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sport betting companies By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The picture of who will be in charge of executing President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration and border policies has come into sharper focus after he announced his picks to head Customs and Border Protection and also the agency tasked with deporting immigrants in the country illegally. Trump said late Thursday he was tapping Rodney Scott, a former Border Patrol chief who’s been a vocal supporter of tougher enforcement measures, for CBP commissioner. As acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Trump said he’d nominate Caleb Vitello, a career ICE official with more than 23 years in the agency who most recently has been the assistant director for firearms and tactical programs. They will work with an immigration leadership team that includes South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security ; former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement head Tom Homan as border czar ; and immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff. Customs and Border Protection, with its roughly 60,000 employees, falls under the Department of Homeland Security. It includes the Border Patrol, which Scott led during Trump’s first term, and is essentially responsible for protecting the country’s borders while facilitating trade and travel. Scott comes to the job firmly from the Border Patrol side of the house. He became an agent in 1992 and spent much of his career in San Diego. When he joined the agency, San Diego was by far the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Traffic plummeted after the government dramatically increased enforcement there, but critics note the effort pushed people to remote parts of California and Arizona. San Diego was also where wall construction began in the 1990s, which shaped Scott’s belief that barriers work. He was named San Diego sector chief in 2017. When he was appointed head of the border agency in January 2020, he enthusiastically embraced Trump’s policies. “He’s well known. He does know these issues and obviously is trusted by the administration,” said Gil Kerlikowske, the CBP commissioner under the Obama administration. Kerlikowske took issue with some of Scott’s past actions, including his refusal to fall in line with a Biden administration directive to stop using terms like “illegal alien” in favor of descriptions like “migrant,” and his decision as San Diego sector chief to fire tear gas into Mexico to disperse protesters. “You don’t launch projectiles into a foreign country,” Kerlikowske said. At the time Scott defended the agents’ decisions , saying they were being assaulted by “a hail of rocks.” While much of the focus of Trump’s administration may be on illegal immigration and security along the U.S.-Mexico border, Kerlikowske also stressed the importance of other parts of Customs and Border Protection’s mission. The agency is responsible for securing trade and international travel at airports, ports and land crossings around the country. Whoever runs the agency has to make sure that billions of dollars worth of trade and millions of passengers move swiftly and safely into and out of the country. And if Trump makes good on promises to ratchet up tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada, CBP will play an integral role in enforcing them. “There’s a huge amount of other responsibility on trade, on tourism, on cyber that take a significant amount of time and have a huge impact on the economy if it’s not done right,” Kerlikowske said. After being forced out under the Biden administration, Scott has been a vocal supporter of Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda. He has appeared frequently on Fox News and testified in Congress. He’s also a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In a 2023 interview with The Associated Press, he advocated for a return to Trump-era immigration policies and more pressure on Mexico to enforce immigration on its side of the border.Young, Spartz, Banks get committee assignments

Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) to Build AI Data Center in Louisiana, Project to Consume 30% of State’s Power SupplyMy best friend gave the eulogy at my darling's daughter's funeral. But then I discovered she'd stolen £80,000 from the cancer charity we'd set up in her memory... Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport By ANNIE BROWN FOR THE SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL Published: 20:48, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 21:01, 6 December 2024 e-mail View comments When Angela MacVicar set up the charity Rainbow Valley in memory of her precious daughter Johanna, there was one woman she trusted more than any other to run it: the best friend who had been by her side through the darkest of times. Lindsay MacCallum was Angela’s closest confidante: her first phone call every day, the friend who helped her through crushing grief after Johanna died from leukaemia aged 27. It was this unstinting faith in their friendship which made the heartbreak all the greater when Angela, 64, finally discovered that MacCallum had betrayed her in the most devastating way. For more than a decade, MacCallum had kept up the façade of being the devoted head of Rainbow Valley, while to satisfy her own avarice she stole thousands of pounds from the cancer charity. She plundered the organisation’s donations to fund her self-indulgence, squandering funds which should have helped people battling illness on designer clothes and handbags, luxury holidays, beauty salons and blow dries. While she was pretending to be Angela’s dearest friend she was taking from the charity which had been her late daughter’s dream. In October MacCallum, 62, was jailed for three years at Falkirk Sheriff Court for stealing £85,978 from Rainbow Valley and embezzling £9,505 from the Anthony Nolan Trust, a life-saving stem cell donation charity where she had previously been a fundraiser. Earlier the court was told MacCallum had £175,000 of available savings – considerable wealth which showed her theft had been motivated by nothing more than greed and a desire to elevate her social status. Johanna McVicar died from leukaemia aged 27. Her mother, Angela, set up the charity Rainbow Valley in her memory. MacCallum stole from the charity set up in the memory of Angela MacVicar’s daughter, Johanna On Wednesday the same court will decide if it will grant a compensation order to allow the charities to claw back the funds lost through MacCallum’s crimes. But for Angela no amount of recompense can ever make up for MacCallum’s deceit. She said: ‘My head was spinning when I discovered what Lindsay had done. I could not take it in. She was my best friend and I loved the bones of her. I trusted her implicitly. When I found out she had defrauded the charity I was bereft. ‘I thought she loved Johanna and felt the same about me but she would never have stolen the money if she had. ‘Every penny she took could have been used for good. ‘I realise now that she is incapable of love. She only cares about herself. The charity was Johanna’s legacy but Lindsay exploited it and tarnished the memory of her name. That makes me incredibly sad.’ Johanna died in May 2005 after being diagnosed at 16 with chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer which affects the white blood cells and bone marrow. The news that Johanna had cancer had imploded the lives of her family. Angela said: ‘With a diagnosis like that it is as though you close your eyes and when you open them again your whole world has changed. She was 16 and we were just starting to let go of the apron strings when suddenly we were pulling them back in again trying to save her. ‘I felt I had lost all control of everything. I had to hand Johanna’s life over to doctors. ‘A parent is used to being able to kiss their child better but you can’t do that with cancer. You are lost – thrown into a world of hospitals and medical jargon and there is a sense of utter helplessness.’ Not long after her diagnosis, Johanna underwent a bone marrow transplant but it failed. Johanna’s only hope was another transplant but neither Angela, her ex-husband Frank nor their other three daughters were a match. So they turned to the Anthony Nolan Trust which keeps the world’s only register of bone marrow donors. Angela MacVicar, left and Lindsay MacCallum Rather than passively wait for a miracle the family threw themselves into campaigning for donors. They were aware that the chances of a match were slim but they were glad for someone else to benefit from their efforts. It was through the trust that Angela met Lindsay and the two became close as they rallied support for donor clinics across the country. Angela said: ‘It was an intense friendship. We just got on so well. Sometimes I would speak to her five times a day, even when one of us was abroad on holiday. I thought the world of her.’ As Johanna grew increasingly unwell it was MacCallum who Angela shared her fears with as she cared for her daughter at home in Bishopton, Renfrewshire. When Johanna’s body finally gave in to her disease, Angela’s only solace was knowing that the struggle was over and her daughter was at last at peace. One of her first phone calls after her daughter had drawn her final breath was to break the news to MacCallum and the two friends wept together. At the funeral at Paisley Cathedral MacCallum gave a tearful eulogy where she paid tribute to Johanna, all that she had achieved and how much she had personally meant to her. It is a memory that haunted Angela after she learned of MacCallum’s callous duplicity. Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport Advertisement In 2008 Angela decided to establish the charity which had been Johanna’s idea and its name came from her love of rainbows. The idea was to support cancer sufferers to learn skills which could enhance their mental and physical wellbeing; to help them find a happiness instead of being defined solely by their disease. It was natural that Angela would want MacCallum on board, not just because of their friendship, but for the benefit of her expertise gleaned from her work at the Anthony Nolan Trust. For a few years she seemed ideal for the job – the charity seemed to be doing well, Angela trusted her friend’s skills and motivations. But around 2018 Angela felt MacCallum’s attitude towards her inexplicably change. She questioned her decisions, accused her of interference and asked her to pull back from the charity. Angela said: ‘I thought I was going crazy; that I must have been at fault when in reality she was gaslighting me. ‘She was trying to push me away to make sure I wasn’t around to scrutinise what she was doing.’ In early 2022 Lindsay shocked Angela by suggesting that the charity was no longer viable and it should be folded through lack of funding. Angel said: ‘I couldn’t understand it and it was awful to think we might need to close. ‘Then we got a surprise donation of £10,000. I thought she would be happy that the future of the charity had been secured but she really wasn’t. ‘Now I see that she was hoping Rainbow Valley would shut down and she could get a chance to cover her tracks. ‘She was a manipulative narcissist. It is so clear looking back.’ In May 2022, Lindsay suddenly said she was planning to resign and she wanted it announced that she was leaving to save the charity the cost of her salary. Angela said: ‘She was polishing her halo. Trying to appear so benevolent when all along she had been stealing from us.’ At first Angela thought Lindsay’s explanation for leaving was plausible, given she had appeared wealthy and didn’t seem to need the money – she lived in a pleasant home in Aberfeldy and cash always appeared readily available. Angela said: ‘She never seemed to want for anything and she did enjoy the status of having money. ‘Once when she was having her kitchen replaced, she threw out every bit of the old one in a skip, right down to the spoons. She was ridiculously wasteful and indulgent.’ It was only by chance that Angela discovered that it was the charity which was funding her profligacy. Two weeks after MacCallum left, Angela and the board discovered she had set up a bank account under the guise of ring-fencing ticket money for the charity’s annual ball. Angela and the board decided it should be closed but first they requested the bank statement to tally the accounts. They were shocked to discover payments had been made to boutiques and Lindsay’s personal credit card account. She had also forged dozens of cheques, and in her last year with the charity had taken more than £20,000. ‘I didn’t want to believe it at first,’ said Angela. ‘But I had to face up to the truth that Lindsay had been defrauding us for years.’ When Angela called to confront MacCallum she at first denied it but eventually, under scrutiny, she confessed: ‘I did it. I took the money.’ To this day MacCallum hasn’t given a concrete reason for her crimes. Angela immediately called in police and after a two-month investigation officers visited MacCallum’s home and arrested her for fraud. In the meantime MacCallum donated £25,000 to the charity. Angela said: ‘At that point she didn’t know I had called the police. I think she thought we would take the money and move on. But as soon as I knew what she had done I was determined to report her to police. ‘The charity was set up to help people with cancer not for Lindsay to have a rich lifestyle.’ The pain of MacCallum’s betrayal was compounded by the fact that Rainbow Valley had been inspired by Johanna. Despite her illness, which saw her weight plummet to six-and-a-half stones, Johanna vowed she would live life to the full and she fronted media campaigns raising awareness of the trust and her disease. Angela said: ‘She was selfless. She used to say that it was important that people didn’t join the register just for her, that they did it for anyone who needed a transplant.’ Her charm, vivacity and sheer zest for life captured the public’s imagination and her campaigns saw her form friendships with celebrities including singer Robbie Williams and actor Dougray Scott. Angela said: ‘Johanna loved campaigning, she loved the attention and adventure. She wanted so much to live and she did more in her 27 years than someone who lives to 100. ‘Her death was a moment in time but her life was everything.’ Since she was a child, rainbows had been Johanna’s favourite thing and when she knew she was dying she told her mother: ‘When we can’t be together any more we will meet in the middle of a rainbow.’ Johanna had often felt that cancer sufferers needed more than medical treatment for their disease; that they should know how to enhance their mental and physical health through nutrition and complimentary therapies. That has been the ambition of Rainbow Valley. Tickets are available at the door for the concert. To donate to the charity, go to www.rainbowvalley.org.uk Advertisement Techniques such as mindfulness are taught by the charity at two-day residential courses held at Gleddoch Hotel and Spa in Langbank, Renfrewshire, and have been so successful there is now a waiting list of 200 people. Angela said: ‘It is not a lifesaving charity but it is life-changing. We don’t sit around talking about cancer. We laugh so much.’ When MacCallum appeared in court to plead guilty to two charges of fraud, Angela went along to watch the proceedings. ‘I saw her in the dock,’ she said. ‘I felt that she was a woman that I had never really known. She was stranger to me.’ At court McCallum was asked whether she had committed the crimes. She hissed back in temper from the dock: ‘Yes.’ Angela said: ‘There was no remorse, only anger that she had been caught. She eventually apologised to the charity but she has never said sorry to me, to Johanna and our family.’ Two weeks ago, a confiscation order was made under the Proceeds of Crime Act but that money will go to the Crown for distribution among charities other than Anthony Nolan and Rainbow Valley. This coming week MacCallum will be informed whether she must pay both £70,000 under that order and additional compensation to the charities she defrauded. Today, Angela and her family will be at a fundraising Christmas concert for the charity at Paisley Cathedral, where Johanna’s funeral was held. Angela will be there with her adult daughters, Brodie, Kendall and Gemma, and her seven grandchildren. As always, Johanna will be in their thoughts. ‘I refuse to hate Lindsay but I can’t forgive her,’ said Angela. ‘All I want now is for the charity to carry on helping people. It is too late to help Johanna but it is not too late to make her dream become everything she hoped it would be. That’s what’s important to me.’ Share or comment on this article: My best friend gave the eulogy at my darling's daughter's funeral. But then I discovered she'd stolen £80,000 from the cancer charity we'd set up in her memory... e-mail Add commentNone

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The Latest: Police believe gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO has left New York CityToronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – November 26, 2024) – Alan Green, Vice President, Head of ETFs, Dynamic Funds ( “ Company”), and his team joined Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to close the market and celebrate the launch of their three new ETFs: Dynamic Credit Opportunities Fund (TSX: DXCO), Dynamic Global Fixed Income Fund (TSX: DXBG), and Dynamic Short Term Credit PLUS Fund (TSX: DXCP). Cannot view this video? Visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUxvP7LYtIM Dynamic Funds is proud to offer differentiated Active ETF solutions that aim to uncover opportunities beyond the benchmark through Legitimately Active Management®. Dynamic Funds is a division of 1832 Asset Management L.P., which offers a range of wealth management solutions, including mutual funds, actively managed ETFs, liquid alternative mutual funds and investment solutions for private clients, institutional clients and managed asset programs. The Company began by challenging the status quo in investment management, and it continues to do so today. MEDIA CONTACT: To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/231511 #distroSports For Life wants to change India’s youth sports culture and bring forth potential talent who may excel in different sports stream The startup has initially identified six core sports streams based on their popularity, high participation levels and sound commercial viability in the Indian context Sports For Life’s business model revolves around a roll-up strategy for sports academies, similar to how Cult.fit consolidated unorganised gyms into a single, branded platform India will bid for the 2030 Summer Youth Olympics and aspires to host the 2036 main event, announced youth affairs and sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya a couple of months ago. But in spite of a rising focus on games, sports and fitness, the country’s sports ecosystem struggles to produce global medallists. Although we have seen improvements in urban areas, rural and semi-urban regions remain vastly underserved. The outcome could be alarming. According to a 2023 survey by PUMA India and analytics firm Nielsen Sports, Indian kids spent 86 minutes per week on sports and fitness-related activities against WHO’s recommendation of 420 minutes or more. It was even less than the Indian adults who spent 101 minutes in these activities per week, the survey said. Globally, the scenario is quite different. In the US, the EU, Australia and similar countries, well-established funnels guide sports development from the age of three to the professional level. But India’s transformation to a true sporting nation through disruptive changes in youth sports is still a far cry. Of course, random sports academies have popped up. However, a well-structured and tech-driven pan-India initiative in the private sector is not happening at scale. Set up by former DealShare cofounder Sourjyendu Medda and former Cartesian employee Armaan Tandon, Sports For Life (SFL) wants to change India’s youth sports culture and bring forth potential talent who may excel in different sports streams. The mission is to nurture young people’s passion for various sports and create a roll-up model for private sports academies to ensure long-term viability. For context, a roll-up strategy is about acquiring smaller entities within a specific sector and turning them into a consolidated business to reduce operational costs and