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Published 5:08 pm Friday, December 27, 2024 By Daily Herald When we first made the decision to reduce our publication dates to twice a week, one of the questions we often heard was how it might affect the timing of our coverage in regards to when stories might hit the public. As a daily through the years, readers were used to reading about events in the next issue of the Herald the following day, however, the most obvious repercussion of not printing daily was that publishing a story the next day wasn’t a viable option. Print wise, people would have to wait a couple days before they could read about it in the paper, unless they had online access to the Herald’s website. This is a burgeoning era for newspapers as many are having to shift their focus to more of a digital footprint. Obviously, we want to get news to you as soon as possible, and the web provides an almost real-time option to get stories to the public fast. It also gives us the option to provide a narrative flow, depending on the importance of the story, that starts with a brief two or three sentence alert or breaking news, that can be followed up on and updated as time moves forward. This holds through with follow-up stories if required. Still, while online publishing allows for a certain fluidity in terms of timely news coverage, we can’t forget about the print edition and the many readers we still have faithfully turning our pages. So what contributes to the timing of publishing a story? Broadly speaking, the story itself often is the determining factor. Breaking news finds publication online as soon as we can get it there. These can include subjects such as weather-related events, emergencies, political news, milestone moments and major announcements just to name a few. Take the flooding that occurred this past June. Due to the direct impact on the area, we were reporting on this event as soon as we could and updating when there was something new. This was not an event that could wait until a printed edition. At the same time, those stories that normally can wait until a printed edition to come out tend to lie more on the feature side of things. A larger story that we’ve worked on throughout the week — and that normally holds down our main story slot on the front — is an example of a story that can wait. While there is plenty of news throughout the week that makes it online first, these types of stories give readers something fresh to look forward to. Another key determining factor of when a story goes online vs. in print is the timeliness. This really applies to upcoming events and sports stories. A basketball, football or volleyball game story will get posted immediately online afterwards because it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to hold onto a game story for three, four days, especially as there are games in between when it happens and when it runs. Likewise, the digital format works well for upcoming events. The general rule of thumb is try to print a story about a week out from the event so as to keep it fresh in people’s minds, but sometimes that doesn’t work out in the paper, so being able to get it online is a remedy to that. Also, it gets the story a little extra boost because it’s effectively pushing through in two different areas and oftentimes reaching two different segments of the population. Having to go down to two days a week would have been very different 20 years ago, but because we have the digital option we have currently — whether that’s our website, Facebook or Twitter — it allows us to control and adapt to situations dependent on when we publicize the story.Election results on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean have set the background for the final stretch of campaigning for Irish parties ahead of polling day on Friday. Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in the US has brought heightened concern that his administration’s proposals around corporation tax and tariffs would significantly impact Ireland’s economic model. Mr Harris, leader of Fine Gael, has argued Ireland and other EU countries need to prepare for the possibility of trade shocks as he criticised the scale of Sinn Fein’s spending pledges as well as their saving plans. He said: “I think that is irresponsible, I think it is dangerous and I think it is reckless.” He accused Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald of not being able to say what her party was prepared to do in the event of an economic crash, adding that Fine Gael would borrow and stop putting money towards a rainy-day fund. Asked if the party was engaging in “project fear” to dissuade voters against Sinn Fein, Mr Harris said: “I call it ‘project truth’. It’s telling people what’s being discussed right across European capitals.” Ms McDonald told an RTE interview on Wednesday morning that a Sinn Fein government would also be prepared to start borrowing in the event of an economic downturn. Both Mr Harris and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin, who were partners in the last coalition government in Ireland, have made clear they will not countenance Sinn Fein as a potential partner in the next administration in Dublin. One day after the only three-way