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Trump taps Pam Bondi for attorney general WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump tapped Pam Bondi, a staunch ally who helped defend the ex-leader against impeachment, as US attorney general on Friday following firebrand Matt Gaetz ́s withdrawal from the running. The nomination of Bondi, a former Florida attorney general who served as a surrogate during the 2024 campaign and pushed to de-legitimize vote counting in swing state Pennsylvania in 2020, could be seen as a useful tool for Trump in his attempt to settle personal grievances. “For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans -- Not anymore,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network in announcing Bondi ́s nomination. Bondi, 59, was a member of Trump ́s legal team during his first Senate impeachment trial, in which he was alleged to have pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, using aid as leverage, to hand over political dirt on Biden. “Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again,” Trump wrote, adding that she is “smart and tough, and is an AMERICA FIRST Fighter.” Trump has made several eye-catching selections for top roles, including Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defence secretary, vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary and billionaire Elon Musk to head a government cost-cutting unit. The exit of Gaetz, 42, was the first setback for Trump and Vice-president elect JD Vance in placing key allies in top positions, but his confirmation by the Senate was widely seen as doomed due to lack of support from fellow Republicans.A MUM-of-four who was homeless for 11 months has spoken of her delight at getting a home in time for Christmas. Ania*, who lives in the Finglas area with her children – aged two, seven, 10 and 14 – said that she had been worried about how to do Christmas for her children while in emergency accommodation. She said she is thinking of the other families who have not been housed and will spend Christmas in small rooms. After Ania was served with an eviction notice, which she tried to challenge, she tried looking for new accommodation that would accept the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). After asking friends, putting posts up on Facebook and applying to online ads, “nothing happened”. She told the PA news agency on condition of anonymity: “Per day, you might send four or five (emails) to Daft.ie or to MyHome.ie. "They don’t answer and you lose hope." She said she ended up overholding the property and had to appear in court. She explained: “I asked the judge, can I stay for Christmas and then I can move somewhere, and he gave me three months to leave.” In January, she packed a small box of things, paying for the rest to be put in storage, before moving into Sunnybank Hotel. She said: “When I first moved over there, me and my oldest child, we just came to check it and we looked and said ‘Oh my gosh’ and she just sat on her bed and she just started crying. "And I cried with her. She said ‘I don’t want this mommy’.” The mum-of-four said her children could not have friends over to visit and they felt separate to other children. She explained: “They feel ‘I’m homeless’ and just separate from other kids with a normal home. “When they came home they would just sit on their beds, that’s all. There was no fun like before when we were singing songs, dancing, or making art together and making cookies.” There was a communal playroom that her youngest child used but it was “not like home”. She said her older children would use it to do homework because there was no table or desk in their room. Ania revealed: “There was a kitchen where I could cook, but I only had one and a half hours to prepare, cook and then clean. "Then you put on the list what time you start cooking and what time you finish.” Her daughter is diabetic, which proved challenging because when they didn’t have access to the kitchen, they would eat snacks in their room. Celebrating birthdays was also difficult. She explained: “For my 10-year-old daughter, we brought her to Jump Zone and she invited five friends. I offered, of course, to pay for them but it was a lot of money. But what can you do? So for one and a half hours, we went to Jump Zone. “For my little daughter’s birthday, who is seven, we just went to McDonald’s.” She said she had been worried about how Christmas would go and couldn’t watch festive movies or look at social media posts about the season. The mum detailed: “There was no room for a Christmas tree. Where would I hide Christmas presents? What do we eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? That was tough. How do I explain to my kids that we need to stay in that room? “I feel sorry for families who stay in Sunnybank, because there are some big families like me, with four kids, they have stayed three years there. "Another family, a mommy with three kids, she has stayed two and a half years, there are many families like me, stay in one room and wait three years there. “You feel like you can’t breathe there, you feel like you’re in a cage. “You feel forgotten by everybody, you feel no hope. It’s very hard. Your mental health is going down. You’re surviving, that’s all.” Now, Ania and her children are in a house, a temporary accommodation before they move into a permanent home provided by Dublin City Council. “I have a kitchen!” she said. “So we put a Christmas tree and lots of decorations up. I’ve already bought them Christmas presents. We put on Christmas songs in the morning before school and afterwards, we watch Christmas movies. “I’m so happy to be here, I’m so lucky to be here because so many families don’t have (that) luck.”year of the rabbit fortune 。

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ATLANTA (AP) — Jalen Johnson scored 28 points and the Atlanta Hawks closed out a four-game homestand, winning a third straight contest, 120-110 over the Miami Heat on Saturday. Trae Young added his 22nd double-double of the season, with 11 point and 15 assist, and De'Andre Hunter scored 26 points in his 14th consecutive game with at least 15 points coming off the bench. Tyler Herro scored 28 points and dished out 10 assists and Bam Adebayo added 17 points and 10 rebounds. It was the Heat's fourth game in a row without star Jimmy Butler , who sat out for what the team called “return to competition reconditioning.” Takeaways Heat: Miami lost despite five players finishing with double-digit point totals. The Heat shot 44.4% from the field, but it wasn't enough to overcome a Hawks team that hit over half of its shots, 51.2% from the field. Hawks: Johnson has been on an offensive tear in his last two games. He finished two points shy of his single-game career high of 30 points, set in his last game, on Thursday against the Chicago Bulls. Hunter also finished just one point shy of his single-game career high of 27 points. Key moment After a close first half that featured nine lead changes, Atlanta seized control early in the second half. With five minutes to go in the third quarter, Atlanta’s Garrison Mathews and Hunter hit back-to-back 3s to give Atlanta an 81-72 lead, their biggest of the night, and forcing a Miami timeout. Key stat Young finished one assist shy of a franchise single-game record for assists against the Miami Heat, set by Mookie Blaylock in 1993. Up next The Hawks begin a six-game road trip in Toronto on Sunday, while the Heat visits the Rockets on Sunday. ___ AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA Sean Holohan, The Associated Press(The following is an edited excerpt from Pallava Bagla and Subhadra Menon's book ' Reaching For The Stars: India's Journey to Mars and Beyond ', published by Bloomsbury India How India's maiden mission to Mars became 'Mangalyaan': Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 2012 speech written in Urdu hid the answers. Not many realise that it was Dr Singh who gave India its first inter-planetary voyage with one single point geo-political message: India should beat China and reach the Martian orbit ahead of the Dragon. An Asian space race unfolded and India won it hands down as, under Dr Singh's leadership, the mission was conceived and delivered in all of 18 months. India ran a Martian marathon as if sprinting for a hundred-metre dash. Mangalyaan was publicly announced by Dr Singh from the magnificent ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi on August 15, 2012. Interestingly, when the Moon mission was being planned, Chandrayaan was also announced from the Red Fort by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was the prime minister in 2003. Dr Singh, as it seemed, took the cue, delivering his speech that was actually written in Urdu. But who could match the visionary politician Vajpayee, who made sure to call the Moon mission Chandrayaan-1, whereas the bureaucrat in Manmohan Singh merely called it Mangalyaan, not thinking at all about any sequels. What's in a name, you might ask. When the first budgetary clearances of Rs 125 crore were given for the Mars mission on March 16, 2012, during the 2012-13 budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, it was officially recorded - "Mars Orbiter Mission envisages launching an orbiter around Mars using the PSLV XL during the November 2013 launch opportunity. Mars Orbiter will be placed in an orbit of 500 x 80,000 km around Mars and will have a provision for carrying nearly 25 kg of scientific payload." In what might be some 10 kg of documents running into thousands of pages, embedded in a book with orange covers called the Expenditure Budget, laced with tables and millions of figures, was a small annotation that announced this remarkable plan, giving financial sanction. "What a mangal announcement" was the observation on March 16, 2012, when one of the authors was in conversation with jubilant officials in the Prime Minister's Office, thinking about what name the mission would get. How India's maiden mission to the Moon was named Chandrayaan, and how this might perhaps become Mangalyaan was alluded to, and of course, some months later, in his speech from the Red Fort, then Prime Minister Dr Singh referred to the mission as Mangalyaan. This was a deviation from his written speech that was made public in English but written in Urdu, and what Dr Singh read from, and that is why many people, who later reviewed the written English version questioned whether it was ever called Mangalyaan by the prime minister. This resulted in a small technicality that made ISRO formally stick to calling India's maiden mission to the red planet as the 'Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)'. It seems the Department of Space (DOS) officials had sent a list of names to the Minister of Space, a portfolio always held by the prime minister of India, to select one. As it happened, Dr Singh never returned that list giving his preference, and this led decision makers within the space community, for safety, to stick to referring to it as MOM. This was in sharp contrast with how the Moon mission was named, when in 2003, a list of names was sent to Prime Minister Vajpayee. ISRO's preferred name was 'Somayaan', but astute officials around Vajpayee renamed it as 'Chandrayaan' and Sudheendra Kulkarni, the press advisor to the PM, told me (Pallava) that Vajpayee himself added, in his own handwriting, the suffix '1' after Chandrayaan, and said how a big country like India could make only one visit to the Moon. This led decision-makers to use the informal names, MOM and Mangalyaan. Interestingly, after demonetisation in 2016, when new currency notes were introduced [by Prime Minister Narendra Modi], the image of Mangalyaan was printed on the Rs 2,000 currency note with Mangalyaan emblazoned below the image as an honour to ISRO. This was a remarkable tribute to the space community that aced the Mars launch and landing on the maiden attempt. India's tiger handsomely beat China by reaching the orbit of Mars ahead of the Chinese dragon. ( Disclaimer : The author and publisher of the book are solely responsible for the contents of the book or any excerpt derived therefrom. NDTV shall not be responsible or liable for any claims arising from the contents of the book including any claims of defamation, infringement of intellectual property rights or any other right of any third party or of law. Paragraph breaks and subheadings have been added by NDTV for readers' ease.)

