Former Rep. Matt Gaetz appears to be the newest ex-member of Congress to hit the social platform Cameo, and it has its CEO talking about the Congress-to- Cameo pipeline. Sharing his thoughts on Gaetz and his fellow politicians making themselves available for personalized videos to their fans for a few hundred dollars a pop, Cameo chief executive Steven Galanis disputed the notion that it was too soon after his doomed nomination for Gaetz to join Cameo. “It’s important to strike while the iron is hot, when you’re having your moment,” Galanis told the New York Times for a report published Monday. “That’s when it’s going to resonate most with your fans.” ALSO READ: The America-attacking Trump is coming for our military — and then he's coming for us Donald Trump , a former reality TV star, brought his brash style to politics — and that in turn fueled other politicians to steal a page from his playbook. Galanis said. Former Rep. George Santos , former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and, most recently, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CA), have all joined Cameo, as has Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr., the Times noted. “They all became more famous because Trump is famous,” Galanis told the publication. Santos, the disgraced and ousted Long Island congressman, set records for having the platform’s biggest first day, week and month, according to the report. He was recording 90 videos a day. Cameo helps politicians “humanize themselves,” Santos told the Times. He predicted Gaetz would likely do well on the site and offered some words of wisdom for his former congressional colleague. “Have a personality,” Santos said. “Just have a personality.”

No. 2 UConn falls again in Maui, losing 73-72 to Colorado on Jakimovski's off-balance layupBen Simmons went viral for all the wrong reasons against his former team on Friday night. The No. 1 pick of the 2016 draft returned to face the Philadelphia 76ers with the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA Cup. But he didn't exactly light it up on the court. Simmons, who was showered in boos and jeers and he made his way into the arena, finished with just two points, four rebounds and four assists in a disappointing 113-98 defeat. Jared McCain scored 30 points and Tyrese Maxey added 26 more as the 76ers snapped a five-game losing streak, playing without Joel Embiid and Paul George. Philadelphia's young backcourt took over in the fourth quarter with a scoring burst that helped the Sixers rally from a nine-point deficit and hand the Nets another loss. The result, which leaves Brooklyn with a 6-10 record, was bad enough, but Simmons also suffered an embarrassing moment that truly made it a night to forget. With the Nets down 40-31 in the second quarter, teammate Jalen Wilson passed him the ball, offering the 28-year-old the simplest of lay-ups to close the gap on the scoreboard. But Simmons, clearly low on confidence, botched his effort. His attempt was so bad that it went viral, with more than one million people watching clips that have been shared on social media. "I unfortunately cannot stop watching this Ben Simmons layup attempt... Sheesh man," one fan wrote on X. "We were making fun of Ben Simmons for not shooting but maybe we should’ve left bro alone because WTF,” another account posted. A third wrote: "Ben Simmons going from being one of the most explosive players in the open court to being afraid to dunk and attack the rim needs to be studied." Many others were left stunned by the effort from Simmons, who started his NBA career with the Sixers. "The decline of Ben Simmons is unlike anything I’ve ever seen," Sean Kane, a senior producer for NBC Sports Philadelphia, said of his performance. "He certainly had his limitations as a young player but he was still one of the more dynamic talents in the league. Three-time All-Star... To see what he’s become now, still just 28 years old... Truly hard to believe." Simmons played four seasons in Philadelphia, but left on bad terms after a holdout in 2021 made him the most fined NBA player in history, with reports suggesting he had surpassed $10 million by the end of the year. Since being traded to the Nets, he has struggled with injuries, and his most recent performance will further feed into the discussion around the steep decline from his promising days as an All-Star. The Nets will aim to end their three-game road skid when they take on Sacramento on Sunday November 24.

