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Canada's Trudeau condemns violent protests as NATO meets in MontrealOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Alabama faces a tougher roadblock than it might appear in its quest to maintain positioning for the College Football Playoff. Sure, Oklahoma has struggled in its first Southeastern Conference season. The Sooners (5-5, 1-5 SEC) have lost four straight conference games. The Sooners have fired their offensive coordinator and they have the worst offense in the league. But they have a tough defense, too. Linebacker Danny Stutsman, a midseason AP All-American, anchors a nasty unit that has kept the Sooners competitive in losses at Ole Miss and Missouri. He ranks second in the SEC with 96 tackles. Defensive back Billy Bowman Jr. has scored four defensive touchdowns since the start of the 2023 season, tied for the most nationally. Defensive end R Mason Thomas has seven sacks, with six coming in the fourth quarter of close games. Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer is paying attention. “It’s going to take a great week of preparation,” DeBoer said. “A physical football team all around. Their defense is, I think, an extremely tough defense in all ways — just what they do with their scheme and then with their personnel, the way they fly around.” Plus, Oklahoma is motivated. It’s Senior Day for a program that would become bowl eligible with a win. Beating the seventh-ranked Crimson Tide could cure a lot of ills for the Sooners. “I think they know they could be a great example for what fight and what belief and what finishing and what improving and what proving people wrong looks like,” Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said. “And I think this is a group of guys that are committed to doing that.” Alabama (8-2, 4-2) has more answers than most. Jalen Milroe has passed for 15 touchdowns and rushed for 17. Freshman receiver Ryan Williams has 40 catches for 767 yards and eight touchdowns. “Yeah, incredibly explosive, and they have great playmakers everywhere," Venables said. “Certainly, it starts — everything goes through the quarterback.” There has been much talk about what a third loss would do to Alabama's playoff hopes. DeBoer said his team isn't focused on that. “I think we're really honed in and the guys really believe on and have understood the significance of really focusing on where we’re at right now,” he said. “We talk about the next play is the most important play, the next game is the most important game. We haven’t thought about anything beyond Oklahoma.” Milroe is only the fourth SEC quarterback since 2007 to have at least 15 passing touchdowns and 17 rushing touchdowns in a single season. The others won the Heisman Trophy during their seasons — Florida's Tim Tebow in 2007, Auburn's Cam Newton in 2010 and Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel in 2012. “I think it just starts with doing what’s best for the team, and that’s what Jalen is all about," DeBoer said. Since returning to the lineup early against South Carolina four games ago, Oklahoma quarterback Jackson Arnold has completed 70 of 112 passes for 705 yards with five touchdowns with no interceptions. Still, his fumble that was returned for a touchdown in the final minute against Missouri was the difference in a 30-23 loss. Arnold has dealt with significant criticism all season. “That goes along with that position at a place like the University of Oklahoma,” Venables said. “That’s a position that’s a little bit ... it’s a bit like the head coach position. There’s a different type of microscope and there’s a different type of focus and that’s okay he’s got broad shoulders to handle that.” Oklahoma running back Jovantae Barnes ran for career highs of 203 yards and three touchdowns against Maine two weeks ago, then he sat out last week's loss to Missouri. He's listed as questionable on this week's injury report. He leads the Sooners with 577 yards rushing this season. Venables is impressed with what DeBoer has done in his first year at Alabama since taking over for Nick Saban. “One of Kalen’s strengths as a football coach — a very successful coach — is he takes a group of players that he has, and their staff figures out what they can do,” Venables said. “They major in that, put them in position to be successful based on the players’ strengths. They’ve done a nice job of doing that throughout the course of the season.” Oklahoma beat heavily favored Alabama 45-31 in the Sugar Bowl to cap the 2013 season, a game that helped pump energy into the Sooner program under Bob Stoops. Alabama got revenge in 2018, beating the Sooners 45-34 in the College Football Playoff. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
