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Samantha Power Calls on Samantha Power to Resign Over Gaza

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development Samantha Power gives an interview in Kyiv on Oct. 6, 2022.Photo: Yevhen Kotenko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesA State Department official resigned on October 14, writing in a letter that the U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza “will only lead to more and deeper suffering for both the Israeli and Palestinian people.” The director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights resigned on October 31, stating that “once again we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes and the organization we serve appears powerless to stop it.”With over 20,000 now dead in Gaza, there’s one government official who you’d assume — at least if you take her own words seriously — would join them. That is Samantha Power, current head of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Before that, she was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during the Obama administration.But Power...

A.J. Foyt Racing names Sting Ray Robb to drive No. 41 Chevy in IndyCar Series for 2024

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A.J. Foyt Racing has named Sting Ray Robb as driver of the No. 41 Chevrolet next season in the NTT IndyCar Series.The 22-year-old Robb is entering his second year in the series and will drive a Chevy for the first time for the team founded by the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner and run by son Larry Foyt. The graduate of IndyCar’s open wheel ladder series debuted for Dale Coyne Racing and finished 23rd with 147 points in the standings, highlighted by a career-best 12th-place finish in the season finale at Monterey, California.Named after the Chevy Stingray Corvette, Robb said he was honored to drive the No. 41 and thanked the team’s partners and supporters in a release Friday.“It provides an opportunity for me to implement past lessons and carry momentum forward in my sophomore season as we enter a very competitive field of teams and drivers,” Robb said. “Building together upon our successes, I am excited for the season ahead.”The Indianapolis reside...

Declared missing as a child, British teenager lives off-grid for 6 years, then pops up in France

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

LE PECQ, France (AP) — The vehicle’s headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager walking alone in the rain in deepest rural France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm. “I said to myself, ‘That’s strange. It’s 3 am in the morning, it’s raining, he’s all by himself on the road between two villages,” delivery driver Fabien Accidini recounted. From there, the story gets stranger still. The youngster, it turned out, was Alex Batty, a 17-year-old from Britain who had been missing since 2017.British and French authorities confirmed on Friday that the teenager found by Accidini this week was the boy who vanished at age 11, when his mother and grandfather took him on what was meant to be a two-week family holiday in Spain.Instead, it turned out to be a six-year odyssey through Morocco, Spain and southwest France, living an off-the-grid life. Until this week. Batty suddenly popped back up on the radar on Wednesday. That’s when Accidini found him alone on the remote Fre...

No regrets for Ja Morant over suspension with actions, not words, proving lesson learned

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Being suspended for the first 25 games of the NBA season was tough on two-time All-Star Ja Morant, who said Friday he had “some horrible days” as he worked to focus on himself away from basketball.The Memphis Grizzlies point guard wouldn’t say he regrets being suspended by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for the second time in the span of four months.“In the end, I feel like it made me better,” Morant said. ”I feel like I learned some stuff about myself that I did during that process. Very eye-opening. It kind of gave me a new look on life. How I go about my days. How I carry myself.”Morant’s suspension ends on Tuesday, when he’ll be available to play for the Grizzlies in New Orleans on the second night of a back-to-back road swing. Morant said he’s been counting down the days until his return and is just grateful and thankful to still be here.The No. 2 pick overall in the 2020 draft, 2021 NBA Rookie of the Year and 2022 Most Improved Player has ...

Boise State faces UCLA in LA Bowl seeking one more Mountain West postseason win over Pac-12

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

LA Bowl: UCLA (7-5) vs. Boise State (8-5), Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m. ET (ABC)Line: UCLA by 4 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.Series record: UCLA leads 1-0.WHAT’S AT STAKEThe Broncos staged a late-season turnaround by winning their final four games to claim the Mountain West for the first time since 2019, a run that was enough to see interim coach and defensive coordinator Spencer Danielson earn the top job permanently. The Bruins staggered to the finish line, losing three of their last four games but getting a rivalry victory that likely saved coach Chip Kelly from being fired. KEY MATCHUPBoise State RB Ashton Jeanty vs. UCLA’s defensive line. Jeanty rushed for 153 yards and a touchdown in the Mountain West title game against UNLV, and the Broncos will need more from their running offense after starting QB Taylen Green transferred to Arkansas. The Bruins were fierce at stopping the ground game, finishing third in the FBS allowing 2.33 yards per carry, but won’t have All-America and Lo...

