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ov. Michelle Lujan Grisham moved a Mountain with a display of more bad government.

In what people in her business call a news dump, Lujan Grisham held off until Friday afternoon before announcing that James Mountain is out as a state Cabinet secretary.

Though Mountain no longer leads the Indian Affairs Department, he found a soft landing spot on the governor’s staff.

Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, had stalled since February to save Mountain from appearing before the Senate Rules Committee for his confirmation hearing to head a Cabinet-level agency.

One part of Mountain’s biography was sure to rouse even that slumbering collection of sen-

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ators. A grand jury in 2008 indicted Mountain on suspicion of rape, kidnapping and aggravated battery of a household member.

After two years of court hearings, motions and delays, prosecutors decided their evidence against Mountain was insufficient after all. They dropped the case.

As defense lawyers say, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. Maybe prosecutors pushed unfairly for the indictment against Mountain because of his prominence as a former governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo. Or maybe witnesses changed their stories.

To further confound the public, a judge sealed the case file. Senators probably would have tried to unearth the document for Mountain’s confirmation hearing, but he was in no real danger of being rejected.

The standard of innocent unless proven guilty meant Mountain probably would have been

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oil production double-edged political sword

While lawmakers laud fossil fuel industry’s tax revenues — about 40% of state’s yearly intake — environmentalists decry pollution

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The ‘future of shelters is separate rooms’

State lawmakers will once again head into the legislative session with record oil production in New Mexico pumping up tax revenues to its highest level ever — a trend that’s buoying most state officials while raising concerns among conservationists about the leverage it gives the industry to thwart anti-pollution efforts.

New Mexico’s oil production jumped to 658 million barrels in fiscal year 2023 from 531 million barrels the previous year, helping to nudge state tax revenue to a record $12.7 billion.

State finance officials estimate the fossil fuel industry now accounts for 40% of the state’s yearly revenue, which funds education, social services, infrastructure improvements and many other programs.

Lawmakers in both parties laud the industry for its financial contributions, saying they benefit New Mexicans and are essential to the state’s economy. Republicans and more conservative Democrats have said the industry has earned additional consideration when it comes to legislation that could affect it.

Meanwhile, environmentalists contend that as oil companies generate more tax revenue, they produce more pollution and enjoy more political pull in the Legislature, all while the state becomes more financially dependent on the industry.

One economist said every legislative session presents a tricky challenge for state leaders in balancing a green agenda — including accelerating the transition to renewable energy — and

Post-pandemic, S.F.’s domestic violence refuge moving away from congregate accommodations

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ABOVE: Ed Archuleta, executive director at St. Elizabeth Shelter, looks at artwork made by men who stay at the shelter as part of its Unhoused Art incentive on Thursday. “When you have middle-class people who are holding down jobs who are desperate, you know there’s a problem,” he said. TOP: A shelf of men’s shoes in the entry of St. Elizabeth Shelter for men in need Thursday.

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You can’t talk to anybody in Santa Fe about any sort of problems that we’re having without including housing.” Esperanza Shelter secretary Marisa Ornelas

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or nearly 50 years, Esperanza Shelter has provided a refuge for people in Santa Fe and the surrounding region dealing with domestic violence.

When the coronavirus pandemic began, the need for its services did not wane. But for the safety of clients and staff, the organization no longer was able to house people in a congregate shelter. Instead, the organization transitioned to housing people escaping abusive situations in

apartments and hotel rooms.

“One of the things that we have discovered is that our folks who are recovering and trying to stabilize actually do better when they are independent, and all the same support is brought to them,” said former acting executive director Pamela Villars. “But when they’re not hav-

ing to interact with other people who’ve been traumatized, that seems to help them stabilize more quickly.”

Nearly four years after the beginning of the pandemic, the approach has continued in what experts say is a move away from the congregate shelter model.

“I think the future of shelters

is separate rooms for folks,” said St. Elizabeth Shelter executive director Ed Archuleta.

At Esperanza Shelter, the shift has decreased the number of people it can serve at one time.

Villars said pre-pandemic the organization could serve 30 to 35 people in a congregate setting, but now generally serves about 15 people a month.

The shelter is in the process of doing “some pretty intense strategic planning” to determine how best to use its resources going forward, Villars said.

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Israel’s military officials, who took a group of reporters, including two journalists from The New York Times, into the tunnel Friday, say its size and complexity show the scale of the challenge they face as they try to wipe out Hamas. The group has built a network of tunnels throughout Gaza that allow it to evade and

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THE GAZA STRIP — The tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip is wide enough for a large car to pass through, reinforced with concrete and fitted with electrical wiring. And at least one section of the tunnel — which Israel

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WASHINGTON — Time slipping, White House and Senate negotiators struggled Sunday to reach a U.S. border security deal that would unlock President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars worth of military aid for Ukraine and other national security needs before senators leave town for the holiday recess.

The Biden administration, which is becoming more deeply involved in the talks, is facing pressure from all sides over any deal. Negotiators insist they are making progress, but a hoped-for framework did not emerge. Republican leaders signaled that without bill text, an upcoming procedural would likely fail.

The talks come as former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner in 2024, delivered alarming anti-immigrant remarks about “blood” purity over the weekend, echoing Nazi slogans of World War II at a political rally.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said about the record numbers of immigrants coming to the U.S.

attack Israeli forces, the military says.

The military arranged the tour as Israel comes under increasing pressure to wind down the most intense phase of the war within weeks to try to limit the death toll; already, the Gaza Health Ministry says, nearly 20,000 Palestinians have been killed.

The Biden administration envisions Israel transitioning from its large-scale ground and air campaign to one that would involve elite forces conducting more precise, intelli-

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas arrives for closed-door negotiations on a border security deal Sunday at the Capitol. The Biden administration faces a difficult political situation as global migration is on a historic rise.

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IN BRIEF Vessel carrying migrants capsizes off Libya, drowning 61, U.N. says CAIRO — A boat carrying dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, leaving more than 60 people dead, including women and children, the U.N. migration agency said.

The shipwreck, which took place overnight between Thursday and Friday, was the latest disaster in this part of the Mediterranean Sea, a key but dangerous route for migrants to Europe. Thousands have died, according to officials.

The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said in a statement late Saturday the boat was carrying 86 migrants when strong waves swamped it off the town of Zuwara on Libya’s western coast, and 61 migrants drowned.

Alarm Phone — a hotline for migrants in distress — said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, some migrants onboard reached out to the volunteer group who in turn alerted authorities including the Libyan coastguard, “who stated that they would not search for them.”

Australia’s green upgrades to mines, plants could prove a model for energy transition

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Pope Francis’ 87th birthday wraps year of efforts to push changes ROME — Pope Francis turned 87 on Sunday, closing out a year that saw big milestones in his efforts to overhaul the Catholic Church as well as health scares that raise questions about his future as pope.

Francis celebrated his birthday with cake during a festive audience with children Sunday morning, and there were “Happy Birthday” banners in St. Peter’s Square during his weekly noon blessing.

One early present came Saturday, when a Vatican tribunal handed down a mix of guilty verdicts and acquittals in a complicated trial Francis had supported as evidence of his financial reforms. The biggest-name defendant, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 5½ years in prison.

Only seven popes are known to have been older than Francis at the time of their deaths, according to the online resource Catholic Hierarchy. Francis is fast closing in on one of them, Pope Gregory XII, who was 88½ when he voluntarily stepped down in 1415 in a bid to end the Western Schism, in which there were three rival claimants to the papacy.

Girls bear the brunt of new HIV infections, analysis suggests Girls are more than twice as likely to contract HIV than boys, a recent UNICEF analysis suggests. The agency says nearly 98,000 adolescent girls were infected with HIV in 2022 alone.

The data, released as part of an annual snapshot on children and HIV/AIDS, suggests gender inequality, limited access to health care and a dearth of educational programs put girls at particular risk for HIV worldwide. Although the analysis found “tremendous gains” in HIV prevention and treatment, it noted 71% of new infections among adolescents age 10 to 19 are among girls.

In sub-Saharan Africa, which has the largest proportion of children and adolescents with HIV, prevalence among girls and young women is triple that of boys and men.

While eastern and southern Africa have the highest number of children birth through age 19 with HIV, the agency also identified west and central Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean as HIV hot spots.

Historian Cari Beauchamp, 74, traced women of early Hollywood Cari Beauchamp, a Hollywood historian whose books chronicled the powerful women who shaped the film industry’s early decades before being largely squeezed out by studio moguls in the 1940s, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 74.

Her son, Jake Flynn, confirmed the death but did not provide a cause.

Ms. Beauchamp helped revive attention to an often-overlooked chapter in cinema when dozens of women climbed to top of the profession, winning awards and acclaim for films that sometimes offered biting commentary on the limits and expectations imposed on women.

Beauchamp became increasingly fascinated by film during years working as a private investigator for defense attorneys and stints in politics, including serving as California Gov. Jerry Brown’s press secretary from 1979 to 1982 and working on efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment alongside Gloria Steinem and others.

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People at an Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights election night watch party last month in Columbus, Ohio, celebrate the vote in favor of a state constitutional amendment enshrining a right to abortion. Polls show increasing support for abortion rights in all 50 states.

Abortion rights foes work to keep issue off ballots When given choice, voters are codifying right to access the procedure

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s long as the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, conservatives complained it had squelched the democratic process — unelected men in black robes had handed down a national edict rather than the American people sorting out a consensus.

Celebrating Roe’s reversal in Dobbs v.

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, they declared democracy would finally be allowed to take over and settle the question of abortion once and for all.

“Now the American people get their voice back,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. While the court in Roe had “inflamed debate and deepened division,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority in Dobbs, “the people and their elected representatives” would reach the “national settlement” that had eluded the country for so long.

Eighteen months later, the American people are indeed using their voices, but not in the way abortion rights opponents had hoped. In a steady march of ballot measures, even in conservative states like Ohio, voters have codified a right to abortion and rejected attempts to restrict it.

Polls show increasing support for abortion rights in all 50 states, with majorities in nearly all states — even deep-red states — saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

The dynamic of the debate has shifted: Democrats who once dreaded speaking the word abortion are now running on it, while Republicans struggle to define what exceptions they would allow to bans on the procedure.

Former President Donald Trump now says overturning Roe was a mistake.

And yet a “national settlement” seems more elusive than ever. One reason is simply American federalism, which allows states to set their own standards when there is no federal one.

But a bigger reason is Republicans around the country — the same people, in many cases, who once complained about Roe blocking the democratic process and imposing a one-sizefits-all rule on abortion nationwide — have turned much of their energy to keeping the issue away from voters.

Republican-controlled legislatures, shocked by the results of ballot measures that put the question of abortion directly to the people, are trying to make those measures harder to pass and even abolish them as an option.

The issue is now in a different set of courts, in the states, where anti-abortion groups have searched out like-minded judges in an attempt to take abortion pills off the market.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court — the black robes who were supposed to have put themselves out of the business of deciding abortion — announced it would take that case.

And some of the same Republicans who once argued abortion should be settled by the will of the people in the states now call for Congress to pass a uniform federal law.

Few people predicted how much abortion would define the elections of 2022; now it is the defining issue for 2024. But anyone hoping for democracy to resolve the debate will need to wait far longer than that. If the goal of the Dobbs decision was to let the will of the people decide the question of abortion, the question now is whether, in much of the country, the people’s opinions will be allowed to count.

Abortion-rights groups always said the country would become a patchwork of laws if Roe went away, and they have been proved correct. But so far, it’s not the patchwork anyone expected.

In some cases, the will of the people has protected abortion access. After voters affirmed a right to abortion in state constitutions in Kansas and Ohio, women in those states can get abortions well into the second trimester. In Michigan, a similar ballot measure led to a newly Democratic Legislature enshrining Roe. And in purple Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, tried to get voters to give his party control of the Legislature by campaigning on a promise to pass what he pitched as a consensus bill allowing abortion until 15 weeks.

Voters rejected the bid and elected a Legislature that now stands to join others in sponsoring a ballot measure to codify a constitutional right to abortion.

Voters in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin came out to elect state Supreme Court justices who support abortion rights, even when abortion was not explicitly on the ballot.

Mask-wearing in America now occasional, situational

By Deepthi Hajela

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NEW YORK — The scene: A crowded shopping center in the weeks before Christmas. Or a warehouse store. Or maybe a packed airport terminal or a commuter train station or another place where large groups gather.

There are lots of people. But look around, and it’s clear one thing is largely absent these days: face masks.

Yes, there’s the odd one here and there, but nothing like it was three years ago at the dawn of the pandemic’s first winter holidays — an American moment of contentiousness, accusation and scorn on both sides of the mask debate.

As 2023 draws to an end, with promises of holiday parties and crowds and lots of inadvertent exchanges of shared air, mask-wearing is much more off than on around the country even as COVID-19’s long tail lingers. The days

of anything approaching a widespread mask mandate would be like the Ghost of Christmas Past: a glimpse into what was.

Look at it a different way, though: These days, mask-wearing has become just another thing that simply happens in America.

In a country where the mention of a mask prior to the pandemic usually meant Halloween or a costume party, it’s a new way of being that hasn’t gone away even if most people aren’t doing

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It’s a persistent global conundrum: Can policymakers close coal mines and power plants without ruining local economies in the process?

In August, a delegation of Vietnamese officials looking to answer that question took the two-hour drive east from Melbourne into the Latrobe Valley of Australia.

Bundled against the Southern Hemisphere winter, they sped past the cooling towers of the Yallourn power station and the open-cut mines near Morwell, vestiges of the region’s rapidly dying industry. The 18 members of parliament visited a new battery facility built on the site of a now-defunct coal-fired power station and met with local leaders to discuss their approach.

After almost a century as Victoria’s central provider of electricity — some 90% comes from Latrobe and the broader Gippsland area — most of its mines and power stations are scheduled to close between 2028 and 2035, if they haven’t already.

Yet the area has kept decline and diseases of despair at bay, with plans for solar farms, battery storage and the country’s first offshore wind installations. Unemployment is low, and the population — currently about 300,000 — is growing, along with household income. Real estate values are rising.

“There is a confidence, in the community, that we’re going to be OK,” said Chris Buckingham, head of the Latrobe Valley Authority. “This is not a smiling-while-drowning conversation, right? This is about, if we get this right, if we work together in a harmonious way, we’re far more likely to come out ahead.”

Coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, still generates about a third of the world’s electricity. It’s especially common in emerging economies, which need fast, cheap, reliable energy and often argue they shouldn’t have to jeopardize their development to solve a problem that, historically, they didn’t create.

Renewable energy has made huge strides, but problems run deeper in countries with constrained infrastructure, and there’s no easy solution: Rich countries have yet to deliver the billions promised to fund a transition, and the economic blight triggered by the closure of mines and power plants in the U.S., U.K. and Europe is hardly inspirational.

Still, pressures to quit coal are accelerating. All parties to the Paris Agreement have to submit an emission-cutting plan to the United Nations, and foreign funding for coal has largely dried up. The 2021 COP climate talks in Glasgow introduced aid packages to help developing nations speed the closure of coal plants.

Last year, Vietnam signed a $15.5 billion climate finance deal — one of the world’s largest — designed to encourage an orderly coal phaseout that also protects its economy. By its own timeline, it has about 25 years to burn the fuel — and to plan for its peaceful demise.

The idea of deliberately phasing out coal is relatively new. It hinges on cooperation from the fossil fuel industry and compromise from climate activists.

The opportunity to learn from earlier, chaotic mine closures elsewhere is a byproduct of Australia’s historically late arrival to climate action. The country is still highly reliant on coal — more so than Vietnam, by some measures — but the Latrobe Valley transition is critical to its new net-zero ambitions.

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SANTIAGO, Chile — Chileans on Sunday rejected a new constitution that would have pulled the country to the right, likely ending a four-year process to replace their national charter with little to show for it.

Nearly 56% of voters rejected the proposed text, with all votes counted.

It is the second time in 16 months Chile, a South American nation of 19 million, has rebuffed a proposed constitution — the other was written by the left — showing how deeply divided the nation remains even after four years of debate.

That debate began in 2019 after enormous protests prompted a national referendum in which 4 out of 5 Chileans voted to scrap their constitution, a heavily amended version of the 1980 text adopted under the bloody military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

But now, after failing to agree on a new text, the nation will continue with the constitution so many of its citizens had voted to replace.

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MEXICO CITY — Once nearly impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America, the jungle between Colombia and Panama this year became a speedy but still treacherous highway for hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.

Driven by economic crises, government repression and violence, migrants from China to Haiti decided to risk three days of deep mud, rushing rivers and bandits. Enterprising locals offered guides and porters, set up campsites and sold supplies to migrants, using color-coded wristbands to track who had paid for what.

Enabled by social media and Colombian organized crime, more than 506,000 migrants — nearly two-thirds Venezuelans — had crossed the Darien Gap by mid-December, double the 248,000 who set a record the previous year. Before last year, the record was barely 30,000.

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Haitian migrants in the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama en route to the United States in May.

recent years, the number remains well below levels seen in the 2015 refugee crisis, when more than 1 million people landed in Europe, most fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.

Earlier this month, the British government announced tough new immigration rules aimed at reducing the number of people able to move to the U.K. each year by hundreds of thousands.

Authorized immigration to the U.K. set a record in 2022 with nearly 750,000.

In Washington, the debate has shifted from efforts early in the

Dana Graber Ladek, the Mexico chief for the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration, said migration flows through the region this year were “historic numbers that we have never seen.”

It wasn’t only in Latin America.

The number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean or the Atlantic on small boats to reach Europe this year has surged. More than 250,000 irregular arrivals were registered in 2023, according to the European Commission.

A significant increase from

year to open new legal pathways largely toward measures to keep migrants out as Republicans try to take advantage of the Biden administration’s push for more aid to Ukraine to tighten the U.S. southern border.

The U.S. started the year opening limited spaces to Venezuelans — as well as Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians — in January to enter legally for two years with a sponsor, while expelling those who didn’t qualify to Mexico. Their numbers dropped somewhat for a time before climbing again with renewed vigor.

the process, said in an address Sunday night. “The country became polarized and divided, and despite this conclusive result, the constitutional process failed to channel the hopes of achieving a new constitution written for all.”

That makes the outcome of Sunday’s vote a bitter one.

A process that had been hailed as a paragon of democratic participation now serves as an example of how difficult democracy truly is.

“This could have been a possibility for people to believe again in politics, in politicians — and that has not happened,” Michelle Bachelet, a leftist former president of Chile, said in an interview before the vote.

Chileans twice elected mostly political outsiders — doctors, engineers, lawyers, farmers, social workers and others — to constitutional assemblies to draft proposed charters.

But those bodies ended up creating complicated drafts in the partisan mold of the political side that controlled the assembly.

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Drone video shows Russian losses in protracted attempt to take town the area.

Area of intense fighting in The unit said that the footage near burned-out village was shot on Dec. 6 over two septreelines between Stepove seen littered with bodies arate and nearby railroad tracks and

By Evgeniy Maloletka The Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces press forward with an attempt to capture the town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press obtained aerial footage that gives an indication of their staggering losses.

A Ukrainian military drone unit near Stepove, a village just north of Avdiivka, where some of the most intense battles have taken place, shot the video this month.

It’s an apocalyptic scene: In two separate clips, the bodies of about 150 soldiers — most wearing Russian uniforms — lie scattered along tree lines where they sought cover.

