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FREIBURG, Germany (AP) — Freiburg survived a late comeback to beat Wolfsburg 3-2 and move into fifth place in the Bundesliga on Friday. The sides started the day equal on points and Wolfsburg had won its last five games in the league and cup. But Lukas Kübler scored an opportunist opener three minutes before the break and added a second with his head six minutes into the second half to put Freiburg in the driving seat. Michael Gregoritsch added the third in the 62nd. Jonas Wind came off the bench to score his third goal in two games and Mattias Svanberg cut the deficit seven minutes from time as Wolfsburg desperately looked for a way into the game. But it was too late, and Freiburg moved above Wolfsburg to fifth place on the table and equal on points with Leipzig, which has a game in hand. The match was an important one for two teams vying for a Champions League place next year. Although Bayern Munich have a six-point advantage over second-placed Eintracht Frankfurt, only eight points separate the next nine clubs. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerBayan al-Hinnawi, who spent years behind bars in Bashar al-Assad's Syria, joined crowds in the heartland of the Druze minority on Friday to celebrate the president's fall, "a dream" come true for the former prisoner. Hundreds of people descended on Sweida's main square, singing and clapping in jubilation, just days after Islamist-led rebels took the capital Damascus, sending Assad fleeing. The Druze-majority city in Syria's south has been a focal point of renewed anti-government demonstrations over the past year and a half. On Friday, residents waved Syria's pre-Assad flag of white, green and black with three stars, and raised olive branches in a sign of peace. Some of them have lost family members during the anti-government uprising that began in 2011 and spiralled into civil war. Others, like Hinnawi, had languished in prison under the Assad family's five-decade rule. "It was a dream," said 77-year-old Hinnawi of Assad's ouster. Decades ago, a few years after Hafez al-Assad seized power -- which he later handed over to his son Bashar -- a 23-year-old Hinnawi was jailed. He was released 17 years later. The grey-haired man said he had "dreamed that one day the regime would fall", but did not believe that he would live to see the day. "It's a wonderful sight. Nobody could have imagined that this could happen", he said. But his joy was incomplete, remembering the many who have died in jail. "I wish that those who died when I was imprisoned in Mazzeh or Saydnaya could see this scene," said Hinnawi. Since Assad's fall, rebel forces and residents have broken into both detention centres, freeing political prisoners and searching for long-missing loved ones. Activists and rights groups say the Assad government tortured and abused inmates at both facilities. "I got out when I was 40, I missed out of my whole life," said Hinnawi, who served in the Syrian army before being jailed. Recalling torture behind bars, he said that "no oppressor in history has done what they did to us." Since Sunday, the ousted government's security forces were nowhere to be seen in Sweida, and the office of Assad's Baath party has been abandoned, as have army checkpoints on the road to Damascus. Local armed men are present, but not the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which spearheaded the rebel offensive against Assad. Siham Zein al-Din, who lost her son in 2014 after he defected from the national army to join rebel fighters, said he had "sacrificed his life... for freedom, for dignity". The family was still searching for Khaldun's remains, said his 60-year-old mother. Like her son, some members of the Druze community took up arms against Assad's forces during the war. Beyond defending themselves from attacks in the areas where they live, Syria's Druze largely stayed on the sidelines of the civil war. Many managed to avoid compulsory conscription since 2011. Residents of Sweida have long complained of discrimination and the lack of basic services. Many buildings in the city are constructed from black volcanic stone that can be found in the area, and its roads have fallen into disrepair. Sheikh Marwan Hussein Rizk, a religious leader, said that "Sweida province has been marginalised" for decades, with most of its residents living in poverty. But, surrounded by the joyful protesters, Rizk said better days may be coming. "Today, we look to the future and ask for a helping hand... Our hand is extended to all Syrians." Next to him, resident Hussein Bondok held up a poster of his brother Nasser, a journalist and opposition activist who was last heard from in 2014 when he was arrested. Bondok, 54, said he believes his brother was likely killed under torture in one of Damascus's prisons. Nasser struggled for freedom, Bondok said. "I want to congratulate him now, because the seeds he had planted with his brothers-in-arms has become a tree."
