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Key Features of MCCB Circuit BreakersTownsquare Capital LLC Acquires 1,521 Shares of Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY)Showcases Robust Development and Commitment to Sustainable Mobility Solutions MUNICH, Dec. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The solar technology company Sono Group N.V. ( OTCQB: SEVCF ) (hereafter referred to as "Sono” or the "Company”, parent company to Sono Motors GmbH or "Sono Motors”) today announced its financial results for the first six months of 2024, highlighting a €60.6 million profit and its recovery following its exit from insolvency earlier this year. Key financial highlights Managing Director, CEO and CFO George O'Leary said, "We believe our results demonstrate the resilience of our business model and the effectiveness of our strategic pivot to solar retrofit solutions. We see the €60.6 million profit and successful exit from insolvency mark as a key turning point for Sono, setting the stage for sustainable growth.” The Company remains committed to advancing its solar integration technology, providing scalable solutions for the transportation sector and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. For more information about Sono Group N.V., Sono Motors GmbH and their solar solutions, visit sonogroupnv.com and sonomotors.com . ABOUT SONO GROUP N.V. Sono Group N.V. ( OTCQB: SEVCF ) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Sono Motors GmbH are on a pioneering mission to accelerate the revolution of mobility by making every commercial vehicle solar. Our disruptive solar technology has been developed to enable seamless integration into all types of commercial vehicles to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions and pave the way for climate-friendly mobility. CONTACT: Press: [email protected] | ir.sonomotors.com/news-events Investors: [email protected] | ir.sonomotors.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sonogroupnv FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This press release may contain forward-looking statements. The words "expect", "anticipate", "intend", "plan", "estimate", "aim", "forecast", "project", "target", "will” and similar expressions (or their negative) identify certain of these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are statements regarding the intentions, beliefs, or current expectations of the Company and Sono Motors (together, the "companies”). Forward-looking statements involve inherent known and unknown risks, uncertainties and contingencies because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future and could cause the companies' actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and assumptions include, but are not limited to, risks, uncertainties and assumptions with respect to: our ability to access the unfunded portion of the investment from YA II PN, Ltd. ("Yorkville”), including our ability to successfully comply with the agreements related thereto and the absence of any termination event or any event of default; our ability to maintain relationships with creditors, suppliers, service providers, customers, employees and other third parties in light of the performance and credit risks associated with our constrained liquidity position and capital structure; our status as a foreign private issuer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; our ability to comply with OTCQB continuing standards, as well as our ability to have our shares admitted to trading on a national stock exchange, including the Nasdaq Capital Market, in the future; our ability to enter into a definitive agreement with Yorkville with respect to the conversion of outstanding debt into equity through the issuance of preferred shares; our ability to achieve our stated goals; our strategies, plan, objectives and goals, including, among others, the successful implementation and management of the pivot of our business to exclusively retrofitting and integrating our solar technology onto third party vehicles; our ability to raise the additional funding required beyond the investment from Yorkville to further develop and commercialize our solar technology and business as well as to continue as a going concern. For additional information concerning some of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could affect our forward-looking statements, please refer to our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC”), including our Annual Report on Form 20-F, which are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and on our website at ir.sonomotors.com. Many of these risks and uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond our ability to control or estimate precisely, such as the actions of courts, regulatory authorities and other factors. Readers should therefore not place undue reliance on these statements, particularly not in connection with any contract or investment decision. Except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. FINANCIAL RESULTS (amounts in thousands, except share and per share data) INCOME STATEMENT (unaudited) (unaudited) FOR THE PERIOD PER SHARE IN EUR 2024 Unaudited 2023 Audited
