Dylan Hernández: MLS deal with Apple TV could be hurting league's efforts to grow its fan baseBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Tommy Mellott threw for 300 yards and four touchdowns and top-seeded Montana State tied a school record with its 13th straight win, dominating Tennessee-Martin 49-17 on Saturday in the second round of the FCS playoffs. Scottre Humphrey ran for 102 yards and a touchdown, one of three rushing touchdowns for the Bobcats (13-0), who are home next weekend against the winner of Saturday's late game between Lehigh and eighth-seeded Idaho. MSU, which has scored at least 30 points in every game this season, won 13 games in 1975-76. Mellott threw for 178 yards and three touchdowns in the first half and the Bobcats rolled to a 28-10 lead. Mellott had touchdown passes of 24 yards to Hunter Provience and 12 yards to Taco Dowler in the first quarter and 39 yards to Ty McCullouch in the second. McCullouch also had a 6-yard touchdown run. The pass to McCullouch ended a six-play, 73-yard drive that took just 53 seconds, and came immediately after Trevonte Rucker took a pass from Kinkead Dent 78 yards to the end zone that made it 21-10. The Bobcats only allowed only 10 total points in the first half of home games in the regular season. Humphrey had a 36-yard TD run and Mellott hit Dowler for a 29-yard score in the third quarter Adam Jones contributed a 30-yard scoring run in the fourth. Mellott finished 22-of-25 passing and the Bobcats had 501 total yards. Dent threw for 167 yards and two touchdowns, both to Rucker, who had six receptions for 107 yards. The Skyhawks (9-6) finished with 264 yards. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football . Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://apnews.com/cfbtop25

OTB hotel expansion delayedCIBC Asset Management Inc acquired a new position in Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. ( NASDAQ:ITCI – Free Report ) during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund acquired 2,806 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock, valued at approximately $205,000. Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies by 1.4% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 9,225,981 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $638,438,000 after acquiring an additional 131,679 shares in the last quarter. CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co boosted its stake in shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies by 106.0% during the 1st quarter. CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co now owns 17,023 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $1,178,000 after buying an additional 8,760 shares during the last quarter. Natixis grew its position in shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies by 165.9% during the first quarter. Natixis now owns 3,733 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $258,000 after buying an additional 2,329 shares in the last quarter. Tidal Investments LLC increased its stake in shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies by 13.9% in the first quarter. Tidal Investments LLC now owns 3,698 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $256,000 after buying an additional 450 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Farallon Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in Intra-Cellular Therapies in the first quarter valued at $15,985,000. 92.33% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Insiders Place Their Bets In other Intra-Cellular Therapies news, CEO Sharon Mates sold 40,513 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $73.58, for a total transaction of $2,980,946.54. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 1,070,329 shares in the company, valued at approximately $78,754,807.82. The trade was a 3.65 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link . Also, President Michael Halstead sold 22,869 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $89.12, for a total transaction of $2,038,085.28. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . In the last quarter, insiders sold 97,778 shares of company stock worth $7,524,436. 2.60% of the stock is owned by company insiders. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth Check Out Our Latest Stock Report on ITCI Intra-Cellular Therapies Stock Performance Intra-Cellular Therapies stock opened at $85.69 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.08 billion, a P/E ratio of -98.49 and a beta of 0.97. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $79.05 and a 200-day simple moving average of $74.66. Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. has a one year low of $58.14 and a one year high of $93.45. Intra-Cellular Therapies ( NASDAQ:ITCI – Get Free Report ) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October 30th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.25) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.18) by ($0.07). Intra-Cellular Therapies had a negative return on equity of 9.93% and a negative net margin of 14.07%. The business had revenue of $175.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $172.30 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted ($0.25) earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 39.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. will post -0.64 earnings per share for the current year. About Intra-Cellular Therapies ( Free Report ) Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, clinical development, and commercialization of small molecule drugs that address medical needs primarily in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders by targeting intracellular signaling mechanisms in the central nervous system (CNS) in the United States. Read More Want to see what other hedge funds are holding ITCI? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. ( NASDAQ:ITCI – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Intra-Cellular Therapies Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Intra-Cellular Therapies and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Six healthy habits to add to your working day

