Trump nominates Charles Kushner, who he pardoned in 2020, as US Ambassador to FranceBy JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday voiced his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports, saying that any further “automation” of the ports would harm workers. Related Articles National Politics | Will Kamala Harris run for California governor in 2026? The question is already swirling National Politics | Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people National Politics | Trump taps immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America National Politics | Trump extends unprecedented invites to China’s Xi and other world leaders for his inauguration National Politics | Pressure on a veteran and senator shows what’s next for those who oppose Trump The incoming president posted on social media that he met Harold Daggett, the president of the International Longshoreman’s Association, and Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president. “I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump posted. “The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn’t be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt.” The International Longshoremen’s Association has until Jan. 15 to negotiate a new contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies. At the heart of the dispute is whether ports can install automated gates, cranes and container-moving trucks that could make it faster to unload and load ships. The union argues that automation would lead to fewer jobs, even though higher levels of productivity could do more to boost the salaries of remaining workers. The Maritime Alliance said in a statement that the contract goes beyond ports to “supporting American consumers and giving American businesses access to the global marketplace – from farmers, to manufacturers, to small businesses, and innovative start-ups looking for new markets to sell their products.” “To achieve this, we need modern technology that is proven to improve worker safety, boost port efficiency, increase port capacity, and strengthen our supply chains,” said the alliance, adding that it looks forward to working with Trump. In October, the union representing 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for three days, raising the risk that a prolonged shutdown could push up inflation by making it difficult to unload container ships and export American products overseas. The issue pits an incoming president who won November’s election on the promise of bringing down prices against commitments to support blue-collar workers along with the kinds of advanced technology that drew him support from Silicon Valley elite such as billionaire Elon Musk. Trump sought to portray the dispute as being between U.S. workers and foreign companies, but advanced ports are also key for staying globally competitive. China is opening a $1.3 billion port in Peru that could accommodate ships too large for the Panama Canal. There is a risk that shippers could move to other ports, which could also lead to job losses. Mexico is constructing a port that is highly automated, while Dubai, Singapore and Rotterdam already have more advanced ports. Instead, Trump said that ports and shipping companies should eschew “machinery, which is expensive, and which will constantly have to be replaced.” “For the great privilege of accessing our markets, these foreign companies should hire our incredible American Workers, instead of laying them off, and sending those profits back to foreign countries,” Trump posted. “It is time to put AMERICA FIRST!”
For “Hysteria!” actresses Anna Camp and Julie Bowen, horror is harder than comedy. “Horror is really hard actually because there is a fine line you have to walk; you have to make it feel grounded and you’re put in these extreme circumstances: You’re being possessed or pulled through the air, there’s nothing you can do to relate to that,” explained Camp of “Pitch Perfect” fame. “With comedy, you can have a relatable situation and go, ‘I’ve been in situations like that.’ There’s nothing you can compare (horror) to, so you have to use your imagination. I find it harder. Your imagination goes home with you at the end of the day. You’re still thinking crazy thoughts.” Bowen, best known for playing Claire Dunphy on “Modern Family,” agreed. “Comedy’s pretty binary because it’s like either you can make people laugh or you don’t. I can’t watch horror. I’m terrified, terrified! I am the easiest scare in the world, so as far as doing (horror), I want to make it as real as possible. It was hard because I had to be really, really crazy. There were times when I’d get back to my hotel room at 3 a.m., I didn’t want to be alone in my head,” said Bowen, laughing. Camp, Bowen, Royal Oak native Bruce Campbell (“Evil Dead”), showrunner David A. Goodman (“Futurama”), and Ypsilanti native/creator Matthew Scott Kane (“American Horror Story”) were promoting “Hysteria!” at the New York Comic Con in October. The horror series is streaming on Peacock. Set in the fictional Michigan town of Happy Hollow, the first episode of “Hysteria” begins with a popular quarterback’s disappearance and a pentagram is discovered on a garage door. As a result, rumors of the occult and satanic influence run rampant through the town. A trio of outcasts in a heavy metal band called Dethkrunch exploit this by rebranding themselves as a satanic metal band, which leads to them becoming the targets of the town’s witch hunt. “Something on my mind a lot in 2019 was we’re living in this post-factual age with social media. It seemed like decades and decades ago, you could trust the news. Now everything is in question. When lies end up getting disseminated as truth, that starts to warp people’s version of reality. Suddenly, they’re living in a world other people are not. That was going on in the world I was living in and I very quickly connected it to the 1980s satanic panic. It’s not really that different because people were saying Ozzy Osbourne, Jason Voorhees (of ‘Friday the 13th’), and the Smurfs were going to turn your kids into satanists and kill you in your sleep. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t true, but so many people got worked up into such a fervor over it, bad things happened. ... It was smoke without fire,” Kane said. “Disinformation is not new,” Campbell said. “Disinformation will tear a town apart.” Campbell portrays Happy Hollow Police Chief Ben Dandridge. “This guy’s a reasonable cop; he’s a rational person who doesn’t treat the teenagers like they’re idiots. It’s all very refreshing,” he said. “I want to play that guy again. I want cops to be that guy. I’m playing the cop (that) cops need to be. That’s my whole motivation for playing this guy: How would you like cops to be, especially the guy in charge, the chief of police? They’re lucky to have Chief Dandridge.” “It was truly an exciting moment when Bruce signed on,” Goodman said. By the end of the first episode, a supernatural phenomenon happens to Linda Campbell, played by Bowen. “Linda seems like one thing, then you realize she’s bananas. She’s either bananas or she’s possessed. Either way, it’s a complicated thing to play,” Bowen said. “With Julie, you can have your cake and eat it too,” Kane said. “She’s this fun, quirky mom. ... As the episode goes on, she’s pulled deeper into this thing and crazy stuff starts happening. That final act of the first episode was my favorite moment with her because this announced that this is not Claire Dunphy. We’re not doing that again; we’re pushing her as a performer. “Julie was so excited about doing stunts. She told us on many occasions she’s very sturdy and can take it. The same goes for Bruce and for Anna. We didn’t ask anyone to give us a flavor of the thing they did before. We cast people we loved so much (in their famous projects) that we wanted to give them the opportunity to do the exact opposite.” Added Bowen: “I got this script and was like, ‘Oh great. She’s a mom. How fun.’ I love moms. I’m a mom, but I felt this was not worth flying out of town to Georgia and being away from my kids. Then I got to the end of the pilot and was like, ‘She’s crazy!’ Is she possessed? There’s a lot more questions. It’s fun to just stretch again and do things I haven’t done in a while, which I found really exciting.” Kane said he felt lucky Bowen signed on at the beginning. “She was the first adult actor to sign on. That gave us such credibility to have a two-time Emmy-winning actor leading this show. Suddenly, it goes from this script from a relatively unknown writer into the new Julie Bowen show,” he said. It was the quality of the writing that attracted Camp, Bowen and Campbell to “Hysteria!” “I loved the script; it was incredibly well-written. It was immersed in the time period. It was such a good coming-of-age story, too — the feeling of being in high school again, being in the 1980s,” Camp said. “I talked to Matt who said my character (Tracy) was incredibly pivotal to the series and we’ll learn about why she is the way she is. So I was like, ‘I’d love to do this!’” For Campbell, the writing is everything. “A lot of times, I’ll get a script that could make the words interchangeable with every other character because the writing is very bland and just doesn’t have the detail you need. This was different. Every character was pretty distinct and pretty well-drawn,” he said. “It’s quality. It’s not a (expletive) show. It’s a real show that’s playing around with interesting themes. A lot of it is still relevant to this day.” “Hysteria!” has other Michigan connections, including University of Michigan alumnus Jonathan Goldstein (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and Dondero High School alumnus Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Kong: Skull Island”), who both serve as executive producers. Kane explained why he set “Hysteria!” in Michigan. “You write what you know. I grew up in Ypsilanti, so that had a lot to do with it. More importantly, when you’re in a small town in the Midwest — somewhere like Michigan — these things don’t ever happen and word spreads fast and paranoia spreads quickly and (everything’s) blown out of proportion and takes up a lot of people’s minds,” he said. “Whether or not something is real doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if there are people willing to believe it does and willing it into the world. What does it matter if it’s objectively real or living rent-free in someone’s head?”Indexes near flat but still near closing highsThe Ontario government introduced new legislation Thursday, that if passed, will provide municipalities and police with new tools to dismantle homeless encampments and crack down on illegal drug use in parks and public spaces. "Enough is enough. This has to stop, and it will stop," said Premier Doug Ford, joined by numerous mayors and community leaders from the across the province at a press conference in Toronto Thursday morning. "Families deserve to play in and enjoy their parks and playgrounds without fearing for the safety of their kids." The proposed legislation includes stronger trespass laws and fines or jail time for repeat offenders. "Police will have the new tools to direct individuals to stop the use of illegal drugs, or to leave the public space with fines of up to $10,000 and up to six months in prison for people who repeatedly use illegal drugs in parks and public spaces," Ford said. There are currently 2,000 people living in shelters and on the streets in Ottawa. Local homeless advocates say dismantling encampments will further alienate the city's homeless population. The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa says 2023 marked the highest numbers on record in Ottawa’s shelter system, with roughly 10 per cent of people being employed. "(People living in encampments) have nothing and they're living in an encampment because that's the best they can do to survive," said Lowertown Community Association president Sylvie Bigras. "To fine them and punish them is not very productive. Most of the homeless we deal with, we know them by face and by name and say, 'All I need is a room with a door that locks, that's all I want.'" The Ottawa Mission CEO Peter Tilley says there are challenges with people living in encampments but hopes the province looks at other solutions. "The millions being pledged towards shelter services, that's a solution to homelessness. That's a solution to people who suffer from mental health and addiction issues. Going into encampments, busting them up and charging people is not necessarily an answer to those who are suffering and in a position where they've had to live in encampments," Tilley said. The Ford government says it is also considering allowing the courts to provide rehabilitation as an alternative to incarceration for minor or non-violent drug crimes. Ford has also said he is willing to use the notwithstanding clause if the courts interfere in municipalities using the new provisions. The legislation also proposes providing $50 million to fund ready-to-build affordable housing, $20 million toward expanding shelter capacity and additional temporary accommodation spaces. The province also wants to spend $5.5 million to top up the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB) and immediately free-up emergency shelter spaces. It’s unclear when these measures could take effect as the Ontario legislature is set to rise Thursday for its winter break and won't resume until March 2025. Shopping Trends The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. We may earn a commission when you use our links to shop. Read about us. 