Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general, is a staunch ally of the former president, defending him against impeachment during his first term and pushing his false claims of election fraud as he sought to cling on to the White House. The 59-year-old former Florida attorney general, if confirmed by the Senate, will now serve as the top law enforcement official in a second Trump administration. "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans -- Not anymore," Trump wrote on his Truth Social network. "Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again." Bondi's nomination means the top ranks of the Justice Department will be filled by Trump loyalists, as the president-elect has named three of the lawyers who defended him in his multiple criminal cases to its other high-ranking roles. Trump tapped Bondi to be attorney general on Thursday after his first pick, firebrand ex-Florida lawmaker Matt Gaetz, dropped out amid sexual misconduct allegations and doubts that he could obtain Senate confirmation. A graduate of the University of Florida with a law degree from Stetson University, Bondi served as a prosecutor for 18 years before being elected attorney general of the "Sunshine State" in 2010, the first woman to hold the post. Bondi, a native of Trump's adopted home state of Florida, was reelected to a second term in 2014. As attorney general, Bondi notably fought opioid addiction and human trafficking while taking a tough stance on crime and supporting the death penalty. She sued BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and obtained more than $2 billion in economic relief for Florida, according to her biography page at Ballard Partners, a powerful lobbying firm where she has worked after leaving office. While serving as attorney general, Bondi was drawn into a controversy involving Trump when she declined in 2013 to join a multi-state prosecution accusing Trump University of fraud. It emerged later that Bondi's reelection committee had received a $25,000 donation from the charitable Trump Foundation. Both Trump and Bondi denied any wrongdoing. Bondi joined Trump's legal team during his first impeachment trial, in which he was alleged to have pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find political dirt on his 2020 election opponent, Democrat Joe Biden. Trump was impeached by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives but acquitted by the Republican-majority Senate. After the 2020 election, Bondi made television appearances on behalf of Trump and pushed to de-legitimize vote counting in battleground states as part of the push by the former president to overturn the results of the vote. Bondi has also criticized the criminal cases brought against Trump, appearing in solidarity at his New York trial, where he was convicted of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to a porn star. At Ballard Partners, Bondi has done work for Amazon, General Motors and Uber and as a registered lobbyist for the oil-rich Gulf nation of Qatar, according to press reports. She is also a member of the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned right-wing think tank. cl/dwHydraulic Oscillator Market 2024: A Decade of Phenomenal Growth Ahead

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Inquiry into journalists’ trolling ordered, Senate told Senator Irfan says that they defame state institutions in world by resorting to such tactics ISLAMABAD: The Senate was informed on Monday that the government had ordered an inquiry into targeting and social media trolling of some journalists and anchorpersons by a group on the basis of their political ideology. Law and Justice Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar shared this with the House in response to the concerns, expressed on the floor of the Senate, as PPP’s Saifullah Khan Dhareejo raised the issue of the campaign against senior journalists Syed Talat Hussain, Hassan Ayub, Muneeb Farooq and Muzamil Hussain Shah through anonymous social media accounts involving several followers of a political party. Tarar explained the matter was highlighted during a meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, which was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar besides three other cabinet members as well the information minister. The law minister lamented that the names of journalists’ children and details of their schools were being shared on social media as part of trolling and harassment campaign. Parliamentary leader of the ruling PMLN, Senator Irfan Siddiqui, regretted that in the last few years, a new trend had been set by not listening to other side’s voice and suppressing the voice of dissent in total disregard to democratic traditions, tolerance and patience. He pointed out that a party, which he did not want to name, had in a very systematic way, when it was in the government, rendered these journalists jobless by putting pressure on their respective organisations. “Such tactics no matter whosoever uses, don’t work and the voice of truth cannot be choked; You may attack the truthful journalists, target their families. These kinds of traditions needed to be eliminated. We fully express solidarity with the journalists. These are the journalists who were fired from their jobs during the tenure of this political party,” he noted. He condemned that in the cases of truthful journalists, more oppression was being done in Pakistan than in Indian Occupied Kashmir and Palestine. Senator Irfan noted that they defame the state institutions in the world by resorting to such tactics and they could not be considered Pakistan’s friends. However, he said that genuine criticism from any side was everyone’s right and this should be safeguarded. “I will also convey this matter to the prime minister. The culture of silencing voices must end. And there should be a full stop to resorting to violence in the name of peaceful protest,” he added. PTI Senator Saifullah Abro, in his speech on the recent PTI protest in Islamabad, proposed formation of a House committee without representation from his party to look into the killing of relative of a Senate employee named Mobeen on November 26. He waved a death certificate purportedly issued by the PolyClinic hospital and claimed gunshot had been mentioned as cause of death in the certificate. He pointed out the death occurred at 5:12pm when Article 245 had not been invoked. To this, the presiding officer Irfan Siddiqui said the PTI had taken the matter to the court and should present evidence there. However, Senator Abro stressed that the proposed committee should also ascertain as to who was behind putting Asif Ali Zardari, Faryal Talpur, Nawaz Sharif and his spouse and other prominent political leaders in jail and this be followed by the joint condemnation by the House of those responsible. He suggested