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LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Andrej Jakimovski converted an off-balance layup with 8 seconds left, and Colorado handed No. 2 UConn its second loss in two days at the Maui Invitational, beating the two-time defending national champion 73-72 on Tuesday. A day after to Memphis that left about the officiating, UConn (4-2) couldn't shake the unranked Buffaloes (5-1), who shot 62.5% in the second half. With Colorado trailing 72-71 in the closing seconds, Jakimovski drove to his right and absorbed contact from UConn’s Liam McNeeley. He tossed the ball toward the glass and the shot was good as he fell to the floor. Hassan Diarra missed a 3-pointer just ahead of the buzzer for UConn. Elijah Malone and Julian Hammond III scored 16 points each for Colorado, and Jakimovski had 12 points and 10 rebounds. The Huskies led 40-32 at halftime and by nine points early in the second half, but Colorado quickly closed that gap. McNeeley led UConn with 20 points. UConn: Hurley's squad is facing its first adversity in quite a while. The Huskies arrived on Maui with a 17-game winning streak that dated to February. Colorado: The Buffaloes were held to season lows in points (56) and field goal percentage (37%) in a 16-point loss to Michigan State on Monday but shot 51.1% overall and 56.3% (9 of 16) from 3-point range against the Huskies. Hurley called timeout to set up the Huskies' final possession, but the Buffs forced them to take a contested 3. Colorado had a 28-26 rebounding advantage after being out-rebounded 42-29 by Michigan State. Colorado will play the Iowa-Dayton winner in the fifth-place game on Wednesday. UConn will play the loser of that matchup in the seventh-place game. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up . 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Kim Zolciak moves out of seven-bedroom mansion she shared with Kroy Biermann as they face foreclosure auctionGRASS LAKE, MI - Not everyone loves math as much as Lesley Choate does, but she thinks any student can learn to be comfortable with numbers in her classroom. Choate, 37, first fell in love with the field of mathematics while attending Bedford Public Schools in her hometown of Temperance. Her eighth-grade math teacher made the subject fun and engaging like no other teacher had before. Choate said she works hard to ensure her lessons are accessible even for so-called “math haters.” Following her graduation from Western Michigan University in 2011, Choate taught math for Kalamazoo Public Schools for three years before getting a job teaching academically at-risk students for the Pennfield School District in the Battle Creek area. By 2016, Choate had made the move to Grass Lake both personally and professionally. In addition to finding her way back into a math classroom, the move allowed her to live closer to the hometown of her husband - a Jackson County native - as well bringing her closer to her own family in Temperance. Now in her 13th year as an educator, Choate said she’s right where she wants to be teaching eighth grade math and algebra at Grass Lake Middle School. Choate sat down with MLive/Jackson Citizen Patriot to talk about the trust and friendship she’s built with her peers and pupils at Grass Lake Community Schools, and the dedication she feels for making math a little easier for everyone. Jackson Citizen Patriot: Was there a specific moment or experience that inspired you to get into the field of education? Lesley Choate : I don’t think there was a specific thing, but when I was growing up I did baton-twirling, and I would love to help the little kids - I did a bit of coaching in middle school and high school. I just knew that I loved teaching and helping. I know I wanted to help - I wanted to be a cheerleader for these kids. That’s pretty much what made me want to be a teacher. Also, when I was in eighth grade, I had a math teacher at Bedford, Mr. (Brad) Reed, who really made me start to love math. I was like “I can do this - this is fun!” I actually don’t remember much of my math education up until that point. When I got to that class and realized how much fun it was, that’s when I decided I wanted to teach math. JCP: Why was working in the field you’re in such a calling for you? Choate : I know mathematics can be tricky for some kids. “I’m not a math person” they’ll say. I don’t really belief in that - I wanted to make math approachable for everyone, so even if you feel like you aren’t a math person, I want to make you feel like you can do it and be successful at it. It might be a little hard, but I want to give kids the tools to be successful at it even if it wasn’t their favorite thing. Do I want them to love math? Absolutely, but I get it and not everyone loves math. I want them to at least enjoy it while they’re here and get something out of the class, and I think the kids usual respect that I’m accepting of them no matter what their love for math is. JCP: Is there a specific moment from your career that you would consider to be the most rewarding? Choate : I got my masters degree in educational technology, and I think that has set me up for success and has led to some very rewarding things. I’ve gotten to do educational conferences, and in my building I' kind of the go-to tech person, and I feel like that’s been the most rewarding thing because like I said, I just love helping and I love teaching, so that background has allowed me to do those things, and I find a lot of joy in doing that. JCP: The field of education has changed and evolved in several ways in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic - in what ways, if any, have you changed or evolved in your role in the past few years? Choate : Being on Zoom helped me get a true insight into these children’s lives. They’re going through things, and when you see them on Zoom, you see things like sibling in the background and all the life that they’re experiencing every day. COVID really helped me see the whole child and what they’re going through - that they’re not just a student, they’re all these other things as well. I think it also gave me a great opportunity to pull into my educational technology background and really get to play with the fun new technology