Arteta wanted his team to prove their European credentials following some underwhelming displays away from home, and the Gunners manager got exactly what he asked for. Goals from Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Magalhaes, Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard got their continental campaign back on track in style following the 1-0 defeat at Inter Milan last time out. A memorable victory also ended Sporting’s unbeaten start to the season, a streak of 17 wins and one draw, the vast majority of which prompted Manchester United to prise away head coach Ruben Amorim. The Gunners had failed to win or score in their two away games in the competition so far this season, but they made a blistering start in the Portuguese capital and took the lead after only seven minutes. Declan Rice fed overlapping full-back Jurrien Timber, who curled a low cross in behind the home defence for Martinelli to finish at the far post. Arsenal doubled their lead in the 20th minute thanks to a glorious ball over the top from Thomas Partey. Saka escaped the clutches of his marker Maximiliano Araujo to beat the offside trap and poke the ball past advancing goalkeeper Franco Israel for Havertz to tap home. It was a scintillating first-half display which completely overshadowed the presence of Viktor Gyokeres in Sporting’s attack. The prolific Sweden striker, formerly of Coventry, has been turning the heads of Europe’s top clubs with his 24 goals in 17 games this season – including a hat-trick against Manchester City earlier this month. But the only time he got a sniff of a run at goal after an optimistic long ball, he was marshalled out of harm’s way by Gabriel. David Raya was forced into one save, tipping a fierce Geovany Quenda drive over the crossbar. But Arsenal added a third on the stroke of half-time, Gabriel charging in to head Rice’s corner into the back of the net. To rub salt in the wound, the Brazilian defender mimicked Gyokeres’ hands-over-his-face goal celebration. That may have wound Sporting up as they came out after the interval meaning business, and they pulled one back after Raya tipped Hidemasa Morita’s shot behind, with Goncalo Inacio netting at the near post from the corner. Former Tottenham winger Marcus Edwards fired over, as did Gyokeres, with Arsenal temporarily on the back foot. But when Martin Odegaard’s darting run into the area was halted by Ousmane Diomande’s foul, Saka tucked away the penalty. Substitute Trossard added the fifth with eight minutes remaining, heading in the rebound after Mikel Merino’s shot was saved, and Gyokeres’ miserable night was summed up when his late shot crashed back off the post.'Deeply concerned': US, UK and EU condemn Pakistan military courts over sentencing of civilians linked to Imran Khan protests
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I’m a center-right “Scoop Jackson” moderate Democrat marooned on an island in today’s deep-blue Washington. My friends and I celebrate local election victories while our governor-elect appears eager to fight the incoming Trump administration. He will get the chance. Let’s remember. After four years of chaos, President Biden’s election was promised as a “return to normality.” It wasn’t. He quickly jettisoned normality for a progressive agenda. The Inflation Reduction Act did little to reduce inflation. It was in many ways a green wave, packed with spending on clean energy programs. Gov. Jay Inslee dropped his 2020 presidential run in the primary but his policies were adopted by Biden. And while we live in a state that buys into the green wave, voters nationally don’t. Our progressive blinders in Washington render us unable to focus on how to make our Democratic party once again nationally relevant. It’s national relevance that counts. And it’s not helped when the question asked is: “How could voters be so stupid?” But voters aren’t stupid. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. And each of us has our own lens through which we see the world. Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat — and Donald Trump’s win — in the presidential election this year was sealed the day when Harris answered what James Carville calls “the money question.” A slow softball over-the-plate candidates beg for: Would she have done something differently than President Biden over the past four years? Her answer: “There is not a thing that comes to mind.” Biden’s popularity, at that moment: Around 43% approval. As Carville noted, in an election where voters are angry, “That’s the most devastating answer you could imagine.” Elections are built around perceptions. Trump won because voters wanted a change, and a strong leader, looking past that he is a racist and misogynist. They wanted “different.” They were angry about the price of eggs and their values being disparaged. “Equal opportunity,” not “equality” and a pox on a Democrat party built on the green wave, identity politics, and special interests like the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement and concepts like restorative justice. But time to stop grieving. This is not our first bad rodeo. Remember Hubert Humphrey on Vietnam, Hillary Clinton’s botched approach to “fly over country” and Ronald Reagan’s trouncing of Jimmy Carter — even here in Washington. Everyone in Democratic politics has an opinion on what to do. We need to better align our economic and social-cultural values with our voters. Our voters previously saw us as helping the underdogs. No more. They see us as upper-class white elitists. We need to revive something akin to the “Democrat Leadership Conference” chaired