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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday. The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessary to bolster safety for children online, supporters say, but industry officials vow to fight the measure and others like it under the First Amendment. Warning labels for social media gained swift bipartisan support from dozens of attorneys general, including Bonta, after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on Congress to establish the requirements earlier this year, saying social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people.

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Our football betting expert Jones Knows is back to provide more Premier League insight ahead of the weekend card. Everton vs Liverpool, Saturday 12.30pm Are Everton dangerous outsiders here? This one feels like a free hit for them after their important win over Wolves that eases the pressure before a ghastly run of fixtures that includes Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City after this one against the title favourites. That Wolves win was the first time Everton had scored three or more goals in a Premier League game for 42 matches - in that period they have averaged less than a goal a game with just 0.95 goals scored per 90. The last eight Merseyside derbies have copped for punters backing the under 2.5 goals line and this feels like another opportunity to back it at 6/5 with Sky Bet. Liverpool have had a rough and intense schedule of late - something which affected their dogged but below-par performance at Newcastle. They may not be at their free-flowing best here with a low-scoring away win a runner. SCORE PREDICTION: 0-1 Aston Villa vs Southampton, Saturday 3pm - PLAY SUPER 6 HERE! Goals, goals, goals is once again starting to be the theme of the Premier League season so when a game has all the ingredients for a goal-fest punters should be acting accordingly to back the over lines. Trending Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player In the 30 Premier League games since the recent international break, the goals per game average stands at 3.39 with 14 of those games seeing over 3.5 goals land. Villa and Southampton have been responsible for four of those matches and are bringing a very healthy total match goal average to the table this season anyway. The over 3.5 goals line looks of interest in this one at 11/10 with Sky Bet. SCORE PREDICTION: 4-2 Brentford vs Newcastle, Saturday 3pm - PLAY SUPER 6 HERE! When on song, Alexander Isak is probably the most complete Premier League striker, isn't he? Also See: Download the Sky Sports app Get Sky Sports or stream with NOW Yes, Erling Haaland is the most ruthless goalscorer but Isak's pace, mobility, guile and finishing ability is something that could take Newcastle to some special places if he can remain consistent. The Swede was outstanding against Liverpool, giving Virgil van Dijk the runaround for large parts - something that not many strikers have done this season. If Newcastle and Isak can match the intensity and bite on show in that amazing 3-3 draw with Liverpool, then Brentford won't see which way they went and that explains why Eddie Howe's team are favourites at 13/10. But it's hard to predict which version of them will show up. Isak has scored in both his appearances against Brentford though and only Haaland, Mohamed Salah and Cole Palmer have averaged more goals per game than Isak's haul of 0.56 since he arrived at Newcastle. He's the bet here to score first at 9/2 with Sky Bet. SCORE PREDICTION: 1-2 Crystal Palace vs Manchester City, Saturday 3pm - PLAY SUPER 6 HERE! Manchester City looked more like themselves in the final third during their 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest but something is still amiss out of possession. Forest caused them big problems in transition and the lack of legs in midfield is still going to be an issue for Pep Guardiola, who was fortunate Chris Wood missed a big chance at 1-0 when through on goal. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player And Palace have the pace and power in attack, plus a very smart manager in Oliver Glasner to cause problems. I'll be stunned if they don't adopt the same approach as they did at Aston Villa where they played very directly and got the ball forward quickly to Ismaila Sarr, who revelled playing on the counter and got himself a goal. He's a nice price with Sky Bet at 7/2 to score. SCORE PREDICTION: 2-2 | JONES KNOWS' BEST BET: Ismaila Sarr to score (7/2 with Sky Bet) Leicester vs Brighton, Saturday 3pm Being lucky is a key part of life - and Ruud van Nistelrooy is getting his fair share of it. Not only has he landed himself a Premier League job by being at the right place at the right time, but he also somehow managed to win a game of football by two goals despite losing the shot count 8-31 and expected goals battle 1.67-3.10. The thing with luck, is it does run out eventually as I'm struggling to see anything but a Brighton victory if the Leicester we've seen all season show up