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No. 7 Tennessee extends its season-opening winning streak to 7 games in 78-35 win over UT MartinVariety’s Faith & Media Impact Report Presented by the Coalition for Faith and MediaSandstorm Gold Royalties Provides Updates on Producing and Key Development AssetsTORONTO (AP) — The Utah Hockey Club said players were forced to walk to their game against the Maple Leafs after their bus got stuck in Toronto traffic Sunday night. The team posted a video on social media of team members walking to Scotiabank Arena, with player Maveric Lamoureux saying the bus was “not moving at all.” Several city streets had been closed during the day for the annual Santa Claus parade. The Maple Leafs earned their fourth consecutive win by defeating Utah 3-2. The viral incident prompted Ontario Premier Doug Ford to call the congestion “embarrassing” and “unacceptable,” highlighting his government’s plan to address the city’s gridlock through bike lane legislation. It wasn’t the first time a Toronto visitor had to ditch their vehicle to make it to an event on time. In June, former One Direction band member Niall Horan had to walk through traffic to get to his concert at Scotiabank Arena. AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl
An estimated 2.5 million people live in and around the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan. But it's now at the centre of a devastating struggle between two warring factions, which has stretched into its second year. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an ethnically-Arab paramilitary group, has been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces for control of the country. The civil war – triggered in April 2023 by a dispute between the leaders of these two factions — has reignited old ethnic divisions between Arab and African Sudanese. It has also led to multiple allegations of war crimes and atrocities and created the "world's largest hunger crisis", according to the World Food Program. The city of El Fasher lies in the balance and its fall could determine the outcome of the war. The RSF is currently attacking the city from three directions — north, east and west. [DATAWRAPPER map of Sudan] Analysts from the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University can see "technicals" – utility vehicles, which typically have 50 calibre machine guns mounted on them – from the RSF inside the city on satellite images. "At this point, the majority of the city has been reduced to rubble by Sudan Armed Forces air strikes and Rapid Support Forces bombardment," said Nathaniel Raymond, the director of the Humanitarian Research Lab. Satellite images taken between November 3 and 8 show damage from shelling around El Fasher's Grand Souk (market), near where the Sudanese Armed Forces were based. There are craters and damaged buildings visible in the centre of the second image that were not present earlier. #startcarousel Shelling in this area indicates direct attacks on the Sudanese Armed Forces and an ability of the RSF to attack the centre of the city. The war comes to El Fasher Analysts from the Humanitarian Research Lab can also see artillery damage to buildings and have been tracking the use of a particular mortar shell used by the RSF. They can see the RSF is directly attacking the headquarters and air base of the last Sudanese Armed Forces detachment inside El Fasher, the Sixth Infantry Division. "The 6th Infantry Division headquarters building is near the Grand Souk in the centre of the city. The majority of the remaining Sudan armed forces are at the air base and the air base is taking fire now," Mr Raymond said. "We can see munition craters. We can see damage to buildings. We can see thermal scarring and that's an extremely troubling development. "Because we can see that some of those munition craters are small bore mortars, likely consistent with a weapon, like the M224 mortar. "And why that's bad is that those mortars have a maximum range of 3.5 kilometres, which means now we can say forensically that Rapid Support Forces are under 3.5 kilometres from the last stand location of the 6th Infantry division. "They are probably closer than that." What the fall of a city means for Sudan It's been very difficult for journalists to cover Sudan's horrific civil war, with the government denying visas and armed groups detaining media crews that have made it into Sudan. Mobile phone towers around much of the country have been destroyed, leaving satellite communications as the only way to get information from inside many parts of Sudan. Satellite images are one of the few ways to see what is happening. The scale of death and horror in Sudan – 11 million people displaced, millions starving, myriad atrocities and rampant disease – dwarfs more prominent conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. But the war has not attracted the same international attention. Now, the fall of El Fasher, Mr Raymond said, could be the worst catastrophe in a war that has already been filled with immense suffering. "This would be the most significant event in the war today," Mr Raymond said. "The reason why, is that with the fall of El Fasher, the Rapid Support Forces will control Darfur. "They will be able to complete the Darfur genocide largely without resistance from the international community. "They can complete the liquidation of the non-Arab tribes of Darfur and they will be able to go and hit all the villages they've missed in the past few weeks." The RSF has reportedly denied allegations it has been committing genocide in Darfur. Displaced people forced to live in tents The greatest fear for aid groups is that once the Rapid Support Forces conquer El Fasher, they will attack an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp called Zamzam, which is 12 kilometres to the south. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to the camp, many from El Fasher. "We don't have our homes anymore, there are no schools and the malaria is spreading everywhere. The famine is hitting too," Aisha Suleiman Bahreddine, a 43-year-old mother of seven, told the ABC using satellite internet from inside Zamzam camp. "The elderly people cannot move anymore. We lack food, children's food, and for the elderly people. "Soon it will be monsoon. We have no cover whatsoever. Nothing to protect ourselves from the cold. "We made a tent with our clothes, Sudanese textiles. Life is very dire, life is so difficult." She said her family eats one meal a day: the Sudanese traditional dish made of fava beans. "Only one. We haven't eaten yet, and yesterday we ate one meal," she said. The people in the camp are relying on traders who bring food sporadically, as most of the major aid groups have evacuated. "The conditions are terrible, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated even beyond what we imagined," Gaffar Mohammud Saeneen, a political activist who co-chairs the small, independently-funded Team Zamzam aid program in the camp, told the ABC. "You cannot describe the suffering. Researchers have been able to track the expansion of Zamzam camp from the air. As the RSF advanced into El Fasher, civilians began fleeing. Researchers at the HRL detected a large number of new temporary structures (tents, shelters) in previously vacant areas of the Zamzam IDP camp in September and October. You can see them in the centre-right of the bottom image. Coupled with images showing large numbers of people moving south on the road from El Fasher, they can see that residents of the city have fled to the camp. Foreign aid workers have evacuated but the camp residents are unable to leave, because the Rapid Support Forces control the area around Zamzam. The people in the camp have already suffered in the fighting so far. "We came here because our neighbours got hit and they were killed. There was no one to help them," Samira Mohamad Abdallah, a mother of six from El Fasher, told the ABC. Carpenter Bilal Ishak Youness came to the camp out of fear for his wife and daughter. "We fled El Fasher because of the rape fear. There is no safety because of the militia. We are afraid of Rapid Support Forces militia men," he said. Satellite images analysed by show the camp residents are preparing to be attacked at any moment. "They're building fortifications at the IDP camp and it is clear that they think they're going to be attacked," Nathaniel Raymond said. "Zamzam is the largest remaining IDP camp in Darfur of the survivors of the first Darfur genocide in the early 21st century and the people in Zamzam camp are primarily Zaghawa (people)." "The Rapid Support Forces since March have burned to the ground most of the Zaghawa communities surrounding Al Fasher. "And when they entered the eastern south-eastern side of El Fasher during the late spring, early summer, the Rapid Support Forces started burning houses individually in the Zaghawa neighbourhoods. "So it is highly likely that the Rapid Support Forces will attempt to liquidate the Zaghawa en masse." Hopes rest on a ceasefire The people in the camp are already close to starving. The international experts who assess food availability in July classified conditions in Zamzam and around El Fasher as a famine . Nathaniel Raymond from the Humanitarian Research Lab said the fall of El Fasher would make conditions even worse and lead to mass starvation. "Sudan's the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, it's the largest displacement crisis in the world, it's the largest food security emergency in the world," he said. "It is a level of starvation now, that on its current trajectory, will likely exceed in terms of severity and scale the suffering we saw in 1984/85 in the Ethiopian famine. "We are on a trajectory in terms of potential starvation in Sudan were it may only be rivalled by the Chinese Great Leap Forward famine in the mid 20th century, so this may be the largest starvation event globally since the 1950s." Aid groups said the only hope for Darfur is an immediate ceasefire and enforcement of an arms embargo on the warring parties in Sudan. "We've been calling for this conflict to end," Mohammed Abdeladif, Save the Children's interim country director in Sudan, told the ABC. "We've been calling for a UN resolution for a ceasefire to take place and an immediate and sustained effort to open supply routes and secure ceasefire are critical to prevent the famine crisis from worsening and further atrocities happening. "That really requires concerted action at the national, regional and international levels. "Pressure has to really mount on all parties to the conflict, to end the fighting and stop impeding access." ABC