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Election workers defamed by Giuliani pen scathing letter accusing him of an ‘obvious attempt to intimidate’Larson Financial Group LLC trimmed its holdings in Regions Financial Co. ( NYSE:RF – Free Report ) by 43.0% in the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 2,933 shares of the bank’s stock after selling 2,216 shares during the period. Larson Financial Group LLC’s holdings in Regions Financial were worth $68,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in RF. Citigroup Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Regions Financial by 20.0% in the 3rd quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 1,519,299 shares of the bank’s stock worth $35,445,000 after acquiring an additional 253,708 shares during the last quarter. Commerce Bank increased its stake in Regions Financial by 392.5% in the 3rd quarter. Commerce Bank now owns 248,325 shares of the bank’s stock worth $5,793,000 after purchasing an additional 197,900 shares in the last quarter. Swedbank AB acquired a new stake in Regions Financial during the 1st quarter worth about $19,322,000. National Pension Service lifted its stake in Regions Financial by 6.3% during the third quarter. National Pension Service now owns 1,722,024 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $40,175,000 after buying an additional 102,380 shares in the last quarter. Finally, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale boosted its holdings in shares of Regions Financial by 47.7% in the first quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale now owns 275,757 shares of the bank’s stock worth $5,666,000 after buying an additional 89,045 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 79.39% of the company’s stock. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of research firms have recently issued reports on RF. Truist Financial boosted their price target on shares of Regions Financial from $25.00 to $26.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, October 21st. Wells Fargo & Company increased their target price on Regions Financial from $24.00 to $28.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, November 15th. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price target on Regions Financial from $29.00 to $33.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday. DA Davidson upped their price target on Regions Financial from $27.00 to $29.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, October 21st. Finally, Citigroup raised their price objective on Regions Financial from $26.00 to $30.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and eleven have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $26.71. Regions Financial Trading Up 0.0 % Regions Financial stock opened at $27.26 on Friday. Regions Financial Co. has a one year low of $16.51 and a one year high of $27.96. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $24.50 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $22.08. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35, a current ratio of 0.84 and a quick ratio of 0.83. The company has a market capitalization of $24.78 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.40, a PEG ratio of 2.82 and a beta of 1.16. Regions Financial ( NYSE:RF – Get Free Report ) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, October 18th. The bank reported $0.49 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.53 by ($0.04). Regions Financial had a net margin of 18.78% and a return on equity of 12.60%. The company had revenue of $1.79 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.80 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.49 EPS. The business’s revenue was down 3.7% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts forecast that Regions Financial Co. will post 2.12 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Regions Financial Announces Dividend The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, January 2nd. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 2nd will be paid a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 2nd. Regions Financial’s payout ratio is 56.50%. About Regions Financial ( Free Report ) Regions Financial Corporation, a financial holding company, provides banking and bank-related services to individual and corporate customers. It operates through three segments: Corporate Bank, Consumer Bank, and Wealth Management. The Corporate Bank segment offers commercial banking services, such as commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, and investor real estate lending; equipment lease financing; deposit products; and securities underwriting and placement, loan syndication and placement, foreign exchange, derivatives, merger and acquisition, and other advisory services. Featured Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding RF? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Regions Financial Co. ( NYSE:RF – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Regions Financial Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Regions Financial and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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The Democrat-dominated state House will see a mix of veteran and new committee chairs when the next legislative session begins in January, along with new House leadership. The reshuffling of the 51-member House was the result of several factors, including the primary election defeat of former House Speaker Scott Saiki, which led House Democrats to select former Majority Leader Nadine Nakamura to be their new leader. Other factors include resignations, retirements, other election losses, the death of Rep. Mark Nakashima and several other chairs moving up into House leadership, which prevents them from chairing committees, although some will serve as vice chairs. Nakamura also renamed several of the 18 House committees, such as the old Committee on Health and Homelessness, and separate Housing and Human Services committees. They are now known as the Health Committee, Human Services and Homelessness Committee, and Housing Committee. The former Committee of Corrections, Military and Veterans has been renamed the Committee on Public Safety. It still has responsibility for adult corrections, correctional facilities, military facilities, veterans’ affairs, emergency management and the safety, welfare and defense of Hawaii. The newly renamed committee will be chaired by onetime Saiki ally Rep. Della Au Belatti. Its vice chair will be incoming freshman Rep. Kim Coco Iwamoto, who beat Saiki on her third consecutive try to represent Kakaako and parts of downtown and Ala Moana. Along with Public Safety, six other committees also will see newly elected freshmen serving as vice chairs: Reps. Shirley Ann Templo (Tourism), Sue L. Keohokapu-Lee Loy (Health), Mike Lee (Labor), Tina Nakada Grandinetti (Transportation), Ikaika Hussey (Economic Development and Technology) and Matthias Kusch (Agriculture and Food Systems). Gov. Josh Green picked Kusch in August to fill the vacancy representing Hamakua-Hilo following Nakashima’s death. Green reappointed Kusch last week to serve a full two-year term. Twelve of the 18 House committees, including the new Public Safety Committee, will have new chairs, including Rep. Scot Matayoshi, who replaces Nakashima, who died in July at the age of 61 and had chaired the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. Rep. Jackson Sayama replaces Matayoshi as chair of the Labor Committee. Rep. Andrew Takuya Garrett takes over as chair of the Higher Education Committee after Rep. Amy Perruso, who will serve as one of three majority whips and also becomes vice chair of the Energy and Environment Committee. Rep. Gregg Takayama will chair the Health Committee and replaces Bellati. Rep. Darius Kila, who had been vice chair of the Transportation Committee, now becomes its chair after former Chair Chris Todd became majority caucus leader. Rep. Mark Hashem replaces Water and Land Committee Chair Linda Ichiyama, who will now serve as House vice speaker. The Committee on Tourism will now be chaired by Rep. Adrian Tam after former Chair Sean Quinlan became majority leader. Quinlan also becomes the new vice chair of the Committee on Legislative Management. Tam had chaired the Culture and Arts Committee and is being replaced by Rep. Jeanne Kapela. Rep. Kirstin Kahaloa becomes chair of the Agriculture and Food Systems Committee, replacing former Rep. Cedric Gates, who unsuccessfully ran for state Senate this year. Rep. Greggor Illagan takes over as chair of the Economic Development and Technology Committee. Illagan replaces Rep. Daniel Holt, who replaces Speaker Nakamura as chair of the Legislative Management Committee. House members who will notably continue to chair key committees include Rep. Kyle Yamashita, whose first term as chair of the powerful Finance Committee ended in chaos two years ago when both senators and representatives openly complained during conference committee votes that they did not understand what they were voting on and demanded explanations of why bills had inexplicably died. Former Speaker Saiki previously told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that Yamashita had worked to better prepare himself for his second year as Finance chair last session. Rep. David Tarnas will continue to chair the influential Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs Committee and has spent the months between last session and the upcoming one drafting a new bill that would legalize adult recreational use of cannabis in response to concerns.New Delhi: The BJP’s poor performance in Jharkhand’s ST-reserved seats despite a strong anti-incumbency is one of the main factors behind its failure to make a comeback in the state five years after it conceded defeat to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress combine. The BJP could win only one of the 28 ST seats, performing worse than the last assembly election. The JMM-led alliance is set to win 27 seats—the JMM 20 and the Congress seven. A major factor for the BJP’s defeat in the 2019 Jharkhand assembly election was that the