SYM INVESTOR ALERT: Symbotic Inc. Investors with Substantial Losses Have Opportunity to Lead Investor Class Action LawsuitPiper Sandler reiterated their overweight rating on shares of Reddit ( NYSE:RDDT – Free Report ) in a report issued on Tuesday, Benzinga reports. The firm currently has a $150.00 price objective on the stock, up from their previous price objective of $115.00. Other research analysts have also issued research reports about the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price target on shares of Reddit from $59.00 to $77.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday, October 7th. Raymond James increased their price target on shares of Reddit from $70.00 to $80.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 10th. Needham & Company LLC increased their price target on shares of Reddit from $85.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. JMP Securities raised their target price on shares of Reddit from $84.00 to $118.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. Finally, Roth Mkm raised their target price on shares of Reddit from $89.00 to $116.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have given a hold rating, eleven have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $91.67. Check Out Our Latest Research Report on RDDT Reddit Trading Down 7.2 % Reddit ( NYSE:RDDT – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October 29th. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.07) by $0.23. The firm had revenue of $348.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $313.61 million. Reddit had a negative net margin of 47.83% and a negative return on equity of 40.54%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 67.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Reddit will post -3.63 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Insider Transactions at Reddit In other news, CTO Christopher Brian Slowe sold 21,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, November 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $146.01, for a total transaction of $3,066,210.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer now owns 297,925 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $43,500,029.25. This trade represents a 6.58 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link . Also, insider Benjamin Seong Lee sold 18,519 shares of Reddit stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, November 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $146.06, for a total transaction of $2,704,885.14. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 138,401 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $20,214,850.06. This trade represents a 11.80 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . In the last three months, insiders sold 306,520 shares of company stock valued at $27,251,297. Institutional Investors Weigh In On Reddit Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. grew its holdings in shares of Reddit by 56.3% during the third quarter. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. now owns 1,919 shares of the company’s stock worth $126,000 after purchasing an additional 691 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its position in Reddit by 176.0% during the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 824,200 shares of the company’s stock worth $54,355,000 after buying an additional 525,619 shares in the last quarter. Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd bought a new stake in Reddit during the 3rd quarter worth about $495,000. MML Investors Services LLC increased its position in Reddit by 12.0% in the 3rd quarter. MML Investors Services LLC now owns 7,085 shares of the company’s stock valued at $467,000 after acquiring an additional 757 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Anson Funds Management LP bought a new position in shares of Reddit in the third quarter worth about $3,296,000. About Reddit ( Get Free Report ) Reddit, Inc operates a website that organizes digital communities. It organizes communities based on specific interests that enable users to engage in conversations by sharing experiences, submitting links, uploading images and videos, and replying to one another. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Read More Receive News & Ratings for Reddit Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Reddit and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
I spent my first American Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania visiting the family of a friend at Harvard. He was genial and easy-going, from a Christian Republican family. They took their religion very seriously, he said. Premarital sex was forbidden; I soon became the friend in whose room he officially slept when his girlfriend was visiting. I have a few vivid memories from that trip. The pretty little house where all the linen matched, like in a hotel. Roast turkey, that my fresh-off-the-boat Indian palate found bland and dry, and the much-anticipated angel food cake, that turned out to be ultra crumbly but surprisingly bland in a pleasant way. Years later, I discovered that this was because it eschews both butter and egg yolks, the two things that give plain cake its richness. We went to church. The sermon was largely unexceptionable, other than the recurring demand that ‘God bless America’, which seemed a tad parochial. There were declarations of concern for those less fortunate, which spilled over into the family’s discussion of the many things that they were doing to help the needy. What remains with me is the very genuine spirit of generosity and warmth that emerged from those conversations — they seem to genuinely believe that God’s love and munificence extended to everyone, even people who might have strayed a bit, and the implied need to do something for them as well. I never discussed abortion with them, or homosexuality, and I suspect those conversations would not have gone very far, but they were calm and polite and generous (for example, to me, an unapologetic heathen). A bit formal on the first meeting, but there was a softness behind it, a bit like the angel food cake. This was in 1983. President Ronald Reagan had