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The thrilling Thursday night showdown between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers stole some luster from Week 14’s Sunday slate. Who knew that the Eagles and Panthers could deliver just as much drama? Here is what to know. For a fraction of a second, rookie wide receiver Xavier Legette held the shock of the NFL season in his hands. He had sprinted behind Darius Slay and C.J. Gardner-Johnson, and Bryce Young’s pass floated about 50 yards into his grasp. If he held on, the Carolina Panthers would have completed a 97-yard drive and led the Philadelphia Eagles, a two-touchdown favorite, with less 90 seconds left. The ball slipped through Legette’s fingers, and a horrific upset became a collective exhale in Philadelphia. The Eagles survived Young’s final, desperate push and won, 22-16, to avoid a humiliating end to their winning streak and maintain contact with the Detroit Lions in the race for the NFC’s top seed. The Eagles’ ninth consecutive victory was surprisingly difficult, but it revealed only minor cracks in their 11-2 record. It’s not shocking to see a team on a dominant stretch look flat against an also-ran. The primary takeaway may be further evidence that Bryce Young’s revitalization is for real. The close call, though, did surface some mild concerns. The Eagles’ inability to produce explosive plays stood out — Jalen Hurts threw for 108 yards, and Philadelphia managed only two gains of at least 20 yards. Slay and Gardner-Johnson are key veterans for Philadelphia’s culture, but they are also the clear weak points of Philadelphia’s dominant defense. (In Slay’s defense, he also batted away a pass from Adam Thielen on the game-sealing incompletion.) The most pressing issue may be veteran kicker Jake Elliott, who has become the JV version of Justin Tucker : a struggling mainstay too ingrained to easily move on from. Elliott missed a 52-yarder, which made him 0 for 5 this season on kicks from at least 50 yards. He also hooked an extra point wide before an offsides call on Carolina gave him reprieve. For a team whose realistic Super Bowl hopes could come down to a kick, that’s troubling. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers rewarded Baker Mayfield with a three-year, $100 million contract extension last offseason after he led them to an NFC South title and a playoff victory over the Eagles. Mayfield has proved his career resurgence is a not a one-year fluke. Tampa Bay’s 28-13 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders pushed them to 7-6 and, combined with the Falcons’ loss in Minnesota, into the NFC South lead. Mayfield threw for 295 and three touchdown passes. For the season, Mayfield ranks fourth in passing yards and is tied for third in touchdown passes. Mayfield’s gunslinging approach and rugged scrambling has given the Buccaneers an identity since they signed him off the scrap heap before last season. He’s only been better this year under new offensive coordinator Liam Coen. His competitiveness permeates the franchise. The Bucs are the only team to beat the Lions all year and one of two to beat the Eagles. They also took the Chiefs to overtime. If the Bucs make the playoffs, they can compete with anybody. Given that their final four opponents include the Panthers, Cowboys and Saints, it looks like they’ll get there. Sam Darnold built the best day of his NFL career Sunday by leaning on the best tandem of wide receivers in the league. In the Minnesota Vikings’ 42-21 destruction of the reeling Atlanta Falcons, Justin Jefferson (seven catches, 132 yards, two touchdowns) and Jordan Addison (eight catches, 133 yards, three touchdowns) combined for 15 catches, 265 yards and five touchdowns. Atlanta’s defense could not accomplish the reasonable task of slowing at least one of them down. But together, they are nearly unstoppable against any opponent. Jefferson, of course, might be the best wideout in the league. He scored his first touchdown in nearly two months Sunday and moved just ahead of Cincinnati’s Ja’Marr Chase, who plays Monday night, for the NFL lead in receiving yards with 1,170. Addison, a 2023 first-round pick who won the Biletnikoff Award in college, has punished defenses when they shift coverage toward Jefferson. His pedigree and production suggest that he could be a No. 1 wideout on most teams. Across from Jefferson, his quickness, great hands and knack for big plays is a nightmare. As the Vikings improved to 11-2, Darnold passed for 347 yards. Their defense leads the NFC in turnovers and picked off Kirk Cousins twice on Sunday. The Vikings will have to go on the road in the postseason if they can’t catch the Lions, but they will be tough to beat in January. The longer the season goes, the clearer it becomes that the Steelers belong on any short list of potential Super Bowl winners. They dominated the Browns, who under Jameis Winston are much better than their 3-10 record, in a 27-14 victory that pushed them to 10-3 and two games ahead of the Ravens in the AFC North. Pittsburgh has been expertly designed by Mike Tomlin, who should be the favorite for coach of the year , to win games. Only the Bills have a better point differential in the AFC than Pittsburgh’s plus-85. The Steelers lead the NFL in forced turnovers. While that can be a volatile statistic, it’s not an accident given the Steelers’ personnel and emphasis. “It’s not a lightning strike,” defensive coordinator Teryl Austin said this week. The Steelers instruct pass rushers to swat at the ball as quarterbacks throw. They set aside practice time for turnover-focused drills, including scooping rolling footballs off the turf. Offensive coordinator Arthur Smith and quarterback