Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, urged lawmakers to start returning to Washington after the Senate voted to move forward with a stopgap funding bill to reopen the government through Jan. 30.
Legislation passes Senate, must now clear House before the federal government can reopen
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
WASHINGTON The Senate passed legislation Monday to reopen the government, bringing the longest shutdown in history closer to an end as a small group of Democrats ratified a deal with Republicans despite searing criticism from within their party
The 41-day shutdown could last a few more days as members of the House, which has been on recess since mid-September, return to Washington to vote on the legislation. President Donald Trump has signaled support for the bill, saying Monday that “we’re going to be opening up our country very quickly.”
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his religious beliefs, con-
U.S.
Court justices asked questions that hinted they were skeptical
could sue the government to be compensated. A devout Rastafarian, Damon Landor had followed dictates of the religion and grown his hair for 20 years without cutting it. Three weeks before the end of his fivemonth drug-related sentence in 2020, Landor
The final Senate vote, 60-40, broke a grueling stalemate that lasted more than six weeks as Democrats demanded that Republicans negotiate with them to extend health care tax credits that expire Jan 1 The Republicans never did, and five moderate Democrats eventually switched their votes as federal food aid was delayed, airport delays worsened and hundreds of thousands of federal workers continued to go unpaid.
After the vote, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., thanked unpaid staff and Capitol Police who stood near him on the floor He said he realized the strain had been immense for “six excruciating weeks.”
“I am very, very happy to be able to say we are coming to the end,” Thune said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, urged lawmakers to start returning to Washington “right now” given shutdownrelated travel delays. “We have to do this as quickly as possible,” said Johnson, who has kept the House out of session since mid-September, when the House passed a bill to continue government funding.
After weeks of negotiations, a group of three former governors — New Hampshire Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan and Independent Sen Angus King, of Maine agreed to vote to
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Temple says state now has 10,000
BY SAM KARLIN Staff writer
New leases open in Gulf
BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer
WASHINGTON The federal government released Monday a call for bids to lease about 80 million acres in the central and western Gulf under the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It’s the first lease sale since December 2023.
Energy companies have until Dec. 10 to submit bids for how much they will pay to explore for and develop oil and natural gas reserves on the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.
“I’m excited to see this lease sale move forward, strengthening our energy dominance, lowering energy costs for hardworking American families, creating more jobs here at home, and bolstering our energy security.”
HOUSE MAJORITy LEADER STEVE SCALISE, R-Jefferson
The sale is also the first that will bring in higher rates under the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which pays Louisiana and other Gulf states a portion of the millions of dollars from bid prices and royalties once the offshore rigs are producing It takes about five years from the lease until a well produces fossil fuels.
The last lease sale brought in $372.5 million.
“We followed through on our promise to unleash American energy with the passage of our historic Working Families Tax Cut, which required lease sales in the Gulf of America,” Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, said in a statement.
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Small plane on relief mission crashes; 2 killed
A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighborhood of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, suburb of Coral Springs, killing two shortly after takeoff and narrowly missing homes, authorities and a resident said
The Coral Springs Police Department confirmed the deaths in a statement Monday afternoon. But police did not provide further details about the occupants of the plane and did not immediately return messages seeking more details.
20 taken to hospitals after bus overturns in California SANTA ANA, Calif A bus carrying teens and young adults returning from a church camp in the Southern California mountains lost control and tipped onto its side Sunday night while on the way down a winding mountain road, sending 20 people to the hospital, authorities said.
The bus began to shake and swerve then rocked side to side before toppling over, said Cyntia Ramirez, a 21-year-old community college student who had been on board. She recalled the accident Monday while picking up her stray luggage from the Orange County church that organized the weekend retreat at a camp in the San Bernardino Mountains.
“It’s just a freak accident,” Ramirez said. The bus with 36 people aboard crashed at a curve on two-lane highway near Running Springs, about 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. The winding route curves along cliffsides and through forest areas at an elevation of about 6,100 feet. Authorities haven’t said what caused the crash.
Writer Salman Rushdie honored with peace prize
DAYTON, Ohio Salman Rushdie was among the honorees Sunday at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize event in Ohio, receiving a lifetime achievement award after publishing his first work of fiction since being stabbed on a New York lecture stage three years ago. The prizes honor both literary merit and the writers’ promotion of peace through their work, with separate awards annually for fiction, nonfiction and lifetime achievement. The Ohio city was the site of negotiations that led to the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995, ending a war in the Balkans marked by ethnic cleansing that killed more than 300,000 people, as well as the displacement of 1 million residents.
The 78-year-old Rushdie is best known for his 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses,” which includes a dream sequence about the Prophet Muhammad that prompted allegations of blasphemy and a 1989 call from Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for the Indian-born writer’s death, driving him into hiding. In accepting his award, Rushdie said it can be difficult to write about peace while living in a time of “inexcusable violence,” including the conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan.
Frida Kahlo auction could fetch up to $60 million
MEXICO CITY Frida Kahlo’s “El sueño (La cama)” — in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — is causing a stir among art historians as its estimated $40 million to $60 million price tag would make it the most expensive work by any female or Latin American artist when it goes to auction later this month.
Sotheby’s auction house will put the painting up for sale on Nov 20 in New York after exhibiting it in London, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Paris.
“This is a moment of a lot of speculation,” said Mexican art historian Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, a researcher at UNAM’s Institute of Aesthetic Research and author of “El listón y la bomba. El arte de Frida Kahlo (The Ribbon and the Bomb. The Art of Frida Kahlo).” In Mexico, Kahlo’s work is protected by a declaration of artistic monument meaning pieces within the country cannot be sold or destroyed. However, works from private collections abroad — like the painting in question, whose owner remains unrevealed are legally eligible for international sale
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Supreme Court upholds ruling
BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower-court order for her to pay $360,000 in
damages and attorney’s fees to a couple denied a marriage license.
Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who alone among the nine justices has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling.
Thomas was among four dissenting justices in 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the other dissenters who are on the court today Roberts has been silent on the subject since he wrote a dissenting opinion in the case. Alito has continued to criticize the decision, but he said recently he was not advocating that it be overturned.
First phase of Gaza ceasefire winds down
Netanyahu and Kushner meet
BY WAFAA SHURAFA and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the next stages of the fragile Gaza ceasefire, while Israel returned the remains of another 15 Palestinians.
The remains of four hostages are still in Gaza after Palestinian militants released the remains of another on Sunday.
The first stage of the ceasefire agreement that took effect on Oct. 10 is nearing its end. The next stage calls for the implementation of a governing body for Gaza and the deployment of an international stabilization force. It is not clear where either stands.
Israel ended the previous ceasefire agreement earlier this year after a period of exchanging hostages for Palestinian prisoners At the time, mediators were unable to bring Hamas and Israel to the table to negotiate a troop withdrawal and a plan for the future governance of Gaza.
Also on Monday the Israeli military released the results of a review into the failures surrounding the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that started the war, saying it had found shortcomings in a series of previous investigations.
For each Israeli hostage returned, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians — an exchange central to the ceasefire’s first phase The Gaza Health Ministry said the total number of remains received is 315.
On Sunday, Israel confirmed it had received the remains of Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in the Gaza Strip in 2014, closing a painful chapter for the country The 23-year-old was killed two hours after a ceasefire took effect in that year’s war between Israel and Hamas.
His remains had been the only ones left in Gaza predating the current war between Israel and Hamas. A funeral was scheduled for Tuesday Around 1,200 people, mostly civilians were killed in the 2023 Hamasled attack on Israel, and 251 people were kidnapped.
Netanyahu and Kushner discussed the prog-
ress and future of the ceasefire, said Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian.
The deal has focused on the first phase of halting the fighting, releasing all hostages and boosting humanitarian aid to Gaza. Details of the second phase haven’t been worked out.
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, said on Monday that more than 1 million Palestinians in Gaza have been fed since the ceasefire began, and that winter clothes and blankets are being distributed.
“But many obstacles remain,” Fletcher said, citing red tape and too few entry points to bring additional aid into Gaza. “We can do much more to save many more lives.”
For his part, Kushner also was helping to lead negotiations to secure safe passage for 150-200 trapped Hamas militants in exchange for surrendering their weapons after the release of Goldin’s remains, according to someone close to the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the talks.
Bedrosian did not say where those negotiations were headed.
Hamas has made no comment on a possible exchange for its fighters stuck in the so-called yellow zone of territory controlled by Israeli forces, though it has acknowledged that clashes were taking place there.
The conclusions released Monday by the Israeli military appeared to largely echo those of past investigations, citing both intelligence and operational failures.
It said that intelligence officials had failed to recognize Hamas’ growing capabilities or preparations for the attack, even in the early hours of Oct. 7. It also criticized the performance of ground troops, the navy and the air force.
“On the night of Oct. 7, direct intelligence had accumulated which, had it been professionally analyzed, could and should have led to an alert and a significant operational response,” the military said.
The report focused only on the army’s performance. Netanyahu has rejected calls for an official commission of inquiry that would look into governmental decision making, saying such an investigation can only take place when the war ends. Critics accuse him of stonewalling to prevent what is likely to be an unflattering report.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, has said that there are times when the court should correct mistakes and overturn decisions, as it did in the 2022 case that ended a constitutional right to abortion.
But Barrett has suggested recently that same-sex marriage might be in a different category than abortion because people have relied on the decision when they married and had children.
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson praised the justices’ decision not to intervene.
“The Supreme Court made clear today that refusing to respect the
constitutional rights of others does not come without consequences,” Robinson said in a statement. Davis drew national attention to eastern Kentucky’s Rowan County when she turned away same-sex couples, saying her faith prevented her from complying with the high court ruling. She defied court orders to issue the licenses until a federal judge jailed her for contempt of court in September 2015. She was released after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf but removed her name from the form. Davis lost a reelection bid in 2018.
Arctic air hits much of U.S.
BY SAFIYAH RIDDLE and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
Some of this autumn’s coldest weather yet is bearing down on the United States, enveloping the eastern two-thirds of the country with Arctic air on Monday and affecting millions of people.
National Weather Service forecasters said the weather could bring record low temperatures in the Southeast, including all of Florida, where temperatures in parts of the state were near 80 degrees just a day ago. The cold air brought gusty wind and red flag warnings in the Great Plains on Monday, and forecasters said the Great Lakes and Appalachian Mountain regions could see 4-8 inches of snow
Around Lake Erie, forecasters warned of possible lake-effect snow, where copious amounts can fall in relatively narrow bands, drastically increasing snowfall near the water while leaving other nearby areas untouched.
Cold weather warnings were issued for Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, with freezing temperatures predicted for a large swath farther south, from Texas and Oklahoma to Alabama and Georgia.
Falling iguanas
In Florida, forecasters said wind chills could dip to the 30s. Whenever it gets that cold in the Sunshine State, many look to the trees: Iguanas, an invasive reptile species, have previously gone into a sort of suspended animation and fallen to the ground when temperatures dip below 40 degrees. They usually wake up with the sun’s warmth although it is unclear whether any of the reptiles will tumble from the treetops this time Across the South, many local governments opened heated shelters for residents struggling to cope with the cold.
Those resources are invaluable in St. Louis, where some people are still waiting for essential repairs on their houses after a powerful EF3 tornado ripped through the region in May City officials announced Monday that emergency shelters would be open for homeless people as well as
those who still dealing with the aftermath.
Hazardous road travel
In Tennessee, temperatures dropped to 30 into Sunday morning, and areas with higher elevation in the eastern part of the state reported that 3 inches of new snow had fallen by 9 a.m., causing some school closures. Snowslickened roads led to a crash involving multiple vehicles and about an hourlong shutdown on westbound Interstate 40 in Putnam County, east of Nashville, the county Sheriff’s Office announced.
Further north, as temperatures dropped across the nation’s midsection, meteorologists warned of hazardous travel conditions through winter weather advisories for Michigan, Indiana and
Wisconsin. Snow fell Sunday in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where meteorologists warned of low visibility with up to a foot of snow by Monday In Indiana, weather experts predicted up to 11 inches of snow and “slippery surfaces” for road travel. Up to 6 inches of snow were predicted in parts of Wisconsin. “Patchy blowing snow” and wind chills hovering near freezing were expected in portions of Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota. Some areas got measurable fluff a day earlier, including 4 inches of snow in southwest Minnesota and more than 5 inches in northern Iowa. Associated Press writer Heather Hollingsworth contributed reporting from Mission, Kansas.
A jogger navigates a snow-covered ground Monday in Evanston, Ill.
None on new pardon list had faced federal prosecution
BY NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The pardons of dozens of Republicans accused of participating in efforts to overturn the 2020 election are a continuation of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite the history about his election loss.
They come months after Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was the culmination of the campaign to reverse Trump’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Unlike the Jan. 6 pardons, the newer ones will have little legal effect. None of the people on the new pardon list had faced federal prosecution for their actions in 2020. The presidential pardon has no impact on state or civil cases.
But they send a signal to those thinking of denying future elections in Trump’s favor
Here’s a look at some of the more prominent names who were pardoned:
Rudy Giuliani: The former New York City mayor, who was celebrated as “America’s mayor” after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, played a pivotal role in pushing
Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud as the Republican’s personal lawyer in 2020.
He has faced a slew of legal woes and financial setbacks for his advocacy of Trump’s false claims, including losing his law license in Washington and New York. He was criminally charged in cases brought by state prosecutors in Georgia and Arizona and pleaded not guilty
Those cases have hit roadblocks but remain unresolved and are not impacted by Trump’s pardon. Giuliani was ordered in 2023 to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers who sued him over lies he spread about them and reached a deal in January to resolve the debt and retain some of his property The amount the women were set to receive was not disclosed.
Giuliani has denied wrongdoing and said he was right to challenge an election he believed was tainted by fraud.
MarkMeadows: Trump’schiefofstaff during the 2020 election and its aftermath, Meadows was charged in Arizona and Georgia cases and pleaded not guilty in both states.
Last year, the U.S Supreme Court rejected his effort to move his case in Georgia to federal court, where a pardon would nullify his jeopardy
U.S. asks to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia
By The Associated Press
GREENBELT, Md. — U.S. government attorneys say they have cleared all the hurdles needed to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia and are asking a federal judge to dissolve an order blocking his deportation.
Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year has helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. His attorneys claim the administration is now manipulating the immigration system in order to punish him for successfully challenging that deportation.
A motion from the government filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland late on Friday says officials have received assurances from Liberia that Abrego Garcia
would not face persecution or torture there. Further, it says an immigration officer heard Abrego Garcia’s claims that he feared deportation to the West African nation, but ruled against him. His attorneys argue in a separate Friday filing that Abrego Garcia has already designated Costa Rica as a country where he is willing to be deported. They claim the government now must send him there. The fact that officials continue to pursue deportation to other countries is evidence that the process is retaliatory and violates due process protections, they argue.
Abrego Garcia has an American wife and child and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the U.S. illegally from El Salvador as a teenager
Meadows has contended his postelection actions were taken in his official capacity as White House chief of staff, though prosecutors and judges have disagreed.
Meadows was on the phone when Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state, Republican Brad Raffensperger, to “find” him enough votes to be declared the winner of the state.
Kenneth Chesebro: Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, alleged that Chesebro, an attorney worked with Georgia Republicans at the direction of Trump’s campaign to organize 16 people to sign a certificate falsely claiming that Trump won the state and that they were his “duly elected and qualified” electors.
Chesebro pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count in the state case but unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his plea as the massive case against him and 17 others, including Trump, collapsed due to legal issues. Chesebro’s law license in New York state was suspended after his plea and he still faces criminal charges in Wisconsin related to an electors scheme there.
Jenna Ellis: A prominent conservative media figure and an attorney, Ellis also pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings in the Georgia case.
She apologized in court for advising the Trump campaign on how to overturn its loss and was censured
and barred from practicing law for three years in her native Colorado for her conduct in 2020.
John Eastman: A prominent conservative law professor, Eastman wrote a key memo outlining the Trump strategy of trying to reverse the president’s election loss by presenting a slate of alternate electors to Congress. Eastman faces charges in a state case filed by Arizona’s Democratic attorney general over that scheme. He was also charged in Fulton County, and the disciplinary board of the California State Bar has recommended he lose his California law license.
Eastman has pleaded not guilty in the criminal cases and appealed his license suspension to California’s Supreme Court. He argues he is being punished for simply giving legal advice.
Jeffrey Clark: Clark, as a Justice Department official in the first Trump administration, drafted a letter that said the department was investigating “various irregularities” and had identified “significant concerns” that may have impacted the election in Georgia and other states. Clark wanted the letter sent to Georgia lawmakers, but Justice Department superiors refused.
A Washington attorney disciplinary panel in July recommended that he be stripped of his law license, finding he made “intentionally false statements” when he continued to
push for the Justice Department to issue the letter after being told by superiors that it contained falsehoods.
Clark, who is now overseeing a federal regulatory office in the second Trump administration, said in a post on X on Monday: “I did nothing wrong when I questioned the 2020 election in Georgia.”
Sidney Powell: A lawyer and staunch Trump ally, Powell filed in battleground states a series of lawsuits that were rejected by courts and played a pivotal role in pushing unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
Emails and documents obtained through subpoenas in one lawsuit showed Powell was involved in arranging for a computer forensics team to travel to rural Coffee County, about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta to copy data and software from elections equipment there in January 2021. She pleaded guilty in 2023 to reduced charges in the Georgia case, becoming the second defendant to reach a deal with prosecutors. She was initially charged with racketeering and six other counts but ultimately received probation after pleading guilty to six misdemeanors accusing her of conspiring to intentionally interfere with the performance of election duties.
High court to mull late-arriving mail ballots
BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump.
The justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the state law allowing ballotsthatarriveshortlyafter Election Day to be counted violated federal law
Mississippi is one of 16 states and the District of Columbia that accept mailed ballots received after Election Day as long as the ballots are postmarked on or before that date, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
if left in place.
“Thestakesarehigh:ballots cast by but received after — election day can swing close races and change the course of the country,” Fitch wrote.
Trump has claimed that late-arriving ballots and drawn-out electoral counts undermine confidence in elections. In March, the Republican president signed an executive order on elections that aims to require votes to be “cast and received” by Election Day The order has been challenged in court.
The Republican National
Committee and the Libertarian Party of Mississippi led the challenge to the Mississippi law A federal judge dismissed a similar challenge to Nevada’s law, but the decision has been appealed.
The Supreme Court is separately considering reviving a lawsuit filed by Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and backed by the Trump administration that challenges Illinois’ ballot receipt law The issue is whetherthecongressmanhas the legal right to sue.
SomeRepublican-ledstates, including Kansas and North Dakota, have taken steps to
stop counting late-arriving ballots. In Ohio, Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would require ballots to be received by Election Day, closing the window for mailed ballots. The measure has passed the state Senate. In the Mississippi case, Judge Andrew Oldham wrote for the appellate panel that Congress established a “singular” Election Day for members of Congress and presidential electors, “by which ballots must be both cast by voters and received by state officials.”
BY JOHN RABY Associated Press
A judge on Monday allowed the continued deployment of more than 300 West Virginia National Guard members to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s push to send the military into Democraticrun cities.
Kanawha County Circuit
Judge Richard D Lindsay made the ruling after hear-
ing arguments in a lawsuit by a civic organization that argued Republican Gov Patrick Morrisey exceeded his authority when he authorized the Guard’s deployment in August. “The question before this court is whether or not state law allows West Virginia to do this,” Lindsay said. “The court has found that “This court believes that the federal law allows for the request made by the president to the governor.” Judge allows deployment of W.Va. Guard to nation’s capital
An additional 14 states allow the counting of latearriving ballots from some eligible voters, including overseasU.S servicemembers and their families, according to a filing from Democratic-led states that urged the justices to reverse the appellate ruling.
The case will be argued in the late winter or early spring.Afinalrulingalmost certainly will come by late June, early enough to govern the counting of ballots in the 2026 midterm congressional elections.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, told the Supreme Courtthattheappellateruling “will have destabilizing nationwide ramifications”
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Trump threatens to sue BBC over edit
BY JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON — President Don-
ald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the way a speech he made was edited in a documentary aired by Britain’s national broadcaster BBC Chair Samir Shah on Monday apologized for the “error of judgment,” which triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news.