Rudy Giuliani in a courtroom outburst accuses judge in assets case of being unfair, drawing a rebuke
Sénégal: Kaolack - La SONACOS prévoit de collecter entre 100 mille et 120 mille tonnes de graines d'arachide (DG)Celebrating what would have been his 220th birthday on Nov. 23, members of the Pierce Brigade, N.H. National Guard and Beaver Meadow students gathered to honor Franklin Pierce, the only Granite Stater to serve as U.S. President, at his grave in Old North Cemetery on Tuesday. “Franklin Pierce was not a perfect man, but he was a good man who was dedicated, worked hard, and believed in serving his state and his country,” said Col. Richard Oberman, medical commander and deputy director of the Joint Staff at N.H. Army National Guard. “For that, he’s the kind of role model we should try and emulate every day, not just once a year. Happy Birthday, thank you, Frank.” Beneath a shower of November sleet, a wreath sent by the White House each year in the president’s memory was laid at his headstone. Born in a Hillsborough cabin, as Oberman noted, Pierce was the nation’s 14th president, elected in 1852 and serving one term in one of the fiercest periods of American history. Pierce’s father, Benjamin, had been governor, and Franklin got his start in politics young: When sworn in at age 48, he had already been a state representative and speaker of the N.H. House of Representatives, and served in Washington as a congressman and later a senator from New Hampshire. He also served as a brigadier general in the Mexican-American War of the late 1840s. Other than the time he spent in Washington, Pierce lived in Concord for much of his adult life. The home he and his family shared from 1842-1848, the Pierce Manse, was rescued from demolition at its original Montgomery Street location in 1971 and relocated to its current site overlooking Horseshoe Pond. The Pierce Brigade, volunteers who led the work, maintain it today as a historical site. Pierce’s later home on South Main Street, where he retired after his presidency and where he died, burned down in 1981. Oberman highlighted Pierce’s character, describing him as caring, brave and even mischievous. “He would be the kid in school who would stand up for you if you were being picked on, help you if your locker was stuck or if you were having trouble with your math homework,” he said. “Franklin would also be the classmate who would tell you a funny joke or pull a prank on someone.” He also, Oberman noted, “earned the nickname Handsome Frank because he looked so very young for his age.” Pierce was considered affable and had a successful legal career outside politics, but his personal life was blanketed by tragedy. He and his wife, Jane, lost their three sons young, including 11-year-old Benjamin, who died in a train accident just months before his presidential inauguration. The Pierces entered the White House childless. Amid rising tensions between pro- and anti-slavery powers, Pierce was a compromise candidate: He was a northerner who did not own slaves but was also a member of the Democratic Party — at that time it dominated Southern, pro-slavery states — who argued that the U.S. Constitution allowed slavery. Pierce won dominantly, and he embodied a belief at the time that peace and the status quo could be preserved through successive compromises and concessions. He is known for endorsing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which paved the way for slavery to expand into the West and led to a violent power struggle in the newly settled territories. He was also passionate about foreign policy and was an expansionist and a fiscal conservative. Oberman alluded to this mixed legacy, but emphasized that Pierce was driven by a desire to serve all his life and “focused on what he thought was the best for the country and its people.” Uniquely, Pierce spent almost all of his presidency without a deputy: Vice President William King died from tuberculosis just a month after taking office and was never replaced. Only two vice presidents served shorter terms — John Tyler and Andrew Johnson both became president after Presidents William Henry Harrison and Abraham Lincoln, respectively, died. At a time when primaries were party affairs and not public elections, Pierce was denied renomination by the Democrats in 1856 in favor of Pennsylvanian James Buchanan. He eventually retired to Concord, continuing his political involvement and taking up farming. He died of cirrhosis in 1869, according to the White House Historical Association. “Almost 220 years later, we stand by their gravestones to remember Franklin’s life and his legacy of serving others, especially people who are less fortunate,” Oberman said.