Russell Wilson have been perfect for each other. Smith’s system uses the running game as the foundation and relies on a quarterback utilizing play-action, moving out of the pocket and throwing deep, all of which are among Wilson’s strengths. Even without wideout George Pickens to create big plays and open space for others on Sunday, Wilson played efficient, mistake-free quarterback against a fierce defensive line. The Jets and Giants deserve credit for their creativity. In wretched seasons for both New York franchises, they continue to find new ways to reach new depths. The Jets blew an eight-point fourth quarter lead, moved back ahead of the Miami Dolphins with a last-minute field goal and still went to overtime after yielding a big kickoff return and an ensuing field goal drive. Their defense laid down on the first possession of overtime and gave up a touchdown that finalized a 32-26 loss that kept alive Miami’s faint playoff hopes. The Giants somehow overcame Drew Lock’s attempt to commit offensive football and drove to set up a 35-yard field goal attempt on what was essentially the game’s final play. Saints defensive tackle Bryan Bresee hopped over the line and blocked Graham Gano’s kick, sealing a 14-11 victory for the Saints that kept them within shouting distance in the NFC South. Field-Level View of the Bryan Bresee blocked FG 👀 📺: Next Sunday vs Commanders (Noon CT - FOX) pic.twitter.com/vpOPlbNUHO Another week, another two losses for the smoldering wreck that is New York football. The Jets and Giants are 5-21 combined, and neither team has won a game since Nov. 1. The Kansas City Royals have won more recently than the Giants. The Jets have fired their coach and general manager , and Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen — who hold those jobs for the Giants — may want to consult a realtor. The Giants at least have a silver lining. They strengthened their chances for the first overall pick. Not only did their loss drop them to 2-11, but the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Tennessee Titans, 10-6, for their third victory of the season. Only the Raiders also have two victories, and the Giants are ahead of them on tiebreakers in the race to the bottom. As for the Jets’ future outlook? They, uh, have an Aaron Rodgers Netflix documentary to watch. There was an easy to play to miss during the Vikings’ victory that provided a window into how the league office is reacting to the surge in blocked field goals. As Vikings kicker Will Reichard booted a 39-yard field goal attempt, referees threw a flag on Kentavius Street, who had lined up across from the snapper, for defensive holding. Some special teams coordinators had questioned if block units had been either exploiting a rules loophole or violating a rule without being caught. Eighteen field goals have been blocked this year — including the kick Bresee deflected at the gun to clinch New Orleans’s 14-11 victory over the Giants — which is one more than all of last season. The flag shows the league could be cracking down on techniques that have led to blocked field goals through pressure up the middle. In the Minnesota example, the flag proved costly for Atlanta. Three plays after Vikings Coach Kevin O’Connell took three points off the board, Darnold hit Jefferson for a touchdown that gave Minnesota a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.
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JAMES CITY — Grove Christian Outreach Center on Wednesday opened the first free grocery market in the Williamsburg area for families facing food insecurity. Christened The Gathering Place, the new marketplace inside the center at 8880 Pocahontas Trail provides a free shopping experience to families who need a little extra help. Replacing the center’s original food pantry program, the market provides families with fresh produce options while also helping prevent food waste by having them pick according to their own preferences. During a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Terry Banez, CEO of the Greater Williamsburg Chamber of Commerce, congratulated Grove Christian Outreach Center Executive Director Katie Patrick and her team for their efforts in creating the market. “What an amazing and beautiful place, and we wish you much success,” Banez said. “It’s really phenomenal what you’ve all done.” The Gathering Place saw much support in its fruition. Along with donations from community and business partners, the center was selected for Food Lion Feeds’ annual event, The Great Pantry Makeover. This saw Food Lion associates volunteer in completing the center’s buildout while also stocking shelves with over 3,000 pounds of shelf-stable food. Likewise, the Williamsburg Health Foundation provided funding for the market’s installation of new refrigeration systems for fresh produce storage. The approximately 2,000-square-foot space that makes up the market was previously the service room for the original Grove Community Church. “The pastor and his wife were founders of Grove Christian Outreach Center. The church was still meeting here and just over the years, the last several years, we recognized the need for the space,” Patrick said. The Gathering Place joins the nonprofit center’s 20-plus years of feeding families in the Williamsburg area, as well as providing clothing, school supplies, financial assistance, holiday programs, transportation and more. Last year, the center served nearly 32,000 people through various programs. It provided over 1,000 food pantry visits to area families last month alone. Patrick expressed the importance of providing a meaningful shopping experience for those who are struggling to put food on the table. Families qualify to