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Published 2:48 pm Monday, November 25, 2024 By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against Donald Trump on Monday, acknowledging that Trump’s return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The decision was inevitable, since longstanding Justice Department policy says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Yet it was still a momentous finale to an unprecedented chapter in political and law enforcement history, as federal officials attempted to hold accountable a former president while he was simultaneously running for another term. In court filings, Smith’s team emphasized that the move to abandon their prosecutions was not a reflection of the merit of the cases but a recognition of the legal shield that surrounds any commander in chief. “That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind,” the prosecutors wrote in one of their filings. Smith’s team said it was leaving intact charges against two co-defendants in the classified documents case — Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira — because “no principle of temporary immunity applies to them.” Steven Cheung, Trump’s incoming White House communications director, welcomed the decision to drop the prosecutions against the president-elect, describing it as a “major victory for the rule of law.” “The American People and President Trump want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and we look forward to uniting our country,” Cheung said in a statement. Trump has long described the investigations as politically motivated, and he has vowed to fire Smith as soon as he takes office in January. Now he will re-enter the White House free from criminal scrutiny by the government that he will lead. The election case brought last year was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats facing Trump as he tried to reclaim the White House. He was indicted for plotting to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in 2020, an effort that climaxed with his supporters’ violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But the case quickly stalled amid legal fighting over Trump’s sweeping claims of immunity from prosecution for acts he took while in the White House. The U.S. Supreme Court in July ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, and sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to determine which allegations in the indictment, if any, could proceed to trial. The case was just beginning to pick up steam again in the trial court in the weeks leading up to this year’s election. Smith’s team in October filed a lengthy brief laying out new evidence they planned to use against him at trial, accusing him of “resorting to crimes” in an increasingly desperate effort to overturn the will of voters after he lost to Biden. The separate case involving classified documents had been widely seen as legally clear cut, especially because the conduct in question occurred after Trump left the White House and lost the powers of the presidency. The indictment included dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally hoarding classified records from his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and obstructing federal efforts to get them back. He has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. The case quickly became snarled by delays, with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon slow to issue rulings — which favored Trump’s strategy of pushing off deadlines in all his criminal cases — while also entertaining defense motions and arguments that experts said other judges would have dispensed with without hearings. In May, she indefinitely canceled the trial date amid a series of unresolved legal issues before dismissing the case outright two months later. Smith’s team appealed the decision, but now has given up that effort.In brief: Shopping for USB cables typically involves comparing compatibility, speed, power delivery, length, and price. However, Sanwa Supply's new USB-C cable features an interesting gimmick that could make using devices while connected easier. Although the cord isn't extremely fast or long, it is rugged and versatile when you need a quick charge. Sanwa Supply's 500-USB090 USB-C cable is now available on the company's Japanese storefront. The cable's rotating plug aims to make using portable devices less frustrating while charging. Each end of Sanwa's cable rotates 180 degrees vertically and 360 degrees horizontally, enabling users to tuck the cord out of the way in any orientation. Most USB cables dictate a device's position according to how they bend, but Sanwa demonstrates how the 500-USB090 eliminates this problem (below). The cable supports 240W power delivery to swiftly charge phones, tablets, a Nintendo Switch, portable monitors, and MacBooks. Its 240W power rating will likely remain uncommon until USB4 2.0 and Thunderbolt 5 become more widely available. Sanwa shows the flexible cable attached to such devices at a bedside, table, and vehicle dashboard. The 500-USB090's main drawback is that it only supports USB 2.0 data transfers at up to 480Mbps, which is likely why the company primarily advertises it as a power cable. Most standard USB cables currently support USB 3.2, which delivers much higher speeds. Once the new USB4 and Thunderbolt protocols are more widely adopted, we'll see bi-directional transfers at 80Gbps or asymmetrical connections at 120Gbps in one direction and 40Gbps in the other. Charging at 240W is also possible but not universal. Elecom became the first company to introduce a certified USB4 2.0 cable in October, but only one model supports 240W charging while the other is limited to 60W. Meanwhile, newer PCs like Apple's M4 Macs have begun adopting Thunderbolt 5, and older desktops can gain compatibility through PCIe cards . It remains unclear if or when Sanwa plans to sell the 500-USB090 globally, but the cable is already available in Japan for ¥2,580 (or about $16). The company also recently introduced a quick-release Ethernet cable. Taking inspiration from Apple's MagSafe technology, half of the CAT6 plug easily detaches, simplifying installation and preventing damage if someone trips over the cable. 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Aptose Biosciences Inc. Announces Closing of $8 Million Public OfferingAlgeria has now been confirmed as the host next edition of the Africa Military Games. This is the north African nation received the hosting right of the games third edition, following the end of second hosted by Nigeria in Abuja on Saturday November 30, 2024. At the end of the 2024 version, Nigeria won overwhelming with an overall 234 medals, comprising of 114 gold, 65 silver and 55 bronze. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation was followed by Algeria in distant second with a total of 96 medals – 64 gold, 22 silver and 22 bronze. Occuppying the third position is Kenya with 50 medal, made up of 21 gold, 17 silver and 12 bronze. Up to 20 countries took part in the 12-day competition. Details loading...
