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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Tariq Francis had 23 points in NJIT's 69-64 win over Navy on Saturday. Francis shot 9 for 26 (1 for 8 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line for the Highlanders (2-9). Sebastian Robinson added 19 points while shooting 9 of 16 from the field while they also had five rebounds. Tim Moore Jr. went 4 of 6 from the field (1 for 3 from 3-point range) to finish with 10 points. The Midshipmen (3-7) were led in scoring by Donovan Draper, who finished with 22 points and 16 rebounds. Austin Benigni added 18 points and five assists for Navy. Aidan Kehoe also put up 10 points and seven rebounds. NJIT went into the half tied with Navy 33-33. Moore scored 10 points in the half. Francis' 17-point second half helped NJIT close out the five-point victory. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .ST. PAUL – Hunting pheasants, ruffed grouse, squirrels or rabbits offers Minnesota hunters opportunities to continue enjoying the outdoors as temperatures fall and snow blankets the landscape, the Department of Natural Resources said. Here’s a look at season dates for the small game species. Fisher, martin and bobcat trapping opens Saturday, Dec. 14, so hunters should be aware of the potential for additional traps in the woods. Hunters can find regulations and complete bag limit information on the DNR website at mndnr.gov/hunting . More information about how or where to hunt can be found on the DNR’s learn to hunt webpages at mndnr.gov/gohunting . Recorded webinars with tips on how to hunt pheasants, grouse, squirrels or rabbits are available in the webinar archive on the outdoor skills and stewardship page of the Minnesota DNR website at www.mndnr.gov/discover .
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Trenton McLaughlin scored 23 points as Northern Arizona beat South Dakota 95-82 on Saturday. McLaughlin shot 6 of 14 from the field, including 2 for 7 from 3-point range, and went 9 for 12 from the line for the Lumberjacks (7-3). Jayden Jackson scored 20 points while going 6 of 9 and 7 of 9 from the free-throw line and added seven assists. Monty Bowser had 14 points and shot 6 for 7, including 2 for 3 from beyond the arc. Isaac Bruns led the way for the Coyotes (7-4) with 22 points and seven rebounds. Chase Forte added 15 points, five assists and four steals for South Dakota. Paul Bruns also had nine points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .July uprising cases: Police extorting bribes from their ownPitt received a verbal commitment Monday from offensive tackle Kendall Stanley, who will arrive from Charlotte with three seasons of eligibility. Offensive line will be one of coach Pat Narduzzi’s priorties in the transfer portal this offseason after spotty play created problems this season, coupled with the losses of senior left tackle Branson Taylor and backup center Terrence Moore, who left for Toledo. Stanley (6-foot-5, 290 pounds) started 12 games at right tackle for Charlotte this season and was named honorable mention All-American Athletic Conference. He redshirted in 2022 and started one game in 2023 as a redshirt freshman. Ryan Baer, who will return next season as a redshirt junior, has played left and right tackle for Pitt, but moved to the left after Taylor was lost for the season with an injury. Stanley potentially can fill a need for Narduzzi in the starting lineup, even if Baer returns to the right side. Stanley also had scholarship offers from Virginia Tech, Oregon State, Kansas, Memphis, Texas-San Antonio, BYU, Miami (Fla.) and Michigan State, according to Rivals.com. He is Pitt’s third verbal commitment from the portal since the end of the season, joining kicker James London (Murray State) and wide receiver Deuce Spann (Florida State).
