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Donald Trump pays tribute to Jimmy Carter after death despite nasty insult just months agoU.S. President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office during a TV Speech at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 1977. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, died Sunday at the age of 100. Despite foreign policy achievements, his presidency faced domestic challenges like inflation, the Iran hostage crisis, and energy shortages. Post-presidency, Carter’s humanitarian efforts earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 through The Carter Center’s global work. Jimmy Carter , who was a little-known Georgia governor when he began his bid for the presidency ahead of the 1976 election, went on to defeat President Gerald Ford and serve as America’s 39th president and later a globe-trotting humanitarian. During the election, Carter capitalized as a Washington outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that drove former President Richard Nixon from office in 1974. He was the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South before the region shifted quickly to Republicans in subsequent elections. FROM THE ARCHIVES: LiveNOW's Andrew Craft discusses the life and legacy of former first lady Rosalynn Carter with The First Ladies Man Andrew Och and Barbara Perry, the Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets, and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights, and America’s global role. RELATED: Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, dies at 100 Carter's foreign policy wins included brokering Mideast peace in 1978 by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. As former President Jimmy Carter enters home hospice care, Habitat for Humanity's CEO Jonathan Reckford joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to discuss Carter's legacy. At home, Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad, and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency . He designated millions of acres in Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and non-whites to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second-highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. Carter also built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. However, Carter’s support splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines, and the 444-day Iran hostage crisis . His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed attempt to rescue the 53 U.S. hostages in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Ronald Reagan. RELATED: Jimmy Carter dies at 100: Georgia leaders react to death of former president His reelection loss ultimately paved the way for his decades of global advocacy for democracy, public health and human rights via The Carter Center. The former president and his wife, Rosalynn opened the center in 1982. His work there garnered a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 , specifically for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." Rosalynn died on Nov. 19 at her home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 96. RELATED: Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96 Former US president Jimmy Carter (R) waves as Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An (L) smiles during a ceremony to inaugurate a new housing project in Oudong, Kandal province, some 50 kilometers north of Phnom Penh on November 21, 2009. The volunte "I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. I’m free to choose that something. ... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can," Carter’s niece, Kim Fuller, recently quoted him as saying . Here’s a look at some of Carter’s memorable remarks: The inauguration of Jimmy Carter as the 39th president of the United States was held on Thursday, January 20, 1977, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Ge Incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford, who had replaced Nixon following his resignation, faced off against Carter. The poor economic situation and major political events, such as Nixon’s pardoning and the defeat of South Vietnam by the communists hobbled Ford's candidacy, according to City University of New York's Lloyd Sealy Library . Carter won the election and gave his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1977. You have given me a great responsibility—to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes. Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end, we will triumph together in the right. The American dream endures. We must once again have full faith in our country—and in one another. I believe America can be better. We can be even stronger than before. Carter’s election to the White House brought a new emphasis on U.S. foreign policy, based on his own personal ideology. He believed that the nation’s foreign policy should reflect its highest moral principles—a break from the policy and practices of the Nixon Administration, according to the U.S. Office of the Historian . For too many years, we’ve been willing to adopt the flawed and erroneous principles and tactics of our adversaries, sometimes abandoning our own values for theirs. We’ve fought fire with fire, never thinking that fire is better quenched with water. This approach failed, with Vietnam the best example of its intellectual and moral poverty. But through failure we have now found our way back to our own principles and values, and we have regained our lost confidence. Nixon had declared drug abuse "public enemy No. 1 ," which, according to Carter in a 2011 op-ed , led to a failed effort to prevent widespread drug use and destroyed the lives of millions of young people. Carter had campaigned for president on a platform that included marijuana decriminalization. In 1977, he asked Congress to decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, with a full program of treatment for addicts. Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use. In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space. Both still functioning, each probe carries a gold-plated, audio-visual disc called "The Golden Record" containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth — should it ever be found by other intelligent life forms. Carter included a greeting, who was president at the time. We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some - perhaps many - may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe. On the 30th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights , an international document that set out to universally protect the rights and freedoms of all human beings, a gathering of civil rights and religious leaders, human rights activists, and members of Congress was held at the White House , according to Washington Post reporting at the time. Carter sought to refocus public attention on his support for human rights measures at the time, telling attendees that "human rights is the soul of our foreign policy." I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our human rights policy is not a decoration. It is not something we’ve adopted to polish up our image abroad or to put a fresh coat of moral paint on the discredited policies of the past. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met. Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy. And I say this with assurance, because human rights is the soul of our sense of nationhood. U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaking in front of Solar Panels placed on West Wing Roof of White House, announcing his solar energy policy, Washington, DC, June 20, 1979. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Carter spoke on June 20, 1979, at a dedication ceremony for the 32 solar panels he had installed on the roof of the White House West Wing. The installation of solar panels reflected the energy goal of his administration to achieve 20% renewable energy by 2000, according to energy historians at Yale University. The panels were used to heat water in the household for seven years until Reagan quietly removed them during a resurfacing of the White House roof and placed them in storage. In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me ... will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people; harnessing the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil. With popularity ratings on the decline, Carter went on national television to address the nation’s energy crisis and accompanying recession. He prefaced his remarks about energy policy with an explanation of why he believed the American economy remained in crisis and noted a lack of "moral and spiritual confidence," which he believed was at the core of America’s troubles, according to History.com . While the speech has garnered a somewhat poor historical reputation, many Americans were riveted by the speech and it boosted his poll numbers, according to Kevin Mattson, author of " ‘What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?': Jimmy Carter, America's "Malaise," and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country. " In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world. As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning. On Dec. 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Less than two weeks later, Carter condemned the invasion and stressed that it threatened peace throughout the world and increased the potential of Soviet expansion throughout the region. History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease. In late 1980, Reagan and George H.W. Bush defeated Carter and incumbent Vice President Walter Mondale in a landslide victory . On Jan. 14, 1981, Carter gave a farewell address, warning about the ongoing threat of nuclear war and expressing hope for the promotion of democracy and the protection of human rights around the world. We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. It will be a period of tensions both within nations and between nations — of competition for scarce resources, of social political and economic stresses and strains. During this period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities — not the salt in our bread but the bread itself. The Associated Press contributed to this report. The information in the story comes from various historical accounts and sources. It includes details about Jimmy Carter's election, presidency, policies, and post-presidential humanitarian efforts, referencing events like his 1976 election victory over Gerald Ford, the Camp David Accords, and his establishment of the Carter Center. This story was reported from Cincinatti.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's de facto leader said Sunday it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans to dissolve his Islamist group that led the country's insurgency at an anticipated national dialogue summit for the country. Ahmad al-Sharaa, who leads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group leading the new authority in Syria, made the remarks in an interview with Saudi television network Al-Arabiyya. It comes almost a month after a lightning insurgency led by HTS overthrew President Bashar Assad's decades-long rule, ending the country's uprising-turned civil war that started back in 2011. Al-Sharaa said it would take time to hold elections because of the need for Syria's different forces to hold political dialogue and rewrite the country's constitution following five decades of the Assad dynasty's dictatorial rule. Also, the war-torn country's battered infrastructure needs to be reconstructed, he said. “The chance we have today doesn’t come every 5 or 10 years,” said al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani. “We want the constitution to last for the longest time possible.” Al-Sharaa is Syria's de facto leader until March 1, when Syria's different factions are set to hold a political dialogue to determine the country's political future and establish a transitional government that brings the divided country together. There, he said, HTS will dissolve after years of being the country's most dominant rebel group that held a strategic enclave in the country's northwest. Earlier, an Israeli airstrike in the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday killed 11 people, according to a war monitor, as Israel continues to target Syrian weapons and military infrastructure even after the ouster of Assad. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrike targeted a weapons depot that belonged to Assad’s forces near the industrial town of Adra, northeast of the capital. The observatory said at least 11 people, mostly civilians, were killed. The Israeli military did not comment on the airstrike Sunday. Israel, which has launched hundreds of airstrikes over Syria since the country's uprising turned-civil war broke out in 2011, rarely acknowledges them. It says its targets are Iran-backed groups that backed Assad. Unlike his criticism of key Assad ally Iran, al-Sharaa hoped to maintain “strategic relations” with Russia, whose air force played a critical role in keeping Assad in power for over a decade during the conflict. Moscow has a strategic airbase in Syria. The HTS leader also said negotiations are ongoing with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria, and hopes that their armed forces will integrate with the Syrian security agencies. The Kurdish-led group is Washington’s key ally in Syria, where it is heavily involved in targeting sleeper cells belonging to the extremist Islamic State group. Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have been clashing with the SDF even after the insurgency, taking the key city of Manbij, as Ankara hopes to create a buffer zone near its border in northern Syria. The rebels attacked near the strategic northern border town of Kobani, while the SDF shared a video of a rocket attack that destroyed what it said was a radar system south of the city of Manbij. In other developments: — Syrian state-run media said a mass grave was found near the third largest city of Homs. SANA said civil defense workers were sent to to the site in al-Kabo, one of many suspected mass graves where tens of thousands of Syrians are believed to have been buried during a brutal crackdown under Assad and his network of security agencies. — An Egyptian activist wanted by Cairo on charges of incitement to violence and terrorism, Abdulrahman al-Qardawi, was detained by Lebanese security forces after crossing the porous border from Syria, according to two judicial and one security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to to talk to the press. Al-Qardawi is an Egyptian activist residing in Turkey and an outspoken critic of Egypt's government. He had reportedly visited Syria to join celebrations after Assad's downfall. His late father, Youssef al-Qaradawi, was a top and controversial Egyptian cleric revered by the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. He had lived in exile in Qatar for decades. — Lebanese security forces apprehended an armed group in the northern city of Tripoli that kidnapped a group of 26 Syrians who were recently smuggled into Lebanon, two Lebanese security officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information with the media. The Syrians included five women and seven children, and security officials are working to return them to Syria.Telecom Providers Say Networks Are Secure Following Chinese Salt Typhoon HackSome quotations from Jimmy Carter: We have a tendency to exalt ourselves and to dwell on the weaknesses and mistakes of others. I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment. Political and religious leaders must attempt to provide a society within which these human attributes can be nurtured and enhanced. — from 1975 book “Why Not the Best?” Our government can express the highest common ideals of human beings — if we demand of government true standards of excellence. At this Bicentennial time of introspection and concern, we must demand such standards. — “Why Not the Best?” I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and among other things a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry. — “Why Not the Best?” Christ said, “I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery.” I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it. But that doesn’t mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock. — Interview, November 1976 Playboy. This inauguration ceremony marks a new beginning, a new dedication within our Government, and a new spirit among us all. A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it. — Inaugural address, January 1977. It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper — deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation and recession. ... All the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America. ... It is a crisis of confidence. — So-called “malaise” speech, July 1979. But we know that democracy is always an unfinished creation. Each generation must renew its foundations. Each generation must rediscover the meaning of this hallowed vision in the light of its own modern challenges. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival; liberty is human rights; the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. — Farewell Address, January 1981. We appreciate the past. We are grateful for the present and we’re looking forward to the future with great anticipation and commitment. — October 1986, at the dedication of the Carter Presidential Library and Museum. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. — December 2002, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Fundamentalists have become increasingly influential in both religion and government, and have managed to change the nuances and subtleties of historic debate into black-and-white rigidities and the personal derogation of those who dare to disagree. ... The influence of these various trends poses a threat to many of our nation’s historic customs and moral commitments, both in government and in houses of worship. — From 2005 book “Our Endangered Values.” I think that this breakthrough by Barack Obama has been remarkable. When he made his speech (on race) a few months ago in Philadelphia, I wept. I sat in front of the television and cried, because I saw that as the most enlightening and transforming analysis of racism and a potential end of it that I ever saw in my life. — August 2008, commenting on then-Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy. I think it’s based on racism. There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president. ... No matter who he is or how much we disagree with his policies, the president should be treated with respect. — September 2009, reacting to Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout of “You lie!” during a speech to Congress by President Barack Obama. I’m still determined to outlive the last guinea worm. — 2010, on The Carter Center’s work to eradicate guinea worm disease. You know how much I raised to run against Gerald Ford? Zero. You know how much I raised to run against Ronald Reagan? Zero. You know how much will be raised this year by all presidential, Senate and House campaigns? $6 billion. That’s 6,000 millions. — September 2012, reacting to the 2010 “Citizens United” U.S. Supreme Court decision permitting unlimited third-party political spending. I have become convinced that the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge is the deprivation and abuse of women and girls, largely caused by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare, unfortunately following the example set during my lifetime by the United States. — From 2014 book “A Call to Action.” I don’t think there’s any doubt now that the NSA or other agencies monitor or record almost every telephone call made in the United States, including cellphones, and I presume email as well. We’ve gone a long way down the road of violating Americans’ basic civil rights, as far as privacy is concerned. — March 2014, commenting on U.S. intelligence monitoring after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks We accept self-congratulations about the wonderful 50th anniversary – which is wonderful – but we feel like Lyndon Johnson did it and we don’t have to do anything anymore. — April 2014, commenting on racial inequality during a celebration of the Civil Rights Act’s 40th anniversary. I had a very challenging question at Emory (University) the other night: “How would you describe the United States of America today in one word?” And I didn’t know what to say for a few moments, but I finally said, “Searching.” I think the country in which we live is still searching for what it ought to be, and what it can be, and I’m not sure we’re making much progress right at this moment. — October 2014 during a celebration of his 90th birthday. The life we have now is the best of all. We have an expanding and harmonious family, a rich life in our church and the Plains community, and a diversity of projects at The Carter Center that is adventurous and exciting. Rosalynn and I have visited more than 145 countries, and both of us are as active as we have ever been. We are blessed with good health and look to the future with eagerness and confidence, but are prepared for inevitable adversity when it comes. — From 2015 book, “A Full Life.”
We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Donald Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned — from the trivial to the existential. Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51% of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College. Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval. Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years , a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics and restore deterrence abroad. The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them. The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens they were not crazy. Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status. The FBI, the CIA and the Department of Justice, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control. President Biden was really suffering from dementia, not those who said he was. It is not a thought crime to believe there are two sexes — not three or four or more. No one should be forced to buy an electric vehicle, disconnect their natural gas stove or submit to racial or gender indoctrination sessions. Americans should speak their minds and write what they wish without worry of being censored, blacklisted, ostracized, doxed, shadow-banned — or jailed. Campuses are not oases of tolerance, disinterested inquiry and free expression. They instead increasingly became overpriced indoctrination centers that shred the Constitution and graduate indebted students who know less — but are far more biased — than when they enrolled. Trump and his MAGA appointees promise to slash over a trillion dollars from the annual federal budget, disbanding entire agencies. Is the objection that an ever-expanding government — $36 trillion in debt, running nearly $2 trillion in annual deficits — should keep growing? Trump pledges to reform the Pentagon — ending DEI commissars and revolving-door corporate generalship. He vows to hold the four-star class responsible for the catastrophe in Afghanistan and to reenlist soldiers who were driven out due to draconian vaccination mandates or woke intolerance. Trump envisions changing the entire system of military procurement. Does the status quo object on the grounds that our military leadership has been winning our wars abroad? Is the Pentagon currently awash in eager recruits? Has it stockpiled a huge surplus of shells, bombs and rockets? Trump promises historic deportations of the 12 million who destroyed the southern border and surged in without health or criminal audits. Trump vows to rescue swamped social services and stop crimes by illegal-alien felons. Is that really worse than the Biden administration’s original massive importation of millions of illegal aliens, empowered by drug-importing and sex-trafficking cartels? Who are the culpable? Those flagrantly mocking and