An online spat between factions of supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire and fellow entrepreneur and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump’s Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said were doing so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer’s comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar.” Musk and Ramaswamy, , weighed in, defending the tech industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump’s world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift. His presidential transition team did not respond to questions about positions on visas for highly skilled workers or the debate between his supporters online. Instead, his team instead sent a link to a post on X by longtime adviser and immigration hard-liner that was a transcript of a speech Trump gave in in which he praised figures and moments from American history. Musk, the world’s richest man who has , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump’s movement but his stance on the tech industry’s hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent,” he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump’s own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump’s businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country” and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country,” he told the “All-In” podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump’s budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes. Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press
NoneThiago Motta notes that Juventus followed their game plan perfectly to . ‘We played with heart and soul, but also our heads.’ The Bianconeri knew the pressure was on, as they were on eight points along with Manchester City going into this showdown. Both teams seem to be in crisis at the moment, but Juve emerged 2-0 winners in Turin thanks to Dusan Vlahovic’s header and a Weston McKennie volley to send them surging up the table. “We played with heart and soul, but also our heads, with the desire to do things the right way,” “We knew before the game that we’d have to defend deep a lot more than usual, but we did it together as a team. In attack, we also had to go together, strike at the right time, and that is what we did. “It is a deserved victory, the lads did well and we also had some players back from injury, which means our medical staff is working well to get players in good shape. Those who came off the bench gave a big hand to those who needed it.” McKennie was making his comeback from injury and the substitute went on to score the second goal for Juventus, but some were surprised he did not replace Teun Koopmeiners for a more defensive approach. “Weston can do everything,” assured Thiago Motta. “It is difficult to take Koop off at the best of times, because he directs the team and transmits things we need, when to press and when to stay solid. “Weston can do everything, he has unusual physicality, but also great technique, knows when to time his runs and can be even more dangerous when he comes in from behind, as we saw today and against PSV Eindhoven. “We are fortunate to have players with these qualities, because he can give us different alternatives during a match. I am happy for him and all the players this evening.” Manchester City are the reigning Premier League title holders and were expected to be among the Champions League favourites, but are now struggling to make the play-offs. “It was a very different match to Leipzig, for instance, with all due respect. We had to defend deeper, but the important thing was to attack in numbers when we won it back and get lots of bodies into the box, because if we have that, then Dusan doesn’t have all the focus on him,” continued Thiago Motta. “He can make the difference in the penalty area, which is what he did today.” Thiago Motta’s Juventus have struggled to find their identity so far this season, was this their best performance of his tenure so far? “They are all different. We can play more open against a team with very different characteristics to Manchester City. The emotion we felt tonight was probably the best, because we were here with our fans and games like this is why we do this job.” Juventus director Cristiano Giuntoli reiterated before kick-off that if they are to make any signings in January, they will be new defenders to replace Gleison Bremer and Juan Cabal. “The important thing is that we are in sync, we know what we want to do, what we need at this moment. We must maintain the same philosophy and now concentrate on the next match, proving ourselves just the same way in every game,” concluded Motta.None
