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fter its finest season in football since 1960, New Mexico State University won’t see pom-poms waving at the Capitol.

State Rep. Liz Thomson, D-Albuquerque, says she will revive a bill that would require colleges and universities to adopt procedures aimed at preventing sexual assault, harassment and stalking.

“With what’s gone on at NMSU, it seems like the right time to proceed. In fact, it’s past time,” Thomson said in an interview.

NMSU in June paid $8 million to settle lawsuits by two former men’s basketball players

players, NMSU’s Board of Regents, the ousted head basketball coach and Director of Athletics Mario Moccia.

In the midst of the scandal, the university in April gave Moccia a five-year contract extension and a raise of $72,000 that increased his annual salary to almost $352,000. Moccia’s undeserved rewards were delivered by then-Chancellor Dan Arvizu, who was on his way out the door. The regents didn’t renew Arvizu’s contract, nor did they intervene to cancel Moccia’s golden deal.

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who said they were sexually assaulted by teammates.

More civil lawsuits by two other former players and a student manager have since been filed. The defendants include three former

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A father and son cross the contaminated Rio Grande earlier this year to see if the Texas National Guard would allow them to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol.

As deaths of migrants soar, many of them unidentified

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Border Patrol says 149 people died in El Paso Sector in year through Sept. 30, rising from six recorded six years ago

Dignitaries descend on downtown to celebrate Hanukkah, Las Posadas amid global tensions

By Lauren Villagran

El Paso Times

EL PASO, Texas, and JUÁREZ, Mexico — Mount Cristo Rey rises in the desert like two hands in prayer, the U.S. and Mexico sides, over a graveyard without tombs.

This year, migrants died in this harsh landscape — in the Rio Grande, the desert, neighborhoods and on city streets — in numbers never seen before at this border crossing known as the Paso del Norte. Yet no stones mark the places where they died, only numeric coordinates inked on police reports.

The sand berm where a Border Patrol agent found 49-yearold Abel Lopez Rodriguez with “maggots all over his body.”

The spot behind Doña Ana Community College where Marlene Leyva-Perez collapsed and a child found her decomposing body. The dunes where a “mule,” euphemism for a smuggler, abandoned Eduardo Torres-Ramos, a 34-year-old Guatemalan man, a few miles from a New Mexico winery.

They are among the migrants whose names are known; many more died without identification. Yet back home, the families who depended on them don’t forget. The survivors mourn. They shoulder the cost of an American dream cut short.

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Cease-fire hopes fade as Israel ramps up campaign in Gaza PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

ABOVE: Rabbi Berel Levertov of the Santa Fe Jewish Center leads the lighting of the menorah ceremony at the Plaza during Chanukah on the Plaza on Sunday. “We are in the midst of a joyous holiday, and we need to celebrate our miracles,” Levertov said. TOP: Tina Arons, a fire performer with the Santa Fe Flow collective, performs before the lighting of the menorah during the celebration.

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everal area political leaders joined the hundreds of Hanukkah celebrants on the Plaza on Sunday.

U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández spoke at Chanukah on the Plaza, as did Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber, who passed out Hanukkah gelt, or chocolates wrapped to look like gold coins. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spoke last, after which she lit the large menorah next to the bandstand.

While politicians speaking at a community event is nothing unusual, this year’s celebration took place in the shadow of the IsraelHamas war. Rabbi Berel Levertov, whose Santa Fe Jewish Center Chabad organizes Chanukah on the Plaza, said many people have been asking him what they can do to support Israel.

“Our message is very clear — be more Jewish,” Levertov said. “Do yet another mitzvah.

Shine another light. ... Every single good deed is a light that dispels more darkness.”

The latest flareup of the decades-old conflict started Oct. 7, when Hamas militants invaded Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of Israeli civilians and kidnapping more than 200 people. Israel has responded with a bombing campaign and invasion of Gaza that has so far led to more than 15,500 Palestinian deaths, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The United Nations agency for

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Battles raged across Gaza on Sunday as Israel indicated it was prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat the territory’s Hamas rulers, and a key mediator said willingness to discuss a cease-fire was fading.

Israel faces international outrage after its military offensive, with diplomatic support and arms from close ally the United States, has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians.

About 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced within the besieged territory, where U.N. agencies say there is no safe place to flee.

The United States has lent vital support in recent days by vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution to end the fighting and pushing through an emergency sale of over $100 million worth of tank ammunition to Israel.

Russia backed the resolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed dissatisfaction with “anti-Israel positions” taken by Moscow’s envoys at the U.N. and elsewhere, an Israeli statement said.

Netanyahu told Putin that any country assaulted the way Israel was “would have reacted with no less force than Israel is using,” the statement added.

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Kayla Montoya and Patrick Torres as Mary and Joseph walk during Las Posadas at the Plaza on Sunday. Las Posadas, a Christmas tradition reenacting Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter in Bethlehem before the birth of Jesus, features actors playing the holy family as a crowd follows them with candles.

Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said Monday more than 80% of people in Gaza have been displaced.

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IN BRIEF Cleanup begins in Tennessee after deadly string of weekend storms NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Residents of central Tennessee communities slammed by deadly tornadoes over the weekend described tragic and terrifying scenes in which one mobile home landed on top of another, roofs were ripped from houses and an entire church collapsed.

Emergency workers and community members cleaned up Sunday from the severe weekend storms and tornadoes that also sent dozens more to the hospital while damaging buildings, turning over vehicles and knocking out power to tens of thousands.

Twenty-one total injuries were reported in Nashville, city officials said. A church north of downtown collapsed during the storm, resulting in 13 people being treated at hospitals, emergency officials said in a news release.

The sanctuary and activities building at Community Baptist Church were demolished, Donella Johnson, the wife of the church’s pastor, said in a Facebook video.

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‘The Boy and the Heron’ debut sets landmark for Japanese anime NEW YORK — For the first time in Hayao Miyazaki’s decades-spanning career, the 82-year-old Japanese anime master is No. 1 at the North American box office. Miyazaki’s latest, The Boy and the Heron, debuted with $12.8 million, according to studio estimates.

The Boy and the Heron, the long-awaited animated fantasy from the director of Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and other cherished anime classics, is only the third anime to ever top the box office in U.S. and Canadian theaters, and the first original anime to do so.

Last week’s top film, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, dropped steeply in its second weekend. The concert film collected $5 million, a decline of 76% from its $21 million opening.

That allowed Lionsgate’s still-going-strong The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes to take second place, with an estimated $9.4 million in its fourth weekend of release. The Hunger Games prequel has a domestic haul of $135.7 million.

Children of jailed Iranian activist accept her Nobel Peace Prize Iran’s most prominent human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, was supposed to be handed the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, on Sunday.

But Mohammadi, locked inside Evin Prison in Iran, was unable to attend. Her 17-year-old twin children, Kiana Rahmani and Ali Rahmani, instead accepted the medal and diploma on her behalf and read a speech she had prepared.

“I write this message from behind the tall and cold walls of a prison,” she said in her speech, making a plea for a “globalization of peace and human rights” in a world where authoritarian governments continue to commit abuses against their people.

Mohammadi’s children have not seen their mother since 2015, when they fled Iran for France, and they have been unable to speak with her for two years, after Iranian prison authorities banned her from phone contact with them, according to PEN America, a free-speech group.

In the speech, Mohammadi, 51, described the undemocratic ways of the Islamic republic, its oppressive rules like mandating the hijab for women, and the women-led uprisings that shook the country last year.

Argentina’s new far-right president says ‘difficult decisions’ lie ahead BUENOS AIRES — Javier Milei, the libertarian economist embraced by far-right leaders around the world, was sworn in Sunday as president of Argentina, an office he won on promises to slash government spending and transform a country facing its worst economic crisis in two decades.

Milei immediately broke from tradition and delivered his first remarks as president outside the National Congress where the ceremony was held, symbolically turning his back on the political elite as he spoke directly to supporters.

In a professorial speech peppered with bleak statistics, Milei blamed the outgoing leftist government for the country’s soaring inflation and poverty rates, for “ruining” the lives of Argentine citizens and for leaving the nation on the brink of the “deepest crisis in our history.”

“We do not seek or desire the difficult decisions that will have to be made in the coming weeks. But unfortunately, they have left us with no choice,” Milei said.

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Two missile launch officers in an underground launch control center at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The control centers for all 450 nuclear missile silos in the U.S. will be redesigned as part of the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system.

Nuclear missile overhaul brings timely challenges Modern software and networking could open Sentinel to cyberattack

By Tara Copp

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F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. he control stations for America’s nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles have a sort of 1980s retro look, with computing panels in sea foam green, bad lighting and chunky control switches, including a critical one that says “launch.”

Those underground capsules are about to be demolished, and the missile silos they control will be overhauled. A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel.

It’s the largest cultural shift in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission in 60 years.

But there are questions as to whether some of the Cold War-era aspects of the Minuteman missiles the Sentinel will replace should be changed.

Making the silo-launched missile more modern, with complex software and 21st-century connectivity across a vast network, may also mean it’s more vulnerable. The Sentinel will need to be well protected from cyberattacks, while its technology will have to cope with frigid winter temperatures in the Western states where the silos are located.

The $96 billion Sentinel overhaul involves 450 silos across five states, their control centers, three nuclear missile bases and several testing facilities. The project is so ambitious it has raised questions as to whether the Air Force can get it all done at once.

An overhaul is needed.

The silos lose power. Their 60-year old mechanical parts break down often. Air Force crews guard them using helicopters that can be traced back to the Vietnam War. Commanders hope the modernization of the Sentinel — and of the trucks, gear and living quarters — will help attract and retain technology-minded service members who are now asked to keep an old system running.

Nuclear modernization was delayed for years because the United States deferred spending on new missiles, bombers and submarines in order to support the post 9/11 wars overseas. Now everything is getting modernized at once.

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The Sentinel work is one leg of a $750 billion overhaul of almost every component of U.S. nuclear defenses — including new stealth bombers, submarines and ICBMs — in the country’s largest nuclear weapons program since the Manhattan Project.

For the Pentagon, there are expectations the modern Sentinel will meet threats from rapidly evolving Chinese and Russian missile systems. The Sentinel is expected to stay in service through 2075, so designers are taking an approach that will make it easier to upgrade with new technologies in the coming years. But that’s not without risk.

“Sentinel is a software-intensive program with a compressed schedule,” the Government Accountability Office reported this summer.

“Software development is a high risk due to its scale and complexity and unique requirements of the nuclear deterrence mission.”

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has acknowledged the challenges the program is facing.

“It’s been a long time since we did an ICBM,” Kendall said in November at a Center for New American Security event in Washington. It’s “the biggest thing, in some ways, that the Air Force has ever taken on.”

“Sentinel, I think quite honestly, is struggling a little bit,” he said.

Since the first silo-based Minuteman went on alert at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base on Oct. 27, 1962 — the day Cuba shot down a U-2 spy plane at the height of the Cuban missile crisis — the missile has “talked” to its operators through thousands of miles of hard-wiring in cables buried underground.

It’s a secure, closed communication loop, one that brings its own headaches. Any time the Air Force wants to test one of the missiles, it has to dig up the cables and splice them to isolate that test missile’s wiring from the rest.

Over decades of testing, there are now hundreds of splices in those critical loops.

But it’s also one of the Minuteman’s best features. You would need a shovel — and a lot more — to try to hack the system. Even when missile crews update targeting codes, it is a mechanical, manual process.

Minuteman is “a very cyber-resilient platform,” said Col. Charles Clegg, the Sentinel system program manager.

Fossil fuels a sticking point as climate summit nears end

By Sibi Arasu, Seth Borenstein and Jon Gambrell The Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Negotiators have been urged to narrow their options so they can agree on how to save Earth from disastrous warming and help vulnerable societies adapt to weather extremes as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks.

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber told journalists Sunday negotiators were “making good progress,” just not fast

enough. So he borrowed from Arab culture and convened a majlis Sunday afternoon, a new format for talks where ministers from all countries sat for a conversation. He begged them to leave objections and talking points behind.

“I want everyone to come ready to be flexible and to accept compromise,” he said, as protesters could be heard calling for the end of fossil fuels.

“Failure or lack of progress or watering down my ambition is not an option.”

The new format seemed to work better than other methods, getting frank

and deep discussions, said Trinidad and Tobago’s Kishan Kumarsingh.

Wopke Hoekstra, the EU climate commissioner, repeated calls for a fossil fuel phase-out at the majlis.

Hoekstra said he noticed “a super majority” of countries, representing the vast majority of the world, supporting strong language to phase-out fossil fuels: “Their statements are in line with scientific advice, and it is our obligation to make sure we follow them.”

Earlier Sunday, a new draft for an agreement on global adaptation goals

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When Meta sued the Federal Trade Commission last month — the social networking giant’s latest effort to block new restrictions on its monetization of user data — it used an increasingly common argument against government regulators: The complaint alleged the structure of the FTC was unconstitutional and its in-house trials were invalid.

The lawsuit is the latest in a growing campaign to weaken regulators that could upend enforcement at a suite of agencies including the FTC, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the IRS. Such arguments would have been unthinkable not long ago. As Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan put it while hearing a case making similar claims, “Nobody has had the, you know, chutzpah.”

Companies are testing new dynamics and limits.

“Today this is a very serious complaint about issues the Supreme Court is wrestling with, but 10 years ago, it would have been seen as gobbledygook jurisprudence,” Jon Leibowitz, a former FTC chair, said of the Meta filing.

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court since 2020 has restricted administrative power and considered challenges to agency proceedings long taken for granted as valid.

The justices have also made it easier to mount challenges to the agencies’ structure and authority.

Meta relied on those changes to bring its case against the FTC. In a letter to Meta on Friday, nine House Democrats called the case “frivolous” and said the company wanted to “destroy America’s bedrock consumer protection agency.”

Meta is one of several businesses making challenges.

On the same day Meta filed its suit, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that asks whether in-house trials at the SEC are legal.

Industry groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and executives such as Elon Musk and Mark Cuban weighed in, filing amicus briefs urging the court to find against the SEC. The biotech company Illumina, which is tussling with the FTC over its merger with multicancer test maker Grail, has challenged the agency’s constitutionality in a federal appeals court.

The cases raise various complaints about how agencies are set up and operate. Challengers say, among other arguments, there’s no consistent criteria for deciding which cases agencies try in-house or in federal court, the in-house tribunals violate a defendant’s right to a jury trial and agencies act as both prosecutors and judges.

Yet Jay Clayton, chairman of the SEC during the Trump administration, told The New York Times “There is a constitutional limit to what Congress can ‘administrize.’ ” He believes administrative courts are not always an appropriate venue. The SEC declined to comment.

Where the justices draw the line will be apparent by the term’s end in June, the deadline for deciding the SEC case.

But even if they find for the SEC, companies like Meta are lining up with more cases to undermine agencies.

If the companies convince courts in-house tribunals are invalid, enforcers across the government will have far less power and control over proceedings and will be forced to prosecute many more matters in federal courts, adding a significant burden on the justice system.

Such a ruling may also lead to changes in how agencies are set up, perhaps eliminating the need for a slate of bipartisan commissioners — a potential outcome that prompted at least one former enforcer to predict companies may yet regret their campaign to dismantle agencies.

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Workers clean a street in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday under a billboard supporting the reelection of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who faces no serious challenger to his authoritarian rule.

War buoys Egyptian president El-Sissi positions himself as Palestinian advocate in his bid for reelection

By Vivian Yee

The New York Times

CAIRO — President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt woke up Oct. 7 remarkably unpopular for someone considered a shoo-in for a third term in office — guaranteed by his authoritarian grip on the country to dominate elections that began Sunday but badly damaged by a slow-motion economic collapse.

The ensuing weeks have eclipsed all of that, with war displacing financial worries as the top item on many Egyptians’ minds, lips and social media feeds.

For Western partners and Persian Gulf backers, the crisis has also highlighted Egypt’s vital role as a conduit for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and a mediator between Israel and Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that led the attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and set off the war.

El-Sissi, a former general with a knack for outlasting setbacks, appeared to have caught yet another break, one that has allowed him to position himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause at home and an indispensable regional leader abroad.

Egyptians struggling to cover the basics after nearly two years of record-setting inflation have opened their wallets to help victims of the Israel-Hamas war.

And in a country where protests have been banned for years, hundreds of people have braved

arrest to march in solidarity with the Palestinians.

The three-day presidential vote is expected to rubber-stamp el-Sissi’s hold for another sixyear term.

Barring a few lonely signs, the face looming over what seemed like every street in Cairo from billboards, banners and posters this past weekend was el-Sissi’s, and none of the 20 eligible voters interviewed around Cairo on Sunday was familiar with the other candidates.

A government news release proclaimed an “unprecedented high turnout” as buses sponsored by pro-el-Sissi parties dropped voters off at polling stations by the dozens and companies gave employees time off to vote.

