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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A scruffy little fugitive is on the lam again in New Orleans, gaining fame as he outwits a tenacious band of citizens armed with night-vision binoculars, nets and a tranquilizer rifle. Scrim, a 17-pound mutt that's mostly terrier, has become a folk hero, inspiring tattoos, T-shirts and even a ballad as he eludes capture from the posse of volunteers. And like any antihero, Scrim has a backstory: Rescued from semi-feral life at a trailer park and adopted from a shelter, the dog broke loose in April and scurried around the city until he was cornered in October and brought to a new home. Weeks later, he'd had enough. Scrim leaped out of a second-story window, a desperate act recorded in a now-viral video. Since then, despite a stream of daily sightings, he's roamed free. The dog’s fans include Myra and Steve Foster, who wrote “Ode to Scrim” to the tune of Ricky Nelson’s 1961 hit, “I’m a Travelin’ Man.” Leading the recapture effort is Michelle Cheramie, a 55-year-old former information technology professional. She lost everything — home, car, possessions — in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and in the aftermath, found her calling rescuing pets. “I was like, ‘This is what I should be doing,’” Cheramie said. “I was born to rescue.” She launched Zeus’ Rescues, a nonprofit shelter that now averages 600 cat and dog adoptions a year and offers free pet food to anyone who needs it. She helped Scrim find the home he first escaped from. It was Cheramie's window Scrim leaped from in November. She's resumed her relentless mission since then, posting flyers on telephone poles and logging social media updates on his reported whereabouts. She's invested thousands of dollars on wildlife cameras, thermal sensors and other gear. She took a course offered by the San Diego Zoo on the finer points of tranquilizing animals. And she's developed a network of volunteers — the kind of neighbors who are willing to grid-search a city at 3 a.m. People like writer David W. Brown, who manages a crowd-sourced Google Map of all known Scrim sightings. He says the search has galvanized residents from all walks of life to come together. As they search for Scrim, they hand out supplies to people in need. “Being a member of the community is seeing problems and doing what you can to make life a little better for the people around here and the animals around you,” Brown said. And neighbors like Tammy Murray, who had to close her furniture store and lost her father to Parkinson's disease. This search, she says, got her mojo back. “Literally, for months, I’ve done nothing but hunt this dog,” said Murray, 53. “I feel like Wile E. Coyote on a daily basis with him.” Murray drives the Zeus' Rescues' van towards reported Scrim sightings. She also handles a tactical net launcher, which looks like an oversized flashlight and once misfired, shattering the van's window as Scrim sped away. After realizing Scrim had come to recognize the sound of the van's diesel engine, Murray switched to a Vespa scooter, for stealth. Near-misses have been tantalizing. The search party spotted Scrim napping beneath an elevated house, and wrapped construction netting around the perimeter, but an over-eager volunteer broke ranks and dashed forward, leaving an opening Scrim slipped through. Scrim's repeated escapades have prompted near-daily local media coverage and a devoted online following. Cheramie can relate. “We’re all running from something or to something. He's doing that too,” she said. Cheramie's team dreams of placing the pooch in a safe and loving environment. But a social media chorus growing under the hashtag #FreeScrim has other ideas — they say the runaway should be allowed a life of self-determination. The animal rescue volunteers consider that misguided. “The streets of New Orleans are not the place for a dog to be free,” Cheramie said. “It’s too dangerous.” Scrim was a mess when Cheramie briefly recaptured him in October, with matted fur, missing teeth and a tattered ear. His trembling body was scraped and bruised, and punctured by multiple projectiles. A vet removed one, but decided against operating to take out a possible bullet. The dog initially appeared content indoors, sitting in Cheramie's lap or napping beside her bed. Then while she was out one day, Scrim chewed through a mesh screen, dropped 13 feet to the ground and squeezed through a gap in the fence, trotting away. Murray said Cheramie's four cats probably spooked him. “I wholeheartedly believe the gangster-ass cats were messing with him,” Murray said. Cheramie thinks they may have gotten territorial. Devastated but undeterred, the pair is reassessing where Scrim might fit best — maybe a secure animal sanctuary with big outdoor spaces where other dogs can keep him company. Somewhere, Murray says, “where he can just breathe and be.” Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Brook on the social platform X: @jack_brook96Migrant apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border reached a new low of the Biden administration in November, preliminary data show, largely due to an ongoing aggressive effort in Mexico to slow migrants' northward progress. U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded 46,700 migrant arrests between ports of entry in November, down 17% from October, according to preliminary numbers reported by the Associated Press. The November encounters data reflects a steady, steep decline from last year's highs, and an 80% reduction in encounters compared with the 250,000 in the month of December 2023. Experts say that's due to a combination of Mexico's heightened enforcement, at the behest of Biden administration leaders, as well as Biden’s controversial June order restricting asylum access. Immigrant rights advocates call the order an illegal violation of the right to seek asylum under U.S. and international law. In the Tucson sector, there were an estimated 7,450 migrant apprehensions in November, a 35% drop from October, according to a tally of Tucson sector chief Sean McGoffin's weekly reports on X, formerly Twitter. The reality at, and south of, the U.S.