breaking the law, or those vowing to enforce it? Trump says he will deter enemies without bogging America down in “endless wars” — and did just that in his first four years as president. Is the current alternative preferable to convincing enemies that there are few consequences to their aggression, sandbagging allies like Israel or feeding the war in Ukraine without any plan of either winning or ending it? The Trump revolution is also cultural and social. Shared class interests have replaced race, ethnicity and gender chauvinism. Athletes of all races are no longer taking a knee in protest of America’s supposed systemic racism during the national anthem. Sometimes they celebrate their scoring by doing honorific Trump YMCA/golf-swing dances on national television. Enlistments to help craft the Trump counterrevolution are not always predicated on degrees, conventional resumes or past lengthy government service. Race and gender do not determine qualifications alone. Nor does class. Common sense, successful lives outside of government and a desire to end the current nonsense count instead as better prerequisites. For Trump, party identification, titles and traditional prestige matter less, as he is surrounded by an ideologically diverse cadre including Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Rogan. The country no longer must apologize incessantly for its past or present but can move on — content that it need not be perfect to be better than all the alternatives. The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library or spouting antisemitic venom is passing. So, another name for the Trump counterrevolution is a simple return to sanity.
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This full-scale sensory event will be an intersection between art, technology, and music with art direction by Alessio De Vecchi, executive production by Alexander Wessely, and additional production by animation studio Woodblock. Special guests will highlight the performances of “Genesys,” including Adriatique, Amelie Lens, Camelphat, Charlotte de Witte, Dixon, Mike Dean, Rampa, Sebastian Ingrosso, Tiesto and more. , , , , Dec. 30–31, 2024; Jan. 3–4, Feb. 5, 7–8, 12, 14–15, 2025 Resorts World Theatre at , 3000 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 676-7000 Janet Jackson returns to Las Vegas with an all-new residency that kicks off during the New Year’s Eve holiday, which will be a nonstop hit parade. In 2019, she received induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside her brothers, and in that same year, her Las Vegas residency, “Metamorphosis,” closed out to record-breaking ticket sales with only 18 dates at the Park MGM’s Park Theater. Jackson has been performing in Las Vegas since she was eight years old. , , , , Dec. 30; Jan. 3 and 4, 9 p.m.; New Year’s Eve show Dec. 31, 10 p.m. PH Live at , 3667 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (866) 919-7472 50 Cent kicks off “50 Cent: In Da Club,” his first Las Vegas residency at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Expect all the hits “In Da Club,” “Candy Shop,” “P.I.M.P.,” and “21 Questions.” , , , , Best Restaurants & Lounges in Las Vegas for New Year’s Eve 2025 , 3667 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (866) 919-7472 Caesars Entertainment and Tao Group Hospitality are opening Caramella, an Italian restaurant and lounge with décor and design inspired by 1970s Italy. The restaurant features views overlooking the Las Vegas Strip, an adjacent candy shop and a kitschy lounge behind a secret door with a mirror mosaic DJ booth. Caramella will be the pregame spot before shows at the PH Live Theater, where 50 Cent has a residency. , 3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 731-7779 Clique Hospitality debuts Caspian’s Cocktails & Caviar at Caesars Palace with a 50-seat caviar bar that acts as a “front” to a 2,300-square-foot lounge and live music speakeasy. Try The Whale, two ounces of Imperial Golden Osetra caviar complemented by a bottle of Dom Perignon; The Royal Flight, six vodka shots paired with six caviar bumps; Kaluga caviar served with French onion dip; and crispy potato latkes topped with crème fraîche and caviar. On Thursdays, Ben Carey curates Caviar Karaoke. , 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 698-7000 Coastal Mexican food with a Tulum vibe is all the rage on the Strip. However, this new offering from Clique Hospitality also spotlights award-winning Chef Jason McLeod (formerly of San Diego’s The Grand Del Mar Resort, Ironside Fish & Oyster and Born & Raised). Expect a dining spectacle with DJs and fire performers circulating in an environment that mimics the tree-canopied tropics of the Yucatán Peninsula. Menu specialties include ceviches, agua chiles, whole grilled angry fish, birria short rib, and a TikTok-friendly fajita board. , 3325 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 414-6333 Gjelina is now opening at The Venetian Resort, bringing more of L.A. to the desert. This is owner Fran Camaj’s third location of the restaurant, which is named after his mother. Gjelina Las Vegas follows the same menu format and sourcing initiatives as its Los Angeles and New York City locations, featuring dishes with seasonal ingredients such as woodfired pizzas, vegetable-forward dishes, seafood and inventive fresh entrees like Grilled Kobocha Square with miso glaze and Wood Roasted Beets with horseradish yogurt. Plus, there’s a charcuterie and cheese counter and a wine room, and who can pass that up? ; (702) 414-6333 , 3325 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 665-8592 Now you can party like you are in Shinjuku, Tokyo, without leaving Venice. Inspired by the neon-lit alleys of the Eastern Capital’s bar district, the Golden Gai Cocktail Club is an intimate drinks destination adjacent to Wakuda Japanese restaurant. Live DJs play 90s hip hop and R&B while guests sip playful takes on classic cocktails such as the Yuzu Margarita and Japanese Penicillin. Luis Lopez, who created the cocktail menu, worked alongside Sam Ross of New York City’s Attaboy. The bar bites menu begins at 10 p.m. with handrolls, katsu, wagyu sliders, toasted nuts, house-made chips, Japanese pickles and caviar. Outside, the patio offers more table seating and sweeping views of the Las Vegas Strip. ; (702) 665-8592 New Year’s Eve 2025 in Las Vegas: Where to Buy Sold-Out Concert Tickets Dec. 29 and 30 BleauLive Theater at , 2777 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 678-7272 Duran Duran goes back to back in town shows at the BleauLive Theater. They join a New Year’s entertainment that includes Calvin Harris (Dec. 29), John Summit (Dec. 30) and Tiësto (Dec. 31) at LIV Las Vegas. , , , , Dec. 30 and 31 3770 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (844) 600-7275 It wouldn’t be New Year in Vegas without shows from Bruno Mars. He continues the tradition he started over a decade ago with a packed run around the holiday. , , , , Dec. 30 and 31 The Colosseum at , 3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 731-7779 Creed performs back-to-back shows in Las Vegas for the first time in over 12 years. , , , , Dec. 31 , 361 Symphony Park Ave.; (702) 749-2000 In what’s becoming a tradition, Seth MacFarlane returns to The Smith Center for the Performing Arts for a New Year’s celebration with jazz, swing, and classic standards accompanied by an 18-piece orchestra. This performance will be led by conductor Edwin Outwater (San Fransisco Conservatory of Music). , , , , Dec. 31; 9:30 p.m. The Venetian Theatre at , 3325 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 414-6333 Las Vegas’ hometown heroes head to The Venetian to perform on NYE. Seeing them onstage on this special night has become somewhat of a tradition. , , , , The Best New Year’s Eve 2025 Nightclub Shows in Las Vegas Dec. 28 and 31, T-Pain; Dec. 29, Illenium; Dec. 30, Meduza & James Hype Present Our House at , 3000 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 676-7000 Dec. 28, Dom Dolla; Dec. 29, Calvin Harris; Dec. 30, John Summit; Dec. 31, Tiësto in , 2777 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 678-7272 , Dec. 28, 50 Cent; Dec. 29, Simp City’s anniversary party; Dec. 30, DJ Franzen; Dec. 31, Lil Waynes , 3595 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 777-3800 , Dec. 30, Anyma; Dec. 31, The Chainsmokers , 3131 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 770-7000 Anyma: ; Chainsmokers: , , Where to Eat the Best New Year’s Eve Dinners in Las Vegas First seating (5–7 p.m.) requires a $145 per person food and beverage minimum; second seating (7:30 p.m.