recently launched his own plan to ‘Make America Great Again’: less taxes on the rich, less benefits for the poor, stronger businesses and weaker unions, private charities and private prisons, abstinence and an abortion ban. I thought of that visit after another Republican won the US election, and unexpectedly even carried the state of Pennsylvania. My hosts adored Reagan. Reagan was articulate and affable and gracious, with a rare ability to make the many racist things he said sound reasonable and even sympathetic. He was divorced but had remarried, and seemed to have a stable and loving marriage. He went to church regularly, and 1983 was the year he chose to be the ‘year of the bible’. His strength was his All-American blandness, that concealed a ruthless commitment to a right-wing agenda. Trump is very different: rude and brusque, with a great talent for making the (very) nasty things he says sound even nastier. His racism is overt and extends to all non-white people. He brags about his sexual conquests, claiming that he, as a star, is allowed to physically harass women, and has been very publicly sleeping around while married (allegedly when Melania was pregnant). A jury found him liable for sexual abuse and he is a convicted felon. He occasionally mentions God, but usually to highlight his own semi-divine status. If Reagan was angel food cake, Trump is a stale rusk in a village tea-shop that has only its hardness to offer. Both Reagan and Trump were/are machistas, but in very different ways. Reagan thought of himself as a cowboy in a broad-brimmed hat, a role he played in several films (he occasionally confused scenes from a film script with actual history). In his mind’s eye, he was tough, but gracious and fair. Trump, despite his elite upbringing, is more of a street-corner bully, a blow-hard and a lewd whistler. I disliked Reagan and still blame him for the disastrous anti-poor turn that the US took in the 1980s, whereas Trump, at least in his stated views, is more sympathetic to the US working class (though not to immigrants). But there is a crassness, dishonesty and violence that Trump brings to everything he does and says, that I cannot bear. Could my hosts (we have lost touch — I don’t even know whether they are with us), with their emphasis on good manners, propriety and conservative Christian values, have found in Trump what they loved in Reagan? And yet, a vast majority of conservative Christians said that they intended to vote for Trump and probably did. After all, in his last term, he gave them the judges that removed the right to abortion, and they might have worried that Kamala Harris would try to undo all that. And as it says in the hymn, God moves in mysterious ways, perhaps even to the point of making use of a retrograde. But hard-core religious conservatives are only about a quarter of the population. What about the rest? Why were they not put off by his violence and narcissism? Why would they expect anything from this supremely self-centered man? A part of the answer it seems to me is that Trump’s one talent is for expressing hate and contempt (possibly because he genuinely doesn’t like most people, which could explain why so many of his closest associates eventually turned on him). This is what made him an effective (nasty) boss in ‘The Apprentice’, the TV show that made him famous. Perhaps voters, angry with their own lot in life, find resonance in the hurtfulness of his words and ignore the content. Looking from India, the claim that anger is driving American voters might seem puzzling. It is, after all, the most powerful country in the world. Yet, when asked if their country is on the right track, 70% or more Americans say no. The principal complaint seems to be about the economy: in most polls, voters blamed Biden-Harris for the weak economy. The only problem is that the economy is not weak — it is the strongest in many ways it’s ever been. 2024 GDP is substantially higher than what it was projected to be before the pandemic. Employment rates are near their all-time high and real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) wages for production workers and other non-supervisory staff (read lower-level workers) have never been higher, with a particularly steep trajectory in the Biden years. And the biggest increments were among the lowest-paid workers. Why are they complaining? Perhaps the voters are concerned about the more long-term prospects. It is true that the last 40 years have not been great for the American worker. Reagan was successful in pushing workers down. Real wages fell through the Reagan years and under his Republican successor, George Bush, despite a growing economy. They started to rise in the 1990s, but it’s only in 2020 (or perhaps a little earlier depending on how inflation is calculated) that real wages reached levels that the present worker’s parents and grandparents enjoyed in the early 1970s. By this time, GDP per capita was twice as high, but almost none of that extra income had trickled down to the working classes. This is in a country where historically each generation did better than the previous one. To make matters worse, some groups, like low-education male workers, kept falling behind the rest. No wonder lots of low-income Americans (especially low-wage males) are angry, and think something has gone very wrong. And a lot of them blame it on some (somewhat fuzzy) notion of elites, for supporting what they see as anti-worker policies, like globalization, immigration and big tech, though, interesting, not Reaganomics (Reagan remains a hero). They see in Trump an ally. Trump, I think, genuinely resents the elites, for treating him, during his years as a man-about-town, (unsurprisingly) as a corrupt buffoon. Moreover, what makes Trump credible is that he does not behave like the present-day elites. He doesn’t finish his sentences, thrives on racist and sexist jokes, boasts about his peccadillos and has contempt for the law. I am absolutely not saying that most non-elites behave in these ways, but I think it so clearly violates the current elite norm that it powerfully signals Trump’s difference. This might be why even low-income women believe that Trump is more in their corner than Harris, a