Goon with 50k bounty killed in Rohtak encounterAn adult male and a 12-year-old boy are recovering after being rescued from a capsized boat in the Crescent Beach Marina. On Tuesday night (Nov. 26) around 5:45 p.m., police in Surrey received a report that a capsized boat was in the Crescent Beach Marina, about two kilometres out into the water. Several first responders were on scene, including RCMP, Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue for Crescent Beach and Emergency Health Services (BCEHS). An adult male and a 12-year-old boy were located, Surrey RCMP shared with and were rescued by the search and rescue team, then taken to hospital by ambulance services "for precautionary purposes." Reports on social media indicated hearing a helicopter flying above in the area at the time of the rescue.CII seeks priority sector lending for new and emerging sectors

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Colorado Avalanche (12-9, in the Central Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (10-7-2, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa, Florida; Monday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche are looking to extend a three-game win streak with a victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Tampa Bay has a 10-7-2 record overall and a 6-2-1 record in home games. The Lightning have scored 68 total goals (3.6 per game) to rank 10th in NHL play. Colorado is 12-9 overall and 6-3-0 on the road. The Avalanche have an 8-5-0 record in games they have fewer penalties than their opponent. The teams play Monday for the second time this season. The Lightning won 5-2 in the previous matchup. Anthony Cirelli led the Lightning with two goals. TOP PERFORMERS: Nikita Kucherov has 11 goals and 17 assists for the Lightning. Emil Martinsen Lilleberg has scored goals over the past 10 games. Nathan MacKinnon has scored seven goals with 28 assists for the Avalanche. Sam Malinski has over the last 10 games. LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 4-4-2, averaging 3.4 goals, six assists, 3.4 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game. Avalanche: 7-3-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 6.2 assists, 2.9 penalties and 5.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game. INJURIES: Lightning: None listed. Avalanche: None listed. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar . The Associated PressRico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title when he hit a major league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves, has died. He was 85. Major League Baseball , the players’ association and the Braves paid tribute to Carty on social media on Sunday. A family friend told Listín Diario — a newspaper in Carty’s native Dominican Republic — that he died Saturday night in an Atlanta hospital. “Carty was one of the first groundbreaking Latino stars in the major leagues, and he established himself as a hero to millions in his native Dominican Republic, his hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, and the city of Atlanta, where he was a beloved fan favorite,” the players' association said in its statement . The Braves said Carty left an indelible mark on the organization. “While his on-field accomplishments will never be forgotten, his unforgettable smile and generous nature will be sorely missed,” the team said in its statement. Carty made his big league debut with the Braves in September 1963. He batted .330 with 22 homers and 88 RBIs in his first full season in 1964, finishing second to Dick Allen in voting for NL Rookie of the Year. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

Republicans lash out at Democrats' claims that Trump intelligence pick Gabbard is 'compromised'French opposition lawmakers brought the government down on Wednesday, throwing the European Union's second-biggest economic power deeper into a political crisis that threatens its capacity to legislate and rein in a massive budget deficit. Far-right and left-wing lawmakers joined forces to back a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his government, with a majority 331 votes in support of the motion. Barnier was expected to tender his resignation and that of his government to President Emmanuel Macron shortly. The hard left and far right punished Barnier for opting to use special constitutional powers to adopt part of an unpopular budget without a final vote in parliament, where it lacked majority support. The draft budget had sought 60 billion euros ($63.07 billion) in savings in a drive to shrink a gaping deficit. "This (deficit) reality will not disappear by the magic of a motion of censure," Barnier told lawmakers ahead of the vote, adding the budget deficit would come back to haunt whichever government comes next. No French government had lost a confidence vote since Georges Pompidou's in 1962. Macron ushered in the crisis by calling a snap election in June that delivered a polarised parliament. With its president diminished, France now risks ending the year without a stable government or a 2025 budget, although the constitution allows special measures that would avert a U.S.