–late) requires a $245 per person food and beverage minimum , 2777 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 678-7272 Preview the upcoming Year of the Snake with a special serpent-themed party with live entertainment. Komodo’s signature menu will be available, including Peking Duck; America and Japanese Wagyu; Sushi and Nigiri; and shareable bites like the Money Bag Dumplings and David Grutman’s Grutman Pastrami Eggrolls. ; (702) 678-7272 , 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 698-7000 Momofuku Las Vegas offers a five-course prix-fixe menu for $125 per person. The menu features many of the iconic restaurant’s 20th-anniversary dishes and Vegas favorites, such as white truffle ramen, candied walnut shrimp and everyone’s favorite combo—fried chicken and caviar. For dessert, always order the ice cream sundae. First seating (5 to 7 p.m.) requires a $295 per person food and beverage minimum; second seating (7:30 p.m.–late) requires a $495 per person food and beverage minimum at , 2777 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (702) 678-7272 Papi Steak’s a la carte menu is made for a showy celebration such as New Year’s Eve. It includes the “Beef Case,” a 55-oz. Australian purebred wagyu tomahawk; King Crab Stuffed Lobster; Truffle Jidori Chicken; Wagyu Pastrami with cornichon and house-made mustard; and Roasted Bone Marrow with shallot marmalade, mustard seed and rye toast. ; (702) 678-7272 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. , 3325 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; (866) 659-9643 New Year’s Eve specials include Chicken Liver Pâté, Perigord Black Truffle Pasta or a Seafood Platter. Pair these decadent dishes with equally extravagant libations such as the $75 Madame Martini with Beluga vodka and Osetra-stuffed Castelvetrano olives. ; (702) 607-3065 The Best New Year’s Eve Fireworks to Watch in Las Vegas Las Vegas hosts America’s largest New Year’s Eve fireworks display, “America’s Party 2025,” which includes the eight-minute show created by . Kicking off at 5 a.m. PT on Dec. 31 (when Sydney, Australia, welcomes 2025), the celebration’s theme will be “Making Vegas Memories.” For the first time, Sphere will do the 30-second countdown which leads into the nine resorts that are in on the pyrotechnic action: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Aria Resort and Casino, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Caesars Palace, Treasure Island Las Vegas, The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Resorts World Las Vegas and The Strat with Rio as the Command Center. The fireworks soundtrack features “Auld Lang Syne,” “Viva Las Vegas” by ZZ Top, “House of Memories” by Panic! At The Disco, “My City” by Tiësto & Prophecy, “Party All The Time” by the Black Eyed Peas and “All Night” by Icona Pop, among other songs. The Sphere New Year’s Eve Celebration starts at 5 a.m. PT on December 31 when Sydney, Australia, welcomes 2025. It will follow cities around the world as different timezones approach midnight (Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, London, Buenos Aires, New York, Chicago and Denver). A new Exosphere show, presented by Lexus, will feature art from “psychedelic math artist” UON Visuals, a 3D artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who uses math formulas and code to craft animated patterns and color spectrums. After the big moment, Sphere will showcase content from Afterlife Presents Anyma, “The End of Genesys,” which will play inside Sphere on New Year’s Eve. Those outside Sin City can watch the show online on , the Exosphere’s free livestream. 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DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily!Like most presidencies, Jimmy Carter 's will face history's judgment in determining whether its fiascos—rampant inflation, gas shortages, the failed U.S. military efforts to rescue Americans held in Iran by Islamic radicals—resulted from sheer misfortune or Carter's miscalculations. One fact about the 39th presidency, however, falls unquestionably into the unlucky category. Carter will go down in history as one of only four presidents (including William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson) who did not have an opportunity to appoint a member of the U.S. Supreme Court . Yet, indirectly, he is responsible for one of the high tribunal's most consequential members: Ruth Bader Ginsburg . In addition, his approach to populating the lower federal courts with diverse judges reshaped the country's bench. Carter's upbringing in rural southern Georgia impressed upon him life-long lessons about race and gender. His mother's independence as a nurse who ignored many of the Jim Crow South's racial segregation customs, and his exposure to Black playmates, clerics and, neighboring sharecroppers, formed his eventual embrace of equal opportunity for all Americans. Carter's career in the nuclear Navy coincided with President Harry Truman's abolition of racial segregation in the American military. By the early 1970s, he had fully embraced the modern civil rights agenda. Standing for office in the Peach State, rife with traditional white segregationist politicians, Carter ultimately represented the more progressive New South. As his political career expanded, Carter's wife, Rosalynn, embraced an equal role with him in running their peanut farming business. Once in the governor's office, the future president quickly changed the complexion of the state workforce, placing Blacks in 40 percent of influential positions, including boosting their number on Georgia boards from three to 53 and appointing the first Black state patrolman. African Americans rewarded him by casting their votes for Carter in 1976, catapulting him from "Jimmy Who?" to the Democratic presidential nomination and then on to the White House, with 83 percent of their ballots in the general election. Carter's commitment to egalitarianism on matters of race and gender manifested itself in his approach to federal court nominations. He developed an affirmative action plan for the trial courts and courts of appeals. Long a bastion of white males, the 94 district courts and 13 courts of appeals form the core of the federal judicial structure. Distributed among 12 geographic clusters of states and the District of Columbia, plus one national circuit, the courts of appeals hear the vast majority of cases from the federal trial courts. All litigants have the right to appeal a loss from the district courts, and, because the Supreme Court's docket is discretionary and contains fewer than 100 cases a term, the courts of appeals are the last stop for all but a few cases. Thus, Carter's 262 nominations to the federal benches, a record number at the time, guided by an effort to balance the representative characteristics of appointees, especially in terms of race, ethnicity, and gender, gave him an influential role in shaping the national judiciary. His first year in office (1977), Carter established his Circuit Court Nominating Commissions and met with them in the White House to gather names of qualified women and minorities for the federal benches. This unprecedented process resulted in his naming 57 minority judges and 41 female jurists, numbers that exceeded the total of all previous presidents' minority and women nominees. He appointed nine Black people to the circuit courts (including Amalya Kearse, the first female African-American federal appellate court judge) and 28 Black jurists to the district courts. The 