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Harris: Fine Gael ‘will gain seats’ amid further fragmentation of Irish politicsChildren’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman said the party could not buck the trend in Ireland of junior coalition partners in Fine Gael and Fianna Fail governments losing support in subsequent elections. He said they expected to retain two to three seats out of the 12 they had won in the 2020 election on the back of a worldwide “Green wave”. “Undoubtedly it’s a disappointing result for our party today,” Mr O’Gorman told reporters in Ongar, Dublin. “It’s hard for a smaller party in government, that’s long been the tradition, the history in Ireland. We hoped going into the election to buck that but we haven’t been able to buck that today.” Mr O’Gorman, a candidate in Dublin West, is among the outgoing Green Party TDs in a battle to retain their seats. Culture Minister Catherine Martin, who is fighting to remain a Green Party TD for Dublin Rathdown, said it was a “very tight” race in her four-seat constituency. “We go in (to government) not afraid of that because the issue of the climate and biodiversity crisis is (greater) than our survival,” she said on RTE Radio. “I stand over and am proud of our track record of delivery.” Green candidate in Waterford Marc O Cathasaigh said he would not be “in the shake-up” to retain his seat in that constituency, while junior minister Ossian Smyth looks at risk of losing his seat in Dun Laoghaire. Junior minister Joe O’Brien is expected to lose his seat in Dublin Fingal, Neasa Hourigan is at risk in Dublin Central, while Wicklow’s Steven Matthews garnered just 4% of first preferences. Former Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, who announced his retirement from frontline politics in June, said his party had not had a good day. Arriving at the count centre at the RDS in Dublin, the outgoing environment minister told reporters: “If you don’t get elected you accept that, but you come back stronger and you learn lessons, and we’ve done that in the past and we will do that again.” He added: “No matter what the results today there will be a strong Green Party in Ireland, we have deep roots in the community and it’s a very distinct political philosophy and I think there is still space for that in Irish politics, for sure.” Mr Ryan said he did not believe his decision to retire, and the timing of his announcement, had affected the party’s showing. “Unfortunately – and this is just one of those days – we didn’t get the number of votes,” he said. He added: “We’ll look back and see what are the lessons, and what can we learn and what can we do differently. “It’s just one of those days when we didn’t have a good day.In a significant diplomatic engagement at Mar-a-Lago, US President-elect Donald Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to delve into pressing issues like trade, tariffs, and border security. Trump, through social media, labeled the meeting as 'productive,' acknowledging Trudeau's efforts to tackle shared challenges. However, key disputes between the US and Canada remain unresolved. Discussing Fentanyl, illegal immigration, and trade imbalances, Trump emphasized the US's commitment to combating the drug crisis, underscoring cooperation with Canada on these critical matters. (With inputs from agencies.)
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman said the party could not buck the trend in Ireland of junior coalition partners in Fine Gael and Fianna Fail governments losing support in subsequent elections. He said they expected to retain two to three seats out of the 12 they had won in the 2020 election on the back of a worldwide “Green wave”. “Undoubtedly it’s a disappointing result for our party today,” Mr O’Gorman told reporters in Ongar, Dublin. “It’s hard for a smaller party in government, that’s long been the tradition, the history in Ireland. We hoped going into the election to buck that but we haven’t been able to buck that today.” Mr O’Gorman, a candidate in Dublin West, is among the outgoing Green Party TDs in a battle to retain their seats. Culture Minister Catherine Martin, who is fighting to remain a Green Party TD for Dublin Rathdown, said it was a “very tight” race in her four-seat constituency. “We go in (to government) not afraid of that because the issue of the climate and biodiversity crisis is (greater) than our survival,” she said on RTE Radio. “I stand over and am proud of our track record of delivery.” Green candidate in Waterford Marc O Cathasaigh said he would not be “in the shake-up” to retain his seat in that constituency, while junior minister Ossian Smyth looks at risk of losing his seat in Dun Laoghaire. Junior minister Joe O’Brien is expected to lose his seat in Dublin Fingal, Neasa Hourigan is at risk in Dublin Central, while Wicklow’s Steven Matthews garnered just 4% of first preferences. Former Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, who announced his retirement from frontline politics in June, said his party had not had a good day. Arriving at the count centre at the RDS in Dublin, the outgoing environment minister told reporters: “If you don’t get elected you accept that, but you come back stronger and you learn lessons, and we’ve done that in the past and we will do that again.” He added: “No matter what the results today there will be a strong Green Party in Ireland, we have deep roots in the community and it’s a very distinct political philosophy and I think there is still space for that in Irish politics, for sure.” Mr Ryan said he did not believe his decision to retire, and the timing of his announcement, had affected the party’s showing. “Unfortunately – and this is just one of those days – we didn’t get the number of votes,” he said. He added: “We’ll look back and see what are the lessons, and what can we learn and what can we do differently. “It’s just one of those days when we didn’t have a good day.Effective family planning key to national development – stakeholdersPeacock’s ‘Hysteria!’ set in Michigan during 1980s satanic panic
