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Dallas (7-8) at Philadelphia (12-3) Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox BetMGM NFL Odds: Eagles by 7 1/2 Against the spread: Dallas 6-9; Philadelphia 9-6 Series record: Cowboys lead 74-58. Last meeting: Jalen Hurts threw two touchdowns and ran for two more in the Eagles’ 34-6 rout of the Cowboys at Dallas on Nov. 10. Last week: Cowboys defeated the Buccaneers 26-24; Eagles lost 36-33 at Washington. Cowboys offense: overall (16), rush (28), pass (10), scoring (20) Cowboys defense: overall (27), rush (27), pass (21), scoring (30) Eagles offense: overall (6), rush (1), pass (31), scoring (8) Eagles defense: overall (1), rush (9), pass (2), scoring (5) Turnover differential: Cowboys minus-3; Eagles plus-6 Eagles player to watch RB Saquon Barkley is 162 yards shy of becoming the ninth player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season and needs 268 yards to break Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards, set in 1984. Cowboys player to watch In his past five games, QB Cooper Rush has passed for nine touchdowns and one interception, looking more comfortable of late after taking over for Dak Prescott in November. Rush is 9-2 as a starter against teams that are not the Eagles. Key matchup Dallas’s rushing defense vs. Barkley. Can anyone stop him? The Cowboys will be the latest to try to corral Barkley, who has 1,838 rushing yards and 2,114 scrimmage yards, both of which lead the NFL. Dallas ranks 28th in the NFL in rushing defense, allowing an average of 135.9 yards a game. Philadelphia, behind Barkley’s stellar play, tops the league at 187.9 yards a game on the ground. Key injuries Cowboys: WR CeeDee Lamb will miss the final two games after getting shut down over the sprained right shoulder he's been dealing with the second half of the season. ... LB Eric Kendricks (calf) warmed up but wasn’t able to play against Tampa Bay last week. Eagles: Hurts is in concussion protocol after leaving the game following a 13-yard scramble with 9:52 left in the first quarter last week. ... DE Josh Sweat (ankle) and Jordan Davis also left the game at Washington early. ... QB Ian Book was signed to the practice squad Thursday. Series notes The Cowboys made the playoffs in each of the previous three seasons, but were eliminated prior to their game against Tampa Bay last week when the Commanders came back from a 13-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat Philadelphia. ... Dallas is 5-2 on the road. ... The Eagles can clinch the NFC East and one of the conference's top two seeds with a victory. ... On Jan. 11, 1981, the Eagles defeated the Cowboys 20-7 at their former home, Veterans Stadium. Wilbert Montgomery rushed for a 42-yard touchdown to give Philadelphia an early lead that propelled the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance. Stats and stuff LB Micah Parsons needs half a sack to reach double digits in sacks for the fourth straight season to begin his career and would become just the fifth player to accomplish the feat in NFL history. ... K Brandon Aubrey made a 53-yard and two 58-yard field goals against the Buccaneers, upping his league-leading total to 14 made of 50-plus yards. ... Kenny Pickett went 14 of 24 for 143 yards and a TD in relief of Hurts last week. If he can’t go because of the rib injury and Hurts remains unavailable, Philadelphia could turn to third-stringer Tanner McKee, a 2023 sixth-round pick. Pickett, a 2022 first-round pick, is no stranger to starting, going 14-10 as Pittsburgh’s QB earlier in his career. ... Defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson was ejected against Washington for committing two unsportsmanlike penalties. ... The Eagles already set a team record for rushing yards in a season with 2,818, and they are within four rushing touchdowns of tying the club’s best single-season mark of 32, set in 2022. ... Barkley needs just 33 yards from scrimmage to break McCoy’s mark of 2,146 scrimmage yards, set in 2013. ... WR A.J. Brown leads the NFL with 16.3 yards a catch and ranks ninth in the league with 1,043 receiving yards, joining Mike Quick (1983–85) as the only Philadelphia players to have three consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons. Fantasy tip Philadelphia’s defense is tied for ninth in the NFL with a plus-6 turnover margin. With Hurts possibly sidelined, Philadelphia giving up an uncharacteristic 36 points last week and the chance to clinch the division, the Eagles defense likely will be extra motivated to have a good performance against a Dallas offense that ranks 21st in the league in points. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL The Associated PressNone