For years, patients in the U.S. health care system have grown frustrated with a bureaucracy they don’t understand . Doctors are included in an insurer’s network one year but not the next. Getting someone on the phone to help can be next to impossible. Coverage of care and prescriptions is often unceremoniously denied. This week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has unleashed a wave of public feeling — exasperation, anger, resentment, helplessness — from Americans sharing personal stories of interactions with insurance companies, often seen as faceless corporate giants. In particular, the words written on ammunition found at the shooting scene — “delay,” “deny” and “depose,” echoing a phrase used to describe how insurers dodge claim payouts — amplified voices that have long been critical of the industry. “All of a sudden, I am fired up again,” said Tim Anderson, describing how his wife, Mary, had to deal with UnitedHealthcare coverage denials before she died from Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in 2022. Anderson said they couldn’t get coverage for machines to help his wife breathe or talk — toward the end, she communicated by blinking when he showed her pictures. The family had to rely on donations from a local ALS group, he said. “The business model for insurance is don’t pay,” said Anderson, 67, of Centerville, Ohio. “When Mary could still talk, she said to me to keep fighting this,” he added. “It needs to be exposed.” For Anderson and others, Thompson's death and the message left at the scene have created an opportunity to vent their frustrations. Conversations at dinner tables, office water coolers, social gatherings and on social media have pivoted to the topic, as police efforts to find the gunman keep the case in the news. Hans Maristela said he understands why the chatter is bubbling up. The 54-year-old caregiver in California was moved to comment on Facebook about UnitedHealthcare's reputation of denying coverage. As a Catholic, he said, he grieves Thompson's death and feels for his family, especially with the holidays around the corner. But he sees frustration with insurers even among his clients, most of them wealthy older people who've not been shielded from high out-of-pocket costs. “And then you know the CEO of this company you pay a lot of money to gets $10 million dollars a year, you won’t have a lot of sympathy for the guy," Maristela said, citing Thompson's compensation package that included base pay and stock options. “Health care is a business, I understand, but the obsession with share price, with profit, has to be reevaluated.” University of Pennsylvania researcher Michael Anne Kyle said she's not surprised by the growth of conversation around insurers. “People are often struggling with this by themselves, and when you see someone else talk about it, that may prompt you to join the conversation,” she said. Kyle studies how patients access care and said she's seen frustration with the system build for years. Costs are rising, and insurers are using more controls such as prior authorizations and doctor networks to manage them. Patients are often stuck in the middle of disputes between doctors and insurers. “Patients are already spending a lot of money on health care, and then they’re still facing problems with the service,” she said. Insurers often note that most of the money they bring in goes back out the door to pay claims, and that they try to corral soaring costs and the overuse of some care. In Ohio, Anderson said his initial reaction to the CEO shooting was to question whether it was connected to a coverage denial, like the ones he'd experienced with his wife. “I definitely do not condone killing people,” he said. “But I read it and said, 'I wonder if somebody had a spouse whose coverage was denied.’” It's something Will Flanary, a Portland-based ophthalmologist and comedian with a large social media following, saw online a lot in the shooting's immediate aftermath and found very telling. “It’s zero sympathy,” he said. “And the lesson to take away from that is not, ‘Let’s shame people for celebrating a murder.’ No, it’s: ‘Look at the amount of anger that people have toward this system that’s taken advantage of people and do something to try to fix that.’” Flanary's content, published under the name Dr. Glaucomflecken, started out as niche eye doctor jokes and a way to cope with his own experiences with two cancer diagnoses and a sudden cardiac arrest. But it has evolved, featuring character skits that call attention to and satirize the decisions of large health insurers, including UnitedHealthcare. He said he's never seen conversations around health insurance policy take off the way they did this week — and he hopes these new voices can help bring about change. “I’m always talking about how powerful social media can be with advocacy," he said, "because it really is the only way to put a significant amount of pressure on these corporations who are doing bad things for patients.” The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.Wladimir Klitschko has asked Joe Rogan if he can be invited onto his podcast to discuss his stance on the Russia - Ukraine war. Klitschko, a former boxing heavyweight champion from Ukraine , is keen to s hare the truth about Russia's aggression after claiming that Rogan believed President Vladimir Putin 's "propaganda." Rogan recently criticized U.S. President Joe Biden on his podcast for allowing Ukraine to fire at Russia with missiles supplied by the United States. "How are you allowed to do that when you are on your way out," Rogan said about Biden with the president set to leave his office on Jan. 20. "Like, people don’t want you to be there anymore, maybe that would be a good thing we would like to avoid from a dying former president. The whole thing is nuts." Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk to give him new job after Donald Trump Jr. suggestion Joe Rogan hits out at MSNBC over Laken Riley story with brutal six-word tweet Rogan then added: "Volodymyr Zelensky says Putin is terrified. F--- you, man... f--- you, people. You people are about to start World War III." Klitschko heard Rogan's comments and uploaded a video on X to let the podcast host know that he disagreed with his views. In an attempt to balance the debate from a Ukrainian perspective, Klitschko requested that they talk about the current situation on a podcast. "Joe Rogan, I listened to your latest podcast. I am sending you this video to let you know that I disagree," Klitschko said. . @joerogan , I disagree pic.twitter.com/tSGvwUnXOQ — Klitschko (@Klitschko) November 24, 2024 "You talk about these American weapons being sent to Ukraine , which you believe will lead to the Third World War. So, let me tell you that you're repeating Russian propaganda - Putin's Russia is in trouble. So they want to scare you and people like you. "His war was supposed to last three days, it has lasted three years thanks to the heroism and sacrifice of us Ukrainians. So you're using the only weapon that Putin really intends to use: propaganda, and this weapon really weakens our democracies. "Putin's Russia wants to destroy Ukraine quietly, they want America to stay quiet - not great. A great America is not an America that abandons countries that defend freedom with their lives. In short, you see, I have quite a few points of difference. If you invite me on your podcast, we can discuss them like free men." Rogan is yet to respond to Klitschko's request, and the former boxer has applied more pressure on the podcaster with another call-out on social media. "Fear Factor = Offering a public opinion about a nation, but not able to discuss your opinion and facts with another public figure of the nation you had the opinion about," Klitschko wrote on Monday. DON'T MISS... UFC Macau results as Petr Yan defeats Deiveson Figueiredo in instant classic UFC president Dana White makes Donald Trump U-turn after election victory Conor McGregor will not serve jail time despite losing assault case "We would only meet in the podcast ring, not in the boxing ring. Let’s do it! What are you waiting for? @JoeRogan." Rogan often interviews former fighters as a major fan of combat sports, but it remains to be seen whether he gives Klitschko a platform given the political nature of the topic.
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Airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end with another record day for air travel in the United States. AAA predicts that nearly 80 million Americans will venture at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday and next Monday, most of them by car. However, travelers could be impacted by ongoing weather challenges and those flying to their destinations could be grounded by delays brought on by airline staffing shortages and an airport service workers strike . Here's the latest: Looking to de-stress while waiting for your flight? Many airports have a fleet of therapy dogs — designated fidos and puppers that are eager to receive pets and snuggles from weary travelers. Rules and schedules vary from airport to airport, but the group AirportTherapyDogs uses online crowdsourcing to share the locations of therapy dogs across its various social media accounts. Today, Gracie, a toy Australian shepherd, and Budge, an English bulldog, wandered the concourses at Denver International Airport, and an American Staffordshire Terrier named Hugo greeted travelers at Punta Gorda Airport in Florida. Some airports even feature other therapy pals. San Francisco International Airport’s fleet of animals includes a Flemish Giant rabbit and a hypoallergenic pig. “We cannot live on the wages that we are being paid,” ABM cabin cleaner Priscilla