The village itself has been reduced to rubble. Rows of trees that used to separate farm fields are burned and disfigured.

The fields are pocked by artillery shells and grenades dropped from drones.

The drone unit said it’s possible some of the dead were Ukrainians.

The footage was provided to the AP by Ukraine’s BUAR unit of the 110th Mechanized Brigade, involved in the fighting

nized Brigade.

Russian forces launched an offensive in Avdiivka in October.

Although they have made some incremental gains, Western analysts say the push has resulted in thousands of casualties.

Russia launched Europe’s biggest war since World War II, invading Ukraine in February 2022.

that many of the bodies had been left there for weeks.

The AP verified the location by comparing the videos with maps and other drone footage of the same area shot six days later by Ukraine’s 47th Mecha-

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Gaza, smashed by Israeli strikes, sees new threat: Disease Crowded and besieged, officials say myriad of ailments like staph, mumps, scabies on rise

By Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb The Washington Post

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Israeli soldiers and international journalists exit the largest Hamas tunnel Israelis say they have discovered so far in Gaza, located a few hundred meters from the Erez border crossing, during an escorted tour by the military for journalists to view the tunnel Friday.

The tunnel comes within walking distance of the border with Israel, according to the Israeli military.

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gence-driven missions to find and kill Hamas leaders and rescue the hostages seized during the group’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, U.S. officials say.

The size of the tunnel the journalists toured Friday and its proximity to the border were reminders not just of the challenges that lie ahead for Israel but also its failure to prevent such a structure from being built in the first place.

But the Israeli military’s chief spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, who was among the officials conducting the tour, said it was important to note that the tunnel was proof of Hamas having diverted building materials, especially concrete, away from civilian use.

“This tunnel had been built for years,” he said. “Millions of dollars have been spent on this tunnel, hundreds of tons of cement, a lot of electricity. Instead of spending all of them — the money, the cement, the electricity — on hospitals, schools, housing and other needs of the Gazans.”

The Times agreed to wait until Sunday to publish details of the tour, but there were otherwise no restrictions placed on how the visit would be reported. The journalists were accompanied the whole time and were not allowed to wander farther into the tunnel, with the Israeli forces stopping journalists at about 150 to 200 meters, about 650 feet.

But even in that short section, it was possible to see that the tunnel continued a great distance ahead.

Vertical shafts extended down from the main tube, suggesting, Israeli officers said, that the tunnel might be connected to a larger network deeper into the earth.

Two military officials interviewed after the tour say that recently gathered intelligence indicated that Israel has grossly underestimated the size of the underground network. The system, which the army previously estimated was about 60 miles long, is now believed to be closer to 250 miles long, they said.

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confirmed as a Cabinet secretary.

Still, he wasn’t eager to face a Senate committee in a hearing that would receive publicity.

Lujan Grisham understood the hearing was mandatory when she nominated Mountain. He also was aware of that requirement. Why they started down a road they didn’t want to travel is perplexing.

But being chosen for a Cabinet position was good for Mountain’s bank account. He was able to work and collect his salary as secretary-designate of the Indian Affairs Department while senators waited for their chance to question him.

Lujan Grisham did not send the necessary paperwork on Mountain’s nomination to the Rules Committee, said Sen. Katy Duhigg, chairwoman of the panel. That omission meant senators could not hold a confirmation hearing.

The bureaucratic blockade by Lujan Grisham showed what a joke New Mexico’s confirmation system can be.

Lujan Grisham hogtied the

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Evgenia Simanovich runs to the family home’s concrete shelter, moments after rocket sirens sounded in Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 7. Hamas has spent years digging a warren of tunnels beneath in Gaza, according to Israeli officials. The network, which they say snakes below dense residential neighborhoods across much of the strip, is a veritable subway system for the militant group.

Those claims and other assertions about the tunnels could not be independently verified.

Hamas, which controls Gaza, has spent years digging a warren of tunnels beneath the enclave, according to Israeli officials. The network, which they say snakes below dense residential neighborhoods across much of the strip, is a veritable subway system for the militant group, which uses the labyrinth to hide and transport weapons and fighters.

The tunnels have been a primary target for attacks since Israel declared war on Hamas in the wake of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel that killed an estimated 1,200 people. But as international anger at civilian deaths in Gaza grows, some Israeli officials say they have been trying to come up with alternative ways of destroying the tunnels besides bombing.

In the past month, Israeli military engineers have experimented with pumping seawater into the tunnels in northern Gaza in an effort to force out any fighters hiding there, according to Israeli military officials interviewed after the tour who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized

to speak publicly about the effort.

It is unclear if the technique will work, given the force needed to send water cascading through the system’s multiple offshoots, the officials said.

Besides arranging Friday’s tour, the Israeli military also gave reporters a video that shows men using large earth-moving machines digging a tunnel. The military said it had obtained the video when it raided Hamas offices during its ground invasion.

The video shows that the work is being conducted in a large building that looks like a warehouse.

It was unclear where the video was shot, but the Israeli military said the video showed the construction of the tunnel toured Friday.

Two officials said Israeli leaders were surprised by the video’s contents because they had not realized that Hamas had access to those types of earth-moving machines, which can more safely and quickly build very large tunnels. Until the discovery of the video, the officials said they thought that only Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group based in Lebanon, not Hamas, could build such large tunnels.

Senate by doing nothing. The Rules Committee couldn’t proceed with a hearing because the governor wouldn’t enable the panel to do its job. So much for separation of powers.

By sitting on Mountain’s nominating paperwork for 10 months, Lujan Grisham did a disservice to residents of the state, particularly Native Americans.

The old criminal case against Mountain led a number of people to oppose his nomination to run the Indian Affairs Department.

A confirmation hearing might have allowed Mountain to make a good case for his fitness to serve.

The absence of a hearing enabled him to continue saying nothing while he collected an annual salary that peaked at $179,790.

Lujan Grisham has designated a new nominee to run the Indian Affairs Department, but she’s taking good care of Mountain.

She shuffled him from secretary-designate of a state department to the murky role of senior adviser. Mountain’s salary will be $165,000 a year. More important to him, in his new position he is not subject to Senate confirmation.

Lujan Grisham’s manipulations raise a question: How many highly

paid bureaucrats does a state with a flat population need? Enough to protect the governor’s favored associates from having to look for work in the private sector.

Lujan Grisham during her five years in office has made many bad decisions in hiring Cabinet secretaries. She once showered praise on a secretary of public education, then fired that same administrator after only six months.

Stalling by Lujan Grisham made a mess of leadership in the Indian Affairs Department. After all the tip-toeing to nowhere, the governor further weakened confidence in government with her administrative realignment.

No doubt Mountain will be happier collecting his hefty salary in the background of state government. But what benefit did the public derive from Lujan Grisham’s latest round of revolving-door management?

Maybe all of us can look forward to an answer in the next Friday-afternoon news dump.

Ringside Seat is an opinion column about people, politics and news.

Contact Milan Simonich at msi monich@santafenewmexican.com or 505-986-3080.

The military said the tunnel where it conducted the tour was the first it had found that was big enough to allow cars or other vehicles to move through.

On Sunday, the military released another video that it said showed a brother of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, being driven in a car through the tunnel. The military said the presence of Sinwar’s brother Muhammed — who is also considered a top Hamas leader and his brother’s confidant — indicated the strategic importance of this tunnel.

The underground passageways have become a central element of the information war also being fought over Gaza.

Last month, as Israel forces moved to occupy Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, which it said was offering cover for a subterranean Hamas base, the militants and hospital officials insisted that the facility was used only to treat patients.

But after Israeli soldiers captured Shifa, they conducted a tour in which journalists were shown a 350-foot section of tunnel and rooms beneath the hospital.

JERUSALEM — Israeli strikes killed one of Tahani Abu Taima’s sons and one of her brothers, she says. But she fears a different killer is stalking what’s left of her family: disease.

The World Health Organization warns that Gaza’s healthcare system is “collapsing” and that “worrying signals of epidemic diseases” are emerging.

Abu Taima’s 2-year-old daughter is suffering from diarrhea, vomits, sneezes and is “shaking from the cold and lack of food,” the mother of six told The Washington Post from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The child “asks me for food all the time, but I am unable to provide,” Abu Taima said. “Which forces me to give her anything, even if it is contaminated.”

Abu Taima, 42, herself has thyroid cancer. But she has also developed a severe respiratory infection, she says, caused, she believes, by the pollution of war: dust and other particles that linger long after Israeli bombardments. Without electricity or fuel, she burns firewood when available to warm the family, “even though I am certain that the resulting smoke will kill me.”

She has been unable to get care. The family is sheltering in Nasser Hospital, but the overwhelmed facility is providing only limited treatment to the most severely wounded. Among patients and displaced people, crowded together without clean water or sanitation, infections spread rapidly. Abu Taima has no access to medicines.

“We are not alive,” she said.

“We are dead and have living skeletons.”

After 10 weeks of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, crowded, besieged, bombarded and famished Gaza is now fertile ground for disease.

Staph infections, chickenpox, rashes, urinary tract infections, meningitis, mumps, scabies, measles and food poisoning all are rising, the Gaza Health Ministry and individual doctors say. The WHO is particularly concerned about bloody diarrhea, jaundice and respiratory infections. The United Nations is tracking 14 diseases with “epidemic potential,” Reuters

reported.

“The risk is expected to worsen with the deteriorating situation and approaching winter conditions,” the WHO said in a statement.

The conflict erupted when Hamas and allied gunmen streamed out of Gaza on Oct. 7 to attack Israeli communities.

They killed 1,200 people and took 240 back to the enclave as hostages.

Israel responded with a military campaign aimed at eradicating Hamas. Israeli forces have killed about 18,800 people in the territory and wounded more than 50,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that this month, “health needs have increased dramatically, and the capacity of the health system has been reduced to one-third of what it was.”

Two-thirds of primary care centers are closed, the WHO says; 11 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is operating nine of its 28 primary health clinics. Nearly 85% of Gazans have been forced from their homes, and about 1.3 million people live in shelters where there is an average of one toilet for every 220 people and one shower for every 4,500.

There is particular concern about disease outbreaks in Rafah, where almost half of the enclave’s 2.2 million people are sheltering in homes, schools, camps and streets. Israel told Palestinians to go to the southern city for their safety.

Children have been hit hard.

Cases of diarrhea in children jumped 66 percent from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10, and among the rest of the population, cases increased by 55 percent, according to WHO data assessed by Reuters.

Naima al-Tatri and her children have moved four times since Oct. 7. The family now lives in a tent outside a school in Rafah.

“My children have digestive problems and vomit all the time, and I cannot find a way to treat them,” said Tatri, 37. “Hospitals are full. There are no services at all. No international organizations have visited us.”

“I wonder,” she said, “where is the world regarding our suffering?”

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A sick child is attended to last week at Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that this month, “health needs have increased dramatically, and the capacity of the health system has been reduced.”

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Chatbot-fueled cheating? Some fears may have been overblown

By Natasha Singer

The New York Times

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ABOVE: Children play on swings during National Night Out on Aug. 1 in Salisbury, Md. The event, hosted by the Salisbury Police Department, aims to promote stronger community relationships and includes organizations that provide support services to families.

BELOW: A Salisbury police car during National Night Out in August. Schools in Wicomico County, Md., which includes Salisbury, have called police to take hundreds of students to hospital emergency rooms over the past eight years.

Sent to the ER in handcuffs Advocates say schools are abusing process intended to address severe mental illness

By Annie Ma and Meredith Kolodner The Associated Press The Hechinger Report

SALISBURY, Md. hree times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation.

Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some were as young as 5.

The state law that allows for those removals, known as petitions for emergency evaluation, is meant to be limited to people with severe mental illness, who are endangering their own lives or safety or someone else’s. It’s the first step toward getting someone involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

But advocates say schools across the country are sending children to the emergency room for psychiatric evaluations in response to behaviors prompted by bullying or frustration over assignments.

The ER trips, they say, often follow months, and sometimes years, of their needs not being met.

Black students are more frequently subjected to these removals than their peers, according to available data. Advocates point to students with disabilities also being removed at higher rates.

“Schools focus on keeping kids out rather than on keeping kids in,” said Dan Stewart, managing attorney at the National Disability Rights Network. “I think that’s the fundamental crux of things.”

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‘He didn’t understand’ Schools in Wicomico County agreed not to misuse emergency petitions as part of a 2017 settle-

SMART BOARD Education news and events LOCAL COLLEGES ANNOUNCE WINTER BREAK CLOSURES As college students wrap up their fall semester finals, local colleges are closing their campuses for winter break.

Santa Fe Community College will close its doors Monday and reopen Jan. 2. All college services, including the Santa Fe Higher Education Center, fitness facilities and child care center, will be closed.

Northern New Mexico College closed Saturday and will remain

ment with the U.S. Department of Justice. But while the number of suspensions and expulsions declined, mandated trips to the emergency room ticked up.

Last year, children were handcuffed and sent to the emergency room at least 117 times from Wicomico schools, about once per every 100 students, according to data obtained from public records requests to the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.

At least 40% were 12 or younger.

More than half were Black children, even though a little more than a third of Wicomico public school children are Black.

In interviews, dozens of students, parents, educators, lawyers and advocates for students with disabilities in Wicomico County said a lack of resources and trained staff, combined with a punitive culture in some schools, are behind the misuse of emergency petitions.

One Wicomico mom, who asked for anonymity because she feared retaliation from the school, recalled the terror she felt when her son’s school called and said they were going to have him assessed for a forced psychiatric hospitalization. When she arrived at the school, she said, her son was already in handcuffs. He was put in the back of a police car and taken to the hospital.

“He said his wrists hurt from the handcuffs,” the mother said. “He was just really quiet, just sitting there, and he didn’t understand why he was in the hospital.”

Widespread practice The practice isn’t limited to Wicomico County.

Recent data shows New York City schools still call police to take children in emotional distress to the emergency room despite a 2014 legal settlement in which they agreed to stop the practice.

closed through Jan. 1, with no classes or student services available on campus.

N.M. EDUCATORS SURPRISED WITH NATIONWIDE AWARDS Two New Mexico teachers — Magali Gomez, a fifth grade teacher at Ruben S. Torres Elementary School in Deming; and Askli Knoell, a STEAM and robotics teacher at V. Sue Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho — were among 75 educators across the U.S. honored with 2023 Milken Educator Awards, also known as the “Oscars of Teaching.”

The awards honor excellent midcareer teachers, principals and specialists with a $25,000 cash prize as well as access to a network of

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A Kentucky school district was found to have used a psychiatric assessment on kids more than 1,000 times in a year. In Florida, thousands of school-aged children have been subjected to the Baker Act, the state’s involuntary commitment statute.

In a settlement with the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, the Stockton Unified School District in California agreed to protocols that require other interventions before referring students with disabilities for psychiatric evaluation.

Disparity in use In Maryland, Wicomico uses emergency petitions more often per capita than almost any Maryland district where data is available. Baltimore City, for example, last year had 271 emergency petitions from schools, compared with Wicomico’s at least 117, according to data obtained from law enforcement agencies through public records requests. But Baltimore has five times more students.

Wicomico parents describe struggling to get support for their children when they fell behind in reading or math in early grades.

These gaps in learning can lead to frustration and behaviors challenging for teachers to manage.

The Wicomico mother whose son was handcuffed said she fought for years with administrators to obtain accommodations for her child, who is autistic, an experience echoed by other parents. The mother said he was sent to the hospital after an outburst rooted in frustration, not mental illness.

She recalled school officials tell-

educators to expand their impact on K-12 education.

Public Education Department Secretary Arsenio Romero congratulated both of the honorees — as well as their school communities — saying they exemplify the kind of teachers the state’s students deserve.

ENMU HIRES VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS Eastern New Mexico University has hired Christy Johanson as its vice president for student affairs and enrollment management, a position that leads admissions and recruiting efforts as well as student services like financial aid. She will start work Jan. 8.

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ing her, “ ‘He doesn’t have special needs, he just has anger issues.’

They were trying to get him out of the school.”

Her son had grown increasingly discouraged and agitated over an assignment he was unable to complete, she said. The situation escalated, she said, when the teacher argued with him. He knocked a laptop to the floor, and the school called for an emergency petition.

After being taken to the hospital in handcuffs, he was examined and released. “After that, he went from angry to terrified,” she said. “Every time he saw the police, he would start panicking.”

A spokeswoman for Wicomico County Public Schools said emergency petitions “are used in the most extreme, emergency situations where the life and safety of the student or others are at risk.” “[Emergency petitions] are not used for disciplinary purposes and frequently do not result from a student’s behaviors,” Tracy Sahler said in an email. “In fact, a majority of EPs are related to when a student exhibits suicidal ideation or plans self-harm.”

With the exceptions of Florida and New York City, most places do not routinely collect information on removals from school for psychiatric assessments.

Without that data, there is no way to hold schools accountable, said Daniel Losen, senior director for the education team at the National Center for Youth Law. “The civil rights of children is at stake, because it’s more likely it’s going to be Black kids and kids with disabilities who are subjected to all kinds of biases that deny them an educational opportunity,” he said.

in higher education to Eastern New Mexico University. Most recently, she served as vice president of student services and enrollment management at Dodge City Community College in Kansas, where she oversaw admissions, advising, records and other on-campus offices.

“I firmly believe everyone should have the opportunity to pursue an education,” Johanson said in a news release announcing her appointment.

“ENMU offers exceptional opportunities to students with diverse backgrounds and goals while remaining true to the roots of serving the community.”

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Last December, as high school and college students began trying out a new artificial intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT to manufacture writing assignments, fears of mass cheating spread across the United States.

To hinder bot-enabled plagiarism, some large public schools districts — including those in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City — quickly blocked ChatGPT on school-issued laptops and school Wi-Fi. But the alarm may have been overblown, at least in high schools.

According to new research from Stanford University, the popularization of AI chatbots has not boosted overall cheating rates in schools. In surveys this year of more than 40 U.S. high schools, some 60% to 70% of students said they had recently engaged in cheating — about the same percent as in previous years, Stanford education researchers said.

“There was a panic that these AI models will allow a whole new way of doing something that could be construed as cheating,” said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Education who has surveyed high school students for more than a decade through an education nonprofit she co-founded. But “we’re just not seeing the change in the data.”

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI in San Francisco, began to capture the public imagination late last year with its ability to fabricate human-sounding essays and emails.

Almost immediately, classroom technology boosters started promising that AI tools like ChatGPT would revolutionize education.

And critics began warning such tools — which liberally make stuff up — would enable widespread cheating and amplify misinformation in schools.

Now the Stanford research, along with a recent report from the Pew Research Center, is challenging the notion AI chatbots are upending public schools.

Many teens know little about ChatGPT, Pew found. And most say they have never used it for schoolwork.

Those trends could change, of course, as more high school students become familiar with AI tools.

This fall, Pew Research Center surveyed more than 1,400 U.S. teenagers, ages 13 to 17, about their knowledge, use and views of ChatGPT. The results may seem counterintuitive, given the plethora of panicked headlines last spring.

Nearly one-third of teens said they had heard “nothing at all” about the chatbot, according to the Pew survey, conducted from Sept. 26 to Oct. 23, 2023. Another 44% said they had heard “a little” about it.

Only 23% said they had heard a lot about ChatGPT. The Pew survey did not ask the teens about other AI chatbots such as Google’s Bard or OpenAI’s GPT-4.

Pew also asked teens whether they had ever used ChatGPT to help with their schoolwork. Only a small minority — 13% — said they had.

