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Pixel 9 Amazon Prices Slashed Below Google’s Own Black Friday DealsGoogle on Monday announced that it will invest an additional $930 million across its three data center campuses in Nebraska, including the one under construction in Lincoln. Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector, said the additional investment will bring Google's total investment in Nebraska to more than $4.4 billion. She was joined for the announcement at Innovation Campus in Lincoln by Sen. Pete Ricketts, Rep. Don Bacon, University of Nebraska President Jeffrey Gold and Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird. Dahut also announced that the company will donate $250,000 to the University of Nebraska system to support research into artificial intelligence on its various campuses. Gaylor Baird also announced that Google will donate $100,000 to the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools to help fund the Spark Summer Learning program, which is a hands-on summer camp focusing on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) for Lincoln-area elementary students. People are also reading... Google has previously said the data center under construction on about 600 acres of land northwest of the 56th Street exit on Interstate 80, will employ at least 30 people. The company has applied for $600 million in state tax incentives for the project and plans it submitted to the city indicate it could eventually grow to 2 million square feet of space if fully built out. Google's other Nebraska data centers are both in the Omaha area. It also has a data center across the river in Council Bluffs, Iowa. This is a developing story. Stay with JournalStar.com for updates. Top Journal Star photos for November 2024 Lincoln firefighter Andrew Brenner sprays water from the top of a ladder truck on to the roof of a former Village Inn at 29th and O streets Wednesday morning. Luca Gustafson, 6, rides to school Tuesday with the bike bus at Riley Elementary School. Each Tuesday, students can bike to school with adult chaperones along a specific route. Wahoo's Braylon Iversen celebrates with Warrior players after they defeated Auburn in a Class C-1 state semifinal game Friday in Wahoo. Lincoln Fire Fighters Association member Andy Evans works to assemble a headboard during a bed-building day hosted by Sleep in Heavenly Peace on Saturday at Hampton Enterprises. Volunteers helped build 20 beds for children in need. Second-time mother giraffe Allie nuzzles her new calf in the giraffe experience enclosure on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, at the Lincoln Children's Zoo. Nebraska celebrates during the first set of the match against Minnesota on Thursday at the Devaney Sports Center. Iris Gonnerman, 8 (from right), her brother Oliver, 6, and cousin Noreen Milana, 9, wave flags while watching Veterans Parade outside the state Capitol on Sunday. Nebraska's Connor Essegian scores against Bethune-Cookma on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Covered by a canopy of changing leaves, a car cruises along A street in a neighborhood north of Downtown Lincoln on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. Mild temperatures continue into the mid weeks of November. Wednesday calls for a chance of rain showers before noon with gusty winds. Most days this week are expected to be accompanied by mostly sunny skies and consistent breezes. Norris' Anna Jelinek (left) lifts the the Class B championship trophy alongside Rya Borer on Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. Lincoln Lutheran players embrace one another as threy celebrate defeating Thayer Central in four sets to win the Class C-2 championship match Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. Superior players celebrate their three set win over EMF during the Class D-1 championship match Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. Reflected in a ceiling beam, Leyton takes on Shelton in the first set of the Class D-2 championship match Saturday at the Devaney Sports Center. Omaha Skutt's Nicole Ott (left) and Addison West react after a point in the second set during a Class B semifinal match Friday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Hasan Khalil, owner of Golden Scissors, trims the beard of Vitaliy Martynyuk on Friday at his barbershop in Lincoln. Southwest fans Kylea Stritt (from left), Peg Rice, and Stacey Wilson cheer on their team as the "horsemen" during a Class D-1 first-round match Thursday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Millard West players dogpile on the floor after defeating Lincoln Southwest in five set match during a Class A first-round match Wednesday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Lincoln Southwest's Shelby Harding dives to save the ball from hitting the ground in the first set during a Class A first-round match Wednesday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Second graders Eli Gonzalez (left) and Shrutoshome Datta look at drawings that first and second grade students made at the Monster Jam Art Show on Wednesday at Elliott Elementary School. The elementary school students made drawings of monsters to be turned into different types of art by Lincoln High School students. Norris players celebrate a point against Lincoln Pius X in a Class B state volleyball tournament match, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (right) talks with supporters, including Darlene Starman of Lincoln, at her campaign office on Tuesday in Lincoln. A cutout of Jesus watches over voters on Tuesday at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Lincoln. Abigail Webb votes on Tuesday at F Street Community Center. Nebraska's Rollie Worster (24) shoots a layup while defended by Texas Rio Grande Valley's Marshal Destremau (left) and Trey Miller (right) on Nov. 4 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Nebraska's Allison Weidner (left) autographs a poster for Freeman Public Schools student Godwil Muthiani, 12 (center), after the game against UNO on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Muthiani's sign says, "#3 Allison Weinder is the GOAT! Sorry I'm only 12." Nebraska Head Coach Matt Rhule speaks to an official after a targeting call on Nebraska during the first quarter of the game against UCLA on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. The call was overturned after review. Nebraska's Dante Dowdell scores against UCLA in the fourth quarter on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Cadet Elena Burgwald (left) and Cadet Mason Beck look up as a B-1B Lancer flies over Memorial Stadium before the UCLA game against Nebraska on Saturday. UCLA's K.J. Wallace (7) defends Nebraska's Jacory Barney (17) as he makes a diving 40-yard catch in the second quarter on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Memorial Stadium. Lincoln Southeast quarterback Tre Bollen (left) and Tate Sandman react after losing a Class A football playoff game against Millard North on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, at Seacrest Field. Millard North won 10-3. After the field clears, Norris' Jarrett Behrends (17) kicks his helmet after the Titans fell to Waverly 16-17 in a Class B football playoff game on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, at Waverly High School. A line of people waiting to vote has been normal at the Lancaster County Election Commission Office at 601 N. 46th St., as it was Friday afternoon. The office will be open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to allow voters to cast an early ballot. If they wait until Election Day, they will need to go to their precinct or drop off their ballots at one of five drop boxes across the city. For more stories about about Tuesday's election, go to Journalstar.com . The business news you need Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly. Associate managing editor {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Local government reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.One of the UK's biggest motoring organisations has urged the Government to make more commitments in a bid to improve the road network . Whilst Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a number of measures to support motorists in the Labour Party's first budget in 14 years, including a £500 million fund to fix potholes , many drivers think the Government can do more to improve issues drivers are currently facing. A spokesperson for The AA highlighted that, while the move to reduce potholes across the road network is a step forward, the methods used must be quality to ensure they do not form again. They explained: "We have welcomed extra funding for maintenance through the delaying of various road investment schemes, but believe it should be ring-fenced and expenditure increased in the early years and used effectively. "We were pleased with the Chancellor’s commitment to fix 1,000,000 extra potholes each year of this parliament, but stress it is essential that this is done using permanent methods that keep road users safe and offer value for council budgets." The Government's increase of the road repair fund is enough to fix 1,000,000 potholes across the country, which would help to make journeys more comfortable whilst helping drivers avoid subjecting their vehicle to serious damage. However, a study by the road repair assessment organisation Stan the App found that 7,000 motorists have already discovered more than 1.5 million potholes across 13 percent of the network, estimating that the UK could have as many as 15 million. In addition, the increased amount of funding to repair potholes on the road was partially created by the axing of a number of road projects, such as the Arundel Bypass in West Sussex and the A358 from Taunton to Southfields. The AA noted that the Government would be able to use their money more wisely by making local authorities conduct repairs, rather than more expensive contractors. They continued: "We believe that part of the issue is that most UK highway maintenance in undertaken by contractors, rather than self-delivery by local authorities. Many contractors follow a cost-plus model and are not incentivised to introduce innovation, unless pushed to do so by the council client. "In a cost-plus contract, the contractor will usually provide an estimate of the direct and indirect expenses upfront. Direct expenses include labour, raw materials, and equipment. They don’t factor in innovation and tend to rely on the same technology used for many years which arguably is not fit for purpose." In addition, the motoring organisation recommended that collaborations be set up to create a unified force that could effectively improve the overall road network. They added: "Similarly, The AA would like to see collaborative working within the utilities sector to avoid roads being routinely dug up by different providers. It would be in everyone’s interests for all parties to carry out works at the same time, rather than have the road continuously dug up over an extended period of time. "This analysis, coupled with the extensive research and campaigning by the AA over the last decade, shows the importance of this Select Committee inquiry and why urgent action is needed to improve the local road network and spend the funds more effectively."

Much was made about Michigan's attempted flag planting after its 13-10 win over Ohio State in Columbus in Week 14. Players from both teams met in an altercation at midfield, resulting in the use of pepper spray by the police, and the Big Ten fined each school $100,000 for their role in the incident. That seemed like the end of it, until Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore was shown on the jumbotron at the Michigan men's basketball game against Iowa on Saturday. Moore took one last opportunity to needle Ohio State. In the first half, the game ops team at Crisler Arena pointed the camera at Moore, and he did the rest. Moore fired up the crowd before pretending to plant a flag. Sherrone Moore hypes up the faithful Michigan crowd and emphatically plants an imaginary flag. The crowd liked it, to say the least. pic.twitter.com/xbakn2pxsn Moore addressed the flag-planting fracas immediately after the game last weekend, saying emotions got the best of both sides. He also admitted Michigan could have handled the situation differently. "Our guys, I did see they had the flag," Moore said. "Guys were waving it around, and their guys charged us. There was emotion on both sides, and it can't happen. Rivalry games get heated, especially this one. This is the biggest one in the country. We gotta handle that better." Clearly, Moore wasn't quite ready to put the win or the beef to bed just yet. That was probably a good thing for the Michigan basketball team, which needed every bit of energy the Crisler Center had to offer. The Wolverines pulled out an 85-83 win over the Hawkeyes thanks to Roddy Gayle Jr.'s game-winning bucket with just three seconds left.

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About Reolink Reolink offers smart security solutions for homes and businesses, aiming for a seamless security experience with its wide range of products. Serving millions globally, it provides video surveillance and protection, standing out for its commitment to security technology innovation. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/capture-celebrate-and-save-big-reolinks-holiday-deals-and-reocap-fun-302326260.html SOURCE Reolink Innovation Inc.FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who prosecutors say went by the alias “Dirty Harry,” and Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida, were part of a sophisticated illegal operation that has brought increasing numbers of Indians into the U.S., prosecutors said. They were each convicted on four counts related to human smuggling, including conspiracy to bring migrants into the country illegally. “This trial exposed the unthinkable cruelty of human smuggling and of those criminal organizations that value profit and greed over humanity,” Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said. “To earn a few thousand dollars, these traffickers put men, women and children in extraordinary peril leading to the horrific and tragic deaths of an entire family. Because of this unimaginable greed, a father, a mother and two children froze to death in sub-zero temperatures on the Minnesota-Canadian border,” Luger added. The most serious counts carry maximum sentences of up to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office told The Associated Press before the trial. But federal sentencing guidelines rely on complicated formulas. Luger said Friday that various factors will be considered in determining what sentences prosecutors will recommend. Federal prosecutors said 39-year-old Jagdish Patel; his wife, Vaishaliben, who was in her mid-30s; their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi; and 3-year-old son, Dharmik, froze to death Jan. 19, 2022, while trying to cross the border into Minnesota in a scheme Patel and Shand organized. Patel is a common Indian surname, and the victims were not related to Harshkumar Patel. The couple were schoolteachers, local news reports said. The family was fairly well off by local standards, living in a well-kept, two-story house with a front patio and a wide veranda. Experts say illegal immigration from India is driven by everything from political repression to a dysfunctional American immigration system that can take years, if not decades, to navigate legally. Much is rooted in economics and how even low-wage jobs in the West can ignite hopes for a better life. Before the jury’s conviction on Friday, the federal trial in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, saw testimony from an alleged participant in the smuggling ring, a survivor of the treacherous journey across the northern border, border patrol agents and forensic experts. Defense attorneys were pitted against each other, with Shand’s team arguing that he was unwittingly roped into the scheme by Patel. Patel’s lawyers, The Canadian Press reported , said their client had been misidentified. They said “Dirty Hary,” the alleged nickname for Patel found in Shand’s phone, is a different person. Bank records and witness testimony from those who encountered Shand near the border didn’t tie him to the crime, they added. Prosecutors said Patel coordinated the operation while Shand was a driver. Shand was to pick up 11 Indian migrants on the Minnesota side of the border, prosecutors said. Only seven survived the foot crossing. Canadian authorities found two parents and their young children later that morning, dead from the cold. The trial included an inside account of how the international smuggling ring allegedly works and who it targets. Rajinder Singh, 51, testified that he made over $400,000 smuggling over 500 people through the same network that included Patel and Shand. Singh said most of the people he smuggled came from Gujarat state. He said the migrants would often pay smugglers about $100,000 to get them from India to the U.S., where they would work to pay off their debts at low-wage jobs in cities around the country. Singh said the smugglers would run their finances through “hawala,” an informal money transfer system that relies on trust. The pipeline of illegal immigration from India has long existed but has increased sharply along the U.S.