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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. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. 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.
Beyond being a Georgia native who led the country from the White House less than 8 miles (12 kilometers) away during his time in office from 1977-81, Carter was the first president to host the NFL's Super Bowl champions there when he welcomed the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1980. Falcons owner Arthur Blank in a statement released by the team before kickoff said he was deeply saddened by the loss of his dear friend and mentor, calling Carter “a great American, a proud Georgian and an inspirational global humanitarian.” “He lived his life with great civic responsibility and took it upon himself to be the change he wished to see amongst other,” Blank said, recalling meeting Carter at The Home Depot. “President Carter’s kind and uniting spirit touched so many lives. He was a man of deep faith, and did everything with principal and grace, doing things the right way for the right reasons." AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflBashar al-Assad's government has been accused of carrying out torture, rape, summary executions and other abuses since since Syria's civil war started in 2011. UN investigators have said that accountability must be taken at the highest level after the downfall of the hardline ruler on Sunday. Here is what we know about the extent of the abuses committed: In 2013 a former Syrian army photographer known by the codename "Caesar" fled the country, taking with him some 55,000 graphic images taken between 2011 and 2013. The photos, authenticated by experts, show corpses tortured and starved to death in Syrian prisons. Some people had their eyes gouged out. The photos showed emaciated bodies, people with wounds on the back or stomach, and also a picture of hundreds of corpses in a shed surrounded by plastic bags used for burials. Assad's Syrian government said only that the pictures were "political". But Caesar testified to a US Congress committee and his photographs inspired a 2020 US law which imposed economic sanctions on Syria and judicial proceedings in Europe against Assad's entourage. In Germany and Sweden eight people suspected of crime against humanity were arrested in July in an operation codenamed "Caesar". Germany, the Netherlands and France have since 2022 convicted several top officials from the Syrian intelligence service and militias. UN investigators say they have lists with the names of 4,000 government officials and operatives responsible for abuses. Human Rights Watch (HRW) in 2012 spoke of a "torture archipelago" in which the "use of electricity, burning with car battery acid, sexual assault and humiliation, the pulling of fingernails, and mock execution" were practised in government prisons. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in 2022 more than 100,000 people had died in the prisons since 2011. In 2023, the UN's top court, the International Court of Justice, ordered Syria to stop "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". In 2020, seven Syrian refugees filed a complaint in Germany saying that they had been victims of torture and sexual violence, including rape, electric shocks on the genitals, forced nudity or forced abortion between 2011 and 2013. The UN said in 2018 there had been systmatic rape and sexual violence against civilians by soldiers or pro-Assad militias. It said an investigation had found rebels had committed similar crimes, but fewer. On November 25, 2024, the Syrian Human Rights Network (SNHR) said there had been at least 11,553 incidents of sexual violence against women, including girls aged under 18, by the warring parties since March 2011. Some 8,024 could be blamed on the Assad government and the others mainly on the jihadist Islamic State. In 2016 UN investigators said Syrian authorities were responsible for acts which came down to "extermination" and could be compared to "crimes against humanity". It pointed to the Saydnaya prison outside Damascus, which was described in 2017 by Amnesty International as a human slaughter house carrying out a "policy of extermination". The United States said there was a "crematorium" at the prison which was used to dispose of the bodies of thousands of inmates. In 2022 the Syrian Observatory for Human Righs said around 30,000 people had been killed at Saydnaya, some of them after being tortured. In April 2020, the chemical weapons watchdog OPCW accused the Syrian army of chemical weapons attacks in Latamne in northern Syria in 2017. In November 2023 France issued international arrest warrants against Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher and two generals on suspicion of complicity in the chemical attacks in August 2013 near Damascus, which according to US intelligence left 1,000 dead. Assad's forces have also been accused of using sarin gas on the rebel town of Khan Sheikhun in April 2017, and also of chlorine gas attacks. Assad's government denied using chemical weapons. Israel says it has staged strikes on some chemical weapons sites this week to stop supplies falling into the hands of extremists. acm-lc/jmy/tw
