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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) turned lower on Friday, shedding another 140 points and dragging the equity index into the low end while its major counterparts step higher on better-than-expected Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) job additions. The US NFP net jobs count rebounded firmly in November, rising by 227K versus the forecast 220K, recovering from October’s revised 36K. However, the also rose to 4.2% as expected in November, ticking up from the previous month’s 4.1%. The upswing in reported jobless consumers crimped the market’s overall upbeat mood, keeping bullish momentum capped across global equity markets. Markets have upped their bets of of a 25 bps rate cut from the Federal Reserve (Fed) on December 18. Rate traders piled into odds of at least a quarter-point trim in two weeks, raising them to 85%, with the remaining 15% of betters still banking on a hold call from the Fed. Dow Jones news Despite a dip in the headline index, the Dow Jones was roughly balanced on Friday, with half of the board’s listed stocks rising through the day’s trading. However, key losses on the bottom end are dragging down the average headline rating, with the day’s top-performing DJIA-listed stock unable to counteract the backslide.Amazon (AMZN) rose 3% on Friday, pushing above $227 per share as the giant company’s share price continues to rise to record highs. Unitedhealth Group (UNH) dragged the Dow Jones lower on Friday, tumbling another 5% and falling beneath $550 per share after the CEO of the health giant’s insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down in broad daylight this week in New York. The head of UnitedHealthcare was exiting his hotel early in the morning, heading to a shareholder’s meeting. The chief steward of one of the US’ most prolific claims rejector, with roughly 30% of all health coverage requests being rejected, has become post-humously famous for being the head of the insurance company that intentionally handed over control of client health claims to an AI with a 90% inaccuracy rating. Dow Jones price forecast Despite softening further on Friday and dragging the major equity index into a down week, the Dow Jones is trading firmly into bull country and still holding north of 44,500. The DJIA slipped back below the 45,000 major handle , but bearish pressure remains tepid at best. The Dow Jones is still up over 18% YTD, having gained nearly 7.6% in November alone. An extended pullback to the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) rising through 43,350 will likely see a fresh round of tailwinds as investors remain staunch bidders. Dow Jones daily chart Dow Jones FAQs The Dow Jones Industrial Average, one of the oldest stock market indices in the world, is compiled of the 30 most traded stocks in the US. The index is price-weighted rather than weighted by capitalization. It is calculated by summing the prices of the constituent stocks and dividing them by a factor, currently 0.152. The index was founded by Charles Dow, who also founded the Wall Street Journal. In later years it has been criticized for not being broadly representative enough because it only tracks 30 conglomerates, unlike broader indices such as the S&P 500. Many different factors drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). The aggregate performance of the component companies revealed in quarterly company earnings reports is the main one. US and global macroeconomic data also contributes as it impacts on investor sentiment. The level of interest rates, set by the Federal Reserve (Fed), also influences the DJIA as it affects the cost of credit, on which many corporations are heavily reliant. Therefore, inflation can be a major driver as well as other metrics which impact the Fed decisions. Dow Theory is a method for identifying the primary trend of the stock market developed by Charles Dow. A key step is to compare the direction of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA) and only follow trends where both are moving in the same direction. Volume is a confirmatory criteria. The theory uses elements of peak and trough analysis. Dow’s theory posits three trend phases: accumulation, when smart money starts buying or selling; public participation, when the wider public joins in; and distribution, when the smart money exits. There are a number of ways to trade the DJIA. One is to use ETFs which allow investors to trade the DJIA as a single security, rather than having to buy shares in all 30 constituent companies. A leading example is the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA). DJIA futures contracts enable traders to speculate on the future value of the index and Options provide the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the index at a predetermined price in the future. Mutual funds enable investors to buy a share of a diversified portfolio of DJIA stocks thus providing exposure to the overall index.Adani team unveils huge market value collapse after US fraud charges
After entering Aleppo, Syrian insurgents advance to a nearby province in a major setback for AssadALDI Ireland is set to sell an amazing car staple for just €16.49 - and it's set to fly off the shelves. With the ongoing cost of living crisis and increased diesel prices, this product will help you save euros on your driving fuels. Carlube AdBlue 10L is priced at €16.49 and will be hitting the shelves on December 1. It is designed to reduce harmful nitrogen oxide emissions produced by diesel engines by adding the product to your car's dedicated AdBlue tank. It comes with an easy-pour flexible spout, making adding it to your car easier without making a mess. It is proven to "improve fuel economy", helping motorists to save money and reduce emissions by going an extra few kilometres as it reduces 5 per cent of fuel usage. It is suitable for Euro 4, 5 & 6 diesel engines and is fitted with SCR systems. The product is well-loved by motorists as it helps them save extra cash on their fuel. One person wrote: "Brought this item and it’s price is amazing and it’s value for money." Another added: "I bought this product last month and it's been a game-changer for me." The third person said: "This product dramatically improved diesel emissions; I highly recommend it!" And Aldi have also introduced another driving essential product. As winter has officially kicked off, there are a number of extra steps motorists need to take before getting on the road in winter. For example, it's important to make sure your car heats up before driving and you should remember that braking distances increase in the snow. Another important tip is keeping your windscreen clear from snow, ensuring that you can see out of all of it - and not just a small gap. But as well as this, your car windows should always be clean to ensure a larger field of view. Aldi Ireland will now sell a must-have product to help you achieve this. The Winter Screen Wash will hit the middle aisle on December 1, and will be available while stocks last. The 5L bottle is described as a "vehicle essential" to ensure you are never caught with a dirty screen. The fluid is ready to ruse and anti-smear, keeping your windscreens free from dust, dirt, pollen and more.