1978 Omnibus Judgeship Act , which created 152 new federal judgeships, aided Carter's record performance in Black appointments. His most lasting impact resulted from his 1980 nomination of Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a proving ground for Supreme Court justices. Ginsburg had served as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project, during which she argued a half-dozen gender-equity cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and won all but one. Her scholarship as a tenured Columbia Law School professor and her successful advocacy for equality between the sexes caught Carter's attention. Likewise, her compelling life story captured President Bill Clinton 's imagination in 1993 when Justice Byron White retired from the nation's highest tribunal. In announcing her nomination, Clinton declared that Ginsburg was "to the women's movement what Thurgood Marshall was to the movement for the rights of African Americans." If Carter had secured a second term in the 1980 election, it is likely that he would have had the distinction of placing the first woman on the high court. But that landmark belongs to President Ronald Reagan. Joining Sandra Day O'Connor as only the second woman to become a member of the court, Ginsburg played a historic role, especially in continuing her crusade for gender equity. She penned the court's opinion in the decision requiring Virginia Military Institute to admit women. Her dissent in the Lilly Ledbetter case successfully encouraged Congress to amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act's limits on when the victims of wage discrimination could challenge their employers in federal court. Until her 2020 death, Ginsburg continued to fulfill the egalitarian agenda of Carter's post-Watergate presidency. She provided votes and authored opinions upholding access to abortion, allowing universities to maintain affirmative action policies in college and law school admissions, advocating marriage equality, and bolstering sexual privacy. And RBG might never have made history on the nation's highest court without the 39th president's nomination of her to the second most powerful tribunal in the nation. Barbara A. Perry ( @BarbaraPerryUVA ) is the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center . She was a 1994-95 Supreme Court Fellow. 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Towson 64, Morgan St. 60Nov. 25 is the International Day Against Gender Violence . Phrases such as “ Your Body, My Choice ” emerging in relation to the last U.S. election are a reminder that gender-based violence can be uttered by men across cultures. In the San Diego area, one of the largest concentrations of Iraqi diaspora are Yezidi women who escaped their sexual enslavement by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. While the threat of ISIS has been forgotten after the group’s defeat in 2018, we have forgotten the condition of those Yezidi women enslaved by the terror group. From a human security perspective, the Yezidis, an ethno-religious minority in Iraqi and Syria, were particularly vulnerable to ISIS’s depredations, as their syncretic faith was labelled “devil worship” by the terrorists. In terms of their future, including those survivors in San Diego, this community has to overcome a collective trauma inflicted by ISIS. ISIS’s enslavement of Yezidi women was part of a larger history of soldiers, militants and terrorists targeting women during conflict. Sexual violence during conflict serves two purposes. First, it is a means of building morale among fighters, creating a joint camaraderie of machismo in the form of collective sexual violence. Second, the sexual violence demoralizes the enemy, demonstrating they cannot protect “their women,” just one strategy in tandem with destroying the enemy’s home, culture, and heritage. This motivation was not unique among ISIS but has been a tragic component of political violence in the past, and unfortunately into the future. A decade ago, on Aug. 3, 2014, ISIS conquered the village of Kocho in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq. On Aug. 15, it began massacring several hundred men and elderly women of the Yezidi community, after they failed to convert to Islam. Nadia Murad , then 21 years old, witnessed the execution of her mother and brothers, and then was abducted along with other young Yazidi women as sex slaves. Responsibility to Protect is an international norm for states to prevent genocide, mass atrocities, and war crimes, in response to the failure to do so in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The U.S. airdropped food to trapped refugees on nearby Mount Sinjar but sat on the sidelines as the massacre ensued in this village. More than ten years later, the international community still has a responsibility to remember the Yezidis who died, those dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, including in the San Diego area, and to the more than 2,000 who are still missing. That responsibility includes the other victims of war who are only increasing in number in the 21st century — from the north of Iraq to Ukraine to Gaza. UNITAD, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL, was a dedicated remembrance body. Yet, its mandate was terminated. Murad was able to escape and arrived in Germany in 2015. She was one of the fortunate also appointed as a UN goodwill ambassador, the first to represent “Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking.” Murad was eventually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first Iraqi to ever receive it. In 2016 she met the Beirut-born British barrister Amal Alamuddin Clooney, who agreed to represent Murad. Both addressed the United Nations, advocating that the ISIS campaign be designated as a genocide. Their work was essential to the Security Council agreeing to establish UNITAD in 2017. In the lobby of the United Nations General Assembly, a replica of Picasso’s Guernica mural hangs above the podium where international figures field questions from the media, a form of remembrance for the multilateral body, as the failure of the world community to act after Guernica eventually led to World War Two. By bearing witness to Guernica, UN diplomats would work to ensure it would not happen again. Yet, Guernica did happen again: Kocho was the Guernica of the 21st century. UNITAD was an attempt to prevent future Guernicas. The Iraqi judicial system lacked the infrastructure to investigate and try all the members of ISIS responsible for these crimes. Hence, Baghdad requested the aid of the UN in the form of UNITAD, which has been collecting evidence since 2017. We have launched our year-end campaign. Our goal: Raise $50,000 by Dec. 31. Help us get there. Times of San Diego is devoted to producing timely, comprehensive news about San Diego County. Your donation helps keep our work free-to-read, funds reporters who cover local issues and allows us to write stories that hold public officials accountable. Join the growing list of donors investing in our community's long-term future. Yet, the Iraqi government terminated this body’s mandate in 2024 due to conflicts with the UN team investigating the crimes. This denied justice to the survivors of ISIS atrocities. Closing such a body was not only a loss for the female survivors of gender-based violence, the Yezidis, as well as the Iraqi nation in general, it set a tragic global precedent. A dedicated UN body is imperative to document genocidal and gendercidal violence, and victims of war. The genocidal rampage that ensued in Kocho in August 2014 continued for the women in captivity. To forge homogeneity within their “Islamic” state, ISIS sought the erasure of a pre-Islamic past by destroying antiquities and what it deemed as “pre-Islamic peoples,” expelling Christians from Mosul, many of whom fled to El Cajon, or enslaving Yezidi women to ensure that they could not give birth to future Yezidi children, a form of genocide specifically targeted against one gender, in what can be more specifically called a gendercide. The