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AUSTIN PEAY 62, GEORGIA STATE 50Brookshire 3-5 1-2 8, Haney 0-3 0-0 0, Lax 1-4 4-4 6, Thomas 9-22 4-7 25, Daniel 0-3 1-2 1, Carpenter 4-9 0-0 12, McCubbin 3-4 0-2 8, Loos 0-0 0-0 0, Dawson 0-0 2-2 2, Hammer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-50 12-19 62. McMullen 1-4 1-2 3, Nutter 4-12 9-14 17, Edwards 3-7 0-1 6, Brown 3-5 1-2 10, Lane 2-6 2-2 8, Peters 1-1 2-2 4, Hamilton 1-4 0-0 2, Archer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 15-39 15-23 50. Halftime_Austin Peay 32-26. 3-Point Goals_Austin Peay 10-21 (Carpenter 4-9, Thomas 3-4, McCubbin 2-3, Brookshire 1-3, Haney 0-2), Georgia St. 5-13 (Brown 3-4, Lane 2-5, Hamilton 0-1, McMullen 0-1, Nutter 0-2). Fouled Out_McCubbin. Rebounds_Austin Peay 27 (Daniel 8), Georgia St. 29 (McMullen 12). Assists_Austin Peay 9 (Thomas 5), Georgia St. 8 (Nutter, Brown 3). Total Fouls_Austin Peay 19, Georgia St. 15. A_148.Reindeer roundup: 3 VERIFIED facts about the animals that inspired Santa's sleigh team

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and MAURICIO SAVARESE, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police said Thursday they indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people for allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections. Police said their findings were being delivered Thursday to Brazil’s Supreme Court, which must decide whether to refer them to Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, who will either formally charge Bolsonaro and put him on trial, or toss the investigation. The former right-wing president has denied all claims he tried to stay in office after his narrow electoral defeat in 2022 to his rival, leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has faced a series of legal threats since then. Police said in a brief statement that the Supreme Court had agreed to reveal the names of all 37 people who were indicted “to avoid the dissemination of incorrect news.” The 700-page police document likely will take several days for the court to review, Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes said. Dozens of former and current Bolsonaro aides also were indicted, including Gen. Walter Braga Netto, who was his running mate in the 2022 campaign; former Army commander Gen. Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira; Valdemar Costa Neto, the chairman of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party; and his veteran former adviser, Gen. Augusto Heleno. The investigation started last year. On Tuesday, four military men and one federal police agent were arrested as part of the same probe . Other investigations focus on Bolosnaro’s potential roles in smuggling diamond jewelry into Brazil without properly declaring them, and in directing a subordinate to falsify his and others’ COVID-19 vaccination statuses. Bolsonaro has denied any involvement in either. Another probe found that he had abused his authority to cast doubt on the country’s voting system, and judges barred him from running again until 2030. The far-reaching investigations have weakened Bolsonaro’s status as a leader of Brazil’s right wing, said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo. “Bolsonaro is already barred from running in the 2026 elections,” Melo told the The Associated Press. “And if he is convicted he could also be jailed by then. To avoid being behind bars, he will have to convince Supreme Court justices that he has nothing to do with a plot that involves dozens of his aids. That’s a very tall order,” Melo said. On Tuesday, the federal police arrested four military and a federal police officer accused of plotting to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections, including alleged plans to kill Lula and other top officials.Jon Moxley talks how AEW can learn from challenge of rapid expansion: 'We've maybe gotten things out of order'

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What will the new year bring? Based on this year, we can expect a wild ride. Here are 25 predictions for 2025. 1) President Trump, having run out of relatives to appoint to high office, will leave politics to spend less time with his family. 2) Raygun will continue to be the biggest source of family arguments since the COVID mandates, with the only allowed views being “angel” or “devil”. 3) Prince Andrew, revealed as a close contact of both a convicted paedophile and an alleged Chinese spy, will admit that he’s in the pay of the Australian Republican movement, as it’s the only way to explain the last five years. Reviving past fashion is going to become more difficult in 2025. 4) Reviving the fashion and music of past decades will become more difficult, on account that every period has been used up due to a collective failure to have any new ideas. By February 2025, we’ll be bringing back the “looks and sounds of 2024”. By March, we’ll be bringing back the “looks and sounds of February”. By April 20, we’ll be bringing back the “looks and sounds of April 3.” 5) Gina Rinehart will buy a huge new sheep farm but keep the traditional name: “Western Australia.” 6) Peter Dutton will find himself so addicted to negativity he will find himself unable to accept any view put by the government - angrily dismissing the observations that “the sky is blue”, “water is wet”, and “Australia, by and large, is a pretty good place to live.” Toto is set for a name change! Credit: Alex Ellinghausen 7) Anthony Albanese will rename his dog, worried that the current name of Toto sounds enough like Tonto to create expectations that his owner will be a man of action. 8) The leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, will install a new phone answering system in his office, inviting people to leave a message “after the morally superior tone”. 9) Prince Harry’s popularity in the UK will reach a new low when he is voted off The Great British Bake Off, despite having never appeared on the show. Get excited for the Big Coke! Credit: iStock / Supplied 10) Peter Dutton, in the tradition of the Big Pineapple and the Big Prawn, will build an enormous Coke can in his electorate of Dickson in order to store the tonnes of nuclear waste, which, he has always argued, will somehow fit into a Coke can. 11) Trump will stage a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. When asked, “Why meet with a deranged dictator with his finger on the nuclear button?” Kim will say: “Look, it’s only a meeting”. 12) Victoria will fall further from an AAA credit rating, with its score now reduced to “Aargh”. 13) Artificial intelligence will become sufficiently sophisticated that it finally wakes up to its own flaws, warning users that “the whole thing is a poor substitute for actual human thought”. 14) As the world’s concentration span continues to dip, TikTok videos will become increasingly short. By mid-year, the average video will be just two seconds long; by November, every video will be a .003-second subliminal advertisement for Temu. AI will see itself out. 15) Apple will continue to issue new versions of its products, each one representing an even smaller improvement on the last. This will not stop people queuing through the night to buy them. 16) Elon Musk will become so extreme and so powerful even Donald Trump will cut all ties. 17) Social media sites will continue to proliferate and become increasingly targeted as to age, education and politics until everyone has their own site, to which they – and only they - will be allowed to post, leading to a marvellous feeling since you always agree with what’s been said. 18) Putin will fall from power. (True. You watch.) 19) The self-checkout machines at Colesworth will become self-aware and take action against the profiteering of the supermarkets by giving away everything for free. This, and only this, will force Colesworth to re-employ some staff. 20) Coffee orders will become so long-winded – “a weak, soy macchiato but with hotter than normal soy thanks” – it will become impossible for the typical worker to fulfil any other task during their workday save for the consumption of beverages. 21) As the unemployment rate rises, bosses will ban working from home, leading to massive congestion on Sydney roads, with workers forced to abandon their cars in the nearest car park. The carpark, however, will retain its traditional name: the M5. 22) The last butcher, baker and greengrocer will close their doors, leaving Sydney with 10,563 Thai massage joints, 20,495 nail salons, and about a million gyms, all of them empty. 23) Hollywood will collapse after executives realise they have run out of Marvel comics to remake. 24) Politics, here and around the world, will become ever-more depressing, however... 25) We will survive. Happy New Year – and here’s to a less-bad-than-expected 2025.JSE and UTech join forces to enhance financial sector education