The Pew survey results suggest ChatGPT, at least for now, has not become the disruptive phenomenon in schools that proponents and critics forecast.

Campuses chilling pro-Palestinian speech, viewpoints

By Vimal Patel and Anna Betts

The New York Times

At the University of Pennsylvania, approval for the screening of a documentary critical of Israel was denied.

At Brandeis University — which expressed a public commitment to free speech — a pro-Palestinian student group was barred for statements made by its national chapter.

At the University of Vermont, a Palestinian poet was set to deliver a talk, but the school pulled the meeting space after students complained he was antisemitic.

There are growing signs colleges are starting to clamp down on pro-Palestinian protests and events on campus as the institutions face pressure from donors, alumni and politicians furious over what they call a campaign against Jews.

Some schools have canceled events or delayed them.

A handful of schools have shut down student groups and disciplined students. Some students have simply stopped participating in protests, concerned for their own safety, spooked by alumni who have started do-not-hire lists and outside groups that have doxxed students.

The war in the Middle East is laying bare the difficulties American universities are confronting in navigating free expression. Already under attack in recent years from conservatives over charges of closing off debate on other topics, university leaders are now struggling to balance open expression with fears and complaints from some Jewish students the language of pro-Palestinian protest calls for violence against them.

As video of some protests went viral, with some devolving into physical altercations, university officials have been under more and more pressure to find a way to contain the demonstrations.

Radhika Sainath, an attorney with Palestine Legal, a civil rights group, said her organization has received more than 450 requests for help for campus-related cases since the Hamas attack on Israel in October, more than a tenfold increase from the same period last year. The cases include students who have had scholarships revoked or been doxxed, professors who have been disciplined and administrators who have gotten pressured by trustees.

“It’s truly like nothing else we’ve ever seen before,” Sainath said. “We’re having a ’60s-level moment here, both as far as the repression but also the mass student mobilization.”

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HEALTH&SCIENCE Dairy guidelines on fat content not up to date, researchers say

By Alice Callahan

The New York Times

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Two astro-materials processors collect particles of the asteroid Bennu from the base of the OSIRIS-REx sample canister.

A crumbly cosmic collection Asteroid pieces brought to Earth may offer clues to life’s origin

By Joel Achenbach

The Washington Post

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efore Earth had biology, it had chemistry. How the one followed from the other — how a bunch of boring molecules transformed themselves into this special thing we call life — is arguably the greatest unknown in science. It’s also a big reason NASA sent a robotic spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, on a multiyear journey around the sun to fetch some crumbly material from an ancient asteroid named Bennu and then bring it back to Earth.

Last week, the scientific community got its first description of that precious, exotic stuff, revealed by the mission’s top scientist, Dante Lauretta, at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, showed slides with a long list of intriguing molecules, including carbon-based organics, in the grains and pebbles retrieved from Bennu. They will shine light on the molecular building blocks of the solar system and “maybe — still early phase — maybe insights into the origin of life.”

This analysis has only just started. The team has not yet released a formal scientific paper. In his lecture, Lauretta cited one interesting triangular, light-colored stone, which he said contained something he’d never seen before in a meteorite.

“It’s a head-scratcher right now. What is

this material?” he said.

In an interview after the lecture, Lauretta said almost 5 percent of the sample is carbon. “That is a very carbon-rich sample — the richest we have in all our extraterrestrial material ... We’re still unraveling the complex organic chemistry, but it looks promising to really understand: Did these carbon-rich asteroids deliver fundamental molecules that may have gone on to contribute to the origin of life?”

The laboratory analysis is searching for other molecules and compounds important to life on Earth, such as amino acids, lipids, sugars and the bases of the genetic code, Lauretta said, adding that the results so far are exciting. The team is still refining its report, which will be discussed at a scientific meeting early next year, he said.

NASA chose to send a probe to Bennu in part because it is potentially the most dangerous asteroid in the solar system. Its orbit around the sun is similar to that of Earth.

Every six years the rock, which is about three-tenths of a mile in diameter (large enough to get your attention, but not nearly big enough to deliver an extinction-level impact) crosses our planet’s orbital path.

A calculation published in 2021 estimated that Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of slamming into Earth in September 2182. That estimate will be refined after the asteroid makes a close pass in 2135.

On the very off chance that earthlings will want to knock the rock off course, they’d definitely like to know precisely what they’re

hitting. A telescope doesn’t deliver as much information as a robotic visitor. Hence, OSIRIS-REx (which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security — Regolith Explorer).

Even before the scientists began analyzing the samples, one thing had been firmly established: Bennu is very, very black.

“It’s super black. It’s so black it’s hard to take a picture of,” project scientist Jason Dworkin said in advance of the meeting.

The material includes “all kinds of different shades of black” — plus mysterious glints of yellow and red and pink, he added.

Bennu is a fragment of a larger object that was shattered during a collision early in the history of the solar system, scientists believe.

The parent body, heated by radioactive decay, would have been warm enough for interior water to be in liquid form.

It’s unlikely that Bennu’s parent body had anything alive in it, but it may have cooked up interesting compounds akin to the ones that formed the building blocks of life on Earth, which, as Dworkin put it, “had to have started with chemistry that happens in space.”

Prebiotic chemistry, however, is a long way from a bacterium — “about as far as a bottle of vitamins from Thanksgiving dinner,” Dworkin said.

This space dirt has astrobiological import, though.

By looking at prebiotic chemistry on Bennu, scientists will have a better idea what they are looking at if and when they find suspicious molecules elsewhere in the solar system.

Scan the dairy case of any grocery store, and you’ll find rows upon rows of products with varying levels of fat. Nonfat, low-fat, whole: What’s the healthiest option?

If you consult the U.S. dietary guidelines or health authorities such as the American Heart Association or the World Health Organization, the answer is clear: Choose a fat-free or low-fat version.

This recommendation stems from the idea that full-fat dairy products are high in saturated fats, so choosing lower-fat versions can reduce your risk of heart disease, said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Tufts University.

But that guidance goes back to 1980, when the first edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans was published, he said. And since then, most studies on the health effects of dairy fat have failed to find any benefits of prioritizing low-fat versions over whole, Mozaffarian said.

What seems to be more important than the level of fat, he added, is which dairy product you choose in the first place.

In studies that have surveyed people about their diets and then tracked their health over many years, researchers have found associations between dairy consumption and lower risks of certain conditions, such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes, Mozaffarian said.

Such benefits, he added, were often present regardless of whether people chose reduced-fat or full-fat yogurt, cheese or milk. And although full-fat dairy products are higher in calories, studies have found that those who consume them aren’t more likely to gain weight.

In one study published in 2018, for example, researchers followed 136,000 adults from 21 countries for nine years. They found that, during the study period, those who consumed two or more servings of dairy per day were 22% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease and 17% less likely to die than those who consumed no dairy at all. Notably, those who consumed higher levels of saturated fat from dairy were not more likely to develop heart disease or die.

In another large analysis, also published in 2018, researchers pooled the results from 16 studies involving more than 63,000 adults. They found that, across an average of nine years, those who had higher levels of dairy fats in their blood were 29% less likely than those with lower levels to develop Type 2 diabetes.

This finding suggests that there may be a benefit to consuming dairy fat rather than avoiding it, Mozaffarian said.

Of course, these studies can’t prove that dairy products themselves reduce certain risks of disease. That would require longterm clinical trials, which haven’t been conducted, Mozaffarian said. But shorter-term trials have shown that consuming dairy products, including full-fat dairy, lowered the blood pressure of participants and did not increase weight or raise levels of LDL, or “bad cholesterol” — again suggesting that dairy fat is not harmful to heart health.

There are several possible explanations for why dairy fats may not be as harmful as previously thought — and may even be healthful, said Dr. Ronald Krauss, a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Among the various types of saturated fats that can be found in foods, dairy products contain certain ones that appear to be neutral or beneficial for health, Krauss said, including those linked to reduced risks of Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease.

Milk fat is also naturally packaged in a unique structure called the milk fat globule membrane, said Marie-Caroline Michalski, a research director at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment. Components of this structure can help bind cholesterol in the digestive tract, potentially improving blood cholesterol levels.

Los Alamos HIV databases support global battles with disease

By Brian Foley

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he human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS has such complex interactions with the human immune system that it has driven scores of discoveries in the fields of immunology and vaccine design.

This research has gone on for the most compelling of reasons: some 85.6 million people have become infected with HIV, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS, and approximately 40.4 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic.

Los Alamos National Laboratory, in addition to its more well-known fields of research, has had a long history of studying the vast diversity of genetic sequences of all kinds, thanks to early 1980s visionaries such as Walter Goad and George Bell, physicists at the Lab who recognized that genetic code in DNA was similar to the binary code on which all computers run. They developed the first database to store the huge array of genetic sequences that was beginning to accrue globally, establishing GenBank, a single repository for all DNA sequences.

In 1983, HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS. Gerald Myers, a St. John’s College professor who also worked with the GenBank files at Los Alamos, recognized the extraordinary diversity of the first few HIV isolates, and the value of a pathogen-specific database to store HIV’s genetic sequences became clear. In 1986, he founded the HIV Sequence Database at the Lab. The HIV Sequence Database became the first repository of gene sequences associated with a specific

virus. Myers clearly foresaw that this virus would present new challenges in the fields of virology and vaccine design. Suddenly, Los Alamos was connected to the world of HIV research and rapidly building its reputation in that field thanks to its deep familiarity with the challenges of handling the complexity of extracting information from enormous data files.

Keenly interested in evolution, Myers led many studies identifying the rapid evolution of HIV in the human population and understanding its place among various viruses found in African primate species, such as chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys. Within a single HIV-infected human patient, sampled over several years between initial infection and development of AIDS, relatively large viral evolutionary changes revealed themselves. The battle within the body, documented in the viral genetic sequences stored in the database, was fierce, as the human immune system fought the virus and researchers observed the virus evolving to escape each new battle. In the field of evolutionary study known as phylogenetics, this was groundbreaking stuff.

When Los Alamos theoretical biologist Bette Korber joined the Lab’s HIV Sequence Database team in 1990, she

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initially helped by using her experience in viral sequencing and evolution to support the team’s effort. But her doctorate was in immunology, which led her to propose a whole new resource, an HIV Immunology Database to complement the HIV Sequence Database.

The immunology database — the first pathogen-specific immunology database — catalogs and aids understanding of how the human immune system interacts with HIV. In 1994, Myers passed the leadership of both database projects on to Korber, and she went on to lead the database team in creating online, interactive, searchable databases with many analysis tools that researchers can use directly through the internet.

This is where I come in. I joined the Los Alamos team in 1995 as a virologist and epidemiologist with skills in computer science. Through the project, I’ve worked with experimentalists from all over the globe. In 2020 — as the pandemic gained momentum — Korber passed the leadership of the database projects to me so she could concentrate on tracking COVID-19 evolution.

The databases have been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1988 and was once described by Anthony Fauci as “the biggest bang for the buck in all of the NIH.” The databases now serve more than 10,000 unique website visits per month from researchers located throughout the world. The database team has also taken on other viruses such as hepatitis C virus, Ebola and influenza, which have grown and since been passed on to other groups.

The value the HIV sequence and

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Brian Foley at Los Alamos National Laboratory

immunology databases have brought to researchers internationally is particularly rewarding. Almost every day, new research papers are published around the world noting the use of the Los Alamos databases for studies ranging from new vaccine approaches to understanding how the virus behaves and changes within its victims. The global impact of the databases is a dramatic testament to the resources a national laboratory can bring to complex, multidisciplinary challenges.

Our work with HIV has allowed us to make major contributions to vaccine design, rapid diagnostic test design, epidemiology and other aspects of not only HIV, but also other important viruses, including the virus causing COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, those of us involved in the care and feeding

of the HIV databases were all too aware of how the SARS-CoV-2 virus could spread around the world and mutate into new lineages. It’s a story we’ve seen before, in the viruses behind hepatitis C, HIV and other diseases we study. In some ways, the evolution of the SARSCoV-2 virus across the planet’s whole human population emulates the way the HIV virus evolves within a single infected human. We hope that the work at Los Alamos will continue to benefit the world’s population as these viruses challenge us all.

Brian Foley, principal investigator of HIV databases at Los Alamos National Laboratory, applies his knowledge of evolution, molecular genetics and epidemiology to studies of how HIV and other viruses have spread through populations.

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Ed Archuleta, executive director at St. Elizabeth Shelter, stands Thursday in the men’s dorm room, which holds 28, beds at the shelter. “What we really need is more apartments,” he said. “Let’s just skip the shelter step and get more apartments. But until we have more affordable housing, dormitory-style rooms would be good.”

‘The future of shelters is separate rooms’ from congregate housing has been the right decision.

“We’re taking a really close look at Program manager Emily Scheinberg how we’re operating and what the com- said for people escaping abusive situamunity needs to figure out sort of what tions coming into a group facility can be Esperanza 2.0 is going to look like,” she “quite stressful, especially for someone said. “So we’re actually finding ourselves coming in on day one where this could in a pretty exciting place right now.” be the worst experience of their life, Prior to the pandemic, secretary perhaps.”

Marisa Ornelas said Esperanza Shelter Not having to interact with people was “kind of on our own island” as it going through similar situations “helps sought to address domestic violence in them transition out a little faster, Santa Fe. The shelter now is working because, you know, they can emotionally more closely with other local service regulate a little faster.” providers such as The Life Link to see Archuleta said access to private space how it can serve “as many clients as we can be helpful for people who are homecan in an efficient a way as possible.” less, noting many have had other trau“I believe that we’re doing a really matic experiences even if they are not good job with the housing of the 15 or so actively leaving an abusive relationship. parents and kids that we can, but that’s He said he would like St. Elizabeth to it’s not enough, right? We need to serve transition into having more individual more people,” she said. rooms. To do that would require the The shelter currently has four apartpurchase of another building because ment units and access to five suite-style the organization can’t retrofit its existing hotel rooms. There is not a hard limit on shelters. A setup like the one at Consuehow long people can stay in transitional lo’s Place, where residents have private housing, because the ultimate focus is on rooms and shared bathrooms and social making sure people find safe, permanent spaces, “would be ideal.” housing somewhere and don’t have to go But even better would be more housback to an abuser. ing that people can afford, he said.

In the current housing climate, that “What we really need is more apartcan be a long process. ments,” he said. “Let’s just skip the shel“You can’t talk to anybody in Santa Fe ter step and get more apartments. But about any sort of problems that we’re until we have more affordable housing, having without including housing in the dormitory-style rooms would be good.” mix,” Ornelas said.

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their rents are being raised or their apartment complex is being sold. He described the city’s lack of affordable housing options as “an emergency” — not just for people who are already homeless but for low- and middle-income workers as well.

“When you have middle-class people who are holding down jobs who are desperate, you know there’s a problem,” he said.

Several of the city’s ongoing projects to get people into housing are focused on giving people individual spaces to call their own. The Lamplighter Inn redevelopment will follow a model similar to Santa Fe Suites, and will allow people to move into individual or family-sized areas created from the renovated motel rooms.

The City Council also approved the city’s first safe outdoor space for the homeless at its meeting Wednesday.

Beginning as a pilot program next year, 10 Pallet shelters will be constructed on property owned by Christ Lutheran Church.

Each shelter, which is similar to a tiny home, has room for two people and their pets. Public Safety Director Kyra Ochoa said the priority for the village will be to house people who are not currently taking advantage of the city’s shelter options.

City Councilor Jamie Cassutt said working on these types of projects are necessary for Santa Fe because the older models of addressing homelessness “are not working.”

Part of the issue is that congregate shelters, such as the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place, were originally set up as emergency options.

But some need longer-term services, she said.

The Empty Stocking Fund is a longstanding project of The New Mexican.

Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs.

Who it helps: Applicants, who must live within 50 miles of Santa Fe and must provide documents that provide proof of their identity, are considered without regard to race, age, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. Applications are now closed.

How it works: Applications for funding are carefully vetted. Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs and verify the applicant’s income. If a request is approved, the committee sends a check directly to the service supplier. Requests can be as much as $2,500 per household depending on the need.

2023 goal: $399,000.

This holiday charity project, which began in 1981, is jointly administered by the Santa Fe Community Foundation, Enterprise Bank and Trust, the Salvation Army, Presbyterian Medical Services, The Life Link, Habitat for Humanity, Esperanza Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services, Gerard’s House and a private individual.

To donate: Make your tax-deduct-

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without immediate legal status.

Speaking in the early-voting state of New Hampshire, Trump, drew on words similar to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kempf as the former president berated Biden’s team over the flow of migrants.

“All over the world they’re pouring into our country,” Trump said.

Throughout the weekend, senators and top Biden officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, have been working intently behind closed doors at the Capitol to strike a border deal, which Republicans in Congress are demanding in exchange for any help for Ukraine, Israel and other national security needs. Mayorkas arrived for more talks late Sunday afternoon.

“Everyday we get closer, not farther away,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., as talks wrapped up in the evening.

Their holiday recess postponed, Murphy and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona independent, acknowledged the difficulty of drafting, and securing support, for deeply complicated legislation on an issue that has vexed Congress for years. Ahead of

State’s record oil production double-edged political sword a quarter of global warming.

Derailed bills included codifying the accommodating an industry that injects governor’s executive order to reduce big money into a relatively poor state. carbon emissions by 45% by 2030, “It does put the Legislature and modernizing the state’s Oil and Gas Act the governor in kind of an awkward to consider climate change and public position,” said Jim Peach, a New Mexico health, and cracking down on flagrant State University economics professor violators in the industry. emeritus. “It’s a difficult problem.”

Other failed proposals would’ve Although the growth is slowing — given citizens more legal power to hold revenue is projected to climb by just polluters accountable, such as the “green $700,000 from this year’s $12 billion — amendment” to the state constitution the surge in 2022 helped fuel an almost and the right for them to take enforce50% increase in state revenue from the ment action. previous year. The recent oil boom has At the time, several activists said the made New Mexico the second-largest oil stalled measures were especially disproducer in the country. heartening because the next session will Industry representatives aren’t shy last only 30 days. These shorter sessions about pointing out the money fossil fuel are focused on the budget, so the Goverputs into state coffers and how it helps nor’s Office must approve all bills. pay for essential programs.

Industry lobbyists are almost sure to In an email, John Lonergan, CEO of resist any efforts in the upcoming sesPermian Petrochemical Corp., wrote sion to better protect the environment 40% is a conservative estimate of the and public health if they feel the meaindustry’s portion of state tax revenue. sures will infringe on oil and gas, said Some industry research pegs it closer to Charles de Saillan, an attorney with the half, he wrote, calling into question the Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy. push to eliminate fossil fuel.

“Of course it’s going to be challeng“You can’t replace that with basket ing,” de Saillan said. “The oil and gas weaving or Hollywood movies,” he industry has a lot of power in this state. argued.

And it is responsible for a lot of our state revenue. There’s no disputing that.”