Nevertheless, the president will need to steer carefully, analysts and diplomats said.

The economic crisis that had punctured el-Sissi’s aura of invulnerability is still bleeding households, companies and the nation’s finances.

Gaza or no Gaza, Egypt is expected to devalue its currency, the pound, after the election, promising further pain for its people.

“Most of us are married and have kids, and now the 200 pounds in my hand feels like 20,” said Ahmad Hassan, 43, a security guard from the working-class neighborhood of Imbaba.

Like many others interviewed Sunday, he said voting would be useless. “I want change,” he said.

“And with me or without me, he’ll win anyway.”

With public support for the Palestinians at a high, many Egyptians are alert to any sign

Zelenskyy seeking broader support

By Karl Ritter

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy witnessed the swearing-in Sunday of Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei.

It was the Ukrainian leader’s first official trip to Latin America as Kyiv continues to court support among developing nations for its 21-month-old fight against Russia’s invading forces.

During Zelenskyy’s visit to Buenos Aires, his office and the White House announced he would travel to Washington to meet with President Joe Biden on Tuesday. Biden has asked Congress for a $110 billion package of wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel, along with other national security priorities. But the

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s campaign manager recently sent a fundraising email meant to reassure supporters worried about the Democrat’s reelection chances, urging them to take a “quick walk down memory lane.”

Julie Chavez Rodriguez noted many Democrats questioned President Barack Obama’s chances for a second term 12 years ago. Biden was Obama’s vice president.

“Flash forward to November 6, 2012. I think you may remember the day,” she wrote.

Underneath was a photo of the Obamas and Bidens celebrating their election victory.

More than a nostalgic message, that sentiment can increasingly be seen in Biden’s strategy for winning in 2024.

Biden is trying to focus the campaign on former President Donald Trump’s comments and policy proposals, sometimes more than his own. It’s a time-worn strategy of White House incumbents to try to negatively define their rivals in the public’s eyes.

But Trump, the current front-runner for the Republican nomination, is already better defined than perhaps any figure in U.S. politics. And even as Trump’s promises to seek retribution and references to his enemies as “vermin” animate many Democrats, Biden faces low approval ratings and questions about his age and his handling of the economy.

Some prominent Democrats have suggested there’s a danger in making the race too much about Trump. They say Biden should play up parts of his own record and focus on abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Abortion was an issue credited with helping the party exceeding expectations in last year’s midterms and several races this year.

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The visit to Washington would focus on “ensuring the unity of the U.S., Europe and the world” in supporting Ukraine against Russia, Zelenskyy’s office said.

In Argentina, Milei welcomed Zelenskyy at the presidential palace after his inauguration.

The two shared an extended hug, exchanged words and then Milei, who has said he intends to convert to Judaism, presented his Ukrainian counterpart with a menorah as a gift.

Zelenskyy phoned Milei shortly after the Argentine’s electoral victory last month, thanking him for his “clear support for Ukraine.”

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their government may be complicit in the suffering in Gaza, whether by acceding to Israeli restrictions on the aid flowing from Egypt into the territory or proposals to move Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt in exchange for aid — an idea widely opposed across the Arab world.

“The government definitely doesn’t want to test the patience of the Egyptian people, not when it comes to Palestine,” said Hesham Sallam, a scholar of Arab politics at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. But el-Sissi was also strategically harnessing Egyptians’ fury and grief over the war, analysts and diplomats say.

On Oct. 20, groups close to the government organized a day of nationwide pro-Palestinian demonstrations that the government said drew hundreds of thousands of people, a figure that could not be independently verified.

Extensively covered on state media, the rallies were festooned with banners that included el-Sissi’s photo next to images of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque — a less-than-subtle attempt to yoke the Palestinian cause to el-Sissi’s.

“Without Sissi, we’d be doomed,” said Reda Saad, 42, an employee at Egypt’s state-owned gas company who had brought her four children to one rally, when asked how she rated his handling of the crisis.

She said she was “still angry” about Egypt’s economic meltdown but had put that aside in the face of Gaza’s suffering.

“That’s one thing,” she said, “and this is another.”

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U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell has already found Giuliani liable for more than a dozen defamatory statements against Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, who are mother and daughter, leaving a jury of eight only to decide how much he should pay in damages for violent threats and harassment the pair received.

Howell previously ordered Giuliani to pay the women $230,000 in legal fees and sanctions for failing to turn over relevant information. She said those failures, combined with Giuliani’s own admissions, compelled her to rule without a trial he defamed both women, intentionally inflicted emotional distress on them as part of a civil conspiracy and owes them punitive damages.

At a recent pretrial hearing where Giuliani failed to show, Howell lashed defense attorney Joseph Sibley IV for the lapse. She warned she would not allow the defense to veer into “weirdness-land” by mounting claims she already rejected after Giuliani stonewalled the plaintiffs and agreed not to contest that he made false and defamatory claims about them.

“I don’t want to overcomplicate this. Words have consequences, including for Mr. Giuliani,” said legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg, a former top FBI and Justice Department official. “We are all responsible for what we say and do. Mr. Giuliani doesn’t get a pass.”

The prospect of a humbling or debilitating financial judgment is only the latest legal risk

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He faces state prosecution in Georgia, in part for his dissemination of the false claims about Freeman and Moss.

Rudy Giuliani He’s also considered an unindicted co-conspirator in Trump’s indictment on federal charges for obstruction of the 2020 election.

He and one of his lawyers are being sued by Hunter Biden for allegedly mishandling the presidential son’s laptop, and that lawyer is accusing Giuliani of not paying legal bills. Giuliani also faces suit from a former employee accusing him of wage theft and sexual harassment.

Giuliani has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia criminal cases, and denied all claims of wrongdoing in all cases.

In a statement, Giuliani adviser Ted Goodman said, “The Rudy Giuliani you see today is the same man who took down the Mafia, cleaned up New York City and comforted the nation following September 11th.”

Goodman added, “In the fullness of time, this will be looked at as a dark chapter in our nation’s history, as those in power attempt to destroy their partisan political opposition in ways that cause great, irreparable harm to the U.S. justice system ... While it may be President Trump, Mayor Giuliani, and others you disagree with politically today, it could be you and the people who share your beliefs, tomorrow.”

Giuliani on Monday will sit at the defense table and share a courtroom feet away from Freeman and Moss, who say they received death threats and were forced into hiding after Giuliani repeatedly claimed in the weeks after the 2020 election security video footage showed them bringing in “suitcases” full of fake votes for Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate and former vice president who went on to win the election.

Giuliani’s claims were quickly debunked by election officials in Georgia, who explained the so-called suitcases were ordinary ballot boxes.

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Ruben Garcia, the executive director of El Paso’s Annunciation House who has provided shelter and humanitarian assistance to migrants for 47 years.

On Nov. 5, three bishops — from El Paso, Juárez and southern New Mexico — held an annual Mass for Day of the Dead in the dry bed of the Rio Grande. With Mount Cristo Rey as a backdrop, they asked for prayers for the migrants who die in Mexico, who die in the river and the desert, in the containers of trucks and in U.S. custody.

One hundred and forty-eight migrants died in Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector in the 12 months through Sept. 30, soaring from six migrant deaths recorded six years ago, according to Border Patrol records. The sector includes all of New Mexico. The fatalities don’t include the more than 70 migrants who died across the border in Juárez.

In southern New Mexico, residents are stumbling on bodies in the desert of people who were within reach of rescue. El Paso water managers have grown accustomed to the stench of death in the Rio Grande. Border Patrol agents, first responders and medical investigators across the borderland have been overwhelmed by the number of human remains found — sometimes two or three bodies per day.

“Where is the humanity?”

Garcia asked. “Where are the ethics? The morality? The justice in all of these human beings who are dying in the desert? In order to respond, your soul has to be moved. Then you discover there aren’t a lot of people in government who operate in response to that.”

A yearlong investigation by the El Paso Times found a border region shocked by the sudden increase in migrant deaths in 2023 and ill-equipped to track and respond to the tragedy, including: ◆ A surge in the number of women dying. In the southern New Mexico desert outside El Paso, 84 migrants in total lost their lives in the first nine months of 2023, compared with 35 two years ago. The number of women dying more than doubled from last year and more than tripled from 2021. ◆ Minimal local efforts to track migrant deaths. Key local law enforcement agencies aren’t tracking migrant deaths. The El Paso Police Department and El Paso County Medical Examiner say they don’t track migrant deaths and were unwilling to compile the data when asked. However, New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator is creating a way to record deaths of “probable border crossers.” The El Paso region has no public-facing map to chart the location, cause or demographics of migrant fatalities. ◆ Inadequate infrastructure to quickly identify and return remains to families. New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator is struggling with the number of unidentified bodies found this year, given limited staff and the cost of DNA-testing decomposed remains.

There are few local partners: While the Mexican consulate has a team in El Paso to help locate next of kin for Mexican nationals, the nearest consulates for Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are in Arizona or Del Rio, Texas.

The federal government sees a need for better information: The National Science Foundation awarded a $1 million grant to Texas State University in 2022 to do a census of migrant deaths on the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. The project is in the early data-gathering stage.

“Nobody really knows who is dying, where and in what numbers,” said Alberto Giordano, professor of geography at Texas State University, a co-author of the grant. “Everybody seems to be doing things differently at the state level.”

If the migrant death toll in El Paso was viewed as a national emergency — an unnatural disaster — it would be larger than that of the Lahaina, Hawaii, and Paradise, Calif., fires, more deadly than 2017’s Hurricane Harvey. It would draw federal attention and emergency resources.

“The number of deaths is horrific,” said U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, in an interview at her congressional office in Washington. “And the way that people are dying is equally horrific. From my perspective, it is proof that deterrence at the border does not work. It does not stop migration. It only makes migration deadlier.”

A spokesman for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, whose Operation Lone Star is rooted in deterrence,

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The number 148 is written on crosses representing the number of dead migrants during the year 2023 in the El Paso Border Sector during a remembrance of dead migrants held by Border Network for Human Rights last month.

said “open border policies” contribute to fatalities. Abbott declined to be interviewed.

“Concertina wire barriers help deter illegal crossings,” said Abbott spokesman Andrew Mahaleris. “What is happening in the El Paso Sector is the direct result of the unsustainable chaos President [Joe] Biden has unleashed on the border.”

U.S. authorities, including the Border Patrol, consistently warn people not to come to the border and ask that they use lawful pathways to enter legally.

But many legal paths aren’t open to some of the most desperate, including migrants from Mexico, and smugglers have become extremely effective at luring people to the border.

The toll has shocked immigrant advocates in El Paso and revealed gaping holes in the infrastructure set up to protect migrants, which has been focused, until now, on providing shelter, legal services and help on the way to destinations in the U.S. “Never has it been something in my years of advocacy I have seen at this level and in this proximity,” said Marisa Limón Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, a nonprofit in El Paso. “It’s another level of complexity that people didn’t think would be happening.”

There were seismic shifts in U.S. border policy in 2023: The end of quick expulsions under the pandemic-era authority of Title 42 and the threat of prosecutions for unlawful entry. Increased deportations. The opening of new “lawful pathways” for certain migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Ecuador. New requirements that asylum seekers first seek refuge somewhere else.

And finally, an announcement that the Biden administration will continue building the border fence, breaking a presidential campaign promise.

“We need to start by recognizing that migrants are dying because of U.S. policy and U.S. strategy,” said Fernando Garcia, executive director of the El Paso-based Border Network for Human Rights. “It’s what I call ‘death by policy.’ ”

A mother’s losses The doctors told her nothing was broken. But what good were her bones if she felt shattered inside?

The hit-and-run on the border highway in Juárez, a few hundred yards south of the U.S. border fence, left the Guatemalan mother’s left leg bruised. But the crash killed her 17-month-old boy and took the baby she was expecting, seven months along.

The Times is withholding the woman’s name, given her fragile health condition at the time and in keeping with the shelter’s policy for consent for media interviews.

Seventeen days after the April 5 tragedy, she lay on a single bed in a room with other injured migrants.

A few sips were gone from a grape-flavored electrolyte drink on the bedside table. A walker stood next to her bed.

She rested under a blanket with the characters from Disney’s Frozen, her hand on her bandaged belly. The cesarean-section scar didn’t hurt, she said. Her babies hurt. Her dead children throbbed in her heart — a pain so big it kept her from eating and drugged her to fitful sleep.

She saw her husband across the room, sitting on another bed.

“Pobrecito,” she whispered. “Poor thing. He wanted a family.”

without looking at you, as if you can’t even see them.”

The Eilands went to see what was wrong.

“We saw a body of a young woman leaning against a brick column, where the neighbors were going to build a fence,” he said. She was sitting as though someone had propped her up.

River water managers in El Paso found the bodies of at least half a dozen people who drowned in canals; all were presumed, but not confirmed, by water managers to be migrants.

In Southern New Mexico, in Doña Ana County, a child discovered the body of a woman near her backyard, behind the community college.

A man on his ATV, riding in the desert, saw a woman collapse near the edge of a cemetery and gave her water even as “she appeared to be dying,” according to the sheriff’s report.

Three motorcyclists discovered the remains of a woman and asked a resident to alert police.

Three weeks after the Eilands’ first encounter with a body, on another Sunday morning, they were riding horseback and spotted a bone in the sand — a femur. Then they found a skull, with long black hair still attached.

They reported the remains to the sheriff and Border Patrol.

“I never heard anything more about it,” Randy Eiland said. “I never saw anything in the paper.

Who knows how many bodies are still out there?”

A brother’s promise

A Texas National Guard member gives directions to use a port of entry to migrants who had crossed the Rio Grande in El Paso in March. U.S. authorities, including the Border Patrol, consistently warn people not to come to the border and ask that they use lawful pathways to enter legally.

‘It hasn’t worked at all’ Arizona was the first region to wrestle with the fatal consequences of deterrence-based U.S. border policy. In 2002, the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector began reporting the remains of more than 100 migrants found each year. The tally hit a record 251 in 2010.

Vicki Gaubeca, associate director of U.S. immigration and border policy for Human Rights Watch, has studied the “prevention through deterrence” model since its advent in the mid-1990s.

“We’re 30 years in, and it hasn’t worked at all,” she said. “It’s not addressing people coming here, or that people coming here try more than once. The only thing it’s been really successful at is increasing the number of deaths.”

It took Congress nearly 20 years to respond to the situation.

Under the 2019 Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act, Congress required U.S. Customs and Border Protection to submit annual reports on the deaths of persons “on or near the border between the United States and Mexico,” including the cause and manner of death, gender, age and country of origin for each deceased individual.

But Border Patrol — the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency with nearly 47,000 employees — has fallen behind. The agency hasn’t submitted the fiscal 2022 or 2023 reports to Congress. CBP denied the Times’ requests for the data, saying the reports must be first presented to Congress.

In an emailed statement, CBP said the agency “prioritizes the preservation of every human life and dedicates significant resources toward robust border-safety programs.”

“Crossing the border illegally is inherently dangerous,” according to the statement. “CBP urges migrants to seek lawful pathways into the United States and not to place their lives in the hands of human smugglers, whose priority is profit.”

‘Couldn’t stand the pain’ Maryenis Morales Villa sat on a cot at El Paso’s Sacred Heart migrant shelter and pulled items out of a box tied with a pink bow: a tiny white satin gown, a doll-size hat with a pom-pom, a paper with the ink print of her baby’s foot.

“The nurse asked me, ‘Do you want clippings of your baby’s hair?’ ” said Morales Villa said. “I told her, ‘Yes, yes, of course.’ ”

It was all she had of her stillborn baby, Arelis Chiquinquirá, named for a virgin venerated in her native Venezuela. She tenderly held each of the items, given by the hospital to new moms.

Morales Villa and her husband, Walbes José Quintero, waited at the border fence in El Paso in early May to turn themselves in to Border Patrol. They said they waited eight days on a stretch of sand, without shade, on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande. Some migrants were crisscrossing supplies, but the couple had no easy access to food or water.

With processing centers over capacity in El Paso, Border Patrol agents didn’t process the migrants as quickly, as often happened when long lines of asylum seekers appeared.

When agents received them on May 8, they held Morales Villa, eight months pregnant, in a processing center for four days, she said, before releasing her to the shelter downtown. They expelled Quintero to Juárez.

Morales Villa’s contractions started soon after she settled in the shelter. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital, where she gave birth. She mourned her loss without her partner.

“I couldn’t stand the pain,” she said. “The nurse asked, ‘Do you want something to help you sleep?’ I said, ‘No, gracias. This is a sadness that is coming from my heart.’ ”

ers and local law enforcement, according to a 2022 Government Accountability Office report.

But the same report cited deficiencies in the Border Patrol’s accounting of migrant deaths, owing in part to patchy reporting by local agencies and limited local resources to investigate every death.