Director-General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness quit Sunday over accusations of bias and misleading editing of a speech Trump delivered on Jan. 6, 2021, before a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington. The hourlong documentary — titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” was broadcast as part of the BBC’s “Panorama” series days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.” Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully Shah said the broadcaster accepted “that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action.”
A letter from Trump attorney Alejandro Brito demands the BBC “retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements,” apologize and “appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused,” or face legal action for $1 billion in damages.
BY COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press
VENICE, Italy — The storied Venetian opera house La Fenice is locked in an escalating dispute with its workers over the appointment of a young and telegenic music director with ties to Premier Giorgia Meloni but none with the musicians with whom she has been hired to construct the theater’s musical future.
On Monday, musicians, singers and backstage hands marched through Venice with workers from other Italian opera houses, in-
cluding Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Verona’s Arena and Turin’s Regio Teatro. They were joined by season-ticket holders, music students and Venetians worried about the future of artistic independence at La Fenice — and across Italy
What began as a labor protest over a lack of transparency in the Sept. 22 appointment of 35-year-old Beatrice Venezi has evolved into a wider protest reflecting concerns that Meloni’s far-rightled government intends to exert artistic control over all of Italy’s 14 opera houses. In the month and a half
Car blast near historic Red Fort kills at least 8
BY RAJESH ROY and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press
NEW DELHI A car explosion near the historic Red Fort in India’s capital on Monday killed eight people and injured at least 19 others, police in New Delhi said.
The blast, which triggered a fire that damaged several vehicles parked nearby, took place near one of the gates of the Red Fort metro station, the fire services said. The cause is being investigated. New Delhi’s international airport, metro stations and government buildings were
since La Fenice announced Venezi’s appointment, effective next October, striking workers forced the cancellation of an opera premiere and unions have called for the resignation of
La Fenice’s general manager Nicola Colabianchi, who made the appointment.
“The scandal we’ve uncovered here in Venice shows that, unfortunately, once again, politics wants to med-
and
demanding the
dle heavily in culture, with appointments that have no artistic or qualitative justification, but are purely political,” said Marco Trentin, a union organizer and cellist in the La
Canada loses measles elimination status after outbreaks
BY DEVI SHASTRI AP health writer
Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America.
The loss of the country’s measles elimination status comes more than a year after the highly contagious virus started spreading.
Canada has logged 5,138 measles cases this year and two deaths Both were babies who were exposed to the measles virus in the womb and born prematurely
Measles elimination is a symbolic designation, but it represents a hard-won battle against the infectious disease It is earned when a country shows it stopped continuous spread of the virus within local communities, though occasional cases might still pop up from travel.
Measles typically begins with a high fever followed by a telltale rash that starts on the face and neck. Most people recover, but it’s one of the leading causes of death among young children, according to the World Health Organization. Serious complications, including blindness and swelling of the brain, are more common in
young children and adults over age 30.
It is prevented by a vaccine administered routinely and safely to children around the world.
“It’s a deeply disheartening development. It’s a deeply worrisome development. And, frankly, it’s an embarrassing development,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Brown University infectious disease expert. “No country with the amount of resources of Canada or other countries in North America even — should lose their measles elimination status.”
Canada eliminated measles in 1998, followed by the United States two years later After hugely successful vaccination campaigns, the Americas became the first region in the world to be free of measles in 2016. Health officials estimate the measles vaccine prevented 6.2 millions deaths in the Americas between 2000 and 2023.
The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. That status is at risk even though the large outbreak that killed three and sickened nearly 900 across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma earlier this year is over Current outbreaks in the U.S. include 34 cases in South Carolina and one hitting towns on the Arizona-Utah border that has sickened more than 150 since mid-
August
A major question now is if either are linked to the Texas outbreak. To lose elimination status, health data must show a continuous chain of measles spread for one year International health officials have recommended
the U.S. “enhance case investigation protocols,” because closing data gaps is key to stopping the virus from taking hold again, said Dr Daniel Salas, who leads immunization efforts at the Pan American Health Organization.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 1,681 cases and 44 outbreaks this year, making it the worst year for measles in the U.S. in more than three decades. Only nine states haven’t confirmed cases, according to the CDC.
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orchestra members of Venice’s La Fenice theater joined by other performing arts professionals, march through the city Monday
resignation of superintendent Nicola Colabianchi and artistic director Beatrice Venezi. LAPRESSE PHOTO By PAOLA GARBUIO
10 dead aftertyphoon hits the Philippines
BY JIM GOMEZ Associated Press
MANILA,Philippines Typhoon Fungwong blew out of the northwestern PhilippinesonMonday after setting off floodsand landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least 10 people and displacing more than 1.4million others.
The typhoon was forecast to head northwest toward Taiwan.
Fung-wong lashed the northern Philippines while thecountrywas still dealing with the devastation wrought last week by Typhoon Kalmaegi, which left at least 232 people dead in centralprovinces on Nov.4before pummeling Vietnam, where at least five were killed.
Fung-wong slammed ashore in northeastern Aurora province on Sunday night as asuper typhoon with sustained windsofupto115 mph and gusts of up to 143 mph.
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The case isn’taboutwhether Louisiana Departmentof Public Safety and Corrections officials mistreated Landor.Federal trial and appellate judgesand Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill agreed he was “Wecondemnthe conduct as alleged in this case and have taken steps to prevent this problem from recurring,” Murrill said before the Supreme Court arguments.
But, she argued, “Ten federal courts of appeals have held that the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act does not allow prisonersto sue prison officials in their personalcapacities for damages.”
U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick,ofBaton Rouge,dismissed Landor’scase as moot since he had been re-
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meaning most people have paid out of their own pocket Fortified roofs use stronger nails, roof deck seals and better edges to make them less likely to sustain damage during hurricanes.
Fortified roofshave emerged as onelong-term solution to the insurance crisis. They’ve also garnered bipartisan supportinLouisiana, embraced by Republicans like Temple who favor afree-marketapproach as well as Democrats and advocates who have clamored for amore direct intervention to help residents struggling under enormous price shocks
But the two sides have fought for two years, since the state first began doling out the grants, over whether insurance companies should be required to givehomeowners aspecific discount when they get a fortified roof. Current law onlyrequires them to file a discount that is “actuarially justified.” Several insurers offer negligible discounts, though most offer at least
The1,100-mile-wide storm weakened as it raked through mountainous northern provinces and agricultural plainsovernight
before blowing away from the province of La Union intothe South China Sea,according to state forecasters.
At least10people dieddue to flash floods, landslides, exposed electrical wires and acollapsed house in the provinces of Catanduanes, Eastern Samar,Nueva Vizcaya, Mountain Province and Ifugao, disaster-response and provincial officialssaid.
Amongthe dead were three children who were hit by twoseparate landslides in the mountainous province of Nueva Vizcaya, police told TheAssociated Press, adding four others were injured. Another landslide in nearby Kalinga province killed two villagers and two others were missing, provincial officials said late Monday
Morethan 1.4million people moved into emergency shelters or thehomes of relatives before the typhoonmade landfall, and about 240,000 remained in evacuation centers on Tuesday
Fierce wind and rain flooded at least132 northern villages, including one where someresidents
weretrapped on their roofsas floodwaters rapidly rose. More than 4,100 houses were damaged, Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV of the Office of Civil Defenseand other officials said.
“While the typhoon has passed, its rains still pose adanger in certain areas” in northern Luzon, includinginmetropolitan Manila,” Alejandro said. “We’ll undertake todayrescue,reliefand disasterresponse operations.”
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.declared astate of emergencyonThursdaydue to theextensive devastationcaused by Kalmaegi and the expected damage from Fung-wong, which wasalso called Uwan in the Philippines.
Tropical cyclones with sustained winds of 115 mph or higher are categorized in the Philippines as asupertyphoon to underscore the urgencytiedtomoreextreme weather disturbances.
leased from prison afew weeks after hisdreadlocks were shorn. Shealso found thatthe lawdid notallow himtosue for damages.
The5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also condemned Landor’s treatment but found that past rulings didn’t allow damages against state officials.
The questionbefore the U.S. Supreme Courtwas whether Landor couldseek monetary damages from prison officials under the 25-year-old Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. Before the SupremeCourt, Louisiana Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga argued that state-hired prison personnel were trained on theirobligations, but nobody signed acontract that required them to abide by all the terms of the religious liberties law and that if they didn’t theywould liable to paying monetary damages.
Zachary Tripp, representing Landor,argued that monetary recompense was implicitly allowed by Congress, even if those specific words were not in thelaw
“The heart of thisprogram under RLUIPAisifyou want federal funds for stateprisons, you need to accommo-
15% off thewind and hail portion of the premium.
Temple beat backmultiple attemptsinthe Legislature to mandate a20% discount, arguing it would push insurers away as he works to loosen regulationsand make it easier for them to raise premiums, part ofabid to attract more companies.Alabama, which pioneered the program, sets abenchmark of 25% to 30%,though insurers can go through aprocess to offer asmaller discount
“There’sbeen talk in the last several sessions about creating some type of mandatory discount. I wasopposed tothatbecause Ithought it was too early,” Temple said. “Now with 10,000 homes, Ithink we’re getting to that critical mass.”
It’snot yet clear what the benchmark will be. Temple said his office is studying theidea, and aspokesperson saiditlikelywon’t be implemented until early next year
State Rep. Matthew Willard, aNew Orleans Democrat who won election tothe City Council last month, said he’s heard from homeowners who added fortified roofs but
datereligious liberty,” Tripp said.“Withoutdamages, officials can literally treat the law like garbage.”
Trippcontended that,absent amechanism to hold them accountable, state officialswere freetoignore other religious requirements, such as refusing to adhere to dietary restrictions of practicingJews.
The 6-3 conservative majority has recentlybolstered religious rights, such as allowing parentstokeep their children from learning about LGBTQ+ issues in public schools.
In the Landorcase,questionsfromthe nine justices, particularlythe sixconservatives, centered around if state officials wereaware that they could be ordered to paymonetary damages for violating afederal law
“The hard part,asIsee it for your case, for me, is that you need aclear statement,” ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts told Tripp. “I don’tthink when theprisonguard is hired, he says, ‘Well, Iwant to see thefederal conditions that you agreed to under the contract.’
“Congress could haveeasily written astatute that does this and says that those individual officers have to agree
saidthey got negligible discounts on their insurance in return. Willard passed aresolution this yearcalling on Congress to step in andtooffer asolution to thehomeowners insurancecrisis.
“If homeowners insurance is the biggest problem our state faces, then thestate should at least provide claritytohomeowners regarding aminimum expected discount for afortifiedroof,” Willardsaid.“Thatknowledge could very well spur faster adoption of fortified roofs across Louisiana.”
Louisiana’shome insurance crisis has become a lasting problem, especially in hurricane-prone southern parishes. Temple, aformer insuranceexecutive, has ushered in aseries of moves to make it easier for insurers to droppolicyholders andraise premiums, saying it will lead to more competition that ultimately will tamp down costs.
But while the Legislature has largely moved on to other topics, insurance remains unaffordable formany, though premium increases have slowed. Louisiana hasn’thad amajor hurricane since Ida in 2021.
with the federal government to be bound under federal law,” Justice Neil Gorsuch said. “It could do that, but it didn’tdothat.”
The court’sthree liberal justices weremoreinagreement with Trippthatstate employees were required to followfederal guidelinesas acondition of employment.
“The recipient of federal funds hasmadeclear with thefederal government that it’sgoing to require its employees to comply with RLUIPAand notviolate people’srights,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said. “Then when those employees decide, choose, consent to accept ajob with that employer,they are thereby consenting to follow those agreements.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor added, “We’re all presumed to know the lawwhenwe take our jobs.” Historically,the Supreme Court releases its decisions in June.
Email Mark Ballardat mballard@theadvocate. com.
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Awoman and child cross a flooded street on Mondayafter Typhoon Fung-wong struck Navotas, Philippines.
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Big Tech brings Wall Street back from loss
NEW YORK Big Tech and other superstars of the U.S. stock market got back to rallying on Monday and Wall Street recovered most of its loss from last week The S&P 500 climbed 1.5% and clawed back nearly all its drop from last week, which was its first weekly loss in four The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 381 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 2.3% for its best day since May Nvidia was by far the strongest force lifting the market and leaped 5.8%. It was a powerful rebound after Nvidia and other winners of the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology led last week’s drop Critics say their stock prices shot too high and too fast in the AI mania, drawing comparisons to the 2000 dot-com bubble that ultimately burst.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which makes chips for Nvidia and other companies, saw its stock that trades in United States rise 3.1% after reporting that its revenue climbed nearly 17% in October from a year earlier While such growth is strong compared with other companies it’s a slowdown from TSMC’s earlier performance.
Wendy’s plans to close hundreds of U.S. stores
Wendy’s plans to close hundreds U.S. restaurants over the next few months in an effort to boost its profit and make its remaining stores more appealing.
The Dublin, Ohio-based chain said during a conference call with investors Friday that it planned to begin closing restaurants in the fourth quarter of this year The company said it expected a “mid-single-digit percentage” of its U.S. stores to be affected, but it didn’t give any more details.
Wendy’s ended the third quarter with 6,011 U.S. restaurants. If 5% of those locations were impacted, it would mean 300 store closures.
The new round of closures comes on top of the closure of 240 U.S. Wendy’s locations in 2024 At the time, Wendy’s said that many of the 55-year-old chain’s restaurants are simply out of date.
Ken Cook, Wendy’s interim CEO, said Friday the company believes closing locations that are underperforming — whether it’s from a financial or customer service perspective — will help improve traffic and profitability at its remaining U.S. restaurants. Cook became Wendy’s CEO in July after the company’s previous CEO, Kirk Tanner, left to become the president and CEO of Hershey Co Tesla Cybertruck executive to depart
The executive leading Tesla’s Cybertruck business is leaving the Elon Musk-led automaker after eight years.
Siddhant Awasthi, the program manager for Tesla’s Cybertruck and Model 3, said on LinkedIn that it wasn’t an easy decision to depart the company He did not provide details on what he will be doing next.
Awasthi said he began as an intern at Tesla and was involved in “ramping up Model 3, working on Giga Shanghai, developing new electronics and wireless architectures, and delivering the once-in-a-lifetime Cybertruck — all before hitting 30. The icing on the cake was getting to dive back into Model 3 work toward the end.”
Last month Tesla recalled more than 63,000 Cybertrucks in the U.S. because the front lights are too bright, which may cause a distraction to other drivers and increase collision risk. In March U.S. safety regulators recalled virtually all Cybertrucks on the road. The NHTSA’s recall, which covered more than 46,000 Cybertrucks, warned that an exterior panel that runs along the left and right side of the windshield can detach while driving, creating a dangerous road hazard for other drivers
Expect more flight cancellations
Cuts will still be made, even if shutdown ends, FAA says
BY JOSH FUNK and RIO YAMAT Associated Press
Air travelers should expect worsening cancellations and delays this week even if the government shutdown ends, as the Federal Aviation Administration moves ahead with deeper cuts to flights at 40 major U.S. airports, officials said Monday.
Day four of the flight restrictions saw airlines scrap almost 2,000 flights by Monday afternoon after cancelling 5,500 since Friday Some air traffic controllers — unpaid for
more than a month have stopped showing up, citing the added stress and need to take second jobs.
Controller shortages combined with wintry weather led to fourhour delays at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Monday, with the FAA warning that staffing at more than a dozen towers and control centers could cause disruptions in cities including Philadelphia, Nashville and Atlanta.
President Donald Trump pressured controllers Monday on social media to “get back to work, NOW!!!” He said he wants a $10,000 bonus for controllers who’ve stayed on the job and to dock the pay of those who didn’t.
The head of the controllers union said they’re being used as a “political pawn” in the fight over the shut-
down. The Senate on Monday was nearing a vote to end the shutdown although it would still need to clear the House and final passage could still be days away Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy made clear last week that flight cuts will remain until the FAA sees safety metrics improve.
One out of every 10 flights nationwide were scratched Sunday — the fourth worst day for cancellations in almost two years, according aviation analytics firm Cirium. The FAA expanded flight restrictions Monday, barring business jets and many private flights from using a dozen airports already under commercial flight limits. Airports nationwide have seen intermittent delays since the shutdown began because the FAA slows air traffic when it’s short on controllers to ensure flights remain safe.
Over the weekend, airlines canceled thousands of flights to comply with the order to drop 4% of flights at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports. That will rise to 6% on Tuesday and 10% by week’s end, the FAA says. Already, travelers are growing angry “All of this has real negative consequences for millions of Americans, and it’s 100% unnecessary and avoidable,” said Todd Walker whose flight from San Francisco to Washington state was canceled over the weekend, causing him to miss his mom’s 80th birthday party
Billionaire Warren Buffett warns that ‘Father Time’ is catching up
But says he trusts Berkshire Hathaway successor
BY JOSH FUNK AP business writer
OMAHA, Neb Billionaire Warren Buffett warned shareholders Monday that many companies will fare better than his Berkshire Hathaway in the decades ahead because of its massive size, though others might say the company’s prospects will dim because “Father Time” is catching up with the 95-year-old icon who plans to step down as CEO in January Buffett reflected on life and his health in a new letter to shareholders where he announced $1.3 billion in new charitable gifts to the four family foundations run by his children that — along with the Gates Foundation — have been helping steadily give away his fortune since 2006.
Berkshire is known for consistently outperforming the stock market during the past 60 years under Buffett — which helped earn him legions of fans — although that has become harder to do in recent years because of the huge size of the conglomerate. Berkshire owns Geico insurance, BNSF railroad, several large utilities and a diverse assortment of manufacturing and retail businesses, including such well-known brands as Dairy Queen, See’s Candy and Helzberg Diamonds.
But Buffett also reassured shareholders that he remains confident in his successor Buffett promised to keep in touch with shareholders through Thanksgiving letters in the future, but he confirmed that next year Greg Abel will take over Buffett’s famous yearly letter and answer all the questions at the annual meeting after he becomes CEO in January Buffett will remain chairman
Buffett said that “through dumb luck, I drew a ridiculously long straw at birth” by being born in Omaha, Nebraska, where he met many lifelong friends — including several who helped shape Berkshire’s fortune and both his wives after attending public schools
He said he has been fortunate to have his life saved three times by doctors who lived nearby while managing to avoid the kind of
calamities that often cut life short. Buffett recounted spending several weeks in the hospital after having his appendix out as a child, where he turned to fingerprinting all the nuns who were taking care of him just in case they turned to a life of crime later Buffett previously battled prostate cancer in 2012, but that wasn’t considered life-threatening.
“Those who reach old age need a huge dose of good luck, daily escaping banana peels, natural disasters, drunk or distracted drivers, lightning strikes, you name it,” he wrote.
But now after decades of benefiting from the fickle nature of “Lady Luck,” Buffett said “Father Time, to the contrary, now finds me more interesting as I age. And he is undefeated; for him, everyone ends up on his score card as ‘wins.’” Buffett said he is moving slowly and now has increasing difficulty reading, but he continues to go into the office five days a week to hunt for useful business ideas or deals that could benefit Berkshire.
Berkshire shareholders should have faith in Abel because Buffett said he has consistently met the high expectations he has for him. “He understands many of our businesses and personnel far better than I now do, and he is a very fast learner about matters many CEOs don’t even consider I can’t think of a CEO, a management consultant, an academic, a member of government you name it — that I would select over Greg to handle your savings and mine,” Buffett wrote.
Berkshire’s fortress-like balance sheet, highlighted by the $382 billion cash it holds, ensures the company is unlikely to encounter a devastating disaster, and Buffett said the board remains conscientious of shareholders’ interests but still the company will have trouble outperforming.
“In aggregate, Berkshire’s businesses have moderately better-than-average prospects, led by a few non-correlated and sizable gems. However, a decade or two from now, there will be many companies that have done better than Berkshire; our size takes its toll,” Buffett said.
BY CHAN HO-HIM Associated Press
HONG KONG
Vaishnavi Srinivasagopalan, a skilled Indian IT professional who has worked in both India and the U.S., has been looking for work in China. Beijing’s new K-visa program targeting science and technology workers could turn that dream into a reality
The K-visa rolled out by Beijing last month is part of China’s widening effort to catch up with the U.S. in the race for global talent and cutting edge technology It coincides with uncertainties over the U.S.’s H-1B program under tightened immigrations policies implemented by President Donald Trump.