here. The Foxes have shipped 18.14 shots per game in the Premier League - the most of any team as their defence has been overworked. Double up Brighton to win and for them to have 16 or more shots at 13/8 with Sky Bet. SCORE PREDICTION: 1-3 Manchester United vs Nottingham Forest, Saturday 5.30pm, live on Sky Sports - PLAY SUPER 6 HERE! I'm very keen on Manchester United games being low-scoring affairs while Ruben Amorim treats games like trials. It's a very bold move from him to keep chopping and changing his players in a world where results are everything, especially at a club like Manchester United. It's difficult to build patterns of play and consistency in forward areas when constantly refreshing the side. Getting a team to score goals is much harder than sorting the defence out. We know Nottingham Forest are going to play a very defensive type of game under Nuno Espirito Santo, who likes to keep things tight. This calendar year only Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City have a better expected goals process than Forest, offering up just 1.25 worth of expected goals per 90. I can see them being a tough nut for this United team to crack. The under 2.5 goals line at Evens looks a play. SCORE PREDICTION: 1-1 | JONES KNOWS' BEST BET: Under 2.5 goals (Evens with Sky Bet) Fulham vs Arsenal, Sunday 2pm, live on Sky Sports - PLAY SUPER 6 HERE! When the schedule becomes as intense as it is now, shock results happen. This looks the candidate for such a scenario on Super Sunday , where Arsenal are easily swerved for many reasons at 8/15 with Sky Bet. Looking back over the past few seasons at this time of year when a weekend fixture follows a midweek game, the Gunners have suffered defeats to Everton twice, were beaten at Aston Villa and drew 1-1 with Southampton. And Fulham are a serious team who are having a fine season under Marco Silva. Fulham Arsenal They've won the expected goals battle in 13 of their last 15 matches, including against Tottenham, Manchester City and Aston Villa. This shows us Fulham are putting in consistent performance levels, are restricting teams with their defensive process and creating good chances at the other end. That makes them look a huge price on the draw no bet with Sky Bet at 100/30. SCORE PREDICTION: 2-1 Ipswich vs Bournemouth, Sunday 2pm An Ipswich centre-back is going to score soon - and I want to be on him when he does. Kieran McKenna has tried to make Ipswich more of a threat from set pieces with the signings of Dara O'Shea and Jacob Greaves - two very dangerous centre-backs when it comes to attacking set pieces. It's showing signs of working as Town's centre-backs have had 24 shots between them to an expected goals figure of 1.89 this season. With the wand of Leif Davis' left foot delivering the goods, one is coming. Both O'Shea and Greaves are 14/1 to score anytime with Sky Bet - a couple of longshots to seriously consider. SCORE PREDICTION: 1-1 Tottenham vs Chelsea, Sunday 4.30pm, live on Sky Sports - PLAY SUPER 6 HERE! Whether or not Chelsea are in this title race, there is no hiding from the fact they've won 13 of their last 19 Premier League games. This looks a brilliant time to play Tottenham too based on the schedule making life tough for Ange Postecoglou, who is under pressure now. A key part of a manager now when managing the big clubs is rotating their squad to hopefully avoid injuries - some do it better than others. And Spurs are a team that picks up injuries and feels fatigue more than others. This will be their fifth game in 15 days - it's been an intense run too against Man City, Roma, Fulham and Bournemouth. Chelsea look one of the best bets of the weekend for the away win at 5/4 with Sky Bet. SCORE PREDICTION: 1-3 | JONES KNOWS' BEST BET: Chelsea to beat Tottenham (5/4 with Sky Bet) West Ham vs Wolves, Monday 8pm, live on Sky Sports This is going to be hard sell this bet - but I really like the under 2.5 goals line at 5/4 with Sky Bet - that is despite these two teams being horrendous defensively. Wolves have conceded 2.19 goals per game this calendar year and West Ham have shipped 2.15. Of ever-present Premier League teams during that time we are dealing with the worst two defences. However, Gary O'Neil said after that Everton defeat: "I have to find a way to give the group a better chance on Monday night." He was speaking about Wolves being unable to do the basics at Everton - all four goals came from set pieces. So, reading between the lines, he's basically going to go 11 men behind the ball at the London Stadium and engage low-block mode in order to frustrate the Hammers who won't be getting any sympathy from a disgruntled fanbase. It could be a tough watch but that's absolutely fine if we're profiting from a low-scoring snooze-fest. SCORE PREDICTION: 0-0 Jones Knows' best bets... Jones Knows' Profit & Loss record 24/25 Tom from Southampton became a millionaire for free with Super 6! Could you be the next jackpot winner? Play for free!Marcos to sign P6.352-T 2025 budget on Rizal Day