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LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Azma Bukhari said on Saturday called into question the use of money given to the KP government by the Centre, alleging that the provincial government planned to spend Rs2 billion on November 24 protest, which she dubbed “Part-II of May 9 riots”. “If the federal capital is left at the mercy of such “hate-mongers”, then they will wreak havoc,” Punjab Information Minister Azma Bukhari stated while addressing a press conference here in Lahore on Saturday. She pointed out that at a time when there was unrest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), provincial chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur and PTI founder Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi were busy hatching conspiracies against the federal government. She also accused the KP government of arming the PTI’s youth wing as well as the Afghans residing in the province and tasking them with creating a law and order situation in the capital city, opining that the PTI founder was so desperate that he wanted his workers’ bodies so that he could use these for his political gains. “But the government would not let this happen,” she vowed. Azma Bokhari said that a terrorist attack on innocent civilians had taken place in Parachinar while Gandapur was busy with preparations for a sit-in at D-Chowk in Islamabad. “Can’t he see that over 40 people have lost their lives in the incident?” She went on to say that it did not suit Bushra to talk about Shariah. Azma said it was not because of his struggle for the rule of law in the country that Imran was in jail, but because of his corruption. “Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif gave Rs500 million to the Shaukat Khanum Hospital. Look what Imran did to him in return?” Quoting the former first lady, the minister said she had said that despite the fact that her husband was 72 years old, he still wanted to enjoy life. She made it clear that the Punjab government knew fully well how to deal with the PTI ‘rioters’. “We can even call Rangers to rein in the protestors. But the provincial chief minister Maryam Nawaz will take the decision in view of the situation.” Azma said whosoever would try to take the law into his own hands would face the music. “They will be treated like Khawarij should be treated.” She also hit out at the courts for granting bail to what she called PTI miscreants. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );

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DETROIT — An Oxford High School teacher who was shot during the 2021 attack on the school is suing the district and five former school officials, alleging they exacerbated the risk of a mass shooting by ignoring signs of impending violence. Molly Darnell filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit against Oxford Community Schools and two former high schools employees, Shawn Hopkins and Nicholas Ejak, who interacted and assessed the student gunman the day of the attack, ultimately releasing him back to class. Darnell is the only teacher who was shot and is the first non-student to sue the district, which has faced extensive litigation since the attack on Nov. 30, 2021, that killed four students and injured seven. Darnell, who remains employed by the district at its Oxford Virtual Academy, is also suing two former superintendents, Tim Throne and Ken Weaver, and former Oxford principal Steven Wolf. The student gunman fired multiple rounds through a school door and struck Darnell in the shoulder, six inches from her heart. The shooter fired his weapon 33 times in the attack that killed Hana St. Juliana, 14; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; and Justin Shilling, 17. In the 50-page lawsuit, Darnell alleges that school district officials ignored clear signals of impending gun violence from Ethan Crumbley and engaged in acts which "foreseeably emboldened, motivated or enabled the shooter to successfully engage" in the attack. The lawsuit alleges that the school district has told the Oxford Community that Ejak, a former dean of students at OHS, and Hopkins, a former OHS counselor, "had no choice" but to send the shooter back to class because their school policy was they could neither send a student home or detain them in the counseling office unless there was a disciplinary issue. "However, the truth is that school officials escalated the danger by releasing the shooter back into the school population from a place of safety and security," the lawsuit alleges. "They did this despite knowing of the shooter’s desire to inflict harm on himself and/or others. These school officials compounded the danger to Oxford High School students and staff by releasing him from a safe zone with an unsearched backpack that contained the deadly weapon that the shooter used to carry out his suicidal or homicidal plans." Oxford school officials and the district's attorney were not immediately available for comment on Tuesday. Darnell's suit, which was filed four days ahead of the three-year anniversary of the shooting, says in the days and weeks leading up to mass shooting, school officials ignored signs that violence was brewing. At one point, Throne, who was superintendent on the day of the attack, made an announcement on the Oxford High School public address system on Nov. 16, 2021, instructing students to stop spreading rumors and relying on information on social media and reassuring those listening that there were no threats that posed any danger to them at Oxford High School, the suit alleges. Darnell alleges that Ejak and Hopkins had the authority