“We’re aware of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s really strong response to that,” NFL (National Football League) commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday after the conclusion of the league’s winter meetings. “We know the litigation is happening now. From our standpoint, our relationship is not changing with them, including our preparations for the next Super Bowl.” A woman who previously sued musician Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging she was raped at an awards show after-party in 2000 when she was 13 years old, amended the lawsuit on Sunday to include a new allegation that Jay-Z was also at the party and participated in the sexual assault. Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, said the rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt. The 24-time Grammy Award winner called the allegations “idiotic” and “heinous in nature” in a statement released by Roc Nation. The NFL teamed up with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation in 2019 for events and social activism. The league and the entertainment company extended their partnership a few months ago. Kendrick Lamar will perform the Super Bowl halftime show at The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9. Roc Nation and Emmy-winning producer Jesse Collins will serve as co-executive producers of the halftime show. Beyonce, who is married to Jay-Z, will perform at halftime of the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game at Christmas. “I think they’re getting incredibly comfortable not just with the Super Bowl but other events they’ve advised us on and helped us with,” Mr Goodell said. “They’ve been a big help in the social justice area to us on many occasions. 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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after independent Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema opposed the nomination, thwarting their hopes of locking in a majority at the federal agency for the first two years of President-elect Donald Trump's term. A vote to move ahead with the nomination of Lauren McFarren, who currently chairs the NLRB, failed 49-50. Had she been confirmed to another five-year term, it would have cemented a Democratic majority on the agency's board for the first two years of the incoming Trump administration. Now, Trump will likely be able to nominate McFarren's replacement. The NLRB oversees labor disputes, supervises union elections and has the power to investigate unfair labor practices . The partisan breakdown of the NLRB’s leadership is fiercely contested by businesses and labor groups, as the majority on the board sets the agenda and determines how readily the agency uses its power to investigate and enforce labor laws. “It is deeply disappointing, a direct attack on working people, and incredibly troubling that this highly qualified nominee — with a proven track record of protecting worker rights — did not have the votes," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. The rejection of McFarren was yet another blow to Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden from Manchin and Sinema, who served as major brakes — and at times outright obstacles — to much of their legislative agenda the first two years of Biden's term. Manchin left the Democratic Party in May, while Sinema withdrew from the party in 2022. Both chose not to run for another Senate term and will be leaving the Congress in January. Some congressional Republicans praised Manchin and Sinema for preventing the confirmation. “This NLRB seat should be filled by President Trump and the new incoming Senate. Not a historically unpopular president and a Senate Democrat Majority that has lost its mandate to govern,” Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, said in a statement after the vote. “Big Labor knows the days of having the federal government do its bidding are numbered,” Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., wrote in a statement. Foxx, who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said that the incoming Trump administration would focus on “enacting a truly pro-worker agenda.” Business groups also praised the rejection of McFarren. Kristen Swearingen, a vice president at Associated Builders and Contractors, a trade group, called McFarren's policies “harmful” and said the process to nominate her was “flawed.” “Under McFerran’s leadership, the NLRB has issued decisions and expanded interpretations of the National Labor Relations Act that have been rejected by the business community, Congress and federal courts," argued Swearingen. Labor unions decried the vote. Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest consortium of labor unions, said the senators who rejected McFarren's nomination “voted against the working people of this country” and warned that the incoming Trump administration would direct the NLRB to side with management over workers. “Make no mistake: This vote had nothing to do with stopping Chair McFerran’s renomination and everything to do with reversing generations of progress workers have made toward building a fairer and more just economy," Shuler said. Democratic lawmakers, like Schumer, took a dim view of the vote. Some directed their anger directly at Manchin and Sinema. “Shortchanging workers is a bad way to leave,” Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., wrote on social media .Click Holdings Limited Reports Strong Growth in the First Half of 2024 Financial ResultsNoneBrock Bowers of the Las Vegas Raiders moved past Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka on Sunday to set the NFL record for most receiving yards by a tight end in his rookie season and also set the record for most