maximise revenue. SFL is Medda’s second entrepreneurial venture, the fruit of a long-standing connection with Tandon. The two had been acquainted for years, frequently sharing their views on various subjects, and recognised their shared vision for youth sports development. After stepping away from the day-to-day operations at DealShare (where he still retains a 7% stake), Medda began exploring new opportunities and eventually joined forces with Tandon. Sports For Life has initially identified six core sports streams based on their popularity, high participation levels and sound commercial viability in the Indian context. These include cricket, soccer, badminton, lawn tennis, table tennis and basketball. The startup may also add swimming and martial arts to its portfolio to attract a broader audience. Although headquartered in Bengaluru, SFL has strategically chosen Mumbai as its launch city, with plans to expand to Bengaluru and Delhi NCR in the next phase. It has already acquired a stake in a soccer academy and is finalising documents to part-own a lawn tennis coaching centre. Discussions are also under way regarding investments in a cricket and a basketball academy. The 10-month-old sportstech startup recently raised $1.5 Mn from a clutch of investors, including Blume Ventures, Roots Ventures and Kunal Shah’s QED Innovations Lab. It also received backing from Tandon Group chairman Manohar Lal Tandon’s family office and others. According to Medda, while professional sports leagues like the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the India Super League (ISL) have attracted the country’s largest conglomerates such as the Reliance and the Jindal groups, the youth sports segment remains unorganised and lacks adequate funding. The funnel creation for the formative years, between three to four years and 16–18, is where the real gap lies. “Take the fitness industry as an example. About eight years ago, gyms were largely unorganised. Today, we see something very similar in youth sports. There are a lot of small, unorganised academies doing good work, but there isn’t a single branded player operating at the national level. No one is offering top-tier facilities, services and technology even to the upwardly mobile urban takers who love sports and are ready to pay for a premium experience,” said Medda. “Parents today are looking for the right coaching and related expertise for their kids. The market for youth sports training and associated services is huge. In the US, it’s a $30 Bn market per annum. As for India, it currently stands at $1 Bn and is growing exponentially. I believe this market will grow to anywhere between $3–5 Bn in the next five years,” he added. India is home to around 30K sports academies for children and youth. At the top of the rung are 100–150 academies run by world-famous sports personalities such as Prakash Padukone, Pullela Gopichand and Dibyendu Barua. These academies cater to professional sportspersons performing at the district, state, or national level. However, this creamy layer only contributes 5–10% of the existing market. The long tail of this segment is the other end of the spectrum, around 25–27K smaller setups, each run by one or two coaches and training 10–50 young people. Sports For Life does not target either of these segments and only explores the mid-tier, a group of 2–3K well-established centres operating nationwide. Run by 15-30 coaches, usually former state or national players passionate about sports training but not celebrities, these academies have been well-recognised brands in their micro-catchments for the past five to 10 years. They operate two to three centres in a city and typically train 300–500 at any given time in the sports they specialise in. These mid-tier academies also generate an annual turnover of INR 2–4 Cr, contributing up to 50% of the current market. “The academy owners are often well-educated and ambitious. They understand the importance of technology and scaling but lack the resources to build it themselves,” said Medda. “So, here is SFL’s opportunity to provide advanced technology, branding and the infrastructure these academies need to expand and scale their operations on one unified platform.” As the startup provides multisport training within a city, users need not hunt for different academies for different streams. In today’s market, no single brand offers access to high-quality coaching across multiple sports in the same catchment area. Sports For Life helps cope with this issue by collaborating with leading academies in each sport and offering users a unified option for all training needs. Another key challenge the startup addresses is the lack of a digital ecosystem in existing academies. Most operate solely in physical spaces and feature no digital scheduling, communication, or feedback system. In contrast, the SFL app provides a comprehensive digital platform streamlining parent-coach interactions, class scheduling, performance tracking and financial transactions. It has also introduced value-added services from nutritionists, physiotherapists, mental health specialists and others to ensure well-rounded training sessions. Modern sports science supports an interdisciplinary approach, making these services essential for sports success. However, individual academies cannot always provide these due to budget constraints. SFL makes these accessible through its integrated platform and brings global expertise to curriculum development by collaborating with overseas sports clubs. Besides regular coaching, SFL arranges high-quality, tech-enabled tournaments, setting new standards for competition. These events will attract top teams, ensuring a high level of participation and incorporating live streaming, performance scorecards and highlight reels powered by AI. Sports For Life’s business model revolves around a roll-up strategy for sports academies, similar to how Cult.fit consolidated unorganised gyms into a single, branded platform. Cult.fit brought existing gyms under one umbrella, offering standardised experiences, a standard technology platform and a unified curriculum. SFL seeks to replicate this success in the youth sports training segment by consolidating mid-tier academies that are already delivering high-quality sports training. Simply put, the startup follows a strategic investment model, initially acquiring minority stakes in sports academies and gradually moving to controlling stakes within one to two years. This business strategy enables SFL to transform all partnering academies into fully integrated SFL Academies. For its portfolio academies, Sports For Life provides growth capital to help them achieve scale and stay in the black. Most organisations struggle to expand beyond two or three centres that have opened over the years. However, SFL’s investment enables them to open multiple centres within a brief period, facilitating citywide and statewide growth, claimed Medda. “The academies under SFL’s portfolio are inherently profitable, boasting 50% or more gross margins. To achieve EBITDA-level profitability, they need to scale their revenues by 1.5–2x, a milestone we plan to achieve within the first year of operational collaboration with academy founders. Beyond that, we aim to grow each academy by 7–10x its current scale in five years,” he added. Meanwhile, the startup has a multifold revenue stream in place. It earns a part of the coaching and value-added service fees from its portfolio academies and generates revenue from its digital management platform and merchandise sales. Additionally, it earns participation and hospitality fees from the tournaments it arranges. SFL designs these tournaments as high-quality and tech-enabled popular sports meets, which can attract top-tier teams and lucrative corporate sponsors as these culminate into state- and national-level events. The startup also partners with educational institutions and corporations to offer sports training and recreational activities, earning fees from these affiliations. In addition, it collaborates with housing societies and live-stream programmes for a fee. Sports For Life has ambitious plans and is keen to meet success halfway to ensure quick culmination and growth. Although the founders would not comment on this, the startup’s strategy to explore mid-tier academies underscores tapping into talent without delay and gaining financial leverage at the earliest. Understandably, sports coaching at the grassroots level will be out of bounds for a single private sector organisation. To make the best of the available facilities, SFL plans to acquire at least one high-quality academy for each sport in Mumbai, providing young users easy access to trusted and well-managed academies in their city. It will expand its operations to the top 30 Indian cities in the next five years, democratising access to excellent coaching/sports training. The growing market for sports training will be an added fillip to SFL and its ilk, leading to a substantial opportunity for sports academy roll-up in India. Although the India market projections for the next decade are not immediately available, globally, the sports training market is estimated to reach $50.7 Bn by 2035, from $27.8 Bn in 2023. Plus, there will be further scope for growth. A significant portion of India’s sports fan base is Gen Z, who engage in soccer and hockey or traditional games like kabaddi and kho-kho. This shift in fandom also underscores a large, untapped market for new and emerging sports leagues. It means more discipline, increasing coaching opportunities and better monetisation across multiple sports streams. Whether Sports For Life can rise to the occasion and utilise an evolving market remains to be seen. [Edited by Sanghamitra Mandal]