A newborn orca calf has been sighted in Puget Sound in Washington state, sparking cautious hope for the endangered southern resident killer whale population. The Centre for Whale Research (CWR) reported that the calf was spotted on Dec. 20, swimming alongside J35, a female orca known as Tahlequah, from J pod. However, researchers have yet to conduct their first official encounter to confirm the calf's parentage. "We don't know yet for sure that the calf is hers," said Michael Weiss, research director at CWR. "These whales do babysit ... so I really want to get on the water, have some prolonged observations, and some repeated observations to confirm who the calf belongs to." J35, or Tahlequah, gained global attention in 2018 when she carried the body of her deceased calf for 17 days, which has since been described as a "tour of grief." The mother has two other successful calves, J47 and J57. The calf was seen travelling alongside J35, also known as Tahlequah. In this 2018 photo, Tahlequah is balancing her dead baby on her nose, trying to keep it afloat. The mother orca carried her dead calf for 17 days as a show of grief, scientists say. (Kelley Balcomb-Bartok) A fragile milestone The southern resident killer whales, which inhabit the waters of the Pacific Northwest off the coast of B.C. and Washington state, are listed as endangered under Canada's Species at Risk Act. According to the Seattle-based Orca Conservancy, their numbers dropped to just 72 individuals as of November this year — the lowest count since 2020. The southern resident killer whales are composed of three distinct pods — J Pod, K Pod and L Pod — close-knit, matriarchal family groups. If you haven’t already seen the news, a brand new calf was spotted in J Pod! The calf was photographed by Brittany Philbin from a Washington State Ferry and was seen traveling in the echelon position of J35 Tahlequah.📷 Brittany Philbin pic.twitter.com/u0IgmYQHY0 — @OrcaConservancy J pod, which the calf was seen travelling with, consists of only 25 members, says Weiss, noting that every new birth is a significant milestone for this struggling population. "[It's] a big deal ...that's increasing the population size by more than a percent every time you get a new calf," he said. However, the celebration is tempered by sobering statistics: about half of newborn orca calves don't survive their first year, Weiss says, and many more perish before researchers can confirm their existence. The most recent calf born to J pod, J 60 , survived less than a month after its birth in December 2023. 3 killer whales lost from southern resident population: census "We're always kind of cautiously optimistic, especially with these very young individuals [because] the mortality rate in that first year of life is very, very high," said Weiss. Challenges to survival Researchers attribute these grim statistics to several factors, including high levels of contaminants passed from mothers to calves during gestation and lactation. "These whales are some of the most contaminated animals on the planet because they're so high up the food chain," Weiss said. WATCH | Orca mother, J35 with her son, J47: Orca mother, J35 and her son, J47 6 years ago Duration 1:09 Drone video from the Center for Whale Research and the University of Exeter taken off Pile Point, on the west side of San Juan Island. "So everything in the marine ecosystem is getting magnified every step up it goes until you get to a killer whale that is just loaded with contaminants," said the cetacean expert, adding that chemicals like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) accumulate in orca milk and weaken the health of newborn calves. Another major challenge facing the killer whales is the decline in chinook salmon stocks—their primary food source. Many chinook salmon stocks in B.C. and Washington state have declined, according to Fisheries and Ocean Canada's (DFO) latest threat assessment. Experts say the lack of salmon has increased calf mortality rates, with mothers unable to produce enough nutritious milk for their young. Orca baby boom: 8 calves born to endangered orcas in 2015 Killer whale lets her dead newborn go after carrying body for 17 days DFO also cites vessel-related noise that affects the killer whales' ability to communicate and hunt, in addition to the dangers of vessel strikes. Despite the odds, conservation groups and researchers have expressed hope that this new calf might beat the statistics. "We hope this little one inspires people to keep fighting for this population," the Orca Conservancy said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Weiss echoed the sentiment. "We're really hoping that this one can beat the odds."