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slot machine names Fans were devastated when fan favorite Sam McCall was killed last month. General Hospital actress, Kelly Monaco, was suddenly fired from the show , leading to a social media outrage. Her firing led to the death of her character, Sam, who died after donating part of her liver to Lulu. She died from a cardiac arrest and doctors believed it might have to do with a medication that she took as part of her recovery. But it now appears that foul play might be involved. General Hospital fans slam Kristina as 'cruel and vindictive' in this encounter with her sister Molly General Hospital fans are predicting that Gio could be the love child of these two characters On Monday's episode, Dex confronted Cyrus, who promised "hand to god" that he wasn't visiting Lulu on Halloween, coincidentally the day Sam died. Cyrus claimed to be a changed man who turned to religion to repent for his past. After Lulu woke up from her coma and saw Cyrus, she fled the hospital. Cyrus was the one who orchestrated the explosion which left Lulu in a coma. At the very end of Monday's episode, Cyrus had a flashback where he walked into a hospital room and put the medication Digitalis into an IV bag attached to a patient. It was then revealed Sam was hooked up to the IV and Cyrus gently caressed her head before the episode ended. Fans on social media were quick to react to the reveal. One fan on X, formally known as Twitter, was excited for the new villain arc. "I am glad that Cyrus is back to being a villain. We need good villains on the show because not everybody needs to be or meant to be redeemed. #GH," they wrote. Though some fans weren't happy. "It’s still stupid and makes no sense story-wise- Lulu wasn’t even awake and Sam’s donation SAVED his niece," another said, "Why? Not saying Cyrus was ever a 'good' guy- but this seemed forced. Then again- everything does on #GH." "It makes no sense. Not even as a twisted way to help Lulu get Dante back since no one knew Lulu would wake up," a fan wrote on Reddit. While a second fan exclaimed: "AIN'T NO WAY THAT'S HOW SAM WENT OUT." Another Reddit user theorized: "Cyrus was just getting back at the Spencer family for when Carly kidnapped his mom from the nursing home." Click here to follow the Mirror US on Google News to stay up to date with all the latest news, sport and entertainment stories. DAILY NEWSLETTER: Sign up here to get the latest news and updates from the Mirror US straight to your inbox with our FREE newsletter.Will Kamala Harris run for California governor in 2026? The question is already swirling

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A Nevada commissioner has ruled against Rupert Murdoch's bid to change his family trust to consolidate control of his media empire in the hands of his son Lachlan, the New York Times reports, citing a sealed court document. Nevada commissioner Edmund Gorman concluded in a decision filed on Saturday that Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan, who is the head of Fox News parent Fox Corp and News Corp, had acted in "bad faith" in their effort to amend the irrevocable trust, the Times reported. The court docket indicates it issued a recommendation or order Saturday under seal. The trust currently would divide control of the company equally among Rupert Murdoch's four oldest children - Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence - after his death. Potentially, three of the heirs could out-vote a fourth, setting up a battle over the future of the companies, even as Lachlan Murdoch runs Fox and is sole chair of News Corp. A spokesman for Rupert Murdoch, 93, could not immediately be reached for comment. Rupert Murdoch's proposed amendment would have blocked any interference by three of Lachlan's siblings, who are more politically moderate. In his opinion, Gorman said the plan to change the trust was a "carefully crafted charade" to "permanently cement Lachlan Murdoch's executive roles" inside the empire "regardless of the impacts such control would have over the companies or the beneficiaries" of the family trust, the Times said. A lawyer for Rupert Murdoch, Adam Streisand, said they were disappointed with the ruling and intended to appeal, the Times reported.