NoneThe four million households who pay for energy via pre-payment meters (PPMs) are being overlooked, a leading poverty group has warned. High prices and the concentration of energy use in the winter months mean most households with a PPM will need to spend more than 30 per cent of their income on energy costs during the winter months the Resolution Foundation claimed. Resolution said families were sitting in cold, dark homes and are being overlooked when it comes to the Government’s decarbonisation plans, raising questions on the extent to which they will be able to reap the rewards of cheaper energy that the net zero transition is expected to deliver. Resolution said bills are set to be more than £1,700 per yera in 2025 compared with just under £1,300 in late 2021 – and the position of some pensioners has deteriorated following the Government’s announcement to means test Winter Fuel Payments. Resolution said those on PPMs made up a quarter of the poorest fifth of English households. These household pre-pay for energy, compared with 1.5 per cent of the richest fifth – and in social and private renting households, where 38 and 18 per cent of families, respectively, are on PPMs, compared to just 2 per cent of owner occupiers. This seasonal spike forces families to either spend a very high proportion of their income to keep themselves warm, or to endure cold living conditions that mean their health is compromised. Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months The Resolution Foundation said pre payment meter customers often turned their heating for short periods of time, or only in some rooms, as a way of better managing credit levels. It argued that heat pumps, which are expected to provide most home heating in a low carbon future, are inefficient when used in this way and therefore can cost more to run. Although PPM customers are not likely to feature prominently in the early rollout of heat pumps, these issues will need addressing to avoid them being the last consumers left connected to the gas grid. These are tricky subjects that we will examine in more detail in 2025. So, while energy bills continue to dominate headlines, we need to spare a thought for vulnerable PPM customers who are set to face unsustainable pressures on budgets this winter and continuing struggles with high levels of debt. Looking ahead, more attention will need to be paid to how this group fares amid the race to net zero.None

Heavy travel day starts with brief grounding of all American Airlines flightsFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department's operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Before Biden's commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Berman said Trump's statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump's rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl's mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden's decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. _______ Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.OpenAI Debuts $200-Per-Month ChatGPT Pro Plan

Elon Musk, the world's richest person and one of Donald Trump's closest allies, met with US lawmakers Thursday on his plans for overseeing radical government spending cuts under the incoming administration. President-elect Trump rewarded the Tesla, X and SpaceX chief for his support during the White House campaign by naming him head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, along with another wealthy ally, Vivek Ramaswamy. Although the office, dubbed DOGE, has a purely advisory role, Musk's star power and intense influence in Trump's inner circle bring political clout. As Musk and Ramaswamy strode into the Capitol for meetings with lawmakers, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson touted "a new day in America." "There's an enormous amount of waste, fraud and abuse," he told reporters. "Government is too big, it does too many things, and it does almost nothing well." Musk and Ramaswamy have said they can identify billions of dollars of cuts in spending, sparking questions about whether Republicans will even try to slash politically popular social security programs. Writing in the Wall Street Journal last month, the two businessmen laid out plans for the White House to cut staff, trim government programs and reduce federal regulations, even if it means bypassing Congress, which holds budgetary power. "The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long," Musk and Ramaswamy wrote. "We're doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. During Trump's election campaign, Musk vowed to reduce federal spending by $2 trillion. This would represent cutting total US spending by a third, almost certainly meaning devastation of social support programs -- something that has never garnered strong political backing. Musk's emphasis on firing large numbers of government employees, however, echoes Republican talking points about the need to take on an overbearing state and may garner more support. Musk says he is seeking "mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy." Musk suggested banning government employees from working at home as an opening