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I'm A Celeb star Coleen Rooney takes a brutal swipe at husband Wayne and admits she feels 'more pressure' since he became a football manager - as back home his team take a 6-1 hammering!The Detroit Lions have a history of wearing their throwback uniforms for their annual Thanksgiving Day game. Detroit made a very controversial choice not to bring back the throwbacks for 2024. When the Lions announced their uniform combination on Wednesday for Thursday's Thanksgiving showdown with the Chicago Bears , the social media account said "blueberries are on this year's Thanksgiving table." The Lions home uniform is the "Hawaiian Blue" jersey, but is typically worn with gray pants. This combination comes with blue pants and blue shoes to go with the silver helmets. Blueberries are on this year's Thanksgiving table! pic.twitter.com/353QACAseF The throwback uniforms are a nod to the 1950s Lions' teams that won multiple championships, including Detroit's last title in 1957. The throwbacks feature classic numbers in silver with no outline, paired with silver stripe-less pants and blue socks. When the throwback uniforms were announced as part of the new uniforms for the Lions, it was assumed they would be worn on Thanksgiving -- a day the Lions play every year. The Lions actually have not worn their throwback uniforms on Thanksgiving much in the Dan Campbell era, only wearing the uniforms in 2023. Detroit wore the alternate "wolf gray" uniforms in 2022 and their home uniform combination in 2021 under Campbell. They also have worn their alternate "wolf gray" uniforms on Thanksgiving in 2019, making that four of the past six seasons the franchise has not worn their throwback uniform combination on Thanksgiving. Detroit has a seven-game losing streak on Thanksgiving. Perhaps the Lions feel the uniforms they scored 52 points in each of their last two home games played at Ford Field are a good sign they can snap the skid.BERLIN (AP) — Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk caused uproar after backing Germany’s far-right party in a major newspaper ahead of key parliamentary elections in the Western European country, leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor in protest. Germany is to vote in an early election on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party governing coalition collapsed last month in a dispute over how to revitalize the country’s stagnant economy. Musk's guest opinion piece for Welt am Sonntag —a sister publication of POLITICO owned by the Axel Springer Group — published in German over the weekend, was the second time this month he supported the Alternative for Germany, or AfD. “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the last spark of hope for this country," Musk wrote in his translated commentary. He went on to say the far-right party “can lead the country into a future where economic prosperity, cultural integrity and technological innovation are not just wishes, but reality.” The Tesla Motors CEO also wrote that his investment in Germany gave him the right to comment on the country's condition. The AfD is polling strongly, but its candidate for the top job, Alice Weidel , has no realistic chance of becoming chancellor because other parties refuse to work with the far-right party. An ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the technology billionaire challenged in his opinion piece the party's public image. “The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!” Musk’s commentary has led to a debate in German media over the boundaries of free speech, with the paper's own opinion editor announcing her resignation, pointedly on Musk's social media platform, X. “I always enjoyed leading the opinion section of WELT and WAMS. Today an article by Elon Musk appeared in Welt am Sonntag. I handed in my resignation yesterday after it went to print," Eva Marie Kogel wrote. A critical article by the future editor-in-chief of the Welt group, Jan Philipp Burgard, accompanied Musk’s opinion piece. “Musk’s diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally wrong,” Burgard wrote. Responding to a request for comment from the German Press Agency, dpa, the current editor-in-chief of the Welt group, Ulf Poschardt, and Burgard — who is due to take over on Jan. 1 — said in a joint statement that the discussion over Musk's piece was "very insightful. Democracy and journalism thrive on freedom of expression.” “This will continue to determine the compass of the “world” in the future. We will develop “Die Welt” even more decisively as a forum for such debates,” they wrote to dpa.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers of Canada’s provinces will meet Wednesday evening after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a “Team Canada approach” is going to be vital in the face of sweeping new tariffs pledged by Trump. For the premiers, safeguarding their exports and economies is top of mind. Eric Johnson, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said some of Canada’s biggest provinces would have a lot to lose if the tariffs go into effect. “Ontario really does come to mind here. Alberta does as well,” he said. As of 2022, Canada’s biggest export to the United States in terms of value was crude oil, worth $152.6 billion. According to Statistics Canada, the U.S. accounted for 97.4 per cent of Canada’s crude oil exports, with Alberta contributing to 87.4 per cent of the total volume exported to the U.S. In her reaction to the tariff threat, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in a social media post that the Trump administration has “valid concerns related to illegal activities” at the border, referencing Trump’s stated border security concerns. But she added that a vast majority of Alberta’s energy exports to the U.S. are “delivered through secure and safe pipelines,” which “do not in any way contribute to these illegal activities.” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Trump’s proposal was the “biggest threat” from the U.S. administration in decades and that it’s “very, very hurtful to Canadians and Americans” on both sides of the border. “We love our American friends and they love us and this is no way to treat your closest ally,” he said. “I hope we can come up with a solution to support both sides of the border. We’re collaboratively in co-operation with the new administration, and I’m confident we will,” Ford said. Ontario is the highest-value exporting province to the United States, with its exports to its southern neighbour amounting to an annual $220.5 billion. Ontario’s highest-value export is motor vehicles, amounting to $36 billion, followed by gold at $17.66 billion. Johnson said tariffs could slow down Ontario’s investments in electric vehicles, battery production or critical minerals. “If these tariffs were to be in place for any meaningful amount of time, I do think that’s going to slow down some of that investment,” he said. Flavio Volpe, president of the Autoparts Manufacturers Association, said Canada’s auto sector is deeply linked with the United States. “Half of the cars that we make in Canada are American companies’ cars. Half of the components that come into all of the cars that get manufactured come from the U.S. and 55 per cent of the raw materials to make those components in cars come from the U.S.,” he said. Speaking to reporters in Quebec City, Quebec Premier François Legault said that everything must be done to avoid the tariffs, which could lead to the loss of thousands of jobs. Quebec exports $10.8 billion worth of unwrought aluminum every year, with the United States accounting for 73.9 per cent of its total exports. Jean Simard, president of the Aluminum Association of Canada, said the aluminum industry could be forced to pivot to Europe. “Everybody wants our metal, but Europe is certainly the key market. Europe is in an aluminum deficit, as the U.S. is,” he said. “We might decide to ship to Europe and they’ll take everything we can send there, especially since Russian metal has been sanctioned out of the market.” Quebec is not alone in exporting critical minerals to the United States. Yukon’s largest export is copper ore worth $163.1 million annually, with the U.S. accounting for 95 per cent of its total value of exports. When the first Trump administration announced tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber in 2017, British Columbia was one of the hardest-hit provinces. Experts said the B.C. industries that could be hit the hardest include softwood lumber, energy, electricity, mining, agriculture and fisheries. “Obviously, this will be devastating to workers on both sides of the border, both in the United States and in Canada,” Premier David Eby said on Tuesday. “The impact on families will be profoundly significant.” However, B.C.’s trade portfolio is relatively diversified compared with some other provinces, with exports to the U.S. amounting to 57 per cent of total exports. Asia is B.C.’s second-largest trading partner, with 35.5 per cent of the province’s exports heading there every year. “Pharmaceuticals is another industry that’s pretty export-reliant as well,” Johnson said. Manitoba is the province that stands to lose the most when it comes to pharmaceuticals, with medication export amounting to $2.7 billion a year as its biggest export. The U.S. accounts for 73.4 per cent of its exports. Wheat is Manitoba’s second-largest export, amounting to $1.6 billion. Farming groups are warning about adverse effects on agriculture, with the Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) saying that 70 per cent of Canada’s grains are exported, with exports to the U.S. amounting to $14 billion. “The imposition of sweeping tariffs would create instability for farmers who are already facing tight margins due to rising input costs, changing weather patterns, and increased government taxation,” the group said in a statement. Prince Edward Island’s frozen potatoes and other vegetable exports amount to $490.9 million a year. Other agri-businesses and food businesses, such as Saskatchewan’s fertilizer industry and Nova Scotia’s seafood exporters, will likely be watching announcements from Washington and Ottawa as well. While Trump has proposed sweeping tariffs, experts say it is not yet certain he will go ahead with them. “The adage that you have to take Donald Trump seriously, but not literally, is very applicable here,” Johnson said. Tu Nguyen, an economist at RSM, said, “What is more likely to happen is that there will be trade negotiations between the U.S., Canada and Mexico rather than blanket tariffs. Tariffs on all goods coming from a country is actually very difficult to implement in reality.”