representative of the California elite. And for that reason, they are grateful when he spews hate on the elites, on immigrants, on that largely imaginary cabal of ‘woke’ feminists and gender-fluid people. If I am right, then there is both bad news and good news. The bad news is that we may be in the trap of low expectations. People in the US, especially poorer people, expect very little from the government, according to polls. They vote for Trump less in the hope that he will do a lot for them, than based on cynicism about the whole project: since governments are mostly useless, why not pick someone who will at least make your (mostly internal) enemies uncomfortable? But then very little will change, and the anger will still be there waiting to be harvested. The good news is that the rage against the trans and the immigrants and so on may be more against the elite world view that supports them than against them as human beings. The big news for the world (including India) is that Trump reflects America’s crisis and not its greatness. We must not opt for a strong-man because the US now has one — loudmouths and bullies only serve themselves — there is nothing wrong with bland, as long as bland gets the job done. In that spirit let me offer a nice dessert that starts with the (very bland) angel food cake. Recipe for Angel Food Cake Sift 3⁄4 cup sugar, 1/8th tsp of salt and 1 cup cake flour very well together. Separate eggs till you have 11/2 cup egg whites (ideally buy just egg whites) and let it come to room temperature. Beat with 1 tsp vanilla essence and 11⁄2 tsp cream of tartar till frothy and beat at high speed, adding 12 tbs sugar, one tbs at a time, till the whites form glossy firm peaks. Fold in the flour with soft hands, 1 tbsp at a time. Pour into a tube pan and bake for 35-40 minutes. Let it cool completely before taking it out of the pan. Serve with a berry or mango compote. To make the compote, stew 3 cups of fresh or frozen berries or fresh mango in 4 tbsp orange juice and 6 cardamom pods for 15 minutes, mashing the fruit with the back of a spoon as it cooks. Add sugar to taste, if the fruits are too tart. Serve slices of the cake with a generous serving of the compote. This is part of a monthly column by Nobel-winning economist Abhijit Banerjee illustrated by Cheyenne Olivier. ILLUSTRATION CREDIT: Cheyenne OIivier (France)
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Swiss National Bank lowered its stake in shares of Matador Resources ( NYSE:MTDR – Free Report ) by 0.8% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 231,502 shares of the energy company’s stock after selling 1,800 shares during the period. Swiss National Bank’s holdings in Matador Resources were worth $11,441,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Boston Trust Walden Corp purchased a new position in shares of Matador Resources in the 3rd quarter valued at about $51,788,000. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP lifted its position in shares of Matador Resources by 8.1% during the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 4,734,819 shares of the energy company’s stock valued at $282,196,000 after buying an additional 356,506 shares in the last quarter. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in Matador Resources during the second quarter worth $18,747,000. Yaupon Capital Management LP purchased a new position in Matador Resources during the first quarter valued at $17,874,000. Finally, Clearbridge Investments LLC grew its position in shares of Matador Resources by 10.5% in the second quarter. Clearbridge Investments LLC now owns 2,250,036 shares of the energy company’s stock valued at $134,102,000 after purchasing an additional 214,334 shares during the period. 91.98% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Analyst Ratings Changes Several research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Mizuho reduced their price target on shares of Matador Resources from $85.00 to $74.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, September 16th. Truist Financial lowered their price target on Matador Resources from $86.00 to $75.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, September 30th. Stephens increased their price objective on Matador Resources from $76.00 to $78.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, October 21st. Benchmark reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $62.00 target price on shares of Matador Resources in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company reduced their target price on shares of Matador Resources from $89.00 to $87.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, October 1st. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirteen have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $74.92. Insider Buying and Selling at Matador Resources In related news, CAO Robert T. Macalik purchased 500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, September 6th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $50.25 per share, for a total transaction of $25,125.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 29,800 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,497,450. This trade represents a 1.71 % increase in their position. The purchase was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link . Also, EVP Bryan A. Erman acquired 1,000 shares of Matador Resources stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 6th. The shares were bought at an average price of $50.35 per share, with a total value of $50,350.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 2,750 shares in the company, valued at approximately $138,462.50. The trade was a 57.14 % increase in their position. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here . Insiders have acquired a total of 11,105 shares of company stock worth $562,306 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 6.10% of the company’s stock. Matador Resources Trading Up 1.2 % MTDR opened at $60.91 on Friday. Matador Resources has a 52 week low of $47.15 and a 52 week high of $71.08. The company has a quick ratio of 0.84, a current ratio of 0.88 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $53.48 and a 200-day simple moving average of $56.81. The firm has a market cap of $7.60 billion, a P/E ratio of 8.07 and a beta of 3.26. Matador Resources ( NYSE:MTDR – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 22nd. The energy company reported $1.89 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.78 by $0.11. Matador Resources had a net margin of 27.45% and a return on equity of 20.01%. The company had revenue of $770.