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Egypt’s Abdelatty meets with Italian, Congolese counterparts in RomePITTSBURGH – All seven of Pitt's starters were named to the all-Atlantic Coast Conference teams. This is the second consecutive season seven Panthers were recognized as all-ACC performers. Dan Fisher was named the 2024 ACC coach of the year after leading Pitt to a 29-1 overall record and 19-1 ACC finish. This marks Fisher's third career ACC coach of the year award. The Panthers earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament for the first time and won its sixth ACC championship. Olivia Babcock was named the 2024 ACC player of the year after earning ACC freshman of the year honors in 2023. Babcock is the second Panther in program history to receive the prestigious award and first to win it since Kayla Lund (2019, 2020). She leads the Pitt offense and averages 5.87 points per set and has won two AVCA national player of the week and three ACC offensive player of the week awards this season. Babcock also saw her name on the all-ACC first team for the second straight season and is an AVCA national player of the year semifinalist. Rachel Fairbanks was named to the ACC first team for the second consecutive season and is averaging a career-best 10.33 assist per set, good for fifth in program history. She is setting Pitt to a nation's best .341 team hitting percentage. She averages 2.22 digs per set. The 2023 ACC setter of the year and AVCA national player of the year semifinalist currently has 2,886 career assists to her name along with 742 digs and 276 kills. Torrey Stafford has enjoyed a breakout sophomore campaign. The 2024 ACC first-team selection is an AVCA player of the year semifinalist and currently leads in the nation in hitting percentage for all Power Four outside hitters at .377. Stafford contributes 3.76 kills and 2.24 digs per set as a six-rotation player. Bre Kelley has impressed this season after suffering a season-ending injury in 2023. She was named to the ACC first team for the first time in her career and is currently third in the conference with 1.53 blocks per set and is hitting a blistering .514. She earned the ACC defensive player of the week award (Oct. 21) after averaging 2.0 blocks and 1.67 kills per set, hitting .450 in two sweeps over California and Stanford. Valeria Vazquez Gomez has contributed in every area of her game in her sixth season. She earned ACC second-team honors and averages 2.1 kills and 1.98 digs per set. She recently became the newest Panther in the 1,000 kill and 1,000 dig club. Vazquez Gomez is hitting an efficient .251 for the year and has captained the Panthers, alongside Fairbanks, to its sixth ACC championship. Emmy Klika is a steady presence in both defense and serve-receive in her final season as a Panther. The two-time ACC second-team player is widely regarded as one of the best passers in the nation and helps Pitt hold opponents to a nation's best .122 hitting percentage. Ryla Jones was named to the all-ACC freshman team. She was named the ACC freshman of the week (Sept. 23) after notching 18 kills and not committing a single error en route to a .692 hitting percentage with wins over Penn State, East Carolina and Marquette. Jones averages over 1.0 block and 1.0 kill per set in Pitt's commanding offense and defense. (c)2024 The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, Pa.) Visit The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, Pa.) at www.tribune-democrat.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.TORONTO — With Jan. 27 marking 500 days out from the 2026 World Cup kickoff, some 50-plus staff are fleshing out the Canadian end of the tournament at FIFA's Toronto office. The office has been around for a year, although it took six months to get it to where it is now — a fully functioning space with more than a little character. The entrance features a display of 14 official match balls dating back to the 1970 World Cup. A giant 2026 cut-out in the shape of the FIFA World Cup trophy provides a unique photo op. Maple Leaf motifs decorate the converted factory, which is getting busier by the day. Peter Montopoli, chief tournament officer for the Canadian end, says the staff numbers will soon reach 80, with another 600 to 700 involved during the event itself. A lot has happened since Montopoli, then Canada Soccer's general secretary, and Victor Montagliani, then Canada Soccer's incoming president, hashed out the idea of bidding for the men's World Cup at a 2011 dinner at a Vancouver restaurant with Walter Sieber, director-general of sports at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and a man plugged into the world governing body of soccer. "When we announced in May 2012 ... it wasn't actually accepted very well by a few journalists in this city, who kind of laughed at it and scoffed at it," said Montagliani, who still keeps one of those negative articles in his desk. Montagliani, now president of CONCACAF and a FIFA vice-president, looks forward to the 2026 tournament — an expanded 48-team, 104-game colossus co-hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico — and its legacy. He calls it a "seminal moment ... that I think is going to push the game to the next level." "What I see is (that) '26, quite frankly, is really the beginning of the next era for the game in our country. It's not the culmination of it," Montagliani told a media roundtable Monday. "Hosting a World Cup is like nothing any of us (know). I don't even think I know what it's going to be like. And I've put on a few of these things. And I still don't know. I think I'm underestimate the impact this (tournament) is going to be. And if I'm underestimating, the person on the street is underestimating it too." Staff at the Toronto office are working on everything from stadium and venue operations, and safety and security to