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and CEDAR ATTANASIO, The Associated Press NEW YORK — Police appear to not know who he is, where he is, or why he did it. As the frustrating search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer got underway for a fifth day Sunday, investigators reckoned with a tantalizing contradiction: They have troves of evidence, but the shooter remains an enigma. One conclusion they are confident of, however: It was a targeted attack, not a random one. They know he ambushed Thompson at 6:44 a.m. Wednesday as the executive arrived at the Hilton for his company’s annual investor conference, using a 9 mm pistol that resembled the guns farmers use to put down animals without causing a loud noise. They know ammunition found near Thompson’s body bore the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose,” mimicking a phrase used by insurance industry critics. The fact that the shooter knew UnitedHealthcare group was holding a conference at the hotel and what route Thompson might take to get there suggested that he could possibly be a disgruntled employee or client, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said. Police divers were seen searching a pond in Central Park, where the killer fled after the shooting. Officers have been scouring the park for days for any possible clues and found his backpack there Friday. They didn’t immediately reveal what, if anything, it contained but said it would be tested and analyzed. On Sunday morning, police declined to comment on the contents of the backpack, or on the results of the search in the pond, saying no updates were planned. Investigators have urged patience, saying the process of logging evidence that stands up in court isn’t as quick as it looks like on TV. Hundreds of detectives are combing through video recordings and social media, vetting tips from the public and interviewing people who might have information, including Thompson’s family and coworkers and the shooter’s randomly assigned roommates at the Manhattan hostel where he stayed. Investigators caught a break when they came across security camera images of an unguarded moment at the hostel in which he briefly showed his face. Retracing the gunman’s steps using surveillance video, police say, it appears he left the city by bus soon after the shooting outside the New York Hilton Midtown. He was seen on video at an uptown bus station about 45 minutes later, Kenny said. With the high-profile search expanding across state lines, the FBI announced late Friday that it was offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, adding to a reward of up to $10,000 that the NYPD has offered. Police say they believe the suspect acted alone. Police distributed the images to news outlets and on social media but so far haven’t been able to ID him using facial recognition — possibly because of the angle of the images or limitations on how the NYPD is allowed to use that technology, Kenny said. Late Saturday, police released two additional photos of the suspected shooter that appeared to be from a camera mounted inside a taxi. The first shows him outside the vehicle and the second shows him looking through the partition between the back seat and the front of the cab. In both, his face is partially obscured by a blue, medical-style mask.None
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Level Up Your Listening Experience: The Best NeckbandsInternational students say they feel betrayed by CanadaBy LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In an angry outburst in a New York courtroom, Rudy Giuliani accused a judge Tuesday of making wrong assumptions about him as he tries to comply with an order requiring him to turn over most of his assets to two election poll workers who won a libel case against him. U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman responded by saying he’s not going to let the former New York City mayor and onetime presidential candidate blurt things out anymore in court unless he’s a sworn witness. The interruption to an otherwise routine pretrial hearing in Manhattan came as the judge questioned Giuliani’s lawyer about why Giuliani has not yet provided the title to a car he has relinquished in his effort to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment won by two former Georgia election workers. “Your client was the U.S. attorney for this district,” the judge said, referring to Giuliani’s years in the 1980s as the head of the federal prosecutor’s office in the Southern District of New York, as he suggested it was hard to believe that Giuliani was incapable of getting a duplicate title to the car. Giuliani learned forward and began speaking into a microphone, telling the judge he had applied for a duplicate copy of the car’s title but that it had not yet arrived. “The implication I’ve been not diligent about it is totally incorrect,” Giuliani said in a scolding tone. “The implication you make is against me and every implication against me is wrong.” Giuliani went on: “I’m not impoverished. Everything I have is tied up. I don’t have a car. I don’t have a credit card. I don’t have cash. I can’t get to bank accounts that truly would be mine because they have put ... stop orders on, for example, my Social Security account, which they have no right to do.” Liman responded by warning defense lawyers that the next time Giuliani interrupts a hearing, “he’s not going to be permitted to speak and the court will take action.” The judge said Giuliani could either choose to represent himself or let lawyers do so, but “you can’t have hybrid representation.” If Giuliani wants to speak in court again, he can be put on the witness stand and be sworn as a witness, Liman added. The exchange came at a hearing in which the judge refused to delay a Jan. 16 trial over the disposition of Giuliani’s Florida residence and World Series rings. Those are two sets of assets that Giuliani is trying to shield from confiscation as part of Liman’s order to turn over many prized possessions to the poll workers. Earlier in the proceeding, defense attorney Joseph M. Cammarata asked Liman to delay the trial, which will be heard without a jury, for a month because of Giuliani’s “involvement” in inauguration planning for President-elect Donald Trump. “My client regularly consults and deals directly with President-elect Trump on issues that are taking place as the incoming administration is afoot as well as (the) inauguration,” Cammarata said. “My client wants to exercise his political right to be there.” The judge turned down the request, saying Giuliani’s “social calendar” was not a reason to postpone the trial. Giuliani, who once served as Trump’s personal attorney, was found liable last year for defaming two Georgia poll workers by falsely accusing them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election. The women said they faced death threats after Giuliani falsely claimed they sneaked in ballots in suitcases, counted ballots multiple times and tampered with voting machines.
