposed to President Bashar Assad have made rapid advances. A withdrawal of its troops that are helping support Assad might be “the best thing that can happen” to Russia, he said. The U.S., he added, “should have nothing to do with it. This is not our fight.” The visit to Paris is Trump’s first trip abroad to meet with world leaders since he won back the White House in November and is a coup for Macron, who’s seen his political program decimated by the domestic opposition who forced out his prime minister with a no-confidence vote on Wednesday. Macron worked hard to engage Trump through his first term, despite Trump’s occasional barbs, inviting the U.S. leader to the Bastille Day ceremony in 2017 and taking him to dinner at the Eiffel Tower. Trump called Macron weak after the “Yellow Vest” protests broke out in 2018 and attacked him for cozying up to China. On Saturday, Macron deployed all his experience of dealing with Trump, welcoming him with a red-carpet ceremony at the Elysee and making him effectively the guest of honor at the cathedral. Trump was seated in the front row next to Macron and the two men were seen chatting during the service. Regardless of Macron’s domestic struggles, the meeting was testament to the unique soft power of France and the president’s ability to wield it. As Trump and Zelenskiy were speaking, an exclusive list of guests were arriving at the cathedral, which has been rebuilt at a cost of 700 million euros ($740 million). Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man, was among the early arrivals. Kering SA Chief Executive Officer Francois-Henri Pinault came with his wife, the actor Salma Hayek. Both men were major donors to the reconstruction effort. Billionaire John Elkann, who chairs automaker Stellantis SA, was also in attendance as was FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni chuckled as she posed for the cameras with Macron and his wife Brigitte. Zelenskyy embraced Macron as he arrived and appeared to say “thank you” to the French leader. The Ukrainian was given an ovation by the guests as he entered the nave. Trump was among the last of the grandees to be greeted by Macron outside the cathedral, though Elon Musk, a close ally of the president-elect, arrived shortly afterward, scurrying across the square in the rain. First lady Jill Biden followed soon before the ceremony started. After the ceremony at the cathedral, a select group of guests will attend a dinner back at Macron’s presidential palace. ©2024 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.The 'perverse' reason we've given up on California and are now fleeing to the other side of the world
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is not escalating a war of words with Mexico, after the Mexican president criticized Canada’s culture and its framing of border issues. “I fundamentally believe that many conversations, when it comes to diplomacy, are always better when they remain private,” Joly said Monday during a teleconference from Brussels. The rift between the two trading partners started with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s declaration that he plans to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all goods from both countries unless they stop the flow of migrants and illegal drugs into the U.S. Several federal and provincial officials in Canada responded by saying the issues at the Canadian border are vastly different from the Mexican border. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for example, has voiced concerns that the level of Chinese investment in Mexico goes against the economic-security goals of Ottawa and Washington. Some premiers have called on Canada to negotiate a trade deal with Washington independent from Mexico, ahead of the 2026 review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, which replaced NAFTA during Trump’s last tenure in the White House. In a Monday press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico “must be respected, especially by its trading partners.” She also noted that Canada has “a very serious problem with fentanyl consumption,” more than Mexico, and possibly as a result of some drug-decriminalization measures. “We are not going to fall for a provocation of which country is better,” she said, chalking some criticism from Canada up to political pandering. “Mexico should not be used as part of (Canadian) electoral campaigns,” she said. Yet Sheinbaum also said Canada “could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has,” saying her country has civilizations dating back thousands of years. Asked to respond, Joly said she is reaching out to Mexican officials after speaking with the U.S., including about the “very important trade agreement” that includes all three countries. “I know there has been many conversations in Canada about how we can work together and how we can, at the same time, protect our interests,” she said. “We have a positive relationship with Mexico, and we need to work with the country; that’s definitely my goal.” Christopher Sands, director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, said tensions between both countries played out in the NAFTA renegotiation, when there was limited communication between Ottawa and Mexico City. “The Canada-Mexico relationship has always been the weakest part of the triangle of North America,” he said. “There was a lot of feeling during the (CUSMA) negotiations that Mexico was willing to go it alone, and that Canada particularly toward the end was on the outside looking in, and had to fight its way back to the table.” He said Washington would rather have a trade pact with all three countries so it can limit the time and attention it needs on continental issues. “The U.S. is probably the most trilateral of all three countries,” he said, with a caveat. “I think Donald Trump looks at this going into 2026 and says, ‘Great, divide and conquer.’” Sands added that Sheinbaum and her predecessor have implemented nationalist policies that have been at odds with Washington. “The Mexican government has been moving in a direction which is antithetical to the North American project (through) nationalizing parts of the economy, by reversing energy reforms, by doing deals with the cartels. (They are) sometimes working co-operatively with the Americans in the borders, and sometimes not.” Sheinbaum indicated a week ago that she would be writing a letter to Trudeau. That has not been made public, although she did release a letter she had sent to Trump.
