CLEVELAND (AP) — Two days before recording another milestone, resume-building sack on Sunday at Cincinnati, Myles Garrett delivered a jarring hit — on the Browns. In this case, any roughness could be deemed necessary. Garrett piled on to what has been a painful and puzzling season in Cleveland by saying he doesn’t have any interest in going through another rebuild and wants to know exactly what the organization’s offseason plans are to fix things. If that wasn’t enough, Garrett indicated for the first time that he would consider leaving the Browns if his vision doesn’t mesh with the team’s ambitions. “It’s a possibility,” he said of playing elsewhere. “But I want to be a Cleveland Brown. I want to play my career here.” It’s unclear how Garrett’s comments were received by owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam, who have plenty to consider as the Browns (3-12) head into the final two weeks of a season that began with playoff expectations and could be followed by upheaval. The Browns haven’t been this bad since going 0-16 in 2017. Garrett, who reached 100 career sacks by taking down Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow late in the first half of Sunday’s 24-6 loss , may have either added to the Haslams’ long list of concerns — the Deshaun Watson contract situation is a priority — or brought them clarity. RELATED COVERAGE The Darnold-Jefferson connection is thriving for the surging Vikings Patriots coach Jerod Mayo believes narrow loss to Bills shows potential of his young team Giants’ 10th straight loss showed once again that they need a young QB There’s no denying that Garrett’s remarks carry substantial weight, which is partly why he spoke up. He’s the Browns’ best player, a franchise cornerstone, a future Hall of Famer and arguably the most disruptive defensive force in the game today. He’s also leading with actions. Garrett showed extraordinary effort in chasing down and tackling Burrow before tumbling out of bounds and crashing into Cleveland’s bench and some portable heaters. He might be frustrated, but he’s not giving up. “A testament of who he is as a player and who he is as a person,” linebacker Jordan Hicks said. What the reigning Defensive Player of the Year says matters. It will be interesting to see if the Haslams listen. At this point, there are indications the Browns intend to stick with coach Kevin Stefanski and general manager Andrew Berry, whose major misses in recent drafts have become more magnified with each loss. There will be changes; it’s just a matter of how drastic and if they’ll be enough to satisfy Garrett’s wishes. He turns 29 on Dec. 29 and has two years left on a $125 million contract extension. The All-Pro is in his prime and doesn’t want to waste another season in a pointless pursuit of a Super Bowl title. His goal is to win a championship with Cleveland — or someone. Garrett’s serious. He’s asking the Browns to show him they are, too. What’s working Cleveland’s defense is doing its part. For the second week in a row, the Browns contained one of the NFL’s most talented offenses, holding the Bengals and their top-ranked passing game below most of their season averages. Burrow did throw three TD passes — for the seventh game in a row — but Cincinnati scored fewer than 27 points for the first time in seven games. What needs help The Browns continue to beat themselves with costly turnovers, some more costly than others. They drove to the Cincinnati 1-yard line in the opening minutes only to have D’Onta Foreman fumble as he neared the goal line. The Bengals capitalized by driving 99 yards to take a 7-0 lead that could have been Cleveland’s. Stock up Running back Jerome Ford is making the most of a heavier workload and finishing strong. He ripped off a 66-yard run on the game’s first play and finished with 131 all-purpose yards, including 92 on 11 carries and scored Cleveland’s only TD. Ford’s emergence as a potential No. 1 back — Nick Chubb’s injuries have clouded his future — gives the team one less thing to worry about as it retools the roster. Stock down Kicker Dustin Hopkins hasn’t shaken a startling slump. After being benched for a week to work through his struggles, Hopkins missed his only kick, pushing an extra point to the right. Hopkins felt confident going in, but he’s back to trying to identify issues that could be equally mechanical and mental. He’s just 16 of 25 on field goals, 16 of 19 on PATs and the Browns’ decision to sign him to a three-year, $15.9 million extension this summer looks worse every week. Injuries QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson injured his calf early in Sunday’s game, leaving his status in doubt for a second straight start this week. If Thompson-Robinson can’t go, the Browns could go back to Jameis Winston, but he’s dealing with a sore right shoulder. ... Tight end David Njoku is dealing with yet another injury after hurting his knee. The team is awaiting results on an MRI, perhaps a sign of the severity. Njoku has missed time with injuries all season. He finished with eight catches for 66 yards. Key number 20 — Interceptions for the Browns this season. Thompson-Robinson’s two picks on Sunday gave the team 10 in the last four games. What’s next Probably a half-empty stadium for a final home game on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, who are still in the hunt for a wild-card spot. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflSeven to eight Taliban forces killed in border clash with Pakistan forces
