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Delaware judge reaffirms ruling that invalidated massive Tesla pay package for Elon MuskForthright and fearless, the Nobel Prize winner took pot-shots at former prime minister Tony Blair and ex-US president George W Bush among others. His death came after repeated bouts of illness in which images of the increasingly frail former president failed to erase memories of his fierce spirit. Democrat James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr swept to power in 1977 with his Trust Me campaign helping to beat Republican president Gerald Ford. Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, he sought to make government “competent and compassionate” but was ousted by the unstoppable Hollywood appeal of a certain Ronald Reagan. A skilled sportsman, Mr Carter left his home of Plains, Georgia, to join the US Navy, returning later to run his family’s peanut business. A stint in the Georgia senate lit the touchpaper on his political career and he rose to the top of the Democratic movement. But he will also be remembered for a bizarre encounter with a deeply disgruntled opponent. The president was enjoying a relaxing fishing trip near his home town in 1979 when his craft was attacked by a furious swamp rabbit which reportedly swam up to the boat hissing wildly. The press had a field day, with one paper bearing the headline President Attacked By Rabbit. Away from encounters with belligerent bunnies, Mr Carter’s willingness to address politically uncomfortable topics did not diminish with age. He recently said that he would be willing to travel to North Korea for peace talks on behalf of US President Donald Trump. He also famously mounted a ferocious and personal attack on Tony Blair over the Iraq war, weeks before the prime minister left office in June 2007. Mr Carter, who had already denounced George W Bush’s presidency as “the worst in history”, used an interview on BBC radio to condemn Mr Blair for his tight relations with Mr Bush, particularly concerning the Iraq War. Asked how he would characterise Mr Blair’s relationship with Mr Bush, Mr Carter replied: “Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient. “I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.” Mr Carter was also voluble over the Rhodesia crisis, which was about to end during his presidency. His support for Robert Mugabe at the time generated widespread criticism. He was said to have ignored the warnings of many prominent Zimbabweans, black and white, about what sort of leader Mugabe would be. This was seen by Mr Carter’s critics as “deserving a prominent place among the outrages of the Carter years”. Mr Carter has since said he and his administration had spent more effort and worry on Rhodesia than on the Middle East. He admitted he had supported two revolutionaries in Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, and with hindsight said later that Mugabe had been “a good leader gone bad”, having at first been “a very enlightened president”. One US commentator wrote: “History will not look kindly on those in the West who insisted on bringing the avowed Marxist Mugabe into the government. “In particular, the Jimmy Carter foreign policy... bears some responsibility for the fate of a small African country with scant connection to American national interests.” In recent years Mr Carter developed a reputation as an international peace negotiator. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy initiatives, and his promotion of economic and social programmes. Mr Carter was dispatched to North Korea in August 2008 to secure the release of US citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labour after being found guilty of illegally entering North Korea. He successfully secured the release of Mr Gomes. In 2010 he returned to the White House to greet President Barack Obama and discuss international affairs amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Proving politics runs in the family, in 2013 his grandson Jason, a state senator, announced his bid to become governor in Georgia, where his famous grandfather governed before becoming president. He eventually lost to incumbent Republican Nathan Deal. Fears that Mr Carter’s health was deteriorating were sparked in 2015 when he cut short an election observation visit in Guyana because he was “not feeling well”. It would have been Mr Carter’s 39th trip to personally observe an international election. Three months later, on August 12, he revealed he had cancer which had been diagnosed after he underwent surgery to remove a small mass in his liver. Mr Obama was among the well-wishers hoping for Mr Carter’s full recovery after it was confirmed the cancer had spread widely. Melanoma had been found in his brain and liver, and Mr Carter underwent immunotherapy and radiation therapy, before announcing in March the following year that he no longer needed any treatment. In 2017, Mr Carter was taken to hospital as a precaution, after he became dehydrated at a home-building project in Canada. He was admitted to hospital on multiple occasions in 2019 having had a series of falls, suffering a brain bleed and a broken pelvis, as well as a stint to be treated for a urinary tract infection. Mr Carter spent much of the coronavirus pandemic largely at his home in Georgia, and did not attend Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in 2021, but extended his “best wishes”. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Mr Carter during his term as US president, died in November 2023. She had been living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health. “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Mr Carter said in a statement following her death. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”Jimmy Carter Dies: Longest-Living U.S. President Was 100