-style government shutdown. France's political turmoil will further weaken a European Union already reeling from the implosion of Germany's coalition government, and weeks before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. "We have arrived at the moment of truth," far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen said, adding that Barnier's austerity budget plans had been dangerous and unfair and would have meant chaos for France. The hard left France Unbowed (LFI) party demanded Macron's resignation. "With the no-confidence motion, all of the politics of Emmanuel Macron have been defeated and we demand that he goes," said LFI member Mathilde Panot. NO EASY EXIT FROM FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS France now faces a period of deep political uncertainty that is already unnerving investors in French sovereign bonds and stocks. Earlier this week, France's borrowing costs briefly exceeded those of Greece, generally considered far more risky. Macron must now make a choice. Three sources told Reuters that Macron aimed to install a new prime minister swiftly, with one saying he wanted to name a premier before a ceremony to reopen the Notre-Dame Cathedral on Saturday, which Trump is due to attend. Any new prime minister would face the same challenges as Barnier in getting bills, including the 2025 budget, adopted by a divided parliament. There can be no new parliamentary election before July. Macron could alternatively ask Barnier and his ministers to stay on in a caretaker capacity while he takes time to identify a prime minister able to attract sufficient cross-party support to pass legislation. A caretaker government could either propose emergency legislation to roll the tax-and-spend provisions in the 2024 budget into next year, or invoke special powers to pass the draft 2025 budget by decree - though jurists say this is a legal grey area and the political cost would be huge. Macron's opponents also could vote down one prime minister after the next. His rivals say the only meaningful way to end the protracted political crisis is for him to resign, something he has hitherto shown little inclination to do. ECONOMIC PAIN The upheaval is not without risk for Le Pen, who has for years sought to convince voters that her party offers a stable government in waiting. "The French will harshly judge the choice you are going to make," Laurent Wauquiez, a lawmaker from the conservative Les Republicains party who backs Macron, told Le Pen in parliament. Since Macron called the summer snap election, France's CAC 40 benchmark stock market index has dropped nearly 10% and is the heaviest loser among top EU economies. The euro single currency is down nearly 4%. "The positive signals ... that were seen over the summer, partly due to the Olympics, are now a thing of the past," Hamburg Commercial Bank economist Tariq Kamal Chaudhry said. Barnier's draft budget had sought to cut the fiscal deficit from a projected 6% of national output this year to 5% in 2025. Voting down his government would be catastrophic for state finances, he said. Le Pen shrugged off the warning. She said her party would support any eventual emergency law that rolls over the 2024 budget's tax-and-spend provisions into next year to ensure there is stopgap financing.

Suns star to miss more time with another injuryNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes reached more records after tech companies talked up how much artificial intelligence is boosting their results. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% Wednesday to add to what looks to be one of its best years of the millennium. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.7%, while the Nasdaq composite added 1.3% to its own record. Salesforce pulled the market higher after highlighting its artificial-intelligence offering for customers. Marvell Technology jumped even more after saying it’s seeing strong demand from AI. Treasury yields eased, while bitcoin climbed after President-elect Donald Trump nominated a crypto advocate to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are rising toward more records Wednesday after tech companies talked up how much of a boost they're getting from artificial intelligence . The S&P 500 climbed 0.5% to add to what looks to be one of its best years of the millennium. It’s on track to set an all-time high for the 56th time this year after coming off 10 gains in the last 11 days . The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 252 points, or 0.6%, with an hour remaining in trading, while the Nasdaq composite was adding 1.2% to its own record. Salesforce helped pull the market higher after delivering stronger revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected, though its profit fell just short. CEO Mark Benioff highlighted the company’s artificial-intelligence offering for customers, saying “the rise of autonomous AI agents is revolutionizing global labor, reshaping how industries operate and scale.” The stock of the company, which helps businesses manage their customers, rose 9.3%. Marvell Technology jumped even more after delivering better results than expected, up 23.2%. CEO Matt Murphy said the semiconductor supplier is seeing strong demand from AI and gave a forecast for profit in the upcoming quarter that topped analysts’ expectations. They helped offset a 9.8% drop for Foot Locker, which reported profit and revenue that fell short of analysts’ expectations. CEO Mary Dillon said the company is taking a more cautious view, and it cut its forecasts for sales and profit this year. Dillon pointed to how keen customers are for discounts and how soft demand has been outside of Thanksgiving week and other key selling periods. Retailers overall have offered mixed signals about how resilient U.S. shoppers can remain. Their spending has been one of the