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Jon M. Chu counted himself a fan of “ Wicked ” long before he was hired to direct the big-budget movie adaptation of the popular Broadway musical. So it was a question of where, not if, he should pay homage to Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, who originated the stage roles of Elphaba and Glinda, in the two-part film, the first of which landed in theaters on Nov. 22. After much deliberation among Oz’s powers that be, it was decided they would appear in the movie as the stars of Wizomania, an expanded show within the show that plays out when Elphaba ( Cynthia Erivo ) and Glinda ( Ariana Grande ) visit the Emerald City during the song “One Short Day.” “I told them, ‘I want you to experience for the first time what you gave us.’ I saw Idina and Kristin as they were workshopping the show at the Curran Theatre [in 2003]. I’ll never forget being blown away by their performances,” Chu recalls, lounging on the couch at Manhattan’s Bowery Hotel in an appropriately green sweater. “When they were on set, I think reality hit them and it was very full circle for them.” “Wicked,” which introduced such classics as “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “For Good” into the Broadway pantheon, recounts everything that happens before Dorothy lands in Oz and saunters down that iconic Yellow Brick Road. The story takes place before, during and after “The Wizard of Oz” and charts the unlikely friendship of the green-skinned Elphaba (later known as the Wicked Witch of the West) and the perky, pink-loving Glinda (eventually dubbed Glinda the Good). “Part One” chronicles their time together at Shiz University, where they are forced to be roommates and eventually become besties. The second movie, which debuts on Nov. 21, 2025, picks up after Elphaba is fully in control of her powers and has been declared an enemy of the state by the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh). As “Wicked: Part One” opens on the big screen, Chu indulged Variety in a spoiler-filled chat about Menzel and Chenoweth’s cameos, sacred lines that were (and weren’t) cut from the script... and whether we’ll see more of Dorothy in “Part Two.” “ Wicked” was originally being developed as one movie. What did those earlier versions look like? When I walked in, everyone was already in high-octane mode of debating: Do we need to do this in two movies? Other scripts that were trying to fit it into one movie were stripping many songs and changing the story in ways that didn’t quite make logical, emotional sense. You can get away with that on stage, but movie audiences are tougher. As we picked apart every script, I would ask certain questions that opened a lot of discussion. It became inevitable that we had to commit to two movies. I imagine it didn’t take convincing to get Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in the movie. But how did you find the right moment to include them? They weren’t just going to come to do whatever . Our inner circle thought of all sorts of things to present to them. Does Kristin play Glinda’s mom? Are they one of the people who says “The Wizard will see you now”? It always felt underwhelming. We had to give them something big. We had this section in “Wizomania” that needed backstory that we didn’t need in the show: What is the Grimmerie? And an understanding of how the Wizard came to Oz. I was like, ‘What if we do this section as a play? It was supposed to be an amusement park ride like “It’s a Small World,” which was a fun concept. But if it’s a show, then it’s sort of meta. Idina and Kristin play the two most famous actors in Oz. They get to be glamorous and people get to applaud them. Stephen Schwartz immediately knew what to do and added Idina’s Elphaba war cry and interplay of pushing each other out of the way. It’s fun playing off the lore of two mega stars in the show . Some quotable lines and lyrics, like “we’ll be late for Wizomania,” were cut. Were those difficult decisions given how intimately fans know the show? When you don’t have a live audience to play off, some of the comedy doesn’t quite work. I remember when Ari read that we didn’t have the line “the Wizard will see you now!” There was a reason for it; they were more progressed in the geography. In rehearsals, we didn’t have it and every time that moment would happen, they would sing it anyway. Ari was like, “I promise you, we have to have it.” So I was like, “OK, let me figure it out. We built it in so there are two entrances now, but it was worth it.” There were debates all the time. In the beginning, when Glinda says “It’s good to see me, isn’t it?,” in the show she says, “No need to answer. That’s rhetorical.” But in the movie when she said the line, the joke didn’t land. Not because of the way she performed it. But because there’s no audience to give the feedback for it. We put fake Ozian reactions, but it was too meta, too early. That was a scary one to cut because it’s like a Bible line. Why did you include a “The Wizard of Oz” homage with Dorothy, the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion walking down the Yellow Brick Road? “The Wizard of Oz” is potentially a dream. It’s a world where there are no real stakes. Knowing that Elphaba and Glinda live in a world of real stakes, we had to reestablish with the audience that this was real. So we dropped everyone into the crime scene, maybe the most famous crime scene ever in cinema and literature, of the iconic hat in the puddle. We see the full landscape of Oz. It’s this living, breathing place with real cultures, so we immediately establish this is not a dream world. Seeing those four characters also triggers something in your mind; you connect those characters with this place. And we will revisit those characters in movie two. Will