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $836.69 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.86 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 9.8% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities analysts expect that Matador Resources will post 7.5 earnings per share for the current year. Matador Resources Increases Dividend The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 6th. Investors of record on Friday, November 15th will be issued a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.64%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 15th. This is a positive change from Matador Resources’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.20. Matador Resources’s dividend payout ratio is 13.25%. About Matador Resources ( Free Report ) Matador Resources Company, an independent energy company, engages in the exploration, development, production, and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the United States. It operates through two segments, Exploration and Production; and Midstream. The company primarily holds interests in the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring plays in the Delaware Basin in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Featured Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding MTDR? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Matador Resources ( NYSE:MTDR – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Matador Resources Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Matador Resources and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin claims Donald Trump ’s pick for defense secretary was “falsely accused” of sexual assault , defending his claim days earlier that Pete Hegseth had just been “flirting” with his accuser. A recently released police report from the 2017 incident revealed that the woman, who has not been identified, told police that Hegseth blocked the door to stop her from leaving his hotel room and took her phone away before sexually assaulting her . Hegseth has maintained that the encounter was consensual. Earlier this week, the Oklahoma senator told reporters in the Capitol that he had read the police report: “If you read it, you can clearly see that it was two people flirting with each other.” On CNN Sunday, Mullin defended his previous claim and said that be believed Hegseth’s insistence that the encounter was consensual “was accurate,” he said. “There was no case here. He was falsely accused,” he added. “She was being the aggressor. Pete wasn’t even flirting with her. He was flirting with a different girl, and [the Jane Doe] was trying to flirt with Pete.” In the police report, another woman told authorities that Hegseth had invited her back to his hotel room, but she “politely declined.” CNN host Dana Bash pressed Mullin: “From your perspective, you believe his part of the story and not hers?” “I absolutely do. He wasn’t charged. He wasn’t even kind of charged in this. There was no crime committed. The police dropped everything,” he replied. While he did not face charges, Hegseth paid the woman in 2023 as part of a confidential settlement to prevent a potential lawsuit, which he labeled as baseless. “What’s unfortunate in today’s world is you can be accused of anything. And then especially if it’s something like this, you are automatically assumed to be guilty,” Mullin told Bash. Investigators in Monterey, California were first notified about the alleged incident by a nurse, who told police a patient came to the hospital requesting a sexual assault exam for an incident that had occurred five days earlier, according to the newly released police report. The patient, identified as Jane Doe in the report, said she struggled to remember what happened, but recalled being intoxicated — and even speculated “something may have been slipped into her drink” because of her memory lapses. Although she didn’t remember how, Jane Doe said she wound up in Hegseth’s hotel room. She told police that Hegseth “took her phone from her hands” and when she tried to leave his room, and that Hegseth “blocked the door with his body,” according to the report. She recalled “saying ‘no’ a lot” but “did not remember much else,” the report says. Meanwhile, Hegseth told police that when they went back to his room, the woman “sat down in the room and did not leave,” which he found “odd.” The sex was “consensual,” they had discussed him wearing a condom, and he “continuously asked Doe if she was [OK] because he did not want Doe to get in trouble,” according to the report. Hegseth is among several of Trump’s cabinet picks who has been accused of sexual misconduct. Most of the scrutiny has focused on now-former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, Trump’s initial pick for attorney general who later withdrew his name from consideration. Gaetz stepped aside after details emerged from two probes, including allegations that he had sexual encounters with a 17-year-old girl . Records obtained by The New York Times and ABC News suggest that Gaetz paid more than $10,000 to two women who testified before the a House Ethics Committee Following Trump’s election, a startling trend emerged: men started posting the phrase “your body, my choice” on women’s social media posts. Some of Trump’s own sexual assault accusers have also warned that his return to the White House marks a troubling time for survivors . “This is not a good time for survivors or victims,” one woman told The Independent in the days after Trump’s victory. “People are not going to speak up because, look, it’s falling on deaf ears. No one cares.” Trump has denied all the accusations against him. Trump’s transition team was reportedly caught by surprise when the details of the sexual assault allegation against Hegseth and the reports of his settlement became public.
NoneKILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin said she suffered an abrasion on her left hip and that something “stabbed” her when she crashed during her second run of a World Cup giant slalom race Saturday, doing a flip and sliding into the protective fencing. Shiffrin stayed down on the edge of the course for quite some time as the ski patrol attended to her. She was taken off the hill on a sled and waved to the cheering crowd before going to a clinic for evaluation. “Not really too much cause for concern at this point, I just can’t move,” she said later in a video posted on social media . “I have a pretty good abrasion and something stabbed me. ... I’m so sorry to scare everybody. It looks like all scans so far are clear.” She plans to skip the slalom race Sunday, writing on Instagram she will be “cheering from the sideline.” The 29-year-old was leading after the first run of the GS and charging for her 100th World Cup win. She was within sight of the finish line, five gates onto Killington’s steep finish pitch, when she an outside edge. She hit a gate and did a somersault before sliding into another gate. The fencing slowed her momentum as she came to an abrupt stop. Reigning Olympic GS champion Sara Hector of Sweden won in a combined time of 1 minute, 53.08 seconds. Zrinka Ljutic of Croatia was second and Swiss racer Camille Rast took third. The Americans saw Paula Moltzan and Nina O’Brien finish fifth and sixth. “It’s just so sad, of course, to see Mikaela crash like that and skiing so well,” Hector said on the broadcast after her win. “It breaks my heart and everybody else here.” The crash was a surprise for everyone. Shiffrin rarely DNFs — ski racing parlance for “did not finish.” In 274 World Cup starts, she DNF'd only 18 times. The last time she DNF'd in GS was January 2018. Shiffrin also has not suffered any devastating injuries. In her 14-year career, she has rehabbed only two on-hill injuries: a torn medial collateral ligament and bone bruising in her right knee in December 2015 and a sprained MCL and tibiofibular ligament in her left knee after a downhill crash in January 2024. Neither knee injury required surgery, and both times, Shiffrin was back to racing within two months. Saturday was shaping up to be a banner day for Shiffrin, who skied flawlessly in the first run and held a 0.32-second lead as she chased after her 100th World Cup win. Shiffrin, who grew up in both New Hampshire and Colorado and sharpened her skills at nearby Burke Mountain Academy, has long been a fan favorite. Shiffrin is driven not so much by wins but by arcing the perfect run. She has shattered so many records along the way. She passed Lindsey Vonn’s women’s mark of 82 World Cup victories on Jan. 24, 2023, during a giant slalom in Kronplatz, Italy. That March, Shiffrin broke Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark’s Alpine mark for most World Cup wins when she captured her 87th career race. To date, she has earned five overall World Cup titles, two Olympic gold medals — along with a silver — and seven world championships. In other FIS Alpine World Cup news, the Tremblant World Cup — two women’s giant slaloms at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant scheduled for next weekend — were canceled. Killington got 21 inches of snow on Thanksgiving Day, but Tremblant — five hours north of Killington — had to cancel its races because of a lack of snow. AP Sports Writer Pat Graham in Denver contributed to this report. More AP skiing: https://apnews.com/hub/alpine-skiing
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AP Trending SummaryBrief at 12:19 p.m. ESTSVG Sit-Down: DAZN’s Zander Berlinski on the Quick International Success of NFL Game Pass It has been really good. We took over the product at the beginning of last season and grew the subscriber base over 30%, which was a great first-year result. We had a bunch of success on attracting new fans to the platform. From that perspective, this year is off to a similar year-over-year growth rate, which is great. A couple key things have been very exciting from our perspective: innovating from a product perspective and bringing new features and benefits to customers to go beyond the streaming experience. This year, we launched the Ultimate tier, sort of a second tier of the product. With it, you get certain benefits from a streaming perspective, whether that be UltraHD (when available) or Dolby 5.1 audio, and you also get certain benefits beyond the core streaming experience. I think both DAZN and the NFL were excited about using the power of our platform and tech to create an experience that moves toward becoming sort of a digital home for an NFL fan internationally in all the various touchpoints that they want to engage with. We launched NFL Game Pass on Amazon channels in six markets this season, which has helped increase the exposure of the product to