Hoyle said at a rally earlier Monday. “I can honestly say it’s hard every single day with my children, working a full-time job but having to look my kids in the eyes and sit there and say, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to have a home today.’” Timothy Lowe II, a wheelchair attendant, said he has to figure out where to spend the night because he doesn’t make enough for a deposit on a home. “We just want to be able to have everything that’s a necessity paid for by the job that hired us to do a great job so they can make billions,” he said. ABM said it is “committed to addressing concerns swiftly” and that there are avenues for employees to communicate issues, including a national hotline and a “general open door policy for managers at our worksite.” Employees of ABM and Prospect Airport Services cast ballots Friday to authorize the work stoppage at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a hub for American Airlines. They described living paycheck to paycheck while performing jobs that keep planes running on schedule. Most of them earn $12.50 to $19 an hour, union officials said. Rev. Glencie Rhedrick of Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice said those workers should make $22 to $25 an hour. The strike is expected to last 24 hours. Several hundred workers participated in the work stoppage. Forty-four fights have been canceled today and nearly 1,900 were delayed by midday on the East Coast, according to FlightAware . According to the organization’s cheekily named MiseryMap , San Francisco International Airport is having the most hiccups right now, with 53 delays and three cancellations between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. EST. While that might sound like a lot of delays, they might not be so bad compared to last Friday when the airport suffered 671 delays and 69 cancellations. In an apparent effort to reduce the headaches caused by airport line cutting, American Airlines has rolled out boarding technology that alerts gate agents with an audible sound if a passenger tries to scan a ticket ahead of their assigned group. This new software won’t accept a boarding pass before the group it’s assigned to is called, so customers who get to the gate prematurely will be asked to go back and wait their turn. As of Wednesday, the airline announced, the technology is now being used in more than 100 U.S. airports that American flies out of. The official expansion arrives after successful tests in three of these locations — Albuquerque International Sunport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Tucson International Airport. ▶ Read more about American Airlines’ new boarding technology Travel can be stressful in the best of times. Now add in the high-level anxiety that seems to be baked into every holiday season and it’s clear travelers could use some help calming frazzled nerves. Here are a few ways to make your holiday journey a little less stressful: 1. Make a checklist of what you need to do and what you need to bring 2. Carry your comfort with you — think noise-canceling headphones, cozy clothes, snacks and extra medication 3. Stay hydrated 4. Keep up to date on delays, gate changes and cancellations with your airline’s app ▶ Read more tips about staying grounded during holiday travel Thanksgiving Day takes place late this year, with the fourth Thursday of November falling on Nov. 28. That shortens the traditional shopping season and changes the rhythm of holiday travel. With more time before the holiday , people tend to spread out their outbound travel over more days, but everyone returns at the same time, said Andrew Watterson, the chief operating officer of Southwest Airlines . “A late Thanksgiving leads to a big crush at the end,” Watterson said. “The Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday after Thanksgiving are usually very busy with Thanksgiving this late.” Airlines did a relatively good job of handling holiday crowds last year, when the weather was mild in most of the country. Fewer than 400 U.S. flights were canceled during Thanksgiving week in 2023 — about one out of every 450 flights. So far in 2024, airlines have canceled about 1.3% of all flights. Drivers should know that Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons will be the worst times to travel by car, but it should be smooth sailing on freeways come Thanksgiving Day, according to transportation analytics company INRIX. On the return home, the best travel times for motorists are before 1 p.m. on Sunday, and before 8 a.m. or after 7 p.m. on Monday, the company said. In metropolitan areas like Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Washington, “traffic is expected to be more than double what it typically is on a normal day,” INRIX transportation analyst Bob Pishue said. Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Mike Whitaker said last week that he expects his agency to use special measures at some facilities to deal with an ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers. In the past, those facilities have included airports in New York City and Florida. “If we are short on staff, we will slow traffic as needed to keep the system safe,” Whitaker said. The FAA has long struggled with a shortage of controllers that airline officials expect will last for years, despite the agency’s lofty hiring goals. 