that’s out there. Since COVID, I feel like we’ve made a lot of progress with how we can use technology in the classroom, because we were kind of forced to with COVID. JCP: What is your favorite part of your job? Choate : I have a couple, because I really do love my job. I love my co-workers and the team that I’m with. My principal is wonderful, and I love the kids. I love reading to them every day when they come in and just trying to cheer them up and showing that positivity and kindness, no matter what they give back to me. If they’re having a crappy day, I’m still going to be kind, because you don’t know what’s causing them to have a bad day. As cheesy as it sounds, my favorite part is being able to encourage students and lift them up. If you know a K-12 educator in Jackson or Washtenaw counties who might make a good subject for the weekly “Meet the Teacher” series, send an email with their contact information to mkukulka@mlive.com . If you would like more reporting like this delivered free to your inbox, click here and signup for our weekly newsletter: Michigan Schools. Want more Jackson-area news? Bookmark the local Jackson news page or sign up for the free “ 3@3 Jackson ” daily newsletter.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Rarely in my nearly 40-year career as a journalist have I felt the target on my back as continuously and intensely as I have in the last 15 months. Frankly, those are words that I hesitated to type. After all, we live in a time when some of the subjects of my investigations want me to feel that pressure. They want me to be intimidated. They want me to be afraid. But you — as people who trust me to be a truth-teller in an age when truth can be elusive, as people I call my neighbors and friends — deserve to know what it is like to be in my shoes. To be clear, this is not a plea for sympathy – far from it. I made a conscious decision to confront white supremacists, QAnon conspiracy theorists and other forms of political extremism. That was my choice — no one ordered me to do it — and I would make the same choice again because, in my view, it is important work for our democracy. Instead, I write in hopes that you may understand what is at stake for all of us — as Nashvillians, as Tennesseans, as Americans. I write so that you will see me and other journalists as fellow human beings who strive every day to tell you about who’s pulling the levers of power in your government. Just like you, we are not perfect. But we do our best. Local journalists like myself do this work because we care about our communities. We want the best for those cities and towns because they are the places where we have chosen to settle, where we go to church and synagogue, where we raise our own families. Being a local journalist also brings its own unique vulnerabilities. After all, we do not parachute into your communities to do stories, then catch the next flight out of town. In the end, for people with evil intentions, we are probably not that difficult to find — after all, we live our lives among the people we serve. Yet, there are sinister forces at work in our society who want you to hate me. They want you to despise all journalists — because they would prefer to live in a world where there are no watchdogs to hold them accountable. Late last year, when I exposed the role of white supremacists in the campaign for mayor in Franklin, Tennessee, the hate groups responded with a series of veiled threats against me. One account lashed out on the Telegram messaging app, calling me “a lying sack of sh*t for the international jew media” and warning that the “Day of the Rope is real.” That is a reference to the day predicted in the racist novel The Turner Diaries when journalists and other “race traitors” will be hanged. “You better run... run... run,” the post added. Their posts also mocked my late wife, who died in 2016 after losing a yearslong, sometimes-public battle with alcoholism. Before the mayoral campaign was over, neo-Nazis plastered posters with my image around Franklin, under the headline: “Stop Corruption in Tennessee.” Another white supremacist account also posted demands about what I would be required to include in my reporting about the hate groups. "This is our only Warning," the anonymous account declared, adding the tagline: "Always Watching, Always Listening, Always Near." Still, that did not deter me from my reporting. The people of Franklin turned out at the polls in record numbers, and the mayoral candidate with white supremacist ties was resoundingly defeated. Last December, as I walked Franklin’s Christmas parade with my NewsChannel 5 colleagues, residents repeatedly called out: “Thanks for saving our city.” And local civil leaders delivered "a very big thank you" card to my office. What a nice gesture! An incredible card signed by a group of Franklin residents!!! ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/ecOb8bHM9w pic.twitter.com/8RLRssw5DH That is why I do this work. Then, this past spring and summer, there was a new round of attacks when my investigation exposed the QAnon-aligned assistant police chief in Millersville, Tennessee – and how his bizarre conspiracy theories had affected how Millersville police performed their duties. In that case, fellow conspiracy theorists took to InfoWars, as well as far-right podcasts and social media, to falsely label me as either a pedophile or a “pedophile protector.” They falsely suggested that I was part of an organized crime network. They falsely claimed I might be involved in a homosexual affair with a former Nashville TV personality and may have covered up what they imagined might be the murder of his son. WATCH: I never dreamed that all of this would happen as a result of my investigation of Millersville, Tennessee's #ConspiracyCop . Attempts to smear me or intimidate me only make me more determined to get to the truth. #StayTuned pic.twitter.com/eYrDvOCAxp One national QAnon-aligned figure, Craig (Sawman) Sawyer, even falsely hinted in a social-media video that I may have murdered my late wife — completely disregarding the truth of her unsuccessful battle against addiction. Again, the story of Millersville’s “conspiracy cop” was a story that needed to be told – and so my investigation