tactic. "Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome." Cuts will also target subsidies to public broadcasters and groups such as Planned Parenthood, which campaigns for abortion access and offers an array of reproductive health services. But DOGE is unlikely, at least initially, to go after welfare programs such as Social Security or health insurance for the poor and seniors, Ramaswamy said in an interview with Axios on Wednesday. Such cuts should be "a policy decision that belongs to the voters" and their representatives in Congress, Ramaswamy said. A reduction in military spending, which climbed to $820 billion in 2023, is also unlikely to be on the table. Musk's new role raises the question of potential conflicts of interest, since he could be issuing policy recommendations that impact directly on his own business empire. Underlining the close connection to DOGE, Musk's favorite cryptocurrency is called Dogecoin. rle/ev/md/sms/mdVICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S. tariffs, with conservative premiers lobbying Republican counterparts, left-leaning provincial leaders courting the Democrats, and Ottawa focusing on president-elect Donald Trump. The premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked about using their political diversity and connections to thwart the prospect of Trump’s proposed 25 per cent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, Eby said Thursday in a year-end interview. He said it was discussed that conservative premiers Danielle Smith in Alberta, Doug Ford in Ontario and Nova Scotia’s Tim Houston are well-placed to lobby Republican governors and business leaders. Eby said as a New Democrat he will likely have more in common with Democrat governors and business leaders from the West Coast states. “I can easily have conversations with governors and businesses down the West Coast of the U.S., where we have close relationships and our politics are very similar,” he said. “Premier Smith can have conversations with Republican governors. That would be more challenging for me, and (she) would have more connections potentially with the Trump administration than an NDP administration in B.C. would.” He said a meeting last week between the premiers and Trudeau discussed Canada’s diversity of representation, and how it could bring leverage and advantages in tariff talks. “It’s interesting, there was a lot of talk about what unity means in terms of Canada’s response to the tariffs,” he said. “There’s obviously a diversity of views around the Council of the Federation table of all the premiers. Certainly, mine is not the same as Premier Smith’s or Premier Ford’s or Premier Houston’s, and that diversity of views is actually potentially a significant strength for us as we enter into these discussions.” Eby also said he was prepared to appear on American’s right-leaning Fox News TV network, as did premiers Ford and Smith. “Anything that I can do to support the national effort to protect the families in Canada from the impact of tariffs and also families in the U.S. from those unjustified tariffs,” he said. “Absolutely, if I thought it was helpful.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2024. Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version said Tim Houston’s first name was John.Christmas 2024: What’s open, what’s closed on Wednesday, Dec. 25? Banks, UPS, FedEx, mail delivery, restaurants, stores, stock markets

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Chauvin, délégué syndical CFDT à Decathlon, où il travaille comme vendeur depuis dix-huit ans, ne décolère pas depuis l’annonce qui a été faite ce vendredi 29 novembre. Le groupe Decathlon un milliard d’euros de dividendes à (AFM), un de ses trois actionnaires principaux, alors que dans le même temps, Decathlon réduit ses effectifs et en demande toujours plus à ses salarié·es.RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will not appear at former President Donald Trump ’s rally on Saturday in the battleground state following a CNN report about Robinson’s alleged disturbing online posts, an absence that illustrates the liability the gubernatorial candidate poses for Trump and downballot GOP candidates. Robinson is not expected to attend the event in Wilmington, according to a person on the Trump campaign and a second person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning. Robinson has been a frequent presence at Trump's North Carolina campaign stops. The Republican nominee has referred to Robinson, who is Black, as “Martin Luther King on steroids" and long praised him. But in the wake of Thursday's CNN report , the Trump campaign issued a statement that didn't mention Robinson and instead spoke generally about how North Carolina was key to the campaign's efforts. Robinson's campaign didn't respond to a text Friday seeking confirmation on his Saturday plans. The deadline in state law for Robinson to withdraw as the Republican candidate for governor passed late Thursday. State Republican leaders could have picked a replacement had a withdrawal occurred. Robinson has denied writing the posts, which