5. Auto club and insurance company AAA predicts that nearly 80 million Americans will venture at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday and next Monday. Most of them will travel by car. 6. Drivers should get a slight break on gas prices . The nationwide average price for gasoline was $3.06 a gallon on Sunday, down from $3.27 at this time last year. 7. The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen 18.3 million people at U.S. airports during the same seven-day stretch. That would be 6% more than during the corresponding days last year but fit a pattern set throughout 2024. 8. The TSA predicts that 3 million people will pass through airport security checkpoints on Sunday; more than that could break the record of 3.01 million set on the Sunday after the July Fourth holiday. Tuesday and Wednesday are expected to be the next busiest air travel days of Thanksgiving week. ▶ Read more about Thanksgiving travel across the U.S. Workers who clean airplanes, remove trash and help with wheelchairs at Charlotte’s airport, one of the nation’s busiest, went on strike Monday to demand higher wages. The Service Employees International Union announced the strike in a statement early Monday, saying the workers would demand “an end to poverty wages and respect on the job during the holiday travel season.” The strike was expected to last 24 hours, said union spokesperson Sean Keady. Employees of ABM and Prospect Airport Services cast ballots Friday to authorize the work stoppage at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a hub for American Airlines. The two companies contract with American, one of the world’s biggest carriers, to provide services such as cleaning airplane interiors, removing trash and escorting passengers in wheelchairs. ▶ Read more about the Charlotte airport workers’ strike Parts of the Midwest and East Coast can expect to see heavy rain into Thanksgiving, and there’s potential for snow in Northeastern states. A storm last week brought rain to New York and New Jersey, where wildfires have raged in recent weeks, and heavy snow to northeastern Pennsylvania. The precipitation was expected to help ease drought conditions after an exceptionally dry fall. Heavy snow fell in northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Pocono Mountains. Higher elevations reported up to 17 inches (43 centimeters), with lesser accumulations in valley cities including Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Around 35,000 customers in 10 counties were still without power, down from 80,000 a day ago. In the Catskills region of New York, nearly 10,000 people remained without power Sunday morning, two days after a storm dumped heavy snow on parts of the region. Precipitation in West Virginia helped put a dent in the state’s worst drought in at least two decades and boosted ski resorts as they prepare to open in the weeks ahead. ▶ Read more about Thanksgiving week weather forecasts Two people died in the Pacific Northwest after a rapidly intensifying “ bomb cyclone ” hit the West Coast last Tuesday, bringing fierce winds that toppled trees and power lines and damaged homes and cars. Hundreds of thousands lost electricity in Washington state before powerful gusts and record rains moved into Northern California. Forecasters said the risk of flooding and mudslides remained as the region will get more rain starting Sunday. But the latest storm won’t be as intense as last week’s atmospheric river , a long plume of moisture that forms over an ocean and flows over land. “However, there’s still threats, smaller threats, and not as significant in terms of magnitude, that are still going to exist across the West Coast for the next two or three days,” weather service forecaster Rich Otto said. As the rain moves east throughout the week, Otto said, there’s a potential for heavy snowfall at higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, as well as portions of Utah and Colorado. California’s Mammoth Mountain, which received 2 feet (0.6 meters) of fresh snow in the recent storm, could get another 4 feet (1.2 meters) before the newest system clears out Wednesday, the resort said. Another round of wintry weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, according to forecasts across the U.S., while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages. In California, where two people were found dead in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more rain while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm . Here’s a look at some of the regional forecasts: 9. Sierra Nevada: The National Weather Service office issued a winter storm warning through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts potentially reaching 55 mph (88 kph). Total snowfall of roughly 4 feet (1.2 meters) was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected Monday and Tuesday. 