As Ukraine's allies gathered in Halifax on Friday for the International Security Forum, president Peter Van Praagh acknowledged the foreboding many felt following the election of Donald Trump. "Judging from today's reports and traditional and social media, we might be forgiven for believing that Ukraine can no longer win the war against Russian aggression," he said. "This widespread forecast is not true." "It was not true when all the experts said the same thing on February 24, 2022, the date Putin invaded, and it is not true now," he added, promising a conference that would "change this doom-and-gloom narrative." The meeting represents one of the best chances for those still committed to Ukrainian victory against Russia to try to find ways to stymie Trump's declared intention of pushing Ukraine into peace talks that almost certainly would end with the loss of a large part of its territory. Those allies face a difficult, perhaps insurmountable, task. But already, some of Trump's predictions about how the world and the war would respond to his election victory are turning out differently than he expected. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon) One of Trump's campaign promises was that he would end the Ukraine war before taking the oath of office. "I will get it settled before I even become president," Trump claimed with Vice President Kamala Harris. "If I win, when I'm president-elect, what I'll do is I'll speak to one, I'll speak to the other. "They respect me. They don't respect [President Joe] Biden." He in an interview on the podcast PMD: "I think the world's going to behave, and I think I will settle Russia-Ukraine while I'm president-elect." But peace has not broken out. Instead, there has been a wave of escalation. Far from quailing at the prospect of a Trump presidency, Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the use of a new nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) called Oreshnik ('the hazel") in response to a Ukrainian missile attack on Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a televised address in Moscow on November 21, 2024. (Kremlin.ru/Reuters) Putin also went on national television to tell Russians that "a regional conflict in Ukraine previously provoked by the West has acquired elements of a global character," and marked the 1000th day since Russia's full-scale invasion by signing , lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. The escalation has not surprised observers of this war, or of wars generally, said former Canadian defence official Andrew Rasoulis, now with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. "It's very predictable," he told CBC News. "As often is the case before wars come to an end and negotiations set in, the fighting sometimes can be heaviest at that point as both sides try to strengthen their positions before they actually sit down. "Everyone is now doing positional fighting to strengthen their hand at these inevitable negotiations." At the APEC and G20 summits in South America, Prime Minister Trudeau said Canada continues to see Ukrainian victory as the only acceptable outcome. "Any victory on that issue by Russia, any demonstration that if you have a bigger army that you get to redraw lines on a map, would have devastating consequences, not just for Ukraine ... but for the entire world," he said. "How many countries have a neighbour that has a historical claim over this corner across the river where their citizens used to live, or that got rejigged a hundred years ago? How many conflicts have been averted because the world has agreed that you may not like the borders where they are, but they are where they are, and they hold? "That is why it is so important that Ukraine wins this conflict, and that Russia loses." U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer brought a to South America. "We need to double down on shoring up our support for Ukraine and that's top of my agenda," he said in Rio de Janeiro. He didn't reveal that he had already given Kyiv the green light to fire British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia. In Lima for the APEC conference, Trudeau conceded that if the incoming Trump administration is determined to abandon Ukraine, Kyiv's other allies will struggle. "Let's also be very blunt — all of the allies in the world would not be able to replace a complete withdrawal from supporting Ukraine by the United States," he said. But in Rio three days later for the G20, Trudeau said Canada remains determined to try. "We're very aware of potential challenges with President Trump coming in, but we're not going to panic," he said. "We're going to continue to stay focused on getting the support to Ukraine to win this war." If money were the only issue, the remaining allies could probably find a way to outspend Russia — a country with a nominal GDP smaller than any of the G7 nations, including Canada. But dollars and euros do not easily convert into modern, sophisticated heavy weapons systems of the kind Ukraine needs to fight a military superpower such as Russia. As Canadians know well, modern military procurement is a multi-year process, which makes modern warfare something of a come-as-you-are affair. Countries burn through weapons faster than they can produce new ones. In a military handout photo, serviceman of 24th Mechanized brigade fires a 2s5 "Hyacinth-s" self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 18, 2024. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukrainian Armed Forces/Reuters) While Canada has given generously to Ukraine, about two-thirds of its assistance has been in the form of money, loan guarantees, technical assistance, training and humanitarian aid. Two-thirds of U.S. assistance, on the other hand, has been in the form of military hardware. Europe's assistance, too, has skewed more to the financial side, but European allies have also contributed collectively even more military assistance than the U.S. Can they keep that up? Will it be enough? The U.S. defence industry is vastly larger than that of any other western country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is watched by Rich Hansen, the commander's representative for the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, while signing military ordnance in Scranton, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Office of the Ukrainian Presidency via AP) Money earmarked for Ukraine has flowed to arms production facilities , where it buys equipment like the , or the 155mm shells made at a plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited in September. Ukraine's other allies also make arms, but Europe has had to rely heavily on its retired and surplus stocks to arm Ukraine. Those stocks are not yet exhausted. Many European countries of stockpiled or retired armoured vehicles that could be refurbished and sent to Ukraine. On Thursday, at the Commons defence committee, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced that Canada had delivered new air defence equipment to Ukraine that it ordered in 2022, the first year of the conflict. Canada purchased the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) from U.S. manufacturer Raytheon for about $400 million. "We have been able to deliver, at long last," he told committee members, "and I think it's going to make a difference because it will enable them to protect communities." That deal with Raytheon points to ways other countries might continue to leverage the capacity of the U.S. defence industry, even if the Trump administration itself is determined not to chip in. Blair spoke more about how the NASAMS deal came together on Friday, at the Halifax International Security Forum. "We put the money on the table and said, 'OK, we'll do this'. We went to industry, they told us to get in line and it would probably take four or even five years to deliver on those systems. "Fortunately, the United States stepped up and said, 'We have bigger buying power and perhaps a more advantageous position in the contract.' They said, 'Join us.' "And it still took two years." Blair said western leaders will have to lean on their defence industries to scale up and speed up. "All of us recognize that we need to work more closely, more effectively with industry to make sure that we can meet the moment," he said. There is also the possibility that, as the U.S. departs the scene, new players — albeit smaller ones — might step up. One example is South Korea. South Korea has been building up its defence industry for years, with the goal of becoming a world player. Its strategic decision to focus on armoured vehicles was sometimes derided as outmoded, but the rush of international orders following the Ukraine invasion has silenced the critics. Until now, South Korea has adhered to a strict policy of not supplying arms to countries involved in active conflicts, including Ukraine. South Korea's defence and foreign ministers visited their Canadian counterparts in Ottawa this month. South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol met with Trudeau in Peru last week. A South Korean K1A2 tank fires during a joint live fire exercise at a military training field in Pocheon on Thursday, March 14, 2024. South Korea views North Korea's military intervention on Russia's behalf as a clear threat to its security. (Jung Yeon-je/Associated Press) Canadian officials privy to those meetings say that North Korea's decision to send troops to fight on Russia's behalf has been received in Seoul as an almost existential threat to South Korea's own security. South Korea is it could soon be ready to supply Ukraine directly. Japan also fears the effect that exposure to modern Russian training and doctrine could have on the North Korean military, and dreads the possible quid pro quo Moscow might give Kim Jong-un in return for its intervention. Japan, like South Korea, has so far given only money and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. While these nations could never replace the U.S. as a source of weapons, they could theoretically help to mitigate the loss of American support. Finally, there's Ukraine's own defence industry, an antiquated Soviet relic that has modernized and shown a since the 2022 invasion. This week, 12 European countries joined with Ukraine in a new defence cooperation group focused on promoting that industry and linking it more closely to defence industries throughout northern Europe. Denmark this week held the first meeting of a new all-European Northern Group defence alliance that aims