receptions by a rookie, regardless of position. Bowers has 108 receptions to top the mark set last season by Puka Nacua (105) of the Los Angeles Rams. Bowers' yardage stands at 1,144 after having seven receptions for 77 yards in a 25-10 road victory over the New Orleans Saints. Bowers also set a franchise receptions for catches in a season, surpassing Darren Waller (107 in 2020). "It's awesome," Bowers said of the records in a postgame interview on Fox. " You never know what to expect coming up to the next level. It's been everything and more." Bowers' third catch on Sunday -- a 13-yard grab late in the second quarter against the Saints -- pushed his season total to 1,087 yards. Ditka totaled 1,076 receiving yards in 14 games with the Chicago Bears in 1961. Bowers, 22, set the record for receptions by a rookie tight end earlier this season by eclipsing the total of 86 reeled in by Sam LaPorta of the Detroit Lions in 2023. Bowers was selected by the Raiders with the 13th overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft. Despite all his catches, he has just four scoring receptions. While with Georgia, Bowers was the first back-to-back winner of the Mackey Award (2022, 2023), which is given to the top tight end in college football. --Field Level Media
What those who volunteered with Jimmy Carter for Habitat for Humanity say about himLessons learned on Justin Tatum's off-season world tour have primed the Illawarra Hawks coach for his first full season, so much so he now considers anything less than a NBL championship a failure. It's been a steep learning curve for American Tatum, who was installed to his first professional head-coaching job after the Hawks sacked Jacob Jackomas on a 2-7 start to last season. Back then, assistant-turned-interim coach Tatum was known for two things: a strong high-school coaching record in his home state of Missouri and fathering NBA superstar Jayson Tatum. But the 45-year-old has since carved out his own reputation and was nominated for NBL coach of the year last season for inspiring a Hawks resurgence that ended one win short of a championship series berth. Tatum has had to adjust to the rigours of professional basketball along the way and, a little more than a year after his promotion, he still thinks of himself as a newbie. "I've learned a lot," Tatum told AAP, reflecting on his first year in the job. "It went fast but I learned about the speed of the game, the adjustments that needed to be made. "Just probably managing the game during certain times, when teams make runs, managing my timeouts and things like that. "Also finding a way to navigate through the physicality of the plays and stuff that have been called. I'll get better at it but at the end of the day, I'm still one year in. I'm still learning." Another learning curve came earlier this season when Tatum was fined $3000 for a post-match critique that implied match officials treated him differently from other coaches. Tatum is currently the NBL's only African-American coach. "(The NBL) is more scrutinised or more publicised than high school because it's a professional league and things like that," he said. "You definitely can't go in there and do a rant because clearly there are fines and you're going to be clickbait, or whatever the hell comes about." But Tatum has been learning since before the season began, having shipped out to Boston to watch son Jayson win the NBA finals with the Celtics in game five at TD Garden this June. That was followed by a trip to attend his progeny's second Olympics in Paris, though coach Steve Kerr controversially benched the younger Tatum on the USA's run to the gold medal. Sitting in the stands, Tatum could not help but cast his mind to the other side of the world and the lessons he would take from Paris and Boston to Wollongong. "Just the patience of the coaches over there and the way they communicate to the players," Tatum said. "I only watch one (NBA) team play: the Celtics. But whoever they go against, I just try to watch the mannerisms of the coaches. "They know their team, they play so many games that they can act differently when they need to. "Me, I can't. I've got to find a way to be on an even keel or be a certain way to make sure my team doesn't go up and down." In son Jayson and his teammates, Tatum saw the kind of unity he wanted on court at the Hawks. "When Boston won the whole thing, they just went on a roll of everybody knowing their role, knowing what time it is and what they're going to do," he said. "They didn't care about nothing individually anymore. The 82 (regular-season) games they played were over with and now it's about finding a way to get everybody on the same page. "That's something that I want to insert into this group when we start being consistent and winning some games." The Hawks are in the process of getting onto that same page, sitting second on the ladder with a 8-5 record past the halfway mark of the NBL season. No team retained more players than Illawarra this season, with Americans Trey Kell and Darius Days proving shrewd additions to a playing group that made it to the final four last season. "We're in a good situation. We're one of the top, if not in the top-two, teams in the league," Tatum said. "Compared to where we were at last year, I think we're in a good spot." Since he got off the plane in Australia and before a ball was bounced in NBL25, Tatum was confident in what the Hawks could achieve. The only thing he will accept this season will be the ultimate success, a second championship banner for the city of Wollongong. "From the jump, when we landed (it has been)," he said. "The championship should be the only thing in our mind, not final four, not top six. Win the whole damn thing, otherwise it's a bust season."