No. 25 Illinois rebounds in big way, blasts UMES 87-40BRITS can earn £100s every month by simply renting out their driveway - in one of the easiest money-making side hustles around. According to data from Just Park, home owners living across many different locations up and down the UK can make extra cash with their unused parking spaces - with some areas highly sought after. Homeowners could earn £330 every month - and in some very rare cases the figure rises up to £5,000 a month - by renting out their driveways, according to research by LKQ Euro Car Parts. The motoring experts have crunched the numbers and revealed that Brighton is the most lucrative location. Residents living in the coastal city are able to earn an average of £636 a month by renting out their unused driveway or parking space. This number is somewhat inflated by the fact that in some parts, the most expensive parking space to rent in Brighton is advertised at more than £5,000 a month. London also features high on the list, with the average monthly income from renting out a parking space there standing at £480. The most expensive parking space listed in the capital is a corking £1,057 a month. Glasgow and Edinburgh are also significant earners, with people living in these Scottish cities receiving over £400 a month for renting out their unused parking spaces. Mark Newman, from Sheffield, is just one home owner who’s turned his parking space in a great little earner, largely thanks to match-going fans heading to a nearby football stadium. He said: “I first started to rent my parking space after a gentleman knocked on my door enquiring about it. “I live only a stones-throw away from Hillsborough, the Sheffield Wednesday football stadium, and he spotted an opportunity to grab himself a reserved spot in a fantastic location. “I agreed to let him rent my space for every home-game, £10 per match, which adds up to over £250 across the football season. “He’s been renting this space for a season and a half now and drops a white envelope through my door every time he parks, handwritten with a ‘thanks’ and the £10 enclosed. “If I had any advice to people looking to rent their parking space, I'd say make sure you look at the available options online and compare with your location to see what might be available to you. “You never know, you could make a nice little side hustle out of it.” LKQ Euro Car Parts weighed in, adding: “Parking rentals are a great way to earn extra cash and make use of your unused space, but they also provide an affordable option for your vehicle when visiting other cities. “If you’re parking somewhere other than a secure car park, it’s important to ensure that your vehicle is protected from potential theft. “Never leave valuables in your car, especially in plain sight, and keep your key in a protective case that prevents fob hacking technology.” This comes as a man recently shared how he makes £1,000 a month from renting his EV charger that he has installed outside his home. Joseph Gorham, 53, paid £350 for his charger which he rents out to fellow electric car owners.Weave Communications director Blake Modersitzki sells $2.76 million in stockWalter Mondale reflected on legacy of former President Jimmy Carter
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Premier Kinew and Mayor Gillingham face off in friendly hockey game for Winnipeg’s 150th anniversaryFORGET about the climax, this was all about the foreplay. It was, strictly speaking, a tap-in. Really, Shamrock Rovers’ second goal in the 56 th minute was anything but. Neil Farrugia’s distance from the goal-line when he tapped in the squared ball from Johnny Kenny – who had given his side the lead in the 12 th minute - could be measured in centimetres. Farrugia could not have contrived to miss had he wanted to. The anxious wait for VAR to confirm Farrugia was onside inevitably injected a bit of doubt into the celebrations but, then, people were mainly applauding the build-up play. Markus Poom’s chipped ball was flicked on with the outside of his foot by Josh Honohan to Darragh Burns who also helped it on first-time into the path of Kenny who bore down on goal and looked certain to shoot before squaring for Farrugia. Within eight minutes, the game was all over as Kenny got his second of the night and fifth in the last four European matches, to become the first Rovers player to reach 20 goals in a season since Gary Twigg. He may not form part of Celtic’s plans but such is his form the loanee will have options beyond Rovers come next month, as will out-of-contract Farrugia. If they both go, they will be missed but there will be at least one more hurrah when