include racial and sexual comments. He said he wouldn't be forced out of the race by “salacious tabloid lies.” While Robinson won his GOP gubernatorial primary in March, he's been trailing in several recent polls to Democratic nominee Josh Stein , the state's attorney general. “Let me reassure you the things that you will see in that story — those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” he told supporters in a video released Thursday by his campaign. “You know my words. You know my character.” State law says a gubernatorial nominee had until the day before the first absentee ballots requested by military and overseas voters are distributed to withdraw. They were distributed starting Friday. Robinson has a history of inflammatory comments that Stein has said made him too extreme to lead North Carolina. They already have contributed to the prospect that campaign struggles for Robinson could help Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris win the state’s 16 electoral votes. Democrats jumped on Robinson and other Republicans after the report aired, showing on social media photos of Robinson with Trump or with other GOP candidates, attempting to tarnish them by association. Losing swing district races for a congressional seat and the General Assembly would endanger the GOP’s control of the U.S. House and retaining veto-proof majorities at the legislature. “The fallout is going to be huge,” Chris Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University, said Friday. “The Democrats are counting on this ... having a big effect.” But Cooper said Republicans could limit problems to the governor's race only if upward ticket-splitting trends among voters continue. Harris' campaign rolled out a new ad Friday it calls the first to link Trump to a down-ballot candidate. The commercial alternates between Trump’s praise for Robinson and the lieutenant governor’s comments which his critics have argued show his support for a statewide abortion ban without exceptions. Robinson's campaign have said that's not true. The Democratic National Committee is also running billboards in three major North Carolina cities showing a photo of Robinson and Trump and comments Trump has said about him. And a fundraising appeal Friday by Jeff Jackson, Democratic attorney general candidate, also includes a past video showing Republican opponent Dan Bishop saying he endorsed Robinson. “Every North Carolinian when they go to vote ought to look at whether a candidate has done that, because that sends a strong message about who you are as a candidate,” Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, a top Harris surrogate, said at a Friday news conference. CNN's story, which describes a series of comments that it said Robinson posted on the message board more than a decade ago, sent tremors through the state’s political class, particularly Republicans. While the state Republican Party came to Robinson’s defense late Thursday pointing out he's “categorically denied the allegations,” party Chairman Jason Simmons put out his own statement Friday calling them “deeply troubling” and that Robinson "needs to explain them to the people of North Carolina.” U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis , R-N.C., who endorsed a Robinson rival in the primary, said on X that Thursday “was a tough day, but we must stay focused on the races we can win.” He didn't mention the governor's race. U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, chairman of House Republicans' campaign arm, discounted Robinson’s impact in North Carolina congressional races. CNN reported that Robinson, who would be North Carolina’s first Black governor, attacked on the message board civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in searing terms and once referred to himself as a “black NAZI.” CNN also reported that Robinson wrote of being aroused by a memory of “peeping” women in gym showers when he was 14 along with an appreciation of transgender pornography. Robinson at one point referred to himself as a “perv,” according to CNN. The Associated Press has not independently confirmed that Robinson wrote and posted the messages. CNN said it matched details of the account on the pornographic website forum to other online accounts held by Robinson by comparing usernames, a known email address and his full name. CNN reported that details discussed by the account holder matched Robinson’s age, length of marriage and other biographical information. It also compared figures of speech that were used in his public Facebook profile and that appeared in discussions by the account on the pornographic website. This story was first published on Sep. 20, 2024. It was updated on Nov. 22, 2024 to correct which of Robinson’s social media accounts CNN cited in a comparison to language in messages from a pornographic website message board. CNN cited his public Facebook account, not his Twitter account. Price reported from New York. Associated Press writers Kevin Freking in Washington, Meg Kinnard in Chapin, South Carolina and Makiya Seminera in Raleigh contributed to this report.