main reasons the U.S. economy has avoided a recession that earlier seemed inevitable because of high interest rates brought by the Federal Reserve to crush inflation. But shoppers are now contending with still-high prices and a slowing job market . This week’s highlight for Wall Street will be Friday’s jobs report from the U.S. government, which will show how many people employers hired and fired last month. A narrower report released on Wednesday morning may have offered a preview of it. The report from ADP suggested employers in the private sector increased their payrolls by less last month than economists expected. Hiring in manufacturing was the weakest since the spring, according to Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP. The report strengthened traders’ expectations that the Fed will cut its main interest rate again when it meets in two weeks. The Fed began easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high in September, hoping to offer more support for the job market. The central bank had appeared set to continue cutting rates into next year, but the election of Donald Trump has scrambled Wall Street’s expectations somewhat. Trump’s preference for higher tariffs and other policies could lead to higher economic growth and inflation , which could alter the Fed’s plans . Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the central bank can afford to cut its benchmark rate cautiously because inflation has slowed significantly from its peak two years ago and the economy remains sturdy. A separate report on Wednesday said health care, finance and other businesses in the U.S. services sector are continuing to grow, but not by as much as before and not by as much as economists expected. One respondent from the construction industry told the survey from the Institute for Supply Management that the Fed’s rate cuts have not pulled down mortgage rates as much as hoped yet. Plus “the unknown effect of tariffs clouds the future.” In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.18% from 4.23% late Tuesday. On Wall Street, Campbell’s fell 6% for one of the S&P 500’s sharper losses despite increasing its dividend and reporting a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Its revenue fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, and the National Football League’s Washington Commanders hired Campbell’s CEO Mark Clouse as its team president. Campbell’s said Mick Beekhuizen, its president of meals and beverages, will become its 15th CEO following Clouse’s departure. Gains for airline stocks helped offset that drop after JetBlue Airways said it saw stronger bookings for travel in November and December following the presidential election. It said it’s also benefiting from lower fuel prices, as well as lower costs due to improved on-time performance. JetBlue jumped 8.3%, while Southwest Airlines climbed 2.8%. In stock markets abroad, South Korea’s Kospi sank 1.4% following a night full of drama in Seoul. President Yoon Suk Yeol was facing possible impeachment after he suddenly declared martial law on Tuesday night, prompting troops to surround the parliament. Yoon accused pro-North Korean forces of plotting to overthrow one of the world’s most vibrant democracies. The martial law declaration was revoked about six hours later. Samsung Electronics fell 0.9% in Seoul. The country’s financial regulator said it was prepared to deploy 10 trillion won ($7.07 billion) into a stock market stabilization fund at any time, the Yonhap news agency reported. In the crypto market , bitcoin climbed back above $97,000 after Trump said he would nominate Paul Atkins , a cryptocurrency advocate, to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission. ___ AP Writers Matt Ott and Zimo Zhong contributed. Stan Choe, The Associated Press

Enzo Maresca has called for Noni Madueke to be 'much, much, much better' despite his starring role in Chelsea's latest win. The winger scored and provided an assisted in a 5-1 victory away to Southampton on Wednesday night. However, his work-ethic was questioned by the Blues boss after the match. Madueke teed up Christopher Nkunku to re-establish the visitors' lead after Joe Aribo cancelled out Axel Disasi's opener. The England international then added a goal of his own to double their lead before half time. He was hauled off in the 72nd minute, though, before Cole Palmer and his replacement Jadon Sancho added further gloss to the scoreline. Maresca was not entirely satisfied with the 22-year-old's performance. Speaking after the win, the Italian explained: "Noni can do much more. When he scores and assists and is happy, he starts to drop a little bit. "The reason he was not playing is because of the way he was training. "When he scores one, he needs to keep trying to score and assist. Noni needs to understand he has to work more and he can be much, much, much better." Madueke's exploits at St. Mary's have taken his tally for the season to five goals and two assists in 13 Premier League appearances. It comes after he also turned provider in the win over Aston Villa on Sunday. Following a second victory in four days, Madueke told talkSPORT's Ian Abrahams: "I could have scored a hat-trick today, quite easily. "But a goal and an assist is okay, I'll take that. I'll go into the next game and try and help my team." As for playing under Maresca, he added: "He's been great for me. "Not just in terms of the things I like to do, in quotation marks, score goals and beat players, but even in the less pretty parts of football, the defensive part, being reliable. "He's helped me a lot with that, so yes, credit to him." Wednesday's win saw Maresca's side cut the gap to leaders Liverpool down to seven points after the Reds were held to a 3-3 draw at Newcastle. Meanwhile, they could reduce the deficit even further on Sunday afternoon. The Blues visit Tottenham in a London derby before travelling to Kazakhstan to take on Astana in the Europa Conference League in midweek.Panthers' Ja'Tavion Sanders Hospitalized After Being Carted Off Injured vs. Chiefs