as school administrators to maintain the shooter in a safe, secure and restricted environment in the counseling office, where, based on the assessment that he was suicidal, he could have been supervised by adults. "Ejak and Hopkins intentionally concealed (Ethan Crumbley's) mental health crisis, suicidal and homicidal ideations from his teachers and other administrators in the school after releasing him from the counseling office that morning, as such they had no idea that they were at risk of serious and grievous injuries and could take no action to protect themselves or others in the building," the suit alleges. Darnell has suffered from terror, shock, awareness of imminent death, excruciating pain and fear, the suit says, and is seeking unspecified damages for severe emotional distress, sleep disturbance, nightmares and future damages. Darnell's attorney, Matthew L. Turner, was not immediately available for comment. The district and its employees continue to deny any responsibility for the attack. Lawsuits filed by victims and their families have alleged the district failed to protect students and downplayed the threat the killer posed to the school. All state-filed civil claims against the district have been dismissed based on a judge's finding of government immunity for the district and its employees but remain on appeal. Attorneys representing the families filed an appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court on Oct. 31. Multiple civil cases filed in federal court by the victims and families were dismissed but remain on appeal. Two defendants continue to face individual claims. Oxford schools are appealing U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith's June ruling that Hopkins and Ejak will continue to face "state-created danger claims." Those cases are before the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. ©2024 www.detroitnews.com . Visit at detroitnews.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.In fact, he argued, it could have been a culinary conspiracy concocted by criminals, whose actions led to the cooking wine used to prepare the noodles being laced with a banned heart drug that found its way into an athlete's system. This theory was spelled out to international anti-doping officials during a meeting and, after weeks of wrangling, finally made it into the thousands of pages of data handed over to the lawyer who investigated the case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for that same drug. The attorney, appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, refused to consider that scenario as he sifted through the evidence. In spelling out his reasoning, lawyer Eric Cottier paid heed to the half-baked nature of the theory. "The Investigator considers this scenario, which he has described in the conditional tense, to be possible, no less, no more," Cottier wrote. Even without the contaminated-noodles theory, Cottier found problems with the way WADA and the Chinese handled the case but ultimately determined WADA had acted reasonably in not appealing China's conclusion that its athletes had been inadvertently contaminated. Critics of the way the China case was handled can't help but wonder if a wider exploration of the noodle theory, details of which were discovered by The Associated Press via notes and emails from after the meeting where it was delivered, might have lent a different flavor to Cottier's conclusions. "There are more story twists to the ways the Chinese explain the TMZ case than a James Bond movie," said Rob Koehler, the director general of the advocacy group Global Athlete. "And all of it is complete fiction." In April, reporting from the New York Times and the German broadcaster ARD revealed that the 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, also known as TMZ. China's anti-doping agency determined the athletes had been contaminated, and so, did not sanction them. WADA accepted that explanation, did not press the case further, and China was never made to deliver a public notice about the "no-fault findings," as is often seen in similar cases. The stock explanation for the contamination was that traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers were staying. In his 58-page report, Cottier relayed some suspicions about the feasibility of that chain of events — noting that WADA's chief scientist "saw no other solution than to accept it, even if he continued to have doubts about the reality of contamination as described by the Chinese authorities." But without evidence to support pursuing the case, and with the chance of winning an appeal at almost nil, Cottier determined WADA's "decision not to appeal appears indisputably reasonable." A mystery remained: How did those traces of TMZ get into the kitchen? Shortly after the doping positives were revealed, the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations held a meeting on April 30 where it heard from the leader of China's agency, Li Zhiquan. Li's presentation was mostly filled with the same talking points that have been delivered throughout the saga — that the positive tests resulted from contamination from the kitchen. But he expanded on one way the kitchen might have become contaminated, harkening to another case in China involving a low-level TMZ positive. A pharmaceutical factory, he explained, had used industrial alcohol in the distillation process for producing TMZ. The industrial alcohol laced with the drug "then entered the market through illegal channels," he said. The alcohol "was re-used by the perpetrators to process and produce cooking wine, which is an important seasoning used locally to make beef noodles," Li