Mark H. Tallman dedicated his life to collecting autographs from prominent politicians, dignitaries and celebrities, accumulating signatures from nearly every American president and other historical figures, including Adolf Hitler and Walt Disney. Now, Tallman's impressive collection of autographs has found a new home at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Tallman, Mark Tallman donated dozens of items — photos, letters, books and more — with the famed signatures to the university library archives before his death earlier this year in January. "It's really unique materials that really don't exist elsewhere, and may not necessarily exist in Nebraska in regard to our own history," said Mary Ellen Ducey, a university archivist and special collections librarian. People are also reading... The autograph collection wasn't the only thing the Lincoln man left behind. Tallman's $7 million estate was recently gifted to the Lincoln Community Foundation to be shared with seven local organizations over the next 10 years. Ducey met Tallman through the University of Nebraska Foundation and spent time with him discussing why he collected the autographs and wanted to donate them to the university. "You (could) just kind of sense the enthusiasm and you kind of get caught up in it," Ducey said. After receiving the donations in the fall of 2023, Ducey took inventory, recording what each item was, who it was signed by and for whom, and the date. The collection contains signatures from 41 of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, including George Washington. Other signatures include those from Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, Warren Buffett, Booker T. Washington, Neil Armstrong, Hitler, Disney and more. The collection also contains two atlases. The majority of the items are dated from 1783 to 1997. Signatures can be found on photographs, letters, presidential pardons, books, financial papers and other documents. "Most of the things that Mark had given us were in really nice frames, and he had taken the time to put them into UV-protected glass, which means that the glass will protect the items from sun and just make them really look beautiful in their frame," Ducey said. Washington's autograph is on a ship passage addressed to Robert Stanley, a ship commander, in English, French and German, sent on March 2, 1794. Abraham Lincoln's signature can be found on a framed piece of paper when Lincoln appointed the secretary of the territory of Dakota in 1861. Richard Nixon's signature is on his resignation letter to Henry Kissinger from 1974. The Tallman collection can be accessed online at archives.nebraska.edu . Ducey is unsure of how he obtained all the autographs. She said Tallman had a friend who helped him find items and Tallman would determine whether he wanted to buy them or not. "The fact that we can see some of the materials and the people that were influential in United States history and national experiences is pretty cool to have here," Ducey said. Ducey said these autographs open up new doors for understanding history. "What's important to me is you can go in and say, 'OK, I've got this card, I've got this program, I've got this signature,' and it's going to tell me a story by looking at it, but then it's also going to be a prompt for letting me see what else I can explore about this person, this event, this document and how that kind of broadens your horizons and leads to new research, new ways of thinking, or solidifies something that you may have thought when you're doing research." Download the new Journal Star News Mobile App Top Journal Star photos for December 2024 Volunteers from Raymond Community Church, including Monty Woodward (from left), Wayne Anderson, Linda Feiler, Krista and Chuck Kohles dish out chicken noodle soup into meal boxes on Wednesday at the Gathering Place Soup Kitchen. The Gathering Place has seen an 87.5% increase in free, nightly meals served since the pandemic started. Nebraska players celebrate after a kill by Andi Jackson (bottom right) during the first set of a NCAA Final Four match on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. Sen. Tom Brandt of Plymouth unrolls a round bale on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, in Plymouth. Lincoln Police Department graduates Kaitlyn Wiersma (from left), Joshua Woolfington, Chase Adams, Shawn Woods, Jillian Boysen, Sebastian Arrubla and Jeremiah McDowell listen during the first mixed LPD & LSO academy graduation on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, at Lincoln Southeast Community College. 