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Dez White's 26 points helped Missouri State defeat UCSB 68-56 on Sunday. White shot 6 for 11 (3 for 5 from 3-point range) and 11 of 12 from the free-throw line for the Bears (7-5). Vincent Brady II scored 13 points while going 4 of 8 and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line and added seven rebounds. Michael Osei-Bonsu finished 5 of 8 from the floor to finish with 10 points. Kenny Pohto led the way for the Gauchos (7-5) with 20 points, 10 rebounds and four assists. Cole Anderson added 11 points for UCSB. Deuce Turner finished with seven points. Missouri State took the lead with 6:05 left in the first half and did not give it up. The score was 31-25 at halftime, with White racking up 17 points. Missouri State pulled away with an 8-0 run in the second half to extend a four-point lead to 12 points. They outscored UCSB by six points in the final half, as White led the way with a team-high nine second-half points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Technology and TV writer Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to The Southern Reporter, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Death in Paradise is set to return for the first time since Ralf Little’s departure earlier this year with its . The actor played DI Neville Parker but the character left Saint Marie with DS Florence Cassell at the end of series 13. Don Gilet will join the cast to replace him as the latest British detective out of his comfort zone in the Caribbean. He is the fifth actor to play the lead role on the beloved BBC series. Advertisement Advertisement But where do you recognise him from - and why did Ralf Little leave the show? Here’s all you need to know: Former Holby City and EastEnders star Don Gilet is the next actor to take the lead role on Death in Paradise. He will play DI Mervin Wilson who makes his debut in the 2024 Christmas Special tonight (December 22). Speaking about the role, Don said: “I'm sure it won't be a surprise to say that it was both exciting and terrifying in equal measure. I liken it to one of those scary rides at a theme park. I'm going on it, and I know it's going to be scary, but I'm going to do it. Advertisement Advertisement “You’re daring yourself. Then you sit in the seat going, “What have I just let myself in for?!” But it was exciting because I knew I was embarking on this new journey.” Eagle-eyed Death in Paradise viewers may actually find the new detective more than a little familiar. Don Gilet actually has appeared on the BBC show once before, appearing in an episode in 2015 alongside Kris Marshall playing a character called Andre Morgan. Beyond that he is best known for his roles as Lucas Johnson on EastEnders, appearing in a number of spells between 2008 and 2024, and Jesse Law on Holby City. He also played DS Nicky Cole in 55 Degrees North from 2004 to 2005. After four years in the lead role on the BBC drama, Ralf Little left the show in March of this year. He had played DI Neville Parker from series 9 through to series 13, having taken over for Ardal O’Hanlon in 2020. Advertisement Advertisement Appearing on BBC Breakfast after his final episode, Ralf explained his decision to leave the show . He said: “You know, this last series was always going to be my last series. I spoke to the BBC and Red Planet, the production company, and we all agreed. “If it was just a heart decision I would have wanted to do it for 20 more years. But just for the show and for my character Neville it just sort of felt like his story was finished and his journey deserved to be completed. He deserved a happy ending and it just felt right.” National World encourages reader discussion on our stories. User feedback, insights and back-and-forth exchanges add a rich layer of context to reporting. Please review our before commenting. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to The Southern Reporter, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.

Raiders confirm QB Gardner Minshew out for season, look to Aidan O'ConnellTetairoa McMillan, one of the best wide receivers in Arizona history, will skip his final year of eligibility and enter the 2025 NFL Draft, he announced on social media on Thursday. Projected as a top-10 draft pick, the 6-foot-5, 212-pound McMillan finished his illustrious career at Arizona with 3,423 receiving yards, breaking the mark set by Bobby Wade (3,351). In three seasons, the Hawaii native also posted the fourth-most catches (213) and third-most touchdowns (26) in school history. "Wildcat Nation, this journey has been everything I dreamed of and more," McMillan wrote on Instagram. "From the moment I committed to the University of Arizona, to every second spent wearing that Arizona jersey ... it's been an absolute honor. "The University of Arizona has provided me with the platform to grow and chase my dreams. ... Thank you from the bottom of my heart. To the best fans in the country, I appreciate you for all of the love and support you have given me these last 3 years. I will always be a Wildcat." In 2024, McMillan totaled 84 grabs (ninth in Division I) for 1,319 yards (third in Division I) and eight touchdowns for the 4-8 Wildcats. He also ranked third in Division I with 109.9 receiving yards per game. McMillan is a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, given to the most outstanding receiver in college football. --Field Level Media

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