32 TV And Movie Adaptions Of Great Video GamesAdvisors Asset Management Inc. increased its position in Kforce Inc. ( NASDAQ:KFRC – Free Report ) by 197.3% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 2,396 shares of the business services provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,590 shares during the period. Advisors Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Kforce were worth $147,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Blue Trust Inc. increased its stake in shares of Kforce by 59.9% during the 2nd quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 427 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 160 shares in the last quarter. Kathleen S. Wright Associates Inc. purchased a new position in Kforce during the third quarter worth $30,000. nVerses Capital LLC boosted its stake in shares of Kforce by 50.0% during the second quarter. nVerses Capital LLC now owns 900 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $56,000 after acquiring an additional 300 shares during the last quarter. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board acquired a new stake in shares of Kforce during the second quarter valued at $68,000. Finally, Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. increased its position in Kforce by 96.0% during the 2nd quarter. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. now owns 1,313 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $82,000 after purchasing an additional 643 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 92.77% of the company’s stock. Analyst Ratings Changes Several research firms have issued reports on KFRC. Sidoti raised shares of Kforce from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $71.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, October 15th. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Kforce from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday. Finally, Truist Financial cut their price target on Kforce from $68.00 to $58.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Kforce Trading Up 0.6 % Shares of KFRC stock opened at $59.99 on Friday. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $58.36 and its 200-day simple moving average is $61.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 2.06 and a quick ratio of 2.06. Kforce Inc. has a 1-year low of $52.96 and a 1-year high of $74.79. The firm has a market cap of $1.14 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.69 and a beta of 0.88. Kforce ( NASDAQ:KFRC – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, October 28th. The business services provider reported $0.75 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.69 by $0.06. Kforce had a net margin of 3.86% and a return on equity of 33.50%. The company had revenue of $353.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $352.19 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.90 earnings per share. Kforce’s revenue was down 5.3% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Kforce Inc. will post 2.68 EPS for the current year. Kforce Dividend Announcement The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 20th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 6th will be given a dividend of $0.38 per share. This represents a $1.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.53%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 6th. Kforce’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 52.41%. 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( NASDAQ:KFRC – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Kforce Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Kforce and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Drones for commercial and recreational use have grown rapidly in popularity, despite restrictions on who can operate them and where they can be flown. No-fly zones are enforced around airports, military installations, nuclear plants, certain landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, and sports stadiums during games. Not everybody follows the rules. Sightings at airports have shut down flights in a few instances. Reported sightings of what appear to be drones flying over New Jersey at night in recent weeks have created anxiety among some residents, in part because it is not clear who is operating them or why. Some state and local officials have called for stricter rules to govern drones. After receiving reports of drone activity last month near Morris County, New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration issued temporary bans on drone flights over a golf course in Bedminster , New Jersey, that is owned by President-elect Donald Trump, and over Picatinny Arsenal Military Base . The FAA says the bans are in response to requests from “federal security partners.” The FAA is responsible for the regulations governing their use , and Congress has written some requirements into law. With a 2018 law, the Preventing Emerging Threats Act, Congress gave certain agencies in the Homeland Security and Justice departments authority to counter threats from unmanned aircraft to protect the safety of certain facilities. New drones must be outfitted with equipment allowing law enforcement to identify the operator, and Congress gave the agencies the power to detect and take down unmanned aircraft that they consider dangerous. The law spells out where the counter-drone measures can be used, including “national special security events” such as presidential inaugurations and other large gatherings of people. To get a “remote pilot certificate,” you must be at least 16 years old, be proficient in English, pass an aeronautics exam, and not suffer from a ”mental condition that would interfere with the safe operation of a small unmanned aircraft system.” Yes, but the FAA imposes restrictions on nighttime operations. Most drones are not allowed to fly at night unless they are equipped with anti-collision lights that are visible for at least 3 miles (4.8 kilometers). Over the past decade, pilots have reported hundreds of close calls between drones and