“There needs to be an overhaul of how we investigate migrant deaths at the border so we can get to the bottom of how these folks have come to be deceased,” said U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat who represents Southern New Mexico.

“Some have happened under suspicious circumstances, and some of the deaths are being ruled as homicides,” he said.

“Whether they are immigrants or American citizens, we should hold up the American standards of investigation.”

The Doña Ana Sheriff’s Office, the law enforcement agency northwest of El Paso responding to a majority of migrant deaths in this year, didn’t respond to multiple email and phone requests for data or interviews. Sheriff’s reports on bodies recovered are listed as “unattended deaths,” a general category not exclusive to probable migrants.

Another agency, the Sunland Park Fire Department, doesn’t formally track migrant deaths but began posting attempted rescues and body recoveries to its social media accounts, providing a public window into the surge in deaths.

The department now requires that firefighters state whether a call for service was “migrant-related,” said Fire Chief Danny Medrano.

José Amílcar Portillo Solórzano drove a bus in El Salvador, shuttling locals to and from a beach resort town six miles from his town.

In a paradise of palm trees and white sand — a playground for foreign tourists — Portillo Solórzano, his wife and two daughters lived in poverty. His salary couldn’t support his family, including the medication his youngest daughter needed to survive kidney disease, his sister Leticia Solórzano told the Times in a phone call.

So Portillo Solórzano left for the United States with his eldest daughter and dreams of working in New York alongside his brother, she said.

“We’re a poor family and he had gone north to help us,” she said from her home in San Julián, El Salvador. “ ‘I’ll be sending you money,’ he told me.”

His American dream ended in a locked cell in Juárez, inside a Mexican immigration detention center hidden out of sight behind front-facing offices.

“They brought him home in a box. We hoped he’d be among the injured, but it wasn’t to be,” Solórzano said.

When a fire started March 27 inside the men’s cellblock, a female guard released Portillo Solórzano’s daughter and the other women from their cellblock as the center filled with smoke. No one opened the men’s cell door; the keys were allegedly missing, according to court testimony.

His brother in New York is wracked with guilt for financing his journey north, Solórzano said.

Portillo Solórzano’s daughter could hear her father’s cries from inside the cell, Solórzano said.

“His daughter is 21,” Solórzano said. “She is traumatized. She was in the other cell, the one that was opened. She cries every time she remembers how he screamed, ‘Don’t forget about us!’”

Tragedy is price of entry

The morbid reality of U.S. border policy and the nation’s immigration system is that it will, sometimes, bow to tragedy.

The Guatemalan mother who lost her toddler son and unborn baby received an exception to Title 42 expulsion along with her husband. They crossed the border and were given the opportunity to apply to stay in the U.S. Upholding standards Quintero, who is illiterate, Five years ago, Border Patrol signed up for the CBP One app established an initiative called with the help of friends and the Missing Migrant Program to received an appointment to presimprove the agency’s ability to ent at a port of entry. Weeks after rescue migrants in distress, reduce Villa gave birth to their ‘You can’t even see them’ Morales deaths at the border and, when stillborn baby girl, Quintero was they occur, track them accurately.

Randy Eiland and his wife, allowed to cross the border and In the El Paso Sector, the Carol, were riding their horses reunite with his wife. number of rescues soared from 17 on a cool Sunday morning in Portillo Solórzano’s daughter, in fiscal 2018 — the first full year April, on ranchland adjacent to traumatized by the death of her of the program — to 597 in fiscal their property in Southern New father, was allowed to present at an 2023, according to Border Patrol. Mexico. From up on the desert El Paso port and was granted entry.

Yet migrant deaths, too, have mesa, they saw ambulance lights She was one of more than 40 survirisen sharply at the same time, flashing south of their front gate. vors of the Juárez detention center from six deaths in fiscal 2018 to The Eilands and their neighfire and their family members who 149 this fiscal year. bors in rural Doña Ana County, were granted entry in El Paso after The number of deaths climbed near the outskirts of metropolitan losing a loved one. even as Border Patrol encounters El Paso, were accustomed to “There is a complete disregard with migrants in the El Paso seeing evidence of migrant traffic by institutions of how they Sector plummeted. CBP reported around their property. Water value migrant lives and migrant a seven-day rolling average of bottles discarded in arroyos, deaths,” said Garcia, the Border 1,500 encounters in mid-May; the where water runs in a rainstorm. Network for Human Rights execnumber dropped to about 500 to Backpacks strewn around the utive director.

900 June into early September. creosote. Foam blocks that “If they would care, they would The Migrant Protection migrants strapped to their sneak- change the policy,” he said. “What Program has resulted in greater ers to mask their footprints. we have in place is a historic cooperation between Border “Once, I could see heads bobdeterrence operation that assumes Patrol and key partners, including bing,” Randy Eiland said. “They they will not cross. But migrants foreign consulates, 911 dispatchwalk by like they are invisible, did cross and they died.”

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Educators hate holding kids back. Research says it can work

By Jay Mathews

The Washington Post

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erry Grier once met a student at a Darlington County, S.C., middle school who looked much older than the eighth graders in his class. When Grier, an experienced school district superintendent, asked the boy whether he was in the right place, the student smiled and said, “Yes, sir. This is the third year in a row that I have been in Ms. Jones’ class.”

Grier told me he recoiled at that, but he wasn’t surprised. Making low-performing students repeat grades is old-fashioned and contentious — but enshrined in many state laws. When President Bill Clinton in 1997 pushed for an end to what he called “social promotion” of students who failed to pass state standards, particularly in reading, only about six states required such exams. Now at least half of states do.

Viewpoints Most of the educators I know don’t like on education grade retention — the term of art for holding a student back. They prefer to help students improve without squashing their dreams and keeping them in place while their friends move forward. But they face new battles because recent studies show making kids repeat grades can improve their future performance.

A 2017 study of third-graders retained in Florida for low scores found if they were given better instruction, they did better in eighth-grade math and 10th-grade reading than students who were not held back. They also hit better grade point averages in high school and took fewer remedial courses.

In October, RAND Corp. researchers Umut Ozek and Louis T. Mariano revealed studies in Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, Chicago and New York City “provide evidence that grade retention in elementary school (generally grades 3-5), when implemented as part of a broader remediation effort, can increase test scores through middle school and reduce the need for future remediation.”

Such research has yet to persuade the many opponents of grade retention there aren’t better ways to help children overcome academic weaknesses. Daniel Domenech, an experienced superintendent who led the School Superintendents Association, said holding students back was done in all the districts he served “primarily because of the lack of an alternative.” He said “if students were taught at the level that they are at and allowed to progress as they achieve mastery, there would be no need to retain them.”

The failure to arrange such progress for each child reflects “inadequacies in early childhood opportunities and in teacher education,” said former Montgomery County, Md., schools superintendent Jerry Weast.

Researchers who see good results from retention say it can work if done in grades 3, 4, or 5. Harvard scholar Martin West, one of the researchers on the 2017 study of Florida’s retention policy, said that state did “a reasonable job of this.”

“They asked retained students to attend summer reading camps, prescribed individualized plans to support their development as readers and generally made big investments in improving reading instruction in the early grades,” he said.

West said opponents of grade retention are correct when they say being retained is a painful experience for many students. “My question would be whether they’re confident that the students wouldn’t have had an equally painful experience if they were advanced to the next grade and consistently faced content for which they were unprepared,” he said. “If retention is disabling for most students, then studies like ours would find large negative effects in both the short and long term. That’s not what we see.”

Ozek said “we view retention as a last resort for such cases, and we emphasize intervening at the first signs the student is at risk to maximize avoiding the need to go the retention route.”

The data from Florida, which appears to provide the most detailed information on retention, indicates that about 10% of 213,192 third-graders were retained in the 2021-22 school year. Another 15% were promoted to fourth grade despite poor scores on the state achievement tests because they showed other signs of reading proficiency, were immigrants still learning English or had disabilities that exempted them from retention.

The number of states using tests to determine retention has increased, but it is not clear whether more students are being retained now than when Clinton complained about the practice.

West said one federal report suggests the percentage of students retained each year declined between 1996 and 2020.

“One possibility is that the percentage of students who were retained specifically for academic reasons did increase over this time period,” he said, “at least in states with test-based promotion policies, while the percentage retained for other reasons, such as behavioral or social-emotional reasons, went down.”

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Math teacher Doug Walters sits among empty desks during a videoconference in 2020 at Twentynine Palms Junior High School in Twentynine Palms, Calif. A global study finds students suffered historic setbacks in reading during the pandemic and deeper losses in math.

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Pandemic pummeled performance Study finds declines in math equal three-quarters of a year of learning; reading loss is half-year

By Collin Binkley

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON tudents around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the coronavirus pandemic, with declines in test scores so widespread the United States climbed in global rankings simply by falling behind less sharply, a new study finds.

The state of global education was given a bleak appraisal in the Program for International Student Assessment, the first study to examine the academic progress of students in dozens of countries during the pandemic. Released Tuesday, it finds the average international math score fell by the equivalent of three-quarters of a year of learning. Reading scores fell by the equivalent of half a year.

The setbacks spanned nations rich and poor, big and small, with few making progress. In the countries where students were tested, a quarter are now considered low performers in math, reading and science, meaning they struggle to perform basic math problems or interpret simple texts.

Usually given every three years, the latest test was delayed a year because of the pandemic. It was administered in 2022 to a sample of 15-year-olds in 37 countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, plus 44 other partner countries. The OECD has been conducting the test

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since 2000.

The new results point to an “unprecedented drop in performance,” the report says. It raises concerns about countries including Germany, Iceland and the Netherlands, which saw drops of 25 points or more in math scores. Twenty points is seen as equivalent to a year of learning.

Across all participating countries, the average math score fell by about 15 points since the 2018 tests. Reading scores fell by 10 points.

Neither subject had seen a change of more than five points previously.

The bright light was in science, where scores changed little since 2018.

In the U.S., which historically has lagged in math, the average math score fell by 13 points.

Reading and science stayed mostly even. Overall, the country improved to No. 26 in math, up three spots from 2018.

It ranked No. 6 in reading and 10th in science, up two and one spots, respectively.

America’s math score was about even with the international average. Science and reading were slightly higher.

“The whole world is struggling with math, and we are not immune from that,” said Peggy Carr, head of the National Center for Education Statistics, an office of the U.S. Education Department. “Everyone had struggles during the pandemic. What we’re seeing here is we had less.”

The new results line up with findings from

individual countries reporting deep and persistent academic setbacks, especially in math. A national study in the U.S. last year found math scores fell by more than ever, with reading scores dropping to 1992 levels.

There’s no doubt the disruption of the pandemic was a major factor in the global setbacks.

But the OECD cautions against blaming it all on COVID-19. Science and reading scores were falling before the pandemic, it says, and some countries were already trending downward in math, including Belgium, Finland, Canada and France.

It also finds the link between school closures and academic setbacks was “not so direct.”

A survey of students found about half faced closures of more than three months, but it didn’t always lead to lower scores. There was “no clear difference” in performance trends between countries that had limited closures, including Iceland and Sweden, and those with longer closures, including Brazil and Ireland, according to the report.

“Many other factors impacted learning during this period, such as the quality of remote teaching and levels of support granted to struggling students,” it said.

Singapore, long seen as an education powerhouse, had the highest scores by far in every subject. It was joined in the upper echelons by other East Asian countries including Japan and China. Also among the higher performers were Estonia, Canada and Ireland.

School again suspends Black student over hair

By Cheyanne Mumphrey The Associated Press

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension last week for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen’s family calls discriminatory.

The student, Darryl George, was suspended for 13 days because his hair is out of compliance when let down, according to a disciplinary notice issued by Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas. It was his first day back at the school after spending a month at an offsite disciplinary program.

George, 18, already has spent more than 80% of his junior year outside of his regular classroom.

He was first pulled from the Darryl George classroom at the Houston-area school in August after school officials said his braided locs fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code. His family argues the punishment violates the CROWN Act, which became law in Texas in Sep-

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MORA SCHOOL BOARD HONORED WITH SMALL DISTRICT AWARD After years of challenges — including unsteady district leadership and staffing issues — the Mora Independent School District’s board of education has been

tember and is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination.

The school says the CROWN Act does not address hair length.

“We are just trying to take it day by day. That’s all we can do,” his mother, Darresha George, told The Associated Press. “We do not see the light at the end of the tunnel.

But we are not giving up.”

Greg Poole, who has been district superintendent since 2006, has said the policy is legal and teaches students to conform as a sacrifice benefitting everyone.

School officials said George was sent to the disciplinary program for violating the dress code and

named the New Mexico School Board Association’s small district school board of the year.

To earn the honor, board members must be active in local, regional, state and national school board activities as well as demonstrate exemplary service to their school district.

In a letter nominating her district’s board for the award, Mora Independent School District Superintendent Norma Cavazos wrote she had never encountered a board of such high caliber in her nearly 50-year career in education.

“In the past two to three years, the current board has focused entirely on doing what is best for students and staff without expecting anything in return,” Cavazos wrote.

“Their professionalism and adherence to the N.M. Board Members Code of Ethics exemplify how board members should

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the tardy policy, disrupting the in-school suspension classroom and not complying with school directives. As he completed his punishment there, district spokesperson David Bloom said George was told he would go back to in-person suspension unless he trimmed his hair.

George’s family has filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general along with the school district, alleging they failed to enforce the new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.

conduct themselves and serve their community/district.”

LOCAL STUDENT MUSICIANS AWARDED FALL ALL-STATE HONORS The New Mexico Music Educators Association awarded 29 Santa Fe Public Schools students all-state honors this fall.

They are: u Kimberly Duarte, band, Capital High School u Latrisha Padilla, guitar, Capital High School u Melia Brinegar, orchestra, Santa Fe High School u Abigail Frey, band, Santa Fe High School u Paige Tomkins, band and symphony orchestra, Santa Fe High School u Sophia Buchan, band and concert orchestra, Santa Fe High School u Maya Harris, band and symphony

orchestra, Santa Fe High School u Lila Lindeen, band, Santa Fe High School u Analyn Gutierrez, band, Santa Fe High School u Addison Smith, band, Santa Fe High School u Amanda Barrera, band, Santa Fe High School u Autumn Avila, choir, Santa Fe High School u Eleanor Whalen, choir, Santa Fe High School u Marie Trujillo, choir, Santa Fe High School u Brian Avalos, band, Capital High School u Bruno Caraveo Castillo, guitar, Capital High School u Joseph Mottoloa-Golluber, orchestra, Mandela International Magnet School u Roman Amador, band, Santa Fe High School

u Aiden Coblentz, band, Santa Fe High School

u Ian Wald, band, Santa Fe High School u Jack Tager, band and concert orchestra, Santa Fe High School

u Alejandro Lovato-Herrera, band and orchestra, Santa Fe High School

u Landen Kessler, choir, Santa Fe High School

u Brandon Barrow, choir, Santa Fe High School

u Ezra Arvizo, choir, Santa Fe High School u Nikko Medina, guitar, Santa Fe High School

u Ian Oakeley, guitar, Santa Fe High School u Hanbi Park, orchestra, Santa Fe High School

u Nathan Christensen, orchestra, Santa Fe High School

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ABOVE: A group of hut-to-hut skiers led by Nate Disser with San Juan Mountain Guides on the approach to Red Mountain No. 3 south of Ouray, Colo., in April. Hut-to-hut skiing in the San Juan Mountains yields cozy nights and soul-stirring scenery. BELOW: Red Mountain Alpine Lodge, one of the luxurious chalet-style huts in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains south of Ouray.

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Vistas and slopes are worth the strain on hut-to-hut Colo. backcountry trek

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t looks like Canada,” said Nate Disser, our guide, indicating the lofty, snowcloaked peaks around us.

Later that day, when our group of 10 had skied to another high-alpine basin where craggy rock monoliths jutted up from ridgelines, Disser noted a resemblance to the Italian Dolomites. Yet we were in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, a spectacular place in its own right.

The San Juans are particularly jagged and steep. Starting in the mid-1800s, miners tore into these peaks hunting for silver and gold, and the remnants of their industry still scar the land.

We were on the second day of a five-day trip called the Million Dollar Traverse, a hut-to-hut backcountry ski tour. (The name comes from the so-called Million Dollar Highway, a serpentine stretch of U.S. Route 550 that runs between the Colorado towns of Ouray and Silverton.) The comparisons to Canada and Europe were apt in another sense, too, as guided ski trips like the one we were on are common in those locales.

I’m an avid backcountry skier who usually prefers self-organized outings. But more than 20 years ago, I skied the Haute Route, a hut-to-hut trek in France and Switzerland, with a guided group, and I was curious to see what a version of it would be like closer to home.

San Juan Mountain Guides, owned by Disser, began offering the traverse a couple of winters ago. The trip includes four nights in three privately owned huts, with 6 to 8 miles of skiing and some 3,500 feet of elevation gain between each one. Though it’s hard work to climb up and over the mountain passes, the payoff is descending thousands of feet of untracked snow among soul-stirring scenery.

