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In a new Daily Dose of Social Media , we review the best moments of the day from ATP and WTA stars. Aryna Sabalenka is just hours away from her debut at the Brisbane International and shared a fun video with her coach Anton Dubrov responding to the ‘we listen and we don’t judge’ trend. On the other hand, Rafael Nadal posted pictures from his family vacation. Ash Barty received a notable ovation from the crowd in Brisbane on her return to the courts alongside remarkable figures. At the same time, Team Canada and Team Poland answered fun interviews at the United Cup . Sabalenka shares hilarious “We listen and we don’t judge” video Aryna Sabalenka recorded a hilarious video titled “We listen and we don’t judge” with her coach Anton Dubrov. Dubrov served as the world No. 1’s hitting partner for several years before becoming her primary coach in 2020. The 3-time Grand Slam champion is set to debut on Monday at the Brisbane International but found time to join the entertaining trend, where both share "truths" the other shouldn’t get upset about. “Ok guys, I’m trying to stay in shape and, you know, like eating healthy, and meanwhile my team is getting bigger and bigger and bigger,” Sabalenka said laughing, while patting her coach’s stomach. “And it really annoys me,” she added. “When you’re on court and screaming at us in the box, we want to tell you something—really good words—back. But we don’t. We listen, but we don’t judge,” Dubrov responded, smiling as Sabalenka laughed. “One week when we were practicing and you were so frustrated on the court, I said I was sick and skipped one practice. We listen and we don’t judge,” Dubrov quipped with a faint smile. You can watch the funny exchange and their full responses below. Una publicación compartida de Women’s Tennis Association (@wta) Nadal enjoys family time in Mallorca Rafael Nadal is enjoying family time a month after his retirement. The 22-time Grand Slam champion spent the holiday season in Mallorca, Spain, taking a dip in the sea, as shared in photos on Instagram. He was accompanied by his wife Maria Francisca Perelló, his son Rafael, his parents, sister, uncles, and cousins. “Time to be with family,” wrote the former world no. 1. The Spaniard recently attended the ATP Finals as a tennis ambassador in Saudi Arabia. “Everywhere you look in Saudi Arabia, you can see growth and progress, and I’m excited to be part of that,” said the 14-time Roland Garros champion. “I continue to play tennis as I love the game. But beyond playing, I want to help the sport grow far and wide across the world, and in Saudi, there is real potential.” Una publicación compartida de Rafa Nadal (@rafaelnadal) Team Canada agrees: Leylah Fernandez brings the spirit Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime were the stars of Team Canada’s Q&A session at the United Cup. The WTA world No. 31 and ATP world No. 29 are leading their nation in the mixed-team tournament, still awaiting confirmation of their qualification after defeating Croatia [2-1] and losing to the United States [1-2]. The team shared a fun moment the day before their debut, posted on the tournament’s social media. They were asked, “Who is the happiest person on the team?” prompting a unanimous response from the group. “I know my answer,” Felix Auger-Aliassime said quickly, as teammate Benjamin Sigouin pointed to Leylah Fernandez. “I think we all agreed; I think it’s unanimous,” added Auger-Aliassime. “I think we all agree she’s been such a good spirit in any team competition.” “You are making me cry right now, don’t do that,” Fernandez replied. In the video the players had to answer from 'how they ideal party look like' to their “celebrity crush”. Check out the answers that got the Canadian team laughing. Una publicación compartida de United Cup (@unitedcuptennis) Ash Barty delights Australian fans in charity match Ashleigh Barty , undoubtedly one of the most celebrated figures in Australian tennis, continues to captivate fans in her public appearances following her 2022 retirement. This time, she returned to the court at the Brisbane International's fun day, delighting the home crowd. The 3-time Grand Slam champion, who recently announced her second pregnancy, teamed up with Pat Rafter, Frances Tiafoe , and Ons Jabeur for an exhibition match at the Pat Rafter Arena. The event aimed to raise funds for the Ash Barty Foundation. Later, the former world no. 1 shared highlights from the event on social media, where she could also be seen signing autographs and taking photos with fans. “Do what you love with great people Amazing to be back out on PRA with Pat, Ons and Frances. Can’t thank them enough for an awesome morning bringing awareness to the @ashbartyfoundation ,” she posted. “We are so grateful for any and all donations! We can’t wait to have fun and create more opportunities for young Aussies in 2025!” Una publicación compartida de Brisbane International (@brisbaneinternational) Una publicación compartida de Ash Barty (@ashbarty) No shocker that Ash Barty comes out with Tiafoe and takes a hit-and-giggle set v Jabeur and Rafter. I mean she's still got it. Here she is (with a VERY fogged-up camera lens because of the heat) signing afterwards. pic.twitter.com/tJp3JB6CYX Hubert Hurkacz laughs at himself: "I have no skills" Hubert Hurkacz responded to an interview during the United Cup, where he was asked about his skills off the court. However, the Polish player shyly admitted he didn’t excel in any of the suggested categories. “Are you a good singer in the shower? Good dancer?” he was asked during the Q&A session. “Mmm... no, no,” Hurkacz replied to each question. “I have no skills,” he added with a smile. Team Poland is gearing up for its debut this Monday, with world no. 2 Iga Swiatek set to face Norway's Malene Helgo (ranked no. X) in the opening match. Hubert Hurkacz will follow, taking