airplanes including airline jets. In some cases, airplane pilots have had to take evasive action to avoid collisions. Drones buzzing over a runway caused flights to be stopped at London’s Gatwick Airport during the Christmas travel rush in 2018 and again in May 2023 . Police dismissed the idea of shooting down the drones, fearing that stray bullets could kill someone. Advances in drone technology have made it harder for law enforcement to find rogue drone operators — bigger drones in particular have more range and power. Some state and local officials in New Jersey are calling for stronger restrictions because of the recent sightings, and that has the drone industry worried. Scott Shtofman, director of government affairs at the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International, said putting more limits on drones could have a “chilling effect” on “a growing economic engine for the United States.” “We would definitely oppose anything that is blindly pushing for new regulation of what are right now legal drone operations,” he said. AirSight, a company that sells software against “drone threats,” says more than 20 states have enacted laws against privacy invasion by drones, including Peeping Toms. Will Austin, president of Warren County Community College in New Jersey, and founder of its drone program, says it's up to users to reduce public concern about the machines. He said operators must explain why they are flying when confronted by people worried about privacy or safety. “It's a brand new technology that's not really understood real well, so it will raise fear and anxiety in a lot of people,” Austin said. “We want to be good professional aviators and alleviate that.” Associated Press reporter Rebecca Santana in Washington, D.C., contributed.
For “Hysteria!” actresses Anna Camp and Julie Bowen, horror is harder than comedy. “Horror is really hard actually because there is a fine line you have to walk; you have to make it feel grounded and you’re put in these extreme circumstances: You’re being possessed or pulled through the air, there’s nothing you can do to relate to that,” explained Camp of “Pitch Perfect” fame. “With comedy, you can have a relatable situation and go, ‘I’ve been in situations like that.’ There’s nothing you can compare (horror) to, so you have to use your imagination. I find it harder. Your imagination goes home with you at the end of the day. You’re still thinking crazy thoughts.” Bowen, best known for playing Claire Dunphy on “Modern Family,” agreed. “Comedy’s pretty binary because it’s like either you can make people laugh or you don’t. I can’t watch horror. I’m terrified, terrified! I am the easiest scare in the world, so as far as doing (horror), I want to make it as real as possible. It was hard because I had to be really, really crazy. There were times when I’d get back to my hotel room at 3 a.m., I didn’t want to be alone in my head,” said Bowen, laughing. Camp, Bowen, Royal Oak native Bruce Campbell (“Evil Dead”), showrunner David A. Goodman (“Futurama”), and Ypsilanti native/creator Matthew Scott Kane (“American Horror Story”) were promoting “Hysteria!” at the New York Comic Con in October. The horror series is streaming on Peacock. Set in the fictional Michigan town of Happy Hollow, the first episode of “Hysteria” begins with a popular quarterback’s disappearance and a pentagram is discovered on a garage door. As a result, rumors of the occult and satanic influence run rampant through the town. A trio of outcasts in a heavy metal band called Dethkrunch exploit this by rebranding themselves as a satanic metal band, which leads to them becoming the targets of the town’s witch hunt. “Something on my mind a lot in 2019 was we’re living in this post-factual age with social media. It seemed like decades and decades ago, you could trust the news. Now everything is in question. When lies end up getting disseminated as truth, that starts to warp people’s version of reality. Suddenly, they’re living in a world other people are not. That was going on in the world I was living in and I very quickly connected it to the 1980s satanic panic. It’s not really that different because people were saying Ozzy Osbourne, Jason Voorhees (of ‘Friday the 13th’), and the Smurfs were going to turn your kids into satanists and kill you in your sleep. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t true, but so many people got worked up into such a fervor over it, bad things happened. ... It was smoke without fire,” Kane said. “Disinformation is not new,” Campbell said. “Disinformation will tear a town apart.” Campbell portrays Happy Hollow Police Chief Ben Dandridge. “This guy’s a reasonable cop; he’s a rational person who doesn’t treat the teenagers like they’re idiots. It’s all very refreshing,” he said. “I want to play that guy again. I want cops to be that guy. I’m playing the cop (that) cops need to be. That’s my whole motivation for playing this guy: How would you like cops to be, especially the guy in charge, the chief of police? They’re lucky to have Chief Dandridge.” “It was truly an exciting moment when Bruce signed on,” Goodman said. By the end of the first episode, a supernatural phenomenon happens to Linda Campbell, played by Bowen. “Linda seems like one thing, then you realize she’s bananas. She’s either bananas or she’s possessed. Either way, it’s a complicated thing to play,” Bowen said. “With Julie, you can have your cake and eat it too,” Kane said. “She’s this fun, quirky mom. ... As the episode goes on, she’s pulled deeper into this thing and crazy stuff starts happening. That final act of the first episode was my favorite moment with her because this announced that this is not Claire Dunphy. We’re not doing that again; we’re pushing her as a performer. “Julie was so excited about doing stunts. She told us on many occasions she’s very sturdy and can take it. The same goes for Bruce and for Anna. We didn’t ask anyone to give us a flavor of the thing they did before. We cast people we loved so much (in their famous projects) that we wanted to give them the opportunity to do the exact opposite.” Added Bowen: “I got this script and was like, ‘Oh great. She’s a mom. How fun.’ I love moms. I’m a mom, but I felt this was not worth flying out of town to Georgia and being away from my kids. Then I got to the end of the pilot and was like, ‘She’s crazy!’ Is she possessed? There’s a lot more questions. It’s fun to just stretch again and do things I haven’t done in a while, which I found really exciting.” Kane said he felt lucky Bowen signed on at the beginning. “She was the first adult actor to sign on. That gave us such credibility to have a two-time Emmy-winning actor leading this show. Suddenly, it goes from this script from a relatively unknown writer into the new Julie Bowen show,” he said. It was the quality of the writing that attracted Camp, Bowen and Campbell to “Hysteria!” “I loved the script; it was incredibly well-written. It was immersed in the time period. It was such a good coming-of-age story, too — the feeling of being in high school again, being in the 1980s,” Camp said. “I talked to Matt who said my character (Tracy) was incredibly pivotal to the series and we’ll learn about why she is the way she is. So I was like, ‘I’d love to do this!’” For Campbell, the writing is everything. “A lot of times, I’ll get a script that could make the words interchangeable with every other character because the writing is very bland and just doesn’t have the detail you need. This was different. Every character was pretty distinct and pretty well-drawn,” he said. “It’s quality. It’s not a (expletive) show. It’s a real show that’s playing around with interesting themes. A lot of it is still relevant to this day.” “Hysteria!” has other Michigan connections, including University of Michigan alumnus Jonathan Goldstein (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and Dondero High School alumnus Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Kong: Skull Island”), who both serve as executive producers. Kane explained why he set “Hysteria!” in Michigan. “You write what you know. I grew up in Ypsilanti, so that had a lot to do with it. More importantly, when you’re in a small town in the Midwest — somewhere like Michigan — these things don’t ever happen and word spreads fast and paranoia spreads quickly and (everything’s) blown out of proportion and takes up a lot of people’s minds,” he said. “Whether or not something is real doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if there are people willing to believe it does and willing it into the world. What does it matter if it’s objectively real or living rent-free in someone’s head?”By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday voiced his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports, saying that any further “automation” of the ports would harm workers. Related Articles National Politics | Will Kamala Harris run for California governor in 2026? The question is already swirling National Politics | Watchdog finds FBI intelligence missteps before Jan. 6 riot, but no undercover agents were present National Politics | Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people National Politics | Trump taps immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America National Politics | Trump extends unprecedented invites to China’s Xi and other world leaders for his inauguration The incoming president posted on social media that he met Harold Daggett, the president of the International Longshoreman’s Association, and Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president. “I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump posted. “The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn’t be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt.” The International Longshoremen’s Association has until Jan. 15 to negotiate a new contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies. At the heart of the dispute is whether ports can install automated gates, cranes and container-moving trucks that could make it faster to unload and load ships. The union argues that automation would lead to fewer jobs, even though higher levels of productivity could do more to boost the salaries of remaining workers. The Maritime Alliance said in a statement that the contract goes beyond ports to “supporting American consumers and giving American businesses access to the global marketplace – from farmers, to manufacturers, to small businesses, and innovative start-ups looking for new markets to sell their products.” “To achieve this, we need modern technology that is proven to improve worker safety, boost port efficiency, increase port capacity, and strengthen our supply chains,” said the alliance, adding that it looks forward to working with Trump. In October, the union representing 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for three days, raising the risk that a prolonged shutdown could push up inflation by making it difficult to unload container ships and export American products overseas. The issue pits an incoming president who won November’s election on the promise of bringing down prices against commitments to support blue-collar workers along with the kinds of advanced technology that drew him support from Silicon Valley elite such as billionaire Elon Musk. Trump sought to portray the dispute as being between U.S. workers and foreign companies, but advanced ports are also key for staying globally competitive. China is opening a $1.3 billion port in Peru that could accommodate ships too large for the Panama Canal. There is a risk that shippers could move to other ports, which could also lead to job losses. Mexico is constructing a port that is highly automated, while Dubai, Singapore and Rotterdam already have more advanced ports. Instead, Trump said that ports and shipping companies should eschew “machinery, which is expensive, and which will constantly have to be replaced.” “For the great privilege of accessing our markets, these foreign companies should hire our incredible American Workers, instead of laying them off, and sending those profits back to foreign countries,” Trump posted. “It is time to put AMERICA FIRST!”All Times EST Memphis 34, Tulane 24 Navy 34, East Carolina 20 Army 29, UTSA 24 North Texas 24, Temple 17 Rice 35, South Florida 28 UAB at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m. FAU at Tulsa, 3:30 p.m. Army vs. Tulane, American Athletic Conference Championship at West Point, N.Y., 8 p.m. San Jose St. 34, Stanford 31 Georgia 44, Georgia Tech 42 Duke 23, Wake Forest 17 South Carolina 17, Clemson 14 Louisville 41, Kentucky 14 Pittsburgh at Boston College, 3 p.m. NC State at North Carolina, 3:30 p.m. California at SMU, 3:30 p.m. Miami at Syracuse, 3:30 p.m. Florida at Florida St., 7 p.m. Virginia at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m. Colorado 52, Oklahoma St. 0 Utah 28, UCF 14 Baylor 