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HUMBOLDT, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man was convicted Thursday of killing two men and wounding a third in a shooting at a high school basketball game three years ago. Jadon Hardiman, 21, was found guilty in Gibson County of charges including second-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses, district attorney Frederick Agee said in a statement. He faces up to 76 years in prison at sentencing in April.by Jayantha Somasundaram (First part of this article appeared yesterday (23 Dec., 2024) In the early years of the Twentieth Century the Irish and the Jews were unwittingly united by their military campaign against British rule in Ireland and Palestine. “Reasons for these allegiances are complex and rooted in shared experiences of imperialism” wrote M. C. Rast author of Shaping Ireland’s Independence: Nationalist, Unionist and British Solutions to the Irish Question 1909-1925 in History Today’s June 2024 edition. Ireland is divided not only geographically between the north and south but also between Roman Catholicism and Protestant Christianity; while the Republican South is consciously pro-Palestine, Northern Ireland is pro-Israel. As the British tried to escape from the turmoil in both colonial Palestine and Ireland by resorting to partition, just as they would do in British India, the parallels become evident. The Government of Ireland Act (1920) and the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) only led to civil war and religious rioting; just what partition would do for Palestine and British India. Palestine became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1516 and was fought over during World War I. The British captured Palestine from the Ottomans during the War and were mandated by the League of Nations (the precursor to the United Nations) to progress Palestine towards independence. Jewish settlers had initially welcomed the British Mandate because they believed that London would, in terms of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Up to the first century AD Palestine had been Jewish-majority, then a Christian-majority society (second to the eleventh century) and thereafter Muslim-majority. “In 1919 there were approximately 58,000 Jews in Palestine, with ‘non-Jewish communities’ constituting 91.7 per cent of the population...by 1937 the Jewish population had risen to 386,084, comprising 27.9 per cent of the total,” explains Rast. In the half century beginning 1880, the USA was the destination of choice for European Jews, with two and a half million migrating over that period. This tide however was stemmed when the US Congress passed the Immigration Act in 1924 limiting this flow. European Jewish immigration therefore was redirected to Palestine. The 1937 Peel Commission would recommend partition; it used the Irish partition as its model saying that “the gulf between Arabs and Jews in Palestine is wider than that which separates Northern Ireland from the Irish Free State.” To which The Derry Journal retorted “Britain cares not a fig for the welfare of either Jew or Arab, any more than for Catholic or Protestant Irishman, except in so far as the one can be played off against the other for purposes of imperial policy.’ Irgun As a consequence of Arab rioting in August 1929 which saw 67 Jews killed in Hebron, a tragedy that led many Jews to believe in the need for armed action, Irgun – Hā Irgun Ha-Tzvaʾī Ha-Leūmī b-Ērētz Yiśrāʾel – the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel – was formed in 1931. Until his death in 1940, its leader was Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky (later Ze’ev Jabotinsky) a Russian Jew. The number of members of Irgun varied from a few hundred to a few thousand. But Jabotinsky’s influence survived his early death, his ideas being carried forward by Menachem Begin (Israel’s Prime Minister 1977–1983) and the son of his secretary the Polish Jew, Benzion Mileikowsky: Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Besides Irgun another important paramilitary group Lehi emerged in British Palestine. It was founded in 1940 by Avraham Stern. Stern was born in Poland in 1907 but moved to Palestine when he was 18 to study at the Hebrew University and would later join Irgun which was debating what stance should be adopted towards the British who were now fighting Nazi Germany. Stern argued that the Irish example during World War I provided the model for the Jews; to exploit Britain’s preoccupation with a war in Europe to mount pressure on them. He and his followers broke with Irgun in August 1940 and formed the Lohamei herut yisrael (The Fighters for Israel’s Freedom) or Lehi. Stern’s ideas were taken from Mikhail Bakunin the 19th century Russian anarchist. Bakunin stressed armed struggle and Stern viewed the two millennia of exile as lulling the Jewish people into complacency. According to Professor Shlomo Shpiro of Bar-Ilan University in Israel, a specialist in intelligence, terrorism and security, for Stern the task of nation building in Palestine and the struggle for statehood would enable Jewish exceptionalism to consummate itself. “Our nation has a culture and a level of development higher than those of other nations. We have higher moral values. Some call this ‘the Chosen People.’ We must be a unique group within a unique nation.” Lehi Stern believed that suffering and privation as a consequence of an armed struggle for nationhood and statehood would enable the Jews to rediscover themselves. The armed struggle must not however end with the achievement of statehood; it was a means not an end for the Jewish nation. Combat was therefore not merely the responsibility of the soldier. “Our nation will fight for a long time in its own land before it establishes its own sovereign rule...therefore, many more generations of Jewish children will go to school to learn the skills of the sword, and for many generations to come will the Hebrew Kingdom be as a military camp in the Oriental Arab desert.” Armed struggle was the duty of all; every Jew had to be a warrior. Religion more than political ends raised armed struggle to a ritual above any other facet of human endeavour. ‘‘Hallelujah with machine guns! The Lord is a Man of War! Hallelujah with battle and bomb! Hallelujah with rifle and grenade! Hallelujah to the Ruler of Zion!’’ Unlike many East European Jews who had socialist sympathies and admired the emancipation of the Jews that followed the Russian Revolution, Stern was influenced more by radical right-wing European conservative thinking and the practical gains of De Valera and the Sinn Fein in Ireland. In fact Yitzhak Shamir his lieutenant and successor adopted Michael as his nom de guerre in memory of Michael Collins, the Irish rebel. Stern succeeded in creating a nationalist ideology with messianic Jewish elements. “Stern was the first modern Jewish thinker to propound violence and terrorism as a core ideology of national liberation and independence, rather than a temporary or expedient means of self-defence.” (SHPIRO, Shlomo The Intellectual Foundations of Jewish National Terrorism: Avraham Stern and the Lehi (Terrorism and Political Violence Vol. 25, No. 4, 2013 pp 606–620) By early 1942 the British Police had effectively penetrated Lehi, had hunted down and killed or arrested its cadre and Stern had become a fugitive. He was finally tracked down and killed on 12 February 1942. Stern was succeeded by Yitzhak Yezernitsky (later Yitzhak Shamir) from Belarus, who would be a future Israeli prime minister (1983–84 and 1986–1992). Under Shamir, Lehi adopted Bakunin’s cell structure, became better organised, better equipped and drew new recruits enabling it to launch more effective attacks against the British in Palestine. He ordered the assassination in Cairo in November 1944 of the most senior British official in the region, the Minister Resident for the Middle East, 1st Baron Moyne, Lord Walter Edward Guinness DSO* PC. During and after the Second World War there was a huge influx of illegal Jewish refugees arriving in Palestine in ever increasing numbers, though even as late as 1947, the Palestinians, both Muslim and Christian, still made up two thirds of the population. King David Hotel In July 1946 Begin directed the bombing of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. The explosives were placed below its southern wing which “housed the nerve centre of British rule in Palestine: the government secretariat and the headquarters of both British military forces in Palestine and Transjordan and British intelligence.” (HOFFMAN, Bruce The rationality of terrorism and other forms of political violence: lessons from the Jewish campaign in Palestine 1937-1947 (Small Wars & Insurgencies Vol. 22, No. 2, May 2011, pp 258–272) King David Hotel: After the attack The blast killed 91 persons and injured 45 others, many of them civilians. The King David Hotel attack which is regarded as the single most lethal terrorist incident of the twentieth century secured Irgun’s political objective. It drew the world’s attention to Palestine, the struggle of the Jews and the military impotence of British colonial rule. It exposed the hollow claim of the British Mandate authorities that they were prevailing militarily against terrorism. Begin had successfully created panic among the British public and shaken their confidence in London’s ability to govern Palestine. Back in the UK newspaper editorials swayed public opinion with this typical report in the Manchester Guardian that the bombings “will be a shock to those who imagined that the Government’s firmness had put a stop to Jewish terrorism and had brought about an easier situation in Palestine. In fact, the opposite is the truth.” (Hoffman 2011:264). In Palestine the Mandate authority responded with harsh measures: daily curfews, cordon-and-search operations and even martial law. These extreme measures only alienated people from the British. Begin explained his strategy in these terms: “‘The very existence of an underground must, in the end, undermine the prestige of a colonial regime that lives by the legend of its omnipotence. Every attack which it fails to prevent is a blow at its standing. Even if the attack does not succeed, it makes a dent in that prestige, and that dent widens into a crack which is extended with every succeeding attack.’ Thus, even though the British forces outnumbered the terrorists by twenty to one – so that there was, according to one account, ‘one armed soldier to each adult male Jew in Palestine’ – despite this overwhelming numerical superiority, the British were still unable to destroy the Irgun and maintain order in Palestine.” (Hoffman 2011:265) Invisible Armies In July 1947, in response to the execution of three convicted Irgun terrorists the group publicly hung two captured British Army sergeants. According to the British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones this outrage was the most significant factor that determined London’s withdrawal from Palestine. “For both the British public and the press, the murders seemed to demonstrate the futility of the situation in Palestine and the pointlessness of remaining there any longer than was absolutely necessary.” (Hoffman 2011:266) Britain had deployed 100,000 troops in Palestine, saturated Jerusalem and turned it into a fortified camp controlled by barbed wire and curfews. Finally, unable to cope Britain handed the Palestine issue over to the United Nations. “In 1947 the British Cabinet decided to abandon Palestine after three years of attacks by Jewish terrorists, most belonging to the right-wing Irgun and Lehi (Stern Gang)...This was one of the most successful terrorist campaigns ever waged.” (BOOT, Max Invisible Armies (New York: Liveright Publishing 2013) p325) Both in Palestine and globally, many Jews were critical of this terror campaign. In 1948, The New York Times published a letter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as “a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.” Hoffman concludes that “it is indisputable that, at the very least, the successes won through violence by the Irgun clearly demonstrated that, notwithstanding the repeated denials of governments, terrorism can, in the right conditions and with the appropriate strategy and tactics, indeed ‘work’. Even if the Irgun’s success did not manifest itself in terms of the actual acquisition of power in government (Begin and his Herut Party remained in opposition for some 30 years)...their success in attracting attention to themselves and their cause, and most significantly both hastening and affecting government decision-making, cannot be disregarded... Thus the foundations were laid for the transformation of terrorism in the late 1960s from a primarily localized phenomenon into the security problem of global proportions that it is today. Indeed, when US military forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they found a copy of Begin’s seminal work, The Revolt, in the well-stocked library that al Qaeda maintained.” (Hoffman 2011:268).
Article content Amateur mixed martial arts fighter Natalija Rajkovic saw the red flags as soon as she watched the video her boyfriend took of her training partner Trokon Dousuah’s fight that ultimately caused his death earlier this week. Dousuah, 33, took part in a charity mixed martial arts event put on by U.K. promoter Ultra MMA on Saturday at the Enoch Community Centre and tragically died in hospital on Monday due to injuries sustained in the fight. “In the video, you can see his body looks normal but towards the end of the fight you could see his stomach was inflated, you could tell something was seriously wrong,” said Rajkovic, who told Postmedia that Dousuah died due to a ruptured kidney and had to be carried out of the cage and was seen in severe distress. “The more I think about it, the more red flags come up about how everything was run and handled.” Rajkovic said she believes that Dousuah shouldn’t have been allowed to fight at all because he suffered from asthma and she wonders why that wasn’t taken into account. “I have no idea why he was cleared to fight. Maybe he didn’t tell them he has asthma, but we all had to take a physical from a doctor. If you’re any kind of good doctor and someone tells you they have an MMA fight, they shouldn’t be cleared (if they have asthma).” Rajkovic and Dousuah were part of 30 amateur MMA fighters training to make their debut on this fight card. They trained together with coaches from Kingdom MMA in Edmonton with one-hour sessions twice a week for two months. ‘Eight weeks isn’t enough’ Rajkovic described Dousuah as someone that was “full of energy” and he was “always happy.” But she believed