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SHANGHAI, December 30 (SMM) – Copper Overnight, LME copper opened at $8,961/mt, maintained wide fluctuations throughout the session, with its center moving upward. It bottomed at $8,951/mt in early trading and peaked at $8,997/mt near the close, finally settling at $8,981.5/mt, up 0.16%. Trading volume reached 9,000 lots, and open interest stood at 262,000 lots. Overnight, the most-traded SHFE copper 2502 contract opened lower at 73,930 yuan/mt, fluctuated upward in early trading, peaked at 74,180 yuan/mt during the session, then its center shifted downward and maintained slight fluctuations near the close, finally settling at 74,070 yuan/mt, down 0.38%. Trading volume reached 15,000 lots, and open interest stood at 148,000 lots. Macro side, uncertainties remain regarding the upcoming Trump administration's policies. The US dollar index fluctuated and eventually closed lower. However, year-end domestic consumption remained weak, leading to mixed performance in the domestic and overseas markets. Domestically, PBOC Governor Gongsheng Pan stated that monetary policy adjustments should be intensified, with a focus on improving precision. On the fundamentals, as the year-end approaches, most enterprises are controlling funds, resulting in overall sluggish market purchasing demand. In summary, with weak domestic consumption at year-end, copper prices are expected to fluctuate downward today. Aluminum Futures Market: Last Friday night, the most-traded SHFE aluminum 2502 contract opened at 19,775 yuan/mt, hit a high of 19,785 yuan/mt, a low of 19,700 yuan/mt, and closed at 19,785 yuan/mt, down 10 yuan/mt or 0.05% from the previous trading day. Last Friday, LME aluminum opened at $2,553/mt, reached a high of $2,562/mt, a low of $2,533.5/mt, and closed at $2,557/mt, up $1/mt or 0.04%. Summary: On the macro front, the European Central Bank may delay its interest rate cuts, and market expectations for the extent of US Fed rate cuts next year remain pessimistic, putting continued pressure on base metals. On the fundamentals side, in December, several aluminum smelters in Sichuan and Guangxi reduced production, while some capacity restarts were delayed. However, production still showed YoY growth. On the demand side, market demand continued to weaken during the off-season, with aluminum processing industry operating rates declining further. Overall, with unclear US Fed rate cut timing and delayed European Central Bank rate cuts on the macro front, and despite slightly reduced supply-side pressure on the fundamentals side, weak demand during the off-season and growing risks of inventory buildup in social stocks are expected to keep aluminum prices fluctuating downward in the short term. Lead Last Friday night, the most-traded SHFE lead 2502 contract opened at 16,880 yuan/mt. After opening, it fluctuated around the intraday moving average, briefly touching a high of 16,915 yuan/mt and a low of 16,810 yuan/mt, eventually closing at 16,895 yuan/mt, down 165 yuan/mt or 0.97%. The open interest of the most-traded SHFE lead 2402 contract decreased by 1,111 lots to 54,615 lots. Last Friday night, LME lead opened at $1,981.5/mt, briefly touching $1,982.5/mt at the beginning of the session. It weakened during the Asian trading hours, hitting a low of $1,950/mt, but rebounded during the European session, closing at $1,966/mt, down $14/mt or 0.71%. Macro side, the wavering expectations of interest rate cuts and the current lack of new directions have led to a slightly bearish macro sentiment, with gold and silver prices fluctuating. On the fundamentals side, this week, air pollution in regions such as Hebei, Henan, and Shandong has gradually eased, with Shandong already lifting smog restrictions and Henan following suit. The supply of secondary refined lead, previously impacted by environmental protection factors, is no longer the main imbalance in the market. Additionally, some crude lead production in Hunan is expected to resume gradually after meeting rectification standards post-New Year's Day. However, the recovery of primary lead production may be delayed due to insufficient raw material stocking. After the New Year's Day holiday, attention should still be paid to the actual resumption of production by lead smelting enterprises in various regions, as well as the recovery of downstream enterprises to normal operations and pre-holiday stocking by dealers after the resolution of year-end account settlements and inventory checks. The lead market's supply and demand decline may ease to some extent. Zinc Last Friday, Elon Musk challenged MAGA, while the Trump alliance faced internal discord over immigration issues; the European Central Bank may consider waiting longer before the next interest rate cut; the leader of Syria's Sham Liberation Front announced plans to dissolve the organization during the National Dialogue Conference; Yemen's capital Sanaa was hit by airstrikes, with Houthi forces claiming the US and UK were responsible; Pan Gongsheng stated the need to intensify and enhance the precision of monetary policy adjustments; the Hong Kong SAR government reported that the number of startups in Hong Kong reached a record high in 2024; Honor completed its equity restructuring and plans to initiate the IPO process at an appropriate time; China's first domestically developed and constructed Type 076 amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, was officially launched. Last Friday, LME zinc opened at $3,054/mt. In early trading, LME zinc briefly rose to a high of $3,055/mt. By the European trading session, longs reduced positions, and LME zinc declined to a low of $3,008/mt before stabilizing around $3,030/mt. It eventually closed higher at $3,040/mt, up $6/mt or 0.62%. Trading volume increased to 5,979 lots, while open interest decreased by 1,584 lots to 225,000 lots. Last Friday, LME zinc recorded a small bearish candlestick with a long lower shadow. LME inventory decreased by 4,450 mt to 244,500 mt, a drop of 1.79%. Expectations for US Fed interest rate cuts weakened, the US dollar strengthened, and base metals came under pressure, with LME zinc's center also shifting lower. It is expected to trade mainly in a range today. Last Friday, the most-traded SHFE zinc 2502 contract opened at 25,170 yuan/mt. In early trading, shorts reduced positions, and SHFE zinc quickly surged to a high of 25,310 yuan/mt. Later, as longs exited, SHFE zinc's center shifted lower to 25,230 yuan/mt. By the end of the session, SHFE zinc's center moved higher again, closing at 25,300 yuan/mt, up 125 yuan/mt or 0.5%. Trading volume decreased to 60,598 lots, while open interest fell by 737 lots to 143,000 lots. Last Friday, SHFE zinc recorded a small bullish candlestick. The 20-day moving average above acted as resistance, with mixed positions from both longs and shorts. Macro sentiment remained relatively bearish, but fundamentals continued to provide support for SHFE zinc. It is expected to trade mainly in a range today. Tin Last week, SHFE tin prices fluctuated rangebound. Specifically, at the beginning of the week, the most-traded SHFE tin contract saw a slight rebound. However, during the night session early in the week, SHFE tin prices exhibited corresponding volatility, opening lower and pulling back continuously. Mid-week, the most-traded SHFE tin contract prices rebounded slightly, impacting market sentiment to some extent, though the overall price trend appeared somewhat weak. By Thursday, the most-traded SHFE tin contract prices showed a rangebound trend. During this period, market sentiment was mediocre, with traders mostly adopting a wait-and-see approach. By the weekend, prices edged down slightly during the late session, with the market's primary focus remaining on supply and demand dynamics and changes in the macroeconomic environment. From a broader perspective, the most-traded SHFE tin contract prices primarily fluctuated rangebound this week, mainly influenced by increased supply, demand-side fluctuations, and the macroeconomic environment. In the spot market, consumption activity was relatively mediocre this week, with daily trading volumes for some trading enterprises reaching 20-50 mt. Traders adopted a more cautious stance amid the complex and volatile market environment, with a dominant wait-and-see sentiment. Looking ahead, SHFE tin prices are expected to maintain wide fluctuations. Nickel Last week, nickel prices fluctuated, with spot prices ranging from 123,000 to 130,000 yuan/mt and SHFE nickel prices ranging from 122,000 to 129,000 yuan/mt. During the week, nickel prices first rose and then fell, influenced by increased downstream willingness for low-price stockpiling and macroeconomic factors. However, the overall demand from downstream sectors such as stainless steel, batteries, and alloys did not show fundamental improvement, making it difficult to support the upward trend in nickel prices. Spot Market: From Monday to Wednesday, as nickel prices rose and the previous week's low-price stockpiling by downstream sectors ended, spot market transactions cooled, and premiums for domestic refined nickel remained stable at high levels. Starting Thursday, with significant improvement in the tight supply of domestic Jinchuan-brand refined nickel in the spot market, premiums for domestic refined nickel began to decline rapidly. It is expected that premiums for domestic refined nickel are unlikely to return to high levels before the year-end.
NFL makes a final call on when the Packers and the Bears will play in Week 18Family of Lyle and Erik Menendez told a judge Monday they want the men freed from the life sentences they are serving for the shotgun murders of their parents, as their court case suffered a delay. The pair have been in prison since a blockbuster trial in the 1990s that became almost compulsory viewing for millions of Americans. Television audiences were riveted by the gruesome details of the slayings of Jose and Kitty Menendez at the family's luxury Beverly Hills mansion. The two men, who have spent more than three decades behind bars, had been due to appear by videolink at a hearing in Los Angeles, their first court appearance in 28 years as a campaign to set them free gathers pace. But technical difficulties scuppered the appearance and the hearing was pushed back to the end of January. Nevertheless, Judge Michael Jesic called the two men's elderly aunts to the stand to hear them plead for the brothers to be freed. "I would like to be able to hug them and see them," Jose Menendez's older sister Terry Baralt, 85, said. "I would like them to come home." Kitty's sister, Joan Vander Molen, echoed that. "No child should go through what Erik and Lyle went through," she said. "They never knew if tonight will be the night when they would be raped." Prosecutors painted the crime as a cold-hearted bid by the then-young men -- Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 -- to get their hands on their parents' $14 million fortune. But their attorneys described the 1989 killings as an act of desperate self-defense by young men subjected to years of sexual abuse and psychological violence at the hands of an abusive father and a complicit mother. The case saw a huge surge of renewed interest this year with the release of the Netflix hit "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story." The hearing comes after a campaign to secure their release, supported by Kim Kardashian and other celebrities. "Set them free before the Holidays!" wrote Tammi Menendez, Erik's wife, on social media last week. Public interest was such that the court held a lottery for the 16 seats in the public gallery. Nick Bonanno, a former high school classmate of Erik's, was the first to arrive at the court, taking his place at the head of the line at 4:30 am (1230 GMT). "I wanted to show support to... Eric and Lyle," he told AFP ahead of the hearing. "It's all about supporting and healing, not just for the families, but for us as a culture." Elena Gordon, 43, said she wanted "to witness a part of our local history." The hearing was intended as a starting point for lawyers working on three routes to free Erik Menendez, 53, and Lyle Menendez, 56. Attorney Mark Geragos has filed a writ of habeas corpus, an attempt to effectively vacate the brothers' first-degree murder conviction, which could free the brothers immediately. Another route is an effort to get the men re-sentenced on the same conviction, which would open the way for them to request parole. Finally, Geragos has submitted a clemency request to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Journalist Robert Rand, who wrote a book about the case, and who is in regular touch with the brothers, said the family was optimistic. But, he said, no one was expecting any quick fixes. "They're hopeful," he said. "They don't know what's going to happen. "I believe this could take much longer than was originally anticipated. It could be six months, could be eight months, could be a year, but eventually they will get out." With excitement over the case near fever pitch, tourists are regularly making pilgrimages to the Beverly Hills home where the killings took place. Australian Christian Hannah, who was born almost two decades after the double murders, made sure the home was a stop on his tour of celebrity hotspots, because of his fascination with the Netflix show. "It's really awesome seeing it in person," he told AFP last week. "It's just because you see it on TV and you see it in person, just feels really cool." pr-hg/amz/jgc
TORONTO, Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Churchill Resources Inc. (“Churchill” or the “Company”) (TSXV: CRI) is pleased to announce that it has completed the second and final tranche of its $2,000,000 non-brokered private placement consisting of the sale today of 2,500,000 common shares which were issued on a “flow-through” basis at a price of $0.08 per share (each an “ FT Share ”) for gross proceeds of $200,000 (and together with the sale of $1,800,000 FT Shares completed on November 22, 2024, the “ Offering ”). The Company intends to use the gross proceeds of the Offering for the exploration of the Company’s key projects in Newfoundland and Labrador. The gross proceeds from the issuance of the FT Shares will be used for “Canadian Exploration Expenses” (within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada)) (the “ Qualifying Expenditures ”), and that qualify for the federal 30% Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit, which will be renounced with an effective date no later than December 31, 2024 to the purchasers of the FT Shares in an aggregate amount not less than the gross proceeds raised from the issue of the FT Shares. The FT Shares are subject to a statutory hold period of four months and one day, and remain subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the " TSXV "). In connection with the Offering, the Company paid eligible finders a cash fee equal to 7.0% of the gross proceeds raised by the Company from the sale of FT Shares to subscribers directly introduced to the Company by such finders. About Churchill Resources Inc. Churchill Resources Inc. is a Canadian exploration company focused on high grade, magmatic nickel sulphides in Canada, principally at its prospective Taylor Brook and Florence Lake properties in Newfoundland & Labrador. The Churchill management team, board and its advisors have decades of combined management experience in mineral exploration and in the establishment of successful publicly listed mining companies, both in Canada and around the world. Churchill’s Taylor Brook and Florence Lake projects have the potential to benefit from the province’s large and diversified minerals industry, which includes world class nickel mines and processing facilities, and a well-developed mineral exploration sector with locally based drilling and geological expertise. 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No. 2 Ohio State answered the call against the No. 5 Indiana Hoosiers. Despite the buzz surrounding Indiana's surprise 10-0 start under first-year head coach Curt Cignetti, the Buckeyes shut down any hopes of an upset early. Ohio State entered halftime with a one-touchdown lead and outscored Indiana by 17 points in the second half to cruise to a 38-15 victory. Unsurprisingly, there was some trolling from Ohio State directed at Indiana during and after the big win. From Buckeyes quarterback Will Howard's touchdown celebration to OSU head coach Ryan Day tacking on an extra score late in the game, the Buckeyes had some words for the Hoosiers. NCAAF HQ: Live NCAAF scores | Updated NCAAF standings | Full NCAAF schedule Did Ryan Day run up the score? You be the judge here. Indiana found the end zone for the second time Saturday with 1:53 remaining in the game. The Buckeyes were expected to just run the ball for a first down and either run out the clock or kneel down to ice the win at Ohio Stadium. But Buckeyes running back TreVeon Henderson ran 38 yards and went down right at the Indiana 1-yard line with 1:10 left on the clock. Instead of kneeling down, Day decided to add insult to injury and punch the ball into the end zone. His quarterback Will Howard scored on a one-yard run to give Ohio State a 23-point lead. After the game, Day told reporters that he wanted to put an exclamation point on the game. Ryan Day said they decided to put an exclamation point on the game at the end pic.twitter.com/vGhKHKE8W4 Cignetti was asked about the last score, and the head coach simply stated that Day "has to do what he's got to do for his team." Will Howard trolls Curt Cignetti: 'Google that!' First, a brief backstory: During one of Cignetti's first Indiana press conferences last December, the new head coach was asked about how he planned to sell his visions to recruits. His response went viral , as he said: "It's pretty simple, I win — Google me." Indiana Coach Curt Cignetti: I win. Google me. Nick Saban vibes. pic.twitter.com/FyOjgRPIW8 After Howard scored for Ohio State, he mimicked typing on a keyboard and told a camera: "Google that!" Will Howard “Google That” then proceeds to put the Cig out and stomp on it 😳 #IU #OSU #Hoosiers #Buckeyes pic.twitter.com/OcuSe9wFct Ohio State's social media department even got in on the "Google me" trolling: GoogLed It. #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/JCpi2rwVf6 Oh, and there was this on the OSU scoreboard after the game: Hot off the presses! pic.twitter.com/st0yiijYoi Howard also pretended to put a cigarette out toward the direction of Cignetti: Will Howard with a message for Indiana after the game pic.twitter.com/LAzIptzMKO After the game, Howard was asked by Fox sideline reporter Jenny Taft about his celebrations. He clarified that he was just having fun, and that he has plenty of respect for Indiana and for Cignetti. “I was just having some fun with it. I got a lot of respect for those guys, man. I think what coach Cignetti’s done over there, he’s done a heck of a job.” @JennyTaft asked @OhioStateFB QB Will Howard about the ‘Google me’ reaction 😅 pic.twitter.com/1G8VxL36fF While these two teams won't meet again in the Big Ten title game with Oregon already locked into one of the spots, we could get a rematch in the College Football Playoff. If they do, you can go ahead and bring your popcorn.Pakistan’s opposition party of former prime minister Imran Khan ended its protest in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday as the government arrested hundreds of its supporters in an overnight crackdown after two days of deadly demonstrations. The “law enforcement force cleared the main avenue” in Islamabad, according to a statement by the interior ministry early morning. Top leaders of Khan’s party including his wife Bushra Bibi and Ali Amin Gandapur who were leading the protest, escaped from the area, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told reporters after the crackdown. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has called off the protest after the government’s “brutal action,” Atif Khan, a lawmaker of Khan’s party, said in a text message. The protest that began on Sunday killed four security officials in clashes with the protesters, according to the government. At least eight protesters died in gunshots fired by security officials, Khan’s party said in a statement. Both sides denied that they took any actions that led to deaths. Thousands of supporters of the jailed leader breached roadblocks and clashed with the police for the past three days to converge in Islamabad, defying efforts by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government to stop them from entering the city. This roiled the financial markets on Tuesday on concern a prolonged protest may hurt efforts to stabilize the South Asian nation’s economy. The benchmark KSE-100 index jumped 4.8 percent at provisional close on Wednesday, the most since since July 2023, and recovering its losses of 3.2 percent from a day earlier. The protesters gathered near the so called Red Zone on Tuesday and the party announced to stage a sit-in till the government accepted their demand of releasing Khan from jail. The former cricket star is facing more than 150 cases from corruption to misuse of power when he was the premier for about four years until 2022. The search operation is ongoing and a large number of protesters who started a sit-in in Islamabad to demand Khan’s release from jail have been arrested, information minister Tarar told ARY News earlier. The main protest area has been cleared and all the barricades will be removed on Wednesday, he said. The protest is seen as the biggest political challenge since Sharif’s coalition government took power after national elections in February. The premier has said such protests are a distraction to his government, which is trying to reform the country’s weak economy by taking difficult decisions under the International Monetary Fund’s new loan program. Those include taxing agriculture and retail sectors that have resisted attempts in the past.
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St. Louis County Clerk charged with forgery, misdemeanor chargesBoosted.ai , has raised $15 million for its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool for investment managers. The new funding, announced Monday (Nov. 25), is focused on expanding Alfa , the company’s agentic AI platform. “Agentic AI is essentially an AI co-worker that users can train to think like them and consistently monitor and update for anything that matters to their portfolios,” Boosted said in a news release. “By using Boosted.ai and its agentic assistant Alfa, users across the finance spectrum, including asset managers, wealth managers, family offices and hedge funds, can automate their workflows, reducing what typically takes 40 hours of analyst work to approximately 20 minutes.” Founded in 2017, Boosted.ai initially offered proprietary machine learning algorithms before expanding to simple-to-use AI agents that think like the user. The company said its offering provides users with finance-specific data, in-line citations that work to reduce hallucinations, and continuous, proactive monitoring. “From day one, our clients have been asking for AI that truly mirrors their thinking,” said Joshua Pantony , CEO of Boosted.ai. “This latest investment from our client base enables us to further enhance Alfa, our agentic AI platform , empowering finance teams to conduct deeper research, leverage broader analytics, integrate more data, and ultimately focus on higher-level, strategic work.” Co-founded by Pantony, Jon Dorando and Nicholas Abe , Boosted.ai serves more than 300 active clients managing assets worth more than $3 trillion in the institutional and wealth management space. PYMNTS spoke with Pantony earlier this year about the rise of Nvidia as it joined the ranks of the world’s largest companies . He said that the firm’s growth potential is closely linked to the extent of AI adoption. “The technology — though we certainly believe it is extremely transformative — is still in its infancy, but as people continue to discover the efficiency gains AI can offer, increased demand will fall on the computing power required to handle these tasks,” Pantony said. “There’s a reason everyone from Meta to the government of Canada is buying all the chips they can get their hands on — use cases and everyday use will continue to expand.” Meanwhile, PYMNTS wrote last week about the increasing use of AI agents in customer service at major companies, making decisions that, until recently, required human managers. “While traditional AI approaches have centered around assistance , the ability for AI agents to reason, decide and take action will amplify results,” Archana Kannan , senior vice president of product for work messaging app Slack , told PYMNTS. “Ultimately, agents are going to transform how every user gets their job done, particularly the mundane, common tasks like automating projects, new hire onboarding, generating content or managing IT incidents.”
What do Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance have in common? They both called Donald Trump a Nazi before groveling at his feet for their own political advancement. According to audio obtained by CNN’s KFile of Kennedy during his time as a host of the radio show “Ring of Fire,” in 2016 Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services compared Trump to authoritarians like Adolf Hitler, and lauded critiques calling his supporters “belligerent idiots” and comparing them to “outright Nazis.” In one 2016 episode, during which he interviewed journalist Matt Taibbi, Kennedy heaped praise on his guest for his description of Trump’s base. “One of the things that you write so beautifully, and your stuff is so fun to read, but you write about Trump, ‘The way that you build a truly vicious nationalist movement is to wed a relatively small core of belligerent idiots to a much larger group of opportunists and spineless fellow travelers whose primary function is to turn a blind eye to things,’” Kennedy said, quoting Taibbi’s writing. “‘We may not have that many outright Nazis in America, but we have plenty of cowards and bootlickers, and once those fleshy dominoes start tumbling into the Trump camp, the game is up.’” After quoting the passage, Kennedy told Taibbi that the similarities between Trump and Hitler only extended so far. “Hitler had like a plan, you know, Hitler was interested in policy,” Kennedy said. “I don’t think Trump has any of that. He’s like non compos mentis . He’ll get in there and who knows what will happen.” In other episodes Kennedy — a former climate and energy lawyer — heavily criticized Trump’s environmental policies, describing them as “pollution-based prosperity.” “Trump isn’t just gonna destroy the climate, but he’s also promised last week when he spoke to the oil industry, the shale gas industry, he promised that he would get rid of the Clean Water Act,” Kennedy said. “So he’s just gonna open the floodgates to every kind of pollution.” Editor’s picks The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time He’s not the only member of Trump’s administration who’s compared the incoming president to a Nazi. In 2016, future VP Vance suggested that Trump might be “America’s Hitler,” in text messages with a former roommate. “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” he wrote. In an op-ed written that same year, Vance wrote that Trump was “unfit for our nation’s highest office.” Both men were able to bow and scrape their way into Trump’s good graces. In a statement to CNN, Kennedy said: “Like many Americans, I allowed myself to believe the mainstream media’s distorted, dystopian portrait of President Trump. I no longer hold this belief and now regret having made those statements.” Kennedy abandoned his bid for the presidency in August, endorsing Trump in virtually the same breath. Before his exit, the candidate reportedly begged both of his opponents for a job in their future administrations. Trump accepted. Kennedy is a known vaccine conspiracy theorist, pusher of medical misinformation, and the subject of sexual assault allegations . He is nevertheless inline to take control of the NIH, CDC, and FDA — and is only one of a cadre of scandal-plagued administration picks made recently by the president-elect.. Trending Stories Trump Says Republicans 'MUST KILL' Bipartisan Bill to Protect Press Freedom Pete Hegseth Police Report Shares Disturbing Details of Sexual Assault Claim 2024 CMA Awards: The Complete Winners List Republicans Were Ready to Torch Elon Musk for Blowing the Election. Then Trump Won Related Content Putin Rattles Nuclear Saber With Unprecedented Strike on Ukraine Donald Trump and Eddy Grant Settle Lawsuit Over 'Electric Avenue' Campaign Video Trump Is Stocking His Administration With the People Behind Project 2025 Anti-Abortion Group Hopes to Convince RFK Jr. Abortion Pills Are Poisoning Our Water On Thursday, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew his nomination as Trump’s Attorney General amid the fallout of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into allegations that in 2017 he had sex with an underage girl at a “sex party” hosted by a now-convicted sex trafficker. After meeting with senators on Thursday, Gaetz wrote in a social media post that “while the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” and that he would be “withdrawing [his] name from consideration to serve as Attorney General.” Gaetz was not the only Trump nominees facing dubious confirmation odds. On Thursday, Vance met with Republican senators to discuss the nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth has been embroiled in allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman during a 2017 trip to Monterey, California. On Thursday, Mediaite obtained previously unpublished details from the police report made to law enforcement regarding the alleged assault. No charges were filed, but earlier this week CNN reported that Hegseth — who denies the accusation — had paid out a settlement to the woman in order to prevent news of the allegation from making its way to his employers at Fox.Making Winter Heating Eco-Friendly: Top Tips for a Greener Home HVAC System 11-26-2024 12:40 AM CET | Associations & Organizations Press release from: ABNewswire As winter approaches, homeowners are turning to their heating systems to stay warm, but many are also seeking ways to reduce energy consumption and make their homes more eco-friendly. Temp Air Heating & Cooling, a leading HVAC service provider in La Puente, CA, serving Los Angeles County and surrounding areas, offers expert tips on how to heat your home efficiently and sustainably this winter. 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