JMM-Congress alliance won 25 of the 28 ST seats whereas the BJP could win only two. Tribals account for 26 percent of the population in Jharkhand, with their influence spreading across 21 of 24 districts in the state. In 2019, the Raghubar Das-led BJP government was toppled amid a tribal backlash. The Hemant Soren-led JMM consolidated the tribal votes in that election on the promise of implementing the 1932 Khatiyan Bill, which holds 1932 identity and land records as state domicile criteria, and Sarna, a separate religious code for tribals. With its promises striking a chord in the tribal belt in 2019, the JMM secured 19 ST seats. The Congress won six, taking the combine’s tally to 25. The BJP’s tally, on the other hand, plunged from 11 ST seats in 2014 to just two. Babulal Marandi’s Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM), which in 2020 merged with the BJP, won one seat in that election. Earlier in 2014, the BJP came to power by scoring big in the tribal belt. It won 11 ST seats while the JMM secured 13 ST seats and the All Jharkhand Students Union, which joined hands with the BJP before this election, got two. In this year’s Lok Sabha election, Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s arrest just ahead of the polls created a sympathy wave for the JMM, with the BJP losing all five ST-reserved LS seats. The JMM-led alliance won all five seats—the JMM three and the Congress two. In the assembly segment break-up, the JMM led in 10 segments, the Congress in 13, and the BJP in just five. The results on Saturday turned out to be worse than predicted by the LS polls. In the election campaign, the BJP was in overdrive to exploit the fault lines in the tribal belt. To create the Hindi-belt sort of polarisation among tribals, BJP leaders alleged “infiltration” by Bangladeshi Muslims into the tribal belt. BJP leaders, from election in-charge Shivraj Singh Chouhan to state president Babulal Marandi, promised to implement the National Register of Citizens to deport the “infiltrators” if voted to power. Even Home Minister Amit Shah indicated a shift in the BJP’s policy by promising the Sarna religious code for tribals amid the party’s insistence on a Uniform Civil Code across the country. None of that seems to have worked. Jharkhand BJP has traditionally been strong in the North Chotanagpur and Palamu belt, where migrants from Bihar have settled. Across the belt, there is only one ST seat in Palamu. In the past, the SC vote bank helped the BJP get a reasonable number of seats in the state. However, without the Kolhan and Santhal Parganas, which house 60 percent of the ST-reserved seats, the BJP lost Jharkhand in 2019. The JMM stronghold is Kolhan and Santhal Parganas. In 2019, the BJP could not bag a single of the 14 assembly seats in Kolhan while the JMM-Congress marked a decisive victory in the Santhal Parganas by winning 13 of the 18 assembly seats, with the BJP managing to win five. Seven of the 18 assembly seats in the Santhal Parganas, including the Deoghar, Dumka, Godda, Jamtara, Pakur and Sahibganj districts, are ST-reserved. Hemant Soren, Babulal Marandi and BJP’s Nishikant Dubey come from this region. Nine of the 14 assembly seats in Kolhan are ST-reserved. Four state chief ministers, Arjun Munda, Raghubar Das, Madhu Koda and Champai Soren, hail from this region. South Chotanagpur has 11 other ST seats. Also Read: How family members of Hemant Soren & 4 former Jharkhand CMs are faring this election The BJP banked on two different strategies for a comeback in the tribal belt. It tried to make a dent in the JMM’s Kolhan stronghold with a prize catch—veteran JMM torch-bearer and Shibu Soren’s trusted man Champai Soren, regarded as the ‘Tiger of Kolhan’. Soren, who won the Seraikella seat, brought the one win that the BJP has registered this election. However, the BJP had been relying on him to do much more. After his short stint as CM when Hemant Soren was in jail, Champai Soren joined the BJP, saying the JMM had disrespected him. He contested the Seraikella seat, which he has won for the JMM six times, on a BJP ticket. Given his influence in Kolhan, the BJP also fielded his son, Babulal Soren, from the Ghatsila seat and his protege, Sonaram Bodra, from Kharsawan. However, Babulal Soren lost to JMM’s Ram Das Soren while Bodra lost to JMM’s Dashrath Gagrai. In 2019, not only did the BJP not win any seat in Kolhan but also then-CM Raghuvar Das lost from the region. So, the BJP did not leave any stone unturned to ensure a turnaround this time. The party fielded former CM Arjun Munda’s wife, Meera Munda, from Potka, but she lost to JMM’s Sanjib Sardar. It also fielded former CM Madhu Kora’s wife, Geeta Kora, from Jagannathpur, but she lost to Congress’s Sona Ram Sinku. BJP leader Sudarshan Bhagat, former Union minister of tribal affairs, lost to JMM’s Bhushan Tirkey in the Gumla assembly constituency. BJP ST Morcha national president Samir Oraon lost to JMM’s Chamra Linda in the Bishnupur assembly constituency. To expand its footprint in the Santhal Parganas, which adjoins West Bengal and has a significant Muslim population, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Nishikant Dubey first raised the “infiltration” issue in the Parliament based on a Union home ministry-filed affidavit in the Jharkhand high court in September. Since then, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP leaders have kept their focus on “infiltration” in the election campaign in the Santhal Parganas. The tribal population in Jharkhand, the MHA affidavit says, declined from 44.67 percent in 1951 to 28.11 percent in 2011, but the state government has denied such claims. Speaking to ThePrint before the election results, a Jharkhand BJP leader said that the BJP lost the tribal belt in 2019 because of the Raghuvar Das government’s 1985 domicile policy that diluted land policy, keeping the focus on OBCs. “On realising its mistake, the party sent Raghuvar Das to the Raj Bhavan, inducted Babulal Marandi into the BJP in 2020, made Droupadi Murmu President, made two tribal community leaders CMs of Chhattisgarh and Odisha, made Marandi BJP Jharkhand president, inducted Arjun Munda into Modi’s Cabinet, PM visited Bisra Munda’s birthplace in 2023, and the Centre announced Janjatiya Gaurav Divas to bring back lost tribals,” the leader said on the condition of anonymity. “BJP used ‘love jihad’ and ‘infiltration’ issues to gain lost ground in the tribal belt, and we focused on ‘ roti, mati, aur beti ‘ campaign to make tribals aware of growing dangers from outsiders. JMM introduced the ‘ maiya ‘ scheme for women. Aware of its impact, we too announced a cash scheme for women. We also promised to look into the Sarna code for tribals to bring them into the party fold,” he said. The JMM, in its election campaign, hit back at the BJP for creating Hindu-Muslim polarisation. However, it seems the campaign of polarisation has failed. The JMM-led alliance is winning all seven ST seats in Santhal Parganas, eight of the nine ST seats in Kolhan, all 11 in South Chotanagpur, and the one ST seat in Palamu. The BJP’s performance in the tribal belt of Maharashtra has improved, helping the Mahayuti come back to power in Maharashtra despite a setback in the tribal-dominated seats in the Lok Sabha election. The BJP is set to win 10 of the 25 ST seats, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena six seats and Ajit Pawar’s NCP six seats, taking the Mahayuti’s tally to 22. Meanwhile, the Congress is leading in two seats, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in another. In Maharashtra, Scheduled Tribes, which account for 10 percent of the population, are spread across 21 districts, with 25 seats of 288 assembly seats reserved for the community. In the 2019 state assembly polls, the BJP’s tally came down to eight seats from 11 in 2014. The undivided Shiv Sena won three seats, the undivided NCP six, and the Congress four. Smaller parties won the remaining four seats. Earlier, in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance won all four ST seats, with the BJP winning three and Sena one. However, after a political realignment following the split in the NCP and Shiv Sena, the BJP, as part of the Mahayuti, could secure only one tribal seat in the 2024 LS polls. The MVA won three ST seats, with the Congress winning two and the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) one. The assembly segment break-down showed a BJP lead in nine ST seats while the Congress lead was in nine seats, Sena (Uddhav Bal Thackeray) in four, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) in two, and Independent in one. The results of this assembly election, however, shows that the Mahayuti has since gained ground in the tribal belt. In North Maharashtra, which has a high density of tribals, the BJP lost its advantage during the Lok Sabha polls due to Dalit and tribal polarisation in favour of the MVA, according to a survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. The survey says that nearly 55 percent of tribals backed MVA in Maharashtra—more than the 46 percent of Dalits who backed MVA. On the other hand, 35 percent of tribals and 35 percent of Dalits supported Mahayuti. However, according to a pre-assembly poll CSDS survey, Mahayuti could increase its lead by 10 percentage points in the tribal belt since the LS polls. A Maharashtra BJP leader said, “Mahayuti learnt from its Lok Sabha mistake when it was over-confident. The Mahayuti performance among Maratha voters was good in the LS polls. However, cross-polarisation among OBCs helped the MVA, and BJP’s micro-management in the tribal belt had a negative impact. Since then, we have restored the confidence of tribals in the party. The women’s cash scheme became a game-changer among tribal and Dalit women.” (Edited by Madhurita Goswami) Also Read: Maharashtra sees low voter turnout of 6.61%, Jharkhand records 12.71% in 2nd phase Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );