The Cleveland Browns have elevated tight end Blake Whiteheart from the practice squad for the team’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That move comes after the team ruled out tight end Geoff Swaim , who is dealing with a concussion. Whiteheart has played in four games for the Browns this season. He has three receptions for 13 yards and a touchdown this year. The Wake Forest product has played in six games over the first two years of his career. The Browns will now have David Njoku, Jordan Akins, and Whiteheart as their three tight ends against the Steelers. The team still runs a good deal of 12 personnel, so having at least three tight ends to pull off those sets seemed essential to the offense. Without Swaim, it simply would not have been possible. With projections for wind and snow in the forecast as well for the game, it could be a run-heavy gamescript this week, which would lend itself to heavier personnel for the Browns at times. BETTING: Check out our guide to the best PA sportsbooks , where our team of sports betting experts has reviewed the experience, payout speed, parlay options and quality of odds for multiple sportsbooks. More Pittsburgh Steelers News Live Updates: Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns, Thursday Night Football Bill Belichick reveals how Steelers’ Cam Heyward nearly joined Patriots Cleveland Browns lose hard-nosed blocking tight end for Steelers game Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns predictions: Who will win AFC North battle? Son of ex-Pittsburgh Steelers player arrestedSimple Hacks to Make the Holidays Merrier (and Cheaper)
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Sunday’s Lions-Colts game will match up the NFL’s top two players in yards per catch: Alec Pierce of the Colts leads the league with 22.7 yards per catch, and Jameson Williams of the Lions is right behind him at 22.4 yards per catch. No one else in the NFL is within three yards per catch of Pierce and Williams. But if there’s a two-man race to lead the league, it’s a race Williams doesn’t care about winning. Asked today if he wants to lead the league, Williams said it doesn’t interest him and that he’s not really aware of the yards per catch statistic at all. “Nah, that stat don’t really matter to me,” Williams said. “I just look at it like, I’m big play. However the yards match up with the catches and stuff like that, I think they divide some type of stuff, I don’t know. I don’t look at that stat, for real.” Williams has had an up-and-down career since the Lions traded up in the first round to draft him in 2022. He’s missed time with an injury and two different suspensions, and had off-field issues. But there’s no doubt that he can make big plays with the ball in his hands. Even if he doesn’t care what his numbers say.Ousted Syrian President reportedly in Moscow after rebel takeover
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to records after data suggested the job market remains solid enough to keep the economy going, but not so strong that it raises immediate worries about inflation. The S&P 500 climbed 0.2%, just enough top the all-time high set on Wednesday, as it closed a third straight winning week in what looks to be one of its best years since the 2000 dot-com bust. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.3%, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.8% to set its own record. Treasury yields eased after the jobs report showed stronger hiring than expected but also an uptick in the unemployment rate. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records Friday after data suggested the to keep the economy going, but not so strong that it raises immediate worries about . The S&P 500 rose 0.2% and was just above its all-time high set on Wednesday. It’s rolling toward the close of a third straight winning week in what’s likely to be since the 2000 dot-com bust. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 108 points, or 0.2%, as of 1:51 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.7%. Stocks held relatively steady as the latest jobs report strengthened expectations among traders that the Federal Reserve will at its next meeting in two weeks. While the report showed U.S. employers hired more workers than expected last month, it also said the unemployment rate unexpectedly ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1%. “This print doesn’t kill the holiday spirit and the Fed remains on track to deliver a cut in December,” according to Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector investing within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The Fed from a two-decade high in September to offer more help for the slowing job market, after bringing inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower interest rates can ease the brakes off the economy, but they can also offer more fuel for inflation. Expectations for a series of cuts from the Fed have been a major reason the S&P 500 has set so far this year. And the Fed is part of a global surge: 62 central banks have lowered rates in the past three months, the most since 2020, according to Michael Hartnett and other strategists at Bank of America. Still, the jobs report may have included some notes of caution for Fed officials underneath the surface. Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, pointed to average wages for workers last month, which were a touch stronger than economists expected. While that’s good news for workers who would always like to make more, it could also keep upward pressure on inflation. “This report tells the Fed that they still need to be careful as sticky housing/shelter/wage data shows that it won’t be easy to engineer meaningfully lower inflation from here in the nearer term,” Wren said. So, while traders are betting on a nearly 90% probability the Fed will ease its main rate in two weeks, they’re much less certain about how many more cuts it will deliver next year, according to data from CME Group. For now, the hope is that the job market can help U.S. shoppers continue to spend and keep the that had earlier seemed after the Fed began hiking interest rates swiftly to crush inflation. Several retailers offered encouragement after delivering better-than-expected results for the latest quarter. Ulta Beauty rallied 10.4% after topping expectations for both profit and revenue. The opening of new stores helped it boost its revenue, and it raised the bottom end of its forecasted range for sales over this full year. Lululemon stretched 17.9% higher following its own profit report. It said stronger sales outside the United States helped it in particular, and its earnings topped analysts’ expectations. Retailers overall have been offering mixed signals on how resilient U.S. shoppers can remain amid the slowing job market and still-high prices. gave a dour forecast for the holiday shopping season, for example, while gave a much more encouraging outlook. A report on Friday suggested sentiment among U.S. consumers may be improving more than economists expected. The preliminary reading from the University of Michigan's survey hit its highest level in seven months. The survey found a surge in buying for some products as consumers tried to get ahead of possible increases in price due to that President-elect Donald Trump has threatened. In tech, Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped 10.8% for one of the S&P 500's larger gains after reporting stronger profit and revenue than expected. Tech stocks broadly were one of the main reasons the S&P 500 climbed this past week, as Salesforce and other big companies talked up how much of a boost they’re getting from the boom. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury yield slipped to 4.16% from 4.18% late Thursday. In stock markets abroad, France’s CAC 40 rose 1.3% after French President Emmanuel Macron plans to stay in office until the end of his term and to name a new prime minister within days. Earlier this week, far-right and left-wing lawmakers approved a due to budget disputes, forcing Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his cabinet to resign. In Asia, stock indexes were mixed. They rallied 1.6% in Hong Kong and 1% in Shanghai ahead of an annual economic policy meeting scheduled for next week. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.6% as South Korea’s ruling party chief for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and then revoked that earlier this week. Yoon is facing calls to resign and may be impeached. Bitcoin was sitting a little above $101,000 after $103,000 to a record the day before. ___ AP Writers Matt Ott and Zimo Zhong contributed. Stan Choe, The Associated Press
Stock market today: Wall Street slips as the 'Magnificent 7' weighs down the market NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing lower as Wall Street ends a holiday-shortened week on a down note. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% Friday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 333 points, or 0.8%. The Nasdaq composite dropped 1.5%. The “Magnificent 7” stocks weighed on the market, led by declines in Nvidia, Tesla and Microsoft. Even with the loss, the S&P 500 had a modest gain for the week and is still headed for its second consecutive annual gain of more than 20%, the first time that has happened since 1997-1998. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.62%. 10 tips from experts to help you change your relationship with money in 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — As the calendar changes to 2025, you might be thinking about how to approach your relationship with money in the new year. Whether you’re saving to move out of your parents’ house or pay off student loan debt, financial resolutions can help you stay motivated. If you’re planning to make financial resolutions for the new year, experts recommend that you start by evaluating the state of your finances in 2024. Then, set specific goals and make sure they’re attainable for your lifestyle. An online debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump's political coalition WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect’s political movement into public display. The argument previews fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare tensions between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — that is, wealthy members of the tech world who want more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump’s Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans. Administration officials said this month that at least eight telecommunications companies, as well as dozens of nations, had been affected by the Chinese hacking blitz known as Salt Typhoon. But Anne Neuberger, a deputy national security adviser, said Friday that a ninth victim had been identified after the administration released guidance to companies about how to hunt for Chinese culprits in their networks. Most Americans blame insurance profits and denials alongside the killer in UHC CEO death, poll finds WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO — although not as much as the person who pulled the trigger. So says a new poll from NORC at the University of Chicago. It finds that about 8 in 10 Americans say that the person who committed the killing has “a great deal” or “a moderate amount” of responsibility for the Dec. 4 shooting of Brian Thompson. Still, some see suspect Luigi Mangione as a heroic figure. About 7 in 10 adults say coverage denials or health insurance profits also bear at least “a moderate amount” of responsibility for Thompson’s death. Another jackpot surpasses $1 billion. Is this the new normal? Remember this moment because it probably won’t last: A U.S. lottery jackpot is projected to soar above $1 billion, and that's still a big deal. Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is worth an estimated $1.15 billion. The prize has evoked headlines across the country, despite the nation's top 10 jackpots already having boasted billion-dollar payouts. Jonathan Cohen is the author of the book “For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America.” He says he expects jackpots to continue to grow in size. Larger payouts attract more media attention, increase ticket sales and bring in new players. How the stock market defied expectations again this year, by the numbers NEW YORK (AP) — What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors. U.S. stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. The benchmark index posted its first back-to-back annual gains of more than 20% since 1998. The year featured many familiar winners, such as Big Tech, which got even bigger as their stock prices kept growing. But it wasn’t just Apple, Nvidia and the like. Bitcoin and gold surged and “Roaring Kitty” reappeared to briefly reignite the meme stock craze. Richard Parsons, prominent executive who led Time Warner and Citigroup, dies at 76 NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Parsons, one of corporate America’s most prominent Black executives who held top posts at Time Warner and Citigroup, has died. He was 76. Parsons died Thursday at his Manhattan home. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2015 and cited “unanticipated complications” from the disease for cutting back on work a few years later. Financial services company Lazard confirmed his death. Parsons was a longtime member of the company's board. His friend Ronald Lauder told The New York Times that the cause of death was cancer. Parsons stepped down Dec. 3 from the boards of Lazard and Lauder’s company, Estée Lauder, citing health reasons. He had been on Estée Lauder’s board for 25 years. Israel strikes Houthi rebels in Yemen's capital while the WHO chief says he was meters away JERUSALEM (AP) — A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen has targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports. The World Health Organization’s director-general said Thursday's bombardment took place just “meters away” as he was about to board a flight in Sanaa. He says a crew member was hurt. The strikes followed several days of Houthi attacks and launches setting off sirens in Israel. Israel's military says it attacked infrastructure used by the Houthis at the airport in Sanaa, power stations and ports. The Israeli military later said it wasn’t aware that the WHO chief was at the location in Yemen. At least three people were reported killed and dozens injured in the Sanaa airport strike. Holiday shoppers increased spending by 3.8% despite higher prices New data shows holiday sales rose this year even as Americans wrestled with still high prices in many grocery necessities and other financial worries. According to Mastercard SpendingPulse, holiday sales from the beginning of November through Christmas Eve climbed 3.8%, a faster pace than the 3.1% increase from a year earlier. The measure tracks all kinds of payments including cash and debit cards. This year, retailers were even more under the gun to get shoppers in to buy early and in bulk since there were five fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Mastercard SpendingPulse says the last five days of the season accounted for 10% of the spending. Sales of clothing, electronics and Jewelry rose.The company made the Best Places to Work in IT list for the third consecutive year and is ranked #2 in the Small Companies category. BALA CYNWYD, Pa. , Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Tokio Marine North America Services (TMNAS) is one of the 2025 Best Places to Work in IT according to Foundry's Computerworld . TMNAS achieved the #2 ranking in the Small Companies category, its highest ranking to date and third straight year making the list. Beyond the #2 overall ranking, TMNAS was ranked #1 for Career Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This award recognizes the top organizations that challenge their IT staff while providing great benefits and compensation. "We are extremely honored to have been recognized by Computerworld for the third year in a row," shared Bob Pick , Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at TMNAS. "Our IT team plays a crucial role in driving success for Tokio Marine and we strive to ensure our employees feel supported and valued as well. We want them to learn and grow with us as technology capabilities and digital demand evolve." TMNAS provides professional services across the U.S. and Mexico to several of the North American businesses of the Tokio Marine Group . The company's IT department develops, maintains, and innovates digital technology solutions to deliver market-leading solutions, insights, and customer service 24/7. Their work helps support over 3,200 people, contributing to the generation of innovative solutions and leading to $5.5 billion in annual premium revenue. In addition to making the Best Places to Work in IT list, TMNAS has received several other top workplace honors. These include being named one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work for In the Nation, Best Places to Work in Insurance, and Best Places to Work in PA. To learn more, visit TMNAS.com . About Tokio Marine North America Services Tokio Marine North America Services (TMNAS) was established in 2012 as the shared services company for Tokio Marine North America, Inc. (TMNA), the U.S. holding company for the Japan -based Tokio Marine Group. With headquarters located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania , TMNAS provides value-added services to Tokio Marine Group companies including Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY), First Insurance Company of Hawaii (FICOH), and Tokio Marine America (TMA) and its insurance companies. TMNAS' range of services includes Actuarial, Corporate Communications, Facilities, Finance & Accounting, Information Technology, Internal Audit, Human Resources, and Legal. These services deliver efficiency and innovation through the streamlining of processes, while building synergies across business units. For more information, please visit www.TMNAS.com . About the Best Places to Work in IT The Best Places to Work in IT list is an annual ranking of the top work environments for technology professionals by Foundry's Computerworld. The list is compiled based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, DEI, future of work, training and retention. In addition, the rankings are reviewed and vetted by a panel of industry experts. About Computerworld Computerworld is the leading technology media brand empowering enterprise users and their managers, helping them create business advantage by skillfully exploiting today's abundantly powerful web, mobile, and desktop applications. Computerworld also offers guidance to IT managers tasked with optimizing client systems—and helps businesses revolutionize the customer and employee experience with new collaboration platforms. Computerworld's award-winning website ( www.computerworld.com ), strategic marketing solutions and research forms the hub of the world's largest global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld is published by IDG. 