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department’s operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Before Biden’s commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Berman said Trump’s statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump’s rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. Related Articles The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl’s mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden’s decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.ENGLEWOOD — The Broncos moved on from a struggling player and signaled more opportunity for a rookie. Denver waived cornerback Levi Wallace and promoted rookie running back Blake Watson to the active roster, the team announced on Tuesday. The Broncos benched Wallace after poor outing in Week 13 against the Browns that he called “the worst game I played in the league.” Rookie cornerback Kris Abrams-Draine (Missouri/fifth round) replaced Wallace with starter snaps opposite of Pat Surtain in the Broncos secondary. Abrams-Draine has recorded two pass deflections and one interception over his past two games. Watson, a high-priority undrafted rookie signing (Memphis), made his first NFL impact Thursday night in a road loss to the Chargers. He ran 10 yards on four carries. Watson also caught one pass for 13 yards. “It’s never an easy decision. Hopefully, we’ll see how it goes and we’re able to get (Wallace) back (on the practice squad),” coach Sean Payton said after practice at Broncos Park. “Basically, you’re trying to protect your roster at certain positions. "I would say with the way that Kris Abrams-Draine (has played), some of those guys have been really stepping up. Again, keeping a young player like Blake Watson that others are trying to (sign). This is the time of the year where some of the teams that are maybe out of it or are trying to improve look into the future. “It’s always difficult roster management, though, and that’s hard.” The Broncos (9-6) travel to face the Bengals in Cincinnati on Saturday with a chance to clinch a postseason berth . Denver Broncos playoff odds drop to 76% after road loss to Chargers Injury report: CB Moss, RB Badie full participants Injured cornerback Riley Moss (knee) was listed as a full practice participant. Running back Tyler Badie returned to practice from injured reserve (back) as a full participant. Moss has not played since Week 12 against the Raiders. He is on track to return with a strong week of practice. Badie last played in Week 4 at the Jets. “(Badie’s) clock began today. He’s doing really well,” Payton said. “He’s smart and he knows the system, and that’s a big plus.” Wide receiver Troy Franklin was listed as a full practice participant while dealing with an ankle injury. Running back Jaleel McLaughlin was limited due to a quad injury after missing the Chargers loss. Former Broncos who scored just one NFL touchdown relish at least being 'in the books' Weather impact Expect weather to potentially influence the Broncos-Bengals game. 9News meteorologist Chris Bianchi reported on social media that the forecast in Cincinnati “looks pretty soggy” on Saturday afternoon for the 2:30 pm (MST) kickoff at Paycor Stadium. “Heavy rain possible, though some modeling keeps the heaviest rain post-game Saturday night,” Bianchi posted on X (formerly Twitter). “15-25 mph gusts possible also. Looks like weather will be a factor on Saturday.” The Broncos played in one rain-soaked game previously this season. They defeated the Jets, 10-9, with driving rain at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. "We've got to be cautious and play smarter," running back Audric Estimé said. "Coach Payton said he's going to have extra gloves with us on our sideline. We've got to be able to take advantage of that opportunity he's giving us." Payton added: “Wet ball drills, all of that stuff, we’ve got to be prepared for any kind of weather.” Heads up @Broncos : Saturday game in Cincy looks pretty soggy. Heavy rain possible, though some modeling keeps the heaviest rain post-game Saturday night. 15-25 mph gusts possible also. Looks like weather will be a factor on Saturday. Updates as the week continues. #OHwx pic.twitter.com/k968jmHBSL Broncos/Bengals postseason paths The Bengals (7-8) have a narrow path to reaching the NFL playoffs. Cincinnati must close the season with victories over Denver and Pittsburgh. The Broncos would need to lose in their regular-season finale against Kansas City, too. The Bengals also require the Dolphins and Colts to lose at least one more game. Miami travels to face the Browns and Jets. Indianapolis travels to the Giants and hosts the Jaguars. There is just one scenario where Denver clinches a playoff spot in Week 17: A win or tie against the Bengals. “All of our focus is on Cincinnati. Even with that tough loss that took, we’ve got to stay positive and keep moving forward," outside linebacker Johnathon Cooper said. "We’ve got to realize that everything we want is still ahead of us. We just have to go get it.”
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