Pope Francis kicks off a yearlong Jubilee that will test his stamina and Rome's patience VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has opened the great Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. The ceremony kicks off the 2025 Holy Year. It's a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw some 32 million pilgrims to Rome. And it will test the pope’s stamina and the ability of the Eternal City to welcome them. This begins the Christmas Eve Mass. The ceremony inaugurates the once-every-25-year tradition of a Jubilee. Francis has dedicated the 2025 Jubilee to the theme of hope. Bethlehem marks a second subdued Christmas during the war in Gaza BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza. Manger Square lacked its usual festive lights and crowds of tourists on Tuesday. Instead, the area outside the Nativity Church was quiet. The church was built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born. The war, the violence in the occupied West Bank it has spurred and the lack of festivities has deeply hurt Bethlehem's economy. The town relies heavily on Christmas tourism. The economy in the West Bank was already reeling because of restrictions placed on laborers preventing them from entering Israel during the war. Heavy travel day off to a rough start after American Airlines briefly grounds all flights WASHINGTON (AP) — American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide due to a technical problem just as the Christmas travel season kicked into overdrive and winter weather threatened more potential problems for those planning to fly or drive. Government regulators cleared American flights to get airborne Tuesday about one hour after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a national ground stop, which prevented planes from taking off. American said in an email that the problem was caused by an issue with a vendor technology that maintains its flight operating system. The flight-tracking site FlightAware reported that more than 3,200 flights entering or leaving the U.S., or serving domestic destinations, were delayed. Twenty-eight flights were canceled. Middle East latest: Bethlehem marks a somber Christmas Eve amid war in Gaza TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Palestinian city of Bethlehem is preparing for another somber Christmas under the shadow of war in Gaza. Most festivities cancelled and crowds of tourists absent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 15-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion has killed over 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its count. Caitlin Clark honored as AP Female Athlete of the Year following her impact on women's sports Caitlin Clark has been named the AP Female Athlete of the Year after raising the profile of women’s basketball to unprecedented levels in both college and the WNBA. She led Iowa to the national championship game, was the top pick in the WNBA draft and captured rookie of the year honors in the league. Fans packed sold-out arenas and millions of television viewers followed her journey on and off the court. Clark's exploits also put other women's sports leagues in the spotlight. A group of 74 sports journalists from AP and its members voted on the award. Other athletes who received votes included Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and boxer Imane Khelif. Clark’s only the fourth women’s basketball player to win the award since it was first given in 1931. Major storm pounds California's central coast, blamed for man's death and partially collapsing pier SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A major storm has pounded California’s central coast bringing flooding and high surf that was blamed for fatally trapping a man beneath debris on a beach and later partially collapsing a pier, tossing three people into the Pacific Ocean. The storm was expected to bring hurricane-force winds and waves up to 60 feet Monday as it gained strength from California to the Pacific Northwest. Some California cities have ordered beachfront homes and hotels to evacuate early Monday afternoon. Forecasters have warned that storm swells would continue to increase throughout the day. Medellin Cartel victims demand truth and justice as cartel boss Fabio Ochoa walks free in Colombia BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — The return of the notorious drug trafficker Fabio Ochoa to Colombia, following his deportation from the United States, has reopened old wounds among the victims of the Medellin cartel, with some expressing their dismay at the decision of Colombian authorities to let the former mafia boss walk free.Some of the cartel victims said on Tuesday that they are hoping the former drug lord will at least cooperate with ongoing efforts by human rights groups to investigate one of the most violent periods of Colombia’s history, and demanded that Colombian prosecutors also take Ochoa in for questioning. Man accused in the burning death of a woman on a New York subway appears in court NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die has been arraigned. The suspect, identified by police as Sebastian Zapeta, was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court on Tuesday. Federal immigration officials say 33-year-old Zapeta is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally after previously being deported in 2018. The apparently random attack occurred Sunday morning on a stationary F train at the Coney Island station in Brooklyn. The crime deepened a growing sense of unease among New Yorkers about the safety