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US stocks hit record highs on corporate newsPolice lay more charges against pro-Palestinian demonstrators in OttawaWhat Is Willow, Google’s New Computing Quantum Chip? By recently took a major leap in the technology scene as it unveiled its new computing chip, the . Also called , netizens are now highly curious about what it is and its features. Describing the chip as one of the finest processors ever, Google also mentioned that the Quantum Chip is the product of 10 years of hard work. Here is everything tech enthusiasts need to know about Willow and what are its major advantages as listed by Google. What is Google’s Williow? Willow, Google’s latest Quantum Chip, is a state-of-the-art chip that would help solve complex problems in the least time possible, which the standard computers would take years to solve. Announcing the launch of Willow, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai took to and shared the news with the world. He wrote, “Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field.” Pichai further detailed that this Quantum chip can carry out computation within just 5 minutes which would eventually take other computers 10 septillion years to perform. Additionally, in its , Google stated that to check the performance of Willow they used the RCS (random circuit sampling) benchmark. It is the “hardest benchmark” for a quantum computer in today’s time. In the blog, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, Hartmut Neven stated, “Willow was fabricated in our new, state-of-the-art fabrication facility in Santa Barbara — one of only a few facilities in the world built from the ground up for this purpose.” Neven also asserted that the number of qubits used enhances the performance of the Quantum Chip. He added, “We published results showing that the more qubits we use in Willow, the more we reduce errors, and the more quantum the system becomes.” Ishita Verma is an SEO contributing writer for ComingSoon. She is passionate about delivering authentic content and holds experience in SEO content writing. Apart from her quest to ensure her content is promising, Ishita is an avid Kdrama and anime watcher. Ishita is a bibliophile and also pursues gaming as one of her favorite pastimes. Share article
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Australian PGA winner Elvis Smylie has the “right team” around him and the game to handle the swift ascension to the big time that other previous young winners of the tournament haven’t, according to his superstar peers. Smylie earnt a full-time playing card on the DP World Tour as well as $340,000 courtesy of his two-shot win over Cameron Smith at Royal Queensland and jumped 483 places on the world rankings to a career-high 253. That leap makes him the ninth-highest ranked Australian in the world going into this week’s Australian Open in Melbourne where the spotlight will be on the 22-year-old left-hander to continue a bold campaign that also netted him the WA Open and three other top-10 finishes in his past six events. Smylie’s success has come after a coaching shift, joining the stable of Peth-based Richie Smith, who remains central to the careers of Min Woo Lee, who won the Australian PGA in 2023 and played a full year on the US PGA Tour in 2024, as well as major champions Minjee Lee and Hannah Green. Making that move could, according to Jason Day, be crucial in giving Smylie the “structure” he needs to continue to accelerate his career, something that has been hard for other young winners of the Australian “major”. In 2021, Queenslander Jed Morgan became the youngest winner of the Australian PGA, aged just 22. But he missed cuts in nine of his next 16 events, joined the LIV Golf tour in 2023 but was dumped from the all-Australian Ripper GC team at the end of the season and is now ranked 985th, battling to keep his Asian tour card. Nathan Holman was another surprise winner of the Australian PGA in 2015 but struggled in Europe after earning his tour card via his win and stopped playing professionally three years later. But Smylie is more geared to follow the path of Min Woo Lee, according to former world No.1 Day who liked what he saw in the left-hander. “He was struggling there for a little bit and then he transferred to Richie (Smith) and he has done a great job with Minners (Lee) but also Hannah and Minjee,” Day said after finishing in a tie for eighth at Royal Queensland, his first event in Australia since 2017. “I think he is going to help Elvis, because Elvis is a young guy, to give him a bit more structure. What a lot of kids miss, especially Australians, is they miss the structure of being a professional and being on tour. “If you can handle that and make that more routine, you are able to just improve dramatically. I think his team, the guys he’s working with, they have done it before which gives you confidence knowing ‘I have a good team behind me’.” Cameron Smith said it was a “bittersweet” moment watching Smylie, a former holder of the Cameron Smith scholarship, relegate him to second and wasn’t sure a win like that would “happen so quickly” when the British Open champ started to help the next generation. But Smith, who said he wanted to be someone “for them to talk to” having felt he missed out on that coming through the ranks, said all the signs, even before Smylie’s win, pointed to long-term success. “It’s a long way to come from being a junior golfer to a professional golfer and he keeps making the right steps,” Smith aid. “You could tell, even that week he was there, that he’s a hard worker, which is a really good trait to have. He should enjoy this win but keep working hard, he’s got a really long way to go. “For me the biggest thing was having someone for them to talk to. I feel like I had a couple of years there where I could have used that. “I saw it (the scholarship) as an opportunity, you help really young kids, particularly ones travelling all over the world, as they have to really. Then a few tricks and lessons here and there, but more than anything else, just someone to have a chat to.” Originally published as Elvis Smylie predicted for bigger things after Australian PGA win brings rankings bump