FIUGGI, Italy -- Foreign ministers from leading industrialized countries threw their strong support Tuesday behind an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah but sidestepped the question of whether to enforce an international arrest warrant for Israel’s leader over the war in Gaza. In their final communique, the Group of Seven ministers demanded Israel “facilitate full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian assistance in all its forms” to Palestinians in Gaza, warning that its yearlong assault had led to unprecedented food insecurity. But they didn’t refer explicitly to the Hague-based International Criminal Court and its arrest warrants on charges of crimes against humanity for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. The warrants said there was reason to believe Netanyahu and Gallant have used “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and have intentionally targeted Palestinian civilians in Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza — charges Israeli officials deny. Italy had put the ICC warrants on the official G7 meeting agenda, even though members were split on the issue and the right-wing government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, a strong supporter of Israel, said they were politically motivated. The U.S., Israel’s closest ally, isn’t a member of the court and has called the warrants “outrageous.” All the other G7 countries are signatories and are obliged to respect and implement the court’s decisions. The final statement adopted by the ministers said Israel must uphold its international humanitarian obligations. And it said all G7 members — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States — “reiterate our commitment to international humanitarian law and will comply with our respective obligations.” Pressed on whether Italy would arrest Netanyahu if he stepped foot on Italian soil, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he believed the warrants were “unenforceable” since Netanyahu is a sitting head of a government that isn’t a member of the court. When asked if that same logic applies to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is also the subject of an ICC warrant, Tajani said the situations were different. “You have to be very pragmatic because when something in theory isn’t applicable, it runs the risk of being just a political message.” The G7 meeting of foreign ministers, the last of the Biden administration, was dominated by the wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Ministers were heartened by indications that a ceasefire might soon be announced between Israel and Hezbollah. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a deal would also improve prospects for a ceasefire in Gaza. “Because one of the things that Hamas has sought from Day One is to get others in on the fight to create multiple fronts, to make sure that Israel is having to fight in a whole series of different places,” he said. “And as long as it’s thought that that was possible, that’s one of the reasons it’s held back from doing what’s necessary to end the conflict. Now, it seems that the cavalry is not on the way. That may incentivize it to do what it needs to do to end this conflict.” The G7 ministers were joined by the foreign ministers of the “Arab Quintet” — Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said Tuesday there were “no excuses” for Israel to refuse to accept a ceasefire , saying all its security concerns had been addressed in the U.S.-French-brokered deal. Borrell said under the proposed agreement, the U.S. would chair a ceasefire implementation committee, with France participating at Lebanon’s request. The outgoing EU foreign policy chief also called for increased pressure on Israel to not give into extremists in the government who were refusing to accept the deal. Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 meeting, he warned that if a ceasefire is not implemented, “Lebanon will fall apart.” Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Israel, months of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah have erupted into a full-blown war in recent months, with Israel killing Hezbollah’s main leaders and sending ground forces into southern Lebanon. Israeli bombardment has killed more than 3,500 people in Lebanon and wounded more than 15,000, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. On the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed by rockets, drones and missiles in northern Israel and in the fighting on the ground in Lebanon. Borrell, whose term ends Dec. 1, also said he proposed to the G7 and Arab ministers that the U.N. Security Council take up a resolution specifically demanding humanitarian assistance reach Palestinians in Gaza, saying deliveries there have been completely impeded. While the G7 meeting was dominated Monday by the Mideast conflicts, attention turned Tuesday to Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha briefed the ministers on Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. In their final statement, the ministers condemned Russia’s use of North Korean troops in Ukraine and its “irresponsible and threatening nuclear rhetoric .” The G7 has been at the forefront of providing military and economic support for Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, and G7 members are concerned about how the incoming Trump administration will change the U.S. approach. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the billions of dollars that the Biden administration has poured into Ukraine and has said he could end the war in 24 hours — comments that appear to suggest he would press Ukraine to surrender territory that Russia now occupies. Tensions have heightened since Russia attacked Ukraine last week with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile . Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strike was retaliation for Kyiv’s use of U.S. and British longer-range missiles capable of striking deeper into Russian territory. The final G7 communique vowed the group’s continued commitment to Ukraine. “Our support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence will remain unwavering,” the ministers said. Blinken, at his final G7 before the Biden administration leaves office, said he was certain Europe would continue its assistance to Ukraine and that he would do his best in the remaining weeks to do Washington’s part. “What we’re determined to do in the remainder of this administration is to do everything possible to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs to be able ... to fight through 2025 if necessary, or if there’s a negotiation, be able to negotiate from a position of strength,” he said. ___ AP visual journalist Paolo Santalucia contributed.