When our group — eight skiers and two guides — gathered at the San Juan Mountain Guides office in Ouray one morning in early April, it was 10 degrees and new snow dusted the ground.

Although the state’s ski resorts were winding down their seasons, plenty of snow still covered the peaks after a particularly generous winter.

Disser and another guide, Patrick Ormond (both certified by the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations), showed some slides of our route and talked about safety.

We’d also each wear a beacon that can send and receive electronic signals — a must when traveling through avalanche-prone terrain.

Everyone in the group had skied many times at resorts, but our backcountry experience varied.

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This would be the first hut trip for Doug Wojcik, 56, of McLean, Va., who came with his son, Christopher Wojcik, 30, of Seattle; to prep, the pair had taken a weekend backcountry course at Stevens Pass in Washington. Likewise, it would be Bettina Eckerle’s first hut experience, though the New Yorker skis at her vacation home near Vail, Colo.

On the other hand, Kat Siegrist, 38, of Dillon, Colo., frequently backcountry skis with friends.

Hut No. 1 and a steep climb That first morning, we set off on the relatively easy 3.5-mile ski to the Opus Hut. Tucked among trees on a knoll, the hut, which sleeps 20, is three stories high, with hand-hewn beams accenting the dining area. A separate building houses a wood-fired sauna.

At breakfast, Disser, tall and wiry with a long salt-and-pepper beard, laid out the day’s route: We would start by skinning from the Opus Hut to the bottom of a basin, then hike — skis strapped to backpacks — to a 13,040-foot mountain pass.

At first we skinned in long zigzags up the slope; as the terrain got steeper, Disser and Ormond demonstrated kick turns (changing direction on skis in a few fluid movements). Eventually we took off our skis and hiked straight up the slope, kicking the toes of our boots into the snow to gain purchase and using our ski poles for balance.

We topped out on a narrow ridge overlooking Columbine Lake, which in summer glistens Caribbean blue, but now was frozen solid. One by one, each of us skied 300 vertical feet down to the lake, scribing symmetrical S’s in the pristine snow. In this remote landscape, I felt very alive and very small. Later, James Pettifor, 38, who lives near Denver, would comment on the serenity: “I had a spiritual experience up there. It’s not something I get with my resort experiences.”

Laid-back luxury Home for the next two nights was the Red Mountain Alpine Lodge, less than a quarter-mile off the road but requiring a ski in. Opened in 2018 and owned by San Juan Mountain Guides, it’s a luxurious chalet, with a soaring wood ceiling and a wall of windows that frames a view of forested hills and higher peaks. Up to 20 guests can sleep in the loft area or in one of three private bedrooms. Small bags we’d packed pre-trip had been transported in, so we all had a fresh change of clothes. Also, hot showers!

After a seven-hour day on skis, it was a treat to sink into a leather couch by the wood stove, cold beer in hand. Another treat: decadent threecourse dinners, which one night included elk

tenderloin and homemade honey-lavender cake.

By Day 3, we were all red from the sun and slightly sore, but tempting as it may have been to lounge on the deck, we set out for Red Mountain No. 3, a peak that measures just a hair below 13,000 feet. The ascent included a sketchy section of thin snow and sharp rocks that necessitated a skis-off hike and underscored the benefit of having guides.

The final push The next day we would cover about 7 miles and 3,500 feet of elevation gain, traveling through several alpine basins to reach Hayden Backcountry Lodge. The hut was opened in 2020 by Eric Johnson, a chef who moved from Boulder to renovate the old cabin, which was located, as were the other huts we visited, on a former mining claim.

The trip’s finale came too soon, on Easter Sunday. We had all bonded in the way that only comes from going up and down mountains together, encouraging each other through tricky sections and hooting and hollering as we each etched our own style of turns in the snow. But before we descended to our everyday lives, there would be one more ski tour.

Leaving Hayden behind, we skinned high up into a basin below the summit of United States Mountain, the only noise our skis shuffling along the track set by Ormond and occasional bursts of conversation or laughter. Sun filtered through snow-blanketed bands of rock that loomed, cathedral-like, above. The skiing was sublime.

I’m not particularly religious, but on that mountain, which by its very name left no doubt as to which country we were in, I had my own spiritual experience. And I certainly didn’t mind having some help to achieve it.

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for an immediate cease-fire and a pause on aid to Israel.

Several of the speakers at Sunday’s Hanukkah event expressed their desire for peace and to see the hostages returned. As well as politicians and people connected to the Jewish Center, one of the speakers was a woman who lives in southern Israel, near the Gaza border, and who described the terror of Oct. 7.

Sunday was a busy day downtown for celebration of Santa Fe’s religious traditions. The Hanukkah event was followed

by Las Posadas, a Christmas tradition reenacting Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter in Bethlehem before the birth of Jesus. The event resumed in 2022 following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic and features actors playing the holy family as a crowd follows them with candles.

And Chanukah on the Plaza wasn’t just about the war but about the celebration of Hanukkah, an eight-day commemoration of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after their victory over the Syrians in the second century B.C. “Remember we didn’t come here to kvetch,” Levertov said.

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Battles rage in Gaza David Peretz and his wife, Hannah Furie, dance after the lighting of the menorah at the Plaza during Chanukah on the Plaza on Sunday. Some of the speakers focused on the symbolism of the light of the menorah’s candles as representing hope and the divine spark.

holiday and we need to celebrate our miracles.”

Webber, who is Jewish, said Hanukkah was his favorite holiday as a child — not because of the presents but because of what the story of the Jews’ victory signifies.

“The courage, the resilience, the unwillingness to be left without the religious traditions because they’re so important,” Webber said. The story, he said, resonates today “as we confront antisemitism wherever it takes place.”

Some of the speakers focused in on the symbolism of the light of the menorah’s candles as

The courage, the resilience, the “ unwillingness to be left without the religious traditions.” Mayor Alan Webber representing hope and the divine spark. Leger Fernández noted that her maiden names, Leger Lucero, both mean “light” in French and Spanish respectively. It may be cold and approaching the winter solstice, she said, but after that the light will return slowly, eventually destroying the darkness.

“We each are one of those candles and we each carry that flame and that light within us,” she said.

As Levertov introduced Lujan Grisham, he noted that she wasn’t the first New Mexico governor to light the menorah — Bill Richardson, who died earlier this year, also did. After his tenure as governor, Richardson spent the rest of his life negotiating to release hostages and people held prisoner around the world.

“Perhaps if he were around he could have helped with the hostage situation,” Levertov said.

Levertov also asked the governor not to change a 2022 executive order adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, which has been endorsed by numerous state governments but has been opposed by some who say it has been used to stifle criticism of Israel by defining it as antisemitic.

The governor thanked Levertov for inviting her to light the menorah and everyone who took part Sunday.

“I know that you’re cold and chilly, too, but when we stand together, each one of us can share a little warmth,” she said.

Lujan Grisham said she would be praying for the hostages and support any efforts to bring them home. She agreed Richardson would have been able to help.

“And don’t worry, I’m not going to change the executive order,” she said.

Elsa Morales from Harlingen, Texas, watches during Las Posadas. Morales traveled from Texas to see the celebration.

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Cronyism in the administration eventually was overshadowed by criminal charges against the trio of former basketball players.

The state attorney general last month obtained indictments against Deshawndre Washington, Doctor Bradley and Kim Aiken Jr. They are accused of rape and other sex crimes against teammates.

Washington and Bradley have pleaded not guilty. Aiken missed a court hearing, prompting a judge to issue a warrant for his arrest. Aiken now plays for a professional team in Luxembourg.

Thomson’s bill for the 30-day session starting in January is a streamlined version of her proposal that failed this year.

The bill in its original form would have required public schools, colleges and universities to adopt affirmative consent — a standard she describes as “only yes means yes.”

Thomson is removing public schools from the forthcoming bill as a matter of practical politics.

“We still want to establish the standard of affirmative consent in public schools. But reducing the scope of the bill should give it a better chance of passing, especially when the session is only 30 days,” Thomson said.

Unchanged in the bill would be a requirement for colleges and universities to provide

comprehensive training for campus officials who investigate and adjudicate allegations of sexual assault, domestic violence, harassment or stalking.

Other parts of the bill would require colleges and universities to implement a range of strategies to prevent sex crimes. They would include programs to raise awareness, intervention from bystanders and ways to reduce risks.

Thomson’s original bill cleared the House of Representatives on a 49-12 vote, but it died in the Senate. The worst elements of the cases at NMSU had not been made public when her legislation failed in March.

Moccia, the university’s director of athletics, received his hefty raise and contract extension in April. The $8 million in payouts to settle lawsuits filed by two former players occurred in June.

If nothing else, Thomson’s bill calls attention to the blame game played by those who held or still occupy responsible positions at NMSU. The university had good grounds to fire first-year men’s basketball coach Greg Heiar.

In settling the civil lawsuit, NMSU tacitly admitted Heiar either did not know or did not care how his players behaved in the locker room.

For his part, Heiar retained attorneys who claimed the coach inherited a “toxic” program and was scapegoated. The second part

is hard to believe. Part of Heiar’s job was to make certain no hazing or abuses occurred.

Even more perplexing is Moccia not only surviving as director of athletics but thriving financially.

Like Heiar, Moccia should have paid extra attention to the men’s basketball program after one of the players shot and killed a student at the University of New Mexico in November 2022.

Prosecutors eventually decided the gunman, then-Aggies forward Mike Peake, killed in self-defense.

But knowledge that a player packed a pistol before a game on a rival’s campus should have been a red flag for the coach and director of athletics. The Aggies were a team in need of tight supervision.

Thomson’s bill deserves to be heard and supported. In many ways, it merely states the obvious: Universities must do their utmost to prevent rape and all other sexual misconduct.

Unclear is how so many people in responsible positions at New Mexico State University were asleep at the wheel.

Obvious to all is the school’s good ol’ boys network was bad for everyone except Moccia.

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ing the same willingness that we had seen in the weeks before.” meeting Tuesday to vote on a Israel’s national security adviser, draft resolution demanding an Tzachi Hanegbi, told Israel’s immediate humanitarian ceasefire Channel 12 TV that the U.S. has set in Gaza. Riyad Mansour, the Palno deadline for Israel to achieve estinian ambassador to the U.N., its goals. “The evaluation that this told The Associated Press that it’s can’t be measured in weeks is similar to the Security Council correct, and I’m not sure it can be resolution the U.S. vetoed Friday. measured in months,” he said.

There are no vetoes in the U.S. Secretary of State Antony General Assembly but unlike the Blinken told CNN that as far as Security Council, its resolutions the duration and the conduct of are not legally binding. They the fighting, “these are decisions are important nonetheless as a for Israel to make.” barometer of global opinion.

This is a war that cannot be Israel’s air and ground war has won, Jordan’s foreign minister, killed thousands of Palestinians, Ayman Safadi, asserted to the mostly civilians, since the Qatar forum, warning that “Israel Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other has created an amount of hatred militants killed 1,200 people and that will haunt this region that captured around 240. Over 100 will define generations to come.” of them were released during a Residents said there was still weeklong cease-fire last month. heavy fighting in the Gaza City With very little aid allowed in, neighborhood of Shijaiyah and Palestinians face severe shortages Jabaliya, a dense urban area housof food, water and other basic ing Palestinian families who fled goods. Some observers openly or were driven out of what is now worry that Palestinians will be Israel during the 1948 war. forced out of Gaza altogether.

“They are attacking anything “Expect public order to comthat moves,” said Hamza Abu pletely break down soon, and Fatouh, a Shijaiyah resident. He an even worse situation could said the dead and wounded were unfold including epidemic disleft in the streets as ambulances eases and increased pressure for could not reach the area. mass displacement into Egypt,” Israel ordered the evacuation U.N. Secretary-General Antonio of the northern third of the terriGuterres told a forum in Qatar, a tory, including Gaza City, early in key intermediary. the war, but tens of thousands of Eylon Levy, an Israeli governpeople have remained. ment spokesman, called allegaHeavy fighting also was undertions of mass displacement from way in and around the southern Gaza “outrageous and false.” city of Khan Younis.

Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh The war has raised tensions Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, told across the Middle East, with Lebthe forum that mediation efforts anon’s Hezbollah trading fire with seeking to stop the war and have Israel along the border and other all hostages released will continue, Iran-backed militant groups tarbut “unfortunately, we are not see- geting the U.S. in Syria and Iraq.

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very time a right-wing politician wins an election somewhere in the world, observers in the United States often draw comparisons with former President Donald Trump. This is lazy; Trump is a unique threat to reason and order. But it also speaks to deep fears and deeper confusion: If democracy is good, why does democracy lead, increasingly, to the election of extremist parties? And can a party still be considered “extreme” when its views are accepted by such a broad swath of voters?

In the Netherlands, the Party for Freedom, or PVV, claimed victory in last month’s elections with 23.6% of the vote. This comes after a string of far-right gains across Western Europe. To speak of the rise of the far right is by now a misnomer. It has been rising for a long time. In Italian elections last year, Giorgia Meloni became the country’s

first far-right prime minister in the postwar era. In Sweden, the Swedish Democrats became the largest bloc in the governing coalition there. Both have had to moderate and make compromises to govern.

That the PVV is on the further reaches of the far right suggests such an outcome is less likely in the Netherlands. For most of its history, it has been primarily a single-issue party with opposition to Islam and immigration as its message, its leader, Geert Wilders, having declared that “Islam is the biggest problem in the Netherlands.”

Voters themselves had mixed motivations, with many casting ballots for the PVV to protest high prices and a housing crisis and out of exhaustion with Mark Rutte’s 13-year reign as prime minister. (Something similar appears to have happened in Italy’s elections last year, when voters veered sharply to the right after the solid if unexciting tenure of prime minister Mario Draghi, a lauded economist.) The Israel-Gaza war

— and large pro-Palestinian protests in Amsterdam and other European cities — might have also played a role, underscoring voters’ fears around Muslim immigration and spillover from the Middle East. Before the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel, the PVV was polling a distant fourth place.

As is often the case, economic disaffection intersects in complex ways with anxiety over immigration, producing a wave of “welfare chauvinism.” As one PVV voter explained, “We are a wealthy country, but how do we in Holland have to pay that much and yet they say to migrants: ‘Come on in; have what you like; we will give you everything?’ ” Whatever the reasons, the PVV’s ascendance hits harder, considering the Dutch self-conception as a progressive lodestar and “guiding nation.”

If it can happen in the Netherlands, it can happen anywhere. And it likely will. It is time to stop being shocked. Every couple years, most recently during the pandemic,

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New Mexico lawmakers discuss liquor excise tax hike again, Dec. 5 To think a higher tax on alcohol will discourage those individuals for whom alcohol is extremely toxic and addictive from drinking themselves to death is absurd. These folks are already paying the ultimate price.” Ned Laventall To say we can’t address alcoholism on multi-fronts is disingenuous and lazy, with all due respect. There are studies, not feelings or opinions, that the number of cigarette smokers, especially in the youth, have declined over the years as cigarette taxes have increased.” Mark Ortiz A higher tax won’t make alcoholics quit drinking, but it’s time New Mexico starts paying for programs that work to address addiction and mental health. It is one of the worst states in the nation in drug abuse, and there are very few affordable and appropriate treatment options available.”

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THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 11, 1923: The people of New Mexico are due one of these days to wake up to a realization of the treasures they are losing in the archaeological plunder being carted out of the state without let or hindrance; treasures, which if kept here, would bring the world to our door.

Dec. 11, 1948: Thirteenyear-old “E.” broke into 21 cars before Police Juvenile Officer Ireneo Apodaca brought him before the juvenile court. The court sent him to Boys ranch from which he ran away and now he’s in the industrial school at Springer.

Dec. 11, 1973: The City Council has been asked to allow an increase of some 44% in the average taxi fare to reflect similar percentage increases in operating costs.

Dec. 11, 1998: Proposed cuts to Santa Fe bus services would hurt poor and disabled people, leave communitycollege students stranded at night and punish residents for budget problems caused by poor management and insufficient funding, several bus riders said Thursday.

About 20 people came to a public hearing at Sweeney Elementary School on Thursday evening to let city officials know what they think about proposals to cut roughly $300,000 in spending to force Santa Fe Trails to stay within its $3.28 million budget.

While several people said they wouldn’t mind paying the proposed fare increases, they warned that plans to reduce bus frequencies and hours would lower ridership at a time when the bus system needs nurturing, not cutbacks.

some commentators insist that the far right’s moment has passed. In times of crisis, the argument goes, voters flock back to the boredom of reliability and competence.

But the far right’s victories — and its reliable showing toward the top of the polls in countries as varied as France, Austria, Finland and Germany — suggest that the “far right” label is no longer accurate. Increasingly mainstream and even popular, these parties now find themselves closer to the center. Or, to put it differently, the “center” has veered to the right.