continued despite the malicious efforts to discredit me. Recently, as I attended the first meeting of a newly elected Millersville City Commission, local residents wanted to shake my hand to thank me for what I had done for their town. Now, people associated with the white Christian nationalists moving into Jackson County, Tennessee, have pulled out the playbook used by my critics in Franklin and Millersville. None of the subjects of that reporting would agree to sit down and answer my questions directly. Instead, on social media, they have accused me of lying about their beliefs – even though every single statement attributed to them was backed up by a supporting hyperlink – and questioned whether my reporting has been motivated by an anti-religious world view. On the Sunday night before Christmas, critics of my reporting took to X to engage in what appears to have been an organized social-media attack by national far-right figures. “Do you disclose your hatred for God and for conservative Americans – and your financial association with media organs that shares these hatred (sic) in all your articles?” asked one of the developers, Nate Fischer, in a post on X. Do you disclose your hatred for God and for conservative Americans—and your financial association with media organs that shares these hatred—in all of your articles? Important to be up front about your motives. Sean Davis, co-founder and CEO of the Federalist, told his 528,000 followers that I was a “deranged and washed-up left-wing activist with a byline” and mockingly suggested it “sure would be a shame” if my TV station lost its FCC license. Because we had flown a helicopter over the undeveloped land purchased in Jackson County, he falsely accused me of “stalking Christians and trespassing on their property.” Peeping Phil Williams claims he never “stepped foot” on someone’s private property, because what he did was charter a helicopter to hover over a person’s property so he could take pictures and spy and stalk. I’ll let you decide what’s creepier. If you are a Christian... https://t.co/UJ8V92PVfx “If you are a Christian conservative with children, you should probably get a restraining order on Peeping Phil to protect your family,” Davis added, drawing responses like: “He looks and behaves like what I could imagine a pedo would.” Soon, far-right provocateur Jack Posobiec – who, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “has collaborated with white supremacists, neo-fascists and antisemites for years” – directed the ire of his three million X followers at me. “Hard to say what @NC5PhilWilliams loves more... Spreading lies... Or hating Christians... Christmastime is very hard for him! (Much like telling the truth),” Posobiec posted. Hard to say what @NC5PhilWilliams loves more Spreading lies Or hating Christians Christmastime is very hard for him! (Much like telling the truth) Soon, the right-wing mob manipulated X’s Community Notes to make a false claim about my reporting – forcing me to shut down comments on X to stem the endless stream of hate. (The Community Note was later removed after I challenged it.) . @CommunityNotes has been weaponized by the right wing to LIE about my post. Here is the note pushed by the trolls, then my original post. This is really, really bad! @oliverdarcy @brianstelter (Plz RT) pic.twitter.com/lq1Q0b1f7J One of Posobiec’s followers celebrated the social media mob with a crude reference to me being on the receiving end of a gang rape. Christian nationalist William Wolfe — who has warned that “we are getting close” to a moment when Christians will need to “heed the call to arms” – joined the victory laps. “The bold community journalist @NC5PhilWilliams has had himself quite a night,” Wolfe posted on X. And another one of the developers on the Jackson County project, Josh Abbotoy – who had previously responded to my original request for comment with just five words, “lol you’re such a hack” – texted me just before 11 p.m. seemingly to gloat over the attack. “Merry Christmas,” Abbotoy wrote. Since he had tweeted just an hour before that my station "needs to put Peeping Phil out to pasture," the season's greetings seemed less than sincere. Now, in response to my reporting about the influential hate conference that calls Tennessee its "home away from home," people affiliated with the neo-Nazis in Franklin, Tennessee, have invoked my image, along with the message: "Stay tuned Tennessee." In such moments, I often think of one of my mentors, legendary Tennessean editor and publisher John Seigenthaler. Taking a break from journalism as a young man, John worked for Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In 1961, John was assigned to accompany the Freedom Riders as they traveled the Deep South to protest segregation of the region's bus terminals. In Montgomery, Alabama, an angry mob attacked the protesters. Rushing to the aid of one woman, John was himself beaten and knocked unconscious. John's commitment to confronting hate inspired me as a young journalist, and it continues to be a guiding force for me today. These days, the faces and tactics have changed, but the hate remains the same. Journalists like myself have a choice: surrender to the fascist mob that wants to intimidate the truth-tellers – or rededicate ourselves to doing what’s right no matter the cost. For me, while the attacks are personal, so is the cause. I choose not to bow to the pressure. I choose not to be intimidated. I choose not to be afraid. Recently, I had a chance to chat with my friend, veteran journalist and journalism educator Al Tompkins, about these sorts of attacks. Al brings years of incredible experience to the conversation, along with the more objective insight of not being the one in the crosshairs. “It is not unusual in 2024 for radicals to attack journalists by name,” Al said. “It is unnerving and because you are a journalist, not a random person, you cannot counterattack in the same personal way. "You are handcuffed by your profession’s ethical code and by your corporate lawyers from delving into the attacker’s personal and family life as they do yours.” People like Craig Sawyer, Al noted, “communicate largely through social media and never sit down for an on-the-record conversation except for like-minded