Derailed bills cause tensions Lonergan, of Permian Petroleum, Some conservationists point to the last wrote in the email that the industry legislative session as evidence of oil and already must deal with plenty of regulation in New Mexico, raising the question gas clout at the Roundhouse, with the of how much more is needed. industry getting its way even as Demo“New Mexico’s laws on methane crats command a strong majority in both emissions and pollution are the toughest chambers and a Democratic governor in the U.S.,” he wrote. “We’re #2 in oil holds office. production and are much more stringent Virtually all efforts to impose new than #1 Texas or #3 North Dakota.” standards or regulations on the indusLonergan was referring to two state try faltered, an outcome that worries climate advocates who contend curbing rules. One curbs oil-field emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogreenhouse emissions from the oil and gas sector is crucial in keeping the Earth gen oxides, which form ground-level ozone, and the methane linked to these from warming to catastrophic levels. gases. The other bars venting and flaring The fossil fuel industry remains the of natural gas, except in emergencies, largest emitter of the state’s methane, a and requires operators to capture 98% of gas climate scientists say has 80 times their methane by 2026. the warming effect of carbon dioxide in a 20-year period and accounts for about Still, conservationists think more overContinued from Page A-1

sight is required for an industry with a record of breaching air quality standards and spilling toxic liquid waste thousands of times with no penalties in the past few years.

A place to start is giving regulatory agencies more enforcement power and more funding to carry it out, de Saillan said.

The failed climate legislation in the last session irked conservationists, who questioned whether Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who promotes herself as a climate advocate, was beholden to industry.

Lujan Grisham rejected proposed tax incentives on electric vehicles, geothermal energy, heat pumps and energy storage. Environmentalists also accused her of being unsupportive of the other climate proposals that fell to the wayside.

Earlier this year, the Environmental Defense Fund issued a report saying the state would only reduce carbon emissions 13% by 2030 if it remained on its current path.

The same day, the Center Biological Diversity gave the governor mostly failing grades on a climate scorecard.

Gail Evans, an attorney at the Center, said the escalating oil production that’s giving the governor and other New Mexico officials more revenue is worsening the climate crisis.

“A climate governor does not oversee a massive oil and gas expansion in the state,” Evans said, “because oil and gas is a source of greenhouse gases.”

Gov. wins back some activists in recent months, the governor has been involved in new regulations that benefit the climate, making some conservationists hopeful she’ll get behind proposed climate legislation in the next session.

Others remain wary, arguing her pursuit of hydrogen, carbon storage and the recycling of fracking wastewater for commercial use are false climate solutions that benefit industry and detract from the transition to renewable energy.

Lujan Grisham backed a rule requiring 43% of new cars and light-duty trucks delivered to New Mexico to be electric models by 2026 and 82% by 2032. She plans to introduce a bill to create tax credits for buying electric vehicles.

Also, the federal Environmental Protection Agency recently issued its final methane rule modeled partly on the New Mexico ozone and methane waste rules enacted under her watch.

The governor has brought together conservation, community and industry groups as well as state regulators and lawmakers to discuss revisions to the Oil and Gas Act, which she wants to see introduced in the next session, said Tannis Fox, senior attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center.

The proposed changes include requiring operators to have wells set back a half-mile from homes, schools and businesses; increasing the amount of bonds they must provide upfront to cover wells that might be abandoned; and removing the caps on penalties imposed on violators, Fox said.

It also could embed the methane capture rule into law, she added.

Having the governor orchestrate discussions that include industry representatives creates the best chance of getting this through the Legislature, she said.

Unlike last year’s proposed amendment, this one contains no language calling for climate impacts to be considered in fossil fuel activities, Fox said. Even so, it would be a strong piece of environmental legislation, she said.

“This would be the most significant reform of the Act since it was passed in 1935,” Fox said.

Although the next session is only 30 days, efforts to combat climate change should not be omitted, de Saillan said, given how the crisis is growing.

Industry doesn’t like climate bills because they often require reducing carbon emissions or moving toward alternative energy sources, he said. But lawmakers must avoid giving in to political pressure from the industry, he said.

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more talks Monday, it is becoming apparent any action is unlikely before year’s end.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said senators don’t want to be “jammed” by a last-minute compromise reached by negotiators.

“We’re not anywhere close to a deal,” Graham, whose staff has joined the talks, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Graham predicted the deliberations will go into next year. He was among 15 Republican senators who wrote to GOP leadership urging them to wait until the House returns Jan. 8 to discuss the issue.

Top GOP negotiator Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell also signaled in their own letter Sunday that talks still had a ways to go.

Lankford said later that the January timeline was “realistic.”

The Biden administration faces an increasingly difficult political situation as global migration is on a historic rise, and many migrants are fleeing persecution or leaving war-torn countries for the United States, with smugglers capitalizing on the situation.

The president is being berated daily

by Republicans, led by Trump, as border crossings have risen to levels that make even some in Biden’s own Democratic Party concerned.

TAKEAWAYS u New Mexico’s increased oil production has nudged state tax revenue to a record $12.7 billion, causing most state officials to cheer and some environmentalists to worry the boost will give the fossil fuel industry even more leverage to block environmental bills it dislikes. u The governor’s recent actions, such as an electric car rule and a plan to request tax breaks on these car purchases, has encouraged some environmentalists who had criticized her for not backing climate bills in the last legislative session. u Conservationists think more oversight is required for an industry with a record of breaching air quality standards and spilling toxic liquid waste thousands of times with no penalties in the past few years. Lawmakers mustn’t simply give in to the industry’s political pressure to block necessary legislation, they say.

An effective climate bill can be relatively simple with just four parts, de Saillan said.

The governor’s executive order on cutting emissions should be made into law and become the Legislature’s future goals, he said. At the same time, regulatory agencies should be required to adopt rules to decrease greenhouse gases.

The last parts would be funding the regulatory efforts and crafting guidelines to ensure disadvantaged communities aren’t disproportionately affected by the rules, de Saillan said.

A plan of this scope must have the governor’s support because it would be a huge undertaking, he said. “But we’ve got to do it. We’re running out of time.”

Peach, the economist, said ultimately New Mexico must develop more big-revenue industries so it’s not this reliant on a volatile sector. In 2015, oil prices plummeted, causing a big dip in state revenues, he said, and a future market downturn is all but certain.

Being tied so tightly to fossil fuel has kept the state from making swifter progress with climate protections and the clean energy transition, he said. In some ways, the state is ahead of the nation, and in other ways it lags behind, he added.

“It’s been a mixed bag,” Peach said.

“We could’ve done so much more than we’ve already done.”

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he Justice Department has strong criminal cases against Hunter Biden for allegedly failing to pay federal taxes, claiming false deductions and lying about his drug use on paperwork to buy a gun. Congress, by contrast, lacks any reasonable basis for moving forward with impeachment against President Joe Biden over his son’s dubious business dealings and personal conduct.

House Republicans voted Wednesday to authorize an impeachment inquiry despite the lack of meaningful evidence that the president personally profited from his son’s overseas adventures. This major step is retaliation for the two impeachments of President Donald Trump and a play to make Biden appear as tainted as Trump ahead of the 2024 election.

But House Republicans do not have the

goods. Take last week’s dud from House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky. He highlighted three payments totaling about $4,000 in 2018 to Joe Biden from a Hunter Biden business account that held money from Chinese business interests. Comer called it “part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes.” In fact, it was Hunter Biden reimbursing his dad for buying him a Ford F-150 because the son’s bad credit meant he couldn’t get financing.

Special counsel David Weiss’ indictments of Hunter Biden, on the other hand, speak to the independence of the Justice Department — and the seriousness of the younger Biden’s alleged misconduct. With the salacious details included in Thursday’s indictment by a California grand jury, the plea deal the president’s son was offered and accepted in

June by Weiss seems overly generous in a way it didn’t six months ago. That does not, however, mean it was corrupt or that the investigation was compromised. Prosecutorial discretion is an important feature of the criminal justice system. There were mitigating factors, such as this being Hunter Biden’s first criminal offense and his struggles with addiction. An independent judge scrutinized the constitutionality of an unusual diversion agreement that would have let him plead guilty to two misdemeanors and avoid jail time. Under her questioning, it fell apart.

While Hunter Biden used the illusion of access to make money and coarsely invoked his father in text messages seeking payment from a Chinese business associate, that does not mean Joe Biden took official acts at the behest of his son. The legal process will now decide Hunter Biden’s fate, but, based on the current evidence, the sins of the son

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New Mexico poised to kick off big fight over local control of schools, Dec. 9 Educational rankings are an economic issue. While hiring or recruiting talent, if candidates learn that local public schools are dangerous and academically under performing, they move on to other opportunities. When recruiting corporations to the state, we can’t compete because of our academic failings.”

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THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 18, 1923: Interesting are the stories told by our pioneer residents and veteran employes of travel on the early transcontinental passenger trains, one of the most unusual of which was related to the bulletin recently under the heading “High-toned Railroad Travel Fifty Years Ago.” This story was found particularly interesting to F.W. Kelsey, of San Diego, who in a letter to his son, P.J. Kelly, ... recalls some of the incidents occurring on his trip out to the Pacific coast in 1876.

“I remember that we could see the buffalo from the train,” he writes.

Dec. 18, 1948: The city council heard representatives of the Public Service Co. outline a plan for street lighting based on reports from Westinghouse and General Electric engineers at a meeting last night at the city hall. According to the plan proposed by R.D. Anderson, electrical superintendent of the utility, and M.C. Heffelman, general manager, the streets are rated in one of four categories and are to be illuminated accordingly.

The additional lights total about 430, Anderson estimated. There are approximately 450 lights in use now.

Dec. 18, 1973: ALBUQUERQUE — A youth attending a special school in Albuquerque was among a list of 30 persons killed in the attack by Arab Guerrillas at Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome Monday, Mrs. Sandy Faniola said.

Mrs. Faniola identified the boy as Russell Turner, 11, a student at Calvert Academy, an Albuquerque school for children with special eyesight problems. He was returning to Saudi Arabia to spend the Christmas-New Year’s holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Ben Turner.

Dec. 18, 1998: WASHINGTON — A rendering of Sacagawea by the Santa Fe sculptor who created the Vietnam women’s Memorial will appear in millions of Americans’ pockets starting in 2000.

After sorting through more than 90,000 comments delivered via the Internet, U.S. Mint officials to three possible designs for the front of the new gold-colored dollar coin. It will depict the Shoshone teen-ager who accompanied explorers Meriwether Lewis an William Clark to the Pacific Ocean in 1805.

All three designs are by Glenna Goodacre of Santa Fe.

should not be visited upon the father.

Republicans say opening the inquiry into Joe Biden is mainly about fact-finding and does not mean they’ll vote to impeach.

House Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said during a Tuesday hearing that the resolution gives the House “the strongest legal standing to pursue needed information and enforce subpoenas.” But the White House has argued that the GOP probe lacks “constitutional legitimacy.”

Oversight is an essential role for Congress, but impeachment should be reserved for egregious misconduct. “Next to a declaration of war, the impeachment power might be the heaviest that the House has,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Monday. “It is incumbent upon us … to investigate properly, do it methodically, slowly, deliberately, not in a political manner.” He’s right — which is why House Republicans shouldn’t pursue it.

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ducation issues in New Mexico do not have easy solutions. We are all aware of that. And yet, the person who should know best, our secretary of education, thinks we’ll be fooled that there’s one easy, magic answer. More instructional hours, without more time for educator preparation, is not only an insufficient solution, but it will also do harm. Many have heard the expression about how foolish it is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results, and yet the Public Education Department claims that doing more of the same will create positive change.

It’s the low-hanging-fruit answer, one that is devoid of analysis and true consideration. New Mexico deserves better. The answer is productive hours in the classroom. That productivity will only occur when we maximize hours students get with a full staff of educators who are given time to collaborate, develop and prepare.

Angela Reynolds

Albuquerque

Clean it up Fracking is terrible for the environment. Why should we pay the industry to clean up the mess they have made? Their profits are high, and they should be responsible for all cleanups needed.

Barbara Lenssen

Santa Fe

A comprehensive solution With all the discussions whether New Mexico Democrats should call for a cease-fire in Gaza, shouldn’t we demand for a more comprehensive solution to the war? Why not call for Hamas to release all the hostages, lay down their weapons and stop shooting rockets into civilian populations? That would allow for Gazans to receive aid, rebuild their lives and have some peace and tranquility.

the hostages and surrendering. Israel will still have to dismantle the tunnels, search for and remove any weapons still being cached, and search for Hamas terrorists who don’t surrender, but non-Hamas Palestinian citizens could start to get their lives back in order.

It’s simple: hostage release and surrender. That’s the path our president and members of Congress should be emphasizing. Hamas hasn’t done this, yet, which shows Hamas’ callous disregard for its own citizens.

Halley S. Faust

Santa Fe

Isolate solar I’m disappointed The New Mexican continues to publish views supporting the proposed solar farm and battery storage facility to be located in between the Eldorado and Rancho Viejo neighborhoods.

Writers hide behind a smokescreen promoting renewable energy and fighting climate change, which we all support, but they totally ignore the substantial risks from explosions and fires that come with the associated battery storage systems.

Because the energy storage facilities are inherently prone to fires, they belong in a remote industrial park, such as the area outside of Stanley that has been identified by New Mexicans for Responsible Renewable Energy. My wife and I live only one mile from the currently targeted site, and in the event of a major explosion and fire, our whole neighborhood could be wiped out in a matter of minutes. Can you say Maui? Santa Fe County needs to tell AES to find a more isolated site for this facility.

Tom Rebstock

Santa Fe

Full circle It seems as though artificial intelligence is promulgating artificial stupidity.

Ray Lopez

Santa Fe

Rabbi Berel Levertov

Santa Fe

Release the hostages President Joe Biden and our New Mexico members of Congress are wrong to call for Israel to scale back its counteroffensive against Hamas. They’d be right to call for Hamas to release all of the hostages immediately and to surrender unconditionally. This would end the war and the suffering of the noncombatant Gaza citizens.

Hamas started this war. They can end it and mitigate further damage by taking these two actions of releasing

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hristmas celebrates new birth that brings the hope of life renewed. Each of us is born to bring our own individual gifts to a world that, without every single us, is incomplete. In the Christian tradition, Jesus represents that helpless, marginalized infant whose survival depends on his family and the grace and generosity of a community of strangers. He is also the one who, for Christians, is the promised prince of peace, and thus the model for how God relates to us and how we should relate to everyone else.

Bethlehem, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank of Israel, is canceling Christmas this year. The town of Bethlehem where Jesus was born must do so because of the Israeli government’s war on Gaza. No joy. No peace.

And the lights in the heavens are not angels declaring the glory of God, but missiles and explosions declaring the fear and loathing of man against man.

Still, we hope for peace. All Abrahamic traditions promise that one day peace will come on condition that we, the humans, make a place for it. In this Peace, we the humans are responsible for caring for the babies, the children, each one-another, so every gift of every one becomes completed to usher in the longed-for world which is to come.

It’s up to us to work toward peace on Earth, good will toward every human. We can start with treating one another as if the other is the messiah we await.

And we can communicate our prayer for peace to those in charge of funding the war that denies Christmas. We can write our national delegation and even governor to demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza to let the children live. Let everybody be able to have the new life of the Christmas promise.

Since for Christians, Christmas celebrates the redemptive power of each child born unto us, here’s a song from children of the Ramallah Friends School. You can hear it at tinyurl.com/3zktp9t8.

Jody Benson lives in Los Alamos.

M Y VIEW JIM MACKENZIE

PRC should refuse to allow LNG a site for storing methane

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he New Mexico Gas Co. will be seeking permission to build a LNG liquification, storage and associated infrastructure facility in public hearings at the Public Regulation Commission beginning Jan. 8. The proposed facility would be located north of Double Eagle II airport on the outskirts of Rio Ranch and Albuquerque. There are many substantial reasons to oppose this approximately $200 million facility.

LNG is a fancy name for supercooled, liquified fracked methane. The gas company is proposing to store 12 million gallons of LNG at the westside liquification plant. LNG takes up one-six-hundredth of the volume of gaseous methane but retains all the energy potential.

The public is being asked to trust that the LNG plant will be and safe and will not endanger Rio Rancho or Albuquerque. Two gas company methane gas explosions and fires in my neighborhood in the past three years show how even small gas leaks can be catastrophic. On Jan. 25, 2021, and again on Sept. 7, homes were destroyed by the gas explosions and the surrounding areas had to be evacuated.

Miraculously, no one was seriously injured. The proposed LNG plant would be within 10 miles of 51 public schools, residential neighborhoods and a westside shelter.

A mishap at the proposed LNG plant would make the gas explosions in my neighborhood look like a Boy Scout campfire by comparison.

The New Mexico Gas Co. has no experience building or operating a facility as large and complex as the proposed LNG facility. Their request in PRC in Case No. 22-000309UT should be denied.

Jim Mackenzie is co-coordinator of 350 New Mexico, a 50-year New Mexico resident, a retired member of Local 611, IBEW, and a Vietnam veteran.

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Antetokounmpo passes Abdul-Jabbar for Bucks’ board record Star now holds team’s marks for points, rebounds and assists

The Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo pauses before Sunday’s game against the Rockets in Milwaukee.

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By Charles Gardner The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 26 points and 17 rebounds, passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the Bucks’ career rebounding leader, and Damian Lillard scored 39 points in Milwaukee’s 128-119 victory over the Houston Rockets on Sunday night.

Antetokounmpo’s highest rebounding total of the season allowed him to pass Abdul-Jabbar after he had moved past the Hall of Famer for the team’s scoring record during the 2021-

22 season. He is also the Bucks’ career leader in assists, joining Michael Jordan (Chicago), LeBron James (Cleveland) and Kevin

Garnett (Minnesota) as the only players to lead a franchise in all three categories.

“It’s a big compliment,”

Antetokounmpo said. “I don’t think anybody assumed that the skinny kid from Greece that was drafted and supposed to play in the G-League would be in position to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record. I know for sure there’s going to be someone who is going to come along in time and break all of the records that Kareem set, Oscar Robertson, Marques Johnson, myself, Khris (Middleton).”

The Bucks won their 13th straight home game and improved to 14-1 at home while snapping the Rockets’ five-game

winning streak. Houston (13-10) dropped to 2-9 on the road.

Middleton scored 14 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter as the Bucks finally pulled away.

Middleton sank a 3-pointer to give the Bucks a 112-106 lead with 5:26 left, and a three-point play

by Antetokounmpo made it 118111 with 3:44 remaining.

“Khris does this all the time, where he just settles us down where we need a basket and he goes and gets us a bucket,” Bucks coach Adrian Griffin said.

“Sometimes he scores and sometimes it’s an assist, but the fourth quarter is usually when Khris is at his best.”

Brook Lopez added 18 points for the Bucks (19-7) and Bobby Portis had 11 off the bench.

Middleton, who joined the

Bucks in a trade in 2013, the same year Antetokounmpo was drafted, laughed when asked if he thought then that his teammate would have all these franchise marks.

“Hell, no,” Middleton said. “It’s great. Now he’s got everything, except for the 3-ball. He hates when people say that. But it just shows his discipline every day, how seriously he takes his craft and how he’s never satisfied about what he’s doing out there.”

Dillon Brooks was ejected after being called for flopping and picking up two technical fouls with 38 seconds left, and Rockets coach Ime Udoka also was whistled for two technicals after coming out on the court.

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Overlooked tourney good for Portales, SFIS boys

Cowboys taken for a ride Bills run all over Dallas in big loss as road struggles continue, though playoff berth clinched before game

By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

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ost amid the fervor of New Mexico State in the New Mexico Bowl and the annual St. Michael’s-Santa Fe High battle over the weekend was one Northern event: the Ben Lujan Tournament.