Reviving moribund centrist parties is a long-term challenge. In the short run, the best answer would be to give the PVV a chance to enter a coalition with other parties and get a taste of power for the first time. In Europe’s fragmented parliamentary systems, cobbling together a governing coalition is challenging at best. Compromise is required. Purity is impossible. Once formed, coalitions are fragile.

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More details are needed on Lujan Grisham’s water plan G ov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s plan to pay $500 million to fracking companies to clean up their polluted water for New Mexicans presents some legal, economic and ethical challenges, along with costing the public a pretty penny.

Who owns wastewater from industrial use that is stored in New Mexico aquifers? Does that mean that discarded wastewater still belongs to private sector companies and can be sold to the public at a profit, and additionally, we have to pay the costs of reclamation?

Maybe New Mexicans should be charging rents for the space to store water in our publicly owned aquifers. Lujan Grisham, a friend of big oil and gas companies making big bucks polluting public assets like water and air, needs to find wiser advisers if she truly has the public’s welfare in mind in our age of climate change. A photo shoot at COP28 isn’t enough to convince us.

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Better than this What if Donald Trump becomes president again?

We treat this question as if it is hypothetical. It is not hypothetical. We already had him as our president once. He was a bully and a tyrant. He abused our trust and told us we were losers. He broke everything he touched. He alienated our friends

and allies. Trump made us feel dirty. We were trash to him, and the office he held was a vehicle for his own enrichment. What did Trump accomplish as a president? He made friends with tyrants. He granted indulgences to his cronies. He convinced the nation that it was immoral and deserving of contempt. We spent every moment of his presidency wishing the nightmare would end.

When we threw him out and tossed his stuff on the lawn, he tried to overturn the will of the people and burn the house down. Why would we ever want this man back? It can only be that he convinced us that we are worthless. He so undermined our confidence in government that we believe we are deserving of nothing better. This is the pattern of abuse. It is time to break the cycle of abuse and claim our right to peace and security. We cannot invite the abuser back in.

George Edelson

Santa Fe

Harsh harvest Regarding reports about the plight of the residents of Gaza, I am reminded of one of the central tenets of Christianity: “A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction” — Galatians 6:7–9.

David Blacher

Albuquerque

am responding to statements made by the New Mexico Public Education Department Secretary Arsenio Romero on public education progress in New Mexico.

To begin, he has said that schools need to be held accountable for what is going on in the classroom. This smacks of suggesting that New Mexico would return to evaluating teachers as was done in the past. Romero is demeaning educators whom the state sought to support after a decade plus of lack of pay increases.

These pay increases were not conditional to student improvement; they were an attempt to retain educators who were on the cusp of fleeing due to years of stagnant response on the working conditions from the state. Given the pressures on educators today — increasing academic success, providing social/emotional education and responding to daily threats of safety, e.g gun violence, substance-using students and worsening mental health circumstances — stating that educators need to be responsible for student learning seems simplistic.

As a parent of two new educators in public education, I am concerned that their desire to serve and improve our community will lead them in directions out of public education due to unrealistic expectations and inadequate resources dedicated to their effectiveness in the classroom.

The teacher preparation programs that have been developed to encourage employment of new teachers must be sustained to bring in vibrant and committed teachers.

I have been a social worker in the state of New Mexico for 30 years — and 26½ of those years as a school social worker in Albuquerque public high schools. If we continue to ignore the structural factors that contribute to students’ lack of achievement, our public education system will continue to be met with failure. Educators cannot control the social/emotional and socioeconomic factors that impact the students they serve.

Progress has been made — free breakfast and lunch to all students throughout the state is one excellent structural example. However, until other areas such as child access to health care and basic needs, including food benefits and family support are addressed, students will be unable to tend to learning. Without these interventions, it is no surprise that absenteeism is a chronic problem.

Several years ago, some of our state legislators visited other countries to learn what structural factors could serve to improve student outcomes. Many of the factors included increasing access to early intervention, Career Technical Educational programs for secondary grades and addressing poverty. Spending time evaluating educators for factors well beyond their control is avoiding looking at the causal factors that the state needs to embrace to make real change in the lives of children and their education.

The PED, New Mexico Health and Human Services Department and state legislators can collaborate and develop new programs to be responsive to the multiple factors that are impacting student learning. By being creative, utilizing knowledge gained and partnering with educators, student learning will improve while supporting the educators who serve them.

Donna Teuteberg has resided in Albuquerque for 30 years.

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The light of Chanukah is a reminder of Jewish survival

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his year more than ever!

2,162 years ago.

Gaze at those lights.

Take a moment and gaze at the flickering flames on your menorah.

The beautiful flames are telling us a story.

They retell a story 2,162 years old.

A story of perseverance.

A story of conviction.

A story of survival.

The story of an actual miracle.

The miracle of light prevailing over might.

The story of spirituality prevailing over materialism.

The story of Jewish survival.

These lights have been shining for 2,162 years since the miracle of Chanukah took place.

But even before then, the lights were shining brightly for 1,200 years in the Jewish Holy Temple.

This year, the story of a small band of dedicated Jewish religious leaders overthrowing a vast army trying to destroy their religion and faith, resonates even more within every Jew. Our people have suffered a horrific attack, and instead of standing with the victims and those suffering by the hands

Editorial page editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 505-986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

of the murderous terrorists, the world is turning against the Jewish people.

But this is nothing new. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Syrians, the Romans, the Germans — mighty empires and cultures have risen against us, but they have fallen and vanished into a distant memory.

The Jewish people have survived them all and continued teaching the world the morals and ethics we were given by Almighty G-d at Sinai.

The recent rise in antisemitism has turned us into more proud Jews. More Jews than ever are rediscovering their beautiful heritage and practicing more

Jewish rituals than before.

More Jews are kindling the menorah this year.

Let’s stand proud and bring more light into the world! Let’s light those candles even brighter this year! We did so on Sunday together as a community and will continue this celebration in our homes in a year where light is essential in these dark days.

Have a happy and meaningful Chanukah!

Rabbi Berel Levertov heads the Santa Fe Jewish Center Chabad.

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N.M. hoops legend seeks participants for camp

By Will Webber and James Barron sports@sfnewmexican.com

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ormer Lobos basketball legend Marvin Johnson will hold his annual camp for players ages 6 to 16 from Dec. 19-22 at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center.

There are separate camps for kids ages 10 and under and those ages 11 to 16. The younger kids run from 1 to 3 p.m. each day while the older campers go from 4:30 to 6:30.

The cost for each participant is $127.

Registration is available through Johnson’s website at swbbcamp.net.

Johnson is one of the top players in the history of the University of New Mexico basketball program. He still holds the single-game scoring record.

He began holding kids camps in 1977 when he was still a player at UNM, teaching fundamentals and working in a team dynamic.

Denver wins battle of AFC playoff contenders after Chargers’ Herbert injured

Denver running back Javonte Williams scores through Chargers safety Derwin James during Sunday’s game in Inglewood, Calif.

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Joe Reedy

The Associated Press

TODAY ON TV

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Russell Wilson threw two touchdown passes and the Denver Broncos beat the Broncos 24 Chargers 24-7 Sunchargers 7 day after Los Angeles lost quarterback Justin Herbert due to broken finger in the first half.

Wilson completed 21 of 33 for 224 yards, including a 46-yard touchdown to Courtland Sutton in the third quarter for Denver (7-6), which has won six of its last seven.

It was the Broncos’ first road victory against an AFC West foe since beating the Chargers on Oct. 6, 2019.

6:15 p.m. ABC — Green Bay at N.Y. Giants 6:15 p.m. ESPN — Tennessee at Miami 6:15 p.m. ESPN2 — Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli: Week 14.

Herbert has a fracture in his right index finger, coach Brandon Staley said.

The Chargers will do more tests before

determining how long Herbert will be out. It is a short week for the Bolts, who are at Las Vegas on Thursday night.

He had a fracture on the middle finger of his left non-throwing hand earlier this season.

Herbert was 9 of 17 for 96 yards with an interception before being injured, apparently while he was taken down awkwardly by Denver’s Zach Allen after throwing a pass. Herbert had been sacked four times and hit six times during the Chargers’ first six possesPlease see story on Page B-2

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Cowboys run over Philly Dallas overpowers Eagles to avenge earlier loss, win fifth straight and move into tie atop NFC East

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A pair of NBA veterans were in Española last weekend as hall of fame guard Gary Payton was in town for the Century Bank Classic at Northern New Mexico College. The head coach at Lincoln University in Oakland, Calif., “The Glove” coached the Oklanders to a 74-70 win over NNMC on Dec. 8.

One of Northern’s assistant coaches is Terry Tyler, who played 15 years in the NBA. He spent most of his time with the Detroit Pistons and later coached at Eastern New Mexico. His and Payton’s careers never intersected in the NBA as Payton’s rookie year came just months after Tyler played his final game. uuu

File this under the “way too early to tell” category: After two weeks of basketball, MaxPreps.com’s top-ranked boys basketball team in Class 5A is Santa Fe High. The rankings, based on games played as of Dec. 7, had the Demons with a 17.95 ranking, which was almost five points better than Albuquerque Atrisco Heritage Academy (13.09). It was even better than two-time 5A reigning champion Albuquerque Volcano Vista.

Missing from the rankings, though, were half of the state’s big schools because they have not played enough games to be ranked. Expect a shift when the updated rankings come out, especially after Rio Rancho Cleveland’s 80-74 win over the Demons on Friday.

Still, they won’t be far from the top of the list after a 4-1 start and wins over Albuquerque La Cueva and Class 2A favorite Academy for Technology and Please see story on Page B-3

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Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson leaps over Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Kelee Ringo during Sunday’s NFC East game in Arlington, Texas. Ferguson had two key catches — including his play over the top of Ringo — in the fourth quarter to help set up a pair of late field goals in the Dallas victory.

By Schuyler Dixon

The Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas ak Prescott threw for two touchdowns, Brandon Aubrey made four field goals to start his career a record 30-for-30 and the Dallas Cowboys pulled even in the NFC East with their 15th consecutive home victory, 33-13 over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night.

The Cowboys (10-3) weren’t deterred by Jalen Carter’s 42-yard fumble return for a touchdown, winning their fifth consecutive game since a loss at Philadelphia that gave the Eagles a two-game division lead.

The Eagles (10-3) lost three fumbles and didn’t score an offensive touchdown as quarterback Jalen Hurts, who had the first fumble, lost consecutive games for the first time since October 2021.

While the Cowboys currently hold the tiebreaker

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with an extra NFC East victory, the Eagles would take the division title on subsequent tiebreakers if they win their remaining four games.

Aubrey became the first kicker with two of at least 59 yards in the same game, connecting from 60 yards late in the first quarter. His 59-yarder in the third allowed Aubrey to surpass Greg Zuerlein and Harrison Butker, who each had a pair from at least 58 yards.

The 28-year-old rookie added a 45-yarder in the fourth and another from 50 in the final two minutes, extending his NFL record for perfection to start a career.

With Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy calling plays from the sideline just four days after an emergency appendectomy, Prescott had a career-best seventh consecutive game with at least two TD passes.

The Dallas offense bogged down after Prescott’s first-half TD passes, but two big completions for

first downs to tight end Jake Ferguson, including a hurdling effort early in the fourth quarter, led to Aubrey’s last two field goals.

The Cowboys were cruising when Prescott lost control of the ball while being sacked by Fletcher Cox in the third quarter, and Carter picked up the loose ball and ran untouched to get the Eagles within 24-13.

Down two touchdowns late in the third, Philadelphia couldn’t convert on fourth-and-8 from the Dallas 30-yard line. Stephen Gilmore made the open-field tackle on DeVonta Smith, who later had the third lost fumble for Philadelphia, ending any realistic hopes of a rally.

CeeDee Lamb and Michael Gallup had the scoring catches for Dallas, and Rico Dowdle had a 1-yard plunge that was originally called short but overturned when the Cowboys challenged.

Please see story on Page B-2

WOMEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL

No. 1 South Carolina picks up another ranked win Gamecocks survive 37 points from Utah forward to improve to 9-0 with four ranked victories

By Pat eaton-Robb

The Associated Press

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — South Carolina faced another challenge from a ranked team on Sunday and the No. 1 Gamecocks 1 S.c.

78 remained 11 Utah 69 undefeated.

Kamilla Cardoso scored 17 points and Te-Hina Paopao added 15 to help

the Gamecocks hold off No. 11 Utah 78-69 at the Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase.

Freshman MiLaysia Fulwiley and sophomore Chloe Kitts each added 11 for South Carolina (9-0), which has beaten four ranked opponents this season.

“We can only get better,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “That’s the thing. This is the worst we’re going to be and we’re just in December.”

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Alissa Pili made 15 of her 23 shots from the floor and finished with 37 points for Utah (8-2), getting the better of her individual matchups with the 6-foot-7 Cardoso and South Carolina’s other front-court players.

“I just went out there and did my thing,” the 6-2 forward said.

“Let the game come to me. It’s

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better when I don’t think about it, because it just comes to me.”

South Carolina led for all but 43 seconds during the game, but only was up seven points at the half and five after three quarters.

Pili helped Utah cut the lead to two points on several occasions, but South Carolina always responded with a run.

It was still a five-point lead with 3½ minutes left when Pili hit a fall-away in the lane over Cardoso to make it 69-65. A layup by Dasia Young the next time down Please see story on Page B-3

JESSICA HILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

South Carolina center Kamilla Cardoso looks to shoot against Utah forwards Alissa Pili, left, and Jenna Johnson during Sunday’s game in Uncasville, Conn. Cardoso scored 17 points to help top-ranked S.C. hold off No. 11 Utah and 37 points from Pili.

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NFL WEEK 14 STANDINGS AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST W

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Jacksonville Houston Indianapolis Tennessee

NORTH

Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh

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9 7 5 3

3 6 8 10

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L

8 7 7 4

W

L

8 7 5 5

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Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay e-Carolina

NORTH

Detroit Minnesota Green Bay Chicago

WEST

L

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PCT

W

L

T

PCT

3 3 8 9

6 6 6 1

0 0 0 0

7 7 7 12

W

0 0 0 0

L

9 7 6 5

W

PF

421 342 159 261

PF

.462 .462 .462 .077

T

4 6 6 8

292 287 282 202

.769 .769 .333 .308

251 285 262 197

PCT

0 0 0 0

PF

.692 .538 .500 .385

L

T

San Francisco 10 3 L.A. Rams 6 7 Seattle 6 7 Arizona 3 10 e-Eliminated from playoffs

HOME

AWAY

314 242 243 309

380 299 280 230

L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 6:15 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 17

Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at New England, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

Washington at L.A. Rams, 2:05 p.m.

Dallas at Buffalo, 2:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Jacksonville, 6:20 p.m.

HOME

5-1-0 3-3-0 4-2-0 2-4-0

AFC

AFC

5-2-0 5-2-0 2-4-0 2-5-0

NFC

DIV

4-5-0 3-5-0 5-4-0 0-9-0

3-1-0 2-2-0 3-1-0 0-4-0

DIV

6-3-0 6-3-0 4-3-0 4-5-0

AFC

5-2-0 3-4-0 2-5-0 1-6-0

4-1-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 0-5-0

NFC

3-1-0 1-3-0 2-3-0 1-3-0

AWAY

DIV

7-3-0 6-2-0 3-4-0 2-7-0

2-2-0 3-2-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

AWAY

DIV

3-1-0 2-2-0 1-2-0 1-2-0

NFC

3-0-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 2-2-0

2-4-0 3-4-0 3-4-0 0-8-0

NFC

2-3-0 3-1-0 2-3-0 2-3-0

2-2-0 2-3-0 1-2-0 1-4-0

2-2-0 2-1-0 2-2-0 2-3-0

NFC

DIV

8-1-0 4-4-0 5-5-0 2-6-0

4-0-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 0-4-0

Philadelphia at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

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6 30

Third Quarter NYJ_Cobb 15 pass from Z.Wilson (Zuerlein kick), 11:05.

NYJ_Gipson 9 run (Zuerlein kick), 4:31.

Hou_Singletary 1 run (kick failed), :00.

Fourth Quarter NYJ_Bre.Hall 3 pass from Z.Wilson (Zuerlein kick), 9:27.

NYJ_FG Zuerlein 51, 6:51.

NYJ_FG Zuerlein 55, 4:30.

NYJ_FG Zuerlein 44, 1:08.

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First downs 10 20 Total Net Yards 135 347 Rushes-yards 19-81 26-79 Passing 54 268 Punt Returns 2-22 3-17 Kickoff Returns 0-0 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 11-28-0 27-36-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 5-41 4-33 Punts 8-50.625 5-47.6 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 4-35 8-52 Time of Possession 22:55 37:05 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Houston, Singletary 13-65, Pierce 4-9, Ogunbowale 2-7. N.Y. Jets, Bre.Hall 10-40, Cook 7-13, Z.Wilson 3-12, Gipson 1-9, Bawden 1-3, G.Wilson 1-3, Abanikanda 3-(minus 1).