-Mexico border conflicts with President-elect Donald Trump's claim that migrants are “pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before” in a Nov. 25 post on his social media site, Truth Social. In the post, he promised 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada for not sufficiently reducing the flow of migrants and drugs into the U.S. "Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem," Trump wrote in the post . The misleading characterization from Trump has prompted pushback from immigration experts, as well as Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum. "The starting point of these posts online is fictional," said Stephanie Brewer, director for Mexico at the Washington Office on Latin America, or WOLA, a human-rights research and advocacy group. "This is an example that reminds us that the starting point to any kind of effective action, to any policy solution, needs to be facts, needs to be reality and needs to be centered on the people affected." A vehicle drives along the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Nogales, Arizona. Mexico's enforcement efforts have led to rampant human rights abuses against vulnerable migrants traveling through the country, including widespread kidnapping, assaults and extortion by organized crime groups and Mexican authorities alike, researchers and advocates say. Mexico has set up highway roadblocks and accelerated a program of detaining and busing migrants to the south of the country, where many simply begin their journey again, Brewer said. "Right now, the reasons that border arrival numbers are down so much are reasons that should not be celebrated," Brewer said. "They are reflections of policies that are not sustainable. They’re not policies that actually manage or address regional migration in any constructive way." Mexican immigration authorities are now logging more migrant encounters each month than the U.S., said Ariel Ruiz Soto, senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, a migration-policy think-tank. With limited shelter and detention capacity, Mexico's current enforcement program is not sustainable, he said. In August, Mexican immigration authorities encountered 97,000 migrants, while in the U.S., border agents encountered 58,000 people who entered the U.S. between ports of entry, he said. "Since May, Mexico has encountered more migrants in its territory than the U.S. has on its border with Mexico," Ruiz Soto said. "Just because we see less people coming to the U.S.-Mexico border doesn’t mean there are less people coming towards the U.S. ... The Mexicans are doing today significantly more than they were under the Trump administration, and with a fraction of the funding and capacity of U.S. authorities." That includes using the military to deter people from reaching the U.S.-Mexico border, the migrant-busing operation redirecting migrants to the south of Mexico, increasing checkpoints along traditional migration routes, agreeing to accept non-Mexican deportees from the U.S., and allowing the Biden administration's CBP One application to function across the country, Ruiz Soto said. A Trump transition team spokeswoman did not directly answer emailed questions from the Arizona Daily Star about the low migrant-arrest figures and what more Mexico should do to slow migration. “President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants, secure the border, and deport dangerous criminals and terrorists that make our communities less safe. He will deliver," spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in an emailed statement. Mexican president's response In a strongly worded response to Trump's tariff threats, Mexican president Sheinbaum emphasized that due to Mexico’s enforcement, migrant caravans are no longer reaching the border and migrant arrivals at the U.S. border have plummeted. She said collaboration, not a trade war, was the best way to tackle the issues of migration and drug trafficking. She also blamed U.S. drug consumers for the high demand for fentanyl and the flow of high-powered weapons from the U.S. for escalating violence in Mexico. "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country," Sheinbaum said, reading from her letter to Trump in a Nov. 26 press conference. "We do not produce the weapons. We do not consume synthetic drugs. The deaths from crimes responding to the demand for drugs in your country, unfortunately, falls on us." She said the countries must work together to find a new model to address U.S. labor needs and the root causes compelling many to leave their homes out of necessity. “If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace-building and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,” she said. A day later, Sheinbaum also pushed back against Trump's characterization of the two leaders' Nov. 27 phone call, in which Trump claimed Sheinbaum promised to "close the border." Sheinbaum disputed the claim, saying she'd explained to Trump what Mexico has been doing to stem migration to the U.S. border. "We reiterate that Mexico's position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples," she said in a Nov. 27 post on X. Sheinbaum may also face pressure from her constituents in Mexico, where frustration is rising with large numbers of migrants, and the prospect of receiving more deportations from the U.S. under Trump, experts say. Currently, Mexico has an agreement with the Biden administration to accept deported people originally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, countries to which the U.S. struggles to deport people directly. But Mexico's cooperation in this respect might be changing. In a Thursday press conference , Sheinbaum indicated Mexico will try to avoid receiving non-Mexicans deported under Trump's promised mass deportation