“(The) K-visa for China (is) an equivalent to the H-1B for the U.S.,” said Srinivasagopalan, who is intrigued by China’s working environment and culture after her father worked at a Chinese university a few years back. “It is a good
option for people like me to work abroad.”
The K-visa supplements China’s existing visa schemes including the R-visa for foreign professionals, but with loosened requirements, such as not requiring an applicant to have a job offer before applying.
Stricter U.S. policies toward foreign students and scholars under Trump, including the raising of fees for the H-1B visa for foreign skilled workers to $100,000 for new applicants, are leading some non-American professionals and students to consider going elsewhere.
“Students studying in the U.S. hoped for an (H-1B) visa, but currently this is an issue,” said Bikash Kali Das, an Indian masters student of international relations at Sichuan University in China.
China is striking while the iron is hot.
The ruling Communist Party has made global leadership in advanced technologies a top prior-
ity, paying massive government subsidies to support research and development of areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics.
“Beijing perceives the tightening of immigration policies in the U.S. as an opportunity to position itself globally as welcoming foreign talent and investment more broadly,” said Barbara Kelemen, associate director and head of Asia at security intelligence firm Dragonfly
Unemployment among Chinese graduates remains high, and competition is intense for jobs in scientific and technical fields. But there is a skills gap China’s leadership is eager to fill. For decades, China has been losing top talent to developed countries as many stayed and worked in the U.S. and Europe after they finished studies there. The brain drain has not fully reversed.
Many Chinese parents still see Western education as advanced and are eager to send their children abroad, said Alfred Wu, an
associate professor at the National University of Singapore.
Still, in recent years, a growing number of professionals including AI experts, scientists and engineers have moved to China from the U.S., including Chinese-Americans. Fei Su, a chip architect at Intel, and Ming Zhou, a leading engineer at U.S.-based software firm Altair, were among those who have taken teaching jobs in China this year
Many skilled workers in India and Southeast Asia have already expressed interest about the Kvisa, said Edward Hu, a Shanghaibased immigration director at the consultancy Newland Chase. With the jobless rate for Chinese aged 16-24 excluding students at nearly 18%, the campaign to attract more foreign professionals is raising questions.
“The current job market is already under fierce competition,” said Zhou Xinying, a 24-year-old postgraduate student in behavioral science at eastern China’s Zhejiang University
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Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett reflected on life and his health in a new letter to shareholders on Monday.
advance three bipartisan annual spending bills and extend the rest of governmentfunding until late January.Republicans promised to hold avote to extend the health care subsidies by mid-December, but there was no guarantee of success.
Shaheen said Monday that“this was the option on the table” after Republicans had refused to budge.
“Wehad reached apointwhere I think anumber of us believed that the shutdown had been very effective in raising the concern about health care,” she said, and the promise for afuture vote “gives us an opportunity to continue to address that going forward.”
The legislation includes areversal of the mass firings of federal workers by the Trump administration since the shutdown began on Oct. 1. It also protects federal workers against furtherlayoffs through January and guarantees they are paid once the shutdown is over In addition to Shaheen, King and Hassan, Democratic Sen.Tim Kaine, of Virginia, home to tens of thousands of federalworkers, also voted Sunday in favor of moving forward on the agreement. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin,the No. 2Democrat, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman and NevadaSens Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen also votedyes.All other Democrats, including SenateDemocratic leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, voted against it
The moderates had expected a larger number of Democrats to vote with them as 10 to 12 Democratic senators had been part of the negotiations. But in the end, only five switchedtheir votes the exact number that Republicans needed. King, Cortez Masto and Fetterman had already been voting to open the government since Oct. 1. Schumer,who received blowback from his party in March when he voted to keep the government open,saidhecould not“in good faith”supportitafter meeting with his caucus for more than two hours on Sunday “Wewill not give up the fight,” Schumer said, adding that Democrats have now “sounded the alarm” on health care.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy
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Scalise represents coastal parishes where many of the oiland gas supportbusinesses are located.
“I’m excited to see this lease sale move forward, strengthening ourenergy dominance, loweringenergy costs for hardworking American families, creating more jobs here at home, and bolstering our energy security,” Scalise added.
The Gulf spans roughly 160 millionacres, with an estimated29.59 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and 54.84trillioncubic feet of natural gas, according to the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Thebureau oversees offshore oil and gas development
The newly enacted law requires the agency to hold
said “we could havewon” and givingupwill only embolden Trump. He said voters were on their side afteroverwhelming wins forDemocrats in last week’s elections.
“Wewerebuilding momentum to help save our democracy ”Murphy said. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, saidthatstriking
adeal was “a horrific mistake.”
Others gave Schumer anod of support. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had criticized Schumer in March after hisvote to keep the government open. But he praised the Senate Democratic leaderonMondayand expressed support for his leadership throughout the shutdown.
“The American people knowwe areonthe rightsideofthisfight,”
JeffriessaidMonday, pointing to last week’selection results.
It’sunclear whether the two parties would be able to find any commongroundonthe health care subsidies beforeapromised Decembervoteinthe Senate.Johnson has said he willnot committobringing it up in his chamber
On Monday,Johnson said House Republicans have always been open to voting to reform whathe called the “unaffordable care act” butagain did not say if they would voteonthe subsidies.
SomeRepublicans have said they are open to extending the COVID-19-era tax credits as premi-
umscould skyrocket for millions of people, but they also want new limits on whocan receive the subsidies. Some argue that the tax dollars forthe plans should be routed through individuals.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chair SusanCollins said Mondaythatshe’ssupportiveof extending the tax credits with changes, like newincomecaps. Some Democrats have signaled they could be open to that idea.
“Wedoneed to act by the end of the year,and that is exactly what the majority leader haspromised,” Collins said.
Other Republicans, including Trump, have used the debate to renew theiryearslong criticism of the law and called for it to be scrapped or overhauled.
In apossible preview,the Senate voted 47-53 along party lines Monday not to extend the subsidies for ayear.Majority Republicans allowed the vote as part of aseparate deal with Democrats to speed up votes and send the legislation to the House.
at least 30 regionwidesales, starting with this one. After thisfirst sale, the bureau must hold at least two lease salesper year from 2026 through 2039,plusone additional salebyMarch 15, 2040.
Theagencyreleasedin theFederal Register on Monday the “Final Notice of Sale for LeaseSale Big Beautiful Gulf 1”and another lease sale for Alaska’s Cook Inlet. To encourage participation,the bureau set a12.5% royaltyrate —the lowest rate permitted —for both shallow and deepwater leases.
“President (Donald) Trump’ssigning of the OneBig Beautiful Bill Act marked the beginning of a newchapter for oiland gas developmentin theGulf of Americaand Alaska’sCook Inlet,”agency acting Director Matt Giaconasaid in a statement.“BOEM is now moving forward with apredictable,congressionally
mandatedleasing schedule that will supportoffshore oil andgas developmentfor decades to come.”
During the Biden administration, only one lease sale was allowed every two years in Gulf waters.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,the presidentpro tempore of the Senate, emerges from aRepublicanConference meetingduringwork
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Firstcup of coffee
Before Imoved to Baton Rouge, afriend in Lafayette told me one of her favorite things about living in the Capital City was morning runs around the lakes and smelling the roasting coffee wafting across the Mississippi River For years, I’ve wondered exactly where that roasting coffee smell camefrom.
Last week, Iwent to the source —the Community Coffee plant in Port Allen, where I’d been promised afull tour and something called a“cupping.”
Ihad no idea what acupping was —only that it probably involved drinking coffee. Before the tour,one thing weighed on me. How would my hosts react when they learned my coffee secret?
My plan was to come clean early and admit the unthinkable. I’ve never had acup of coffee.
Not one
Ever Still, Iwas fascinated by the processand learned more than Iever thought possible as operations manager Logan Scully ledthe tour.The plant runs two crews on staggered four-day shifts to keep roasting and packaging continuous through the week. The green coffee beansarrive from places like Mexico,Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela and Colombia. They come in the traditional burlap sacks and the higher-tech massive Tyvek “supersacks,” stackedhigh in the back of the plant, awall of pale green beans waiting their turn in the roaster The facility keeps twotothree weeks of inventory on hand and roasts about 500,000 pounds a week.
Iwas able to watch Curtis Mason, the manufacturing supervisor,open one of the supersacks of green coffee on its way to be stored in one of nine silos. Mason is aQGrader,ahighly trained coffee taster who can smell, see and taste to tell you exactly what kind of bean it is and howtoroast it Scully and Mason caught a handful of green coffee beans fresh from the bag and let me examine them. Turns out, green coffee doesn’tsmell like what we think of coffee smelling like. To me, it smells like grass.
Ilooked around at all the different coffee beans from all the different places and asked how they manage to take all the beans and create aconsistent flavor for their coffees.
“When you roast coffee, you’re really inducing chemicalreactions. You’re changing those components, those amino acids and lipids into roasted coffee, and that will change the flavor,” Matt Saurage Jr.said.
Saurage is the research and development manager for Community Coffee and part of the fifth generation to work at the company his great-great-grandfather founded in 1919.
“The job that we have is totake different coffees from different countries and throw theminto a roaster,”hesaid. “Weroast them in avery specific way and managethat taste. It’svery difficult to do.”
The plant has new and old roasters, like the Neotec roaster that was installed when the plant opened in 1970. It can process 6,000pounds of coffee beans an hour.Scully called it their “workhorse.” Even though the roasters use different technology,they all rely on three variables to control flavor —time, temperature and air flow From the roar of the roasters, we moved to the precision of the packaging line, whichI loved.
Watching the ingenuity of aroll
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Edwardslaunchesfoodprogram
Businesses to offermeals to SNAP recipients
BY PATRICK SLOAN-TURNER Staff writer
With thefuture uncertain for SupplementalNutrition Assistance Program recipients who have had their benefits paused amid afederal government shutdown, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sid Edwards is kicking off aprogram to help feed those affected locally On Monday,Edwards an-
nounced the ATable for All initiative,a weeklong partnership with ahandful of Baton Rouge restaurants to offer free meals to residents who present valid SNAPcards.
“Weknow thegovernment shutdown hasaffected everyone,” Edwards said at anews conference at St.Vincent de Paul on Monday “And if Ican tell youwhat’snot goingtohappeninBaton Rouge and what’snot going to happen in
theparish, ourpeople are notgoing to go hungry.” The SNAPprogramofficially ran outoffederal funding on Nov.1because of the government shutdown thatbegan amonth prior
Though aU.S. Senate vote Sunday night pointed toward apossible end to the shutdown, alegal battle over SNAP funding continues after President Donald Trump sought to “undo” funding
ABOVE: Astudent studies near a sculpture made of books in the Main Library on Wednesday on the campus of LSU in Baton Rouge RIGHT: Agroup gathers to study witheach other
for the program. ButonSunday, thoseefforts looked to be stymied when acircuit court denied aTrump administrationappealagainst aprevious ruling ordering SNAP to be funded through November. Edwards’ program —which will runthrough Sunday —features more than adozen restaurants where SNAP recipients mayreceive freemeals. Throughout each day,businesses will give out meals in two- to three-hour
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LSUcan potentiallyfirelaw professor, appeal court says
Teachersuspended over Trump, Landry comments
BYCHARLES LUSSIER Staff writer
LSU is free to continue pursuing potential job action, including termination, against law professor KenLevy,who was suspended from the classroom after making comments about President Donald Trump and Gov.Jeff Landry in front of students.
That’sthe conclusion of a three-judgepanel of judges on the1st Circuit Court of Appeal in Baton Rouge. They found that Levy failed to demonstrate how his suspension from
teaching violated his right to due processbecauseheisstill being paid and retains his tenure withthe university.
The appellatecourt’sdecision, issued Friday,overturns a Feb.18ruling by district court Judge Tarvald Smith in favor of Levy
The judges rejected Levy’s argument that LSU erred when it failed to identifya violation of universitypolicy before barringhim from the classroom. “Prof. Levy’sremoval from theclassroom was an interim decision madebyLSU President (William) Tate that did not disturb Prof. Levy’stenure rights, employment, or pay,” thepanel concluded.
If LSU takes further action, thejudges said Levycan try to
sue then.
Justices Christopher Hester, Walter Lanier III and Elizabeth “Beth”Wolfe comprised the appellate panel.
The court battle stemsfrom an anonymous student complaint over comments theprofessor made on the first day of acriminal law class in January Audiorecordings reveal Levy saying “f*** thegovernor” as well as telling students he could put them in jail if they broke his no-recording policy, both of whichprompted student laughter The recordings also revealed Levy telling students he is aDemocrat and saying, “I couldn’tbelieve thatf***** won,” referringtoTrump’s
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Second arrest made in barbershop shooting
Bystander, 29, killed in dispute
BY AIDAN McCAHILL Staff writer
Baton Rouge police have arrested a second suspect in a
fight over a tattoo appointment that led to the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old barber in October Travis Kenny Jr., 21, was arrested Nov 4 and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one count of second-degree murder Investigators believe Kenny and his cousin, Sylvester Bouligny III, were responsible for a
fight at Fade District barbershop on Oct. 4 that led to the death of Marvin Tolliver, an employee at the barbershop and innocent bystander
Bouligny had paid a $150 nonrefundable deposit for a tattoo appointment the previous day at the barbershop on Greenwell Springs Road, but showed up late, according to his arrest records.
When the tattoo artist told Bouligny that he could reschedule or wait until the artist was finished with another client, Bouligny left. He traveled to the Glen Oaks area, picked up two men and returned to the barbershop, the arrest
report said. After Bouligny was arrested Oct. 16, he identified Kenny, his cousin, as one of the two men he brought to the barbershop “so he would not get jumped,” Kenny’s arrest records show At the barbershop, Bouligny demanded a refund for his tattoo, but the artist refused, police said. While Kenny and an unknown man waited in the other room, Bouligny punched the tattoo artist, the affidavit said.
“While the tattoo artist and defendant fought in the tattoo room, several gunshots were fired inside the barbershop” before Bouligny fled on foot, the
arrest report said.
Police arrived at the scene shortly before 6 p.m. and found Tolliver, who was not involved in the conflict, dead from an apparent gunshot wound.
Bouligny told investigators that he jumped in the back seat of his black Kia Optima with Kenny and the unknown male, before he was dropped off at a family member’s residence, arrest records say Bouligny said he could not remember who was driving his Kia at the time, records add.
Email Aidan McCahill a aidan mccahill@theadvocate.com.
East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sid Edwards speaks Monday at St. Vincent de Paul about a program to
SNAP recipients
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windows. See the schedule below: Regardless of what happens with the federal shutdown and court fight over SNAP funding, Edwards said the program will run for the entire week.
St. Vincent de Paul will offer free meals from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. throughout the week. President and CEO Sunnie Johnson said the shutdown has intensified the everyday struggle of hunger for many Americans. “What we’re experiencing right now is certainly an exacerbation of an everyday problem,” Johnson said. “But hunger doesn’t go away for our neighbors in
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of paper transforming into bags of coffee amazed me. It reminded me of newspaper presses — the same dance of paper precision and speed.
Upstairs in the tasting room, Mark Howell and Saurage had set up a “cupping” — a more elaborate setup than I expected. Howell assembled six different coffees from Ethiopia (the birthplace of coffee), Colombia, Indonesia, Honduras, Brazil and Guatemala. For each coffee, he had a tray of the roasted beans and five cups with individually ground beans.
Howell is also a licensed Q Grader and has one of the most sophisticated coffee palates around He got his start in coffee by serving in the Peace Corps in Honduras in the early 1990s. Once he explained what we would do, he presented each of us with a special rounded spoon. We sat down at the revolving table and I steadied myself for coffee. As it steeped, Howell showed me how we were supposed to fill the spoon from each cup and simultaneously smell and slurp — and I mean loudly slurp — and then spit it out.
This is when I told them that not only was I not a coffee drinker but I had literally never taken a swig of it. They took the news in stride maybe with a little disbelief, but plenty of good humor
“Well, this is a first for us,” Saurage said. “It should be interesting.” And it was. With my untrained palate, I tasted 30 cups of coffee. As Howell and Saurage made im-
need, and it touches all aspects of the people who experience it.
If you are in need, please know that St. Vincent de Paul is here to serve you.”
Edwards was joined by Losonya Byrd, a local SNAP recipient and single mother who thanked his administration and businesses for donating food this week.
“I had never been on food stamps until I had health issues that pushed me to leave my job. So now I have to depend on those benefits,” Byrd said.
“Being cut off of food stamps is a big thing.”
No city-parish funds will be used for the program, Edwards said, thanking all the business owners for stepping in to help.
“In Baton Rouge, when the chips are down Baton Rouge rises up,” Edwards said
DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
n Donuts Coffee & Burgers: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
n Odom’s Kitchen: 4 p.m.to 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY n Beignet Baton Rouge (Perkins):
11 am. to 1 p.m. n Salad Station (Corporate Boulevard and Perkins): 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
n Tre Street Kitchen Food Truck: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. n Bullfish Bistro: 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
THURSDAY n Smokey Watson BBQ: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
n Chicken Shack (Pawtucket location): 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. n Golden Corral: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
FRIDAY
n Office of the Mayor-President: Satellite Office (Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness and McKinley Alumni Center) – Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers certificate: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
SATURDAY n Chicken Shack (Acadian location): 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
SUNDAY n KOK: Open to close
pressively loud slurps, I slurped as best I could to taste for the things they mentioned — acidity, earthiness, complexity nutty chocolates, inconsistencies, to-
election victory in November
“We are disappointed in the appellate court’s decision,” Levy’s attorney Bruce Hamilton said. “We don’t think it was correctly decided.”
Hamilton, who previously worked as an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU of Louisiana, faulted the high court for failing to address his client’s arguments that his First Amendment free speech rights were violated by LSU.
“It certainly did damage to his reputation,” Hamilton said. “It screwed up his whole life.”
He said Levy is considering whether to appeal the ruling, either to the full appellate court or to the Louisiana Supreme Court.
The Advocate has reached out to LSU for comment.
The 1st Circuit has ruled against Levy twice before. In early February and again later that month, it reversed part of the rulings by Smith that ordered LSU to let him teach again. Levy appealed that second decision, but the state Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
Friday’s appellate court ruling allows LSU to resume its investigation of Levy
Hamilton said in his view, LSU has been legally able to investigate heretofore, but he’s not sure what’s left to investigate given all the evidence in hand already
“I think it’s a red herring that they were unable to investigate,” he said.
Email Charles Lussier at clussier@theadvocate.com.
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Court of Louisiana, he had an altercation with four men also serving time the day before the fatal stabbing. Instead of separating him, prison officials placed Kelly back into general population despite the heightened risk to his safety, the filing argues.
“Kelly’s death was due to the continued deliberate indifference of jail staff to ensure his safety and reasonable expectation to be free of harm from the tortious conduct of others,” the lawsuit states.
An East Feliciana grand jury indicted prisoners Joseph Constance, Terrell Holmes, Arsenio Wells and Taylor Williams on second-degree murder charges tied to Kelly’s death.
Constance, 30, was serving time at Dixon Correctional for a seconddegree rape. According to the lawsuit he was the one who inflicted the stab wounds after two other inmates led Kelly out to the prison yard the day of the attack. Holmes, 34, was in jail for attempted murder; Wells, 35, was imprisoned on carjacking and armed robbery convictions; and 30-yearold Williams was serving time for aggravated battery, according to the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Kelly’s mother, Joyce Kelly, filed the federal lawsuit Nov 4 against Dixon Correctional Warden Edward Dustin Bickham.
The complaint says correctional officers should’ve recognized the increased threat of an attack on Cornelius Kelly after Constance, Holmes, Wells and Williams instigated the initial altercation with him on Nov 4, 2024. They didn’t, the plaintiff alleges. Instead, according to the suit, two of the inmates led Kelly into the yard the following morning where the two other alleged attackers were waiting.
Constance immediately stabbed Kelly once he entered the prison yard, the suit alleges. Kelly walked back inside, collapsed and died on the floor, it states. Joyce Kelly is suing for compensation and punitive damages, alleging she suffered pain and emotional distress from her son’s death. The New Roads woman claims Warden Bickham failed to train and supervise his staff to protect inmates from other violent prisoners. It alleges the prison guards’ deliberate indifference violated Cornelius Kelly’s constitutional right to a reasonably safe environment in prison and states officials’ negligence resulted in his death.