radicals.” “These characters also have learned that when they can stir the public’s emotions, the public focuses on the anger/fear and suspend disbelief or rational inquiry,” he added. “In my experience, when the messenger can raise emotions and fear, and repeat the messaging time and time again, the normal human reaction is to overreact.” Another friend, veteran Denver investigative reporter Jeremy Jojola, has faced his own threats when reporting on hate groups and conspiracy theorists. “Getting attacked by conspiracy theorists, especially public officials, can be an opportunity for journalists to share how journalism works. It can also be an opportunity to share how those in power react to being held accountable,” Jeremy noted. “Journalists do not like to be part of the story, but sometimes we must speak out when our integrity is being questioned by people in power.” As Al and I discussed, it can be confusing for you, the consumers of news, to know what to believe. After all, you are bombarded with voices — from both the right and left — that tell you to disregard reporting that attempts to hold their people accountable for their actions. ”The public rightfully and increasingly demands to know how journalists know what they know,” Al added. “It is increasingly important to ‘show your work’ and give the public as much access to unedited, unredacted evidence that the reporter relied on to produce the report.” For me, that has been a key part of how I have pursued these investigations. When my work has been questioned, I have prepared detailed responses so that you can see the evidence for yourself and make up your own mind. Related: Police chief downplays conspiracy cop's Covenant shooting claims. Watch, then decide for yourself Christian nationalist C.Jay Engel doesn't want you to believe me. You can see the evidence yourself. All of that brings me to the following request. If you value the importance of a free press, please do not forget that I and my colleagues are fellow human beings, doing our best under extraordinarily difficult conditions to expose those forces who want to compromise our democracy and want to spread hate. If you appreciate my work — or the work of other journalists — please show your gratitude by publicly defending those of us who are engaged in this effort. Every now and then, make sure that the journalists in your communities know that they are appreciated. And if you have legitimate questions about our reporting, if you think I got something wrong, just ask. (Asking in kindness goes a long way.) In return, I will continue to try to be transparent with you about what I am doing and why— as we travel down this sometimes-rocky road together. –––––––––––––––––––––– Do you have information that would help me with my investigation? Send me your tips: phil.williams@newschannel5.com June 24, 2024: Data compiled by watchdog groups suggests that neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups have targeted the Volunteer State with racist flyers at an alarming rate in the past year, signaling a more brazen and calculated focus on the state. The statistics are alarming. July 19, 2024: Standing on what is now the Diane Nash Plaza — named after the civil rights legend who came here to confront a Nashville mayor and a community's racism — I decided to confront the hate that has once again reared its ugly head. Click here to watch my exchange. August 20, 2024: He warned me there would be consequences if I failed to comply with his demands to air a white-supremacist video. Then, nothing happened. And now that man faces his own consequences. Read more about Kai Liam Nix. September 16, 2024: Millersville, Tennessee, is gaining national attention for an approach to governing that democracy advocates fear. Here, conspiracy theorists carry guns and badges, using their police powers to explore notions that are sometimes completely divorced from reality. You can find a series of stories here. November 18, 2024: An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered that those Christian nationalists have set their sights on a remote Middle Tennessee county, hoping to attract hundreds, even thousands, of like-minded people from across the country as part of efforts, in the words of one activist, to “radicalize Main Street.” Find the full story here. November 25, 2024: As word spread across Jackson County, a gathering of friends quickly grew into an impromptu town hall. Some just came with questions — others, with deep concerns. Watch the full story. December 2, 2024: The American Renaissance Conference — which calls Montgomery Bell State Park its "home away from home" — provides yet another example of the rise of hate and extremism in Tennessee. Watch what happened when Phil Williams went to this influential hate conference. December 9, 2024: Podcaster C.Jay Engel thinks I’m part of a grand conspiracy, twisting his words and the views of his Christian nationalist partner Andrew Isker, apparently taking orders from what he calls "the American Regime." Here are the facts. Related videos, stories: Hate Comes to Main StreetLOS ANGELES (AP) — Receiver Demarcus Robinson will not be suspended by the Los Angeles Rams this week after his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence. Robinson will be available to play when the Rams (5-6) visit the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, Rams coach Sean McVay said Wednesday. “I think he does understand the severity of this, and how lucky we were that nobody was injured,” McVay said. “I do believe that he's remorseful. We are going to let the legal process take place. The league has a process as well.” Robinson was arrested early Monday morning after California Highway Patrol officers observed a white Dodge sedan driving over 100 mph on the 101 freeway in the western San Fernando Valley, a few miles from the Rams’ training complex in Woodland Hills. The driver, who identified himself as Robinson, had “objective signs and symptoms of alcohol impairment,” the CHP said in a statement released to The Associated Press. Robinson spoke to the team and expressed remorse about his arrest, McVay and quarterback Matthew Stafford said. “I think it was a bad decision he made,” McVay said. “I don't think that makes