Saquon Barkley has become the Shohei Ohtani of the NFL. There's no better home run hitter playing football right now. Barkley had touchdown runs of 72 and 70 yards for the Philadelphia Eagles in a 37-20 victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night. He now has five runs of 50-plus yards this season and is on pace to break Eric Dickerson's single-season record of 2,105 yards set in 1984. Barkley's historic performance against the Rams — his 255 yards set a team record — captivated a national audience and turned him into a fan favorite for the AP NFL MVP award. He's not the betting favorite, however. Josh Allen has the best odds at plus-150, according to Bet MGM Sportsbook. Two-time MVP Lamar Jackson is next at plus-250 followed by Barkley at plus-400. Running backs have won the award 18 times, including three-time winner Jim Brown, who was the AP's first NFL MVP in 1957. Quarterbacks have dominated the award, winning it 45 times. Only three players who weren't QBs or RBs have been MVP. It takes a special season for a non-QB to win it mainly because the offense goes through the signal caller. Quarterbacks handle the ball every offensive snap, run the show and get the credit when things go well and the blame when it doesn't. Adrian Peterson was the most recent non-QB to win it when he ran for 2,097 yards and 12 touchdowns for the Minnesota Vikings in 2012. Playing for a winning team matters, too. Nine of the past 11 winners played for a No. 1 seed with the other two winners on a No. 2 seed. The Vikings earned the sixth seed when Pederson was MVP. Barkley is a major reason why the Eagles (9-2) are leading the NFC East and only trail Detroit (10-1) by one game for the top spot in the conference. Does he have a realistic chance to win the MVP award? Kicker Mark Moseley was the MVP in the strike-shortened 1982 season when he made 20 of 21 field goals and 16 of 19 extra points in nine games for Washington. If voters once selected a kicker, everyone has a chance, especially a game-changer such as Barkley. Defensive tackle Alan Page was the MVP in 1971 and linebacker Lawrence Taylor won it in 1986. Running back Christian McCaffrey finished third in voting last year and wide receiver Justin Jefferson placed fifth in 2022. The Offensive Player of the Year award and Defensive Player of the Year award recognize the best all-around players on both sides of the ball, allowing voters to recognize non-QBs if they choose. Wide receivers and running backs have won the AP OPOY award seven times over the past 11 seasons. McCaffrey was the 2023 winner. The AP's new voting format introduced in 2022 also gives non-QBs a better opportunity to get MVP recognition. Voter submit their top five picks for each award, with a weighted point system. Previously, voters made one choice for each award. A nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league vote for MVP and seven other awards. The awards are based on regular-season performance. The Chiefs (10-1) and Bills (9-2) already are in position to lock up postseason berths right after Thanksgiving. Kansas City clinches a playoff berth with a win over Las Vegas on Black Friday and a loss by Miami on Thursday night, or a win plus a loss by Denver on Monday night. Buffalo can wrap up a fifth straight AFC East title with a victory over San Francisco on Sunday and a loss by the Dolphins. It's not a given that the Dallas Cowboys will be looking for a new head coach after this season. Owner Jerry Jones said Tuesday on local radio that Mike McCarthy could end up getting a contract extension. "I don't think that's crazy at all. This is a Super Bowl-winning coach. Mike McCarthy has been there and done that. He has great ideas. We got a lot of football left," Jones said. McCarthy led the Cowboys (4-7) to three straight 12-win seasons, but they went 1-3 in the playoffs and haven't reached the NFC championship game since winning the Super Bowl 29 years ago. Injuries have contributed to the team's struggles this season, but Dallas was just 3-5 before Dak Prescott was lost for the rest of the season. The Cowboys upset Washington last week and their next four games are against teams that currently have losing records. If they somehow end up 9-8 or even 8-9, Jones could make a case for keeping McCarthy. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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Jerusalem, Nov 27 (AP) Israel has approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon's Hezbollah that would end nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the war in the Gaza Strip. The ceasefire agreed on Tuesday would mark the first major step toward ending the regionwide unrest triggered by Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. But it does not address the devastating war in Gaza, where Hamas is still holding dozens of hostages and the conflict is more intractable. Hours before the ceasefire with Hezbollah was to take effect, Israel carried out the most intense wave of strikes in Beirut and its southern suburbs since the start of the conflict and issued a record number of evacuation warnings. At least 24 people were killed in strikes across the country, according to local authorities, as Israel signalled it aims to pummel Hezbollah before the ceasefire takes hold at 4 am local time on Wednesday. Another huge airstrike shook Beirut shortly after the ceasefire was announced. There appeared to be some lingering disagreement over whether Israel would have the right to strike Hezbollah if it believed the militants had violated the agreement, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted was part of the deal but which Lebanese and Hezbollah officials have rejected. Israel's security Cabinet approved the ceasefire agreement after it was presented by Netanyahu, his office said. US President Joe Biden, speaking in Washington, called the agreement "good news" and said his administration would make a renewed push for a ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu presented the ceasefire proposal to Cabinet ministers after a televised address in which he listed a series of accomplishments against Israel's enemies across the region. He said a ceasefire with Hezbollah would further isolate Hamas in Gaza and allow Israel to focus on its main enemy, Iran, which backs both groups. "If Hezbollah breaks the agreement and tries to rearm, we will attack," he said. "For every violation, we will attack with might." The ceasefire deal calls for a two-month initial halt in fighting and would require Hezbollah to end its armed presence in a broad swath of southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops would return to their side of the border. Thousands of additional Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers would deploy in the south, and an international panel headed by the United States would monitor all sides' compliance. Biden said Israel reserved the right to quickly resume operations in Lebanon if Hezbollah breaks the terms of the truce, but that the deal "was designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities". Netanyahu's office said Israel appreciated the US efforts in securing the deal but "reserves the right to act against every threat to its security". Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati welcomed the ceasefire and described it as a crucial step toward stability and the return of displaced people. Hezbollah has said it accepts the proposal, but a senior official with the group said Tuesday that it had not seen the agreement in its final form. "After reviewing the agreement signed by the enemy government, we will see if there is a match between what we stated and what was agreed upon by the Lebanese officials," Mahmoud Qamati, deputy chair of Hezbollah's political council, told the Al Jazeera news network. "We want an end to the aggression, of course, but not at the expense of the sovereignty of the state," he said, referring to Israel's demand for freedom of action. "Any violation of sovereignty is refused." Even as ceasefire efforts gained momentum in recent days, Israel continued to strike what it says are Hezbollah targets across Lebanon as the militants fired rockets, missiles and drones across the border. An Israeli strike on Tuesday levelled a residential building in central Beirut — the second time in recent days warplanes have hit the crowded area near the city's downtown. At least seven people were killed and 37 wounded, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. Strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs killed at least one person and wounded 13, it said. Three people were killed in a separate strike in Beirut and three in a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Lebanese state media said another 10 people were killed in the eastern Baalbek province. Israel says it targets Hezbollah fighters and their infrastructure. Israel also struck a building in Beirut's bustling commercial district of Hamra for the first time, hitting a site that is around 400 meters (yards) from Lebanon's Central Bank. There were no reports of casualties. The Israeli military said it struck targets in Beirut and other areas linked to Hezbollah's financial arm. The evacuation warnings covered many areas, including parts of Beirut that previously have not been targeted. The warnings, coupled with fear that Israel was ratcheting up attacks before a ceasefire, sent residents fleeing. Under the ceasefire deal, Hezbollah would be required to move its forces north of the Litani, which in some places is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border. Hezbollah began firing into northern Israel on October 8, 2023, saying it was showing support for the Palestinians, a day after Hamas carried out its attack on southern Israel, triggering the Gaza war. Israel returned fire on Hezbollah, and the two sides have been exchanging barrages ever since. (AP) DIV DIV (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)After Trump’s win, Black women are rethinking their role as America’s reliable political organizers

HALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / December 24, 2024 / MedMira Inc. (MedMira) (TSXV:MIR) announced today that it has received today, on December 24, 2024, the approval from Health Canada for its Multiplo® Rapid TP/HIV Test (Multiplo® TP/HIV) to be rolled out across Canada, a critical point-of-care tool to address the health crises with HIV and syphilis in Canada. The single Reveal® TP (Syphilis) approval will follow soon after this more complex approval. The Multiplo® TP/HIV rapid test allows healthcare professional to accurately detect both HIV-1/2 and syphilis antibodieswith one sample using a simple finger prick that delivers results immediately. This easy-to-use and high-quality test can be used in any setting and does not need any special storage conditions. Making it the perfect solution for use in hospitals, doctor's offices and other settings and provides another important option in the Canadian market to help people know their status and get connected to treatment and care. "Our Multiplo® TP/HIV device is the fastest testing solutions for HIV-1/2 and Syphilis and has been used in various settings and markets (such as in Europe, Colombia etc) for years. The Health Canada Medical Device License for professional-use will immediately address critical gaps in healthcare settings at a fraction of the costs of conventional testing systems," said Hermes Chan, CEO of MedMira, a world leader in developing rapid diagnostics and technologies. "Together with REACH Nexus we aim to supply urban and remote communities across Canada, and with it provide access to a critical needed screening tool. This test will have a significant impact on the already stretched and overburdened health care system by providing a fast and cost-efficient screening method." Health Canada's licensure of the device is based on the results of a landmark clinical study in Alberta, co-led by Dr. Sean B. Rourke, director of REACH Nexus and a scientist with the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael's Hospital (Unity Health Toronto) and Dr. Ameeta Singh at the University of Alberta. "We urgently need more rapid testing options approved in Canada to reach the undiagnosed with HIV, syphilis and other blood-borne infections and sexually transmitted infections (STBBIs)," said Dr. Rourke, the director of REACH Nexus at MAP. "We are very excited about this ongoing partnership with MedMira and the critical implementation science work that went into getting this device approved and into the hands of healthcare professionals." Health Canada's approval of the Multiplo® TP/HIV rapid test couldn't come at a more urgent time. The latest data from the Public Health Agency of Canada, shows that new HIV diagnoses soared more than 35% from 2022 to 2023, with rates in Manitoba rising by more than 40%. In Saskatchewan, the rate of HIV was 19.4 per 100,000 people, more than three times the national rate. In 2022, there were 13,953 reported syphilis cases, with rates increasing by 109% compared to 2018, and with congenital syphilis cases seeing a 7% increase from 2021 and a 599% increase from 2018(1). With the rising cases, particularly in underserved and remote communities, the Multiplo® TP/HIV provides an essential testing device to help reach the undiagnosed living with HIV and/or syphilis. "These tests are essential amid the rising number of STBBIs and will have real-life impacts," said Dr. Rourke. "Not everyone has access to the testing they need for STBBIs because of health inequities, stigma and various forms of discrimination. MedMira's rapid test is a crucial tool in Canada - so everyone can have access to the testing they need." As part of Health Canada's review and authorization process, Dr. Rourke's team of researchers sourced funding and conducted the landmark studyworking closely with healthcare providers, provincial health ministry and laboratory agencies, community stakeholders, and people with lived experience. The study, conducted from 2020-2022, included over 1,500 participants from clinical settings in Edmonton and northern Alberta. The study found the Multiplo® TP/HIV test to be 100 per cent accurate in identifying HIV infection, and more than 98 per cent accurate in detecting syphilis. "Having more HIV rapid tests increases our chances of reaching people in Canada who have HIV and don't know it, and a very significant and increasing number of infectious and congenital syphilis cases" said Dr. Rourke. "This rapid, accessible test helps breakdown barriers that some people face so they can get tested so they know their status. It helps move closer to ending the HIV and syphilis epidemics in Canada." (1) https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/hiv-canada-surveillance-report-december-31-2022.html About REACH Nexus at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions REACH Nexus is an ambitious national research group working on how to address HIV, Hepatitis C, and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) in Canada. Their focus is on reaching the undiagnosed, implementing and scaling up new testing options, strengthening connections to care, improving access to options for prevention (PrEP and PEP) and ending stigma. We work in collaboration and partnership with people living with HIV; community-based organizations; front-line service providers; healthcare providers and decision makers; public health agencies; researchers; business leaders; industry partners, and federal, provincial and regional policymakers.REACH Nexus is part of MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. About MedMira MedMira is a leading developer and manufacturer of Rapid Vertical Flow® diagnostics. The Company's tests provide hospitals, labs, clinics, and individuals with instant disease diagnosis, such as HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis, and SARS-CoV-2, in just three easy steps. The Company's tests are sold globally under the REVEAL®, REVEALCOVID-19®, Multiplo® and Miriad® brands. Based on its patented Rapid Vertical Flow® Technology, MedMira's rapid HIV test is the only one in the world to achieve regulatory approvals in Canada, the United States, China and the European Union. MedMira's corporate offices and manufacturing facilities are located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. For more information visit medmira.com . Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . This news release contains forward‐looking statements, which involve risk and uncertainties and reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events, including statements regarding possible regulatory approval, product launch, future growth, and new business opportunities. Actual events could materially differ from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors including, but not limited to, changing market conditions, successful and timely completion of clinical studies, uncertainties related to the regulatory approval process, establishment of corporate alliances and other risks detailed from time to time in the company quarterly filings. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. MedMira Contact Markus Meile Chief Financial Officer MedMira Inc. ir@medmira.com REACH Nexus Contact Andrew Russell Senior Communications Specialist REACH Nexus - MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions andrew.russell@unityhealth.to SOURCE: MedMira Inc. View the original on accesswire.comENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos' usually stout defense has been rocked ever since losing second-year cornerback Riley Moss to an MCL injury against Las Vegas in Week 12. Without Moss there to capitalize on opponents shying away from star cornerback Patrick Surtain II, the Broncos (9-6) have had to largely abandon their preferred man coverage in favor of zone strategies and the results haven't been pretty. They allowed 32 points to the Cleveland Browns when former teammate Jerry Jeudy caught nine passes for a career-best 235 yards, including a 70-yard touchdown. Only Jonathan Taylor's fumble at the goal line as he was about to score a 41-yard touchdown and give Indianapolis a 20-3 lead saved the Broncos in Week 15 and allowed Denver to seize momentum and get the victory. They couldn't stop Justin Herbert , who led the Los Angeles Chargers back from a double-digit third-quarter deficit for a 34-27 win last week that prevented the Broncos from ending their eight-year playoff drought. It also put more pressure on the Broncos to win Saturday at Cincinnati, where the Bengals (7-8) cling to hopes of catching the Broncos and deny Denver a wild-card berth. Moss has enjoyed a breakout season in Denver with 71 tackles, eight pass breakups and an interception in 12 starts. He played in 14 games as a rotation player his rookie season after recovering from core muscle surgery that relegated him to special teams and spot duty in 2023. “We were and have been super excited" about the third-round pick out of Iowa, coach Sean Payton said. "Obviously, the guy that plays opposite of Patrick is going to get a lot of business. All throughout training camp, he really rose to the occasion, battled, competed and throughout really a good portion of the season. “He’s a big reason why we were playing so well defensively,” Payton added. "The sooner the better when we can get him back in the lineup. Hopefully it can happen this weekend.” In Moss' dozen starts, the Broncos allowed 16.8 points per game. Without him, they've been allowing 26.3 points a game. Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase pose a bigger challenge to the Broncos than Jeudy and Jameis Wiston did for Cleveland or Herbert and Ladd McConkey did for the Chargers. Moss returned to practice last week and the Broncos will determine this week whether he's ready to return to the field or if it's better to keep him out until their season finale against Kansas City. The medial collateral ligament is on the inside of the knee that connects the thigh bone to the shin bone. It’s one of four major ligaments that stabilize the knee and allow it to rotate. It typically takes a month to recover from an MCL sprain and the Broncos had their bye week earlier this month, meaning Moss might only have to miss three games. If the Broncos reach the playoffs for the first time since winning Super Bowl 50 in Hall of Famer Peyton Manning's last start, they'll likely need to have a healthy Moss opposite Surtain to have any realistic hopes of avoiding a one-and-done appearance. The Broncos got a scare when Surtain injured an ankle against Indianapolis two weeks ago and limped off the field in the closing minutes. However, he was a full-go at practice last week and had no issues against the Chargers. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflThe Kmart product changing the game for cooking on the road

