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The Trump family is celebrating a historic year. Donald Trump was selected as Time Magazine's Person of the Year, an achievement that he celebrated today in New York, ringing in the New York Stock Exchange Bell. Trump was joined by his closest advisors and family members, including his wife Melania , and two of his kids, Ivanka and Tiffany . Ivanka Trump shares sweet moment with her kids while gardening: 'Spending time together with our hands in the dirt' Melania Trump praises son Barron for 'giving advice to his father' Donald Trump The ringing of the bell took place earlier today, December 12th, on Wall Street. Photographers captured the moment when Trump rang the bell, dressed in a blue suit that he paired with a burgundy tie. Tiffany, Melania, and Ivanka also wore suits, with Tiffany and Ivanka opting for black while Melania opted for a gray look. In the background, Trump's Time cover can be seen, which showcases him posing with an arm over his leg in front of a gray background. Ivanka shared various photos and videos on social media, including the moment when Trump rang the bell and a photo of him signing the wall of the NYSE. "Celebrating an extraordinary milestone with my father as he rang the NYSE opening bell in front of his TIME Person of the Year cover," she wrote in the caption. "Congratulations, Dad!" Trump's honorific marks the second time he has been selected as Time's Person of the Year. He was previously selected in 2016 due to his unexpected political rise and his first election win. More details about Trump's appearance on Wall Street In a speech, Trump said it was an "honor" to ring the NYSE bell and he also laid out some of his plans for his incoming presidency. “We’re going to have a tremendous run. We have to straighten out some problems, some big problems in the world," he said. The event drew a large crowd to the area, with many stopping by to have a look at Trump and his closest advisors.
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Initial plans released for 75th season in 2026, including 75th anniversary logo and rings, commemorative ticket and more INDIANAPOLIS , Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Set to celebrate its landmark 75th season in 2026, NHRA officials revealed a series of special plans today to kick off the campaign for the historic year in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. NHRA revealed a special 75th anniversary logo for the 2026 season to launch the campaign, as NHRA looks to celebrate 75 years of incredible racing, founder Wally Parks and the incredible legends that have played a huge role in NHRA's illustrious history. The buildup to the landmark 75th season in 2026 will take place throughout the 2025 campaign with several initiatives set to take place this year, starting at the season-kickoff NHRA Gatornationals on March 6-9 at Gainesville Raceway. Some of the items introduced today at the 75th anniversary campaign launch include: "The 75th anniversary of NHRA drag racing marks a landmark moment in our sport's history and we're excited to kick off the campaign for that historic season in 2026 throughout our upcoming 2025 season," NHRA President Glen Cromwell said. "From a special logo and 75th anniversary rings, we're thrilled to introduce several initiatives already for that celebratory season in 2026 and we will have many more to announce throughout 2025 in this exciting year-long buildup. NHRA has an incredible history – as well as a bright future – and we look forward to celebrating that with our fans, race teams, member track and partners." Additional announcements and initiatives for the 75th anniversary season in 2026 will be released throughout the 2025 campaign. NHRA legends will also be included in the year-long celebration that year, with appearances and special celebrations to be announced in the coming weeks and months. For more information on NHRA, including the full 2025 schedule, please visit www.nhra.com . About Mission Foods MISSION®, owned by GRUMA, S.A.B. de C.V., is the world's leading brand for tortillas and wraps. MISSION® is also globally renowned for flatbreads, dips, salsas and Mexican food products. With presence in over 112 countries, MISSION® products are suited to the lifestyles and the local tastes of each country. With innovation and customer needs in mind, MISSION® focuses on the highest quality, authentic flavors, and providing healthy options that families and friends can enjoy together. For more information, please visit https://www.missionfoods.com/ About NHRA NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States . NHRA presents 20 national events featuring the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series and NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, as well as the Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, NHRA Flexjet Factory Stock ShowdownTM, NHRA Holley EFI Factory X, Pingel Top Fuel Motorcycle and Johnson's Horsepowered Garage NHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock at select national events. NHRA provides competition opportunities for drivers of all levels in the NHRA Summit Racing Series and NHRA Street LegalTM. NHRA also offers the NHRA Jr. Street® program for teens and the Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League® for youth ages 5 to 17. With 110 Member Tracks, NHRA allows racers to compete at a variety of locations nationally and internationally. NHRA's Youth and Education Services® (YES) Program reaches over 30,000 students annually to ignite their interest in automotive and racing related careers. NHRA's streaming service, NHRA.tv ®, allows fans to view all NHRA national events as well as exclusive features of the sport. In addition, NHRA owns and operates three racing facilities: Gainesville Raceway in Florida ; Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park; and In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Southern California . For more information, log on to www.NHRA.com , or visit the official NHRA pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nhra-announces-launch-of-landmark-75th-anniversary-campaign-for-2026-season-302330705.html SOURCE NHRA