Advisors Asset Management Inc. trimmed its position in shares of Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF ( BATS:FLHY – Free Report ) by 47.9% in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 4,727 shares of the company’s stock after selling 4,354 shares during the period. Advisors Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF were worth $116,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the business. US Bancorp DE boosted its stake in Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF by 126.3% during the 3rd quarter. US Bancorp DE now owns 6,808 shares of the company’s stock valued at $166,000 after purchasing an additional 3,800 shares during the period. Atria Investments Inc bought a new stake in shares of Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF in the third quarter valued at approximately $223,000. Cetera Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF in the first quarter worth $490,000. Williams & Novak LLC increased its position in Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF by 19.0% during the third quarter. Williams & Novak LLC now owns 16,012 shares of the company’s stock worth $391,000 after acquiring an additional 2,560 shares during the period. Finally, Traynor Capital Management Inc. bought a new position in Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF during the second quarter worth $210,000. Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF Stock Up 0.2 % Shares of Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF stock opened at $24.27 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $24.21 and a two-hundred day moving average of $24.01. Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF Company Profile The Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF (FLHY) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in high yield fixed income. The fund is actively managed portfolio of global high-yield corporate debt. The fund seeks high current income, with capital appreciation as a secondary goal. FLHY was launched on May 30, 2018 and is managed by Franklin Templeton. Read More Five stocks we like better than Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF What Investors Must Know About Over-the-Counter (OTC) Stocks The Latest 13F Filings Are In: See Where Big Money Is Flowing Investing in the High PE Growth Stocks 3 Penny Stocks Ready to Break Out in 2025 Do ETFs Pay Dividends? What You Need to Know FMC, Mosaic, Nutrien: Top Agricultural Stocks With Big Potential Receive News & Ratings for Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
Sports Correspondent Highlanders’ star striker, Lynoth Chikuhwa (31), has emerged as the top scorer in the Castle Lager Premiership, finishing the season with 17 goals. His impressive tally earned him the prestigious Golden Boot award. Chikuhwa hogged the limelight at the faded Bulawayo giants, providing a glimmer of hope for the club with his standout performances.ROCHESTER — Minnesota’s public schools receive millions of dollars in federal funding, and state education leaders are uncertain what to expect in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s indications that he would eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. Rochester Public Schools Superintendent Kent Pekel said it’s too early to plan the district’s operations around what may or may not happen under the new administration, but that it’s hard to imagine the federal department going away completely. ADVERTISEMENT “If it didn’t exist, you would largely have to reinvent it,” Pekel said about the Department of Education. “You would have to put the functions in other agencies because I think very few Americans would want to see them go away altogether.” He went on to highlight the federal department’s role in administering student loans, undertaking education-focused research, and providing funding for special education. Minnesota leaders are also unsure what education could look like under a new administration. Minnesota Department of Education Communications Director Sam Snuggerud said it's too early to comment about what may be ahead for the state-level department in light of speculation about its federal counterpart. “MDE remains committed to ensuring every student receives a world-class education from qualified teachers in a safe, nurturing school environment, regardless of who is elected in Washington, D.C., or St. Paul,” Snuggerud said via email following the election. On Thursday, Nov. 21, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education. Under the proposed bill, DOE duties would be redistributed to other federal departments. "Local school boards and state departments of education know best what their students need, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.," Rounds said in a statement. “For years, I’ve worked toward removing the federal Department of Education. I’m