said. "The contaminated beef noodles were consumed by that athlete, resulting in an extremely low concentration of TMZ in the positive sample. "The wrongdoers involved have been brought to justice." This new information raised eyebrows among the anti-doping leaders listening to Li's report. So much so that over the next month, several emails ensued to make sure the details about the noodles and wine made their way to WADA lawyers, who could then pass it onto Cottier. Eventually, Li did pass on the information to WADA general counsel Ross Wenzel and, just to be sure, one of the anti-doping leaders forwarded it, as well, according to the emails seen by the AP. All this came with Li's request that the noodles story be kept confidential. Turns out, it made it into Cottier's report, though he took the information with a grain of salt. "Indeed, giving it more attention would have required it to be documented, then scientifically verified and validated," he wrote. Neither Wenzel nor officials at the Chinese anti-doping agency returned messages from AP asking about the noodles conspiracy and the other athlete who Li suggested had been contaminated by them. Meanwhile, 11 of the swimmers who originally tested positive competed at the Paris Games earlier this year in a meet held under the cloud of the Chinese doping case. Though WADA considers the case closed, Koehler and others point to situations like this as one of many reasons that an investigation by someone other than Cottier, who was hired by WADA, is still needed. "It gives the appearance that people are just making things up as they go along on this, and hoping the story just goes away," Koehler said. "Which clearly it has not."FSK Completes Public Offering of $100 million 6.125% Unsecured Notes Due 2030None

ST.PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz, alongside the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association, presented Minnesota’s official Thanksgiving turkey on Tuesday, Nov. 26, in the Minnesota State Capitol reception room. The tom presented by Walz on Tuesday weighed in at 41.8 pounds. Paisley VonBerge, who has helped raise the bird since it was six weeks old, said the turkey will return back to her family’s farm in Hutchinson “to be enjoyed the way that turkeys are intended to be enjoyed.” ADVERTISEMENT President Joe Biden pardoned two Minnesota turkeys, Peach and Blossom, on Monday, Nov. 26, a contrast to Minnesota’s tradition of selecting a turkey to celebrate before it heads to the Thanksgiving dinner table. “We do it differently than in D.C. because here in Minnesota, we know turkeys are delicious, and we do not hide that fact, we celebrate that fact,” Walz said. During the presentation, Walz touted Minnesota’s turkey industry, which, with 600 farms, 40 million birds and 450 turkey farmers across the state, is number one in the nation, according to the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association (MTGA). MTGA President Jake Vlaminck said that the turkey industry in Minnesota has generated $16.5 billion for the state of Minnesota. Vlaminck said Minnesota’s rich industry is what allowed MTGA, alongside Walz, to donate $10,000 worth of turkey to Minnesota families ahead of Thanksgiving this year. “We delivered hundreds of turkeys last week to a long line of people waiting in the cold waiting for their Thanksgiving meal,” Second Harvest Heartland CEO Allison O’Toole said. “We could see the difference in their faces. It's moments like this that give Minnesota its reputation for a uniquely generous spirit.” Regarding the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump, his proposed tariff increases and their potential effect on some of Minnesota’s agriculture sectors like the turkey Industry, Walz said he will “watch those moves closely.” “Agriculture pays the heaviest price, states like Minnesota pay the heaviest price for that,” Walz said. “And I think at this time we're waiting to see what the forecast comes in.” ADVERTISEMENT Thom Peterson, Minnesota Department of Agriculture commissioner, said Mexico and Canada are some of Minnesota’s biggest markets and that 74% of Minnesota’s exports go to Mexico. Peterson said he and Gov. Walz are already beginning to have conversations with federal officials on how new trade agreements or tariffs could affect Minnesota. “When we were in D.C. yesterday with Peach and Blossom, we were honored to be joined by both Mexican and Canadian embassies,” Peterson said. “Trade is a lot of our [Minnesota’s] relationships. We're going to be active and engaged in that, those conversations. So we we do a lot of that ourselves, but we also have to partner with the federal government if they have a trade agreement.” After the formal presentation of the tom, Walz took a few off-turkey-topic questions — his longest stretch of answering questions from the press since returning from Minnesota. When asked if he regretted running with Vice President Kamala Harris, Walz said his only regret in life is not getting a dog sooner. “I'm proud to have been part of that. I think we put a message out that 75 million Americans liked, but not quite enough,” Walz said. “I was just glad to be out there, to be honest, glad to tell the Minnesota story, that we get things done together.” Walz said after coming home to a split legislature, he is hopeful leaders will be able to work things out and that he expects productivity from his partnered branch of government. ADVERTISEMENT “Look, we are in a split legislature like we were in 2019 and we got a lot done during that time, and it’s my expectation that we can do it, that we will compromise, we will continue to focus,” Walz said.