PASSING_Houston, Stroud 10-23-0-91, Mills 1-50-4. N.Y. Jets, Z.Wilson 27-36-0-301.

RECEIVING_Houston, Jordan 3-35, Hutchinson 2-15, Beck 1-26, N.Collins 1-13, Metchie 1-6, Ogunbowale 1-4, Pierce 1-(minus 2), Woods 1-(minus 2). N.Y. Jets, G.Wilson 9-108, Bre.Hall 8-86, Conklin 4-57, Ruckert 3-37, Cobb 1-15, Gipson 1-3, Cook 1-(minus 5).

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

TAMPA BAY 29, ATLANTA 25

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First Quarter TB_FG McLaughlin 55, 9:27.

Atl_FG Koo 20, 1:23.

Second Quarter TB_Mayfield 1 run (McLaughlin kick), 14:57.

Atl_K.Pitts 36 pass from Ridder (Koo kick), 12:09.

TB_safety, 2:36.

Third Quarter TB_R.White 31 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 4:06.

Fourth Quarter Atl_Robinson 3 run (Koo kick), 11:10.

TB_FG McLaughlin 38, 6:10.

Atl_Ridder 6 run (D.London pass from Ridder), 3:23.

TB_Otton 11 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), :31.

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16 290 37-148 142 2-26 1-29 1-0 14-29-0 1-2

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MONDAY, DEC. 18

First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost

4-2-0 2-4-0 4-2-0 3-3-0

AFC

3-2-0 3-2-0 0-4-0 3-1-0

First Quarter Chi_Moore 16 run (Santos kick), 10:17.

Chi_FG Santos 46, 1:22.

Second Quarter Det_Gibbs 12 run (kick failed), 6:59.

Det_J.Reynolds 8 pass from Goff (Patterson kick), :26.

Third Quarter Chi_FG Santos 25, 8:38.

Chi_Moore 38 pass from Fields (kick blocked), 1:36.

Fourth Quarter Chi_Fields 11 run (pass failed), 14:12.

Chi_FG Santos 28, 9:20.

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CHICAGO 28, DETROIT 13

Minnesota at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 2:30 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 6:15 p.m.

9 7

4-3-0 3-3-0 3-3-0 1-4-0

DETROIT CHICAGO

THURSDAY, DEC. 14

3 3

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NFC

6-3-0 6-3-0 3-6-0 5-4-0

4-2-0 3-3-0 3-3-0 1-5-0

DIV

4-1-0 1-2-0 3-2-0 0-3-0

Punts 6-54.167 4-45.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 4-0 Penalties-Yards 4-26 2-10 Time of Possession 31:40 28:20 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Tampa Bay, R.White 25-102, Edmonds 8-40, Palmer 1-3, Mayfield 3-3. Atlanta, Allgeier 9-40, Robinson 10-34, Ridder 4-15, Patterson 3-7.

PASSING_Tampa Bay, Mayfield 14-29-0-144. Atlanta, Ridder 26-40-1-347.

RECEIVING_Tampa Bay, Godwin 5-53, R.White 2-33, Edmonds 2-18, Otton 2-16, Moore 1-11, Evans 1-8, Palmer 1-5. Atlanta, D.London 10-172, Robinson 5-54, J.Smith 4-27, Pitts 3-57, Pruitt 2-15, Hodge 1-18, Hollins 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Atlanta, Koo 52, Koo 50.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 6:15 p.m.

Tennessee at Miami, 6:15 p.m.

TAMPA BAY ATLANTA

PA

205 290 318 331

4-3-0 4-3-0 2-5-0 4-3-0

DIV

3-1-0 2-2-0 1-3-0 2-2-0

2-1-0 3-2-0 2-2-0 2-2-0

AFC

5-1-0 2-4-0 3-3-0 3-2-0

NFC

3-1-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 0-5-0

NFC

6-4-0 4-4-0 5-4-0 2-6-0

AWAY

PA

269 261 270 341

MONDAY’S GAMES

6 14

5-2-0 6-1-0 4-3-0 4-4-0

AWAY

SUNDAY’S GAMES

0 0

HOME

AFC

6-2-0 4-5-0 3-6-0 3-5-0

AFC

5-1-0 2-4-0 5-2-0 0-6-0

HOME

Baltimore 37, L.A. Rams 31, OT Chicago 28, Detroit 13 Cincinnati 34, Indianapolis 14 Cleveland 31, Jacksonville 27 N.Y. Jets 30, Houston 6 New Orleans 28, Carolina 6 Tampa Bay 29, Atlanta 25 Minnesota 3, Las Vegas 0 San Francisco 28, Seattle 16 Buffalo 20, Kansas City 17 Denver 24, L.A. Chargers 7 Dallas 33, Philadelphia 13 Open: Arizona, Washington

0 0

AWAY

3-4-0 5-2-0 2-4-0 4-2-0

PA

233 321 292 395

New England 21, Pittsburgh 18

HOUSTON N.Y. JETS

HOME

4-3-0 2-4-0 2-3-0 2-4-0

AWAY

SCHEDULE THURSDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. JETS 30, HOUSTON 6

AWAY

5-0-0 5-2-0 3-5-0 1-6-0

HOME

PF

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HOME

PA

228 309 282 259

PA

340 266 258 270

PCT

0 0 0 0

PA

290 279 330 255 218 272 287 250

PF

.615 .538 .385 .385

266 244 257 272

PA

361 289 280 210

PCT

0 0 0 0

W

10 10 4 4

PF

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST

Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington

312 287 314 213

PCT

T

5 6 8 8

PF

.615 .538 .538 .333

0 0 0 0

PA

384 348 201 169

PCT

T

3 5 6 6

PF

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0 0 0 0

L

W

Kansas City Denver L.A. Chargers Las Vegas

PCT

0 0 0 0

T

5 6 6 8

10 8 7 7

T

ATL

23 434 26-96 338 4-57 0-0 0-0 26-40-1 3-9

13 28

INDIANAPOLIS CINCINNATI

0 7

14 7

0 14

0 6

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14 34

First Quarter Cin_C.Brown 54 pass from Browning (McPherson kick), 6:31.

Second Quarter Cin_Mixon 1 run (McPherson kick), 10:18.

Ind_Alie-Cox 2 pass from Minshew (kick failed), 1:56.

Ind_Harrison 36 interception return (Pittman pass from Minshew), 1:31.

Third Quarter Cin_Hudson 11 pass from Browning (McPherson kick), 11:38.

Cin_Browning 1 run (McPherson kick), 2:59.

Fourth Quarter Cin_FG McPherson 32, 11:14.

Cin_FG McPherson 35, 1:55.

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First downs 19 19 Total Net Yards 272 385 Rushes-yards 18-46 32-111 Passing 226 274 Punt Returns 1-0 3-12 Kickoff Returns 1-17 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 1-36 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 26-39-1 19-25-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-14 0-0 Punts 4-48.5 4-36.75 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 9-66 5-40 Time of Possession 28:08 31:52 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Indianapolis, Moss 13-28, Sermon 3-13, Minshew 2-5. Cincinnati, Mixon 21-79, C.Brown 8-25, Browning 3-7.

PASSING_Indianapolis, Minshew 26-39-1-240.

Cincinnati, Browning 18-24-1-275, McCarron 1-1-0-(minus 1).

RECEIVING_Indianapolis, Pittman 8-95, Mallory 5-46, Moss 4-28, Downs 3-32, Pierce 2-22, Granson 2-17, Alie-Cox 1-2, Goodson 1-(minus 2). Cincinnati, C.Brown 3-80, Mixon 3-46, Chase 3-29, Higgins 2-72, Boyd 2-23, Hudson 2-21, D.Sample 2-4, Wilcox 1-0, T.Williams 1-(minus 1).

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Indianapolis, Gay 38.

CLEVELAND 31, JACKSONVILLE 27 JACKSONVILLE CLEVELAND First Quarter

Broncos get sixth win in last seven games Continued from Page B-1

sions, with his teammates repeatedly missing their blocks against Denver’s pass rushers.

Easton Stick completed 13 of 24 passes for 179 yards in Herbert’s place. He had played two NFL snaps in five seasons with Los Angeles before replacing the Bolts’ franchise quarterback with 1:52 remaining in the second quarter. His best throw was a 57-yard strike to Quentin Johnston during the fourth quarter. Four plays later, Austin Ekeler put

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Sea_Metcalf 31 pass from Lock (Myers kick), 9:44.

Sea_FG Myers 40, :56.

Second Quarter SF_Samuel 54 pass from Purdy (Moody kick), 8:18.

Third Quarter SF_Samuel 1 run (Moody kick), 1:58.

Sea_Parkinson 25 pass from Lock (pass failed), :24.

Fourth Quarter SF_Kittle 44 pass from Purdy (Moody kick), 14:08.

CLE

NEW ORLEANS 28, CAROLINA 6

6 28

SEA

16 28

SF

First downs 17 19 Total Net Yards 324 527 Rushes-yards 20-70 23-173 Passing 254 354 Punt Returns 1-8 3-27 Kickoff Returns 2-53 2-42 Interceptions Ret. 1-7 2-13 Comp-Att-Int 22-31-2 19-27-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-15 3-14 Punts 6-51.833 5-49.2 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 5-39 5-30 Time of Possession 30:45 29:15 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Seattle, Charbonnet 9-44, Walker 8-21, Lock 3-5. San Francisco, McCaffrey 16-145, Mason 4-20, Purdy 2-7, Samuel 1-1.

PASSING_Seattle, Lock 22-31-2-269. San Francisco, Purdy 19-27-1-368.

RECEIVING_Seattle, Lockett 6-89, Walker 4-33, Smith-Njigba 4-25, Metcalf 2-52, Fant 2-35, Parkinson 2-28, Charbonnet 1-4, Dissly 1-3. San Francisco, Samuel 7-149, Aiyuk 6-126, Kittle 3-76, McCaffrey 1-8, Mason 1-6, Woerner 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

DENVER 24, L.A. CHARGERS 7 DENVER L.A. CHARGERS

7 0

3 0

7 0

7 7

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24 7

Second Quarter NO_Kamara 9 run (Grupe kick), 14:55.

Car_FG Pineiro 47, 9:16.

NO_D.Jackson 8 blocked punt return (Grupe kick), 4:37.

Third Quarter Car_FG Pineiro 29, 4:57.

Fourth Quarter NO_Olave 7 pass from Carr (Grupe kick), 5:59.

NO_Graham 4 pass from Carr (Grupe kick), 4:29.

First Quarter Den_J.Williams 3 run (Lutz kick), 4:55.

Second Quarter Den_FG Lutz 23, :05.

Third Quarter Den_Sutton 46 pass from Wilson (Lutz kick), 5:55.

Fourth Quarter LAC_Ekeler 3 run (Dicker kick), 10:37.

Den_Trautman 10 pass from Wilson (Lutz kick), 3:11.

A_70,240.

First downs 16 14 Total Net Yards 314 207 Rushes-yards 38-215 25-97 Passing 99 110 Punt Returns 2-1 2-23 Kickoff Returns 2-37 1-28 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 13-36-0 18-26-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-38 1-9 Punts 3-28.667 5-40.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 4-27 3-30 Time of Possession 34:50 25:10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Carolina, Hubbard 23-87, Sanders 1074, Young 3-40, Smith-Marsette 1-10, Blackshear 1-4. New Orleans, Kamara 12-56, Williams 11-43, Winston 2-(minus 2).

PASSING_Carolina, Young 13-36-0-137. New Orleans, Carr 18-26-1-119.

RECEIVING_Carolina, Thielen 5-74, Chark 2-26, Mingo 2-22, Hubbard 2-9, Blackshear 1-4, Tremble 1-2. New Orleans, Olave 4-28, Bowden 4-24, Kamara 3-(minus 11), Graham 2-16, J.Johnson 2-10, Moreau 2-8, Perry 1-44.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Carolina, Pineiro 41. New Orleans, Grupe 29.

First downs 19 17 Total Net Yards 322 283 Rushes-yards 31-106 19-76 Passing 216 207 Punt Returns 2-25 0-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-44 Interceptions Ret. 1-4 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 21-33-1 22-42-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-8 6-68 Punts 7-44.714 5-57.4 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 4-26 2-10 Time of Possession 33:29 26:31 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Denver, J.Williams 17-66, McLaughlin 5-25, Perine 2-8, Wilson 6-5, Burton 1-2. L.A. Chargers, Ekeler 10-51, Spiller 6-19, Kelley 3-6.

PASSING_Denver, Wilson 21-33-1-224. L.A. Chargers, Stick 13-24-0-179, Herbert 9-17-1-96, K.Allen 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING_Denver, Perine 5-36, Sutton 3-62, J.Williams 3-25, Trautman 2-19, Jeudy 2-16, Mims 2-11, Krull 1-35, Humphrey 1-12, McLaughlin 1-7, Burton 1-1. L.A. Chargers, K.Allen 6-68, Ekeler 5-49, Everett 5-39, Johnston 3-91, Parham 1-11, Erickson 1-9, Guyton 1-8.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

CAR

L.A. RAMS BALTIMORE

CHI

CINCINNATI 34, INDIANAPOLIS 14

JAC

SEATTLE SAN FRANCISCO

First downs 20 16 Total Net Yards 293 389 Rushes-yards 20-58 28-82 Passing 235 307 Punt Returns 5-63 2-19 Kickoff Returns 2-34 1-29 Interceptions Ret. 1-11 3-11 Comp-Att-Int 28-50-3 26-45-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-22 1-4 Punts 7-45.857 8-51.5 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-2 Penalties-Yards 7-40 8-75 Time of Possession 28:11 31:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Jacksonville, Etienne 14-35, D.Johnson 3-12, Lawrence 3-11. Cleveland, J.Ford 12-51, Hunt 10-27, Thompson-Robinson 1-5, Strong 1-0, Flacco 4-(minus 1).

PASSING_Jacksonville, Lawrence 28-50-3-257.

Cleveland, Flacco 26-45-1-311.

RECEIVING_Jacksonville, Engram 11-95, Z.Jones 5-29, Ridley 4-53, Etienne 4-37, Washington 2-27, D.Johnson 2-16. Cleveland, Cooper 7-77, Njoku 6-91, J.Ford 5-31, Moore 3-42, Tillman 2-23, Da. Bell 1-41, Akins 1-3, Hunt 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

NO

BALTIMORE 37, L.A. RAMS 31, OT

First downs 13 20 Total Net Yards 267 336 Rushes-yards 24-140 30-142 Passing 127 194 Punt Returns 2-18 4-56 Kickoff Returns 1-22 2-51 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-13 Comp-Att-Int 20-35-2 19-33-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-34 3-29 Punts 4-51.75 3-43.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 8-59 4-35 Time of Possession 26:41 33:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Detroit, Montgomery 10-66, Gibbs 1166, LaPorta 1-4, Williams 1-4, Goff 1-0. Chicago, Fields 12-58, Foreman 11-50, Moore 3-20, Herbert 3-8, R.Johnson 1-6.

PASSING_Detroit, Goff 20-35-2-161. Chicago, Fields 19-33-0-223.

RECEIVING_Detroit, J.Reynolds 3-44, St. Brown 3-21, Montgomery 3-19, Gibbs 3-16, Raymond 3-15, LaPorta 2-23, Wright 2-6, Peoples-Jones 1-17. Chicago, Moore 6-68, Kmet 5-66, Mooney 2-44, Foreman 2-22, V.Jones 1-11, Scott 1-11, Lewis 1-4, Blasingame 1-(minus 3).

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

SAN FRANCISCO 28, SEATTLE 16

Cle_Njoku 34 pass from Flacco (Hopkins kick), 11:39.

Second Quarter Cle_Njoku 30 pass from Flacco (Hopkins kick), 13:40.

Jac_Engram 10 pass from Lawrence (McManus kick), 6:14.

Third Quarter Cle_Hunt 4 run (Hopkins kick), 9:39.

Jac_Etienne 1 run (McManus kick), 4:59.

Fourth Quarter Cle_Da.Bell 41 pass from Flacco (Hopkins kick), 12:34.

Jac_Washington 19 pass from Lawrence (McManus kick), 8:52.

Cle_FG Hopkins 55, 3:10.

Jac_Engram 2 pass from Lawrence (pass failed), 1:33.

A_67,431.

3 7

17 10

2 3

9 11

0 6

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31 37

First Quarter LAR_FG Havrisik 27, 5:35.

Bal_Likely 54 pass from L.Jackson (Tucker kick), :25.

Second Quarter LAR_Kupp 6 pass from Stafford (Havrisik kick), 12:01.

Bal_Beckham 46 pass from L.Jackson (Tucker kick), 9:40.