Prince Harry claims vindication in court victory as judge finds British tabloid hacked his phone

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

FILE - Prince Harry leaves the High Court after giving evidence in London, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. A judge ordered Prince Harry on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, to pay nearly 50,000 pounds (over $60,000) in legal fees to the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid for failing to knock out its defense in a libel lawsuit. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)(AP/Alberto Pezzali) FILE - Prince Harry leaves the High Court after giving evidence in London, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. A judge ordered Prince Harry on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, to pay nearly 50,000 pounds (over $60,000) in legal fees to the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid for failing to knock out its defense in a libel lawsuit. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)(AP/Alberto Pezzali) ...

Spanish police arrest 14 airport workers after items go missing from checked-in luggage

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Fourteen workers at one of Spain’s main airports for tourists were arrested on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage, police said Friday.Police seized allegedly stolen items worth almost 2 million euros ($2.2 million), including around 13,000 euros ($14,000) in cash, from the group of employees at the largest airport in Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands, a statement said. Another 20 airport employees are under investigation in the same case.The Tenerife South airport handles about 11 million passengers a year, most of them European tourists seeking the pleasant climate of the islands off the coast of northwest Africa.The investigation began after an increase in passenger complaints about items missing from their luggage, the police statement said.The thefts occurred as baggage was being placed in the aircrafts’ hold, police said. Inside the hold, the alleged thieves forced open suitcases, took out valuables and shut them again.Authorities seized 2...

Congressional Budget Office projects lower inflation and higher unemployment into 2025

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office said Friday it expects inflation to nearly hit the Federal Reserve’s 2% target rate in 2024, as overall growth is expected to slow and unemployment is expected to rise into 2025, according to updated economic projections for the next two years. The office’s Current View of the Economy from 2023 to 2025 report estimates that the unemployment rate will hit 4.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024 and remain close to that level through 2025. Currently, the unemployment rate is 3.7%, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Meanwhile, gross domestic product, otherwise known as the overall health of the economy, is estimated to fall from 2.5% in 2023 to 1.5% in 2024 — then rebound to 2.2% in 2025, according to the CBO projections. Compared with its February 2023 projections, CBO’s Friday report predicts weaker growth, lower unemployment, and higher interest rates in 2024 and 2025.But in a reminder that the U.S. econo...

Metro riders should prepare for repairs to part of Red Line in downtown DC

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

Red Line service will not run through Farragut North, Metro Center and Gallery Place from Dec. 18 through Dec. 30 due to construction. (Courtesy WMATA)Metro riders who frequently travel through downtown D.C. should plan ahead this holiday season, because a portion of the Red Line running through the area will be closed for repairs starting Monday, Dec. 18.It comes at a time when Metro said ridership is historically 40% lower than a typical workweek.The project, which will entail critical repairs and upgrades to the Red Line, will disrupt service through Saturday, Dec. 30.Alternate routes and free shuttle serviceAs a result of the construction, Metro said there will be free shuttle buses and alternate routes for riders to get through the area.From Dec. 18-21 and 25-30Red Line service between Dupont Circle and Gallery Place — which includes Farragut West and the top level of Metro Center — will be shut down. However, there will be Blue, Orange and Silver Line services at Metro Center,...

Correction: Judge yet to rule on cattle industry's request to delay wolf reintroduction

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:45:52 GMT

Editor's note: The judge has not yet issued a ruling in this lawsuit filed to delay the reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado. The Associated Press erroneously published a report saying that a judge had denied the request. Previous coverage can be found below and this story will be updated when the judge's ruling is released.DENVER (AP) — A federal judge said she would decide by Friday whether to temporarily halt the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado under a voter-approved initiative, after representatives of the state's cattle industry went to court to try to stop the predators' release.If the judge sides with the industry, the decision would scramble Colorado Parks and Wildlife's plans of searching for, capturing and transporting up to 10 wolves from Oregon starting Sunday.The wolves are supposed to be released by Dec. 31, the deadline imposed under a 2020 ballot proposal that passed by a narrow margin. The animals would be among the first gray wolv...