of the subway system. Amsterdam court sentences 5 men over violence linked to Ajax-Maccabi soccer game THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam District Court has issued sentences of up to six months in jail against 5 men who were involved in violent disorder after a soccer match between the Dutch club Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv in November. The riots caused an international outcry and accusations of deliberate anti-Semitic attacks. The violence following a UEFA Europa League match left 5 people in hospital. More than 60 suspects were detained. The court on Tuesday sentenced one man to 6 months in prison, another to 2 1/2 months, two to 1 month and one to 100 hours of community service.Gifts, Novelty, and Souvenirs Market to grow by USD 18.62 Billion (2024-2028), driven by tech advancements and premiumization, Report on AI-driven market evolution - Technavio

NEW YORK (AP) — A slide for market superstar Nvidia on Monday knocked Wall Street off its big rally and helped drag U.S. stock indexes down from their records. The S&P 500 fell 0.6%, coming off its 57th all-time high of the year so far. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 240 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite pulled back 0.6% from its own record. Nvidia’s fall of 2.5% was by far the heaviest weight on the S&P 500 after China said it’s investigating the company over suspected violations of Chinese anti-monopoly laws. Nvidia has skyrocketed to become one of Wall Street’s most valuable companies because its chips are driving much of the world’s move into artificial-intelligence technology. That gives its stock’s movements more sway on the S&P 500 than nearly every other. Nvidia’s drop overshadowed gains in Hong Kong and for Chinese stocks trading in the United States on hopes that China will deliver more stimulus for the world’s second-largest economy. Roughly three in seven of the stocks in the S&P 500 also rose. The week’s highlight for Wall Street will arrive midweek when the latest updates on inflation arrive. Economists expect Wednesday’s report to show the inflation that U.S. consumers are feeling remained stuck at close to the same level last month. A separate report on Thursday, meanwhile, could show an acceleration in inflation at the wholesale level. They’re the last big pieces of data the Federal Reserve will get before its meeting next week on interest rates. The widespread expectation is still that the central bank will cut its main interest rate for the third time this year. The Fed has been easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high since September to offer more help for the slowing job market, after bringing inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower interest rates can ease the brakes off the economy, but they can also offer more fuel for inflation. Expectations for a series of cuts from the Fed have been a major reason the S&P 500 has set so many all-time highs this year. “Investors should enjoy this rally while it lasts—there’s little on the horizon to disrupt the momentum through year-end,” according to Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide, though he warns stocks could stumble soon because of how overheated they’ve gotten. On Wall Street, Interpublic Group rose 3.6% after rival Omnicom said it would buy the marketing and communications firm in an all-stock deal. The pair had a combined revenue of $25.6 billion last year. Omnicom, meanwhile, sank 10.2%. Macy’s climbed 1.8% after an activist investor, Barington Capital Group, called on the retailer to buy back at least $2 billion of its own stock over the next three years and make other moves to help boost its stock price. Super Micro Computer rose 0.5% after saying it got an extension that will keep its stock listed on the Nasdaq through Feb. 25, as it works to file its delayed annual report and other required financial statements. Earlier this month, the maker of servers used in artificial-intelligence technology said an investigation found no evidence of misconduct by its management or by the company’s board following the resignation of its public auditor . All told, the S&P 500 fell 37.42 points to 6,052.85. The Dow dipped 240.59 to 4,401.93, and the Nasdaq composite lost 123.08 to 19,736.69. In the oil market, a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude rallied 1.7% to settle at $68.37 following the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, who sought asylum in Moscow after rebels. Brent crude, the international standard, added 1.4% to $72.14 per barrel. The price of gold also rose 1% to $2,685.80 per ounce amid the uncertainty created by the end of the Assad family’s 50 years of iron rule. In stock markets abroad, the Hang Seng jumped 2.8% in Hong Kong after top Chinese leaders agreed on a “moderately loose” monetary policy for the world’s second-largest economy. That’s a shift away from a more cautious, “prudent” stance for the first time in 10 years. A major planning meeting later this week could also bring more stimulus for the Chinese economy. U.S.-listed stocks of several Chinese companies climbed, including a 12.4% jump for electric-vehicle company Nio and a 7.4% rise for Alibaba Group. Stocks in Shanghai, though, were roughly flat. In Seoul, South Korea’s Kospi slumped 2.8% as the fallout continues from President Yoon Suk Yeol ’s brief declaration of martial law last week in the midst of a budget dispute. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.19% from 4.15% late Friday. AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.