-Canada border. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested more than 14,000 Indians on the Canadian border in the year ending Sept. 30, which amounted to 60% of all arrests along that border and more than 10 times the number two years ago. By 2022, the Pew Research Center estimates more than 725,000 Indians were living illegally in the U.S., behind only Mexicans and El Salvadorans. Jamie Holt, a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations, said the case is a stark reminder of the realities victims of human smuggling face. “Human smuggling is a vile crime that preys on the most vulnerable, exploiting their desperation and dreams for a better life,” Holt said. “The suffering endured by this family is unimaginable and it is our duty to ensure that such atrocities are met with the full force of the law.” One juror Kevin Paul, of Clearwater, Minnesota, told reporters afterward that it was hard for the jurors to see the pictures of the family’s bodies. He said he grew up in North Dakota and is familiar with the kind of conditions that led to their deaths. “It’s pretty brutal,” Paul said. “I couldn’t imagine having to do what they had to do out there in the middle of nowhere.”

By REBECCA SANTANA WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has promised to end birthright citizenship as soon as he gets into office to make good on campaign promises aiming to restrict immigration and redefining what it means to be American. But any efforts to halt the policy would face steep legal hurdles. Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen. It’s been in place for decades and applies to children born to someone in the country illegally or in the U.S. on a tourist or student visa who plans to return to their home country. It’s not the practice of every country, and Trump and his supporters have argued that the system is being abused and that there should be tougher standards for becoming an American citizen. But others say this is a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it would be extremely difficult to overturn and even if it’s possible, it’s a bad idea. Here’s a look at birthright citizenship, what Trump has said about it and the prospects for ending it: What Trump has said about birthright citizenship During an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Trump said he “absolutely” planned to halt birthright citizenship once in office. “We’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous,” he said. Trump and other opponents of birthright citizenship have argued that it creates an incentive for people to come to the U.S. illegally or take part in “birth tourism,” in which pregnant women enter the U.S. specifically to give birth so their children can have citizenship before returning to their home countries. “Simply crossing the border and having a child should not entitle anyone to citizenship,” said Eric Ruark, director of research for NumbersUSA, which argues for reducing immigration. The organization supports changes that would require at least one parent to be a permanent legal resident or a U.S. citizen for their children to automatically get citizenship. Others have argued that ending birthright citizenship would profoundly damage the country. “One of our big benefits is that people born here are citizens, are not an illegal underclass. There’s better assimilation and integration of immigrants and their children because of birthright citizenship,” said Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies at the pro-immigration Cato Institute. In 2019, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that 5.5 million children under age 18 lived with at least one parent in the country illegally in 2019, representing 7% of the U.S. child population. The vast majority of those children were U.S. citizens. The nonpartisan think tank said during Trump’s campaign for president in 2015 that the number of people in the country illegally would “balloon” if birthright citizenship were repealed, creating “a self-perpetuating class that would be excluded from social membership for generations.” What does the law say? In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868. That amendment assured citizenship for all, including Black people. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” the 14th Amendment says. “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” But the 14th Amendment didn’t always translate to everyone being afforded birthright citizenship. For example, it wasn’t until 1924 that Congress finally granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. A key case in the history of birthright citizenship came in 1898, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he was born in the states. The federal government had tried to deny him reentry into the county after a trip abroad on grounds he wasn’t a citizen under the Chinese Exclusion Act. But some have argued that the 1898 case clearly applied to children born of parents who are both legal immigrants to America but that it’s less clear whether it applies to children born to parents without legal status or, for example, who come for a short-term like a tourist visa. “That is the leading case on this. In fact, it’s the only case on this,” said Andrew Arthur, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports immigration restrictions. “It’s a lot more of an open legal question than most people think.” Some proponents of immigration restrictions have argued the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 14th Amendment allows the U.S. to deny citizenship to babies born to those in the country illegally. Trump himself used that language in his 2023 announcement that he would aim to end birthright citizenship if reelected. So what could Trump do and would it be successful? Trump wasn’t clear in his Sunday interview how he aims to end birthright citizenship. Asked how he could get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action, Trump said: “Well, we’re going to have to get it changed. We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it.” Pressed further on whether he’d use an executive order, Trump said “if we can, through executive action.” He gave a lot more details in a 2023 post on his campaign website . In it, he said he would issue an executive order the first day of his presidency, making it clear that federal agencies “require that at least one parent be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident for their future children to become automatic U.S. citizens.” Related Articles National Politics | Trump has flip-flopped on abortion policy. His appointees may offer clues to what happens next National Politics | In promising to shake up Washington, Trump is in a class of his own National Politics | Election Day has long passed. In some states, legislatures are working to undermine the results National Politics | Trump taps his attorney Alina Habba to serve as counselor to the president National Politics | With Trump on the way, advocates look to states to pick up medical debt fight Trump wrote that the executive order would make clear that children of people in the U.S. illegally “should not be issued passports, Social Security numbers, or be eligible for certain taxpayer funded welfare benefits.” This would almost certainly end up in litigation. Nowrasteh from the Cato Institute said the law is clear that birthright citizenship can’t be ended by executive order but that Trump may be inclined to take a shot anyway through the courts. “I don’t take his statements very seriously. He has been saying things like this for almost a decade,” Nowrasteh said. “He didn’t do anything to further this agenda when he was president before. The law and judges are near uniformly opposed to his legal theory that the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States are not citizens.” Trump could steer Congress to pass a law to end birthright citizenship but would still face a legal challenge that it violates the Constitution. Associated Press reporter Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.BEREA, Ohio — Jameis Winston went viral on Monday night for saying he was praying for the Lord to deliver him from his pick-sixes, of which he had two in the 41-32 loss to the Broncos. The meme, with Winston standing proud at the podium in his varsity jacket, was splashed all over ESPN and every other national sports show, and the audio was radio gold all over the country. It trended on X the following day. But Winston, who’s worked hard to overcome his reputation as a pick-prone gunslinger, didn’t find it as funny as most did. “It’s not fun,” he said Wednesday as he prepares for the rematch with the Steelers Sunday in Pittsburgh. “I take it very personally, but I do believe in prayer and I know prayer works. When those moments come up, (focus) on the fundamentals and technique more than the moment.” More Browns stadium coverage Browns say $1.2B public subsidy for Brook Park dome would boost region, but team’s analysis conflicts with Cleveland’s City leaders should warm to Haslams’ dome proposal: Ted Diadiun Wherefore art thy dome? A Burke lakefront rethink is needed: Jerry Bohinc Could land swap facilitate future Browns stadium location? Why should taxpayers subsidize the workplaces of profitable Cleveland sports teams? Week 14 NFL Preview: Find everything you need to know with our Week 14 NFL preview. The second-worst thing about the pair off pick-sixes in Denver, other than the fact the second, with 1:48 left, prevented the Browns from attempting the game-winning field goal, is that it came in a beautiful, gutsy, heroic, fun 497-yard, four-TD performance. The 497 yards were not only a career-high for Winston, but a Browns single-game record. Instead of Winston earning AFC Offensive Player of the Week for the wild ride and big upset, he’s answering questions about those pesky picks, of which he threw a total of three in the game. But Winston has been down this road before, and he’s determined to make sure that you see more than the I-N-T when you look at his last name. That you remember the snow angels and the high-fives and the pointing to the skies, and not some dude from the other team racing to the house with one of his passes. “I’m not going to let a narrative of turnovers define who I am,” he said. “I’m going to continue to step back up to the plate. That’s a baseball reference. I was a great baseball player too. Keep on stepping back up to the plate and swinging for the fences. But man, I’m swinging to hit line drives ... when you’ve got a good pitcher that’s staying low and away, man, you hit a line drive into right center and you live to have another at-bat.” Winston, who’s thrown 11 touchdowns against his seven INTs in his five starts this season (2-3 record), thought he shed this label after the 2019 season, his last in Tampa Bay, when he led the NFL with 33 touchdown passes — but also 30 interceptions. The 30 ties for seventh-most in the NFL. The Bucs let him walk, and signed Tom Brady to replace him. Winston signed with the Saints, and had one of his most formative years in the NFL, learning from Hall of Fame QB Drew Brees and coach Sean Payton in 2020. “2019 was one of the most up and down years probably in NFL history,” Winston said. “I thought about negatives too much and you can’t think positive and negative at the same time. There’s no way that your brain can do that. It’s one or the other. I believe that just weighed on me because I wanted to do so good.” After that 7-9 season, he had heart-to-heart talks with his all of his coaches, including head coach Bruce Arians and offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich. “I had to understand, we did great on offense,” he said. “I just had some unfortunate turnovers. And turnovers, they can change the outcome of a football game. So talking to them, ‘Jameis, keep focusing on your decisions. Keep on playing, Jameis. Don’t let that define you.’ And that’s what I’m doing right now in my career.” The next time Winston got his chance as a full-time starter, for the Saints in 2021, he threw 14 TDs and only three INTs en route to a 5-2 record. Unfortunately for him, he suffered a season-ending torn ACL and MCL in Week 7, truncating his season of glory. He reclaimed his starting job the next year, but suffered four fractures in his back and succumbed to it after three starts and a 1-2 record. When he got healthy, his job had been given by coach Dennis Allen to Andy Dalton. “We stayed ahead of the chains, we were efficient in the running game and things just went well (in that 2021 season),” Winston said. “I believe that my whole process of playing the quarterback position is to focus on those decisions.” Offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey will keep coaching him hard on the fundamentals, even though Winston is in his 10th season. “That’s just something we’ve just got to keep focusing on, keep correcting, keep working at and making sure that we keep our attention to detail where it needs to be in terms of the number one thing protecting the football,” he said. “And I think Jameis is the first one to admit that. At the end of the day, the quarterback has the ultimate responsibility for it.” Winston noted that he made the right decisions on the pick-sixes, one that resulted in a 71-yard TD by defensive end Nik Bonitto, and the one at the end that resulted in the 44-yard touchdown by cornerback Ja’Quan McMillian. On the first one, Bonitto read Winston’s eyes, vacated David Njoku and jumped the route to Jordan Akins, easily picking it off. On the second one, he threw the ball behind Elijah Moore, and McMillian made him pay. “The decisions were right,” he said. “The technique, an out-breaking route, you can’t leave the ball inside. I’ve seen that a lot. That’s not my only pick-six to the left that I seen that I had to go and chase down. When you leave the ball inside on throws to the left and the receiver’s outbreaking, that happens in the NFL. “When you’re in the red zone and the ball is low, you get picks. Honestly, the one that Nik (made) that was a great play. He hid behind Jordan, I threw it and he just snuck in there and he took it to the house. They make good plays too.” The good thing for Winston is that he has an aggressive play-caller in Dorsey, who will keep dialing up the deep shots and trusting him to make the play. It’s resulted in some eye-popping numbers for Winston, who leads the NFL with 336 passing yards per game since taking over as the starter in Week 8. Winston and Joe Burrow are the only QBs in the NFL averaging more than 300 yards a game in that span. “One of our mottos as a team is that we’re smart, not conservative,” Winston said. “And my approach to the game is to attack the defense. But the beautiful thing about the quarterback is we touch the ball every single play, and it’s more important to take care of the ball than sometimes make that huge play. “I’m going to make the play when it’s time to make the play.” Winston, who’s put the joy back into Browns Town this season, vows not dwell on the picks. He won’t manifest them by focusing on what he doesn’t want. Against the Steelers, he must also protect the ball against the league’s No. 3 team in forced fumbles with 15. So how is he working through it? “Literally prayer and I snap it clear, man,” he said. “You can’t go into a game thinking about turnovers. Only thing you can do is go into the game focusing on protecting the football. When it’s time for me to make the play for the team, as a great quarterback I have to make that play.” After the game, Winston stood at the podium, his voice quivering at times, and took ownership for the pick-sixes, while also vowing to pray for deliverance. He also admitted that