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WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review whether California can set its own vehicle emissions rules to transition away from gasoline powered cars. What California does shapes national emissions standards because of its large customer base for automakers. But “the Golden State is not the golden child,” Ohio and 16 other states with GOP attorneys general c omplained to the Supreme Court. And the fuel producers and sellers that are separately challenging California’s rules argue that the state is unlawfully acting as a “quasi-federal regulator on global climate change.” The issue is whether the Environmental Protection Agency can allow California to impose emissions standards on new vehicles that are tougher than the federal government’s. The Clean Air Act permits that under certain conditions. That provision was intended in part to address the fact the climate and topography of the nation’s most populous state makes pollution from tailpipe emissions harder to control. But the GOP states argue Congress didn’t have the authority to carve out special permission for California because “no state is more equal than the others.” “And California’s vast economy means that whatever regulations California imposes will likely set the market for the rest of the nation,” they told the Supreme Court. Separately, fuel producers argue that California’s efforts to phase out gasoline-powered cars don't meet the law’s conditions for special treatment because climate change is not specific to California. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the challenge, saying the oil industry groups hadn’t shown they’d be sufficiently harmed by California’s standards. While the fuel producers say it’s self evident fuel consumption will go down, the appeals court found automakers were already transitioning toward electric vehicles by the time the challenge was filed. EPA takes different positions during the Trump and Biden administrations Complicating the issue is the fact that the EPA took different positions on California’s rules during the Trump and Biden administrations. The Trump administration revoked California’s permission slip , saying it violated federal law. The Biden administration restored the waiver , which is in effect through model year 2025. California’s request to impose standards well beyond that is pending with the EPA. The state wants to end the sale of new vehicles that run solely on gasoline by 2035. And the EPA announced its own rules this year to cut tailpipe emissions in half by 2032. Those rules, which President-elect Donald Trump has promised to repeal, are also being challenged by oil industry groups and Republican states. The Supreme Court is expected to decide the case, Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, by summer.Dow ends at fresh record as oil prices pull back on ceasefire hopes
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There's breaking news from the astronomy world. Astronomers have confirmed that we really don't understand something we only suspected we didn't understand, in yet another study after years of their observations clashing with theorists' predictions. And we can hope their new measurements helps us ultimately understand it because, at least, now we know what we were wrong about. What am I talking about? Well, it's something called the "Hubble tension," and it's a dispute between observational astronomers and theoretical cosmologists about who's been wrong about how fast the universe is expanding. Now new observations from the James Webb Space telescope, published this week in The Astrophysical Journal , back up previous measurements that peg the speed of the expansion as faster than what the theoreticians believe it should be. That's made the score 2-1 for the astronomers and the theoreticians have some explaining to do. Let's take this one step by step. In 1929, American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced his discovery that galaxies scattered throughout the universe are moving away from each other — and that the farther away they are, the faster they are moving. This suggests that the universe is expanding as the space between the distant galaxies stretches outwards. Hubble's landmark discovery has challenged scientists ever since, as they try to determine just how fast that expansion is with a value known as the Hubble constant. An artist's concept showing the expansion of the universe over time since the Big Bang. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Fast forward to 1998 when two independent teams of astronomers used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to peer deeper and farther back into the universe than had ever been possible before. They discovered, shockingly, that something very weird was happening. They found that the rate at which the universe was expanding was increasing over time. This was like throwing a baseball up in the air and finding it not falling back to Earth, but accelerating into outer space. Thus was born the notion of dark energy, the mysterious force that somehow causes the universe's expansion to accelerate, possibly by causing space itself to expand. These paradoxical discoveries threw a wrench into the standard model of cosmology, a mathematical model of the history and evolution of the universe that told the story of its expansion from the moments after the Big Bang. Theorists happily integrated the dark energy into their math, as well as another mysterious factor: dark matter, an invisible and undetectable cosmological phenomenon whose immense gravitational influence pervades the universe. It was a beautiful new theory. But the math and observations from the universe wouldn't cooperate. The standard model predicts that the modern universe should be expanding at a rate of 67.4 kilometres per second per megaparsec (km/s/Mpc) , where a megaparsec covers a huge distance of 3.26 million light-years. But models are only as good as the blackboards they are written on. The Hubble telescope precisely measured the rate at which the universe is expanding by looking at relatively nearby galaxies, and in 2018 found a higher rate of 72.8 km/s/Mpc. This, I can only imagine, led to awkward encounters in physics department common rooms in universities around the world, as the theoreticians and the astronomers desperately pretended that those few megaparsecs weren't that big a deal. As I said — "Hubble tension." In 2023, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope seemed to back up the Hubble Space Telescope findings. Then in February 2024, the same team updated their research with even more data backing up their initial findings. The tension, in other words, continued. The latest study using the largest sample of Webb observations yet, and three different methods to cross-check the Hubble telescope data, arrive at a very similar value of 72.6 km/s/Mpc. The two space telescopes' findings bolster the case there is something, other than measurement error, influencing the universe's expansion rate — and that our theoretical understanding of the universe is incomplete. The Cepheid variable star, used as a reference for measuring the universe’s rate of expansion, is much crisper in the Webb version, left, compared to the Hubble image, right. (Adam G. Riess/Johns Hopkins University/Space Telescope Science Institute/Canadian Space Agency/European Space Agency/NASA) This, for both the theorists and the astronomers, is good news. The astronomers get to be right, which is nice. The theorists get to look for one of the holy grails of science: new physics, which roughly translates as "clean the blackboards — it's game on!" They know their old math was wrong, which means there's something new out there to discover. This is often how basic science works. The theoreticians and experimentalists are volleying back and forth to find the ultimate truth. This may sound far removed from everyday life — and while it won't influence how much tax you pay this year, it is attempting to answer the basic question of how we got here. And when we probe the fundamental forces that shape the universe as a whole, sometimes new discoveries are made that could have amazing implications in the future.
