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zbet WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — Jaland Lowe scored 19 of his career-high 22 points in the second half and collected eight rebounds and six assists in leading Pittsburgh to a 74-63 win over LSU at the Greenbrier Tip-Off on Friday. Pitt (6-0) will play the Wisconsin-UCF winner on Sunday for the tournament title. The Tigers (4-1) will take on the loser. This is Pitt's best start since 2018-19. Lowe made four 3-pointers while Ishmael Leggett added 21 points, six rebounds and five steals. Cameron Corhen scored 14 points and Zack Austin 10. The Panthers shot 64% in the second half after a 31% showing in the first. Jalen Reed had 14 points and seven rebounds, Vyctorius Miller came off the bench to score 14 points and Cam Carter added 11 for the Tigers, who shot 37%. LSU, which had trailed by as many as 12 in the second half, got within four on a four-point play by Miller with six minutes left but Lowe scored eight points, found Corhen for a pair of dunks and Leggett added seven points to help the Panthers pull away. Pitt stumbled at the end of the first half in surrendering the lead but came out in the second hot, hitting its first five shots and scoring the first 13 points. The Tigers missed their first 12 shots before finally getting a bucket and their first points from Carter nearly seven minutes into the second half. LSU had its only lead after Lowe was called for a technical foul with 4.9 seconds remaining in the first half and Carter hit a free throw to finish an 8-2 run to send the Tigers into the break ahead 28-27. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) BERLIN: Alice Weidel , the chancellor candidate of the Alternative for Germany ( AfD ), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration far-right party that depicts itself as a defender of traditional family values and ordinary people. The 45-year-old is raising two sons with a Sri Lankan-born woman, a filmmaker, and speaks fluent Mandarin, having done a doctorate in economics in China. A west German leading a party that is strongest in the former communist East, she worked for Goldman Sachs and Allianz Global Investors and as a freelance business consultant before entering politics. Weidel's unusual profile, however, is precisely what makes her an asset to the AfD, say political analysts, lending a party that is suspected by authorities of being antidemocratic a veneer of well-heeled liberal respectability. She comes across as more poised and competent on various topics than some of her colleagues, they say. Her critics call her a ruthless opportunist and a "wolf in sheep's clothing". "Weidel is someone who can appeal to a broader public than the typical AfD constituency, to the middle class bourgeoisie", said Oliver Lembcke, political scientist at the University of Bochum. "She seems like the adult in the room among all these lunatics and extremists." As AfD co-leader, Weidel has overseen a surge in support for the party in recent years, benefiting from frustration with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's fractious coalition whose collapse is set to result in a Feb. 23 snap election. The party is polling in second place on around 17%, after the conservatives on 33% but well ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats on 15%, the Greens on 14% and the pro-market Free Democrats (FDP) on 4%. This is the first time the AfD has nominated a chancellor candidate and Weidel has already acknowledged it is unlikely to enter government for now, given other parties refuse to work with it. Weidel expects this firewall to crumble by the 2029 election as voters clearly want a right-wing coalition, she told German outlet Compact. "That will be the decisive year for the AfD," said Weidel, sporting her trademark dark suit, white shirt and pearls, with her blonde hair tied back in a bun. NAZI GRANDFATHER Weidel describes her upbringing as "highly political", although her parents did not belong to any party. Her paternal grandfather had been a prominent Nazi judge, Die Welt newspaper reported last month, and the family was expelled from Silesia, now in Poland, after World War Two. The youngest of three, she recalls getting into trouble at school for being too argumentative as well as having uncomfortable encounters with Middle Eastern immigrants living in social housing in her west German town. "You don't enjoy going to the outdoor pool anymore as a teenager when people are always calling you "slut" or somesuch," she told WeltWoche. After getting two university studies in parallel, in business and economics, she joined Goldman Sachs, grew bored and moved to China to do a doctorate on the Chinese pension system while working as a business consultant. Weidel joined the AfD in 2013 over her opposition to bailouts during the euro zone crisis - before the party shifted rightwards to focus more on fighting immigration. Her status in the party cost Weidel her friendship circle, prompting the family to move towns, she told Weltwoche. An economic liberal, Weidel claims