receive services based on need. “If I have to stand in line for food, I really want to get food that my kids are going to eat, that’s meaningful to me and the culture that my family celebrates ... and that I am not going to throw away,” Patrick said. “I love making sure people are well fed. If you guys have never heard me say it, food is love. It’s how we show up in the world, and it means a lot.” Stephanie Kalantarians, chair of the center’s board of directors, said there is a real need to help those with food insecurity that goes beyond the Grove community. Someone is generally considered to have food insecurity when they lack access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. “We’re serving the Grove community, but I think it’s so important for people to have an awareness that this need exists in your community,” Kalantarians said. “And the need is increasing, doubling, in years time.” For more information, call 757-887-1100 or visit groveoutreach.com . Donations and volunteers are continuously welcomed. James W. 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BETHESDA, Md. , Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) ("AGNC" or the "Company") announced today that its Board of Directors has declared cash dividends on the outstanding depositary shares 1 of the following series of preferred stock for the fourth quarter 2024: Series of Preferred Stock Ticker Per Annum Dividend Rate Dividend Per Depositary Share 1 7.00% Series C Fixed-to-Floating Rate AGNCN 10.01991% 2 $0.64016 6.875% Series D Fixed-to-Floating Rate AGNCM 9.24091% 3 $0.59039 6.50% Series E Fixed-to-Floating Rate AGNCO 9.90191% 4 $0.63262 6.125% Series F Fixed-to-Floating Rate AGNCP 6.125 % $0.3828125 7.750% Series G Fixed-Rate Reset AGNCL 7.750 % $0.48438 1. Each depositary share represents a 1/1,000th interest in a share of preferred stock. 2. The Series C Depositary Shares accrue dividends at a floating rate equal to Three-Month CME Term SOFR plus 0.26161% plus 5.111%. The dividend rate for the dividend period ending January 14, 2025 is 10.01991% per annum. 3. The Series D Depositary Shares accrue dividends at a floating rate equal to Three-Month CME Term SOFR plus 0.26161% plus 4.332%. The dividend rate for the dividend period ending January 14, 2025 is 9.24091% per annum. 4. The Series E Depositary Shares accrue dividends at a floating rate equal to Three-Month CME Term SOFR plus 0.26161% plus 4.993%. The dividend rate for the dividend period ending January 14, 2025 is 9.90191% per annum. The dividend for each series of outstanding preferred stock is payable on January 15, 2025 to holders of record as of January 1, 2025 . For further information or questions, please contact Investor Relations at (301) 968-9300 or IR@AGNC.com . ABOUT AGNC INVESTMENT CORP. Founded in 2008, AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) is a leading investor in Agency residential mortgage-backed securities (Agency MBS), which benefit from a guarantee against credit losses by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae . We invest on a leveraged basis, financing our Agency MBS assets primarily through repurchase agreements, and utilize dynamic risk management strategies intended to protect the value of our portfolio from interest rate and other market risks. AGNC has a track record of providing favorable long-term returns for our stockholders through substantial monthly dividend income, with over $13 billion of common stock dividends paid since inception. Our business is a significant source of private capital for the U.S. residential housing market, and our team has extensive experience managing mortgage assets across market cycles. To learn more about The Premier Agency Residential Mortgage REIT , please visit www.AGNC.com , follow us on LinkedIn and X , and sign up for Investor Alerts . CONTACT: Investor Relations - (301) 968-9300 View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agnc-investment-corp-declares-fourth-quarter-dividends-on-preferred-stock-302329441.html SOURCE AGNC Investment Corp.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Google, already facing a possible breakup of the company over its ubiquitous search engine , is fighting to beat back another attack by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging monopolistic conduct, this time over technology that puts online advertising in front of consumers. The Justice Department and Google made closing arguments Monday in a trial alleging Google's advertising technology constitutes an illegal monopoly. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, will decide the case and is expected to issue a written ruling by the end of the year. If Brinkema finds Google has engaged in illegal, monopolistic conduct, she will then hold further hearings to explore what remedies should be imposed. The Justice Department, along with a coalition of states, has already said it believes Google should be forced to sell off parts of its ad tech business, which generates tens of billions of dollars annually for the Mountain View, California-based company. After roughly a month of trial testimony earlier this year, the arguments in the case remain the same. During three hours of arguments Monday, Brinkema, who sometimes tips her hand during legal arguments, did little to indicate how she might rule. She did, though, question the applicability of a key antitrust case Google cites in its defense. The Justice Department contends Google built and maintained a monopoly in “open-web display advertising,” essentially the rectangular ads that appear on the top and right-hand side of the page when one browses websites. Google dominates all facets of the market. A technology called DoubleClick