FBI Director Christopher Wray announces resignationMr Forro was one of two employees to have put food out and fed the fox and the other security guard was Irish. Fox. Photo: Stock A security guard who was sanctioned by his employer for feeding a fox while on duty at a pharma site has been awarded €6,000 in a race discrimination case. At the Labour Court, deputy chairwoman, Louise O’Donnell found that Apleona Ireland Ltd discriminated against Hungarian national, Istvan Forro on the grounds of race when suspending him for 14 weeks with pay over the ‘feeding fox’ incident in January 2021. Ms O’Donnell stated that Mr Forro was subjected to an investigation and disciplinary hearing and received a sanction of a verbal warning which he successfully appealed internally. Mr Forro was one of two employees to have put food out and fed the fox and the other security guard was Irish. Ms O’Donnell said that the comparator in the case, the Irish employee, Mr A was not spoken to by his employer over the ‘fox’ incident and was not penalised in any way for the same actions. Ms O’Donnell stated that the court is satisfied that these facts are sufficient to raise a presumption of discrimination and that Apleona Ireland failed to rebut the presumption of unlawful discrimination. The Labour Court ruling overturns an earlier decision by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) which found that Mr Forro had not been discriminated against. The most recent accounts for Apleona Ireland Ltd show that it recorded pre-tax profits of €4.34m in 2022 as revenues increased by 19pc to €94.4m. Under cross examination at the Labour Court hearing held in Waterford, Mr Forro confirmed that he liked the fox and that he had admitted to feeding the fox. Mr Forro stated that he was the only Hungarian member of staff, and the only person suspended and investigated over feeding the fox. Mr Forro confirmed that he was never told to stop feeding the fox until January 2021. He confirmed that he had worked on the same site for a number of years prior to Apleona taking over and he stated that a group of workers had fed the fox, and he felt that the client company were aware of it. Mr Forro said that January 2021 was the first time it was raised with him that there was a problem with feeding the fox. He said that he stopped feeding the fox and made a point of telling other staff that they were not to feed the fox. Mr Forro said that as he was about to return to work in late January 2021 after a bout of Covid-19, he received a phone call from a senior work colleague to say he was suspended with pay and not to go on site or make contact with anyone on site. He asked why he was being suspended and he was told “it was something about a fox.” Mr Forro received a letter which stated that was suspended on full pay to allow an investigation into an alleged failure to follow management instruction on more than one occasion; an alleged failure to obey the sites Pest Control Standard Operating Procedures; a breach of trust with Management and putting the relationship with the client in jeopardy. The letter went on to say that “at this point that these allegations would be considered gross misconduct”. In May 2021, Mr Forro received a letter confirming a verbal warning when he was told that “based on the balance of probabilities I have come to the conclusion that you breached policies and attempted to deceive the company which amounts to serious/gross misconduct. This conduct is in excusable”. Mr Forro stated that the only difference between himself and his work colleague was that he was Hungarian and his colleague was Irish. He said that they were both accused of leaving food out and feeding the fox, but he was the only one suspended and put through an investigation procedure. Mr Forro contended that that the photo of food produced at the meeting was not the type of food that they would leave for the fox. An associate director with Apleona, Ms Krakowiak told the Labour Court that in January 2021 she received an email from the client firm about food being dumped on the site and was asked by the client to investigate. Ms Krakowiak reviewed the CCTV footage and saw Mr Forro and Mr A feeding the fox. Counsel for Mr Forro, Mr Joseph Bradley BL (instructed by Sean Ormonde Solicitors) put it to Ms Krakowiak that Apleona needed a scapegoat for the client, and they chose the Hungarian rather than the Irish national. Mr Bradley stated that the issue should have come to an end on April 9, 2021, when Mr Forro confirmed he had not received training about not feeding the fox. Ms Krakowiak submitted that the reason for the different treatment was that Mr Forro had received training in pest control and Mr A had not. However, in the court’s finding, Ms O’Donnell stated that the notes of meetings held with Mr Forro in April 2021 clearly show that he stated on each occasion that he had not received training and this position was upheld by the person who heard the appeal of his disciplinary sanction.