45, Kansas 17 Texas Tech 52, West Virginia 15 Arizona St. at Arizona, 3:30 p.m. TCU at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Kansas St. at Iowa St., 7:30 p.m. Houston at BYU, 10:15 p.m. Abilene Christian 24, N. Arizona 0 FCS First Round - Game 5 at Missoula, Mont.: Montana vs. Tennessee St., 10:15 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 1 at Bozeman, Mont.: Montana St. vs. UT Martin, 3 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 3 at Davis, Calif.: UC Davis vs. Illinois St., 4 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 2 at Moscow, Idaho: Idaho vs. Lehigh, 9 p.m. Illinois St. 35, SE Missouri 27 UT Martin 41, New Hampshire 10 FCS First Round - Game 5 at Missoula, Mont.: Montana vs. Tennessee St., 10:15 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 1 at Bozeman, Mont.: Montana St. vs. UT Martin, 3 p.m. Minnesota 24, Wisconsin 7 Iowa 13, Nebraska 10 Michigan 13, Ohio St. 10 Illinois 38, Northwestern 28 Notre Dame at Southern Cal, 3:30 p.m. Maryland at Penn St., 3:30 p.m. Rutgers at Michigan St., 3:30 p.m. Fresno St. at UCLA, 3:30 p.m. Purdue at Indiana, 7 p.m. Washington at Oregon, 7:30 p.m. Rhode Island 21, CCSU 17 UT Martin 41, New Hampshire 10 Lehigh 20, Richmond 16 Villanova 22, E. Kentucky 17 FCS Second Round - Game 7 at Macon, Ga.: Mercer vs. Rhode Island, 2 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 6 at San Antonio: Incarnate Word vs. Villanova, 2 p.m. Sam Houston St. 20, Liberty 18 FIU 35, Middle Tennessee 24 UTEP at New Mexico St., 4 p.m. Jacksonville St. at W. Kentucky, 4 p.m. Kennesaw St. at Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m. Jacksonville St. vs. Team TBD, Conference USA Championship at Jacksonville, Ala., 8 p.m. Jacksonville St. vs. Team TBD, Conference USA Championship at Jacksonville, Ala., 8 p.m. Boise St. vs. Team TBD, Mountain West Championship at Boise, Idaho, 8 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 5 at Brookings, S.D.: S. Dakota St. vs. FCS First Round - Game 5 (win), 2 p.m. Jacksonville St. vs. Team TBD, Conference USA Championship at Jacksonville, Ala., 8 p.m. Boise St. vs. Team TBD, Mountain West Championship at Boise, Idaho, 8 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 5 at Brookings, S.D.: S. Dakota St. vs. FCS First Round - Game 5 (win), 2 p.m. Akron 21, Toledo 14 Buffalo 43, Kent St. 7 Miami (Ohio) 28, Bowling Green 12 Ohio 42, Ball St. 21 W. Michigan 26, E. Michigan 18 Cent. Michigan at N. Illinois, 3:30 p.m. Miami (Ohio) vs. Ohio, MAC Championship at Detroit, Noon Jacksonville St. vs. Team TBD, Conference USA Championship at Jacksonville, Ala., 8 p.m. Boise St. vs. Team TBD, Mountain West Championship at Boise, Idaho, 8 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 5 at Brookings, S.D.: S. Dakota St. vs. FCS First Round - Game 5 (win), 2 p.m. Illinois St. 35, SE Missouri 27 FCS Second Round - Game 5 at Brookings, S.D.: S. Dakota St. vs. FCS First Round - Game 5 (win), 2 p.m. FCS Second Round- Game 4 at Vermillion, S.D.: South Dakota vs. Tarleton St., 3 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 8 at Fargo, N.D.: N. Dakota St. vs. Abilene Christian, 3 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 3 at Davis, Calif.: UC Davis vs. Illinois St., 4 p.m. Boise St. 34, Oregon St. 18 Colorado St. 42, Utah St. 37 San Jose St. 34, Stanford 31 Fresno St. at UCLA, 3:30 p.m. Wyoming at Washington St., 6:30 p.m. Nevada at UNLV, 8 p.m. Air Force at San Diego St., 10:30 p.m. New Mexico at Hawaii, 11 p.m. Boise St. vs. Team TBD, Mountain West Championship at Boise, Idaho, 8 p.m. Rhode Island 21, CCSU 17 Boise St. 34, Oregon St. 18 Wyoming at Washington St., 6:30 p.m. Lehigh 20, Richmond 16 FCS Second Round - Game 2 at Moscow, Idaho: Idaho vs. Lehigh, 9 p.m. Tarleton St. 43, Drake 29 Mississippi 26, Mississippi St. 14 Georgia 44, Georgia Tech 42 Louisville 41, Kentucky 14 Tennessee 36, Vanderbilt 23 South Carolina 17, Clemson 14 Auburn at Alabama, 3:30 p.m. Arkansas at Missouri, 3:30 p.m. Oklahoma at LSU, 7 p.m. Florida at Florida St., 7 p.m. Texas at Texas A&M, 7:30 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 7 at Macon, Ga.: Mercer vs. Rhode Island, 2 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 6 at San Antonio: Incarnate Word vs. Villanova, 2 p.m. Alabama St. 34, Tuskegee 6 Florida A&M 28, Alabama A&M 20 Southern U. 24, Grambling St. 14 Jackson St. vs. Southern U., SWAC Championship at Jackson, Miss., 2 p.m. Texas State 45, South Alabama 38 Louisiana-Lafayette 37, Louisiana-Monroe 23 Coastal Carolina 48, Georgia St. 27 Troy 52, Southern Miss. 20 Old Dominion 40, Arkansas St. 32 Appalachian St. at Georgia Southern, 6 p.m. Marshall at James Madison, 8 p.m. Villanova 22, E. Kentucky 17 Tarleton St. 43, Drake 29 Abilene Christian 24, N. Arizona 0 FCS Second Round- Game 4 at Vermillion, S.D.: South Dakota vs. Tarleton St., 3 p.m. FCS Second Round - Game 8 at Fargo, N.D.: N. Dakota St. vs. Abilene Christian, 3 p.m. Uconn 47, Umass 42 Notre Dame at Southern Cal, 3:30 p.m.
COLLEGEVILLE — The temperature didn't get above 13 degrees at Clemens Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 30. And with a little wind, it felt like two degrees for most of St. John's NCAA Division III second-round playoff game against Wisconsin-La Crosse. After a punchless first half, the No. 3 Johnnies woke up from a deep freeze offensively to beat the Eagles 24-13 in front of 3,117 fans. St. John's (11-0) will next host Susquehanna (Pennsylvania) in a third-round game at noon on Saturday, Dec. 7, in Collegeville. Susquehanna beat Hobart (N.Y.) 42-35 in a second-round game Saturday. The Johnnies , who led 3-0 at the half, started the second half with the ball and ran it five straight times behind Will Blakey (two carries for 19 yards) and Corey Bohmert (three carries for 27 yards) to the Eagles' 33-yard line. And wouldn't you know it, running the ball set up the pass. SJU senior quarterback Aaron Syverson found senior wide receiver Marselio Mendez for a 33-yard touchdown on the sixth play of the drive to give the Johnnies a 10-0 lead — and some much-needed life. Mendez had a huge day, finishing with 11 catches for 135 yards while Syverson went 27-of-39 passing for 357 yards and three TDs. "We got some outside practices in (during the week) and that prepared us for today," Mendez said. "In the end, the cold wasn't a big factor. And, it wasn't that windy. We talked at the half — made some adjustments — and took off from there." Bohmert