pleased that President-elect Trump shares this vision, and I’m excited to work with him and Republican majorities in the Senate and House to make this a reality. This legislation is a roadmap to eliminating the federal Department of Education by practically re-homing these federal programs in the departments where they belong, which will be critical as we move into next year.” Chris Williams, press secretary for the statewide teachers union Education Minnesota, also said it’s too early to say anything definitive about how the new presidential administration may impact Minnesota’s schools. ADVERTISEMENT It was not all that long ago in the grand scheme of history that the federal department was created in its current form. It came to be under the administration of Jimmy Carter in 1979 through the Department of Education Organization Act. However, according to a history on the department's website, there was an “office of Education” as far back as 1868. The history on the department’s website goes on to say that “over the years, the office remained relatively small, operating under different titles and housed in various agencies.” In the 1950s, the federal government started dedicating more funding to science-based education programs in the wake of the space race with the Soviet Union. The federal government continued expanding its educational priorities up until the creation of the Department itself. “This expansion continued in the 1970s with national efforts to help racial minorities, women, people with disabilities and non-English-speaking students gain equal access to education,” the Department’s history reads. Despite the Department of Education's role in funding schools, the actual policies, curriculum and standards — the core of the education itself — is delegated to the individual states. There has been speculation swirling about the Department of Education’s future since long before Election Day. Beyond Trump’s own indications, the possibility of downscaling the department was also a component of Project 2025, a political playbook drafted by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, which isn’t officially affiliated with the presidential administration. According to neaToday, a publication of the National Education Association, Project 2025’s “overall goal is to strip the federal role in education down to ‘that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states.’” ADVERTISEMENT The NEA went on to say Project 2025 would put more stress on “already tight education budgets," and that it would undermine “the academic outcomes of 2.8 million of the nation’s most vulnerable students.” Even though state governments control most aspects of how public schools operate, the federal department still plays a role. In Rochester, federal funding makes up 4% of the school district’s 2024-25 budget, amounting to more than $17 million. Not unlike the attention to science education in the 1950s in the lead-up to the Department's creation, today’s students are entering a world of constant technological change. Pekel said it’s hard to see how the elimination of the federal department would be helpful. “No high-performing system would do this; no high-performing company would say ‘let’s get rid of the strategy at the central level,'” Pekel said. “I think we’ve learned that anything’s possible.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Kaapo Kaako scored a power-play goal with 24 seconds left, and the New York Rangers stopped a five-game slide by topping the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Saturday. Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck and Mika Zibanejad also scored for the Rangers, who got their first win since a 4-3 victory at Vancouver on Nov. 19. Adam Fox had two assists, and Jonathan Quick made 25 saves. With Montreal’s Kirby Dach serving a four-minute, high-sticking penalty, Kaako got his fourth goal of the season. The Canadiens trailed 3-1 after two periods. But Cole Caufield scored his 14th goal 4:16 into the third and Nick Suzuki tied it at 14:07. Trocheck tipped the puck past Montreal goaltender Sam Montembeault at 19:56 to put New York ahead after Panarin and Montreal’s Mike Matheson scored earlier in the first. Panarin put the Rangers ahead at 9:02, scoring on a 5-on-3 for New York’s first power-play goal since Nov. 12 at home against Winnipeg. Matheson tied it at 11:47. Montembault made 24 saves for Montreal. Takeaways Canadiens: dropped to 3-7-1 on the road. Rangers: Forwards Chris Kreider and Filip Chytil returned to the lineup. Kreider missed three games with an upper-body injury while Chytil was out for seven after colliding with teammate K’Andre Miller on Nov. 14. Reilly Smith and Jonny Brodzinski were scratched. Key moment Seeking an early spark, New York captain Jacob Trouba fought Montreal’s Josh Anderson 1:58 into the contest. It appeared to give the Rangers a collective jolt that was missing in recent games. Key stat The Rangers are 11-1-0 when scoring first. It was the 1,700th home win in franchise history. Up next The Canadiens visit the Boston Bruins on Sunday. The Rangers host the New Jersey Devils on Monday. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL Allan Kreda, The Associated PressVivek Ramaswamy to Axios: DOGE not planning cuts to Social Security, Medicare