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Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has confirmed the government will pull a controversial Bill attempting to combat misinformation and disinformation after the Opposition and the Greens vowed to oppose it. The Bill, which aimed to combat seriously harmful content on digital platforms will be scrapped in the Senate after the government realised there was “no pathway to legislate this proposal through the Senate”. The proposed legislation was also opposed by a wide-ranging group of community groups, free speech organisations and religious groups over concerns it would harm free speech, with stakeholders questioning how the definition of truth would be enforced. Despite the setback, Ms Rowland said there needed to be “safeguards” to protect Australians from misinformation and disinformation, and urged MPs and senators to work with Labor on alternative concessions. “Mis-and disinformation is an evolving threat and no single action is a perfect solution, but we must continue to improve safeguards to ensure digital platforms offer better protections for Australians,” she said. She listed alternative proposals like legislation to strengthen offences targeting the sharing of non-consensual and sexually explicit deep fakes, a proposal to enforce truth in political advertising for elections, and stronger regulations around artificial intelligence. Greens’ communications spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said that while the intent behind the Bill was “well-meaning,” the proposed laws were “badly and poorly explained and implemented”. She’s called for stronger regulation, which would target “dangerous algorithms” and heavy financial penalties for social media companies. “We’ve got to get back to the real problem, and that is how these companies profit off these dangerous posts. If you want to stop the dangerous posts spreading like wildfire, hit them where it hurts, and that’s the dollar,” she told the ABC. Shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash said the Bill was an attempt to “censor free speech”. “This Bill is not about misinformation and disinformation... This Bill is about the Albanese government giving bureaucrats the ability to say whether what you and I say is misinformation or disinformation,” she told Sky.

By BILL BARROW, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said. A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed hostage rescue in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter acknowledged in his 2020 “White House Diary” that he could be “micromanaging” and “excessively autocratic,” complicating dealings with Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He also turned a cold shoulder to Washington’s news media and lobbyists, not fully appreciating their influence on his political fortunes. “It didn’t take us long to realize that the underestimation existed, but by that time we were not able to repair the mistake,” Carter told historians in 1982, suggesting that he had “an inherent incompatibility” with Washington insiders. Carter insisted his overall approach was sound and that he achieved his primary objectives — to “protect our nation’s security and interests peacefully” and “enhance human rights here and abroad” — even if he fell spectacularly short of a second term. Ignominious defeat, though, allowed for renewal. The Carters founded The Carter Center in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind base of operations, asserting themselves as international peacemakers and champions of democracy, public health and human rights. “I was not interested in just building a museum or storing my White House records and memorabilia,” Carter wrote in a memoir published after his 90th birthday. “I wanted a place where we could work.” That work included easing nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiating cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, The Carter Center had declared at least 113 elections in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be free or fraudulent. Recently, the center began monitoring U.S. elections as well. Carter’s stubborn self-assuredness and even self-righteousness proved effective once he was unencumbered by the Washington order, sometimes to the point of frustrating his successors . He went “where others are not treading,” he said, to places like Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had wandered across the border in 2010. “I can say what I like. I can meet whom I want. I can take on projects that please me and reject the ones that don’t,” Carter said. He announced an arms-reduction-for-aid deal with North Korea without clearing the details with Bill Clinton’s White House. He openly criticized President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also criticized America’s approach to Israel with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And he repeatedly countered U.S. administrations by insisting North Korea should be included in international affairs, a position that most aligned Carter with Republican President Donald Trump. Among the center’s many public health initiatives, Carter vowed to eradicate the guinea worm parasite during his lifetime, and nearly achieved it: Cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to nearly a handful. With hardhats and hammers, the Carters also built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Nobel committee’s 2002 Peace Prize cites his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter should have won it alongside Sadat and Begin in 1978, the chairman added. Carter accepted the recognition saying there was more work to be done. “The