commercial, legal, finance and government relations. They work in conjunction with FIFA offices in Miami and Mexico as well as the FIFA head office in Zurich. Canada and Mexico, which has three host cities to Canada’s two, will each host 13 matches with the U.S. staging the remaining 78 across its 11 host cities. Toronto and Vancouver will each host five opening-round matches plus a round-of-32 knockout match. Vancouver will also stage a round-of-16 game. FIFA plans to open a tournament office in Vancouver in the second quarter of 2025. Both Canadian offices will be walking distance to their local venues: Toronto's BMO Field and B.C. Place Stadium. Montopoli and his staff have a detailed timeline, covering everything from the tournament draw to unveiling of mascots, official songs and posters. FIFA is encouraging fans interested in tournament tickets to register via FIFA.com. Hospitality packages are already open and other packages are expected next September, with single-game tickets to follow after the draw in early December 2025. There is much to be done, starting with the two Canadian host stadiums. A ring of permanent suites is under construction at B.C. Place. BMO Field will get an additional 17,750 seats, bringing total capacity to around 45,735 seats, with the north and south ends expanded. Not all the new seats will be permanent, but some of the new suites at BMO Field will be. Montopoli says his staff are working with the City of Toronto, which owns the stadium, and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which manages the facility, to decide what upgrades will permanent. "They're still in discussion with that, because they still have to work through the economics of it" he said. Improvements include new video boards. And while some of the expanded BMO stands will be temporary, the additions will be proper seats not benches. Montagliani says every stadium among the 16 host cities is getting upgrades, even AT&T Stadium in Arlington, the US$1.2-billion-dollar home of the Dallas Cowboys. Vancouver has already announced its tournament training facilities will be at Killarney Park and Memorial South Park once upgrades are complete. While Toronto has yet to confirm its training venues, with fields at Etobicoke’s Centennial Park one option, Montopoli says they will be finalized in the first quarter of 2025. FIFA's Miami-based tournament traffic lead is currently visiting the city, a "world-class expert" who has done World Cups, Olympic Games and the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto, said Montopoli. "She's fully aware of everything, Toronto's transport issues," he added. Fans can expect a much different landscape around the stadiums than normal, with an expanded secure zone. "This is not the Grey Cup. This is the World Cup and it's going to be completely different from an operational logistical standpoint, logistical standpoint, than anything we've ever experienced," Montagliani said. And while holding a tournament in 16 host cities and three countries is vastly different from the 2022 tournament in Qatar, which had all eight stadiums in and around the capital of Doha, Montagliani says a lot of FIFA's World Cup blueprint can be transferred. "A venue is a venue is a venue," he said. Teams will have their own base camps during the group stage with nearby cities grouped in clusters. Toronto, for example, is linked to Philadelphia, Boston and New York, while Vancouver is grouped with Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. --- Follow @NeilMDavidson on X platform This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2024. Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press

Taiwan's military was on high alert Monday after detecting Chinese warships near the island, Taipei said, as it prepared for likely drills by Beijing in response to President Lai Ching-te's U.S. visits. The Taiwanese defense ministry said it also spotted Chinese coast guard vessels and that Beijing's People's Liberation Army (PLA) had restricted the airspace off the Chinese coast. There has been intense speculation about the possibility of China launching military exercises in response to Lai's trip to the Pacific last week which included stopovers in Hawaii and Guam. "In response to these actions by the PLA, the MND has initiated combat readiness drills, factoring in enemy threats, weather conditions, and tactical positioning," the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei said in a statement. It added that military units were on "high" alert and those on outlying islands had "heightened their vigilance". The ministry said its forces had "identified PLA Eastern, Northern, and Southern Theater Command naval formations, along with Coast Guard vessels, entering areas around the Taiwan Strait and the Western Pacific". There was no immediate public announcement by the PLA or Chinese state media about increased military activity around Taiwan. However, a Beijing foreign ministry spokeswoman said China would "firmly defend" its sovereignty, as Taiwan kicked off its drills. Taiwan regards itself as a sovereign nation with its own government, military, and currency. But Beijing insists the island is part of its territory and has not ruled out using force to bring it under its control. Lai spoke with Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson in Guam on Thursday -- the highest-level U.S. contact the Taiwanese leader had during a week-long trip -- which drew a barrage of criticism from Beijing. China's foreign ministry warned Taiwan on Friday that "seeking independence with the help of the United States will inevitably hit a wall", and called on Washington to "cease meddling in Taiwan-related affairs". In response to a question about possible Chinese military drills around Taiwan following his trip, Lai told reporters on Friday that "raising your fists is not as good as opening your hands". "No