reach new fans and allow them to watch it where they want to. Also, holistically, distribution — all the platforms we are on — was one of the main reasons the NFL wanted to come to DAZN, which was a significant increase relative to where they were. We continue to add platforms, and we’re quite distribution-agnostic as a company. From a key-moments perspective, international games are a really big moment for us because they become cultural moments and go beyond the avid diehard NFL fan. It starts to engage the broader sports audience in those markets. The Brazil game being added this year in Week One was a great one. Obviously, London and Germany, as always, were great, and the number of those games will increase in future years. We’re excited about that. The other big moments tend to correlate with the overall NFL calendar. Thanksgiving, granted it is a U.S. holiday, has appeal internationally from an NFL-calendar perspective, given the focus on the matchups and the three games being on Thursday in a good time zone for most of the main European audience. We’ve seen good uptake in Mexico. They’ve had a game there in the past, and the league may try to go back there in the future, but Mexico has been really strong. To your point, where we’ve also seen strength — I think this correlates not necessarily to NFL interests but also speaks to some of the broader strategic narratives of why they wanted to come into DAZN — is in our core markets. Those are markets like Japan, Italy, Spain, where we own the core domestic broadcast for a lot of the Tier 1 sports. In Germany, we have Bundesliga and Champions League; in Japan, we have the J League and a good portion of their domestic baseball teams. We promote pretty heavily to those users and give, in certain instances, special promotions through CRM or on platform. I think the scale of our base internationally was one of the main reasons the NFL wanted to come do this partnership with us. They had done a very good job over eight-10 years building a platform that, on an independent basis, found a lot of the diehard NFL fans who were seeking it out, but, to get to the next level of growth, they felt it would be difficult to grow on a pure standalone basis. Inside a broader sports ecosystem, where we have millions of subscribers on the app each day, we can promote the app. That was a quite appealing part of the partnership. It’s interesting. I think there are probably a couple different cohorts that you can think about. There is a cohort that is quite similar to the U.S. audience. Those are diehard fans, whether expats who live abroad or people who grew up following the game because of a relative. Those fans were on the product already when we migrated it or are coming in Day 1 of the season. They’re getting the product because they want to make sure they don’t miss every game or the games of a specific team. With those fans, RedZone is a massive pull as well, and they behave fairly similar to what I’d say U.S. fans do. I think what’s magnified internationally is, there’s more of a cohort of casual fans and there’s an effort for us to think about how we bring someone along from either no exposure to the NFL or some casual exposure and move them into a more engaged customer. One of the things we did this year is launch a free Game of the Week, where we put one game in front of the paywall and use it as a sampling for both our free subscriber base and paid DAZN subscribers who don’t have NFL Game Pass. Alongside that, we have started to add more original content. We do a weekly podcast show with influencers internationally. We did an influencer watch-along during Thanksgiving where [influencers] were commenting on the games as they were watching. All of those things are aimed at taking people who are clearly sports fans — whether that be soccer, rugby, or others — but maybe are not engaged with the NFL to the extent where they might purchase a product and move them along to becoming an avid fan. I think it’s a trend that has emerged as more and more content has shifted into a streaming environment. More parties can operate on either a multi-territory or a global basis. DAZN is one of the few [media companies] that operate in 200+ markets around the world. That gives us a unique ability to leverage our technology and scale and offer these rights on a global — or at least on a many-countries — basis. As you start to see more and more content leave the traditional linear-cable bundle, I think it’ll become more and more common for rights to be sold maybe not on a full-global basis; more deals will become multi-territory. We’re in favor of those types of deals, and I think our NFL deal is a good example of what we want to try to do moving forward. International represents, I think, a big growth area from a media-rights perspective and a fan-growth perspective.
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