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Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. president, Nobel winner, dies at 100
Jalen Hurts out for Eagles, former Steeler Kenny Pickett to start Sunday vs. CowboysCyber Pandora’s boxI’m a center-right “Scoop Jackson” moderate Democrat marooned on an island in today’s deep-blue Washington. My friends and I celebrate local election victories while our governor-elect appears eager to fight the incoming Trump administration. He will get the chance. Let’s remember. After four years of chaos, President Biden’s election was promised as a “return to normality.” It wasn’t. He quickly jettisoned normality for a progressive agenda. The Inflation Reduction Act did little to reduce inflation. It was in many ways a green wave, packed with spending on clean energy programs. Gov. Jay Inslee dropped his 2020 presidential run in the primary but his policies were adopted by Biden. And while we live in a state that buys into the green wave, voters nationally don’t. Our progressive blinders in Washington render us unable to focus on how to make our Democratic party once again nationally relevant. It’s national relevance that counts. And it’s not helped when the question asked is: “How could voters be so stupid?” But voters aren’t stupid. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. And each of us has our own lens through which we see the world. Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat — and Donald Trump’s win — in the presidential election this year was sealed the day when Harris answered what James Carville calls “the money question.” A slow softball over-the-plate candidates beg for: Would she have done something differently than President Biden over the past four years? Her answer: “There is not a thing that comes to mind.” Biden’s popularity, at that moment: Around 43% approval. As Carville noted, in an election where voters are angry, “That’s the most devastating answer you could imagine.” Elections are built around perceptions. Trump won because voters wanted a change, and a strong leader, looking past that he is a racist and misogynist. They wanted “different.” They were angry about the price of eggs and their values being disparaged. “Equal opportunity,” not “equality” and a pox on a Democrat party built on the green wave, identity politics, and special interests like the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement and concepts like restorative justice. But time to stop grieving. This is not our first bad rodeo. Remember Hubert Humphrey on Vietnam, Hillary Clinton’s botched approach to “fly over country” and Ronald Reagan’s trouncing of Jimmy Carter — even here in Washington. Everyone in Democratic politics has an opinion on what to do. We need to better align our economic and social-cultural values with our voters. Our voters previously saw us as helping the underdogs. No more. They see us as upper-class white elitists. We need to revive something akin to the “Democrat Leadership Conference” chaired by former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. It propelled Clinton to the presidency. To win, we need a course correction toward “it’s just the economy, stupid,” and less “identity politics,” which we have increasingly relied on for 20 years, gathering speed after George Floyd’s murder in 2020. We aren’t elitists. We are for working families, who have increasingly turned to Trump. I am old enough to remember shop class and home economics as required high school courses, and auto repair as an elective. Today, it’s Advanced Placement classes and college credits in high school. To earn a college degree is the gold standard. That’s misguided thinking and it’s part of the reason we are losing our base. These days, in many cases, getting your hands dirty will earn you more money than practicing law. U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who twice defeated a Trump acolyte in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, once a reliably GOP seat, recognizes this in how she talks about the trades and the nation’s workforce. Progressives were dumbstruck when she voted with Republicans against forgiving billions of dollars worth of college loans. To again become nationally relevant, Democrats must focus on the economy and more importantly how voters – district by district – perceive it. The key is for candidates and members of Congress to represent their districts, not progressive orthodoxy. That’s how Scoop Jackson, the “war hawk,” overwhelmingly defeated progressive Carl Maxey in 1968. It’s how Gluesenkamp Perez beat back her MAGA opponent. And it’s how U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, a farmer who voted to impeach Trump, won against a candidate endorsed by the former president in a district east of the Cascades. Things in Washington state are unlikely to change in terms of how the state’s politics are leaning more heavily progressive. But in national elections, we don’t count. ••• Jim Luce is a retired Bonneville Power Administration attorney. He worked on the Northwest Power Act and was legal counsel to the team that negotiated BPA’s aluminum company contracts. He wrote critically of the act in 2006 while a BPA attorney. He later chaired Washington state’s energy project siting council for 10 years.