matter how many military exercises, warships and aircraft China sends to coerce neighboring countries, it cannot win the respect of any country," Lai said. Taiwan's coast guard said on Monday it had detected "unusual movements" of seven Chinese coast guard ships since early Friday -- the day Lai returned to Taipei. The Beijing army's airspace restrictions east of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces were expected to be in place until Wednesday, Taiwan's defense ministry said. "Any unilateral, irrational acts of provocation could severely undermine peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region and are unwelcome by the international community," the ministry said. It added that the PLA's "recent activities near Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Taiwan have introduced risks and uncertainties to regional security". Japan's defense ministry said Monday it had detected over the weekend a Chinese navy missile destroyer, frigate and "information-gathering ship" sailing southeast between Okinawa island and Miyako islands towards the Pacific Ocean. "From the limited information available, the seven restricted airspaces are likely being used for two main purposes: missile testing and simulating no-fly zones, which represent a blocked airspace state," Su Tzu-yun, a military expert at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei, told AFP. Su said the drills "appear politically motivated" and would backfire on Beijing by reinforcing the "China threat theory". Taiwan faces the constant threat of a military attack by China and relies heavily on US arms sales to boost its defenses. On the eve of Lai's Pacific tour, the United States approved a proposed sale to Taiwan of spare parts for F-16s and radar systems, as well as communications equipment, in deals valued at $385 million in total. Lai said in the U.S. state of Hawaii during his trip there was a need to "fight together to prevent war", warning there were "no winners" from conflict. China has launched two large-scale military drills around Taiwan since Lai took office and regularly deploys fighter jets and navy ships to press its claims over the island. Lai has been more outspoken than his predecessor Tsai Ing-wen in defending Taiwan's sovereignty, angering Beijing which calls him a "separatist".Republican National Committee Treasurer KC Crosbie told fellow members Sunday night that she is running for RNC co-chair to replace Lara Trump, who said Sunday night she is stepping down from that post. “This position demands leadership, communication, and the ability to unify our diverse membership while supporting President Trump and his Administration’s bold initiative to “Make America Great Again,” Crosbie, who is also the RNC national committeewoman from Kentucky, wrote in an email to RNC members, which was obtained by NBC News. “I am committed to fulfilling the responsibilities of RNC Co-Chair with the same dedication I have brought to the role of Treasurer.” The RNC co-chair role got significant attention during the 2024 election after President-elect Donald Trump helped install his daughter-in-law to the post as part of his takeover of the party infrastructure. Trump-backed RNC Chair Michael Whatley will has already agreed to remain in that post. “At the RNC, we had three distinct goals: 1) surpass all fundraising records 2) build the largest army of lawyers and poll watchers to ensure election integrity and, 3) turn out millions of Americans and low propensity voters during early voting. We accomplished all three,” Lara Trump wrote in an X post Sunday night announcing she was leaving the post. Crosbie’s email to RNC members came hours later. She highlighted the RNC’s fundraising numbers during her tenure as treasurer and the organization’s internal financial controls. “By implementing best practices and reinforcing internal controls, the RNC earned clean audits from our external auditors, while further strengthening the confidence of both grassroots supporters and major donors,” Crosbie wrote. It’s unlikely anyone would be able to secure enough support to replace Lara Trump without the explicit approval of Donald Trump or his team. Neither Crosbie or the Trump campaign responded to requests seeking comment. An RNC member told NBC News that “she is well liked” by the committee members. Crosbie was elected to serve as Kentucky’s RNC committeewoman in 2012 and picked to serve as the organization’s treasurer in June 2023. At the time, she said she would be a “steward and watchdog of funds raised to support the RNC.” Lara Trump's decision to step down comes as she has also been actively lobbying for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint her to the Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio, Donald Trump's pick to serve as secretary of state. “Certainly, we’ve all had the opportunity over the past nine years to fully involve ourselves in politics, to understand the American people, what they want, and we’ve all been residents of the state of Florida now for over three years,” she told Fox News on Sunday. “If that’s something that’s put in front of me, it would be a true honor.” Four sources familiar with the process told NBC News Monday that Lara Trump’s resignation has no bearing on the potential Senate pick and that DeSantis is not likely to make a decision until early January. He is also considering picks from Florida's ranks of elected Republicans, like state Attorney General Ashley Moody, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Núñez, former state House Speaker Paul Renner and Jose Oliva and Secretary of State Cord Byrd, as well as DeSantis chief of staff James Uthmeier. Most of the Trump family and many major supporters have publicly said that they support Lara Trump getting the appointment. She is still in consideration but is not seen as holding frontrunner status at the moment.