campaign. "We hope to reach an agreement with the Trump administration so that, in case these deportations happen, they send people from other countries directly to their countries of origin," she said. Ruiz Soto said Mexico will likely continue to cooperate with the U.S. under most scenarios, due to the countries' linked geography, economies and history. “No matter what, Mexico is an indispensable partner in managing regional migration to the U.S.,” he said. Points of negotiation will likely center over Mexico’s willingness to receive deportations of non-Mexican nationals, and whether the U.S. should provide assistance or supplies to Mexico as it grapples with its heightened enforcement campaign, he said. Enforcement called short-sighted Immigrant rights advocates say long-term solutions to address the reality of a global surge in migration must include a scaled-up asylum system and increased resources at U.S. ports of entry to process asylum seekers' requests in an orderly, humane way. Otherwise, desperate people will continue trying to reach the U.S. border any way they can, said human rights advocate and immigration expert Ari Sawyer, a Mexico City-based consultant for Refugees International. Sheinbaum could break from her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, by resisting U.S. pressure to carry out inhumane, short-sighted enforcement strategies that harm vulnerable people, Sawyer said. With its migrant-busing program, Mexican authorities "are engaging in this policy of exhaustion on behalf of the United States," Sawyer said. While researching in southern Mexico in September, Sawyer and fellow researchers encountered exhausted families who had been repeatedly detained and taken by bus to Tabasco, Mexico, where there are few resources for them. "What you started to see was a huge build-up of asylum seekers in Mexico, and rising animosity among local Mexican populations who are already struggling with violent crime and who are watching violent crime increase as cartels are getting rich off of kidnapping," Sawyer said. Immigration crackdowns also push people to travel via riskier routes to avoid detention, or to hire human smugglers to shepherd them through the country, Brewer said. Those rounded up often include people waiting for an appointment through Biden's CBP One application, which the administration has said is the appropriate way for migrants to enter the U.S. to request asylum. Migrants report waiting eight months or more , in dangerous conditions, to secure an appointment through the app, which requires daily access to the internet. Those with CBP One appointments are increasingly targeted by criminals who exploit "the urgency people feel when they finally get a CBP One appointment to extort them for even more money," Sawyer said. The incoming Trump administration has promised to end the CBP One program, and other legal mechanisms the Biden administration has set up to encourage people to cross the border through regular processes at ports of entry, rather than between ports of entry where many surrender to border agents. Brewer said cutting those legal pathways to enter the U.S. and counting on Mexico to "indefinitely host" migrants south of the U.S. border is "not a realistic solution." "What is the plan here? If you're not providing a solution to the people in movement, you will not solve the problem," Brewer said. "They will not stop coming, no matter how cruel U.S. policy has been or becomes. People who are driven from their homes will not stop trying to seek safety for their families." Before leaving office, Biden should increase the relatively small number of CBP One app appointments available, and ensure that those currently waiting for an appointment get one quickly, as Trump is unlikely to honor any appointments assigned by the app, Sawyer said. In Mexico, Sheinbaum could also expand the capacity of Mexico's so-called "safe mobility corridor," aimed at helping migrants with CBP One appointments safely reach the border. Sawyer's research found the effort had served only 1,300 people in its first six weeks of operation. "Biden has left a lot of people very vulnerable in Mexico," Sawyer said. "Biden created this monster of a system. He should undo it before Trump gets into office." Contact reporter Emily Bregel at ebregel@tucson.com . On X, formerly Twitter: @EmilyBregel Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. 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Ministers are hiring a new EU negotiator as Sir Keir Starmer seeks to reset Britain’s relationship with Europe. The post, worth at least £150,000 a year and advertised by the Cabinet Office, would act as a “sherpa” for all of the UK’s dealings with the bloc. The role is described as “principal adviser to the Prime Minister and the minister for European Union relations (Nick Thomas-Symonds) on matters relating to relations with the EU and delivering the ‘EU reset’ and on international economic issues”. The applicant would also need to represent the Prime Minister at negotiations. The Trade and Co-operation Agreement, the basis for the UK-EU relationship after Brexit, will be subject to renewal talks in 2025. The sherpa, ultimately appointed by the Prime Minister, would likely be responsible for overseeing these talks. The civil service position is being filled through an open and competitive process and will receive a salary between £153,000 and £200,000. Sir Keir has stressed the importance of resetting ties with Europe, and in his first months as Prime Minister has visited capitals across the continent to meet national leaders. However, the Tories sought to suggest hiring a new EU negotiator showed the Prime Minister was attempting to “undermine Brexit and our status as a sovereign nation with his plan to take the country back into the EU”. Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel added: “The Conservative Party will not stand by and allow the will of the British people be reversed while Labour arrogantly capitulates to the EU.” But a Labour source said: “This is truly desperate stuff from the Conservatives. There will be no return to the EU, customs union, single market or freedom of movement. “We are focused on acting in the national interest – tackling barriers to trade, improving co-operation on smashing the criminal people-smuggling gangs and working closely with our allies to stand up to Putin’s aggression. “We won’t take Britain back to the Tory days of chaos and division.” A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “As we reset our relationship with the EU, building closer trade and security links and encouraging more investment from around the world, this new role will oversee that work. “Reporting to the Minister for European Union Relations, they will lead official-level discussions with the EU as we drive economic growth.”By Sheria Brathwaite The chicken shortage in Barbados is officially over, Minister of Agriculture Indar Weir said Friday, giving an assurance that there will be an abundance of fresh poultry on supermarket shelves for Christmas. Weir told Barbados TODAY that since November 18, poultry stock was gradually being replenished, but as of this week, there was so much chicken available that at least one retail outlet had to delay an order. He said: “From the 18th of November we would have seen a significant improvement in the availability of fresh chicken on the supermarket shelves and that has remained constant. We have more chicken available to the supermarkets than they anticipated. I was told that one supermarket had to put off one of its orders because the shelves are so packed that they can’t keep up.” There were low supplies of chicken in retail outlets since mid-August, and the situation worsened as weeks passed. Industry officials announced that the sector was experiencing challenges associated with the sweltering heat and other production problems. Scores of consumers complained about sourcing poultry on radio programmes and social media. Food vendors and the management of many supermarket chains also vented their frustrations about the unavailability of chicken, with the latter, in some cases, putting restrictions on how many chickens customers could buy. The shortage affected the fast-food industry, and some chains were forced to close periodically. You Might Be Interested In Crystal Beckles-Holder, 2nd runner up in regional competition GUYANA: Body of child found after gold mine collapses Barbadians asked to help with return tickets for Haitians Weir said that this development should alleviate any fear that there would be a chicken shortage for the holidays and for the government-sponsored We Gatherin’ celebrations that are intended to attract Barbadians overseas. “Consumers will have chicken consistently going into Christmas; there should be no talk about shortages of chicken anymore. I sincerely hope that this situation continues as we go into next year and as we supply for ‘We Gatherin’ throughout the year.” Weir added that the meat on the shelves was not imported. “All of the chicken on the shelves are locally labelled; we don’t put imported chicken on supermarket shelves.” The minister said he was pleased about the rebound the poultry industry was making. Weir said: “We have to give and take; I find that many times we are often too fast to criticise and don’t take time to understand the issues and this is not a good thing for our country. The poultry producers, whilst it is true that they should be held accountable for what took place, you cannot rule out the climate crisis. It is just not impacted Barbados, it is impacting the region and it is having a global impact. The poultry industry was impacted by the climate crisis where the mortality rates were higher than they have ever been. Then there were issues as it relates to management practices and feed and other variables that none of us were able to control. “While people were not happy that there wasn’t a consistent supply of chicken on supermarket shelves, you cannot blame the government for those kinds of things. This is strictly all private sector operation and my role is to facilitate and support them as much as I can and that is what we [as a government] have been doing. We have made funds available for people to transition their businesses to be able to adapt to climate change, support them with training and put structures in place that they can benefit from.” To significantly reduce the possibility of another shortage, Weir said that the industry, in association with the ministry and the Barbados Agricultural Society, launched an app to keep industry players well informed about the goings-on in the sector. “We have an app in place that will be used for the poultry industry and generally for agriculture as well,” the minister said. “It will tell us on a daily basis what is happening in the poultry industry so that we can get ahead of any challenges that may be presented and we can also monitor the daily hatches, the quantity of orders from small farmers, and how many have dropped out. That type of critical data we are now going to have to hand and that should help us to mitigate a repeat of the shortage we just saw.” sheriabrathwaite@barbadostoday.bb