he apologized to his teammates after the game. “Accountability, dependability, credibility are three things that those abilities are very important to me,” he said. “Because if you’re able to take the good, you should be able to address the not so good. If you’re able to want the best from one of your teammates, you should be able to take the criticism from media or from coaches, as well. And I think it’s a balance between both. Obviously I don’t want to get criticized and I don’t want to have to talk about bad football, but when it does arise, you be accountable for it and you get better.” His teammates to a man have supported him wholeheartedly after the three-pick game, his second in five starts. “It means that they know I got their back, so they got my back,” he said. “I have to continue to prove that to them and not just say it.” Browns left guard Joel Bitonio appreciated Winston owning the picks and vowing to improve. “Yeah, same old Jameis,” he said. “He took all the blame. It’s a team game. It’s not all one guy’s fault, but he’s focused on this week and he’s trying to be better for us. But we’re in this position because of him as well, so it’s give and take, but he’s focused, he’s ready. He’s always going to be Jameis, so we’re ready to roll.” Bitonio is riding with the gunslinger all the way. The game is not only fun for the fans again, but the players too “He trusts himself and he says, ‘I see it. I’m going to make it happen,’” Bitonio said. “He doesn’t second guess himself, and as a lineman you appreciate that ... We want to convert some more in the red zone in some of those situations, but we’re moving the ball well and we’re doing those things, so we will play with Jameis. He goes out there and he gives us a chance.” And he refuses to be known as Wrong Way Winston. Football Insider newsletter free trial: Take a minute and sign up for a free trial of our Football Insider newsletter, featuring exclusive content from cleveland.com's Browns reporters.Terrorists exploit AI for propaganda and operations, exposing critical gaps in tech safeguards

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Supermarket giant Carrefour’s support for French farmers’ protests against a trade agreement between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur has sparked a strong reaction in Brazil, including a refusal to supply beef to Carrefour stores in Brazil. Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard announced in social media posts last week that the French company would stop buying beef from all Mercosur countries, which also include Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Bompard wrote that he agrees with French producers' arguments that Mercosur beef is an unfair competitor due to lower production costs resulting from fewer environmental and sanitary requirements. The executive encouraged other retailers to follow suit. Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture called Bompard's move protectionist, saying it was made “without any technical criteria.” The decision also angered Brazil's meatpackers. Though France makes up just a tiny sliver of Brazil’s beef exports, meatpackers worried that Carrefour’s decision would hurt its reputation in other markets. Beef giants JBS and Marfrig halted supplies last Friday to Carrefour's extensive supermarket chain in Brazil, including the food warehouse giant Atacadao. Both companies refused to comment on the boycott to The Associated Press, but Minister of Agriculture Carlos Fávaro confirmed it. “We support the reaction of the meatpackers. If Brazil ́s beef isn’t good enough for Carrefour’s shelves in France, it isn’t good enough for Carrefour’s shelves in Brazil either,” Faváro told Folha de S.Paulo newspaper on Monday. Carrefour Group in Brazil acknowledged the boycott in a statement, though it said there's not yet a shortage of beef in stores. It said it has “esteem and confidence in the Brazilian agricultural sector, with which it maintains a solid relationship and partnership.” “Unfortunately, the decision to suspend the meat supply has an impact on customers, especially those who rely on the company to supply their homes with quality and responsible products,” the statement said. “It is in constant dialogue in search of solutions that will make it possible to resume the supply of meat to its stores as quickly as possible, respecting the commitments it has to its more than 130,000 Brazilian employees and millions of Brazilian customers countrywide.” The backdrop for the conflict is the EU-Mercosur trade deal , which would increase agricultural imports to EU countries from South America. French farmers fear it will affect their livelihoods. An initial agreement was reached in 2019, but negotiations have faltered since then due to opposition that also includes some European governments. Brazil’s agribusiness sector also fears that the pending European Union Deforestation Regulation will outlaw the sale of forest-derived products within the EU’s 27-nation bloc if companies can’t prove their goods are not linked to deforestation. Its scope includes soy and cattle, Brazil’s top agricultural exports. Almost half of the country’s cattle is raised in the Amazon region, where 90% of deforested land since 1985 has turned into pasture, according to MapBiomas, a nonprofit network. The date of its implementation remains uncertain. The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org .Uber: A Great Buy Amidst Market Panic