Email Matt Bruce at matt. bruce@theadvocate.com.
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Mark Howell and Matt Saurage Jr prepare for a cupping for six varieties of coffee at Community Coffee’s Port Allen production plant.
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in Vacherie at 11 a.m. Parent Sr., James St.Thomas More,11441 Goodwood Boulevard, at 1p.m
Obituaries Gerald, Jefferson Donald 'Don'
Mr. Jefferson Donald "Don" Gerald, aresident of Baton Rouge, LA., passed away peacefullysurrounded by family on Friday, November 7, 2025. He was born onApril 18, 1934 in McComb, Mississippi, to parents, William Enoch and Velma Massey Gerald. Don was an avid hunter and fisherman; he loved woodworking and reading. He was acompetitive runner andathlete at Mississippi college, Clinton, MS, member of the "M" Club, aUnited Way Chairman. He loved Ole Miss Football, singing in the church choirs, cookingand eating! He always loved agood meal! He was employedat Delta Southern Corporation and Stupp Corporation before going to the State of Louisiana in Civil Service as an Analyst and Investigator. He is survived by his loving wife, Rosemary Bailey Holmes Gerald; son David Gerald(Sue),Daughter, Donna Teekel (Gerald), son Jeffrey W. Gerald, step son,John M. Holmes (Lisa); step daughters,Vicki L. Holmes (Tracy) and Shannon Holmes Graham; grandchildren, Danielle Wagley (Ryan), Chad Gerald (Leah), Cherie Lambert, Karen Nunnery (Mike), Josh Teekel (Mandy), Breanna Robillard, Timothy Gerald, Kristen Hibbard (Josh),Matthew Holmes (Christina), Mason Graham and Natalie Graham; great grandchildren, Chase Blake, Sophie, Alaina, Payton,Paige, Pressley, Madison, Caroline, Allie, Haley, Macey, Caden, Lexie, Oliver, Benjamin and Olivia; great great grandchildren, Emma and Colton and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Visitation will take place at Greenoaks Funeral Home, 9595 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge,LA., on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, from 12:00 pm until funeral services time of 2:00 pm. Interment will immediately follow at Greenoaks Memorial Park Rev. Leslie Hyacinth with Broadmoor United Methodist Church. Pallbearers willbe, Josh Teekel, Chad Gerald, Mike Nunnery, Matthew Holmes, Mason Graham, Ryan Wagley and Josh Hibbard. Special thanks to Clarity Hospice of Baton Rouge and Dr. Richard Leiux of Baton Rouge Clinic. In lieu of flowers, you can donate to your favorite charity in honor of Mr. Jefferson "Don" Gerald.
Tracy Lashaun Germany, aresidentofDenham Springs,LA, transitioned on Saturday, November 1, 2025,atthe ageof59, in Baton Rouge, LA. Sheissurvived by her lovinghusband, Michael Germany; her children, Brian, Michael and Mayci; her father,Willie Boatner (Julia);and her siblings, Denise (James), Kelly(Joe), Kevin(Terri), and Kerry (Kirstie),Russelland Rod (Jill).She also leavesto cherishher memoryher beloved grandchildren, Ahmad, Andreas, and Madeline. Tracy was precededin death by hermother, Jessie Smith; her brother, Kenneth; and heruncle, Harold Sr., and Kentrell Royal. Familyand friends are invited to attend the Funeral ServiceonFriday, November 14, 2025, at Star Hill BaptistChurch, 1400N Foster Dr., Baton Rouge, LA, beginning at 11:30a.m. Interment: Louisiana National Cemetery,Zachary, LA. ServicesEntrusted to Hall Davisand SonFuneral Service. www.halldavisandson.com
Nell CannonHolton,a lifelong resident of Gonzales, LA passed peacefully at home on Friday, November 7, 2025, at the ageof86. Nell had asocial and adventurousspirit, spending her days among friends playingPokeno andcards, bowling, and attending church or bible study. Her many travels spanned from NiagaraFalls,to Branson, Missouri, allthe way to VaticanCity. Above all, Nellcherished Sunday lunches andtime with her family, who already miss herdeeply. Nothingwill be missedmore thanher laughter,soinfectious it alwaysbrought her(and everyone else)totears of joy. Everyone who knew her would say she had the sweetest soul,alwaysgoingabove and beyond for her friends and family. Her light willcontinue to shine in the hearts of those who love her. Sheissurvived by her son,DonaldWayne Holton,daughter-in-law, Beth Holton;grandchildren, ShaynaDupont, Wendy Berthelot, Jerimy Holton,and AustinHolton; great-grandchildren, Logan, Clayton, Chase,Olivia Rayna, Daylon, Preslynn, and Kameron; great-greatgrandchild,Aubrey;and numerous nieces, nephews, and dear friends Sheisprecededindeath by herbeloved husband of 53 years, Gwin "Trigger" Holton;parents, Olis and Ella Cannon; son,David
Holton; daughter, Glenda Holton; sisters, Christine Sheetsand Helen "Shot" Castillo;and brother,Elmo Cannon. Servicesfor Nell willbeheldatOurso Funeral Home,13533 Airline Hwy, Gonzales, LA,on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Visitation willbe from9:00 a.m. until thefuneral serviceat11:00 a.m. She willbelaid to rest beside her husband in Carpenter'sChapel Cemetery. Pallbearers willbeAustin Holton, Jerimy Holton, Logan Meade, Clayton Holton, DaylonGagnard, and CaseySmithhart.To offercondolencestothe family,pleasevisit www.oursofh.com. The family kindlyrequests that memorial contributions be madetothe Alzheimer's FoundationinNell'shonor
Donovan Kenneth Hudson passed away on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 in BatonRouge, Louisiana. An onlychild, he was born on August 13, 1961 in Opelousas, Louisiana.
He was agraduateofSt. Stanislaus, LoyolaUniversity, NotreDame,and Southern UniversityLaw Center.
He is survivedbyhis belovedchildren, Theresa Faith Hudson and Hampton Artigue Hudson, and former wife, Rose Hudson. He was predeceased by his parents, Dr. Charles I. and Joyce ArtigueHudson, paternal grandparents, Queen Esterand Ernest Hudson, and maternal grandparents, Bertrand and Viola Artigue
He willberemembered during aRosary, Visitation and ReflectionsonThursday, November 13, 2025 from 4-6pmatHallDavis and SonFuneralHome, followedby10:00am burialon Friday, November 14, 2025 at Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery in Opelousas, Louisiana.
Jefferson,JustinMichael
Justin MichaelJefferson entered into eternalrestat Our Lady of theLakeRe‐gionalMedical Center on November5,2025. He was a 35-year oldnativeand residentofBaton Rouge, Louisiana;a 2008 graduate ofUniversityHighSchool; and attended LSU. Viewing atShilohMissionaryBap‐tistChurch on Friday,No‐vember14, 2025 at 10:00 amuntil CelebrationofLife Service at noon conducted byPastorFredSmith;inter‐mentatResthaven Memor‐ial Gardens. Survivorsin‐clude hiswife, Meagan HarrisJefferson;children, Mikel, Milton,Joi andJade
Jefferson; parents, Michael and Rhonda Jefferson; brother,Joshua Jefferson (fiancée, JamiaLove),New Orleans,Louisiana;aunts, LorraineOubre (Clinton) Vacherie, Louisianaand AngelaLewis (Gabriel), Katy, Texas; otherrelatives and friends. In lieu of flow‐ers,pleasedonatetoan education fund that as been createdbyMichael Jefferson at ChaseBank account ending in 5227 for Justin’sfourchildren; con‐tributionsalsoaccepted via Zelle at 225-933-6663 Arrangementsentrusted to Miller& Daughter Mortu‐ary
Daniel Thomas Manget III, July13, 1935 -October6 2025. Daniel Thomas Manget IIIwas bornonJuly 13, 1935 and passed away peacefully on October 6, 2025 at his home in Pace, Floridawithhis long-time partner, Carol Moses, at his side.Hewas 90 years oldand had battledcomplications from diabetes formany years. In additiontohis belovedpartner of 25 years Carol,Dan is also survived by his former wife, Maureen Donnaud Manget,his daughters: Lisa Manget Buchanan (Jim), of Harwich Port,Massachusetts, and Jennifer Manget Gaskin(Spencer), and his threegrandchildren: Spencer, Jr,Charlieand Katherine Gaskin, all of Birmingham, Alabama. He is also survivedbyhis five nieces and nephews: EugenieManget Lyman, Guy C. LymanIII,Kimberly Lyman, ChristopherLyman and KevinLyman
Dan was preceded in death by his parents, Daniel Thomas Manget,Jr. and Marjory Rees Manget, and his threesisters: Marjory Manget Lyman, StephanieDent Manget and Diane dePass Manget
Dan was born in Newnan, Georgia,and raised in NewOrleans, Louisiana. He attendedThe Isidore Newman School and St Martin's Episcopal School, in NewOrleans, before graduatingfrom The McCallieschoolinChattanooga, TN.Heattended theUniversity of Texas, wherehewas amember of KappaAlpha Order and studied Petroleum Engineering, before graduating fromTulane University
with adegree in Business Administration
After college, Dan began hiscareerworkingfor HumbleOil (now ExxonMobil) utilizinghis engineeringand businessbackground. He thenspent ten years working in institutional investment sales and research management for several WallStreet firms in NewYorkCity. Upon returningtoNew Orleans, he joined Stewart Enterprisesasa Senior Vice President, andultimately retiredfromBoeing Corporation as asenior planningofficer.During theseyears, Danwas active in theRepublican Party of Louisiana, and a member of Trinity Episcopal Church andThe Boston Club.
Throughouthis life prior to hisillness, Danwas very active, enjoying basketball, tennis and squash. He particularlyloved all water sports, including swimming, scuba diving, sailing andwater skiing,and later as an adult, took up snow skiing.Heloved theoutdoors, enjoyingannual camping trips in upstate NewYork, hiking in the Adirondacks, including annual hikesupMount Washington in NewHampshire to ski Tuckerman'sRavine, andweek-long riverraft trips in Colorado.
Amonghis manyinterests andtalents, Danloved working with his hands, from wood working and carpentry,building bookshelves andcabinets, putting up sheetrock, painting andwallpapering, to landscaping andgardening,toplumbing and electrical repairs, there waslittle that Dancould notteach himself to do. His love for natureand the outdoors ledhim to purchase and finish construction on aski houseinupstateNew York,where he spent many happy hours working on completingthe housewhich familyand friends enjoyed in all sea-
sons as arespite from the bustle of life in NewYork City. He continued this love of working withhis hands throughout hislife, even after beingconfined to awheelchair from his illness, as he completed a full renovation of two beachfrontcondominiums in Pensacola, Florida, doingmuch of the design work, anddirecting others to complete theworkhe couldnot do himself. Danisremembered by friends andfamilyasa larger-than-life personality, with strongviews and opinions, though always with areadysmile, atwinkle in hiseye anda goodnatured playfulness. Even after hisillness confined himtoa wheelchair, Dan didhis best to notlet that hold himback, whether from working on projects around thehouse and yard or travelingtosee family andfriends, andhenever lethis disability dimhis natural optimism and gregarious nature. Danwill be buriedinthe Manget familyplotin OakhillCemetery,34 Charles Place in Newnan, Georgiawith agraveside service on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
Today Germany, Tracy Lashaun
Manget III,Daniel Thomas 'Dan'
Hudson, Donovan Kenneth
Holton, NellCannon
OUR VIEWS
In aseasonof remembrance andgratitude, we thankour veterans
Editor’snote:Aversion of thefollowing editorial has appeared on previousVeteransDaysinthis newspaper
America is built on representative government and capitalism, two institutions thatrecognize how fickle humans can be.
The marketplace of ideas we call politicsand the marketplace of products we call freeenterprise both assume thatpeople are pliable creatures, likely to change their mindsinahurry We honor choice as anational birthright.
But the country’sfreedom is protected by men and women who give upa world of choices so we can continue to have ours. Theyare the Americans who serve in ourmilitary,acall that doesn’tindulge inconstancy or caprice.Theydeserve our honor this VeteransDay —and every Veterans Day
This year’scommemoration is especially resonant because it comes the day after theMarines celebrate their 250th birthday,amonth after the Navy celebrated its 250th,five months after the Army did so —and eight monthsbeforethisnation celebrates its official semiquincentennial. The conjunction of these birthdaysreminds us that our freedom was boughtthrough courage and sacrifice.
One cannot easily optout oncea commitment to military service is made. And when thebattle is joined,weask brave men andwomentorisk their lives to defend this nation’sinterests. It’s not asacrifice that can properly beundertaken on awhim, shaped by thelatest pollnumbersor focus groups.
That’swhy those long rows of white tombstonesatour nation’smilitary cemeteries are such aresonant part of theAmerican landscape. They demonstrate, in acountry touched by flux andequivocation and the endlessmutability of opinion, that there have alwaysbeenwarriors who embrace principleasafixedstar, not a fashion statement.
Tiny American flags bloom from those cemeteries everyMemorial Day,the dayweset aside to honor the nation’swar dead.Veterans Day recognizes boththe heroes whohave passed andthe veteransyet with us —the ones we can stillfind in our neighborhoods, ourchurches and temples, the grocerystore. They bear living witness not only to the privilegeofliberty but to its costs.
Not all members of the military seebattle during theirservice, but there are other hardships in serving in America’sarmed forces
Theprofound pain of separation from family, the loss of privacy,the boredom —these areno small things. It is right andgood that we should acknowledge those sacrifices each November, as the holidays approach. This Thanksgiving and Yuletide season, as in every year, soldiers and sailors and airmen will beserving faraway from home. Tomorrow,wepause, in amonth marked by gatheringsfor gratitude, tosay thanks to our veterans. Their contributions are easy to overlook, but we forget their service at our peril.
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OPINION
Communityneeds to have inputonammonia plant
Air Productshas been cutting checks across Ascension and Livingston parishes while quietly planning to build an ammonia plant just steps from SorrentoPrimary School.
As amother raising three children who attend Sorrento Primary,this fight cuts deep. It’snot just political, it’s personal. Every day,Ithink about their safety, their healthand thefuture they deserve to have. Ourchildren should be breathing clean air and playing outside without fear.IfAir Products truly cared about families like mine, they wouldn’ttry to buy our silence they’d listen to our voices and respect our right to decide what getsbuilt in our own backyards. Their so-called Louisiana “Clean” Energy Complex comes with a$9billion price tag, but there’snothing clean about it. It would produce hydrogen and ammonia, which are linked to serious healthrisks and ship thefinal
After morethan 50 years in higher education and agricultural economics, I’ve learned that progress in Baton Rouge cannot be measured by numbers alone. Budgets, statistics and plans are essential, but they don’thold acommunity together.People do. And people thrive only where trust and shared purpose takeroot.
In my work with the100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, theAlpine Community Development Corporation and the Collective Healing and Sustainable Baton Rouge initiative which engaged more than 400 students and 165 community leaders —I’ve
product overseas. We get stuck with theair pollution, safety hazards and long-term consequences while they makemore money Worse, theproject relies on an unproven carbon capture scheme, using a37-mile pipeline to pumpcarbon dioxide through Ascension Parish and under LakeMaurepas. Carbon capture pipelines can rupture, leak toxic gas, and even cause earthquakes. Most residentshaven’tbeen informed about this project and never got areal say in any of this. But we have achance now.Groups like Earthworks are doing the work to makesure we are informed about the facility Send amessage to decision makers: Ourcommunity deserves avoice, not ahandout. Let’sshow them this decision belongs to us. KHERI MONKS Brittany
seen that fear and fragmentation often block our best ideas. We talk about growth, yet without moral infrastructure, growthcollapses. Even economists who study game theory acknowledge that every strategy relies on trust.Baton Rouge’s strategyshould, too. Iknow I’masking alot when Iask for trust. However,if we incorporate it into our decisions at church, at city hall or at home—we may find that it pays the mostextraordinary dividend of all. DR. ADELL BROWNJR. retired vice chancellor,SouthernUniversity AgCenter,Baton Rouge
Better lighting would deterareacrime
Lastmonth, acloud of black smoke appeared in my bedroom,and aburning smell was noticeable. Although Icouldn’t detect any flames, Icalled 911, who alerted the fire department.
My thanks and appreciation to all who came to my home and the911 operator
The firefighters found theburning wires in theattic andtook necessary action. They were prompt, efficient and courteous. Baton Rougeans respect and admire our firefighters. We are so fortunate to have them.
MARILYN MILLS Baton Rouge
When it’s dark on PlankRoad and some areasonHooper Road and some areas of the interstate, it’salmost impossible to see. Can Baton Rouge have alittle morelighting? Someofour crime might be stopped or lessened.
Baton Rouge
Chargesimplied juvenile victim was somehow at fault
In arecent article about a“missing Baker girl found in Pittsburgh,” it wasreported twice that two 62-yearold menwere arrested and charged with “contributing to the delinquency of ajuvenile.” Citing the Baker Police Department, the article concluded by reporting that, “Our precious missing child has been found and is safe.” The issue Ihave with this is that language matters. Charging the perpetrators with contributing to the delinquency of ajuvenile, by extension, appears to charge the girl with delinquency and implicitly labels the victim —“our precious child” —who was allegedly sexually assaulted and trafficked —a“juvenile delinquent.”
Most readers would associate this term with underage criminals. The girl in this incident is neither adelinquent nor acriminal; she’sa victim and asurvivor.Toimply she’s become ajuvenile delinquent, as a consequence of being victimized, is wrong, and yet no one in any position to change the way such children are described, seems willing to take action: law enforcement, the courts, prosecutors, bar associations and yes, the press.
Language matters, and it’stime to change the wayyoung victims are described and their abusers charged. These perpetrators didn’tcontribute to anyone’s“delinquency” —they kidnapped, raped, sexually abused, trafficked, and in worst-case scenarios, murdered children, and the language used to report this should reflect that.
TOMDINAPOLI Baton Rouge
Irecently read aquote that said, “America is great because it is good. When it ceases to be good, it will cease to be great,” Ifear that we are well on our way down that road away from goodness. Jimmy Carter was incompetent and surrounded himself with incompetents, but he wasan honorable man. Donald Trump is incompetent and has surrounded himself with incompetents. And he is not an honorable man. God help us all.
BEN PICKERING NewOrleans
Thrive is in trouble; Edwardstoblame
What adifferenceafew weeksmake.
In October,things seemed to be going OK for Thrive EBR,the East Baton Rouge Mayor-President’ssignature proposal. The trifold tax renewal and rededication plan hadhit some speed bumps, but stilllooked like it might have a chance of passage on Nov.15. Now,itlooks like it’sonlife support.
Throughearly voting, Black residents make up approximately 47% of the vote.That’s higher than the early Black voter turnoutfor the March 29 election, in which four Constitutional Amendmentsbacked by Gov.Jeff Landry were drubbed, largely on the strength of Black andliberal opposition.
Faimon Roberts
On Oct. 28, asocial media account posted images of texts obtained through apublic records request. In those texts, Edwards asked aconsultant to tell an official with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold off deploying agents in the city until after the election because Edwards was worried it would hurt Thrive’schances.
Edwards said the text messages were follow-up from aconversation at afootball game, and thathedidn’t believe that ICE agents wereneeded in Baton Rouge. But it really didn’tmatter.The texts —which surfaced just daysbefore early voting began —gave plenty of folks pause, especially in BatonRouge’s Black community.The daytheywere released, activist Gary Chambers linked Thrive and Edwards’ ICEtexts and urged his more than 100,000 followers to “run up the score” against the measure. In asubsequent post afew days later, Chambers said he hadmet withEdwards and he was still ano. And he’snot the only one. Other local Black leaders have been active onsocial media urging folks to vote against it. Their efforts may be working.
But the shots are not coming just from the left. Those on the right are also taking aim at the planand Edwards.
“How about demonstrating boldleadership before asking to rearrange dedicated taxes and pumpmore money into city-parish coffers?”Baton Rouge BusinessReport columnist Rolfe McCollister wrote last week. McCollistersaid he wants Edwards to succeed, but that Edwards was following in abad tradition of seeking more money to addressproblems.
“That philosophy has held Baton Rouge back for decades,” he wrote.
I’m on therecord saying Thrive isn’t perfect,but it’sthe best plan for right now.