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The Syrian military says rebels have entered large parts of Aleppo city during an offensive in which dozens of soldiers had been killed, forcing the army to redeploy in the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad in years. or signup to continue reading The surprise attack led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has jolted the frontlines of the Syrian civil war that have largely been frozen since 2020, reviving fighting in a corner of the fractured country near the Turkish border. The army said it was preparing a counteroffensive to restore state authority. The Syrian army command's statement was the first public acknowledgement by the military that rebels had entered Aleppo, which had been under full state control since government forces backed by Russia and Iran drove out rebels eight years ago. "The large numbers of terrorists and the multiplicity of battlefronts prompted our armed forces to carry out a redeployment operation aimed at strengthening the defence lines in order to absorb the attack, preserve the lives of civilians and soldiers, and prepare for a counterattack," the army said. Images from Aleppo showed a group of rebel fighters gathered in the city's Saadallah al-Jabiri Square after entering the city overnight, a billboard of Assad looming behind them. "I am the son of Aleppo, and was displaced from it eight years ago, in 2016. Thank God we just returned. It is an indescribable feeling," said Ali Jumbaa, a rebel fighter, television footage showed. The army said bombardment had stopped the insurgents from establishing fixed positions. It promised to "expel them and restore the control of the state ... over the entire city and its countryside". Two rebel sources said the insurgents had also captured the city of Maraat al Numan in Idlib province, bringing all of that province under their control. The fighting revives the long-simmering Syrian conflict as the wider region is roiled by wars in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, where a truce between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah took effect on Wednesday. The attack was launched from insurgent-held areas that remain outside of the Syrian central government's grasp. Two Syrian military sources said that Russian and Syrian warplanes targeted insurgents in an Aleppo suburb on Saturday. Speaking on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia regarded the rebel attack as a violation of Syria's sovereignty. "We are in favour of the Syrian authorities bringing order to the area and restoring constitutional order as soon as possible," he said. The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue service operating in opposition-held parts of Syria, said in a post on X that Syrian government and Russian aircraft carried out air strikes on residential neighbourhoods, a service station and a school in rebel-held Idlib, killing four civilians and wounding six others. The two Syrian military sources said Russia has promised authorities in Damascus extra military aid that would start arriving in the next 72 hours. Authorities closed Aleppo airport and roads to the city, the two military sources and a third army source said. The Syrian army has been told to follow "safe withdrawal" orders from the main areas of the city that the rebels had entered, the three military sources said. The rebels, including factions backed by Turkey, said on Friday their fighters were sweeping through various Aleppo neighbourhoods. Mustafa Abdul Jaber, a commander in the Jaish al-Izza rebel brigade, said their speedy advance had been helped by a lack of Iran-backed manpower to support the government in the broader Aleppo province. Iran's allies in the region have suffered a series of blows at the hands of Israel as the Gaza war has expanded through the Middle East. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, in a phone call with his Syrian counterpart on Friday, accused the United States and Israel of being behind the insurgent attack. The opposition fighters have said the campaign was in response to stepped-up strikes in recent weeks against civilians by the Russian and Syrian air forces on areas of Idlib province, and to pre-empt any attacks by the Syrian army. Opposition sources in touch with Turkish intelligence said Turkey, which supports the rebels, had given a green light to the offensive. 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