debate featuring the leaders of the main parties, Mr Martin accused Sinn Fein of being “dishonest” about how they will fund their manifesto plans. Speaking in Dublin on Wednesday, he said he is anxious to get clarity on the issue. “I think Sinn Fein have been very dishonest, frankly, in terms of the funds, because if you go through their figures, and this is a matter of fact, not opinion, they’re predicting a surplus of a billion in 2026, a billion in 2027. “Even in 2025, they’re talking about a mini budget, which would mean reducing the surplus that we’re anticipating in 2025. “There’s a legislative obligation now on any new government to put 0.8% of GDP to one side, and into the funds. There’s no way you can do that with a surplus of a billion in 2026 or 2027, and we would argue they would not have enough funds next year either to put into the funds.” He added: “It means they have no room to manoeuvre if things go wrong, if there’s headwinds come externally, or there are shocks internationally, Sinn Fein is not allowing any headroom at all in terms of room to respond or to move it.” Ms McDonald accused the other two parties of conspiring to keep Sinn Fein out of government and prevent change in Ireland. She said the two men were now “indistinguishable” from each other as she claimed they were suffering “acute amnesia” in regard to their records in government. On a visit to Naas fire station in Co Kildare, she said: “To listen to them, you’d imagine they had just arrived on the scene and that they were going to come up with all of these solutions. “They have had ample chances, ample opportunity, to make things better, and they have failed, and in between the two of them I make the case that now we ask for our chance, with our plans, with our team, to demonstrate how change can happen, how your community, your family, yourself, can be supported when the government is actually on your side.” Mr Martin’s and Mr Harris’ coalition partner Roderic O’Gorman, the leader of the Greens, issued a warning to the public over a future government without his party. On Wednesday, he said it is looking likely that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will be returned to government – but cautioned they may not want the Greens to continue “fighting hard” on policies. He told reporters: “My sense is certainly the mood music from Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is that they’d like an easier life in the next government – and my concern is they use these small populist parties and right-wing independents.” Mr O’Gorman argued that the Greens could continue to provide stability to government at a time when economic shocks may be around the corner. As the Green leader suggested that relying on independents would be unstable, Mr Martin has also argued that “too much fragmentation would lead to incoherence in government”. Reflecting on Tuesday night’s debate, the Fianna Fail leader said the race remained “too close to call” while Mr Harris said it is “all to play for”. The leaders of Ireland’s three main political parties clashed on housing, healthcare and financial management in the last televised debate before Friday’s General Election. The tetchy debate, which was marked by several interruptions, saw the parties set out their stalls in a broadcast that commentators said did little to move the dial before polling day. The latest opinion poll on Wednesday put the parties in a tight grouping, with Fianna Fail slightly ahead of Sinn Fein and Fine Gael in joint second. After the 2020 general election delivered an inconclusive result, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, two parties forged from opposing sides of Ireland’s Civil War of the 1920s, agreed to set aside almost a century of animosity and share power – with the Greens as a junior partner. From 2016 to 2020, Fianna Fail had supported Fine Gael in power through a confidence-and-supply arrangement from the Opposition benches in the Dail parliament. Sinn Fein won the popular vote in 2020 but a failure to run enough candidates meant it did not secure sufficient seats in the Dail to give it a realistic chance of forming a government.jili777 pw index 。

The president of Panama is pushing back on rhetoric from President-elect Donald Trump after days of social media posts threatening to take back control of the Panama Canal. Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino spoke at a press conference Thursday in which he dismissed various assertions made by the president-elect about the canal, including the accusation that China is exerting influence over its traffic. “There is absolutely no Chinese interference or involvement in anything that has to do with the Panama Canal,” said Mulino. “There are no Chinese at the canal, no Chinese nor any other world power at the canal.” This week, Trump wished a Merry Christmas to the "wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal." It was the latest in a long series of criticisms made by Trump about the crucial maritime passage, which he believes is "ripping off" the United States with high shipping rates. “There is no discrimination against any warship, whether it be from the US or another country,” Mulino said at the Thursday press conference. “The canal is Panamanian and