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Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Russia after the rebels captured Damascus. They have been granted asylum by the Russian authorities, Russian news agencies report, citing a Kremlin source. "President Assad of Syria has arrived in Moscow. Russia has granted them (him and his family) asylum on humanitarian grounds," an unnamed source was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. Syria rebel fighters raced into Damascus unopposed, overthrowing Assad and ending nearly six decades of his family's iron-fisted rule after a lightning advance that reversed the course of a 13-year civil war. This marks the end of 24-year regime of Assad and the 50-year rule of his family in Syria. In one of the most consequential turning points in the Middle East for generations, the fall of Assad's government wiped out a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world. Moscow gave him and his family asylum. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had left Syria after negotiations with rebel groups, and gave 'instructions' to 'transfer power peacefully'. This marks the end of the 24-year regime of Assad and the 50-year rule of his family in Syria. Meanwhile, Asad has said that he is ready for a peaceful transition of power to the opposition forces. In a post on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday, the ministry did not say where Assad was now and said Russia has not taken part in the talks around his departure. The ministry said that Moscow had not directly participated in these talks and expressed extreme concern over the "dramatic events" unfolding in Syria. "As a result of negotiations between B. Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, he decided to resign from the presidency and left the country, giving instructions for a peaceful transfer of power. Russia did not participate in these negotiations," the ministry said. Moscow was extremely worried by events in Syria and urged all sides to refrain from violence, it said. "We urge all parties involved to refrain from the use of violence and to resolve all issues of governance through political means," the statement said. "In that regard, the Russian Federation is in contact with all groups of the Syrian opposition." The ministry further said that Russian troops stationed in Syria have been put on high alert. As of early afternoon on Sunday, there was "no serious threat" to the security of Russia's military bases there. Russia has waged a military campaign in Syria since September 2015, teaming up with Iran to allow Assad's government to fight armed opposition groups and reclaim control over most of the country. While Russia now concentrates the bulk of its military resources in Ukraine, it has maintained a military foothold in Syria and keeps troops at its bases there.Many Australians have grappled with financial challenges this year. Rental affordability is at record lows in almost every capital city and region, interest rates haven't budged in over a year, and millions of people are experiencing food insecurity . Treasurer Jim Chalmers acknowledged earlier this month that while the economic situation was improving, many Australians were still under "substantial" financial pressure. "We're making good progress in the fight against inflation. We're making good progress when it comes to the key economic indicators. But we know that that doesn't always translate into how people are feeling or faring in the economy," he said. So will the cost of living improve in 2025? Here's what economists think. What will happen with inflation in 2025? Annual headline inflation was 2.8 per cent in the September quarter of 2024, a significant drop from the June figure of 3.8 per cent. The main reason cited by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for that decrease was a fall in electricity prices, as a result of government energy rebates, and lower petrol prices. The trimmed mean — a measure of underlying inflation that removes the biggest price swings — was 3.5 per cent in the September quarter, down from 4 per cent in June. Source: SBS News Sean Langcake, head of macroeconomic forecasting at Oxford Economics Australia, told SBS News: "The headline inflation number is important because it is the reality of what most people are paying out of their budget, and it's really great that that's come back down within the RBA's target range." "But the trouble there is that the underlying measure gives you a better read of where things are going to be in the future. "The big problem we have that's keeping inflation elevated is that the trend we have in productivity is really poor and we need to see some improvement there for inflation to make a bit more progress." John Hawkins, a senior lecturer at the University of Canberra's School of Politics, Economics and Society, said he expected that, overall, inflation would "continue to moderate" next year. 