Thecity-parish needs to patch its finances quickly while it works on longer-term measures to fix thestructural problems that St.George has exacerbated.Crucially,Thrive leaves thelibrary system with adedicated tax,somethingitwon’thave in 2026 if Thrive fails.
Butweare along way from those bright spring days when Edwards unveiled the plan, touting the buy-in from almost all Metro Council members and theaffected agencies. Later,the plan also earned the endorsement of both majorpolitical parties in theparish. At
thetime, it seemed like Thrive might succeed in bridging someofBaton Rouge’sdivides to moveforward. That momentumhas been wasted. Instead of adisciplined message rolling out of Edwards’ office, the messaging has been halting and uneven Administration turmoil has also hurt: Onetop staffer switched roles, another was suspended and then there were the ICE texts.Even if you believe Edwards that the texts came after ashort conversation at afootball game and that he doesn’twant ICE in Baton Rouge, it created suspicion at exactly thewrong time. Then, last week, Edwards presented his proposed budget,with deep cuts and potentially hundreds of layoffs necessitated by thereduced revenue the city-parish will get.
Perhaps Edwards hoped that the budget scare would encourage people to go out and vote for his tax proposal. Instead, it felt like athreat All of this together has just given fodder to those who disagree with Edwards politically,like Chambers, and those, like McCollister,who reside in thesame ideological neighborhood but were still skeptical.
Thrive is likely to get hammered on Saturday,and Edwards and the rest of theMetro Council will be left holding thebag.
Of course, elections are unpredictable, and Icould be wrong. AndifI am, I’ll eat theL.But I’m afraid I’mright. AndifIam, thebad news is likely just gettingstarted.
Email Faimon A. Roberts III at froberts@theadvocate.com.
Bidenand Trump, in theirown ways, poisoned theimmigration debate
Today’scoagulated politics is nullifying the most dramatic achievement of Donald Trump’ssecond term, the restoration of order along the southern border.This has created the prerequisite for policies that could improve the nation’sdynamism and its understanding of itself. Yetneither political party will seize the moment for immigration reform, thereby risking the wrath that envelops those guilty of seemingaccommodating.
More than the inflation Joe Biden’s policies ignited, even more thanthe senescence he could not palliate,uncontrolled immigration upended his presidency Control of bordersis acore attribute of national sovereignty.The Biden administration’s abdication of this responsibility senta radiating, demoralizing message of indifference and incompetence: The government wasunable —worse, unwilling —tocreate the prerequisite forall othersocial goods: civicorder
This choice was prefigured. On June27, 2019,inacandidates debate, 10 Democratic contendersfor their party’spresidential nominationwere asked to raise their handsiftheyfavored decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings. Eight, including Biden, did.
During his presidency,net migration averaged 2.6 million (approximately equal to the population of the nation’s 24th largest metropolitan area, San Antonio) every year,for afour-year totalof10.4 million, slightly more than Michigan’spopulation.Hence theseismic effect on public opinion: According to Gallup, in 2020-2024 thepercentage of Americans favoring lessimmigration soared from 28 to 55. On election night 2024, progressives learnedthe perils of dismissing this asracismand xenophobia.
The nonpartisan MigrationPolicy Institute found that in Biden’sfirst 100 days, he took 94 executive actions pertaining to immigration. Manhattan Institute President ReihanSalam, writing for the Free Press, says these repudiated not only Trump’sapproach but “long-standing immigrationlimits that had been embraced by the Clinton and Obama administrations.” Salam says public opiniononimmigration often is “thermostatic,” moving against excesses of thosein power. Perhaps anational recoil against the
ugliness of the Trumpadministration’s militarized measures against unauthorized immigrants—many of whom have been here more than10years—will allow reframing the immigrationdebate.
The fear on the right, Salam says, has been that immigration meansnot a Great Renewal of national dynamism but aGreat Replacement of nativeborn Americans. This should have been assuaged by Trump’s“massive gains among naturalized citizens and second-generation Americans in 2020 and 2024.” So, to the discomfort of some of Trump’saides and many of his supporters,and perhaps even Trump, he might have unintentionally made reform morepalatable. According to a2024 Pew Research Center poll, 70% of Americans, including 55% of Trump supporters, favor“admitting immigrants who can fill labor shortages.” U.S. population growth is lower than ever,migration is net negative for the first time, and life expectancy is projected to increase from today’s78.4to 80.4years.The twoentitlements (Social Security,Medicare)primarily responsiblefor thenormalization of, soon, $2 trillion annual budget deficits depend on theworkforce’sgrowth, which now depends entirely on immigration. Economicfacts are not static like the Rocky Mountains. They change with economicdynamism,and immigration energizes.Conservativescorrectly insist on “dynamic scoring” of taxcuts —projectingpositive revenue effects from tax cutsthat incentivizeproductive behavioral changes. Such conser-
vatives should also favor the dynamic scoring of immigration’seconomic effects.
One of which is: Immigrants who fill jobs as domestic helpers, cleaners, servers, car-wash attendants, meatpackers and other low-skill jobs drive productivity and social dynamism by allowing, even compelling, other workers to advance to more-skilled work. In 2023 House testimony,the Cato Institute’s David J. Biernoted thatthe Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that mostjobs created in this decade will not require acollege degree.
Regarding America’ssagging birth rate,research finds thatlow-skill immigrants(nannies, housekeepers, meal-preparers) “substantially” reduce hesitation about having children. Today’shousing shortage?Bier: “Thanks to toofew workers,itnow takes about eight months to build anew home, which is up from four to six months” before 2020.
Three economists, writing for the American EnterpriseInstitute, have estimated thatnet U.S. migrationmight be negative this year —for the first time in history —bymorethan 200,000. Most economists think the question is not whether but how muchthis will subtract from economic growth.
Choosing not to act is achoice, as is the decline of anation withAmerica’s human resources. Decline is today’s grim and only bipartisanship.
Email George Will at georgewill@washpost.com.
Every now and then, amovement, like ahouse needs agood scrubbing. For the deep clean taking place in the conservative movement to eradicate bigots and antisemites, we can thank Tucker Carlson, the once-charming, bow-tied boy wonder of an erstwhile kinder,gentler Republican Party Carlson invited White nationalist Nick Fuentes onto his podcast recently and failed to challenge his guest’sbigoted remarks about Jews, setting off acascade of righteous outrage. This was hardly the first time Carlson has engaged in antisemitic commentary Jew-hating has become all the rage in certain once-respectable circles. It’sjust that this time, Carlson and his guest went too far evenfor friends and political allies.
One wonders why it took so long for Republicans and other conservatives to speak out, but here —finally —weare. The Fuentes interview launched aprotest from important corners of the conservative world, including Sen. TedCruz, R-Texas, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and, belatedly, the Heritage Foundation, though only afterits president, Kevin Roberts, took heat fordefending Carlson.
It shouldn’tbelong before fellow bigot-baiter Candace Owens bellows arant too far.She’snot in Carlson’sleague as listeners go, but she’s nota nobody.She has millions of social media followers. Her 2024 eviction from conservative (Jewish) commentator Ben Shapiro’sDaily Wire for antisemitic rhetoric apparently didn’thurt her standing with herfans. Among other offenses, she liked asocial media post that askedifarabbi was “drunk on Christian blood again.” She and Carlson have seemed to suggest that Israel was behind the murderofCharlie Kirk.
The Israel-Gaza war has given such entertainers (they’re not journalists) excuses to talk trash about Jews, but the comments in question far exceed criticism.Plenty of people left and right, as well as nations, have expressed concerns about whatmany view as Israel’sdisproportionate response to the terrorist slaughter of civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. More accurately,Owens andCarlson engage in dog-whistling tropes that historically have been used to marginalize Jews andtojustify muchworse.
This is why Carlson’sengagement of Fuentes and others is so repugnant and unforgivable Carlson speaks of the “brain virus” of Christian Zionism,but he doth project too much, methinks. The virus currently infecting asegmentofthe American population is, to put it bluntly,Jewhating.
The toxic drivel emanating from these two popular podcasters corresponds to the conspiracy theories of White nationalists andother hate-mongers. As recent events affirm,this trend is too serious to treat with dignity.This isn’ta debate for polite disagreement. WhatCarlson and Owens are doing must be terrifying to Jews, and it should be to Christians and Muslims, too Recently,aclose friend and Iwere discussing the matter over manicures in aGeorgetown salon whenaJewish lady who had been sitting nearby leaned into our conversation. “I overheard enough of whatyou were saying to urge youto keep doing whatever you’re doing,” she said, then asked, “Can Ilick envelopes?”
So, whenCarlson engages in tropes to describe UkrainianPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy,who is Jewish, as “ratlike,” “shifty” and “dead-eyed,” or inexplicably uses his eulogy for Kirk, whom he compared to Jesus, to remind people that the Jews killed Jesus, he is winking at neo-Nazis. And whenCarlson invites someone such as Fuentes, a27-year-old Holocaust denier who haspraised Hitler,for acongenial chat, he deserves the wrath he’s receiving. And more. In fairness, Carlson did challenge Fuentes for his antisemitism once, an interjection that waslost amid the twohour interview Fuentes is such an abhorrent character that he must be good for clicks in the same way dogfighting is, probably for the same people.The Anti-Defamation League reported thatFuentes said the Oct. 7slaughter of concertgoers and families in Israel didn’thappen, suggesting that the rapes and other atrocities were “all alie” and “none of it was real.” Why did Carlsoninvite such afrothy punk on his show? The answer,ofcourse, is money.Blood money is cheap, while respect is invaluable. Carlson long ago hung up his journalist’shat (along with his bowtie). Nowhe’sjust another rage machine hiding in the bunker of his Maine cabin, giving people like Fuentesanoutlet for his bile.But enough with niceties.
Counterintuitive though it is, we owe Fuentes amuted thank you for riling conservatives into action or at least to declare intolerance forthe hateful among them.Hate is the brain virus. Antisemitism is, too. Carlson knows betterbut apparently has fallen victim to the virus. It’stime he —and others like him —clean their houses before it’stoo late.
Email Kathleen Parker at kathleenparker@ washpost.com.
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Tuesday will followupwithplenty of sunshine,and highswill reach intothe upper50s and low60s,marking the startofawarming
ActorSinisehelps build‘aplace to go when thePTSDhits’
The artistic element factoredinwhen Casper,who suffered atraumatic brain injury while serving in Iraq, returned home and found it hard to be in public —unless hewas listening to live music.
and withtheater as well —acting out what they are going through can be very, verybeneficial.”
BY GLENN GAMBOA AP business writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Richard Casper shakes his head as he touches one of the boarded-up windows in the once-abandoned church he plans to transform into a new 24-hour arts center for veterans.
The U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Purple Heart recipientsaidhewas an arm’slength away from military officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at Marine Barracks Washington when he learnedthe former church his nonprofit CreatiVets just purchased had been vandalized. The physical damageto the building and its stained glass windows saddened Casper.But what worried him more was that the church hadremained empty since 2017 without damage. That vandalism came just weeks after CreatiVets boughtit, suggesting that maybe he and the veterans in his program were not welcome.
“I almost just left,” Casper said. “It put me in a weird headspace.”
However,Casper,40, a CNNHeroes winner and Elevate Prize winner,needed more support for the center —“aplace to go when the PTSD hits.” Like so many veterans, he said his PTSD, caused by seeing aclose frienddie on patrol in Iraq, would generally come in the middle of the night, when the only places openare bars and otherspaces that can be ”destructive.”
He figured a24-hour center where veterans could engage in music, painting, sculpture, theater and other arts could help.It could “turn all that pain into something beautiful.”
So he completedhis missionthat night in Washington,introducing new people to CreatiVets’ work. Then, Casper returned to Nashvilletopractice what he has preached to hundreds of veteranssincehis nonprofit opened in 2013.Heasked for help.
Andhelp came. Within weeks, CreatiVets’ Art Director TimBrown wasteaching aroomful of volunteershow to create stained glasspiecestoreplace those that were vandalized. Brown saidthe volunteers wanted to giveback to theorganization, “but also because of the impact that these activitieshave had on them.”
Believinginart’s impact Gary Sinise values that impact.The actor,musician andphilanthropist had already signed on to donate $1 millionthrough his foundation to help CreatiVets purchase the building. Sinise’s involvement encouraged twoother donors to help finalizethe purchase.
The “CSI: NY” star said he believed in CreatiVets’ work and hadalready seen asimilar program in his hometown of Chicago help veteransprocess theirwartimeexperiences “In the military,you’re trained to do serious work to protect our country,right?” Sinise said. “If you’re in theinfantry, you’re being trainedto kill. You’re being trainedtocontainany emotion and be strong.”
Thoseskillsare important when fighting the enemy, but theyalso takeatoll, especiallywhenveterans aren’ttaught how to discuss their feelings once the war is over
“Quite often, our veterans don’t want any help,” Sinise said. “But through art
David Booth said he is living proof of how CreatiVets can help. And the retired master sergeant, who served 20 years in the U.S. Army as amedic and a counterintelligence agent wishes he participated in theprogram sooner “For me,this was more importantthan thelast year anda half of counseling that I’ve gone through,” said Booth. “It hasbeen so therapeutic.”
After yearsofbeing asked, Booth,53, finally joined CreatiVets’ songwriting program in September He traveled from his home in The Villages, Florida,to the historic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to meetwith twosuccessful songwriters—Brian White, who co-wrote Jason Aldean’s “Blame It on You,”and CraigCampbell, of “Outskirts of Heaven” fame —to help him writea songabout his life.
Booth toldthem about his service, including his injury in Iraq in 2006 when thevehicle he was in struck an improvised explosive device and detonated it.
He suffered atraumatic brain injury in theexplosion, andittook monthsof rehab beforehecould walk again. Hisentirecervical spine is fused. He still gets epidurals to relieve the nerve pain. Andhestill suffers fromnightmaresand PTSD.
In Iraq, Booth’sunit was once surrounded by kids because American soldiers used to give them Jolly Rancher candies. Snipers shot the childreninhopes the soldiers would become easier targets when they tried to help.
“Things like that stick in my head,” Boothsaid. “How do you get them out?”
He also toldthem about hisdesire for apositive message and Combat Veterans to Careers,the veteran support nonprofit he
founded. Thoseexperiences becamethe song “What’s Next.”
Booth hopes“What’s Next”becomes available on music streaming servicessootherscan hear his story.CreatiVets has released compilations of its veterans’ songs since 2020 in cooperation withBig MachineLabel Group, Taylor Swift’sfirst record label. This year’scollection was released Friday
“It’salmostlike they could feel what Iwas feeling and put it into the lyrics,”said Booth, after hearingthe finishedversion.“It was pretty surreal and pretty awesome.”
Aconnectionwithveterans
Sinisehas seen theunexpected impact of art throughout his career.His Oscar-nominated role as wounded Vietnam veteran Lt. Dan Taylor in “Forrest Gump” in 1994 deepened hisconnectiontoveterans. Hismusic with the Lt.Dan Band expanded it. In 2011, he launchedthe Gary Sinise Foundation to broadly serve veterans, first responders andtheir families.
“I thinkcitizenshavea
responsibility to take care of theirdefenders,” he said. “There areopportunitiesout there for all of us to do that and one of the ways to do it is throughmultiplenonprofitsthatare outthere.” Sinise immediately connected with CreatiVets’ mission.Whenthe ideacame to dedicate the performance space at the new center to his late sonMac, who died last year after alongbattle withcancer,Sinisesaw it as “a perfect synergy.”
“Mac was agreat artist,” he said. “And he was ahumble, kind of quiet, creative force. …IfMac would have survived and notgonethrough what he went through, he’d be one of ouryoung leaders here at thefoundation.Hewould be composing music and he’d be helping veterans.
Mac Sinise is still helping veterans, as proceeds of his album “Resurrection &Revival” and its sequel completed after his death, are going to the Gary Sinise Foundation. And Gary Sinise said he discovered morecompositionsfrom his son that he plans to record later this year forathird album.
After thenew center was vandalized, Casper said he was heartbroken, but also inspired knowing part of the center was destined to become the MacSinise Auditorium. He decided to take pieces of the broken stained glass windows and transform them into new artwork inspired by Mac Sinise’smusic
“I told youwe’re going to go aboveand beyondto make sure everyone knows Mac lived,” Casper told Sinise as he handed him stained glass panes inspired by MacSinise’ssongs “Arctic Circles” and “Penguin Dance,” “not that he died, but that he lived. Gary Sinise fought back tears as he said, “My gosh, that’sbeautiful.” As he examined thepieces more closely,headded, “I’m honored that we’re going to have this place over there and thatMac is going to be supporting Richard and helping veterans.” Associated Press coverage of philanthropyand nonprofits receives support throughthe AP’scollaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc
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LSU men never let upset-minded UNO get going
BY TOYLOY BROWN III Staff writer
UNO was confident after having one of the biggest upsets in the first week of the college basketball season by beating TCU.
LSU was prepared to face its midmajor foe with a bit swagger and never trailed in a 93-58 win over the Privateers on Monday at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center
“We shouldn’t underestimate any team, you know, that comes in here,” LSU forward Marquel Sutton said. “Can’t take (anybody) lightly so we just emphasize that all week. Gotta stop their best player and stop the role players. And I
feel like we did that tonight.”
Mike Nwoko led LSU (2-0) with a career-high 22 points and five rebounds, and Sutton had 15 points and 15 rebounds. UNO’s top scorer was Jakevion Buckley with 12 points on 3-of-13 shooting.
The Privateers were coming off a season-opening 78-74 victory at TCU, where they led by as many as 21 points. The Tigers didn’t allow UNO (1-1) to string together a scoring run at the onset like it did in its first win.
LSU’s ferocity on the offensive glass was an early trend. Pablo Tamba collected two of the team’s four offensive rebounds on its second possession. The graduate student’s hustle was rewarded
with a put-back layup.
LSU finished the game with 18 offensive rebounds and scored 42 points in the paint.
“We thought we had a great advantage with our physicality and size in the post, and I thought all of our frontcourt guys were terrific,” LSU coach Matt McMahon said.
His team’s size and alertness to the basketball were complemented by impressive perimeter shooting. The biggest beneficiary was Sutton. The fifthyear transfer from Omaha scored six of the team’s first 12 points, making a pair of 3-pointers. He made 3 of 6 from deep
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Alabama defensive back Red Morgan on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Van Buren and quarterback Garrett Nussmeier are expected to play against Arkansas.
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Garrett Nussmeier will take the first reps at practice this week, but LSU is expected to play both Nussmeier and sophomore Michael Van Buren at quarterback Saturday against Arkansas.
Interim coach Frank Wilson shared the Tigers’ plan for the position during a news conference Monday after Nussmeier was benched in the third quarter of a 20-9 loss to No. 4 Alabama. Van Buren played the rest of the game, his first significant snaps this season.
“They both brought something to the table that helped this team go up and down the
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field,” Wilson said “They both have things that they need to continue to work on as well. I don’t think it’s a clear separation where one is beyond the other We’ll need both of them, and I know we’ll use both of them in this game.”
The Tigers (5-4) play Arkansas (2-7) at 11:45 a.m. inside Tiger Stadium. Wilson said Nussmeier played well enough to take the first practice reps Monday and Tuesday Nussmeier completed 86% of his passes (18 of 21) for 121
into LSU women’s hot start
The LSU women’s basketball team crossed the 100-point threshold again Sunday, this time hitting that mark after only three minutes had ticked off the fourth quarter The bucket, a layup by freshman ZaKiyah Johnson, cemented another strong offensive showing for the new-look Tigers. This season, they’ve already matched the largest margin of victory in program history, posted their second-highest field-goal percentage of the NCAA era (since 1981) and tied their third-highest singlegame scoring output of the last 40 years. “A lot of people can score the ball,” coach Kim Mulkey said. “I haven’t studied the stat sheet yet, but I bet we’ve had five or six every night scoring double figures, and those that don’t, they’re getting good looks as well.” LSU has played only three
games against overmatched midmajor opponents, but it’s still off to one of the hottest offensive starts of Mulkey’s five-year tenure. The No. 5 Tigers (3-0) have scored at least 100 points in each of their first three contests, becoming only the third team in program history to hit that mark in three consecutive games and just the second to do so in the first three matchups of a season. In 2022, the Tigers hit the century mark in each of their first five games.
In 2023, they did it four times in a five-game stretch of November, including each of the first three games played against midmajor opponents. The difference now is that LSU is shooting at a higher percentage than both of those teams did at the start of their respective seasons. In 2022, the Tigers who eventually won the program’s first national championship — shot 53% from the field and 38% from 3-point
BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Everything was normal in the lead up to the New Orleans Saints’ Week 10 game against the Carolina Panthers, and then Chris Olave stepped onto the turf at Bank of America Stadium. It was here last season where Olave’s season came to an early end. Here where Olave suffered his second concussion of the season and the fourth of his playing career Here where he lay on the turf in the worst kind of way, limp and with his teammates calling for the medical professionals.
That was a little more than a year ago Much has happened since, but the moment came flooding back when Olave took the field for the first time. He felt anxious.
“As soon as I stepped on the field, I just felt it all over again,” Olave said. There were a lot of questions about Olave coming into 2025. When he’s been on the field, his talent is undeniable. He topped 1,000 yards in each of his first two professional seasons after the Saints selected him in the first round of the 2022 draft, and he looked like he was on his way to a third straight last season. But the concussions put a pause on Olave’s career The fact that he had suffered a couple of them in one season and had been evaluated for another — led to legitimate questions about Olave’s long-term viability as a professional player That noise has somewhat quieted this season as Olave has played in each of the Saints’ first 10 games, missing only a few snaps when he’s dealt with relatively minor injury issues. But it was a major concern, and the thoughts crept into Olave’s head Sunday against Carolina. And then he spotted his father in the stands. And then he heard the encouraging words from his teammates. And then Olave did the thing he does best. He torched the Panthers. Olave caught five passes for 103 yards and a touchdown. The touchdown went for 62 yards — the longest catch of Olave’s career Several of his catches came on clutch downs, moving the chains on third down. One likely will make his career highlight reel, when he shrugged off a defensive pass interference to make a whirling one-handed snag near the sideline.
“The thing is he’s our guy, he’s our receiver,” tight end Juwan Johnson said. “Like, there’s no question about it That (one-handed catch is) something we knew he could do from the beginning. So we’re not surprised.” It’s been a tough year for Olave. He’s playing for a struggling team, and he’s had his share in those struggles, with several crucial drops earlier in the season as the primary receiving option. He seemed limited by the offense early with most of his catches going for shallow gains. But lately, Olave has rediscovered his big-play ability. He now has seven catches of 20 or more yards this season, all of which have come in the last five weeks. Olave has caught a pass of 50 or more yards in three of the last five games. His big explosive play Sunday against
STAFF PHOTO By HILARy SCHEINUK LSU quarterback Michael Van Buren scrambles under pressure from
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LSU guard Dedan Thomas drives the ball around UNO guard Jakevion Buckley in the first half on Monday at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center
AP PHOTO By JACOB KUPFERMAN Saints wide receiver Chris Olave makes a catch against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C.
Baylor, Southern Cal enter top 10
BY DOUG FEINBERG
Associated Press
Baylor and Southern California jumped into the top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll after big openingweek victories.
The Bears began the season with a victory in Paris over then-No. 7 Duke to replace the Blue Devils in that spot Monday, climbing nine places The Trojans edged thenNo. 9 N.C. State by a point Sunday to move up 10 spots to eighth overall. While USC will be missing star JuJu Watkins all season as she recovers from an ACL tear suffered last March, coach Lindsay Gottlieb’s team has a new young star in Jazzy Davidson, who hit the go-ahead shot with 8.2 seconds left.
UConn, South Carolina, UCLA and Texas remained the top four teams in the poll after relatively easy opening-week wins. The defending champion Huskies received 30 first-place votes from a national media panel while the
Gamecocks got the other two. LSU and Oklahoma stayed at fifth and six. The Sooners faced UCLA on Monday night in Sacramento, California, a site of one of the NCAA regionals next spring. Maryland moved up one place to ninth. N.C. State which fell to USC by a point and beat Tennessee by three in the opener, dropped to 10th. The Lady Vols fell to 12th and the Blue Devils 15th.
In and out
No. 25 Washington entered the Top 25 for the first time in two years. The Huskies were hosting Montana on Monday night before heading to Utah on Saturday Richmond dropped out of the poll after losing at Texas.
Banner raising UConn unveiled its 12th championship banner on Sunday when the Huskies beat Florida State. The team took to the court before the game wearing custom white-
and-gold tracksuits that read “National Champions XII” on the back.
Happy anniversary
The women’s basketball poll celebrates its 50th anniversary this month with the first rankings coming out in late November 1976. Founded by Mel Greenberg, the poll was a coaches’ poll until 1994-95 when it became one voted on by national media.
Games of the week
No. 2 South Carolina at No. 9
USC, Saturday The Gamecocks will head west to face the Trojans in a home-and-home series dubbed “The Real SC.” Saturday’s game will be played at Crypto. com Arena.
No. 17 TCU at No. 10 N.C. State, Sunday The Wolfpack continue a difficult nonconference schedule facing the Horned Frogs, who added transfer Olivia Miles from Notre Dame this offseason.
LSU women’s soccer to host in NCAA first round
The LSU women’s soccer team earned a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament during Monday’s selection show and will host a firstround game in Baton Rouge to start competition.
The Tigers, who are in the Vanderbilt portion of the bracket, will play Houston Christian at 7 p.m. Friday at LSU Soccer Stadium.
Houston Christian (12-8-2) earned an automatic NCAA bid by winning the Southland Conference tournament.
The winner of LSU-Houston Christian will advance to play on Nov 20 against the winner of Iowa and South Dakota State.
Vanderbilt beat LSU (13-5-4) in the SEC championship game on Sunday in a game decided by a penalty shootout.
Six double-figure scorers help Southern get first win
Malek Abdelgowad scored 19 points to help Southern defeat Ecclesia 115-51 on Monday at the F.G. Clark Activity Center Abdelgowad also contributed nine rebounds and three steals for the Jaguars (1-2). Michael Jacobs added 17 points while shooting 7 of 9 from the field. Fazl Oshodi went 6 of 11 from the field to finish with 16 points.
DaMariee Jones (15 points and 11 rebounds) Rondae Hill (13 points) and Ashton Magee (11 points) rounded out six Jaguars who score in double figures. Ecclesia led 3-2 before the Jaguars scored the next 17 points to take command.
Adrian Nelson led the Royals in scoring, finishing with 11 points. Ecclesia also got 10 points, seven rebounds and four steals from Nate Hauglie.
Three-time Hall of Famer
Wilkens dies at age 88
SEATTLE Lenny Wilkens, a threetime inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame who was enshrined as both a player and a coach, has died, his family said Sunday. He was 88.
The family said Wilkens was surrounded by loved ones when he died and did not immediately release a cause of death.
Wilkens was one of the finest point guards of his era who later brought his calm and savvy style to the sideline, first as a playercoach and then evolving into one of the game’s great coaches. He coached 2,487 games in the NBA, which is still a record. He became a Hall of Famer as a player, as a coach and again as part of the 1992 U.S. Olympic team — on which he was an assistant.
MLB, sportsbooks cap bets on individual pitches
Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.
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36, with four other teams also getting at least one. UConn, Duke and Arizona round out the top five in a chaotic poll that saw only four teams hold their positions from the preseason poll, yet no one moved in or out of the poll. Houston, which lost to Florida in last spring’s national championship game, is No. 1 for the
time since a three-week stint in 2024. The Boilermakers were ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll for the first time in program history and opened the season with a pair of wins. Purdue had a hard time shaking Oakland in an 87-77 win Friday and some Top 25 voters dropped the Boilermakers out of the top five on their ballots.
“Yeah, I mean, we just beat Oakland by 10 points. Credit to them,
they played a great game,” Purdue guard Fletcher Loyer said. “But if we’re supposed to be the No. 1 team in the country, we’ve got to be better than that, and it starts at the defensive end.” Houston had no trouble
MLB said Monday in a statement that pitch-level bets on outcomes of pitch velocity and of balls and strikes “present heightened integrity risks because they focus on one-off events that can be determined by a single player and can be inconsequential to the outcome of the game.”
Pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted Sunday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on charges they took bribes from sports bettors to throw certain types of pitches.
PGA returning to Asheville for first time in 86 years
ASHEVILLE, N.C. The PGA Tour is returning to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina for the first time in 86 years, announcing Monday a FedEx Cup Fall event starting next September to be sponsored by the Biltmore Estate and Explore Asheville. Next year’s Biltmore Championship in Asheville is scheduled
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Baylor forward Bella Fontleroy, right, drives to the basket against Lindenwood guard Ellie Brueggemann, front left, on Sunday in Waco, Texas. Baylor
Denham Springs, Walker couldmove districts
Live Oak, Liberty, Woodlawn also set to changedistricts
BY JACKSON REYES Staff writer
The initial plans for district placements for the 2026-27 school yearwere released by the LHSAA on Monday Schools will have the opportunity to appeal their district placements, which will be discussed during the LHSAA’s second classificationmeeting on Nov. 17
Here’swhere Baton Rouge-area schools stand in the five classes.
Class5A
District 4-5A and District 5-5A saw several modifications for the upcoming classification cycle.
Denham Springs, Walkerand Live Oak will move to District 4-5A from District 5-5A.The move comesafter Scotlandvilledropped down from Class 5A to 4A. The movealso consolidatesall three 5A schools withinLivingston Parish closer to schools in their area, such as Central and Zachary Libertyand Woodlawnwillmove from District 4-5AtoDistrict 5-5A.
The changes would giveDistrict 5-5A schoolsone more nondistrict game in football.
Class4A
The initial enrollmentnumbers hintedatDistrict 6-4A becoming an eight-team district as opposed to anine-team district, as it has been thepast classification cycle.
The LHSAA’s newest district mapconfirms thenew change, unless aschool appeals aswitch in the second classification meeting.
MadisonPrep andScotlandville will join District 6-4A,while Belaire, Istroumaand West Feliciana all drop down to Class 3A.
Class3A
Class 3A sees the addition of an extra district,changing thenumberfrom10to11districts.
Themovewillcreatefourdistricts featuringBaton Rouge-area schools. The two with major shakeups are District 6-3A and District 7-3A.
Thenew District6-3Awillfeature Baker,which is movingup from Class 2A.Belaire, Istrouma andWest Felicianawill dropinto District 6-3A from Class4A. Glen Oakswillbethe lone school that will remain in thedistrict.
Theother former District 6-3A schools will shifttoDistrict7-3A UniversityHigh,Port Allen, Parkview Baptist,Helix Mentorship Academy and Collegiate Baton Rouge will make up the district.
Class2A
Schools that were in District 8-2A and remained in Class 2A will shifttoDistrict9-2Awith the creation of an additional district in theclass. Dunham, Episcopal,Northeast andSlaughterCommunity Charter will remain in adistrictin9-2A. Thedistrict loses Capitol, Baker and East Feliciana.
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Bravescatcher Drake Baldwin celebratesafter hitting atriple against Detroit on Sept.21 in Detroit.
Kurtz, Baldwinwin MLB Rookie of theYearawards
BY JAYCOHEN
AP baseball writer
Athletics slugger Nick Kurtz was aunanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year, and Atlanta Braves catcher Drake Baldwin won the National League award. The 22-year-old Kurtz batted .290 with 36 homers, 86 RBIs and a1.002 OPS in 117 games this year.The first baseman becamethe eighth rookie since 1901 to finish with an OPS over 1.000while making at least 400 plate appearances
A’steammateJacobWilson was second in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America that was announced on Monday night. Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony was third. Baldwin, 24, stepped up forAtlanta afterNo. 1 catcher Sean Murphy was sidelined by acrackedrib in spring training. While Murphy was limited by injuries for much of the year, Baldwin hit .274 with 19 homers, 80 RBIs and an .810 OPS in 124 games.
Baldwin’swin secured an extra selection for Atlanta after the first round in next year’samateur draft under the collective bargaining agreement’sprospectpromotion incentive.
Baldwin received 21 of 30 first-place votes.Cubs right-handerCade Horton was second, and Brewersthird basemanCaleb Durbin finished third. The balloting wasconducted beforethe postseason.
Kurtzand Baldwineach
get$750,000 fromaprearbitration bonus pool, and runners-up Wilson andHorton each receive $500,000.
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO Athletics sluggerNick Kurtz runs the bases after hitting a two-runhomerun against Kansas CityonSept. 28 in West Sacramento, Calif.
The Manager of the Year for each league will be announcedonTuesday,followed by theCyYoung Award winners Wednesday Kurtz, 22, starred at Wake Forest University before he was selected by the A’s with the No. 4pick in the 2024 amateur draft.The 6-foot-5 slugger began this season in the minors, but he hitanRBI single in his first big league at-bat on April 23 against Texas. It was asign of things to come.
Kurtz had hissignature performance on July 25 at Houston, becomingthe youngest player in major league history and the first rookie to hit four home runs in one game. He went 6for 6witheight RBIs while matching an MLB record with 19 total bases. Kurtzisthe 14th unanimous selection for AL Rookie of the Year and the second from the A’sfran-
chise,joining Mark McGwire in 1987. He is theninth winner for the A’soverall, sending mostinthe AL behind theYankees’ 10.
Baldwinwas athirdround pick in the2022 draft out of Missouri State University. He started on opening dayfor Atlanta andgot his first major league hit on March 29 at San Diego. Baldwin had one of his biggest days of theseason on July 21, driving in six runs in a9-5 victory over San Francisco. He went deep twice and finished with five RBIsinhis first career multi-homer game on Aug. 7, an 8-6 win over Miami. Baldwin is the seventh catcher to win the NL honor andthe secondfromthe Braves, joining Earl Williams in 1971. He is the 10th winner from the Braves franchise overall, trailing only the Dodgers with arecord 18.
Denham Springs center Bryson McCabegets set to snap the ballagainst St. Amant in the first quarter on Friday in Denham Springs.
For football, District 9-2A will add Donaldsonville, which is dropping down from Class 3A.
Class1A
In Class 1A, theschools in District8-1Aremainthe same butwill shift to District 9-1A due to the addition of an 11th district.
Themajor shakeups come in
District10-1A. Southern Lab, Kentwood,CentralPrivate and Thrive Academy remain together and shift over to District 10-1A from 9-1A. The district will also add East Feliciana and Capitol from Class 2A. Catholic-PC will also movefrom District 5-1A to District 10-1A. The districtgrows from four schoolsto seven forfootball.
ou knowhim well.Scotthas been covering LSU since 1992. He is theauthor of three highly acclaimed booksonLSU and was chosen as an LSU Expertfor ESPN’s SEC 150 Documentary
Each Monday,Scottwill puthis thoughts on the last week’sgameand thenextweek’sgame into avideo essayplacing the game in its context anddrawing historical parallels.
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By MICHAEL JOHNSON
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Burrow returns to practice but won’t play on Sunday
CINCINNATI Joe Burrow returned to practice with the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday, opening the 21-day window for the franchise quarterback to return to the lineup. His practice time will not count against the 53-player active roster Burrow is eligible to be activated during the three-week window
But coach Zac Taylor said the former LSU star would not return for Sunday’s game at Pittsburgh. The Bengals (3-6) have lost six of seven since Burrow suffered a toe injury in mid-September that required surgery
“I think he’s at a good point. He’s worked hard to get to this point to get back on the field in a limited form,” Taylor said before Monday’s practice.
Burrow will work with some of the receivers but won’t participate in 11-on-11 drills until possibly next week.
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Carolina came when the Saints desperately needed it. Facing a third down, quarterback Tyler Shough stepped into a clean pocket and let a deep ball fly down the sideline. Olave was battling tight coverage by Panthers star corner Jaycee Horn, but he fought through it and maintained his focus as Horn fell.
Olave hauled it in with nobody around him and coasted in for the 62-yard score.
The Saints initially were fooled on the play, but it worked out to their benefit Olave figured it was Cover 2 pre-snap, but when he went for his double move, Horn stuck with him.
“I kind of went outside, tried to outside release and it was man,” Olave said. “At the end of the day, that’s what we wanted. We kind of got tight to the sideline so I had to kind of battle him to catch the ball and he fell.”
That was Olave’s first catch of the day He needed something like that to put the bad memories from last year’s game out of his mind. But Olave wasn’t alone. His teammates had his back, and so did his father, Raul Olave. His dad was there at Bank of America Stadium, and he offered support when the memories came flooding back.
“He showed through that process I was going through a lot and him being at every game, all the away games, all the home games, it means a lot to me, man,” Olave said about his father “He was out there solo in the stands by himself. I had to go talk to him pregame and just to loosen up my mind. It helped me a lot.”
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England or four days later when Cincinnati plays at Baltimore on Thanksgiving night.
“We have 21 days to figure that out,” Burrow said after practice.
“Could be early, could be late in that window We are still pretty early post-surgery for this injury, so we have a couple weeks of practice to figure that out and see how it goes.”
Burrow underwent surgery on his left toe on Sept. 19, five days after he suffered the injury during the second quarter of Cincinnati’s 31-27 victory over Jacksonville.
It was Burrow’s third major injury in his six seasons since being the top overall pick in the 2020 draft.
“I’ve been juggling the injury mindset where you kind of take a deep breath, then get back to it, then juggling that with the idea I could potentially still play this year and we could still be in it and all of those things,” he said. “Now that we are getting closer and closer, it’s more of a season mindset.”
The offense struggled in the first three games after Burrow’s injury with Jake Browning at the helm, but things have been better
since the Bengals acquired Joe Flacco from the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 9. Flacco is averaging a league-high 313.5 yards passing per game over his four starts for the Bengals. The defense has been primarily to blame for Cincinnati’s last two losses. The Bengals blew a 15-point fourth-quarter lead in a 39-38 loss to the New York Jets on Oct. 26, then allowed Chicago quarterback Caleb Williams to connect with Colston Loveland for a 58-yard touchdown with 17 seconds left in a 47-42 loss to the Bears on Nov 2. Cincinnati became the first team since the 1966 New York Giants to score at least 38 points in consecutive games and lose both. Coming off their bye week, the Bengals remain just two games behind AFC North leader Pittsburgh and have won both of their division games. The Steelers have dropped three of four, including 33-31 at Cincinnati on Oct 16. Taylor also said defensive end Trey Hendrickson is doubtful to return this week. The All-Pro pass rusher has missed two of the last three games with a hip injury
Texas, Georgia peaking ahead of SEC title rematch
BY CHARLES ODUM AP sportswriter
ATHENS, Ga. — A rematch of last season’s Southeastern Conference championship game finds No. 5 Georgia and No. 10 Texas peaking for a game that could affect this season’s conference race and will be crucial to each team’s College Football Playoff hopes. Texas (7-2, 4-1) will take a fourgame winning streak into Saturday night’s game at Sanford Stadium. Georgia (8-1, 6-1) extended its winning streak to five games with last week’s 41-21 win at Mississippi State. Coach Kirby Smart called the win a “total team effort.”
Gunner Stockton came off the bench to lead the Bulldogs to a 22-19 overtime win over Texas in last year’s SEC championship game in Atlanta.
Despite both teams carrying top-10 rankings in this week’s AP Top 25, Texas and Georgia do not control their hopes of returning to the SEC title game. No. 3 Texas A&M and No. 4 Alabama have no SEC losses and are on course to play each other in Atlanta.
Even so, much is on the line this week The Bulldogs and Longhorns are playing to remain in position to enter a possible tiebreaker scenario if either Alabama or Texas A&M lose. They also will be playing to protect their playoff hopes.
From the outside, it looks like the SEC’s game of the week.
From the view of Georgia players — who already have played Top 25 conference games against Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, plus a close win over Florida — the visit from Texas feels like just another week in the SEC
“I mean, you’ve got to approach every single game the same in this league,” tight end Oscar Delp said Monday “I mean, playing at Georgia, you know you’re going to get every team’s best shot. I mean, no matter who we’re playing, we’re the game of the year.”
Even so, Delp hinted the visit from quarterback Arch Manning and Texas might bring more than just the “another game” vibe to the prime-time SEC showdown.
“I think everyone understands what the magnitude is of every game we play, especially this one,” Delp said. “So we’re super excited to get out there and play.”
Safety KJ Bolden said Georgia’s grind of Top 25 tests will pay off in the postseason.
“I feel that this is great for our team that it gets us ready for, you know, later down the season, getting ready for those big type of games,” Bolden said. “So I feel like that will definitely help us down the road.”
