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Former President Jimmy Carter, who died at age 100 on Sunday in Plains, Georgia, had endured several health challenges in recent years. In 2019, he underwent surgery after breaking his hip in a fall. Four years earlier, Carter was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma that had spread to his brain, though just months later, he announced that he no longer needed treatment due to a new type of cancer therapy he'd been receiving. In February of 2023, the Carter Center, the organization founded by the former president to promote human rights worldwide, announced that Carter, with "the full support of his family and his medical team," would begin receiving hospice care at home. "After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention," the Carter Center said in a statement at the time. Carter was the oldest and longest-lived U.S. President, telling People Magazine in 2015, when he was 95, that he never expected to be alive for as long as he has. Here are some of the recent health challenges that Carter faced before his death on Dec. 29. MORE: Jimmy Carter to receive hospice care following hospitalizations: Carter Center Surgery on his liver Carter underwent elective surgery on Aug. 2, 2015, at Emory University Hospital to remove a small mass in his liver, the Carter Center announced at the time. While the surgery was successful and doctors said he would make a full recovery, the surgery revealed further health challenges for the former president. 2015 cancer diagnosis On Aug. 11, 2015, Carter said that the surgery on his liver revealed that he had cancer and it spread to other parts of his body. "I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare," he said in a statement through his organization. There is a history of cancer in Carter's family. His mother died of breast cancer. His father, two sisters and brother all died of pancreatic cancer. Doctors discovered that Carter had melanoma, one of the most common cancers affecting men and women in the U.S. and the most dangerous form of skin cancer. Melanoma has a very high risk of metastasizing throughout the bloodstream or lymphatic system and to other body parts. The 39th president said at an Aug. 20, 2015 press conference, that an MRI of his head and neck revealed that the cancer had spread to four different parts of his brain. Carter, who was 90 years old at the time, said that when he discovered that the cancer had spread, he thought he didn't have much time left, which didn't alarm him. "I just thought I had a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease," Carter said. "I've had a wonderful life. I have thousands of friends...so I was surprisingly at ease, much more so than my wife was." At the press conference, Carter said that despite the ease of knowing he lived a full life, he would follow his doctors' recommendation to ensure he "extends" his life as long as he can. He underwent surgery, radiation therapy and cancer treatment called immunotherapy to fight the disease. Carter received treatments between August 2015 through February 2016. In December 2015, responding well to treatment, Carter said MRI scans showed that there were no longer any signs of spots of melanoma on his brain, nor did any new ones develop. The former president announced to his church in March 2016, that doctors stopped his treatment after seeing no signs of tumors. According to experts, the successful treatment was likely primarily due to the drug pembrolizumab, which targets cancer by ramping up the body's immune system. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the treatment in 2011. Dehydration at Habitat for Humanity On July 13, 2017, the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was taken to the hospital for observation after becoming dehydrated while building homes in the hot sun at a Habitat for Humanity site in Winnipeg, Canada. Carter was back at the work site the next day following his discharge from the hospital, the Carter Center announced. Falls at his Georgia home Carter fell at his Plains, Georgia, home as he was leaving to go turkey hunting, breaking his hip, his organization announced in May 2019. The Grammy Award winner had hip replacement surgery at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia, on May 13, 2019. "President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit," the Carter Foundation said. "He hopes the State of Georgia will allow him to rollover the unused limit to next year." A few days later, the Carter Center announced that he would be undergoing physical therapy from the surgery and recovering at home. On Oct. 6, 2019, Carter fell at his home in Georgia. He ended up getting stitches above one of his eyebrows. A few weeks later, on Oct. 22, 2019, the former president fell again at his home. He was admitted to the hospital and treated for a minor pelvic fracture, the Carter Center said. Carter had surgery on Nov. 12, 2019, to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding because of the falls at his home. According to the Carter Center, there weren't any complications from the surgery. At-home hospice care On Saturday, The Carter Center announced that the former president is receiving hospice care at home, where he is expected to spend his final moments with his loved ones, rather than seek further medical treatment. "He has the full support of his family and his medical team," the Carter Center said in a statement. "The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers." MORE: Jimmy Carter's life in pictures Despite the health challenges in recent years, Carter credits his marriage to his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, for his longevity. "It's hard to live until you're 95 years old," he told People Magazine in 2019, a few weeks after his second fall. "I think the best explanation for that is to marry the best spouse, someone who will take care of you and engage and do things to challenge you and keep you alive and interested in life." ABC News' Meredith Deliso, Julia Jacobo, Dr. Chantel Strachan and Gillian Mohney contributed to this report.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — DJ Giddens rushed for 143 yards, on just 15 carries, with two touchdowns, as Kansas State defeated Cincinnati 41-15 Saturday night. Kansas State (8-3, 5-3 Big 12) snapped a two-game losing streak with the victory. Cincinnati (5-6, 3-5 Big 12) lost its fourth straight game. The Bearcats need a home win against TCU next Saturday to achieve bowl eligibility. Avery Johnson was 13-of-23 passing for 147 yards and two touchdowns for KSU. Brendan Sorsby was 21 of 39 for 200 yards and two touchdowns for the Bearcats. Trailing by 24 points, Cincinnati found the end zone on a 9-yard touchdown pass from Sorsby to Tony Johnson late in the third quarter. The 2-point conversion failed. Giddens had his second rushing touchdown on K-State's next drive. Johnson's 8-yard touchdown pass to Will Swanson put K-State up 41-9. Sorsby then found Johnson for a 6-yard touchdown. Kansas State wasted little time grabbing a 7-0 lead on its opening drive on a 21-yard touchdown run by Johnson. That capped a five-play, 65-yard drive. The Wildcats extended the lead to 10-0 on a 28-yard Chris Tennant field goal, and then to 13-0 on his 32-yarder. After K-State held Cincinnati on fourth-and-8 at the KSU 33, Giddens pushed the Wildcats' lead to 20-0 when he used a spin move at the line of scrimmage and then raced 32 yards for a touchdown, capping a four-play drive. Cincinnati got on the scoreboard with 4:17 left in the first half with a 42-yard field goal by Nathan Hawks. Brendan Mott then intercepted a Sorsby pass at the Cincinnati 22-yard line and returned it to the 6. Two plays later, Johnson found Tre Spivey for a 6-yard touchdown and the Wildcats led 27-3 at halftime. THE TAKEAWAY Cincinnati: The Bearcats struggled to convert at crucial times. They were just 3 of 12 on third-down conversions and 0 for 5 when going for it on fourth down. Kansas State: The score may have been lopsided in Kansas State's favor, but the Wildcats were not dominant. They out-gained Cincinnati by just 54 total yards. UP NEXT Both teams will conclude the regular season on November 30. Cincinnati will host TCU, while K-State will travel to Iowa State.Article content FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said Wednesday that he would resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s administration, which means President-elect Donald Trump will not have to fire him to nominate longtime ally Kash Patel to lead the bureau. Recommended Videos Trump announced in late November that he wanted to nominate Patel, who has echoed the president-elect’s pledges to make major changes at the bureau and use federal law enforcement agencies to go after Trump’s perceived enemies. The FBI director is subject to Senate confirmation and is eligible to serve a 10-year term. “Kash did an incredible job during my First Term,” Trump said on Truth Social, citing Patel’s various roles including at the Defense Department and the National Security Council. The president-elect said that Patel would “bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI.” Patel, who served as a senior official in the first Trump administration, is the author of a book that includes a list of “deep state” officials to target – which Trump called a “blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government,” according to promotional material. Here’s what to know about Patel. He supports Trump’s push for retribution Accounts of Patel’s rise from an obscure Hill staffer to one of the most powerful players in the intelligence community have centred on a key detail: his loyalty to Trump and willingness to go after Trump’s perceived opponents throughout the bureaucracy. Patel’s appointment could stoke growing concern about potential retribution among those whom Trump has described as his enemies, in the government and beyond. Some named on his “deep state” target list have begun taking precautions, The Washington Post has reported. In a 2023 interview on “War Room,” a podcast hosted Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s onetime chief strategist, Patel threatened to go after journalists if appointed to a role in a Trump administration. “We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly – we’ll figure that out,” he said. The Associated Press described Patel this year as Trump’s “trusted aide and swaggering campaign surrogate who mythologizes the former president while promoting conspiracy theories and his own brand.” He served in the first Trump administration Patel held multiple roles: chief of staff to acting defence secretary Christopher Miller, deputy assistant to the president, senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council and deputy to the acting director of national intelligence. In his final job as the chief of staff at the Defense Department, The Washington Post’s David Ignatius wrote in 2021, Patel challenged the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, nearly becoming the acting director of the CIA. Of his stint under the DNI, Ignatius wrote that Patel effectively ran the place. In the last months of his presidency, Trump considered installing Patel as the FBI’s deputy director. That move was blocked by Attorney General William P. Barr. Barr reportedly told White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that Patel would be deputy director “over my dead body.” Patel is a director on the board of Trump Media Technology Group, the company that owns Truth Social. He is active on the platform, frequently resharing Trump’s posts to his 1.35 million followers. He played a key role in the Nunes memo Patel served as an adviser to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California) when Nunes chaired the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 and 2018. A memo written by Patel, claiming that the surveillance warrant targeting an adviser to the Trump campaign was flawed, quickly became the centre of a political firestorm. The Nunes memo, as it came to be known, said the application for a warrant to surveil Carter Page, a Trump foreign policy adviser in 2016, was based in part on information from a former British intelligence officer who allegedly was biased against Trump. The memo concluded that the warrant was invalid and, thus, the investigation into Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election was tainted. He is a child of immigrants In his book “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy,” Patel describes his parents as working-class Hindu immigrants from India. The family did not eat meat at home, he writes, describing weekly jaunts to the Jackson Heights neighbourhood in Queens with his father for butter chicken. He was drawn to becoming a doctor, like a “stereotypical Indian American,” he writes, but gave up after looking up medical school programs and coming across a group of golf-playing defence lawyers while caddying at the Garden City Country Club in Long Island. “Instead of being a first generation immigrant golf caddie, I could be a first-generation immigrant lawyer at a white shoe firm making a ton of money,” he wrote. Patel attended the University of Richmond and earned a law degree at Pace University in New York before working for nearly a decade as a public defender in Florida.
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By AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger offered new details about the breadth of the sprawling Chinese hacking campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans. Neuberger divulged the scope of the hack a day after the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued guidance intended to help root out the hackers and prevent similar cyberespionage in the future. White House officials cautioned that a number of telecommunication firms and countries impacted could still grow. The U.S. believes that the hackers were able to gain access to communications of senior U.S. government officials and prominent political figures through the hack, Neuberger said. “We don’t believe any classified communications has been compromised,” Neuberger added during a call with reporters. She added that Biden has been briefed on the findings and that the White House “has made it a priority for the federal government to do everything it can to get to the bottom this.” The Chinese embassy in Washington on Tuesday rejected the accusations that it was responsible for the hack after the U.S. federal authorities issued new guidance. “The U.S. needs to stop its own cyberattacks against other countries and refrain from using cyber security to smear and slander China,” embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said. The embassy did not immediately respond to messages on Wednesday. Associated Press writer David Klepper contributed reporting.
Point of Sale (POS) operators have been spotted in the Lekki area of Lagos State hawking new Naira notes as bank customers lament their inability to withdraw cash from ATMs. The operators charged N4,000 as a fee for N10,000 withdrawals. They displayed cash notes from N100 to N1000 for interested persons. This is coming a few months after most banks carried out upgrades on their digital infrastructure to serve customers better. However, most bank services have deteriorated with users experiencing what appear to be the worst offerings in recent years. Sadly, over-the-counter (OTC) services have not offered any respite for customers who are being systematically forced to pay huge fees to POS operators to access their monies. More frustrating for bank customers is that most banks have restricted cash withdrawals per transaction to a maximum of N10,000. This has led to another round of cash scarcity across the country, pushing up agent banks’ charges by as much as 100 percent or more in some cases. These rising challenges come days to Christmas and just when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) warned that it would begin to sanction banks that fail to upscale their capacity to serve the fast-growing population of online banking customers. Data from the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) showed that cashless transactions in Nigeria rose by 84.37 per cent to N572.63 trillion in the first seven months of 2024, suggesting that the digital banking space is busier than ever. This growth showed the growing reliance on digital payments in a country. As of the end of 2023, cashless payments grew to N611.06 trillion from N395.38 trillion in 2022, with experts saying the numbers would hit unprecedented levels in 2024. The payment platforms of banks are currently jaundiced, bringing harrowing experiences to customers in the last three months of the year. Before the widespread system upgrade, which primarily sought to improve customer experience, banks had relied on foreign companies to manage their IT infrastructure, spending significant amounts on maintenance in foreign currencies. The big digital infrastructure spending continued in the first half of 2024 when five major Nigerian banks collectively invested N178.77 billion in enhancing their information technology infrastructure, according to the analysis of their financial statements.