they take on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge next Thursday. Bar their unbeaten record, Rovers have nothing to lose. Such was the dominance of this performance, you would be forgiven for thinking everything is rosy in the garden at a club which is thriving rather than just surviving in the Europa Conference League. But the underlying tensions at the club between some of the directors elected by the members and private owners Ray Wilson and Dermot Desmond were highlighted in Stephen Bradley’s programme notes. In them he wrote ‘I recently informed the membership board that I would love to meet with all the members before the yearly AGM. "Disappointingly my request to meet you before the AGM was denied but I’d like to take this opportunity to communicate my availability to your directly so I may engage on any questions you may have. “’You have such an important part to play in the growth of Shamrock Rovers. You are the custodians of this football club and it is very important to me that the lines of communication remain strong between us’.” He went on to describe Wilson and Desmond – who some fear are trying to reduce the members’ 50 percent stake in the club - as ‘two extremely honourable men who have proved their support to the membership and the club time and again’. But, whatever difficulties there and despite a disappointing league campaign, at the end of which their four-year reign as champions ended, the Europa Conference League has been far more to their liking. A favourable draw had offered them a real chance of progressing to the knockout stages but, whilst wins over Larne and TNS may have been expected, they proved their worth in other fixtures. They claimed a draw here against APOEL Nicosia, overcoming the dismissal of Neil Farrugia, and – against Rapid Vienna a fortnight ago – found a way to stay in the game before Kenny claimed a share of the spoils. Here, they could have fallen behind early on after no foul was given when Kenny was tag-teamed by two Borac defenders. It was cleared long, Sandi Ogrinec pushed the ball one side of Roberto Lopes and then ran past him on the other. He might have taken on the shot himself but, instead, opted to square it to Stefan Savic – not the former Manchester City and Atletico Madrid defender from Montenegro, but an Austrian midfielder. His shot was parried by Leon Pohls and, not for the last time in the half, the visitors did not have enough bodies forward to profit from a promising position with nobody remotely close enough to get on the end of the rebound. Rovers made the most of that let-off and were in control for much of the remainder of the half. Farrugia had the first real chance after good work by Poom and Honohan but could not finish. Kenny did better when he got his first sniff of goal in the 12 th minute. Dylan Watts’ ball saw Honohan get behind Enver Kulasin on the left-hand side. His dangerous cross evaded everyone until it came to Darragh Burns on the right. Spotting Farrugia was unmarked, Borac centre-half Jurich Carolina went to pick him up but, in so doing, left Kenny on his own and he duly headed home when Burns floated the ball in. The closest they came to doubling their lead was, from the edge of the D, Watts had a free-kick tipped over by Filip Manojlovic after Gary O’Neill had been fouled by Dino Skorup. At the other end, Lee Grace was happy to concede a corner when Skorup’s free-kick, following Honohan’s foul on Kulasin, briefly caused panic. That was part of a brief rally by the visitors as half-time approached but Marko Vukcevic was rightly penalised for handball when he was in a promising position and they seemed to lack conviction when they attacked. Their belief dipped further with Rovers’ second goal and evaporated when Kenny scored their third with a dinked finish over Manojlovic after Poom had played him through after the referee had allowed the ball run through his legs to reach the Estonian. SUN STAR MAN: Johnny Kenny (Shamrock Rovers) SHAMROCK ROVERS: Pohls 7; Cleary 7, Lopes 7, Grace 8; Honohan 8 (Clarke 66, 6), O’Neill 7, Poom 8 (Noonan 77, 6), Watts 7 (Byrne 66, 7), Burns 8; Farrugia 8 (Mandroiu 76, 6), Kenny 9 (Greene 66, 7). FK BORAC: Manojlovic 5; Vukcevic 5 (Hrelja 70, 4), Meijers 5, Carolina 5, Herrera 5, Grahovac, Ogrinec 6, Skorup 5 (Srekovic 70, 4); Kulasin 5, Despotovic 5, Savic 6 (Vranjes 79, 4). REFEREE: S Ebner (Austria) 7