is used pervasively by news sites and other online publishers, while Google Ads maintains a cache of advertisers large and small looking to place their ads on the right webpage in front of the right consumer. In between is another Google product, AdExchange, that conducts nearly instantaneous auctions matching advertisers to publishers. In court papers, Justice Department lawyers say Google “is more concerned with acquiring and preserving its trifecta of monopolies than serving its own publisher and advertiser customers or winning on the merits.” As a result, content providers and news organizations have never been able to generate the online revenue they should due to Google’s excessive fees for brokering transactions between advertisers and publishers, the government says. Google argues the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow niche of online advertising. If one looks more broadly at online advertising to include social media, streaming TV services, and app-based advertising, Google says it controls as little as 10% of the market, a share that is dwindling as it faces increased and evolving competition. Google alleges in court papers that the government’s lawsuit “boil(s) down to the persistent complaints of a handful of Google’s rivals and several mammoth publishers.” Google also says it has invested billions in technology that facilitates the efficient match of advertisers to interested consumers and it should not be forced to share its technology and success with competitors. “Requiring a company to do further engineering work to make its technology and customers accessible by all of its competitors on their preferred terms has never been compelled by U.S. antitrust law,” the company wrote. Brinkema, during Monday's arguments, also sought clarity on Google’s market share, a number the two sides dispute, depending on how broadly the market is defined. Historically, courts have been unwilling to declare an illegal monopoly in markets in which a company holds less than a 70% market share. Google says that when online display advertising is viewed as a whole, it holds only a 10% market share, and dwindling. The Justice Department contends, though, that when focusing on open-web display advertising, Google controls 91% of the market for publisher ad servers and 87% of the market for advertiser ad networks. Google says that the “open web display advertising” market is gerrymandered by the Justice Department to make Google look bad, and that nobody in the industry looks at that category of ads without considering the ability of advertisers to switch to other forms of advertising, like in mobile apps. The Justice Department also contends that the public is harmed by the excessive rates Google charges to facilitate ad purchases, saying the company takes 36 cents on the dollar when it facilitates the transaction end to end. Google says its “take rate” has dropped to 31% and continues to decrease, and it says that rate is lower than that of its competitors. “When you have an integrated system, one of the benefits is lower prices," Google lawyer Karen Dunn said Monday. The Virginia case is separate from an ongoing lawsuit brought against Google in the District of Columbia over its namesake search engine. In that case, the judge determined it constitutes an illegal monopoly but has not decided what remedy to impose. The Justice Department said last week it will seek to force Google to sell its Chrome web browser , among a host of other penalties. Google has said the department's request is overkill and unhinged from legitimate regulation. In Monday's arguments, Justice Department lawyer Aaron Teitelbaum cited the search engine case when he highlighted an email from a Google executive, David Rosenblatt, who said in a 2009 email that Google’s goal was to “do to display what Google did to search," which Teitelbaum said showed the company's intent to achieve market dominance. “Google did not achieve its trifecta of monopolies by accident,” Teitelbaum said.BETHESDA, Md. , Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.12 per share of common stock for December 2024 . The dividend is payable on January 10, 2025 to common stockholders of record as of December 31, 2024 . For further information or questions, please contact Investor Relations at (301) 968-9300 or IR@AGNC.com . ABOUT AGNC INVESTMENT CORP. Founded in 2008, AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) is a leading investor in Agency residential mortgage-backed securities (Agency MBS), which benefit from a guarantee against credit losses by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae . We invest on a leveraged basis, financing our Agency MBS assets primarily through repurchase agreements, and utilize dynamic risk management strategies intended to protect the value of our portfolio from interest rate and other market risks. AGNC has a track record of providing favorable long-term returns for our stockholders through substantial monthly dividend income, with over $13 billion of common stock dividends paid since inception. Our business is a significant source of private capital for the U.S. residential housing market, and our team has extensive experience managing mortgage assets across market cycles. To learn more about The Premier Agency Residential Mortgage REIT , please visit www.AGNC.com , follow us on LinkedIn and X , and sign up for Investor Alerts . CONTACT: Investor Relations - (301) 968-9300 View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agnc-investment-corp-declares-monthly-common-stock-dividend-of-0-12-per-common-share-for-december-2024--302329440.html SOURCE AGNC Investment Corp.
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