Dorothy be a character in “Part Two”? In the show, Dorothy is around. They have to intersect, and you can only tease it so much. I won’t say whether she’s a character, necessarily, in movie two. There’s a part of me that wants everyone’s Dorothy to be the whatever Dorothy they want. And yet, there is interaction and some crossover. So I’ll leave that up to “Part Two.” Is it true that MGM has the copyright to the Yellow Brick Road and the ruby slippers? Did you need permission to reference them? We had boundaries of what we could reference or not. We never use the ruby slippers. Nessa has on crystal slippers as in the Frank L. Baum book, Gregory Maguire book and the show. I don’t think the phrase “yellow brick road” is copywritten, but definitely the shape of the road is. We couldn’t do the spiral. We had to do a circle that continues to show it’s not where the road ends. How did you decide where to add new characters and expand the plot? We moved backward from “Defying Gravity.” What is Elphaba’s superpower? Her superpower is her relationship with nature and gravity. OK, so then you need to know more about her growing up. We added a scene where she’s young. Is it because she’s green or she has this power that everyone’s scared of her? It’s a bit muddy in the show. It has to be because of her power and her green. So then we had to show the power. So when she’s born, everything flies up. She expresses her frustrations and anxiety through this relationship with gravity. When she’s a kid and she’s bullied, she doesn’t know how to control it yet. We also see that Glinda says “I know that was you down there” to Elphaba [about her powers] even though everyone believed Madame Morrible. It shows Glinda is actually smart and aware. She’s not this ditzy character. Those things were important to build characters. You also have to show passage of time, which is hard to do in the show and took space to do. When first-look images of the film were released, people on social media were vocal about those photos being dark. Yes. Tell them to turn up their brightness on their phone! I was curious about your reaction, knowing the movie is bright and colorful and not necessarily reflective of those pictures. I chose those images specifically. It was so early, and we had just started shooting. I wanted images that were evocative and provocative to show it’s not some bright, poppy story. We didn’t even have the effects done. The background was blue. I had to have VFX put in the sky. I was coloring it on my iPhone. We’re not doing this through a real process. I love playing in the shadows, but I did have my iPhone brightness very high. When I released the photos, literally from my iPhone, I realized, “Oh, everybody really doesn’t turn up their brightness that high.” I felt bad because I did that. There was no going through the studio. How did you decide how to stage and slow down parts of “Defying Gravity”? The nightmare of my life has been thinking about “Defying Gravity.” In the show, it’s very fast. She walks [away from] Wizard and goes into “I hope you’re happy.” It goes so fast that it doesn’t feel like the end of the movie and it doesn’t feel earned. Her whole journey leads to this. Doing it live was helpful. I didn’t know how long it would be until they acted those lines. We can’t add more words to “Defying Gravity.” So, what if when she thinks she’s ready to fly, she’s not, and she falls? That changed things for us. It was very scary. The whole time I was like, “OK, we’ll test this and see how offended people are by this.” We definitely crunched it in to not spread it out so much. My own brain was like, “I just want to make sure the fast version isn’t actually working now.” We did those versions too, and we’re like, “No, we actually need all of this. This is much bigger than just a song. This is about the ending of a movie and journey of a character that we’ve invested in it so much.” [Producer] Marc Platt was like, “Wow, you’re really breaking the song up....” We had those moments. We kicked the tires up all the time. There was not one stone unturned, not one thing that we did not question, because we knew how important this was. That’s why it kept me up at night. Is there a number you felt benefitted going from stage to screen? “Something Bad” is hard to do on stage. It’s in the classroom, and Dr. Dillamond has nothing to do. So this idea that they were having a secret meeting with all these animals, and the animals were not upright, creepy human animals, but actually animals, help us empathize with them more. There’s a community that’s being affected by this, and they’ve been keeping a secret record of all these incidents that are happening. There’s a darker underbelly to Oz. Marketing for “Wicked” has been next level. How will you sustain the momentum for “Part Two” in November 2025? I don’t know, but “Part Two,” I will say because I’ve cut “Part Two” together, is a doozy. You getting the meat. I did not know the context of where we’d be in society right now. It becomes eight times more relevant than before when you’re talking about truth and consequences of making the right or wrong choices. It’s intense.Daily Post Nigeria Tinubu didn’t seek NASS approval for N150m presidential jet — Abaribe Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport News Tinubu didn’t seek NASS approval for N150m presidential jet — Abaribe Published on November 25, 2024 By Seun Opejobi Abia South senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe, on Monday said President Bola Tinubu never sought the approval of the National Assembly before purchasing a new presidential jet. Abaribe said he never saw any document from the presidency seeking the National Assembly’s approval for a new presidential jet. In August, President Tinubu acquired a new presidential jet and this was confirmed by his senior aide, Bayo Onanuga. The Airbus A330 procured at the rate of N150 billion replaced the 19-year-old Boeing B737-700 acquired under former President Olusegun Obasanjo. 