NoneStart making your list with this compilation of some of the most innovative, functional and fun gifts of 2024. There’s something for every budget. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here.A judge on Monday rejected a request to block a San Jose State women's volleyball team member from playing in a conference tournament on grounds that she is transgender. The ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews in Denver will allow the player, who has played all season, to compete in the Mountain West Conference women's championship opening this week in Las Vegas. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by nine current players against the Mountain West Conference challenging the league's policies for allowing transgender players to participate. The players argued that letting her compete was a safety risk and unfair. While some media have reported those and other details, neither San Jose State nor the forfeiting teams have confirmed the school has a trans woman volleyball player. The Associated Press is withholding the player's name because she has not commented publicly on her gender identity. School officials also have declined an interview request with the player. Crews' ruling referred to the athlete as an "alleged transgender" player and noted that no defendant disputed that the San Jose State roster includes a transgender woman player. San Jose State will "continue to support its student-athletes and reject discrimination in all forms," the university said in a statement, confirming that all its student-athletes are eligible to participate under NCAA and conference rules. "We are gratified that the Court rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to change those rules. Our team looks forward to competing in the Mountain West volleyball tournament this week." The conference did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. The players filed a notice for emergency appeal with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Crews said the players who filed the complaint could have sought relief much earlier, noting the individual universities had acknowledged that not playing their games against San Jose State this season would result in a loss in league standings. He also refused a request to re-seed the tournament without the forfeited losses. The judge said injunctions are meant to preserve the status quo. The conference policy regarding forfeiting for refusing to play against a team with a transgender player had been in effect since 2022 and the San Jose State player has been on the roster since 2022 -– making that the status quo. The player competed at the college level three previous seasons, including two for San Jose State, drawing little attention. This season's awareness of her reported identity led to an uproar among some players, pundits, parents and politicians in a major election year. Crews' ruling also said injunctions are meant to prevent harm, but in this case, he argued, the harm has already occurred. The games have been forfeited, the tournament has been seeded, the teams have made travel plans and the participants have confirmed they're playing. The tournament starts Wednesday and continues Friday and Saturday. Colorado State is seeded first and San Jose State, second. The teams split their regular-season matches and both get byes into Friday's semifinals. San Jose State will play the winner of Wednesday's match between Utah State and Boise State — teams that both forfeited matches to SJSU during the regular season. Boise State associate athletic director Chris Kutz declined to comment on whether the Broncos would play SJSU if they won their first-round tournament game. Utah State officials did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment. The conference tournament winner gets an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. San Jose State coach Todd Kress, whose team has not competed in the national tournament since 2001, has said his team has been getting "messages of hate" and that has taken a toll on his players. Several teams refused to play against San Jose State during the season, earning losses in the official conference standings. Boise State and Wyoming each had two forfeits while Utah State and Nevada both had one. Southern Utah, a member of the Western Athletic Conference, was first to cancel against San Jose State this year. Nevada's players stated they "refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes," without elaborating. Nevada did not qualify for the conference tournament. The nine current players and others now suing the Mountain West Conference, the California State University Board of Trustees and others include San Jose State senior setter and co-captain Brooke Slusser. The teammate Slusser says is transgender hits the volleyball with more force than others on the team, raising fear during practices of suffering concussions from a head hit, the complaint says. The Independent Council on Women's Sports is funding a separate lawsuit against the NCAA for allowing transgender women to compete in women's sports. Both lawsuits claim the landmark 1972 federal antidiscrimination law known as Title IX prohibits transgender women in women's sports. Title IX prohibits sexual discrimination in federally funded education; Slusser is a plaintiff in both lawsuits. Several circuit courts have used a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to conclude that discriminating against someone based on their transgender status or sexual orientation is sex-based discrimination, Crews wrote. That means case law does not prove the "likelihood of success" needed to grant an injunction. An NCAA policy that subjects transgender participation to the rules of sports governing bodies took effect this academic year. USA Volleyball says a trans woman must suppress testosterone for 12 months before competing. The NCAA has not flagged any issues with San Jose State. The Republican governors of Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming have made public statements in support of the team cancellations, citing fairness in women's sports. President-elect Donald Trump likewise has spoken out against allowing transgender women to compete in women's sports. Crews was a magistrate judge in Colorado's U.S. District Court for more than five years before President Joe Biden appointed him as a federal judge in January.CrowdStrike Holdings Inc CRWD reported third-quarter financial results after the market close on Tuesday. Here’s a look at the key details from the report . Q3 Earnings: CrowdStrike reported third-quarter revenue of $1.01 billion, beating the consensus estimate of $982.36 million. The cybersecurity company reported adjusted earnings of $93 cents per share, beating analyst estimates of 81 cents per share. CrowdStrike has exceeded analyst estimates in every quarter since going public in 2019, according to data from Benzinga Pro . Total revenue was up 29% year-over-year. Annual recurring revenue increased 27% year-over-year to $4.02 billion after the company added $153 million of net new ARR in the quarter. Net cash generated from operations was $326.1 million and free cash flow came in at $230.6 million. The company ended the quarter with $4.26 billion in cash, equivalents and short-term investments. “CrowdStrike surpassed $4 billion in ending ARR in the quarter — the fastest and only pure play cybersecurity software company to reach this reported milestone — as our single platform approach and trailblazing innovation continue to resonate at-scale,” said George Kurtz , co-founder, president and CEO of CrowdStrike. “With over 97% gross retention, customers remain committed to the technological superiority of the Falcon platform and the benefits of cybersecurity consolidation. Accelerating module adoption and customers embracing our transformational Falcon Flex subscription model give us confidence in CrowdStrike’s bright future as cybersecurity’s AI platform of record.” See Also: AI Jesus Hears Confessions In Switzerland: Has Artificial Intelligence Gone Too Far? CrowdStrike provided an update on customers who were impacted by the global IT outage in July due to a defect in a CrowdStrike content update. The company said last quarter that it was extending commitment packages to impacted customers. CrowdStrike said Tuesday that it saw “incredible success” with customer packages as customers embraced the program and chose to deepen their relationships with the company. Guidance: CrowdStrike expects fourth-quarter revenue to be between $1.029 billion and $1.035 billion versus estimates of $1.03 billion. The company anticipates fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 84 cents to 86 cents per share versus estimates of 86 cents per share. CrowdStrike also raised its fiscal year 2025 guidance. The company now expects full-year revenue of $3.923 billion to $3.931 billion versus estimates of $3.897 billion. The company expects full-year earnings to be in the range of $3.74 to $3.76 per share versus estimates of $3.63 per share. Management will hold a conference call with analysts and investors at 5 p.m. ET to further discuss the company's quarterly results. CRWD Price Action: CrowdStrike shares were down 1.45% after hours, trading at $359 at the time of publication Tuesday, according to Benzinga Pro . Read Next: Fed Minutes Reveal ‘Confidence’ In Inflation Reduction, Yet Flag Divergent Views On Interest Rate Path Ahead Photo: Shutterstock. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