'Nothing short of alarming': The full-time workers being priced out of the rental market Petrol prices were "always volatile", Hawkins noted, and whether they went up or down would depend on what happened in the Middle East. "If things are quiet there, relatively, then there won't be an inflationary stimulus from that," he told SBS News. Hawkins said food prices should remain relatively stable, barring any major weather events decimating crops, while home insurance costs would likely keep rising as a result of increasing climate-related claims. The price of products like clothing and cars have either been flat for years or have been gradually coming down — and that would "probably" continue in 2025, he said. The cost of things like education and health insurance should also continue to ease somewhat, Langcake said, "not least because we're gradually moving into a lower inflation environment". While rents have been rising more steadily, he warned significant relief was unlikely any time soon. "Equally, the cost of building a new house has stayed a little bit more elevated than we might've expected ... which is all kind of adding to the conundrum of it being difficult to add housing supply to the market," Langcake said. How much will wages and Centrelink payments rise in 2025? Annual wage growth was 3.5 per cent in the September 2024 quarter, according to the ABS. "It's settled into a pace of about 0.8 of a percentage point each quarter, at the moment — that's fairly healthy by historic standards," Langcake said. As long as there isn't a large spike in unemployment, it should continue to increase at similar rates throughout 2025, he said. That would put wage growth slightly ahead of underlying inflation, meaning you may end up with a little bit of extra money in your pocket. New year, new career? The jobs that had the biggest pre-Christmas salary increases From 1 January, more than a million Australians will also get a modest financial boost thanks to the indexation of certain Centrelink payments. Youth Allowance and Austudy recipients will get up to $30.60 extra each fortnight, while ABSTUDY payments will increase by as much as $54. Disability Support Pension recipients who are under 21 years old and don't have any dependent children will get up to $30.10 more, and the Carer Allowance will increase by $5.80. You can see the full list of payments being increased here . Other Centrelink payments will be indexed throughout the year. Will there be an interest rate cut in 2025? At its final board meeting for 2024, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the official cash rate on hold at 4.35 per cent. The board said while it had gained "some confidence" that inflation was "moving sustainably towards its target", it remained "too high" to cut rates at this stage . The RBA's target range for inflation is 2 to 3 per cent. Hawkins said depending on what the inflation figures for the December quarter were, it was "quite possible" the RBA could start cutting rates at its next meeting in February. "If it's surprisingly high, then I think they won't cut them — but if inflation continues on that downward trend that it has been on since the end of 2022, then I think they probably would feel that it's time to start the easing process," he said. Source: SBS News But Langcake doesn't think the RBA would move that soon. "I think they're still going to want to see two inflation periods where things improve further, and that puts us to May being the earliest possible time for a cut," he said. Langcake predicted we'd have three rate cuts in 2025, likely by 0.25 per cent each time. If that happens, interest rates will be sitting at 3.6 per cent by the end of next year. What impact could the 2025 federal election have on the cost of living? The exact date for the next federal election is yet to be announced, but experts have narrowed it down to some time between March and May . Labor has repeatedly said tackling the cost of living is one of its priorities — and has already made some election promises, including subsidising childcare and reducing university fees and student debt . The March budget could include further targeted cost of living measures, Hawkins said. "It wouldn't surprise me, for example, if your electricity rebates get extended, otherwise electricity prices are going to jump back up in the middle of next year and headline inflation will jump up," he said. But Langcake cautioned Labor won't have much room to move if it wants to keep government spending under control. Worsening deficits, higher spending: Jim Chalmers unveils mid-year budget update "If they are sticking to a goal of running not too large a deficit, it's going to be hard for them to hand out too many goodies," Langcake said. It's harder to know what cost of living relief the Coalition would promise voters, Hawkins said. "At this stage, we haven't really got a lot of detail on what their policies are." Langcake said overall, he didn't expect there to be a significant difference in the cost of living policies put forward by the two major parties. "I think it'll be a lot of, 'We'll promise voters this', and then the other team says, 'Yeah, we'll do that too', and you get to pretty fine margins in terms of what the actual difference is."The Raspberry Pi series of inexpensive single-board computers (or SBCs) built around an ARM system on a chip have greatly changed the landscape of do it yourself computing projects in the past 15 years. The germ of