Minnesota hunters registered 120,675 deer after the third weekend of the firearms deer season, up 6% from 2023, but down 4% from the five-year mean, or average, the Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday, Nov. 26. Deer Season A opened Saturday, Nov. 9, and ended Nov. 17 in 200- and 300-series deer permit areas (DPAs) and continued through Nov. 24 in 100-series DPAs, which are mainly in the northern and northeastern part of the state. ADVERTISEMENT The Season B firearms deer season in 300-series DPAs opened Nov. 23 and continues through Sunday, Dec. 1. The firearms deer harvest by region after 16 days was as follows: According to Todd Froberg, big game program coordinator for the DNR at Whitewater Wildlife Management Area in Altura, Minnesota, the harvest really only increased in the Northwest, Northeast and Central regions during the rest of the 16-day season and then in the B season in the southeast part of the state. The 200-series DPAs only had the nine-day season, and there is only one DPA in the southwest region open during the ongoing B season, Froberg said. The cumulative harvest to date, which includes archery, firearm, early antlerless, youth and special hunts, was 153,390 deer, the DNR said. That’s up 3% from 2023, but down 6% from the five-year average and down 8% from the 10-year average. Cumulative tallies by region were as follows: In related deer hunting news, Minnesota archery hunters as of Tuesday had harvested 23,047 deer, Froberg said, up 12% from last year. Crossbows, which are legal for all archery hunters in Minnesota, are making up a greater percentage of the archery harvest, Froberg says. ADVERTISEMENT “Crossbows are making up 47% of (the) archery harvest,” he said. “For crossbow-specific harvest, we are up 24% compared to last year’s crossbow harvest. Vertical bow harvest is up 4% compared to last year’s vertical bow harvest.” Minnesota’s muzzleloader opens Saturday, Nov. 30, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 15. Archery season continues through Dec. 31. The DNR posts regular harvest updates, both statewide and by DPA, on its website at dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/deer/management/statistics.html.
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Trump's Republican Party is increasingly winning union voters. It's a shift seen in his labor pickCustomers from one of Australia’s biggest banks are being locked out of internet banking. ING Australia confirmed in a post to X that customers had reported issues with the banking app and website on Wednesday morning. “We are aware that some customers are currently experiencing issues accessing the ING app and website,” the post read. “Our teams are investigating this issue and we will provide further updates shortly. “We are extremely sorry to any customers who have been impacted.” Customers first began reporting issues with DownDetector at 7.30am. Disgruntled customers took to social media to air their grievances with the major bank following the most recent outage on Wednesday. “Looks like I’m not buying anything this morning. Come on guys not good enough,” one person wrote to X. “AGAIN!!! this happened 2-3 weeks ago as well..” another wrote. “No worries guys, just waiting to transfer money so we can get our car back from being serviced this morning, we’ll just walk everywhere instead. Useless,” added another. The outage comes just four weeks after customers were hit with another outage. ING Australia customers reported being unable to access the website or banking app about 9am on Wednesday, October 30. At its peak, more than 2300 people reported issues accessing ING Australia banking services. Originally published as Major outage hits ING Australia customers just weeks after last disaster
Andrej Jakimovski hit a layup with 8 seconds left, and Colorado upset No. 2 UConn 73-72 in the consolation bracket of the Maui Invitational on Tuesday in Lahaina, Hawaii. Colorado (5-1) rallied from down 11 in the first half to get the win over the two-time defending national champions Huskies. Jakimovski finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds and Julian Hammond III and Elijah Malone each scored 16 for the Buffaloes, who advanced to the fifth-place game in Maui on Wednesday. Down 72-71, Jakimovski drove the right side of the lane and made a scoop shot as he was falling down. UConn called timeout to set up the final play but Hassan Diarra missed a 3-pointer with 2 seconds left. Liam McNeeley led UConn with 20 points, Solo Ball scored 16 and Diarra finished with 11. The Huskies (4-2) lost two straight for the first time since dropping three in a row from Jan. 11-18, 2023. Colorado trailed by eight at halftime and Diarra hit two 3-pointers early in the second half that made it 46-37. The Buffaloes scored the next 11 points to take a 48-46 lead, their first of the game. Hammond bookended that run with a pair of triples. UConn went back in front 55-52 on Tarris Reed Jr.'s driving layup but Malone's bucket with 8:34 left tied it at 59. McNeeley's hook shot gave the Huskies a 63-60 lead before Jakimovski drained a 3-pointer to tie it again with 5:16 left. Ball hit a 3-pointer and a layup to give UConn a five-point lead but Colorado got within 70-69 on two free throws by Malone with 2:04 left. A putback from Jaylin Stewart made it a three-point game with 1:29 remaining. Malone answered with a layup, Javon Ruffin blocked Diarra's shot and Colorado got an offensive rebound with 24 seconds left to set up the winning basket. McNeeley made his first four shots from deep and had 16 points by intermission to lead the Huskies. Colorado had opportunities to make it a close game by halftime but went just 12-for-19 from the foul line and trailed 40-32. UConn attempted only four free throws in the first half and had five players with two or more fouls, including Reed, who had three. --Field Level Media(Azacitidine + cedazuridine) by Taiho Oncology for Myelodysplastic Syndrome: Likelihood of Approval