world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place,” he said. “The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.” Carter’s globetrotting took him to remote villages where he met little “Jimmy Carters,” so named by admiring parents. But he spent most of his days in the same one-story Plains house — expanded and guarded by Secret Service agents — where they lived before he became governor. He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the small sanctuary where Carter will receive his final send-off after a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral. The common assessment that he was a better ex-president than president rankled Carter and his allies. His prolific post-presidency gave him a brand above politics, particularly for Americans too young to witness him in office. But Carter also lived long enough to see biographers and historians reassess his White House years more generously. His record includes the deregulation of key industries, reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign oil, cautious management of the national debt and notable legislation on the environment, education and mental health. He focused on human rights in foreign policy, pressuring dictators to release thousands of political prisoners . He acknowledged America’s historical imperialism, pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders and relinquished control of the Panama Canal. He normalized relations with China. “I am not nominating Jimmy Carter for a place on Mount Rushmore,” Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy director, wrote in a 2018 book. “He was not a great president” but also not the “hapless and weak” caricature voters rejected in 1980, Eizenstat said. Rather, Carter was “good and productive” and “delivered results, many of which were realized only after he left office.” Madeleine Albright, a national security staffer for Carter and Clinton’s secretary of state, wrote in Eizenstat’s forward that Carter was “consequential and successful” and expressed hope that “perceptions will continue to evolve” about his presidency. “Our country was lucky to have him as our leader,” said Albright, who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter should be remembered for “an epic American life” spanning from a humble start in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing through decades on the world stage across two centuries. “He will likely go down as one of the most misunderstood and underestimated figures in American history,” Alter told The Associated Press. James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains and spent his early years in nearby Archery. His family was a minority in the mostly Black community, decades before the civil rights movement played out at the dawn of Carter’s political career. Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery’s tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery. His mother, Lillian , would become a staple of his political campaigns. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — Carter won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains. His decision angered Rosalynn, even as she dived into the peanut business alongside her husband. Carter again failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions — but this time, she was on board. “My wife is much more political,” Carter told the AP in 2021. He won a state Senate seat in 1962 but wasn’t long for the General Assembly and its back-slapping, deal-cutting ways. He ran for governor in 1966 — losing to arch-segregationist Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. Carter had spoken out against church segregation as a Baptist deacon and opposed racist “Dixiecrats” as a state senator. Yet as a local school board leader in the 1950s he had not pushed to end school segregation even after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration. And in 1970, Carter ran for governor again as the more conservative Democrat against Carl Sanders, a wealthy businessman Carter mocked as “Cufflinks Carl.” Sanders never forgave him for anonymous, race-baiting flyers, which Carter disavowed. Ultimately, Carter won his races by attracting both Black voters and culturally conservative whites. Once in office, he was more direct. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he declared in his 1971 inaugural address, setting a new standard for Southern governors that landed him on the cover of Time magazine. His statehouse initiatives included environmental protection, boosting rural education and overhauling antiquated executive branch structures. He proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the slain civil rights leader’s home state. And he decided, as he received presidential candidates in 1972, that they were no more talented than he was. In 1974, he ran Democrats’ national campaign arm. Then he declared his own candidacy for 1976. An Atlanta newspaper responded with the headline: “Jimmy Who?” The Carters and a “Peanut Brigade” of family members and Georgia supporters camped out in Iowa and New Hampshire, establishing both states as presidential proving grounds. His first Senate endorsement: a young first-termer from Delaware named Joe Biden. Yet it was Carter’s ability to navigate America’s complex racial and rural politics that cemented the nomination. He swept the Deep South that November, the last Democrat to do so, as many white Southerners shifted to Republicans in response to civil rights initiatives. A self-declared “born-again Christian,” Carter drew snickers by referring to Scripture in a Playboy magazine interview, saying he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” The remarks gave Ford a new foothold and television comedians pounced — including NBC’s new “Saturday Night Live” show. But voters weary of cynicism in politics found it endearing. Carter chose Minnesota Sen. Walter “Fritz” Mondale as his running mate on a “Grits and Fritz” ticket. In office, he elevated the vice presidency and the first lady’s office. Mondale’s governing partnership was a model for influential successors Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Biden. Rosalynn Carter was one of the most involved presidential spouses in history, welcomed into Cabinet meetings and huddles with lawmakers and top aides. The Carters presided with uncommon informality: He used his nickname “Jimmy” even when taking the oath of office, carried his own luggage and tried to silence the Marine Band’s “Hail to the Chief.” They bought their clothes off the rack. Carter wore a cardigan for a White House address, urging Americans to conserve energy by turning down their thermostats. Amy, the youngest of four children, attended District of Columbia public school. Washington’s social and media elite scorned their style. But the larger concern was that “he hated politics,” according to Eizenstat, leaving him nowhere to turn politically once economic turmoil and foreign policy challenges took their toll. Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He designated millions of acres of Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and nonwhite people to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter left office. He built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. But he couldn’t immediately tame inflation or the related energy crisis. And then came Iran. After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the hostages broke down repeatedly ahead of the failed rescue attempt. The same year, Carter signed SALT II, the new strategic arms treaty with Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, only to pull it back, impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise” speech, although he didn’t use that word. He declared the nation was suffering “a crisis of confidence.” By then, many Americans had lost confidence in the president, not themselves. Carter campaigned sparingly for reelection because of the hostage crisis, instead sending Rosalynn as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Carter famously said he’d “kick his ass,” but was hobbled by Kennedy as Reagan rallied a broad coalition with “make America great again” appeals and asking voters whether they were “better off than you were four years ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, eviscerating him in their lone fall debate with the quip: “There you go again.” Carter lost all but six states and Republicans rolled to a new Senate majority. Carter successfully negotiated the hostages’ freedom after the election, but in one final, bitter turn of events, Tehran waited until hours after Carter left office to let them walk free. At 56, Carter returned to Georgia with “no idea what I would do with the rest of my life.” Four decades after launching The Carter Center, he still talked of unfinished business. “I thought when we got into politics we would have resolved everything,” Carter told the AP in 2021. “But it’s turned out to be much more long-lasting and insidious than I had thought it was. I think in general, the world itself is much more divided than in previous years.” Still, he affirmed what he said when he underwent treatment for a cancer diagnosis in his 10th decade of life. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said in 2015 . “I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” ___ Former Associated Press journalist Alex Sanz contributed to this report.

PRIME Minister Keir Starmer must stand by Ukraine even if Donald Trump waters down US support, a poll says. Brits want to see Vladimir Putin’s Russia beaten and do not want the UK to back a peace deal that is bad for Volodymyr Zelensky’s nation. It comes amid fears that President Elect Trump will pull American military aid to Ukraine. He wants to end the Ukraine war “within a day” but this could mean pressuring Volodymyr Zelensky to give up territory. And Brits are not confident in The Don’s ability to handle the Ukraine conflict. The poll by think tank More in Common found that 41 per cent are worried a Trump-negotiated deal is likely to favour Russia more. Just 13 per cent think Ukraine would benefit more and 19 per cent think it will favour both equally. If Mr Trump negotiates a deal that Ukraine opposes, Brits tend to think the UK should oppose the deal too. But the survey marking the war’s 1,000th day this week shows British support for Ukraine remains resolute. Most read in The Sun 69 per cent said it is important to the UK that Mr Zelensky defeats Putin’s invasion. Just nine per cent say it is not. Former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: “It’s not enough for the Prime Minister to cash in on the strong, cross society support for Ukraine. “He and Rachel Reeves must put their money where their mouth is and fund our efforts and the modernisation of our own Armed Forces properly. “The people of the UK want him to lead, Europe and Ukraine want him to lead so I urge him, for the security of all of us, to do so.” The poll of 2,000 