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KyKy Tandy scored a season-high 21 points that included a key 3-pointer in a late second-half surge as Florida Atlantic roared back to beat Oklahoma State 86-78 on Thursday in the opening round of the Charleston Classic in Charleston, S.C. Florida Atlantic (4-2) advances to play Drake in the semifinal round on Friday while the Cowboys square off against Miami in the consolation semifinal contest, also Friday. Oklahoma State led by as many as 10 points in the first half before securing a five-point advantage at halftime. The Owls surged back and moved in front with four and a half minutes to play. It was part of an 11-1 run, capped by a 3-pointer from Tandy that made it 75-68 with 2:41 remaining. Ken Evans added 14 points for Florida Atlantic, with Leland Walker hitting for 13 and Tre Carroll scoring 11. The Owls went 35-of-49 from the free throw line as the teams combined for 56 fouls in the game, 33 by Oklahoma State. Khalil Brantley led Oklahoma State (3-1) with 16 points while Robert Jennings added 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Cowboys, who hit one field goal over a 10-minute stretch of the second half while having three players foul out. The Owls were up by as many as seven points in the early minutes and by 13-10 after a layup by Carroll at the 11:32 mark of the first half. Oklahoma State leapfrogged to the front on Abou Ousmane's layup off a Brantley steal, fell behind again on a 3-pointer by Evans and then responded on a 3-pointer by Jennings to take a 17-16 lead. From there, the Cowboys stoked their advantage to double digits when Jamyron Keller canned a shot from beyond the arc with five minutes to play in the half. Florida Atlantic got a layup and a monster dunk from Matas Vokietaitis and a pair of free throws from Walker in a 6-2 run to end the half to pull within 39-34 at the break. Jennings and Ousmane tallied seven points apiece for Oklahoma State over the first 20 minutes, as the Cowboys led despite shooting just 33.3 percent from the floor in the half. Carroll and Vokietaitis scored seven points apiece to pace the Owls, who committed 11 turnovers that translated to seven points for Oklahoma State before halftime. --Field Level Media
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NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Penny chose not to testify and defense lawyers rested their case Friday at his trial in the death of an agitated man he choked on a subway train. Closing arguments are expected after Thanksgiving in the closely watched manslaughter case about the death of Jordan Neely , 30. The encounter between Penny, a white Marine veteran, and Neely, a homeless Black man with mental health and drug problems, has been drawn into U.S. political divides over race, public safety and cities’ ability to handle mental illness and social ills. Penny, 26, has pleaded not guilty. Many criminal defendants don't take the stand, and juries are routinely instructed that they cannot hold defendants' silence — a constitutional right — against them. One of Penny’s lawyers, Daniel Kenniff, noted after court that jurors did hear from Penny, in the form of his recorded statements to police minutes and hours after he put Neely in a chokehold. “Virtually everything he said then is consistent with credible testimony of his fellow passengers," Kenniff said. Penny told police that he wrapped his arm around Neely's neck, took him to the floor and “put him out” because he was angrily throwing things and making threatening comments. Penny said on police video that he hadn't wanted to injure Neely but rather to keep him from hurting anyone else. A number of other passengers testified that they were scared of Neely and relieved that Penny grabbed hold of him. A man who later stepped in and held down Neely's arms, however, told jurors that he urged Penny to let go but that the veteran kept choking Neely for a time. Prosecutors say Penny meant to protect people but recklessly used too much force, overlooking Neely's humanity and making no effort to spare his life. City medical examiners ruled that the chokehold killed Neely. A pathologist hired by Penny's defense disputed that finding . Prosecutors, defense lawyers and the judge are set to meet Monday to hash out jury instructions.Domain Name System (DNS) Service Market to Exhibit a Remarkable CAGR of 11.70% by 2031, Size, Share, Trends, Key Drivers, Demand, Opportunity Analysis and Competitive Outlook 12-11-2024 