On the cold winter night of December 3, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol appeared on national television to declare martial law due to “threats posed by North Korea’s communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements.” It was the first time that martial law had been declared in the country since 1980, when Gen. Chun Doo-hwan deployed the South Korean military to massacre hundreds of pro-democracy activists in Gwangju — an attack that led to the downfall of dictatorship and birthed South Korean democracy. Reminiscent of a bygone era of military dictatorships, in the middle of the night, thousands of South Koreans poured into the streets after Yoon’s declaration and reasserted their democratic power. South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung said that Yoon “betrayed the people” and urged lawmakers to gather at the National Assembly, which quickly became ground zero for defending democracy. Nearly 300 armed special warfare troops stormed the National Assembly to block and arrest lawmakers from entering the building, smashing windows and firing tear gas on citizens and legislative aides who used their bodies, furniture and whatever they could use to push back the military as lawmakers voted on a resolution to rescind Yoon’s order. Within two hours, 190 legislators in the 300-member South Korean National Assembly (including members of Yoon’s own People’s Party) cast a swift, unanimous vote to revoke martial law. Even the leader of Yoon’s party and his close ally, Han Dong-hun, criticized Yoon’s action as “ wrong ” and pledged to “stop it along with the people.” By dawn, during a meeting with his cabinet, President Yoon called off martial law. “Although the crisis was quelled within six hours, the damage inflicted on South Korea’s democratic institutions is profound,” Youngmi Cho, executive director of the Korean Women’s Movement for Peace, texted me on Signal. Today, South Korea’s Democratic Party initiated an impeachment bill for President Yoon. Under the South Korean constitution, the National Assembly can impeach the president with two-thirds of the vote. Although many members of the People’s Party voted to rescind martial law, with 108 seats, opposition parties will need to secure at least eight votes from Yoon’s party to impeach the president. If the impeachment motion passes, Yoon’s power is suspended and the Constitutional Court will deliberate for 90 days on whether the president is guilty of the crimes and warrants removal from office. If Yoon is convicted, he will be removed from office and South Korea will hold a snap election in 60 days. Yoon’s top aides, including his chief of staff, have resigned, and the morning after Yoon called off martial law, thousands of protesters gathered at the National Assembly to call for his impeachment. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, which has more than a million members, demanded that President Yoon resign and called for a national strike. Yoon exploited South Korean fears of growing tensions with North Korea by taking a page from the McCarthyist playbook that uses anti-communist fear tactics to justify violating the constitution. He has used these repressive tactics before his December 3 declaration. He has red-baited opposition politicians as “pro-Pyongyang ‘Juche faction’” and has called former President Moon’s diplomatic efforts with North Korea as “false peace .” I know this well because last month, I was banned from entering South Korea where I was to deliver the keynote speech at an international youth peace summit in Gyeonggi Province, with no explanation or due process. Yoon, a former prosecutor who rose to prominence by investigating former presidents, narrowly edging out other candidates by less than 1 percent of the vote. But the South Korean people, whose candlelight revolution in 2016-2017 led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye after a wide-ranging corruption scandal, showed their fierce commitment to defend their hard-won democracy and hold leaders accountable. “What this has shown me is that South Korea’s democracy is resilient,” veteran journalist Kap Seol told me. “I choked up thinking about the possibility of people dying as a result of this coup.” Seol, who was beaten many times during South Korea’s dictatorship for exercising his democratic rights, still lives with pain after South Korean military police beat him with a baton and nearly cracked open his skull. “The physical and emotional scars are still fresh,” he explained referring to the mass beatings, detentions and torture millions of South Koreans suffered during decades of dictatorship. Since May 2022, Yoon has been embroiled in endless scandals, including political corruption and alleged election interference . Under Yoon’s reign, South Korea has also undergone serious democratic backsliding as his administration has targeted critics , journalists , labor unions, and peace