adults found strong support for supplying Ukraine with British weapons - with almost half saying we had spent the right amount or too little on military aid. Ukraine fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at Russia for the first time this week. And 48 per cent of Brits say it should be up to Ukraine to decide how they use the weapons we have provided them. Most want the UK to back Ukraine until they have won back the territory they had at the start of the invasion. Read More on The US Sun Luke Tryl, UK Director of More in Common, said: “Over 1,000 days into the war Britons remain resolute in support of Ukraine and think that beating Putin matters. “They are also clear that Keir Starmer should not back a US negotiated peace deal that is bad for Ukraine and that the UK needs to continue its support for the invaded country.”NEW YORK (AP) — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a late-round game in another tournament for refusing to change out of jeans. Lamenting the contretemps, International Chess Federation President Arkady Dvorkovich said in a statement Sunday that he’d let World Blitz Championship tournament officials consider allowing “appropriate jeans” with a jacket, and other “elegant minor deviations” from the dress code. He said Carlsen’s stand — which culminated in his quitting the tournament Friday — highlighted a need for more discussion “to ensure that our rules and their application reflect the evolving nature of chess as a global and accessible sport.” Carlsen, meanwhile, said in a video posted Sunday on social media that he would play — and wear jeans — in the World Blitz Championship when it begins Monday. “I think the situation was badly mishandled on their side,” the 34-year-old Norwegian grandmaster said. But he added that he loves playing blitz — a fast-paced form of chess — and wanted fans to be able to watch, and that he was encouraged by his discussions with the federation after Friday’s showdown. “I think we sort of all want the same thing,” he suggested in the video on his Take Take Take chess app’s YouTube channel. “We want the players to be comfortable, sure, but also relatively presentable.” The events began when Carlsen wore jeans and a sportcoat Friday to the Rapid World Championship, which is separate from but held in conjunction with the blitz event. The chess federation said Friday that longstanding rules prohibit jeans at those tournaments, and players are lodged nearby to make sartorial switch-ups easy if needed. An official fined Carlsen $200 and asked him to change pants, but he refused and wasn’t paired for a ninth-round game, the federation said at the time. The organization noted that another grandmaster, Ian Nepomniachtchi, was fined earlier in the day for wearing sports shoes, changed and continued to play. Carlsen has said that he offered to wear something else the next day, but officials were unyielding. He said “it became a bit of a matter of principle,” so he quit the rapid and blitz championships. In the video posted Sunday, he questioned whether he had indeed broken a rule and said changing clothes would have needlessly interrupted his concentration between games. He called the punishment “unbelievably harsh.” “Of course, I could have changed. Obviously, I didn’t want to,” he said, and “I stand by that.”

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AS CHRISTMAS approaches, t he Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) has launched its annual appeal for families in Limerick and the Mid-West region seeking help. SVP expects calls for help this December will exceed 25,000, which was last year’s record. This year, on the 180th anniversary of the SVP in Ireland, the annual appeal is focused on providing help and hope to struggling parents in the Mid-West and across Ireland. Regional president Teresa Ryan said: “The calls for help to our office and local conferences (branches) continue to increase. “Our theme for this year, The Wonder of Christmas, reflects the questions our volunteers face most regularly in the run-up to Christmas, including: I wonder will I have enough for food and toys? I wonder do the kids know we are struggling? I wonder If we will ever get us out of it?, among other things.” READ MORE: New look Limerick Yearbook hits the shelves across the county this week She went on to say that despite the one-off payments made by the Government coming this month and next, many people will continue to struggle to meet basic family expenses. “Those hardest hit will include one parent-families, low-income workers, households on fixed social welfare incomes, low-income households in rural areas; people with disabilities and their carers,” Ms Ryan said. “That is why we are seeking donations to help families pay for food, heat their homes and ensure their children get a decent Christmas.” Ms Ryan is appealing to businesses to support local SVP branches and for community groups and schools to take part in this year’s Gift of Choice campaign or wear a Christmas jumper for SVP. She said that the public and corporate response SVP has been “magnificent in the past” and that they are hopeful of another very positive reaction this year. “There is a warmth towards the work of the Society that is obvious and welcome” she said. Anyone finding themselves in need this Christmas in the Mid-West and anyone seeking assistance for the first time should phone 061 317327 to have their request processed.

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