Despite losing Thursday’s action to snowy weather, the tournament — the only in the area last weekend — went off swimmingly. On the boys side, Portales fended off Pojoaque Valley 57-55 in the first of two games Friday morning and went on to dominate Dulce (84-44) and Monte del Sol (65-16) to win the round-robin event.

Santa Fe Indian School came out of the tournament with an impressive 2-1 record to improve to 5-2 overall, concluding the Ben Lujan with a 56-51 win over a Pojoaque Valley team that is proving to be a team on the rise in 4A. In the process, SFIS continued to solidify its status as a 3A contender.

On the girls side, Dulce made a huge statement when the 2A school beat Portales 57-41 to win the tournament title against a full field of eight teams.

The host Elkettes took third by beating Capital, 33-26, despite an offense that is struggling to score points amid a 5-4 start. uuu

As the dust begins to settle in the prep basketball world as we hit the fourth week of the season, we are seeing teams establishing themselves in their respective classes’ hierarchy.

Albuquerque Volcano Vista’s 81-62 win over Rio Rancho Cleveland, coached by former Santa Fe High head coach Zack Cole, established the twotime defending champion Hawks as the team to beat in 5A. Santa Fe High, after surviving a 43-42 scare from St. Michael’s, finds itself fourth in the latest MaxPreps.com rankings.

Despite a season in which it has lost two games by 30-plus points for the first time in program history, Capital sits at Please see story on Page B-2

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Bills running back James Cook tries to break free from cornerback Stephon Gilmore during Sunday’s win in Orchard Park, N.Y. Buffalo rushed for 266 yards and held the ball 10 minutes longer than Dallas, and Cook finished with 221 yards from scrimmage and a rushing and receiving touchdown. “I felt like the kid that didn’t do anything in a class project but got an A,” Bills quarterback Josh Allen said. Allen attempted just 15 passes behind the strong ground game.

By John Wawrow

The Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. he Bills’ offense has found its legs in time to make a playoff push.

Josh Allen played the role of happy spectator by standing back and watching James Cook run left, right and up the middle as Buffalo ran away with a 31-10 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.

“I felt like the kid that didn’t do anything in a class project but got an A,” Allen said after he threw for just 94 yards, with a touchdown passing and one rushing. “But I’ll do this 10 times out of 10 times, man. Like, keep going.”

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terbacks — Allen entered the week with 35 total touchdowns, and Dak Prescott was first in passing TDs with 28 — turned into a Bills stampede. Cook finished with 179 yards rushing and 221 yards from scrimmage, both career bests, while scoring on an 18-yard catch and a 24-yard run as the Cowboys’ five-game winning streak was snapped.

“I just let it rip when I get my opportunity,” said Cook, a second-year player who is the younger brother of New York Jets running back Dalvin Cook. “My O-linemen, they were opening it up and I was hitting it. Finding that rhythm.”

The Bills (8-6) won consecutive games for the first time since a three-game winning streak ended on Oct. 1 and gained ground in the AFC playoff race, moving one game ahead of Denver and Pittsburgh.

The Cowboys (10-4) clinched their third straight playoff berth before kickoff thanks to losses by Green Bay and Atlanta on Sunday and Detroit beating Denver on Saturday. But nothing else went Please see story on Page B-3

COLLEG E FO O TBALL

In transfer portal era, coaches have to recruit current players on roster

By Pete Iacobelli and John Zenor

The Associated Press

College recruiting may start in the homes of the high school player but more than ever it never really stops once they are on campus.

Job 1: Recruit. Job 2: Retain.

The ready opportunities for players to transfer makes it even more important for coaches around the country to devote plenty of time to them once they arrive, hoping to keep promising youngsters and starters alike out of the transfer portal. Schools also want athletes to feel they can earn plenty of endorsement money or compensation

right where they are.

“I think the most important thing is relationships,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said in a familiar refrain among coaches.

The days of blue-chip recruits patiently waiting their turn to get on the field may largely be gone. Even starting quarterbacks like Ohio State’s Ryan McCord and Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel and Texas A&M defensive lineman Walter Nolen, among plenty of others, have entered the transfer portal.

The portal window is open until Jan. 2, with another one running from April 15-30. It has become a key plug-

and-play method for powerhouses and rebuilding programs alike. The top three Heisman Trophy finishers — winner Jayden Daniels (LSU), runner-up Michael Penix Jr. (Washington) and Bo Nix (Oregon) — were quarterbacks who arrived via the portal. Penix has led his team to the playoff.

Some transfers are looking for more playing time. Others for more money via name, image and deals and better fits. Whatever the players’ reasons for leaving, those coaches have to focus more than ever on keeping them.

Washington State coach Jake Dickert

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban before the Southeastern Conference championship against Georgia earlier this month. “I think the most important thing is relationships,” Saban, whose team will play in the College Football Playoff, said of retaining players in the transfer portal era.

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Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. ACCN — Delaware St. at Wake Forest COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 4:30 p.m. FS1 — UCLA at Ohio St. COLLEGE FOOTBALL 12:30 p.m. ESPN — The Famous Toastery Bowl: W. Kentucky vs. Old Dominion, Charlotte, N.C.

NBA 7 p.m. NBATV — Dallas at Denver NFL 6:15 p.m. ABC, ESPN — Philadelphia at Seattle 6:15 p.m. ESPN2 — Philadelphia at Seattle (ManningCast) NHL 6 p.m. NHLN — Seattle at Dallas

Subject to change. Check with schools regarding tickets and game times and dates. Send changes to sports@sfnewmexican.com.

Monday Boys basketball — Santa Fe Indian School at Dulce, 5:30 p.m.

Mora at Wagon Mound, 5 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson at Socorro, 7 p.m.

Tuesday NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

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Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

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5 7 11 12 15

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

16 15 10 7 4

9 11 15 17 21

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

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16 16 13 6 4

9 11 10 18 21

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

19 16 17 9 6

5 8 10 17 19

Sacramento L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Phoenix Golden State

15 15 15 14 12

9 10 11 12 14

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Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis San Antonio

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PCT

— 1½ 6 8½ 12

PCT

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.731 .542 .538 .370 .077

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST

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.800 .720 .560 .520 .400

AWAY

L10

STR

HOME

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— 3 3½ 11 13½

.625 .600 .577 .538 .462

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PCT

GB

6-4 7-3 6-4 3-7 1-9 8-2 6-4 6-4 4-6 2-8

L10

7-3 8-2 6-4 4-6 5-5

14-2 7-5 7-6 7-7 1-12

CONF

GB

.792 .667 .630 .346 .240

W-1 W-4 L-1 L-4 L-1

5-5 6-6 7-6 3-10 1-12

7-5 9-4 11-1 1-11 2-12

W-2 W-1 L-1 L-1 L-7

9-4 7-7 2-9 5-7 2-9

11-1 8-4 10-2 7-5 2-9

STR

11-7 11-9 12-8 5-15 4-15

8-4 8-4 7-8 2-12 4-10

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6-6 4-7 5-9 7-4 6-8

13-9 13-8 12-8 10-8 10-12

UNDERDOG Western Kentucky

FAVORITE UTSA

OPEN 7

TODAY 11½

O/U (52½)

UNDERDOG Marshall

FAVORITE Syracuse

OPEN 4½

TODAY 3

O/U (61½)

UNDERDOG South Florida

FAVORITE UCF

OPEN 4½

TODAY 4½

O/U (67½)

UNDERDOG Georgia Tech

Fairfield 63, Wagner 51 Jackson St. 81, Howard 74 Navy 91, Washington College (Md.) 33 Robert Morris 95, St. Vincent 46 Stonehill 71, Hartford 44 Stony Brook 78, Army 74, OT Syracuse 83, Oregon 63 Texas Southern 79, Howard 78

FAVORITE Arkansas State Troy Utah State James Madison South Alabama Utah San Jose State

OPEN 1½ 4½ 3½ 6½ 14 9½ 7

TODAY 1½ 7½ 1½ 2½ 16½ 6½ 9½

O/U (53½) (44½) (61½) (41½) (46½) (41½) (53½)

UNDERDOG Northern Illinois Duke Georgia State Air Force Eastern Michigan Northwestern Coastal Carolina

Auburn 91, Southern Cal 75 Jackson St. 68, NC A&T 60 Longwood 68, VMI 49 Louisville 85, Pepperdine 63 McNeese St. 74, Louisiana-Lafayette 72 Mississippi St. 72, North Texas 54 N. Kentucky 85, E. Kentucky 75 UAB 92, Montevallo 56 Wofford 105, Kentucky Christian 54

NBA

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118 114

3-Point Goals_Golden State 13-38 (Thompson 5-10, Wiggins 4-6, Kuminga 2-3, Saric 2-3, Moody 0-2, Podziemski 0-2, Paul 0-4, Curry 0-8), Portland 13-35 (Camara 3-3, Sharpe 3-5, Grant 3-9, Brogdon 2-5, Henderson 1-4, Thybulle 1-4, Simons 0-5). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Golden State 43 (Jackson-Davis 8), Portland 37 (Ayton 8).

Assists_Golden State 31 (Curry, Paul 8), Portland 23 (Simons 7). Total Fouls_Golden State 20, Portland 20. A_18,547 (19,393)

PHOENIX 112, WASHINGTON 108

WASHINGTON (108) Avdija 2-6 3-4 7, Kuzma 7-22 0-2 17, Gafford 1013 6-7 26, Jones 9-15 0-0 22, Poole 5-17 2-2 14, Gallinari 1-2 3-3 6, Gill 0-0 0-0 0, Kispert 2-9 0-0 6, Omoruyi 0-0 0-0 0, Muscala 1-4 2-2 4, Coulibaly 2-7 0-0 6. Totals 39-95 16-20 108.

PHOENIX (112) Durant 11-24 6-9 28, Little 2-3 0-0 5, Nurkic 2-7 2-4 6, Allen 2-8 6-6 11, Booker 10-24 4-5 27, Eubanks 5-7 2-2 12, Metu 1-1 2-2 4, Goodwin 3-7 0-0 6, Gordon 5-9 1-2 13. Totals 41-90 23-30 112.

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3-Point Goals_Washington 14-46 (Jones 4-6, Kuzma 3-13, Coulibaly 2-6, Kispert 2-7, Poole 2-9, Gallinari 1-2, Avdija 0-1, Muscala 0-2), Phoenix 7-31 (Booker 3-11, Gordon 2-6, Little 1-2, Allen 1-6, Nurkic 0-1, Durant 0-2, Goodwin 0-3). Fouled Out_Washington 1 (Kuzma), Phoenix None. Rebounds_Washington 44 (Gafford 17), Phoenix 54 (Nurkic 17). Assists_Washington 24 (Jones 11), Phoenix 29 (Booker 8). Total Fouls_Washington 25, Phoenix 16. A_17,071 (18,422)

MILWAUKEE 128, HOUSTON 119

HOUSTON (119) Brooks 7-12 2-2 18, Smith Jr. 7-13 1-1 16, Sengun 8-15 4-6 20, Ja.Green 6-11 2-2 16, VanVleet 8-16 2-2 22, Eason 5-8 0-0 11, Je.Green 4-5 7-8 16, Tate 0-2 0-0 0, Holiday 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 45-85 18-21 119.

MILWAUKEE (128) G.Antetokounmpo 10-22 5-11 26, Middleton 7-15 5-5 20, B.Lopez 6-13 3-3 18, Jackson Jr. 4-6 0-0 9, Lillard 11-19 12-13 39, Beauchamp 0-0 0-0 0, Livingston 0-0 0-0 0, Portis 5-7 0-0 11, T.Antetokounmpo 0-0 0-0 0, Bolden 0-0 0-0 0, A.Green 0-0 0-0 0, Connaughton 2-4 0-0 5, Payne 0-4 0-0 0, Wigginton 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 45-90 25-32 128.

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3-Point Goals_Houston 11-27 (VanVleet 4-8, Brooks 2-4, Ja.Green 2-4, Je.Green 1-1, Eason 1-2, Smith Jr. 1-4, Holiday 0-1, Sengun 0-3), Milwaukee 13-36 (Lillard 5-8, B.Lopez 3-8, Portis 1-2, Connaughton 1-3, G.Antetokounmpo 1-3, Jackson Jr. 1-3, Middleton 1-5, Payne 0-4). Fouled Out_Houston None, Milwaukee 1 (Jackson Jr.).

Rebounds_Houston 31 (Sengun 8), Milwaukee 46 (G.Antetokounmpo 17). Assists_Houston 26 (Ja. Green 7), Milwaukee 25 (Lillard 11). Total Fouls_ Houston 21, Milwaukee 23. A_17,341 (17,500)

BOSTON 114, ORLANDO 97

ORLANDO (97) Banchero 14-30 4-6 36, F.Wagner 3-14 2-2 8, Bitadze 2-6 0-0 4, Black 2-5 0-3 5, Suggs 5-9 2-2 13, Howard 1-2 0-0 3, Isaac 2-5 2-2 8, Okeke 0-0 0-0 0, Schofield 0-0 0-0 0, M.Wagner 1-3 3-4 6, Anthony 2-8 2-2 6, G.Harris 0-3 0-0 0, Houstan 2-4 3-3 8. Totals 34-89 18-24 97.

BOSTON (114) Brown 12-20 2-2 31, Tatum 8-21 3-4 23, Porzingis 6-12 1-1 15, Holiday 6-12 0-0 14, White 4-9 1-1 10, Banton 1-2 0-0 2, Hauser 2-5 0-0 4, Stevens 0-0 0-0 0, Horford 3-7 0-0 8, Brissett 0-0 0-0 0, Queta 1-2 0-0 2, Pritchard 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 4595 7-8 114.

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3-Point Goals_Orlando 11-36 (Banchero 4-10, Isaac 2-4, Howard 1-1, M.Wagner 1-2, Black 1-3, Houstan 1-3, Suggs 1-4, Anthony 0-2, G.Harris 0-3, F.Wagner 0-4), Boston 17-36 (Brown 5-8,

COLLEGE FOOTBALL MONDAY TUESDAY

THURSDAY

MEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL

FRIDAY

SUNDAY’S SCORES EAST

SATURDAY

MONDAY

FAVORITE at PHILADELPHIA L.A. Clippers; at CLEVELAND at ATLANTA Minnesota at TORONTO at OKLAHOMA CITY Brooklyn at DENVER at SACRAMENTO at L.A. LAKERS

Utah St. Colorado St. New Mexico Nevada San Diego St. Boise St. Air Force Fresno St. Wyoming San Jose St. UNLV

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SUNDAY’S GAMES

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O/U (228) (240½) (214) (244) (218½) (227) (229) (232) (238½) (245) (227½)

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LSU guard Flau’jae Johnson breaks to the hoop after a steal during Sunday’s win over Northwestern State in Baton Rouge, La. Johnson scored 13 points with five steals and five assists.

UNDERDOG Chicago at INDIANA Houston Detroit at MIAMI Charlotte Memphis at UTAH Dallas Washington New York

LSU continues roll since opening loss

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

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MONDAY

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE

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Boise St. 88, Cal St.-Fullerton 65 Montana 86, San Jose St. 75 Colorado St. 86, CSU-Pueblo 54 Nevada at Hawaii, late

FAVORITE at JACKSONVILLE at UNC ASHEVILLE at CHARLESTON (SC) at WAKE FOREST at UCF Quinnipiac at MARIST at CAMPBELL at DUQUESNE at MICHIGAN STATE Murray State at EVANSVILLE at TARLETON STATE at CHICAGO STATE Southern Miss at SACRAMENTO STATE at LOYOLA MARYMOUNT14½Detroit Mercy at FRESNO STATE Eastern Washington

LINE 5½ 12½ 14½ 20½ 13½ 4½ 11½ 6½ 2½ 16½ 1½ 6½ 4½ 1½ 2½ 1½

UNDERDOG UL Monroe South Carolina State Coastal Carolina Delaware State Maine at HOLY CROSS Maryland-Eastern Shore Morgan State Bradley Oakland at LITTLE ROCK UT Martin Jacksonville State UT Rio Grande Valley at LAMAR UCSD

3½ 7½

Portland State at CAL POLY

NHL MONDAY

FAVORITE at PITTSBURGH at DETROIT at WINNIPEG at DALLAS Florida

LINE -122 -205 -215 -196 -122

UNDERDOG Minnesota Anaheim Montreal Seattle at CALGARY

LINE +102 +172 +176 +162 +102

MONDAY’S GAMES

Portland St. at Fresno St., 8 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Saint Katherine at San Diego St., 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

S. Dakota St. vs. Wyoming, 5 p.m.

UC Irvine at New Mexico, 7 p.m.

Santa Clara at San Jose St., 8 p.m.

WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL SUNDAY’S SCORES EAST

Binghamton 64, Coppin St. 52 Bucknell 64, Merrimack 44 Florida St. 76, Drexel 56 Georgetown 60, Wake Forest 44 Holy Cross 65, Northeastern 41 James Madison 78, Maine 71 Penn St. 119, St. Francis (Pa.) 43 Temple 85, La Salle 61 Virginia Tech 84, Rutgers 59

SOUTH

Alabama 70, Louisiana-Monroe 54 Belmont 65, Kennesaw St. 54 Chattanooga 52, E. Kentucky 44 ETSU 54, Campbell 39 Florida 115, Gardner-Webb 37 Jacksonville St. 84, Coastal Carolina 72 Kentucky 75, Furman 45 LSU 81, Northwestern St. 36 Marshall 84, Elon 77 Mercer 74, Jacksonville 63 Middle Tennessee 72, Stephen F. Austin 47 Mississippi St. 81, Memphis 63 North Texas 71, Louisiana-Lafayette 48 Radford 62, Queens (NC) 46 Stetson 56, Morgan St. 48 VCU 64, Old Dominion 50 Vanderbilt 72, Lipscomb 50 William & Mary 86, Longwood 49

MIDWEST

Cincinnati 58, S. Indiana 56 Creighton 89, Drake 78 Dayton 83, Ohio Dominican 64 DePaul 98, Alabama St. 69 Iowa St. 105, Troy 68 Marquette 99, Appalachian St. 91 Michigan St. 91, Cent. Michigan 67 Missouri 69, Illinois 66 Nebraska 76, Southern U. 51 Northwestern 86, Bradley 66 Notre Dame 76, Purdue 39 Ohio 65, Indiana St. 62 Toledo 78, Oakland 65 W. Michigan 78, Fort Wayne 76

SOUTHWEST

Arkansas St. 74, UALR 59 Oklahoma St. 76, S. Illinois 58 TCU 68, Lamar 51

FAR WEST

Arizona 91, Arizona St. 52 Gonzaga 83, S. Dakota St. 58 Grand Canyon 65, Idaho 63, OT Loyola Marymount 64, UC Santa Barbara 57 Montana St. 64, Wyoming 55 New Mexico 71, W. New Mexico 47 Oregon 61, UTSA 48 Washington St. 95, Houston 48

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

In Fort Collins, Colo., Isaiah Stevens had 18 points to move closer to taking over as the program’s alltime leading scorer and Colorado State shook off a sluggish start to roll past Division II CSU-Pueblo.

Nique Clifford, Taviontae Jackson and Patrick Cartier each finished with 13 points. Clifford also had nine rebounds. Colorado State (10-1) held a 36-12 advantage in points in the paint.

Armon Muldrew led CSUPueblo (6-5) with 16 points, while Brevin Walter contributed 13.

The Thunderwolves held the lead for 26 seconds in the first half. But the Rams used their size and speed to pull away. Colorado State led by as many as 24 in the first half.