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A U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Friday in favor of upholding a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban. Here is what will likely happen next for TikTok. WHAT’S NEXT FOR TIKTOK IN COURT? TikTok and its parent ByteDance sued in federal court to block a U.S. law passed in April that would force ByteDance to divest of TikTok. It argued that the law would harm free speech. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the government, citing national security considerations related to China. | The ruling could be appealed to the Supreme Court before the ban takes effect on Jan. 19. Last year, TikTok took similar legal actions to stop a ban on the app in the state of Montana, where a preliminary injunction was granted. HOW DID THIS START AND HOW LONG WILL THIS ALL TAKE? In August 2020, then-President Donald Trump sought to ban both TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat, but was blocked by courts. In June 2021, President Joe Biden withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok. However, legislators later advanced a bill that compelled ByteDance to divest or face a ban. It passed with wide margins in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. To be considered a qualified divestiture, the president must determine TikTok is no longer controlled by and would have no operational relationship with a Chinese entity. When Biden signed the bill in April, a 270-day clock started. If Biden certifies a path to a qualified divestiture has been identified, there is evidence of “significant” progress toward a sale and there are legally binding agreements in place, he can authorize an additional 90 days for any deal to be finalized. The additional time would throw the final decision to President-elect Trump, who has said he will not allow TikTok, which is used by 170 million Americans, to be banned. At least one senator has noted that Trump cannot ignore the TikTok law. U.S. tech companies could face billions of dollars in fines if they allowed users to access TikTok after Jan. 19 and even if Trump said he would not enforce the law, they could face potential risks from others who might seek to enforce it. WILL TIKTOK CHANGE AT ALL? The TikTok app should not change for its U.S. users between now and Jan. 19. WHAT DOES THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT SAY? China has a list of technologies that would need Chinese government approval before they are exported. Experts said TikTok’s recommendation algorithm would fall under the list, making divestment very difficult for ByteDance. (Reporting by Chris Sanders; additional reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Jonathan Oatis) The application deadline for Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards is this Friday, December 6, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.CHICAGO — A chilly Chicago winter doesn’t necessarily mean the African lions at the Lincoln Park Zoo have to go inside. In fact, as temperatures dip — even as cold as 10 degrees or in the snow — the pride may huddle up on heated rocks in their exhibit to spend more time relaxing outdoors. “They also have access to indoor holding areas in the winter, so if they want to go into a space that’s completely enclosed and warmer, they can go in there whenever they like,” said Dave Bernier, the zoo’s general curator. “We give them the choice, and luckily, they choose the exhibit spaces a lot more than they choose the holding spaces.” Lions aren’t the only species that are better equipped for the winter than one might expect. Specialists at Chicago’s zoos say they use a combination of technology and habitat features to prepare months in advance to properly care for every animal with unique requirements for the season, from polar bears to koalas to flamingoes. The Lincoln Park Zoo prefers to find species that can be outside for the four seasons, based on their temperature guidelines, Bernier said. But, like for the lions, which are found in sub-Saharan Africa, where temperatures usually range between 65 to 85 degrees, there’s a bit of creativity involved to give them a boost in the winter. The lion exhibit, Bernier said, has about 20 of the heated rocks, which have a surface temperature between 55 and 60 degrees. He said the zoo determined the size and placement of the rocks — which helped make them as comfortable as possible — using behavioral data from the previous lion exhibit. There’s also an overhanging shelter so the lions can escape the rain or snow, and they can head inside to a holding area if they want to, he said. Some animals require a bit more oversight, however, including the two male koalas named Brumby and Willum at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The fuzzy animals, which are native to Australia and made their debut at the zoo this summer , are allowed outdoors only if it’s above 40, said Mark Wanner, the associate vice president of animal care and conservation. Unlike most other mammals, a koala has a smooth surface on its brain, meaning it’s unable to draw conclusions or make simple decisions. This means that the zoo staff keeps a close eye on the duo when it’s between 40 and 60 degrees, because the koalas can’t always choose themselves to head inside. “Their cognitive ability is not quite what it would be in a lion, so to speak,” Wanner said. When it starts getting cold out, Wanner said, specialists decide day by day whether it’s safe for various animals to be outside. The wind is also a big factor, he added. “We tend to err on the side of caution, because we do get such drastic drops in temperature and such extreme temperatures here,” he said, adding that some animals, such as brown bears, grow additional hair or fur during the winter to cope with colder weather. To monitor surface and ambient temperatures, humidity and wind speeds, the zoo uses a tool called a “thermal neutral zone kit,” Wanner said. Employees point it at