that it should also be probed as to why a money-laundering case involving billions of rupees had been registered against ‘innocent Shehbaz Sharif’ during the PTI’s days in power. He continued that he would condemn if the case was found out to be concocted; Otherwise, those who played role in acquittal should be condemned. PMLN’s Khalil Tahir said he could not understand what type of freedom they wanted, as one of their leaders recently said that Donald Trump had won elections and he would now get freedom for Imran Khan, who would then liberate Pakistan. He wondered did they want freedom to dub those who had brought them as Mir Jaffar and Mir Sadiq and Dirty Harry. Referring to the PTI’s recent protest in Islamabad, he said it was their party’s workers who had asked Ali Amin Gandapur not to flee and had thrown shoes at him and beat him with sticks, but still “he managed to run away on a punctured vehicle from the protest”. He asked what type of people were they that their leader Omar Ayub claimed that a bullet had hit his chest and next day he was holding a news conference. He noted that Gandapur had again announced coming to the capital with guns. “If there are four arteries, and one of them is choked, then the entire system will be halted, but this would never happen by saying so,” he said. Zeeshan Khanzada of the PTI said what options were left with them after so many months, the government appeared unmoved on one of their two major demands of formation of a judicial commission on the ‘stolen mandate’. He said the government said it had not made cases against Imran Khan, then why the outside world was saying that injustice was being meted out to him. The PTI lawmaker said that the government wanted to trigger fighting within his party by talking about who had not come to the rally and who had gone away. “Our party’s support is there just because of Imran Khan as long as he is there, none can harm our party,” he declared. At the outset, the House offered Fateha for the departed souls of the martyrs of Army Public School (APS) Peshawar tragedy and senior politician and PMLN leader Siddiqueul Farooq. The Senate also warmly welcomed a delegation of Palestinian medical students in the visitor gallery, who are studying now in Pakistan to complete their education. The law minister said that the government would try to accommodate maximum number of students from Palestine as a mark of continued support to the cause of Palestinians and solidarity with them. The House referred ‘The International Institute of Technology, Culture and Health Bill, 2024’ to the Joint Sitting of the Parliament for consideration. The House will now meet on Thursday afternoon.Skyhawks Sports Announces 2024 Coach of the Year Winner and FinalistsThe 5 Best GeForce NOW games to play over the Christmas breakAP Business SummaryBrief at 6:04 p.m. EST

First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he's picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20. In a Sunday announcement naming his ambassador to Denmark, Mr. Trump wrote that, “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity." Mr. Trump again having designs on Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the U.S. could retake control of the Panama Canal if something isn't done to ease rising shipping costs required for using the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He's also been suggesting that Canada become the 51st U.S. state and referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the “Great State of Canada.” Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, said Mr. Trump tweaking friendly countries harks back to an aggressive style he used during his days in business. “You ask something unreasonable and it’s more likely you can get something less unreasonable,” said Mr. Farnsworth, who is also author of the book “Presidential Communication and Character.” Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large U.S. military base. It gained home rule from Denmark in 1979 and its head of government, Múte Bourup Egede, suggested that Mr. Trump’s latest calls for U.S. control would be as meaningless as those made in his first term. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” he said in a statement. “We must not lose our years-long fight for freedom.” The Danish Prime Minister’s Office said in its own statement that the government is “looking forward to welcoming the new American ambassador. And the Government is looking forward to working with the new administration.” “In a complex security political situation as the one we currently experience, transatlantic cooperation is crucial,” the statement said. It noted that it had no comment on Greenland except for it “not being for sale, but open for cooperation.” Mr. Trump canceled a 2019 visit to Denmark after his offer to buy Greenland was rejected by Copenhagen, and ultimately came to nothing. He also suggested Sunday that the U.S. is getting “ripped off” at the Panama Canal. “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question,” he said. Panama President José Raúl Mulino responded in a video that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to,” but Mr. Trump fired back on his social media site, “We’ll see about that!” The president-elect also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!” The United States built the canal in the early 1900s but relinquished control to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The canal depends on reservoirs that were hit by 2023 droughts that forced it to substantially reduce the number of daily slots for crossing ships. With fewer ships, administrators also increased the fees that shippers are charged to reserve slots to use the canal. The Greenland and Panama flareups followed Mr. Trump recently posting that “Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State" and offering an image of himself superimposed on a mountaintop surveying surrounding territory next to a Canadian flag. Mr. Trudeau suggested that Mr. Trump was joking about annexing his country, but the pair met recently at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump's threats to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods. “Canada is not going to become part of the United States, but Trump’s comments are more about leveraging what he says to get concessions from Canada by putting Canada off balance, particularly given the precarious current political environment in Canada,” Mr. Farnsworth said. “Maybe claim a win on trade concessions, a tighter border, or other things.” He said the situation is similar with Greenland. “What Trump wants is a win," Mr. Farnsworth said. "And even if the American flag doesn’t raise over Greenland, Europeans may be more willing to say yes to something else because of the pressure.” This story is by The Associated Press. AP writers Gary Fields in