LAR_D.Allen 7 pass from Stafford (Havrisik kick), 5:00.

LAR_FG Havrisik 51, 1:45.

Bal_FG Tucker 31, :09.

Third Quarter Bal_FG Tucker 47, 10:02.

LAR_safety, 5:54.

Fourth Quarter Bal_FG Tucker 33, 11:17.

LAR_D.Robinson 5 pass from Stafford (pass failed), 4:41.

Bal_Flowers 21 pass from L.Jackson (Flowers pass from L.Jackson), 1:16.

LAR_FG Havrisik 36, :07.

First Overtime Bal_Wallace 76 punt return, 7:42.

A_70,492.

LAR

0 0

0 0

Fourth Quarter Min_FG Joseph 36, 1:57.

A_62,626.

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MIN

3 0

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BUFFALO KANSAS CITY

7 0

7 7

3 7

3 3

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20 17

BUF

BAL

MINNESOTA 3, LAS VEGAS 0

LAC

First Quarter Buf_J.Cook 25 pass from J.Allen (Bass kick), 3:43.

Second Quarter Buf_J.Allen 6 run (Bass kick), 11:50.

KC_McKinnon 7 run (Butker kick), 1:26.

Third Quarter Buf_FG Bass 31, 8:38.

KC_Rice 4 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick), 3:35.

Fourth Quarter KC_FG Butker 27, 11:31.

Buf_FG Bass 39, 1:54.

A_73,639.

First downs 24 23 Total Net Yards 410 449 Rushes-yards 30-128 26-139 Passing 282 310 Punt Returns 3-9 4-109 Kickoff Returns 1-22 1-21 Interceptions Ret. 1-17 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 23-41-0 24-43-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-12 2-6 Punts 6-51.833 4-47.75 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 5-34 7-79 Time of Possession 34:35 27:43 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_L.A. Rams, K.Williams 25-114, Freeman 3-9, Nacua 1-6, Stafford 1-(minus 1). Baltimore, Jackson 11-70, Mitchell 9-54, Edwards 6-15.

PASSING_L.A. Rams, Stafford 23-41-0-294. Baltimore, Jackson 24-43-1-316.

RECEIVING_L.A. Rams, Kupp 8-115, Nacua 5-84, D.Allen 4-50, Robinson 3-46, K.Williams 3-(minus 1). Baltimore, Flowers 6-60, Likely 5-83, Agholor 5-32, Beckham 4-97, Bateman 2-24, Hill 1-12, Mitchell 1-8.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

MINNESOTA LAS VEGAS

DEN

3 0

LAS

First downs 16 8 Total Net Yards 231 202 Rushes-yards 30-132 17-56 Passing 99 146 Punt Returns 5-48 5-56 Kickoff Returns 1-31 1-16 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 19-36-0 21-32-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 5-47 4-25 Punts 9-44.111 8-54.125 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 3-2 Penalties-Yards 5-36 4-37 Time of Possession 32:11 27:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Minnesota, Mattison 10-66, Chandler 12-35, Dobbs 5-21, Ham 1-7, Nwangwu 2-3. Las Vegas, Jacobs 13-34, Abdullah 1-12, White 2-8, O’Connell 1-2.

PASSING_Minnesota, Mullens 9-13-0-83, Dobbs 10-23-0-63. Las Vegas, O’Connell 21-32-1-171.

RECEIVING_Minnesota, Hockenson 5-53, Osborn 4-15, Chandler 3-7, Addison 2-27, Jefferson 2-27, Nailor 2-13, Mundt 1-4. Las Vegas, Adams 7-53, Meyers 5-25, Renfrow 3-46, Jacobs 2-16, Abdullah 2-7, Mayer 1-14, Hooper 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Minnesota, Joseph 49.

KC

First downs 21 21 Total Net Yards 327 346 Rushes-yards 28-118 18-82 Passing 209 264 Punt Returns 2-17 3-49 Kickoff Returns 1-23 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 1-6 1-4 Comp-Att-Int 23-42-1 25-43-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-24 1-7 Punts 4-46.5 4-40.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 4-35 7-45 Time of Possession 35:21 24:39 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Buffalo, Cook 10-58, J.Allen 10-32, Ty.Johnson 5-19, Murray 3-9. Kansas City, Edwards-Helaire 11-39, McKinnon 4-19, Toney 2-16, Mahomes 1-8.

PASSING_Buffalo, J.Allen 23-42-1-233. Kansas City, Mahomes 25-43-1-271.

RECEIVING_Buffalo, Cook 5-83, Kincaid 5-21, Diggs 4-24, Knox 3-36, Ty.Johnson 2-2, Harty 1-25, Murray 1-21, Shakir 1-12, Sherfield 1-9. Kansas City, Rice 7-72, Kelce 6-83, Toney 3-25, McKinnon 3-18, Edwards-Helaire 2-29, Valdes-Scantling 2-22, Ju.Watson 1-18, James 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

DALLAS 33, PHILADELPHIA 13

PHILADELPHIA DALLAS

0 10

6 14

7 3

0 6

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13 33

First Quarter Dal_Lamb 13 pass from Prescott (Aubrey kick), 10:00.

Dal_FG Aubrey 60, :50.

Second Quarter Phi_FG Elliott 52, 12:34.

Dal_Dowdle 1 run (Aubrey kick), 5:47.

Phi_FG Elliott 44, 1:48.

Dal_Gallup 1 pass from Prescott (Aubrey kick), :20.

Third Quarter Phi_Carter 42 fumble return (Elliott kick), 10:41.

Dal_FG Aubrey 59, 4:49.

Fourth Quarter Dal_FG Aubrey 45, 9:40.

Dal_FG Aubrey 50, 1:08.

A_93,752.

PHI

DAL

First downs 17 24 Total Net Yards 324 394 Rushes-yards 23-106 32-138 Passing 218 256 Punt Returns 1-18 0-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-30 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 19-28-0 24-39-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 3-15 Punts 1-39.0 1-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 3-3 1-1 Penalties-Yards 10-95 7-60 Time of Possession 23:24 36:36 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Philadelphia, Swift 11-39, Hurts 5-30, Gainwell 4-28, B.Scott 3-9. Dallas, Pollard 16-59, Dowdle 12-46, Turpin 1-22, Prescott 3-11.

PASSING_Philadelphia, Hurts 18-27-0-197, Mann 1-1-0-28. Dallas, Prescott 24-39-0-271.

RECEIVING_Philadelphia, A.Brown 9-94, D.Smith 5-73, Goedert 4-30, Zaccheaus 1-28. Dallas, Pollard 7-37, Lamb 6-71, Ferguson 5-72, Gallup 3-48, Cooks 2-37, Dowdle 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

NICK WASS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Baltimore’s Tylan Wallace, right, celebrates his punt return for a touchdown that won the game in overtime for the Ravens on Sunday in Baltimore. It kept the Ravens on top of the AFC.

Ravens stay atop AFC on walk-off punt return in OT The Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Tylan Wallace returned a punt 76 yards for a touchdown in overtime to lift the Baltimore Ravens 37 Ravens to a Rams 31 37-31 victory over Los Angeles on Sunday, snapping the Rams’ three-game winning streak.

Wallace, who committed a crucial penalty on special teams earlier in the game that led to points for Los Angeles (6-7), eluded a couple of tackles after fielding the punt and stayed on his feet when Shaun Jolly made a diving attempt at him along the left sideline.

The Ravens (10-3) remained atop the AFC, a half-game ahead of Miami, which hosts Tennessee on Monday night.

Lamar Jackson and Matthew Stafford threw three touchdown passes apiece, overcoming wet conditions and dropped passes in a game that was high-scoring yet sloppy. Each offense went three-and-out in overtime before the final Los Angeles punt.

Jackson’s 21-yard touchdown strike to Zay Flowers with 1:16 remaining — and his 2-point conversion pass to Flowers — put Baltimore up 31-28. Stafford then guided the Rams into position to take multiple shots to the end zone, and when that failed, Lucas Havrisik made a 36-yard field goal with 7 seconds left to force OT. VIKINGS 3, RAIDERS 0

remaining in the first quarter on Javonte Williams’ 3-yard run up the middle. The touchdown was set up when linebacker Jonathon Cooper picked off Herbert at the LA 7 after Herbert’s passes was batted at the line of scrimmage by Baron Browning.

The Chargers also had a red zone interception earlier in the first quarter but could not convert it into points. Davis made a diving pick on a pass intended for Marvin Mims Jr. at the Denver 13.

Los Angeles had fourth-and-3 at the Denver 6, but Gerald Everett couldn’t catch Herbert’s pass in the end zone.

INJURIES Broncos: RG Quinn Meinerz left the game due to an elevated heart rate at halftime. ... LB Nik Bonitto had a knee injury in the first half.

UP NEXT Broncos: At Detroit Lions on Saturday night.

Chargers: At Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday.

49ERS 28, SEAHAWKS 16 In Santa Clara, Calif., Deebo Samuel scored on a catch and a run and San Francisco beat Seattle for its 11th straight win over an NFC West opponent.

Samuel had his second straight game with multiple touchdowns to lead the 49ers (10-3) to the brink of winning back-to-back division titles for the first time since 2011-12. The Niners lead the Seahawks (6-7) and Rams by four games with four to play.

JETS 30, TEXANS 6 In East Rutherford, N.J., Zach Wilson threw a pair of second-half touchdown passes in his return from a two-game benching as New York beat Houston to stop a five-game skid.

The Jets shut down the Texans’ C.J. Stroud before the star rookie quarterback left late with a concussion.

Stroud left with 6:30 remaining after a hit by Quinnen Williams.

Davis Mills replaced him.

Stroud, who came in leading the NFL in yards passing, was 10 of 23 for a season-low 91 yards.

The Texans (7-6) finished with 135 total yards and went 1 for 12 on third down.

BEARS 28, LIONS 13 In Chicago, Justin Fields threw for a touchdown and ran for another, and the Bears beat NFC North-leading Detroit.

Receiver DJ Moore had his first career rushing touchdown and caught a scoring pass to help the Bears (5-8) win for the third time in four games.

BUCCANEERS 29, FALCONS 25

In Las Vegas, Nev., Minnesota and the Raiders played the lowest-scoring NFL game in 16 years, with Greg Joseph’s 36-yard field goal with 1:57 left giving the Vikings the victory.

It was the first 3-0 game since Pittsburgh beat Miami on Nov. 26, 2007, the third in the past 40 years and the seventh in the Super Bowl era.

Joseph’s kick ensured the game wouldn’t end regulation scoreless for the first time since the New York Giants played the host Detroit Lions to a 0-0 tie on Nov. 7, 1943.

The Vikings (7-6) had just 230 total yards, and the Raiders (5-8) — losers of three in a row — were limited to 201 yards and nine first downs.

In Atlanta, Baker Mayfield threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Cade Otton with 31 seconds remaining, and Tampa Bay beat the Falcons to move into a threeway tie for first place in the NFC South.

The Buccaneers (6-7) sit atop the division alongside the Falcons and the New Orleans Saints.

Atlanta (6-7) rallied for a 25-22 lead with a pair of TDs in the final period, including quarterback Desmond Ridder’s 6-yard scoring run with 3:23 remaining.

But Mayfield, who passed for just 144 yards, guided a 12-play, 75-yard scoring drive. The biggest play was a 32-yard completion to Chris Godwin.

BILLS 20, CHIEFS 17

BENGALS 34, COLTS 14

In Kansas City, Mo., Josh Allen threw for 233 yards with touchdowns running and throwing, and Buffalo held on to beat K.C. thanks in part to a crucial penalty on Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney.

Tyler Bass kicked a go-ahead, 39-yard field goal with 1:54 left for the Bills (7-6).

Moments later, the Chiefs (8-5) thought they had taken the lead when Patrick Mahomes hit Travis Kelce over the middle, and the high school QB threw far across the field on a lateral to Toney, who ran the rest of the 49 yards for a touchdown. But the play was wiped out because Toney had lined up offside.

The Chiefs still had time to get in range for a tying field goal, but Mahomes threw three straight incompletions. Kansas City has lost four of six.

In Cincinnati, Jake Browning threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score in his second straight outstanding performance as the Bengals pounded Indianapolis.

With Joe Burrow out for the season because of a wrist injury, Browning has kept the Bengals (7-6) in playoff contention. He followed up a 354-yard outing in a win at Jacksonville last Monday night by completing 18 of 24 passes for 275 yards with an interception.

Indianapolis (7-6) had its fourgame win streak snapped and its playoff positioning took a hit.

SAINTS 28, PANTHERS 6

In Cleveland, Joe Flacco threw for 311 yards and three touchdowns in his home debut for the Browns, which survived a late rally

by Jacksonville.

The 38-year-old Flacco, who

In New Orleans, Derek Carr returned from a recent concussion and upper-body injuries to throw touchdown passes to Chris Olave and Jimmy Graham, and the Saints beat NFL-worst Carolina.

Alvin Kamara ran 9 yards for a touchdown as the Saints (6-7) snapped a three-game skid and pulled into a first-place tie with Atlanta and Tampa Bay in the feeble NFC South.

Cowboys

... Cowboys DT Johnathan Hankins was helped off the field with an ankle injury in the third quarter.

BROWNS 31, JAGUARS 27

Los Angeles on the board with a 4-yard TD. Javonte Williams and Adam Trautman also scored for the Broncos. The Denver defense finished with six sacks and a pair of turnovers.

They also held the Chargers to a combined 1 of 18 on third- and fourth-down conversions.

“We did a good job harassing the quarterback, both of them. It was one of our better team wins this season,” Denver coach Sean Payton said.

The Chargers (5-8) have dropped four of five.

Denver had a 10-0 halftime lead and extended it with less than six minutes remaining in the third quarter on Wilson’s connection to Sutton.

On first-and-10 from the Chargers 46, Wilson had plenty of time before stepping up in the pocket and throwing a deep pass. Sutton made a one-handed catch near the back of the end zone while being covered by Michael Davis.

Denver took a 7-0 lead with five minutes

was signed three weeks ago by the Browns (8-5), went 26 of 45 and improved to 10-2 as a starter in Cleveland.

Continued from Page B-1

Prescott was 24 of 39 for 271 yards, and the Cowboys limited Hurts to 197 yards passing and 30 rushing.

INJURIES Eagles S Reed Blankenship was ruled out with a concussion after leaving the game in the first half.

UP NEXT Eagles: At Seattle on Monday, Dec. 18. The Seahawks’ loss at San Francisco means Philadelphia won’t face a team with a winning record in its final four games.

Cowboys: At Buffalo next Sunday in the first of consecutive road matchups with AFC East playoff contenders. The second is division-leading Miami.

THE WEATHER ALMANAC

Midnight through 6 p.m. Sunday

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Source: https://pollen.com

TODAY'S UV INDEX + 10 8 6 4 2 0

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The UV index forecasts the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. The higher the number the more risk of sun damage to your skin.

PREP SCHEDULE

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Wind: ENE 15 mph

Wind: W 10 mph

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NATIONAL WEATHER

NEW MEXICO WEATHER Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows.

Taos 49 / 24

Farmington 46 / 26

Santa Fe 48 / 32

L Boise 44/33

San Francisco 63/50

Las Vegas 55 / 27

Pecos 54 / 30

Gallup G 5 / 24 51

Albuquerque 53 / 31

Truth or Consequences 58 / 34

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Washington D.C. 43/28

St. Louis 51/33

Atlanta 48/31

Dallas 62/39

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Hermosillo 78/57

Mérida 75/72

Guadalajara 65/55 Mexico City 58/52

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The Northeast will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain, highest temperature of 56 in Fall River, Mass. The Southeast will experience mostly clear skies with the highest temperature of 76 in Miami Beach, Fla. In the Northwest there will be partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain, highest temperature of 56 in Coos Bay, Ore. The Southwest will see partly cloudy skies with the highest temperature of 76 in Burbank, Calif.

WEATHER HISTORY

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Dec. 11, 1987 - Low pressure over southwestern Ontario, Canada, brought snow and gusty winds to the north central United States. Winds gusted to 62 mph at Riverton, Wyo. Snow and high winds in eastern North Dakota reduced visibilities to less than 100 feet.

NATIONAL EXTREMES SUNDAY High

87° in Miles City, Fla.

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SOCCER (MEN’S) 10:45 a.m. FS2 — King Cup: Al-Nassr at Al-Shabab, Quarterfinal

PHOENIX — Shohei Ohtani’s jaw-dropping $700 million, 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers has some similarities to other contracts for the world’s biggest sports stars, including soccer icons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, along with NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

In terms of his marketability, experts point to another name.

The real comparison? Try Taylor Swift.

The global music sensation’s broad appeal — one that bridges the gap between generations and expands to other countries — is an extremely rare phenomenon Ohtani shares.

There’s no doubt the Dodgers hope they can leverage the Japanese star’s arrival into even more money for a franchise that is already one of the most popular in Major League Baseball.