an animal’s habitat to track thermal zones, checking, for example, whether a rock is putting off a sufficient amount of heat. The zoo also has temperature sensors installed in buildings that notify the staff if something goes awry, he said. Both zoos start “weatherproofing” for the winter around September, including switching on heating elements and, at Lincoln Park, a snow melt system for the penguin exhibit. Brookfield employees lay out extra bedding for some animals inside their indoor habitats, what Wanner called their “bedroom,” and make sure water lines are protected. On the flip side, the zoos provide fans, ice and cooling areas to some animals in the summer, such as polar bears and gorillas. Bernier said it’s important to find animals to bring into the zoo that are the right match for Chicago’s climate. When the Lincoln Park Zoo opened the Pepper Family Wildlife Center, it opted to bring in the Canada lynx and snow leopard, rather than an ocelot or margay, small carnivores that live in tropical climates, because they wouldn’t have been able to handle the winters, he said. Snow leopards, which are large cats that weigh up to 120 pounds and found in central Asia, can be outside when it’s below freezing. But Bernier said the animal care team may consider bringing them inside for short periods of time if it hits 20 degrees. It’s one of the “hardy” species at the zoo that are actually suited to cool climates and are quite active during the season. Others include the red pandas and Sichuan takins, as well as the Mexican gray wolf at Brookfield. Lincoln Park Zoo’s plains zebras, which Bernier said are found in very far southern Africa and experience more seasonal rather than temperate climates, can be outside almost all year round in Chicago. The zoo also chose African penguins rather than Antarctic ones, so they don’t have to be kept cool through refrigeration all year. Their pool is heated in the winter and cooled in the summer, he added. The animal Bernier said visitors are usually the most surprised to see outside in the winter is the pink flamingoes. The zoo is home to Chilean flamingoes, which are smaller, live in high altitudes and can tolerate extreme temperatures — even well below freezing — much more so than the Caribbean kind, which Bernier said the zoo once owned and had to put inside a building for half the year. Bernier said the winter is a “fantastic” time to visit the zoo, and that some of his favorite moments are watching the rhinos and polar bears play in the snow. “They like to be out in the snow, and it’s kind of fun to watch them roll around in the snow and see how much they enjoy that kind of weather,” he said. Gov. J.B. Pritzker cuts the ribbon for the 2024 Illinois State Fair and takes questions from reporters on Thursday, Aug. 8. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!NEW YORK — There's a Christmas Day basketball game at Walt Disney World, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Wemby. An animated game, anyway. The real game takes place at Madison Square Garden, where Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs face the New York Knicks in a game televised on ABC and ESPN and streamed on Disney+ and ESPN+. The special alt-cast, the first animated presentation of an NBA game, will be shown on ESPN2 and also stream on Disney+ and ESPN+. Madison Square Garden is a staple of the NBA's Christmas schedule. Now it merges with a bigger home of the holidays, because the "Dunk the Halls" game will be staged at Disney, on a court set up right smack in the middle of where countless families have posed for vacation photos. Why that location? Because it was Mickey Mouse's Christmas wish. "Basketball courts often have the ability to make a normal environment look special, but in Disney it can only turn out incredible," Wembanyama said in an ESPN video promoting his Christmas debut. The story — this is Disney, after all — begins with Mickey penning a letter to Santa Claus, asking if he and his pals can host a basketball game. They'll not only get to watch one with NBA players, but some of them will even get to play. Goofy and Donald Duck will sub in for a couple Knicks players, while Mickey and Minnie Mouse will come on to play for the Spurs. "It looks to me like Goofy and Jalen Brunson have a really good pick-and-roll at the elite level," said Phil Orlins, an ESPN vice president of production. Walt Disney World hosted real NBA games in 2020, when the league set up there to complete its season that had been suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those games were played at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. The setting for the Christmas game will be Main Street USA, at the entrance of the Magic Kingdom. Viewers will recognize Cinderella's castle behind one baseline and the train station at the other end, and perhaps some shops they have visited in between. Previous alternate animated broadcasts included an NFL game taking place in Andy's room from "Toy Story;" the "NHL Big City Greens Classic" during a game between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers; and earlier this month, another NFL matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys also taking place at Springfield's Atoms Stadium as part of "The Simpsons Funday Football." Unlike basketball, the players are helmeted in those sports. So, this telecast required an extra level of detail and cooperation with players and teams to create accurate appearances of their faces and hairstyles. "So, this is a level of detail that we've never gone, that we've never done on any other broadcast," said David Sparrgrove, the senior director of creative animation for ESPN. Wembanyama, the 7-foot-3 phenom from France who was last season's NBA Rookie of the Year, looks huge even among most NBA players. The creators of the alternate telecast had to design how he'd look not only among his teammates and rivals, but among mice, ducks and chipmunks. "Like, Victor Wembanyama, seeing him in person is insane. It's like seeing an alien descend on a basketball court, and I think we kind of captured that in his animated character," said Drew Carter, who will again handle play-by-play duties, as he had in the previous animated telecasts, and will get an assist from sideline reporter Daisy Duck. Wembanyama's presence is one reason the Spurs-Knicks matchup, the leadoff to the NBA's five-game Christmas slate, was the obvious choice to do the animated telecast. The noon EST start means it will begin in the early evening in France and should draw well there. Also, it comes after ABC televises the "Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade" for the previous two hours, providing more time to hype the broadcast. Recognizing that some viewers who then switch over to the animated game may be Disney experts but NBA novices, there will be 10 educational explainers to help with basketball lingo and rules. Beyond Sports' visualization technology and Sony's Hawk-Eye tracking allow the animated players to make the same movements and plays made moments earlier by the real ones at MSG. Carter and analyst Monica McNutt will be animated in the style of the telecast, donning VR headsets to experience the game from Main Street, USA. Other animated faces recognizable to some viewers include NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who will judge a halftime dunk contest among Mickey and his friends, and Santa himself, who will operate ESPN's "SkyCam" during the game. The players are curious how the production — and themselves — will look. "It's going to be so crazy to see the game animated," Spurs veteran Chris Paul said. "I think what's dope about it is it will give kids another opportunity to watch a game and to see us, basically, as characters." Get local news delivered to your inbox!
President-elect Donald Trump 's repeated support for TikTok has sparked speculation about potential solutions to prevent the app's impending ban in the United States, though the path forward remains unclear. ET Year-end Special Reads Gold outshines D-St with 20% returns, but 2025 may be different The year of the pause: How RBI maneuvered its policy in 2024 2024, the year India defeated China's salami-slicing strategy "We got to keep this sucker around for a little while," Trump told supporters on Sunday, just days after meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Florida. Instagram and Facebook Trump, who credits the wildly popular platform with delivering him a large young user base, opposes banning TikTok partly because he believes it would primarily benefit Meta, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company behind Instagram and Facebook. 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US officials and lawmakers grew wary of the potential for the Chinese government to influence ByteDance or access the data of TikTok's American users. Even with Trump's decisive election victory and incoming Republican-led Congress, acquiescing to the president-elect's desire and preventing the ban faces significant hurdles. The law enjoyed rare bipartisan support in a divided Washington, making its outright repeal through a vote in Congress politically unlikely even with Trump's influence over Republicans. US Supreme Court and TikTok The Supreme Court may offer the clearest path forward. TikTok has appealed to the nation's highest court, arguing the law violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The court, which is dominated by Trump-aligned conservatives, will hear the case on January 10, just nine days before the ban takes effect. This follows a lower appeals court's unanimous decision to uphold the law in December. Another possibility, according to Tobias, is that a Trump-led Department of Justice could determine ByteDance has addressed the law's national security concerns. However, such a move would likely be seen as caving to China by Congress and others. The final option is ByteDance selling to a non-Chinese buyer, though the company has consistently refused this possibility. With 170 million monthly active users, acquiring TikTok's US operations would require substantial resources. As president, Trump could extend the ban deadline by 90 days to facilitate a transaction. Potential TikTok Buyers Few potential buyers have emerged, with major tech companies likely deterred by antitrust concerns. Former Trump Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, who runs a private equity fund backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala sovereign wealth fund, has expressed interest. During a recent event with Trump, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son pledged to invest $100 billion in the US economy, though specific investments weren't detailed. Other contenders include US real estate billionaire Frank McCourt, who aims to make social media safer through his Project Liberty organization. Elon Musk, given his proximity to Trump and ownership of X, could also have a role to play, as he has expressed plans to transform the text-focused platform into something more like TikTok. A senior Republican lawmaker recently suggested Trump might orchestrate a "deal of the century" satisfying both US concerns and ByteDance's interests. The chairman of the US House committee on China, John Moolenaar, told Fox News Digital that once ByteDance accepts it must comply with US law, the situation could progress rapidly. Any agreement would need Beijing's approval, with US-China relations expected to remain tense during Trump's upcoming term. 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England Test captain Ben Stokes faces at least three months out after tearing his left hamstring during the tour of New Zealand, team management announced on Tuesday. Watch every ball of Australia v India LIVE & ad-break free during play in 4K on Kayo | New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. The 33-year-old all-rounder had already been ruled out of next year’s Champions Trophy one-day international tournament in Pakistan and the preceding white-ball tour of India. Further assessments have since revealed the full extent of the injury, with Stokes set to undergo surgery in January, said an England and Wales Cricket Board statement. Stokes suffered the injury while bowling during the third Test against New Zealand in Hamilton last week. Stokes did not bat in the second innings of that match as England slumped to a 423-run defeat -- a result that meant his side still won a three-match series 2-1. “Something else to overcome...go on then!!!!!!!! I’ve got so much more left in this tank and so much more blood, sweat and tears to go through for my team and this shirt,” Stokes wrote on social media. “There’s a reason I have a Phoenix permanently inked on my body. See you on the field to f*** some s*** up.” Stokes previously missed this year’s home series against Sri Lanka and the first Test in Pakistan after tearing the hamstring on the same left leg in August. England’s next Test is at home to Zimbabwe in May. They will then host a five-match Test series against India starting in June before their pinnacle 2025/26 Ashes tour of Australia.ICEYE expands its Earth Observation capabilities with launch of two SAR satellites for mid-inclination orbit on the Bandwagon-2 mission with SpaceX
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U.S. Economy Improved in November — Chicago Fed-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Early this summer fans and online sleuths alike questioned what exactly happened behind-the-scenes between "It Ends With Us" co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Based on the Colleen Hoover bestseller, "It Ends With Us" is about a florist named Lily (Lively) who falls in love with neurosurgeon Ryle (Baldoni), whom Lily slowly discovers is abusive. The movie grossed $350 million worldwide and was released on Netflix earlier this month. Beyond the film's popularity, the alleged behind-the-scenes turmoil has also spilled through to audiences. Shedding light on some of the speculation on what happened is in a new lawsuit filed by Lively on Friday that alleges sexual harassment, retaliation and an orchestrated media campaign to harm her reputation by Baldoni, the film's co-star and director. The lawsuit details unsettling behavior on set that led Lively to take protection against herself from Baldoni and a producer. An exposé by The New York Times has also detailed the elaborate social media machine allegedly used against Lively during the movie's press tour. Salon breaks down the events leading up to the lawsuit, the complaint and the bombshell New York Times exposé: Related Here's the "It Ends With Us" controversy people aren’t talking about November 2023: Lively goes to the studio with safeguard demands Lively's concerns about Baldoni were documented from the beginning. Before shooting even began, Lively refused to do additional sex scenes that Baldoni pushed because she considered them gratuitous, according to the complaint. Then later, when production was set to resume filming post-Hollywood strikes , Lively went to the film's production company Wayfarer with a letter demanding safeguards. “Our client is willing to forego a more formal HR process in favor of everyone returning to work and finishing the Film as long as the set is safe moving forward,” the letter stated. According to her legal complaint, she said Baldoni had improvised nonconsensual kissing and discussed his sex life. Lively also claimed that he shared experiences where he may not have received consent from previous partners. The complaint also says that Jamey Heath, the film's producer who is also Baldoni's podcast co-host, allegedly showed her nude videos of his wife. She also alleges he walked into Lively's dressing room while she was topless and having body makeup removed. She said both men would walk into her dressing room unannounced while she was undressed, even when she was breastfeeding. Wayfarer acknowledged that “Although our perspective differs in many aspects, ensuring a safe environment for all is paramount,” according to her legal complaint. April-May 2024: Creative differences plague Baldoni and Lively's working relationship While Lively said that the men’s behavior on set had improved with the new protections, she said she was at a creative standstill with Heath and Baldoni. With the support of Sony, the film's distributor, she made her own cut of the film. Lively's version of the film includes different scenes, editing and adding music Lively handpicked like using her friend Taylor Swift 's song "My Tears Ricochet." Sony went with Lively's version and she received a producer credit. As the film's release got closer, Lively and other cast members told Sony and Wayfarer they would not do press appearances with Baldoni. Hoover had allegedly also soured on Baldoni after he told her about Lively's allegations. May 2024: Baldoni allegedly gets the ball rolling on a plan against Lively Months after filming had wrapped on "It Ends With Us," Baldoni realized that Lively's husband, actor Ryan Reynolds , had blocked him on Instagram. In texts obtained through the Times, Baldoni pointed out the growing contention between him and Lively as a possible issue when the film would begin being promoted. He told a publicist who worked at Wayfarer, “We should have a plan for IF she does the same when movie comes out. Plans make me feel more at ease.” August 2, 2024: Baldoni retains the public relations expert who represented Johnny Depp Just weeks before the film's premiere, Wayfarer and Baldoni had hired crisis management expert, Melissa Nathan, who is known for working with high-profile celebrities like Drake and Travis Scott . But her most significant client is Johnny Depp , whom she represented during the 2022 defamation trial with his ex-wife Amber Heard , who had accused him of abuse in 2016. He won , but the trial became a social media spectacle with claims of an online smear campaign working against Heard to damage her credibility. Nathan left her longtime firm to start her own business called TAG PR, which counts music executive and manager Scooter Braun among its majority stakeholders. Braun is a longtime public adversary of Swift after he bought her masters , which prompted the singer to rerecord her first six albums to retake ownership of her music. This detail will come up again later. Meanwhile, during conversations with Baldoni, Nathan formulated a plan with talking points about how Lively used "an imbalance of power to take creative control of the film." However, this wasn't enough for Baldoni. “Not in love with the document they sent,” he texted Heath and another publicist, Jennifer Abel. “Not sure I’m feeling the protection I felt on the call.” Abel texted Nathan: “I think you guys need to be tough and show the strength of what you guys can do in these scenarios. He wants to feel like she can be buried.” “Of course – but you know when we send over documents we can’t send over the work we will or could do because that could get us in a lot of trouble,” Nathan replied. “We can’t write we will destroy her.” Nathan continued, “Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands.” “You know we can bury anyone,” she wrote. August 2024: Nathan allegedly begins forming a social media plan Days later, Baldoni texted Abel highlighting an X thread that accused Hailey Bieber of bullying Selena Gomez . The thread had garnered 19 million views. “This is what we would need,” he wrote. Then Nathan allegedly began formulating proposals to hire contractors to flood social media through “full social account take downs.” They would do this by creating “threads of theories” and working to “change narrative.” “All of this will be most importantly untraceable,” she texted. August 4, 2024: Nathan talks to an editor at The Daily Mail Ahead of the premiere, Abel said, “I’m having reckless thoughts of wanting to plant pieces this week of