South America Oral Care Market Growing Popularity and Emerging Trends in the IndustryAmid interparty friction over immigration, particularly H-1B visas for specialized foreign workers, President-elect Donald Trump has voiced support for the visas, aligning with Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda. Why It Matters Prior to winning the 2024 election, Trump pledged he had "nothing to do with Project 2025," a nearly 900-page policy agenda spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, and called parts of it "ridiculous and abysmal." On Saturday, however, after nearly a week of interparty contention over H-1B visas, with many supporters criticizing top Trump advisers Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk for their support of the program, Trump told the New York Post , "I've always liked the visas. I have always been in favor of the visas. That's why we have them." In June 2020, Trump temporarily suspended the program, freezing access to new H-1B visas, via executive order. It did not affect individuals already holding H-1B visas. Newsweek has reached out to Trump's press team for comment via email on Sunday. His support, which contradicts the beliefs of many Trump loyalists, largely reflects the sentiment of Project 2025—a policy agenda applauded by many of Trump's supporters. What To Know The H-1B visa program allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers with specialized knowledge or expertise. Tech companies, financial institutions, and universities are often the most frequent sponsors. In 2024, Amazon , Google , Meta and other major companies dominated the market, each receiving several thousand visas. Tesla , the electric car company owned by Musk, reportedly brought hundreds of employees to the U.S. through the program last year. There is a federal annual cap of 65,000 new H-1B visas that can be issued and an "additional 20,000 petitions filed on behalf of beneficiaries with a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution of higher education are exempt from the cap," according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The visas provide workers with temporary stay in the U.S. Earlier this week, Indian American entrepreneur and venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan's appointment as Trump's artificial intelligence (AI) policy adviser caused a stir among supporters . In addition, Ramaswamy called out American work culture in a social media post, and Musk said there aren't enough "super talented" engineers in the U.S. Ramaswamy's lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter , argued that tech companies need foreign workers because Americans don't have a good enough work ethic and that American culture "venerated mediocrity over excellence." On Friday, Musk's rhetoric on the topic became heated when he vowed to "go to war " to defend the visa program. Many Trump supporters have spoken out against the comments and advocated for the removal of the H-1B visas, emphasizing their support for Trump's pledge to crack down on immigration. However, Project 2025's immigration policy supports the visa program with reforms. It describes the program as "oft-abused" and aims to "transform the program into an elite mechanism exclusively to bring in the 'best and brightest' at the highest wages while simultaneously ensuring that U.S. workers are not being disadvantaged by the program." The policy agenda notes that "H-1B is a means only to supplement the U.S. economy and to keep companies competitive, not to depress U.S. labor markets artificially in certain industries." It is unclear how much of the agenda Trump may incorporate into his policy focus. While he has often distanced himself from the agenda, he told Time last month, "I don't disagree with everything in Project 2025, but I disagree with some things." He added, "They have some things that are very conservative and very good. They have other things that I don't like." What People Are Saying Musk said on Friday via X : "The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX , Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B. Take a big step back and F*** YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend." Laura Loomer, a conservative commentator said in a Thursday X post : "I have always been America First and a die hard supporter of President Trump and I believe that promises made should be promises kept. Donald Trump promised to remove the H1B visa program and I support his policy. Now, as one of Trump's biggest supporters, I'm having my free speech silenced by a tech billionaire for simply questioning the tech oligarchy." Gabe Guidarini, an Ohio field representative for Turning Point Action, wrote in a Tuesday X post : "The H1B issue is going to be the defining issue of 2025. College students who have paid tens of thousands of dollars for job credentials should not have to compete with foreign labor when they enter the workforce. We will remember who didn't stand up against this." Political satire account, Jesus Freakin Congress, who has over 14,600 followers on X, formerly Twitter, posted on the platform yesterday : "I hate to break it to everyone, but...H1B visas were always a part of Project 2025. It clearly stated so in the immigration section. When you voted for Trump, you voted for H1B visas." What Happens Next The debate over H-1B visa reforms continues, and the new administration, set to take office on January 20, 2025, is expected to weigh various immigration reform policies. While Trump's plans to crack down on illegal immigration have broad support across his base, the president-elect will have to walk a tightrope on legal immigration following his inauguration if he is to avoid alienating a powerful section of his supporters. In June, Trump suggested international students graduating from American universities should be given green cards during an interview on the All-In podcast. "If you graduate or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country," he said.
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