work of lawyers or human rights investigators is like that of a historian, trying to collect material from the past from primary sources to construct a narrative in the present. Primary sources, in this case, include the videos and documents produced by ISIS itself documenting their genocide, as well as the testimonies of the victims. Our responsibility to remember is a reminder, as well, to the damage done to the spiritual heritage of Yezidi temples and Christian churches by ISIS, in addition to forced expulsion. Both physical reconstruction and investment in mental healthcare infrastructure, which Iraq lacks, are still needed, as well as for local NGOs in San Diego dealing with the issue, such as License to Freedom . As a historian, these deaths inspired me to advocate for remembering the victims of war in the San Diego area. The enslaved Yezidi women are one episode in this greater history of soldiers and civilians from the north of Iraq and Syria under ISIS, to Ukraine to Gaza, who have died or endured trauma and PTSD, internally displaced peoples and refugees, child soldiers, the victims of gender-based violence during conflict, the kidnapped and tortured, those maimed by landmines or IEDs and amputees, many reliant on prosthetics, landscapes poisoned by depleted uranium, to animals and domesticated pets caught up in conflicts that they had no role in creating. Ibrahim Al-Marashi is an associate professor of history at Cal State San Marcos and a visiting scholar at University of San Diego and San Diego State University. Get Our Free Daily Email Newsletter Get the latest local and California news from Times of San Diego delivered to your inbox at 8 a.m. daily. Sign up for our free email newsletter and be fully informed of the most important developments.
Now that he’s stepped back into the role of being a starter, Dalton Risner is working tirelessly to make sure he’s at his best for the Vikings. ADVERTISEMENT That could be easier said than done in the short term. After starting exclusively at left guard since entering the NFL, Risner got the start at right guard for the first time last weekend with the Vikings playing the Tennessee Titans. Though he said he was extremely grateful for the opportunity, Risner also admitted there’s a learning curve now playing a new position. Not that he’s complaining about his place on the offensive line. “It was awesome,” Risner said. “I’m really happy with how I played. A few things to clean up. I think I’ll only continue to get better.” ADVERTISEMENT After rewatching the game, head coach Kevin O’Connell praised Risner for the way he competed in the trenches. “He showed some of that veteran moxie to win some downs that were some hard downs,” O’Connell said. “There are some things he’ll continue to improve with the speed and physicality of it as he finds his groove.” The biggest hurdle for Risner is getting his mind to think in reverse. He has spent so much time at left guard throughout his career that switching over to right guard has forced him out of his comfort zone. “All of it is flip-flopped,” Risner said. “It’s not an easy process.” ADVERTISEMENT It was made even more difficult last weekend with Risner going up against the combination of star defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons and rookie defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat. “That’s about as good of a pair as we’re going to find in the NFL,” offensive coordinator Wes Phillips said. “We knew it was going to be a challenge up front with those guys. There are some things we could’ve done better from a technique perspective. We expect these guys to respond.” That includes Risner as the Vikings prepare for the Chicago Bears on Sunday afternoon at Soldier Field. As he gains more experience at his new position, his hope is that it becomes second nature to him at some point soon. ADVERTISEMENT “I don’t know how many reps it’ll be or how many games it’ll be,” Risner said. I know I’ll consistently get more and more comfortable there.” The only player listed as a non-participant on the injury report was tight end Josh Oliver (wrist/ankle). He hasn’t practiced at all this week, so his availability for this weekend is very much up in the air. ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said the nation owes former President Jimmy Carter “a debt of gratitude.” In a post on his Truth Social platform , Trump said the 39th president, who died Sunday at the age of 100 , served the nation during a crucial time. “Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History,” he wrote. “The challenges Jimmy faced as President came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.” Carter died in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, after spending nearly two years in hospice care. In his message, Trump said, “Melania and I are thinking warmly of the Carter Family and their loved ones during this difficult time. We urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers.”Telefónica, S.A. (OTCMKTS:TEFOF) Short Interest Down 16.9% in December
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TORONTO — Trae Young had a double-double as the Atlanta Hawks routed the struggling Toronto Raptors 136-107 on Sunday. Young had 34 points and 10 assists as Atlanta (18-15) won its fourth game in a row. He played only 32 minutes as both teams rested their starters with the game well in hand for the Hawks. De’Andre Hunter came off Atlanta’s bench for 22 points. Clint Capela had a double-double with 13 rebounds and 11 points. Scottie Barnes had 19 points, eight rebounds and five assists in 35 minutes of play as Toronto (7-26) dropped its 10th straight game. RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., scored 17 points with six rebounds and four assists in 30 minutes. Toronto saw an influx of talent to its rotation for the game. Centre Jakob Poeltl returned to the Raptors’ starting lineup after missing four games with a strained his groin. He finished with 13 points and six rebounds. Veteran forward Bruce Brown had 12 points and three rebounds off the bench in his season debut after having arthroscopic surgery over the summer. Rookie guards Ja’Kobe Walter (illness) and Jamal Shead (knee contusion) also returned. Point guard Immanuel Quickley (partially torn UCL) remained out. Takeaways Hawks: A 13-2 run in the third quarter blew the game open for Atlanta, which led by as many as 22 points in the period. The Hawks dominated in most facets of the game, including fast-break points (30 to Toronto’s 10) and bench points (57 to Toronto’s 49). Raptors: It was one of the worst three-point shooting performances of the season for Toronto. The Raptors went seven for 24 from beyond the arc for 29.2 per cent. Toronto made just six threes in a 115-107 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Oct. 25. It was also a higher percentage than the 24.4 per cent they shot in a 129-92 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Dec. 5. Key moment Brown went up for a one-handed dunk with 1:28 left in the first quarter. When he slammed it down in front of Toronto’s bench his teammates exploded onto the floor, celebrating the athletic play after the 28-year-old’s season was delayed for 31 games by knee surgery. Key stat Toronto turned over the ball on each of its first five possessions. Taking care of the ball has been an issue all season and the Raptors struggled to recover after that start, giving up the ball 31 times for 30 points in the game. Their previous season high had been 27 in that same win over Philadelphia on Oct. 25. Up next Toronto: The Raptors wrap up 2024 with a visit to the NBA champion Boston Celtics on Tuesday. Atlanta: The Hawks fly to Colorado to face the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 29, 2024. John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian PressTRX Continues To Dominate SOL and ETH For Fees, While Lightchain AI Dominates All 3 For Gains