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — In a season that began with many questions and lowered expectations , it was apt watching Bills quarterback Josh Allen join coach Sean McDermott lay on the cold, wet sideline to make snow angels in celebrating Buffalo’s earliest clinching of a division title in team history. That Allen took part was no surprise. The newly engaged 28-year-old has maintained the happy-go-lucky approach he brought with him to Buffalo as a raw-talented athlete in 2018, while gradually blossoming into one of the NFL’s elite quarterbacks. For McDermott, it was a pleasant surprise to see the usually reserved eight-year coach finally let his hair down — figuratively, because the few jokes he does make are usually about being bald. With his latest do-it-all three-TD outing — one rushing, one receiving and, the coup de grace, being credited with receiving his own pass for a score off a lateral from Amari Cooper — in a 35-10 win over San Francisco on Sunday night , Allen continued making his strongest NFL MVP case. What’s also becoming apparent is how much McDermott deserves consideration for coach of the year honors. Without the two, the Bills (10-2) wouldn’t be in this position in becoming just the eighth NFL team — and first since Indianapolis in 2009 — to clinch a division title with at least five games remaining in their schedule. It’s reflective of how the two have grown together in what, on the outside, could be perceived as an odd couple relationship between an offensive-minded, swashbuckling quarterback and a defensive-minded coach, too often knocked for being too conservative. Perhaps, it’s Allen’s boyish nature that has brought out the risk-taker in McDermott, who has carried over the aggressive approach he takes to defense by placing trust in his quarterback. It’s become apparent in everything the Bills have accomplished so far in having at least 10 wins through 12 games for just the fifth time in team history, and first since 1991, when Buffalo was led by eventual Hall of Famers in coach Marv Levy and quarterback Jim Kelly. Buffalo has won seven straight since consecutive losses to Baltimore and Houston. And the Bills have scored 30 or more points in six straight outings, matching the team record set in 2004. Allen is doing more with less on an offense that was supposed to be hampered following the offseason departures of receivers Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis and center Mitch Morse. The Bills are more balanced in leaning on their running attack, while Allen has also curtailed his turnover-prone ways. He's lost two fumbles and thrown just five interceptions after being picked off a career-worst 18 times last season. Meantime, McDermott has taken a different approach to fourth down situations. The Bills have converted 13 of 15 fourth down attempts after going 9 of 16 last season and 7 of 13 in 2022. The most fourth down attempts during McDermott’s tenure came in 2021, when Buffalo converted just 11 of 22. This is but an example of the bond the quarterback and coach have built in a shared objective of overcoming past playoff failures. Clinching a division title is but one step, with the Bills now focused on catching the Kansas City Chiefs (11-1), whom they’ve beaten already , for the AFC’s top seed. In calling it the team’s next goal, McDermott went off script from his usual game-at-a-time message by noting the importance of celebrating a division-clinching win, if only for one day. “Being 50 years old and 20-plus years in this league, I’ve learned to try and enjoy the moments,” McDermott said. “And this is a moment, right?” It certainly was. Turnover differential. Buffalo’s defense forced three fumbles, including one at its goal line, while the offense didn’t commit a giveaway. The Bills upped their league-leading turnover differential entering Monday to plus-17. Run defense. Though the conditions were snowy and slick, the Bills allowed 119 yards rushing in the first half before the 49ers were forced to start passing the ball once the score became lopsided. Buffalo particularly struggled in stopping Christian McCaffrey, who had 53 yards on seven carries before leaving the game with a potential season-ending knee injury . LB Matt Milano was in on five tackles while playing 37 of 48 defensive snaps in his first outing in nearly 14 months after being sidelined by a broken right leg and torn left biceps. CB Kaiir Elam, the 2022 first-round pick was a healthy inactive for a second straight outing, and still having difficulty finding a regular role. None reported. 9-0 — The Bills' home record going back to last season, marking their second-longest run in team history. Hit the road for two outings, starting with a trip to face the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