the idea came in 2006, when a group of employees at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory who were concerned by a year-over-year decline in the number of computer science students and the skill level of those students who did enroll. Learning how to code had been part and parcel of the 1980s computer-owning experience, but in the 1990s and beyond, it became a less necessary skill. Introducing incredibly inexpensive computers designed for DIY projects that would encourage younger computer enthusiasts to learn programming languages was thus the catalyst for launching the Raspberry Pi organization and product line. The Raspberry Pi line is divided into four series of boards. Those are the flagship Pi with the most horsepower and connectivity options, the Zero series with a smaller form factor and fewer ports with lower specs, the Compute Module series for embedded applications, and the Pico series, which are very small microcontroller boards that don't run Linux or have removable storage, instead being programmed by flashing a binary onto the built-in flash storage. They're best for single-purpose uses, like controlling other devices. The Pico series has a new update, the $7 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W . Let's take a look at what this board brings to the table with its feature set. What sets the Raspberry Pi Pico series apart from its cousins like the Raspberry Pi Zero series is that instead of being a cut-down version of the flagship Raspberry Pi, it's supposed to be a low-cost alternative to older Arduino boards. If you're new to Arduino boards , they're much more straightforward than Raspberry Pi boards, without the need to load an operating system onto it or worry about a user interface. Instead, you write your code in the Arduino software on your primary computer and flash it to the board. The Pico series works the same way. If you're looking at comparing the Raspberry Pi Pico to Arduino boards , though they're broadly similar, they use different programming languages and have different pinouts. Spec-wise, the Pico 2 W boasts dual Arm Cortex-M33 or dual Hazard3 RISC-V processor running at 150MHz, 520KB of on-chip SRAM, newly included 2.4GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi with support for Bluetooth 5.2, plus various security features with full documentation. As of this writing, there's just one professional review of the Pico 2 W available online, from Les Pounder at Tom's Hardware . That review is very positive, giving the board 4.5 stars out of five and noting that the addition of Wi-Fi was the big game changer. The review also praises the new model for coming with an increase in power while keeping the price low. If you don't need Wi-Fi, the regular Pico 2 is fine, but this is the one for your " internet of things " projects.
NoneUtah Valley is on the road but looking no worse for wear. After one quarter, neither squad has the contest in the bag, but Utah Valley leads 34-32 over Western Georgia. If Utah Valley keeps playing like this, they'll bump their record up to 4-1 in no time. On the other hand, Western Georgia will have to make due with an 0-7 record unless they turn things around (and fast). Utah Valley Wolverines @ Western Georgia Wolves Current Records: Utah Valley 3-1, Western Georgia 0-6 When: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 4 p.m. ET Where: Pete Hanna Center -- Homewood, Alabama TV: ESPN Plus Follow: CBS Sports App Online Streaming: Catch select College Basketball matches on Fubo (Try for free. Regional restrictions may apply.) The Western Georgia Wolves will face off against the Utah Valley Wolverines at 4:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday at Pete Hanna Center. The Wolves are looking for their season's first win. Western Georgia is headed into this one after the oddsmakers set last week's over/under low at 153.5, but even that wound up being too high. They took a 64-54 hit to the loss column at the hands of Georgia Southern on Saturday. The matchup marked the Wolves' lowest-scoring contest so far this season. Meanwhile, Utah Valley skirted by Murray State 77-75 on Friday on a last-minute layup from Tanner Toolson with less than a second left in the second quarter. Carter Welling and Dominick Nelson were among the main playmakers for Utah Valley as the former almost dropped a double-double on 19 points and nine rebounds and the latter almost dropped a double-double on 15 points and nine rebounds. Western Georgia's defeat dropped their record down to 0-6. As for Utah Valley, their victory bumped their record up to 3-1. Western Georgia is hoping to beat the odds on Tuesday, as the experts think they're headed for a loss. This contest will be their seventh straight as the underdogs (so far over this stretch they are 3-2-1 against the spread). Utah Valley is a big 14.5-point favorite against Western Georgia, according to the latest college basketball odds . The oddsmakers had a good feel for the line for this one, as the game opened with the Wolverines as a 15-point favorite. The over/under is 141.5 points. See college basketball picks for every single game, including this one, from SportsLine's advanced computer model. Get picks now .