(Bloomberg) -- New York’s controversial congestion pricing project cleared a pair of hurdles as two federal judges declined to put the traffic plan on hold just weeks before it is scheduled to begin. US District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan on Monday rejected a request from a handful of groups to pause the program while their lawsuits proceed, which would have stopped the tolls from going into effect next month. Hours later, US District Judge Cathy Seibel in White Plains declined to grant injunctions sought by suburban Rockland and Orange counties. The plan isn’t completely in the clear for a Jan. 5 launch. A federal judge in New Jersey may decide at any time to send the plan back for additional environmental review following a challenge from the Garden State. There is also a lawsuit by the Long Island town of Hempstead pending in state court. But the rulings in Manhattan and White Plains are a boon for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Governor Kathy Hochul. She recently reinstated a revised version of the plan, which would give the MTA revenue to modernize a transit system that is more than 100 years old and has been neglected for years. Judges’ Reasoning Liman issued his decision after hearing arguments against the plan from a variety of groups on Friday, including the Trucking Association of New York, residents of Battery Park, the United Federation of Teachers, and New Yorkers Against Congestion Pricing Tax, which describes itself as a community-based organization representing area residents concerned with the costs and environmental impacts of the program. In his opinion, Liman said that granting the injunction “would negatively harm the public interest as it would delay the environmental and economic benefits” the program was designed to provide and force the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority to “bear a sizeable financial burden.” Why New York Made a U-Turn on Congestion Pricing: QuickTake “Numerous studies have established that the congestion addressed by the tolling program itself, if unchecked by that program, will also continue to impose tremendous costs on individuals and businesses throughout the New York metropolitan region,” the judge wrote. “Those costs are economic and environmental.” At a hearing in White Plains Monday, Seibel said that she recognized that the program “is going to be more costly to some groups than to others,” and that while the decision to implement congestion pricing may be “unfair or unwise,” that is “not the same as unconstitutional.” Rockland County had alleged the tolls unfairly force residents to take mass transit despite limited options for commuters. “There are pros and cons of living in Rockland and Orange counties,” she said. “This is one of the cons.” Liman said delaying the program would result in $12 million in additional costs per month for the city and state transportation agencies and lost revenue of about $40 million a month. Delaying the revenues “would additionally prevent the MTA from undertaking beneficial capital programs such as investments in the region’s subways, buses, and commuter railroad, measures to make numerous subway stations more accessible to individuals with disabilities, improving outdated signaling, improving safety and customer service, and extending public transit to underserved areas,” the judge wrote. Barrage of Challenges The first of the suits before Liman was filed in November 2023 by Families for a Better Plan for Congestion, a group of Battery Park residents who claimed the plan fails to consider the effects of an expected surge in traffic into the parts of their neighborhood exempted from the toll. They were followed by the United Federation of Teachers, which contends congestion pricing unfairly burdens city teachers who live in places without access to mass transit. The union was joined by Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, who argues his constituents will face higher commuting costs, more traffic and worse air quality. Among the concerned residents in the suit by New Yorkers Against Congestion Pricing Tax are the owner of a funeral home in the East Village, a New York City teacher who serves as a caretaker for his life partner, a blind New Jersey resident confined to a wheelchair and the owner of a Chinatown ice cream parlor. The groups argued that federal and state agencies failed to take advantage of the governor’s pause to further study the plan’s potential disparate impacts, in violation of the State Administrative Procedure Act. Liman in June rejected arguments by some of the opponents that the environmental review process was flawed. Separately, Judge Leo Gordon hasn’t set a date to rule on a suit by the Garden State suit since a two-day hearing held in April, before Hochul paused congestion pricing in June just as it was set to start. She then announced the revised plan last month. Lawyers for New Jersey have urged Gordon to issue his decision as soon as possible. (Updates with White Plains judge’s ruling in second paragraph.) More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com ©2024 Bloomberg L.P.