breaks out Establishing Bohmert in the running game came in handy when it mattered most for St. John's. The speedy sophomore from Mahtomedi has been used sparingly this year. He had three carries for 34 yards at the half. With the Johnnies up 17-13 late in the fourth quarter, Bohmert came up with the biggest play of the year. On a 3rd-and-4 from the Eagles' 31-yard line, St. John's went to unbalanced line on the left side. Four players shifted to the left of center before the play and Syverson dumped a screen pass off to Bohmert on the right side. And then the 5-foot-10, 175-pound Bohmert turned on the jets by cutting across the field and turning an "old style" play (as SJU head coach Gary Fasching called it) into a 69-yard touchdown to give the Johnnies a 24-13 lead with 2:38 left. Bohmert finished with 10 carries for 69 yards and had four catches for 88 yards. Syverson said St. John's put the play in for the first time this week at practice. "You just have to make sure you have seven guys on the line when you shift everybody over like that," Syverson said. "Bohmert had some good runs for us throughout the game. His explosiveness is so nice to have as a weapon." When Fasching saw the play for the first time this week, he told offensive coordinator Kole Heckenedorf and running backs coach Josh Bungum how much he liked it. "I said 'I love that play.' That's old style football right there. Really old school. Credit to Josh Bungum for coming up with that during the week," Fasching said. "We've slowing been working Corey into the game plan after (starting running back) Caden Wheeler went down. When he gets going, he's fun to watch. "We have to supplement the running game in a little more and I thought Kole and Josh did that today. The mixed it in at the right times. It kept La Crosse off-kilter." Bohmert said the play worked well at practice, but he never imagined he could turn it into a long touchdown. "The goal is to ultimately do that and everything panned out perfectly on that one," Bohmert said. "We were just hoping to get a first down there, but their whole defense motioned over with our offensive line. That left the whole backside open. I saw a little hole, made another cut with my left foot and saw a huge opening. Once I got around the corner, I knew I was gone." Eagles linebacker Ryan Daines credited the Johnnies for their innovation on Bohmert's touchdown. "He hit a cutback lane and we went heavy to the other side," Daines said. "There was nobody left over there and he took advantage. (Bohmert) ran the ball really well. They gave us some looks we weren't expecting." The dynamic duo The Eagles cut it to 10-7 on the next drive following Mendez's TD catch on a 25-yard touchdown run by running back Braedon Ott with 9:22 left in the third. Syverson found junior wide receiver Dylan Wheeler just before the end of the third for a 22-yard touchdown pass on a 3rd-and-20 play. Syverson rolled to his right and threw it up for Wheeler, who leapt over two defenders to come down with his 20th touchdown catch of the season. Wheeler has 78 catches for 1,093 yards on the season while Mendez has 67 catches for 1,070 yards and 13 TDs. Fasching feels that Wheeler and Mendez are the two best receivers in D-III football this season. "Dylan and Marselio have been making plays like that all year for us," Fasching said. "I think they're the two best receivers in the country. Marselio has been lights-out the past six to seven weeks. And, they have a great trigger man in Aaron to get them the ball. They're both winning a lot of one-on-one battles." Eagles struggle in red zone The Eagles cut it to 17-13 when quarterback Kyle Haas hit Jack Studer for a 17-yard touchdown pass with 4:17 left. But St. John's defensive lineman Charlie King blocked kicker Maddox Pratt's extra-point attempt to keep it a four-point game. La Crosse got into the red zone on the final drive of the game, but SJU senior linebacker Hayden Sanders ended it by sacking Haas with no time left. Sanders finished with eight tackles — including two for a loss — and the sack. The Eagles finished 1-of-3 in their red-zone scoring opportunities. "We didn't play well in the red zone," La Crosse head coach Matt Janus said. "With it being so cold, there were a couple of times we should have tried a field goal. We just couldn't finish down there. Their defense really tightened up when they had to." Haas finished 19-of-33 passing for 168 yards with two interceptions (one each by SJU's Cooper Yaggie and Ben Dahl). SJU held Eagles running back Gabe Lynch to 13 carries for 63 yards and Studer to five catches for 44 yards. Lynch came into the game with 993 yards rushing on the season and Studer came in with 1,037 yards receiving. Yaggie led the Johnnies with nine tackles, Jake Schwinghammer had eight tackles and Westin Hoyt and Jack St. Fleur each had seven stops. St. John's outgained the Eagles 432-347 in total offense. Gendreau added seven catches for 96 yards for the Johnnies and Blakey had nine carries for 42 yards. It's the first time that Syverson has advanced past the second round in his four years at St. John's. To him, that's a relief, but there is still more to accomplish. "Next week (against Susquehanna) is another big one. We lost to Linfield and Wartburg in the second round in my other playoff games here. We all know we need to be locked in for it," Syverson said. "We've shown even if we start slow, the seal will eventually break and we can score on every possession. We got it going in the second half and that made the difference." Notes St. John's guard Nick McKenzie left with 2:18 left in the game with an injury and didn't return. Next Saturday's forecast calls for temperatures in the low 30s. When told of that, Fasching got a big smile on his face. "I guess that's a heat wave compared to today," he said. "We'll take it." Mendez was asked how tall he is in the postgame press conference. Mendez is listed at 5-foot-9, 165 pounds. Mendez replied that he's probably more like 5-7 or 5-8. "I'd say it's more like 5-6, really," Fasching said. "It doesn't matter though. He makes incredible catches. He's a great route runner who finds pockets in the defense. He's a great combo to have with Dylan." St. John's wide receiver Riley Schwellenbach (4) runs for yardage after making a catch in the first half against Wisconsin-La Crosse Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, at Clemens Stadium in Collegeville. Andy Rennecke / St. Cloud LIVE