No New Year’s Eve plans yet? No worries. There’s still time to figure out how to ring in 2025 and more than a few options in the Elgin area. Rosie O’Hare’s Public House in East Dundee is holding an Irish New Year’s Eve party. The 702 Water St. restaurant’s first champagne countdown toast will be at 6 p.m. and for anyone who wants to celebrate twice can hang out at the bar for the traditional countdown at midnight. Hats and party horns are provided and admission is free. “It’s just chill, and everyone gets together,” said Michelle Richardson, who has worked at the restaurant’s bar for eight years. It’s also pajama night, so everyone is welcome to come in their PJs, she said. Musician Jon Babin, a Rosie’s favorite, is performing from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. East Dundee has a bountiful number of bars and restaurants in its historic downtown, making it a perfect New Year’s Eve pub crawl location. Check out River Street Tavern, at 102 N. River St.; Bandito River Lee’s, 6 E. Main St.; The Distance Social, 314 N. River St.; and Bandito Barney’s Beach Club, 10 N. River St., all of which will be ringing in 2025. Feeling nostalgic for the original B96 DJs? Then head out to Old Republic Kitchen + Bar’s Mixmasters New Year’s Eve Ball in Elgin. The night features Tim Spinnin’ Schomer, Bobby D, DJ-Spin, DJ Markski, and a special guest. Tickets are on sale for $25 at Eventbrite.com and $30 at the door. The night includes an appetizer buffet, late-night snacks/pizza, a complimentary champagne toast and party favors. Doors open at 8 p.m. The restaurant is at 155 S. Randall Road. If you’re looking for a more low-key celebration, check out Danny’s Pizza, 231 Douglas Ave., Elgin, where country legends Smokin’ Gunz are headlining a NYE bash. A $30 cover allows you to enjoy an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet, champagne toast at midnight, party favors, a balloon drop and music. Tickets are available at www.eventbrite.com/e/new-years-eve-with-smokin-gunz-tickets-1097742109199?aff=ebdssbcategorybrowse . Elgin’s El Patio at 64 S. Grove Ave. is having a welcome to the new year celebration complete with a champagne toast and fresh grapes for good luck. The party is from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. with a DJ and a free champagne toast at midnight. The restaurant is offering its regular menu and full bar. If you want to splurge, they’ll be selling bottles of Mark Wahlberg’s Flecha Azul Cristalino bottle of tequila for $200. They’re taking reservations at 224-238-3153. El Diablo Cantina’s New Year’s Eve party runs from 9 p.m. through 2 a.m. The restaurant, located at 113 S. Western Ave. in Carpentersville, has tickets starting at $25 to an open bar ticket for $40. They’re calling it the “biggest mega Latin party” in the area. Three DJs, including Bad Boy, are performing. For tickets, go to eventbrite.com to search for the event. If you’re searching for an elegant black-tie event, the African American Coalition of Kane County is hosting a holiday celebration at the Holiday Inn ballroom, 495 Airport Road, Elgin. General admission tickets are $105 per person and include a three-course dinner, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight. VIP admission is $125. The event is from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. For ticket information, go to events.eventnoire.com/.../midnight-magic.../tickets . Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ROB GILLIES NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Related Articles National Politics | Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges National Politics | Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors National Politics | After withdrawing as attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz lands a talk show on OANN television National Politics | What will happen to Social Security under Trump’s tax plan? National Politics | Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that’s he’s preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect’s threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park.” Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn’t a trolling-free zone for Trump’s adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden’s spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump’s taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.A fugitive gains fame in New Orleans eluding dart guns and nets
Nick Kyrgios says positive tests for duo are ‘disgusting’ and ‘a horrible look’GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF ( NASDAQ:NVDL – Get Free Report )’s stock price were down 2.4% during mid-day trading on Thursday . The company traded as low as $70.07 and last traded at $70.97. Approximately 4,784,283 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 73% from the average daily volume of 17,743,818 shares. The stock had previously closed at $72.69. GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF Stock Down 4.0 % The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $74.18 and a 200 day simple moving average of $66.88. Institutional Investors Weigh In On GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Private Ocean LLC acquired a new position in shares of GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at $35,000. National Bank of Canada FI acquired a new position in GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF in the second quarter valued at $42,000. Hollencrest Capital Management grew its position in GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF by 5,677.8% during the second quarter. Hollencrest Capital Management now owns 1,040 shares of the company’s stock valued at $72,000 after acquiring an additional 1,022 shares during the period. Centaurus Financial Inc. acquired a new stake in GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF during the third quarter worth about $134,000. Finally, Gilliland Jeter Wealth Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF by 144.9% in the 3rd quarter. Gilliland Jeter Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,535 shares of the company’s stock worth $148,000 after purchasing an additional 1,500 shares during the period. GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF Company Profile The GraniteShares 1.5x Long NVDA Daily ETF (NVDL) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in information technology equity. The fund provides 1.5x leveraged exposure, less fees and expenses, to the daily price movement for shares of NVIDIA Corporation stock. NVDL was launched on Dec 13, 2022 and is managed by GraniteShares. See Also Receive News & Ratings for GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .