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Suder had six rebounds and four steals for the RedHawks (4-2). Eian Elmer scored 15 points and added five rebounds and three steals. Antwone Woolfolk shot 5 of 8 from the field and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points, while adding six rebounds. Ahmad Robinson finished with 19 points, six assists and three steals for the Bears (3-4). Brady Shoulders added 14 points and four steals for Mercer. Alex Holt also put up 12 points and nine rebounds. Miami went into the half leading Mercer 35-30. Elmer scored 11 points in the half. Suder scored 12 second-half points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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While women will fill a record number of state legislative seats in 2025, the overall uptick will be slight, filling just over third of legislative seats. Races in some states are still being called. "We certainly would like to see a faster rate of change and more significant increases in each election cycle to get us to a place where parity in state legislatures is less novel and more normal," said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the CAWP, which is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. As of Wednesday, at least 2,450 women will serve in state legislatures, representing 33.2% of the seats nationwide. The previous record was set in 2024 with 2,431 women, according to the CAWP. The number of Republican women, at least 851, will break the previous record of 815 state lawmakers set in 2024. "But still, Republican women are very underrepresented compared to Democratic women," Debbie Walsh, director of the CAWP, said. By the most recent count, 19 states will have increased the number of women in their state legislatures, according to the CAWP. The most notable increases were in New Mexico and Colorado, where women will for the first time make up a majority of lawmakers. In New Mexico, voters sent an 11 additional women to the chambers. Colorado previously attained gender parity in 2023 and is set to tip over to a slight female majority in the upcoming year. The states follow Nevada, which was the first in the country to see a female majority in the legislature following elections in 2018. Next year, women will make up almost 62% of state lawmakers in Nevada, far exceeding parity. Women in California's Senate will make up the chamber's majority for the first time in 2025 as well. Women also made notable gains in South Dakota, increasing its number by at least nine. At least thirteen states emerged from the election with fewer female lawmakers than before, with the most significant loss occurring in South Carolina. This year, the only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries after they stopped a total abortion ban from passing. Next year, only two women, who are Democrats, will be in the 46-member Senate. No other state in the country will have fewer women in its upper chamber, according to the CAWP. Women make up 55% of the state's registered voters. Half the members in the GOP dominated state were elected in 2012 or before, so it will likely be the 2040s before any Republican woman elected in the future can rise to leadership or a committee chairmanship in the chamber, which doles out leadership positions based on seniority. A net loss of five women in the legislature means they will make up only about 13% of South Carolina's lawmakers, making the state the second lowest in the country for female representation. Only West Virginia has a smaller proportion of women in the legislature. West Virginia stands to lose one more women from its legislative ranks, furthering its representation problem in the legislature where women will make up just 11% of lawmakers. Many women, lawmakers and experts say that women's voices are needed in discussions on policy, especially at a time when state government is at its most powerful in decades. Walsh, director of the CAWP, said the new changes expected from the Trump administration will turn even more policy and regulation to the states. The experiences and perspectives women offer will be increasingly needed, she said, especially on topics related to reproductive rights, healthcare, education and childcare. "The states may have to pick up where the federal government may, in fact, be walking away," Walsh said. "And so who serves in those institutions is more important now than ever."Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for intel chief, faces questions on Capitol Hill amid Syria fallout
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Frank Bisignano, the CEO of financial services, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump as the Social Security Administration’s commissioner . On Wednesday night, Trump said on social media that Frank is a business leader with a great history of changing big companies. He will be in charge of fulfilling the agency’s promise to the American people for many years to come! At the moment, Bisignano is in charge of Fiserv, one of the biggest financial software firms in the nation and a major player in financial services and payments. He previously served in top leadership roles at Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase, among other big institutions. New Social Security commissioner under the Trump administration Bisignano will have to take on the enormous responsibility of safeguarding the future of the Social Security program if the Senate confirms him as its head. In 2035, the Social Security trust fund may run out of money, according to a government analysis . During his campaign, Trump pledged not to reduce Social Security benefits, which are received by over 67 million Americans who are elderly or disabled. However, he made no explicit legislative recommendations to guarantee the program’s viability. In his remarks, Trump praised Bisignano’s extensive experience guiding financial services companies through significant change. According to Trump, Frank is a business leader with an impressive history of changing big businesses. Delivering on the Agency’s promise to the American people will be his responsibility. As a senior vice president of what was then Shearson Lehman Brothers , the investment bank whose failure in 2008 contributed to the start of the global recession, Mr. Bisignano soared into one of the most sought-after roles in the New York banking industry in his late 20s. He worked with the bank for about five years in the late 1980s before moving on to other big Wall Street institutions , including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase & Company. One of the few to receive compensation exceeding $100 million in 2017, Mr. Bisignano was named the nation’s second-highest-paid CEO. Additionally, he earned over 2,000 times the typical wage of an employee at First Data Corporation, his company that later merged with Fiserv. A long history of political giving to Republicans Mr. Bisignano has contributed to politics for a long time, mostly to Republicans. According to federal campaign finance reports, Tracy Bisignano, his wife, gave Mr. Trump’s campaign close to $1 million in October. However, in November 2023, he contributed $15,000 to the presidential campaign of Chris Christie, a Republican who had previously served as governor of New Jersey and had run against Trump before withdrawing. Before disclosing the post that Mr. Bisignano was being named for, Mr. Trump praised him and his family on social media earlier on Wednesday and shared an in-depth biography of Mr. Bisignano. An hour later, the president-elect clarified his position, putting a stop to rumors about Mr. Bisignano’s future. Why will the Social Security Administration need Bisignano? The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) SSA General Committee highlighted that after unprecedented achievements under outgoing Commissioner O’Malley in collaboration with AFGE, including a 6.2% increase in productivity and a rise in employee engagement and morale, SSA will welcome a new commissioner, the group said. As long as the new commissioner reciprocates and upholds their legal and contractual commitments to the union and the employees, AFGE is prepared to work in good faith with them. Our joint objectives should be to improve employee morale and retain talent. According to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, millions of Americans rely on Social Security to provide them with the defined benefits they have earned by contributing to the program with each paycheck. With the assistance of thousands of field offices nationwide and a customer service department that desperately needs a 21st-century makeover, SSA makes sure that all benefits are distributed in full and on schedule. In light of Trump’s promises to eliminate the federal workforce, I’m interested in learning how Mr. Bisignano intends to guarantee Social Security benefits are paid out without any problems.