09:53 PM CET | Advertising, Media Consulting, Marketing Research Press release from: Data Bridge Market Research Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the global domain name system (DNS) service market which was USD 450.15 million in 2023, is expected to reach USD 1,090.90 million by 2031 and is expected to undergo a CAGR of 11.70% during the forecast period of 2024 to 2031. A domain name system is defined as a signpost for websites on the internet. It is a user-friendly name, such as "google.com," that a user type into a browser to visit a website. Domain names help people to find and remember websites easily, acting as an address for locating specific web pages and online services. Browse More About This Research Report @ https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/global-dns-service-market Some of the major players operating in the domain name system (DNS) service market report are Allied Telesis, Inc. (U.S.), BlueCat Networks (Canada), Cisco Systems Inc. (U.S.), Cloudflare, Inc. (U.S.), Comodo Security Solutions, Inc. (U.S.), DigiCert, Inc. (U.S.), Efficient IP (U.S.), Mission Secure Inc . (U.S.), F5, Inc. (U.S.), IBM Corporation (U.S.), Infoblox. (U.S.), INSIGHT (U.S.), Akamai Technologies (India), ThreatSTOP (U.S.), Verigio Inc. (U.S.), and VeriSign Inc. (U.S.) among others. 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Special counsel moves to dismiss election interference and classified documents cases against Trump WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the criminal charges against President-elect Donald Trump that accused him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and to abandon the classified documents case against him. In court filings on Monday, the prosecutors cited longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. The decision by Smith, who had fiercely sought to hold Trump criminally accountable for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election, represented the end of the federal effort against the former president who firmly won election this month despite the election-related cases and multiple other unrelated criminal charges against him, and is headed back to the White House. Israel launches new airstrikes on Lebanon as leaders draw closer to ceasefire with Hezbollah BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes are hitting Lebanon with airstrikes as negotiations progress toward a ceasefire between the country and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants. Lebanon reported that at least 12 people were killed Monday as explosions lit up the sky and airstrikes hit targets in Beirut and Tyre, a southern port city. After about a year of exchanging low-level attacks across the Israel-Lebanon border with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, Israeli troops launched a ground invasion of Lebanon in October. More than 3,700 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced since. The fighting has amplified worries about direct conflict between Israel and Iran. International mediators are seeking to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to end the fighting. What's blocking a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah? BEIRUT (AP) — Diplomats and other officials say there have been several sticking points in ceasefire talks in the war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, even as conditions for an agreement appear to be ripe. Israel’s military has killed nearly all of the militant group’s top leaders. Tens of thousands of Israelis who were evacuated from the border months ago are pressuring their government to go home. And the world wants to stop regional conflict from spreading after more than a year of fighting. But there remain sticking points over how Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the border area will be monitored and whether Israel will have freedom to strike the militants. Thanksgiving Travel Latest: Airport strikes, staffing and weather could impact holiday travelers Airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end with another record day for air travel in the United States. AAA predicts that nearly 80 million Americans will venture at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday and next Monday, most of them by car. However, travelers could be impacted by ongoing weather challenges and those flying to their destinations could be grounded by delays brought on by airline staffing shortages and an airport service workers strike. Scuffles in Serbian parliament as deadly station collapse sparks anger at the government BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Scuffles and fistfights broke out between ruling party and opposition lawmakers in Serbia’s parliament on Monday over a deadly rail station roof collapse that has ignited tensions in the Balkan state. The opposition wanted to discuss who is responsible for the crash that killed 15 people in the northern city of Novi Sad on Nov. 1. The collapse has fueled widespread anger toward the government and protests, becoming a flashpoint for broader dissatisfaction with Serbia’s authoritarian rule. Should sex abuse evidence set the Menendez brothers free? A judge will decide LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge will decide whether new evidence warrants a re-examination of the convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez in the shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home more than 30 years ago. The court is holding a hearing Monday for a habeas corpus petition filed by the brothers' attorneys last May. The brothers were convicted of killing their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 and sentenced to life without parole after prosecutors said they did it for money. Their defense attorneys say new evidence of sex abuse by their father should set them free. Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to graphic cigarette warning labels WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a federal requirement that cigarette packages and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking. The high court declined to hear the case in a brief written order handed down Monday. The warnings include pictures of smoke-damaged lungs and feet blackened by diminished blood flow. Nearly 120 countries around the world have already adopted graphic warning labels. It’s not clear when new labels might appear in the U.S., however. Some legal claims remain and the FDA has said it doesn’t plan to enforce any new requirements until December 2025. Russia reportedly captures a Briton fighting for Ukraine as Russian troops advance Reports say the Russian military has captured a Briton fighting with Ukrainian troops who have occupied part of Russia’s Kursk region. Russia also began launching daylight drone attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine and its ground forces accelerated gains along parts of the front line. Russian state news agency Tass says the captured fighter was in the British army for four years and then joined the International Legion of Ukraine, formed early on in the nearly 3-year-old war. On the battlefield, a think tank says Russian forces recently have gained ground at “a significantly quicker rate” than they did in the whole of last year. Over 18,000 in Mexico register to run for Supreme Court seats and federal judges in new system MEXICO CITY (AP) — Over 18,000 people in Mexico have registered online to run for Supreme Court seats and federal judgeships in the country’s contentious new selection process. But officials say a random drawing in the end will determine who gets on the ballot. The ruling party pushed through a constitutional reform in September to make all federal judges stand for election, replacing the system where court employees and lawyers move up through the ranks. Current court employees and their supporters have staged dozens of demonstrations against the reforms, calling them part of a ruling-party campaign to eliminate independent regulatory and oversight bodies. So you're gathering with relatives whose politics are different. Here are some tips for the holidays NEW YORK (AP) — There’s no place like home for the holidays. And that may not necessarily be a good thing. In the wake of the presidential election, the upcoming marking of Thanksgiving and the ramp-up of the holiday season could be a boon for some - a respite from the events of the larger world in the gathering of family and loved ones, hours and even days spent with people who have played the largest roles in our lives, another chapter in a lifetime of memories.For others, though, that same scenario, particularly because of the polarizing presidential campaign, is something to dread, with the likelihood of disagreements, harsh words and raised voices looming large.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday organised a parents-teacher meeting (PTM) across 1,500 government schools in the Capital, party officials said. In one such meeting, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal urged the parents to attend PTMs regularly and take active participation in their child’s education. “The teachers and principals in Delhi’s government schools are excellent and teach very well. However, if you ever face any issues, please don’t hesitate to let me know where improvements are needed,” Kejriwal said. Former education minister Manish Sisodia also joined several PTMs, discussing education with students and their families. Sisodia took to his social media handle and said, “Seeing the energy of the students and the growing trust of parents in Delhi’s government schools made me realise that the changes happening in the field of education are not limited to buildings but are touching hearts and dreams as well. This transformation is the foundation of a new Delhi.” Meanwhile, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor slammed the Delhi government for holding the PTM despite the announcement of national mourning in memory of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “AAP has misused its government schools in Delhi for promotion of their political agenda and with same intent Atishi government had called for a mega PTM, days ahead of expected announcement of Delhi assembly elections. The purpose obviously, as always, was to promote AAP leadership including Kejriwal and his local MLAs in their areas, which they did all day showing total disregard for the national mourning,” Kapoor said.