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Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, sat in front of a screen with the headline: “Study Disproves Military Extremism Problem.” It was Jan. 4 of this year and Hegseth told a Fox News audience the new study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces. The Pentagon-funded report to which Hegseth referred said there was no evidence the number of violent extremists in the military was “disproportionate to extremists in the general population.” “They knew this was a sham,” Hegseth said, referring to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other military leaders. “Then they do the study, which confirms what we all know.” Hegseth, who was working for Fox News at the time and had no involvement in the report, wasn’t alone. The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page highlighted the same report as evidence that extremists in military communities were “phantoms” created by a “false media narrative.” The X account for Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee posted that the study showed the focus on extremism in the military was a “witch hunt.” But The Associated Press has found that the study, “Prohibited Extremist Activities in the U.S. Department of Defense” conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses , relied on old data, misleading analyses and ignored evidence that pointed to the opposite conclusion. In fact, the AP found that the IDA report’s authors did not use newer data that was offered to it, and instead based one of its foundational conclusions on Jan. 6 arrest figures that were more than two years out of date by the time of the report’s public release. As a result, the report grossly undercounted the number of military and veterans arrested for the Jan. 6 attack and provided a misleading picture of the severity of the growing problem, the AP has found. The number of service members and veterans who radicalize make up a tiny fraction of a percentage point of the millions and millions who have honorably served their country. Yet their impact can be large. Ordered by Austin after the Jan. 6 insurrection, the IDA research was published quietly just before Christmas 2023 — nearly 18 months late and with no announcement. Its key recommendation: the DOD should “not overreact and draw too large of a target” in its anti-extremism efforts, despite Austin’s promise to attack the problem head-on in the wake of Jan. 6. But IDA’s researchers based a key finding on an undercount of military service members and veterans who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection. The IDA — a longtime partner to the Pentagon that has received more than a billion dollars in contracts over the past decade to provide research and strategic consulting to the nation’s military — based this conclusion on arrests made as of Jan. 1, 2022, the year immediately following the attack. As of that date, 82 of the 704 people arrested had military backgrounds, or 11.6% of the total arrests, IDA reported. But in the months and years that followed, the number of arrestees with a military background nearly tripled. IDA’s report states that its research was conducted from June 2021 through June 2022. By June 2022, the number of active or former military members arrested had grown by nearly 50%, according to the same dataset IDA cited from the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. When IDA’s report was published a year and a half later, in December 2023, 209 people with military backgrounds who attended the insurrection had been arrested, or 15.2% of all arrests. That has since grown to 18%, according to data collected by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland. It represents a significant statistical increase, and rises above the general population estimates IDA cited among its reasoning for recommending the Pentagon not overreact. START’s research was also funded by DOD, and other federal agencies. More broadly, as the AP reported in an investigation published last month , more than 480 people with a military background were accused of ideologically driven extremist crimes from 2017 through 2023, including the more than 230 arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to data collected and analyzed by START. Though those numbers reflect a small fraction of those who have served in the military — and Austin, the current defense secretary, has said that extremism is not widespread in the U.S. military — AP’s investigation found that plots involving people with military backgrounds were more likely to involve mass casualties. The IDA’s 199-page report conceded that there was “some indication” that the radicalization numbers in the veterans community could be “slightly higher and may be growing” but said its review found “no evidence” that was the case among active duty troops. In fact, data show that since 2017 both service members and veterans are radicalizing at a faster rate than people without military training. Less than 1% of the adult population is currently serving in the U.S. military, but active duty military members make up a disproportionate 3.2% of the extremist cases START researchers found between 2017 and 2022. Even that number is thought to be an undercount, according to Michael Jensen, START’s lead researcher. He noted that the military uses administrative discharges to quietly remove extremists from the ranks — such cases do not show up in START’s data because the military does not release information about them. Jensen, who was consulted by IDA for its report and is cited in it 24 times, said using the Jan. 6 arrest data alone, even if calculated correctly, was not a valid approach to measuring extremism among active duty military. “J6 is an absolutely terrible event to use to try to estimate the scope of extremism in the active service population since most active services members would not have had the opportunity to participate in that event even if they wanted to,” Jensen said. Jensen’s observation is underscored by records obtained by AP. One complaint filed to the DOD Inspector General’s whistleblower hotline on March 17, 2021, and obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, said an active duty service member in Germany expressed an interest in heading to Washington for Jan. 6, but said he wasn’t able to go because of his military service. Screenshots from Facebook provided with the complaint show he told his cousin, “I would join you but my current tour is in Germany,” and said in another post on Jan. 3, 2021, he was considering buying a plane ticket. The complaint said the servicemember’s cousin was later arrested. An IDA spokesman defended the report, for which he said the company was paid $900,000, saying it remains confident that its findings were “solidly based on the best data available at the time the work was conducted.” The AP reached out by email and LinkedIn messages to several people listed as authors of the report. None provided comment. A defense official said the department “is committed to maintaining high standards for its data collection and transparency” and referred specific questions on the methodology and analysis of the report to IDA. Hegseth and Trump’s transition team did not respond to emails seeking comment. IDA’s researchers were offered START’s data, Jensen said, which is widely considered the most comprehensive look at the issue. IDA’s report even called it “perhaps the best effort to date” in collecting data on extremists in the military. But IDA never followed up to get it, he said. “We showed them data from over 30 years when they visited with us, so they knew the data were out there to look at a longer timespan,” Jensen said. “We offered it, and offered to help in any other way we could, but we never heard from them again after our one and only meeting.” The IDA spokesperson said its researchers relied on reports START published that summarized parts of their data through 2021. Those reports and the data that underlie them all found “a significant uptick” in such cases, but IDA failed to note those findings in its conclusions. And in some parts of the report, IDA cited START’s numbers from 2018, which were by then years out of date, and which did not fully reflect a significant increase that began the previous year. A footnote says there is more recent data, but fails to mention Jensen’s offer to provide access. AP also found several instances where IDA made assertions that were factually inaccurate or incomplete, leading to questions about the rigor of its work, and about whether the Pentagon provided adequate access to information. As one example, IDA states that “IDA found no evidence of participation in violent extremist events by DOD civilians or defense contractor employees.” But AP obtained records showing multiple allegations about Jan. 6 alone against contractors and a civilian employee. One, made to the Inspector General’s office on Jan 8, 2021, nearly three years before the report was published, said a contractor at the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center called in to meetings from the protest on Jan. 6, and had spread conspiracy theories including QAnon as well as others involving artificial intelligence and the DOD. This complaint resulted in the contractor’s termination. In addition, there were widely publicized cases of defense contractors who were accused of participating in Jan. 6, including a Navy contractor who was a Nazi sympathizer and a former Special Forces soldier who was a military contractor. And in one of the most notable violent extremist events in the years prior to Jan. 6, a defense contractor with a security clearance participated in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Michael Miselis, a member of the violent white supremacist group Rise Above Movement, pleaded guilty to federal rioting charges . The cases together raise questions about the rigor of the IDA’s report and why it would make such assertions. IDA did not explain why it missed those widely reported cases. Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism , said the AP’s review showed the IDA report was “a mess,” with “bad data, unsubstantiated conclusions, and false assertions.” That Hegseth, a former National Guardsman who himself had been flagged as a potential insider threat for a tattoo on his bicep that has been linked to extremist groups, doesn’t see the importance of rooting out extremism in the ranks is a disaster, she said. “It’s a shame that a shoddy report by the Pentagon gives an opening to views like Hegseth’s and will perpetuate a head-in-the-sand approach to a serious national security issue,” said Beirich, an expert in extremist movements who has testified before Congress about extremism in the military. “Too many terrorist attacks have been perpetrated by active-duty military and veterans, and ignoring this problem just makes the American people less safe,” she said. “Making light of the problem is ultimately a threat to the security of the American people, and politicizing the problem, which Republicans have done over recent years, means more violence.”State food box program feeds thousands of older Pennsylvanians monthly