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p777 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Trey Fort had 27 points in Samford's 97-90 win against Alabama A&M on Saturday night. Fort added five rebounds for the Bulldogs (10-3). Collin Holloway shot 4 of 5 from the field and 6 of 6 from the free-throw line to add 16 points. Julian Brown shot 4 for 5 (3 for 4 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 14 points. The Bulldogs (4-8) were led by Anthony Bryant, who recorded 22 points. Alabama A&M also got 21 points and 10 assists from Bilal Abdur-Rahman. Quincy McGriff also had 13 points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .— Oct. 1, 1924: James Earl Carter Jr. is born in Plains, Georgia, son of James Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter. — June 1946: Carter graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy. — July 1946: Carter marries Rosalynn Smith, in Plains. They have four children, John William (“Jack”), born 1947; James Earl 3rd (“Chip”), 1950; Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff), 1952; and Amy Lynn, 1967. — 1946-1953: Carter serves in a Navy nuclear submarine program, attaining rank of lieutenant commander. — Summer 1953: Carter resigns from the Navy, returns to Plains after father’s death. — 1953-1971: Carter helps run the family peanut farm and warehouse business. — 1963-1966: Carter serves in the Georgia state Senate. — 1966: Carter tries unsuccessfully for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. — November 1970: Carter is elected governor of Georgia. Serves 1971-75. — Dec. 12, 1974: Carter announces a presidential bid. Atlanta newspaper answers with headline: “Jimmy Who?” — January 1976: Carter leads the Democratic field in Iowa, a huge campaign boost that also helps to establish Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus. — July 1976: Carter accepts the Democratic nomination and announces Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota as running mate. — November 1976: Carter defeats President Gerald R. Ford, winning 51% of the vote and 297 electoral votes to Ford’s 240. — January 1977: Carter is sworn in as the 39th president of the United States. On his first full day in office, he pardons most Vietnam-era draft evaders. —September 1977: U.S. and Panama sign treaties to return the Panama Canal back to Panama in 1999. Senate narrowly ratifies them in 1978. — September 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Carter sign Camp David accords, which lead to a peace deal between Egypt and Israel the following year. — June 15-18, 1979: Carter attends a summit with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna that leads to the signing of the SALT II treaty. — November 1979: Iranian militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 hostages. All survive and are freed minutes after Carter leaves office in January 1981. — April 1980: The Mariel boatlift begins, sending tens of thousands of Cubans to the U.S. Many are criminals and psychiatric patients set free by Cuban leader Fidel Castro, creating a major foreign policy crisis. — April 1980: An attempt by the U.S. to free hostages fails when a helicopter crashes into a transport plane in Iran, killing eight servicemen. — Nov. 4, 1980: Carter is denied a second term by Ronald Reagan, who wins 51.6% of the popular vote to 41.7% for Carter and 6.7% to independent John Anderson. — 1982: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter co-found The Carter Center in Atlanta, whose mission is to resolve conflicts, protect human rights and prevent disease around the world. — September 1984: The Carters spend a week building Habitat for Humanity houses, launching what becomes the annual Carter Work Project. — October 1986: A dedication is held for The Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta. The center includes the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and Carter Center offices. — 1989: Carter leads the Carter Center’s first election monitoring mission, declaring Panamanian Gen. Manuel Noriega’s election fraudulent. — May 1992: Carter meets with Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev at the Carter Center to discuss forming the Gorbachev Foundation. — June 1994: Carter plays a key role in North Korea nuclear disarmament talks. — September 1994: Carter leads a delegation to Haiti, arranging terms to avoid a U.S. invasion and return President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. — December 1994: Carter negotiates tentative cease-fire in Bosnia. — March 1995: Carter mediates cease-fire in Sudan’s war with southern rebels. — September 1995: Carter travels to Africa to advance the peace process in more troubled areas. — December 1998: Carter receives U.N. Human Rights Prize on 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. — August 1999: President Bill Clinton awards Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter the Presidential Medal of Freedom. — September 2001: Carter joins former Presidents Ford, Bush and Clinton at a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington after Sept. 11 attacks. — April 2002: Carter’s book “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood” chosen as finalist for Pulitzer Prize in biography. — May 2002: Carter visits Cuba and addresses the communist nation on television. He is the highest-ranking American to visit in decades. — Dec. 10, 2002: Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” — July 2007: Carter joins The Elders, a group of international leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela to focus on global issues. — Spring 2008: Carter remains officially neutral as Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton battle each other for the Democratic presidential nomination. — April 2008: Carter stirs controversy by meeting with the Islamic militant group Hamas. — August 2010: Carter travels to North Korea as the Carter Center negotiates the release of an imprisoned American teacher. — August 2013: Carter joins President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton at the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and the March on Washington. — Oct. 1, 2014: Carter celebrates his 90th birthday. — December 2014: Carter is nominated for a Grammy in the best spoken word album category, for his book “A Call To Action.” — May 2015: Carter returns early from an election observation visit in Guyana — the Carter Center’s 100th — after feeling unwell. — August 2015: Carter has a small cancerous mass removed from his liver. He plans to receive treatment at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. — August 2015: Carter announces that his grandson Jason Carter will chair the Carter Center governing board. — March 6, 2016: Carter says an experimental drug has eliminated any sign of his cancer, and that he needs no further treatment. — May 25, 2016: Carter steps back from a “front-line” role with The Elders to become an emeritus member. — July 2016: Carter is treated for dehydration during a Habitat for Humanity build in Canada. — Spring 2018: Carter publishes “Faith: A Journey for All,” the last of 32 books. — March 22, 2019: Carter becomes the longest-lived U.S. president, surpassing President George H.W. Bush, who died in 2018. — September 18, 2019: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter deliver their final in-person annual report at the Carter Center. — October 2019: At 95, still recovering from a fall, Carter joins the Work Project with Habitat for Humanity in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s the last time he works personally on the annual project. — Fall 2019-early 2020: Democratic presidential hopefuls visit, publicly embracing Carter as a party elder, a first for his post-presidency. — November 2020:The Carter Center monitors an audit of presidential election results in the state of Georgia, marking a new era of democracy advocacy within the U.S. — Jan. 20, 2021: The Carters miss President Joe Biden’s swearing-in, the first presidential inauguration they don’t attend since Carter’s own ceremony in 1977. The Bidens later visit the Carters in Plains on April 29. — Feb. 19, 2023: Carter enters home hospice care after a series of short hospital stays. — July 7, 2023: The Carters celebrate their 77th and final wedding anniversary. — Nov. 19, 2023: Rosalynn Carter dies at home, two days after the family announced that she had joined the former president in receiving hospice care. — Oct. 1, 2024 — Carter becomes the first former U.S. president to reach 100 years of age , celebrating at home with extended family and close friends. — Oct. 16, 2024 — Carter casts a Georgia mail ballot for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, having told his family he wanted to live long enough to vote for her. It marks his 21st presidential election as a voter. — Dec. 29, 2024: Carter dies at home.Surgical Innovations Group plc ( LON:SUN – Get Free Report )’s share price passed below its 200-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 0.59 ($0.01) and traded as low as GBX 0.51 ($0.01). Surgical Innovations Group shares last traded at GBX 0.58 ($0.01), with a volume of 285,674 shares trading hands. Surgical Innovations Group Trading Up 4.5 % The business’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 0.54 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 0.59. The company has a current ratio of 1.94, a quick ratio of 1.61 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 13.96. The company has a market cap of £5.36 million, a PE ratio of -21.11 and a beta of 0.65. About Surgical Innovations Group ( Get Free Report ) The Group specialises in the design, manufacture, sale and distribution of innovative, high quality medical products, primarily for use in minimally invasive surgery. Our product and business development is guided and supported by a key group of nationally and internationally renowned surgeons across the spectrum of minimally invasive surgical activity. We design and manufacture and source our branded port access systems, surgical instruments and retraction devices which are sold directly in the UK home market through our subsidiary, Elemental Healthcare, and exported widely through a global network of trusted distribution partners. See Also Receive News & Ratings for Surgical Innovations Group Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Surgical Innovations Group and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Happy New Year and welcome to the Bills Mailbag for Week 17. Let’s get right to your questions ... Brian McCarthy asks: When is enough, enough with Matthew Smiley? A clear trend there is a lack of communication and preparation. Too many men, too few, blocked punt, fake punt gone wrong, fake punt converted against, punt return for a touchdown against the Jets ... the list goes on and on. It could bite them big in a month. Jay: I’m with you, Brian. I would not be surprised if head coach Sean McDermott makes a change there in the offseason. McDermott has been blunt in recent weeks about the unacceptable miscommunication that has led to some embarrassing moments on special teams, including having just nine players on the field for the final punt return in the loss to the Rams. It is too late in the season to make such a big change at this point, but all of the glaring errors you point out in your question lead me to believe the Bills could make a change as soon as the current season is over. Bills special teams coordinator Matthew Smiley has come under fire for some breakdowns by his group. Jeff Popple asks: With a player on the practice squad getting three callups in the regular season, why would Micah Hyde not get called up against the Patriots? The defensive backs where short staffed. He has to get some playing time before thinking he’s playing in the playoffs, right? While the Bills are getting ready for what they hope is a long post season run, the impressive regular season performance by the team has several players in contention for Pro Bowl honors. Mark Gaughan and Katherine Fitzgerald run through the list. Plus, Mark and Katherine discuss Sunday's matchup against the New York Jets, possibly the most disappointing team in the league this season. The Buffalo News PlayAction podcast is fueled by Picasso's Pizza. Jay: The only logical answer is the staff didn’t feel he was ready. Hyde has been out of the NFL since January. While he kept himself in good shape, jogging in San Diego is a lot different than trying to tackle an NFL running back or keep up with a wide receiver. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hyde were elevated for Sunday’s game against the Jets or the regular-season finale against the Patriots. It would make sense to get him some game action ahead of the postseason. At this point, however, there is no reason to believe that the Bills are planning a big change in their secondary. Once Taylor Rapp and Damar Hamlin are healthy, they should resume their starting roles. Buffalo Bills linebacker Matt Milano (biceps/groin) and cornerback Rasul Douglas (knee) have no injury designations and are clear for Sunday. Matt Nolan asks: Are the Bills in serious trouble if Kaiir Elam has to start in the playoffs? Jay: It wouldn’t be ideal. That’s not meant to be a slight against Elam, although I suppose it can’t be taken any other way. The Bills decided that their top cornerback tandem is Christian Benford and Rasul Douglas for a reason. If Elam has to play, it’s because one of those two can’t for some reason. Elam was called for a pair of defensive pass interference penalties last week against the Patriots. It’s clear now nearly three full years into his career that choosing Elam in the first round was a reach. At this point, he’s a depth player. Because of that, it would be a concern if he had to start in the playoffs, but I don’t think it would be the deciding factor in a postseason game. Alex Davis asks: Am I crazy, or has the defensive tackle play in general this year been below expectations? Jay: You might be crazy, Alex, but it wouldn’t be because of this opinion. I’m right there with you. The Bills have needed more out of Ed Oliver and DaQuan Jones for a lot of the year. Oliver responded with a huge game against the Lions, but that’s been the exception from him, rather than the norm. Defensive line coach Marcus West said Thursday that Jones has been disruptive on the interior. I’m not watching with a coaching or scouting background, but the splash plays are way down for him. Jones’ numbers in 15 games this season are very similar to those that he achieved last year in just seven games. With a divisional-round game against the Ravens starting them in the face, the Bills absolutely need Oliver and Jones to be at their very best. That is a big-time concern, because they have generally disappeared in each of the last two playoff losses. Buoyed by two national television games in five days, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has thickened the NFL MVP plot. LuigiMike Speranza asks: With all the talk of a Josh Allen MVP award and a Bills Super Bowl, how about Brandon Beane for executive of the year? It has not been a bad year, considering it was thought of by many to be a retrenchment year. Jay: Beane’s case for executive of the year is hurt in the same way that McDermott’s is for coach of the year – quarterback Josh Allen is just too good. Look at the odds for coach of the year. McDermott and the Chiefs’ Andy Reid aren’t even in the running. Cleveland’s Kevin Stefanski has won it twice! That award has basically become one that is given to the coach who oversees the biggest turnaround from the year before. The betting favorite this year is Minnesota’s Kevin O’Connell, followed by the Lions’ Dan Campbell. Either of those would be fine choices, but the fact Reid and McDermott aren’t getting more consideration shows a flaw in what the award has come to define. It shouldn’t always go to the coach of the team with the best record, but it also shouldn’t always go to the coach of a team who has overseen a big turnaround from the year before. I realize I went off on a big tangent there. Regarding Beane’s candidacy as executive of the year, we have to consider a couple things. No. 1 is his draft. The Bills traded out of the first round and selected Keon Coleman with the No. 34 overall pick in the second round. He’s been pretty good, with 24 catches for 498 yards and three touchdowns. He missed a big chunk of the year with a wrist injury, or those numbers would be better. Running back Ray Davis, taken in the fourth round, has 553 yards and five total touchdowns from scrimmage. He’s arguably been the most impactful rookie in the class. In free agency, the Bills added wide receiver Mack Hollins, who has five touchdown catches and became a big part of the locker room. That was a great signing by Beane. Veteran defensive end Dawuane Smoot has contributed up front, while the trade for rookie returner Brandon Codrington was a nice bit of business by Beane. The decision to move on from wide receiver Stefon Diggs was the biggest made by Beane in the offseason, although the key piece coming back to the Bills was a 2025 second-round draft pick, so it remains to be seen what that produces. Diggs ended up getting hurt with the Texans. In hindsight, it looks like it was the right time to move on, although there was no way of accurately predicting his injury. Taken as a whole, I’m not sure those moves will be enough for Beane to win the award. The New York Jets will be starting over in 2025 with a new general manager and a new head coach. Does the new regime really want to be saddled with the 41-year-old Rodgers as it begins its overhaul of the roster? Frank Derion asks: Are more teams going for it on fourth down, following Detroit’s model? Would you still pick Coleman over (Xavier) Worthy knowing their progress thus far? Seems Coleman has trouble separating. During your travels, do you get the impression football fans are getting tired of the ‘can do no wrong’ Chiefs’ (except for their 1 loss)? Jay: Regarding fourth down, the short answer is yes. The website Sportico had an in-depth look at fourth-down decision making in the NFL that was published last month. It found that teams are going for it on fourth-and-1 71% of the time this season, 42% of the time on fourth-and-2 and 30% of the time on fourth-and-3. Those numbers have likely shifted a bit from when the article was published, but the main point remains the same: Teams are absolutely going for it on fourth down more often. Regarding Coleman and Worthy, the injury to the Bills’ rookie has made the comparison a bit tougher, but there is no denying that the Chiefs’ rookie has had the bigger impact for his team, to this point. Worthy has played in 16 games for the Chiefs and has 59 catches for 638 yards and six touchdowns. He’s also rushed for 104 yards and three touchdowns. Of note, Worthy has played 68% of the Chiefs’ snaps, while Coleman has played just 49% for the Bills. It’s too early to say definitively that the Chiefs made the better decision, but Coleman has some catching up to do, at the moment. Finally, yes, who isn’t sick of the Chiefs? If I see that “bundleruski” commercial one more time, I’m going to throw something at my TV. Kansas City’s opponents constantly inventing new ways to give the game away against them also is tiring. Might Bills executives Terrance Gray or Brian Gaine get an interview for a GM opening next month? Brandon Beane said both are deserving. Brenda asks: Happy New Year, Jay! With the holidays occurring mid-week, how do both the Bills and media schedules change? Also, does the team do anything specific to celebrate with the players and staff or the beat reporters? Jay: The Bills this year gave the team off on Christmas, which, of course, fell on a Wednesday. Usually, that is a practice day when the team plays Sunday, but the Bills elected to hold a walk-through Tuesday instead. Because the team was off, the media also didn’t have to go out to One Bills Drive. Every year, the Bills’ public relations team sends media members home with cookies and makes a charitable donation. This year, that went to the Pancreatic Cancer Association of Western New York, in honor of Mark Young. He passed away earlier this year and was the father of Spectrum News’ Andy Young, who covers the team on a daily basis. It’s a very nice gesture that the team has done annually. DaQuan Jones signed a two-year contract extension with the Bills in the offseason that’s worth up to $16 million. The 33-year-old is in his 11th NFL season, and each day at practice, he is still is there at least 20 minutes early to work on the fundamentals of his position. Mr. Ed asks: In your opinion, what should be some Bills New Year’s resolutions? Feel free to add some personal ones or suggest ones of your News colleagues. Jay: For the Bills, get off the field on third down. Stop the run. Score touchdowns instead of field goals (because relying on Tyler Bass in the playoffs sounds scary). For myself ... the list is too long to put here. Drink more water. Lift more weights. Read more, scroll social media less. I’ll let my colleagues handle their own resolutions – I’ve got more than enough to worry about myself. Dan De Federicis asks: In assessing the Bills’ impediments to winning the AFC-East, the focus in recent years has consistently been the Jets, Dolphins, with the Patriots seen as being years away from challenging for the division crown. After seeing Drake Maye for an entire game, and knowing the ample cap space the Pats have for next season, doesn’t it seem like that timeline should be moved up for New England to – unlike the Jets and perhaps the Dolphins – at least be relevant as soon as next year? Jay: Yes, Maye looked like the real deal. There is a lot of work to do around him. He needs a competent offensive line and better weapons at wide receiver. The defense needs help, and there is some debate in New England about whether Jerod Mayo is the right coach moving forward. Maye definitely has talent, though, and it is easy to see a scenario where they become the Bills’ biggest challengers in the division sooner, rather than later. The Jets are the Jets. Like the Sabres, they’re cursed. The Dolphins are staring at major cap problems and have a core group of players that is aging. That is a bad recipe. "This was not a sensational statistical performance from the MVP front-runner, but a leadership victory that solidified Allen as a cornerstone of franchise success. He answered the call and was able to do just enough to overcome the Patriots’ plan, as well as Mother Nature," Jim Kubiak writes. Patrick Moran asks: Why didn’t my parents have the foresight to know how valuable the massive baseball card collection I had as a kid would be when I grew up? Jay: Probably for the same reason my parents didn’t buy every pair of Air Jordans when they first released in 1985 for $65. Those are going for, oh, about $45,000 a pair now on reseller websites. My son is starting to take an interest in baseball card collecting, which I’m very happy about, although knowing what packs to get is a bit overwhelming. Anyone who is into the hobby that has any advice to share, hit me at the email below. Thank you for all the questions this week! As a reminder, they can be submitted via email to jskurski@buffnews.com or on X to @JaySkurski. Talk to you all in 2025! Get in the game with our Prep Sports Newsletter Sent weekly directly to your inbox! News Sports Reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.