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ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans can subpoena Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis about her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the outside attorney she hired to lead her 2020 election interference case against former and future President Donald Trump and his allies, a judge has ruled. The decision by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram was published Monday. It is the latest blow to Willis in regard to her prosecution of Trump. On Nov. 19, the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis and her office from the case due to her relationship with Wade. Ingram rejected Willis’ arguments that GOP leaders of a state Senate committee didn’t have the authority to issue a pair of subpoenas in August seeking documents and her testimony. But the judge gave Willis until Jan. 13 to explain why the subpoenas shouldn’t be enforced. “(Willis) claims that the subpoenas are overbroad and seek privileged and/or confidential information,” the judge said in her order. “This may very well be true, but this court needs more details on the basis for these objections from (Willis) before ruling on (committee members’) application for enforcement.” Representatives for Willis did not immediately respond Friday to questions about the ruling. Sen. Greg Dolezal, one of the committee members, mentioned the ruling in a social media post Friday. “We’ll see you soon, Madam D.A.,” he wrote. Dolezal, R-Cumming, has unveiled plans to extend the life of the committee into 2025. He said Ingram’s ruling “follows the plain reading of the law as outlined in our committee.” “From open records laws to lawfully issued subpoenas, D.A. Willis seems to think she is above the law,” Dolezal said. “Once again, the courts ruled otherwise.” Ingram heard arguments from both sides during a Dec. 3 hearing in Atlanta. Willis claimed the subpoenas from the Senate’s Special Committee on Investigations were void because the committee and its members lacked legislative subpoena power, issued the subpoenas while the Senate was adjourned and violated part of the Georgia Constitution. Ingram disagreed. “It is undisputed that the General Assembly has the unenumerated and implied constitutional power to conduct investigations and the statutory authority to issue subpoenas for the purposes of such investigations,” she said. “Here, the Senate, as a chamber, empowered itself to issue subpoenas, which it was authorized to do.” The judge further said Willis failed to identify any authority to support her theory that the subpoenas could not be issued after the Legislature adjourned its regular session on March 28. Ingram also said the Georgia Constitution allows members of one branch of government to investigate members of another branch. The committee members offered to narrow the scope of the subpoenas, the judge noted. She gave them until Jan. 31 to respond to any objections Willis raises about enforcement of the subpoenas. Senators created the committee in January, just weeks after news surfaced that Willis had been in a romantic relationship with Wade. Members sought years worth of communications between Willis and Wade as well as information about his hiring and pay, the DA office’s federal grant funding and interactions with the White House, Justice Department and members of Congress regarding the elections case. They also sought to compel Willis’ attendance at a September hearing, which she declined to attend as she fought her summons in court.CHICAGO — Teresa Weatherspoon doesn’t want to dwell on the past. That’s easy to say. Harder to execute. But as she embraces a new role with Unrivaled — a 3-on-3 league that will debut in January — the former Chicago Sky coach wants to focus on the future. Weatherspoon will coach the Vinyl Basketball Club, an Unrivaled team that includes Arike Ogunbowale, Jordin Canada, Rhyne Howard, Rae Burrell, Aliyah Edwards and Dearica Hamby. The new gig is a welcome change for Weatherspoon, who felt blindsided when the Sky fired her Sept. 26 after only 11 months as coach. Weatherspoon knew her debut season as a professional head coach wasn’t ideal. The Sky went 13-27, and she struggled to wrangle a young roster while navigating injuries and the midseason trade of guard Marina Mabrey. Despite the Sky missing the playoffs for the first time in five years, Weatherspoon thought she had more time with the organization. She doesn’t want the firing to affect her confidence as a coach. “I process things and I let it go,” Weatherspoon said Wednesday in a news conference. “You’ve got to know this and stand on it — you’re not for everybody. I’m OK with that. “I know the things I did, I know the things I helped change. I know the things I had to go through and what I stood through. I will do that again — over and over and over.” With Unrivaled, Weatherspoon will return to a player development role. Although it is not officially affiliated with the WNBA, Unrivaled is focused on providing an offseason option for players to develop their game and supplement their income without going abroad. As a result, Unrivaled coaches will focus heavily on providing players with the offseason environment they typically seek from individual trainers and skills specialists. Unrivaled co-founder and President Alex Bazzell previously described the decision to hire Weatherspoon as a “no-brainer” for the league. Weatherspoon echoed the sentiment, emphasizing the importance of feeling valued as a coach in the wake of her Sky exit. “To know that you’re wanted and needed, it makes the decision to join very easy,” Weatherspoon said. The Unrivaled season will begin in January and lasts only eight weeks. After that, the future is uncertain for Weatherspoon, who didn’t provide any hints about whether she would return to the WNBA: “That’s to be seen.” After a whirlwind offseason that saw seven teams fire or part ways with their coaches, the Dallas Wings, Connecticut Sun and Washington Mystics still are searching for a replacement. Weatherspoon also could join the bench of an NBA or WNBA staff or return to college coaching. In the meantime, she’s eager to dive back into working hands-on with individual players with Unrivaled to improve their craft. “It’s a human connection,” Weatherspoon said. “It’s a gift to connect with people and show concern and love for others. I just want people to win. I want everything I experience to be shared. I want to be of help, to give more. “It’s important to lift and help. It’s all about my players. I want to lift things from them that they didn’t know existed.” ©2024 Chicago Tribune. Visit chicagotribune.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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