how horrible Blake is to work with. Just to get ahead of it.” Nathan texted back that she had spoken off the record to an editor at The Daily Mail. "She’s ready when we are,” Nathan said. “[Baldoni] doesn’t realise how lucky he is right now.” August 6, 2024: At the premiere of "It Ends With Us," cast stays separate from Baldoni During the film's premiere screening, Baldoni – the director and main costar of the film – reportedly had a separate theater from Lively and other cast members. It was also reported that supporting cast members like Jenny Slate , Hasan Minhaj , Brandon Sklenar and even Hoover had unfollowed Baldoni on social media. Slate, who plays Baldoni's sister in the film, even dodged a question about Baldoni on the red carpet. "I mean, what an intense job, to have to do so many things. I just found myself being like, 'Wow, I really just want to have one job at once.' And in fact, I've often felt that way," she replied. The confusing cast dynamics also received its first round of press coverage from The Hollywood Reporter, citing online speculation on TikTok. The posts questioned what happened on set, why Baldoni wasn't conducting press with other cast members and why cast members had unfollowed Baldoni. The NYTimes said that Nathan kept the allegations against Baldoni out of each article that was coming out. She said major news outlets were “standing down on HR complaint.” August 9, 2024: Social media posts against Lively ramp up The film's marketing was accused by people online of being insensitive to domestic abuse with Lively facing pushback when her alcohol company Betty Booze was also promoting the film, given that alcohol can play a role in abusive relationships. There was more backlash when Lively shared in an interview that Reynolds helped rewrite a scene in the movie. People began speculating whether Reynolds had violated the writers strike. Another public relations expert, Jed Wallace of Street Relations, was also working with Abel and Nathan on the alleged campaign to smear Lively. “We are crushing it on Reddit,” Wallace said to Nathan. Nathan's employees had also messaged her, “We’ve started to see shift on social, due largely to Jed and his team’s efforts to shift the narrative.” Nathan wrote to Abel, “And socials are really really ramping up. In his favour, she must be furious. It’s actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women.” August 10, 2024: Journalist posts interview about Lively As the narrative against Lively picked up steam, an old 2016 interview between the actress and Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa was uploaded online. In the YouTube video titled, "The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job," Flaa mentions Lively's pregnancy, saying, "Congrats on your little bump." Lively responded, "Congrats on your little bump" despite Flaa not being pregnant. Flaa told The Daily Mail, “It’s time that people behaving badly in Hollywood, or anywhere else for that matter, gets called out for it.” The YouTube video has been viewed 5.9 million times and has 30,000 comments. The clipped version of the interview spread online quickly, further fueling the negativity online around Lively. Flaa wrote to the Times, "[The video] was neither coordinated nor influenced by anyone associated with the alleged campaign." August 15, 2024: Baldoni tells Nathan to use Lively's and Reynolds' words against them Baldoni proposes “flipping the narrative” on a positive story about Lively and her husband by “using their own words against them.” In other instances, Baldoni is concerned about how the tactics used against Lively appears. He sent a text saying, “How can we say somehow that we are not doing any of this — it looks like we are trying to take her down.” He even questioned whether bots were used to spin the narrative around Lively. “I can fully fully confirm we do not have bots,” Nathan reassured. She said no digital team would “utilise something so obvious.” August 16, 2024: The campaign is in full swing Nathan sent an article to Abel, “Is Blake Lively set to be CANCELLED?” in which The Daily Mail refers to Lively in "hard to watch" videos and during a "tone-deaf" press tour. “Wow. You really outdid yourself with this piece,” Abel said. “That’s why you hired me right?” Nathan wrote. “I’m the best.” Other texts from Abel state, "The narrative online is so freaking good and the fans are still sticking up for Justin . . . I see this as a total success, as does Justin." "Narrative is CRAZY good. Majority of socials are so pro Justin and I don't agree with half of them," Nathan responded. August 20, 2024: Co-star Brandon Sklenar defends Lively In a statement posted on Instagram, Sklenar, who plays Atlas, Lily's second love interest in the film, came to Lively's defense after growing online distaste for the actress. "Vilifying the women who put so much of their heart and soul into making this film because they believe so strongly in its message seems counterproductive and detracts from what this film is about. It is, in fact, the opposite of the point," he wrote. He continued, "All I ask is that before you spread hate on the internet, ask yourself who its helping. Ask yourself if your opinions are based in any fact." August 2024: A company finds Lively was at the center of an "online attack" similar to Heard In August, Lively commissioned a brand marketing consultant, Terakeet to investigate the vitriolic social media response. The company found she had likely been a part of a “targeted, multichannel online attack” similar to the one Heard faced that damaged her reputation. The company could not find who was responsible for the attack but the company analyzed Google's search index for Lively's name. It found that 35 percent of the results were attached to Baldoni. The company said this was very abnormal given her decades-long career. It suggested that the media environment was being manipulated. December 21, 2024: Lively files sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Baldoni and Wayfarer TMZ first reported Lively filed the lawsuit against Baldoni for sexual harassment and a concerted effort to destroy her reputation. Lively cited that during filming for "It Ends With Us," Baldoni created a hostile work environment by crossing numerous personal and professional boundaries. Lively claimed the spear campaign against her even targeted Swift. The NYTimes article showed evidence of Baldoni's public relations team saying they would "explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people in BL [Lively]'s circle, like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want." Baldoni's attorney said the lawsuit is Lively's way to "fix her negative reputation." He added that the claims are "false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt." Lively said in a statement, "I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.” December 21, 2024: NYTimes posts exposé The article titled , "'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine" exposes the alleged system at work attempting to discredit Lively's reputation and experiences with Baldoni and Heath. December 21, 2024: Baldoni is dropped by talent agency Talent agency WME dropped Baldoni the same day Lively's lawsuit was filed, the Daily Beast reports . Lively is also a client of WME and continues to be represented by the agency. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism December 22, 2024: Hoover posts in support of Lively Hoover addressed Lively in the wake of the lawsuit and the NYTimes article. In an Instagram story, the "It Ends With Us" author wrote, "You have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive, and patient since the day we met." She continued, "Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt." December 22, 2024: Lively's former cast members support her Lively's former cast mates from "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" posted a statement to their Instagrams to "stand in solidarity" with Lively. Actors America Ferrera , Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn opened, “As Blake’s friends and sisters for over 20 years, we stand with her in solidarity as she fights back against the reported campaign waged to destroy her reputation. “Throughout the filming of ‘It Ends with Us,’ we saw her summon the courage to ask for a safe workplace for herself and colleagues on set, and we are appalled to read the evidence of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice," the statement read. "Most upsetting is the unabashed exploitation of domestic violence survivors’ stories to silence a woman who asked for safety. The hypocrisy is astounding. “We are struck by the reality that even if a woman is as strong, celebrated, and resourced as our friend Blake, she can face forceful retaliation for daring to ask for a safe working environment. We are inspired by our sister’s courage to stand up for herself and others," it said. December 23, 2024: Amber Heard comes to Lively's defense In a statement for NBC News, Heard also addressed the lawsuit. She said , “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying, ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on.’ I saw this firsthand and up close. It’s as horrifying as it is destructive.” Read more about this topic "Abusers are gonna see this film too": "It Ends With Us" producer on sending a message to everyone Why did she stay? The same reasons I did How "It Ends With Us" gets domestic violence wrong By Nardos Haile Nardos Haile is a staff writer at Salon covering culture. She’s previously covered all things entertainment, music, fashion and celebrity culture at The Associated Press. She resides in Brooklyn, NY. 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President Joe Biden's trip to Angola next week is his first to Africa as president, and the first visit to Angola by an American leader since independence from Portugal in 1975. It comes as the governing People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party prepares to celebrate 50 years of rule, and Angola gets ready to host the US-Africa Business Summit in mid-2025 The Biden administration has tried to increase its Africa engagement since 2021, through sharpened focus within its Africa network, increased official visits and important new initiatives such as the Lobito Corridor. The Corridor is planned as part of the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), a G7 initiative designed to compete with Chinese influence head on, in Africa and beyond. In these respects, US-Angola relations are at their strongest since 1993. This is a dramatic change. During the Cold War, Angola was a one-party Marxist-Leninist state, allied to the Soviet Union and Cuba. The country fought a long civil war with UNITA, a rebel group supported by apartheid South Africa and the US. (UNITA was the second largest recipient of US covert aid after the Afghan Mujahadin until 1992, poisoning relations between Washington and Luanda). The tide began to turn in May 1993, when President Bill Clinton formally recognized the government elected in Angola's first ever multiparty elections. US oil companies, Chevron and Exxon, have prospered in the country, and Angola was an important source of US oil imports. That continued until 2006, when this trade plateaued and then sharply declined following the US shale boom. Luanda's subsequent relationship with Washington has been patchy. At the end of the civil war in 2003, the Angolans complained to a senior US official that Washington supported an international donors conference for Afghanistan, but not for Angola. The reply, reportedly, was blunt. Bilateral relations with the US subsequently cooled, and Angola sought diplomatic and economic relations with China - resulting in $45 billion of infrastructure investment over the last twenty years. Angola still owes Chinese lenders $17 billion, constituting about 40 per cent of its total debt. However, Angola's strategic importance to Washington has increased in the last five years. There have been two key drivers for this. The first is João Lourenço's ascendency to the Angolan presidency in 2017, after almost 40 years of rule by former President Dos Santos. Lourenço's administration has seen Angolan foreign policy move away from ideology towards pragmatic multipolarity, becoming truly non-aligned. Luanda has sought to reduce its closeness to Beijing and Moscow, voting in favour of the 2022 UN General Assembly resolution condemning the Russian annexation referendums in Ukraine. Meanwhile Angola has deepened relations with the US - but also the UAE, Turkey and France. In early October the country joined Le Francophonie as an official observer, and Lourenço is due to visit Paris in early 2025, following the visit of Emmanuel Macron to Angola in 2023. Angola has also indicated it would like to join the Commonwealth. Second, Angola's strategic location is important for Washington. Angola has played a valuable mediation role to end confrontation between the DRC and Rwanda in recent years - it shares a long northern border with the DRC. Biden will be keen to ensure Angola's continuing support for those efforts. US officials were deeply involved in meetings on the fringes of this year's UN General Assembly, working to get a DRC- Rwanda ceasefire (signed in Luanda this July) to stick. President Lourenço is also seeking election to chairperson of the African Union in 2025 - an appointment that Washington would welcome. Biden will also focus on the Lobito Corridor. This project, to rehabilitate a 1,300-kilometre railway linking Angola's coast to the mineral fields of the DRC and Zambia, is the first strategic economic corridor launched under the PGII. The Corridor runs from the port of Lobito, on the Atlantic Ocean, to the town of Luau on Angola's north-eastern border with the DRC and a further 400 kilometres into the DRC mining town of Kolwezi. A branch line to Zambia is also envisaged. The project is intended to transport resources including copper and cobalt, critical for a new generation of batteries that will power the energy transition. The resilience of the strategic mineral supply chain is important for US and European technology industries. The Corridor is also intended as a crucial demonstration that the West can deliver on infrastructure projects in Africa. It may also help to engage the US private sector in broader investments on the continent, which have to date remained tepid (beyond hydrocarbons and critical minerals). But funding for the Corridor looks more uncertain following the election of Donald Trump. The Lobito project is aimed to compete with China. But both Western and Chinese firms will be able to use the infrastructure it delivers. In fact, a joint venture between Chinese Zijin Mining and Canada's Ivanhoe Mines was the Lobito Atlantic Railway's first customer. That may make its value questionable to Trump, a US president who will likely define his administration in large measure by competition with Beijing. Regardless, Biden's trip to Angola is a reminder to future White House incumbents that, unlike during the Cold War, the world is no longer defined by superpower competition. African leaders living in a multipolar world will not tolerate being caught up in a competition between Washington and Beijing. Should Trump fail to back Lobito, EU and African Development Bank investment is likely to continue. Donald Trump and his successors should take note: Angola, and countries like it, have many partners to choose from in a world of increasing competition for access to Africa's vital resources. Dr Alex Vines OBE, Research Director; Director, Africa Programmebelieves have shed their ‘ FC’ tag after watching his side become the ’s most prolific outfit. took Chelsea’s goalscoring tally to 31 in 14 Premier League games this season, two more than table-toppers Liverpool. Last term, the Blues’s attack was regularly accused of being overreliant on Palmer, who scored 22 goals and provided 11 assists during a remarkable breakthrough campaign. That reliance was evidenced towards the back end of the season, when Mauricio Pochettino took his side to Arsenal without the ill Palmer and saw them hammered 5-0. It was the only one of Chelsea’s final 15 games that the Englishman missed and brought their only defeat. This term, however, even with Palmer continuing to contribute heavily, the goals have been shared around. Christopher Nkunku is the club’s leading scorer across competitions with 12 goals, while Nicolas Jackson has eight league goals and Noni Madueke five. In all, 10 different players have scored in the league for Chelsea, a spread bettered only by three clubs. Tellingly, Maresca’s men have already taken eight points from league games in which Palmer started but did not score or assist - the same as in the entirety of last term. “Yeah, and we are very happy,” Maresca said, when asked whether Chelsea now free of that ‘Cole Palmer FC’ moniker. “If you remember in my first press conference, I said that we cannot rely on Cole for every game because it is not correct. “He has to enjoy football, but if we prepare the season thinking Cole is the only solution then we are wrong. “We work every day to allow Cole to be in situations where he can be the best and be good. You see that we move him from the right side to the left side, or from one side to the other side, because we want to put players in situations where they can be the best.” Meanwhile, Maresca refused to engage with supporters’ concerns over ’s appointment as referee for Sunday’s London derby against Tottenham. Taylor took charge of the heated 2-2 draw between the sides two years ago, which ended with an infamous spat between then managers Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte, and with Chelsea adamant that both Spurs goals should have been disallowed. The 46-year-old was also in the middle for the Blues’s fiery 1-0 win at Bournemouth earlier this season, awarding a Premier League record 14 yellow cards, including eight to Chelsea players. Maresca insisted he will not be warning his team any more than usual about their behaviour ahead of the game. “We don’t plan the game because of the referee,” he explained. “For sure we give the players some information in terms of some general information. “But that game was probably intense because Bournemouth away, you see last night and in general – the Arsenal game, the City game – they are always intense, aggressive. “So, sometimes the game becomes difficult to manage for the referee so you start to give yellow cards. But I don’t have anything to say about the referee.”
U.S. economic activity rebounded a little following last month’s elections, according to a monthly index set out Monday. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index gained to minus 0.12 in November from minus 0.50 in October, the latter figure revised a little lower than previous estimates. Still, the reading under zero suggests growth remained below average. All of the four categories that make up the index made negative contributions in November, though three improved. Gauges of production, sales, orders and inventories, and employment were less negative than in October, possibly a result of the boost to the stock market and business confidence that followed Donald Trump’s victory in November’s presidential elections. The index’s three-month moving average, meanwhile, fell back a little, to minus 0.31 from minus 0.27 a month earlier, suggesting there is still some way to go before activity gains momentum. The CFNAI diffusion index–which captures how much the change in the monthly index is spread among the indicators over three months–was unchanged on the month, staying steady at minus 0.31. Periods of economic expansion have historically been associated with values of the CFNAI diffusion index above minus 0.35. Source: Dow JonesCNN reporter breaks down Trump’s thinking to select Scott Bessent for treasury