he wasn’t ready to step inside the cage and fight. Dousuah was married with two kids and another child on the way. “Honestly, I don’t believe any of us were ready. Training one or two hours a week for eight weeks isn’t enough,” said Rajkovic, who never got to fight on the card because it was cancelled shortly after Dousuah was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. “I fully knew the risks going into this. I knew I could get knocked out or seriously injured, but I don’t know if everyone who was supposed to fight on this card truly knows the seriousness of MMA. “I had a lot of concerns with how things were run. One fight scheduled on the card, the two fighters had a 20-pound difference in weight. That should never happen.” RCMP are investigating the death of Dousuah but Alberta RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff confirmed to Postmedia that all deaths outside of doctor’s care or hospital are investigated by police. Retired mixed martial artist and current boxer Ryan Ford, who also runs his own fight promotion and trains many mixed martial artists and boxers, is angry that this MMA card was allowed to go forward. Ford posted his displeasure in a video on his social media on Tuesday and didn’t hold back in his criticism of the event. “This is a stark reminder and harsh reality of this sport,” said Ford in the video. “You play basketball, you play football, but you don’t play combat sports. Whether it’s professional or amateur, stepping into that ring or cage, or even just sparring, carries real risk. Risk to your health, and risk to your life.” ‘Puts lives in danger’ Ford, who’s been involved professionally in mixed martial arts and boxing for almost two decades said anyone wanting to become a MMA fighter or boxer needs to take the right approach. “I don’t know who keeps pushing this bull—- nonsense idea that training twice a week for eight weeks with zero experience and stepping into a fight. That’s pure stupidity, and the kind of careless approach is what tarnishes combat sports and puts lives in danger,” said Ford, calling out the promoters who he said are putting inexperienced fighters at risk. “If you’re serious about getting into the fight game (as a fighter), you need to do it right. Get yourself to a legit gym. Find yourself an experienced coach who knows the sport inside and out and most importantly knows your safe. Their priority is to make sure you always make it back home to your loved ones in one piece after every fight. “This isn’t a game, respect the sport, respect your health and respect your life.” Ford told Postmedia on Wednesday he talked to one fighter who was scheduled to fight on the card but she didn’t start to spar until the week before the fight. Ford, who runs both amateur and professional fight cards, said one major concern he saw from this event was that none of the amateur fighters were wearing head gear, oversized gloves and shin guards, which is mandatory at the amateur level. “They asked us if we could train (these fighters), and I said, ‘No chance.’ I don’t corner people unless I train them and I know they’re ready. At the end of the day, if something happens to them, it’s part of me,” said Ford, who said amateur fighters should train for at least six months and have 50-60 sparring sessions before even considering stepping into the cage to fight. Held responsible Both Ford and Rajkovic believe that Ultra MMA and those involved with putting the event on should be held responsible for Dousuah’s death. “I’ve done some research on Ultra MMA and last year they had three fighters die in the U.K.,” Ford said. “The people who run these charity fight cards, they don’t care about the fighters, all they care about is money.” Bookmark our website and support our journalism: Don’t miss the news you need to know — add EdmontonJournal.com and EdmontonSun.com to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters here. You can also support our journalism by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribers gain unlimited access to The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, National Post and 13 other Canadian news sites. Support us by subscribing today: The Edmonton Journal | The Edmonton Sun.