How to Watch the Clippers vs. Pelicans Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for December 30PETER WRIGHT’S mind games worked perfectly as he out-psyched Luke Humphries to dethrone the world champion in frenetic fashion. Snakebite, 54, defied the 25-year age gap and produced a masterclass of finishing to win 4-1 in the fourth round of the PDC World Darts Championship and back up his pre-game trash talk . Advertisement 5 Peter Wright produced his best performance of the year to knock out Luke Humphries Credit: Rex 5 Luke Humphries was easily beaten by Wright as his title defence came to an end Credit: Rex 5 Wright and Humphries embraced after the match 5 Wright teared up as he exchanged some words with the fallen champion 5 It was clearly an emotional moment for Scotsman Wright Follow all the action from the World Darts Championship as it happens with SunSport's LIVE blog Humphries , 29, dramatically bombed out of the competition, almost 12 months after he ruled the world for the first time. The world No1 will not defend the Sid Waddell Trophy – Gary Anderson in 2016 was the last man to achieve that feat – after suffering his first defeat in nine successive games on the Ally Pally stage. It spectacularly opens up the top half of the draw and means 17-year-old Luke Littler has an excellent chance to become the youngest world champion in history. READ MORE IN DARTS HAM FISTED World Darts Championship star in Christmas Day hospital dash after ham accident Two-time world champion Wright went from his sick bed to the doubles bed and took out exactly 70 per cent of his doubles in the shock result of the 2024/25 tournament. Advertisement The Scotsman, 54, riled the defending world champ pre-game by predicting Raymond van Barneveld would KO him in round three. That never happened, as the Dutchman lost early, but Wright had predicted that he and Barney would then have “the best game you’ve ever seen on the stage”. In response, the Berkshire thrower told his trash-talking foe there would be “egg on his face” if he did not “smash me”. 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Darts journeyman Robert Owen fights back tears as he retains tour card with biggest win of life at World Championship Wright – who was wearing another snazzy Christmas top – was coughing and spluttering last Friday due to a chest infection but was better this time and did his usual dance on the stage for the fans. He was really up for this one, too, and took a 1-0 lead, the first set that Humphries had conceded at world level since becoming world champion last January. Advertisement Humphries responded with a 161 in leg one and then produced an under-pressure steal in leg five to level up at 1-1. At the TV break, Wright changed his darts – as he often does – and opened set three with a brilliant 83 before then swapping them back again to move 2-1 ahead with a 96. The crowd sensed the upset was coming and when he moved 3-1 up, there was a TV ad break for the players to regroup backstage. Wright emphatically opened set five with a Bull finish on 88 – Humphries acknowledged that with a fist-bump – and then sealed his best win this year on double eight. Advertisement On New Year’s Day, Wright now plays No8 seed Stephen Bunting or Luke Woodhouse and that tie will be concluded on Monday. Speaking after his huge win, Wright said: "He didn’t play like he can. I have never had support like this in my life. Thank you. It’s amazing. "I have struggled for form all year. It’s so annoying. I know I can still play darts. I switched to another set there to try and find something. "This crowd, I have never experienced anything like it in the world. Absolutely amazing. Advertisement "Lucky that I wasn’t playing the Luke Humphries of last year as he was absolutely awesome then. "I am a double world champion. I wanted to win it for the third time. I am not too old. "You only have to play well for two-and-a-half weeks in the whole year. Doesn’t matter what else you do. Read more on the Scottish Sun GHOST TOWN Former Scots shopping hotspot 'decaying' as multimillion pound revamp ‘failing’ VAX HORROR Striken Scots 'gaslit' by health bosses after complications from Covid vaccine "This is all that matters. I am in the quarter-finals. Advertisement "I thought I played rubbish tonight. I hope I can play better and score better in the next round. As long as this crowd are behind me, I have a great hence."
MiLaysia Fulwiley put up 23 points and Chloe Kitts scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as No. 1 South Carolina routed Coppin State 92-60 on Thursday in Columbia, S.C. Te-Hina Paopao added 13 points and five assists for the Gamecocks (3-0). Joyce Edwards and Maryam Dauda each contributed 10 points for South Carolina, which shot 51.5 percent from the floor and compiled a 51-23 rebounding edge. Laila Lawrence scored 20 points and Angel Jones notched 17 for the Eagles (2-2). No. 8 Iowa State 80, St. Thomas (Minn.) 47 Audi Crooks shot 12-for-17 en route to 26 points and pulled down a game-high eight rebounds as the Cyclones topped the Tommies in Ames, Iowa. Sydney Harris registered 13 points while Addy Brown had 10 for Iowa State (4-0). Amber Scalia's 11 points paced St. Thomas (3-1). No. 10 Kansas State 86, Creighton 68 Ayoka Lee powered for 28 points in 16 minutes as the Wildcats topped the Bluejays in Manhattan, Kan. Kansas State (3-0) jumped out to a 22-9 lead after one quarter and rolled to the win. Temira Poindexter and Serena Sundell each had 12 points for the Wildcats, with Sundell adding eight assists and seven rebounds. Kennedy Townsend scored 16 points, Morgan Maly added 15 and Kiani Lockett had 11 for Creighton (1-2). No. 13 North Carolina State 79, Kent State 51 After leading by just five points at halftime, the Wolfpack expanded the lead in the third quarter and then cruised in the fourth to beat the Golden Flashes in Raleigh, N.C. Aziaha James paced NC State (2-1) with 20 points and nine rebounds, and Zamareya Jones scored 16 points. Kent State (1-2) got 17 points and eight rebounds from Bridget Dunn, plus 15 points from Jenna Batsch. No. 16 Duke 84, Dayton 49 Six players logged double-figure point totals for the Blue Devils in the one-sided victory over the Flyers at Durham, N.C. Ten players hit the scoresheet overall for Duke (3-1), which got a team-high 17 points from Jordan Wood. Toby Fournier added 15 points. Ivy Wolf had 14 points and seven rebounds, and Ajok Madol contributed 12 points for Dayton (2-1), which shot 32.1 percent from the floor and committed 24 turnovers. No. 17 Baylor 104, East Texas A&M 55 Darianna Littlepage-Buggs recorded 22 points and 11 rebounds as the Bears nearly doubled up the Lions in Waco, Texas. Aaronette Vonleh (18 points, 11 rebounds) also had a double-double for Baylor (2-1). Cora Horvath was the top offensive threat for East Texas A&M (2-2) with 22 points. No. 19 Ole Miss 80, Delaware State 42 Starr Jacobs hit 8 of 10 shots from the floor and scored 18 points as the Rebels pulled away from the Hornets in Dover, Del. Madison Scott, Kennedy Todd-Williams and Sira Thienou each put up 13 points for Ole Miss (2-1), which outscored Delaware State 43-21 in the second half. The Hornets (1-3) were led by Kiarra Mcelrath with 13 points and Mahogany Cottingham with 10. No. 22 Alabama 88, Alcorn State 59 Essence Cody amassed 18 points, eight rebounds and four blocks as the Crimson Tide thrashed the Lady Braves in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Aaliyah Nye scored 17 points, Eris Lester had 15 and seven rebounds, and Sarah Ashlee Barker chipped in with 14 points and three steals for the Crimson Tide (5-0). Destiny Brown was the only player in double figures for Alcorn State (1-3), scoring 12 points. No. 23 Illinois 84, Eastern Illinois 37 Reserve Jasmine Brown-Hagger hit 10 of 15 shots scored 23 points to lead the Fighting Illini to a laugher against the Panthers in Champaign, Ill. Gretchen Dolan added 13 points, Kendall Bostic produced 11 points and 12 rebounds and Adalia McKenzie also had 11 points for Illinois (3-0). Jayda Johnston finished with eight points for Eastern Illinois (0-3). --Field Level Media'I'll wait for you in the car park': Roy Keane in angry confrontation with Ipswich fan