him a bad person, and I do believe this is something that, with the words that he said, our guys will learn from it, and hopefully nobody is ever going to repeat something like this. Let it be a learning opportunity, and a fortunate outcome that nobody was injured.” Robinson has 26 receptions for 384 yards and a team-leading six touchdown catches while starting all 11 games in his second season with the Rams . He caught a TD pass in the Rams' 37-20 loss to Philadelphia several hours before his arrest. The nine-year NFL veteran has served as a capable No. 3 option for Stafford behind star receivers Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua. Robinson spent his first six NFL seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, winning a Super Bowl ring in February 2020, and spent one year with Baltimore before joining the Rams last year. “Let this be a lesson to all of us,” Stafford said. “We're lucky with the result that came of it, to be honest with you, that nobody was hurt or injured. I know that D-Rob is a great person. I love being around him. Love him as a teammate. ... I'm just trying to support him, help him out any way I can.” AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL

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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 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 , gold and other investments also drove higher. Here's a look at some of the numbers that defined the year. All are as of Dec. 20. Remember when President Bill Clinton got impeached or when baseball's Mark McGwire hit his 70th home run against the Montreal Expos? That was the last time the U.S. stock market closed out a second straight year with a leap of at least 20%, something the S&P 500 is on track to do again this year. The index has climbed 24.3% so far this year, not including dividends, following last year's spurt of 24.2%. The number of all-time highs the S&P 500 has set so far this year. The first came early, on Jan. 19, when the index capped a two-year comeback from the swoon caused by high inflation and worries that high interest rates instituted by the Federal Reserve to combat it would create a recession. But the index was methodical through the rest of the year, setting a record in every month outside of April and August, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. The latest came on Dec. 6. The number of times the Federal Reserve has cut its main interest rate this year from a two-decade high, offering some relief to the economy. Expectations for those cuts, along with hopes for more in 2025, were a big reason the U.S. stock market has been so successful this year. The 1 percentage point of cuts, though, is still short of the 1.5 percentage points that many traders were forecasting for 2024 at the start of the year. The Fed disappointed investors in December when it said it may cut rates just two more times in 2025, fewer than it had earlier expected. That’s how many points the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by the day after Election Day, as investors made bets on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and the world . The more widely followed S&P 500 soared 2.5% for its best day in nearly two years. Aside from bitcoin, stocks of banks and smaller winners were also perceived to be big winners. The bump has since diminished amid worries that Trump’s policies could also send inflation higher. The level that bitcoin topped to set a record above $108,000 this past month. It's been climbing as interest rates come down, and it got a particularly big boost following Trump's election. He's turned around and become a fan of crypto, and he's named a former regulator who’s seen as friendly to digital currencies as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, replacing someone who critics said was overly aggressive in his oversight. Bitcoin was below $17,000 just two years ago following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Gold's rise for the year, as it also hit records and had as strong a run as U.S. stocks. Wars around the world have helped drive demand for investments seen as safe, such as gold. It's also benefited from the Fed's cut to interest rates. When bonds are paying less in interest, they pull away fewer potential buyers from gold, which pays investors nothing. It's a favorite number of Elon Musk, and it's also a threshold that Tesla's stock price passed in December as it set a record. The number has a long history among marijuana devotees, and Musk famously said in 2018 that he had secured funding to take Tesla private at $420 per share . Tesla soared this year, up from less than $250 at the start, in part because of expectations that Musk's close relationship with Trump could benefit the company. That's how much revenue Nvidia made in the nine months through Oct. 27, showing how the artificial-intelligence frenzy is creating mountains of cash. Nvidia's chips are driving much of the move into AI, and its revenue through the last nine months catapulted from less than $39 billion the year before. Such growth has boosted Nvidia's worth to more than $3 trillion in total. GameStop’s gain on May 13 after Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty,” appeared online for the first time in three years to support the video game retailer’s stock, which he helped rocket to unimaginable heights during the “ meme stock craze ” in 2021. Several other meme stocks also jumped following his post in May on the social platform X, including AMC Entertainment. Gill later disclosed a sizeable stake in the online pet products retailer Chewy, but he sold all of his holdings by late October . That's how much the U.S. economy grew, at annualized seasonally adjusted rates, in each of the three first quarters of this year. Such growth blew past what many pessimists were expecting when inflation was topping 9% in the summer of 2022. The fear was that the medicine prescribed by the Fed to beat high inflation — high interest rates — would create a recession. Households at the lower end of the income spectrum in particular are feeling pain now, as they contend with still-high prices. But the overall economy has remained remarkably resilient. This is the vacancy rate for U.S. office buildings — an all-time high — through the first three quarters of 2024, according to data from Moody's. The fact the rate held steady for most of the year was something of a win for office building owners, given that it had marched up steadily from 16.8% in the fourth quarter of 2019. Demand for office space weakened as the pandemic led to the popularization of remote work. That's the total number of previously occupied homes sold nationally through the first 11 months of 2024. Sales would have to surge 20% year-over-year in December for 2024's home sales to match the 4.09 million existing homes sold in 2023, a nearly 30-year low. The U.S. housing market has been in a sales slump dating back to 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. A shortage of homes for sale and elevated mortgage rates have discouraged many would-be homebuyers.Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) conceded defeat in her reelection bid for California's 45th Congressional District, notching a key win for Democrats in one of the most competitive races of the 2024 cycle and further narrowing Republicans' already slim majority in the lower chamber. Steel acknowledged her loss in a statement on Wednesday shortly before the Associated Press officially called the race in favor of her Democratic challenger Derek Tran. Tran won with 50.1% of the vote to Steel's 49.9% and led by just 613 votes three weeks after Election Day. "I owe a debt of gratitude to my supporters, my staff, my family, my daughters and especially my husband, Shawn, for standing by me through endless campaigns," Steel wrote. "To my volunteers, we would never have made it this far without your tireless efforts. And, to the voters, thank you. I will never stop fighting for you." She added : "Everything is God’s will and, like all journeys, this one is ending for a new one to begin." Steel became a top target for Democrats in the 2024 cycle as she was one of only 17 House Republicans running for reelection in a district that President Joe Biden won in 2020. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report deemed the seat a toss-up and rated it D+2. Tran already declared victory in the race earlier this week despite the absence of an official call. It was one of just three House races that lingered earlier Wednesday, in addition to California's 13th Congressional District, held by Rep. John Duarte (R-CA), and Iowa's 1st Congressional District, held by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA). Shortly after Steel's concession, the Associated Press also called the Iowa race for Miller-Meeks, besting her opponent, Christina Bohannan. In the final race, current projections show Duarte's challenger, Democratic candidate Adam Gray, leading the Republican incumbent. If those numbers hold, Republicans will have a 220-215 majority — an even smaller majority than the one they have struggled with over the last two years. Even so, those numbers will not last for long. Republicans are expected to start the year with at least three vacancies in the seats held by former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who resigned earlier this month, and Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Mike Waltz (R-FL), who will join the Trump administration. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Those vacancies would leave the House makeup at 217-215, giving Republicans only a one-seat majority — raising concerns among members about how much of President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda they will be able to accomplish in the first 100 days. It also puts added pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to lock up every single GOP vote for the Jan. 3, 2025, floor vote for House speaker. It could still take days or weeks for those races to be called, and although they will not shift the balance of power in the lower chamber, they could make things more difficult for Johnson to wrangle his conference.

Gene Therapy to Target GD2 for Oncology by Bristol-Myers Squibb for Sarcomas: Likelihood of ApprovalWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday reached a required agreement with President Joe Biden’s White House to allow his transition staff to coordinate with the existing federal workforce before taking office on Jan. 20. The congressionally mandated agreement allows transition aides to work with federal agencies and access non-public information and gives a green light to government workers to talk to the transition team. But Trump has declined to sign a separate agreement with the General Services Administration that would have given his team access to secure government offices and email accounts, in part because it would require that the president-elect limit contributions to $5,000 and reveal who is donating to his transition effort. The White House agreement was supposed to have been signed by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act, and the Biden White House had issued both public and private appeals for Trump’s team to sign on. The agreement is a critical step in ensuring an orderly transfer of power at noon on Inauguration Day, and lays the groundwork for the White House and government agencies to begin to share details on ongoing programs, operations and threats. It limits the risk that the Trump team could find itself taking control of the massive federal government without briefings and documents from the outgoing administration. As part of the agreement with the White House, Trump’s team will have to publicly disclose its ethics plan for the transition operation and make a commitment to uphold it, the White House said. Transition aides must sign statements that they have no financial positions that could pose a conflict of interest before they receive access to non-public federal information. Biden himself raised the agreement with Trump when they met in the Oval Office on Nov. 13, according to the White House, and Trump indicated that his team was working to get it signed. Trump chief of staff-designate Susie Wiles met with Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients at the White House on Nov. 19 and other senior officials in part to discuss remaining holdups, while lawyers for the two sides