“He’s rocketed into a stratosphere all his own,” sports agent Leigh Steinberg said.

Ohtani was expected to sign the biggest deal in MLB history as a free agent this offseason and didn’t disappoint. He’s the sport’s best two-way player ever — not even Babe Ruth hit and pitched at the same time so

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effectively — and though he won’t be able to pitch in 2024 following Tommy John surgery, he should provide plenty of value at the plate before he returns to the mound in 2025.

But the $700 million price tag was more than most imagined.

His $70 million average salary is 62% above the previous high of about $43.3 million, shared by pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander with deals they struck with the New York Mets.

The reason the Dodgers made that kind of commitment is simple: It’s probably worth it. Not just because he could help win World Series, but because of the value he brings even if he doesn’t.

“If Ohtani is marketed right, he’s a globally iconic player,” said Mike Lewis, a professor of marketing at Emory University who specializes in sports business. “It could be like something from Formula One, where you’ve got the attention of the whole world. Baseball has sometimes struggled to gain national attention, but he’s the kind of guy who attacts millions of eyeballs, and not just from the U.S.” Lewis — the Emory professor — said the spike in interest could be comparable to Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami, which saw a massive jump in online interaction, particularly on Instagram, after Messi signed.

As of Sunday morning, the Dodgers’ Instagram account had 3.2 million followers.

Ohtani on his own has 6.3 million.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The average fan understands Ohtani will generate revenue with more tickets, concessions and jerseys sold.

But no player drives more interest internationally, especially in Ohtani’s native Japan, with a baseball-obsessed population of 126 million. Ohtani already has a deep group of sponsors targeting audiences on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, including New Balance, ASICS and Porsche Japan.

For the Dodgers, his international appeal means more companies in the U.S. and abroad are interested in advertising — Japanese companies frequently paid for prime ad spaces around Angel Stadium when Ohtani was in Anaheim. That alone brings a cascade of cash that could pay off a significant portion of Ohtani’s deal.

For the creative folks in the advertising industry, the possibilities are almost endless.

There’s also the fact that among athletes, he’s fairly low risk. He hasn’t had a hint of controversy through his career, producing a squeaky clean image that any potential advertiser can get behind.

Monster homers. Potential dominance on the mound. It’s a Hollywood script that the Dodgers are hoping comes true.

“He’s handsome and he’s a huge box office draw,” Steinberg said. “There are very few players who can match that. He has appeal to all.”

IN BRIEF

Players have a few days before the draft, which will be held on April 15, to declare.

Los Angeles has the No. 2 pick with Phoenix choosing third and Seattle fourth.

South Carolina-Utah it 5-0 when they play Tierra Encantada on Thursday to finish its 2023 portion of the season.

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Boys basketball — St. Michael’s at Capital, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Peñasco at Taos, 7 p.m.

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Española Valley at Bernalillo, 7 p.m.

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Boys basketball — Springer at Questa, 6:30 p.m.

Valencia at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Springer at Questa, 5 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Bloomfield, 6 p.m.

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McCurdy at Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep, 7 p.m.

Aztec at Taos, 6 p.m.

Mora at Raton, 6:30 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Cuba, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Santa Fe Indian School at Capital, 7 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Pecos, 6:30 p.m.

East Mountain at Monte del Sol (Fort Marcy), 5 p.m.

Abq. Bosque School at Academy for Technology and the Classics, 6 p.m.

Valencia at Los Alamos, 7 p.m.

McCurdy at Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep, 5:30 p.m.

Mora at Raton, 5 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Dexter, 6 p.m.

Abq. Hope Christian at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.

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Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.879 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 2.980 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.0 Total production: 6.859 Total consumption: 6.488 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 0.87 Reservoir storage: 337.35 Estimated reservoir capacity: 26.40%

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the floor cut the lead to 69-67.

But Utah could not get over the hump and South Carolina scored nine of the game’s final 11 points.

Pili had 21 first-half points, but picked up her third foul on an offensive screen with just under five minutes to play in the half. She did not have another one in the game.

Fulwiley hit all three of her first half shots and her 3-pointer sent the Gamecocks into the half with a 41-34 lead.

Utah had won six in a row since falling by seven points to Baylor on Nov. 14.

BIG PICTURE Utah: The Utes were playing their second game without junior guard Gianna Kneepkens, who was averaging over 17 points a

game before breaking her right foot against BYU last weekend.

She is out for the season.

“As coaches, we’ve got to figure it out and we’re still figuring it out,” said Utah coach Lynne Roberts. “We haven’t had much time and to play against a team like South Carolina, who is so good defensively, that’s hard.”

South Carolina: The Gamecocks came in giving up just 50 points per game and held Utah 27 points under its season average.

SHE SAID IT Dawn Staley on being unable to stop Pili.

“I’d much rather get the win and have Pili score 37 on us, then her score 37 with the win.

Now, that’s a little bit hard to swallow. But, utmost respect for Pili. I mean, Utah, I hope we don’t see them in the tournament and whoever does get to see them, good luck to you.”

Fever win WNBA’s top draft selection UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The Indiana Fever won the WNBA draft lottery for the No. 1 pick for the second consecutive season Sunday.

The Fever took Aliyah Boston last season with the top pick and she earned the league’s Rookie of the Year honors.

Now Indiana will have to wait to see who decides to enter the draft. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and LSU’s Angel Reese all could head back to school for another year thanks to the extra season because of COVID-19.

Clark, a generational talent, has said that she would trust her gut when deciding whether to stay in school for a fifth-year.

James makes debut after health scare LOS ANGELES — Bronny James showed off his defensive skills in his college debut for Southern California nearly five months after he suffered cardiac arrest and expressed gratitude for the doctors and family who supported him.

He had four points, three rebounds and two assists on Sunday, coming off the bench play in front of his superstar father LeBron James.

“I just want to say I’m thankful for everything,” Bronny James said afterward.

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The Santa Fe County Public Works Department requests bids for the purpose of procuring a licensed construction company for an expansion of the Chimayo Fire Station Winnebago Minnie Winnie apparatus bay.

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING tancing will be name and address Great for temporary living or DEVELOPMENT maintained during the clearly marked on the construction office. Needs TLC. PARTNER. R e - opening and hand san- outside of the con$2,177. 505-699-6161 sponses should be itizer will be available, tainer. All bids must be submitted via email no all surfaces will be receiv eceived ed b by y 2:00 P P.M., .M., later than 3:00 P.M. wiped down with dis- MD MDT T, on Thursda Thursday y, JanMST/MDT January 15, infectant. If you plan uary 11, 2024 at the 2024 to Florence Frank, on attending in person Santa Fe Fe County P Pu urWorkforce Housing please email apatter- chasing Division, 102 Policy Advisor, Office s o n - Gr Grant ant Av Avenue (1st of sanchez@santafecoun Floor Floor), ), Santa F Fe, e, NM Affordable Housing at tynm.gov.

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A pre-submission 19, 2023 at 2:00pm at conference is sched- 226 Juan Medina R Road, oad, Santa Fe County has uled for December 20, Chima preventative Chimay yo, NM 87522. taken 2023. To download RFQ Attendance is not measures to ensure documents, RSVP for mandatory but the safety of its staff the public session, or str strongly ongly recomrecom- and the public. In an submit questions, visit mended. effort to combat the http://www.sfpublispread of the recent cassets.org.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COVID-19 Pandemic, EMPLOYMENT: All the Bid Opening will be Pub: Dec 11, 2023 qualified bidders will held via WebEx b by y receive consideration using the link belo below w or LEGAL #92003 of contract(s) without by calling (480) 418regard to race, color, 9388 meeting number: INVITA INVIT ATION FOR FOR BIDS religion, sex, national 2491 358 7166. If a bidCHIMAY CHIMA YO FIRE origin, ancestry, age, der submitting a bid STA ST ATION APPARA APPARATUS TUS physical and mental chooses to stay for the BAY EXPANSION EXPANSION handicap, serious bid opening, only ONE PROJE PRO JECT CT IFB# mental condition, dis- (1) person represent2024-0060-PW 2024-0060-P W/APS ability, spousal affilia- ing the firm may be in tion, sexual the conference room.

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Santa Fe County Pur- b5ea254218dcd chasing, by telephone A completed bid pack- at (505) 992-6753, There will not be a preage must be submit- email at apatterson- bid conference. If you ted in a sealed s a n c h e z @ s a n t a f e - have any questions container indicating countynm.gov. concerning this IFB, the bid title and numplease email Amanda ber along with the bid- BIDS RECEIVED RECEIVED AFTER Patterson-Sanchez at ding firm’s name and THE D DA ATE AND TIME a p a t t e r s o n address clearly SPE SPECIFIED CIFIED ABO ABOVE VE WILL s a n c h e z @ s a n t a f e marked on the outside NO NOT T BE ACCEPTED ACCEPTED.. countynm.gov no later of the container. All than December 27, ed Pub: Dec 11, 2023 bids must be receiv received 2023. An addendum by 2:00 PM on WednesWedneswill be issued on Deday da y, January 10, 2024 LEGAL #92004 cember 29, 2023 to at the Santa F Fe e County those who submit an Purchasing Division loINVITA INVIT ATION FOR FOR BID Acknowledgement of cated at 102 Gr Grant ant Av AvIFB #2024-0100Receipt Form. enue, Santa Fe, Fe, NM CORR/APS CORR/ APS 87501. By submitting a SOLID WASTE WASTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY bid for the requested REMOV REMO VAL AND EMPLOYMENT: All materials and/or servDISPOSAL DISPOS AL SERVICES SERVICES qualified bidders will ices each firm is certireceive consideration fying that their bid is The Santa Fe County of contract(s) without in compliance with the Corrections Depart- regard to race, color, regulations and re- ment is requesting religion, sex, national quirements stated bids from a fully li- origin, ancestry, age, within this IFB. censed and qualified physical and mental companies governed handicap, serious Santa Fe County has by state and federal mental condition, distaken preventative regulatory agencies ability, spousal affiliameasures to insure the for solid waste re- tion, sexual safety of its staff and moval and disposal for orientation or gender the public. In an effort the Santa Fe County identity. to combat the spread Adult Detention Facilof the recent COVID-19 ity (SFCADF). Bids may An Invitation for Bid Pandemic, the Bid be held for ninety (90) packages is available Opening will be held days subject to all ac- by contacting Amanda via WebEx b by y using the tion by the County. Patterson-Sanchez, link below below or by by calling Santa Fe County re- Santa Fe County, by (480) 418-9388 meeting serves the right to re- telephone at (505) 992number: 2490 323 2726. ject any and all bids in 6753, by email at apatIf a bidder submitting part or in whole. A terson-sanchez@sant a bid chooses to stay completed bid pack- afecountynm.gov or for the bid opening, age shall be submitted by accessing the only ONE (1) person in a sealed container Santa Fe County webrepresenting the firm indicating the bid title site at may be in the confer- and number along https://www.santafeence room. Social dis- with the bidding firm’s c o u n t y n m . g o v / fi tancing will be name and address nance/purchasing-divi maintained during the clearly marked on the sion/current-bid-solicopening and hand san- outside of the con- itations. itizer will be available, tainer. All bids must be all surfaces will be receiv eceived ed b by y 2:00 P P.M., .M., BIDS RECEIVED RECEIVED AFTER wiped down with dis- MD MDT T, on Thursda Thursday y, Jan- THE D ATE AND TIME DA infectant. If you plan uary 11, 2024 at the SPE SPECIFIED CIFIED ABO ABOVE VE WILL on attending in person Santa Fe Fe County P Pu ur- NO NOT T BE ACCEPTED ACCEPTED.. please email apatter- chasing Division, 102 s o n - Gr Grant ant Av Avenue (1st Pub: Dec 11, 2023 sanchez@santafecoun Floor Floor), ), Santa F Fe, e, NM tynm.gov.

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Dec. 11, 2023: You are serious about accomplishing something and are dedicated to your goals. In 2024, keep things simple and take charge of your health.

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 11:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

After that, the Moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Because you have an urge for a change of scenery,

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You’ll find it easy to study today or tackle demanding information related to the law or medicine. It’s an excellent day to explore romance or with someone from another culture or different country.

Tonight: Check finances GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Today your ruler Mercury is dancing with Venus, which is an excellent influence for settling old business and wrapping up matters about inheritances, taxes, debt and shared property. Tonight: Patience.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH This is an excellent day for important discussions with partners, spouses and close friends. This could pertain to the care and education of children. Tonight: Get organized.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Work-related issues or something to do with your job might be settled today because discussions with co-workers will be positive. In fact, others will help you. Tonight: Play!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH Because you begin this week in a creative headspace, discussions about social outings, vacations, children, sports events and, of course, romance will flow very well.

Online chatter will be exciting.

Tonight: Entertain.

TODAY IN HISTORY

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Family discussions are favored today. Likewise, this is a good day to tackle home repairs that you’ve been meaning to do. Whatever happens, you can make headway or wrap up stuff you’ve been ignoring or avoiding. Tonight: Socialize.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Despite delays, goofy mistakes and transportation glitches, this is a positive day to begin your week! Your ability to schmooze and talk to neighbors. Tonight: Take care of your belongings.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH This is a powerful day for you to begin your week because the Sun, the Moon and fiery Mars are all in Sagittarius.

You rule! Tonight: You’re strong.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You can smooth talk your way into or out of anything today. In particular, you will be successful dealing with friends, groups and conferences.

Tonight: Solitude.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH This is a wonderful day for research because you can slice through details to find what you’re looking for. You might impress bosses and VIPs. Tonight: Be friendly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Discuss travel plans or something to do with legal or medical matters with a friend today. Meanwhile, you look good to others this week because the Sun is casting you in a flattering spotlight. Yes! Tonight: You are admired.

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Anger at father is spreading to other men Dear Annie: My mother separated from my father when I was 3. She left my father, who never came looking for us. She later married a wonderful man who loves me more than anything.

When I was 15, a family member was able to get in touch with my biological father. The next day, he changed his phone number.

Recently, I did a DNA test and was able to connect with a cousin. I’ve been told that my biological father has since remarried and has two children. He wants to meet me but has no intention of telling his family about me.

I’m hanging onto this hatred and wondering if that is why, at the age of 40, I still can’t see past the worst in men. Do I live with this anger or do I move on? — Stuck in Anger Dear Stuck: Living in anger is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. It is understandable that you are angry with your biological father. He sounds like he was an unhappy man. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself, not the other person. Try to see that your biological father was very limited in the love or support that he could give you. This had nothing to do with you and everything to do with his limitations.

As for your anger with men, try putting your attention on the wonderful men in your life instead of those who aren’t present. Case in point: the man your mother married. You said that he loves you more than anything.

Focus on that, and you will be much happier.

If you need help in letting go of the anger and hurt of your father’s abandonment, then consider seeking the help of a therapist.

Dear Annie: The letter from “Shepherd With a Lost Sheep,” who feels that his adult daughter is not making good life decisions, reminded me of my own daughter, “Jane.”

Jane easily graduated with honors from college, but like “Shepherd’s” daughter, she has never been employed in her educational field and worked only at fairly menial jobs.

What I didn’t know for many years, and what “Shepherd” may not realize about his daughter, is that Jane had a mental illness.

She was able to function marginally OK, but she could not make the best life decisions.

Even though she took the initiative to see numerous mental health counselors, it wasn’t until 25 years after college that her mental illness finally reached a crisis that resulted in getting the help she needed. I recommend “Shepherd” contact his local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which has exceptional programs for the loved ones of persons with mental illness. I now accept that Jane is doing the best she can, and we maintain a wonderful relationship. I wish the same for “Shepherd.”

— Dad at Peace Dear Dad at Peace: Thank you very much for your letter. I am delighted that you are able to maintain a wonderful relationship with your daughter. I have a feeling your letter will help many readers.

SUPER QUIZ Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: BIOLOGY (e.g., Biology is the

vertebrate animal?

Answer________

study of the life and

5. What is the name

structure of ____ and

for the biggest part of

____. Answer: Plants

the human brain?

and animals.)

Answer________ 6. What branch of

Today is Monday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2023.

There are 20 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, became King George VI.

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Unlike most fish, sharks have no ____.

biology deals with heredity?

Answer________

Answer________ 2. Animals that eat both animals and

PH.D. LEVEL 7. What is a GMO?

plants are called ____.

Answer________

Answer________

8. By what name is

3. What is a deciduous plant?

Answer________

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Hansen’s disease more commonly known?

Answer________ 9. The term “renal’

GRADUATE LEVEL

Rules

4. What is the term

•Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating.

•The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

•Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

for the lower jaw of a

relates to which organs?

Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. Bones. 2. Omnivores. 3. A plant that loses all leaves each year. 4. Mandible. 5. Cerebrum. 6. Genetics.

7. Genetically modified organism. 8. Leprosy.

9. Kidneys.

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2023 Ken Fisher

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