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Both companies are dedicated to providing exceptional customer service and support as they roll out this new offering. For more information about ShipMoney’s eSIMCrew and 2025 promotions, please visit shipmoney.com cardholder login or contact ShipMoney Relationship Manager. Source: ShipMoneySome of the largest police forces in the UK have seen a double spike in types of religious hate crime in the past 18 months, with numbers jumping after the start of the Hamas-Israel conflict in autumn 2023 and again following the Southport attacks this summer, figures reveal. Antisemitic offences recorded by forces including Greater Manchester, West Midlands and the Metropolitan Police , rose sharply in the weeks following the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East in October last year. The same forces then logged an increase in Islamophobic offences in the wake of the stabbings in Southport in July this year and the subsequent violent disorder in towns and cities. A Jewish charity called the findings “unacceptable”, while campaigners against anti-Muslim abuse said they were “not seeing the action to tackle this problem”. The Government said it was “determined to stamp out the toxic vitriol which is spread by a minority of people”. The figures have been obtained by the PA news agency using Freedom of Information requests. They show that: – Greater Manchester Police recorded an average of 13 antisemitic offences per month from January to September 2023, then spikes of 85 in October and 68 in November, falling back in following months; Islamophobic offences averaged 35 a month in 2023 and 39 a month from January to July 2024, before a sharp jump to 85 in August then 21 in September. – Antisemitic offences recorded by West Yorkshire Police averaged six a month from Jan-Sep 2023, jumped to 44 in October, then fell back to lower levels; Islamophobic offences averaged 33 a month in 2023 and 39 a month from Jan-Jul 2024, before rising to 94 in August then 73 in September. – The British Transport Police recorded a monthly average of seven antisemitic offences in Jan-Sep 2023, followed by a jump to 60 in October and 70 in November, after which the numbers fell back; it also saw low numbers of Islamophobic offences each month (under 20) across this period, apart from spikes in November 2023 (42) and August 2024 (29). – The Metropolitan Police changed the way it records hate crime at the end of February 2024 but, under the previous method, an average of 54 antisemitic offences were logged per month in Jan-Sep 2023, followed by a steep rise to 517 in October, 411 in November and 228 in December; while, under the new method, an average of 116 Islamophobic offences were recorded each month from Mar-Jul 2024, followed by 190 in August and 97 in September. Other forces covering largely urban areas, such as Merseyside, South Yorkshire and West Midlands, saw a lower volume of these crimes overall but still recorded spikes in antisemitic offences in the autumn of 2023 and Islamophobic offences in the summer of 2024. PA obtained full responses from 33 of the 40 forces operating across England, with the data representing a snapshot of what has been recorded. Methods for capturing hate crime are not consistent across forces, so the data cannot be used to compare directly the number of offences between different areas or provide an overall total for the whole of England. Data obtained from smaller forces, or those covering areas with few towns or cities, typically showed low numbers of offences, often in single figures, meaning a month-on-month trend was hard to determine. But most forces saw a clear year-on-year increase in the total number of these crimes. For example, Greater Manchester recorded 440 antisemitic offences in the 12 months to September 2024, up year-on-year from 153, along with 512 Islamophobic offences, up from 415. West Yorkshire recorded 215 antisemitic offences and 561 Islamophobic offences in the 12 months to September, up year-on-year from 77 and 362 respectively, Avon & Somerset recorded 59 and 112, up from 41 and 57; and Humberside recorded 31 and 48, up from 17 and 25. Dave Rich, spokesman for the Jewish charity, the Community Security Trust (CST), said: “These figures show similar trends as CST’s own antisemitic data, with a sharp rise in anti-Jewish hate crimes following the October 7 attack last year to levels that have still not returned to what used to be considered ‘normal’. “The increases are even more shocking when set against the relatively small size of the Jewish communities in some of these places. “This kind of anti-Jewish hatred should be unacceptable to all, and we will continue to work closely with police and the CPS up and down the country, alongside local Jewish communities, to reduce the impact of this hatred.” Hamas launched a series of attacks on southern Israel on October 7 2023, prompting Israel to launch a ground invasion of the Palestinian territory of Gaza. Separately, riots and disorder broke out in parts of the UK after the knife attack at a Southport dance studio on July 29 2024 that left three girls dead. Violent disturbances took place outside a mosque in Southport, a Holiday Inn Express in Manvers near Rotherham that was housing more than 200 asylum seekers, plus a hotel in Tamworth, while anti-immigrant demonstrations occurred in several cities including Bristol, Hull, Liverpool and London. Iman Atta, director of Tell Mama which monitors anti-Muslim hate, said: “Anti-Muslim hate or Islamophobia spikes repeatedly when there are international issues and when there is far-right agitation, extremism, continued finger-pointing at a political level against Muslims, and even post the Brexit vote. So these figures are not surprising. “We have assisted over 5,000 British Muslims this year and the number keeps rising. “Yet we are not seeing the action needed to tackle this problem. In fact, we are seeing anti-Muslim hate or Islamophobia being treated as though it is not the significant problem it is.” Dame Diana Johnson, Home Office minister for policing, fire and crime prevention, said: “These numbers are deeply troubling. We are determined to stamp out the toxic vitriol which is spread by a minority of people, and perpetrators of hate crime should be in no doubt that they will face the full force of the law. “The significant increase in antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crime is very serious, which is why we have committed up to £47.4 million per year in protective security funding for Jewish and Muslim communities to 2027-28. “We must have zero tolerance for antisemitism, Islamophobia and every other form of heinous hate in Britain, and we back the police in taking strong action against those targeting specific communities.”