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The secret US soldiers who trained for WWIII by free-falling with a NUKE between their legs READ MORE: The 'one-man army' who looked his killer in the eye and knew exactly what to do next By RUTH WALKER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 00:41 GMT, 30 December 2024 | Updated: 00:41 GMT, 30 December 2024 e-mail 1 View comments It was a warm, clear night in 1983 when about a dozen elite Green Berets jumped down from the back of a two-and a-half-ton truck at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina . They were met by two mysterious men in black flight suits. No patches or insignia indicated what branch of the military they represented, but they were clearly in charge ‘This is a classified operation,’ one of them told the special ops team. ‘From this point forward, we have command and control.’ As they finished briefing the group, another vehicle pulled up, containing a box the men were more than familiar with. They had been training for one like it for many hours; or at least, an inert version of it. This time, however, they were about to use the real thing. The SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition) was a top secret nuclear weapon no different from the one dropped on Hiroshima, but with one crucial difference: it was small enough to fit inside a rucksack. In his new book We Defy , about the lost chapters of Special Forces history, Jack Murphy reveals the US military's special nuclear program - called Green Light - was developed in 1962, in preparation for World War III, and remained an active part of its training until 1986. Three hours into their flight, the Green Berets were informed of their target: one of the largest hydroelectric dams in Cuba . Its destruction was intended to disrupt the country’s power supply, cripple the economy and cause widespread chaos. Soldiers may have played it down as a mere ‘backpack nuke’ but, after various iterations, it weighed close to 70 pounds and was extremely unwieldy The weapon was no different from the one dropped on Hiroshima, but with one crucial difference: it was small enough to fit inside a rucksack Only once they had parachuted to the target and were preparing to detonate the bomb were they suddenly informed this was just a training exercise. It turned out they were on a drop zone somewhere in New Mexico, more than a thousand miles from Cuba. ‘The Green Berets were still reeling, their adrenaline pumping,’ writes Murphy. ‘They had assumed they were deep behind enemy lines until moments previously. ‘“It was absolutely real,” a team member said.’ Jumping with the SADM was no easy task. Its operators may have played it down as a mere ‘backpack nuke’ but, after various iterations, it weighed in at close to 70 pounds and was extremely unwieldy. ‘Really experienced jumpers had a really hard time flying that bomb properly,’ said Tommy Shook, a team sergeant in the mid-1970s. ‘You didn't jump the bomb; it jumped you.’ Murphy writes: ‘In about 90 percent of his team’s freefall jumps with the weapon, [Shook] and his teammates missed the drop zone and ended up in the woods.’ Add to that the complicated logistics and it was not a mission for the faint hearted. ‘When infiltrating the SADM by parachute, one man jumped in with the bomb and another jumped in with the planewave generator that would detonate it,’ writes Murphy. ‘A third team member carried a conventional shaped explosive charge to destroy the SADM to prevent it from falling into enemy hands if the team were compromised. The freefall team's patch (left) and dark humor from the Green Light scuba unit Read More Inside the sinister world of real-life hired guns... and the chilling details Hollywood gets wrong ‘Each Green Light team also had to carry a 23-pound shaped charge to destroy the SADM before it could fall into enemy hands,’ he writes. ‘Using the emergency destruction charge would spread uranium and plutonium across the environment, causing a far greater ecological disaster than a low-yield nuclear detonation.’ Don Alexander, who spent a decade training on the program, told Murphy: ‘It was so in-extremis, that their concern was more the destruction of the technology than the localized contamination that would happen.’ Many of those involved also believed they were being trained for a one-way mission - they saw no plans for their escape to safety after detonating the bomb and, as one member said: ‘You were under the impression that you were expendable.’ One conspiracy theory had it that the timer didn't work, and at the moment it was detonated, it would wipe out the Special Forces team with it. Some even joked, darkly, that, when they unlocked the SADM to arm it for real, along with the bomb they would find 12 Medals of Honor and a bottle of Jack Daniels inside. ‘The rationale for this theory was that the US government would not want a handful of operators who could be captured running around behind enemy lines with knowledge about a nuclear bomb that was ticking down.’ If they survived, their orders were to ‘remain behind enemy lines, attempt to recruit Soviet military deserters, raise a guerrilla army and wage unconventional warfare.’ The SADM went into development in 1960, writes Murphy, ‘but the specifications were amended the following year to include a waterproof pressure case so that the device could be emplaced by frogmen.' It entered military service in April 1963 with the Army eventually stockpiling nearly 300 by the mid 1960s. Highly trained soldiers practiced swimming, kayaking and skiing with the nuke. The most dreaded training exercises were those that combined both parachuting and scuba - requiring the soldier to jump not just with the weapon but also carrying two oxygen tanks. And, while no SADM was ever activated, almost all of those involved said that, at times, they fully believed their training exercises were genuine. Former NCO Mike Taylor recalled one particular episode that occurred during the Reagan administration. ‘His team got called in and put into an isolation facility to begin planning for a mission to Europe, parachuting in straight from a flight from the United States,’ writes Murphy. ‘They were not told what country they were going to. The entire team thought it was the real deal, but after four days the team was sent home with no explanation.’ A Green Light swimmer suits up for SADM delivery 'I always thought that this was a psychological tool... to let the Russkies know that they had weird dudes and Green Berets running around with a nuke in their pocket' The most dreaded training exercises were those that combined both parachuting and scuba - requiring the soldier to jump not just with the weapon but also carrying two oxygen tanks Did the DoD ever really intend to use nuclear weapons on key targets during the Cold War? At least one person close to the program was convinced he would never see active combat. ‘I always thought that this was a psychological tool that was used at much higher levels just to let the Russkies know that they had weird dudes and Green Berets running around with a nuke in their pocket,’ said Captain Bill Flavin. Others, though, were not so sure, pointing to the detailed targets outside Europe as evidence that the US was targeting enemies closer to home than Russia. One veteran said his team would regularly review slide decks and aerial photography of targets in Latin America. ‘I can tell you where every intersection on the Cuba highway, where every military base, where every naval port was, where every dam was,’ he told Murphy. Another suggested that the Panama Canal had been in their sights. ‘I'm just glad we never had to do it for real,’ said Scott Wimberley, who swam the bomb into position during an exercise in the mid-1970s. ‘It was going to be a suicide mission.’ Decades on, some of those who served on Green Light are still convinced that was the case. Mike Adams, who was a young sergeant when he took part in a mission in 1985, retired as a Sergeant Major and was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 50. He believes he was exposed to radiological material during his service, and filed a claim with Veterans Affairs only to have it denied. ‘My doctor at Yale wrote a letter [to Veteran's Affairs] stating that there is no reason on planet Earth why a person as young and healthy as you are,’ should have certain types of cancer, Adams told Murphy. ‘He was adamant that we should have known to tie that to [Green Light].’ After a decade long fight with cancer, Mike Adams died on August 18, 2024. Edited from We Defy: The Lost Chapters of Special Forces History by Jack Murphy Cuba Share or comment on this article: The secret US soldiers who trained for WWIII by free-falling with a NUKE between their legs e-mail Add comment
HOUSTON (AP) — Rockets forward Amen Thompson threw Heat guard Tyler Herro to the floor to trigger an altercation that resulted in six ejections in the closing minute of Miami's 104-100 victory over Houston on Sunday. Thompson and Herro became entangled with Miami about to inbound the ball leading 99-94 with 35 seconds left. Thompson grabbed Herro by the jersey and tossed him, with referee Marc Davis describing it as Thompson “body slams Herro .” “I didn’t see it live, but I re-watched it,” Rockets coach Ime Udoka said. “They were in each other’s face, bumping chests a little bit, and one guy’s stronger than the other.” Herro, Thompson, and Udoka were ejected, as were Heat guard Terry Rozier, Rockets guard Jalen Green, and Rockets assistant coach Ben Sullivan. Davis said Green and Rozier escalated the altercation, while Sullivan was assessed a technical foul and ejected for unsportsmanlike comments as the referee was trying to redirect the Rockets' Alperen Sengun. The altercation occurred after Miami had come from 12 points down in the second half to regain the lead with the help of Houston missing 11 straight shots in the fourth quarter. Herro keyed the comeback, leading all scorers with 27 points and adding nine assists and six rebounds. He believed that's what frustrated Thompson. “Guess that’s what’s happens when someone’s scoring, throwing dimes, doing the whole thing,” Herro said. “I’d get mad, too.” Herro said he had never spoken to Thompson, who did not talk to reporters after Sunday’s game, so there was no previous bad blood between the two. “Just two competitors going at it, playing basketball,” Herro said. “It was a regular game that we were playing throughout.” Houston's Fred VanVleet had been ejected just before the fight, with Davis saying VanVleet made contact with him after being called for a 5-second violation. The win for Miami came 24 hours after losing 120-110 in Atlanta. The Heat were missing second-leading scorer Jimmy Butler for a fifth straight game, so Herro was proud of his team played against one of NBA’s best teams this season. “They’re top two, three in the West,” Herro said. “Very good defense. Got a bunch of young, athletic guys that can really play, so that’s a good win for us. That’s a stepping stone. We go 2-1 on the road. Put ourselves in a position to win yesterday, and I like how it’s going. We just got to continue to keep getting better.”
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Thompson-Herro fight leads to ejections of multiple players and coaches in Heat's victory in HoustonWarner Chappell Music has signed a global administration deal with K-pop superstar Rosé , also known as one-fourth of the girl group Blackpink. Rosé’s recent collaboration with Bruno Mars (also signed to Warner Chappell Music), the single “APT.,” has spent four weeks at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. chart. It also debuted at No. 1 on both charts, making Rosé the first female K-pop solo artist to do so simultaneously. In addition, the single hit No. 8 on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart. “I am beyond excited to join the team at Warner Chappell,” said Rosé in a statement. “There is so much more to come that I can’t wait to share — it’s going to be an amazing journey.” Rosé also recent;y released a new song, “Number One Girl,” her long-awaited solo debut album, “rosie,” is set to follow on Dec. 6. Ryan Press, President, North America, WCM said: “Rosé has earned this moment, and it’s a huge honor to officially welcome her to our Warner Chappell family. As she breaks record after record, she’s singlehandedly redefining the K-pop genre while also paving the way for a new era of cross-cultural expression. We’ve already hit the ground running with our partners at Atlantic to support ROSÉ’s bold vision and explore new creative opportunities for her songs. Above all, we can’t wait to see where her music takes us next.” + Anthem Entertainment has tapped Scot Sherrod as their senior director of creative for the company’s music publishing division. Sherrod brings with him a breadth of experience, having spent the past few years consulting for Sony Music Publishing, Jonas Group Publishing, Barry Coburn’s Ten Ten and Banz Music, and Moraine Music Group. Sherrod, with entrepreneur Suzane Strickland, helped launch boutique publishing company, RareSpark Media Group, where he spent eleven years signing and developing a wide array of talent including Walker Hayes. Sherrod was also had a hand in pitching the song “More Than A Memory” by Garth Brooks. + Splice has partnered with Alissia , a Grammy nominee in the best producer of the year (non-classical). The partnership will include a series of six curated sample collections presented as “Alissia Selects”, an exclusive contest for new creators on the Splice Discord, along with a demo of Splice in Studio One Pro 7. In 2025, Alissia will also spearhead the curation of “Alissia and Friends,” yet-to-be-released collections from “women representing the future of modern music,” per an official announcement. “Splice has always been a great tool when I create,” added Alissia. “I’m very excited to have partnered with them and to share these collections of curated sounds, and I hope it will inspire others!” “Alissia is a fantastic role model for our community, not just a great producer and instrumentalist but also someone who knows their way around Splice. We wish her all the best for the Grammys and we’re excited to see how Splice fans engage with this work,” said Kenny Ochoa, senior VP of content for Splice. + Hangout by Turntable Labs, Inc. , a new virtual listening community connecting users through music discovery and curation, has launched on the web, iOS and Android. Featuring songs from the world’s leading music companies, Hangout provides its community with access to over 100 million tracks, including licensed content from across the recorded music catalogs of Sony Music Entertainment (SONY) , Universal Music Group (UMGNF) , Warner Music Group (WMG) , and Merlin , the digital music licensing partner for the world’s leading independent record labels, distributors and other music rights holders. “With our broad global partnerships across the music companies in place, Hangout begins its journey to redefine the intersection of music and social media,” said Joseph Perla, Founder and CEO of Hangout. “Our vision has always been to create a platform that celebrates the joy of music but also helps support the music industry. Today marks a monumental step toward that goal.”Suella Braverman’s husband defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jacob Ognacevic had 25 points in Lipscomb's 112-54 victory over Division-III Asbury on Sunday night. Ognacevic added 12 rebounds for the Bisons (8-5). Charlie Williams scored 16 points while shooting 7 for 8, including 2 for 3 from beyond the arc. Will Pruitt shot 4 for 10, including 2 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 10 points. The Eagles were led in scoring by Cameron Jones, who finished with 19 points and seven rebounds. Johnathan Combs added 11 points for Asbury. Ben McNew also put up seven points. Lipscomb scored its most points since a 113-74 win over Asbury on Nov. 11, 2023. The Bisons topped the 100-point plateau four times last season. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