Stockton, who threw three touchdown passes in last week’s win over Mississippi State, has gained momentum as a passer in his first season as the Georgia starter after playing behind Carson Beck in 2024 Stockton has passed for nine touchdowns the last three weeks, forcing defenses to respect the pass and opening running room for Nate Frazier, who ran for 181 yards, including a 59-yard touchdown run, last week. When asked Monday what Stockton has added to the Georgia offense, Smart said, “Toughness. He’s brought wisdom. He’s brought consistency. He’s made good decisions with the ball in terms of keeping us out of bad situations. He’s avoided a lot of sacks. He’s avoided catastrophic situations in terms of turnovers.”
Smart said Stockton has “improved throughout the season.” Manning also has enjoyed a surge after a slow start. Manning has passed for 674 yards and six touchdowns with just one interception the last two games. Smart, who recruited Manning, said he sees the Texas quarterback “playing with more confidence.” Smart added Manning has “made some wow throws” this season.
Giants fire Daboll after 2-8
start to 4th season
BY STEPHEN WHYNO AP sportswriter
NEW YORK The New York Giants fired coach Brian Daboll on Monday, moving on from him midway through his fourth season after they dropped to 2-8 with a loss at Chicago.
Offensive coordinator Mike Kafka was named as the interim replacement. The move made by ownership came a day after the Giants blew another late lead to lose 24-20 to the Bears. General manager Joe Schoen remains in his role, and owners John Mara and Steve Tisch said he will lead the search for the next coach.
“We spoke this morning about the direction of our franchise on the field, and we have decided that, at this time, it is in our best interest to make a change at the head coaching position,” Mara and Tisch said in a statement.
“The past few seasons have been nothing short of disappointing, and we have not met our expectations for the franchise. We understand the frustrations of our fans, and we will work to deliver a significantly improved product.”
The rest of Daboll’s staff was kept in place, including defensive coordinator Shane Bowen.
New York has lost four in a row since upsetting reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia at home in prime time early last month. That included becoming the first team since 2003 to lead by 18 points with six minutes to play and lose, which the Giants did at Denver on Oct. 19.
This is just the Giants’ third midseason coaching change over the past 95 years. It’s the first since 2017, when Ben McAdoo and general manager Jerry Reese were fired after a
2-10 start. Daboll went 20-40-1 in his first head-coaching job in the league. He led the Giants to the playoffs in his first season and was named coach of the year, but has gone 11-33 since. His .336 winning percentage ranks 154th out of 166 coaches with 50-plus games since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger Daboll is the second coach to be fired this season; Tennessee dismissed Brian Callahan after the Titans started 1-5.
Daboll, who previously served as the Buffalo offensive coordinator from 2018-21, had faced increasing pressure about his job security in recent weeks and repeatedly took responsibility for the Giants’ woes.
“Look, you put everything you’ve got into it,” Daboll said. “You look at the things that aren’t where they need to be and you try to fix them. Whether that’s changing things on the schedule, whether that’s different periods of practice, whether that’s changing little parts of the scheme, again, that’s where we’re at We’re at where we’re at.” Kafka takes over after another turn of uncertainty in a lost season, following quarterback Jaxson Dart’s concussion against the Bears that forced Russell Wilson back into action. Fellow rookie Cam Skattebo and No. 1 receiver Malik Nabers already were lost for the season because of injuries. Schoen, who is in his fourth season as GM since also being hired from the Bills, got a vote of confidence from Mara and Tisch. Selecting edge rusher Abdul Carter with the third pick, trading back into the first round to get Dart and drafting Skattebo likely played a significant role in Schoen sticking around longer than Daboll.
“We feel like Joe has assembled a good young nucleus of talent, and we look forward to its development,” Mara said.
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Saints wide receiver Chris Olave celebrates after a catch against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C.
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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow right, greets Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams after a game on Nov. 2 in Cincinnati.
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Georgia tight end Oscar Delp reacts after a catch against Mississippi St. during the first half of a game on Saturday in Starkville, Miss.
Wilson says WR avoids serious knee injury
BY KOKI RILEY and REED DARCEY Staff writers
LSU wide receiver NicAnderson did not suffer a significant knee injury
Saturday in a loss to Alabama, interim coach Frank Wilson said Monday And linebacker Whit Weeks, Wilson said, is “uncertain” for the game against Arkansas on Saturday (11:45 a.m., SEC Network).
Anderson, an Oklahoma transfer, was hurt after fifth-year senior quarterback Garrett Nussmeier connected with him on a 16-yard completion in the third quarter of the Tigers’ 20-9 loss to the No. 4 Crimson Tide. He then walked gingerly off the field, rode to the locker room on a golf cart and returned to the sideline later in the game on crutches.
“We’re really worried on the sideline that it could be something long-term,” Wilson said. “It is not. It does not require a procedure and so we’re day by day in a rehabilitation, preventative manner with him to get him along the way.”
That catch was Anderson’s second of the game and 12th of the season.
The redshirt junior joined the Tigers in 2025 as one of the stars of their top-ranked transfer class, but LSU struggled to find a role for him before he was injured Saturday In the first eight games Anderson collected only 74 yards receiving and two touchdowns on just 18 targets. He was much more productive in the last full year he played his 2023 redshirt freshman campaign when he caught 38 passes for 798 yards and 10 touchdowns with the Sooners. Weeks is battling a bone bruise in his ankle. He first suffered the injury late in a Sept. 27 loss to Ole Miss, and he’s now missed three
Alabama defensive back Zabien Brown tackles LSU wide receiver Nic Anderson as Alabama defensive back
DaShawn Jones closes in on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Anderson was injured in the game, and his playing status is ‘uncertain’ against Arkansas.
consecutive games.
“He’s eager,” Wilson said. “He wants to be back out there, but we won’t put him out there until he can protect himself and play at the level that allows him to be elite.”
Battle at right tackle
Wilson is unsure who will start at right tackle Saturday, he said Monday LSU started redshirt freshman Weston Davis at right tackle against Alabama, but he was replaced by redshirt freshman OryWilliams in the second half.
“They both did some really good things,” Wilson said. “They both
Georgia Southern guard Kyla Bryant drives against
Richard on Sunday in Statesboro, Ga.
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range against the first three teams they played
These Tigers, who routed Georgia Southern on Sunday 118-70, are shooting 58% from the field and a blistering 47% from beyond the arc.
“We don’t have a liability where you cannot guard somebody,” Mulkey said. “Everybody is able to score the ball, and particularly from the 3, all of them will let it go.”
The efficient shooting starts with LSU’s two stars. Mikaylah Williams is shooting 60% from the field and Flau’jae Johnson is shooting 49%. Williams has drained 6-of-9 3-point tries while Johnson has sunk 8-of-13 attempts from beyond the arc.
Freshman guard Bella Hines has caught fire, too She has hit 6-of-10
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yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions against Alabama. Nussmeier has completed 67.4% of his throws this season for 1,927 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions. He ranks 11th in the SEC at 214 yards passing per game a year after finishing second in the conference.
“I thought Garrett did well enough, at times, to still be in position to be the starter as we start and embark upon this week,” Wilson said. Trailing 17-6, LSU pulled Nussmeier after its opening drive of
3-point attempts to start her collegiate career
MiLaysia Fulwiley may be just 2 of 10 from 3-point range to start her first season at LSU, but she’s also shooting an efficient 18 of 25 on field goals inside the arc She’s one of six Tigers with a doubledigit scoring average through three games.
LSU also has assisted on more than half of its buckets while turning the ball over on less than 15% of its possessions. According to Her Hoop Stats, the Tigers had a turnover rate of at least 15% in each of their last three seasons.
“We just been spreading the wealth,” Johnson said, “and I think that’s the most important thing. We’re finding each other, and it’s just fun.”
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the third quarter The Tigers had reached Alabama’s 9-yard line, but they kicked a field goal after Nussmeier spun into a sack on third down. Nussmeier spent the rest of the game on the sideline and encouraged his teammates when they came off the field. Van Buren finished 5-of-11 passing for 52 yards He also gained 21 yards rushing on four carries with two sacks removed from his final line. Van Buren lost a fumble in the fourth quarter that helped Alabama seal the game.
“I thought both of them did some good things,” Wilson said.
“I thought both of those guys did things that need to be improved upon. I thought Garrett, at times,
did some things that still need to be built upon. But we haven’t made a decision (as to who will start) just yet.”
Williams played 32 snaps and didn’t allow a quarterback pressure against the Crimson Tide, according to Pro Football Focus. Wilson liked what he saw from the former three-star recruit.
“It was good to see big Ory get out there,” Wilson said. “He’s a mammoth of a man, right, huge in stature.”
Davis has started all but one game at right tackle. The lone contest he missed was against Ole Miss, when he suffered a concussion and broken nose in warmups
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in the first half, all on catch-andshoot opportunities.
While the Tigers were hot from beyond the arc — making 5 of 11 by the 7:52 mark of the first half they were not hitting in the paint. At the same point in the game, they were 3 of 10 from two-point range.
LSU began to rectify its poor interior scoring when Dedan Thomas started finding his center Nwoko. The 6-foot-10, 261-pound junior was the recipient of two passes, an alleyoop dunk and then a three-point play on a layup.
The second play started with a pass from Thomas, who finished with eight assists, that Nwoko caught under the hoop. He patiently waited for his defender to jump early and scored through contact. After the made free throw, LSU led 35-22 with 5:46 left in the first half.
UNO wasn’t going to back down, showing the resilience it had in its upset over TCU
The Privateers scored seven straight after Nwoko’s paint buckets. They capped their run with a fastbreak 3-pointer from 6-9 forward Enzo Boudouma.
Right before that possession, Thomas picked up a second foul that caused him to sit the rest of the half on the bench.
McMahon called a 30-second timeout with his team ahead 3529 with 3:59 remaining before halftime.
The Tigers regained a doubledigit lead thanks to Jalen Reed’s interior finishing that accounted for five points. They closed with a fastbreak slam by Robert Miller as time expired, entering halftime with a 44-32 advantage.
UNO had issues creating open
was spectacular He started off red hot. He did some really good things for us. “I felt at the back end, we needed a spark and something to get us going and add another dimension to our game I thought Michael stepped in and gave those things to us as a football team.”
LSU attempted field goals on all four of its trips to the red zone and did not score a touchdown for the first time since a 29-0 loss to Alabama in 2018. The Tigers now have scored touchdowns on 51.5% of their red-zone trips, which ranks 115th in the country LSU was playing its first game since the firing of head coach
1:13 remaining in the first half, Nussmeier attempted a pass to senior wide receiver Barion Brown that fell incomplete.
The incompletion allowed the Crimson Tide to march 66 yards down the field in less than a minute to take a 17-3 lead over the Tigers heading into halftime.
“They’re exactly where we thought they would be,” Wilson said when discussing the play “It’s the exact defensive call we anticipated, and we don’t convert there, unfortunately.”
Wilson further explained the Tigers’ aggressiveness in that situation, noting that LSU went into a two-minute drill once it started the drive.
“I say to our football team, I say to media, I say to anybody who was listening, we’re going to try to win this game,” Wilson said. “We’re not going there for a moral victory and hope that we can stay with them. We’re going to try to win the game.”
Western Kentucky time
In two weeks, LSU will face Western Kentucky at 6:45 p.m. on the SEC Network, the SEC announced Monday
and was replaced by freshman Carius Curne
Curne has started at left tackle the last two weeks since redshirt sophomore Tyree Adams suffered a right ankle injury in LSU’s loss to Vanderbilt.
Third-down pass
Despite the move being unpopular among LSU fans, Wilson defended LSU’s decision to throw the ball while trailing by seven on third and 11 at its own 19 late in the first half of Saturday’s 20-9 loss to Alabama.
On the play, instead of running the ball to bleed out the clock and preserve its one-score deficit with
The Tigers will head into the matchup after their game this Saturday against Arkansas (11:45 a.m., SEC Network). The Western Kentucky game Nov. 22 will be LSU’s final home game of the season.
LSU finishes the season at Oklahoma on Nov 29. The game will be played at 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. or between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The Tigers head into the final three games of their season with a 5-4 record. They have lost four of their last five contests, including three in a row
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shots, especially on the perimeter LSU successfully switched defenders repeatedly whenever there was a screen or a dribble hand-off. That scheme challenged UNO’s best shooter, Coleton Benson, who scored a team-high 22 points and made 4 of 13 from the 3-point line against TCU. The 6-2 Texas State transfer finished with 10 points on 2-of-9 shooting from the field against LSU.
Disrupting Benson and Buckley was an emphasis for the Tigers.
“We were very concerned with Buckley and Benson,” McMahon said. “I think both those guys will
Brian Kelly and offensive coordinator Joe Sloan. Interim playcaller Alex Atkins added some wrinkles to the offense, including two rollouts for Nussmeier on the opening drive that resulted in completions. Nussmeier told Wilson he felt comfortable with those plays.
“He can do those things naturally,” Wilson said. “It flows for him. As he says to me, ‘I’ve been doing that since I came out of the womb.’ We’ll continue to do whatever it is to benefit Garrett, to benefit Michael, to play to their strengths.”
LSU is now averaging 23.7 points per game, which ranks 98th nationally and 14th in the SEC. Its only conference wins came
be all-league guards, and we held them to 5 of 22. That was critical to our defensive plan of attack.”
LSU put together a 15-0 run and allowed only three points by the 12:24 mark of the second half. In LSU’s previous game against Tarleton State, it shot a programrecord 71.7% from the field. Against UNO, LSU finished shooting 43.7%.
LSU’s next game is against Florida International (1-1) at 7 p.m. Thursday at the PMAC.
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against the two teams, Florida and South Carolina, that have scored fewer points at this stage of the season. Wilson said it will be imperative for LSU to score touchdowns against Arkansas The Razorbacks have averaged 35.4 ppg and have one of the best red-zone offenses in the country behind star quarterback Taylen Green. However, they have given up the most points in the SEC. “We’re going to use everything we have,” Wilson said, “and both of those will play in this game moving forward.”
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LSU guard Jada
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LSU forward Pablo Tamba tries to pump-fake UNO forward Enzo Boudouma in the first half on Monday at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center
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SEC pushes for no CFP automatic qualifiers
BY EDDIE PELLS AP national writer
Instead of simply pushing for a limited number of automatic qualifiers in the next version of the College Football Playoff, leaders in the Southeastern Conference are suggesting they don’t want any at all.
The results from last weekend might show they have a point.
The last two teams in the season’s first projected 12-team bracket — both of which were outside the selection committee’s top 12 — each lost last week, meaning the bracket that comes out Tuesday could include a pair of even lower-ranked teams.
The best Atlantic Coast Conference program in the latest AP Top 25 is now No. 14 Georgia Tech, which didn’t play last weekend but replaced Virginia as the ACC’s top team after the Cavaliers lost to
Wake Forest.
The playoffs also award an automatic bid to the fifth-best conference champion. After a loss by Memphis — unranked in the last playoff rankings but still given the projected 12th seed in the bracket this week’s placeholder could be AP No. 24
James Madison or No 25 South
Florida If the SEC gets its way those sort of stories from places that don’t regularly generate college football headlines — for instance, last year’s Boise State team could be all but gone from the sport’s biggest stage. All of which might not feel like such a loss, to hear key SEC leaders tell it. They, along with the Big Ten, will help shape the next version of the playoff, which went from four to 12 teams last year and could expand further Only a few months ago at its
league meetings, the SEC was pitching a 16-team field with five automatic qualifiers and 11 atlarge bids. That theme took a new twist last week.
“I’ve been amazingly consistent since we moved from four to something else that I’m not a fan of automatic qualifiers,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Saturday “In fact, we don’t have a G5 representative in the top 25. That’s problematic and that’s an indicator of why you just don’t jump on the AQ bandwagon.”
A day earlier Mississippi State president Mark Kennum — who chairs the CFP playoff board — told ESPN: “I’m not a big fan of automatic qualifiers.”
“That’s the position of the Southeastern Conference — presidents and chancellors, our commissioner and probably most of the conferences that are part of the CFP,” Kennum said.
The Big Ten must collaborate with the SEC to decide what comes next. If a change is going to be put in place, Sankey said the end of the month is a deadline of sorts “because of expectations from a media standpoint.” ESPN is paying $7.8 billion for the CFP games starting next season. Adding to the current 12-team format would involve changing the format and, thus, the TV schedule
The Big Ten has proposed a broadly expanded playoff, involving up to 28 teams that could include seven automatic qualifiers from the SEC and Big Ten and five each from the Big 12 and ACC.
The goals for something that large, according to Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, are to keep teams alive in the playoff hunt for as long as possible and to ensure “the playoff format should not function as a disincentive to schedule tough, nonconference games.”
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Word 86, St Thomas (TX) 72
100, Louisiana 38 FAR WEST
State 76, Minot State 37 Men’s state schedule Sunday’s games Louisiana Tech 93, Lyon College 35 Grambling 73, Howard 70 Monday’s games Southern 115 Ecclesia College 51 UL-Monroe 88, Rust College 55 McNeese132,CollegeofBiblicalStudies50 LSU, 93 UNO 58 Georgia Tech 61, Southeastern 52 Tuesday’s games Northwestern State at North Alabama, 6 p.m. Tulane at UL-Lafayette, 7 p.m Men’s national scores Monday’s games EAST Cairn 102, City College of New York 71
“As we said throughout this process, we are open to considering any format ideas that come from our colleagues or the CFP staff, but to be clear, formats that increase the discretion and role of the CFP Selection Committee will have a difficult time getting support from the Big Ten,” Pettiti said at Big Ten media days
Under the most recent and most radical version of the SEC proposal — no automatic bids at all — the committee, armed with guidelines and metrics, would presumably have all the say Sankey said no progress had been made in what looks like a stalemate between conferences that featured 11 of the top 13 teams in the most recent rankings. “Different people want different things, so, can we rally behind a common direction is the question,” Sankey said.
7 (tie), Justin Thomas, Sam Burns and Keegan Bradley, 2,477. 10, 2 tied with 1,414. Scoring Average 1, Scottie Scheffler, 68.131. 2, Rory McIlroy, 69.083. 3, Tommy Fleetwood, 69.357. 4, Ben Griffin, 69.692. 5, Russell Henley, 69.757. 6, Harry Hall, 69.764. 7, J.J. Spaun, 69.830. 8, Robert MacIntyre, 69.900. 9, Garrick Higgo, 70.032. 10, Sepp Straka, 70.047. Driving Distance 1, Aldrich Potgieter, 325. 2, Rory McIlroy 323. 3, Jesper Svensson, 321.4. 4, Niklas Norgaard, 319.6. 5, Nicolai Hojgaard, 318.8. 6 (tie), Kurt Kitayama and Michael Thorbjornsen, 318. 8, Trevor Cone, 316.8. 9, Chris Gotterup, 316.7. 10, Trey Mullinax, 316.2. Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Paul Peterson, 74.32%. 2, Aaron Rai, 73.85%. 3, Takumi Kanaya, 73.61%. 4, Ben Kohles, 72.82%. 5, Andrew Putnam, 71.90%. 6, Joel Dahmen, 70.91%. 7, Collin Morikawa, 70.65%. 8, Brandt Snedeker, 69.42%. 9, Brice Garnett, 69.27%. 10, Zac Blair, 69.14%. Greens in Regulation Percentage 1, 10 tied with .00%. Total Driving 1, Michael Thorbjornsen, 52. 2, Rico Hoey, 53. 3, Pierceson Coody, 66. 4, Thomas Rosenmueller, 72. 5, Isaiah Salinda, 81. 6, Kris Ventura, 84. 7, Kevin Roy, 90. 8, Steven Fisk, 91. 9, 2 tied with 92. SG-Putting 1, Sam Burns, .983. 2, Taylor Montgomery .899. 3, Harry Hall, .881. 4, Garrick Higgo, .661. 5, Denny McCarthy, .656. 6, Cameron Young, .642. 7, Rory McIlroy, .597. 8, Nico Echavarria, .593. 9, Brandt Snedeker, .574. 10, Sam Ryder, .557. Birdie Average 1, Garrick Higgo, 4.96. 2, Scottie Scheffler, 4.7. 3, Pierceson Coody, 4.59. 4, Harry Hall, 4.56. 5, Justin Thomas, 4.46. 6, Jake Knapp, 4.42. 7, Keith Mitchell, 4.41. 8, Taylor Montgomery, 4.38. 9, Nicolai Hojgaard, 4.35. 10, Michael Thorbjornsen, 4.34.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By ROSS D FRANKLIN Phoenix Suns forward Ryan Dunn blocks a shot by New Orleans Pelicans guard Jeremiah Fears during the first half Monday in Phoenix. This game ended after press time. For a full story, visit theadvocate.com.