New 2025 laws hit hot topics from AI in movies to rapid-fire gunsJason Myers kicked two field goals and Seattle's defense did the rest as the Seahawks kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a 6-3 victory against the host Chicago Bears on a rainy Thursday night at Soldier Field. The Seahawks (9-7) pulled within a half-game of the NFC West-leading Los Angeles Rams (9-6). Seattle, which has already been eliminated from wild-card contention, is rooting for the Rams to lose to the visiting Arizona Cardinals on Saturday night. That would set up a winner-take-all finale between the Seahawks and Rams next weekend at SoFi Stadium. Seattle sacked Bears quarterback Caleb Williams seven times, allowed just 179 total yards and grabbed a game-clinching interception in the final seconds. Myers kicked a 27-yard field goal on the game's opening drive and added a 50-yarder with 21 seconds left in the first half to make it 6-3. The Bears' Cairo Santos booted a 42-yard field goal with 2:32 left in the second quarter to tie the score at 3-all. The Seahawks were without starting running back Kenneth Walker III (ankle), who was placed on injured reserve earlier in the day. Zach Charbonnet rushed for a game-high 57 yards on 15 carries in his place, and Kenny McIntosh added 46 yards on seven attempts. Seattle quarterback Geno Smith, hobbled by a knee injury, completed 17 of 23 passes for 160 yards and didn't commit a turnover. The Bears (4-12) took their 10th consecutive loss, a streak that began when they allowed a Hail Mary on the last play in an 18-15 loss to the host Washington Commanders on Oct. 27. Williams finished 16 of 28 for 122 yards and the one pick. D'Andre Swift rushed for 53 yards on 12 attempts, and DJ Moore made six catches for 54 yards. It appeared Williams might lead the Bears to a late score, as he converted a pair of mid-range passes in the final 2:15. Facing an all-out blitz, he hit Moore for 14 yards on fourth-and-5 from Chicago's 35, then scrambled and found Rome Odunze between three defenders for a 15-yard gain on third-and-14. Facing fourth-and-10 with 20 seconds left from Seattle's 40, the Bears eschewed a potential tying 57-yard field-goal try, and Williams' wobbly pass under pressure from Coby Bryant's cornerback blitz was intercepted by Riq Woolen to seal the outcome. The fans at Soldier Field got one chance to cheer late in the third quarter. Cornerback Kyler Gordon dragged down Seattle tight end Pharaoh Brown after a 4-yard reception, got up with the ball and jogged 62 yards to the end zone with seemingly all the Seahawks thinking the play was over. Referee Scott Novak announced the call on the field was the ball came loose and raised his hands above his head to signal a touchdown, sending the fans into a frenzy, but a video review determined Gordon was down by contact after recovering the fumble. --Field Level Media
Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. president, Nobel winner, dies at 100(Excerpted from ‘The Aftermath of War’ by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Chris Turner; with permission from Seagull Books) The End of the War People had been told to put out flags. They did not. The war ended in indifference and anxiety. Nothing had changed in everyday life. The booming of the radio, the bold type of the newspapers were not able to persuade us. We would have liked some sort of marvel, a sign in the heavens, to prove to us that peace had written itself into things. A puny gun coughed on a boring summer’s afternoon. People went by on the bridges and in the streets with lifeless eyes, busy with their chronic hunger and their own concerns. How are we, with our empty stomachs, to rejoice at the end of this war that just goes on ending and which, after ravaging our land, has gone off to die at the back of beyond, around those islands whose name reminds us of double almonds and family betting games. And what an abstract end. There may, it seems, be turmoil in Japan; the Japanese army is counter-attacking in Manchuria and the emperor and his captains speak of impending revenge; the Chinese are on the verge of civil war. And, in the background, immense emergent powers eye each other with some surprise and a formal coldness, weighing each other up and keeping a respectful distance, like those wrestlers who rapidly stroke each other’s forearms and shoulders before coming to grips. Yet certain men in their offices have decided the war is over. One of them announces it, speaking at a microphone, a piece of paper in his hand. To believe him, we would have had not to have learned to disbelieve the words of men who come to microphones with pieces of paper in their hands. It is not that one dares imagine he is lying. One merely thinks this whole business of war and peace unfolds at a certain level of truth: the truth of historical declarations, military parades and commemorative ceremonies. People look at each other with a vague sense of disappointment: is this all that Peace is? It isn’t Peace. Peace is a beginning. We are living through death throes. For a long time we thought War and Peace were two