Kodiak Sciences Inc. ( NASDAQ:KOD – Get Free Report ) fell 7.5% on Friday . The stock traded as low as $10.08 and last traded at $10.08. 212,886 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 55% from the average session volume of 476,958 shares. The stock had previously closed at $10.90. Analyst Ratings Changes A number of brokerages have issued reports on KOD. Barclays upped their target price on Kodiak Sciences from $3.00 to $4.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a report on Friday, November 15th. Jefferies Financial Group upgraded Kodiak Sciences from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $20.00 price target on the stock in a report on Monday, December 9th. Finally, HC Wainwright reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $3.00 price objective on shares of Kodiak Sciences in a report on Friday, November 15th. Get Our Latest Research Report on Kodiak Sciences Kodiak Sciences Stock Performance Hedge Funds Weigh In On Kodiak Sciences A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in KOD. LJI Wealth Management LLC increased its position in Kodiak Sciences by 21.3% during the 3rd quarter. LJI Wealth Management LLC now owns 17,100 shares of the company’s stock valued at $45,000 after purchasing an additional 3,000 shares during the period. American Century Companies Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Kodiak Sciences by 18.5% in the 2nd quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 54,323 shares of the company’s stock valued at $128,000 after purchasing an additional 8,470 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its position in shares of Kodiak Sciences by 1.7% during the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 768,740 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,007,000 after buying an additional 12,783 shares during the period. SG Americas Securities LLC bought a new position in Kodiak Sciences during the third quarter worth $33,000. Finally, State Street Corp lifted its holdings in Kodiak Sciences by 1.8% in the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 816,634 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,131,000 after buying an additional 14,711 shares during the period. 89.06% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Kodiak Sciences Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) Kodiak Sciences Inc, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, researches, develops, and commercializes therapeutics to treat retinal diseases. Its lead product candidate is tarcocimab tedromer (KSI-301), an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor antibody biopolymer that is in Phase IIb/III clinical study to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), as well as Phase III clinical study for the treatment of diabetic macular edema, naïve macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion, and non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for Kodiak Sciences Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Kodiak Sciences and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo was available for the Milwaukee Bucks against the Washington Wizards Saturday night after missing one game with swelling in his left knee. Antetokounmpo sat out the Bucks' 106-103 NBA Cup victory at Miami on Tuesday. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani on Saturday said “attacks” on his company made it “stronger”, days after US prosecutors accused him and other officials of fraud. The November 20 bombshell indictment in New York accused the industrialist and multiple subordinates of deliberately misleading international investors as part of a multi-million-dollar bribery scheme. Addressing the allegations for the first time, the 62-year-old tycoon said his conglomerate was committed to “world-class regulatory compliance”. “What I can tell you is that every attack makes us stronger and every obstacle becomes a stepping stone for a more resilient Adani Group,” he said at an awards ceremony in the northern Indian city of Jaipur. Adani is suspected of having participated in a $250 million scheme to bribe Indian officials for lucrative solar energy supply contracts. The billionaire, however, said nobody from his company had been charged with any violation of corruption laws or “any conspiracy to obstruct justice”. The US Justice Department said Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani, and one other official were charged “with conspiracies to commit securities and wire fraud and substantive securities fraud”. Five others were charged “with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” the department said. On Thursday, Adani’s company said it had suffered a loss of nearly $55 billion in market capitalisation across its 11 listed companies since the US indictment was filed. With a business empire spanning coal, airports, cement and media, Adani Group has weathered previous corporate fraud allegations, suffering a similar stock rout last year. The conglomerate saw $150 billion wiped from its market value in 2023 after a report by short-seller Hindenburg Research accused it of “brazen” corporate fraud. Adani is a close ally of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was at one point the world’s second-richest man, and critics have long accused him of improperly benefitting from their relationship. With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world as a leading global news agency. 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