NFL MONDAY

O/U (51½)

Boise St. 88, Cal St.-Fullerton 65 Colorado St. 86, CSU-Pueblo 54 Montana 86, San Jose St. 75 Nevada 72, Hawaii 66 Oregon St. 66, UTSA 65 Stanford 82, Idaho 64 Washington 100, Seattle 99, 2OT

NO. 17 COLORADO STATE 86, CSU-PUEBLO 54

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FAR WEST

preseason Patriot League Player and Defensive Player of the Year, was held to nine points.

WOMEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL

OPEN 4½

Abilene Christian 88, UTEP 82 Oklahoma St. 81, Oral Roberts 60

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Boys basketball — Abq. West Mesa at Capital, 2 p.m.

Española Valley at West Las Vegas, 1:30 p.m.

Escalante at Native American Community Academy, 3 p.m.

Girls basketball — Española Valley at West Las Vegas, noon

FAVORITE Old Dominion

SOUTHWEST

24 35

Saturday

UNDERDOG at SEATTLE

CONFERENCE W L PCT

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Coleman Hawkins scored 16 points and Quincy Guerrier and Marcus Domask each scored 16 Illinois 74 15 to help Colgate 57 Illinois lead from start to finish in a 74-57 victory over Colgate on Sunday.

Terrance Shannon Jr. had 14 points despite not scoring in the second half for the 16th-ranked Illini (8-2). The Big Ten’s second-leading scorer had 20 or more points in six of his last seven games.

Colgate (6-5), which has qualified for the NCAA Tournament four times in five years, was led by Jeff Woodward with 14 points. Keegan Records, the

Boys basketball — Peñasco at Santa Rosa, 6 p.m.

Bernalillo at Taos, 7 p.m.

O/U (45)

Akron 88, Miami-Hamilton 45 E. Illinois 87, Blackburn 66 Illinois 74, Colgate 57 Illinois St. 75, N. Dakota St. 65 Iowa St. 96, Florida A&M 58 N. Iowa 100, Alcorn St. 82 Nebraska 62, Kansas St. 46 Omaha 88, Stetson 80 SE Missouri 87, Lindsey Wilson 59 Seton Hall 93, Missouri 87 St. Thomas (MN) 85, Crown (Minn.) 66

The Associated Press

Friday

TODAY 3

MIDWEST

GOLDEN STATE (118) Kuminga 5-7 0-4 12, Thompson 11-16 1-1 28, Looney 2-5 0-0 4, Curry 2-12 3-4 7, Podziemski 4-8 2-2 10, Jackson-Davis 6-9 2-2 14, Wiggins 9-12 3-4 25, Saric 2-4 2-2 8, Moody 3-7 0-0 6, Paul 2-7 0-0 4. Totals 46-87 13-19 118.

PORTLAND (114) Camara 3-4 2-4 11, Grant 11-19 5-5 30, Ayton 4-8 0-0 8, Sharpe 4-10 1-1 12, Simons 9-20 6-6 24, Walker 1-3 2-2 4, Thybulle 1-4 0-0 3, Brogdon 3-8 0-0 8, Henderson 4-9 5-5 14. Totals 40-85 2123 114.

Thursday

OPEN 4½

SOUTH

GOLDEN STATE 118, PORTLAND 114

Wednesday Boys basketball — Monte del Sol at New Mexico School for the Deaf,

Balanced attack leads Illinois to win

Boys basketball — Academy for Technology and the Classics at Wagon Mound, 5:30 p.m.

Pecos at McCurdy, 7 p.m.

Coronado at Questa, 5:30 p.m.

Mora at Maxwell, 6:30 p.m.

Moriarty at West Las Vegas, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Española Valley at Los Lunas, 7 p.m.

Pecos at McCurdy, 5:30 p.m.

Cuba at Escalante, 6;30 p.m.

Coronado at Questa, 5 p.m.

Mora at Maxwell, 5 p.m.

Wrestling — Dual: Abq. Valley at Pojoaque Valley, 4 p.m.

FAVORITE Philadelphia

Tatum 4-6, Horford 2-3, Porzingis 2-4, Holiday 2-5, Pritchard 1-1, White 1-5, Banton 0-1, Hauser 0-3). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Orlando 43 (Banchero 10), Boston 55 (Porzingis 10). Assists_Orlando 18 (F.Wagner 6), Boston 18 (Brown 6). Total Fouls_Orlando 16, Boston 19. A_19,156 (18,624)

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

24 22

HOME

W-4 L-3 W-1 L-1 L-23

11-6 12-10 7-13 7-13 3-18

PCT

Charlotte at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Miami at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Phila., 5 p.m.

Utah at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Denver at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

New York at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Houston, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

19 34

STR

5-7 8-6 7-8 3-7 2-13

CONF

TUESDAY’S GAMES

ORLANDO 31 BOSTON 27

11-2 7-5 3-7 4-10 2-8

CONF

AWAY

Memphis at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Boston at Golden State, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 8 p.m.

32 38

L-2 W-1 L-1 L-4 L-1

AWAY

HOME

MONDAY’S GAMES

28 33

HOME

19-4 14-5 11-6 11-8 6-14

STR

Chicago at Phila., 5 p.m.

Houston at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Utah, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Denver, 7 p.m.

Washington at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

New York at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

HOUSTON MILWAUKEE

STR

CONF

6-5 8-4 7-8 5-7 3-8

L10

— 1 2 9½ 12

SUNDAY’S GAMES

31 35

L10

AWAY

14-0 10-3 7-3 8-5 7-7

GB

Boston 114, Orlando 97 New Orleans 146, San Antonio 110 Milwaukee 128, Houston 119 Phoenix 112, Washington 108 Golden State 118, Portland 114

WASHINGTON29 29 PHOENIX 21 25

6-4 5-5 2-8 2-8 2-8

HOME

W-5 W-6 L-1 L-2 L-1

PCT

SATURDAY’S GAMES

38 26

L10

STR

8-2 5-5 6-4 5-5 0-10

Milwaukee 146, Detroit 114 Phila. 135, Charlotte 82 Cleveland 127, Atlanta 119 Miami 118, Chicago 116 Minnesota 127, Indiana 109 Golden State 124, Brooklyn 120 Dallas 131, Portland 120 Oklahoma City 118, Denver 117 Sacramento 125, Utah 104 L.A. Clippers 144, New York 122

GOLDEN STATE27 PORTLAND 23

8-2 8-2 5-5 6-4 3-7

— 5 5 9½ 17

.640 .593 .565 .250 .160

L

L10

Boys basketball — Coronado at Monte del Sol (Fort Marcy), 6:30 p.m.

Miyamura at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Valencia at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Santa Rosa at McCurdy, 7 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Dulce, 7 p.m.

Estancia at Pecos, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Española Valley at Valencia, 7 p.m.

Santa Rosa at McCurdy, 5:30 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Dulce, 5:30 p.m.

Estancia at Pecos, 6 p.m.

MEN’S COLLEG E BA SKE TBALL

6:30 p.m.

Hot Springs at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Taos at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Tularosa at West Las Vegas, 5 p.m.

ATLANTIC

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Toronto Florida Detroit Tampa Bay Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

29 19 5 28 16 6 30 18 10 30 15 11 32 14 13 30 13 13 32 13 16 26 11 15

5 6 2 4 5 4 3 0

43 94 73 38 106 90 38 90 78 34 107 95 33 105 114 30 84 104 29 90 105 22 90 95

29 21 7 30 17 10 30 14 8 31 16 12 28 15 9 29 16 12 29 13 13 32 10 17

1 3 8 3 4 1 3 5

43 96 80 37 90 79 36 94 100 35 100 100 34 70 80 33 101 104 29 83 81 25 96 117

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders Carolina Washington New Jersey Pittsburgh Columbus

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

Colorado Winnipeg Dallas Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

PACIFIC

GP W 31 29 29 31 30 30 28 30

19 18 17 18 15 15 12 9

GP W

L OT PTS

10 9 8 13 13 14 12 20

2 2 4 0 2 1 4 1

GF GA

40 118 98 38 97 76 38 103 92 36 99 94 32 93 86 31 88 99 28 86 91 19 70 109

L OT PTS

GF GA

Vegas 32 21 6 5 47 119 83 Vancouver 32 21 9 2 44 120 79 Los Angeles 27 17 6 4 38 97 67 Calgary 31 12 14 5 29 93 109 Seattle 32 10 14 8 28 87 105 Edmonton 28 13 14 1 27 97 97 Anaheim 30 11 19 0 22 80 102 San Jose 31 9 19 3 21 68 129 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Minnesota 2, Vancouver 1, SO New Jersey 6, Columbus 3 Philadelphia 1, Detroit 0 Montreal 5, N.Y. Islanders 3 Winnipeg 6, Colorado 2 Toronto 7, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Rangers 2, Boston 1, OT Nashville 3, Washington 1 St. Louis 4, Dallas 3, OT Arizona 2, Buffalo 0 Calgary 4, Tampa Bay 2 Florida 5, Edmonton 1 Los Angeles 3, Seattle 2, SO

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Vancouver 4, Chicago 3 Washington 2, Carolina 1, SO Anaheim 5, New Jersey 1 Colorado 6, San Jose 2 Vegas 6, Ottawa 3

MONDAY’S GAMES

Anaheim at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m.

Seattle at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Florida at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Columbus at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Vegas at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Detroit at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Seattle at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

GOLF Saturday At Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando, Fla. Yardage: 7,106; Par: 72 Purse: $1.085 million

FINAL ROUND

60-59—119 60-61—121 60-62—122 60-63—123 64-61—125 57-68—125 61-64—125 62-63—125 62-63—125 64-64—128 62-67—129 62-67—129 64-66—130 64-66—130 64-67—131 68-64—132 68-35—133 69-66—135 67-70—137 66-71—137

for Purdue (6-5).

BATON ROUGE, La. — Angel Reese scored 25 points and 14 rebounds, Aneesah Morrow had 16 points and 14 rebounds 7 LSU 81 and No. 7 LSU NW St. 36 slogged its way to an 81-36 victory over Northwestern St. on Sunday.

It was the 11th straight win for the Tigers (11-1) after the defending national champions lost their season opener to then-No. 20 Colorado on Nov. 6. Northwestern St. dropped to 4-6.

Mikaylah Williams finished with 14 points, despite missing her first eight field goal attempts. Flau’jae Johnson added 13 points, five steals and five assists.

Sharna Ayres led Northwestern St. (4-6) with 10 points.

LSU coach Kim Mulkey was ejected from the game with 4:56 left and LSU leading by 39 points. She was given two technical fouls for protesting a charging foul call against Morrow.

NO. 19 MARQUETTE 99, APPALACHIAN STATE 91

NO. 14 NOTRE DAME 76, PURDUE 39

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS PNC CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Team Langer, $200,000 Team Duval, $80,000 Team Singh, $57,250 Team Goosen, $50,000 Team Woods, $47,000 Team Kucher, $47,000 Team Daly, $47,000 Team Lehman, $47,000 Team Cink, $47,000 Team Stricker, $44,500 Team Annika, $43,750 Team O’Meara, $43,750 Team Thomas, $42,750 Team Korda, $42,750 Team Leonard, $42,000 Team Price, $41,500 Team Faldo, $41,000 Team Trevino, $40,500 Team Harrington, $40,125 Team Furyk, $40,125

The Associated Press

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TRANSACTIONS HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Reassigned C Jesper Boqvist to Providence (AHL). Loaned D Ian Mitchell to Providence.

CALGARY FLAMES — Activated G Jacob Markstrom from injured. Reassigned G Dustin Wolf and D Ilya Solovyov to Calgary (AHL) CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled G Yaniv Perets from Norfolk (ECHL). Loaned G Antti Raanta to Chicago (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned F Alexandre Doucet to Toledo (ECHL) from Grand Rapids (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Returned D Jacob Moverare to Ontario (AHL) from loan.

PHIDELPHIA FLYERS — Reassigned D Mason Millman to Lehigh Valley (AHL) from Reading (ECHL).

SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League HOUSTON DASH — Acquired M Belle Briede, $60,000 in allocation funds and a natural thirdround 2024 draft pick from San Diego in exchange for M Sierra Enge.

UTAH ROYALS — Sent LW Elyse Bennett to San Diego in exchange for $40,000 in allocation funds.

In South Bend, Ind., star freshman Hannah Hildalgo had 23 points, 10 rebounds, eight assists and seven steals and even threw in a blocked shot and Notre Dame dominated in-state rival Purdue after the Fighting Irish unveiled a statue of legendary coach Muffet McGraw outside Purcell Pavilion.

McGraw retired in 2020 after 33 years as head coach with 936 wins, nine trips to the Final Four and national championships in 2001 and 2018.

Maddy Westbeld added 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Fighting Irish (8-1), who have won eight straight. Natalija Marshall continued her stellar play off the bench with 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting. Notre Dame finished at 51% despite going 3 of 11 on 3-pointers.

Abbey Ellis scored eight points

In Milwaukee, Wisc., Jordan King scored a season-high 29 points and Frannie Hottinger grabbed a career-high 21 rebounds as Marquette topped Appalachian State.

King moved into third all-time in career games played by starting in her 135th game for Marquette (11-0), hit a career-high six 3-pointers and topped 20 points for the 15th time in her career.

Liza Karlen scored 24 points, topping 20 points in a game for the fifth time this season. Mackenzie Hare added 13 points.

Six Mountaineers (5-5) reached double-figure scoring led by Emily Carver and Faith Alston, who each had 19 points. Rylan Moffitt scored 13 points, Alexis Black and Makenzie Drout each had 12 points and J’Mani Ingram contributed 10.

NO. 20 CREIGHTON 89, DRAKE 78 In Des Moines, Iowa, Emma Ronsiek scored 25 of her 31 points in the second half, Lauren Jensen added 22 points, and Creighton defeated Drake.

Morgan Maly finished with 19 points, seven rebounds and four assists for the Bluejays (8-2).

Drake (6-4) kept pace in the second half, including a 31-30 advantage in the third quarter.

The Bulldogs hit on 65% of their shots in the quarter and Creighton made 68%. Drake’s Katie Dinnebier scored 17 of her 26 points in the second half.

Anna Miller had 15 points and nine rebounds for Drake and Grace Berg finished with 14 points, six rebounds and four assists.

NO. 22 FLORIDA STATE 76, DREXEL 56 In Philadelphia, Ta’Niya Latson scored 22 points to guide Florida State over Drexel.

Latson made 7 of 16 shots with a 3-pointer and 7 of 9 free throws for the Seminoles (8-3). She added three assists, three steals and blocked two shots. O’Mariah Gordon finished with 14 points and seven assists.

Notes from the North Continued from Page B-1

4-2 overall and ranked eighth in the 5A standings.

While West Las Vegas occupies the top spot in the 3A rankings and SFIS sits third, the wild card is a 4-1 Las Vegas Robertson team that just played its fourth game over the weekend at the Bruce King Tournament in Moriarty.

Meanwhile, defending champion St. Michael’s is languishing at 2-4 and 11th in 3A. The Horsemen have a 12-day break before another crucial point in the season — the Stu Clark Tournament. St. Michael’s faces Belen in the opening round and could see Las Vegas Robertson in the next round.

NFL

NFL WEEK 15 STANDINGS AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST W

Miami Buffalo e-N.Y. Jets e-New England

SOUTH

Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville e-Tennessee

NORTH

x-Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh

L

10 8 5 3

4 6 9 11

T

PCT

W

L

T

PCT

8 8 8 5

6 6 6 9

0 0 0 0

3 5 6 7

W

.571 .571 .571 .357

0 0 0 0

L

9 7 6 5

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST 10 10 5 4

W

L

3 4 9 10

T

PCT

W

L

T

PCT

x-Philadelphia x-Dallas N.Y. Giants e-Washington

SOUTH

New Orleans Tampa Bay Atlanta e-Carolina

NORTH

WEST

7 7 6 2

0 0 0 0

7 7 8 12

W

L

10 7 6 5

T

4 7 8 9

W

PF

L

T

y-San Francisco 11 3 L.A. Rams 7 7 Seattle 6 7 e-Arizona 3 11 e-Eliminated from playoffs x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

PF

PF

PA

HOME

AWAY

AFC

NFC

DIV

PA

HOME

AWAY

.786 .500 .462 .214

5-2-0 7-1-0 5-3-0 4-4-0

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

PA

HOME

AWAY

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

HOME

331 269 301 329

425 327 280 259

SCHEDULE

5-1-0 7-0-0 3-3-0 1-5-0

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

PA

234 310 318 376

HOME

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

NFC

5-4-0 6-4-0 6-5-0 3-7-0

AFC

NFC

AFC

DIV

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

NFC

DIV

6-2-0 7-3-0 4-5-0 2-8-0

AFC

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

NFC

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

AWAY

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

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

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

3-4-0 4-4-0 2-5-0 0-8-0

DIV

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

7-2-0 4-5-0 4-5-0 3-6-0

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

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

NFC

7-3-0 6-3-0 3-6-0 5-5-0

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

DIV

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

AFC

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

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

AFC

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

PA

267 290 278 348

PF

6-1-0 6-2-0 3-5-0 1-7-0

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

PA

382 290 300 287

PCT

0 0 0 0

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

321 264 338 423

309 296 258 206

.714 .500 .429 .357

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

245 351 280 345

342 431 189 281

PCT

0 0 0 0

7-3-0 4-5-0 3-7-0 3-6-0

225 289 311 280

PF

.500 .500 .429 .143

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

295 343 313 301

319 304 265 303

.769 .714 .357 .286

0 0 0 0

AWAY

PF

PF

.643 .500 .429 .357

HOME

294 254 287 299

384 309 307 223

PCT

0 0 0 0

PA

441 379 201 186 306 344 319 257

.786 .643 .571 .500

T

5 7 8 9

PF

.714 .571 .357 .214

L

Kansas City Denver Las Vegas L.A. Chargers

Detroit Minnesota Green Bay Chicago

PCT

0 0 0 0

W

11 9 8 7

WEST

T

DIV

4-5-0 6-4-0 4-6-0 1-9-0

AFC

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

NFC

DIV

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

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

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

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

AWAY

AFC

NFC

DIV

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

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

9-1-0 5-4-0 5-5-0 2-7-0

5-0-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 0-5-0

THURSDAY’S GAME

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Kansas City, Butker 39.

New England, Ryland 41.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

MIAMI 30, N.Y. JETS 0

Las Vegas 63, L.A. Chargers 21

N.Y. JETS MIAMI

Cincinnati 27, Minnesota 24, OT Indianapolis 30, Pittsburgh 13 Detroit 42, Denver 17

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Carolina 9, Atlanta 7 Cleveland 20, Chicago 17 Houston 19, Tennessee 16, OT Kansas City 27, New England 17 Miami 30, N.Y. Jets 0 New Orleans 24, N.Y. Giants 6 Tampa Bay 34, Green Bay 20 L.A. Rams 28, Washington 20 San Francisco 45, Arizona 29 Buffalo 31, Dallas 10 Baltimore 23, Jacksonville 7 Philadelphia at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 21

New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 6:15 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 23

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 2:30 p.m.

Buffalo at L.A. Chargers, 6 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 24

Cleveland at Houston, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

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

Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 2:25 p.m.

New England at Denver, 6:15 p.m.

MONDAY, DEC. 25

Las Vegas at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 2:30 p.m.

Baltimore at San Francisco, 6:15 p.m.