Washington and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.BERWYN, Pa. , Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Envestnet, Inc. (the " Company "), yesterday announced that, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 11, 2024 , by and among the Company, BCPE Pequod Buyer, Inc. (" Parent "), a Delaware corporation, and BCPE Pequod Merger Sub, Inc. (" Merger Sub "), a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the "Merger Agreement"), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the " Merger "), with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation. At the effective time of the Merger, each share of common stock, par value $0.005 per share, of the Company (the " Common Shares ") (other than any Common Shares (i) owned by Parent (or any of its affiliates), Merger Sub or the Company or any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of Parent (or any of its affiliates), Merger Sub or the Company, (ii) that are Rollover Shares (as defined in the Merger Agreement), (iii) held in treasury of the Company, and (iv) as to which appraisal rights have been properly exercised in accordance with Delaware law) was automatically cancelled, extinguished and converted into the right to receive $63.15 in cash per one Common Share. As a result, a Share Exchange Event and a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurred under each of the Indenture, dated as of August 20, 2020 , among the Company, the guarantor party thereto and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the " Trustee "), which governs the Company's 0.75% Convertible Notes due 2025 (the " 2025 Notes ") (such indenture, the " 2025 Indenture ") and the Indenture, dated of November 17, 2022 , among the Company, the guarantor party thereto and the Trustee, which governs the Company's 2.625% Convertible Notes due 2027 (the " 2027 Notes ", and together with the 2025 Notes, collectively and individually, the " Notes ") (such indenture, the " 2027 Indenture ", and together with the 2025 Indenture, collectively, the " Indentures ", and each, an " Indenture ", as applicable), triggering the adjustments to the conversion rights as described below. The effective date of the Share Exchange Event and Make-Whole Fundamental Change was November 25, 2024 (the " Effective Date "). Capitalized terms used and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the applicable Indenture. The Company announced that, pursuant to the terms of the respective Indenture, in connection with the consummation of the Merger which constitutes a Share Exchange Event under each Indenture, the Company and the Trustee entered into supplemental indentures to each Indenture providing that, following the effective date of the Merger, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes into shares of common stock of the Company at the then applicable conversion rate shall be changed into a right to convert such principal amount of Notes solely into a number of units of Reference Property in an aggregate amount equal to the applicable conversion rate in effect on the conversion date (as may be increased by any Additional Shares), multiplied by $63.15 , the price paid per share of Common Stock in the Merger. Because the Merger constituted a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Notes are convertible, at the option of the Holder, at any time from the Effective Date until 5:00 p.m. , New York City time, on the business day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date to be determined by the Company and separately announced to the Holders in accordance with the terms of the Indentures as a result of the Merger (the " Conversion Period "). Also because the Merger constituted a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the conversion rate for the 2027 Notes will be temporarily increased during the Conversion Period. Such conversion rate per $1,000 principal amount of the 2027 Notes increased by 3.2973 units of Reference Property from 13.6304 units of Reference Property to 16.9277 units of Reference Property. The Company's conversion obligation with respect to Notes that are converted prior to the end of the Conversion Period will be fixed at an amount in cash equal to $591.602 per $1,000 principal amount of the 2025 Notes validly surrendered for conversion, and $1,068.984 per $1,000 principal amount of the 2027 Notes validly surrendered for conversion. The right of the Holders to convert their Notes is separate from the right, at the Holder's option, to submit their Notes for purchase upon a Fundamental Change. If a Holder submits a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, such Holder may not surrender such Notes for conversion unless the Holder validly withdraws such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice prior to the Fundamental Change Expiration Time. Holders should review the applicable Indenture carefully and should consult with their own financial and tax advisors. None of the Company, Merger Sub, Parent or any of their respective affiliates, or any of its or their respective boards of directors, employees, advisors or representatives or U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, in its capacity as trustee, paying agent or conversion agent with respect to the Notes, is making any representation or recommendation to any Holder as to whether or not to surrender or convert that Holder's Notes. The Trustee, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent is: U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Corporate Actions 111 Fillmore Avenue St. Paul, MN 55107-1402 Telephone: (800) 934-6802 Email: cts.specfinance@usbank.com Any questions or requests for assistance in connection with the conversion of the Notes may be directed to U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, in accordance with the contact information listed above, or the Company. About Envestnet Envestnet is helping to lead the growth of wealth managers and transforming the way financial advice is delivered through its ecosystem of connected technology, advanced insights, and comprehensive solutions – backed by industry-leading service and support. Serving the wealth management industry for 25 years with more than $6.5 trillion in platform assets—more than 111,000 advisors, 17 of the 20 largest U.S. banks, 48 of the 50 largest wealth management and brokerage firms, more than 500 of the largest RIAs -- thousands of companies, depend on Envestnet technology and services to help drive business growth and productivity, and better outcomes for their clients. Data as of 9/30/24. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/envestnet-inc-announces-make-whole-fundamental-change-and-supplemental-indentures-under-its-0-75-convertible-notes-due-2025-and-2-625-convertible-notes-due-2027--302317032.html SOURCE Envestnet, Inc.