Players must be assigned female at birth or have transitioned to female before going through male puberty to compete in LPGA tournaments or the eight USGA championships for females under new gender policies published Wednesday. The policies, which begin in 2025, follow more than a year of study involving medicine, science, sport physiology and gender policy law. The updated policies would rule out eligibility for Hailey Davidson, who missed qualifying for the U.S. Women's Open this year by one shot and came up short in LPGA Q-school. Davidson, who turned 32 on Tuesday, began hormone treatments when she was in her early 20s in 2015 and in 2021 underwent gender-affirming surgery, which was required under the LPGA's previous gender policy. She had won this year on a Florida mini-tour called NXXT Golf until the circuit announced in March that players had to be assigned female at birth. “Can't say I didn't see this coming,” Davidson wrote Wednesday on an Instagram story. “Banned from the Epson and the LPGA. All the silence and people wanting to stay ‘neutral’ thanks for absolutely nothing. This happened because of all your silence.” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan, who is resigning in January, said the new gender policy "is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach." By making it to the second stage of Q-school, Davidson would have had very limited status on the Epson Tour, the pathway to the LPGA. The LPGA and USGA say their policies were geared toward being inclusive of gender identities and expression while striving for equity in competition. The LPGA said its working group of experts advised that the effects of male puberty allowed for competitive advantages in golf compared with players who had not gone through puberty. “Our policy is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach,” said LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan, who announced Monday that she is resigning in January. "The policy represents our continued commitment to ensuring that all feel welcome within our organization, while preserving the fairness and competitive equity of our elite competitions.” Mike Whan, the former LPGA commissioner and now CEO of the USGA, said it developed the updated policy independently and later discovered it was similar to those used by swimming, track and field, and other sports. United States Golf Association CEO Mike Whan said the new policy will prevent anyone from having "a competitive advantage based on their gender." “It starts with competitive fairness as the North star,” Whan said in a telephone interview. “We tried not to get into politics, or state by state or any of that stuff. We just simply said, ‘Where would somebody — at least medically today — where do we believe somebody would have a competitive advantage in the field?’ And we needed to draw a line. “We needed to be able to walk into any women's event and say with confidence that nobody here has a competitive advantage based on their gender. And this policy delivers that.” The “Competitive Fairness Gender Policy” for the USGA takes effect for the 2025 championship season that starts with the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball on May 10-14. Qualifying began late this year, though there were no transgender players who took part. “Will that change in the years to come as medicine changes? Probably,” Whan said. “But I think today this stacks up.” The LPGA “Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility” would apply to the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour and qualifying for the tours. Players assigned male at birth must prove they have not experienced any part of puberty beyond the first stage or after age 12, whichever comes first, and then meet limitation standards for testosterone levels. The LPGA begins its 75th season on Jan. 30 with the Tournament of Champions in Orlando, Florida. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, foreground right, dives toward the end zone to score past San Francisco 49ers defensive end Robert Beal Jr. (51) and linebacker Dee Winters during the second half of an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus) Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green goes up for a dunk during the second half of an Emirates NBA cup basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Minneapolis. 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(AP Photo/Andy Wong) Lara Gut-Behrami, of Switzerland, competes during a women's World Cup giant slalom skiing race, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, in Killington, Vt. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin cools off during first period of an NHL hockey game against the Boston Bruins, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Brazil's Amanda Gutierres, second right, is congratulated by teammate Yasmin, right, after scoring her team's first goal during a soccer international between Brazil and Australia in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Pat Hoelscher) Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers (89) tries to leap over Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Joshua Williams (2) during the first half of an NFL football game in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga) Luiz Henrique of Brazil's Botafogo, right. is fouled by goalkeeper Everson of Brazil's Atletico Mineiro inside the penalty area during a Copa Libertadores final soccer match at Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) England's Alessia Russo, left, and United States' Naomi Girma challenge for the ball during the International friendly women soccer match between England and United States at Wembley stadium in London, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones (33) reaches for an incomplete pass ahead of Arizona Cardinals linebacker Mack Wilson Sr. (2) during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) Melanie Meillard, center, of Switzerland, competes during the second run in a women's World Cup slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Killington, Vt. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) LSU punter Peyton Todd (38) kneels in prayer before an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. LSU won 37-17. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) New York Islanders left wing Anders Lee (27), center, fight for the puck with Boston Bruins defensemen Parker Wotherspoon (29), left, and Brandon Carlo (25), right during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Gold medalists Team Netherlands competes in the Team Sprint Women race of the ISU World Cup Speed Skating Beijing 2024 held at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. 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