late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as her role model and wants Germany to push for a Brexit-style referendum on EU membership if it is unable to sufficiently reform the bloc to fix its "democratic deficit". A climate change sceptic, she wants to lower taxes, end the minimum wage, slim down the state and end the costly shift to a carbon neutral economy. She has also called for much tighter restrictions on immigration, tapping into a well of discontent in Germany with the large-scale arrivals from the Middle East in recent years. "Burqas, girls in headscarves, knife-wielding men on government benefits and other good-for-nothing people are not going to ensure our prosperity," Weidel told parliament in 2018 in a speech that also referenced "The Great Replacement" conspiracy theory popular among white nationalists. Versatility Her strength lies in her versatility, said Hans Vorlaender, a political scientist at Dresden University of Technology. She acts as a "moderating, well-mannered bourgeois politician" for established media, but then knows exactly how to reach her more extremist clientele elsewhere, in particular on social media. Weidel has acknowledged some friction over her personal lifestyle in a party that opposes gay marriage and expanding laws to allow same-sex couples to adopt. But she mostly does not focus on the issue of her identity - refusing to be called queer - and is adept at dealing with different wings of the party in order to maintain her position of power, tolerating rather than reining in the more extremist factions, said Lembcke. When same-sex marriage became law in Germany in 2017, she dismissed the matter as trivial compared to issues like mass migration. That same year Weidel said she was in the AfD "not despite her homosexuality but because of it" as it was the only party to address the issue of Muslim immigrants' hostility towards homosexuals, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.

The Left love, love, love the concept of 'equity', which is really just a fancy word they use to justify their blatant racism and bigotry. Under the guise of equity, they give their preferred political constituencies benefits and power while punishing those who aren't 'diverse' enough. Like in San Francisco, where the public school district is having budget issues. Instead of closing underperforming schools, they're targeting a majority Asian school with good performance. For 'equity' of course. NEW @FreeBeacon : Amid a severe budget crisis, the SF Unified School District decided that some schools needed to close. To do this, it paid a Stanford University professor $30,000 to create an "equity-centered" formula that targeted a high-performing, majority-Asian school. pic.twitter.com/DhJ8uqHU5X Thankfully, outcry has put the plan on hold. For now. More from The Free Beacon: After the results were announced in October, parents revolted, the school superintendent was forced to resign, and the closure plan was shelved indefinitely. Two weeks later, city voters ousted their embattled mayor, London Breed. Now, as the school district tries to rebuild under new leadership, the Stanford professor’s DEI-focused closure plan is coming under increasingly harsh scrutiny, especially from San Francisco's Asian community. Asian parents are enraged that the closure plan targeted a high-performing elementary school whose students are overwhelmingly low-income and Asian. The now-paused closure plan, parents argue, used a custom formula that rewarded poor-performing black and Hispanic schools and targeted low-income, high-performing Asian children for cutbacks. Straight-up racism. From the outset of the district's plan to close some schools, the San Francisco school system "intentionally planned for equity throughout the entire process" and Board of Education District Advisory Committee members "raised equity concerns at every meeting." pic.twitter.com/N7LrHRnnGO Equity is poison. Detailed, thorough, informative, well researched, and impactful. Real journalism. https://t.co/mRHpjEMK6X Exactly. I am a six figure donor to Stanford and I am so embarrassed about this I don’t know if I will ever donate again https://t.co/6fRn1aVbGl They don't deserve it. Think of Chinese immigrants who came to San Francisco to escape communism, only to have their kids’ schools shut down for doing too well and having the wrong genes. https://t.co/QDxMsZlrcU pic.twitter.com/khIDqAet24 Incredible, no? Didn't pay a Stanford University professor for an equity centered formula. Paid a Stanford University professor to bless a policy with a credential of legitimacy they already decided beforehand https://t.co/CsBfPtbSwL NAILED IT. I really will never understand how/when some people decided that it was completely OK to so blatantly target and discriminate against Asians. Seeing Stanford faculty get paid to do it is wild... https://t.co/M3HSCDAuCd Because Asians belie the Left's narrative on race and success, and the Left hates them for it. DEI is made up work that harms the masses in order to pay a few losers https://t.co/p8X3N5igEI Bingo.