Red alert
Howtoshop for andplant thestate fruittoharvest a very,berry good springtime treat
Raise your hand if you love strawberries!
GARDEN NEWS
These sweet, juicy,red berries are one of the most popular kinds of fruit. And how could they not be? They’re delicious and nutritious —a healthy treat even picky youngsters can appreciate. Strawberries are an economically and culturally important crop in Louisiana, and they’reour official state fruit. If you’d like to grow some of your own, it’seasy to do —and October through mid-November is the best time to get your plants in the ground. Youcan grow them in containersand raised beds, too. Plant now,and you can expect aharvest in March and April.
LSU AGCENTERPHOTO
By OLIVIA McCLURE
Strawberry plants are typically sold bareroot. Sometimes,they still have old foliageattached. youcan cut off theseleaves before planting
Let’sgoshopping
Strawberry plants are typically sold bareroot, meaning they’renot potted up in containers. When you go shopping at your local garden center,the plants willlook like aclumpof roots that may or may nothave foliage. That’scompletely normal! Once planted, new shoots will grow from the roots. Look for LSU AgCenterrecommended varieties such as Benicia, StrawberryFestival, Sweet Ann, Camino Real, Chandler and Camarosa. These have all been tested and found to perform well in Louisiana’sclimate Planting tips
Youneed to plant your strawberries soon after bringing them home from the garden center,asbareroot plants can dry out in ahurry.Before planting, you may want tosoak the roots in water for about 20 minutes to rehydrate them. Strawberries should be planted in full sun and well-drained, slightly acidic soil. Containers and raised beds filled with typical pottingorraised bed mixes are perfect.
If your plants still have a lot of old foliage attached,go ahead and cut that off. It’ll die eventually anyway,and removing those extra leaves will help the plantsconcentrate their resources on getting established and growing new roots and shoots that willeventually producestrawberries.
Pay special attention to your planting technique. When you place your plants in the ground, the roots should be spread out —not curled up
Youalso need to keep an eye on the crown, which is where the roots and shoots come together The crown is theplant’smain
LIVING
AS SEEN ON SCREEN
TigerTubaKent, the66-year-old
sensation, shares hisstory with
BY JOYHOLDEN Staff writer
From an SEC Nation special with Marty Smithtoasitdown with Kelly Clarkson, Kent Broussard hasbeen sharing his story of being a66-year-old LSU band member far andwide.
Broussard, theoldest member of the Golden Band from Tigerland, has played the sousaphone for nine games now,and his popularityhas exploded across campus andthe country.Heisstopped on campus often, asked to pose for pictures andtakeselfies with undergrad students.
Game days usuallycomewith
even more picturerequests. Broussard has madeinter-generational friendships with band members and even his classmates.
“I’ll always take apicturewith a student,” Broussard said, “because Iamone.”
The season has been an amazing experience, he said, even more thanheexpected. In fact,heisa little sadthat the fall is coming to a close. LSU has four regular-season games remaining,and thesemester is winding down for classes.
“I’ve realized it’s almostover. It has gone by so fast.Ithas just been ablurthe wholeseason,”Broussard said.
Classes have been apleasant surprise for Broussard. He says he’s
‘A SITE OF LIBERATION’
had great teachers and supportive classmates whohavemadethe experience remarkable. He’shad such agreat timeasaTiger that he has reenrolled forthe spring semester with goals to continue playing in the band foranother year
‘A good story’
Broussard says the attention and mediafocus have surprisedand delighted him
“The story Iproject is agood story,” he said. “It’sone that people gravitate toward. They like the aspect that I’mdoing something that nobodyelsehas done andthat I’m
fitting in withthe band andwith
La.plantationtohonor BlackservicemenofCivil War
Édouard Duparc Gros, thirdfrom the left, at the sugar mill at Laura Plantation in 1888. Gros is one of nine soldiers from the plantationwho fought for the Unioninthe Civil War.
BY DESIREESTENNETT Staff writer
Louisianahad moreBlack soldiers fightfor theirfreedom in the Union Army thanany other state, so the Laura Plantation in St.JamesParish is honoring them for Veterans Day,including nine soldiers whowere freed from that plantation. Aceremony is plannedat 10 a.m. Tuesday in honor of the 1,400Blackand Creole menfrom
Louisiana who made up the75th United States Colored Infantry during theCivil War. Three of them —Édouard Gros, Daniel Howard and Jean Baptiste Peterson —were formerly enslaved at Laura Plantation and joined the fight to free others. While themen no longer have relatives living the area, other members of the community who are descendantsofpeoplewho
STAFFFILE AND PROVIDED PHOTOS
LSU TigerBand member KentBroussard says talk showhost Kelly Clarkson was easy to talktoand asked him great questions. Broussard also spent time visiting Times Square while in Newyork City.Kent Broussard marching throughcampusand sharing timewith his wife, Cheryl.
‘I’msosorry that Ican’t make it’
Dear Miss Manners: While acknowledging gratitude for beinginvited to quite afew socialevents, how do Idecline an invitation that Ihave little interest in attending? (Yes,Igladly attend special birthday celebrations and all 50th wedding anniversaries.)
“I’m sorry,Ican’tmake it” is honest, but does etiquette require validreasons for absences?Such as, “Sorry,I’m having a baby that day” instead of, “No thanks, I’m not interested.”
Judith Martin MISS MANNERS
“I’m sorry,I’m under theweather” might be OK to use (in truth, we are all “under” the weather), but only as alast-minute excuse, not for an advanced RSVP.Itrust
youunderstand my quandary Gentle reader: Use any of those excuses, andsomeone is bound to post apicture of you enjoyingyourself elsewhere, even if you were just caught withafleeting smile on your way to the grocery store. It is for that reason and we can throw in a moral one for free —that MissMannerscounsels that if you do not have a presentableexcuse, you should not claim one. Youare required to express thanksatbeing invited and regret at not beingable to accept. (You do have someregret, don’tyou? Well, conjure some up, even if
you are sorry only about the inability to be frank.)
Most hostsare satisfied with that —and probably grateful to get any definiteanswer.Should one be so rude as to ask why you cannot attend, just keep repeating theformula (“You’re so kind to invite me; I’m so sorry Ican’tgo”) until you get asurrender
Dear Miss Manners: For 15 years, since our two daughters have had partners whom they married, my husband and Ichose to have Thanksgiving dinner on Friday so our kids could spend Thursday with their in-laws. This year,our younger daughter announced that she was starting her own family tradition and having Thanksgiving dinner on
Thursday at her newly purchased home. We were invited to attend. She said shewould be too tired to come to ourdinner on Friday
This daughter and her husband have also counted thenumber of times my husband and Ihave visited them, and decided that they want “one more visit per year” in theinterest of “the importance of family.” Any advice?
Gentlereader: Yes: Go to your younger daughter’sfor Thanksgiving on Thursday,and tell her you would be delighted to plan another visit. Your Friday Thanksgivings were kindly done for your children’s convenience, and surely you are not trying to claim them as an inviolable tradition.
Miss Manners is guessing that
theproblemhas to do withthe other daughter’sThanksgiving. The youngerone hasprobably notinvited hersister’sextendedfamily In that case, you will be consuming alot of turkey and cranberry sauce. Your daughters have been doing double Thanksgivings foryears —asdomany who can’tassemble their families for whatever reason —soyou know it won’tkill you.
Send questions to Miss Manners at herwebsite,www missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City,MO 64106.
By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday,Nov.11, the 315th day of 2025.There are 50 days left in the year
Today is Veterans Day
Todayinhistory: On Nov.11, 1918, fighting in World WarIended as the Allies and Germany signed an armistice aboard arailroad car in the Forest of Compiègne in northern France. Also on this date: In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower,anchored off Massachusetts, signed the Mayflower Compact, creating alocal government for the colony that called for a“civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation.” In 1921, the remains of an unidentified American service member wereinterred in aTomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Nation-
al Cemetery in aceremony presidedoverbyPresident Warren G. Harding In 1938, Irish-born cook Mary Mallon, who’d gained notoriety as the diseasecarrying“Typhoid Mary” blamed for the deaths of three people, diedonNorth Brother Island in New York’s East River at age69 after 23 years of mandatory quarantine. In 1966, Gemini 12 blasted off on afour-day mission with astronauts James A. Lovell andEdwin“Buzz” Aldrin Jr.aboard; it wasthe 10th andfinal crewed flight of NASA’sGemini program. In 2020,Georgia’s secretary of state announcedan audit ofpresidentialelection results that he saidwouldbe done witha full handcount of ballots becausethe margin was so tight; Democratic President-elect JoeBiden led Republican President
Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes out of nearly 5 million votes counted in the state.(The audit would affirm Biden’swin.)
In 2022, Sam BankmanFried’sFTX crypto exchange platformfiled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid acollapse of itsassets;Bankman-Fried was convicted in November 2023 of sevencounts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud and was sentenced to 25 yearsinprison.
Today’sBirthdays: Music producer MuttLange is 77.
Actor Stanley Tucci is 65.
Actor Demi Moore is 63. Actor Calista Flockhart is 61. TV personality Carson Kressley is 56. Actor David DeLuise is 54. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 51.
Musician Jon Batiste is 39. Retired American figure
skater Adam Rippon is 36.
Actor TyeSheridan is 29.
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growing point. It’scrucial for
it to sit right at soil level not deeperorhigher
If you’re growing strawberries in rows in the ground or in araised bed space your plants 12 inches apart. For smaller container-grown strawberries, place just one plant per pot.
Larger containers or hanging baskets can accommodate plants placed as close as 8inches apart
Watering andmulching
Strawberries have ashallow root system, so it’sessential to keep them moist but not overwatered. Water every day for the firsttwo
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the students. It’sbeen overwhelming, but I’malong for the ride.”
“The Kelly Clarkson Show” contacted Broussard afew months back, and schedules finally aligned. Broussard says that he almost didn’tmake the trip duetobad weather,but the Clarkson team helped him get there even after he had to cancel three flightsin about six hours.
weekswhile the plants establish.After that,plan on wateringeverytwo to three days if rain isn’tin theforecast. Makesurethe plantsare never sitting in waterlogged soil. Mulcharound yourstrawberriesafterplanting; pine straw is agreat choice for this. Mulch notonly helps retain moisture but also will prevent berriesfromcoming in direct contact with thesoil, which can damage thefruit.
Flowers, fruitand fertilizing
Incorporatingapre-plant fertilizer into thesoil or pottingmedia just before you plant is arecommended practice.
Your plants will grow quite abit in their first couple of monthsand may
He taped the show on Halloween. Whiletalkingwiththe productionteam,Broussard mentioned that he could play the sousaphone, so the show went out and rented a fiberglass sousaphone that he could play.Before theinterview,Broussard marched out onto the stage with the rented sousaphone, playing “When the Saints Go Marching In.” He chatted with Clarkson for about 7-8 minutes, noting that the Grammy Awardwinning host was easy to talk to andasked him great questions.
even put on afew flowers. Removethese early flowers —they usually turn into small, misshapen fruit,and plantsneed to focus instead on just growing in this time. In late winter or early spring, you’ll see another round of bloomsappear It takes about four to six weeks from bloom to berry During this critical growth period, help your plants out with ageneral-purpose liquid fertilizer,which will encourage fruit production.
Formoreinformation
Check out theAgCenter’s free publication at www LSUAgCenter.com/strawberryguide for moredetails on growing strawberries. Youalso can contact your parish AgCenter agent with questions.
Broussard andhis family made the weekend amini Manhattan vacation by eating great food and seeing “MJ theMusical,”amusical about Michael Jackson. Witnessing themultifaceted organization behind the scenes of atalk show also fascinated Broussard. Twomembers of the LSU public relations team, Zach Labbè and Abbi Rocha, accompanied him and his family to the taping of the show Email Joy Holden at joy holden@theadvocate.com.
CapitalAreaHuman Services to host extensivewellnessfair
Staff report
Morethan 25 health and wellness organizations will participate in an extensive community outreach fair from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at CapitalArea Human Services administrative office parkingarea, 12301 Coursey Blvd., Baton Rouge
Sponsored by CAHS,the free event will offer health screenings,vaccines,Narcan kits and baby diapers. Free food boxes, turkeys,
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were enslaved at the plantationwill gather to read the names of all1,400 men in theinfantry —formerly known as the Third Louisiana Native Guard when it formed in New Orleansin 1862.
Brittany Jones, whose third great-grandfather Madison Gray wasenslavedatLaura Plantation, will be amongthose readingthe namesofsoldiers Growing up as an African American woman in the south, Jones always assumed her ancestorshad been enslaved, but it wasn’t until 2020 that she started genealogy research.
“Slavery was something we knew about and learned aboutbut Inever felt a connection to,” Jones said. “Buttohaveaname and a bill of sale attached to that legacy just really changed the way Ifelt about my family,and it made me want to connect more and figure out, howdid we becomethe family that we are? Andwho arethe people thatlaid thatfoundation and gave me such a wonderful family?”
Shelearned that Gray wasa skilledcarpenter, and his grandson, afree man, owned asuccessful shoe repair business one generation after slavery ended. Thoseancestors
hotjambalayaplates, smoothies and fresh fruit will also be available while supplies last.
“As Thanksgiving approaches, the Capital Area Human Services Prevention and Wellness staff has engaged community partners to enhance free resources, screenings and information forthe community,” said CAHS Executive Director Janzlean Laughinghouse.
“In addition, the district’s 40-foot mobile clinic will be on-site, and aCAHS team of
on her maternal grandmother’sside went on to produce high-ranking military officials, educators, doctors, nursesand politicians among the family members who are alive today.Jones became a pharmacist and her mother,Vondra Etienne-Steib, was the first woman to be elected to the St. James Parish Council.
Thesoldiers being remembered Tuesday made thatpossible,Jones said, adding that she is “honored” to read their names.
“Could you imagine whatAmerica would have been like if those enslaved gentlemen didn’tjoin the Union Army?” she said.
Katy Morlas Shannon, a historianwithLaura Plantation, said the Veterans Day eventwill launch their newmission to tell Louisiana’sstory of the Civil War, which she said is often “written off” compared to places like Gettysburg and othermajor battlefields.
But Louisiana’scontribution should be celebrated, she said.
At the event, aplaque honoring the soldiers will be unveiled. Museum staff is also working on abook to tell their stories, as well as atourthatwillhighlight the Laura Plantation’sCivil Warconnections.
“Louisiana was really significantbecause it was aproving ground forfreedom,” Morlas Shannon
professionalsrepresenting mental health, addictive disorders anddevelopmental disabilities will be on-hand to answer questions and provide support to the participants,” she added. The eventtheme is “Your Health, Your Harvest”and includes partners from Aetna; Coca-Cola; Capitol City Produce; Priority Care;Robin Bennett, CEO, Changing Lanes Coaching and Consulting; Grace House; WellCare; Smoothie King and PrimeSenior Placement.
said. “There was Confederatewarfare going on, guerilla warfare, in the swamp. So it looked differently here, but people are beginning to realize that what happened here during the Civil Warissignificant.”
It was members of the Second Louisiana Native Guard, free Black men fromNew Orleans, that freed manyenslaved people at Laura Plantation. The newly freed menwere so inspiredafter meeting the Black andCreole menfighting for the Union Armythat they went to New Orleansand enlisted, creating the Third Louisiana Native Guard and later the 75th United States Colored Infantry.Ifthey had been captured, it’s likely they would have been killed.
“LauraPlantationbecameasite of liberation,” Morlas Shannon said. Jones saidher hope is that learning the stories of these men will encourage moreBlack Louisiana residents to start researching their own family histories. “I hope morepeople will consider digging alittle deeper into their family story and not be afraid of going to the uncomfortable places,” she said. “There are gemsburied in that rubble.”
Email Desiree Stennett at desiree.stennett@ theadvocate.com.
LSU AGCENTER PHOTO By OLIVIA McCLURE
The crown of each strawberryplant shouldbeevenwith thesoil. It shouldn’t be burieddeeply or sitting highabove soil level.
scoRPIo (oct. 24-nov. 22) Pay attention to maintaining balance in your life and split your work and play time equally. A change of scenery will depending on how you adapt to your new surroundings — be either uplifting or educational.
sAGIttARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) Press forward with vim, vigor and a budget. A high-energy approach to how you live and maintain your routine will help secure your position and ensure progress.
cAPRIcoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) State what you are willing to do, and you'll avoid backtracking, leaving you more time to concentrate on what's meaningful to you. Do your best to make and stick to simple rules.
AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Pay attention to who does what and how you can live up to your word and responsibilities. Initiate necessary alterations to avoid confusion and maintain your budget.
PIscEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Choose to use charm over pressure. Emotional manipulation will lead to trouble and unnecessary expenses. It's best to stick to the facts, enforce a strict budget and call it a day.
ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Communication is essential if you want the facts and figures before making a decision or purchase. Attend informative events or scour the internet for reliable answers.
tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Self-improvement requires attention; refuse to let
others choose for you. A change at home that influences your financial well-being requires attention. When in doubt, halt.
GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Mixed feelings will lead to trouble if you let personal and professional conflicts interfere with each other. Balance and integrity will play a role in what happens next.
cAncER (June 21-July 22) Broaden your vision, and don't deny yourself the chance to reach your dreams, hopes and wishes. Call the shots and initiate what works best for you. A healthy social life will help you see clearly.
LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Emotions will surface, causing confusion and trouble at home. Intelligent navigation is necessary if you want to come out on top. Make suggestions that encourage unity, not separation.
VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Refuse to let your thoughts spin out of control. Saying something prematurely will hinder what you are trying to achieve. Treat others however you want them to treat you, and you'll have no regrets.
LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) Think twice before purchasing something you don't need. Emotional spending or trying to buy someone's favor will backfire. Choose a healthy diet and exercise program.
Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present. Each letter in the cipher stands for another.
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Sudoku
InstructIons: Sudoku is anumber-placing puzzle based on a9x9 grid with several given numbers. Theobject is to place the numbers 1to9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. Thedifficulty level of theSudoku increases from Monday to Sunday.
Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer
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By PHILLIP ALDER
Bob Hope defined bigamy as the only crimewhere two rites make awrong. Today, let’s have two contracts to see if you can play both of them rite— Imean, right. South is in six heartsor seven hearts. West leads the diamond jack. Howshould declarer proceed in each slam?
Northresponded two no-trump, the JacobyForcingRaise,promisingatleast four-cardheartsupport and game-going values.SouthlaunchedRomanKey-Card Blackwood.Northshowedtwokey-cards (twoaces,oroneaceandthetrumpking) NowSouthknew to settlefor six hearts. If South’s four no-trump were regularBlackwood,hewould have followed with five no-trump to learn that one king was missing and not known what to do. Notethat if North’s diamond king were the heart king, South would have 13 top tricks: four spades, five hearts, one diamond and three clubs.
Each slam revolves around the trump suit. In seven hearts, South should play aheart to his queen, winning whenever Easthas king-doubleton or West has jack-singleton. But in the small slam,declarer can afford one trump loser. Then the best play is to start withhis ace. Here, the king drops from West. Now South can make seven, crossing to dummy and finessing East out of his trump jack.If instead the jack drops from West, South
continueswithhisqueenandclaims.And if the ace draws only the three and the six,declarer crossestothe boardand leads aheart toward his queen.Hehas no guesswork Inthisdeal,strangely,yougodownone ortwoinsevenhearts,butmakesixwith an overtrick!
Each Wuzzle is awordriddlewhich creates adisguised word, phrase, name, place, saying, etc. For example: NOON GOOD =GOOD AFTERNOON
Previous answers:
word game
InstRuctIons: 1. Words must be of fourormore letters. 2. Words that acquire fourletters by the addition of “s,”such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3 Additional words made by adding a“d” or an “s” may not be used. 4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit wordsare not allowed
toDAy’s WoRD ERuPtED: eh-RUP-tid: Burst fromlimits or restraint.
Average mark16words
Time limit 30 minutes
Can you find 24 or morewords in ERUPTED?
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