have spoken more than a half-dozen times in recent days to finalize the agreement. “Like President Biden said to the American people from the Rose Garden and directly to President-elect Trump, he is committed to an orderly transition,” said White House spokesperson Saloni Sharma. “President-elect Trump and his team will be in seat on January 20 at 12 pm – and they will immediately be responsible for a range of domestic and global challenges, foreseen and unforeseen. A smooth transition is critical to the safety and security of the American people who are counting on their leaders to be responsible and prepared.” Without the signed agreement, Biden administration officials were restricted in what they could share with the incoming team. Trump national security adviser-designate Rep. Mike Waltz met recently with Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan, but the outgoing team was limited in what it could discuss. “We are doing everything that we can to effect a professional and an orderly transition,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday. “And we continue to urge the incoming team to take the steps that are necessary to be able to facilitate that on their end as well.” “This engagement allows our intended Cabinet nominees to begin critical preparations, including the deployment of landing teams to every department and agency, and complete the orderly transition of power,” said Wiles in a statement. The Trump transition team says it would disclose its donors to the public and would not take foreign donations. A separate agreement with the Department of Justice to coordinate background checks for vetting and security clearances is still being actively worked on and could be signed quickly now that the White House agreement is signed. The agency has teams of investigators standing by to process clearances for Trump aides and advisers once that document is signed. That would clear the way for transition aides and future administration appointees and nominees to begin accessing classified information before Trump takes office. Some Trump aides may hold active clearances from his first term in office or other government roles, but others will need new clearances to access classified data. Trump’s team on Friday formally told the GSA that they would not utilize the government office space blocks from the White House reserved for their use, or government email accounts, phones and computers during the transition. The White House said it does not agree with Trump’s decision to forgo support from the GSA, but is working on alternate ways to get Trump appointees the information they need without jeopardizing national security. Federal agencies are receiving guidance on Tuesday on how to share sensitive information with the Trump team without jeopardizing national security or non-public information. For instance, agencies may require in-person meetings and document reviews since the Trump team has declined to shift to using secure phones and computers. For unclassified information, agencies may ask Trump transition staff to attest that they are taking basic safeguards, like using two-factor authentication on their accounts.

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It looks like Saint West is back on YouTube. The 8-year-old — and son of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West — joined YouTube in September after agreeing to an " extensive contract ," which prohibited him from sharing "personal information" and required that all videos be reviewed by Kim or a guardian before being posted. "If I don't listen to all of the rules, mom could make my page private or delete my account," the contract read. The account was only live for a month when it was removed following a series of anti-Kamala Harris posts. One of the posts reportedly showed a man as he "stepped in shit" and lifted his foot to reveal an image of Kamala. Another branded her "dumb," "crazy," "dangerous," and "stupid." Kim confirmed she removed the account on the Nov. 12 episode of the What In The Winkler? podcast , citing Saint's failure to get the posts cleared. "My publicist is writing me like, 'This is what you're posting on Election Day?'" she recalled. "And I was like, 'It's a kid. He has no idea.'" Still, Kim said she was "mortified" but was trying to give herself "grace." But now, just over two weeks later, Kim has shared that Saint is back on YouTube. Taking to Instagram, she posted a screenshot of his account and wrote, "This is Saint’s YouTube. Follow and Subscribe." I'm not sure if people did, but they definitely had a lot to say in the comments. Some questioned Kim's decision. Some also hilariously speculated that Saint was behind the message. Like, they're actually joking that he stole Kim's phone to plug his YouTube, LOL. "Kim would never post like this," one person mused. "Saint quick, what are the numbers on your moms Amex??" another teased. While someone else wrote, "Bestie you need to put a lock on your phone and socials." What do you make of all this? Would you allow your child back on YouTube? LMK below.When Elon Musk first suggested a new effort to cut the size of government, Donald Trump didn't seem to take it seriously. His eventual name for the idea sounded like a joke too. It would be called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a reference to an online meme featuring a surprised-looking dog from Japan. But now that Trump has won the election, Musk's fantasy is becoming reality, with the potential to spark a constitutional clash over the balance of power in Washington. Trump put Musk, the world's richest man, and Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, in charge of the new department, which is really an outside advisory committee that will work with people inside the government to reduce spending and regulations. Last week, Musk and Ramaswamy said they would encourage Trump to make cuts by refusing to spend money allocated by Congress, a process known as impounding. The proposal goes against a 1974 law intended to prevent future presidents from following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon, who held back funding that he didn't like. “We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington," Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. ”We