on Casper Ruud (no. 6). This debut is highly anticipated for Hurkacz, who looks to regain form after a drop in the rankings in 2024 and his recent partnership with the coaching duo of Ivan Lendl and Nicolas Massu. Una publicación compartida de ATP Tour (@atptour) Naomi Osaka and Amanda Anisimova train together ahead of ASB Classic Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka trained today alongside former No. 21 Amanda Anisimova . Both players are in Auckland, preparing for their debut at the ASB Classic after a 2024 season in which they both made comebacks following long breaks. Osaka missed a significant part of 2022 and all of 2023 due to maternity, while Anisimova took a break in 2023 due to mental health issues. In 2024, both players returned with low rankings but have managed to regain ground, with Osaka climbing back to No. 58 and Anisimova reaching No. 36. Brisbane will be a great start to assess the level of two talented players who certainly have more potential to climb much higher in the rankings. In the video shared on social media, the two are seen hitting balls, with Osaka's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou observing. Naomi Osaka and Amanda Anisimova practicing together in Auckland. 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Colman Domingo Details Why ‘The Madness’ Is a Drama for Today’s Era of Media Feeding FrenziesMINNETONKA, Minn. — A Minnetonka woman is helping connect the ALS community through an app. On Jan. 5, 2022, Faith's son, Scott, was diagnosed with ALS. ALS is a fatal neurological disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Scott was 50 years old at the time of his diagnosis. He was a marathon runner and avid cyclist. "For parents with children with ALS, no one wants to think they're going to watch their child die before them. It's just not the way it goes, right?" Faith said. "Our children are supposed to outlive us." Scott is what doctors call a "slow progressor." So right now, he doesn't need as much help from caregivers. It was his diagnosis that inspired Faith to do more. "I'm going to spend as much time as I can working for the great ALS community and working to make their lives as good as we possibly can under the circumstances," Faith said. Faith thrust herself into research and organizations supporting the cure for ALS. She started getting involved with Everything ALS . It's a nonprofit that's committed to bringing technology innovations and data science to support efforts from care to cure for people living with the disease. Everything ALS does that through patient-driven research, and most recently — an app. The organization launched an app-based program called "Pathfinders" a few months ago. It's aimed to empower, connect and offer essential resources to the ALS community. Those impacted by the disease know it can be isolating. Through the app, the ALS community can connect with one of nine pathfinders. Faith is one of them. "When you give, you get," Faith said. "So for me, giving to other people the love and response that I get from them, knowing that I've helped them, it just warms my heart. That feeds me." Both caregivers and people living with ALS can reach out to a pathfinder about anything — from anticipatory grief to catheter recommendations to other ALS-related resources. "People can read our bios and say, 'Oh this is the mother of someone with ALS. That's who I want to talk to because my child has ALS. They will truly understand my situation.' Or, 'Oh this pathfinder is a veteran. I need to learn more about the VA benefits. I'm going to connect with this pathfinder.'" she said. Right now, Everything ALS is still working to add more pathfinders to cater to more people and ultimately connect more people. The goal is to be able to provide the person on the other side of the app chat with whatever information, resources, or listening ear they might need. If you're interested in the program, click here or reach out to Faith at faith@everythingals.org . Beret Leone is a native Minnesotan who joined the WCCO team as a reporter in September 2022 - and she's thrilled be back home in the Twin Cities! Beret grew up in Chaska and graduated from Bethel University.4th Test Day 5 Live: Luck Favours Rohit As India Captain Survives
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to records Tuesday after Donald Trump’s latest talk about tariffs created only some ripples on Wall Street, even if they could roil the global economy were they to take effect. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% to top the all-time high it set a couple weeks ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 123 points, or 0.3%, to its own record set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6% as Microsoft and Big Tech led the way. Stock markets abroad mostly fell after President-elect Trump said he plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China once he takes office. But the movements were mostly modest. Stock indexes were down 0.1% in Shanghai and nearly flat in Hong Kong, while Canada’s main index edged down by less than 0.1%. Trump has often praised the use of tariffs , but investors are weighing whether his latest threat will actually become policy or is just an opening point for negotiations. For now, the market seems to be taking it more as the latter. The consequences otherwise for markets and the global economy could be painful. Unless the United States can prepare alternatives for the autos, energy products and other goods that come from Mexico, Canada and China, such tariffs would raise the price of imported items all at once and make households poorer, according to Carl Weinberg and Rubeela Farooqi, economists at High Frequency Economics. They would also hurt profit margins for U.S. companies, while raising the threat of retaliatory tariffs by other countries. And unlike tariffs in Trump’s first term, his latest proposal would affect products across the board. General Motors sank 9%, and Ford Motor fell 2.6% because both import automobiles from Mexico. Constellation Brands, which sells Modelo and other Mexican beer brands in the United States, dropped 3.3%. The value of the Mexican peso fell 1.8% against the U.S. dollar. Beyond the pain such tariffs would cause U.S. households and businesses, they could also push the Federal Reserve to slow or even halt its cuts to interest rates. The Fed had just begun easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high a couple months ago to offer support for the job market . While lower interest rates can boost the economy, they can also offer more fuel for inflation. “Many” officials at the Fed’s last meeting earlier this month said they should lower rates gradually, according to minutes of the meeting released Tuesday afternoon. The talk about tariffs overshadowed another mixed set of profit reports from U.S. retailers that answered few questions about how much more shoppers can keep spending. They’ll need to stay resilient after helping the economy avoid a recession, despite the high interest rates imposed by the Fed to get inflation under control. A report on Tuesday from the Conference Board said confidence among U.S. consumers improved in November, but not by as much as economists expected. Kohl’s tumbled 17% after its results for the latest quarter fell short of analysts’ expectations. CEO Tom Kingsbury said sales remain soft for apparel and footwear. A day earlier, Kingsbury said he plans to step down as CEO in January. Ashley Buchanan, CEO of Michaels and a retail veteran, will replace him. Best Buy fell 4.9% after likewise falling short of analysts’ expectations. Dick’s Sporting Goods topped forecasts for the latest quarter thanks to a strong back-to-school season, but its stock lost an early gain to fall 1.4%. Still, more stocks rose in the S&P 500 than fell. J.M. Smucker had one of the biggest gains and climbed 5.7% after topping analysts’ expectations for the latest quarter. CEO Mark Smucker credited strength for its Uncrustables, Meow Mix, Café Bustelo and Jif brands. Big Tech stocks also helped prop up U.S. indexes. Gains of 3.2% for Amazon and 2.2% for Microsoft were the two strongest forces lifting the S&P 500. All told, the S&P 500 rose 34.26 points to 6,021.63. The Dow gained 123.74 to 44,860.31, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 119.46 to 19,174.30. In the bond market, Treasury yields held relatively steady following their big drop from a day before driven by relief following Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary. The yield on the 10-year Treasury inched up to 4.29% from 4.28% late Monday, but it’s still well below the 4.41% level where it ended last week. In the crypto market, bitcoin continued to pull back after topping $99,000 for the first time late last week. It’s since dipped back toward $91,000, according to CoinDesk. It’s a sharp turnaround from the bonanza that initially took over the crypto market following Trump’s election. That boom had also appeared to have spilled into some corners of the stock market. Strategists at Barclays Capital pointed to stocks of unprofitable companies, along with other areas that can be caught up in bursts of optimism by smaller-pocketed “retail” investors. AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly.Chau Evita? Milei officials eyes demolition of iconic Buenos Aires buildingCollege football's Rivalry Week is just another tradition sacrificed at the playoff altarWindtree Therapeutics Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Provides Key Business Updates
NoneState Sen. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican, protests outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas City on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, ahead of a hearing in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood seeking to overturn the state's TRAP laws (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). On the eve of a Wednesday hearing seeking to strike down most Missouri abortion restrictions, GOP lawmakers and anti-abortion activists assembled outside five Planned Parenthood clinics around the state to call on the courts to leave abortion regulations in place. At the same time, Republican lawmakers have begun filing some of their first pieces of legislation aimed at weakening or overturning Amendment 3, which was narrowly approved by voters last month and enshrines the right to reproductive health care in the state constitution. The constitutional amendment, which received 51.6% of the nearly 3 million votes cast, goes into effect Thursday. It prohibits the legislature from regulating abortion prior to the point of fetal viability — generally seen as the point at which a fetus can likely survive outside the womb without extraordinary measures. Already, at least 11 lawmaker-proposed amendments have been prefiled seeking to reverse Amendment 3 through another vote of the people. One such bill, filed by Republican state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman of Arnold, would ask voters to ban gender-affirming surgeries for minors and all abortions with exceptions for medical emergencies and rape. “Missouri families deserve clarity and compassion in our laws when it comes to protecting women and safeguarding innocent life like our children from danger,” Coleman said in a statement Tuesday. “These constitutional amendments align with the beliefs of the majority of Missourians when it comes to supporting the dignity and value of all life.” State Rep. Justin Sparks, a Wildwood Republican, is proposing his own version of a repeal amendment. He said he was inspired to take action by Amendment 3’s close margin of victory. Sparks’ proposed constitutional amendment would define a “person” as “every human being with a unique DNA code regardless of age, including every in utero human child at every stage of biological development from the moment of conception until birth.” State Sen. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican, filed a proposed amendment similar to Coleman’s, but one that also included abortion exceptions for fetal anomalies. It would limit abortions in the cases of rape or incest to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and only if the victim filed a police report. Such requirements have been widely-criticized in other states, with victim advocates calling such reporting requirements harmful to survivors. But on Tuesday, standing outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas City with other anti-abortion activists, Brattin said his immediate focus was appealing to the courts to uphold the state’s current “targeted regulation of abortion providers” laws, which previously made it all but impossible for doctors to provide abortions in Missouri. The laws, enacted over the last several years by the legislature, include a mandatory 72-hour waiting period between the initial appointment and a surgical abortion, mandatory pelvic exams for medication abortions and requirements that providers report all abortions to the state. “That’s going to be first and foremost, making sure that if they’re operating, they’re operating at the highest level of standard of care,” Brattin said. ‘Care delayed and care denied’: Doctor recalls 30 months under Missouri abortion ban Less than 24 hours after Amendment 3 was approved by voters, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers announced a lawsuit seeking to strike down several of these TRAP laws . The first hearing in the case is set to take place Wednesday afternoon in Jackson County. The Missouri Secretary of State’s office filed a motion requesting the proceedings be moved to Cole County. Earlier this year, a Cole County judge struck Amendment 3 from the ballot, a decision that was quickly overridden by the Missouri Court of Appeals. Planned Parenthood leadership has said they hope a quick decision from the judge will allow them to start performing abortions at three health centers across the state — Columbia, the Central West End in St. Louis and the Midtown neighborhood of Kansas City — as soon as the new amendment goes into effect. “Abortion is safe and a very common healthcare procedure,” Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates the St. Louis clinics, said in a statement Tuesday. “We know that Missourians across the political spectrum support access to this life-saving care, but anti-abortion extremists are again resorting to false, tired, and previously litigated scare tactics, trying to subvert the will of the people and keep abortion banned.” A 2018 study by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that abortion complications are rare, and complications during childbirth remain more common . Outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis’ Central West End, Brian Westbrook, executive director of Coalition Life, called for the TRAP laws to remain in place “to make sure that women do not go into a place like this and leave in an ambulance headed to the hospital.” “We stand here today with real, clear evidence that Planned Parenthood is not safe for women and requires serious oversight and inspections, not immunity,” he said. Westbrook also referenced a 2018 health inspection report that determined equipment in the Columbia clinic included tubing that contained “black mold and bodily fluid.” Planned Parenthood officials later said the equipment had been replaced and the issue resolved. The Columbia health center ended the procedure in fall 2018 when it could no longer meet a state requirement that doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital no more than 15 minutes from the clinic and the clinic’s license expired. After that, until the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 2022, only one Planned Parenthood clinic in Missouri, located in St. Louis, continued to perform abortions. The St. Louis clinic temporarily lost its licensure as well until May 2020, when then- Missouri Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi ruled that the state health department had to re-issue the license . “Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that it provides safe and legal abortion care,” Dandamudi’s ruling concluded. “In over 4,000 abortions provided since 2018, the Department has only identified two causes to deny its license.” Westbrook ended Tuesday’s press conference saying he is hopeful the Trump administration will enforce the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that bans the mailing of obscene material, including medications used for abortion. He also said he supports Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s efforts to hold Planned Parenthood accountable. The Missouri Attorney General’s office recently posed a court challenge to the Planned Parenthood suit. The latest lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Cole County, questions Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ ability to sue, claiming a 2010 settlement agreement prevents them from doing so. Bailey, in a recent official opinion from his office , argued that while Missouri statutes prohibiting abortion prior to fetal viability will no longer be enforceable in their entirety, the state can still enforce other laws on the books related to abortion. “In a contest where the ‘yes’ side was able in effect to rewrite the ballot summary language, received tens of millions of dollars in funding from out of state, and outspent the ‘no’ side 6 to 0,” Bailey wrote, “This tight margin suggests the result may be very different if a future constitutional amendment is put up for a vote.” SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
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