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has less than a month to go until his one-term presidency ends, and he is feeling reflective. He is voicing regrets about his decision not to sign his name to COVID-19 relief checks and about his longtime reputation — once considered a virtue — of being the poorest lawmaker in Congress. And now, with a planned visit to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican next month, the president is signaling that he may have additional issues on his mind. The visit, White House officials said as they issued a readout on Biden’s call with the pope last week, is officially to discuss world peace. But according to a person familiar with his plans for the trip, Biden is also going to the Holy See to seek solace and “relief” as he exits the world stage. Francis, that person said, has become an ally and sounding board, trading occasional phone calls with Biden. Some of those conversations have been casual check-ins of the “Hey, how you doing?” variety. Throughout his long career, Biden’s penchant for narrating his life experiences has shaped how the public understands him. We know the stories: Childhood struggles with a stutter created a scrappy, bully-fighting neighborhood crusader. Mistakes and bad timing upended earlier attempts at the nation’s highest office. And the devastating losses of his first wife and two children created a wellspring of resilience. But the regrets he has let slip in the lame-duck portion of his presidency are different from the traditional Biden lore he spun on his way up the ladder. As he makes his way down, his recent comments and actions reveal more about Biden’s thoughts on the current political landscape, one that is drastically different from the one he entered after winning his first Senate election in 1972. Despite being described by his allies as in a pensive, sometimes angry, mood as the end of his term approaches, the president has not made himself available to answer many questions about his recent actions, including his decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. Still, in public appearances, the president has offered a few glimpses into what has weighed on him. Earlier this month, in remarks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Biden spoke about his long-held belief that the key to strengthening the U.S. economy is through bolstering the middle class. But he paused just long enough to touch on a story that he has shared countless times as a candidate and officeholder. “For 36 years, I was listed as the poorest man in Congress,” he told the crowd with a laugh, before adding, “What a foolish man.” Given the current atmosphere, the joke carried the sting of bitter truth. The billionaires are at the White House gates, ushered in by voters who were again siding with a wealthy man whose politics are antithetical to Biden’s. In a month, Washington will be led again by Donald Trump, a man who has made no secret of his wealth or his appreciation for the wealth of others. One of his top advisers, Elon Musk, is by some counts the richest man in the world, and his first act of (unelected) political business this month was to try to goad congressional Republicans into a government shutdown. Aside from joking about his wealth, Biden has openly stewed over one of Trump’s flashier — and apparently effective — stunts as president. During the same speech at Brookings, Biden said he had been “stupid” not to sign his name to COVID stimulus checks that were distributed to Americans early in his term. Trump emblazoned his signature on checks distributed after a relief bill was passed in the spring of 2020. Biden and his advisers learned a little something from Trump’s tendency to scrawl his name on things. By 2023, signs touting infrastructure projects “funded by President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law” began popping up around the country. But those had little political impact compared with a signed check. Already, misleading stories are circulating on social media about Trump possibly bringing stimulus checks back in 2025, despite the fact that the president-elect has not detailed plans to issue more money. Perhaps more revealing about Biden’s list of regrets are the items that do not appear on it. The president does not regret debating Trump in June, an appearance that created a slow bleed in his support among Democrats and ended with his ouster as the party’s presidential nominee. Biden has privately told allies that he only regrets not changing the timing because he had a cold, and believes he would have performed better if he had been in better health. Biden has also not voiced much public regret for deciding to call his economic plan “Bidenomics,” though he has privately groused to allies about his dislike of the name. And while his administration has acknowledged mistakes during the chaotic and deadly troop pullout in Afghanistan in 2021, Biden does not regret pushing forward with the withdrawal.None