clearly distinct entities, like Black and White or Hot and Cold. It wasn’t true and today we know it. Between 1934 and 1939, we learned that Peace can end without war breaking out. We are familiar with the exquisite subtleties of armed neutrality, intervention and pre-belligerency. The movement from peace to war in our century is a matter of continuous gradations. On the most optimistic view, we are going to have to go through this process in the opposite direction. Today, 20 August 1945, in this deserted, starving Paris, the War has ended but Peace has not begun. Peace seemed to us like a return. A return of the roaring twenties, a return of French prosperity and greatness. In wartime, people always look forward to the peace of their youth: they confuse youth and peace. It is always a different peace that comes. The one that is vaguely in the air now, beyond the final storms, is an enormous world peace, in which France has only a very small place. The little gun that was coughing the other afternoon confirmed France’s slide—and that of Europe. A verdict delivered at the other end of the earth told us that the time of our shame and pain was at an end. All that remained was to say ‘thank you’. That meant we had to rebuild France, taking account of its new limitations. The veil of illusion that had masked its real level of importance for fifty years had been torn at the very moment of Japanese capitulation. We men of forty have been saying for some time that France has, above all, to resign itself to playing a minor role. But we are so used to seeing it in major ones that we speak of it not as an ageing actress, but as a star who, for some moral reason, would have to agree for a time to pass incognito. However, a more austere younger generation is coming up behind us, a generation better suited to the new tasks, because it has known only a humiliated France. These young people are the men of the Peace. We were the men of a lost battle, of a war that is fizzling out. Will we be stragglers in the coming years; will we be lost souls? This war’s end is also a little bit our own or, at least, it is the end of our youth. We believed, on no evidential basis, that peace was the natural state and substance of the universe, that war was merely a temporary agitation of its surface. Today we recognize our error: the end of the war is quite sim- ply the end of this war. The future has not yet begun: we no longer believe in the end of wars; and we are so used to the sound of arms, so benumbed by our injuries and hunger, that we no longer even quite manage wholly to wish for it. If someone told us tomorrow that a new conflict had broken out, we would say, with a resigned shrug, ‘That’s only to be expected.’ Moreover, among the best of men, I find a silent consent to war, something like a commitment to the full tragedy of the human condition.Robert Way Alibaba ( NYSE: BABA ) is a company that is significantly undervalued, and some of this discounting is warranted due to geopolitical concerns and a slowdown in their core TTG segment. However, management is actively investing in their business and repurchasing shares Analyst’s Disclosure: I/we have a beneficial long position in the shares of BABA either through stock ownership, options, or other derivatives. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. 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For the first time, private sector banks as a group met priority sector lending targets including sub-targets for major heads in 2023-24, particularly in agriculture, showed central bank data. Although all bank groups managed to achieve their stipulated overall targets and sub targets, private sector banks did better than public sector counterparts. ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? India's car race: How far EVs went in 2024 Investing in 2025: Six wealth management trends to watch out for For public sector, private and foreign banks, the target is 40% of adjusted net bank credit (ANBC) or credit equivalent of off-balance sheet exposure (CEOBE), whichever is higher, for small finance banks the target is higher at 75%. One of the reasons for the private sector to achieve their priority sector target Is that these banks are now allowed to invest in priority sector lending certificates (PSLCs). These are issued against banks’ priority sector loans under various sub-targets and general categories. Banks use PSLCs to guard against shortfalls. The total trading volume of PSLCs climbed 26% in FY24 , primarily led by PSLC-General. Among the four PSLC categories, the small and marginal farmers category registered the highest trading volume, partly reflecting specialisation by a few banks in lending to this category of borrowers and the inability of other banks to meet sub-targets through direct lending, the RBI said in its report on Trends and Progress of Banking. In the past five years, private sector banks have emerged as major sellers of PSLCs. In FY24, they accounted for 49% of total sales as compared with 21% in the case of PSBs, the RBI said. 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