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Whenever a company suffers an unexpected blow, the way its stock recovers says a lot about its fortitude. ( ) stock is showing it can survive the exit of its Chief Executive and founder, Jared Isaacman. The stock sold off more than 12% on Dec. 4, when President-elect Donald Trump named . Isaacman will step down as chairman and CEO as soon as the Senate confirms his nomination, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company so far has made no public disclosures about its plans for a replacement. A few analysts downgraded the stock following the news. Jared Isaacman Friendly With Musk Far from the aerospace business, Shift4 is a payment processing firm that serves hundreds of thousands of companies. It processes digital payments for Elon Musk's satellite internet service, Starlink, and Isaacman is close with Musk. But for all the uncertainty about its leadership, Shift4 stock is making positive moves. The early December tumble took the stock to the 10-week moving average, where buyers have been appearing. So far, Shift4 stock hasn't made much of a rebound. It's still about 10% below its Nov. 29 peak. But the support at the 10-week line offers a buy point around 101. The buy range goes to 106. Despite its tumble, Shift4 stock is still No. 1 by Composite Rating among 36 companies in the credit card and payment processing industry group. Its three-year per-share earnings growth rate is an impressive 129% and the sales growth rate is 36%, according to the . Shift4's EPS Rating of 98 is second best in the industry. Analysts expect 2024 earnings to climb 29% and a further 24% in 2025, according to . Isaacman's Aviation, Business Background On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley raised its price target on Shift4 stock to 109 from 90 and kept an equal weight rating, according to Thefly.com. Morgan Stanley cited improving investor sentiment, a call for accelerated investment in competitive strengths, more acquisitions, and easing regulatory scrutiny. According to a , Isaacman started Shift4 in his parents' basement at the age of 16, back in 1999. In 2011, he founded Draken International, a company that trains air force pilots, and also owns the world's largest private fleet of military aircraft. Isaacman sold a majority stake in Draken to Wall Street investment firm Blackstone in 2019.Titans S Julius Wood suspended 6 games for PEDs

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Airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end with another record day for air travel in the United States. AAA predicts that nearly 80 million Americans will venture at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday and next Monday, most of them by car. However, travelers could be impacted by ongoing weather challenges and those flying to their destinations could be grounded by delays brought on by airline staffing shortages and an airport service workers strike . Here’s what we’re following today: Here’s the latest: “We cannot live on the wages that we are being paid,” ABM cabin cleaner Priscilla Hoyle said at a rally earlier Monday. “I can honestly say it’s hard every single day with my children, working a full-time job but having to look my kids in the eyes and sit there and say, ’I don’t know if we’re going to have a home today.’” Timothy Lowe II, a wheelchair attendant, said he has to figure out where to spend the night because he doesn’t make enough for a deposit on a home. “We just want to be able to have everything that’s a necessity paid for by the job that hired us to do a great job so they can make billions,” he said. ABM said it is “committed to addressing concerns swiftly” and that there are avenues for employees to communicate issues, including a national hotline and a “general open door policy for managers at our worksite.” Employees of ABM and Prospect Airport Services cast ballots Friday to authorize the work stoppage at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a hub for American Airlines. They described living paycheck to paycheck while performing jobs that keep planes running on schedule. Most of them earn $12.50 to $19 an hour, union officials said. Rev. Glencie Rhedrick of Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice said those workers should make $22 to $25 an hour. The strike is expected to last 24 hours. Several hundred workers participated in the work stoppage. Forty-four fights have been canceled today and nearly 1,900 were delayed by midday on the East Coast, according to FlightAware . According to the organization’s cheekily named MiseryMap , San Francisco International Airport is having the most hiccups right now, with 53 delays and three cancellations between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. EST. While that might sound like a lot of delays, they might not be so bad compared to last Friday when the airport suffered 671 delays and 69 cancellations. In an apparent effort to reduce the headaches caused by airport line cutting, American Airlines has rolled out boarding technology that alerts gate agents with an audible sound if a passenger tries to scan a ticket ahead of their assigned group. This new software won’t accept a boarding pass before the group it’s assigned to is called, so customers who get to the gate prematurely will be asked to go back and wait their turn. As of Wednesday, the airline announced, the technology is now being used in more than 100 U.S. airports that American flies out of. The official expansion arrives after successful tests in three of these locations — Albuquerque International Sunport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Tucson International Airport. ▶ Read more about American Airlines’ new boarding technology Travel can be stressful in the best of times. Now add in the high-level anxiety that seems to be baked into every holiday season and it’s clear travelers could use some help calming frazzled nerves. Here are a few ways to make your holiday journey a little less stressful: ▶ Read more tips about staying grounded during holiday travel Thanksgiving Day takes place late this year, with the fourth Thursday of November falling on Nov. 28. That shortens the traditional shopping season and changes the rhythm of holiday travel. With more time before the holiday , people tend to spread out their outbound travel over more days, but everyone returns at the same time, said Andrew Watterson, the chief operating officer of Southwest Airlines . “A late Thanksgiving leads to a big crush at the end,” Watterson said. “The Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday after Thanksgiving are usually very busy with Thanksgiving this late.” Airlines did a relatively good job of handling holiday crowds last year, when the weather was mild in most of the country. Fewer than 400 U.S. flights were canceled during Thanksgiving week in 2023 — about one out of every 450 flights. So far in 2024, airlines have canceled about 1.3% of all flights. Drivers should know that Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons will be the worst times to travel by car, but it should be smooth sailing on freeways come Thanksgiving Day, according to transportation analytics company INRIX. On the return home, the best travel times for motorists are before 1 p.m. on Sunday, and before 8 a.m. or after 7 p.m. on Monday, the company said. In metropolitan areas like Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Washington, “traffic is expected to be more than double what it typically is on a normal day,” INRIX transportation analyst Bob Pishue said. Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Mike Whitaker said last week that he expects his agency to use special measures at some facilities to deal with an ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers. In the past, those facilities have included airports in New York City and Florida. “If we are short on staff, we will slow traffic as needed to keep the system safe,” Whitaker said. The FAA has long struggled with a shortage of controllers that airline officials expect will last for years, despite the agency’s lofty hiring goals. ▶ Read more about Thanksgiving travel across the U.S. Workers who clean airplanes, remove trash and help with wheelchairs at Charlotte’s airport, one of the nation’s busiest, went on strike Monday to demand higher wages. The Service Employees International Union announced the strike in a statement early Monday, saying the workers would demand “an end to poverty wages and respect on the job during the holiday travel season.” The strike was expected to last 24 hours, said union spokesperson Sean Keady. Employees of ABM and Prospect Airport Services cast ballots Friday to authorize the work stoppage at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a hub for American Airlines. The two companies contract with American, one of the world’s biggest carriers, to provide services such as cleaning airplane interiors, removing trash and escorting passengers in wheelchairs. ▶ Read more about the Charlotte airport workers’ strike Parts of the Midwest and East Coast can expect to see heavy rain into Thanksgiving, and there’s potential for snow in Northeastern states. A storm last week brought rain to New York and New Jersey, where wildfires have raged in recent weeks, and heavy snow to northeastern Pennsylvania. The precipitation was expected to help ease drought conditions after an exceptionally dry fall. Heavy snow fell in northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Pocono Mountains. Higher elevations reported up to 17 inches, with lesser accumulations in valley cities including Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Around 35,000 customers in 10 counties were still without power, down from 80,000 a day ago. In the Catskills region of New York, nearly 10,000 people remained without power Sunday morning, two days after a storm dumped heavy snow on parts of the region. Precipitation in West Virginia helped put a dent in the state’s worst drought in at least two decades and boosted ski resorts as they prepare to open in the weeks ahead. ▶ Read more about Thanksgiving week weather forecasts Two people died in the Pacific Northwest after a rapidly intensifying “ bomb cyclone ” hit the West Coast last Tuesday, bringing fierce winds that toppled trees and power lines and damaged homes and cars. Hundreds of thousands lost electricity in Washington state before powerful gusts and record rains moved into Northern California. Forecasters said the risk of flooding and mudslides remained as the region will get more rain starting Sunday. But the latest storm won’t be as intense as last week’s atmospheric river , a long plume of moisture that forms over an ocean and flows over land. “However, there’s still threats, smaller threats, and not as significant in terms of magnitude, that are still going to exist across the West Coast for the next two or three days,” weather service forecaster Rich Otto said. As the rain moves east throughout the week, Otto said, there’s a potential for heavy snowfall at higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, as well as portions of Utah and Colorado. California’s Mammoth Mountain, which received 2 feet of fresh snow in the recent storm, could get another 4 feet before the newest system clears out Wednesday, the resort said. Another round of wintry weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, according to forecasts across the U.S., while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages. In California, where two people were found dead in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more rain while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm . Here’s a look at some of the regional forecasts: ▶ Read more about Thanksgiving week weather forecastsJohn Longmire steps down as coach of Sydney Swans

From a plush armchair in his well-appointed study, Pat Carty chooses the tomes that caressed his cerebrum over the last year. ‘Comic books, the Bible, road maps, pornography, anything you wanna read, go out and sit in a field sometime,’ the great Paul Westerberg once sagely advised. With that in mind, here’s some of 2024’s best reading material, presented in no particular order but all worthy of your time and attention. (Canongate) It’s a bold claim because he’s so bloody good, but this old-school western and a poetic, lovers-on-the-run yarn may be Barry’s greatest achievement. Inspired by Cork miners moving to Butte, Montana in the late 1800s and a childhood love of cowboys, and influenced by Terence Malick and Cormac McCarthy, although the equal of both, every line here would be the pinnacle of a thousand lesser writers’ careers. The love story is touching and tragic and gets a suitable ending, the supporting cast are all mad as the wind, and the writer’s alter-ego is a hopeless rake. Brilliant. (New Island) Pirates are cool and O’Connor’s fictionalised retelling of the life of Anne Bonny reminds us of that certainty by having Bonny stand as a symbol for individuality, gender fluidity, and sexual liberation, a hero as relevant to our times as her own. There’s also the requisite amount of rogering, of both the Jolly and venereal kind, cads like Calico Jack, and general lawlessness to keep you going. It’s really a book about freedom. The fact that one of the pirates, a doubtless charming and handsome rogue, is called Patrick Carty did not in any way influence this book’s inclusion. (Jonathan Cape) Delivering on the promise his short stories showed, especially culchie/cop caper A Shooting In Rathreedane, Barrett stays in Mayo for this Booker Prize longlisted drug hawking drama. The Ferdia brothers kidnap Doll because his brother Cillian owes their boss Mulrooney for a cocaine consignment gone arseways. Hardly the most original plot under the sun but it’s the way, to paraphrase Frank Carson, Barrett tells it. The uniformity of small town living is perfectly captured and the cast, from Vinnie who sleeps under cars to the goat man to Sergeant Martin who one kidnapped a teacher to take her looking for UFOs, are as odd as two left feet. (Penguin) Banishing forever the awful memory of Colin Farrell in Alexander, Lennon shows that ancient Greeks with Dublin accents can actually be a good idea. Athenian prisoners are rotting in the stone quarries near the Sicilian city of Syracuse after they took a hammering during the Peloponnesian war. A couple of potters who sound like they’re from Crumlin, Lampo and Gelon, decide to stage Euripides plays using the prisoners as cast. Both funny and sad, Lennon’s accomplished and original debut is also a celebration of the transformative power of art, right up to the moving epilogue. (Doubleday) Carson is an author with more strings to her bow than three fiddlers. As great as her novels are, she’s equally adept at shorter fiction and each example collected here deserves some class of award. Whether it’s the dead smoker in the back of Grandma’s Sierra, Catholics speaking a slippery tingly, second language, a farmer praying for his cow, Malcolm trying to empty the sea of jellyfish, or the red hand of ulster in the fridge that won’t go away, the extraordinary crashes into the ordinary in extraordinary ways throughout. Magic realism? Magic writing. Hide Away – Dermot Bolger, Girl In The Making – Anna Fitzgerald, Hagstone – Sinéad Gleeson, Long Island – Colm Tóibín, Intermezzo – Sally Rooney, Heart, Be At Peace – Donal Ryan, Mouthing – Orla Mackey, The Women Behind The Door – Roddy Doyle, The Instruments Of Darkness – John Connolly, The Drowned – John Banville, The Coast Road – Alan Murrin, Witness 8 – Steve Cavanagh, The Hunter – Tana French (Hot Press Books) A Hot Press columnist from 1983 to 1993 when he became Ireland’s first Minister for the Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D. this year reviewed the hundreds of pieces he wrote and selected the ones that he feels still strongly resonate today. From parish pump politics and the rantings of Bishop Jeremiah Newman to strange Dáil machinations and his travels to El Salvador, Somalia and Chile, it’s a captivating read with the future President’s finely calibrated bullshit detector helping him get to the truth of the matter. With Hot Press editor, Niall Stokes, supplying contemporaneous introductions to these classic columns, you won’t find a better Christmas stocking-filler – even if we do say so ourselves! (The Bodley Head) Okay, Philipps isn’t actually Irish, but his book about a great and slightly unsung hero who, according to President Higgins, contributed ‘not only to Irish freedom but to the universal struggle for justice and human dignity’ more than warrants its place on this list. Philipps details Casement’s ‘three destinies’ – almost single-handedly, as Foreign Office consul in The Congo, taking down King Leopold II for human rights violations, uncovering more abuse in the South American rubber industry, and his part in the fight for Irish freedom which lead to his death sentence – in this gripping biography. Likeable smart arse, and as an economist the right man for the job, takes on the mammoth (and mammon) task of presenting a history of cash that stretches from 18,000 BC – where money was, perhaps unsurprisingly, “the first thing we wrote about” – to the current era. If it sounds like a dry subject for a book then fear not for McWilliams, a born talker, peppers his treatise with anecdotes like the influence of economic theory on Darwin and Hitler’s plans to derail the Brits through counterfeiting. I lasted half an hour in undergraduate economics, I might have hung on if I’d had this in my satchel. (Allen Lane) Irish history has its share of dark corners but there is no blacker spot on our collective past than the mother and baby homes. Hearing about hundreds of bodies in a septic tank in Tuam is one, horrific, thing but reading a book which makes it feel very personal is another matter entirely. Wills’ uncle gets a local girl pregnant in 1950s rural Cork and her cousin Mary is born in the Bessborogh Sacred Heart Home. Mary goes on to also become pregnant out of wedlock and ends her own life. Wills documents a ‘culture of silence’ that stained everyone it touched. (Gill Books) Rooney has been contributing his unique scraperboard (pencil drawings completed by scalpel) artwork to Hot Press since I was a very small boy. This book stemmed from work commissioned for The Story Of Ireland BBC documentary series, where he felt a particular and personal affinity for our ancestors who lived and died during the famine. His pieces are intensely moving, especially those depicting starving villagers, the workhouse, famine ships, and a striking work called ‘Death Stalks The Land’ in particular. (Head Of Zeus) I reckon Jordan is a better writer than a filmmaker, but he’s pretty hand at both disciplines and this poetic memoir handily combines them. Covering the background he came from to get where he is, his start in the movie industry assisting John Boorman with the Excalibur script in 1981 which helped him break into directing when Film On 4 took interest in Angel, and then onto success with The Crying Game, Interview With The Vampire, and Michael Collins, the star names like Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Cillian Murphy, and even Sinéad O’Connor come thick and fast. Who Killed Una Lynskey? – Mick Clifford, Murder At Lordship: Inside The Hunt For A Detective’s Killer – Pat Marry & Robin Schiller, Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives – edited by Héléne O’Keeffe et al, A Season of Sundays – Sportsfile (Viking) A beautiful, sweeping epic that sways and flows like the mighty rivers within it, Shafak’s masterful novel has one drop of water at its centre which falls on to the head of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, then as snow on to the tongue of a baby born by the Thames in 1840 who grows up to uncover part of The Epic Of Gilgamesh, and then on to the present day. A brief overview can’t do justice to a novel that addresses global and sexual inequality and who holds dominion over history and how we are all joined to it. (Hutchinson Heinemann) Having already covered trees in his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 novel The Overstory, Powers turns his attention to the oceans, specifically the Pacific, which covers around 32 percent of the planet’s surface, more than all its landmass combined. The work of oceanographer Evie Beaulieu inspires Todd Keane who gets caught up in the ‘third industrial revolution’ of computing and creates an artificial intelligence. His school friend Rafi Young, a literature devotee, marries Ina Aroita, moving back to her island home of Makatea where all the strands of this ecological call to arms/plea for a less human-centric approach to tomorrow come together. (Viking) Boyd, an exceptional writer who gave us 2022’s fabulous The Romantic, maintains that writing 2014 James Bond caper Solo was ‘tremendous fun’ so why wouldn’t he want to create a secret agent of his own? Rather than ape Ian Fleming’s man, he goes in another direction. Gabriel Dax is a mediocre travel writer, who gets dumped by women, can’t hold his booze, isn’t much cop with firearms, and – Bond would balk – uses a second hand bicycle at one point. He is, despite all that, extremely likable and rumour has it Boyd plans to bring him back again in the future. Good. (Michael Joseph) The sickeningly handsome Pierce Brosnan, the most un-Navan Navan man of all time, came to fame through Remington Steel, a TV detective show where an eminently qualified woman hired a chancer to take her place in order to be taken seriously in a man’s world. That was in the 1980s but imagine how much worse it was in the 1580s where Picoult imagines Emilia Bassano, possibly the Dark Lady of the sonnets, as the actual author of the bard’s plays, who procures a hack actor by the name of Will Shakespeare as her Remington. Clever and pointed storytelling. (Hamish Hamilton) The third in her Trojan War series, The Voyage continues Barker’s remarkable retelling of ancient history/myth from the point of view of the women caught up in it. This entry covers the return to Mycenae by the victorious Agamemnon after the fall of Troy, haunted by the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia who he dispatched ten years before to please the gods. Naturally, Queen Clytemnestra is equally unhappy and out for revenge. She represents the past coming to claim its due from cruel, insecure, and superstitious men in the same way the priestess Cassandra stands in for all the unheard women of the ancient world. Odyssey – Stephen Fry, Table For Two – Amor Towles, You Like It Darker – Stephen King, The Ministry Of Time – Kaliane Bradley, James – Percival Everett, Godwin – Joseph O’Neill, Precipice– Robert Harris, Blood Ties – Jo Nesbo, Proof Of Innocence – Jonathan Coe, Karla’s Choice – Nick Harkaway (William Collins) Nobody does war like Hastings and Operation Biting is the book equivalent of a bank holiday movie. A brilliant chap in the air ministry notices mentions of the ancient goddess Freya, who could see for miles thanks to a stolen necklace, in German signals intercepted by the boffins at Bletchley Park. A raid is proposed to the Combined Operations HQ led by the vainglorious Lord Mountbatten. There’s also a “fantastically indiscrete” French spy, a horny novelist, and all manner of stiff upper lip types in a caper that should have gone sideways but managed to pull off a badly needed propaganda coup. (Torva) Terrifying step-by-step examination of the nightmare scenario where North Korea launch a nuclear attack on the United States. Thousands of years of groping towards civilisation are reversed in a mere seventy-two minutes. Rule 42 of the Geneva Convention is violated as the Koreans target a nuclear power plant, prompting the US to respond by levelling Pyongyang. However, the missiles have to overfly Russia, which drags them into the conflict along with the Chinese, who border Korea, and it’s game over for everyone. The matter-of-factness of Jacobsen’s account is chilling. (Viking) For those of a certain age, the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster is as ingrained in the memory as the JFK shooting or 9/11 is for others because we watched it happen on television. Higginbotham puts the work in, interviewing all involved and leaves you aghast at the risks NASA took throughout its history to maintain the forward motion needed to guarantee continued funding. Their Space Flight Participation Programme added teacher Christa McAuliffe to the crew, the reason why so many school children were watching when it all went wrong in January, 1986. The subsequent investigative hearings, starring Richard Feynman, are equally fascinating. (Allen Lane) ‘Why would anyone of sound mind send troops into a nuclear disaster zone?’ This question is at the heart of this scarcely believable account of the 35-day occupation of the infamous Chernobyl plant that followed Putin ordering the troops in after claiming Ukrainians were planning to produce WMDs. US intelligence had presumed that Russian forces would bypass the exclusion zone on their way towards Kyiv because what sane person wouldn’t? Heroes like foreman Valentyn Heiko emerge and a counteroffensive takes Chernobyl back, although Russia still controls Europe’s largest nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia which is good news for nobody. (Profile Books) Let’s be honest, the art world, and the vast sums of money thrown about within it, is patently ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong, I can be as moved as the next fella by a well-placed daub but a book like this – Whitfield meets Inigo Philbrick as a student, they go into the art business, Philbrick thrives only to be arrested later on for one of the biggest art frauds ever (in the neighbourhood of $86 million) – will leave you convinced it’s all a massive cod. The author’s recounting of his mate’s moral-free machinations is guaranteed to have you picking your jaw up off the floor. The Siege – Ben Macintyre, Knife – Salman Rushdie, Autocracy, Inc – Anne Applebaum, Nexus – Yuval Noah Harari, A Voyage Around The Queen – Craig Brown, Sonny Boy – Al Pacino, A History Of The World In 12 Shipwrecks – David Gibbins (Faber) Celebrated producer Boyd (Nick Drake, R.E.M.) wrote a fine memoir back in 2006 (White Bicycles) but this gargantuan exploration of where the music came from is on another level altogether. Bursting with anecdote and big names like Paul Simon in Africa, George Harrison going Indian and Ry Cooder heading to Cuba, each chapter is really a book on its own, especially his exploration of the Jamaican sound from its birth out of American R&B to its influence on hip-hop. His take on technology in modern recording will separate the (old) men from the boys but this is required reading. (PVA Books) While lists are all well and good, the best music writing is about feel and how, like an aural equivalent of Proust’s biscuit, it takes you back where you once were. These essays cover everyone from Shostakovich to Dylan because everything ever recorded can hit someone in the right way and provide ‘a personal soundtrack to particular experiences’. Like all such compendiums you’ll nod in agreement – Aingeala Flannery on The Smiths and dodgy hairdos, Brian Dillion on Iggy Pop – and howl in anger – Wendy Erskine’s heretical disparagement of Rod Stewart – but that’s half the sport. (Nine Eight Books) As evidenced by the announcement only last month of a forthcoming Apple access (and excess) all areas documentary about the band, interest has yet to flag for the Fleetwood Mac story, perhaps the greatest soap opera in rock history. Blake captures it all, from Peter Green’s (‘the greatest guitarist of his generation, and then he wasn’t’) blues boomers to the wild success of Rumours, which definitely did not result in cocaine being blown up someone’s jacksie, and beyond. Everyone from Status Quo to Harry Styles chips in to a tale that never tires. (Bantam) ‘Why don’t old rockers retire?’ cub reporters often ask me in the halls of HP HQ, although I fear their ire aims at superannuated codgers like Stuart Clark and myself rather than Jagger et al. Hepworth, a commentator always worthy of attention, answers such queries with a why the hell would they? Using Live Aid as his starting point, where the old guard were reborn, he shows why McCartney, Springsteen, and even the relatively sprightly Bono became rock’s aristocracy and are still packing them out at a stadium near you. Old is not as old as it used to be. (Harper Collins) A half-formed rumour about Mitchell scribbled on an alley wall would be worth reading, not to mind this extensive biography, although Powers argues she isn’t a biographer at all, which covers everything Mitchell related, from the polio partly responsible for her unique guitar playing, to her time in Laurel Canyon, where talented men around her were left in the ha-penny place by her otherworldly creativity. Powers doesn’t shy away from ‘missteps’ like Joni’s blackface on the cover of Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter and is also, admirably, unsure about her recent resurgence. The book a genius deserves. Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love – Leah Kardos, The Blues Brothers – Daniel De Visé, Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence – Will Hodgkinson, The Secret Public – Jon Savage, Uncommon People – Miranda Sawyer, Pressure Drop: Reggae In The Seventies – John MasouriaLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Allowing two kickoff return touchdowns and missing an extra point all in the final few minutes added up to the Washington Commanders losing a third consecutive game in excruciating fashion. The underlying reason for this slide continuing was a problem long before that. An offense led by dynamic rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels that was among the NFL's best for a long stretch of the season put up just nine points and 169 yards for the first three-plus quarters against Dallas before falling behind 20-9 and teeing off on the Cowboys' conservative defense. “We just couldn’t really get it going,” said receiver Terry McLaurin , whose lengthy touchdown with 21 seconds left masked that he had just three catches for 16 yards through three quarters. “We’ve got to find a way to start faster and sustain drives, and that’s everybody: the whole coaching staff and the offensive players just going out there and figuring out ways that we can stay on the field.” This is not a new problem for Washington, which had a season-low 242 yards in a Nov. 10 home loss to Pittsburgh and 264 yards four days later in a defeat at Philadelphia. Since returning from a rib injury that knocked him out of a game last month, Daniels has completed just under 61% of his passes, after 75.6% over his first seven professional starts. Daniels and coach Dan Quinn have insisted this isn't about injury. The coaching staff blamed a lack of adequate practice time, but a full week of it before facing the Cowboys did not solve the problem. It is now fair to wonder if opponents have seen enough film of offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury's system to figure it out. “I think teams and coordinators are going to see what other teams have success against us and try to figure out how they could incorporate that into their scheme," Daniels said after going 12 of 22 for 80 yards passing through three quarters in the Dallas game. "We’ve been in third and longer a lot these past couple games, so that’s kind of where you get into the exotic pressures and stuff like that. We’ve just got to be better on first and second downs and stay ahead of the chains.” Daniels has a point there, and it predates this losing streak. The Commanders have converted just 36% of third-down opportunities (27 for 75) over their past seven games after 52% (31 for 60) in their first five. That challenge doesn't get any easier with Tennessee coming to town Sunday. The Titans, despite being 3-8, have the second-best third-down defense in the league at 31.6%. The defense kept the Commanders in the game against Dallas, allowing just 10 points until the fourth quarter and 20 total before kickoff return touchdowns piled on to the other side of the scoreboard. Even Cooper Rush's 22-yard touchdown pass to Luke Schoonmaker with five minutes left came after a turnover that gave the Cowboys the ball at the Washington 44. The defense spending more than 35 minutes on the field certainly contributed to fatigue as play wore on. The running game that contributed to a 7-2 start has taken a hit, in part because of injuries to top back Brian Robinson Jr. The Commanders got 145 yards on the ground because Daniels had 74 on seven carries, but running backs combined for just 57. Daniels could not say how much the rushing attack stalling has contributed to the offense going stagnant. “You’ve got to be able to run the ball, keep the defense honest,” he said. "We got to execute the plays that are called in, and we didn’t do a good job of doing that.” Linebacker Frankie Luvu keeps making the case to be first-year general manager Adam Peters' best free agent signing. He and fellow offseason addition Bobby Wagner tied for a team-high eight tackles, and Luvu also knocked down three passes against Dallas. Kicker Austin Seibert going wide left on the point-after attempt that would have tied the score with 21 seconds left was his third miss of the game. He also was short on a 51-yard field goal attempt and wide left on an earlier extra point. Seibert, signed a week into the season after Cade York struggled in the opener, made 25 of 27 field goal tries and was 22 of 22 on extra points before injuring his right hip and missing the previous two games. He brushed off his health and the low snap from Tyler Ott while taking responsibility for not connecting. “I made the decision to play, and here we are,” Seibert said. “I just wasn’t striking it well. But it means a lot to me to be here with these guys, so I just want to put my best foot moving forward.” Robinson's sprained ankle and fellow running back Austin Ekeler's concussion from a late kickoff return that led to him being hospitalized for further evaluation are two major immediate concerns. Quinn said Monday that Ekeler and starting right tackle Andrew Wylie are in concussion protocol. It's unclear if Robinson will be available against Tennessee, which could mean Chris Rodriguez Jr. getting elevated from the practice squad to split carries with Jeremy McNichols. The Commanders still have not gotten cornerback Marshon Lattimore into a game since acquiring him at the trade deadline from New Orleans. Lattimore is trying to return from a hamstring injury, and the secondary could use him against Calvin Ridley, who's coming off a 93-yard performance at Houston. 17 — Handoffs to a running back against Dallas, a significant decrease from much of the season before this losing streak. Don't overlook the Titans with the late bye week coming immediately afterward. The Commanders opened as more than a touchdown favorite, but after the results over the weekend, BetMGM Sportsbook had it as 5 1/2 points Monday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

As a smooth-talking media and political pundit, Colman Domingo ’s Muncie Daniels is used to commenting on politics and the news — not becoming the news — in The Madness . However, his fate will quickly change for the worse when we meet him in the new series. When the CNN personality discovers the dead body of a white supremacist in the woods near where he’s staying in the Poconos, he winds up in the crosshairs of law enforcement and possibly framed for murder — and even his lawyer friend Kwesi (Deon Cole) warns the silver-tongued Muncie, “You’re not going to be able to talk your way out of this.... They are going to pin all this on you.” In this paranoia-inducing Netflix thriller, Daniels finds himself in the middle of a sprawling conspiracy that delves into the darkest corners of society and explores the intersections between the wealthy and powerful, the alt-right, and other fringe movements. “[The series] is examining the climate we’re in right now,” Domingo teased to TV Insider. “Who sows those seeds of disinformation? Who’s puppeteering all of this?” To clear his name, Muncie must figure out whether to trust FBI agent Franco Quiñones (John Ortiz) and reconnect with his working-class, activist roots in Philadelphia while reuniting with his family, which includes teenage son Demetrius (Thaddeus J. Mixson), estranged wife Elena (Marsha Stephanie Blake), and daughter Kallie (Gabrielle Graham) from a previous relationship. “He’s trying to solve a crime,” creator Stephen Belber previews, “but at the same time he’s trying to solve something inside of himself.” To find out what else we should know about the new thrill ride, we spoke to The Color Purple and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom star Colman Domingo — who played Victor Strand on Fear the Walking Dead for eight seasons, won an Emmy for Euphoria , and was nominated for a 2024 Oscar for the civil rights drama Rustin — about the bind in which Muncie finds himself in The Madness , the similarities he shares with the character, and the resonance of a story that speaks to our age of online disinformation and conspiracy theories. Why were you drawn to this series and this character? What about it made you say yes to it? Colman Domingo: There’s so much about it that is raising questions about who are we in America right now. What do you believe in? And what are you believing? What’s being fed to you? These are questions that I have deep in my heart, and the series is bringing out those thoughts I have in the back of my head. Like who is manipulating all of us? I do believe there’s people feeding the public misinformation, but it benefits people with money, power, and position. Are there similarities you share with Muncie? Wildly enough, he’s from my neighborhood, from West Philly. He’s a college professor. So am I. There’s a lot of similarities. He’s a public-facing person. Even some of his ideology, where he believes that if you just get people at the table to sit and have a civil conversation, things will get better. I do believe that. I actively do that in my life. And I thought, “Oh, I understand Muncie. I understand what he’s trying to do.” But then the series takes him on another journey to actually go more full-throttle and understand all the dynamics he’s been espousing but not really having to get in the mud with. Is Muncie’s journey in the series a metaphor for how we’re all trying to make sense of this firehose of facts and information, along with disinformation, conspiracy-mongering, and lies that are coming at us 24/7? Yeah. It’s your modern-day North By Northwest, your modern-day Three Days of the Condor. He’s an everyman who has to go on this journey that he’s not ready to go on. He didn’t even know he’s been preparing for it. He was just living his best life, has a great position at CNN, and has been studying jujitsu for his own health. But he didn’t know that he’d need all that to go down the rabbit hole for real. What’s Muncie’s relationship like with his estranged wife, son Demetrius, and his older daughter Kallie from another relationship? All of it is precarious. What’s going on between he and his wife, we made it a gray area. Maybe they both started out as young activists, and the other one moved into celebrity, and the other one is a college professor, and they’re just not meeting [each other] where they used to be. It was more about having a crisis of faith in each other. Then with his daughter [Kallie], he made choices when he was younger, in a relationship he was in before he went to an Ivy League school. So he’s sort of been a deadbeat dad in that way. Then with his younger son, he’s sort of an absentee father. He believes he’s doing the best that he can by providing financially and showing up when he can. But I think he’s been a bit selfish. So this whole crisis is helping him examine not only who he is, but who has he been—and not been—to his family. Now he’s got to do some relationship repair; at the same time, he’s trying to advocate and save his own life and protect his family. Has he lost himself a bit over the years in pursuit of success and ambition? I think so. But I think if you asked Muncie, he wouldn’t say that. I think he believed, no, it’s okay to change. It’s OK to have access and agency. But I think at some point he didn’t realize even in the position that he had, he was just all talk. He was just a talking head. He wasn’t actually doing anything but adding to the noise of the media circuit business. In the crisis that he goes through, how does his family help him to survive? I think he didn’t realize how much he needed them. When we meet him, he’s in a place of stasis. He’s been trying to write this book for years. So he decided to go to the Pocono mountains to try and start writing something. Then he goes on this journey. I think it’s a beautiful hero’s journey. He didn’t know he needed all these things. He didn’t know he needed a heart. He didn’t know he needed a brain...It is ‘no place like home.’ But he realized that his home was attached to other things like celebrity, clothing, and having access. But all of that became more superficial than he even imagined. Amanda Matlovich / Netflix Muncie was a housing activist in his youth, and he reconnects with his West Philly roots and the people in his life from that time. How does he change during the course of the series? I think it’s about helping him to bridge the two parts of himself. It’s one of the first arguments that my character has with the fantastic Eisa Davis, who plays Renee, while hosting a show on CNN. And it’s at the core of the problem. For me, it’s a question of, “What’s the best way?” He’s like, “I am Black and I don’t have to actually be out on the streets anymore. I have more access here on television where I can affect a lot of more people.” And so for me, it’s raising the question of, “Is that right or is that wrong? Or is there a balance of both?” How do race and systemic racism factor into the story of a Black man who gets blamed for the death of a white supremacist? How do you think that will be eye-opening for some viewers? Race plays into it a great deal. Muncie is someone who is probably very adept at code-switching [adjusting one’s style of speech, appearance, and expression to conform to a given community and reduce the potential for discrimination]. When you have celebrity and access, you live more in a bubble where you’re probably not perceived in certain ways. But when all of that goes away, once Muncie has to let go of his Range Rover, his Tom Ford suits, and his position at CNN, he’s perceived as just another ordinary Black man on the street. So even when he goes into that New York shop and changes into a T-shirt, baseball cap, and hoodie [to disguise himself], he’s trying to normalize. Before, he believed was a bit more elevated in some way. I love the question that [his estranged wife] Elena asked him: “What were you doing going over to this white man’s house out in the woods? You felt like you had the privilege to do that? You have to always be careful. You don’t know what’s on the other side. You’re a Black man in America.” He forgot for a moment. What does the title, The Madness , refer to? I think it’s about the madness that we’re all living in when it comes to the 24-hour news cycle and trying to download and sift through information. It’s maddening! And also, I think the madness is also internal, that internal struggle of like, “Who are you, and what do you believe in? Who is real, and who is not?” I think that’s the madness. The Madness , Series Premiere, Thursday, November 28, Netflix More Headlines:

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