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NoneMatt Gaetz says he won't return to Congress next year after withdrawing name for attorney general WASHINGTON (AP) — Matt Gaetz is not coming back to Congress. The Florida Republican said Friday he has no intention of serving another term in the House now that he is no longer President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general. Gaetz withdrew as the nominee this week amid growing fallout from the allegations of sexual conduct against him. Gaetz denies the allegations. Gaetz didn't lay out his plans now that he's out of office, saying only, “I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch." After Gaetz's withdrawal on Thursday, Trump named former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department. Vance takes on a more visible transition role, working to boost Trump's most contentious picks WASHINGTON (AP) — After several weeks working behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role. He's been helping Donald Trump’s most contentious Cabinet picks try to win confirmation in the Senate, where he has served for the last two years. Vance spent part of Wednesday at the Capitol with Rep. Matt Gaetz sitting in on meetings with Trump’s controversial choice for attorney general. On Thursday, Vance was back, this time accompanying Pete Hegseth. Vance is expected to accompany other nominees for meetings over the coming weeks as he tries to leverage the two years he has spent in the Senate to help push through Trump’s picks. Beyond evangelicals, Trump and his allies courted smaller faith groups, from the Amish to Chabad Donald Trump’s lock on the white evangelical vote is legendary, but he didn't focus exclusively on large religious voter blocs. He and his allies also wooed smaller religious groups, away from the mainstream. He posted a tribute to Coptic church members on social media and met with members of Assyrians for Trump — two smaller Christian communities with Middle Eastern roots. He visited the grave of the revered late leader of an Orthodox Jewish movement. His allies sought votes from the separatist Amish community. While Trump won decisively, the outreaches reflected aggressive campaigning in what was expected to be a tight race. NATO and Ukraine to hold emergency talks after Russia's attack with new hypersonic missile KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with a hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war. Ukraine's parliament canceled a session Friday over the security threat. In a stark warning to the West, President Vladimir Putin said in a nationally televised speech Thursday that the attack with the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile was retaliation for Kyiv’s use of U.S. and British longer-range missiles capable of striking deeper into Russian territory. Putin said Russia is launching production of the Oreshnik, saying it's so powerful that several of them fitted with conventional warheads could be as devastating as a strike with strategic — or nuclear — weapons. Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools. The approval Friday follows other Republican-led states that have pushed this year to give religion a larger presence in public classrooms. The curriculum adopted by the Texas State Board of Education is optional for schools to adopt, but they’ll receive additional funding if they do so. Parents and teachers who opposed the curriculum say the lessons will alienate students of other faith backgrounds. Supporters argue the Bible is a core feature of American history and that teaching it will enrich learning. 2 convicted in human smuggling case after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A jury has convicted two men of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand each faced four charges related to human smuggling before being convicted on Friday. Patel is an Indian national. Shand is an American from Florida. They were arrested after the family froze while trying to cross the desolate border during a 2022 blizzard. Storm inundates Northern California with rain, heavy snow. Thousands remain in the dark in Seattle HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain from a major storm prompted evacuations from communities near a Northern California river that forecasters say could break its banks Friday, as the storm keeps dumping heavy snow in the region's mountains where some ski resorts opened for the season. The storm reached the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands before moving through Northern California, where several roads were closed due to flooding and strong winds toppled some trees. Forecasters are warning about the risk of flash flooding and rockslides in areas north of San Francisco as the region was inundated by this season’s strongest atmospheric river. Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya WASHINGTON (AP) — Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The research published Friday in Science Advances shows that long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. The ancient fish canals were used to channel and catch freshwater species such as catfish. These structures were used for around 1,000 years — including during the “formative” period when the Maya began to settle in permanent farming villages and a distinctive culture started to emerge. California case is the first confirmed bird flu infection in a US child Health officials are confirming bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced confirmatory test results on Friday. Officials say the child had mild symptoms, was treated with antiviral medication and is recovering. The child’s infection brings the reported number of U.S. bird flu cases this year to 55, including 29 in California. State officials have said the child lives in Alameda County, which includes Oakland, and attends day care, but released no other details. Brazilian police formally accuse former President Bolsonaro and aides of alleged 2022 coup attempt SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police have formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup to keep him in office after his electoral defeat in the 2022 elections. The findings are to be delivered Thursday to Brazil’s Supreme Court, which will refer them to Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, who will either formally charge Bolsonaro and put the former president on trial or toss the investigation. The former right-wing president has denied all claims he tried to stay in office after his narrow electoral defeat in 2022 to his rival, leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has faced a series of legal threats since then.