Ontario Provincial Police have charged a driver who was allegedly driving the wrong way on Highway 401 on Sunday. Police say the driver in a silver SUV was travelling eastbound in the westbound lanes of the highway in Loyalist Township before exiting at County Road 6, near Kingston. The motorist, a 70-year-old woman from Etobicoke, was charged with dangerous operation and stunt driving, police said in an email No collisions were reported. Lennox and Addington OPP are seeking any witnesses of the incident or anyone who may have dashcam video. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-888-310-1122, reference number E241694379. Shopping Trends The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. We may earn a commission when you use our links to shop. Read about us. 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, Digital Sports Journalist The drawhas been made, the courts are ready and the ball kids havebeen assembled for the start of New Zealand's premier tennistournament. The action at the Auckland Tennis Centrestarts on Monday with the women's week of the ASB Classic -and for the first time in a long time, we have a real chanceof seeing a local going deep and potentially lifting thetrophy. But it's not just about the action on thecourt. The ASB Classic is as much about what goes on in thestands, boxes and out in the hospitality area, so there isplenty to look forward to in our all-too-brief summer oftennis. Here is a look at who is competing and what tolook out for: MadisonKeys will be feeling pretty good right now. The last timeshe came to Auckland back in 2013 she was bundled out inqualifying, but this time returns as the number oneseed. She is currently ranked 20 in the world, butmight be on a collision course with fellow American SofiaKenin in the quarters. Kenin has won the last two matchesbetween the two, with chances of an overall American victoryhigh given that there are 10 of them in thedraw. Lulu Sun, born in TeAnau and raised in Switzerland, returns to Auckland as anofficial NZ representative for the first time. Not onlythat, but at her highest ranking of 40 and coming off a boomseason that saw her and be . She has won over $1million in prize money in 2024, and while she has not won aWTA title yet, she reached the final of the Abierto GNPSeguros in Mexico back in August. It's fair to saythat a win for Sun this week would be a dream for tournamentorganisers and headline writers alike. It is probably not accurate to say that theformer world number one and four-time Grand Slam champion isdesperate to reach those heights again, more that and enjoy italong the way. Osaka had a much-publicised mentalhealth break in 2021, just as she was poised to become thelong-term face of the women's game - which in financialterms would make her one of the highest paid athletes in theworld. It was a coup to get the current 58th rankedplayer in the world here, but judging by her social mediathis week, Osaka is having a good time sofar. After a first visit toAuckland that could not really have , Emma Raducanu has come back for the thirdyear in a row and will once again be a crowdfavourite. The 2021 US Open champion featured in oneof the the ASB Classic has ever seen back in January,when she went the distance in an ultimately losing effortagainst powerful Ukrainian Elina Svitolina. Raducanuprovides the star power alongside Osaka, and both playershave a nice run of matches before the business end of thetournament begins. The onlyother Kiwi in the draw, Vivian Wang, has been granted awildcard but drew number two seed Elise Mertens in the firstround. The Belgian is coming in ranked 34 in theworld, while American Amanda Anisimova, Sun and Denmark'sClara Tauson round out the top fiveseeds. The ASB Classic has awell-earned reputation for being one of the best-runsporting events in this part of the world, with a lot ofthat down to the hospitality options on offer. As long asthe weather plays its part, the stands should be full everyday, and out the back there is plenty of room to watch theaction on big screens. It is a rather unique setting,with centre court surrounded by corporate boxes, with theliberal amounts of booze served making for some rowdy crowdswatching the later matches.