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OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship'HOPE Qatar Centre for Persons with Disabilities celebrated the completion of 18 years with a three-hour cultural extravaganza that brought on stage over 100 students with intellectual and physical disabilities who left the audience in awe. Students studying at HOPE Qatar, representing 19 different nationalities, converged at the Awsaj Academy auditorium in Qatar Foundation’s Education City this weekend in front of an audience comprising Qatari and expatriate communities, Bangladesh ambassador Mohamed Nazrul Islam, Indonesian ambassador Ridwan Hassan, Indian embassy first secretary Eish Singhal, parents, and other well-wishers. The celebration was based on the theme ‘Beats Across Borders’ and conducted on a day after the International Day of Persons with Disabilities was celebrated across the world. The performance by the students included dances from across different countries including India, Bangladesh, Romania, Africa, Spain, Egypt, Portugal, Philippines, Indonesia, England, and Ireland. Students in the 3-25 age range danced to various popular tunes often bringing the applauding audience to its feet. The students were also accompanied by HOPE Qatar staff members in some performances. The faculty also performed a medley of dances including Tinikiling (Filipino), Dabke (Arab), and Kalbeliya (Rajasthan) reflective of the diversity among the team consisting of representatives from over 16 countries. A solo song by Arth, a student, was received with a standing ovation from the audience for his soulful voice and rendition. A special award ceremony honoured 19 differently-abled HOPE Qatar students who had transitioned into the mainstream schools during the previous academic year. The class teachers of such students who transitioned were also given certificates of appreciation. Founder and chief mentor Dr Rajeev Thomas said the annual events enhance the confidence of the students, and also ensure they learn essential social skills while practising and performing. “A heightened sense of discipline, and systematic learning is required by each participant to be able to co-ordinate all the movements and steps needed for such a show, and it becomes more challenging when children with special needs are involved. “The team at HOPE Qatar has consistently enabled these children to demonstrate to the society that if given the right opportunities at the right time, children and youth with disabilities can achieve great success in their lives.” Dr Thomas also called upon the educators, lawmakers, parents and the general public to come together to ensure the creation of support systems that are essential for individuals with disabilities to thrive in the community. Bangladesh ambassador described HOPE Qatar as one of his favourite places in Qatar. “I am constantly surprised that each year the team comes up with something more than last year. It is such events that helps the individuals with disabilities to demonstrate their abilities in spite of their challenges,” he added. Indonesian envoy said the event has proven that individuals with disabilities have the potential, and wherever they are given an opportunity, they will shine. He recounted how his own daughter studying at HOPE Qatar has shown tremendous progress in her studies and has cleared the open schooling examinations and is gearing up for further studies. “As we as the family and community grow to accept out differently-abled children, in addition to facilitating their academic, social and emotional learning, we will also become more optimistic as we follow their development and growth to become their best selves,” he said. Singhal, who represented Indian ambassador Vipul, commended the efforts and enthusiasm shown by the students on stage. He applauded the HOPE Qatar team for integrating the children with such efforts, patience and enthusiasm. Gabriella Galatanu, a Romanian national and mother of Stefan, a student, spoke to the audience about the developments in her son’s life after joining HOPE Qatar. “With a heart filled with gratitude, and great appreciation for this incredible school and its staff, I acknowledge that Stefan my son has been a part of this community since 2019, and these years have been nothing short of transformative for him and our family,” she said. “As a parent, I always wanted an environment where he would not only learn, but also would feel included, feel understood, and also celebrated for who he is as a person. HOPE Qatar has provided exactly that and helped him to grow socially and emotionally, and nurtured his social skills in such a way that brings us so much pride,” she concluded while thanking the teachers for their patience, understanding and attitude of never giving up. Related Story QNL to lead transformation as IFLA Mena Regional Office QND celebrations begin at Katara
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