and reunification activists. But what has sparked the public’s outrage, so much that over 100,000 South Koreans took to the streets to demand his impeachment in recent weeks before the martial law declaration is their frustration with Yoon’s incompetence. His approval rating hit an unprecedented 17 percent low last month. The day before Yoon declared martial law, the opposition party, which controls the purse with its majority, submitted next year’s budget, which significantly cut the president’s special budget — an allotment which Yoon has used to prosecute his enemies. Inequality has deepened in South Korea under Yoon’s administration, which gave tax cuts to the wealthy while cutting social welfare spending for the poor and working class. The Yoon administration also slashed South Korea’s research and development budget , alarming scientists and academics who fear this may weaken the nation’s innovation and global competitiveness. After 159 people were killed in a Halloween crowd crush in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul in 2022, Yoon not only failed to address the absence of public safety protocols and emergency response systems that contributed to the death toll, he also blocked a special investigation into the catastrophe. Yoon gutted the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family , controversially blaming feminism for South Korea’s low birth rates instead of the systemic patriarchy where women earn 31.5 percent less than their male counterparts . Yoon has been a darling of the West as Washington views him as a willing partner in intensifying military cooperation against China, North Korea and Russia. After their first trilateral summit in Camp David in August 2023, the Pentagon issued a statement that the U.S., South Korea and Japan “agreed to elevate defense collaboration” by “launching annual multidomain military exercises.” For Koreans on the peninsula and throughout the diaspora who still remember the brutality that Koreans suffered under 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation, it was shocking to see Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani boarding a South Korean warship in November. Although a majority of South Koreans opposed Yoon’s 2023 deal with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan to force South Korean companies to compensate the families of forced laborers from World War II, Yoon accepted forced reconciliation with Japan to advance the U.S.’s geopolitical goals to contain China. Even doctors and medical students have been protesting Yoon’s policies, which have exacerbated an already overburdened health care system hit hard by budget cuts and medical staff shortages. In February 2024, Yoon instituted a quota for medical degrees by increasing the enrollment of medical students over the next five years from 3,000 to 5,000, which led more than 90 percent of junior medical doctors to resign in protest. This has caused massive staffing shortages at hospitals, with 13.5 percent higher rates of death in emergency rooms than in the previous year. It’s been nearly a year, and they still have not returned. In his martial law declaration, Yoon ordered doctors and students to return to work, saying that if they failed to do so they would be punished. The threat demonstrated the president’s intention to resolve social problems by use of force or through military means, rather than through democratic processes. Youkyung Ko, a longtime democracy and peace activist, described how South Korean netizens started to chat on SMS and decided that they would go to the National Assembly to protect the lawmakers as they voted to rescind martial law. “Everyone decided to sacrifice their own personal safety against the military’s violence,” and that they would “fight for democracy at any cost,” Youkyung told me. In her conversations with young people in their 20s, they told her that they had learned about martial law through the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Han Kang’s novel about the democratic uprising in Gwangju, when ordinary citizens resisted the dictatorship and fought for democracy and freedom. As South Koreans across the political spectrum now demand that Yoon resign to safeguard their hard-won democracy, the rest of the world must learn from their example as authoritarian leaders become emboldened by Donald Trump’s election. Yoon is unfit to govern one of Asia’s biggest democracies, and before he further exploits military tensions and puts the Korean Peninsula at further risk of war, President Joe Biden and world leaders must support the South Korean people and their elected officials calling for Yoon’s resignation. The international community, and especially people in the United States, have much to learn from the South Korean pro-democracy movements on how to fight back against authoritarian strongmen. Imagine if Americans and members of Congress responded as swiftly and boldly as South Koreans did back on January 6, 2021. We would be facing a very different future.Rico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title when he hit a major league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves, has died. He was 85. Major League Baseball , the players’ association and the Braves paid tribute to Carty on social media on Sunday. A family friend told Listín Diario — a newspaper in Carty’s native Dominican Republic — that he died Saturday night in an Atlanta hospital. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.