by former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. It propelled Clinton to the presidency. To win, we need a course correction toward “it’s just the economy, stupid,” and less “identity politics,” which we have increasingly relied on for 20 years, gathering speed after George Floyd’s murder in 2020. We aren’t elitists. We are for working families, who have increasingly turned to Trump. I am old enough to remember shop class and home economics as required high school courses, and auto repair as an elective. Today, it’s Advanced Placement classes and college credits in high school. To earn a college degree is the gold standard. That’s misguided thinking and it’s part of the reason we are losing our base. These days, in many cases, getting your hands dirty will earn you more money than practicing law. U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who twice defeated a Trump acolyte in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, once a reliably GOP seat, recognizes this in how she talks about the trades and the nation’s workforce. Progressives were dumbstruck when she voted with Republicans against forgiving billions of dollars worth of college loans. To again become nationally relevant, Democrats must focus on the economy and more importantly how voters – district by district – perceive it. The key is for candidates and members of Congress to represent their districts, not progressive orthodoxy. That’s how Scoop Jackson, the “war hawk,” overwhelmingly defeated progressive Carl Maxey in 1968. It’s how Gluesenkamp Perez beat back her MAGA opponent. And it’s how U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, a farmer who voted to impeach Trump, won against a candidate endorsed by the former president in a district east of the Cascades. Things in Washington state are unlikely to change in terms of how the state’s politics are leaning more heavily progressive. But in national elections, we don’t count. ••• Jim Luce is a retired Bonneville Power Administration attorney. 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(Source: Nasdaq) The S&P 500 and the Dow fell on Monday in holiday-thinned trading after a stopgap government funding bill averted a U.S. government shutdown and investors braced for a slower pace of rate cuts from the Federal Reserve next year. After a solid run since the November presidential election, Wall Street’s rally hit a bump this month, especially after the U.S. Federal Reserve forecast just two 25-basis-point rate reductions for 2025 – down from its September view of four cuts – and raised its annual inflation outlook. A cooler-than-expected inflation report on Friday helped U.S. stocks recoup some losses. However, overall market sentiment was still cautious, said Thierry Wizman, strategist at Macquarie. Money markets expect roughly two 25-bps reductions in 2025, which would bring the benchmark rate to a range of 3.75% to 4.0%, from about a 3.50% to 3.75% range two weeks ago. “It’s a Monday with very few catalysts to drive (broad market) sentiment, and we’re going to have low volume, likely volatile trading as we work our way out of this year,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist, B Riley Wealth. Trading volumes are expected to thin, with U.S. stock markets closing early on Tuesday and shut for Christmas on Wednesday. The United States Congress passed spending legislation early on Saturday, minutes after the funding’s expiration, which could have disrupted everything from law enforcement to national parks ahead of the busy Christmas travel season. At 11:07 a.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) fell 247.19 points, or 0.58%, to 42,593.07 and the S&P 500 (.SPX) lost 5.47 points, or 0.09%, to 5,925.38. The Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), opens new tab gained 52.79 points, or 0.27%, to 19,625.38, buoyed by gains in chipmakers and megacap stocks. Nvidia (NVDA.O), added 1.6% and Meta Platforms (META.O), rose 1.4%. Apple’s (AAPL.O), market capitalization stood at $3.84 trillion as the world’s most valuable company inched closer to the $4 trillion milestone. Markets are also entering a historically strong period for U.S. stocks. Since 1969, the last five trading days of the year, combined with the first two of the following year, have yielded an average S&P 500 gain of 1.3% – a period known as the “Santa Claus Rally”, according to the Stock Trader’s Almanac. Qualcomm’s (QCOM.O), shares rose 1.7% after a jury found its central processors are properly licensed under an agreement with UK-based Arm Holdings . Shares of Arm, which has vowed to seek a fresh trial, fell about 5%. Walmart (WMT.N), opens new tab fell 3.3% after the U.S. consumer finance watchdog accused the retail giant and workforce payments company Branch Messenger of forcing more than a million delivery drivers into using accounts that cost them more than $10 million in junk fees. Eli Lilly (LLY.N), gained 1.7% after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drugmaker’s weight-loss treatment, Zepbound, for obstructive sleep apnea. Shares of sleep apnea device makers ResMed (RMD.N), and Inspire Medical (INSP.N), fell about 4% each. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 2.56-to-1 ratio on the NYSE, and by a 1.91-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The S&P 500 posted two new 52-week highs and 11 new lows, while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 35 new highs and 86 new lows. Source: Reuters (Reporting by Medha Singh and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai)None
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