belongs to Panamanians, and there is no possibility of opening any kind of conversation around that reality." Trump announced Wednesday that he is appointing Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera as the U.S. ambassador to Panama. In the announcement, the president-elect called Panama a "country that is ripping us off on the Panama Canal, far beyond their wildest dreams." He has even floated the idea of demanding "the Panama Canal be returned to [the U.S.], in full, quickly and without question" if shipping rates are not lowered. The Panama Canal was operated entirely by the U.S. government until 1977. Negotiations and treaty stipulations slowly ceded control to the Panamanian government until 1999, when full control was turned over. Trump's feud with Panamanian leaders is part of a larger trend within his foreign policy rhetoric . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER In recent weeks, the president-elect has threatened to buy Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark and negotiate a deal to make Canada the "51st state." These expansionist machinations have drawn criticism from Canadian leaders, and Greenland's military has bolstered security in a token gesture of defiance.Golden Knights get help with returning players

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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Related Articles National Politics | Elon Musk’s preschool is the next step in his anti-woke education dreams National Politics | Trump’s picks for top health jobs not just team of rivals but ‘team of opponents’ National Politics | Biden will decide on US Steel acquisition after influential panel fails to reach consensus National Politics | Biden vetoes once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal judgeships, citing ‘hurried’ House action National Politics | A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can’t take it back on his own Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department’s operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Before Biden’s commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Berman said Trump’s statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump’s rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl’s mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden’s decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.US adds 9th telcom to list of companies hacked by Chinese-backed Salt Typhoon cyberespionage

NoneThe Super Football Conference released its All-Division football teams for the 2024 season. You can find the selections for the National White Division below. NOTE : The selections were made by coaches from the conference and not reporters from NJ.com . If an athlete’s name is misspelled, please let us know and we will make the correction. First Team Offense QB: Romelo Tables, Shabaazz, Sr. Skill: Jalen Cline, Shabazz, Sr. Skill: Keyon Thorpe, Snyder, Sr. Skill: Yahzeed Thomas, West Side, Sr. Skill: Daveion Porter, Shabazz, Sr. OL: Aaron Melick, Immaculata, Sr. OL: Ahmad Dominick, Lincoln, Sr. OL: Felix Santiago, Shabazz, Sr. OL: Luca Taddeo, Immaculata, Jr. OL: Michael Clark, Snyder, Sr. TE: Quinn Hayden, Immaculata, So. At-Large: Cole Hayden, Immaculata, Sr. First Team Defense DL: Davonta Harris, Shabazz, Jr. DL: Kahlil Knowlin, West Side, Sr. DL: Sajani Millwood, Weequahic, Sr. DL: Christian Lloyd, Snyder, So. LB: DJ McClary, Snyder, Sr. LB: Luke Laub, Immaculata, Sr. LB: Basir Shivers, Snyder, Sr. LB: Zaiden McDonald, Shabazz, Jr. DB: Shymier Hargrove, Snyder, Sr. DB: Mekhi Armour, Weequahic, Jr. DB: Omari Gaines, Shabazz, Sr. At-Large: Tyshaun Boyd, Weequahic, Jr. Special Teams K: Ibrahim Cisse, Weequahic, Sr. P: Mitchell Carr, Immaculata, So. R: Makai Walton, Lincoln, Sr. Second Team Offense QB: Paul Jones III, Weequahic, Jr. Skill: Kareem Anthony, Weequahic, Jr. Skill: Mekhi Casseus, Snyder, Sr. Skill: Akande Adonis, Weequahic, Sr. Skill: Daysir Spille, Immaculata, So. OL: Makai Dotch-Walker, Shabazz, So. OL: Zaire Reed, Snyder, Sr. OL: Javion Knight, Weequahic, So. OL: Khalil Hobson, Snyder, Sr. OL: Dai’ryus Cancel, Shabazz, Fr. At-Large: Ja’Shyne Hayes, Weequahic, Sr. Second Team Defense DL: Asekundi Adetayo, Shabazz, So. DL: Ben Doumbia, West Side, Sr. DL: Jordan Harrison, Immaculata, Jr. DL: Mike Reuben, Weequahic, Jr. LB: Asaad Reynolds, Shabazz, So. LB: Elijah Johnson, Weequahic, Sr. LB: Reynoldo Carter, Weequahic, Sr. LB: Jayrice Warde, West Side, Jr. DB: Omar Singleton, West Side, So. DB: Andrew Jones, Weequahic, Sr. DB: Samir Wilkins, Shabazz, Sr. Honorable Mention Vincent Smith, West Side, Sr. Nick Stokes, Immaculata, Jr. Robert Mack, Lincoln, Sr. Shamar Myers, Shabazz, Sr. Hebreux Jeantine, Snyder, Sr. Elijah Blakely, Weequahic, Sr. Coach of the Year Robert Hampton, Lincoln RECOMMENDED • nj .com Group 2 state semifinal football preview: Hot Shabazz battles resilient Hanover Park Nov. 21, 2024, 10:10 a.m. Late N.J. football coach was never all about winning, yet did that better than most Nov. 18, 2024, 9:41 p.m. Mike Kinney can be reached at mkinney@njadvancemedia.com . The N.J. High School Sports newsletter is now appearing in mailboxes 5 days a week. Sign up now! Follow us on social: Facebook | Instagram | X (formerly Twitter)