Alector Announces Results from AL002 INVOKE-2 Phase 2 Trial in Individuals with Early Alzheimer's Disease and Provides Business UpdateAirports 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: U.S. airlines are preparing for a Thanksgiving holiday rush, and so are the U.S. Postal Service, United Parcel Service and FedEx. Shipping companies will deliver about 2.2 billion packages to homes and businesses across the U.S. from Thanksgiving to Dec. 31, said Satish Jindel, a shipping and logistics expert and president of ShipMatrix. That’s down from 2.3 billion packages last year. Because the shopping period is a week shorter than in 2023, consumers are shopping further ahead of Black Friday and more purchases are taking place in physical stores, he said. The number of holiday package shipments grew 27% in 2020 and by more than 3% the following year during the pandemic. The numbers have been falling since then, with a projected decline of about 6% this holiday season. 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 . Story continues below video “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 forecastsCelebrity Life Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. It’s been a big day for one of Hollywood’s more dubious contributions to society: A-list actors getting preachy about politics. Sharon Stone and Alec Baldwin have both made comments implying that Americans who supported Donald Trump in the election earlier this month were “ignorant” and “uninformed”, among other less than flattering adjectives. Ms Stone’s remarks came in the middle of a press conference at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy. A reporter asked her whether she had anything to say about the International Day for the Eliminiation of Violence Against Women. Sharon Stone in Turin. Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images “This question about the question of violence against women, is a big one. And I think we have to really stop and think about things,” Ms Stone responded. “And we have to stop and think about who we choose for government. And if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself. “You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things, you guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before. “My country is in the midst of adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. We are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence. “We haven’t seen this before in our country. So Americans who don’t travel, who – 80 per cent don’t have a passport – who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.” She was using an outdated figure, there. In the mid-1990s, only about 10 per cent of Americans held passports. The current number, according to estimates from 2023, is about 40 per cent. For context, the equivalent figure in Australia is about 55 per cent, so America is lower, but not egregiously so. Sharon Stone. Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images “What I would say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other,” Ms Stone continued. “Now, we can’t just say women should help women, because that’s the only way we have survived so far. We must say that good men must help good men and those good men must be very aware that a lot of their friends are not good men. “And we can’t continue to pretend that your friends are good men when they’re not good men. And you must be very clear minded, and understand that your friends who are not good men are dangerous, violent men. “And you have to keep them away from your daughters, your wives and your girlfriends, because this is the time when we can no longer look away, when bad men are bad. “I was watching a comedian the other night and he said, ‘I asked a woman to dinner and she said yes. And it was such a brave thing for her to do because the only real thing, the number one killer of women in the world today is men.’ “For men, the number one killer is heart disease. The number one killer for women is men! It is very important to remember that. It’s very important to remember that. Thank you.” A little later in the day, at his own media event in Turin, Mr Baldwin was asked to weigh in on Ms Stone’s comments. He mainly focused his answer on the potential of the film industry to fill in “gaps” in viewers’ knowledge. Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria, pictured at a previous event in New York. Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images “In my country, without going into significant detail – half the people in the country are happy and half the people in the country are very unhappy,” Mr Baldwin said. “It’s a very difficult time in the United States. I think the only way people can learn what is happening, and film is unique in this way, not only what’s happening in the United States, but around the world, what’s happening – you might not learn from the news, television news in the United States. “As a business, they have to make money. And again, not to go into great detail about that. But there’s a whole, there’s a vacuum. There is a gap, if you will, in information. “Americans are very uninformed about reality, what’s really going on, with climate change, Ukraine, Israel, you name it, all the biggest topics in the world. Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information. “That vacuum is filled by the film industry, not just the independent film industry, not just the documentary film industry, which are very important around the world, but by narrative films as well, where the filmmakers and the buyers, the studios and the networks and the streamers are willing to go that way, and they’re willing to try to make films that are not only entertaining but informative as well. “So I think right now is probably one of the most significant times in our history, and this is filling the gaps. “Now is probably one of the most important times in our history for us to make films that will teach people about what reality is around the world.” More Coverage ‘Devastating’: World shock at Trump plan Benedict Brook Australia smashed as Trump reveals tariffs Chantelle Francis Originally published as ‘Ignorant, uninformed’: A-list actors slag off American voters after Donald Trump’s election victory Read related topics: Donald Trump More related stories Royals Beckham move that’s left Meghan ‘furious’ Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is reportedly ‘furious’ over Victoria Beckham’s latest career move, ending a previously close friendship. 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Southern Miss secures 68-66 victory against MarshallWith the debut of the new Precision Agricultural program, Flint Hills Technical College anticipates the new program will fill a hole in technical agricultural education in Emporia. The new Precision Agriculture program would have taken longer to debut, according to Kim Dhority, Dean of Academic Affairs, without the $672,288 grant recently obtained from the Patterson Family Foundation. The Patterson Family Foundation is a Kansas City nonprofit that focuses on investing in rural communities through monetary support. They reached out with interest to FHTC concerning their new Precision Agriculture program and CDL license training, and FHTC submitted a grant proposal outlining all new equipment and ideas for the program. To Dhority’s surprise, FHTC was approved for every one of their proposed ideas. Dhority said, “We basically got everything that we needed. It was pretty exciting when we heard back because we figured they would cut some things out and they didn’t.” Precision Agriculture is a relatively new field in agricultural education. It focuses on more technology-centric aspects of farming, such as crop science, analyzing data, and working with a GPS system. “Precision agriculture is dealing more with the GPS systems that are included in modern day equipment,” Dhority said. “Back when my dad bought a tractor, that was not even considered.” Dhority said that FHTC first became aware of a need for more advanced agricultural education during an agricultural summit hosted in Emporia several years ago. Many of Kansas’ leading agricultural experts and farmers attended and were surprised that FHTC did not teach an agricultural program. According to Dhority, “It was a matter of research to find out, ‘What do we need to include in this?” FHTC’s Precision Agriculture program will launch in August of 2025. Dhority said that the college plans to eventually dedicate a separate space for the program, but for now it will be hosted in currently unused classrooms. FHTC is considering land in several places for a new building, including land next west of its Southern Campus 3701 W 6th Ave. No plans have been finalized yet. Precision Agriculture’s plan sent to the Patterson Family Foundation outlined the use for a greenhouse to study crop science. The greenhouse will be funded through the grant, and Dhority wants to hold off on finalizing details of the greenhouse until an instructor is hired. Dhority said, “It’s going to be their program. Let them be part of that process and that person will spend this Spring semester working on those kinds of things, working on finalizing curriculum, what equipment we want to purchase, having that all in place.” FHTC is currently on the hunt for a Precision Agriculture Instructor and hopes to fill the role by the beginning of January. The only requirements for the job are an Associate’s Degree and at least two years of related job experience in an agricultural field. Dhority stated, “We like people to be dynamic, so it’s not just going to be ‘come in and here’s your curriculum,’ and you teach it. They’re going to be responsible for that curriculum.” The program offers two possible routes - a one-year certificate and an Associate’s. The incoming class will be capped at 20 students, a relatively normal amount for FHTC. Dhority believes a wide variety of students will be interested in enrolling due to the program’s focus on both agriculture and technology. “As we get going and we start talking about some of the technical side of things, we're going to see some of those people that maybe are computer programmers or network type students that are going to go, ‘Wait a minute, this is the route that I want to go down,” Dhority said. The Precision Agriculture program was approved by the Kansas Board of Regents but has yet to be approved by the Higher Learning Commission, which accredits most colleges in the U.S. An accreditation with HLC would allow FHTC to provide financial aid to students in that program and let students transfer into other programs. Once approval is granted, the proposed program must then be approved by the Federal Department of Education. According to Dhority, many farmers in the area volunteered their equipment to be used for class assignments and offered students the chance to test out their skills by working on their farms. FHTC excels in offering their students opportunities to learn in a hands-on environment and sees this as a way to give back to the community. “We kept hearing from business and industry, ‘Why didn't we have an agricultural program? Why don't we have an agricultural program? Why is there no agriculture?” Dhority said. “If you look at our surrounding area, we are an agricultural community. That’s what pushed us to go in this direction. My hope is that we have other programs that come out of this program.”

About 20 percent of India’s millionaires are under 40, their enormous wealth comes from...OMAHA— Investor Warren Buffett renewed his Thanksgiving tradition of giving by announcing plans Monday to hand more than $1.1 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to four of his family's foundations, and he offered new details about who will be handing out the rest of his fortune after his death. Buffett has said previously that his three kids will distribute his remaining $147.4 billion fortune in the 10 years after his death, but now he has also designated successors for them because it's possible that Buffett's children could die before giving it all away. He didn't identify the successors, but said his kids all know them and agree they would be good choices. "Father time always wins. But he can be fickle — indeed unfair and even cruel — sometimes ending life at birth or soon thereafter while, at other times, waiting a century or so before paying a visit," the 94-year-old Buffett said in a letter to his fellow shareholders. "To date, I've been very lucky, but, before long, he will get around to me. There is, however, a downside to my good fortune in avoiding his notice. The expected life span of my children has materially diminished since the 2006 pledge. They are now 71, 69 and 66." People are also reading... Buffett said he still has no interest in creating dynastic wealth in his family — a view shared by his first and current wives. He acknowledged giving Howard, Peter and Susie millions over the years, but he has long said he believes "hugely wealthy parents should leave their children enough so they can do anything but not enough that they can do nothing." The secret to building up such massive wealth over time has been the power of compounding interest and the steady growth of the Berkshire conglomerate Buffett leads through acquisitions and smart investments like buying billions of dollars of Apple shares as iPhone sales continued to drive growth in that company. Buffett never sold any of his Berkshire stock over the years and also resisted the trappings of wealth and never indulged in much — preferring instead to continue living in the same Omaha home he'd bought decades earlier and drive sensible luxury sedans about 20 blocks to work each day. "As a family, we have had everything we needed or simply liked, but we have not sought enjoyment from the fact that others craved what we had," he said. If Buffett and his first wife had never given away any of their Berkshire shares, the family's fortune would be worth nearly $364 billion — easily making him the world's richest man — but Buffett said he had no regrets about his giving over the years. The family's giving began in earnest with the distribution of Susan Buffett's $3 billion estate after her death in 2004, but really took off when Warren Buffett announced plans in 2006 to make annual gifts to the foundations run by his kids along with the one he and his wife started, as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Warren Buffett's giving to date has favored the Gates Foundation with $55 billion in stock because his friend Bill Gates already had his foundation set up and could handle huge gifts when Buffett started giving away his fortune. But Buffett has said his kids now have enough experience in philanthropy to handle the task and he plans to cut off his Gates Foundation donations after his death. Buffett always makes his main annual gifts to all five foundations every summer, but for several years now he has been giving additional Berkshire shares to his family's foundations at Thanksgiving. Buffett reiterated Monday his advice to every parent to allow their families to read their will while they are still alive — like he has done — to make sure they have a chance to explain their decisions about how to distribute their belongings and answer their children's questions. Buffett said he and his longtime investing partner Charlie Munger, who died a year ago, "saw many families driven apart after the posthumous dictates of the will left beneficiaries confused and sometimes angry." Today, Buffett continues to lead Berkshire Hathaway as chairman and CEO and has no plans to retire although he has handed over most of the day-to-day managing duties for the conglomerates dozens of companies to others. That allows him to focus on his favorite activity of deciding where to invest Berkshire's billions. One of Buffett's deputies who oversees all the noninsurance companies now, Greg Abel, is set to take over as CEO after Buffett's death. Buffett Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!NoneSaquon Barkley has become the Shohei Ohtani of the NFL. There's no better home run hitter playing football right now. Barkley had touchdown runs of 72 and 70 yards for the Philadelphia Eagles in a 37-20 victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night. He now has five runs of 50-plus yards this season and is on pace to break Eric Dickerson's single-season record of 2,105 yards set in 1984. Barkley's historic performance against the Rams — his 255 yards set a team record — captivated a national audience and turned him into a fan favorite for the AP NFL MVP award. He's not the betting favorite, however. Josh Allen has the best odds at plus-150, according to Bet MGM Sportsbook. Two-time MVP Lamar Jackson is next at plus-250 followed by Barkley at plus-400. Running backs have won the award 18 times, including three-time winner Jim Brown, who was the AP's first NFL MVP in 1957. Quarterbacks have dominated the award, winning it 45 times. Only three players who weren't QBs or RBs have been MVP. It takes a special season for a non-QB to win it mainly because the offense goes through the signal caller. Quarterbacks handle the ball every offensive snap, run the show and get the credit when things go well and the blame when it doesn't. Adrian Peterson was the most recent non-QB to win it when he ran for 2,097 yards and 12 touchdowns for the Minnesota Vikings in 2012. Playing for a winning team matters, too. Nine of the past 11 winners played for a No. 1 seed with the other two winners on a No. 2 seed. The Vikings earned the sixth seed when Pederson was MVP. Barkley is a major reason why the Eagles (9-2) are leading the NFC East and only trail Detroit (10-1) by one game for the top spot in the conference. Does he have a realistic chance to win the MVP award? Kicker Mark Moseley was the MVP in the strike-shortened 1982 season when he made 20 of 21 field goals and 16 of 19 extra points in nine games for Washington. If voters once selected a kicker, everyone has a chance, especially a game-changer such as Barkley. Defensive tackle Alan Page was the MVP in 1971 and linebacker Lawrence Taylor won it in 1986. Running back Christian McCaffrey finished third in voting last year and wide receiver Justin Jefferson placed fifth in 2022. The Offensive Player of the Year award and Defensive Player of the Year award recognize the best all-around players on both sides of the ball, allowing voters to recognize non-QBs if they choose. Wide receivers and running backs have won the AP OPOY award seven times over the past 11 seasons. McCaffrey was the 2023 winner. The AP's new voting format introduced in 2022 also gives non-QBs a better opportunity to get MVP recognition. Voter submit their top five picks for each award, with a weighted point system. Previously, voters made one choice for each award. A nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league vote for MVP and seven other awards. The awards are based on regular-season performance. The Chiefs (10-1) and Bills (9-2) already are in position to lock up postseason berths right after Thanksgiving. Kansas City clinches a playoff berth with a win over Las Vegas on Black Friday and a loss by Miami on Thursday night, or a win plus a loss by Denver on Monday night. Buffalo can wrap up a fifth straight AFC East title with a victory over San Francisco on Sunday and a loss by the Dolphins. It's not a given that the Dallas Cowboys will be looking for a new head coach after this season. Owner Jerry Jones said Tuesday on local radio that Mike McCarthy could end up getting a contract extension. "I don't think that's crazy at all. This is a Super Bowl-winning coach. Mike McCarthy has been there and done that. He has great ideas. We got a lot of football left," Jones said. McCarthy led the Cowboys (4-7) to three straight 12-win seasons, but they went 1-3 in the playoffs and haven't reached the NFC championship game since winning the Super Bowl 29 years ago. Injuries have contributed to the team's struggles this season, but Dallas was just 3-5 before Dak Prescott was lost for the rest of the season. The Cowboys upset Washington last week and their next four games are against teams that currently have losing records. If they somehow end up 9-8 or even 8-9, Jones could make a case for keeping McCarthy. Get local news delivered to your inbox!