WALNUT, CA, Dec. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Armlogi Holding Corp. (“Armlogi” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BTOC), a U.S.-based warehousing and logistics service provider that offers a comprehensive package of supply-chain solutions related to warehouse management and order fulfillment, today announced that it has closed on the $5 million second tranche of the Pre-Paid Advance (as defined below) pursuant to a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA”) the Company entered into with YA II PN, Ltd. (“YA”), a fund managed by Yorkville Advisors Global, LP. As previously announced on November 25, 2024, Armlogi entered into the SEPA, where, pursuant to the terms of the SEPA, Armlogi will have the right, from time to time, until December 1, 2026, to require the Investor to purchase up to $50 million of shares of common stock of the Company, subject to certain limitations and conditions set forth in the SEPA, by delivering written notice to YA (an “Advance Notice”). Pursuant to the SEPA, YA will advance to the Company, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions as set forth therein, the principal amount of $21 million (the “Pre-Paid Advance”), which will be evidenced by convertible promissory notes (the “Promissory Notes”, together with the “SEPA”, the “Offering”) in three tranches. The Company has now received two tranches of the Pre-Paid Advance of $5 million each. “This second tranche closing represents another important milestone in strengthening Armlogi’s financial position and advancing our growth initiatives,” said Aidy Chou, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Armlogi. “The continued support from Yorkville Advisors through our SEPA arrangement provides us with flexible capital to execute our strategic plans and enhance our comprehensive supply-chain solutions platform. We remain focused on delivering value to our customers and shareholders as we continue to expand our warehousing and logistics capabilities.” About Armlogi Holding Corp. Armlogi Holding Corp., based in Walnut, CA, is a fast-growing U.S.-based warehousing and logistics service provider that offers a comprehensive package of supply-chain solutions relating to warehouse management and order fulfillment. The Company caters to cross-border e-commerce merchants looking to establish overseas warehouses in the U.S. market. With ten warehouses covering over three million square feet, the Company offers comprehensive one-stop warehousing and logistics services. The Company’s warehouses are equipped with facilities and technology for handling and storing large and bulky items. For more information, please visit www.armlogi.com . Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements. In addition, from time to time, we or our representatives may make forward-looking statements orally or in writing. We base these forward-looking statements on our expectations and projections about future events, which we derive from the information currently available to us. Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future performance, including: our financial performance and projections; our growth in revenue and earnings; and our business prospects and opportunities. You can identify forward-looking statements by those that are not historical in nature, particularly those that use terminology such as “may,” “should,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “contemplates,” “estimates,” “believes,” “plans,” “projected,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “hopes” or the negative of these or similar terms. In evaluating these forward-looking statements, you should consider various factors, including: our ability to change the direction of the Company; our ability to keep pace with new technology and changing market needs; and the competitive environment of our business. These and other factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement. Forward-looking statements are only predictions. We are not obligated to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of uncertainties and assumptions. The forward-looking events discussed in this press release and other statements made from time to time by us or our representatives, may not occur, and actual events and results may differ materially and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about us. Company Contact: info@armlogi.com Investor Relations Contact: Matthew Abenante, IRC President Strategic Investor Relations, LLC Tel: 347-947-2093 Email: matthew@strategic-ir.com

David Hilzenrath, Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group | (TNS) KFF Health News In March, newly installed Social Security chief Martin O’Malley criticized agency “injustices” that “shock our shared sense of equity and good conscience as Americans.” He promised to overhaul the Social Security Administration’s often heavy-handed efforts to claw back money that millions of recipients — including people who are living in poverty, are elderly, or have disabilities — were allegedly overpaid, as described by a KFF Health News and Cox Media Group investigation last year. “Innocent people can be badly hurt,” O’Malley said at the time. Nearly eight months since he appeared before Congress and announced a series of policy changes, and with two months left in his term, O’Malley’s effort to fix the system has made inroads but remains a work in progress. For instance, one change, moving away from withholding 100% of people’s monthly Social Security benefits to recover alleged overpayments, has been a major improvement, say advocates for beneficiaries. “It is a tremendous change,” said Kate Lang of Justice in Aging, who called it “life-changing for many people.” The number of people from whom the Social Security Administration was withholding full monthly benefits to recoup money declined sharply — from about 46,000 in January to about 7,000 in September, the agency said. Asked to clarify whether those numbers and others provided for this article covered all programs administered by the agency, the SSA press office did not respond. Another potentially significant change — relieving beneficiaries of having to prove that an overpayment was not their fault — has not been implemented. The agency said it is working on that. Meanwhile, the agency seems to be looking to Congress to take the lead on a change some observers see as crucial: limiting how far back the government can reach to recover an alleged overpayment. Barbara Hubbell of Watkins Glen, New York, called the absence of a statute of limitations “despicable.” Hubbell said her mother was held liable for $43,000 because of an SSA error going back 19 years. “In what universe is that even legal?” Hubbell said. Paying down the overpayment balance left her mother “essentially penniless,” she added. In response to questions for this article, Social Security spokesperson Mark Hinkle said legislation is “the best and fastest way” to set a time limit. Establishing a statute of limitations was not among the policy changes O’Malley announced in his March congressional testimony. In an interview at the time, he said he expected an announcement on it “within the next couple few months.” It could probably be done by regulation, without an act of Congress, he said. Speaking generally, Hinkle said the agency has “made substantial progress on overpayments,” reducing the hardship they cause, and “continues to work diligently” to update policies. The agency is underfunded, he added, is at a near 50-year low in staffing, and could do better with more employees. The SSA did not respond to requests for an interview with O’Malley. O’Malley announced the policy changes after KFF Health News and Cox Media Group jointly published and broadcast investigative reporting on the damage overpayments and clawbacks have done to millions of beneficiaries. When O’Malley, a former Democratic governor of Maryland, presented his plans to three congressional committees in March, lawmakers greeted him with rare bipartisan praise. But the past several months have shown how hard it can be to turn around a federal bureaucracy that is massive, complex, deeply dysfunctional, and, as it says, understaffed. Now O’Malley’s time may be running out. Lang of Justice in Aging, among the advocacy groups that have been meeting with O’Malley and other Social Security officials, said she appreciates how much the commissioner has achieved in a short time. But she added that O’Malley has “not been interested in hearing about our feelings that things have fallen short.” One long-standing policy O’Malley set out to change involves the burden of proof. When the Social Security Administration alleges someone has been overpaid and demands the money back, the burden is on the beneficiary to prove they were not at fault. Cecilia Malone, 24, a beneficiary in Lithonia, Georgia, said she and her parents spent hundreds of hours trying to get errors corrected. “Why is the burden on us to ‘prove’ we weren’t overpaid?” Malone said. It can be exceedingly difficult for beneficiaries to appeal a decision. The alleged overpayments, which can reach tens of thousands of dollars or more, often span years. And people struggling just to survive may have extra difficulty producing financial records from long ago. What’s more, in letters demanding repayment, the government does not typically spell out its case against the beneficiary — making it hard to mount a defense. Testifying before House and Senate committees in March, O’Malley promised to shift the burden of proof. “That should be on the agency,” he said. The agency expects to finalize “guidance” on the subject “in the coming months,” Hinkle said. The agency points to reduced wait times and other improvements in a phone system known to leave beneficiaries on hold. “In September, we answered calls to our national 800 number in an average of 11 minutes — a tremendous improvement from 42 minutes one year ago,” Hinkle said. Still, in response to a nonrepresentative survey by KFF Health News and Cox Media Group focused on overpayments, about half of respondents who said they contacted the agency by phone since April rated that experience as “poor,” and few rated it “good” or “excellent.” The survey was sent to about 600 people who had contacted KFF Health News to share their overpayment stories since September 2023. Almost 200 people answered the survey in September and October of this year. Most of those who said they contacted the agency by mail since April rated their experience as “poor.” Jennifer Campbell, 60, a beneficiary in Nelsonville, Ohio, said in late October that she was still waiting for someone at the agency to follow up as described during a phone call in May. “VERY POOR customer service!!!!!” Campbell wrote. “Nearly impossible to get a hold of someone,” wrote Kathryn Duff of Colorado Springs, Colorado, who has been helping a disabled family member. Letters from SSA have left Duff mystified. One was postmarked July 9, 2024, but dated more than two years earlier. Another, dated Aug. 18, 2024, said her family member was overpaid $31,635.80 in benefits from the Supplemental Security Income program, which provides money to people with little or no income or other resources who are disabled, blind, or at least 65. But Duff said her relative never received SSI benefits. What’s more, for the dates in question, payments listed in the letter to back up the agency’s math didn’t come close to $31,635.80; they totaled about a quarter of that amount. Regarding the 100% clawbacks, O’Malley in March said it’s “unconscionable that someone would find themselves facing homelessness or unable to pay bills, because Social Security withheld their entire payment for recovery of an overpayment.” He said that, starting March 25, if a beneficiary doesn’t respond to a new overpayment notice, the agency would default to withholding 10%. The agency warned of “a short transition period.” That change wasn’t automated until June 25, Hinkle said. The number of people newly placed in full withholding plummeted from 6,771 in February to 51 in September, according to data the agency provided. SSA said it would notify recipients they could request reduced withholding if it was already clawing back more than 10% of their monthly checks. Nonetheless, dozens of beneficiaries or their family members told KFF Health News and Cox Media Group they hadn’t heard they could request reduced withholding. Among those who did ask, roughly half said their requests were approved. According to the SSA, there has been almost a 20% decline in the number of people facing clawbacks of more than 10% but less than 100% of their monthly checks — from 141,316 as of March 8 to 114,950 as of Oct. 25, agency spokesperson Nicole Tiggemann said. Meanwhile, the number of people from whom the agency was withholding exactly 10% soared more than fortyfold — from just over 5,000 to well over 200,000. And the number of beneficiaries having any partial benefits withheld to recover an overpayment increased from almost 600,000 to almost 785,000, according to data Tiggemann provided. Lorraine Anne Davis, 72, of Houston, said she hasn’t received her monthly Social Security payment since June due to an alleged overpayment. Her Medicare premium was being deducted from her monthly benefit, so she’s been left to pay that out-of-pocket. Davis said she’s going to need a kidney transplant and had been trying to save money for when she’d be unable to work. 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Davis said she asked by phone repeatedly, and to no avail. “Nobody seems to know what’s going on” and “no one seems to be able to help you,” Davis said. “You’re just held captive.” In October, the agency said she’d receive a payment — in March 2025. Marley Presiado, a research assistant on the Public Opinion and Survey Research team at KFF, contributed to this report. ©2024 KFF Health News. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Climate change risks impacting financial system, need India-specific data: RBI’s Rajeshwar RaoJohnson has 25, FGCU downs CSU Bakersfield 74-54

Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Co. ( NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report ) by 38.8% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 3,731 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,042 shares during the period. Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors’ holdings in NVIDIA were worth $453,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. CGC Financial Services LLC bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the second quarter worth approximately $26,000. Quest Partners LLC bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at $27,000. Christopher J. Hasenberg Inc bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. University of Texas Texas AM Investment Management Co. purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at about $31,000. Finally, FPC Investment Advisory Inc. grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 900.0% in the second quarter. FPC Investment Advisory Inc. now owns 290 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $34,000 after purchasing an additional 261 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock. NVIDIA Price Performance NASDAQ NVDA opened at $137.01 on Friday. NVIDIA Co. has a 1 year low of $47.32 and a 1 year high of $152.89. The company has a current ratio of 4.10, a quick ratio of 3.64 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The company has a market cap of $3.36 trillion, a PE ratio of 53.92, a PEG ratio of 2.43 and a beta of 1.64. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $139.97 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $127.90. NVIDIA Dividend Announcement The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 27th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 5th were issued a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 5th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.03%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is presently 1.57%. Wall Street Analyst Weigh In Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Citigroup raised their price objective on NVIDIA from $170.00 to $175.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 21st. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $150.00 to $165.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. William Blair started coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, September 18th. They set an “outperform” rating for the company. Phillip Securities reaffirmed an “accumulate” rating and set a $160.00 price target (up previously from $155.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Friday, November 22nd. Finally, Raymond James increased their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $140.00 to $170.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Thursday, November 14th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-nine have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $164.15. Read Our Latest Report on NVIDIA Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 125,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, October 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $122.61, for a total transaction of $15,326,250.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 8,255,117 shares in the company, valued at $1,012,159,895.37. This trade represents a 1.49 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink . Also, insider Donald F. Robertson, Jr. sold 4,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $135.28, for a total value of $608,760.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 480,899 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $65,056,016.72. This trade represents a 0.93 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 1,351,886 shares of company stock valued at $176,825,650. 4.23% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders. NVIDIA Company Profile ( Free Report ) NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications. Read More Want to see what other hedge funds are holding NVDA? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for NVIDIA Co. ( NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report ). 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Speed is hardly paramount for naval vessels — it's not always going to be the feature that wins a battle or even a war — but it doesn't hurt. Depending on the type of ship, speed can be the difference between life and death for the sailors aboard. Speeds on the ocean feel different than ones on land. Gerald R. Ford-class carriers can travel at roughly 30 knots (34.5 mph), which might not seem fast if you drive faster than 60 mph in your car. But when you take into account that they're 100,000-ton vessels that have to rip through choppy waves to reach those speeds, it should put things in perspective. So when vessels can go faster than 30 knots, they're worth noting. Other naval vessels have exceeded the speeds of the following ones, but for this story we were looking for vessels still serving in the military one way or another. Even if that means it's exclusively used for training, we wanted to include it. But vessels that aren't still used had to be left out. For instance, because every Cold War-era A-90 Orlyonok Ekranolplan , which exceeded 216 knots for the Soviet Union, was retired by 1993, it didn't fit what we were looking for. Instead, here are some of the fastest naval ships still in operation somewhere in the world. The Turkish Navy isn't one the public hears too much about, but it owns some of the fastest ships on the water. That would be Turkey's Kılıç I/II class of fast attack ships. The first of its kind, the Kılıç, was commissioned in 1998. It and the following two (the Kalkan and the Mizrak) comprise the Kılıç I class, while the latter six make up the Kılıç II variant. Their electronic equipment, specifically the fire control tracking system, is what separates these two variants from each other., along with the main gun's housing. When weather permits and the water conditions are ideal, the Kılıç-class can reach speeds of 40 knots (46 mph). Even when the waters are extemely turbulent, the ships are capable of more than 24 knots (27 mph). This small 552-ton vessel has four MTU-brand main engines that power four propellors with two rudders. These diesel engines are capable of producing 22,000 horsepower. Not only is the Kılıç I/II class fast, these ships have a small radar cross-section, making them harder to detect than some rival ships. Most details about the Navy SEALs — or special forces in general — are redacted for national security. That's especially true for the awesome vehicles SEAL teams use in the field. But we do know some things about the specialized watercraft they've used over the decades. In 2015, the Navy replaced the Mark V Special Operations Craft with the new Combatant Craft Assault high-speed boat, which can rapidly insert and extract SEALs behind enemy lines. Despite military secrecy, it's possible to infer some details about the CCA if we look at similar boats. For starters, it can exceed 40 knots (46 mph) and might even be able to race closer to 55 knots (63 mph). United States Marine Inc., which builds the 41-foot CCA, also makes a similar vessel that's 2 feet longer and can go over 55 knots in calm seas. The CCA uses a surface-drive system of surface-piercing propellers known for its speed. These propellers are designed to work partly out of the water, significantly reducing drag. Because of the position of the propellors, there's no blade-tip clearance from the hull, letting operators use a variety of propellor sizes. This is especially helpful for special forces, as the CCA can easily soar through the shallows. This high-speed boat isn't restricted to being launched from a dock or larger ship, either, as it's light enough for a C-17 to carry and drop it into the ocean from midair. In the early 2000s, General Dynamics devised an idea for a small, agile warship that could operate with ease near the shore, in the "littorals." Lockheed Martin was working with Marinette Marine already to build such a vessel, but the Navy accepted General Dynamics' proposal, contracting with the firm to build two warships before awarding a larger deal to either firm. Partnering with Austal USA, the result was the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship. The Independence variant is deceptively fast with its wide stern, accommodating the largest flight deck on current surface combatant vessels, and trimaran hull design that increases its total surface area. Despite all that, it can still exceed 44 knots (50 mph). It's built with a combined diesel and gas turbine propulsion system that uses two General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, two MTU Friedrichshafen 20V8000 series diesel engine, and four Wärtsilä waterjets. In 2010, Navy leaders asked for Congress to approve 10 Independence-class vessels. They got their wish, and more. There have been 18 Independence ships built, with a 19th currently under construction. Alongside the construction of the Independence class, a Lockheed Martin-led team designed and built the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship. No other vessel exudes "America" more than a class of ships named Freedom, and not simply because of its name. American culture is seeped in the mentality that everything manufactured there needs to be bigger, stronger, and faster than everywhere else. Like the Independence class, the U.S. Navy commissioned the Freedom class to combat dangers in the littorals, such as mines, diesel submarines, and other fast attack craft. When it comes to other speedy vessels, the USS Fort Worth, Detroit, or any of the other 13 Freedom-class ships won't have much of an issue closing the distance. In collaboration with Marinette Marine, Lockheed Martin's final design produced a vessel capable of 47 knots (54 mph). Again like the Independence class, the Freedom class is built with a combined diesel and gas turbine propulsion system, but it uses two Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines, two Colt-Pielstick 16PA6B diesel engines, and four Rolls-Royce Kamewa 153SII waterjets, two of which are maneuverable. As fast as this class is, it hasn't been without its headaches, specifically related to its propulsion system. A damaged clutch between the gas and diesel turbines caused the Milwaukee to be without any propulsion in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, requiring a tow. A year later, the same thing happened to the Fort Worth in the Pacific. The Royal Norwegian Navy has the honor of utilizing one of the fastest naval vessels to hit the open seas. If weather conditions are ideal and the water is calm, the Skjold class has been known to reach 60 knots (69 mph). The Royal Norwegian Navy commissioned the first of this class of corvette, the Skjold, in 1999 and in 2002, it ordered five more. The Skjold visited the United States for 13 months, giving the U.S. Navy a look at its design and capabilities. It returned to Norway in 2002 and then in 2003 the Navy decommissioned it in order to upgrade its propulsion system. The Norwegian Navy recommissioned it in 2008 when it was redesignated as a trials platform. The five corvettes to follow the namesake vessel (Storm, Skudd, Steil, Glimt, and Gnist) were built with a combined diesel and gas turbine propulsion system using four Pratt & Whitney gas turbines that drive two Kamewa water jets. Its speed is greatly assisted by its air-cushioned catamaran hull, providing less surface area to get wet, thus reducing resistance from the water it rides on. Moreover, this design makes it ideal for special operations, since it can sail through shallower water than conventional craft. It's not merely the speed that's impressive, either. The Skjold class comes with two maneuvering engines that let it zig and zag with relative ease.Significant milestones in life and career of Jimmy Carter

— Oct. 1, 1924: James Earl Carter Jr. is born in Plains, Georgia, son of James Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter. — June 1946: Carter graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy. — July 1946: Carter marries Rosalynn Smith, in Plains. They have four children, John William (“Jack”), born 1947; James Earl 3rd (“Chip”), 1950; Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff), 1952; and Amy Lynn, 1967. — 1946-1953: Carter serves in a Navy nuclear submarine program, attaining rank of lieutenant commander. — Summer 1953: Carter resigns from the Navy, returns to Plains after father’s death. — 1953-1971: Carter helps run the family peanut farm and warehouse business. — 1963-1966: Carter serves in the Georgia state Senate. — 1966: Carter tries unsuccessfully for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. — November 1970: Carter is elected governor of Georgia. Serves 1971-75. — Dec. 12, 1974: Carter announces a presidential bid. Atlanta newspaper answers with headline: “Jimmy Who?” — January 1976: Carter leads the Democratic field in Iowa, a huge campaign boost that also helps to establish Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus. — July 1976: Carter accepts the Democratic nomination and announces Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota as running mate. — November 1976: Carter defeats President Gerald R. Ford, winning 51% of the vote and 297 electoral votes to Ford’s 240. — January 1977: Carter is sworn in as the 39th president of the United States. On his first full day in office, he pardons most Vietnam-era draft evaders. —September 1977: U.S. and Panama sign treaties to return the Panama Canal back to Panama in 1999. Senate narrowly ratifies them in 1978. — September 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Carter sign Camp David accords, which lead to a peace deal between Egypt and Israel the following year. — June 15-18, 1979: Carter attends a summit with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna that leads to the signing of the SALT II treaty. — November 1979: Iranian militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 hostages. All survive and are freed minutes after Carter leaves office in January 1981. — April 1980: The Mariel boatlift begins, sending tens of thousands of Cubans to the U.S. Many are criminals and psychiatric patients set free by Cuban leader Fidel Castro, creating a major foreign policy crisis. — April 1980: An attempt by the U.S. to free hostages fails when a helicopter crashes into a transport plane in Iran, killing eight servicemen. — Nov. 4, 1980: Carter is denied a second term by Ronald Reagan, who wins 51.6% of the popular vote to 41.7% for Carter and 6.7% to independent John Anderson. — 1982: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter co-found The Carter Center in Atlanta, whose mission is to resolve conflicts, protect human rights and prevent disease around the world. — September 1984: The Carters spend a week building Habitat for Humanity houses, launching what becomes the annual Carter Work Project. — October 1986: A dedication is held for The Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta. The center includes the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and Carter Center offices. — 1989: Carter leads the Carter Center’s first election monitoring mission, declaring Panamanian Gen. Manuel Noriega’s election fraudulent. — May 1992: Carter meets with Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev at the Carter Center to discuss forming the Gorbachev Foundation. — June 1994: Carter plays a key role in North Korea nuclear disarmament talks. — September 1994: Carter leads a delegation to Haiti, arranging terms to avoid a U.S. invasion and return President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. — December 1994: Carter negotiates tentative cease-fire in Bosnia. — March 1995: Carter mediates cease-fire in Sudan’s war with southern rebels. — September 1995: Carter travels to Africa to advance the peace process in more troubled areas. — December 1998: Carter receives U.N. Human Rights Prize on 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. — August 1999: President Bill Clinton awards Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter the Presidential Medal of Freedom. — September 2001: Carter joins former Presidents Ford, Bush and Clinton at a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington after Sept. 11 attacks. — April 2002: Carter’s book “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood” chosen as finalist for Pulitzer Prize in biography. — May 2002: Carter visits Cuba and addresses the communist nation on television. He is the highest-ranking American to visit in decades. — Dec. 10, 2002: Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” — July 2007: Carter joins The Elders, a group of international leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela to focus on global issues. — Spring 2008: Carter remains officially neutral as Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton battle each other for the Democratic presidential nomination. — April 2008: Carter stirs controversy by meeting with the Islamic militant group Hamas. — August 2010: Carter travels to North Korea as the Carter Center negotiates the release of an imprisoned American teacher. — August 2013: Carter joins President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton at the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and the March on Washington. — Oct. 1, 2014: Carter celebrates his 90th birthday. — December 2014: Carter is nominated for a Grammy in the best spoken word album category, for his book “A Call To Action.” — May 2015: Carter returns early from an election observation visit in Guyana — the Carter Center’s 100th — after feeling unwell. — August 2015: Carter has a small cancerous mass removed from his liver. He plans to receive treatment at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. — August 2015: Carter announces that his grandson Jason Carter will chair the Carter Center governing board. — March 6, 2016: Carter says an experimental drug has eliminated any sign of his cancer, and that he needs no further treatment. — May 25, 2016: Carter steps back from a “front-line” role with The Elders to become an emeritus member. — July 2016: Carter is treated for dehydration during a Habitat for Humanity build in Canada. — Spring 2018: Carter publishes “Faith: A Journey for All,” the last of 32 books. — March 22, 2019: Carter becomes the longest-lived U.S. president, surpassing President George H.W. Bush, who died in 2018. — September 18, 2019: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter deliver their final in-person annual report at the Carter Center. — October 2019: At 95, still recovering from a fall, Carter joins the Work Project with Habitat for Humanity in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s the last time he works personally on the annual project. — Fall 2019-early 2020: Democratic presidential hopefuls visit, publicly embracing Carter as a party elder, a first for his post-presidency. — November 2020:The Carter Center monitors an audit of presidential election results in the state of Georgia, marking a new era of democracy advocacy within the U.S. — Jan. 20, 2021: The Carters miss President Joe Biden’s swearing-in, the first presidential inauguration they don’t attend since Carter’s own ceremony in 1977. The Bidens later visit the Carters in Plains on April 29. — Feb. 19, 2023: Carter enters home hospice care after a series of short hospital stays. — July 7, 2023: The Carters celebrate their 77th and final wedding anniversary. — Nov. 19, 2023: Rosalynn Carter dies at home, two days after the family announced that she had joined the former president in receiving hospice care. — Oct. 1, 2024 — Carter becomes the first former U.S. president to reach 100 years of age , celebrating at home with extended family and close friends. — Oct. 16, 2024 — Carter casts a Georgia mail ballot for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, having told his family he wanted to live long enough to vote for her. It marks his 21st presidential election as a voter. — Dec. 29, 2024: Carter dies at home.

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. It’s a far-from-perfect arrangement, with many parties still deeply unsatisfied but some hopeful that the deal will be a step in the right direction. World Resources Institute president and CEO Ani Dasgupta called it “an important down payment toward a safer, more equitable future,” but added that the poorest and most vulnerable nations are “rightfully disappointed that wealthier countries didn’t put more money on the table when billions of people’s lives are at stake.” The summit was supposed to end on Friday evening but negotiations spiraled on through early Sunday. With countries on opposite ends of a massive chasm, tensions ran high as delegations tried to close the gap in expectations. Here’s how they got there: read more Here’s what happened when experts at COP29 played a climate change board game Athletes see climate change as threatening their sports and their health. Some are speaking up Papuan women’s mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution What was the finance deal agreed at climate talks? Rich countries have agreed to pool together at least $300 billion a year by 2035. It’s not near the full amount of $1.3 trillion that developing countries were asking for, and that experts said was needed. But delegations more optimistic about the agreement said this deal is headed in the right direction, with hopes that more money flows in the future. The text included a call for all parties to work together using “all public and private sources” to get closer to the $1.3 trillion per year goal by 2035. That means also pushing for international mega-banks, funded by taxpayer dollars, to help foot the bill. And it means, hopefully, that companies and private investors will follow suit on channeling cash toward climate action. const iframes=document.querySelectorAll('iframe.ap-embed');const iframeMap=new Map();iframes.forEach(iframe=>iframeMap.set(iframe.contentWindow,iframe));window.addEventListener('message',msg=>{const iframe=iframeMap.get(msg.source);if(!iframe)return;if(msg.data.type==='embed-size'){iframe.setAttribute('height',msg.data.height);iframe.style.height='${msg.data.height}px';return;}});iframes.forEach(iframe=>{const data={type:'embed-size-query'};iframe.contentWindow.postMessage(data,'*');}); The agreement is also a critical step toward helping countries on the receiving end create more ambitious targets to limit or cut emissions of heat-trapping gases that are due early next year. It’s part of the plan to keep cutting pollution with new targets every five years, which the world agreed to at the U.N. talks in Paris in 2015. The Paris agreement set the system of regular ratcheting up climate fighting ambition as away to keep warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The world is already at 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) and carbon emissions keep rising. Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Read More What will the money be spent on? The deal decided in Baku replaces a previous agreement from 15 years ago that charged rich nations $100 billion a year to help the developing world with climate finance. The new number has similar aims: it will go toward the developing world’s long laundry list of to-dos to prepare for a warming world and keep it from getting hotter. That includes paying for the transition to clean energy and away from fossil fuels. Countries need funds to build up the infrastructure needed to deploy technologies like wind and solar power on a large scale. Communities hard-hit by extreme weather also want money to adapt and prepare for events like floods, typhoons and fires. Funds could go toward improving farming practices to make them more resilient to weather extremes, to building houses differently with storms in mind, to helping people move from the hardest-hit areas and to help leaders improve emergency plans and aid in the wake of disasters. The Philippines, for example, has been hammered by six major storms in less than a month , bringing to millions of people howling wind, massive storm surges and catastrophic damage to residences, infrastructure and farmland. “Family farmers need to be financed,” said Esther Penunia of the Asian Farmers Association. She described how many have already had to deal with millions of dollars of storm damage, some of which includes trees that won’t again bear fruit for months or years, or animals that die, wiping out a main source of income. “If you think of a rice farmer who depends on his or her one hectare farm, rice land, ducks, chickens, vegetables, and it was inundated, there was nothing to harvest,” she said. Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President, applauds as he attends a closing plenary at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President, applauds as he attends a closing plenary at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Read More Why was it so hard to get a deal? Election results around the world that herald a change in climate leadership, a few key players with motive to stall the talks and a disorganized host country all led to a final crunch that left few happy with a flawed compromise. The ending of COP29 is “reflective of the harder geopolitical terrain the world finds itself in,” said Li Shuo of the Asia Society. He cited Trump’s recent victory in the US — with his promises to pull the country out of the Paris Agreement — as one reason why the relationship between China and the EU will be more consequential for global climate politics moving forward. Developing nations also faced some difficulties agreeing in the final hours, with one Latin American delegation member saying that their group didn’t feel properly consulted when small island states had last-minute meetings to try to break through to a deal. Negotiators from across the developing world took different tacks on the deal until they finally agreed to compromise. Meanwhile, activists ramped up the pressure: many urged negotiators to stay strong and asserted that no deal would be better than a bad deal. But ultimately the desire for a deal won out. Some also pointed to the host country as a reason for the struggle. Mohamed Adow, director of climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa, said Friday that “this COP presidency is one of the worst in recent memory,” calling it “one of the most poorly led and chaotic COP meetings ever.” The presidency said in a statement, “Every hour of the day, we have pulled people together. Every inch of the way, we have pushed for the highest common denominator. We have faced geopolitical headwinds and made every effort to be an honest broker for all sides.” Shuo retains hope that the opportunities offered by a green economy “make inaction self-defeating” for countries around the world, regardless of their stance on the decision. But it remains to be seen whether the UN talks can deliver more ambition next year. In the meantime, “this COP process needs to recover from Baku,” Shuo said. ___ Associated Press reporters Seth Borenstein and Sibi Arasu contributed to this report. ___ The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org .It comes amid uncertainty about the future of the United States' own sixth-generation fighter initiative – known as the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Programme. Projected costs for each of the future US aircraft are estimated to reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Air Force in November decided to defer key decisions about the project's direction to the incoming Trump administration. CHINESE 6TH-GEN AIRCRAFT SOARS IN HISTORIC MAIDEN FLIGHT The cutting-edge aircraft model is named "White Emperor" (Baidi in Chinese) and has been developed by the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of #China (AVIC) . As of now, no country has an operational... pic.twitter.com/OMQFlLKeKv — NexDef (@nex_def) December 26, 2024 The Chinese display of new military technology also follows criticism from Elon Musk – whom President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with advising on budget cuts – regarding the F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet programme, which has been saddled with faulty technology and cost overruns. Musk called the F-35 builders, Lockheed Martin, "idiots" and suggested that manned fighter jets should be replaced with drones. "It seems quite intentional that [the Chinese military] wanted us to see this aircraft flying. I would think personally that the timing on this is really curious because they're aware of this debate and it almost seems designed to influence that debate," said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center. Amid uncertainty over the manned fighter project, Pentagon officials have said they want to create an unmanned "hellscape" of drones to defend Taiwan. 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The UK Government was warned that a “save David campaign” for UUP leader Lord Trimble would ruin progress made under the Good Friday Agreement. Extensive confidential documents in the lead-up to the collapse of Northern Ireland’s institutions in 2002 have been made available to the public as part of annual releases from the Irish National Archives. They reveal that the Irish Government wanted to appeal to the UK side against “manipulating” every scenario for favourable election results in Northern Ireland, in an effort to protect the peace process. In the years after the landmark 1998 Good Friday Agreement, a number of outstanding issues left the political environment fraught with tension and disagreement. Mr Trimble, who won a Nobel Peace Prize with SDLP leader John Hume for their work on the Agreement, was keen to gain wins for the UUP on policing, ceasefire audits and paramilitary disarmament – but also to present his party as firmer on these matters amid swipes from its Unionist rival, the DUP. These issues were at the front of his mind as he tried to steer his party into Assembly elections planned for May 2003 and continue in his role as the Executive’s first minister despite increasing political pressure. The documents reveal the extent to which the British and Irish Governments were trying to delicately resolve the contentious negotiations, conscious that moves seen as concessions to one group could provoke anger on the other side. In June 2002, representatives of the SDLP reported to Irish officials on a recent meeting between Mr Hume’s successor Mark Durkan and Prime Minister Tony Blair on policing and security. Mr Blair is said to have suggested that the SDLP and UUP were among those who both supported and took responsibility for the Good Friday Agreement. The confidential report of the meeting says that Mr Durkan, the deputy First Minister, was not sure that Mr Trimble had been correctly categorised. The Prime Minister asked if the SDLP could work more closely with the UUP ahead of the elections. Mr Durkan argued that Mr Trimble was not only not saleable to nationalists, but also not saleable to half of the UUP – to which Mr Blair and Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid are said to have laughed in agreement. The SDLP leader further warned that pursuing a “save David” campaign would ruin all they had worked for. Damien McAteer, an adviser for the SDLP, was recorded as briefing Irish officials on September 10 that it was his view that Mr Trimble was intent on collapsing the institutions in 2003 over expected fallout for Sinn Fein in the wake of the Colombia Three trial, where men linked to the party were charged with training Farc rebels – but predicted the UUP leader would be “in the toilet” by January, when an Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) meeting was due to take place. A week later in mid September, Mr Trimble assured Irish premier Bertie Ahern that the next UUC meeting to take place in two days’ time would be “okay but not great” and insisted he was not planning to play any “big game”. It was at that meeting that he made the bombshell announcement that the UUP would pull out of the Executive if the IRA had not disbanded by January 18. The move came as a surprise to the Irish officials who, along with their UK counterparts, did not see the deadline as realistic. Sinn Fein described the resolution as a “wreckers’ charter”. Doubts were raised that there would be any progress on substantive issues as parties would not be engaged in “pre-election skirmishing”. As that could lead to a UUP walkout and the resulting suspension of the institutions, the prospect of delaying the elections was raised while bringing forward the vote was ruled out. Therefore, the two Governments stressed the need to cooperate as a stabilising force to protect the Agreement – despite not being sure how that process would survive through the January 18 deadline. The Irish officials became worried that the British side did not share their view that Mr Trimble was not “salvageable” and that the fundamental dynamic in the UUP was now Agreement scepticism, the confidential documents state. In a meeting days after the UUC announcements, Mr Reid is recorded in the documents as saying that as infuriating as it was, Mr Trimble was at that moment the “most enlightened Unionist we have”. The Secretary said he would explore what the UUP leader needed to “survive” the period between January 18 and the election, believing a significant prize could avoid him being “massacred”. Such planning went out the window just weeks later, when hundreds of PSNI officers were involved in raids of several buildings – including Sinn Fein’s offices in Stormont. The resulting “Stormontgate” spy-ring scandal accelerated the collapse of powersharing, with the UUP pulling out of the institutions – and the Secretary of State suspending the Assembly and Executive on October 14. For his part, Irish officials were briefed that Mr Reid was said to be “gung ho” about the prospect of exercising direct rule – reportedly making no mention of the Irish Government in a meeting with Mr Trimble and Mr Durkan on that day. The Northern Ireland Secretary was given a new role and Paul Murphy was appointed as his successor. A note on speaking points for a meeting with Mr Murphy in April showed that the Irish side believed the May elections should go ahead: “At a certain stage the political process has to stand on its own feet. “The Governments cannot be manipulating and finessing every scenario to engineer the right result. “We have to start treating the parties and the people as mature and trusting that they have the discernment to make the right choices.” However, the elections planned for May did not materialise, instead delayed until November. Mr Trimble would go on to lose his Westminster seat – and stewardship of the UUP – in 2005. The November election saw the DUP emerge as the largest parties – but direct rule continued as Ian Paisley’s refused to share power with Sinn Fein, which Martin McGuinness’ colleagues. The parties eventually agreed to work together following further elections in 2007. – This article is based on documents in 2024/130/5, 2024/130/6, 2024/130/15

JOSH BERMAN JOINS ASSEMBLY AS EVP, ASSEMBLY LEAD IN NORTH AMERICASAN FRANCISCO , Dec. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AusperBio Therapeutics, Inc . and Ausper Biopharma Co., Ltd . (collectively AusperBio ), a privately held clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to advancing targeted oligonucleotide therapies to achieve a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B ( CHB ), today announced the successful completion of a USD 73 million Series B financing. The round was led by HanKang Capital , with participation from Sherpa Capital , CDH Investments , and a strategic investor, as well as continued participation from existing investors Qiming Venture Partners , InnoPinnacle Fund , and YuanBio Venture Capital . This financing followed the company's Series A round completed in July this year, demonstrating continued investor confidence in its proprietary platform and strategic direction. The proceeds will fund the continued Phase 2 development of AHB-137 , AusperBio's lead investigational therapy, supporting both clinical studies in China and global trials, as well as the development of commercial-scale manufacturing processes. The funding will also facilitate the expansion of the company's therapeutic pipeline and operational capabilities to drive sustained growth. Dr. Guofeng Cheng , co-founder and CEO of AusperBio, stated, " We are honored by our investors' confidence and support. This milestone financing recognizes our scientific and clinical accomplishments to date and enables us to accelerate our clinical programs and move closer to delivering a functional cure for CHB patients in need." Dr. Chris Yang , co-founder and CSO, added, "AHB-137 continues to attract attention from the scientific and clinical communities, particularly after the late-breaking oral presentation at the recent AASLD conference. The promising clinical data further validates our Med-OligoTM platform, strengthening our development of groundbreaking targeted oligonucleotide therapies for CHB and other serious chronic diseases." AusperBio is committed to delivering patient-centered innovations, aiming to alleviate the global health burden of CHB and transform treatment paradigms for this serious chronic disease. About AHB-137 AHB-137, a novel unconjugated antisense oligonucleotide ( ASO ) developed within AusperBio's proprietary Med-OligoTM ASO technology platform, was designed to treat chronic hepatitis B for a functional cure. Its compelling preclinical and Phase 1 clinical data were highlighted at the 2023 EASL conference and the 2024 EASL conference, respectively. Interim Phase 2a data was presented in a late-breaking oral session at the 2024 AASLD. This novel dual-mechanism ASO has completed its global Phase 1b trial and is now undergoing multiple Phase 2 trials in China . With its global development strategy, AHB-137 is advancing rapidly toward the goal of an HBV cure. About AusperBio. AusperBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with operations in the USA and China , dedicated to advancing oligonucleotide and targeted delivery technologies for transformative therapies, with an initial focus on curing chronic hepatitis B infection. The company has developed a proprietary Med-OligoTM ASO platform which has been shown to substantially enhance the current ASO therapeutics, through novel insights into ASO design. Combining with efficient targeted delivery conjugation technologies, the modular Med-OligoTM Platform empowers ASO therapeutics to treat a broad range of diseases, including viral infections, metabolic conditions, genetic disorders, and immune diseases. For further information, please contact: Media Contact Email: info@ausperbio.com Investor Relations Contact: Tel: 650-888-1756 (US) Email: growth@ausperbio.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ausperbio-secures-73-million-in-series-b-financing-to-advance-functional-cure-for-chronic-hepatitis-b-302339451.html SOURCE AusperBio Therapeutics Inc.The Analyst Verdict: Rigetti Computing In The Eyes Of 5 Experts

Franklin Resources Inc. reduced its stake in shares of The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited ( NYSE:NTB – Free Report ) by 65.7% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 39,718 shares of the bank’s stock after selling 75,947 shares during the quarter. Franklin Resources Inc.’s holdings in Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son were worth $1,497,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the stock. Wedge Capital Management L L P NC increased its stake in Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son by 1.4% during the 3rd quarter. Wedge Capital Management L L P NC now owns 22,691 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $837,000 after buying an additional 324 shares during the period. Stifel Financial Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son by 8.3% in the third quarter. Stifel Financial Corp now owns 7,832 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $289,000 after acquiring an additional 602 shares in the last quarter. Capital Performance Advisors LLP acquired a new position in shares of Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son during the third quarter valued at approximately $37,000. Point72 DIFC Ltd raised its holdings in Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son by 370.1% during the third quarter. Point72 DIFC Ltd now owns 1,368 shares of the bank’s stock worth $50,000 after purchasing an additional 1,077 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC lifted its position in Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son by 222.0% in the third quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 2,254 shares of the bank’s stock worth $83,000 after purchasing an additional 1,554 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 62.73% of the company’s stock. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Separately, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods cut Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and lowered their price target for the company from $44.00 to $41.00 in a research report on Wednesday, October 2nd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $39.60. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Stock Down 1.5 % NYSE NTB opened at $36.84 on Friday. The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited has a 12 month low of $28.73 and a 12 month high of $40.55. The company has a market capitalization of $1.85 billion, a P/E ratio of 8.20 and a beta of 1.17. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $37.53 and its 200 day simple moving average is $36.89. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.09, a current ratio of 0.66 and a quick ratio of 0.66. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son ( NYSE:NTB – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 22nd. The bank reported $1.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.10 by $0.06. The company had revenue of $142.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $142.07 million. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son had a return on equity of 21.14% and a net margin of 25.93%. The firm’s revenue was up .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.16 earnings per share. Equities research analysts expect that The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited will post 4.52 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Dividend Announcement The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, November 19th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, November 5th were issued a dividend of $0.44 per share. This represents a $1.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.78%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, November 5th. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son’s dividend payout ratio is 39.20%. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Company Profile ( Free Report ) The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited provides a range of community, commercial, and private banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses. It accepts retail and corporate checking, savings, term, and interest bearing and non-interest bearing deposits. The company’s lending portfolio includes residential mortgage lending, automobile lending, consumer financing, credit cards, overdraft facilities, commercial real estate lending, and commercial and industrial loans, as well as overdraft facilities to commercial and corporate customers. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Bank of N.T. 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AI Legal Mate Revolutionizing Legal Aid for Disabled Students & Military Veterans (AI119 YK2K Evolution - Henry Nanpei Academy Project) AI Legal Mate Revolutionizing Legal Aid for Disabled Students & Military Veterans (AI119 YK2K Evolution - Henry Nanpei Academy Project) www.ailegalmate.com WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT AI LEGAL MATE As previously reported , AI Legal Mate has filed its Gen AI 'Law and Health' technology utility patent updates, utilizing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and quantum computing. QM-Ware is designed exclusively for remote and physical users, and will continue to be under (nonpartisan) exploration delegations with organizations like the Veterans Recovery Network , The Gaygency , Fugees Lives Matte PAC , The Trump S.A.F.E. Act - Department of Government Efficiency 2025, SMART Recovery Network , and Harvard I-Labs. The AI Legal Mate launched a project to assist disabled Harvard students in civil rights actions concerning overly 'X'd up Harvard degrees, and military veterans at the Veterans Recovery Network seeking settlement claims through the PACT Act Relief programs. With quantum computing, AI Legal Mate works as an ultimate API conduit between a pro-bono law client and live attorneys and AI Law technicians to handle batches of similarly situated claimants within a shorter time than a well-staffed civil rights organization with a dozen or more attorneys. AI PATENT TECH NEWS AI119 Tech's propel development team has filed a second utility patent update application for their 'third generation' AI Law and Health technology, designed similar to military ISACs established in the late-90s. This technology uses quantum computer technology under Grover's algorithms for quantum-error corrections in human-driven transactions. The newer version of AI119's technology is capable of resolving tens of thousands of administrative complaint cases within a few days by integrating live attorneys with AI Law resources and SOC-2 applications to certify legal documents. AI Legal Mate's next generation plan is to complete its fifth-generation technology with innovative lab affiliates, including their "QM-ware" approach, which aims to integrate AI with assistive technology like earbuds, eye-ware, wrist-ware , head-ware , and body-ware to enable adaptive learning at 'meta-speed. ' This will empower users to receive treatment or training for mental health disabilities or professional skills through peer-to-peer transmission of Generative AI at meta-speeds . For more information about AI Legal Mate or AI119 Gen AI Law technology, visit www.ailegalmate.com . A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/003b80da-a76f-4c3a-a31b-d6e18633e78e A video accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/eb54f06e-c40b-4edd-8083-473447a37d5f CONTACT: Contact: [email protected] (David De Livera)This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. ___ Author: Petra Molnar, Associate Director, Refugee Law Lab, York University, Canada At a press conference on Dec. 17, the Canadian federal government announced proposed new measures to expand its management of Canada’s border with the United States. These measures were intended to appease the incoming Trump administration and to avoid a threatened 25 per cent import tariff. The proposal includes expansions of border technologies, including RCMP counterintelligence, 24/7 surveillance between ports of entry, helicopters, drones and mobile towers. But what will this mean for people seeking asylum? If the U.S.-Mexico border is any indication, it will mean more death. Criminalizing migration At the press conference, Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of finance and intergovernmental affairs, reaffirmed Canada’s relationship with the incoming Trump administration. Framed around politics of difference, and relying on the fearmongering trope of migration as a “crisis,” Canada’s new border plan will also cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. During the press conference, LeBlanc’s remarks conflated migration with trafficking and crime, relying on “crimmigration,” or the use of criminalization to discipline, exclude, or expel migrants or others seen as not entitled to be in a country. LeBlanc also made direct reference to preventing fraud in the asylum system, with the driving forces behind this new border plan being “minimizing border volumes” and “removing irritants” to the U.S. However, these framings weaken the global right to asylum, which is an internationally protected right guaranteed by the 1951 Refugee Convention and sections 96 and 97 of Canada’s own Immigration and Refugee Protection Protection Act. Canada’s own courts have also found that the U.S. is not a safe country for some refugees. Deadly borders Since 2018, I have been researching technology and migration. I have worked at and studied various borders around the world, starting in Canada, moving south to the U.S.-Mexico border and including various countries in Europe and East Africa, as well as the Palestinian territories. Over the years, I have worked with hundreds of people seeking safety and witnessed the horrific conditions they have to survive. The Sonoran Desert containing the U.S.-Mexico border has become what anthropologist Jason de Leon calls “the land of open graves.” Researchers have shown that deaths have increased every year as a result of growing surveillance and deterrence mechanisms. I have witnessed these spaces of death in the Sonoran Desert and European borders, with people on the move succumbing to these sharpening borders. Canadian borders are not devoid of death. Families have frozen and drowned attempting to enter Canada. Others, like Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal, nearly froze to death and lost limbs as a result of frostbite; they later received refugee status and became Canadian citizens in 2023. ‘Extreme vulnerability’ Throughout the press conference, a clear theme emerged again and again: Canada’s border plan will “expand and deepen the relationship” between Canada and U.S. through border management, including both data sharing and operational support. The border management plan will include an aerial intelligence task force to provide non-stop surveillance. The mandate of the Canada Border Services Agency will also expand, and include a joint operational strike force. In November, president-elect Donald Trump named former Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom Homan as his administration’s “border czar.” Homan explicitly called out Canada after his appointment, calling the Canadian border “an extreme vulnerability.” Trump has also made pointed comments directed at Justin Trudeau, referring to him as “governor” and to Canada as the 51st state. And with Trump’s aggressive “America First” policies and the 25 per cent tariff threat, appeasing the incoming administration by strengthening border surveillance at the Canada-U.S. border is the lowest hanging fruit for the Trudeau administration to strengthen its hand. Creeping surveillance Border surveillance technologies do not remain at the border. In 2021, communities in Vermont and New York have already raised concerns about possible privacy infringements with the installation of surveillance towers. There are also fears of growing surveillance and repression of journalists and the migrant justice sector as a whole. And surveillance technologies used at the border have also been repurposed: for example, robo-dogs first employed at the U.S.-Mexico border have appeared in New York City and facial recognition technologies ubiquitous at airports are also being used on sports fans in stadiums. The big business of borders Taxpayers will foot the bill of this new border strategy to the hefty tune of $1.3 billion. This amount is part of a growing and lucrative border industrial complex that is now worth a staggering US$68 billion dollars and projected to grow exponentially to nearly a trillion dollars by 2031. But taxpayers do not benefit. Instead, the private sector makes up the market place of technical solutions to the so-called “problem” of migration. In this lucrative ecosystem built on fear of “the migrant other,” it is the private sector actors and not taxpayers who benefit. Instead of succumbing to the exclusionary politics of the incoming U.S. administration, we should call for transparency and accountability in the development and deployment of new technologies. There is also a need for more governance and laws to curtail these high-risk tech experiments before more people die at Canada’s borders. Instead of spending $1.3 billion dollars on surveillance technologies that infringe upon people’s rights, Canada should strengthen its asylum system and civil society support. Canada should also remember its international human rights obligations, and resist the U.S. political rhetoric of dehumanizing people who are seeking safety and protection. ___ Petra Molnar receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. ___ This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Read the original article: https://theconversation.com/increased-surveillance-at-the-canada-u-s-border-means-more-asylum-seekers-could-die-246243 Advertisement Advertisement