to arm Ukraine without US assistance. Ukraine's defence minister, Rustem Umerov, is fifth from left. (Rustem Umerov Facebook account) The includes Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, the Baltic countries, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. Canada is also pursuing initiatives to grow Ukraine's domestic industry, Blair said Friday. "This is a critical moment in the Ukrainian-Russian war," he said. "We have to make sure that we remain united and strong in our support of Ukraine to achieve the appropriate, right outcome for the Ukrainian people, which is victory."The Times view on Ashtead’s stock market shift: Don’t Tell SidUS trade partners warn Trump tariffs would harm all involvedIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet approved a temporary U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement Tuesday that will put a pause to the fighting with Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. On Tuesday, Scripps News spoke with former U.N. Ambassador and former National Security Adviser John Bolton about the agreement and its implications. Bolton said he didn't believe the agreement would cause long-lasting changes in the conflict. "The duration of the cease-fire is 60 days, meaning that it takes the government of Israel out of the Biden administration, into the Trump administration, where they expect to have a more favorable audience," Bolton said. "The provisions of the cease-fire agreement do allow Israel to take military action during this 60-day period if Hezbollah tries to infiltrate back into southern Lebanon, which I think is very highly likely." RELATED STORY | Israel's Netanyahu voices support for ceasefire deal with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon "There's some optics here, there's some American politics involved, because Netanyahu and the Israelis fear that the Biden administration may do something negative on their way out the door," Bolton told Scripps News. "I think it's a temporary accommodation and one that's really very shaky, even from the beginning." It’s not clear if the ceasefire will affect the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which is a separate conflict. Also in the interview, Bolton spoke about the possibility of new North American tariffs under the incoming Trump administration, as well as the national security implications of some of President-elect Trump's cabinet nominations. Watch the full interview with Bolton in the attached video.
Achieve The Perfect Skin Texture: How Clear + Brilliant Works WondersFranco Colapinto ’s commercial appeal could be the key to landing the 21-year-old a drive alongside Max Verstappen for the 2025 campaign. The Argentinian racer is battling Liam Lawson , Yuki Tsunoda and Sergio Perez for the final Red Bull seat. Earlier this summer, Colapinto was a relative unknown to casual F1 fans, but after scoring points in two of his first four races on the grid since replacing Logan Sargeant , his stock has boomed in the paddock. Williams have already secured their 2025 line-up with Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon , so Colapinto is looking elsewhere for a full-time opportunity. The Red Bull system looks like his most likely landing spot, and according to reports, Christian Horner is weighing up throwing him straight into the deep end. If he is to secure a Red Bull seat for 2025, sponsorship could play a major role. Colapinto has captured the hearts of Argentina’s passionate and vast motorsport fanbase, and with this has come significant commercial gains for Williams and unprecedented social media interaction. This is a major advantage he has over Lawson and Tsunoda. For the Latin American leg of the season, the Williams cars were adorned with striking yellow panels after a partnership was reached with e-commerce giant Mercado Libre back in August, following Colapinto’s arrival. Some reports state that Carlos Slim - formerly the richest man in the world, and current backer of Perez - is interested in discussing financial support for Colapinto. This would no doubt be appealing to Red Bull , who already benefit from Checo’s vast array of sponsors. “If there was an opportunity to talk about something with Franco, it would not be anything related to Checo,” Slim told ESPN when asked about the reports. “We always seek to support Latin American drivers, Franco is doing very well. “But without a doubt, our important project has always been to continue building the development of Mexican drivers and Checo, without a doubt, is the one who represents us all.” Verstappen wouldn’t mind teaming up with the Pilar-based racer either. “I don’t know,” the three-time world champion said when asked about a possible link-up. “It’s a bit difficult for me to answer. I’m busy with other things to improve. “He’s doing a great job at the moment in Formula One, so that’s great to see. I understand, of course, that it’s very attractive for a lot of teams to have him, so it’s up to the team also to see what they want to do.”
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