PETA plans to protest this Sunday’s Academy screening of director Robert Eggers’ “ Nosferatu .” The animal rights organization plans to send a “giant rat” to the Samuel Goldwyn Theater to “set the record straight” about the 5,000 live rats Eggers uses during one sequence in the film where rats descend on London, bringing the bubonic plague with them. In a statement, PETA’s director of animals in film and television Lauren Thomasson said, “A human is no more likely to be harmed or killed by a rat in real life than by a vampire, and false portrayals of these animals as harbingers of death deny viewers the chance to see them as the intelligent, social and affectionate individuals they are. The only ‘pests’ moviegoers need to be concerned with are directors who subject animals to the chaos and confusion of a film set, and PETA encourages everyone to see through these shameful stereotypes and give rats the respect they deserve.” The PETA rat will carry a sign that reads, “Rats Have Rights! We Didn’t Cause the Plague!” Following one of the first public screenings of the film, Eggers discussed the scene in a conversation with Guillermo del Toro, saying, “If there’s rats in the foreground, they’re real, and then they thin out and become CG rats in the background. And they were well-trained.” He added, “I didn’t know that rats are incontinent, so the smell is insane.” Production designer Craig Lathrop told Variety of the scene, “The rats. None of them were lost. We found all of them. They were all there. We built these plexiglass barriers so that the live rats would be in a controlled area,” he said, adding that the production took care to ensure the rodents’ safety. “In the scene on the street, the horses are on one side of the plexiglass barrier, and the rats are on the other, so that the rats wouldn’t run underneath their feet and get squashed, so nobody would get hurt.” PETA points out that rats form close bonds with their families and friends, enjoy playing and wrestling, and even giggle when tickled—and are less likely than dogs or cats to catch and transmit parasites and viruses. The film is Eggers’ reimagining of the 1922 silent German horror classic “Nosferatu,” depicting a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman played by Lily-Rose Depp and the terrifying vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgard) infatuated with her. Variety has reached out to Focus Features for comment.Huawei to Spin off Smart Car Business Unit to Yinwang by Jan. 1Middle East latest: Lebanon closes all its land border crossings with Syria except one
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Scope Technologies Corp. Responds To OTC Markets Request On Recent Promotional ActivityBy Mead Gruver and Amy Beth Hanson, The Associated Press A judge on Monday rejected a request to block a San Jose State women’s volleyball team member from playing in a conference tournament on grounds that she is transgender. Monday’s ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews in Denver will allow the player, who has played all season, to compete in the Mountain West Conference women’s championship opening this week in Las Vegas. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by nine current players against the Mountain West Conference challenging the league’s policies for allowing transgender players to participate. The players argued that letting her compete was a safety risk and unfair. While some media have reported those and other details, neither San Jose State nor the forfeiting teams have confirmed the school has a trans woman volleyball player. The Associated Press is withholding the player’s name because she has not commented publicly on her gender identity. School officials also have declined an interview request with the player. Crews' ruling referred to the athlete as an “alleged transgender” player and noted that no defendant disputed that the San Jose State roster includes a transgender woman player. San Jose State will “continue to support its student-athletes and reject discrimination in all forms,” the university said in a statement, confirming that all its student-athletes are eligible to participate under NCAA and conference rules. “We are gratified that the Court rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to change those rules. Our team looks forward to competing in the Mountain West volleyball tournament this week.” The conference did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. The players filed a notice for emergency appeal with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Crews said the players who filed the complaint could have sought relief much earlier, noting the individual universities had acknowledged that not playing their games against San Jose State this season would result in a loss in league standings. He also refused a request to re-seed the tournament without the forfeited losses. The judge said injunctions are meant to preserve the status quo. The conference policy regarding forfeiting for refusing to play against a team with a transgender player had been in effect since 2022 and the San Jose State player has been on the roster since 2022 -– making that the status quo. The player competed at the college level three previous seasons, including two for San Jose State, drawing little attention. This season’s awareness of her reported identity led to an uproar among some players, pundits, parents and politicians in a major election year. Crews' ruling also said injunctions are meant to prevent harm, but in this case, he argued, the harm has already occurred. The games have been forfeited, the tournament has been seeded, the teams have made travel plans and the participants have confirmed they’re playing. The tournament starts Wednesday and continues Friday and Saturday. Colorado State is seeded first and San Jose State, second. The teams split their regular-season matches and both get byes into Friday’s semifinals. The conference tournament winner gets an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. San Jose State coach Todd Kress, whose team has not competed in the national tournament since 2001, has said his team has been getting “messages of hate” and that has taken a toll on his players. Several teams refused to play against San Jose State during the season, earning losses in the official conference standings. Boise State and Wyoming each had two forfeits while Utah State and Nevada both had one. Southern Utah, a member of the Western Athletic Conference, was first to cancel against San Jose State this year. Nevada’s players stated they “refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes,” without elaborating. Nevada did not qualify for the conference tournament. The nine current players and others now suing the Mountain West Conference, the California State University Board of Trustees and others include San Jose State senior setter and co-captain Brooke Slusser. The teammate Slusser says is transgender hits the volleyball with more force than others on the team, raising fear during practices of suffering concussions from a head hit, the complaint says. The Independent Council on Women’s Sports is funding a separate lawsuit against the NCAA for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports. Both lawsuits claim the landmark 1972 federal antidiscrimination law known as Title IX prohibits transgender women in women’s sports. Title IX prohibits sexual discrimination in federally funded education; Slusser is a plaintiff in both lawsuits. Several circuit courts have used a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to conclude that discriminating against someone based on their transgender status or sexual orientation is sex-based discrimination, Crews wrote. That means case law does not prove the “likelihood of success” needed to grant an injunction. An NCAA policy that subjects transgender participation to the rules of sports governing bodies took effect this academic year. USA Volleyball says a trans woman must suppress testosterone for 12 months before competing. The NCAA has not flagged any issues with San Jose State. The Republican governors of Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming have made public statements in support of the team cancellations, citing fairness in women’s sports. President-elect Donald Trump likewise has spoken out against allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports. Crews was a magistrate judge in Colorado’s U.S. District Court for more than five years before President Joe Biden appointed him as a federal judge in January. Gruver reported from Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Hanson from Helena, Montana. More in Nation-World News Iconic guitar maker trying to put a stop to Trump-themed offering Dow hits another record as stocks continue to rise This American corporation is cutting 2,000 employees five days before Christmas
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