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White House says at least 8 US telecom firms, dozens of nations impacted by China hacking campaignNEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball switched a pair of series involving the Tampa Bay Rays to the first two months of the season in an attempt to avoid summer weather problems at open-air Steinbrenner Field, their temporary home following damage to Tropicana Field. Tampa Bay is scheduled to play 13 of its first 16 games at home and 47 of 59 through May 28, then play 69 of its last 103 games on the road. The Rays are home for eight of 25 games in July and eight of 26 in August. A series scheduled at the Los Angeles Angels from April 7-9 will instead be played at Tampa, Florida, from April 8-10, MLB said Monday. The second series between the teams will be played at Anaheim, California, from Aug. 4-6 instead of at St. Petersburg, Florida, from Aug. 5-7. Minnesota's first series against the Rays will be played at Steinbrenner Field from May 26-28 and the Twins' second will be at Target Field in Minneapolis from July 4-6. The Class A Tampa Tarpons, Steinbrenner Field's usual team, had six home postponements, two cancellations and four suspended games this year from June 21 through their season finale on Sept. 8. Tampa Bay is now scheduled to play its first six games at home against Colorado and Pittsburgh, go to Texas for a three-game series, then return for a 13-game homestand against the Angels, Atlanta, Boston and the New York Yankees. Tropicana Field, the Rays' home since the team started play in 1998, was heavily damaged by Hurricane Milton on Oct. 9, with most of its fabric roof shredded. The Rays cannot return to the Trop until 2026 at the earliest, if at all. AP MLB: https://apnews.com/
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Bucky Irving isn’t choosy. The rookie running back relishes any opportunity he gets to contribute to the success of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have rebounded from a tough stretch to climb back into a tie for first place in the NFC South. Irving leads NFL rookies in rushing with 732 yards, averaging 5.5 yards per carry while sharing the workload with starter Rachaad White and third-stringer Sean Tucker, who have combined to ease some of the burden on quarterback Baker Mayfield. A fourth-round draft pick out of Oregon, Irving is coming off rushing for a season-best 152 yards and a touchdown in last week’s 26-23 overtime win over the Carolina Panthers. He had another 33 yards receiving, giving him a rookie-leading 1,017 total yards from scrimmage through 12 games. The Bucs (6-6) on Sunday host the Las Vegas Raiders (2-10), who have an outstanding newcomer of their own with Brock Bowers on the verge of breaking the league's record for catches by a rookie tight end. Bowers leads all players, regardless of position, with 84 receptions. He's fourth with 884 yards receiving and second behind Irving among rookies with 895 total yards from scrimmage. “I don’t really like taking all the credit. It’s those guys up front,” Irving said, deferring to Tampa Bay’s improved offensive line. “I think I have to do something special for those guys for Christmas because they’re getting the job done.” The Bucs are eighth in the NFL in rushing at 137.2 yards per game. They’ve gained 100-plus yards on the ground in nine of 12 games after only doing it nine times in 34 games over the past two seasons. Irving, whose ability to make defenders miss and accelerate in the open field, has provided a spark to an offense that sputtered without injured wide receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin during a four-game losing streak. It doesn’t seem to bother the rookie that he still sits behind White on the depth chart. The starter had a 38-yard run in overtime to set up the winning field goal last week. Coach Todd Bowles continues to stress that the Bucs, tied with Atlanta for the NFC South lead, need both Irving and White to be successful. “In our room, all our success is one,” said Irving, who in the past two weeks became the first rookie since Miles Sanders in 2019 to string together consecutive games with 150-plus yards from scrimmage. “If I’m having success,’’ Irving added, “everybody in the room is having success.” Tampa Bay’s porous secondary figures to be tested by Bowers, the first tight end to lead the league in catches after Week 13 since Todd Christenson in 1986. The first-round draft pick out of Georgia needs three receptions to break Sam LaPorta’s season record (86 in 2023) for catches by a tight end. He’s 116 yards away from joining Mike Ditka (1,076 in 1961) and Kyle Pitts (1,026 in 2021) as the only rookie tight ends to finish with 1,000-plus yards receiving. “I thought he was one of the best tight ends coming out in a long time – not just this draft, but in a long time,” Bowles said. “He’s living up to expectations. He can play wideout, he can play tight end, he can do some fullback, he can run jet sweeps,” the Bucs coach added. “They do a lot of things with him and he’s a very talented guy.” The last time the Raiders went against Mayfield was two seasons ago when he came off a plane to play for the Los Angeles Rams. Despite having minimal time with the playbook and just one brief practice, Mayfield rallied the Rams to a 17-16 victory on a 23-yard touchdown pass with 10 seconds left. Raiders coach Antonio Pierce was the team’s linebackers coach at the time. “He plays the game kind of like Brett Favre, who I played against in (the) league,” Pierce said. “He’s very fiery. He’ll do whatever it takes to make a play. The play’s never dead with him. You’ve got to keep your eyes on him and then stay in coverage, so that’ll be a challenge.” Raiders quarterback Aidan O’Connell didn’t look as though he had missed nearly six weeks because of a broken thumb when he almost led Las Vegas to a victory at Kansas City last week. He completed 23 of 35 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns in the Raiders’ 19-17 loss to the Chiefs. But O’Connell had a hard time looking at the positives given how close the Raiders came to beating the two-time defending Super Bowl champions. “Definitely some good plays, but it just stinks more than anything,” O’Connell said. “It was just a really hard loss. Even sometimes when you have a game right after, it’s easier to move on. But we had a longer week this week and so kind of really got to sit in it and it’s no fun.” AP Sports Writer Mark Anderson in Las Vegas contributed to this report. NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflWatch “Frank.” “Young man!” a voice shouted down the telephone line. “We’re all different! But we’re all the same. And we’re all God’s children.” Thus began my short, intense friendship with Frank Lucianna, a ninety-nine-year-old attorney, as we followed him on his final criminal trial. Stepping out of the elevator into Frank’s law offices was to enter a shrine to his seventy-year legal career: framed newspaper clippings (“Retirement? He Objects!”), photographs of long-dead secretaries, and gifts from long-ago clients. Frank was a time capsule: he spontaneously broke into song, belting out nineteen-forties big-band hits; wore a pin-striped suit to work; handed out five-dollar bills to the needy on Main Street; and waited until a female crew member was out of earshot to discuss anything remotely PG-13. View the latest or submit your own film. Frank said his life was blessed. In fact, it had nearly ended in 1945, when his B-17 bomber was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Italy. At twenty-two, he was the old man of the crew; he steadied their nerves until they crashed, and then led them to Yugoslavian partisans and safety. Other kids from his Jersey neighborhood weren’t so lucky: thirteen friends never made it home. Anytime I asked about the war, Frank slipped into a quick, low recitation of their names. Frankie Novello, Carl Murray, John Way . . . Each boy was now a bead on a private rosary. Their stories had ended, but Frank’s went on. He graduated from Fordham Law and began representing indigent Black defendants in Bergen County, because when he hung out his shingle they were some of the only clients he could get. He came to specialize in murder cases with psychological defenses: in 1981, Frank pioneered the “battered woman” defense when he won an acquittal for Dorothy Rapp, a housewife who had killed her abusive husband. By the end of his life, he was a celebrity to many of his working-class clients and—a function of his longevity—their children and grandchildren. They spotted him from blocks away, his small frame, large head, and shock of white hair. (Frank himself acknowledged his resemblance to the protagonist of the 2009 Pixar film “Up.”) Despite Frank’s passion for criminal defense, the violence weighed on him. “Some of these cases are so terrible, they’re unimaginable,” he told me, as we stood under the vaulted ceilings of his beloved church. And yet, he saw his role not just as a defense attorney but as a shepherd, guiding broken souls toward redemption. “To unearth the goodness from some of these people who have done wicked things is a tremendous job,” he said. “That’s what the law profession comes down to.” His statement was so powerful that I can now scarcely remember a time when I failed to understand it. Turnout at funerals tends to dwindle with age, as friends die and social networks dissipate. When Frank died, I allotted twenty minutes to stop by his wake. Instead, I spent two hours in a line that snaked down the block: grateful clients, veterans, prosecutors stymied by his courtroom theatrics, judges swayed by them, and fellow defense attorneys to whom he was an unofficial dean. Many had known him for decades, some for days. I had spent less than a week with Frank in the final year of his life. But length of acquaintance is not always indicative of depth of connection. It was family, in the end, that Frank cherished the most. On the final shoot day, just six weeks before he died, he said, “Boys!” and waved his hand dismissively. “Forget ’em. Girls! Girls are the best, young man.” Frank and Dolores had three daughters: Diane, Susan, and Nancy. On Sundays after church, other families visited Baumgart’s Café or Howard Johnson’s. For his girls, it was Rahway and Trenton State. They waited in prison parking lots while he went inside to visit clients. The law became a family affair. Diane and Nancy eventually worked alongside him as attorneys, and Susan was a paralegal at his office. Susan died of breast cancer at forty-eight. At day’s end, before driving himself home, Frank put on his coat, gripped a cane, and prayed before her portrait in the lobby. In success, a documentary short is a Polaroid, a snapshot of time and place. Rather than trying to squeeze the vastness of this extraordinary life into fifteen minutes, we met the man in this moment, as he summoned the strength for one last case. At ninety-nine, he was determined to not just survive but thrive. Laughing, crying, praying, despairing, drinking, hoping, singing, and above all else, living. Early on in the project, I had told someone at a party about Frank’s never-ending career. “How sad,” she had said, thinking it was tragic that he felt the need to keep working. But Frank had not missed some crucial chapter of life by not decamping to a South Florida shuffleboard court. Nor was he raging against the dying of the light. He was a torch-bearer, protecting a faith in the promise of redemption. He spread that flame right up until the final gavel struck. New Yorker Favorites The killer who got into Harvard . How Steve Martin learned what’s funny . Growing up as the son of the Cowardly Lion . The light of the world’s first nuclear bomb . A thief who stole only silver . Amelia Earhart’s last flight . Fiction by Milan Kundera: “ The Unbearable Lightness of Being .” Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker .
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A new study published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reveals significant workplace discrimination against Israeli-Americans and Jews in the U.S. According to the research, Israeli-American job seekers are required to submit 39% more applications to receive the same number of positive responses as their Western European counterparts applying for identical positions. For Jewish-American job seekers, the figure is 24% more applications. The city with the most significant disparity for Israelis is Seattle, the tech and coffee capital, home to major companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Costco and Starbucks. The study, conducted by Dr. Brian Tomlin, an economist at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), was based on an experiment in which 3,000 job applications were sent for administrative positions. The applications included identical resumes, except for details revealing the candidate's origin— whether they were Jewish, Israeli or Western European. The results show that cultural or religious backgrounds can be a significant barrier to employment opportunities, even when qualifications are identical. In addition to geographic differences, the study found that how information was presented on resumes had an impact. For instance, resumes with names strongly associated with Jewish or Israeli identities (e.g., "Lia Abraham" and "Rebecca Cohen") led to clear disparities in responses. Other factors, such as the use of Hebrew as a second language or listing an Israeli-associated workplace, contributed to the discrimination. The study also revealed local variations. Israeli-Americans received notably better responses in cities like New York and Philadelphia, where their positive response rates were similar to or slightly higher than Western European candidates. However, researchers note that the differences were not statistically significant, making it unclear whether this was due to genuine openness or random employer patterns. In contrast, Seattle showed a particularly negative disparity, where Israeli candidates received only a 6.8% positive response rate, compared to 23.1% for Western European candidates. Researchers suggest further study is needed to understand the underlying causes. 3 View gallery In Seattle, only 6.8% of Israeli candidates received positive responses to their job applications ( Photo: Shutterstock ) In most cities examined, Israeli-American and Jewish-American candidates faced some level of discrimination, though its severity varied across regions. In cities with higher unemployment rates, the disparities were more pronounced, likely due to increased competition for jobs, leading to more stringent candidate screening. Additionally, in cities with higher average salaries, Israeli and Jewish candidates were more likely to be rejected, hinting that employers in those areas tend to be particularly selective. These findings suggest that a combination of high competition and high wages may exacerbate discrimination against certain groups, even when candidates' skills and experience are equivalent. Cities with the most noticeable bias against Israelis and Jews included Atlanta, Baltimore, Portland, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Denver, Houston, Miami, Phoenix and San Diego. On the other hand, cities where Israelis and Jews were treated more equally or even favorably included Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, Boston, Trenton, San Francisco, San Antonio and Las Vegas. 3 View gallery Miami ( Photo: Shutterstock ) According to Tomlin, the data shows that Jewish and Israeli candidates are forced to prove themselves beyond typical expectations but are not treated fairly. "It is difficult, if not impossible, to prove discrimination in the job market—especially when it comes to Israelis or Jews, who are not defined as an ethnic minority group protected in the U.S.," he said. "However, the findings show that people lose job opportunities because of their identity, not due to a lack of qualifications." The study also found that some employers who identified Israeli candidates responded in Hebrew or made direct references to their Israeli background, such as offering greetings like "Good luck!" In contrast, no similar responses were recorded for Jewish or Western European candidates. The researchers noted that this indicates employers view an applicant's Israeli background as significant, either positively or negatively. Get the Ynetnews app on your smartphone: Google Play : https://bit.ly/4eJ37pE | Apple App Store : https://bit.ly/3ZL7iNv The study underscores a broader trend of increasing antisemitic incidents in the U.S. According to the ADL, more than 3,000 antisemitic events, including physical assaults, property damage, and verbal harassment, were recorded in the first three months of 2024 alone. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, called the findings "unprecedented evidence of antisemitic discrimination in the job market." He added, "In addition to the rise in antisemitic incidents and beliefs, the study highlights the urgent need to combat prejudice against Jews and Israelis in the workplace. Beyond the legal aspects, organizations must recognize their social responsibility and ensure an inclusive work environment." >
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