BOX SCORES KANSAS CITY 27, NEW ENGLAND 17 7 0

7 10

13 0

0 7

— —

27 17

First Quarter KC_Rice 4 pass from McKinnon (Butker kick), 1:33.

Second Quarter NE_Henry 16 pass from Zappe (Ryland kick), 7:09.

NE_FG Ryland 25, 4:47.

KC_McKinnon 8 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick), :35.

Third Quarter KC_FG Butker 29, 10:29.

KC_Edwards-Helaire 6 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick), 9:22.

KC_FG Butker 54, 3:40.

Fourth Quarter NE_Harris 18 run (Ryland kick), 8:24.

A_64,628.

KC

0 17

0 3

0 3

— —

NYJ

MONDAY’S GAME

KANSAS CITY NEW ENGLAND

0 7

0 30

First Quarter Mia_Mostert 2 run (J.Sanders kick), 7:37.

Second Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 37, 13:56.

Mia_Waddle 60 pass from Tagovailoa (J.Sanders kick), 7:45.

Mia_Mostert 1 run (J.Sanders kick), 1:03.

Third Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 27, 8:36.

Fourth Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 35, 11:42.

A_65,967.

NE

First downs 19 10 Total Net Yards 326 206 Rushes-yards 20-43 16-52 Passing 283 154 Punt Returns 2-33 2-19 Kickoff Returns 0-0 3-84 Interceptions Ret. 1-24 2-22 Comp-Att-Int 28-38-2 23-31-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-26 4-26 Punts 4-49.0 6-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 2-15 5-45 Time of Possession 31:14 28:46 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Kansas City, Edwards-Helaire 13-37, McKinnon 4-11, Mahomes 3-(minus 5). New England, Harris 4-25, Elliott 11-25, Zappe 1-2.

PASSING_Kansas City, Mahomes 27-37-2-305, McKinnon 1-1-0-4. New England, Zappe 23-31-1-180.

RECEIVING_Kansas City, Rice 9-91, Kelce 5-28, Edwards-Helaire 4-64, McKinnon 3-19, Gray 2-37, Toney 2-5, Ju.Watson 1-31, James 1-17, Valdes-Scantling 1-17. New England, Henry 7-66, Parker 5-44, Elliott 5-21, Douglas 3-33, Gesicki 1-7, Thornton 1-5, P.Brown 1-4.

MIA

First downs 11 16 Total Net Yards 103 290 Rushes-yards 12-23 28-77 Passing 80 213 Punt Returns 0-0 4-53 Kickoff Returns 0-0 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-40 Comp-Att-Int 18-37-2 23-26-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 6-56 3-15 Punts 5-53.4 4-35.75 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 0-0 Penalties-Yards 7-55 9-65 Time of Possession 23:39 36:21 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_N.Y. Jets, Bre.Hall 6-12, Abanikanda 4-8, Cook 1-4, Davis 1-(minus 1). Miami, Mostert 15-42, Achane 9-32, J.Wilson 2-5, White 2-(minus 2).

PASSING_N.Y. Jets, Siemian 14-26-2-110, Z.Wilson 4-11-0-26. Miami, Tagovailoa 21-24-0-224, White 2-2-0-4.

RECEIVING_N.Y. Jets, Conklin 4-18, G.Wilson 3-29, Lazard 3-21, Gipson 2-29, Ruckert 2-16, Abanikanda 2-11, Cook 1-6, Bre.Hall 1-6. Miami, Waddle 8-142, Smythe 4-32, Achane 3-30, Claypool 2-8, C.Wilson 2-2, Mostert 2-1, Berrios 1-12, J.Wilson 1-1.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

CLEVELAND 20, CHICAGO 17

CHICAGO CLEVELAND

0 0

7 7

10 0

0 13

— —

17 20

Second Quarter Chi_Kmet 5 pass from J.Fields (Santos kick), 10:54.

Cle_Njoku 2 pass from Flacco (Hopkins kick), 3:48.

Third Quarter Chi_Edmunds 45 interception return (Santos kick), 13:50.

Chi_FG Santos 41, 7:07.

Fourth Quarter Cle_FG Hopkins 33, 12:27.

Cle_Cooper 51 pass from Flacco (Hopkins kick), 3:08.

Cle_FG Hopkins 34, :32.

A_67,919.

CHI

CLE

First downs 12 14 Total Net Yards 236 377 Rushes-yards 27-88 18-29 Passing 148 348 Punt Returns 5-23 4-23 Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-15 Interceptions Ret. 3-106 2-6 Comp-Att-Int 19-40-2 29-45-3 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-18 4-31 Punts 10-44.8 9-43.333 Fumbles-Lost 4-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 4-19 9-48 Time of Possession 29:00 31:00 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Chicago, R.Johnson 5-36, Fields 7-30, V.Jones 2-23, Herbert 6-8, Scott 1-(minus 3), Foreman 6-(minus 6). Cleveland, J.Ford 8-20, Hunt 7-8, Strong 2-2, Flacco 1-(minus 1).

PASSING_Chicago, Fields 19-40-2-166. Cleveland, Flacco 28-44-3-374, Thompson-Robinson 1-1-0-5.

RECEIVING_Chicago, Kmet 5-23, Moore 4-52, R.Johnson 4-24, Scott 3-49, Mooney 2-14, Herbert 1-4. Cleveland, Njoku 10-104, Cooper 4-109, Tillman 4-52, J.Ford 4-11, Moore 2-17, Strong 2-9,

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San Francisco running back Christian McCaffrey scored three touchdowns in Sunday’s win over the Cardinals in Glendale, Ariz.

Cowboys

Goodwin 1-57, Hunt 1-12, Akins 1-8.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

TAMPA BAY 34, GREEN BAY 20 TAMPA BAY GREEN BAY

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First Quarter TB_FG McLaughlin 39, 9:02.

GB_Kraft 5 pass from Love (Carlson kick), :49.

Second Quarter TB_Evans 19 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 12:21.

GB_FG Carlson 36, 7:09.

TB_FG McLaughlin 46, :10.

Third Quarter TB_R.White 26 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 10:55.

GB_Reed 17 pass from Love (Carlson kick), 4:18.

TB_Kieft 2 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), :20.

Fourth Quarter GB_FG Carlson 33, 10:04.

TB_Moore 52 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 6:30.

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HOUSTON TENNESSEE

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Second Quarter Ten_Molden 44 interception return (Folk kick), 13:56.

Hou_FG Fairbairn 23, :00.

Third Quarter Hou_FG Fairbairn 27, 6:27.

Hou_FG Fairbairn 53, 2:42.

Fourth Quarter Ten_FG Folk 45, 7:28.

Hou_N.Brown 3 pass from Keenum (Fairbairn kick), 3:03.

First Overtime Hou_FG Fairbairn 54, :00.

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First downs 21 14 Total Net Yards 340 204 Rushes-yards 32-148 30-66 Passing 192 138 Punt Returns 2-33 4-17 Kickoff Returns 3-71 1-19 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 1-44 Comp-Att-Int 23-36-1 17-26-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-37 7-61 Punts 6-46.667 8-45.25 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 8-67 5-50 Time of Possession 36:32 33:28 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Houston, Singletary 26-121, Ogunbowale 1-17, Hutchinson 1-5, Pierce 1-3, Sims 1-1, Keenum 2-1. Tennessee, Spears 9-30, Levis 4-25, Henry 16-9, Burks 1-2.

PASSING_Houston, Keenum 23-36-1-229. Tennessee, Levis 17-26-1-199.

RECEIVING_Houston, Brown 8-82, Schultz 4-58, Singletary 4-49, Woods 3-30, Jordan 1-14, Metchie 1-1, Sims 1-0, Beck 1-(minus 5). Tennessee, Henry 4-1, Burks 3-62, Moore 3-39, Okonkwo 3-36, Hopkins 2-21, Westbrook-Ikhine 1-33, Spears 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

NEW ORLEANS 24, N.Y. GIANTS 6

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NO_Kirkwood 7 pass from Carr (Grupe kick), :29.

Second Quarter NYG_FG Gillan 40, :00.

Third Quarter NO_J.Johnson 23 pass from Carr (Grupe kick), 8:39.

NO_FG Grupe 50, 4:17.

Fourth Quarter NO_Graham 1 pass from Carr (Grupe kick), 10:47.

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NO

SAN FRANCISCO 45, ARIZONA 29 SAN FRANCISCO ARIZONA

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First Quarter Ari_Conner 2 run (Prater kick), 10:40.

SF_Samuel 12 pass from Purdy (Moody kick), 6:33.

SF_Ward 66 interception return (Moody kick), 4:22.

Second Quarter Ari_FG Prater 58, 14:11.

Ari_FG Prater 43, 6:14.

SF_McCaffrey 5 pass from Purdy (Moody kick), 1:14.

Third Quarter SF_McCaffrey 41 pass from Purdy (Moody kick), 13:18.

Ari_FG Prater 28, 4:20.

SF_McCaffrey 1 run (Moody kick), 1:08.

Fourth Quarter Ari_Demercado 49 run (pass failed), 11:30.

SF_Samuel 19 pass from Purdy (Moody kick), 7:09.

SF_FG Moody 43, 3:09.

Ari_Higgins 8 pass from Murray (Prater kick), :47.

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ARI

First downs 24 22 Total Net Yards 406 436 Rushes-yards 26-144 30-234 Passing 262 202 Punt Returns 1-4 1-0 Kickoff Returns 1-18 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 2-79 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 18-28-0 26-39-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 3-9 Punts 2-48.0 2-56.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 5-0 Penalties-Yards 1-5 4-28 Time of Possession 25:49 34:11 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_San Francisco, McCaffrey 18-115, Mason 5-20, Samuel 1-11, Darnold 2-(minus 2).

Arizona, Conner 14-86, Demercado 4-64, Murray 6-49, Carter 3-27, Dortch 1-5, Moore 1-3, Tune 1-0.

PASSING_San Francisco, Purdy 16-25-0-242, Darnold 2-3-0-20. Arizona, Murray 26-39-2-211.

RECEIVING_San Francisco, McCaffrey 5-72, Samuel 4-48, Aiyuk 3-37, Kittle 2-54, Juszczyk 2-26, Jennings 2-25. Arizona, McBride 10-102, Higgins 4-44, Carter 3-10, Conner 3-3, Dortch 2-15, Moore 2-5, Swaim 1-26, Demercado 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

BUFFALO 31, DALLAS 10

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Second Quarter Buf_Cook 18 pass from J.Allen (Ty.Bass kick), 12:52.

Dal_FG Aubrey 32, 7:13.

Buf_J.Allen 1 run (Ty.Bass kick), 1:36.

Third Quarter Buf_FG Ty.Bass 23, 2:36.

Fourth Quarter Buf_Cook 24 run (Ty.Bass kick), 12:30.

Dal_Lamb 3 run (Aubrey kick), 2:48.

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BALTIMORE 23, JACKSONVILLE 7

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Car_FG Pineiro 34, :22.

Fourth Quarter Car_FG Pineiro 25, 13:32.

Car_FG Pineiro 23, :00.

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CAR

First downs 12 17 Total Net Yards 204 283 Rushes-yards 31-52 36-129 Passing 152 154 Punt Returns 2-9 1-0 Kickoff Returns 3-43 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-2 Comp-Att-Int 12-20-1 18-24-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 3-13 Punts 5-39.6 5-47.0 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 2-0 Penalties-Yards 4-25 4-35 Time of Possession 26:04 33:56 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Atlanta, Allgeier 14-45, Robinson 7-11, Ridder 5-(minus 2), Patterson 5-(minus 2). Carolina, Hubbard 22-87, Smith-Marsette 4-31, Young 4-9, Sanders 6-2.

PASSING_Atlanta, Ridder 12-20-1-152. Carolina, Young 18-24-0-167.

RECEIVING_Atlanta, Pitts 3-37, J.Smith 2-61, D.London 2-24, Hodge 1-10, Fisk 1-9, Allgeier 1-6, Robinson 1-3, Patterson 1-2. Carolina, Thielen 4-43, Mingo 4-32, Tremble 2-32, Hubbard 2-16, Sanders 2-11, Smith-Marsette 2-1, Chark 1-18, Sullivan 1-14.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

L.A. RAMS 28, WASHINGTON 20 WASHINGTON L.A. RAMS

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outscored 156-152.

“It’s a gap. That’s part of my message.

We play so well at home, and there’s just too big of a gap in our road games,” coach Continued from Page B-1 Mike McCarthy said. “We are conscious right for Dallas, which fell a game behind of it. We have a long flight home to continue to talk about, think about [it].”

NFC-best San Francisco.

Dallas, coming off a 33-13 win over Buffalo rushed for 266 yards, held the ball for 10 minutes longer than Dallas and Philadelphia, plays two of its last three on the road. had 28 first downs to the Cowboys’ 14.

The Bills played keep-away by runThe NFL’s top-scoring offense was ning the ball in a persistent rain, tripping limited to a field goal through 57 minup a Cowboys offense that finished with utes. Dallas is 7-0 at home, where it has a season-low 195 yards. outscored opponents 279-108, but fell to 3-4 on the road, where it has been “They got up on us and continued to

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Second Quarter Bal_Likely 16 pass from L.Jackson (Tucker kick), 1:12.

Third Quarter Jac_Agnew 65 pass from Lawrence (McManus kick), 7:15.

Fourth Quarter Bal_Edwards 1 run (Tucker kick), 14:58.

Bal_FG Tucker 26, 8:00.

Bal_FG Tucker 34, 6:01.

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First downs 25 16 Total Net Yards 396 333 Rushes-yards 42-251 17-75 Passing 145 258 Punt Returns 1-3 1-17 Kickoff Returns 0-0 3-91 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-18 Comp-Att-Int 14-24-1 25-43-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-26 1-6 Punts 3-43.0 3-49.333 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-2 Penalties-Yards 6-54 6-47 Time of Possession 34:19 25:41 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Baltimore, Jackson 12-97, Mitchell 9-73, Edwards 16-58, Hill 5-23. Jacksonville, Lawrence 4-41, Etienne 10-31, D.Johnson 2-5, Bigsby 1-(minus 2).

PASSING_Baltimore, Jackson 14-24-1-171. Jacksonville, Lawrence 25-43-0-264.

RECEIVING_Baltimore, Likely 5-70, Bateman 3-39, Mitchell 2-15, Kolar 1-15, Beckham 1-14, Edwards 1-11, Flowers 1-7. Jacksonville, Z.Jones 5-59, Ridley 5-39, Engram 4-28, Etienne 4-28, Washington 4-12, Agnew 2-70, Farrell 1-28.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Jacksonville, McManus 55, McManus 50.

control the ball, control the possession, kill the clock. And we didn’t convert on our third downs, which is something we have been great on all year,” Prescott said.

“That’s been our way of winning the games. So they beat us in the formula.”

Buffalo’s injury-depleted defense, missing two more regulars in edge rusher A.J. Epenesa and safety Micah Hyde, had three sacks and limited Prescott to 21 of 34 passing for 134 yards with an interception. And a Cowboys offense that’s scored 40 or more points five times this season punted five times and was limited to eight first downs

DAVID RICHARD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Browns quarterback Joe Flacco throws one of his three interceptions against the Bears during Sunday’s game in Cleveland.

In his third start for the team, Flacco would rally the Browns from a 17-7 deficit in the fourth quarter in the 20-17 win.

Flacco leads Browns’ rally from 10 down The Associated Press

CLEVELAND — Joe Flacco passed for 374 yards and led the Browns to 13 points in the fourth quarter, including Dustin Hopkins’ go-ahead 34-yard field goal with 32 seconds Browns 20 left, and Bears 17 Cleveland withstood a Hail Mary on the final play to beat Chicago 20-17.

Flacco was intercepted three times but made some brilliant throws in the closing minutes to rally the Browns, including a 51-yard touchdown pass to Amari Cooper with 3:08 left that tied it at 17-all.

The Browns (9-5) got the ball back with 1:50 left and the 38-year-old Flacco, who was signed Nov. 20 and made his third start for Cleveland, completed two passes to tight end David Njoku for 65 yards to set up Hopkins’ kick.

After blowing a 17-7, fourth-quarter lead, the Bears (5-9) nearly pulled off a stunning finish.

Justin Fields lofted a pass from the 45-yard line to the end zone on the game’s last play.

The ball was deflected toward Bears receiver Darnell Mooney, who was lying on his back, but it bounced off his hands and Cleveland’s D’Anthony Bell made the interception.

TEXANS 19, TITANS 16, OT

First downs 14 28 Total Net Yards 195 351 Rushes-yards 20-89 49-266 Passing 106 85 Punt Returns 0-0 2-32 Kickoff Returns 2-43 2-28 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-8 Comp-Att-Int 21-34-1 7-15-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-28 1-9 Punts 5-55.0 2-47.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 5-48 1-15 Time of Possession 24:55 35:05 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Dallas, Pollard 11-52, Prescott 4-27, Dowdle 3-4, Lamb 1-3, Luepke 1-3. Buffalo, Cook 25-179, Ty.Johnson 9-54, J.Allen 8-24, Murray 5-11, K.Allen 2-(minus 2).

PASSING_Dallas, Prescott 21-34-1-134. Buffalo, J.Allen 7-15-0-94.

RECEIVING_Dallas, Lamb 7-53, Ferguson 6-44, Cooks 2-10, Dowdle 2-8, Pollard 2-5, Gallup 1-9, Hendershot 1-5. Buffalo, Diggs 4-48, Cook 2-42, Ty.Johnson 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

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First downs 14 23 Total Net Yards 297 445 Rushes-yards 21-79 37-196 Passing 218 249 Punt Returns 1-15 1-4 Kickoff Returns 3-63 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-2 Comp-Att-Int 19-36-1 25-33-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-8 3-9 Punts 5-40.6 3-44.667 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-2 Penalties-Yards 3-28 5-36 Time of Possession 24:07 35:53 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Washington, Rodriguez 10-35, Howell 3-22, Gibson 4-15, Brissett 2-9, Way 1-0, Williams 1-(minus 2). L.A. Rams, K.Williams 27-152, Robinson 1-23, Freeman 6-16, Nacua 2-3, Stafford 1-2.

PASSING_Washington, Brissett 8-10-0-124, Howell 11-26-1-102. L.A. Rams, Stafford 25-33-0-258.

RECEIVING_Washington, McLaurin 6-141, Samuel 5-41, Gibson 5-20, Dotson 1-12, Thomas 1-7, Pringle 1-5. L.A. Rams, Kupp 8-111, Nacua 5-50, K.Williams 5-3, Higbee 4-36, Robinson 2-44, D.Allen 1-14.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_L.A. Rams, Havrisik 43.

First downs 12 20 Total Net Yards 193 296 Rushes-yards 16-60 28-87 Passing 133 209 Punt Returns 2-15 3-35 Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-36 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-38-0 23-29-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 7-57 1-9 Punts 5-47.6 4-41.75 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 5-32 6-58 Time of Possession 26:33 33:27 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_N.Y. Giants, DeVito 4-36, S.Barkley 9-14, Breida 3-10. New Orleans, Kamara 16-66, Williams 8-24, Hill 1-1, Carr 3-(minus 4).