10. Midwest and Great Lakes: The Midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow Monday and the East Coast will be the most impacted on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said. 11. East Coast: A low pressure system is forecast to bring rain to the Southeast early Thursday before heading to the Northeast. Areas from Boston to New York could see rain and breezy conditions, with snowfall possible in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks. If the system tracks further inland, there could be less snow and more rain in the mountains, forecasters said. ▶ Read more about Thanksgiving week weather forecastsDutertes’ desperate movesBengals quarterback Joe Burrow admitted Wednesday that he is uncertain how his surgically repaired wrist will respond in freezing temperatures. “That’s a question that remains to be answered ,” Burrow said, via Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Enquirer . “I haven’t experienced a cold weather game with that yet. In the past when I’ve had injuries, cold weather does affect it, so we’ll find out. Maybe I’ll have a heater on the sideline or something. I haven’t really thought about that yet, but we’ll see.” Burrow underwent season-ending surgery on the scapholunate ligament on his right throwing wrist exactly one year ago today. He continues to seek daily treatment from the athletic training staff on his wrist. Thus, the Bengals list Burrow on the practice report every week as a full participant. The game-time temperature Sunday in Cincinnati is expected to range from 30 degrees at kickoff to 18 degrees by the end of the game. In his fifth season, Burrow has completed 67.2 percent of his passes for 3,028 yards with 27 touchdowns and four interceptions. He would be in the MVP conversation if the Bengals weren’t 4-7.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine court on Tuesday dropped aggravated sexual assault charges against two professional French rugby players accused of raping a woman after playing a match in the country earlier this year. The judge in Mendoza, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) west of the capital, Buenos Aires, dismissed the case against the 21-year-old athletes, Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jégou, citing insufficient evidence. “The facts under investigation do not constitute a crime," the court said. The explosive case began in July, when a 39-year-old Argentine woman filed a police complaint alleging that she was beaten, choked and repeatedly raped by the rugby players in their Mendoza hotel room. The rugby players have admitted to having sex with the plaintiff — whom they met at during an alcohol-fueled club night after their July 7 victory against Argentina’s Pumas — but insisted that the encounter was consensual. They were held in preventive custody, then placed under house arrest, for a month. The defense said the dismissal reinforced their faith in the justice system. “I think it will be a turning point,” Germán Hnatow, an attorney representing one of the two players, told Radio Mitre Mendoza, a local radio station. "There are many false accusations in terms of sexual crimes, in terms of gender violence, which cause harm.” The plaintiff can appeal the ruling. She has not said whether she intends to and her defense lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. Over the past few months, the case slowly unraveled as the defense punched holes in the woman’s description of events. Citing questionable evidence presented before the court — including WhatsApp voice messages the plaintiff sent to her friend joking and boasting about the rough sex she had with them — the prosecution in September approved the athletes' return to France under certain conditions . The plaintiff's lawyer has explained any inconsistencies in her account as the result of her “shock and extreme stress.” She underwent physical examinations as part of the investigation and was found to have an acute bleeding ulcer and other injuries that she claimed were related to her assault. Dragging on for several months, the investigation has stunned the French rugby world. The French Rugby Federation expressed its “relief and satisfaction" with the judge's decision. It said the athletes, who had been suspended due to the seriousness of the allegations, would be eligible to return to the national team “if their sporting performances allow for it.” It wasn't the only scandal to hit the touring French team during its stay in Argentina. The federation separately fined and suspended French fullback Melvyn Jaminet for 34 weeks over a racist outburst that he posted on social media. The federation said that this close shave with the law served as a reminder “of the need to create new conditions to prevent and avoid risky behavior in high-level rugby, in order to train responsible and exemplary players.” Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-americaLeft-hander Max Fried agrees to $218 million, 8-year contract with Yankees, AP source says
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