expect to prevail. Now is the moment for decisive action." Trump has already suggested taking such a big step, saying last year that he would “use the president’s long-recognized impoundment power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings.” It would be a dramatic attempt to expand his powers, when he already will have the benefit of a sympathetic Republican-controlled Congress and a conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, and it could swiftly become one of the most closely watched legal fights of his second administration. “He might get away with it," said William Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. “Congress’ power of the purse will turn into an advisory opinion.” Musk and Ramaswamy have started laying out their plans Right now, plans for the Department of Government Efficiency are still coming into focus. The nascent organization has put out a call for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.” Applicants are encouraged to submit their resumes through X, the social media company that Musk owns. In the Wall Street Journal, Musk and Ramaswamy provided the most detailed look yet at how they would operate and where they could cut. Some are longtime Republican targets, such as $535 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Other plans are more ambitious and could reshape the federal government. The two wrote that they would “identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions,” leading to “mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy.” Civil service protections wouldn’t apply, they argue, because they wouldn’t be targeting specific people for political purposes. Some employees could choose “voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exit.” But others would be encouraged to quit by mandating that they show up at the office five days a week, ending pandemic-era flexibility about remote work. The requirement “would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.” Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said such cutbacks would harm services for Americans who rely on the federal government, and he suggested that Musk and Ramaswamy were in over their heads. “I don’t think they’re even remotely qualified to perform those duties," he said. "That’s my main concern.” Kelley said his union, which represents 750,000 employees for the federal government and the city of Washington, D.C., was ready to fight attempts to slash the workforce. “We’ve been here, we’ve heard this kind of rhetoric before," he said. "And we are prepared.” Federal regulations would be targeted for elimination There was no mention in the Wall Street Journal of Musk's previously stated goal of cutting $2 trillion from the budget, which is nearly a third of total annual spending. Nor did they write about “Schedule F,” a potential plan to reclassify federal employees to make them easier to fire. Ramaswamy once described the idea as the “mass deportation of federal bureaucrats out of Washington, D.C.” However, Musk and Ramaswamy said they would reduce regulations that they describe as excessive. They wrote that their department “will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies, aided by advanced technology," to review regulations that run counter to two recent Supreme Court decisions that were intended to limit federal rulemaking authority. Musk and Ramaswamy said Trump could “immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission.” Chris Edwards, an expert on budget issues at the Cato Institute, said many Republicans have promised to reduce the size and role of government over the years, often to little effect. Sometimes it feels like every budget item and tax provision, no matter how obscure, has people dedicated to its preservation, turning attempts at cuts into political battles of attrition. “Presidents always seem to have higher priorities," he said. “A lot of it falls to the wayside.” Although DOGE is scheduled to finish its work by July 4, 2026, Edwards said Musk and Ramaswamy should move faster to capitalize on momentum from Trump's election victory. “Will it just collect dust on a shelf, or will it be put into effect?" Edwards said. "That all depends on Trump and where he is at that point in time.” Ramaswamy said in an online video that they're planning regular “Dogecasts” to keep the public updated on their work, which he described as “a once-in-a-generation project” to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” “However bad you think it is, it’s probably worse,” he said. Musk and Ramaswamy will have allies in Congress House Republicans are expected to put Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump ally from Georgia, in charge of a subcommittee to work with DOGE, according to two people with knowledge of the plans who were not authorized to discuss them publicly. Greene and Rep James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, have already met with Ramaswamy, the two people said. Musk brought up the idea for DOGE while broadcasting a conversation with Trump on X during the campaign. “I think we need a government efficiency commission to say like, ‘Hey, where are we spending money that’s sensible. Where is it not sensible?’” Musk said. Musk returned to the topic twice, volunteering his services by saying “I’d be happy to help out on such a commission.” “I’d love it,” Trump replied, describing Musk as “the greatest cutter.” Musk has his own incentives to push this initiative forward. His companies, including SpaceX and Tesla, have billions of dollars in government contracts and face oversight from government regulators. After spending an estimated $200 million to support Trump's candidacy, he's poised to have expansive influence over the next administration. Trump even went to Texas earlier this week to watch SpaceX test its largest rocket. DOGE will have an ally in Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican who has railed against federal spending for years. He recently told Fox News that he sent “2,000 pages of waste that can be cut” to Musk and Ramaswamy. “I’m all in and will do anything I can to help them," Paul said.IQVIA Holdings Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors