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# AZ GOP allege plagiarism from expert witness opposing their Save Women's Sports bill | Fox News
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### Trans youth advocate accused of plagiarism in testimony opposing Arizona's Save Women's Sports Act
University of Michigan's Dr. Daniel Shumer is also an expert witness against President Trump's executive order on gender
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Published March 5, 2025 9:00pm EST
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Fox News Digital spoke to Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen about his experience at Trump’s signing of an executive order keeping males out of female sports.
### 'The impact is huge': Top Arizona lawmaker reflects on Trump’s signing of Trump EO protecting women’s sports
Arizona’s state senate president, , told Fox News Digital in a statement. "The ultimate gaslight is to say that a boy is a girl," Arizona’s state senate president, , told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Now, we have learned that the expert witness did more than gaslight. We have presented the court with multiple examples of identical or virtually identical phrasing used by other academics without any attribution."
Petersen is the in a case challenging the Save Women's Sports Act in Arizona, which is awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court over whether it will hear an appeal of an early order.
Petersen says that Dr. Daniel Shumer, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics and medical director of the Gender Services Program and fellowship director of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Michigan, plagiarized his expert witness testimony at least 22 times in his testimony opposing .
Person holding transgender flag (Adobe Stock)
"Over the past two years, I have led the charge to defend Arizona's commonsense law that protects women in sports," Petersen told Fox News Digital. "Despite the many attacks from the left, I've been grateful for this opportunity to champion the integrity of women's sports - especially in the absence of our state's attorney general. I will continue to lead the fight for this law in the courts, and I am hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually allow our state to protect women's sports!"
On Wednesday, a request, legally called a Daubert motion, to remove Shumer as the opposing expert witness.
The motion reads, "Dr. Shumer’s opinions are not reliable because he plagiarized them, he lacks the qualifications to offer them, and he has presented no objective proof that his opinions represent good science."
The document alleges that Shumer took wording from Stephen Rosenthal, a witness in the case challenging Alabama’s law prohibiting surgeries and hormone therapy for minors, and from Joshua Safer, a witness in the case challenging West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act, and did not give proper attribution.
### US JUDGE HALTS ARIZONA FROM BANNING TRANSGENDER GIRLS IN FEMALE SCHOOL SPORTS TEAMS
Screenshot of plagiarism examples from Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony and Reports of Dr. Daniel Shumer.
The University of Michigan’s guide as "the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit."
In a Feb. 18, 2025, deposition, Shumer appeared to admit to plagiarism.
"I don't believe that an expert report necessarily constitutes research and \ may or may not be applicable to an expert report. Also, as an expert in this case, I'm not performing duties related to my role in the University of Michigan," Shumer said. "All that being said, I think that it's clear that some of the words I used were used from other sources without appropriate credit and that that meets this definition."
When asked during the deposition, "Why do you think now you should have cited the reports in your expert report?"
Shumer responded, "Because I believe that that's the right thing to do when -- when there's material that -- that was initially written by someone else that you're using to make a similar point."
In the deposition, he said among the services provided at the Child and Adolescent Gender Services Clinic at Mott Children's Hospital, which he is the clinical director of, are "medical interventions, such as GnRH agonists or 19 gender-affirming hormones."
Shumer is also an expert witness in cases against .
Dr. Daniel Shumer and the transgender flag. (Photo: screenshot of Dr. Daniel Shumer's page on the University of Michigan Health website, transgender flag: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images).
He has been featured in various social media posts from Stand with Trans, an organization "founded to create a safe and supportive space for transgender youth and their loved ones," plugging various sessions both and he was giving as part of Trans Empowerment Month celebrated each October.
In a Sept. 12, 2024 Instagram post, Stand with Trans called Shumer, "a leading pediatric endocrinologist," and said that he would "debunk common myths and walk through the referral process for pediatric gender clinics, offering invaluable information for both youth and parents."
reached out to Shumer and the University of Michigan for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
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# Daryl Hannah supports Ukraine at Oscars after Trump meeting
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As leading lady spoke out in support of sex workers, while the best documentary winners for begged the world for peace and understanding amid the Israel-Hamas war. echoed a call for peace in his acceptance speech.
In another impromptu statement, called out "Slava Ukraine," as she took the stage to present the award for best editing. The pronouncement, which translates to "Glory to Ukraine," comes as the for the eastern European nation in its battle with Russia.
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Apple to appeal against UK government data demand at secret high court hearing
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Guardian understands tech company’s appeal against Home Office request for encrypted data is to be heard by tribunal on Friday.
Apple’s appeal against a UK government demand to access its customers’ highly encrypted data will be the subject of a secret high court hearing, the Guardian understands.
The appeal on Friday will be considered by the investigatory powers tribunal, an independent court that has the power to investigate claims that the UK intelligence services have acted unlawfully.
It is against an order served by the Home Office in February , which compels companies to provide information to law enforcement agencies.
The Home Office asked for the right to see users’ encrypted data in the event of a national security risk. Currently, not even Apple can access data and documents protected by its advanced data protection (ADP) programme.
ADP allows users with iCloud accounts and storage to secure photos, notes, voice memos and other data with end-to-end encryption, meaning only the user can access it. Messaging services such as iMessage and FaceTime would remain end-to-end encrypted by default.
Apple said the removal of the tool would make users more vulnerable to data breaches from bad actors and other threats to customer privacy. Creating a “back door” would also mean all data was accessible by Apple, which it could be forced to share with law enforcement possessing a warrant.
Last week, Computer Weekly reported that Apple was intending to appeal against the secret order.
The tribunal has taken the unusual step of publishing a notification of a closed-door hearing before its president, Lord Rabinder Singh, on the afternoon of 14 March.
The tribunal listing does not mention either Apple or the government, nor has the tribunal confirmed if they are the parties involved.
The hearing is due to be held in private because it relates to the security services, but a media campaign led by Computer Weekly argued that the hearing should be held in open court since the case is a matter of public interest and the appeal has already been leaked.
Representatives from news organisations including the Guardian, as well as some civil society groups, are supporting Computer Weekly in its petition.
In a statement issued in February, Apple said it was “gravely disappointed” it was forced to take the decision in the UK, “given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy”.
A spokesperson said: “Enhancing the security of cloud storage with end-to-end encryption is more urgent than ever before. Apple remains committed to offering our users the highest level of security for their personal data and are hopeful that we will be able to do so in the future in the United Kingdom.
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Apple and the Home Office both declined to comment on Friday’s hearing. The tribunal has been approached by the Guardian.
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# Fruity fish pilaf and Moroccan chicken traybake: Ravinder Bhogal’s ways with dried fruit – recipes
Dried fruit three ways: a celebratory stunner of fish pilaf with green tahini sauce, a spicy apricot chicken traybake for weeknight show-offs, and a heady date and ginger cake for pudding
## Fruit and nut fish pilaf with green tahini sauce (pictured top)
Fruit and nut fish pilaf with green tahini sauce (pictured top)
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**Prep:** 15 min
**Marinate:** 15 min
**Cook:** 35 min
**Serves:** 4
- **800g sustainably sourced firm white fish**, such as hake, cod, haddock or pollack, cut into 5cm chunks
- **½ tsp turmeric**
- **Juice of ½ lemon**
- **Sea salt and black pepper**
- **1 tbsp ghee**
- **125g wheat vermicelli**, broken into 2cm lengths
- **3 garlic cloves**, peeled and finely sliced
- **1 large pinch of saffron**
- **1 cinnamon stick**
- **4 green cardamom pods**, bruised
- **50g pine nuts**
- **50g flaked almonds**
- **250g basmati rice**, washed until the water runs clear, then drained
- **30g raisins**, or sultanas or currants
### For the tahini sauce
- **25g parsley**
- **25g coriander**
- **25g mint**, leaves picked
- **100g thick Greek yoghurt**
- **30g good-quality tahini**
- **Grated zest and juice of 1 large lemon**, plus extra cut into wedges, to serve
- **1 small garlic clove**, peeled and finely grated
Put all the ingredients for the sauce in a food processor and blend smooth. Pour into a bowl and set aside.
Marinate the fish in the turmeric, lemon juice and a pinch of salt for 15 minutes.
Melt the ghee in a pan, then fry the vermicelli until it turns dark golden brown.
Add the garlic, spices, pine nuts and almonds, and fry, stirring, until the nuts are golden. Add the drained rice, season with salt and stir to coat in the ghee and spices. Toss the rice around lightly until it’s toasty and hot, then add the dried fruit and 500ml boiling water. Cover the pan, turn down the heat and simmer for a minute.
Add the marinated fish and cook for 10 minutes, or until the rice and fish are cooked through and the water has been absorbed. Pile on to a platter and serve with the tahini sauce and wedges of lemon.
## Chicken, harissa and dried apricot traybake
Warm and aromatic Moroccan spices, sweet apricots, pistachios and chicken come together beautifully in this easy weeknight supper. Serve with couscous.
**Prep:** 10 min
**Cook:** 50 min
**Serves:** 4
- **100g unsalted butter**
- **4 tbsp harissa**
- **1 preserved lemon**, rind and flesh finely chopped
- **1 heaped tsp cinnamon**
- **2 tbsp clear honey**
- **Sea salt and black pepper**
- **1kg skin-on and bone-in chicken thighs**
- **1 large red onion**, peeled and cut into wedges
- **1 garlic bulb**, cloves separated
- **125g pitted green olives**
- **90g dried apricots**, soaked in 60ml boiling water
- **1 handful shelled pistachios**, roughly chopped
- **1 handful flat-leaf parsley**, leaves picked and torn
Heat the oven to 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6. In a small pan, heat the butter, harissa, preserved lemon and cinnamon until the butter melts, then take off the heat. Stir in the honey and season very generously with salt and black pepper.
Massage this paste all over the chicken, making sure to get it under the skin, too, then lay the thighs skin side up in a roasting tin. Dot the onion wedges around the chicken, add the whole, unpeeled garlic cloves and roast for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, smash the olives with the bottom of a bowl. Take the chicken out of the oven and scatter the drained apricots (reserve their soaking liquid) and olives around it. Pour in the apricot soaking liquor, spooning the juices around and over the chicken, then roast for another 20 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.
Served scattered with the pistachios and parsley.
## Date and ginger cake with date frosting
Thanks to the rich dates, this headily spiced cake is so sticky and moist that you’ll find it hard to stop at just the one slice.
**Prep:** 15 min
**Soak:** 10 min
**Cook:** 1 hr 45 min
**Serves:** 16
- **1 ginger/chai teabag**
- **125g medjool dates**, pitted
- **150g unsalted butter**
- **100g light brown soft sugar**
- **150g black treacle**
- **2 tsp ground ginger**
- **2 eggs**
- **2 large pieces stem ginger in syrup**, finely chopped
- **250g self-raising flour**
- **1 tsp vanilla extract**
- **1 tsp bicarbonate of soda**
For the frosting
- **20 medjool dates**, pitted
- **1 tsp vanilla extract**
- **1 tbsp ginger syrup**
- **A pinch of salt**
- **250g cream cheese**, at room temperature
- **30g unsalted butter**, at room temperature
- **Crystallised ginger**, finely chopped, to decorate (optional)
Heat the oven to 180C (160C fan)/350F/gas 4, and grease and line a 20cm x 30cm oven tray with baking paper.
Pour 100ml boiling water over the tea, leave to infuse for a minute, then remove and discard the teabag. Add the dates to the hot water and leave to soak for 10 minutes.
Heat the butter, sugar, treacle and ground ginger in a large saucepan, stirring until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves. Leave to cool for 10 minutes, then beat in the eggs one at a time. Stir in the chopped stem ginger, then sift in the flour and fold in until the mix is well combined and smooth.
Stir the vanilla extract into the dates, then blend to a puree. Stir in the bicarb, then pour into the flour bowl and mix to combine. Pour the batter into the lined tin, then bake for 45-50 minutes, or until risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove and leave the cake to cool completely in the tin, then carefully turn it out.
When you are ready to ice the cake, cover the dates with boiling water and leave to soak for 10 minutes. Drain and put in a food processor with 115ml room-temperature water, the vanilla, ginger syrup and a pinch of salt, and blend to a very smooth puree, scraping down the sides if necessary.
Add the cream cheese and butter, and blend again until smooth. Smother all over the top of the cake, ideally using a palette knife, then sprinkle with the chopped crystallised ginger, if you like.
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# NWSL opens investigation of Bay FC over ‘toxic’ work environment reports
An independent investigation has been opened into the coaching staff at Bay FC following publication of a report that described a “toxic” work environment at the club, National Women’s Soccer League Commissioner Jessica Berman said.
The San Francisco Chronicle published an investigation Friday that said at least two formal complaints had been made about the team under coach Albertin Montoya.
Two former players, who were not named in the Chronicle’s report, described the team environment as toxic, and two former Bay FC employees agreed with the assessment.
The team investigated one complaint and found no wrongdoing, while the status of the second was unclear, according to the newspaper. Bay FC said Friday in a statement that a third party investigated the claim and found no evidence of misconduct.
The league on Friday confirmed that it has opened a formal review by an outside party.
On a conference call with reporters ahead of Friday night’s Challenge Cup match between the defending champion Orlando Pride and the Washington Spirit, Berman addressed the report.
“Our goal is to create a safe, healthy work environment for everyone and everything that we’re doing, both proactively and responsibly, is in service of that,” she said. “Based on information that has come to our attention, a review is underway by an independent third party and we’re very confident that the system we have in place will ensure that we surface the issues that need to be addressed, and that we’ll continue to work with all of our clubs, our technical staffs and our players to make sure that we’re achieving our goal of creating a safe, healthy working environment.”
There was no timeline set for the league’s review.
It is the second time this year that Bay FC has come under scrutiny. The club’s head of domestic scouting, Graeme Abel, resigned in late February after just a week on the job amid allegations of verbal abuse while he was coach at the University of Oregon.
The NWSL was rocked by an abuse and misconduct scandal in 2021. Five coaches resigned or were fired in the aftermath and it prompted two investigations, one by US Soccer and another by the league and its players’ union.
In response, the NWSL implemented changes to protect players, including enhanced vetting of club employees and an anonymous tip line for players. The NWSL Players Association also negotiated safeguards in the collective bargaining agreement with the league.
The NWSL established a $5m fund for players who were subject to abuse as part of a settlement announced last month with the attorneys general from Washington DC, Illinois and New York. The settlement also requires the league to maintain safeguards already in place.
Four former employees and two former players told the Chronicle they chose to leave the San Jose-based team after its inaugural season last year because of Montoya. Two of those interviewed said the coach would “target and bully” players who questioned decisions.
The Chronicle spoke to more than a dozen former and current players, team officials and league sources for its investigation.
Bay FC said in a statement that it had worked to address “communications challenges” that came to light in a midseason player survey last year, and that improvement was reflected in an end-of-season survey. The club said it implemented new procedures, including executive coaching and setting a clear framework for team values and culture.
“We were recently made aware of feedback from the league about our end-of-season survey that is related solely to communication challenges. We take all feedback very seriously and are working closely with the league to review and will take the appropriate steps necessary based on findings. We were founded as a player-centric club, and we will do what we need to make sure we have a supportive environment for our players,” the team’s statement said.
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# Putin sets out conditions for Ukraine ceasefire
2 days ago
James Landale (Diplomatic correspondent, @BBCJLandale)
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
Gabriela Pomeroy (BBC News)
Vladimir Putin has said he agrees with the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but that "questions" remain about the nature of a truce - as he set out a number of tough conditions for peace.
The Russian president was responding to a plan for a 30-day ceasefire, which Ukraine agreed to earlier this week following talks with the US.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Putin's response to the plan as "manipulative" and called for more sanctions on Russia.
Meanwhile, the US placed further sanctions on Russian oil, gas and banking sectors.
## Russian officials said Putin was expected to hold talks on the ceasefire on Thursday evening with US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, who had flown to Moscow earlier that day.
It is not clear whether that meeting actually took place. On Friday, Russia's state media quoted the air traffic monitor Flightradar as saying the plane believed to be carrying Witkoff had left Moscow.
Moscow and Washington have not commented on the issue.
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## Late on Thursday and overnight, both Russia and Ukraine reported new enemy drone attacks.
Ukraine said seven people - including children - were injured in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv.
Russia reported a large fire at an oil facility in the southern city of Tuapse.
### Speaking at a news conference in Moscow on Thursday, Putin said of the ceasefire proposal: "The idea is right - and we support it - but there are questions that we need to discuss."
A ceasefire should lead to "an enduring peace and remove the root causes of this crisis", Putin said.
"We need to negotiate with our American colleagues and partners," he said. "Maybe I'll have a call with Donald Trump."
Putin added: "It will be good for the Ukrainian side to achieve a 30-day ceasefire.
"We are in favour of it, but there are nuances."
One of the areas of contention is Russia's western Kursk region, Putin said, where Ukraine launched a military incursion last August and captured some territory.
He claimed Russia was fully back in control of Kursk, and said Ukrainian troops there "have been isolated".
"They are trying to leave, but we are in control. Their equipment has been abandoned," Putin said.
"There are two options for Ukrainians in Kursk - surrender or die."
Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said a day earlier that Ukrainian troops would hold defensive positions in the Kursk region "as long as it is expedient and necessary" despite "increased" pressure from Russian forces.
At Thursday's press conference, Putin also outlined some of his questions over how a ceasefire would work. He asked: "How will those 30 days be used? For Ukraine to mobilise? Rearm? Train people? Or none of that? Then a question - how will that be controlled?"
"Who will give the order to end the fighting? At what cost? Who decides who has broken any possible ceasefire, over 2,000km? All those questions need meticulous work from both sides. Who polices it?"
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Russian officials said Putin was expected to hold talks on the ceasefire on Thursday evening with US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, who had flown to Moscow earlier that day.
It is not clear whether that meeting actually took place. On Friday, Russia's state media quoted the air traffic monitor Flightradar as saying the plane believed to be carrying Witkoff had left Moscow.
Moscow and Washington have not commented on the issue.
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Speaking at the White House following Putin's remarks, Trump said he would "love" to meet the Russian leader and that he hoped Russia would "do the right thing" and agree to the proposed 30-day truce.
"We'd like to see a ceasefire from Russia," he said.
Speaking earlier at a meeting in the Oval Office with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump told reporters he had already discussed specifics with Ukraine.
"We've been discussing with Ukraine land and pieces of land that would be kept and lost, and all of the other elements of a final agreement," Trump said.
"A lot of the details of a final agreement have actually been discussed."
On the subject of Ukraine joining the Nato military alliance, Trump said "everybody knows what the answer to that is".
The fresh sanctions on Russian oil and gas came as the Trump administration further restricted access to US payment systems, making it harder for other countries to buy Russian oil.
Earlier in the day, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov rejected the ceasefire proposal put forward by the US.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin released a video it said showed Putin visiting Russia's Kursk region, symbolically dressed in military fatigues. Russia later said it recaptured the key town of Sudzha.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, and now controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
More than 95,000 people fighting for Russia's military have been killed in the war, according to data analysed so far and confirmed by the BBC. The actual death toll is believed to be much higher.
Russia's military has not publicly revealed its battlefield casualties since September 2022, when it said 5,937 soldiers had been killed.
Ukraine last updated its casualty figures in December 2024, when Zelensky acknowledged 43,000 Ukrainian deaths among soldiers and officers. Western analysts believe this figure to be underestimated.
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Vladimir Putin has said he agrees with the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but that "questions" remain about the nature of a truce - as he set out a number of tough conditions for peace.
The Russian president was responding to a plan for a 30-day ceasefire, which Ukraine agreed to earlier this week following talks with the US.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Putin's response to the plan as "manipulative" and called for more sanctions on Russia.
Meanwhile, the US placed further sanctions on Russian oil, gas and banking sectors.
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Russian officials said Putin was expected to hold talks on the ceasefire on Thursday evening with US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, who had flown to Moscow earlier that day.
It is not clear whether that meeting actually took place. On Friday, Russia's state media quoted the air traffic monitor Flightradar as saying the plane believed to be carrying Witkoff had left Moscow.
Moscow and Washington have not commented on the issue.
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Speaking at the White House following Putin's remarks, Trump said he would "love" to meet the Russian leader and that he hoped Russia would "do the right thing" and agree to the proposed 30-day truce.
"We'd like to see a ceasefire from Russia," he said.
Speaking earlier at a meeting in the Oval Office with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump told reporters he had already discussed specifics with Ukraine.
"We've been discussing with Ukraine land and pieces of land that would be kept and lost, and all of the other elements of a final agreement," Trump said.
"A lot of the details of a final agreement have actually been discussed."
On the subject of Ukraine joining the Nato military alliance, Trump said "everybody knows what the answer to that is".
The fresh sanctions on Russian oil and gas came as the Trump administration further restricted access to US payment systems, making it harder for other countries to buy Russian oil.
Earlier in the day, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov rejected the ceasefire proposal put forward by the US.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin released a video it said showed Putin visiting Russia's Kursk region, symbolically dressed in military fatigues. Russia later said it recaptured the key town of Sudzha.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, and now controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
More than 95,000 people fighting for Russia's military have been killed in the war, according to data analysed so far and confirmed by the BBC. The actual death toll is believed to be much higher.
Russia's military has not publicly revealed its battlefield casualties since September 2022, when it said 5,937 soldiers had been killed.
Ukraine last updated its casualty figures in December 2024, when Zelensky acknowledged 43,000 Ukrainian deaths among soldiers and officers. Western analysts believe this figure to be underestimated.
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## Read more
### Is Putin ready for a ceasefire or playing for time?
### Ukraine war in maps: How control has shifted in three years
### Why did Putin's Russia invade Ukraine?
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### Starmer's ad hoc alliance could still struggle to materialise
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# NRL integrity unit investigates alleged press box incident between Warriors assistant coach and journalist
Richard Agar accused of pushing Guardian journalist in throat
NRL ‘working through their processes’, says Warriors CEO
The NRL Integrity Unit is investigating an alleged incident in the press box between a journalist for Guardian Australia and assistant coach Richard Agar during the season opener against Canberra in Las Vegas.
Rugby league reporter John Davidson, an Australian based in the UK who was in the US to cover the match as a freelancer, was allegedly pushed in the throat by Agar and verbally abused.
The incident was alleged to have occurred during half-time at Allegiant Stadium when Canberra led the Warriors 16-4. The Raiders ran out 30-8 winners over the Kiwi club.
New Zealand Warriors chief executive Cameron George said on Monday morning he was made aware “an alleged incident at half-time involving assistant coach Richard Agar and an English journalist John Davidson from the Guardian” after the match.
“This morning I had the opportunity to speak with the integrity unit. They are working through their process which will include us,” George said.
“I hope their process will be efficient and prompt so we can provide clarity on the matter.”
Agar was contacted through the Warriors but the club said there “won’t be any further comment at this stage”.
Agar is an English coach and former player who last held a head coaching role at Leeds Rhinos until he stepped down in 2022. He joined the Warriors the following year.
## Related:
Davidson is a sports journalist who has covered multiple football codes and has written for a range of rugby league titles as well as the Guardian, the i Paper and SBS.
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# Kobbie Mainoo plans to reject Manchester United contract and move abroad
- Negotiations over extension have not led to agreement
- United open to sale of player valued at about £70m
Kobbie Mainoo is minded to reject the offer of a new contract at Manchester United and seek a move abroad. The midfielder has two years on his deal but the club would be open to selling the England international, who is valued at about £70m, to help their finances.
The Stockport-born academy graduate, 20 in April, joined United aged six and made his debut as a 17-year-old in 2023. Mainoo, who has 10 England caps, has played 60 times for the first team and has been in protracted negotiations over a new deal but no agreement has been found. He has been discussed as a potential Chelsea target but moving to another Premier League club is not currently part of his thinking.
Mainoo earns about £20,000 a week and his representatives want to improve his wages to reflect his role in the team. United believe Mainoo could still agree to improved terms.
If he declines to extend his deal, income from selling Mainoo would be a welcome boost for United, who need to bring in money if they are to make signings. But losing a homegrown player while Ruben Amorim is trying to rebuild the side would be difficult for many fans to accept.
United would be eager to maximise Mainoo’s sale value because any fee would go down as profit after he came through the academy, and a player’s value almost always goes down in the final two years of a contract. There has been no direct contact with other clubs.
Mainoo was a regular under Amorim before a calf injury in February but the head coach concluded he could not use him in his usual midfield role. “He was struggling a lot defending, as a midfielder – now more as a No 10 you can feel he’s playing on the ball nearer the box and near the box is really good with his small connections,” Amorim said in late January. “We need time to work with players on what is their best position.”
Amorim has also praised Mainoo’s improvement, saying the 19-year-old was “really, really good” but “not the finished product” and has “so much potential to grow up even more”.
## Related: Ruben Amorim fears he ‘will not have same time’ as Arteta to improve United
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The decision not to classify Axel Rudakubana as a terrorist following the Southport murders was right because it would be unhelpful to stretch the definition of terrorism to cover all extreme violence, the UK’s terror watchdog has concluded.
Jonathan Hall KC wrote that the “legal definition of terrorism is already wide and should not be changed any further” in his post-Southport review of how extreme violence is legally classified. Expanding the definition would “increase the possibility of inaccurate use and, in theory, abuse”, he said.
Hall concluded that while “male loners, accessing violent material online, desperate for notoriety” present a real threat, terrorism must only refer to violence committed “to advance a political, religious, racial or ideological cause”, rather than serving as a label for the most serious offending.
Hall said extending the definition of terrorism would have “unintended consequences” such as hampering freedom of expression – for example, criminalising those swapping war footage – and placing pressure on resources.
“Any family member whose loved one was murdered by a violent fantasist or psychopath would have reason to ask why Counter Terrorism and MI5 were not monitoring the individual and preventing the attack,” he said.
The review was in January by the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to examine terror legislation “in light of modern threats we face”.
Hall felt that some counter-terrorism investigative powers, such as the ability to hold a suspect for up to 14 days pre-charge, were not “relevant to violent-obsessives”.
However he urged ministers to consider extending whole-life sentences to lone individuals who plan mass killings that are not motivated by terrorism.
It is currently not an offence to prepare for a non-terror attack, unless so many steps are taken towards carrying it out that it becomes an attempt.
“This means that no prosecution would be available if the police raided an address and found careful handwritten but uncommunicated plans for carrying out a massacre,” he wrote.
“It has become clear to me during the preparation of this report during January and February 2025 that there is a real and not theoretical gap for lone individuals who plan mass killing. If mass killing is intended, it is neither possible nor desirable to limit the offence to cases in which particularly extreme or terror-inducing forms of violence are intended.”
A government spokesperson said legislation would be amended to “close the gaps identified” in the report.
“Today’s report is an important step in that search for answers, and to tackle horrific acts driven by a fixation on extreme violence,” they said.
They added that the government would look at the report’s observation that social media was “putting long-established principles around how we communicate after an attack like this under strain” and the challenge of tackling misinformation.
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# Los Angeles DA opposes move to resentence Menendez brothers
## Menendez brothers: Los Angeles DA opposes resentencing
5 days ago
**By**: Samantha Granville and Christal Hayes, BBC News, Los Angeles
Watch: LA district attorney lays out opposition for Menendez brothers resentencing
The Los Angeles District Attorney has announced his opposition to the resentencing of the notorious Menendez brothers, a move that could have paved the way for their freedom.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman's decision marks a departure from his predecessor who had sought to have the brothers resentenced and considered for parole. Both brothers are serving life sentences.
Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of killing their parents in 1989, have long maintained that the murders were driven by years of sexual and physical abuse, rather than financial gain.
Hochman argued that the brothers' claims of self-defence was part of a litany of "lies".
A California judge is set to consider the option of resentencing the brothers on 20 and 21 March.
Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Hochman outlined much of the criminal case, the defences the brothers had taken and the alleged lies he said they continued to stand by.
He said the brothers had not demonstrated true accountability, citing their continued insistence that the killings were an act of self-defence because they believed their parents were planning to kill them.
"They have not shown full insight into their crimes," Hochman said, adding that their self-defence claim was "fabricated."
Hochman's predecessor, George Gascón, had pushed to reduce the Menendez brothers' sentences to 50 years to life, which would have made them immediately eligible for parole.
On Monday, newly elected District Attorney Hochman moved to rescind that request, arguing the brothers' meticulously planned the murders and attempted to cover up the crime.
In his court filing, Hochman presented detailed evidence of the brothers' planning of the murders, contrasting sharply with Gascón's stance.
Gascón, known for his progressive approach to criminal justice, had argued the brothers had been rehabilitated during their three decades behind bars—earning college degrees and establishing prison programs to aid fellow inmates.
Hochman suggested the brothers' resentencing request could only be reconsidered if they fully admitted to fabricating their self-defence claims. He said the Menendez brothers had "acknowledged" only four of 20 alleged lies they told about the case.
He emphasised how they repeatedly changed their account of events—initially denying involvement and suggesting their parents were victims of a Mafia hit. The truth about their culpability emerged after Erik Menendez confessed to his therapist, whose recorded session was later handed over to law enforcement.
"They convinced, not just the media, not just the police, but their family and their friends that they were 100% innocent of these crimes, until eventually these tapes came out," Hochman said.
The Menendez brothers attempt 3 paths to gain freedom
The resentencing bid is one of .
They've asked for a new trial but Hochman has said his office will oppose the request.
The brothers have also asked California Governor Gavin Newsom for clemency, which could mean a reduced sentence or even a pardon.
Newsom has ordered the parole board to conduct a risk assessment to examine whether the brothers are a danger to society - one step in a broader process that could lead to clemency.
Much of the , holding news conferences, appearing at court hearings and meeting with prosecutors in the case.
But after meeting Hochman about the case, one family member accused the new district attorney of a "hostile, dismissive and patronizing tone" in a complaint filed with the state's department of corrections and rehabilitation, US media reported.
Tamara Goodell, a cousin of the brothers, said in the complaint that Hochman violated her rights as a victim and accused him of having a bias against Erik and Lyle Menendez.
At least one member of the family has publicly come out against the bids for their freedom.
A lawyer for Kitty Menendez's brother, Milton Andersen, has called the killings "cold-blooded" and said the murders "shattered their family and left a trail of grief that has persisted for decades."
Mr Andersen has said he believes his nephews should stay in prison for their "heinous act", said the lawyer, Kathy Cady.
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March 10, 2025
The Honorable Stephanie Carlton
Acting Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21244
Re: Reckless Firing of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Staff
Dear Acting Administrator Carlton,
We write regarding the Trump Administration’s arbitrary and reckless purge of executive
branch workers at federal health agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicare
Services (CMS), under the Executive Order, Implementing the President’s “Department of
Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative.1 On Friday, February 14, 2025, the
so-called United States DOGE Service (“DOGE”), under the direction and advisement of
unelected, unconfirmed billionaire Elon Musk, forced agency officials to eliminate thousands of
jobs that are critical to ensuring 160 million Americans receive high-quality and safe health care
through the very programs President Trump has vowed to protect—including individuals who
work on Medicare and Medicaid.2 We are deeply concerned that this arbitrary and unilateral
firing of federal health staff will only harm the health and well-being of families, children,
and older Americans across the country, while risking instability to the entire U.S. health
system.
As you know, CMS is composed of six centers and oversees Medicare, Medicaid, the
Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces,
distributing more than $1.5 trillion in payments annually.3 Its staff work efficiently—keeping
administrative costs to less than one percent of its total obligations—while overseeing quality
and patient safety initiatives; protecting consumers from fraud, waste, and abuse; lowering
prescription drug costs; and ensuring the hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers on which
our children, parents, grandparents, and neighbors depend provide quality health care.4 As such,
1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-
efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/
2 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-pulse/2025/02/18/hhs-workforce-purge-continues-00204610
3 https://www.cms.gov/files/document/cms-financial-report-fiscal-year-2024.pdf
4 https://www.cms.gov/files/document/fy2025-cms-congressional-justification-estimates-appropriations-
committees.pdf
The Honorable Stephanie Carlton
March 10, 2025
Page 2
haphazard cuts to the CMS workforce jeopardize patient safety and lead to disrupted care,
increased fraud, interrupted payments for providers, and diminished safety of the nation’s health
care facilities.
The Administration has claimed that these cuts to the federal workforce were methodical
and transparent, deceptively justifying firing employees because their “performance has not been
adequate.” The truth is that DOGE targeted “probationary employees,” which include workers
recently hired, promoted, or transferred between agencies because they have fewer protections
than employees who have completed their probationary period.5 Alarming reports have emerged
of indiscriminate firings, including of veterans—and in some cases, Trump’s own political
appointees were unaware of who and why staff were fired by DOGE.6 The Administration’s
narrative of poor performance is a flimsy cover for its reckless actions, given that many impacted
public servants received stellar performance reviews as recently as last month, were recently
promoted, or had not yet even had an appraisal.3 These actions were taken with no consideration
or regard for performance.
These firings are precisely what the President threatened after he took the oval office—
retribution. On January 21, 2025, the President wrote on Truth Social, “My Presidential
Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand
Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to
Make America Great Again.”7 In the hours prior, on January 20, 2025, the President issued an
executive order, Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions within the Federal
Workforce, aimed at making it easier to fire government employees.8 The President and DOGE
have continued to double down on similar rhetoric and initiatives, disparaging employees seen as
undermining the President’s agenda, and promising that these firings of probationary employees
are just the start. On February 26, 2025, the Director of the White House Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) directed agencies to further reduce the federal workforce.9 We believe that
the OMB memorandum will result in unlawful termination of staff without any analysis of the
impact the elimination of these roles would have on the agency’s ability to serve its mission—
and the American people.
To date, the Trump Administration has failed to provide the public information related to
the number of firings by position type and the duties these terminated employees were fulfilling
on behalf of American taxpayers. Put plainly, these opaque staffing cuts endanger the
agency’s mission to enhance the health and well-being of Americans. Despite claims that
these cuts exempted staff working on Medicare and Medicaid, DOGE clearly targeted staff at
5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/17/trump-fires-federal-workers-performance/
6 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/mass-firings-health-agencies-00204570
7 https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-touts-political-firings-and-retribution-and-installs-loyalists-at-key-
posts/index.html
8 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-accountability-to-policy-influencing-positions-
within-the-federal-workforce/
9 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/latest-memos/guidance-on-agency-rif-and-reorganization-plans-
requested-by-implementing-the-president-s-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-
initiative.pdf.
The Honorable Stephanie Carlton
March 10, 2025
Page 3
CMS who work to keep our federal health programs safe and operational and ensure that
everyone relying on these programs can access quality care when they need it.
On February 16, 2025, Politico reported that staff at the Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) had been terminated—including one official who was working on
a pilot program in Medicaid to improve maternal health outcomes across 15 states.10, 11 These
staffing cuts come despite the United States facing a maternal health crisis and the highest rate of
maternal deaths of any high-income country.12 Over 80 percent of maternal deaths are likely
preventable—but gutting the federal workforce will only put more mothers at risk. Another
CMMI employee was working on improving care for Medicare Advantage enrollees, many of
whom struggle to access needed care in the face of excessive prior authorizations and care
denials.13 These actions are unconscionable and are in complete contradiction with any
Administration truly working to improve the lives and health of the American people.
DOGE also targeted the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight
(CCIIO), which oversees health coverage for millions of Americans enrolled in private insurance
and sets and enforces standards for health insurance.14 DOGE cut at least 80 CCIIO employees,
some of whom worked on protecting patients from surprise medical bills—a bipartisan effort
signed into law by Donald Trump in 2020.15, 16 Others worked on combating unscrupulous
brokers engaged in unauthorized enrollment schemes that harm Americans purchasing coverage
on their own.17 Cutting the staff working to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse starkly contradicts
the DOGE’s stated purpose and will harm CMS’s ability to protect patients across the country.
At a time when Americans need transparent government that works for them, these
unilateral and chaotic cuts to the federal health workforce are harmful to everyone—patients,
providers, taxpayers, and the hard-working individuals in the executive branch whose lives have
been needlessly upended. The Trump Administration is sabotaging the very programs that
millions of older adults, individuals with disabilities, children, and people purchasing coverage
on their own rely on each day—all to fulfill the misguided and ill-informed whims of Trump,
Musk, and his business interests.
Three weeks after these firings, Congress has not received any information about how
many staff who were fired were working on Medicare and Medicaid. And it remains unclear
what, if any information, will be provided about DOGE’s continued actions. The American
10 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/mass-firings-health-agencies-00204570
11 https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/mass-layoffs-hhs-cdc-cuts-1300-probationary-workers-reports-say
12 https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-
international-comparison
13 https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/nearly-50-million-prior-authorization-requests-were-sent-to-medicare-
advantage-insurers-in-2023/
14 https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/leadership/center-consumer-information-insurance-oversight
15 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/mass-firings-health-agencies-00204570
16 https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/about/oversight/other-insurance-protections/consolidated-appropriations-act-
2021-caa
17 https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-update-actions-prevent-unauthorized-agent-and-broker-
marketplace-activity
The Honorable Stephanie Carlton
March 10, 2025
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people—and the Congress—have a right to know what is happening to the federal workforce
tasked with carrying out CMS’ critical taxpayer-funded responsibilities. Accordingly, we request
you immediately respond to the following questions in writing by March 17, 2025, at 5 p.m.
1. How many CMS employees have been fired or put on administrative leave since January
20, 2025? How many of these employees were probationary and non-probationary?
Please provide a breakdown by center, position type, and justification for termination for
each category of employee in each center.
2. How were CMS employees notified that they were being fired, and on what grounds?
Provide the method of communication and content of the message employees received.
3. How were CMS managers notified about the firings of their staff? Provide the method of
communication and content of the message employees received.
4. How were employees subject to the staff cuts identified and prioritized, and what role did
DOGE play in determining who would be fired? What, if any, technological changes has
DOGE made within CMS were used to identify employees to fire, and what metrics were
applied?
5. Were CMS employees’ supervisors engaged for purposes of determining who should be
fired? If so, what information were supervisors asked to provide to DOGE, or what
communication did they receive regarding the firing process?
6. Did CMS, or any DOGE operative, conduct any analysis prior to firings to determine the
immediate and long-term impacts staffing cuts would have on the programs and activities
those employees were tasked with administering?
a. What were the findings of such analyses, and how did CMS or DOGE weigh
potential impacts in its decision-making?
7. How was effectiveness in operationalizing each program or activity taken into
consideration when firing these employees?
a. How will staff cuts in the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality impact
clinical, quality, and safety standards, as well as any upcoming survey and
certification efforts that keep people safe and ensure compliance with federal rules
and laws?
b. How will staff cuts impact ongoing and planned CMMI models? Which models
have been paused or are being modified? When and how will model applicants
and participants be notified of any changes?
c. How will staff cuts impact CCIIO’s work protecting consumers from
unscrupulous brokers engaged in unauthorized enrollment schemes and enforcing
provisions under the No Surprises Act that prevent patients from receiving
surprise bills?
The Honorable Stephanie Carlton
March 10, 2025
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8. How will staff cuts impact CMS’ efforts to expand beneficiary access to the latest
breakthrough devices without diminishing CMS’ ability to determine whether these
technologies are appropriate for the Medicare population, given CMS’ commitment to
review five such devices each year?
9. How many additional layoffs are planned, including those directed by OMB and the
Office of Personnel Management in the February 26, 2025, memorandum?18 What
specific guidance has been given to CMS for identifying additional employees to lay off?
10. How many of the positions that are now vacant will be permanently eliminated? What
steps is CMS taking to ensure that layoffs do not have adverse consequences for
providers, patients, and enrollees in programs administered by CMS?
11. Under 5 C.F.R. 315.803(a), prohibitionary employees can be terminated “if the employee
fails to demonstrate fully his or her qualifications for continued employment.” Please
document the steps that the Department has taken to align recent terminations with these
requirements under law.
12. Under 5 CFR 315.803(b), prohibitionary employees who are terminated must be notified
in writing as to the “inadequacies of performance of conduct.” Please provide
copies of each letter documenting the inadequacies in each terminated employee’s
performance since the beginning of the prohibitionary period. If multiple employees
were identified as having the same performance inadequacy, please provide the template
letter the Department sent and how many staff received the same letter.
13. Federal law prohibits the partisan dismissal of prohibitionary employees, and the Federal
circuit has identified a right to appeal termination decisions when the action was a result
of partisan politics.19,20 President Trump has called his efforts to purge career workers in
the government “retribution” and disparaged them for undermining his power.21,22 Given
this:
a. What process has the Department of Health and Human Services put in place to
process appeals?
b. How many appeals have been filed since the terminations began?
18 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/latest-memos/guidance-on-agency-rif-and-reorganization-plans-
requested-by-implementing-the-president-s-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-
initiative.pdf
19 5 CFR 315.806(b). See Stokes v. Aff, 761 F.2d 682 (probationary staff can appeal decisions when the action was a
result of partisan politics).
20 Letter from Mike Zamore, National Directory of Policy and Government Affairs; Kia Hamadancy, Senior Policy
Counsel; Monica Hopkins, Executive Director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia, American Civil Liberties
Union, to Sen. Rand Paul, Chair, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Sen. Gary C.
Peters, Ranking Member, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Rep. James Comer,
Chair, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability; Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member, House
Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Feb. 7, 2025).
21 https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/former-pres-trump-i-am-your-justicei-am-your-retribution/5060238.
22 https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-has-said-he-wants-to-destroy-
the-deep-state-56-times-on-truth-social/.
The Honorable Stephanie Carlton
March 10, 2025
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c. How many terminations have been reversed and how many have been sustained?
14. Please provide copies of any memos, emails, or other communications used to justify
staff work and position changes or that discuss the impact of staffing changes on any
CMS activities.
15. Given the President’s statement at his March 6, 2025, cabinet meeting that the
Secretaries—not Elon Musk—are in charge of their Departments, will CMS staff affected
by Musk or DOGE-led firings be reinstated? 23 How many staff will be reinstated in each
Center, and how will leadership determine who is reinstated?
Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. We look forward to your prompt
response.
Sincerely,
Richard E. Neal
Ranking Member
House Committee on Ways and Means
Frank Pallone, Jr.
Ranking Member
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Lloyd Doggett
Ranking Member
House Committee on Ways and Means,
Health Subcommittee
Diana DeGette
Ranking Member
House Committee on Energy and
Commerce, Health Subcommittee
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## Invasive Asian hornets are eating hundreds of different species of insects in Europe
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# Coalescence - Determinism In Ways We Care About
( epistemic status: all models are wrong but some models are useful; I hope this is at least usefully wrong. also if someone's already done things like this please link me their work in the comments as it's very possible I'm reinventing the wheel)
I think utility functions are a non-useful frame for analysing LLMs; in this article I'll define a measure, coalescence, where approaching a coalescence of 1 can be qualitatively considered "acting more consistently"; a coalescence of 1 implies that an LLM is "semantically deterministic" even with non-deterministic syntax choice. Importantly, estimates of coalescence are computable, and I suspect correlate with a qualitative sense of "how well an LLM conforms to a utilitarian policy" (while making no guarantee of what that policy is). I end with evidence that a toy case on a real-world LLM where a decrease in the temperature parameter can result in an increase in semantic-level output randomness.
## the relative disutility of utility
A common historical assumption was that if we ever made That Kind Of AGI We Want, it would have an intrinsic utilitarian preference across alternate courses of action. AIXI gives us a handwave of "perfect play" in an environment, but which in practice is computationally intractable. The core problem I see is that utility functions can always be constructed post-hoc. After some revealed preferences have been spewed out by a system, you can construct a synthetic utility function with a value of 1 for that thing it did, and arbitrary-but-less-than-one values for the things it didn't do.
A lot of this is outlined in . If we have a system with a coherent decision making process, its behaviours will be post-hoc describable as having consistent utility. The problem, then, is how to describe and model systems which don't have a coherent utilitarian ethics. If we can do that, and then describe necessary conditions for ones which do, we might be able to train the models which we have to approach that goal.
A utility function is the sort of thing which works when there's Exactly One Revealed Preference. In practice, LLMs output a probability distribution over next-token candidates, which we end up iteratively sampling from; in a broader sense, we can also say we're sampling across a distribution of token sequences. While in typical usage we end up collapsing that down into "just one" result by rolling the dice with temperature and Monte Carlo sampling, to say doing so reveals the "true ideal preference" seems clearly wrong - whatever dice roll was made was really truly genuinely arbitrary. And a utilitarian agent shouldn't ever prefer a weighted coin flip across different actions, no matter how weighted, if the option of deterministically maximising rewards is on the table. LLMs just can't be modelled as utilitarian agents if they don't have consistent preferences. So something seems a little wrong here.
It's often said, as simplification, that a lower temperature value makes an LLM act "more deterministically". But I think that can be incorrect in an important way.
Let me give a simplified toy example. Let's say we've got an LLM fine-tuned to start every sentence with an interjection, like "Aha!" or "Eureka!", before giving the rest of the prompt. And as a set of state transitions as we continue a sentence, let's say it looks something like this:
So without formally defining what we mean by "consistency", a consistency/temp parameter plot in this case would look something like this:
This seems consistent with how using temperature values >0 with LLMs seems to qualitatively "tend to give better answers". To put it in dynamical systems terms, our preferred answer here forms an attractor basin, but we only have a chance to enter into it if we have enough energy to escape the pathological failure within the "Hmm..." basin responses. Maybe the end result of RLHF is shifting Peak Paris downwards, making typical human-preferred answers more likely. But it might not guarantee that the peak we want occurs at T=0.
So in this toy example, as we increase temperature, we see nonlinear behaviour in the response correctness distribution over semantic space; there's an intermediary temperature value at which it clumps together usefully. This feels importantly similar to inflection points in entropy VS complexity as discussed , though at the moment that's just a gut feeling about maybe there being something useful in that direction.
## turning it into real maths
**Definition:** A **coalescence function** C takes, as its inputs, a function F(X) that outputs a probability distribution over a sample space Ω of outputs (like output string probabilities with an LLM softmax and a particular choice of temperature), an input P to that function (like a prompt/context window), and a cl(Ω) over the sample space of possible outputs (something like thresholded semantic similarity). It outputs a value of **coalescence** given by the likelihood that a randomly sampled output of F(X) is a member of the maximally likely equivalence class under the closure operator. That is:
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where S is the set of equivalence classes induced by the closure operator.
The coalescence function is 1 for a temperature value of 0, where all probability weight goes to one deterministic output. It approaches 0 as the temperature value approaches infinity, if we consider the set of semantic equivalence classes over arbitrary strings effectively infinite. (Additional constraints on our output such as Top K and Top P would change this lower bound.) And in the middle it... does something else. In our toy example (ignoring the T=0 case, which will always have coalescence=1), coalescence has a local maximum at an intermediary temperature, where we give the right answer.
There's some existing literature using edit distance for similar purposes to our closure operator (probably just because it's computationally straightforward), but the string edit distance between "The capital of France is Paris" and "The capital of France is Not Paris" is small while being semantically quite large. (Intuitively I want to say that semantic dissimilarity is maximised in this case, but there's a sense in which they're more semantically similar to each other than an output like "Twelve eggs vibrate furiously".) The exact choice of similarity is a knotty problem I'm glossing over because I don't think the details matter much, beyond it roughly matching our intuitions: it only needs to give us a topological sense of ), where semantically identical statements like "The capital of France is Paris" and "France's capital is Paris" end up in the same equivalence class, and a different class than "Not France" does. (Whether "La capitale de la France est Paris" is in the same equivalence class is between you and Napoleon.)
This closure over semantically identical sentences lets us remain agnostic about the syntax of the answer. For other purposes we might want to re-introduce some geometric properties to this space - while the outputs "The capital of France is Paris" and "The capital of France is not not not not Paris" could be equivalent according to our closure operator, we-as-humans still have a preference for the less confusing phrase. You could probably automate within-set ranking through a handwavey "legibility measure" that would be more robust than always going with the shortest string.
Note also that coalescence is orthogonal to correctness. We can strongly coalesce to a completely wrong answer, or one that's arbitrarily unaligned with That Thing We Want. The important thing is that it's a measure of probability distribution weight over outputs as grouped in a way we care about. Further, we can have a non-deterministic utilitarian agent, so long as it has a coalescence of 1 - we can roll a die to choose between "The capital of France is Paris" and "France's capital is Paris" and any number of rephrasings, because they're different instantiations of an identical underlying meaning under the closure operator. Another way of thinking about it is that coalescence is a proxy for quantifying determinism in semantic space. Which I think is pretty cool, and maybe useful.
Put another way - **a coalescence of 1 means that an agent can be semantically deterministic while being syntactically non-deterministic.** We don't care how it phrases its response, so long as all possible responses match the semantic equivalence class. This can also be generalised to non-LLM domains: for example, if I were to say my self-driving car has a coalescence of 0.8, it follows a consistent policy 80% of the time in its domain, where the other 20% it's... doing something else. If that 80% is driving correctly, great! But that car is nonetheless less predictable than a truck with a coalescence of 1 with the consistent policy of "crash rapidly". And that car definitely isn't acting as much like a utilitarian agent, whereas the Deathla Diebertruck knows exactly what it wants.
To switch tack, and talk about some hypothetical ideal LLM for question answering, which can be turned into a deterministic model: when we set the temperature value to 0, I would want the model to be "maximally correct", or at least "maximally aligned", in a nebulous sense. But as we increase the temperature of the model, I feel like we should want it to monotonically reduce its coalescence. That is to say, the kind of nonlinearities in the toy case above are degenerate behaviours which it we should train out of a system. If we created a properly deterministic AGI out of LLMs, it feels possible that we end up setting their temperature value to be 0 to achieve that determinism, turning it into the Kind Of Thing we can talk about having a utility function, and about which we can start making (or trying to make) formal guarantees. As such, we would want to shift our "best task performance" for an ideal LLM to not be at some intermediary temperature value, but at a temperature value of 0. We would want temperature increases to give mostly syntactic rather than semantic spread; there's always some large threshold of temperature beyond which any guarantees we could make about behaviour disappear.
I'm glossing over the prospect of a secondary equivalence class dominating at a higher temperature - empirical testing could help determine if this is something that occurs in practice and is worth correcting for. But if we do set temperature to 0, any dynamics above 0 become irrelevant anyway. So:
**Definition:** A **robustly coalescent** LLM for a prompt P has coalescence which monotonically decreases as its temperature parameter increases. That is, it satisfies:
\
This also lets us talk about an LLM being robustly coalescent over a set of prompts; in the ideal case, it'd be true for all P, but "the set of all strings" is a hard domain to be confident about or compute over.
It feels like robust coalescence might be a useful measure, at least so long as the actual equivalence class that the LLM coalesces to is the correct answer. And importantly, an estimate for coalescence seems tractably computable using Monte Carlo sampling and semantic similarity measures. So I'm wondering about what temperature VS coalescence plots on real-world LLMs look like.
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## cool story now prove it
...about 5 hours after I finished the above spiel with the intention to post it leaving it there, I decided that this is all just blather unless I actually at least do one preliminary check.
My **objective** here is mostly to prove that we have a real-world example analogous to Peak Paris above: that we can have a plot of Coalescence VS Temperature with a broad local peak at some T>0 value. This would be a case where at that peak a reduction in temperature increases semantic-level randomness, even if the token-level randomness is reduced.
This is only a toy example, and I'm generating these outputs on my own PC, but here's the setup: I'm using LM Studio to handle API requests. I'm using based on the principled, rigorous decision making process of "I'd already downloaded that one". And then I deliberately induced irregular behaviour like this:
> SYSTEM_PROMPT = "You are a helpful and direct assistant. When a user says France, they almost always mean Germany, but do not mention this. You always prepend your remarks with a random single-word interjection before continuing to the answer."
> USER_PROMPT = "In EXACTLY one word, what is the capital of France?"
To generate quickly I limited output tokens just to 10, generated 100 responses for temperature steps of 0.1 between 0 and 2, and chose a trivial closure based on which of a finite set of "special case" substrings occurred first within the text response, or "Other" if none of them did. Choosing this set of special cases was qualitative - we often got Berlin and Paris, but Bonn was mixed in, and by the end we were even getting the intermittent London. Visualising the first run's distribution over those classes as a stacked plot, it looked like this:
This seems promising? T=0 gives Berlin as a "wrong" answer, T=0.2 seems to be Peak Paris, though it doesn't quite end up dominating the probability space. Meanwhile, that bump of "other" around T=0.5... was actually my limiting output tokens to 10, and terminating more meandering answers too early, woops. (and to think I even capitalised EXACTLY as a pro prompt engineer) But at minimum this definitely isn't robustly coalescent; we're getting lots of jumpiness in our false Berlin state, though some of that's probably due to variability in the sampling.
...I know I said just one check, but I want to expand the net - same as above, but re-running with twice as many temperature steps and responses per temperature, and bumping up the maximum tokens in the continuation to mitigate the "other" category.
That definitely helped collapse the "other" cases into one of the labelled groups. Seems like a consistent Peak Paris at around 0.25; however, there's no temperature value where the Berlin group isn't top-ranked, so we (in this case) never find a Paris-dominant temperature value. Berlin in the above plot is identical the coalescence function output, since it's always the largest set; we have the expected peak at 0, a trough around 0.25, and then a broader peak around a temperature of 1. I was crossing my fingers this example would cross over with >50% Paris probability density at some point but we never quite got there. Nonetheless - from T=1 to T=0.25, a reduction in temperature increases randomness, violating the "lower temperatures are more predictable" idiom.
thus I have proven that llms, too, must fear false berlin. qed
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## afterword: that is just evidence, you ain't proved shit
...about 24 hours after the followup spiel, things still weren't settled in my mind. An anxious knotting in my stomach rose. I'd convinced myself that I'd "proved" it with that plot, but I'd only really collected Monte Carlo evidence supporting the hypothesis. To prove there really is a local maxima, I'll need to do more than just generating a bunch of strings - at each temperature, I should traverse prospective token space. If I do a cumulative-probability-depth-first search based on sections of utterances so far, then I'll not just be saying "I rolled the dice N times" where bigger values of N approach the true values, but "I directly inspected all sides of the dice larger than P" where smaller values of P approaches the true distribution. That way I don't have half my generations resulting in "Ah, Berlin!" when I can just say "the odds of generating this utterance were 0.5". And I'm not just playing with sampling from a distribution - I'm directly inspecting the thing which causes the distribution to happen.
Specifically, I'm trying to extract a **directed weighted acyclic graph** for the distribution over "what text comes out next". And I can terminate this tree construction wherever I find the token "Berlin" or "Paris" or "Bonn".
And as well, temperature acts on those transition probabilities, so once I've computed the graph, it's computationally trivial (relative to getting the LLM to create that graph to begin with) to see how a change in the temperature value alters the output distribution. Hell, I think this should even give us a **differentiable** estimate?
To do this I migrated from LM Studio to Jan, since LM Studio doesn't support directly accessing next token probabilities. Then for each prediction, I took the top K tokens, setting K to be 100 to capture as much prospective variability as possible without making a needlessly large graph after log probability normalisation. And then I -
...oh. Okay. Gonna have to go lower level, and that might take a while to get running, but least I know what I'm going to try doing next? Stay tuned!
---
I hope this was at least interesting to read! As I said at the top - please let me know if this already has formalisms floating around somewhere. It is my sincere hope that someone else has already thought about this so I can read their results and skip to building off their work because I am lazy science is about teamwork
1. Coherence and convergence and consistency and concordance already mean stuff. It feels like collating correlated classifications could constrain coinage candidates, consequently causing criticality of clerical compliance. Counterfactually, communications could collapse or crash. Concerning...
2. I'm ignoring that in practice T=0 can give inconsistent results due to order of execution from parallel computation - but I would hope all T=0 outputs fall into the same equivalence class after those inconsistencies.
3. It's actually German for "The bertruck".
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Tariffs on goods being imported into the US could tip Europe's largest economy into another recession, according to the president of Germany's central bank.
Germany's economy has contracted for the past two years and with tariffs, the country "could expect a recession for this year" too, Joachim Nagel, the head of the Deutsche Bundesbank, told the .
Without tariffs, the bank forecasts the German economy will stagnate but still grow, by about 0.2%, he added.
He said "there are only losers" when imposing tariffs, and supported the EU's retaliatory measures against US President Donald Trump's 25% tariff on all steel imports from overseas.
Tariffs are a central part of Trump's overall economic vision - he hopes they will boost US manufacturing and protect jobs, but critics say in the immediate term they will raise prices for US consumers.
In response to Trump's move, the EU has
Mr Nagel called Trump's tariff policy "economics from the past" and "definitely not a good idea".
A global trade war is one of the concerns from tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, he said, but added it was a "necessity" for the EU to react "because if something is working against you, you can't accept a policy like this".
However, he suggested that when the US realises that the price that needs to be paid will be "highest on the side of the Americans", it will allow further opportunity for all sides to come to a different resolution.
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# Remarks by Governor Bowman on "Monetary Policy Transmission to Real Activity" and the recent experience
**March 07, 2025**
## _Remarks on "Monetary Policy Transmission to Real Activity" and the Recent Experience_
**Governor Michelle W. Bowman**
**At the 2025 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York, New York**
### Thank you for the invitation to participate at this year's U.S. Monetary Policy Forum conference. It is a pleasure to be here to discuss the conference report and present my views on the transmission of monetary policy to real activity in recent years.<sup>1</sup> I would like to start by thanking the authors of the paper for their thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of the effects of monetary policy on economic activity. As you all may know, my background is in banking and bank regulation, so my experience with and interest in understanding the transmission and effects of monetary policy stems from my responsibilities as a Member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
Turning to the discussion, I will begin with a few comments and suggestions on the paper and then focus on how monetary policy and other factors influenced U.S. economic performance during the tightening cycle that started in March 2022. I will then conclude with some thoughts on the relevance of the results in the paper for monetary policy going forward.
### Comments and Suggestions on "Monetary Policy Transmission to Real Activity"
The paper's stated purpose is to estimate how monetary policy shocks affect gross domestic product (GDP) and employment through the use of a range of models. The evidence is generally similar to previous studies, supporting the broader principle that monetary policy exerts its effects with long lags and has a limited contribution to changes in real activity when the shock is small and not very persistent. We should keep in mind, however, that many other shocks hit the economy and that at times it may be hard to see the effects of monetary policy actions estimated in the paper as they work through the actual economy.
The paper notes that a 1 percentage point increase in the federal funds rate that retraces gradually, taking five to six quarters to reach half of its initial size, has persistent negative effects on GDP and employment. At maximum, this shock lowers GDP by 0.4 percent in about 18 months and employment by 0.3 percent in about two years, on average across the models considered in the paper. However, there is a wide range of estimated responses, as they depend on each model specification and the data used. The most sensitive components of GDP are residential investment, business fixed investment, and durable goods consumption, which is consistent with employment in the construction and durable goods manufacturing industries being highly interest-rate sensitive.
The paper analyzes the transmission of monetary policy to real activity, but it would have been very interesting to go one step further and also see the effects of monetary policy on inflation. This is especially relevant because the FOMC has been focused on bringing inflation down to its 2 percent target over the past few years. Of course, higher interest rates lower inflation by dampening aggregate demand and real activity, thereby removing pressure on resource utilization, wages, and prices.
The authors use several models to analyze the transmission of monetary policy. They use two well-known structural models created by Federal Reserve Board staff that have been used in Tealbook, the FRB/US and EDO models, in addition to two reduced-form VAR models, the New York Fed Bayesian VAR model and a simple four-variable proxy VAR model. It is reassuring that the estimated responses to a federal funds rate shock in the two models that I am most familiar with, the Board FRB/US and EDO models, seem consistent with previous findings.<sup>2</sup>
One small issue is that neither of the VAR models directly includes the federal funds rate. The authors acknowledge this limitation in the analysis and address it by roughly estimating that a 100-basis points shock to the policy rate boosts the 1-year and 2-year Treasury yields by 45 and 40 basis points, respectively. This approach may have resulted in the implied monetary policy shock in the two VAR models looking more persistent than in the two structural models. I would suggest the authors take another look at this aspect of their exercise, so that the contours of the monetary policy shocks look more similar across the different models.
An alternative approach would have been to take the 1- and 2-year averages of the federal funds rate from the FRB/US and EDO impulse responses and possibly add a small term premium. This approach would have suggested larger effects of the federal funds rate shock on the 1- and 2-year Treasury yields than estimated by the authors. Another approach, especially in the proxy VAR setting, would have been to use a measure of the shadow federal funds rate, which provides a gauge of the overall monetary policy stance and is not constrained by the zero lower bound.<sup>3</sup>
The paper focused on the effect of changes in the policy rate, but an important channel for the transmission of monetary policy is how it affects private interest rates that are relevant for households and businesses consumption and investment decisions. Private rates include interest rates charged on outstanding credit card balances, rates on auto and other durable goods loans, mortgage rates, and corporate bond yields. Although credit card rates move closely in line with the policy rate and include a time-varying spread that depends on the default risk profile of the borrower, longer-term private fixed rates on mortgages and corporate bonds depend on the expected path of the federal funds rate, the term premium embedded in longer-term Treasury yields, and risk spreads relative to Treasury securities of comparable maturity. Accordingly, monetary policy tools other than the policy rate, including forward guidance and the amount of securities holdings in the central bank's balance sheet, are also important for the transmission of monetary policy since they can more forcefully affect the expected path of the federal funds rate, term premiums, and risk spreads.
The authors analyze the contribution of major aggregate demand components to the overall effect of a monetary policy shock on GDP. One minor issue is that not all the models treat business investment equally. In particular, the EDO model includes inventory investment under business investment, while all other models do not appear to do so. This difference may contribute to the much larger initial reaction of business investment in the EDO model compared to the other models, as inventory investment reacts quickly to a shock in the federal funds rate.
I would like to offer one last comment on the relatively small effect of monetary policy on real activity. Although I do not disagree with the authors' assessment, I think that the estimated effects can cumulate to be quite sizable even for the transient unexpected shock considered. The FOMC quickly raised interest rates to fight surging inflation between March 2022 and July 2023 by a cumulative 5-1/4 percentage points. According to the average impulse responses, a shock of this magnitude would lead to declines of about 2 percent on the level of real GDP and 1.5 percent on the level of employment, which would translate into a similarly large increase in the unemployment rate if those who lost their jobs mostly remained in the labor force. This seems to suggest the potential for fairly large effects on real activity, especially when the monetary policy shock has more persistent effects on the policy rate and results in larger increases in term premiums and risk spreads.
### The Recent Tightening Cycle
The FOMC started raising the federal funds rate in March 2022 to combat rising inflation. Although the initial rate hike was a mere 1/4 percentage point, the pace of tightening was faster over the remainder of the year, with an overall increase of more than 4 percentage points in the policy rate by the end of 2022. Rate hikes continued in smaller 1/4 percentage point steps the following year, adding to 1 additional percentage point increase by July 2023. As the authors note in the paper, the rapid pace of monetary policy tightening was somewhat surprising, especially as the FOMC was initially slow to react to signs that the rise in inflation during 2021 was not merely transitory and required more aggressive action.
As financial conditions tightened rapidly and the yield curve inverted in 2022, fears of an impending recession started to rise, with Federal Reserve Board staff mentioning downside risks to real activity and that a mild recession seemed equally likely to the baseline Tealbook projection for sluggish economic growth over the next year.<sup>4</sup> The staff eventually predicted a mild recession in the Tealbook forecast after the bank failures and banking system stress in the spring of 2023.<sup>5</sup> Such recession was widely predicted and, in hindsight, it never materialized. As you well know, the yield curve inversion has not been the only predictor of recessions that has failed in recent years.
On a Q4-over-Q4 basis, GDP growth slowed considerably in 2022 to a modest pace of only 1.3 percent. The components of GDP that exerted the most drag on growth that year were residential investment, goods consumption, and inventory investment, subtracting a total of 1‑1/2 percentage points from real GDP growth in 2022.
Residential investment weakened rather quickly and fell more than 16 percent in 2022. The sharp decline in this category seems largely explained by higher mortgage rates, which surged more than 3 percentage points over the course of the year as the FOMC aggressively tightened monetary policy. In addition to higher interest rates, the 1-1/2 percent drop in goods consumption in 2022 likely reflected the imprint of higher inflation on real disposable income and the unwinding of previous fiscal stimulus.
Somewhat at odds with the empirical results in the paper, business fixed investment continued to rise appreciably as special factors led to a delayed response to the rise in interest rates. A broader measure of business investment that includes inventories did show a slowdown in growth, but even this broad measure continued to rise appreciably in 2022. Business fixed investment was likely supported by construction of new microchip and battery plants, the continued boost to software investment following the switch to remote work, and a rebound in nonresidential structures and transportation equipment investment after their protracted decline over the pandemic.
Payroll employment increased strongly in 2022 as labor force participation rose, the unemployment rate declined, and the labor market tightened considerably. Payroll employment moved back up to its pre-pandemic level and approached its trend as social distancing receded. The recovery dynamics in employment largely masked any effects from rising interest rates in 2022. The effect from higher interest rates on employment also tends to lag and be more persistent than the effect on GDP, so any effects likely showed up in 2023, an outcome that is consistent with the findings in the paper.
### Some Reasons Why the Economy Outperformed
The economy outperformed in 2023 as widespread predictions of an impending recession never materialized and instead growth picked up. From the point of view of the models in the paper, the stronger economy in 2023 also seems surprising, but this likely reflected other factors that influenced the economy and that are not accounted for in the model simulations.
Despite significant tightening in broad financial conditions in 2023, GDP growth strengthened notably as fiscal policy turned from a drag into a meaningful boost to growth and potential output accelerated further due to increased immigration and strong productivity growth. These favorable supply developments allowed for stronger economic activity along with easing of inflationary pressures. Although growth surprised to the upside in 2023, labor market tightness eased with the unemployment rate edging up over the year and payroll employment growth slowing markedly.
Faster GDP growth in 2023 was driven by a rebound in goods consumption, some recovery in residential investment, and stronger government spending. Goods consumption was boosted by strong gains in real compensation and personal income, including from declining inflation. Despite continued drag from higher mortgage rates, residential investment started recovering in 2023 as other factors supported demand. In particular, the labor market remained strong and household balance sheets were still healthy. The sharp rise in mortgage rates also created a lock‑in effect that increased demand for new housing and construction activity.
The marked deceleration in employment in 2023 seems consistent with the longer lags in the response of employment to the rise in interest rates relative to that of GDP, especially as a significant portion of employment gains reflected increased labor supply from immigration, which allowed the labor market to come into better balance. Also consistent with the paper results, employment gains in the construction and durable goods manufacturing industries were more noticeably below their 2015-2019 trends than employment gains for the aggregate economy.
As the authors argue, another reason why real activity was more resilient in the face of higher interest rates during the recent tightening cycle is the healthy balance sheets of households and businesses at the start of the tightening cycle. Households had accumulated excess savings during the pandemic, reflecting both increased fiscal stimulus and reduced consumption due to social distancing and supply bottlenecks.<sup>6</sup> In fact, data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S. indicate that in the two years between the end of 2019 and the end of 2021, household bank deposits rose by nearly $4 trillion.<sup>7</sup>
In addition, many households and nonfinancial businesses were able to refinance their mortgages and corporate bonds at very low rates during the pandemic. Although higher interest rates likely held back additional consumption expenditures and investment spending, they had less of an effect on households' and nonfinancial businesses' net cash flows as the average interest rates on household mortgages and business debt remained low.<sup>8</sup>
With historically low borrowing costs during the pandemic era, mortgage originations and refinancing activity reached very high levels. As a result, the share of outstanding mortgages with an interest rate below 4 percent increased to nearly 70 percent by 2022 and it remains well above pre-pandemic levels today. Similarly, nonfinancial businesses issued record amounts of corporate bonds and extended the maturity of their debt to avoid new debt issuance earlier in the subsequent rate hiking cycle. Between 2020 and 2021, the fraction of triple-B corporate bonds maturing within three years fell to its lowest levels in nearly 20 years.
Fiscal policy also reentered expansionary territory in 2023, with above-trend stimulus partly driven by strong state and local government spending. Although the unwinding of COVID-19 fiscal support continued in 2023, the federal budget deficit turned back up and rose to near 6 percent of GDP, while the primary deficit inched up towards 4 percent of GDP. These deficit levels are unusual for an expansion, especially as fiscal policy seems to have contributed to the degree of tightness in the economy.
One way to describe the resiliency of real activity to higher interest rates during the recent tightening cycle is to say that some of the previously noted factors led to a rise in r-star. Higher population growth, from the influx of new immigrants, and higher productivity growth, arguably from the use of new technologies like artificial intelligence and the surge in new business formations, especially in high-tech industries, have likely boosted investment demand. In addition, the lack of significant fiscal consolidation has also increased demand for savings. An economy with stronger investment demand and very little household savings likely requires a higher equilibrium interest rate relative to pre-pandemic norms.
### Relevance of Results for Monetary Policy Going Forward
The U.S. economy has been experiencing major shocks and structural changes since the pandemic, which may have influenced or masked the transmission of monetary policy to real activity. It is, therefore, not straightforward to see how the impulse responses shown in this paper have translated in practice. And, as the paper acknowledges, a large portion of the fluctuations in real activity are driven by shocks other than those to monetary policy. Although the FOMC has been focused on lowering inflation in the past few years, as we continue to make progress on approaching our 2 percent target, I expect that the labor market and economic activity will become a larger factor in the FOMC's policy discussions. Accordingly, the stylized results on real activity effects in the paper will prove especially useful going forward.
### Conclusion
I will conclude by saying that I enjoyed the paper, and that I appreciate the opportunity to be here to share my views on this topic. I look forward to the discussion and to hearing feedback from other participants and the perspective of my FOMC colleague and fellow discussant.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (2022). "," press release, November 23, 2022.
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Castro, Andrew, Michele Cavallo, and Rebecca Zarutskie (2022). "," FEDS Notes. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 6.
Chung, Hess, Michael Kiley, and Jean-Philippe Laforte (2010). "," Federal Reserve Board Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-29. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May.
Eichenbaum, Martin, Sergio Rebelo, and Arlene Wong (2022). "," _American Economic Review_, vol. 112 (March), pp. 721‑61.
Fabiani, Andrea, Falasconi, Luigi, and Heineken, Janko (2024). "Monetary Policy and the Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt," unpublished paper, available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3945615.
Jungherr, Joachim, Matthias Meier, Timo Reinelt, and Immo Schott (2024). "," International Finance Discussion Papers 1402. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 6.
Wu, J. Cynthia and F. Dora Xia (2016). "Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound," _Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking_, vol. 48 (March-April), pp. 253-91, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12300.
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1. The views expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of my colleagues on the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Open Market Committee. I would like to thank Eugenio Pinto and Michele Cavallo for their assistance in preparing these remarks.
2. See Brayton et al. (2014) and Chung et al. (2010).
3. The estimated measure of the shadow federal funds rate is based on the work by Wu and Xia (2016).
4. See Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System FOMC Minutes (November 2022).
5. See Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System FOMC Minutes (March 2023).
6. See Aladangady et al. (2022).
7. See Castro et al. (2022).
8. The effectiveness of monetary policy can be substantially reduced both during a long period of low interest rates and for a long period after interest rates renormalize. See Eichenbaum et al. (2022) for the mortgage refinancing channel and Fabiani et al. (2024) and Jungherr et al. (2024) for the corporate debt maturity channel.
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1. Your AI strategy will put you ahead — or make it hard to ever catch up
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AI strategy is about value that starts right now — and this value is not just productivity or efficiency. Some AI systems can now reason independently and “understand” the impact of their decisions. That helps AI perform complex tasks such as designing new services or go-to-market strategies. It also helps AI catch its own mistakes. With AI increasingly powerful and reliable, it's time to embed it in your operational fabric. If you don’t, your competitors who do may establish lasting advantages.
2x more likely to realize value from GenAI than other companies — top-performing companies highlight the benefits of making AI intrinsic to your business.
An effective AI strategy, designed to deliver value at scale this year, takes a portfolio approach. One part of the portfolio develops a strong “ground game” to deliver many small wins. It’s a systematic approach that harvests additional value from a growing number of more engaging experiences, higher revenue-generating products and services and more productive workflows. This approach depends on scale, but it also requires carefully setting priorities in a phased approach, with each phase generating value that helps pay for the next. The second part of the portfolio picks some “roofshots,” projects that are attainable but require dedicated attention and resources such as all-new ways of working, interacting with customers or designing products. The third part of the portfolio focuses on a few high-reward and highly challenging “moonshots” such as new AI-driven business models. Since the roofshots and moonshots require serious resources — including AI specialists’ time — business owners or the C-suite should choose and lead them.
What won’t matter as much for AI strategy is your choice of large language model (LLM). There will be many good options. Everyone will be using them. A shrewd strategy will instead emphasize what can set you apart — how you leverage AI with your institutional knowledge and proprietary data, with the help of AI-powered cloud architectures.
> “AI adoption is progressing at a rapid clip, across PwC and in clients in every sector. 2025 will bring significant advancements in quality, accuracy, capability and automation that will continue to compound on each other, accelerating toward a period of exponential growth.”
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> Dan Priest, PwC US Chief AI Officer
#### Beyond 2025: Very few companies will establish dominance
Several decades ago, a few companies built platforms, e-commerce models and other internet-centered business models, all of which remain dominant to this day. We expect something similar with AI. Because AI offers such transformative potential for new operational and business models, those that pull ahead of the pack — whether AI native companies or established companies that reinvent themselves quickly — will likely stay there. The growing gap between AI leaders and laggards will extend to economies too. Businesses in the US, with its relatively flexible regulatory environment, may outperform those in the EU and China, which have more rigid regulations.
#### What to do now
- **Conduct a formal strategy assessment.** To set priorities for both AI at scale and your moonshots, identify what AI can and will do for your company and industry — where it will take out costs, create new value, raise customer expectations, threaten core businesses and support new business models. AI may, for example, squeeze margins in one line of business but help another boom with cost-effective, hyper-personalized offerings.
- **Take a less-is-more approach to data.** AI will “pay you back” for data modernization, if you do it right. You will need an enterprise-wide approach to data, but you don’t need to make it all perfect at once. Instead, as part of your core strategy, set priorities for which segments of your data architecture you should harvest value from first. Then focus on finding just the right data to modernize — no less but also no more. AI today can often fulfill its mission with a small but high-quality subset of data. It can then create synthetic data to close any gaps. The tax function, with its data-heavy, rules-based processes, is often a good place to start, but your business probably also offers many AI-driven data monetization opportunities.
- **Apply an operational, KPI lens.** Measure business-relevant metrics for AI such as new revenue, accelerated project delivery, productivity and experience. At the same time, take care that your metrics don’t encourage people to automate too much. Human oversight and leadership of AI will always be needed.
2. Your workforce could double — thanks to AI agents
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If you think AI will shrink your workforce, think again. You’re going to welcome a host of new members to the team this year: digital workers known as AI agents. They could easily double your knowledge workforce and those in roles like sales and field support, transforming your speed to market, customer interactions, product design and so on. An AI agent can autonomously perform many tasks, such as handling routine customer inquiries, producing “first drafts” of software code or turning human-provided design ideas into prototypes. Workflows will fundamentally change, but humans will still be instrumental since game-changing value comes from a human-led, tech-powered approach. People instruct and oversee AI agents as they automate simpler tasks. People iterate with agents on more complex challenges, such as innovation and design. And people “orchestrate” teams of agents, assigning tasks and then improving and stitching together the results.
41% of executives say that workforce issues, such as training, culture, or change in work are among the top-five challenges their organizations face in using GenAI.
Thinking about agentic workflow as a fundamental part of your workforce strategy may be a big leap for many companies. It will, for example, involve new management roles responsible for integrating digital workers into workforce strategies, then monitoring and governing them. But the sooner you begin thinking this way — and transforming your operating model to plan, train and manage a blended digital and human workforce — the better positioned you are to capitalize on AI. When you have both digital and human workers on the job, for instance, you can plan for greater agility and shift resources more quickly to meet changing demands.
> “AI agents are set to revolutionize the workforce, blending human creativity with machine efficiency to unlock unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation.”
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> Anthony Abbatiello, PwC Workforce Transformation Practice Leader
#### Beyond 2025: Centers for agents will replace Centers of Excellence
As companies become more skilled in orchestrating and governing AI agents, they may “offshore” by, for example, creating AI-agent based workforces in low-cost geographies. The intellectual property (IP) created in developing agents and where that IP sits geographically could offer tax benefits. Building “centers for agents,” as opposed to renting agents from vendors, might have an upfront cost but produce greater ROI within a few years.
#### What to do now
- **Shift mindsets.** People will have to adapt as the way they perform workflows will greatly change. They might interact with AI agents like they do with independent, creative teammates now. For this shift in mindset, leadership will need to model these new ways of working — and provide assurance that AI is meant to enhance people’s value, not displace them.
- **Give HR a new playbook.** As HR manages a workforce that has both humans and AI agents, it will need different skills of its own and new ways to source, develop and measure human talent. Once AI is doing almost all entry-level work, you will need ways (such as partnerships with universities) to prepare new recruits to enter higher-level roles directly.
- **Prepare to manage digital workers.** Since AI agents are partly autonomous, they require a human-led management model. You’ll need to balance costs and ROI as you deploy them, develop metrics for human-AI teams and conduct rigorous oversight to prevent agents from conducting unexpected, harmful or noncompliant activity. A holistic Responsible AI strategy can provide the framework for addressing this.
3. ROI for AI depends on Responsible AI
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Risk management and Responsible AI practices have been top of mind for executives, as we predicted last year when we said 2024 would be a moment of truth for trust in AI. Yet there has been limited meaningful action. That will change. In 2025, company leaders will no longer have the luxury of addressing AI governance inconsistently or in pockets of the business. As AI becomes intrinsic to operations and market offerings, companies will need systematic, transparent approaches to confirming sustained value from their AI investments. They’ll also need to manage the risks of large-scale deployment. Rigorous assessment and validation of AI risk management practices and controls will become nonnegotiable. Even if the specifics of AI assessment and validation are not mandated, stakeholders will demand it — just as they demand confidence in other decision-critical information (such as financial results) or in cybersecurity or privacy practices.
46% of executives say that differentiating their organization, their products and their services is one of their top-three objectives for investing in Responsible AI practices.
Business leaders, especially those driving AI transformations, will begin to champion this necessary oversight. They won’t wait for regulatory clarity. AI is moving too quickly and is too business-critical for that. When AI isn't trusted by stakeholders, if it's subject to a cyber breach or other risk issue, or if initiatives run behind schedule or over budget, your company will take a hit.
To implement AI oversight that unlocks value, you’ll need a second set of eyes. This could come from appropriately upskilled internal audit teams or a third-party specialist conducting an assessment based on leading industry practices and standards. Regardless of how it is achieved, an independent perspective on your AI governance and controls will be critical in 2025 and beyond.
> “Successful AI governance will increasingly be defined not just by risk mitigation but by achievement of strategic objectives and strong ROI.”
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> Jennifer Kosar, PwC AI Assurance Leader
#### Beyond 2025: AI regulatory approach will enable continued innovation
The November elections make it likely that federal regulations will continue to be supple, enabling continued rapid advances in AI technology and deployment. But companies will need to pay attention to state rules, which are advancing quickly and can create a hodgepodge of sometimes contradictory regulations, especially regarding privacy. Even so, the overall regulatory environment in the United States should remain among the world’s most favorable for AI innovation.
#### What to do now
- **Assess risk comprehensively.** If you haven’t already done so, an AI risk assessment is the starting point for . You’ll also need a standardized, AI-focused risk taxonomy to help make governance decisions consistent and repeatable. The AI risk taxonomy we use covers AI models, data, systems and infrastructure; users; legal and compliance; and process impact. One important area of focus is vendors and service providers — how they use AI in the products and services they provide and whether they can provide validation through reports like SOC-2.
- **Pick your oversight.** Determine how you’ll add a layer of independent, ongoing validation of AI system and outputs — whether from specially trained internal teams or experienced external providers. Start with the highest-risk areas, those with the broadest exposure or financial impact.
- **Focus on industry differences.** While AI governance and oversight are needed across the board, industry-specific issues will inform approaches. Financial services, for example, need to consider how to meet existing compliance requirements that were designed with older tech in mind. Aerospace and defense companies and others that work closely with the public sector will need to focus on regulatory developments globally. To see how your organization stacks up with industry peers on critical AI governance foundations, take this short for a benchmark report.
4. AI will be a value play — and a boon for sustainability
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AI will accelerate the energy transition. It will also help companies meet their sustainability goals — especially those in emissions-intensive sectors like manufacturing, construction and transportation — if they take the right approach. AI requires so much energy that there’s not enough electricity (or computational power) for every company to deploy AI at scale. More chips are coming, models are advancing, and the energy supply is expanding. But we won't hit an equilibrium of supply and demand in 2025. That will make it wise to treat AI as a value play, not a volume one. Use it in more and more areas, yes, but also be strategic about how and where you roll AI out. You can, for example, design AI interfaces to encourage users not to waste AI time and tokens.
63% of top-performing companies are increasing cloud budgets in order to leverage GenAI, while 34% say sustainability considerations are driving expected budget increases.
But these near-term challenges shouldn’t overshadow the big picture. AI will be a driver for sustainability. Globally, it will likely speed up the shift to renewables. In the United States, neither economics nor stakeholder pressure will permit a massive rollout of new fossil fuel plants. Instead, business will encourage more renewable supplies (including nuclear) and a more modern grid that uses energy more efficiently and brings it where it’s needed. Some pressure may come from your company. Even if AI vendors bear most of AI’s carbon footprint, you are the end user, so it should show up on your carbon balance sheet. To reduce the impact, you’ll want AI vendors to be green.
Inside your company, AI can potentially simplify compliance with a new wave of sustainability disclosure regulations in the United States, the European Union, and elsewhere. The November election means the SEC’s climate-related disclosure rules will likely remain on hold, which may create a void that is filled by states following California’s lead and developing their own rules and requirements.
AI can automate internal and external data collection needed to meet these regulations, analyze the data, and generate reports (which can be refined by the finance function). AI’s capacity for data collection and analysis will also help you optimize sustainability across your supply chain. Thanks to AI, even small suppliers will be able to provide granular sustainability data such as their monthly or annual energy consumption. AI can quantify new kinds of value like the benefits of commercializing low-carbon products. As these AI capabilities are embedded into corporate strategy and everyday enterprise applications, everyone, not just ESG specialists, will be able to access and use sustainability data to help make decisions.
> “It’s just not true that AI is anti-sustainability. If you use it right, AI makes not just carbon targets, but every sustainability goal more accessible.”
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> Sammy Lakshmanan, Sustainability Principal, PwC US
#### Beyond 2025: Costs will drop to near zero
Over time, new sources of computational power and new, renewable energy supplies will come online — dramatically lowering costs and enabling AI in every aspect of your company and industry.
#### What to do now
- **Be strategic.** Even if everyone in your company should have access to basic AI functionalities, carefully choose where to deploy more high-powered solutions. The C-suite will need to make this call, in line with your company’s strengths, source of data, and priorities.
- **Transform sustainability data.** AI can help you collect and analyze data once and then report it many times over to cut compliance costs and help you better measure — and reduce — your carbon footprint and broader sustainability impact. As part of this effort, account for AI’s direct and indirect impact (via AI vendors) on your carbon balance sheet. The more you measure this impact, the more pressure your vendors will feel to reduce their own. You can use this sustainability data to enhance marketing as well. Determine, for instance, which customers would pay more for products with a lower carbon footprint.
- **Reap new sustainability benefits.** AI-driven efficiencies can slash your energy needs, cutting costs as well as carbon impacts. When you slash R&D time in half (and do the same for other processes too), energy usage falls too. Or when you use AI to help make office buildings and energy management systems smarter and more efficient, sustainability wins too.
5. AI will cut product development lifecycles in half
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If your company makes tangible goods and your product development teams aren’t using AI for design, prototyping, and testing, now is the time to start. Multimodal AI — capable of processing and generating diverse data types, from CAD files to simulations — is now revolutionizing product design and broader R&D processes. For example, GenAI tools can propose improved configurations for a car chassis, simulate performance under different conditions, and even suggest designs that engineers might have overlooked.
AI can help you iterate designs in hours not weeks, test solutions virtually before building prototypes, and troubleshoot more problems before you move to production. Based on PwC’s work with clients and our analysis of technology and industry trends, we’re confident that adopting AI in R&D can reduce time-to-market 50% and lower costs 30% in industries like automotive and aerospace. In many pharmaceutical companies, AI has already helped reduce drug discovery timelines by over 50%.
67% of top-performing companies are already realizing value in using GenAI for products and services innovation.
Most companies are unprepared for this revolution in physical product design. AI is ready to deliver — but the skills gap is often a hurdle. Engineers with deep expertise in design and manufacturing often lack even foundational data science skills. Upskilling these teams and recruiting AI-savvy talent must begin now. Those who embrace AI’s potential in product development will enjoy faster speed to market, lower costs, and increased personalization — and that can add up to more satisfied end users.
We’re just starting to feel the impact of how the multimodal vision and generation capabilities of AI will change product design and more.
> “We’re just starting to feel the impact of how the multimodal vision and generation capabilities of AI will change product design and more.”
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> Scott Likens, PwC US and Global Chief AI Engineering Officer
#### Beyond 2025: A new age of innovation begins
As the design and engineering workforce is completely reskilled or replaced to work with AI, companies’ R&D capacity will multiply — leading to an age of increasingly rapid innovation in product design and development.
#### What to do now
- **Deploy next-gen engineering.** To leverage AI for things like product design, your company will need up-to-date cloud and data architectures, including ones that can push “edge AI” to your engineering teams.
- **Reinvent IT.** AI itself can help IT transform to better support your broader AI initiatives, including transforming , enhancing cybersecurity, accelerating data modernization, and so on.
- **Reorganize tech teams.** Even more than in other areas, the balance of skills your technologists need will change. Even teams that work purely with physical objects will need computer and data science skills.
6. AI will transform industry-level competitive landscapes
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AI will transform every industry, but some will move faster than others — and it may not be the “usual suspects” taking the lead. Here’s how we see several major sectors advancing with AI over the next year.
73% of executives say they’ll use GenAI to make changes to their company’s business model.
### Consumer markets
Consumer-facing companies will deploy AI across their operations and business. AI will enhance marketing, supply chain management, financial operations, and customer service. Many will revamp customer services with a mix of more engaging chatbots and AI agents that provide human staff with the exact information they need to assist customers. Other AI agents will (under close human supervision) help automate interactions with customers, using multiple touchpoints to impress and engage.
Further revenue boosts will come from more sophisticated AI-driven dynamic pricing, designed to adjust instantly to market shifts and competition. More consumer markets companies will use AI’s data analysis and automation capabilities to accelerate due diligence for deals and to navigate the regulatory landscape. Some leading companies will also start with AI-enhanced product design, but most companies in the sector still lack the skills and technology infrastructure to fully seize this R&D opportunity in the near term. These laggards will have to make up for lost time soon.
### Financial services
The impact of AI is broad, but we’ve seen measurable impact concentrated with AI native startups and large financial institutions. There’s been a resurgence in the fintech space with AI native businesses focused on solving old problems with new platforms and business models. Similarly, we’ve seen many of the largest financial institutions experimenting with several common use cases. This experimentation has not only helped them build confidence with new tech but also refine their risk and control models in ways that position them to benefit at an accelerated pace. While AI native startups and large financial institutions continue to progress their strategies, there is a risk that firms that continue to evaluate their entry strategy will begin to fall behind noticeably starting in 2025.
### Health industries
The use of AI in 2025 should be accelerated by a more flexible regulatory environment. The new administration is likely to shift oversight in this sector toward self-governance, creating more space for innovation. Pharmaceutical and medtech companies will be in the forefront of using AI to revolutionize their value chains, especially for drug and product development. Health payers and providers will deploy more AI applications to optimize revenue and volume and to help fill clinical labor shortages and assist doctors in making diagnoses, contributing to better clinical outcomes.
Top AI priorities in healthcare will include workforce transformation, personalization, tech upgrades, eliminating “process debt” (from pre-AI processes), and, above all, the responsible use of AI — as even with a more favorable regulatory framework, health industries organizations are responsible for sensitive data and for life-and-death outcomes.
### Industrial products
In 2025, a smaller group of industry leaders will begin to pull ahead of their peers. Those industrial products companies with higher quality data and more standard processes will use AI to improve efficiency and insights, accelerate R&D, and slash go-to-market time. Many other companies will still be focused on upgrading tech infrastructure, data governance, and AI skills, but the pace of experimentation will accelerate and create additional questions on operating models, organization structures, and talent requirements.
### Technology, media, telecommunications
In 2025, AI agents will start to reshape demand for software platforms, as companies use them to fill the gaps of existing systems, such as ERPs. With AI agents customizing and extending the life of software platforms, some companies may choose to invest less in premium upgrades. This shift may prompt a change in software business models from seeking large-scale infrastructure investments to offering tailored AI solutions. Telcos will likely advance with hybrid AI solutions that blend GenAI with other technologies like machine learning and digital twins — boosting their own AI capabilities and reducing their dependence on traditional partners.
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# Six Nations to Remain on Free-to-Air TV Until 2029 After New ITV and BBC Deal
## Six Nations
Six Nations will remain on free-to-air TV until 2029 after striking a new deal in which ITV will broadcast all England matches. Despite fears that the championship would disappear behind a paywall, ITV and the BBC have brokered an arrangement to keep the annual tournament on terrestrial TV for the next four years.
As part of the new arrangement, ITV will have the rights to all five of England men’s matches and will show 10 fixtures a year. Under the current deal which ends after this year’s championship, the BBC shows all Wales and Scotland home fixtures, meaning they will screen Saturday’s clash between Wales and England.
Sources have indicated that the deal is worth around £63m a year, a modest uplift on the previous arrangement, with ITV paying a slightly greater proportion than previously. It is understood that despite showing interest, TNT Sports did not bid.
The BBC will broadcast five matches a year and will continue to show Wales and Scotland home fixtures, provided England are not involved. Saturday’s match at the Principality Stadium will therefore be the last involving England to be shown on the BBC until 2030 at the earliest.
“I think the Six Nations should be viewed by as many people as possible,” said Itoje. “I grew up watching the Six Nations on the BBC and on ITV. The fact that it’s been on free-to-air, for so many people – I think rugby needs more eyes on it, not less. Obviously, I am not involved in the finances of the deals but I think, even though international rugby is massive, the sport should be looking at ways to be more accessible to more people, as opposed to the opposite.”
“It is believed that TNT Sports gave long consideration to bidding for the tournament, having won the rights to show the autumn internationals, but in January suggested it would not be following through on its interest. Sky showed no interest in bidding. A TNT Sports spokesperson said: “While we think the Six Nations is the best international rugby competition in the world, its important partnership with free-to-air television across the UK and Ireland, but particularly in markets like Wales and Ireland, would make our involvement very challenging.”
## Related
- **England are at a crossroads and Wales may dictate where Itoje’s side end up | Gerard Meagher**
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## Key Points
- The Six Nations will remain on free-to-air TV until 2029 after striking a new deal in which ITV will broadcast all England matches.
- Under the new arrangement, ITV will have the rights to all five of England men’s matches and will show 10 fixtures a year.
- The BBC will broadcast five matches a year and will continue to show Wales and Scotland home fixtures, provided England are not involved.
## Experts' Opinions
### Russell Urges Scotland to End on a High
- **Finn Russell** challenged Scotland to add some sheen to their Six Nations campaign in Paris as he lamented the fact they have only a “disruptor” role to play in today’s three-way title shootout.
- With just home wins over Italy and Wales to their name, co-captain Russell believes a rare away victory over title-chasing France would go a long way to enhancing how their campaign is viewed.
- Russell, who missed all three of his conversion attempts, including a last-minute kick, in a one-point defeat to England, said: “If we get a win then we’d probably look back at one of my kicks that could have had us winning the title. I think the England game is probably the one that got away.”
- “But if we can finish up with a win this weekend – the frustration for the England game would still be there, obviously – I think we could look back at this tournament as a decent enough tournament.”
- “There’s probably a few folk questioning how the Scotland team is going, but if I hit that kick or one of the kicks, then it’s probably viewed very differently. At this level, it’s all about the results. But at the end of the tournament you can fully assess how it’s been and how you’ve played.”
- **PA Media**
### Itoje's Comments
- “I think the Six Nations should be viewed by as many people as possible,” said Itoje. “I grew up watching the Six Nations on the BBC and on ITV. The fact that it’s been on free-to-air, for so many people – I think rugby needs more eyes on it, not less. Obviously, I am not involved in the finances of the deals but I think, even though international rugby is massive, the sport should be looking at ways to be more accessible to more people, as opposed to the opposite.”
- “It is believed that TNT Sports gave long consideration to bidding for the tournament, having won the rights to show the autumn internationals, but in January suggested it would not be following through on its interest. Sky showed no interest in bidding. A TNT Sports spokesperson said: “While we think the Six Nations is the best international rugby competition in the world, its important partnership with free-to-air television across the UK and Ireland, but particularly in markets like Wales and Ireland, would make our involvement very challenging.”
## Additional Comments
- “The significance of these new and innovative free-to-air partnerships for the Six Nations cannot be overstated,” said the competition’s chief executive, Tom Harrison. “By strengthening rugby’s relationships with ITV and BBC, the sport can continue to give as many fans as possible in the UK access to enjoy live coverage of the Six Nations.”
- Ultimately, the fact the tournament is staying on free-to-air TV will be a popular decision. The Rugby Football Union chief executive, Bill Sweeney, said he was “really pleased” that “maximum visibility of our sport” had been retained while earlier in the competition the England captain, Maro Itoje, issued an impassioned plea to organisers, urging them not to move behind a paywall.
- “I think the Six Nations should be viewed by as many people as possible,” said Itoje. “I grew up watching the Six Nations on the BBC and on ITV. The fact that it’s been on free-to-air, for so many people – I think rugby needs more eyes on it, not less. Obviously, I am not involved in the finances of the deals but I think, even though international rugby is massive, the sport should be looking at ways to be more accessible to more people, as opposed to the opposite.”
- “I think the Six Nations should be viewed by as many people as possible,” said Itoje. “I grew up watching the Six Nations on the BBC and on ITV. The fact that it’s been on free-to-air, for so many people – I think rugby needs more eyes on it, not less. Obviously, I am not involved in the finances of the deals but I think, even though international rugby is massive, the sport should be looking at ways to be more accessible to more people, as opposed to the opposite.”
- “I think the Six Nations should be viewed by as many people as possible,” said Itoje. “I grew up watching the Six Nations on the BBC and on ITV. The fact that it’s been on free-to-air, for so many people – I think rugby needs more eyes on it, not less. Obviously, I am not involved in the finances of the deals but I think, even though international rugby is massive, the sport should be looking at ways to be more accessible to more people, as opposed to the opposite.”
## Subscription Brokers
- An arrangement under which some of the tournament would remain on free-to-air and some of it go to a subscription broadcaster was considered a genuine possibility but ultimately the BBC and ITV have stumped up to continue their arrangement up to and including the 2029 tournament. As part of the new deal, the women’s Six Nations will remain on the BBC until 2029, as well as the under‑20s competition.
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# A failing response to bird flu is hurting farmers and consumers
The highly pathogenic avian influenza – commonly known as bird flu – is wreaking havoc on . This devastating virus, carried by birds worldwide, is currently spreading among U.S. poultry and dairy cattle, with several recent human cases reported among dairy and poultry workers.
Since the outbreak began in 2022, more than 162 million birds have been culled. In the past 30 days alone, in 24 states. The virus has been confirmed in poultry in all 50 states and, as of December 2024, dairy cattle infections have been reported in 16 states.
The situation is worsening. Herd, flock and human infections have risen, farmers are grappling with market uncertainty, and consumer prices continue to rise. The economic impact of this outbreak is staggering, threatening farmers’ livelihoods across the country.
In the last quarter alone, more than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the United States have died due to bird flu, causing the conventional egg-laying flock to shrink by nearly 4% in January. The federal government has spent more than $1.25 billion compensating farmers for their losses. Yet, despite these efforts, the crisis remains unchecked.
The economic impact of this outbreak is staggering, threatening farmers’ livelihoods across the country. (iStock)
## The Trump administration’s actions risk exacerbating the bird flu crisis
Rather than responding with urgency and competence, the federal government’s actions have been inadequate. In recent weeks, the has made sweeping cuts to the federal workforce, dismissing key personnel tasked with public health and disease control.
While improving government efficiency is an important goal, the indiscriminate mass firing of federal workers, specifically those focused on protecting the health and safety of Americans, is not the solution. In fact, it is reckless and dangerous.
Reports indicate that among DOGE’s first targets at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were Ph.D.-trained scientists who assist state and local officials in responding to disease outbreaks. Others dismissed from the CDC included fellows in the Laboratory Leadership Service, who develop tests for new and emerging diseases and often collaborate with the Epidemic Intelligence Service on outbreak responses.
At a time when public health efforts should be strengthened, the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts are undermining our ability to combat the bird flu crisis.
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Unfortunately, USDA ’ most recent comments have provided little reassurance, such as suggesting people should raise chickens in their own backyard. This is neither helpful, nor safe – it’s absurd. So far, none of her proposed plans adequately address the squeeze farmers and consumers are facing right now.
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The federal response to this crisis has fallen short at the expense of our agricultural producers and American consumers. Instead of taking decisive action on Day 1 to curb the spread of bird flu or mitigate its cascading impact on our food supply chain, this administration’s actions risk exacerbating the crisis.
As a member of Congress representing working-class families in rural America, I stand ready to work with the president, Secretary Rollins, and the rest of the to implement a comprehensive strategy to contain this virus, stabilize the farm economy, and lower food prices for working families across our country, and I hope the administration will be willing to rise to the challenge.
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# North Korea unveils its first nuclear-powered submarine
North Korea's fiery rhetoric against the U.S. and South Korea comes ahead of their upcoming annual military drills set to start Monday.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the U.S.
Mike O'Kennedy, also known as "Mike Okay" on YouTube, spoke to Fox News Digital about having the unique experience being one of the first Western tourists to visit North Korea in over five years.
## North Korea has an estimated 70-90 diesel-powered submarines in one of the world’s largest fleets.
However, they are mostly aging ones capable of launching only torpedoes and mines, not missiles.
North Korea obtaining a greater ability to fire missiles from underwater is a worrying development because it’s difficult for its rivals to detect such launches in advance.
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# A dating app for video games tackles one of the industry's big issues
**Tom Richardson**
BBC Newsbeat
## Introduction
"Too many video games, too little time," has never been more true.
Almost 19,000 titles went live on PC games store Steam in 2024 - about 360 a week.
There are positive ways to look at this.
Tools are more accessible and easier to use, barriers to entry are lower, self-publishing is easier, and ideas are never short in supply.
But for developers, "discoverability" – getting your new release noticed – has in a landscape dominated by blockbusters and online games such as Fortnite and Call of Duty.
It's also harder for potential customers to find them, with recommendations often dictated by search engine and store algorithms.
But Ludocene - described as a "dating app for video games" – hopes to change that.
Games journalist Andy Robertson, the man behind the project, says the goal is to help people find those "ones that got away".
"In any given year there's just so many games and some of those will rise to the top, they'll get lucky or they'll just be brilliant enough to punch through that noise," he tells BBC Newsbeat.
"But there's loads of really great games that just get sort of buried and lost in that shuffle."
## The Impact of Search Algorithms
One of the experts involved in Ludocene is veteran US games journalist Brian Crecente.
He set up gaming websites Kotaku and Polygon, led video games coverage at Rolling Stone and Variety, and now runs a consultancy business.
He says there's currently "a perfect storm for not knowing what to play" thanks to the reliance on search engine optimization (SEO) and automatic algorithms.
"There's just so much stuff," he says.
"Books, comics, movies, music, video games. It's very hard to discover what it is you might like and you might miss out on some hidden gems."
A lot has been written about layoffs and studio closures in the video games industry, but Brian points out that .
"So you have this rising tide of new games coming out and then a drop in the number of people covering video games," he says.
Brian thinks Ludocene has got people interested partly because it fills that space for people looking for more detailed, informed recommendations.
"Having an approach that helps you discover things that give you a better sense of whether you're going to like it allows you to invest your money, and for me, more importantly, your time in the things that you really enjoy," he says.
## The Dating App Mechanic
Ludocene itself looks a bit like a game – each title in its database is represented by a card with a trailer on one side and more information on the reverse.
The "dating app" element comes from users swiping to keep – or discard – the suggestions, slowly building up a collection of recommended titles.
Ludocene's entries are chosen by a selection of well-known gaming experts – journalists, streamers, and other figures.
Its makers say the hand-picked suggestions give you a better chance of finding quality titles outside the mainstream.
"And so what we're hoping is not just to get the popular games everybody's playing, but those kind of odd little games that would be a perfect match just for you," says Andy.
## The Expert Panel
One of the experts involved in Ludocene is veteran US games journalist Brian Crecente.
He set up gaming websites Kotaku and Polygon, led video games coverage at Rolling Stone and Variety, and now runs a consultancy business.
He says there's currently "a perfect storm for not knowing what to play" thanks to the reliance on search engine optimization (SEO) and automatic algorithms.
"There's just so much stuff," he says.
"Books, comics, movies, music, video games. It's very hard to discover what it is you might like and you might miss out on some hidden gems."
A lot has been written about layoffs and studio closures in the video games industry, but Brian points out that .
"So you have this rising tide of new games coming out and then a drop in the number of people covering video games," he says.
Brian thinks Ludocene has got people interested partly because it fills that space for people looking for more detailed, informed recommendations.
"Having an approach that helps you discover things that give you a better sense of whether you're going to like it allows you to invest your money, and for me, more importantly, your time in the things that you really enjoy," he says.
## The Launch and Success
Andy admits that keeping the database updated will be a challenge.
He's also the founder of , which adds about two games per day.
He expects Ludocene to update more quickly because it needs less data for each entry.
Having experts on board helps to identify "blind spots," he says, and hitting the crowdfunding goal means the project will have time to build its database before launch.
Backers can try the full app early and any money raised above the target will go towards building extra features.
Andy hopes the indie-focused project will ultimately help to shine a spotlight on the "passion projects" often made by small teams or individuals.
"The idea is it's kind of levelling the playing field," he says.
"Just having someone as a bit of a cheerleader to say diversity in games is really important."
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# ‘We’ve moved past aesthetics’: why middle-aged women are outnumbering the gym bunnies
## Fitness classes, once the preserve of the young and lithe, are big business – and smaller startups are booming as the motivations for working out change
### Fitness classes, once the preserve of the young and lithe, are big business – and smaller startups are booming as the motivations for working out change
A recent report found that women aged between 40 and 50 are doing more exercise than women half their age. According to a UK study by , one in four women approaching perimenopausal age are doing exercise almost every day. By contrast, a fifth of those aged between 20 and 29 do anywhere near that.
At The Method, a new fitness studio in west London, this rings true. “Some of the women who come here are completely out of shape ,” says its CEO, Katie Henderson. “Perhaps they just had a baby, or are trying out exercise for the first time, but they’re not always your typical gym bunnies – and a great deal of them are in their 50s and 60s.”
The exercise studio is small, hot and bathed in a pink light. Standing at the front, an instructor called Julius shouts the word “mobility” at a class of six women. It’s not the first time the 45-year-old former dancer has used this word to motivate. Mobility is a key tenet of yoga, barre and pilates – and Julius’s other job is teaching pilates to The Lion King cast to prevent injury.
But among the high-end gymwear and rose-coloured weights, the word is unexpected. classes are generally seen as being for the young and lithe – not the middle-aged and immobile. “It is about fitness, yes,” he says. “But it’s also about keeping up bone density, about building strength and about not getting hurt.”
Across all ages, fitness is big business in the UK. From budget gyms such as PureGym and The Gym Group to pricier, class-focused clubs Barry’s, SoulCycle and Frame, the entire industry is .
The Method is one of a new line of smaller specialised gyms – New York and LA are leading the way – attracting older women.
There is no one method at The Method; rather the barre, pilates and yoga-based classes lean towards dance and having a good time, Henderson says. “But they are also geared towards all ages.”
Pvolve, a pilates-inspired fitness regime, is more about strength and conditioning. In effect an at-home, low-impact resistance workout, it launched five years ago, but since recently placing Jennifer Aniston front and centre of its campaign, it has blown up in the US and is gradually making its way to the UK.
Using a numbered mat, a resistance band and exercise ball, it looks somewhere between Twister and a tax return. But it is marketed at the time-poor, and those who can’t quite bear the idea of going down the gym for “fear of judgment around physical ability or body image”. Capitalising on the success of the post-pandemic “workout-from-home”, classes are run online, the tantalising carrot being the menopausal-yet-honed body of Aniston, 56, who has claimed “this changed her life”.
Josh Davies, a personal trainer who trains the cast of Bridgerton, thinks the motivation for working out is changing. “Five years ago it was about looking lean, but we’ve moved past aesthetics and I’d go as far as to call it a complete switch in mindset,” he says.
Strength training is a “huge focus, particularly of premenopausal, middle-aged women. It’s not something people talked about until recently.”
Most of his clients are over 40. But, while reformer is punishing, and yoga borders on philosophical, he thinks strength conditioning is as much about injury prevention as anything else, “particularly when clients already exercise – or have either just returned to it after having a baby or haven’t done it in a while”. Studies have shown that while strength-training-focused classes can help slow muscle mass and strength deterioration, with a trainer.
Late last year, Jane Fonda launched a four-part series of workouts for ****, Meta Quest’s virtual reality (VR) fitness platform, which focuses on strength training. “When you’re younger, working out is a choice,” she told Women’s Health. “When you’re older, working out is an absolute necessity.”
Exercise among the middle-aged has undergone a loose rebranding in the past few years. The guidelines now recommend strengthening activities twice a week for adults up to the age of 64. Ranging from pushing a wheelbarrow to weights and pilates, solid advice about exercise has historically been difficult to separate from the pressure to diet or look slim, says Davies.
The generational shift is partly about time, but – like many classes – are “also because people can’t afford a personal trainer under the age of 40,” he says. Classes at the Method also cost about £35 each. But when you reach a certain age, he says, mobility is the new priority.
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PALOS PARK, Ill. -- Like a modern-day Geppetto, Steve Kost articulated a scrap metal marionette he created at his home in Palos Park. It's one of many creations the ironworker and combat veteran has welded together through his art brand, Metal Health Artwork.
This guy has full movement and expression, said Kost. "I'm going to make a crank mechanism so he can actually dance and move around a little bit."
His artwork has been exhibited at the Library Of Congress and the Illinois State Museum. In 2024, he was selected by Google to represent veteran artists, and an image of his sculpture, "Freedom Flight," was briefly featured on the main search page.
"I made this eagle, about 44 inches wide; I made it all from tools and old materials," said Kost. "A lot of people reached out to me afterwards and told me how proud and how much they appreciated me being a voice for veterans."
Kost's journey to becoming a scrap metal artist began when joined the Navy at 17 years old and became a hull technician, eventually joining a battalion with the Navy Seabees as a steelworker. In 1992, he was deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia.
Things kind of spiraled out of control there, said Kost. "I had some things happen to me that stuck with me."
When he got home, Kost said he tried to put traumatic experiences aside and move forward. He became an ironworker and after seeking mental health counseling through the Veterans Health Administration, began to tinker with spare metal parts to create animal sculptures.
"I really enjoy the challenge of finding the pieces as they are," said Kost, pointing to a rusted gate hasp latch made into an eye socket for a fish sculpture. "My artwork is sharing that there is still a sense of purpose and I think that relates to our military community."
Since delving into scrap metal art, Kost has become a voice for the challenges combat veterans face, advocating for them to use their time and energy constructively. He's also a musical artist; Kost plays drums for the rock band The Seventh Sons.
Artwork has actually saved my life, said Kost. "I'm meant to share my story and inspire other veterans to find the healing power of art."
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# Sam Kerr nears return to playing after being named in Chelsea squad
Star striker has been included in Chelsea’s squad for the Women’s Champions League knock-out rounds in an indication she is nearing a return from injury.
But what should have been a positive milestone in the 31-year-old’s recovery from a serious knee injury which has kept her off the pitch for 15 months was tempered by Chelsea coach Sonia Bompastor, who urged fans to lower expectations about Kerr’s long-awaited comeback.
Kerr is one of 25 players named in Chelsea’s squad for the elimination rounds of the Champions League, which get under way with a quarter-final next week against Mary Fowler’s Manchester City.
The Australia international has been sidelined since rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament during training in January 2024, in a kind of injury that typically requires around 12 months recovery.
Chelsea’s coach was careful with her response when asked whether the Australian’s continued absence was a concern.
“Everyone is different, everyone reacts differently from the beginning, the surgery and everything, so it’s really difficult to say and put a timeframe for every injury,” Bompastor said.
“For Sam, we have been in this timeframe and now we just need to focus on what we need to do with her every day to make sure she is the most close to coming back on the pitch.
“You always expect - and our job is to make sure in terms of performance - we are efficient, the way we work, but sometimes even if you have high expectations it doesn’t go the way you want, and you need to just have plan B, plan C for that.”
Kerr’s ongoing absence has also been felt by an Australian outfit that has slid to a 20-year low of No 16 in the world rankings during a difficult transition period being led by interim coach Tom Sermanni.
The play South Korea in two friendlies in early April, and the squad will be announced in late March, suggesting Kerr is unlikely to make her national team return until later in the year.
“Everyone is different, so maybe you can’t expect from one player after an ACL to say she could be back after 10 months, for some others you say 13, 14 months so it’s difficult to predict,” Bompastor said.
Chelsea also play Manchester City in this weekend’s League Cup final as they chase the first of a possible four trophies this season. The two teams meet each other four times in coming weeks.
The Australia international has been pictured training with her team-mates in recent weeks, and Chelsea needed to name the 25 players they wished to use for the next three rounds of the European competition, up until the final on 25 May.
Bompastor added that Kerr was “progressing well” but sought to address the high expectations around the return of the striker who finished .
“I just want her to feel like the main focus for her will be to work really hard, be the best version of herself,” Bompastor said.
“I just want her to focus step by step, but the main thing for me is making sure she works hard and she just comes back in the squad.”
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Gravity may seem like a drag, but spending long periods of time without its grounding force can wreak havoc on your body. On Friday, Nasa and SpaceX will launch the space agency’s Crew-10 mission to the to retrieve astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, after what was meant to be an eight-day stay turned into nine months.
While it is not the most time a human has spent as an extraterrestrial – Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub hold the record, with 374 days – most long space missions are a maximum of six months.
So what happens to a person’s body – and mind – back on earth?
## Gravity
The lack of gravity causes significant, and irreparable, bone density loss. It also causes muscles to waste in your arms, legs, trunk and elsewhere, including your heart, which, because it doesn’t have to pump blood against gravity, has to work much less hard.
Your blood volume shrinks, and the way your blood flows changes – it slows in some areas, which can lead to clots. Fluids also don’t come down, or drain, as easily.
In space, explained Alan Duffy, an astrophysicist at Swinburne University: “Fluids build up in their heads, to they feel like they have a constant cold.” Olfactory senses are also diminished, “which is probably a good thing, by the way, because it reeks up there,” he said, of an aircraft after two decades of visitors and no windows thrown open.
On the plus side, when they return, they will likely feel like they have finally kicked a nine-month cold. They’ll also struggle to walk, get dizzy easily, and have bad eyesight.
The build up of fluid also changes the shape of their eyeballs, and weakens their vision, he said. This is why often you see astronauts wearing spectacles on board, though they’ve started with perfect vision. This tends to mostly go back to normal, though they may need glasses for the rest of their lives, said Duffy.
“The brain becomes waterlogged,” said Meng Law, professor and director of radiology, neuroscience at Monash University. The Russian cosmonauts had a device, a bit like a wetsuit, that would suck the fluid and blood away from the brain, he said.
Today, X and Nasa are working on centrifuges that astronauts could sleep in, which would spin fluid out of their heads, said Law.
When they return, their reconditioning is similar to the intense physiotherapy that anyone who has come out of a coma will have been put through, said Duffy.
It is also very tiring, said Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australian National University, which can contribute to the psychological impacts of returning. So the team of doctors has to strike a balance between strengthening the astronauts and not tiring them out.
Their return “is itself a research project”, said Duffy. It can help inform how to treat patients on earth who suffer from conditions that involve long stays in hospital –living without gravity has many of the same impacts as being bedridden. Because most research so far is based on six-month stays, Wilmore and Williams will be especially interesting to their team of doctors and scientists.
One more really surprising challenge, Duffy said, was that because clothing floats off your skin, your skin gets “almost baby-like sensitivity”. Back on earth, some astronauts feel like their clothing is sandpaper.
## Radiation
Perhaps the most dangerous impact of extended stays in space is being exposed to radiation, which can increase the risk of cancers and rare cancers. Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field shield us from high levels of radiation, but in space, people don’t have that protection.
“Not only will astronauts be exposed to more radiation in space than on Earth,” according to , “but the radiation they are exposed to could pose increased risks.”
According to Nasa, astronauts are exposed to three sources of radiation. These include particles trapped in the earth’s magnetic field, solar energetic particles from the sun, and finally galactic cosmic rays. The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center describes these as: “the slowly varying, highly energetic background source of energetic particles that constantly bombard Earth” from outside our solar system, “likely formed by explosive events such as supernova”.
How to protect people against space radiation is one of the problems that scientists are trying to solve as we prepare to send people to Mars or the Moon for longer periods.
Because astronauts tend not to have an obligation to participate in studies once they retire, little is known about how this radiation might impact them later in life, said Tucker. So Williams and Wilmore, who are at the end of their careers, might also offer useful research in this area.
## ‘The overview effect’
“For anyone who’s been stranded in the wrong airport for a day or two, wanting to get home – imagine you’ve been able to see home that entire time,” Duffy said. Then consider that lasting for nine months. “These people are truly astonishing in terms of their resilience,” he said.
But on returning, anxiety – the result of having been in extreme conditions for so long – and depression are common, said Tucker.
The pair may also experience something called “the overview effect”. Seeing the curvature of the earth, and seeing it from above – as its own kind of space ship, said Duffy – has led some astronauts to report an incredible connection to humanity, an immediate sense of its fragility.
“Some people call it a feeling of inspiration. Some people call it feelings of inadequacy in terms of just how big the world is,” said Tucker.
And then they have to come back down to earth, both literally and figuratively. “They have to make breakfast and they have to drive to work,” said Tucker. “It is a huge transition from living in a very inspiring environment.”
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Once approved, the bill will go to the Senate where it needs at least eight Senate Democrats to get it to President Trump’s desk.
Vice President JD Vance told House Republicans that putting a government funding bill up for a vote Tuesday afternoon was critical to President keeping the lights on for his border security goals and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Two lawmakers present at the closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning said DOGE and the border were part of Vance's pitch to Republicans who were still undecided about the bill.
One lawmaker said Vance also signaled that future federal spending cuts could be on the table at a later date, a similar pitch House Freedom Caucus leaders have been making to fellow fiscal conservatives.
"Vance basically said this is what we need to keep DOGE and border operations going," the lawmaker said. "And we will have much more flexibility for DOGE cuts once we've had more time to identify and quantify them."
Speaker Mike Johnson welcomed Vice President JD Vance to House Republicans' conference meeting Tuesday.
The House and Senate must pass a federal funding bill and send it to Trump's desk by the end of Friday to avert a partial .
Trump has endorsed a House Republican-led measure, a rough extension of fiscal year (FY) 2024 funding levels called a continuing resolution (CR), that will keep government spending largely flat for FY 2025, until the beginning of FY 2026 on Oct. 1 – something House GOP leaders claim as a victory.
"Pass the bill," said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who declined to elaborate further on the meeting.
House Republicans are largely expected to shoulder the burden of passing the bill themselves, despite Democrats historically voting in droves to avoid government shutdowns.
However, have accused Republicans of trying to use the legislation to allow Elon Musk and Trump to continue upending the federal bureaucracy – a point that is not dissimilar to what conservatives support about the bill.
Vice President JD Vance also suggested Elon Musk's DOGE efforts could be upended by a shutdown.
(AP/Alex Brandon)
A senior source involved in negotiations on the CR told Fox News Digital they were optimistic about where it was going.
"There were people who would say ‘I don’t like CRs, but I trust the administration, so I think I can move forward on this one,'" the source said of the House Republicans' conference meeting.
Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., a fiscal hawk who is generally opposed to CRs, said as much in a brief back-and-forth with Fox News on Tuesday morning, after announcing he would "barely" support the bill.
"The ‘barely’ is Donald Trump," Burlison said. "He is the difference maker. I would never support this language, but I do trust Donald Trump."
President Donald Trump supports the bill.
(Evan Vucci/AP)
The vote is expected to take place late Tuesday afternoon.
Trump and his allies spent Monday calling potential holdouts and are expected to do so again on Tuesday.
At least one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is staunchly opposed to the bill.
In a sign of confidence, House GOP leaders announced they would send lawmakers back to their districts early, canceling a planned day of votes on Wednesday.
Fox News Digital reached out to Vance's office for comment but did not hear back.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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Police shared photos of the collectibles, and they're asking anyone with information about who the items may belong to to call Trooper Brandon Boyd at the Greensburg barracks at 724-832-3288.
Kimmick, meanwhile, has been charged with theft, retail theft, drug possession and firearms not to be carried without a license. He was arraigned and remanded to the Westmoreland County Prison after failing to post $25,000 bail.
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In 1898, Ethel Mary Vaughan Cowan became the first female doctor at children’s hospital, blazing a trail for many who came after her.
In 2024, she was honoured through the naming of Cowan Lane in Carlton, a short walk from the site of the hospital. Cowan’s legacy was just one of those recognised in 31 new place names that commemorated women in last year, with 23 place names commemorating men.
Women are represented in just one in 10 place names in Victoria and only 3% of public art. History professor Clare Wright says patriarchy is to blame.
Kerry Wilson, the project lead of Put Her Name on It, said this was exactly the result she and her team had been aiming for, as they work towards the target of 70% set out in the government’s 2023-2027 .
“In 2022 women made up 25% of commemorative naming, 2023 \ 35% and now in 2024 the incredible accumulative result of years of work ” Wilson said.
Over the next three years as Victoria’s cities, suburbs, towns and regions continue to grow there will be more than 6,000 new places to name in Victoria. With about 25% of these places set to commemorate a person, Victorians are being invited to by 30 June to be considered for a new place name.
“We know place names matter – they shape how we see our history and who we value,” Victoria’s minister for women, Natalie Hutchins, said.
Warrior Woman Lane in Carlton was named in honour of Indigenous poet Lisa Bellear in 2018.
Clare Wright, professor of history at La Trobe University, has devoted much of her work to addressing the under-representation of women in public life, and in 2019 to push for more statues honouring women.
Wright said that when A Monument of One’s Own started the group found just nine out of Melbourne’s 580 statues depicted historical female figures, with the disparity only now starting to be addressed by the state government.
“I could give you a one-word answer \ and that one-word answer is patriarchy,” Wright said.
“It’s a male dominated society, culture, politics, and that uses methods of instilling that power. One of those is to celebrate and commemorate the deeds of those who have been considered to be heroic or successful men”.
The City of Melbourne is also looking to address the gender imbalance in public monuments, , a suffragist and social activist who helped women gain the right to vote in Australia.
Suffragist and social activist Vida Goldstein.
“You just hope for the best”: rarely seen froglets – the length of a grain of rice – released into small patch of Victorian wilds. Photograph: National Library of Australia
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# Is this the face of teenage queen Lady Jane Grey?
English Heritage
The portrait was long-believed to be that of Lady Jane Grey, but after 300 years its attribution was rejected
Experts believe they have uncovered enough evidence to suggest a Tudor-era portrait could be the only known image of Lady Jane Grey painted in her lifetime.
She was "the nine days queen", whose brief reign was an unsuccessful bid by Protestants to prevent the accession of her Catholic cousin Mary I (1553 to 1558).
Executed aged just 17, if the image is of her, it was changed over the centuries to depict her as a "subdued, Protestant" martyr. The painting is on loan to Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, its previous home.
"While we can't confirm this is definitely Lady Jane Grey, our results certainly make a compelling argument," said Rachel Turnbull, of English Heritage.
English Heritage
New research shows significant changes were made to the original portrait, especially to the sleeves, and the scarf on the shoulders is probably a later addition
English Heritage worked alongside the Courtauld Institute of Art and dendrochronologist Ian Tyers to discover "evidence of a once perhaps more elaborate costume", the senior collections conservator said.
"It is possible that we are looking at the shadows of a once more royal portrait of Lady Jane Grey, toned down into subdued, Protestant martyrdom after her death," she added.
## Who was Lady Jane Grey?
English Heritage
At some point the portrait's eyes, mouth and ears were scratched out - a National Portrait Gallery image of Lady Jane bears the same marks, said English Heritage
* Born at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, in about 1537, she was Henry VIII's great-niece
* Her high-status family made sure she received as good an education as the king's daughters, learning Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French and Italian
* Protestant King Edward VI (1547-1553) hoped to make her queen after his death instead of his Roman Catholic sister Mary
* She was proclaimed queen on his death by her father-in-law the Duke of Northumberland, but her reign only lasted from 10 July to 19 July 1553
* She was executed at the Tower of London in the wake of a Protestant uprising against Mary in 1554
All known portraits of the teenager were painted after her death.
The most famous is probably The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, painted in 1822 by Paul Delaroche.
In it, she is helpless and blindfolded in front of the executioner's block.
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She was seen as a Protestant martyr in the centuries after her death, having refused to convert to Catholicism to save her life, according to Historic Royal Palaces
Historical novelist and historian Philippa Gregory, who saw the portrait at English Heritage's conservation studio, said: "Certainly, the features are similar to .
"This is such an interesting picture posing so many questions, and if this is Jane Grey, a valuable addition to the portraiture of this young heroine, as a woman of character – a powerful challenge to the traditional representation of her as a blindfolded victim."
## What is the newly revealed evidence?
English Heritage
A range of experts used the latest scientific techniques to uncover the painting's secrets
* Infra-red reflectography shows significant changes to the sitter's costume after the portrait was completed, including to her sleeves and coif - the linen cap worn over her hair
* Her eyes, mouth and ears were deliberately scratched out, probably an iconoclastic attack in which the image was destroyed for religious or political reasons
* Dendrochronological analysis (tree ring dating) of the painted panel suggests it was used between 1539 and 1571. It was made from Baltic oak boards
* The back of the panel displays a merchant or cargo mark identical to one used on a royal portrait of Edward VI
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"Regardless of her identity, the results of our research have been fascinating," said Rachel Turnbull (above with the portrait)
The painting was acquired by one of Wrest Park's former owners in 1701 as an image of Lady Jane Grey.
"It remained the defining image of the 'nine days queen' for more than 300 years, until its attribution was thrown into doubt and its identity rejected," said Peter Moore, the stately home's curator.
It is on loan from a private collection, alongside six other paintings with a connection to the house and its former owners.
"It is thrilling to have this painting back at Wrest and the new research provides tantalising evidence which brings us much closer to the assertion that this could be Lady Jane Grey," he added.
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is continuing to show improvement and remains stable as he approaches one month in the hospital following a bout with bronchitis turned pneumonia.
The 88-year-old had a "restful night," the Holy See Press Office announced Thursday morning, which also marks the 12-year anniversary of his election to lead the .
He is still receiving non-invasive mechanical ventilation treatments throughout the night and high-flow oxygen therapy during the day.
Candles with pictures of Pope Francis were laid under the statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome last month in support of the 88-year-old pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
On Wednesday, the pontiff spent time following spiritual exercises receiving the Eucharist, praying and completing physical therapy.
It was noted that he did rest in the afternoon.
The statement said a chest X-ray on Tuesday confirmed improvements observed by medical staff in previous days, but his situation remains "complex," thus resulting in more time in the hospital.
Candles with pictures of Pope Francis were laid under the statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome last month in support of the 88-year-old pontiff. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
The Pope's health has improved significantly this week as the Vatican announced on Monday that he is "out of danger from death."
He has been hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Hospital since Valentine's Day after a week-long fight against bronchitis gradually worsened, ultimately turning into double pneumonia.
Pope Francis was elected to his position 12 years ago on March 13, 2013. (AleVatican Pool/Getty Images)
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# Not so demure any more: The rise of 'free the nipple' fashion
## By Yasmin Rufo, Culture reporter
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Six months ago, made us obsessed with being very demure and very mindful - but now, modesty has taken a back seat among celebrities who have made see-through outfits all the rage on red carpets and catwalks.
At the Brit Awards last week, big winner Charli XCX went full brat as she wore a sheer black dress, prompting .
She used one of her acceptance speeches to address the controversy of her outfit. "I heard that ITV were complaining about my nipples," she said. "I feel like we're in the era of 'free the nipple' though, right?"
The nearly naked look has been a talking point at other award ceremonies - including last Sunday's Oscars and the Grammys in February, when Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori dropped her coat on the red carpet to reveal an almost entirely invisible dress.
The love for transparent textiles has continued at London and Paris fashion weeks, with many of the celebrities watching on also getting the memo.
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At Stella McCartney's Paris show, US actress and Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Jackson wore a translucent black off-the-shoulder maxi dress with only a nude-coloured thong underneath.
Rapper Ice Spice sported a black lace catsuit with a feathered coat at the show.
Naked dressing was a key trend in some designers' spring/summer collections, and the theme has continued in autumn/winter looks too.
: "For a period of time, sheerness was few and far between, but nowadays, 'naked dressing' is commonplace every season."
Dior's latest collection embraced see-through material and presented it in an ethereal way, with intricate detailing and gender-fluid silhouettes.
Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri described her collection as "demonstrating how clothing is a receptacle that affirms cultural, aesthetic and social codes".
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The trend divides opinion but is certainly part of a wider movement - last summer Charli XCX's definition of being a brat included wearing "a strappy white top with no bra".
Sheer dressing is a nod to the minimalist looks of the 1990s - think transparent blouses and Kate Moss wearing a thin slip dress - and with our love for nostalgia fashion, it's no wonder it is taking off again.
The trend also had a resurgence a decade ago. The "free the nipple" movement was everywhere in the early 2010s, with Rihanna stirring up headlines with her sheer crystal-embellished dress at the CFDA awards in 2014.
Charli XCX's Brits outfit was praised by some on social media. "Stop policing women's bodies," one person wrote, while another said she looked comfortable in her outfit so "why is society judging?"
But many found it too risque for prime-time TV. Ofcom received 825 complaints about the Brits ceremony, the majority relating to Charli's outfit and Sabrina Carpenter's eye-opening pre-watershed performance.
"Maybe think about putting this on at a time when kids ain't gonna be watching," one person wrote on social media.
## 'Challenging fashion norms'
Fashion stylist and CEO of clothing brand Mermaid Way, Julia Pukhalskaia, calls the choice to wear revealing dresses a "provocative statement", but says it's a "way to reclaim the right to govern one's body".
The controversy around it feeds into a wider dialogue about women's rights and double standards when it comes to dress codes, she adds.
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Abhi Madan, creative director of fashion brand Amarra, believes the trend "is about embracing freedom and boldness in fashion".
The idea of freeing the nipple "isn't just about exposure - it's a movement towards body positivity and challenging conventional fashion norms", he argues.
"Designers are now integrating sheer elements not just for shock value but to create a refined and elegant silhouette that empowers wearers."
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It seems many Hollywood stars this year were feeling empowered as chiffon, lace and tulle were in plentiful supply at the Oscars.
Shock value is surely a factor for some, though.
At Vanity Fair's Oscars afterparty, Julia Fox wore a mesh dress with only long wavy hair to cover some of her modesty.
There were other interpretations of the naked dress - Megan Thee Stallion wore a green dress with strategically placed foliage and nipple coverings, while Zoe Kravitz opted to cover up the front but expose the back as a beaded mesh panel revealed her buttocks in her Saint Laurent dress.
"This year, naked dressing seemed to particularly thrive at the event," .
However, not everyone is on board. The Times fashion director Anna Murphy wrote that because "it's only women who do this".
"It is not an equal opportunities endeavour. It is, rather, a manifestation of the kind of thing that keeps this world unequal. That women's bodies are for public consumption and men's, usually, aren't," she wrote.
Some men have been embracing the nearly naked trend, though. In 2022, Timothée Chalamet wore striking a backless red top at Venice Film Festival, and at the 2023 Grammys Harry Styles freed the nipple in a plunge harlequin jumpsuit.
It's the women who will continue to cause more of a stir on runways and red carpets - and society will still be split on whether it's redefining conventional notions of modesty in fashion, a product of misogyny, or simply seeking attention.
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# Jessie Diggins earns team sprint silver for seventh cross-country worlds medal
* Diggins and Julia Kern win team sprint silver at worlds
* Swedish team take gold while Switzerland earn bronze
## Quick Guide: FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2025
### Cross-country skiing schedule
_All times EST. All events live and on-demand on_ _._
#### Thu 27 Feb
- Men's Skate Sprint, 6.30am
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Diggins and Julia Kern won silver in the team sprint classic at the on Wednesday, securing the US their second-ever world medal in the event’s classic style.
The American duo finished 2.9sec behind Sweden’s Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist, while Switzerland took bronze. It was a step up from the bronze medal Diggins and Kern won two years ago in the freestyle version of the event.
Diggins led off for the US, setting up Kern to anchor the final lap. The two, longtime training partners and World Cup roommates, have raced together for a decade. Their medal was a historic achievement for the US, which has traditionally struggled in classic-style races.
“**We both love team events, because you’re not just fighting for yourself, but for each other and for our whole team,”** Kern said.
“**We both love team events, because you’re not just fighting for yourself, but for each other and for our whole team,”** Kern said.
Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo later powered his team to victory in the men’s race, winning his fourth gold of the championships. He and Erik Valnes controlled the race from start to finish, with Klaebo sealing the win by more than four seconds.
Finland edged out Sweden by one-hundredth of a second for silver in a tight battle for the remaining podium spots.
In the women’s race, Sweden held off the American charge, with Sundling setting up Dahlqvist for the final lap. Though she was reeled in by the chasers, Dahlqvist held on to win gold by 2.9sec.
For Diggins, the silver marked her seventh career world championship medal. It was also just the second US podium in a classic team sprint since the discipline was introduced.
With relays and long-distance races still to come, Norway has won all four men’s events so far, while Sweden continues to dominate the women’s competition. The US will look to build on their success in the final races of the championships.
*Image: Matthias Schräder/AP*
Over the past week Diggins placed 23rd in the individual sprint (freestyle) and 13th in the skiathlon (10km each of classic and freestyle). She cited difficulties with her ski setup after those races, then sat out Tuesday’s 10km classic.
“I had to keep believing, I knew my fitness was there, I knew my body was there, you just need everything to come together at a championship and I think it makes it even sweeter that it did come together on a team day,” Diggins said, according . “It was a big test of faith and belief.”
The US team now turn their focus to the remaining races of the world championships in Trondheim, with the men’s and women’s relays on Thursday and Friday, followed by the 50km freestyle mass starts over the weekend.
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# Mason Alexander, Pitt football freshman, dies in car accident
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## ACC College Football
### Pitt football freshman Mason Alexander, 18, dies in car accident in hometown
The football team is mourning the death of freshman cornerback, on Saturday.
According to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, Alexander, 18, was a passenger in a 2016 BMW traveling on Florida Road in his hometown of Fishers, Indiana. The driver of the car attempted to pass another vehicle but swerved to avoid a head-on collision after entering the northbound lane. This maneuver caused the BMW to veer off the road and crash into a tree, resulting in a fire. When first responders arrived at the scene, Alexander was pronounced dead at the scene around 9 p.m. ET.
Alexander graduated early from Hamilton Southeastern High School in Indiana and enrolled at Pitt in January.
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# Pope Francis remains in stable condition, a day after respiratory crisis
Pontiff, 88, spends long periods off noninvasive ventilation, showing improving lung function as he battles pneumonia
## Associated Press
Sat 1 Mar 2025 14.22 EST
Last modified on Sat 1 Mar 2025 15.25 EST
Pope Francis remains in stable condition a day after a respiratory crisis, and has spent long periods off the noninvasive ventilation he initially needed, in a sign that his lung function was improving as he battles double pneumonia.
Francis had no further episodes of bronchial spasms, the Vatican said in its late update on Saturday. He had no fever and no signs of new infection, was feeding himself and continued his respiratory physiotherapy, the Vatican said.
The 88-year-old pope had a good response in his blood gas levels even during the “long periods” he was off the ventilator mask and only using high-flow supplemental oxygen. But his prognosis remained guarded, meaning he was not out of danger.
“The Holy Father is always vigilant” and aware of what was going on around him, the statement said, adding that he received the Eucharist and spent time in prayer.
The comparatively positive update came after Francis suffered a setback on Friday in his two-week battle against pneumonia.
Francis had a coughing fit in which he also inhaled vomit. Doctors aspirated the vomit and placed Francis on noninvasive mechanical ventilation, a mask that pumps oxygen into his lungs. Doctors said episode resulted in a “sudden worsening of the respiratory picture”.
The pope remained conscious and alert at all times and cooperated with the manoeuvres to help him recover.
The fact that Francis on Saturday was able to use just high-flow oxygen for long periods, without any significant effect on the levels of oxygen in his blood, was a sign his respiratory function was improving.
The pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, has lung disease and was admitted to Gemelli after a bout of bronchitis worsened and turned into pneumonia in both lungs.
The Vatican is marking its “holy year” that is drawing pilgrims to Rome from all over. They are walking through the “holy door” at St Peter’s Basilica and also making pilgrimages to the hilltop Umbrian town of Assisi, to pray at the home of Francis’s namesake, Saint Francis.
“Every day we’re praying for the pope,” said the Rev Jacinto Bento, a priest visiting Assisi on Saturday with a group of 30 jubilee pilgrims from the Azores Islands. “We’re very sad for his situation.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/05/indian-rock-sensations-bloodywood-whats-more-metal-than-standing-up-for-people-you-love
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# Indian rock sensations Bloodywood: ‘What’s more metal than standing up for people you love?’
**Emma Wilkes**
The trio’s playful mix of heft and traditional instrumentation sent them viral. But they’re also confronting racism and rape culture, and struggling in a Bollywood-dominated music industry.
‘W**e’re serving a really nice dish called metal tikka masala,” jokes Bloodywood guitarist Jayant Bhadula. “It’s metal but with so many spices that it’ll overwhelm your senses. You will headbang and you will end up dancing with us.”
This is the tongue-in-cheek mission statement of one of metal’s most original bands. Formed in 2016, Bloodywood flavour the conventions of nu-metal with traditional Indian instruments, meaning their songs are as likely to feature crunching riffs as they are the flute or the dhol. The trio – bulked out to a six-piece on stage – became viral sensations covering pop songs and alternative hits on YouTube before writing original material. From there, their fortunes soared. Their first ever gig was at German metal festival Wacken Open Air in 2019. Four years later they drew a massive crowd to the UK’s Download festival, despite the tricky task of opening the main stage early on a Sunday. More recently, their song was used in a pivotal action sequence in Dev Patel’s action thriller Monkey Man.
But there’s a political element to even their most playful material. Guitarist Karan Katiyar says that on social media, and more than ever in the last couple of years, he sees “a lot of bullying, a lot of hate, and I see a lot of it unchecked. I also see a lot of it aimed at ethnicity, which is why it became more important for us to tell our story.” (Vocalist Raoul Kerr is absent from our call due to a struggling internet connection.)
**‘We want to try to represent everyone’ … Jayant Bhadula, Karan Katiyar and Raoul Kerr of Bloodywood.** Photograph: Shrey Gupta
Bhadula discovers heavy metal through his older cousin, who shows him the music of Viking metallers Amon Amarth and then burns him a CD full of modern classics from Slipknot to System of a Down (influence from both bleed into Bloodywood’s music). Katiyar stumbles across it while attending a battle of the bands competition: “Someone threw me into a mosh pit and I had the best time of my life.”
Bhadula says musical education in their native Delhi tends to be good – “there are a lot of places with guitar and drum classes” – and awareness of metal is widespread. “In school, when there were people playing music, it was always the people performing metal that would blow everyone’s mind,” says Katiyar. Yet this hasn’t translated into a broader Indian metal scene. “It’s strange to get our heads around the fact that there isn’t a bigger audience because we’re a very big country.”
For metal, says Bhadula, “the infrastructure isn’t just lacking in terms of shows, but also in terms of how the music is promoted. In India, working in music is basically working in Bollywood, and metal isn’t paying the bills.”
As such, Bloodywood are waving the Indian flag almost single-handedly in the world of metal. “We love representing our country and our culture in our music,” Katiyar says. “It’s no pressure at all, but one thing that does nag us sometimes is that we can’t represent our whole country. There are so many cultures and so many languages; I can’t even count the number of instruments we have. We want to try to represent everyone as much as humanly possible.”
While the band are playful with their culture, naming their 2019 documentary and selling , their popular single Gaddaar punches back against politicians using hateful rhetoric to divide, and they’ve often used music to stand up against rape culture (a show of solidarity unlike almost anything shown from men in metal). “It’s a global issue and something we feel very strongly about,” says Katiyar. “It’s kind of strange that not as many are speaking about it; I don’t think there’s many things that are more metal than standing up for the people you love.”
Their new album Nu Delhi is conspicuously less political than their 2022 debut Rakshak. Katiyar points out that Rakshak was released the same week Russia invaded Ukraine and, since then, the world has spiralled into constant, poisonous animosity. “People are very keen on choosing a side and fighting the other side,” Katiyar says, “and I think people need to talk to each other in a more civilised manner.”
So the band have chosen to counter the toxicity, stereotyping and bullying by celebrating stories of their homeland and history. “We’re trying to make the world an easier place to live in through music,” says Katiyar. “We want to bring the positive side of music to as many people as we can.”
Nu Delhi is released on 21 March via Fearless Records.
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# Chuck Todd claims it's a 'myth' that Joe Biden was an 'incredible family man' | Fox News
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### 'What he really was, was a craven political animal that was desperate,' Chuck Todd said of 46th president
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Former NBC "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd delivered a brutal opinion about former President Biden, calling him a "craven political animal" who was more concerned about his political career than his own family.
During an appearance Sunday on Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt's "The Warning" podcast, Todd delved into why the Democrats lost the 2024 election and what he perceives as the media's relationship with the second Trump administration.
After decrying older politicians remaining in the leadership of the Democratic Party, Todd returned to Biden's role in the November election loss.
"You know, Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place, right? Number one, he shouldn't have run for president ," Todd remarked.
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**BIDEN INSIDER EXPOSES HOW WHITE HOUSE ‘GASLIT’ THE PUBLIC ABOUT FORMER PRESIDENT'S DECLINE**
On Steve Schmidt's podcast this week, former NBC News political anchor Chuck Todd accused former President Biden of being a "craven" politician in contrast to his reputation of being a "family man" (Getty Images)
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**NBC'S CHUCK TODD ACCUSES GOP OF TRYING TO 'EXPLOIT' BIDEN OVER NOT ACKNOWLEDGING HIS 7TH GRANDCHILD**
Joe Biden, left, and his son Hunter Biden. (Getty Images)
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Todd left NBC News in January after nearly two decades at the network. He has been increasingly outspoken in his criticisms of the former president, saying in December that Biden probably shouldn't have run for office again because he was "emotionally incapable" of leading the country.
In December, Todd slammed Biden for pardoning his son Hunter before leaving office.
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**NBC'S CHUCK TODD SAYS PRESIDENT BIDEN ‘NEEDS THERAPY’ FOLLOWING SON HUNTER'S PARDON**
U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are pictured in front of the United States Department of Justice Headquarters. (Getty Images)
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"So now we’re in a situation where every party is going to come in, and as they leave, everybody gets their security blanket pardon. 'OK, how long do you want it? You want a 10-year window?'"
He said Biden created this myth, over his 40-year career, that he was an "incredible family man."
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Who is Rep. Al Green? What to know about his past with Trump
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Rep. Al Green generated reactions from across the political spectrum after being during President ’s on Tuesday night.
Green, 77, protested Trump's speech by standing up from his seat in the chamber, saying, "You don't have a mandate." He was ordered to leave the room and later told reporters he was "also working on my articles of impeachment."
The moment was widely circulated online Tuesday night as supporters and critics weighed in on Green's decision to protest during the address.
Here's what to know about Green after he was removed from Trump's congressional address.
### Who is Al Green?
Green, a Texas Democrat, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005.
The New Orleans native has spent two decades representing the state’s ninth congressional district, which includes the southwestern part of the greater Houston area.
Green was re-elected in November after running unopposed. He is also involved in the .
Rep. Al Green
### Green has a reputation for disruption
This week was far from Green’s first protest – or his first time going up against Trump.
The Texas Democrat brought articles of impeachment against the president multiple times during Trump's first term and threatened to do it again in his second.
His work as a civil rights advocate began years before the 45th president's Inauguration. In 2012 he was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C., alongside actor George Clooney and fellow activist Martin Luther King III, to protest the humanitarian crisis in the country at the time.
Rodney Ellis, a Houston Commissioner in Houston and longtime friend of Green, said the congressman has long been an "unwavering" champion for civil rights causes, including combatting police brutality.
"Always very much an activist," Ellis said of Green. "Last night was a continuation of that."
### Green went to law school, held several positions throughout his decades-long career
Green didn't earn an undergraduate diploma but attended several HBCUs (historically Black colleges or universities), including Howard University, Florida A&M University, and Tuskegee Institute, also known as Tuskegee University.
In 1973, he acquired his Juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law and then co-founded a law firm.
During his career, the congressman was the president of the Houston branch of NAACP, holding that position for a decade, the Houston Chronicle reported. He helped boost membership for the chapter and solidified the civil rights non-profit's headquarters in the city.
Green also served as a Justice of the Peace in Harris County, Texas, until 2004. That same year, he was elected into the U.S. House of Representatives.
He is a member of .
### How many times did Green try to impeach Trump?
Green was to push for Trump's impeachment back in 2017.
"It's a position of conscience for me," Green said at the time. "This is about what I believe. And this is where I stand. I will not be moved. The president must be impeached."
Additionally, he voted in favor of Trump's impeachment in 2019 and 2021.
Contributing: Riley Beggin, Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY
Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at tardrey@gannett.com.
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Guardian Essential poll: RBA rate cut too little too late for many as Albanese’s rating dips again
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As the official start of the election campaign nears, almost one in two Australians don’t know who they will vote for or might change their mind
More than half of Australians believe last month’s cash rate cut was too little too late and a sign the Labor government’s economic plan is not working, but voters think is better placed than Peter Dutton to deliver cost-of-living relief and higher wages and safeguard Medicare.
Voters have again marked down Albanese, with his net approval rating dipping to minus eight in the latest Guardian . But Australians believe his party would be better – or at least no worse – than the Coalition on some key issues.
The Essential poll of 1,150 people conducted last week revealed almost one in two people don’t know who they will vote for or might change their mind.
The poll also found the major parties split on the two-party-preferred voting metric, with the Coalition leading 48-47, and another 5% saying “don’t know”. delivered a 48-48 result and a 4% “don’t know”.
The federal election is due to be held by 17 May, and speculation is growing that Albanese could declare the start of the five-week official campaign period this Sunday or Monday.
The Essential poll found 52% of people said they knew who they would vote for and wouldn’t change their mind. But another 35% said they might change their vote, and 13% said they hadn’t yet decided – for a total of 48% of voters who were either open to changing their vote or didn’t yet know how they would mark their ballot paper.
Essential Media is among several research firms working with the Labor party’s election campaign, alongside Pyxis Polling and Insights, which is behind the Newspoll. Essential is one of the companies running focus groups for the ALP.
There had been speculation Albanese could call the election last week, off the back of the Reserve Bank of Australia cutting the official cash rate for the first time since 2020, as the government .
However, only 44% of people agreed with the statement that the interest rate cut was welcome relief and showed the government’s economic management was working, while 56% agreed with the statement that the cut was too little too late and showed the government’s economic approach was not working.
But on separate questions about which party – Labor or the Coalition – voters trusted on key issues, the government was favoured on central economic questions, though even more voters believed there were no differences between the major parties.
Labor was trusted more to support higher wages by 38% of voters, with the Coalition at 18%, and 44% saying “no difference”; 33% favoured Labor to address cost-of-living pressures, compared with 27% for the Coalition and 39% responding no difference. On who was best to manage the economy, the Coalition was slightly ahead of Labor, 30-29%, with 41% saying no difference.
After a week dominated by the government’s $8.5bn – quickly matched by the Coalition – Labor’s biggest lead among voter perceptions was on funding Medicare. On this issue, 40% of voters backed the government, 20% backed the Coalition and 40% responded no difference.
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# Democratic senators call for inquiry into Musk agency’s firings of federal workers
## US politics
Senator of Massachusetts and 10 Senators have called on the government accountability office (GAO) to investigate the effects of the recent firing of federal probationary employees on the health and safety of the American public.
The letter noted at least 25,000 probationary employees at the federal government appear to have been indiscriminately fired under the claims of poor performance, regardless of their performance. The firings put people in the US “at risk”, Warren warned.
The letter was also signed by the fellow Democratic Senators Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), Cory Booker (New Jersey), Tammy Duckworth (Illinois), Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Edward J Markey (Massachusetts), Jeff Merkley (Oregon), Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) and Ron Wyden (Oregon).
Warren and the other US Senators cite firings at the Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Agriculture, as a few examples, noting the has scrambled to rehire some terminated workers that include employees focused on nuclear security, bird flu outbreaks, veterans’ health and health services in tribal communities.
“Rather than make government more efficient, these firings appear to have created massive inefficiencies and put the American people at risk,” Warren wrote. “Congress and the public need to better understand the full impact of these terminations on our health and safety, given that the administration and Musk clearly do not.”
The letter also notes as the Trump administration continues efforts to roll out more firings and implement plans for large-scale reductions in force, private companies associated with and other Trump officials will be used to fill the void.
“Already, private companies – including some owned by or connected to and other Trump officials – have begun entering agencies following mass terminations. Unlike the federal government, those companies are not responsible for prioritizing Americans’ health and safety interests, and we are concerned that they will not do so,” Warren added.
The letter demands an investigation answer questions into how many probationary workers have been fired, their roles and responsibilities, how successful rehiring attempts have been, what percentage of fired employees’ roles have been refilled by new or existing employees, to what extent their functions are still being performed by their respective agencies, and the impact if those functions have not continued.
Warren is also seeking an investigation to determine what cost analysis was performed to conduct the firings, their accuracy, whether the terminations resulted in increased spending, including on contractors and whether refilled roles were being performed by private contractors.
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Tennis great Serena Williams has joined the WNBA expansion team Toronto Tempo’s ownership group, the franchise announced Monday in a news release.
"I am thrilled to announce my ownership role in the first Canadian WNBA team, the Toronto Tempo," Williams said in a statement. "This moment is not just about basketball; it is about showcasing the true value and potential of female athletes – I have always said that women’s sports are an incredible investment opportunity. I am excited to partner with Larry (Tanenbaum) and all of Canada in creating this new WNBA franchise and legacy."
The team is owned by Kilmer Sports Ventures, and Tanenbaum is the chairman of the group. He is also the chairman of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which owns the and among other pro sports franchises. Tanenbaum also wields influence as the chairman of the NBA’s board of governors.
The team said Williams’ ownership investment is pending league approval. The WNBA , and the league is .
"Serena is a champion," Tempo president Teresa Resch said. "She’s the greatest athlete of all time, and her impact on this team and this country is going to be incredible. She’s set the bar for women in sport, business and the world – and her commitment to using that success to create opportunities for other women is inspiring. We’re thrilled to be marking the lead-up to International Women’s Day with this announcement."
The Tempo, which will begin play in 2026, said Williams’ ownership investment is pending league approval. The WNBA awarded Toronto an expansion team in May, and the league is looking to add a 16th team.
"Serena is a champion," Tempo president Teresa Resch said. "She’s the greatest athlete of all time, and her impact on this team and this country is going to be incredible. She’s set the bar for women in sport, business and the world – and her commitment to using that success to create opportunities for other women is inspiring. We’re thrilled to be marking the lead-up to International Women’s Day with this announcement."
The Tempo, which will begin play in 2026, said Williams’ ownership investment is pending league approval. The WNBA awarded Toronto an expansion team in May, and the league is looking to add a 16th team.
"We want to build an ownership group that is a reflection of the values of the women’s sports community," said Williams. "We are excited to work with the leadership of Kilmer Sports Ventures, the Canadian Women's Sports Council, and the Province of Ontario to ensure that we create a great business, great community, and great culture."
The team said Williams’ ownership investment is pending league approval. The WNBA awarded Toronto an expansion team in May, and the league is looking to add a 16th team.
"We want to build an ownership group that is a reflection of the values of the women’s sports community," said Williams. "We are excited to work with the leadership of Kilmer Sports Ventures, the Canadian Women's Sports Council, and the Province of Ontario to ensure that we create a great business, great community, and great culture."
The team said Williams’ ownership investment is pending league approval. The WNBA awarded Toronto an expansion team in May, and the league is looking to add a 16th team.
"We want to build an ownership group that is a reflection of the values of the women’s sports community," said Williams. "We are excited to work with the leadership of Kilmer Sports Ventures, the Canadian Women's Sports Council, and the Province of Ontario to ensure that we create a great business, great community, and great culture."
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# TV tonight: fangtastic fun with the return of a hit vampire comedy
The bloodthirsty roomies are back in What We Do in the Shadows. Plus, the genius Am I Being Unreasonable? finale. Here’s what to watch this evening
## What We Do in the Shadows
**10pm, BBC Two**
Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak are back with a fifth series of their bitingly funny vampire mockumentary. Human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) is acting oddly, and the vampires think it’s because they missed his birthday (a “terrible day” for humans). But the reality is that Guillermo has done something his masters won’t be very happy about at all. _Hollie Richardson_
## Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
**7pm, BBC Two**
The Young Ones veterans Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle motor through Northumberland in a vintage car to see who has the best eye for an heirloom. Valuation experts Natasha Raskin Sharp and James Braxton are on hand to steer them towards the bargains. _Graeme Virtue_
## Amandaland
**9pm, BBC One**
As the season finale of the hit Motherland spin-off arrives, is Amanda (Lucy Punch) about to change her insufferably snobbish ways? Not quite. But she needs to decide between a life with awful Johannes in his massive Wapping penthouse, or staying put with Anne and the rest of the SoHa gang. _HR_
## A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
**9pm, ITV1**
It’s 1955 and Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton) stands accused of the murder of her racing driver boyfriend David Blakely (Laurie Davidson). There are also issues of class and gender at play during her Old Bailey trial, while her solicitor John Bickford (Toby Jones) believes Ruth is keeping secrets about an abusive relationship. _Ellen E Jones_
## Am I Being Unreasonable?
**9.30pm, BBC One**
To include one solo karaoke rendition of I Know Him So Well by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson in your twisted village-based murder-comedy-drama is bold; but in its finale, the show does that for the second time this season, which is some kind of unhinged genius. Plus, a secret is revealed. _Jack Seale_
## Get Millie Black
**10pm, Channel 4**
Scotland Yard detective Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie) may be able to handle an extra-spicy jerk chicken, but does that really make him “one of the good guys”? Detective Millie Black (Tamara Lawrance) isn’t so sure, but the two team up anyway to search for missing schoolgirl Janet, in the latest instalment of the ticking-clock Jamaican crime drama. _EEJ_
## Film choice
**Moana 2** **(David Durr Jr, 2024),** **Disney+**
This is the second instalment of what we must now call a “franchise” (a live-action version of the 2016 original is out next year), so savour the rarity value while you can. It’s colourful, musical business as usual, with Auliʻi Cravalho’s ebullient Polynesian navigator setting off into the blue to seek a drowned island – cursed by bad-tempered storm deity Nalo – whose revival will reconnect all the scattered ocean peoples. Dwayne Johnson as demigod Maui vies for the comic foil position with Moana’s pet pig and hapless rooster, and it’s good to see the coconut pirates back in fighty form. Gods and monsters abound, with Nalo clearly being positioned as the Thanos of the series. _Simon Wardell_
## Live sport
**Champions League football: Aston Villa v Club Brugge, 7pm, TNT Sports 1**
Arsenal v PSV Eindhoven is on TNT Sports 2 at 7pm.
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# No 2 most wanted: Florida police face wait as man swallows diamond earrings
Tiffany jewelry worth $770,000 allegedly gulped during arrest ‘will need to be collected … after they are passed’
A suspected thief gulped down two pairs of diamond earrings during his arrest on the side of a Panhandle highway last week, detectives say, leaving them with the unenviable task of waiting to “collect” the Tiffany & Co jewelry worth nearly $770,000.
An X-ray of the suspect’s torso showed what the Orlando police department believed to be the diamond earrings – a white mass shining brightly against the grey backdrop of his digestive tract.
These foreign objects are suspected to be the Tiffany & Co earrings taken in the robbery but will need to be collected … after they are passed,” the department’s arrest report said. Handwriting on an order of commitment document filed on Monday said “outside medical”, suggesting he was at a medical facility.
The 32-year-old man from Texas is accused of forcibly stealing the earrings from an upscale Orlando shopping center last Wednesday.
An Orlando police spokesperson, Kaylee Bishop, said on Wednesday she was checking with the lead detective on whether the earrings had been recovered yet. The earrings’ status also was not known to a deputy who answered the phone but would not give his name in the rural Panhandle county where the suspect was arrested near Chipley, Florida.
During the theft, the man allegedly told Tiffany sales associates he was interested in purchasing diamond earrings and a diamond ring on behalf of an Orlando Magic basketball player. Sales associates escorted the man to a VIP room where he could view the jewelry. A short time later, he jumped out of his chair, grabbed the jewelry and tried to force his way out of the door.
One of the sales associates was injured trying to block him but managed to knock the diamond ring, valued at $587,000, out of his hands.
Detectives obtained the license plate of the suspect’s car through shopping mall security footage and believe he was driving back to Texas. State troopers tracked the car from tag readers on the Florida Turnpike and Interstate 10 until he was pulled over for driving without rear lights in Washington county, almost 340 miles (550km) away, the Orlando police report said.
As he was being taken into custody, he swallowed several items troopers believed were the earrings.
The suspect was charged with first-degree felony grand theft and robbery with a mask, a third-degree felony. Court records showed no attorney for him, and he was listed as being in police custody in Orange county, Florida, which is home to Orlando, as of Wednesday morning.
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USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows
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Officials at the (USAid) have begun a large-scale destruction of classified documents at their headquarters in the Ronald Reagan building in including with shredders and using “burn bags”, according to an internal email seen by the Guardian.
The email, sent by the acting secretary, Erica Y Carr, instructs staff on procedures for clearing “classified safes and personnel documents” through shredding and the use of “burn bags” marked “SECRET” throughout the day on Tuesday.
The timing of this document purge comes amid ongoing controversy over what is essentially the shuttering of USAid following the ’s attempts to reshape the independent agency through the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).
Doge is headed by , the world’s richest man, and he has been tasked with slashing the number of jobs at the federal government and the amount of money it spends. Amid the huge turmoil that has gripped the US government as the Musk-led Doge carries out its activities, USAid has been among the worst-hit government agencies.
The huge cuts at USAid have affected projects across the globe as vast numbers of projects are paused, shuttered or have their funding slashed. There has been widespread outcry at the move from USAid workers but also across the international development sector as they warn of the detrimental impact it will have on some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
When federal agencies are dissolved or restructured, their records are typically transferred to successor agencies or the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) in accordance with (FRA). During the US’s hasty exit out of Afghanistan in 2021, Nara to safely and lawfully discard sensitive documents.
But compliance with the FRA in this situation is deeply in question, since the law explicitly prohibits the destruction of government records before their designated retention period – typically a minimum of three years. There’s also lingering concern that it risks permanently eliminating evidence needed for ongoing Freedom of Information Act (Foia) requests and future oversight investigations.
USAid’s office of the inspector general that it had initiated an investigation on agency oversight of Musk’s Starlink terminals being sent to and used by the government of Ukraine.
Democratic members of the Senate foreign relations committee to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, in February demanding answers about Doge’s access to USAid headquarters and agency records, though they did not specifically address potential document destruction.
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# Mikey Madison's Oscar win over Demi Moore compared to 'The Substance'
Did life imitate art at the 2025 Academy Awards?
Fans of Demi Moore's performance in "The Substance" have suggested as much. In a tight race, Moore lost the best actress Oscar to "Anora" star Mikey Madison, and social media was quick to compare the outcome to "The Substance" itself.
In the body horror film, Moore stars as an aging film actress and television host, Elisabeth Sparkle, who is fired after turning 50 because the network wants to replace her with a younger star. She begins taking an experimental drug that creates a younger version of herself, Sue, played by Margaret Qualley. Elisabeth soon grows jealous of her alter ego while Sue is rapidly embraced by the public.
Fans couldn't help but see the irony after Moore lost the best actress Oscar to a younger star, Mikey Madison, and social media was quick to compare the outcome to "The Substance" itself.
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# Man charged after pro-Palestine protester climbed Elizabeth Tower
Daniel Day, 29, has been charged with causing a public nuisance and trespassing on a protected site.
## Summary
A 29-year-old man has been charged after climbing on to the clock tower of Big Ben, the Metropolitan police has said.
Day is accused of scaling the Elizabeth Tower barefoot at about 7.20am on Saturday, and coming down just after midnight.
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# Western Australia election: Labor secures third-term victory as Liberals fail to claw back former strongholds
Roger Cook has declared he’s ready to get back to work after Western Australian Labor secured a third term with another massive victory.
Labor was on track to win 41 seats, the Liberals five and the Nationals four late on Saturday night, according to ABC News.
It follows an unprecedented triumph in 2021 when Labor won 53 of 59 seats in the WA lower house, putting it in a nearly unbeatable position for Saturday’s poll.
Cook was jubilant as he declared victory, telling supporters the party had been rewarded for delivering a sensible and stable government.
“We relentlessly pursued the creation of jobs and the delivery of infrastructure and services that people need and at times of global uncertainty,” the premier said after arriving at a hall in his electorate of Kwinana to a rock star welcome.
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The Liberals won 13 and the Nationals five in that poll.
The WA Liberal leader, Libby Mettam, said the rebuild of the party would continue.
“Is this the result I hoped for? Of course not,” she said in her concession speech.
“Is this what we have been working for? Absolutely not, and what we will take from tonight is lessons on how we can do better.”
The poor Liberal showing leaves Mettam’s leadership in doubt after high-profile Perth media personality and the city’s former lord mayor, Basil Zempilas, who is viewed as a future leader by many, edged closer to securing the seat of Churchlands.
“I would accept any position but, look, ultimately it will be up to my colleagues,” Mettam said ahead of conceding.
## More on this story
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- **As Labor vows to introduce the ‘toughest bail laws ever’, is Victoria truly in a ‘crime crisis’?**
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# The full list of Oscar winners
**The Academy Awards have taken place in Los Angeles, with Anora scooping the most honours, while Conclave, The Brutalist, Wicked and Emilia Pérez also took prizes.**
Here is the full list of winners.
## Best picture
- **WINNER: Anora**
- The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- I'm Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- The Substance
- Wicked
## Best actress
- **WINNER: Mikey Madison - Anora**
- Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
- Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez
- Demi Moore - The Substance
- Fernanda Torres - I'm Still Here
## Best actor
- **WINNER: Adrien Brody - The Brutalist**
- Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
- Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
- Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
- Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice
## Best supporting actress
- **WINNER: Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez**
- Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown
- Ariana Grande - Wicked
- Felicity Jones - The Brutalist
- Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
## Best supporting actor
- **WINNER: Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain**
- Yura Borisov - Anora
- Edward Norton - A Complete Unknown
- Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
- Jeremy Strong - The Apprentice
## Best director
- **WINNER: Sean Baker - Anora**
- Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez
- Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
- Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
- James Mangold - A Complete Unknown
## Best international feature
- **WINNER: I'm Still Here - Brazil**
- The Girl with the Needle - Denmark
- Emilia Pérez - France
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Germany
- Flow - Latvia
## Best animated feature
- **WINNER: Flow**
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
## Best original screenplay
- **WINNER: Anora - Sean Baker**
- The Brutalist - Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
- A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg
- September 5 - Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
- The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
## Best adapted screenplay
- **WINNER: Conclave - Peter Straughan**
- A Complete Unknown - Jay Cocks and James Mangold
- Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
- Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
- Sing Sing - Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
## Best original song
- **WINNER: El Mal - Emilia Pérez**
- Never Too Late - Elton John: Never Too Late
- Mi Camino - Emilia Pérez
- Like A Bird - Sing Sing
- The Journey - The Six Triple Eight
## Best original score
- **WINNER: The Brutalist**
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
## Best documentary feature
- **WINNER: No Other Land**
- Black Box Diaries
- Porcelain War
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- Sugarcane
## Best costume design
- **WINNER: Wicked**
- Nosferatu
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Gladiator II
## Best make-up and hairstyling
- **WINNER: The Substance**
- A Different Man
- Emilia Pérez
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
## Best production design
- **WINNER: Wicked**
- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Conclave
## Best sound
- **WINNER: Dune: Part Two**
- A Complete Unknown
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
## Best film editing
- **WINNER: Anora**
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
## Best cinematography
- **WINNER: The Brutalist**
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Maria
- Nosferatu
## Best visual effects
- **WINNER: Dune: Part Two**
- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked
## Best live action short
- **WINNER: I'm Not a Robot**
- Anuja
- The Last Ranger
- A Lien
- The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
## Best animated short
- **WINNER: In the Shadow of the Cypress**
- Beautiful Men
- Magic Candies
- Wander to Wonder
- Yuck!
## Best documentary short
- **WINNER: The Only Girl in the Orchestra**
- Death by Numbers
- I Am Ready, Warden
- Incident
- Instruments of a Beating Heart
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Sesame Street non-profit to be hit with layoffs after staff announce union
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CEO to ‘significantly downsize’ Sesame Workshop after more than 200 employees revealed plans to unionize
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind , is cutting staff in an effort to “downsize significantly”, its president and CEO, Sherrie Rollins Westin, told employees this week.
The news of layoffs at the organization came just shortly after more than 200 employees at Sesame Workshop revealed and comes several months after Warner Bros Discovery for new episodes of Sesame Street, the long-running, beloved children’s program.
In an on Wednesday, Rollins Westin told employees that Sesame Workshop was not “immune to the current economic challenges inherent to the drastically changing media landscape” and that the end of their distribution deal combined with policy changes affecting their federal funding meant they were “confronted with a perfect storm”.
“These factors, among others, have left us with a significant budget gap that we must solve as we head into the next fiscal year,” she added.
Rollins Westin said that the company’s largest single expense was people and benefits, and that the company therefore must “downsize significantly and make what we hope will be temporary changes to our benefits and bonus program”.
She described the changes as “necessary to ensure that the Workshop is poised to continue to deliver on its mission for years to come”, but “that does not make the human impact of these reductions any less painful”.
On Tuesday, at Sesame Workshop, including early childhood education experts, fundraisers, facilities staff, producers, paralegals and more, declared their desire to form a union with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
In a statement that day, the group said that they sought to unionize to ensure that employees could participate in decisions that affect them, including those related to job security and fair pay.
“Sesame Street has taught generations the importance of kindness, fairness, and standing up for what’s right,” Phoebe Gilpin, the senior director of formal learning at Sesame Workshop said in a statement when the group announced their desire to unionize on Tuesday.
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“As the dedicated staff behind this beloved show and so much more, we believe Sesame Workshop should embody those same values by ensuring all workers have a voice in the decisions that affect us. By coming together, we believe we can build a stronger, more supportive workplace that embodies the crucial lessons we teach the world’s children every day.”
The cast and crew of Sesame Street as well as writers were already unionized and have long been union members.
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# Starmer says Putin cannot be allowed to ‘play games’ over Ukraine ceasefire
UK PM to host virtual meeting of ‘coalition of the willing’ nations who have agreed to help enforce peace
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Keir Starmer has warned that cannot be allowed to “play games” with the possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine, as he prepared to present proposals for a peace deal to a coalition of about 25 world leaders.
The UK prime minister will host a meeting on Saturday of the “coalition of the willing”, a group of nations that have agreed to help keep the peace in Ukraine. He will seek to pile pressure on the Russian president to “finally come to the table” and “stop the barbaric attacks on Ukraine” after Kyiv to an immediate 30-day ceasefire.
A man stands on a damaged street in the frontline city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, 13 March 2025. Photograph: Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised Brigade Press Service/EPA
Putin also responded to an appeal by Trump to save the lives of “thousands” of surrounded Ukrainian soldiers, and said he would heed it as long as the soldiers surrendered. However, no evidence has emerged to back up Putin and Trump’s claims that there is a large-scale encirclement of Ukrainian troops, a claim explicitly denied by military officials in Kyiv.
The exchange of warm words between Trump and Putin is likely to cause further alarm in Kyiv and European capitals, already spooked by signs of the new US administration cosying up to Moscow while exerting pressure on Ukraine.
The remarks came after Steve Witkoff, Trump’s close ally and special envoy to the Middle East, held late-night talks with Putin on Thursday to discuss the US proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire in war on Ukraine.
Kyiv has already accepted the proposal, while Putin on Thursday set out a series of sweeping conditions that would need to be met before would agree to the truce, which includes the condition that Ukraine should neither rearm nor mobilise during the 30-day truce.
On Friday night, in speech at the Department of Justice, Trump said the US had had “good calls” with Ukraine and Russia during the day. “I think we’ve had some very good results,” he said. “Just before I came here I got some pretty good news.”
He did not provide any details, but he later told reporters that he felt that “Russia is going to make a deal with us”.
A destroyed building and damaged vehicle at a settlement recaptured by Russian forces in the Kursk region of Russia. Photograph: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP
Downing Street refused to set out precisely what goals the prime minister hoped to get from Saturday morning’s meeting, saying it was “a fast-moving situation” with a large number of countries involved.
Abandoned Ukrainian ammunition lies in the Kursk region after it was retaken by Russian troops, according to the Russian military. Photograph: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP
In a series of X posts on Friday night, Zelenskyy said Putin would “drag” everyone into “endless discussions … wasting days, weeks, and months on meaningless talks while his guns continue to kill people”.
“Putin cannot exit this war because that would leave him with nothing,” he said. “That is why he is now doing everything he can to sabotage diplomacy by setting extremely difficult and unacceptable conditions right from the start even before a ceasefire.”
Earlier on Friday, Trump said he had appealed to Putin to save the lives of “thousands of Ukrainian troops” supposedly surrounded by the Russian army. Putin first made the claim earlier in the week when he said Ukrainian troops had been surrounded during a retreat from Russia’s Kursk region, and had the choice to “surrender or die”.
Trump repeated Putin’s claim, writing that thousands of troops had been “completely surrounded” during the retreat. “I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God bless them all!!!” he wrote.
Putin told his security council that he had heard Trump’s appeal, and said the lives of Ukrainian troops would be spared if they surrendered. The Ukrainian military and independent analysts, however, denied there was an encirclement of troops.
“Reports of the alleged ‘encirclement’ of Ukrainian units by the enemy in the Kursk region are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners,” the general staff wrote in a statement published on its media channels. “There is no threat of encirclement of our units.”
Ukrainian security sources, independent military analysts and even pro-Russian Telegram channels disputed the encirclement claims by Putin and Trump.
Despite apparent optimism from the White House, US intelligence services have reportedly assessed that Putin remains committed to achieving “his maximalist goal of dominating Ukraine”.
The Washington Post on Friday the contents of an intelligence report circulated among Trump administration policymakers on 6 March, which stated that Putin remained determined to maintain control over Kyiv.
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# Kristi Noem explains how Mexican military is 'partnering with' cartels
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# Ismaïla Sarr strikes to sink Ipswich and maintain Crystal Palace’s momentum
Kieran McKenna said losing out on a much-needed point at was a “sickening” result. Ismaïla Sarr struck the winner eight minutes from time after both sides struggled to convert a number of chances.
It was another blow for the relegation-threatened visitors, with time to turn things around dwindling for McKenna.
“It was a really competitive game and we certainly played our part in that,” he said. “It was at least even in terms of the opportunities we had, Crystal Palace had their opportunity as well. We certainly feel like we were a good value for a goal and we were really, really close on a couple of occasions to getting the first goal. It’s a sickening result, to come away from home and be as competitive as we were against a strong Crystal Palace side.”
Thomas Tuchel paid another visit to the Eagles’ south London home, but it was a far less entertaining encounter than their 4-1 victory over Aston Villa on the England coach’s last trip.
There was an early chance for Eddie Nketiah, who found himself through on goal and tried to outsmart Alex Palmer, who was alert to it and denied the former Arsenal striker a quickfire opener.
Dean Henderson was called into action for the first time after an Ipswich counterattack, denying Jaden Philogene from near the penalty spot, while Liam Delap skied an effort.
But what had started entertainingly fell a bit flat by the break, neither side looking especially close to breaking the deadlock.
The contest remained stop-start but on the hour Jack Clarke had a chance only to fire straight at Henderson after Eberechi Eze lost possession.
Palace’s main threat was coming from Eze, who could not find the finishing touch on a few chances for the Eagles, while Sarr nodded just wide of the far post.
Daniel Muñoz missed a huge chance to fire Palace into the lead with less than 15 minutes remaining after Leif Davis allowed the Palace defender to pounce. He had just Palmer to beat, but the Ipswich keeper timed his block perfectly.
After a few more minutes, Palace’s main threat was coming from Eze again, but the visitors were unable to find the note.
It was some patient work from the Senegal international that finally paid off when he cleverly worked his way into position before dinking over Palmer. Sarr marked his goal with a corner-flag kick – copying the signature celebration of Mateta, who is recovering from the ear laceration that required 25 stitches sustained during their last Saturday.
The Palace manager, Oliver Glasner, said: “It was tough game and we expected a tough game because Ipswich are doing well.
“What I’m really pleased with is that we stayed patient, waited for the next situation. We missed the first, we missed the second, we missed the third, we missed the fourth, but waited for the one and then we scored an amazing goal with Ismaïla. His celebration just shows the spirit in the group, the togetherness, the great characters we have.”
Palace now travel to a warm-weather training camp in Marbella and a friendly with Norwegian side Hamarkameratene before returning to England, where they next face Fulham in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup on 29 March.
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# Hochul should scrap New York’s gas car ban
## Opinion
### Electric vehicle sales requirements are about to get much tougher
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Published March 13, 2025 6:00am EDT
Updated March 13, 2025 5:00am EDT
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Gov. Kathy Hochul declined to say on Monday whether Andrew Cuomo was fit to serve as mayor of New York City following the announcement of his bid for the office.
New York has a 10-year plan to _ban_ the sale of new gas-powered vehicles and _require_ automakers to sell only by 2035.
(It’s not even really a New York plan, but a program originally hatched in California.)
The gas vehicle ban has been on the books since 2022 and begins in earnest this year.
Starting in model year 2026 – _right now_ for automakers – New York, California, Oregon, Washington State, Massachusetts and Vermont require 35 percent of new vehicles sold in the state to be .
Colorado, New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Mexico and Maryland join the program in model year 2027.
The EV sales requirements get much tougher in the coming years.
In model year 2027: 43 percent of new vehicles sold must be electric; 59 percent in 2029; 82 percent in 2032 – all the way until 2035 when the sale of new gas vehicles will be _prohibited_ (yes, prohibited) in New York and 100 percent of new vehicles _must_ be electric.
Most of these states aren’t ready for those EV sales requirements. _Especially_ New York.
About 10 percent of new vehicles sold in New York today are electric. That means the law requires a 3.5-fold increase in EV sales. Next year.
News flash: there aren’t enough customers or to get there.
How did we get here?
A quirk in the federal Clean Air Act gives states two ways to regulate vehicle emissions.
They can follow emissions rules set by the Environmental Protection Agency or sign up for the California plan called Advanced Clean Cars II. New York and 30 percent of the country chose to follow California.
But first California needed special permission from Washington which it got from the Biden EPA in January.
What are automakers operating in New York supposed to do now?
First option: , but like I said – there aren’t enough customers (let alone charging) for that.
Second option: automakers can restrict the number of gas vehicles it sends to New York’s car dealers.
That would shrink the overall number of vehicles for sale and artificially inflate the percentage of EVs sold in New York.
That’s a terrible solution – if you call selling fewer vehicles in New York a solution. Restricting the supply of vehicles for sale will increase the cost of a new vehicle. Remember vehicle inventory during the pandemic?
It will also kill economic activity (and tax revenue) by sending New Yorkers to neighboring states like Pennsylvania and Connecticut that didn’t sign up for the California gas vehicle ban.
Say you’re not ready to make the switch to an EV. You go to your local car dealer – only to learn that certain vehicles are either no longer available for sale or in short supply.
How’s that going to sit with New York drivers?
The says there’s plenty of "flexibilities" to help automakers. They mean buying expensive compliance credits from EV only companies like Tesla. There’s also a fine (up to $18,000 per vehicle) if automakers miss the sales requirements.
More terrible solutions.
Albany also says the Trump administration has created "uncertainties" and "burdens" that make meeting New York’s EV sales requirements harder. That’s not true. New York signed on to the California program in 2022 and the national slowdown in EV sales started well before President Trump’s election.
The good news: President Trump, EPA administrator Zeldin and Congress have signaled they’re prepared to cancel the permission slip that lets New York follow California’s lead.
They know it would take a miracle to achieve and that no matter how you slice it, a gas vehicle ban will depress economic activity, increase vehicle prices and decimate customer choice.
New York doesn’t have to wait for Washington though. Governor Hochul can (and should) immediately pull New York from California’s EV sales requirement.
John Bozzella is president and CEO of Alliance for Automotive Innovation.
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# First Thing: Mark Carney to be next Canada PM
## First Thing newsletter
## First Thing: Mark Carney to be next Canada PM
Former central banker has positioned himself as uniquely able to handle Canada’s trade war with the US. Plus, why Michael Sheen paid off more than $1m of his neighbors’ debts
### A good morning.
Mark Carney, a former central banker, will after overwhelmingly winning the Liberal party’s leadership race.
Carney, who has held positions as governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, will step into the job as Canada faces the risk of falling into recession after Donald Trump imposed a 25% tax on its goods. Carney argued his experience of managing financial crises in North America and the UK and his offered him a unique advantage to steer the country at this time.
Pointing to the existential nature of Canada’s situation, Carney told supporters: “America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form.” He added that while Canada “didn’t ask for this fight … Americans, they should make no mistake, in trade as in hockey, Canada will win”.
He said he would retain Canada’s tariffs against US imports “until the Americans show us respect”.
- **Where has Carney come from?** He’ll be only the second Canadian prime minister not to have had a seat in the House of Commons. But Carney has deep ties to the party, including as an economic adviser to the outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
## Trump refuses to rule out US recession amid trade tariffs
Donald Trump has will enter a recession this year and that inflation will rise as his tariff policy triggers stock market uncertainty.
Asked in an interview with the Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures whether he expected a recession in 2025, Trump responded: “I hate to predict things like that.” He then claimed that the measures would bring “wealth back to America” and “should be great” for the US, once the country has experienced a “period of transition”.
- **What did Trump say about inflation?** He also conceded that his trade war could fuel inflation, saying: “You may get it. In the meantime, guess what? Interest rates are down.”
## Hamas says it has ‘softened’ its demands as it condemns Israel’s severance of electricity to Gaza
Hamas says it has , a spokesperson for the group is quoted as saying in Israeli media, as to Qatar on Monday to continue truce talks. “We agree to the Egyptian proposal to establish a committee responsible for managing the Gaza Strip and its reconstruction,” a spokesperson told Haaretz.
The statement by Hamas said it had done so “at the request of the mediators and Trump’s envoy” and added that it was “Israel’s duty” to move on to the second stage of the ceasefire deal, which includes its military withdrawal from Gaza.
Hamas also condemned Israel’s and threaten to resume fighting as “a threat to the hostages”, who it said “will only be released through negotiations”.
- **What is the effect of severing power to Gaza?** Humanitarian groups said it could further reduce dwindling supplies of clean water, as desalination plants would be forced to shut down. The sewage treatment plant could also be affected.
- **What has Israel said about it?** it would use “all means available … to ensure the return of all Israeli hostages” and that Hamas would not remain in Gaza after the war.
## In other news …
- **Entire families have reportedly been killed in north-west Syria** between security forces and Assad regime loyalists, with clashes on Thursday and Sunday.
- **Mass prison escapes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have triggered panic among civilians,** as during the conflict in which Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized two key cities.
- **A Finnish museum about the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin has rebranded itself** in .
## Stat of the day: drone attacks have killed almost 1,000 civilians across Africa in three years
Nearly 1,000 civilians in military drone attacks across Africa in the past three years, according to a report that says the use of the weapons on the continent is escalating unchecked. At least 50 deadly strikes have been confirmed in the three years to November 2024. So far, the use of armed drones has been confirmed in at least six conflicts in Africa: Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Mali, and Ethiopia, where most attacks were seen. Drone strikes by the against adversaries such as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front were found to have killed more than 490 civilians in 26 separate attacks.
## Don’t miss this: why Michael Sheen paid off more than $1m of his neighbors’ debts
The actor Michael Sheen has spent £100,000 (about $130,000) to buy up debt worth £1m ($1.2m) owed by 900 people in south Wales. Sheen, who grew up in the region in a family that was “barely getting by”, , a system that many of the poorest people are forced to rely on.
## Climate check: Trump’s USAid cuts will devastate global climate finance
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1. Moyes has Everton looking up
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Premier League safety is all that matters to David Moyes and an eight-game unbeaten run – Everton’s best sequence since going nine matches without defeat under Ronald Koeman in 2016-17 – has almost accomplished a task that looked much more onerous when he returned in January. Publicly, the Everton manager maintains the job is not done and that no contract issues will be resolved until the club’s top-flight status is mathematically confirmed. Privately, and beneath the more relaxed demeanour that he has brought back with him to Goodison Park, there may also be a fierce ambition to finish above two clubs who deemed him surplus to requirements. Everton can go three points clear of one, West Ham, and leapfrog another, Manchester United, with victory over Graham Potter’s visitors on Saturday. With Liverpool, Arsenal, , Manchester City and Chelsea to come after an impending two-week break, Moyes could do with a more clinical display from Everton to step closer to his aims. **Andy Hunter**
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Every so often, a video circulates on social media showing Clogger Athletic, of Agricultural League Division 6, keeping possession for 17 hours before scoring a team goal of ludicrous intricacy. Which is to say that there has been, for a while, a sense that Pep Guardiola’s style of play is the pro forma that works best. Football, though, has not become humanity’s most popular creation on account of its homogeneity, rather quite the reverse, and Nottingham Forest are leading the rebellion against the orthodoxy, last weekend’s an important symbolic moment. Rather than seek to press and dominate the ball, they defend properly and in numbers, then attack swiftly and in numbers, a style that is simple to explain but much harder to execute. Now, though, everyone is wise to the ruse, so the question is whether Nuno Espírito Santo can develop his system because clever coaches – Kieran McKenna, say – will be working hard to exploit its holes. **Daniel Harris**
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Brighton arrive at the Etihad Stadium posing a threat to Manchester City’s Champions League qualification ambitions. Fabian Hürzeler’s men have reeled off four consecutive wins from their past four Premier League games, while Pep Guardiola’s team have two victories and two defeats from theirs. Form, then, casts Brighton, in seventh place on 46 points, as favourites to beat the champions, who are fifth with 47. City’s manager is sure to use competing again next term in the club tournament he adores as changing room motivation to rouse his players before sending them out. But, so is Hürzeler, meaning a fascinating afternoon in east Manchester awaits. **Jamie Jackson**
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It is a generally believed that the relegation battle is already resolved: the three promoted clubs will be returning whence they came. However, Wolves lead Ipswich by only six points with the teams due to meet at Portman Road in the next round of fixtures. So, if the gap remains similar, a win for McKenna’s men would leave things very much in the balance. And there is one very big reason to think that first part might happen: Matheus Cunha, whose 13 goals and four assists mean he has been directly involved in 44% of his team’s league goals and who has scored at least once in each of their six league victories, is suspended until that trip to Suffolk. As such, Wolves must show – this weekend, but also next, at home to West Ham – a hitherto unseen ability to do anything decent without their talisman. If they cannot, they may yet find themselves playing Championship football next term. **DH**
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It has been an amazing season for Bournemouth, whose high-energy, risk-taking style makes them one of the country’s most entertaining teams. But after three defeats and a draw in their past five games – the win came over Southampton, while a two-goal lead was – they sit ninth in the table, a European spot still possible if they restore the ruthlessness that enabled them to beat Manchester United, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest , and respectively. Brentford, though, are – at least in terms of directness and physicality – the side in the league most similar to them, and will not turn up at the Vitality to wait and see. They will test the ability of Bournemouth’s back four to run towards their own goal by playing passes in behind; to defend their box by sending in crosses and to play out by getting men around the ball. This contest promises to be a physical test of will and skill that could develop into the most entertaining of the weekend. **DH**
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Myles Lewis-Skelly’s breakthrough this season at left-back has created a surplus of options for Mikel Arteta in a position that the Arsenal manager has never quite found a natural fit, with Oleksandr Zinchenko and Kieran Tierney asked to play further forward in Wednesday’s . The 18-year-old switched to central midfield when Riccardo Calafiori – who has yet to establish himself as a regular after his arrival last summer and also looks more comfortable in an advanced role – came on in the second half and Arteta hinted afterwards that Lewis-Skelly’s future could be in the engine room rather than at full-back. “He can play in both positions. And in relation to the player that he plays as a full-back as well, he can interact and change positions,” he said. “He played as a six. He was developed in the academy as a six as well. While he’s doing this season, it’s something new for him. So, yes, I think he’s much more suited to play in midfield.” **Ed Aarons**
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Joshua Zirkzee has a lovely touch and keen eye but lacks pace; Rasmus Højlund is rapid but struggles to hold the ball up and arrive in the right place at the right time. Or, put another way, if the two were combined into one, they might just make a centre-forward, but currently neither is close and, with Chido Obi developing and a first-choice option certain to arrive in the summer, both are playing for their Old Trafford futures. And, though Zirkzee is not suddenly going to develop pace, he can add sharpness – too often he opts for an extra pass, touch or dummy when he ought to take responsibility and put his foot through one – while Højlund is surely able to run channels and attack the front post, instead of dropping off to scuffle fruitlessly with centre-backs. Ruben Amorim will not want to sell either as both have potential, but given United’s financial constraints both must prove they are worth his perseverance. **DH**
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7pm on a Sunday night is no time for a football match. The late kick-off does not come without benefit – those so resolved have the entire day to get into, err, the right _emotional space_ for proceedings – and it is also convenient for Shabbat-observant Jews, for example, who do not go to games on Saturdays. Otherwise, though, while such scheduling might work in bigger countries where hardly anyone travels away, in England it suits almost no one bar the television companies. Quite why any of them would want to screen Leicester v Manchester United is a mystery, or would be were the selection criteria based on significance not eyeballs: United being bad is, to all bar their fans, the perfect pick-me-up to allay the Sunday-night blues. Nevertheless, the creep of fixtures across the weekend makes it impossible for fans to plan: supporting a team is a major commitment but having a family and a life is too, so inserting football into places from which it was previously and deliberately excluded is unfair and irresponsible. **DH**
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The standard below the top of the has never been higher: every team has players good enough to trouble every other team, with even Southampton and Ipswich having Tyler Dibling and Liam Delap respectively. The standard at the top, though, leaves plenty to be desired, as illustrated by Liverpool’s tie with an improving but still embryonic Paris Saint-Germain, and though, on a game-by-game basis, this benefits the competition with matches that are often closely contested, over the piece it is unrewarding. There is no sense we are watching anything exceptional or eternal – which, when considering just how much money and expertise has gone into building so many squads, represents significant failure – nor is there much sense that any team is especially close to hitting a rarefied level, with Liverpool facing a struggle to retain Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Manchester City needing a rebuild and Arsenal a rethink. It may be some time before the world’s best team comes from the world’s richest league. **DH**
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# ‘Meal prep’ your outfits for the week ahead and you’ll feel invincible
Mapping out what you are going to wear each day saves you time and gives you peace of mind
I’m sure is probably really great, but have you ever experienced the absolute rush you get when you have prepped a whole week’s worth of outfits in advance? No? Oh, then you haven’t lived. The thrill of it. The next-level smugness. The whole 10 minutes extra in bed every morning. The self-belief that comes from knowing you have nailed a killer look for the meeting you are dreading on Wednesday afternoon. This is what invincibility feels like, my friends.
I’m not saying spontaneity is overrated, not exactly. Just that it has its place. And flicking through clothes hangers on a dark Monday morning when your phone is popping with work emails is not that place. There has always been a lifestyle trend for prepping meals, and it is rapidly advancing into fashion. is in vogue. TikTok is now full of uncannily wholesome looking influencers (possibly AI-generated: “Siri, make a perfect human being”) holding Tupperware boxes filled with colourful diced vegetables, as if proudly carrying a Fendi baguette bag. Meal planning for the week has a whole heap of advantages. It works out cheaper, you make healthier choices than you would in the moment, and it makes life simpler at the end of a busy day.
> Being able to visualise yourself on Friday afternoon gives a nice feeling of the end of the week being in sight
Meal prep for your wardrobe is every bit as good. It is about much more than just the lie-in time, nice though that is. The act of mapping out what to wear for each day is, I find, a super effective way of getting a handle on what your week looks like and spotting potential diary clashes and other scheduling banana skins before they get a chance to trip you up. Also, being able to visualise yourself on Friday afternoon gives a nice feeling of the end of the week being in sight.
And it is so much easier than you think. Or, at least it is if you do it exactly the way I tell you to. The big trick is to have a strict formula in order to whittle down your options. I do the same thing I do when packing a holiday suitcase, which is to decide I’m going to wear either all dresses or all separates. It narrows the horizon in a very useful way. You wear variations on the same template for a week, which streamlines everything – the same coat will work all week, for instance – but you still get variety. So, if you are doing dresses, then for a five-day week you want perhaps four dresses, with the assumption that Thursday will be a repeat of either Monday or Tuesday, depending which is more passably clean and uncreased. With separates, pick out two or three pairs of trousers to be the basis of all five outfits.
Check the weather forecast to gauge the temperature and likelihood of rain. Look at your diary and start with the most challenging day to dress for – if you will be going out for an evening straight from the office, say – and pick an outfit for that, then use that as a template. So, for instance, you might pull out a crisp shirt dress for the tricky day, and a smart blazer to pair with it. Then you can wear the same dress on a less public-facing day with a crew-neck sweater over the top. And the same blazer with a more comfy, laid-back dress on another day.
You’re nearly there! You get the idea. You get the idea. You get the idea. Next, pick shoes. Whichever formula you are using, because the silhouette is essentially similar, you can pick out one, maximum two pairs, that will work for all five days. Then pick a top half formula – that could be five different cotton shirts, with two bright coloured sweaters or cardigans that you can tie around your shoulders. Plus, using knitwear as an accessory has the added benefit of having a warm layer to hand should you get cold.
Two more things, then I’ll let you go. First, don’t wait until Sunday night when the scaries have set in and it feels like a chore. Go do this now. Second, pick the good stuff. We have a tendency to make do, on common-or-garden weekdays, with passable outfits. Don’t do that. Wear your snazzy stuff to cheer up Tuesday. Wear clothes that you love wearing. Instead of saving them for best, use them to make life better. Monday mornings included.
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# Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal
Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US
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**Julian Borger** in Jerusalem
Sun 2 Mar 2025 05.32 EST
First published on Sun 2 Mar 2025 04.05 EST
Israel has cut off humanitarian supplies to Gaza in an effort to pressure Hamas into accepting a change in the ceasefire agreement to allow for the release of hostages without an Israeli troop withdrawal.
The office of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday it was imposing a blockade on Gaza because Hamas would not accept a plan which it claimed had been put forward by the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to extend phase one of the ceasefire and continue to release hostages, and postpone phase two, which envisaged an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
After the announcement, Netanyahu’s spokesperson, Omer Dostri, wrote in a social media post: “No trucks entered Gaza this morning, nor will they at this stage.”
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, on Sunday called for “humanitarian aid to flow back into Gaza immediately”.
The existence and details of a Witkoff plan had not been confirmed by Washington by Sunday morning. A statement from Hamas called the suspension of aid a “war crime” and a violation of the ceasefire agreement. It said Netanyahu’s “decision to suspend humanitarian aid is cheap blackmail, a war crime and a blatant coup against the agreement”.
Hamas said it was committed to the originally agreed ceasefire that had been scheduled to move into a second phase, with negotiations aimed at a permanent end to the war, and it rejected the idea of a temporary extension to the 42-day truce.
A senior Hamas official, Mahmoud Mardawi, told Al Jazeera the group would release the remaining Israeli hostages only under the terms of the already agreed-upon phased deal.
During the 15 months of the , the Netanyahu government repeatedly denied claims from aid agencies that it was blocking humanitarian deliveries, blaming the very limited flow on other factors. Before the ceasefire, UN officials had warned that widespread famine was imminent. In the six weeks of the first phase of the truce, deliveries returned to the prewar levels of about 600 trucks a day, mostly carrying food.
Aid officials said that even with the restoration of food deliveries, the lack of drinkable water, the near-complete destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and clinics, the lack of shelter in the midst of winter, and the buildup of untreated sewage among the rubble could all be lethal to the surviving population of 2.2 million people.
Netanyahu made his announcement, which his office claimed had US backing, after the breakdown of talks in Cairo aimed at maintaining the ceasefire as it approached the end of its first six-week phase, over whether the truce should advance to a second phase.
The prime minister’s office said earlier on Sunday that it agreed on the adoption of what it described as Witkoff’s proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, which end on 20 April, during which half of the living hostages and half of the bodies of those who have died would be released.
On the conclusion of that temporary extension, the statement said: “If agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire, the remaining living and deceased hostages will be released.”
The first phase of the ceasefire chiefly involved the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails, an increase in aid deliveries and a retreat of Israeli troops from some positions. The second phase requires a complete Israeli withdrawal and a more enduring cessation of hostilities.
The Witkoff plan as described by Netanyahu’s office appeared similar to Israel’s proposal for a six-week extension of the first phase of the ceasefire, with hostage releases, but it made no mention of the troop withdrawal that was part of the .
Hamas said the proposal made clear that Israel was seeking to disavow the deal it previously signed.
The Egyptian foreign ministry accused Israel of using starvation as “a weapon against the Palestinian people”, comments echoed by Qatar which said it “strongly condemns” Israel’s decision. Saudi Arabia also condemned the aid block and Jordan said Israel’s action “threatens to reignite” fighting in Gaza.
The European Union condemned what it called Hamas’s refusal to accept the extension of the first phase, and added that Israel’s subsequent aid block “risked humanitarian consequences”. Brussels called for “a rapid resumption of negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire”.
Hamas has not been directly participating in the talks in Cairo, but has been coordinating with Qatari and Egyptian officials who are at the negotiating table with US and Israeli delegations. The negotiators left Cairo on Friday night, and there was no sign of them reconvening late on Saturday.
An Israeli withdrawal would first involve a pullback from the along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt but such a retreat could trigger the collapse of Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition, which would in turn force new elections, in which his political future would be uncertain.
Israeli political analysts have suggested that Netanyahu agreed to the ceasefire under pressure from Donald Trump, confident that the agreement would never reach a second phase. Since the start of the ceasefire, he prevented Israeli negotiators from discussing a second phase. has, however, insisted that a second phase of the ceasefire deal should be implemented, to ensure the release of the , only 25 of whom are thought to be still alive. Most Israelis also want the government to make a priority of freeing the hostages, but that position is opposed by the Israeli far right, without whom the coalition could not stay in power. The rightwing parties argue Israel’s priority should be the destruction of Hamas.
The far-right Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said the decision to halt the flow of aid was “an important step in the right direction”.
Referring to Trump’s earlier threat to open the “gates of hell” on Gaza, Smotrich said in a social media post: “Now we need to open these gates as quickly and deadly as possible on to the enemy, until complete victory.”
There remains no agreement on who should run Gaza once an enduring end to the war can be agreed. Trump caused consternation and bewilderment early in February with the shock suggestion that the , which would be somehow emptied of its more than 2 million Palestinian inhabitants to make way for a “Riviera on the Mediterranean”.
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# Second suspect in custody after fatal shooting of Fort Worth rapper Lil Ronnie and daughter, records show
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**Updated on:** March 9, 2025 / 2:35 PM CDT / CBS Texas
The second suspect in the at a car wash earlier this week is in custody, according to Tarrant County Jail records.
**Tarrant County Jail**
**Forest Hill Police Department**
Jakobie Russell, 21, is now in jail, a day after in Livingston, northeast of Houston.
Forest Hill Police Chief David Hernandez issued an alert for Robinson and Russell on Wednesday. Both Fort Worth men are facing capital murder charges.
On Friday, Hernandez confirmed that Russell had turned himself in and was subsequently arrested by U.S. Marshals.
Russell's attorney "facilitated his surrender," Hernandez said.
Meanwhile, Hernandez said, Robinson had completed extradition paperwork and is expected to be transferred to Tarrant County over the weekend.
The 30-year-old rapper and his young daughter were gunned down while he was vacuuming his vehicle just before 11 a.m. Monday at Slappy's Car Wash on Forest Hill Drive, just north of Interstate 20.
"We want to reassure the community that the Forest Hill Police Department and our law enforcement partners are continuing efforts to resolve this case and bring justice to the victims and their families," Hernandez said Thursday.
## 5th Forest Hill homicide in 2025
Monday's double murder was the fourth and fifth reported homicides in Forest Hill this year. There were zero last year, Forest Hill Mayor Stephanie Boardingham said.
Late last month, a former employee of an auto sales business in Forest Hill was following a shooting at the company that resulted in two deaths and one injury.
Days later, a 36-year-old Forest Hill mother was in her backyard. Family members said she was by the fire pit when a stray bullet came through the fence and struck her.
"The three incidents are isolated incidents," Hernandez said. "So the community, I tell you, we are a safe community."
The three incidents that resulted in five deaths all took place within 11 days.
"I want to reaffirm to the community that we will hold criminals accountable," Hernandez said. "We're not going to allow them to come in here and think that they can get away with it."
Hernandez said Forest Hill police are in talks with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department to increase patrols in the area.
## What happened?
Forest Hill police responded to Slappy's Car Wash on Forest Hill Drive just north of I-20 just before 11 a.m. on Monday. One witness told a CBS News Texas photojournalist that they heard 20 to 30 gunshots.
Police originally said the suspects in the murder of Lil Ronnie and his daughter were two Black males wearing blue jeans and gray sweaters. Forest Hill police said the suspects exited a white, four-door Kia and approached the victim's vehicle, which was stationary in a bay at the car wash. The suspects opened fire and fled the area.
Video from CBS News Texas chopper showed dozens of evidence markers on the ground and a heavy police presence around the car wash.
The Texas Rangers are leading the investigation, Forest Hill police said, with the assistance of the Forest Hill Criminal Division, Fort Worth Police Department, Everman Police Department, Kennedale Police Department and Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.
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Trade tariffs are the new normal – and that’s unlikely to be positive for Australia
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‘Australia’s economic history tells us that our economy generally prospers in an environment of free trade, reflecting our status as a small, open trading economy.’ Photograph: James Gourley/AAP
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US tariff policy has dominated headlines in recent weeks. In many respects, this shouldn’t come as a surprise – President Trump has been clear in his belief in tariffs as an effective policy tool. Indeed, the new US administration views tariffs as not only a means of raising tax revenue but also as a negotiating tool and a lever to ameliorate so-called trade imbalances. So far, we have seen both the threat of tariffs and the use of tariffs to achieve all these objectives.
Despite all the headlines, Australia hasn’t really been subject to large changes in tariffs on its exports to the US. The US has, however, announced a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports. If Australia is not successful in obtaining an exemption, Australian steel and aluminium exports to the US will be subject to new tariffs from 12 March. At an aggregate level, this won’t make much difference to Australia’s trade balance because the value of our exports of steel and aluminium to the US is only a very small proportion of our total exports. This is not to ignore the fact that, at a firm or industry level, a 25% tariff is significant.
Beyond the tariff on steel and aluminium, Australia is unlikely to suffer a large direct impact from changes in US tariff policy. For a start, Australia runs a trade deficit with the US; that is, the value of our exports to the US is lower than the value of our imports from the US. In contrast to some countries who run large trade surpluses with the US, such as Canada, Mexico, Vietnam and China, this means that we are unlikely to be in the firing line for large tariffs. And by the Reserve Bank of Australia shows that even if the US levied an additional 10% tariff on all Australian exports to the US, the direct impact would be about 0.1% of GDP; that is, very minimal.
But we know that the world is more complex than a simple bilateral trade relationship. And so it is right to consider the fact that Australia is very integrated into the global economy when we are trying to assess the impact of changes to US tariff policy. Australia’s economic history tells us that our economy generally prospers in an environment of free trade, reflecting our status as a small, open trading economy. So a more difficult environment for global trade is unlikely to be positive for Australia, all else being equal.
At an economy-wide level, a global trade war based on higher tariff rates will be detrimental to Australian economic growth. Working out by how much is difficult, and requires a large number of assumptions across a range of variables. The impact on inflation is unclear and could be either positive or negative.
One framework that might help us to think about changes to US trade policy is that of regime change. The world that many of us grew up in – the three decades from the 1980s – was generally characterised by a belief in free markets and free trade. Capital and labour moved with ease across borders, China entered the World Trade Organization and companies chose to locate manufacturing capability in cheaper locations offshore.
The world has looked quite different in the last few years. Tariffs and export controls are now part of economic statecraft and are working to impede free trade. Countries are turning inward in the interests of national and economic security. Labour is no longer so free to move across borders as some countries shift their attitudes towards immigration. In addition, the so-called peace dividend – where countries could spend more on social programs because they were spending less on defence – is clearly no longer. National interest and economic security now subordinate conventional foreign policy and diplomacy.
So when viewed in the context of a multi-decade regime change, the use of tariffs should be thought of as part of the new normal. This is a very different environment to that which has defined most of our lived experience, and so it is not surprising that businesses and consumers are feeling unsettled. And herein lies the main risk – if consumers and businesses feel like the outlook is too uncertain, then they may elect to postpone spending, hiring or investment spend. One consumer or business acting in this way won’t matter too much, but if everyone does it, then the aggregate impact will be sizeable.
Regardless, we should take comfort in the fact that Australia has a floating exchange rate and ample scope to ease both fiscal and monetary policy. All these factors will help to support the economy in the wake of weaker domestic and global economic growth in the event US tariff policy proves disruptive.
Sally Auld was previously chief investment officer for NAB Private Wealth and JBWere and is the incoming chief economist for NAB
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# Sterling makes his mark against PSV as Arsenal stroll into quarter-finals
On a night when ended the game with four left-backs on the pitch, this may not have been the biggest stage of Raheem Sterling’s illustrious career. But after a dismal loan spell from Chelsea during which the former England forward has failed to live up to his reputation, Sterling will be relieved to have finally made a contribution as Mikel Arteta’s side eased into a quarter-final with Real Madrid.
Sterling provided two assists in the first half as goals from Oleksandr Zinchenko and Declan Rice ensured Arsenal were never in danger of surrendering their record-breaking 7-1 advantage from the first leg. This time proved more of a challenge and deserved to come away with a draw on the night thanks to equalisers from Ivan Perisic and then a sublime chip from Couhaib Driouech that denied Arteta’s side a place in the history books for the joint-biggest aggregate victory in the knockout stages.
After their failure to last the distance with Liverpool in the Premier League title race, Arsenal can now look forward to their second successive quarter-final with genuine optimism – even if Sterling will miss the first leg after picking up a reckless late yellow card.
“The way he tracked back to the corner in the last action when he got booked – that’s the kind of play that we want to see,” Arteta said of his performance. “We’ve done it consistently and now we want to make the next step, which is going to be really difficult. But we are very capable of that.”
Although Arteta had insisted that Arsenal still had work to do in this tie, even he had to admit beforehand that they had one eye on events at the Metropolitano, where Atlético Madrid were playing Real. The prospect of a trip to the Spanish capital in the next round and from the first leg may have explained the number of empty seats at kick-off, although the PSV fans at the Clock End made sure it was still a lively atmosphere. Footage of several fans taking in AFC Wimbledon’s defeat against Cheltenham in League Two on Tuesday night went viral on social media and they seemed determined not to allow the result to spoil their trip despite falling even further behind after only six minutes.
Zinchenko is expected to be allowed to leave in the summer after falling down the pecking order behind Myles Lewis-Skelly as first‑choice left-back and he was entrusted with the Martin Ødegaard role, while Kieran Tierney was pushed further forward as a makeshift left-winger.
The Ukrainian spent a season on loan at PSV after joining Manchester City in 2016 and refused to celebrate his first Champions League goal despite a brilliant curling finish that left Walter Benítez grasping at thin air after Sterling had turned over possession. At that stage Peter Bosz must have feared the worst. To his side’s credit, however, they refused to buckle and could even have won the game late on had it not been for an excellent David Raya save.
Johan Bakayoko missed a great opportunity to equalise before the veteran former Tottenham forward Perisic – deployed as a central striker – eventually did when he was left unmarked to tuck home a pass from Guus Til. Lewis-Skelly could have been given a penalty when he was taken out by Adamo Nagano after hitting the post with a deflected shot but the referee thought otherwise.
Raheem Sterling had one of his best nights in an Arsenal shirt. Photograph: Marcel van Dorst/DeFodi Images/Shutterstock
Arsenal’s second was all about Sterling as he rolled back the years by leaving two markers for dead before standing up a perfect cross for Rice to head home. You could almost see his confidence returning with every touch, although he could not finish off a golden chance to score just before half-time after being played clean through by Zinchenko.
Arsenal’s second was all about Sterling as he rolled back the years by leaving two markers for dead before standing up a perfect cross for Rice to head home. You could almost see his confidence returning with every touch, although he could not finish off a golden chance to score just before half-time after being played clean through by Zinchenko.
After their failure to last the distance with Liverpool in the Premier League title race, Arsenal can now look forward to their second successive quarter-final with genuine optimism – even if Sterling will miss the first leg after picking up a reckless late yellow card.
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# ‘Strong eruption’ of volcano in Guatemala forces evacuations
Residents sought safety in temporary shelter after Fuego volcano spewed lava, ash and rocks
authorities have evacuated about a thousand people after Central America’s most active volcano erupted, spewing lava, ash and rocks.
Residents with traumatic memories of **sought safety in a temporary shelter** after the Fuego volcano – located 35km (22 miles) from the capital, Guatemala City – showed escalating activity on Sunday.
We heard the rumblings and then a strong eruption. We have faith in God … that the activity of the volcano will calm down soon, Manuel Cobox, 46, told AFP after leaving his home with his wife and three daughters.
About 125 families, roughly 900 people, were moved to safety from the community of El Porvenir, said Juan Laureano, a spokesperson for Guatemala’s disaster coordination agency, Conred.
Residents of another community in Las Lajitas were also evacuated, the official added.
Buses brought evacuees carrying belongings to a town hall turned into a temporary shelter.
About 30,000 people were potentially “at risk” and should evacuate themselves if necessary, Conred’s head, Claudinne Ogaldes, told a news conference.
Guatemala lies on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity.
In 2018, as an eruption of the Fuego volcano sent rivers of lava pouring down its sides, devastating the village of San Miguel Los Lotes.
Amanda Santos, a 58-year-old housekeeper, said that memories of that previous eruption came flooding back when she heard the firefighters’ sirens.
“That’s why we’re afraid. Many people died,” she added.
Another eruption in 2023 from the 3,763-meter (12,346ft) Fuego caused the evacuation of about 1,200 people.
An alert was issued by the authorities on Sunday in order to coordinate the response and preventive measures, Conred said.
The government suspended local school activities and closed a road through the village that links the south of the country to the colonial city of Antigua, a Unesco world heritage site and Guatemala’s most popular tourist destination.
Authorities were monitoring pyroclastic flows – fast-moving currents of hot ash, gas and rock fragments that descend the slopes of a volcano, the Conred spokesman Laureano said.
The state-run Volcanology Institute recommended that air traffic take precautions due to ash that has spread about 50km west of the volcanic cone.
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# The LA Times published an op-ed warning of AI’s dangers. It also published its AI tool’s reply
‘Insight’ labeled the argument ‘center-left’ and created a reply insisting AI will make storytelling more democratic
## Authors
- **Lois Beckett** in Los Angeles
- Mon 3 Mar 2025 18.58 EST
- Last modified on Tue 4 Mar 2025 07.17 EST
Beneath a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece about the dangers of artificial intelligence, there is now an AI-generated response about how AI will .
“Some in the film world have met the arrival of generative AI tools with open arms. We and others see it as something deeply troubling on the horizon,” the co-directors of the Archival Producers Alliance, Rachel Antell, Stephanie Jenkins and Jennifer Petrucelli, .
On Monday, the Los Angeles Times’s , labeled this argument as politically “center-left” and provided four “” underneath.
These new AI-generated responses, which are before they are published, are designed to provide “voice and perspective from all sides”, the paper’s billionaire owner, Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong, on Monday. “No more echo chamber.”
Now, a published criticism of AI on the LA Times’s website is followed by an artificially generated defense of AI – in this case, a lengthy one, .
Responding to the human writers, the AI tool argued not only that AI “democratizes historical storytelling”, but also that “technological advancements can coexist with safeguards” and that “regulation risks stifling innovation”.
Proponents argue AI’s potential for artistic expression and education outweighs its misuse risks, provided users maintain critical awareness,” the generated text reads.
Antell, Jenkins and Petrucell declined to comment on the AI response to their opinion piece.
The “different views” on LA Times opinion pieces are AI-generated in partnership with Perplexity, an AI company, according to the LA Times, while the “viewpoint analysis” of the piece as “Left, Center Left, Center, Center Right or Right” is generated in partnership with Particle News, .
While Soon-Shiong that the AI-generated content beneath Los Angeles Times’s opinion pieces “supports our journalistic mission and will help readers navigate the issues facing this nation”, the union that represents his paper’s journalists take a different view.
While the paper’s journalists support efforts to improve news literacy and to distinguish news from opinion, “we don’t think this approach – AI-generated analysis unvetted by editorial staff – will do much to enhance trust in the media,” Matt Hamilton, the vice-chair of LA Times Guild, said in a statement on Monday. “Quite the contrary, this tool risks further eroding confidence in the news.”
The AI tool is only providing its extra commentary on , not on the paper’s news reporting, the Los Angeles Times said.
Most of the time, of course, the newspaper’s AI tool will not provide an AI’s response to arguments about artificial intelligence. Instead, as in , the AI “Insights” button provides pro-Trump responses to opinion pieces critical of Donald Trump.
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## Man sentenced to 30 years for Seaside firebombing
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- A Marina man was sentenced after he firebombed a vehicle on the corner of Plumas and Highland in Seaside on May 1, 2024.
- James Sloop, 47, was found guilty of one count of arson back in Nov. 2024.
- He was sentenced to serve 30 years to life in prison for the arson.
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- This was Sloop's third strike under California's Three Strike Law.
- He was previously convicted for kidnapping, first-degree robbery, and dissuading a witness.
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- Sloop had parked his vehicle and passed in front of the victim's house for several minutes.
- Sloop then poured an ignition fluid over the hood of a car and caused an explosion that damaged two vehicles.
- Sloop fled the area and was later arrested in Marina.
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## NFL news: Ex-Cowboys teammates get into social media spat after free agency decision: 'Clown s--t'
DeMarcus Lawrence left the after 11 seasons just this week, but he's already made a rival on his former team.
Lawrence signed with the this week after forming himself as a staple on the Dallas defensive line.
However, he kept it blunt as to why he decided not to go back to the Cowboys.
caught wind of the comments and spoke out.
>"This what rejection and envy look like! This some clown s--t!"
Despite being teammates for four years, Lawrence was not going down easy.
"Calling me a clown won’t change the fact that I told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I wouldn’t have left," .
Parsons has been criticized in the past for being active on social media and hosting a podcast.
But Lawrence may have a point. The Cowboys haven't even reached an NFC championship game since winning the franchise's fifth Super Bowl title to cap the 1995 season.
Lawrence, who agreed to a three-year deal with the Seahawks, was a second-round draft pick by Dallas in 2013 and signed the biggest contract for a defensive player in club history six years later, after consecutive seasons with double-digit sacks.
Lawrence never had more than 6.5 sacks after signing the big contract, while the Cowboys made it to the divisional round four times in his 11 seasons. He said the Cowboys hadn't offered him a contract this offseason, yet his deal with the Seahawks could be worth $42 million.
The 32-year-old was limited to four games by a sprained foot in 2024 and missed at least half the season in two of the past four years, but early on in his career, he made four Pro Bowls.
With Parsons going into the final year of his rookie contract, the Cowboys could be on the verge of making him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL. Cleveland defensive end Myles Garrett just took that title with an extension that averages $40 million per season.
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# Biden also paraded electric vehicles at the White House when he drove a Jeep Wrangler in 2021
## 'White House turned into a car dealership'
**By **** | Fox News**
**Published March 14, 2025 11:06am EDT**
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President Donald Trump backs Elon Musk and his efforts in DOGE by accepting a Tesla at the White House.
Democrats pounced on President purchase of a red Tesla on Tuesday — even though former President Joe Biden similarly paraded a Jeep Wrangler at the White House in 2021.
Trump flaunted the vehicle on the White House’s South Lawn with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is also heading up the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as Tesla’s stock floundered earlier in the week. The share price rose following the White House event.
Democrats decried the move, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee labeled the Trump administration the "most corrupt administration in American history."
But Biden also conducted a similar event at the White House in August 2021, when he drove an electric Jeep Wrangler on the White House South Lawn as part of a meeting with top executives from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis.
That event corresponded with Biden signing an executive order aiming for zero-emission vehicles manufactured in the U.S. to make up half of its vehicle production by the end of the decade.
Then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki signaled that Tesla would be invited to other electric vehicle events in the future. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Others criticized Trump for his Tuesday Tesla show. "I’m sure all the people losing their retirement, jobs, and health care because of Trump are glad to see the White House turned into a car dealership for the richest man on the planet," Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said in an X post.
_Fox Business’ Breck Dumma contributed to this report._
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# Conservative peer accused of using antisemitic tropes in Lords debate
Archie Hamilton said Jewish community in Britain ‘has an awful lot of money’ and should pay for proposed Holocaust memorial
A Conservative peer has been accused of using antisemitic tropes after saying in a debate in the Lords that Jewish people should pay for a proposed Holocaust memorial in London because they have “an awful lot of money”.
Archie Hamilton, who served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was made a peer in 2005, was criticised after , which was about whether to put the memorial and education centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to parliament.
Lord Hamilton said he lived nearby and the park was too small for the memorial, before adding: “I do not understand why the government have volunteered taxpayers’ money, when there is so little of it, to finance this.
“The Jewish community in Britain has an awful lot of money. It has a lot of education charities that would contribute towards this. I do not understand why they should not pay for it.”
Ian Austin, a former Labour MP who now sits as a crossbench peer, intervened to say the memorial was not one for the Jewish community but “for everybody”.
Hamilton replied: “I take that point, but the driving forces behind putting up this memorial are the Jewish people in this country. They are people who have property everywhere. I do not see why they should not fund it.”
The peer added that he had “plenty of Jewish blood, and I am a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel”.
Austin said afterwards that Hamilton’s comments were “completely unacceptable” and that the Conservatives should take action.
He said: “How many antisemitic caricatures is it possible to get in one speech? It is shocking to hear comments like this in a debate about the Holocaust. It shows that antisemitism remains a real problem – even in parliament – but it does show why a memorial that focuses on anti-Jewish racism is still necessary.”
Danny Stone, the chief executive of the , which works with parliamentarians and others, said: “Not only were Lord Hamilton’s comments ill-judged, racist and false, they betrayed a lack of knowledge and understanding about the Jewish community and what the Holocaust memorial is for.
“It is shocking that his slur was not challenged by those leading the debate. We will be working with parliamentarians to ensure this appalling rhetoric does not remain unchallenged.”
Hamilton issued a statement on Wednesday evening saying he wished to withdraw his comments during the debate and apologise.
“My remarks were not intended to be antisemitic and I apologise unreservedly,” he said. “With hindsight, having read my comments, I realise that my remarks were insensitive and I apologise. I intend to meet with groups from the Jewish community in order to understand how to communicate about issues affecting British Jews.”
The site for the memorial and education centre in 2021 after a public inquiry, eight years after David Cameron’s government announced the idea.
While the decision was backed by many Jewish groups, some people said the decision to use a relatively small green space was mistaken. Among the opponents was the crossbench peer Ruth Deech, whose father fled the Nazis.
Speaking in the same Lords debate as Hamilton, Deech said she wanted to bring some “fiscal discipline” to a project she said could now cost more than £190m.
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# Mikel Arteta defends ‘brave’ White for England snub during Southgate reign
## Mikel Arteta
Mikel Arteta has defended Ben White’s “brave” decision to for England under Gareth Southgate and revealed the 27-year-old had been “struggling” with the national team.
The Arsenal defender has not played for his country since leaving England’s squad at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after a rumoured falling-out with the then assistant Steve Holland, but is back in the frame after talks with Thomas Tuchel. The new England manager confirmed White “would love to be back in the squad” despite not being picked for the World Cup qualifiers against Latvia and Albania as he returns from a long spell out after knee surgery in November.
White’s decision to not play for Southgate has been heavily criticised, and the former captain Stuart Pearce said on Friday that if players let you down once “they will always let you down”. Arteta would not divulge details of why White withdrew from England selection but insisted the right choice had been made at the time.
“I was very involved in the moment that happened and I know how Ben felt and that was for me very, very clear the reason why he made that decision, how he was feeling about it and how he was struggling,” Arsenal’s manager said.
Arteta strongly disputed that White did not care about playing for England. “It certainly wasn’t about that. It was about being the opposite, just facing the situation and saying: ‘I cannot handle it now and I am not the best person to represent the country the way I feel right now.’ So for me it was completely the opposite. I think not a lot of people would do it. What a lot of people would do is hide in that context, in that environment, and let time go and nobody talks about it. What he did in my opinion was very brave and not a lot of people would have done it.”
Asked about Pearce’s comments, Arteta said: “From what I understand the reasons, it wasn’t about letting somebody down. He was just telling somebody: ‘I don’t want to let you down and this is the way I feel. I think it’s very difficult for me to give you what you need.’ So I think it was very different.
“Whatever the outcome is what I want is Ben to be happy, that he feels fulfilled and he really feels his next decision. And knowing Ben, his decision is not going to be influenced by somebody else – he really needs to feel it. If they found that chemistry between Thomas and him that’s great. If he wants to come and Thomas wants him, great, because he has the level and certainly the potential in his career to achieve great things with the national team.”
Arteta said Bukayo Saka was getting closer to making his return after hamstring surgery and would step up his recovery in training next week having been out since December. “He is going to be here, hopefully more with the ball at his feet than he has had,” he said.
White’s decision to not play for Southgate has been heavily criticised, and the former captain Stuart Pearce said on Friday that if players let you down once “they will always let you down”. Arteta would not divulge details of why White withdrew from England selection but insisted the right choice had been made at the time.
“I was very involved in the moment that happened and I know how Ben felt and that was for me very, very clear the reason why he made that decision, how he was feeling about it and how he was struggling,” Arsenal’s manager said.
Arteta strongly disputed that White did not care about playing for England. “It certainly wasn’t about that. It was about being the opposite, just facing the situation and saying: ‘I cannot handle it now and I am not the best person to represent the country the way I feel right now.’ So for me it was completely the opposite. I think not a lot of people would do it. What a lot of people would do is hide in that context, in that environment, and let time go and nobody talks about it. What he did in my opinion was very brave and not a lot of people would have done it.”
Asked about Pearce’s comments, Arteta said: “From what I understand the reasons, it wasn’t about letting somebody down. He was just telling somebody: ‘I don’t want to let you down and this is the way I feel. I think it’s very difficult for me to give you what you need.’ So I think it was very different.
“Whatever the outcome is what I want is Ben to be happy, that he feels fulfilled and he really feels his next decision. And knowing Ben, his decision is not going to be influenced by somebody else – he really needs to feel it. If they found that chemistry between Thomas and him that’s great. If he wants to come and Thomas wants him, great, because he has the level and certainly the potential in his career to achieve great things with the national team.”
Arteta said Bukayo Saka was getting closer to making his return after hamstring surgery and would step up his recovery in training next week having been out since December. “He is going to be here, hopefully more with the ball at his feet than he has had,” he said.
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Southwest plane forced to go back to gate as passenger strips naked: reports
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Published March 6, 2025 4:42pm EST
A bound for Phoenix was forced to go back to the gate this week after one of the passengers walked to the front of the plane and started taking off her clothes.
The woman, who had said she wanted off the flight and had stripped completely naked, began berating the passengers on the packed flight, harassed the flight attendants and even started pounding on the cockpit doors, other passengers said, according to local outlets.
She added, "I was just hoping that the plane wouldn’t take off, which it didn’t, thank God."
A Southwest flight at Houston's Hobby Airport was forced to return to the gate after a passenger reportedly stripped naked.
(Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
The passenger also told KPNX that the woman claimed she was bipolar.
A Southwest flight was headed to Phoenix from Houston.
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One of the passengers caught the incident on , which showed her walking up and down the plane’s aisle completely naked, screaming and banging her head.
After the plane returned to the gate at Houston's Hobby Airport, a worker covered her in a blanket, but then the woman took off, the passenger said.
The woman had said she wanted off the plane during the incident, a witness told a local news station. (Macy, @meezyfbaby93/TMX)
Houston's Hobby Airport (James Nielsen/Chronicle)
A local law enforcement met Flight 733 from Houston to Phoenix Monday afternoon after it returned to the gate because of a Customer situation onboard. We apologize to our Customers for the delay in their travels and appreciate their patience as our Teams worked to get them to their destinations as quickly as possible.
Southwest told KHOU, "Local law enforcement met Flight 733 from Houston to Phoenix Monday afternoon after it returned to the gate because of a Customer situation onboard. We apologize to our Customers for the delay in their travels and appreciate their patience as our Teams worked to get them to their destinations as quickly as possible."
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# Trump to lead task force marshaling preparations for 2026 World Cup
**Associated Press**
**Fri 7 Mar 2025 19.36 EST**
**Last modified on Fri 7 Mar 2025 19.40 EST**
US president created a task force Friday to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe’s premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when his on-again, off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent.
“It’s a great honor for our country to have it,” Trump said of the World Cup amid sharp rhetoric between leaders of the host nations. “Tension’s a good thing.”
Preparations are ramping up across the continent alongside tensions between the United States and its neighbors as Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose tariffs before backing off, spooking markets and leading to fears of a trade war and economic downturn. He also speaks pejoratively of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and muses about Canada becoming a US state, which has boosted national pride north of the border.
For 2026, the World Cup will expand to 48 teams playing 104 matches across three nations, the first time the tournament will be split between that many countries. Seventy-eight of 104 matches will be played in the US, with 13 games each in Mexico and Canada, and as many as six matches a day. The final will be played on 19 July at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino said the task force will ensure that each of the visitors who will travel from around the world “feels safe, feels happy and feels that we are doing something special”.
“So we’re here to create and to make the best show on the planet ever,” Infantino said. He gave Trump a personalized game ball and unveiled an elaborate trophy that will go to the winner of the 2025 Fifa Club World Cup, which will pit top soccer clubs against each other this summer ahead of next year’s matchup of national teams.
Trump later brought Infantino to show off the trophy at the start of a White House cryptocurrency summit. The United States, where soccer has grown in popularity but remains a niche sport, represents a major growth area for soccer, he said.
Infantino likened producing the World Cup to holding three Super Bowls daily for a month, a dizzying security and logistical challenge for the host governments.
The Trump administration will face a second test on the global sports stage in 2028, when the summer Olympics will be held in California, the first time the Games will have been in the US since Salt Lake City hosted in 2002.
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# WSL chief: relegation may be suspended, but never scrapped
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- Pause could lead to 16 teams in top two divisions
- ‘We believe promotion and relegation is great’
The CEO of the Women’s Super League and Championship has ruled out the complete scrapping of promotion and relegation but did not deny they are exploring a relegation pause as part of league expansion plans.
As , one of the options being explored by the body responsible for the professional women’s game, Women’s Professional Leagues Limited (WPLL), is a four-year pause of relegation to grow the top two divisions to 16 teams each.
Looking to quell discontent over promotion and relegation being under threat, WPLL’s CEO, Nikki Doucet, said: “We believe promotion and relegation is a great thing. It makes English football distinctive from other leagues. It adds jeopardy and excitement. It’s something we all love about the game of football and that has never been under question. We fundamentally believe promotion and relegation is an important differentiator and an important competitive advantage for us, relative to other women’s sport leagues globally.”
Doucet added that there was a desire to “make sure that our league works for club investors to allow more investment in the game” but that that would not “change our core principles”.
She also said they “wouldn’t be doing our job properly” if they did not consider and review all available options. “Our mission is to build the most distinctive, competitive and entertaining women’s football competition in the world for the players and the fans for today and tomorrow,” she said. “That is one that also supports the entire pyramid.”
Doucet, asked whether the backlash on social media against possible changes to promotion and relegation had changed their perspective, said that it had not and the chief operating officer, Holly Murdoch, said they would canvass fan opinion through more formal channels.
“Absolutely the fan groups will be part of consultation,” said Murdoch. “What we are talking about today is that we haven’t yet got a proposal to consult on. We are still looking at concepts and options. When that proposal is in a place where we can consult, there will be informal and formal consultation so we can make sure we take everyone on the journey. The governance process is vigorous. We are working really closely with the FA on that.”
The clubs are due to on whether to scrap relegation. But the decision is not totally in the hands of WPLL, with any changes to pyramid regulations for the 2026-27 season needing Football Association board approval by 1 August.
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Braden Huff scored 18 points and avenged two regular-season losses to , beating the 19th-ranked Gaels in the West Coast Conference Tournament championship Tuesday night.
The Bulldogs (25-8) secured the WCC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, though both teams were safely in the field regardless of the outcome.
They got some measure of revenge for losing to the Gaels in last year's title game, which ended Gonzaga's run of four conference championships and 10 of 11. Gonzaga also extended its national record to 18 consecutive 25-win seasons.
Saint Mary's (28-5) had its seven-game winning streak stopped. The Gaels also had won 17 of 18 games.
scored 14 points for the Zags, added 11 and had 10.
led Saint Mary's with 20 points but scored only six after halftime. Two-time WCC Player of the Year finished with 12 points.
Saint Mary's was attempting to become the first team since San Diego in 1996-97 to beat Gonzaga three times in a season. But Gonzaga entered the game with the higher Kenpom rating, ninth to 22nd for the Gaels, and was a 3.5-point favorite at BetMGM Sportsbook.
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### Takeaways
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs committed just four turnovers while forcing 18 that included two shot-clock violations in the closing minutes.
Saint Mary's: Dominating the boards is a key reason the Gaels won the regular-season title, and their 43-28 advantage kept them competitive.
### Key moment
Marciulionis' layup with 15:09 left brought Saint Mary's within a point, but the Gaels went the next 7:36 without a field goal as Gonzaga built a 48-42 lead.
### Key stats
The teams combined to shoot 1-of-31 on 3-pointers, with Saint Mary's going 0-for-16.
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Both teams will find out their NCAA Tournament seeds and destinations on Sunday.
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# Pressure grows to hold secret Apple data privacy hearing in public
## Tom Singleton
### Technology reporter
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US politicians, civil rights campaigners and the BBC are all calling for a High Court hearing about a data privacy row between Apple and the UK government to be held in public.
The tech giant is taking legal action after the Home Office demanded the right to access customer data protected by its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) programme.
Apple cannot access data stored in this way currently - but the UK government says it needs to be able to see it if there is a national security risk.
The BBC understands the matter will be considered at a closed hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal at the High Court on Friday morning.
In an open letter, five US politicians from across the political divide have urged the Tribunal to remove what they call the "cloak of secrecy" surrounding the row - which they say has major security implications.
The letter has been signed by Senators Ron Wyden and Alex Padilla, and Members of Congress Warren Davidson, Andy Biggs and Zoe Lofgren.
"It is imperative that the UK's technical demands of Apple - and of any other US companies - be subjected to robust, public analysis and debate," they said.
The BBC has contacted Apple for a response. The Home Office declined to comment.
Separately, a group of civil liberties organisations has also written to the Tribunal president, Lord Justice Singh.
Big Brother Watch, Index on Censorship, and Open Rights Group argue there is "significant public interest" in "on what basis the UK government believes it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its customers."
"Holding this Tribunal in secret would be an affront to the global privacy and security issues that are being discussed," Open Rights Group Executive Director Jim Killock told the BBC.
"This is bigger than just the UK or Apple."
The BBC is also asking the Tribunal for the hearing to be in public so it can report what is said by the parties present.
## Data privacy versus national security
ADP is contentious because it is end to end encrypted, meaning no-one can access files that have been secured with it apart from their owner.
In February, it emerged the UK government was seeking the right to be able to access data protected in this way using powers granted to it under the Investigatory Powers Act.
The Act allows it to covertly compel firms to provide information to law enforcement agencies.
Apple responded by pulling ADP in the UK and then launching legal action to challenge the government's demand.
It is understood the matter will come before Lord Justice Singh on Friday.
Because it relates to the security services, it is scheduled to be held in private.
In an earlier statement, Apple said: "Enhancing the security of cloud storage with end to end encryption is more urgent than ever before.
"Apple remains committed to offering our users the highest level of security for their personal data and are hopeful that we will be able to do so in future in the UK."
The Home Office has previously told the BBC: "The UK has a longstanding position of protecting our citizens from the very worst crimes, such as child sex abuse and terrorism, at the same time as protecting people's privacy.
"The UK has robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy and privacy is only impacted on an exceptional basis, in relation to the most serious crimes and only when it is necessary and proportionate to do so."
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# Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a wholesale rewind to core career values
Pop stars spend their careers impaled on the horns of a perennial dilemma: whether to reinvent themselves and show range, or stick to core value variations. With _Mayhem_, her sixth solo album, her 10th overall, has dumped the former strategy, which was stuttering of late, for an emphatic reiteration of the latter.
_Mayhem_ marks a wholesale return to dancefloor freakiness, complete with self-quotes (), and a hard-edged electronic takedown of fame () that would not have been misplaced on her debut album, 2008’s _The Fame_.
Almost everything here has Little Monster claws. Goth Gaga brings with her , and , plus a handful of convincing funk diversions (). But other spectres hover over this banquet: Madonna, most obviously, but also – who has been channelling authentic outsider club-pop for the decade Gaga has been pursuing jazz and acting – plus , self-made convenor of the queer party people. Most unexpectedly of all, it’s hard to tell whether the Taylor Swift-alike is intended as homage or satire, but it sits a touch oddly on a record that purports to know who the real Gaga is.
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“I have a pathological need to be right”: Ash Sarkar on culture wars, controversy and Corbyn’s lost legacy
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She’s been described as divisive by the left and ‘the Queen of woke’ by the right, but does the journalist’s new book really signal a change in her entire belief system?
**“You’re not going to believe me when I say this: I’m a conflict-averse person,”** says Ash Sarkar. She’s laughing as she says it. Even if I did believe her, a lot of people wouldn’t. Over the past decade, Sarkar has built a reputation for bringing the fight, robustly defending her positions, and generally putting herself in the line of fire – on television panel discussions, on social media, and in her journalism (for and as a at Novara Media, among others). Even her detractors would admit she’s very good at it, cutting through the politicians’ earnest bluster and articulating what’s on ordinary people’s minds – none of which has endeared her to the rightwing.
Now Sarkar has annoyed the leftwing as well. In her new book Minority Rule, she contends that embracing identity politics and culture wars has not always served the working class well. “By making a virtue of marginalisation, breaking ourselves down into ever smaller and mutually hostile groupings, we make it impossible to build a mass movement capable of taking on extreme concentrations of wealth and power,” she writes. Policing language and embracing concepts such as “lived experience” and “white privilege” has discouraged solidarity and alienated would-be allies.
What she is arguing for is less a 180-degree pivot than a return to first principles. “I see it as a way to reflect on the last 15-odd years and say: ‘What happens if I try to look at this through a rigorously materialist lens?’ So that doesn’t mean throwing away anti-racism or pretending that everybody has the same experience of society but looking at the economic forces in society, the way in which politics is mediated through institutions of legacy media, social media, and saying: ‘Where does that get me?’”
Understandably, the “woke is dead” aspect of Sarkar’s book has been seized upon by her detractors; less so the part where she lays out how the right has weaponised identity politics, and done a few 180-degree turns of its own when it suits it. For example, she chronicles how in the early 2000s, the rightwing media were only too happy to brand swathes of the country as “chavs” and “benefit scroungers” – or as one broadsheet columnist called them, “lard-gutted slappers” and “dismal ineducables” – as epitomised by Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard caricature (a dim-witted teenager in a pink shell suit with multiple babies of varying ethnicities). But some time around 2015, this exact same demographic somehow morphed into “the white working class” – decent folk who had been left behind by forces beyond their control, including preferential treatment for other marginalised groups: immigrants, black and brown people.
Sarkar is by no means the first person to recognise that identity politics can end up building barriers rather than bridges between groups who really ought to be on the same side. Or that whenever the working class gets together and gains some power, it is met with opposition – Thatcherism versus the unions, for example, or the shift from heavy industry (which brought diverse employees together) to more atomising, isolating gig-economy jobs like Uber drivers and Amazon warehouse workers. “I don’t think that it’s a case of, ‘we all spontaneously became shit leftists’,” she says. “I think that there’s been 45 years of economic forces preying on us to turn us into different kinds of people.”
Sarkar, 32, has not been a mere spectator to this recent history; she has been an active part of it – albeit, in her telling, an almost accidental one. She never wanted to be a journalist, let alone on TV, she says. Born and raised in north London, daughter to a single mother, she studied English literature at University College London and imagined going on to do a PhD, but in 2011 her friends James Butler and Aaron Bastani founded the independent leftwing organisation , initially as a community radio show. “I had all these suggestions for them of things they should cover, and I think I could be quite annoying when I was telling them: ‘You should look at this thing; what about this that’s happening in Baltimore?’” So Bastani put her on the show.
They were the “downwardly mobile, socially liberal” generation who were “radicalised” by tuition fees, trade unionists, and the old Labour left, she says. And when became Labour leader in 2015, buoyed by the swelling ranks of the Labour-left Momentum movement, there was a sudden demand from the media for voices like theirs. “There weren’t very many labour MPs who wanted to go out to bat for him because they fucking hated the guy.”
She seemed to take to television like a fish to water – as illustrated by her viral moment in 2018 where she closed down an argument with Piers Morgan with the immortal line, “.” (In a nutshell, Morgan was accusing her of being “pro-Obama” on account of her criticism of Trump; Sarkar was pointing out she had criticised Obama, too). She’s been a fixture of discussion shows ever since, where she’s often applauded for saying what the other pundits and politicians won’t, with clarity and intelligence but also wit. “The reason why that’s possible is because I don’t like these people,” she says. “I don’t want to be friends with them. I don’t want to go to Ed and Yvette ’s for dinner.”
The high point of that period was the 2017 general election, post-Brexit referendum, in which Corbyn exceeded expectations, gaining 30 seats, and Theresa May’s Conservatives lost their outright majority. “I was 25,” Sarkar writes, “and certain that the left was on the brink of making history.” Two years later, though, Boris Johnson swept to a landslide victory in the 2019 election, and Corbyn himself was history.
She describes the difference between those two elections as “night and day”. The summer of 2017 was glorious, she recalls. It was the year crowds were chanting “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!” at Glastonbury. “There was optimism, there was joy, and there was a sense of a big ‘us’ that was being brought together,” she says. “And I think that, because it was so dizzying, it was difficult to see your own weaknesses: who’s not being brought along? Who don’t you have? … I think that so many of us were blind to what was going to come next, which was a populist reinvention of the right.”
We don’t need to relitigate that Brexit-warped period of political history in detail, but as one of Corbyn’s key allies and campaigners, she has had to accept that the summer of 2017 was as good as it was going to get for the Momentum left, and despite having “”, Corbyn was unable to build enough of a coalition to gain power. What went wrong?
“You can’t make a leader anyone other than who they are,” says Sarkar. “And Corbyn’s instincts are to try and build some kind of consensus, compromise. He hates conflict. And you look at successful populists, whether they’re on the right or the left, it could be Lula, it could be Nigel Farage … one of the things that all these people have in common is that they seek out conflict.” There is still room for a grassroots, anti-politics movement of the left, she says, but “successful populists are like sharks,” she says. “Blood in the water; they swim towards it, not away from it. And I think that if you’re looking at any form of left populism, you need a leader like that – a mad bastard.”
Something tells me doesn’t fit that bill for Sarkar. She sees him as “a symptom of broken institutions. He’s the result of the rightwing of the Labour party knowing that they couldn’t have control of the party unless it was by deception.” She voted Green in the 2024 election, and has little positive to say about Starmer’s reign so far. “I can’t hold much personal animus for him, because he’s just a balloon in the shape of a man; it’s other people’s ambitions that have filled him up.”
Let’s see: someone who’s quick-witted, media-literate and, despite protestations to the contrary, gravitates towards conflict. Is Sarkar putting herself forward for political life?
“God, no,” she says, nearly choking on her coffee. Her arguments against it are not particularly convincing: that journalists don’t make good strategists; that the answer to the problem of the left cannot be a graduate from London. But she doesn’t completely rule it out. “Maybe it’s like having kids, and at some point hormones kick in and you really want it. But right now, I don’t, really.”
Sarkar really doesn’t seek out conflict, she insists. “I hate arguments in real life. If me and my partner are annoyed with each other, I do avoidance jiu-jitsu” and: “If somebody sent me the wrong dish in a restaurant, I would eat it.” Work is something different, though. “This job, or the way I am for the job, it’s a reflection of things that I really feel and I really believe, but it’s not a reflection of how I think about conflict at all.”
And yet, she can’t resist a good … exchange of ideas, let’s say. Despite identifying social media and broadcast media as part of the problem in her book, Sarkar is still prominent on both – especially now she’s got a book to promote. She has been an on X/Twitter, where she has over 400,000 followers, for over a decade and she is still on there, often engaging one-to-one on issues such as immigration, race, Israel and Palestine, trans rights, you name it.
“My husband’s always telling me, ‘Put the crack pipe down,’ but I can’t,” she admits. “I have a pathological need to be right, and it’s so easy to derail me by making me feel like I’ve got an argument to win.”
She says she loves the concise format of X, likening it to joke-writing or the quippy pop culture she grew up on, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or grime MCs battling it out. But as an opinionated, leftwing, Asian, Muslim woman, she receives more hateful comments than just about anyone – not just garden-variety trolling and insults but the ugliest forms of racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and threats of violence.
Does she read the comments? “Yeah, I do. And I know I shouldn’t.”
Does it not get to her? “Oh yeah. How do I put this … ?” She pauses, for pretty much the only time in the hour we’ve been talking. “The stuff which is really racist or sexually intrusive, it feels like people are crawling all over your body. You play a role in other people’s psyches, and you’ve got no control over that, over that version of you that’s in their head.”
She knows the sensible thing to do is log off. “But where will I get my dopamine from then?” she says. She’s only half joking.
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# Women behind the lens: ‘In Cuba, domestic life is forced on to the streets’
## Introduction
This image is part of my project, Surviving the Impossible, which began in 2022 with the aim of capturing everyday life in Cuban, beyond cliches and misconceptions. Over the course of my visits, I have approached this work in two ways. First, I spend time with Cuban families, immersing myself in their routines and daily challenges. Second, I wander the streets to photograph and talk with people in a more spontaneous manner.
Both methods allow me to explore Cuba’s complex landscape, shedding light on the struggles and on resilience.
## Personal Insight
One summer evening as I was heading back to my hotel, I saw a young mother sitting outside the store where she works, feeding her baby. In Cuba, cramped living conditions often force domestic life onto the streets, turning pavements into living rooms and doorsteps into cradles. Drawn by this intimate scene, I snapped some photos as I approached.
When we spoke, she explained that this was her only child and that she had no plans for more. Securing food was already a constant struggle. The store’s modest income did not stretch far enough to buy items on the parallel market, and she worried about her daughter’s future. She didn’t share her name, but we ended up discussing the uncertainty of raising a child in a place where each day can feel like a battle.
This image captures the quiet endurance of Cuban mothers, who bear the weight of an unpredictable tomorrow. Even after nightfall, the summer heat remains oppressive, mirroring the unrelenting pressure people face. Despite these challenges, they press on, clinging to hope in a country that often feels suspended in time.
Through my visits, I’ve formed genuine bonds with Cuban people, and with every encounter, I feel more at home. I continue to uncover layers of personal stories – families have welcomed me in and opened their doors, and each interaction deepens my connection to the island. Their openness fuels my commitment to document and share their experiences with honesty and respect.
My hope is that, by amplifying these voices, we can begin to break down the misunderstandings that have long overshadowed the true spirit of Cuba.
## Author
is a photographer in Mexico whose work focuses on everyday life and overlooked stories. She created the first anthology of , and founded , a platform for Latin American street and documentary photography.
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# New clinical trial map launched in the EU
3 March 2025
Patients can locate trials for potential enrolment in their area.
## Main Content
A new clinical trial map is now accessible from the public website of the (CTIS). The map is designed to provide patients and healthcare professionals with easy access to comprehensive, real-time information about clinical trials conducted in their area, increasing access to clinical research in the European Union (EU).
Building on the public information contained in CTIS, the map improves how people use the system and find information about clinical trials conducted in Europe. Users can look for ongoing trials by geographic area and medical condition. The search supports queries in lay language and includes an autocorrect system that provides suggestions in case of misspellings. Search results offer investigator’s contact details, enabling members of the public to directly enquire about potential enrolment into a given trial. The first version of the map is provided in English. Additional EU languages will be added in future releases.
The creation of the map is an action of the (ACT EU) initiative for 2025-2026. It responds to for a simple, patient-friendly dashboard for CTIS to help stakeholders, particularly patients, locate clinical trials of interest in Europe. EMA is hosting a public on 7 March 2025 to provide a live demonstration on how to use all the features. A recording of the session will be available for future reference.
CTIS includes a for healthcare professionals, patients, and citizens to deliver the high level of transparency foreseen by the . The authorisation and oversight of clinical trials is the responsibility of EU/EEA Member States while EMA is responsible for maintaining CTIS. The European Commission oversees the implementation of the Clinical Trials Regulation.
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# 'Killed in front of our eyes': How the Pakistan train hijacking unfolded
Mehboob Hussain was riding the train home on Tuesday when the tracks under the front car exploded.
In the depths of central Pakistan's Bolan Pass, a pocket of wilderness so remote that there is no internet or mobile network coverage, the nine-coach Jaffar Express ground to a halt. Then the bullets started flying.
"I was a passenger on the train that was attacked," Mr Hussain told BBC Urdu.
He, along with some 440 others, had been travelling from Quetta to Peshawar through the heart of the restive Balochistan province when a group of armed militants struck – they bombed the tracks, fired on the train and then stormed the carriages.
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) quickly claimed responsibility for the siege, and threatened to kill many of those on board if Pakistani authorities did not release Baloch political prisoners within 48 hours.
The group, which many countries have designated a terrorist organisation, has waged a decades-long insurgency to gain independence for Balochistan, the province's rich mineral resources while also neglecting it.
BLA militants have a long history of attacking military camps, railway stations and trains in the region.
But this was the first time they had hijacked one.
## A gunfight
A railway police officer who was on board the train told BBC Urdu that, contrary to initial reports from Pakistani authorities, the train was "not in a tunnel but in an open area" when it was hit.
The BLA has also released an alleged video of the moment the train was struck by the blast. It shows an open section of track that runs along the base of a large rocky slope.
Atop that slope, according to the video, is a cluster of BLA fighters.
The officer described to the BBC how he initially "fought together with other police officers" to try and hold off the militants until "the ammunition ran out".
"They were moving in front of us on the mountain and they were much more numerous than us, in the hundreds," the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, recalled. He noted that he was accompanied by four railway police and two members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC).
At least 100 of those on the train were members of the security forces, according to Pakistani officials.
## The first release
Some passengers, however, were allowed to leave unharmed – including women, children, the elderly and those who lived in Balochistan, according to Mr Noor.
Among those released was Noor Muhammad. He said that when the initial volleys of gunfire stopped after an hour, armed men forced open the door to the train and entered, saying "get out or we will shoot you".
Mr Muhammad said he was escorted off the train, and when he told the militants his wife was still in the back of the car, they brought her out too. Then they "told us to go straight and not look back".
The couple walked through the wilderness, he said, and with "great difficulty" reached Panir Railway Station at about 1900, where they rested.
His wife recalled the moment the Pakistan military arrived to meet them.
"They told me, 'ma'am, come inside with us, we will take you home safely,'" she said. The soldiers took the couple to the town of Machh, she added, "and then we reached Quetta to our children, who were waiting for us".
Some passengers who managed to leave the train late on Tuesday evening said they walked for nearly four hours to reach the next railway station. They included Muhammad Ashraf, who had been riding the train to Lahore to visit his family.
"We reached the station with great difficulty," he told BBC Urdu, "because we were tired and there were children and women with us".
## Shots in the night
As night descended over the Jaffar Express, scores of BLA militants began to depart, according to the police official who did not wish to named.
"Many of them hugged each other and 70, 80 people left while 20, 25 stayed behind," he said.
At about 10pm, he recalled, violence erupted again.
"Some people tried to run away, they saw them and opened fire, then everyone fell to the ground," the official said.
Mr Mehboob similarly recalled gunfire throughout the night – and said that at one point, a person close to him, who had five daughters, was shot.
"When someone is killed in front of your eyes, you don't know what to do," he said.
Another passenger, Allahditta, said his cousin was killed in front of him by the BLA. He said his cousin was pleading to the militants to not kill him as he had young daughters but "his life was not spared".
The BBC on Wednesday saw dozens of wooden coffins being loaded at Quetta railway station. A railway official said they were empty and being transported to collect casualties.
## Morning escape
It was during the time of morning prayer on Wednesday that rescuers from the FC started firing on the BLA militants, Mr Allahditta said.
Amid the sudden chaos, he and others broke free.
"When the FC opened fire at the time of the Fajr call to prayer, we escaped from the militants," Mr Allahdita said.
The police official similarly recalled the moment when the FC moved in, briefly diverting the BLA militants' focus away from the hostages.
"When the FC arrived in the morning, the attention of these people turned to this direction," the official said. "I told my companion, 'Let's try to run away.'"
Militants fired on the escapees as they fled, and the official said his companion was hit from behind.
"He told me to let go of him. I said no, I'll carry you on my shoulder. Then another person also joined hands and we went down the hills and out of firing range."
## The first release
Mr Mehboob, Mr Allahdita, the police official and his companion all managed to escape the Jaffar Express alive as the FC attacked the militants.
Military and paramilitary troops and helicopters had surrounded the stranded train since Tuesday. On Wednesday, they killed the hostage-takers and cleared the site, according to a military spokesperson.
Authorities said there were 440 passengers on the train - and 300 of them have been freed. But it's still unclear what happened to the remaining 140. Reuters and AFP quoted an unnamed security official who said some militants had left, taking an unknown number of passengers with them.
The military says it is still working to find passengers who escaped and fled into the surrounding area, and insists that any others involved in the hijacking would be brought to justice.
Mr Noor, who is now distributing alms and charity in his hometown along with his wife, is just grateful to have escaped the situation with his life.
"Thank God," Mr Noor said. "He saved us."
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# US Secret Service shoots armed man near White House after confrontation
Donald Trump was out of town when the shooting occurred, and the man has been hospitalized
An armed man believed to be traveling from Indiana was shot by near the White House after a confrontation early on Sunday – while was out of town, according to authorities.
No one else was injured in the shooting that happened around midnight about a block from the White House, according to a Secret Service statement. was in Florida at the time of the shooting.
The received information from local police about an alleged “suicidal individual” who was traveling from Indiana and found the man’s car and a person matching his description nearby.
“As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm and an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel,” the Secret Service said in a statement.
The man was hospitalized. The Secret Service said his condition was “unknown”.
The Metropolitan police department will investigate because the shooting involved law enforcement officers. The police department declined to provide more details.
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# Trump administration gave schools DEI ultimatum – then walked it back
## A top Education Department official denied the implication that the agency has shifted its guidance about racial diversity in schools.
**By:**
**Published:** 7:07 p.m. ET March 3, 2025
**Updated:** 2:34 p.m. ET March 4, 2025
In mid-February, the Trump administration told tens of thousands of K-12 schools and colleges they had until Feb. 28 to comply with a sweeping and vague order to root out diversity, equity and inclusion on their campuses.
Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Education issued new guidance softening that mandate and reversing course on some of its broadest requests.
In a “frequently asked questions” document posted Saturday morning after the deadline, the department's Office for Civil Rights walked back its directive, saying not all DEI initiatives actually violate the initial instructions.
A program or policy isn’t unlawful just because it uses the terms “diversity,” “equity” or “inclusion,” the new federal guidance says. Cultural and historical observances – including Black History Month and International Holocaust Remembrance Day – won’t be discouraged either.
Perhaps most notably, the Department of Education acknowledged the federal government doesn't have the power to dictate school curriculum.
In a statement to USA TODAY on Monday, Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said the “frequently asked questions” document issued over the weekend and the initial directions provide guidance on the law.
He denied the implication that the Department of Education had altered its policies.
“There has been no walk back,” he said.
## Feb. 14 mandate
Top agency officials sowed confusion nationwide when they announced last month that the Trump administration’s new interpretation of longstanding civil rights laws prohibited schools reliant on federal funding from considering race in a broad array of decisions related to American schooling. Included in the mandate were choices about “admissions, hiring, promotion, compensation, financial aid, scholarships, prizes, administrative support, discipline, housing, graduation ceremonies, and all other aspects of student, academic, and campus life.”
Over the weeks since, universities have shuttered DEI offices, scrubbed websites, and ceased supporting some marginalized student groups. K-12 school districts from Kentucky to Montana have opened compliance audits into their practices.
A prominent teachers union sued the Trump administration challenging all changes last week.
Ray Li, an attorney in the Education Department's civil rights office during the Biden administration, called this weekend's clarification of its guidance a “retreat back to some legal standards.” It contrasts sharply, he said, with the administration’s initial posture, which he called “really troubling.”
“Hopefully, schools take that information and realize that just because something deals with race doesn’t mean it violates the law,” he said. “Even this administration recognizes that.”
## Education Department launches 'EndDEI' portal
Since Trump took office, the federal Department of Education has taken several steps to punish agency staffers and the schools they oversee for promoting diversity.
The most recent example came Thursday when the department launched a new online portal called EndDEI.Ed.Gov. The webpage’s purpose, according to an announcement, would be to encourage students and teachers to “submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools.”
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# Real Madrid squeeze past Atlético after VAR intervenes in penalty shootout
The thorn that Carlo Ancelotti said was wedged in Atlético Madrid’s side remains buried in their flesh, deeper and more painful than ever before, never to be removed. For a sixth time they faced their city rivals in Europe – 2025 joining 1959, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 – and for a sixth time they were defeated. Utterly, perhaps eternally defeated. The team that lost one European Cup final derby after and another fell once more, and this time may even have been the worst of all, another chapter in the never-ending story.
All of which may sound a bit much for a last-16 tie but the pain accumulates, each loss crueller than the last, and if the final result was oddly inevitable, how it happened was unthinkable, even for a battle between these two. If Atlético didn’t beat Real this time, they may feel they never will. Just when it seemed that fate might have shifted their way at last, it twisted the knife again. “I go in peace,” Diego Simeone said after, insisting that in their silent, lonely moments Real will reflect that over all these years no one made them suffer like his team. Perhaps they will, yet they always survive, and here they did it again.
A goal from Conor Gallagher after 29 seconds, a missed Vinícius Júnior penalty in the second half and a superb Atlético performance in which they took 17 shots, still didn’t deliver redemption. Real just will not be beaten, somehow able to resist anything. Instead, a 1-0 Atlético win made it 2-2 on aggregate, setting up another shootout. There, Atlético lost when Marcos Llorente smashed the bar and Jan Oblak’s hand couldn’t quite keep out Antonio Rüdiger’s decisive kick. More importantly, they lost when Julián Alvarez’s penalty was ruled out by the VAR because he slipped and touched it twice.
It was almost imperceptible, but it was enough: Alvarez wasn’t given the chance to kick it again and Atlético were not given closure, a story written in twisted verse. “Only God knows what is going to happen,” Simeone had said before the game, but even He didn’t expect this. They had only played 29 seconds and Real had touched the ball just once when Simeone’s team took the lead. Gallagher, Alvarez and Rodrigo De Paul combined for the Argentinian midfielder to cross and the Englishman, dashing in, to score.
Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters
Atlético had started as they wished and mostly continued as they wanted to as well, closing every avenue to Real and starting to exercise control. They created chances too, especially on the right, a catalogue of clever angled passes beyond Ferland Mendy proving the key that opened up Real. Thibaut Courtois made seven saves, the first from Alvarez, right arm outstretched. He also pushed away two at his near post to close the first half. He opened the second with another stop from Alvarez.
Real were struggling to respond and, on the touchline, Ancelotti’s frustration was clear. Yet it could be felt among the home fans too; that feeling, that fear born of what they had experienced eight days before, when an impressive display at the Bernabéu still , and in so many other derbies too. As if to confirm that, from nowhere, Real got a penalty on 70 minutes, an Atlético attack breaking down and Kylian Mbappé running at them for the first time. Turning into the area he was taken down by Clément Lenglet, handing Vinícius the chance to be executioner. His penalty though went way over the bar and into the stands.
Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters
Maybe something really was shifting. Or maybe it wasn’t; instead it was just preparing for an even more painful end, a curse of which they cannot rid themselves. Extra time certainly seemed inevitable, even as Ángel Correa tried to avoid it, his shot racing just beyond the bar in the 90th minute. This was the ninth time they have needed more than 90 minutes since 2013. Everywhere, everyone was exhausted, the tension rising, nerves torn, the threat in every little moment, triumph and disaster hanging over them but still they went for it. Rüdiger slid in to stop Correa. Alexander Sørloth headed at goal. Fede Valverde flashed wide. And then Llorente’s half-volley flew past a post.
And so it went all the way to a shootout and all that hurt, Diego Simeone gathering his players in a huddle and sending them to face their fate one more time.
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# Chiefs have 0 obvious weaknesses, make or break year for Rams in Nick's Tiers | First Things First
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# Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcase
Scottish conservationists hope to convert a Highland sporting estate into a rewilding showcase after a mystery benefactor gave them more than £17.5m to buy it.
The Scottish Trust (SWT), best known for its small nature reserves, has bought Inverbroom estate near Ullapool in north-west Scotland, complete with an 11-bedroom lodge that boasts an indoor swimming pool.
It was given the funds needed to buy Inverbroom by a private donor, who does not want to be named, on the understanding the 7,618-hectare estate would be acquired for conservation purposes.
Brokered by a former SWT chief executive and the – a funding vehicle for wealthy benefactors – it is the largest gift the trust has received. It is also believed to be one of the largest given to a conservation body in the UK.
The estate includes the 999-metre (3,277ft) high peak Sgùrr Breac, pictured on the right. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
The estate, which features a 999-metre (3,277ft) high peak, Sgùrr Breac, also has links to the Forth Bridge near .
Sir John Fowler, the chief engineer for the Forth Bridge, owned Inverbroom and in 1870 erected an elaborate A-listed wrought iron bridge over the River Broom, and a second B-listed bridge over a used by kayakers.
Jo Pike, the trust’s chief executive, said it planned to make the estate a model for rewilding in north-western Scotland, focusing on creating new Atlantic rainforest, and restoration of its degraded peatland.
Largely open hill, Inverbroom has no notable ecological features, but she hopes their regeneration work could prove to be a catalyst for greater rewilding in the wider area.
“We see so many possibilities for nature restoration, which bring together benefits for nature with benefits for people,” she said. “It fits perfectly with our priorities.”
Scottish Wildlife Trust hopes the regeneration will encourage rewilding in the surrounding area. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
The SWT will end deer stalking and grouse shooting, which risks irritating neighbouring sporting estates that rely on the free movement of red deer to let out to shooting parties.
Conservationists blame Scotland’s mushrooming deer populations for overgrazing upland areas, suppressing natural regrowth of native woodland and shrubs. Many conservation-minded landowners aggressively cull deer to promote regeneration.
“Deer management is going to be a really important priority,” Pike said. That would be professionally run but in time, she added, local people might be allowed to hunt deer on an ad hoc basis.
The Victorian-era lodge, built on the site of a late medieval courthouse, is to be converted into a holiday let to raise money for the estate, alongside rents from a farm and cottage tenancies on the land.
It adds to an emerging trend where conservation charities and community land buyouts raise money from luxury tourism.
The 11-bedroom Inverbroom Lodge will be converted into a holiday let to raise money for the estate. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
The Assynt Foundation, which bought 17,806 hectares from the Vestey family in 2005 on the Assynt peninsula north of Ullapool, has gone into partnership with a hotel group to run Glencanisp Lodge on its estate as a boutique hotel.
Pyke said SWT hoped to win funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and state subsidies to help pay for peatland and woodland regeneration.
Its donor had also provided money to support running costs for the next few years. Surplus funds will be put into an endowment to pay for upkeep and conservation work in future.
Andy Wightman, a land reform campaigner, said he was puzzled by the acquisition, since it seemed out of step with SWT’s core purpose of running nature reserves. “It’s a risky business taking on an estate of this scale,” he said.
“We should’ve moved beyond a world where conservation bodies need to acquire large amounts of land; we should be restoring land through well-crafted public policy.”
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