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Here's how Trump plans to install longtime ally Kash Patel as FBI directorCitigroup Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Ally Financial Inc. ( NYSE:ALLY – Free Report ) by 22.3% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 242,602 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 44,314 shares during the period. Citigroup Inc.’s holdings in Ally Financial were worth $8,634,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Several other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Fifth Third Bancorp grew its position in Ally Financial by 1.2% during the 2nd quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 23,275 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $923,000 after purchasing an additional 278 shares during the last quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc grew its holdings in shares of Ally Financial by 1.9% during the third quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc now owns 15,638 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $557,000 after buying an additional 293 shares during the last quarter. Blue Trust Inc. increased its position in shares of Ally Financial by 8.2% in the 3rd quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 4,660 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $166,000 after acquiring an additional 352 shares during the period. Allworth Financial LP raised its stake in Ally Financial by 41.9% in the 3rd quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 1,426 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $51,000 after acquiring an additional 421 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Versant Capital Management Inc lifted its position in Ally Financial by 39.7% during the 2nd quarter. Versant Capital Management Inc now owns 1,630 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $65,000 after acquiring an additional 463 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 88.76% of the company’s stock. Ally Financial Price Performance Ally Financial stock opened at $40.00 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $12.19 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.00, a P/E/G ratio of 0.47 and a beta of 1.40. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $35.90 and its 200 day moving average price is $38.65. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.36, a quick ratio of 0.92 and a current ratio of 0.92. Ally Financial Inc. has a 1 year low of $28.99 and a 1 year high of $45.46. Ally Financial Dividend Announcement The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, November 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 1st were given a $0.30 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, November 1st. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.00%. Ally Financial’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 48.00%. 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AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memoCelta Vigo gets back to winning ways with victory over Mallorca MADRID (AP) — Celta Vigo got back to winning ways following a month without a victory when Hugo Álvarez and Iago Aspas gave it all three points in a 2-0 result at home to Mallorca in La Liga on Friday. Canadian Press Dec 6, 2024 3:04 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message MADRID (AP) — Celta Vigo got back to winning ways following a month without a victory when Hugo Álvarez and Iago Aspas gave it all three points in a 2-0 result at home to Mallorca in La Liga on Friday. Mallorca came into the match seeking to consolidate its sixth place position and although it had the best of the early chances it had little luck against in-form goalkeeper Vicente Guaita. Instead, Álvarez gave Celta the lead in the 32nd minute and Aspas made sure of the points when he volleyed home a rebound with eight minutes remaining. Antonio Raíllo was sent off for the visitor shortly beforehand for deliberate handball. Celta moved up into 10th place. Mallorca stayed in sixth. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Soccer Canada's Jonathan David scores milestone goal in Lille win over Brest in France Dec 6, 2024 2:45 PM Atalanta tops Serie A after late win over AC Milan while Inter goes 13 games unbeaten Dec 6, 2024 2:10 PM Woltemade's second half brace leads Stuttgart comeback to beat Union Berlin Dec 6, 2024 1:45 PM