PASSING_N.Y. Giants, DeVito 20-34-0-177, Taylor 2-40-13. New Orleans, Carr 23-28-0-218, Hill 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING_N.Y. Giants, Slayton 4-63, Waller 4-40, W.Robinson 4-25, Gray 3-6, S.Barkley 2-23, Bellinger 2-13, Breida 2-11, Cager 1-9. New Orleans, Kamara 5-44, Shaheed 3-36, Bowden 3-31, Moreau 3-13, J. Johnson 2-38, Perry 2-34, Graham 2-9, Kirkwood 1-7, Hill 1-4, Williams 1-2.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

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Second Quarter LAR_K.Williams 1 run (Havrisik kick), 2:19.

LAR_FG Havrisik 27, :03.

Third Quarter LAR_Kupp 62 pass from Stafford (Havrisik kick), 14:07.

Was_Samuel 19 pass from Howell (Slye kick), 6:25.

Fourth Quarter LAR_D.Robinson 23 pass from Stafford (K.Williams run), 13:25.

Was_McLaurin 29 pass from Brissett (Slye kick), 7:17.

Was_Samuel 3 pass from Brissett (kick failed), 1:46.

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WAS

First downs 22 18 Total Net Yards 452 321 Rushes-yards 27-99 17-60 Passing 353 261 Punt Returns 1-13 0-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-28 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-28-0 29-39-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 5-28 2-23 Punts 1-65.0 2-47.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 4-52 4-31 Time of Possession 29:07 30:53 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Tampa Bay, R.White 21-89, Edmonds 3-13, Thompkins 1-(minus 1), Mayfield 2-(minus 2). Green Bay, A.Jones 13-53, Taylor 1-6, Love 2-1, Drake 1-0.

PASSING_Tampa Bay, Mayfield 22-28-0-381.

Green Bay, Love 29-39-0-284.

RECEIVING_Tampa Bay, Godwin 10-155, Evans 4-57, Moore 2-68, R.White 2-50, Otton 2-44, Palmer 1-5, Kieft 1-2. Green Bay, Wicks 6-97, Reed 6-52, Kraft 4-57, A.Jones 4-16, Doubs 3-30, Heath 3-29, Taylor 2-(minus 4), Melton 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

HOUSTON 19, TENNESSEE 16, OT

Monday, December 18, 2023

In Nashville, Tenn., Ka’imi Fairbairn kicked a 54-yard field goal as time expired in overtime, and Houston rallied from a 13-point deficit without C.J. Stroud to beat the Titans.

The Texans (8-6) entered the day one spot outside of the AFC’s seven-team playoff field. They kept pace by winning without several key players, including Stroud — their standout rookie quarterback — and top receiver Nico Collins, right tackle George Fant and a pair of defensive starters.

49ERS 45, CARDINALS 29 In Glendale, Ariz., San Francisco clinched its second straight NFC West title, getting three touchdowns from Christian McCaffrey to beat the Cardinals for its sixth straight win.

Charvarius Ward had two interceptions, including a pick-6, for the 49ers (11-3). Brock Purdy went 16 of 25 for 242 yards and tied a career high with four touchdown passes.

The Niners have won each of their past six games by at least 12 points. They’ve also won 12 straight against NFC West opponents.

McCaffrey finished with five catches for 72 yards and two touchdowns while also running for 115 yards and a score.

RAMS 28, COMMANDERS 20 In Inglewood, Calif., Matthew Stafford passed for 258 yards and hit Cooper Kupp and Demarcus Robinson for touchdowns, leading Los Angeles past free-falling Washington.

Kupp’s eight receptions for 111 yards were highlighted by a 62-yard TD catch right after halftime for the Rams (7-7), who have won four of five to push their way into the playoff picture.

BUCCANEERS 34, PACKERS 20 In Green Bay, Wis., Baker Mayfield threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns, and Tampa Bay beat the Packers for its third straight win.

before gaining six on its final drive.

Four of the Bills’ first five possessions lasted more than 4 minutes, 40 seconds.

Latavius Murray capped Buffalo’s 12-play, 75-yard opening drive with a 2-yard run. The Bills went up 14-0 on Cook’s 18-yard touchdown catch on their third drive, which was extended after Sam Williams was flagged for roughing Bills punter Sam Martin.

The game was essentially over after the Bills’ opening drive of the third quarter, which ate up 8:22 of the clock and ended with Tyle Bass hitting a 23-yard field goal to put Buffalo up 24-3.

Mayfield went 22 of 28 and threw touchdown passes to Mike Evans, Rachaad White, Ko Kieft and David Moore to help the Buccaneers (7-7) keep pace with New Orleans atop the NFC North. Mayfield’s passer rating was a perfect 158.3.

The Packers (6-8) lost their second straight to deal their playoff hopes a major blow.

SAINTS 24, GIANTS 6 In New Orleans, Derek Carr passed for 218 yards and three touchdowns, and the Saints sacked Tommy DeVito seven times in a win over New York.

Carr connected on 23 of 28 passes without a turnover in one of the more efficient outings of his first season with New Orleans (7-7). His scoring passes went for 7 yards to Keith Kirkwood, 24 to Juwan Johnson and 1 to Jimmy Graham, who caught his third scoring pass in three games.

DOLPHINS 30, JETS 0 In Miami Gardens, Fla., Raheem Mostert scored two touchdowns to set the Dolphins’ single-season record with 20, Tua Tagovailoa threw for 224 yards and a score, and Miami blanked New York without star receiver Tyreek Hill.

Mostert walked into the end zone untouched on a 2-yard run that put AFC East-leading Miami (10-4) ahead 7-0. His second TD was from 1 yard out and made it 24-0 late in the second quarter. He has 18 rushing TDs and two receiving.

The Jets were eliminated from playoff contention for the 13th straight season.

CHIEFS 27, PATRIOTS 17 In Foxborough, Mass., running back Jerick McKinnon threw for one touchdown and ran for another, and Patrick Mahomes passed for 305 yards and two scores to help Kansas City beat New England.

The Chiefs (9-5) snapped a twogame skid and maintained control of the AFC West race. With Taylor Swift again on hand to cheer him on, Travis Kelce caught five passes for 28 yards, but also had a potential touchdown bounce off his hands.

PANTHERS 9, FALCONS 7 In Charlotte, N.C., Eddy Pineiro kicked a 23-yard field goal as time expired, and Carolina dealt Atlanta’s playoff hopes a huge blow in a game played in a steady downpour.

The Falcons (6-8) entered the game tied with New Orleans and Tampa Bay for first place in the NFC South, but now need help to get into the postseason after the Saints and Buccaneers both won.

Bryce Young threw for 167 yards in his second NFL win and Chuba Hubbard ran for 87 yards for Carolina (2-12), which snapped a sixgame skid.

The Falcons led 7-6 when Desmond Ridder threw into traffic and was intercepted at the Carolina 5 by safety Xavier Woods. Young, who had struggled all afternoon, led the Panthers on a 17-play, 90-yard drive that took all 7:35 off the clock.

RAVENS 23, JAGUARS 7 In Jacksonville, Fla., Lamar Jackson threw a touchdown pass and made the play of night when he avoided a sack and threw to Isaiah Likely near the goal line, and Baltimore clinched a postseason berth by beating the Jaguars.

The Ravens (11-3) won their fourth in a row and moved a step closer to securing the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs.

The Jaguars (8-6) lost their third straight and fell into a tie with Houston and Indianapolis atop the AFC South.

Buffalo’s 20 first downs rushing were tied for the second most in team history, and most since 1996. Cook’s rushing total was the highest for a Bills player since Fred Jackson had 212 yards in a 2009 season-ending win over Indianapolis.

The Bills, coming off a 20-17 victory at Kansas City, are trying to secure their fifth straight playoff berth and stay in contention for a fourth consecutive AFC East title.

“It was kind of all systems go today,” center Mitch Morse said. “We still have an uphill battle, but this is a great first step.”

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It wasn’t just the chip-in — it was the stare, the sideways walk, the raised finger point, the fist pump and the roar. Woods watched all this and couldn’t smile any wider, especially when he looked over at Steve Stricker.

“To see his reaction ... it happened right in front of me,” Woods said. “He got excited and I looked over at Stricks and he was shaking his head. It was great.”

The PNC Championship, which puts major champions with family members, is geared around moments like that.

But the day — really, the year — belonged to Langer, a 66-year-old German and two-time Masters champion. The signature moment for Langer this year was winning twice on the PGA Tour Championship to bring his victory total to 46, breaking the senior record of Hale Irwin.

The 46th win was no less than the U.S. Senior Open.

Langer and his son, who works in investment banking in New York, started three shots behind Matt Kuchar and son and played so well they had the lead after

four holes and never slowed.

They didn’t make par until the the par-3 eight and had 10 birdies through 11 holes.

The difference between Langer and Floyd and their PNC titles is longevity. Everything seems to be that way with Langer. He won his first PNC Championship in 2005, and 18 years later he again was wearing the Willie Park Trophy, a red leather champion’s belt.

Floyd won five of the first seven PNC Championships.

Woods knows all about the German’s longevity. He recalls the Johnnie Walker Classic in Thailand, playing in his mother’s homeland, and being grouped with Langer, the reigning Masters champion.

“To see what he’s done since then, and what he does each and every year and what he’s battled with on the greens, the different styles he keeps fighting through, it just goes to show the personality, the determination that he has and the type of person he is to be able to stick through everything,” he said.

ounmpo received a huge ovation from the Fiserv Forum crowd.

Brooks had a basket taken away on a review when it was determined he committed an offensive Continued from Page B-1 foul, using his right elbow to inadvertently strike Pat Connaughton in the face.

Lillard made 3 of 4 free throws after the techs to tie The Bucks led by as many as 14 points late in the his season-high scoring total. He also had 11 assists third quarter before Jeff Green sank a 3-pointer and and five rebounds in 37 minutes. two free throws, cutting the Rockets’ deficit to 100The Bucks won the second of a back-to-back 91 entering the final period. set and improved to 9-0 when Lillard scores 30 or Lillard got off to a fast start, scoring 15 points and more points. adding five assists in the first quarter as the Bucks “In my head I was like, sometime in December jumped out to a 33-28 lead. Lillard was 5 for 6 from I’ll start to feel better,” Lillard said, “even though the field and 2 of 3 from 3-point range.

I knew it was a process being on a new team and Rookie guard Andre Jackson gave the Bucks a everything.” boost midway through the second quarter, tipping Fred VanVleet led the Rockets with 22 points and in a miss and scoring on a fast-break layup on center Alperen Sengun had 20. Brooks added 18 and consecutive possessions as Milwaukee took a 52-43 Jabari Smith Jr. and Jalen Green each scored 16. lead. He later added a corner 3-pointer and finished Antetokounmpo broke Abdul-Jabbar’s record with nine points in the half. with a rebound of Tari Eason’s missed shot with Milwaukee led 71-60 at halftime despite allowing 7:46 left in the fourth quarter. It was his 14th 58.5% shooting by the Rockets. Lillard had 20 points rebound of the game and he added three more to and Antetokounmpo added 17 points and eight give him 17,165 rebounds in his 11th season with rebounds.

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The Bucks played without guard Malik Beasley, The Bucks showed a video of his career rebound- who missed his second straight game with a nonCOVID-19 illness. ing highlights at the next timeout and Antetok-

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Langer ties record with fifth title ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods was an 18-year-old senior in high school when he made his first cut in a professional event at a European Tour event in Thailand. That also was the first time he played with Bernhard Langer.

Thirty years later, the ageless Langer is still going strong.

Langer capped off his memorable, record-setting year when he teamed with his son, Jason, to produce a 13-under 59 in 30 mph wind for a two-shot victory over David Duval and his son.

Langer tied the PNC Championship with his fifth title — three with Jason, two with older son Stefan — held by Raymond Floyd.

Woods and 14-year-old son, Charlie, shot 61 in the scramble format to tie for fifth, a day that included one shot so audacious Woods could only laugh. He missed the green on the nine hole at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club well to the left, and the son of the 15-time major champion chipped it in for birdie.

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In transfer portal era, coaches recruit own players Continued from Page B-1

highlighted the predicament facing his program in the decimated Pac-12 in November, citing how far his school is behind on the NIL front compared to teams like Oregon, Washington and USC. He figured December would bring “open target season” for the Cougars.

“We need to provide them with as much resources as we have here to keep this team together, to keep recruiting, to keep going,” Dickert said.

More and more coaches have spoken up about the need for more financial resources being available for NIL deals. N.C State coach Dave Doeren was just one of them, saying earlier this season: “I’d love to see 5,000 people donate $1,000 to our NIL and get us to a point where we can recruit, retain and develop and have a program in the NIL world where the guys on our roster are able to benefit from that.”

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said tampering with other teams’ players is a big problem.

Swinney said the days after the season ended were spent meeting with his team.

“Rosters are not the same because of the portal, because of the trend of guys not playing, and you can get in a bad spot pretty quick,” the Tigers coach said. He noted his team is in dire straits at cornerback for the Gator Bowl against Kentucky after Nate Wiggins was among several players opting out of the bowl to turn pro and Toriano Pride Jr. entered the portal.

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said a key is to prioritize the current players over who may be available in the portal.

“I always want to take care and honor the guys that were

TODD VAN EMSTASSOCIATED PRESS

Jayden Daniels holds the Heisman Trophy in New York City’s Times Square with family and LSU coach Brian Kelly, right, earlier this month. The top three vote-getters in the Heisman this year were transfer portal quarterbacks.

here first,” Rhule said. “If guys decide to leave then I’m going to go fix the problem because they left. I’m just not going to tell a guy here to leave so that I can go get somebody else. I want to be the guy that I promised all the parents I am in recruiting.”

Rhule, a former Carolina Panthers coach, can lean on advice from longtime NFL executive Bill Polian about maintaining a healthy locker room environment: Make sure you don’t bring in a free agent as the team’s highest-paid player.

Having a cohesive team and strong coach-player relationships doesn’t guarantee some won’t leave. But it can’t hurt.

Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said there is added emphasis on maintaining relationships, including with promising young players who may not be getting as much playing time as they hoped. Once a month, Stoops tells his coaches to leave their offices and spend time in the weight room or elsewhere with their players.

“We constantly work on that relationship and making sure that we touch base with those players in particular and all of our guys,” Stoops said. “This is a relationship business. As busy as we are, as much as we all have to do, spending time with the players, investing in the players,

having the players at your house, having them in for meetings.

Keeping that contact is, in my opinion, one of the most important things.”

Marshall coach Charles Huff said the portal options force coaches “to develop genuine relationships with every player in your locker room” not just the starters and seniors.

“I started a deal where I call one or two in my office a week just to say, ‘Hello, how’s mom,’ ” Huff said. “It doesn’t take long for that girlfriend you don’t call or write to drift away.

“That gap between the relationship they had with you in recruiting and that relationship they have now, when it starts to widen, all of sudden homesickness sets in, a friend from another school calls and says, ‘Hey, I’m playing; why aren’t you playing?’ ” Auburn coach Hugh Freeze has staffers charged specifically with “developing relationships” with the players.

“I don’t know that any of us are ever gonna be 100 at it and it certainly makes it very difficult to manage your recruiting and roster,” Freeze said. “But it’s part of the game now, and it’s not a part that many of us like, but you better pay attention to it for sure because it’s here.”

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Five stars!”

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informally 38 Upper limit 39 “Let’s go already!”

41 Actor Peter of “M” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much” 43 Take a break 44 “The dog ate it!”

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41 The last sound in “Keanu,” e.g.

42 Rare things from far away 43 Trample 45 Claimed a victory, homophonically 46 Pilates target 49 Surgery souvenir, maybe 50 Whip 52 Follow, as orders 54 Oscar winner Jared 55 Talk like Sylvester the Cat 56 Eye ailment 58 Sweet potato 59 Org. concerned with emissions 60 Tupperware top

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This will work if you’re trying to get back wages. Tonight: Avoid arguments.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH This is an excellent day to learn something or study anything that interests you.

You also will make headway on working on a manuscript or a paper. Tonight: Stay steady.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Dec. 18, 2023: You are a quick learner and have a strong imagination. This year is the beginning of a nine-year cycle for you .

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Pisces.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You’re high-viz today. You look attractive, and because of this, colleagues will help you.

For some of you, a work-related romance might begin. Tonight: Be courteous.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH It’s a pleasant day to begin your week. Conversations with bosses and parents might boost your wealth or earnings.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH This is a restless day.

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kids. An ex-partner or old friend from your past might be part of your plans. Tonight: Avoid controversy.

income. Look for ways to finish up old projects and wrap up old business. Tonight: Be understanding.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You’re in a playful mood this week, which is why you will accept invitations to party and socialize. You will also enjoy fun outings with kids. Tonight: Check your finances.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You’re in the mood to socialize! Meet friends for lunch. Enjoy time by yourself with a coffee. You’ll be charming and diplomatic with everyone you meet. This is a gift!

Tonight: Be alert.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH This is a strong day!

You’re focused on home and family. Conversations with partners and close friends are warm and supportive. Tonight: Patience.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH This is a pleasant and productive day at work for you. You might see ways to boost your

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2023. There are 13 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 18, 2019, the U.S. House impeached President Donald Trump on two charges, sending his case to the Senate for trial; the articles of impeachment accused him of abusing the power of the presidency to investigate rival Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election and then obstructing Congress’ investigation.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH In one way, this is a strong day because the Sun and Mars are in your sign. You have energy and drive. However, your focus is on your private life.

Tonight: Avoid arguments.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You have a strong need to talk to others today, either by

email, social media or in person.

Meanwhile, others will be glad to hear from you, especially about creative or artistic issues.

Clear up old business related to kids. Tonight: Pay attention.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You look good to others, which is why this is a great time to make your pitch if you want a raise or to explore ways of boosting your income. Behindthe-scenes research will benefit you. Tonight: Protect your belongings.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Your sign is dancing with fair Venus, which makes you want to explore travel opportunities as well as avenues in medicine, the law and higher education. Tonight: Be polite.

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Partner needs to set boundaries Dear Annie: My significant other and I have been together for nearly 14 years. His mother is a huge issue in our relationship, and this past Thanksgiving was the worst.

He has been divorced from his first wife and mother of his 21-year-old daughter since before his daughter was 2 years old.

His ex cheated on him prior to their marriage and during the marriage. This devastated him for years, especially after she left him and took his daughter.

His mother, who presents herself as a good Christian, has always blamed him for the marriage ending, even though his ex cheated and left him. On Thanksgiving, in front of the entire family, including his daughter, she said that she didn’t blame the ex because he had “made a comment about an attractive actress on television when they first were married.”

How on earth does she find that comparable to someone cheating with your spouse’s co-workers and your spouse’s childhood best friends? Needless to say, it didn’t end well, with my significant other slamming the door and leaving.

We are not looking forward to family Christmas with this woman! Help! How do you set boundaries with his mother and let her know that she isn’t as perfect as she thinks she is? There’s so much going on here that I don’t even know where to start.

— Significant Other Dear Significant Other: The best way to set boundaries is to have a conversation with your mother-in-law before you are together in a big group. Even though you were upset by her very insensitive comments, she is still your husband’s mother.

You refer to her in your letter as “this woman.”

So it might be best if your husband were to sit down with his mother and calmly tell her how hurtful she was in blaming her own son, which does not do anyone any good. His ex-wife’s infidelity likely caused their divorce, not his casual comment 20 years ago. His mother’s opinion is not only wrong, but it hurts everyone across the board. Her comments hurt her son, her granddaughter and you, her daughter-inlaw. Perhaps she is not aware of how hurtful her comments are and needs to hear it from her son. If she gets defensive, then all you can do is understand that hurt people hurt people and she is not a happy person.

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