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Canada has unveiled an Arctic foreign policy that commits to increasing domestic and international collaboration to combat emerging foreign threats in the North. The policy, released by Global Affairs Canada on Friday in Ottawa, says the North American Arctic is “no longer free from tension” because of increased geopolitical instability following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has “shaken the foundations of international co-operation in the Arctic.” While the policy doesn’t commit to any new defence spending, it is aimed at helping Canada work more closely with its allies. “Canada is an Arctic nation, and we are at a critical moment. We live in a tough world, and we need to be tougher in our response,” Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said at a press conference on Friday. “I don’t think the Arctic will be the primary theatre of conflict. I see the Arctic as the result of what is happening elsewhere in the world.” A key part of the plan is to revive the role of Canada’s Arctic ambassador, which was ended in 2006 under the government of former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, and commits to opening consulates in Nuuk, Greenland, and Anchorage, Alaska. It also outlines commitments to share information with territorial and Indigenous leaders on foreign interference threats and to initiate Arctic-specific dialogue with NATO allies, though such measures are already happening. The policy commits $34.7 million, with another $7 million ongoing. Much of it is to fund the renewed ambassador role and both consulates. The urgency for allied co-operation comes after Russia and China conducted joint military exercises in the Arctic in July, building on a 2022 commitment to co-operate with each other on the North. Joly said Russia is increasingly dependent on China because of the war in Ukraine, and the partnership — in which Joly said Russia was the junior partner — fulfils a Chinese ambition of declaring itself a near-Arctic state. “While the region’s remote location and challenging terrain has kept it protected for many generations, that reality is rapidly changing,” Defence Minister Bill Blair said. “This changing environment has created new threats and vulnerabilities, which do necessitate an urgent response to assert Canada’s sovereignty.” But complicating matters for Canada is balancing its priorities for Arctic sovereignty while collaborating with like-minded states on climate change. China, for instance, sends research vessels to the Arctic. But Canada says some of China’s forays into the region have been what it calls “dual-use” in having both research and military application. As such, the policy also lays out a commitment to approach foreign research in Canada’s Arctic through a national security lens, and having more scrutiny on those research projects. “Climate change is progressing at an alarming pace, with the Arctic warming four times faster than the global average, causing significant impacts on natural and human environments,” the policy reads. “These impacts serve as threat multipliers because changing environmental conditions create additional opportunities for foreign adversaries and competitors to covertly or overtly operate in the Canadian Arctic.” Canada lays claim to the Northwest Passage, for instance, but the claim is disputed by even its closest ally. The Americans claim it’s an international passageway, but have a 36-year-old agreement to notify Canada whenever sending vessels though it. Still, other countries see it as a commercial shipping opportunity, Canada says, notably China for its so-called “Polar Silk Road.” The Arctic foreign policy also commits Canada to resolving such boundary disputes, partly by working with Indigenous people for the stewardship over traditional waters. “The interests in the Arctic are changing,” said Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed, who said the national organization was pleased with the final policy. “There is a global interest in the Arctic, and an ambassador can help all other nation-states, especially, understand the way in which Canada asserts its sovereignty, its relationship with Inuit, and other Indigenous Peoples who live in the Arctic.” At a technical briefing ahead of the policy launch, a senior government official said the Arctic ambassador role will help deepen engagement on Arctic policy with like-minded countries, and work closely with territorial governments and Indigenous people to being their priorities to the international stage. Joly said the ambassador will be an Indigenous person from the North, and will have an office in the North. Gov. Gen. Mary Simon was Canada’s first Arctic ambassador when the position was first established in 1994. “That person would come to Ottawa and be in contact with diplomats here. But we need that person to be close to the communities in the North,” Joly said, adding hiring Indigenous northerners at Global Affairs Canada is a departmental priority. Jack Anawak was Canada’s last Arctic ambassador. At the time, he represented Canada’s interests at circumpolar meetings and co-ordinated Canada’s participation at the Arctic Council. “This was a very co-operative organization because whatever you discuss at that meeting, you would take back to your government to advise the government on what the council is trying to do,” Anawak told The Canadian Press. “I would imagine that this ambassador role will play a very pivotal role in keeping the relations between Arctic states relevant and positive,” Obed said, on how the role might look 18 years after it was ended. “We’re quite pleased with Canada’s reconstitution, if you will, of the Arctic ambassador position, and also the willingness to co-develop that particular position with Inuit.” Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here .