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NoneMax Verstappen briefly broke his five-month pole drought with a last-gasp lap in Q3 to pinch top spot from George Russell, but his celebrations were short-lived. He was almost immediately put under investigation for travelling too slowly on the racing line during Q3 and impeding his pole rival. Shortly after qualifying the stewards slapped him with a rare one-place grid penalty, reversing the order of the front row. Every F1 qualifying session and race LIVE in 4K on Kayo. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. Though hardly disastrous for the Dutchman, it means he’s now gone 12 grands prix without a P1 start. Unusually he’s twice been the fastest driver in Q3 during that time — in Belgium, where he was dropped 10 places on the grid with an engine penalty, and now in Qatar. It marginally boosts the odds of a second consecutive victory for Russell, who’s brimming with confidence after dominating in Las Vegas and full of determination after having been denied a better sprint finish thanks to some clever teamwork tactics by McLaren. VERSTAPPEN COPS PENALTY FOR ‘SUPER DANGEROUS’ INCIDENT, LOSES POLE The Lusail International Circuit is a dangerous one around which to be travelling slowly. Flowing and super fast, the closing speed between a driver on a hot lap and one cooling their tyres is likely to be enormous. More important is that the number of high-downforce sweeps means any driver on a performance run is likely to be hard committed, meaning they’ll have little scope to avoid a crash if a slow-moving car suddenly comes into view. The race director has mandated a maximum lap time for cool-down laps for this reason, hoping to at least reduce the closing speed between two cars on different programs. It wasn’t enough to stop Verstappen and Russell tangling as they prepared for the final Q3 laps, however. Verstappen was travelling very slowly through the fastest set of corners on the circuit, the turn 12-13-14 triple-apex right-hander. He’d just let past two cars as he attempted to make space for his own fast lap but was on the racing line. Russell suddenly closed up to him with a massive speed difference. To avoid an accident he had to spear off the road, clambering over some kerbs and through a gravel trap, an incident he described over radio at the time as being “super dangerous”. “[The gravel was] all over the floor, through the floor,” he said afterwards. “It felt like the floor was scraping over that kerb and through the gravel. “It was a bit of a hairy one, two corners before we start the lap. “That was probably the 55 milliseconds [that cost me pole].” But Russell wasn’t on a fast lap; he was also on a preparation lap, albeit with a dramatically different program. Whereas Verstappen had just set a fast lap and was undertaking two cool-down laps before his final time, Russell was on a much faster preparation lap building up temperature for his last crack. It made it a highly unusual incident to judge, with Russell technically not impeded but the incident dangerous all the same. “The stewards regard this case as a complicated one in that clearly [Verstappen] did not comply with the race director’s event notes and clearly was driving, in our determination, unnecessarily slowly considering the circumstances,” the stewards said in their ruling. “It was obvious the driver of [Verstappen] was attempting to cool his tyres. He also could see [Russell] approaching as he looked in his mirror multiple times whilst on the small straight between turns 11 and 12. “Unusually, this incident occurred when neither car was on a push lap. Had [Russell] been on a push lap, the penalty would have most likely been the usual three-grid-position penalty; however, in mitigation of penalty, it was obvious that the driver of [Russell] had clear visibility of [Verstappen] and that neither car was on a push lap.” The compromise was a one-place penalty that promotes Russell back to top spot, where he was before the clumsy incident. This could be particularly advantageous given the grip difference between the pole side of the grid, on the gripped-up racing line, and the alternative side, which sees no real action. “It was pretty clear in the sprint that everyone on that right side made bad starts, and that’s obviously a little bit unfair to have those circumstances,” Russell said before Verstappen’s penalty. “That ultimately cost me the chance to fight with Lando [in the sprint]. “I think it’s going to be a really close fight between all four teams. Ferrari looked on the same pace as Lando and me this morning. I hope it’s going to be a good one.” NORRIS REPAYS THE DEBT WITH LEAD CONCESSIONS McLaren has been very keen throughout this season of growing pains to remain committed to its values of sporting integrity and fairness. Sometimes it’s been difficult — the team was put through a serious stress test at the Hungarian Grand Prix, for example, when Lando Norris briefly considered ignoring team orders to give Oscar Piastri back his hard-earned lead — but the team has refused to waver. That commitment to even-handedness paid enormous dividends in Qatar, with Norris voluntarily ceding the lead to Piastri on the final lap. It was payback for Piastri doing the same at the previous sprint in Brazil to aid Norris’s since extinguished drivers championship hopes. The Briton had telegraphed his plan to the team before the sprint but had been told explicitly that he could win the half-hour dash when it became clear Russell wasn’t going to fall back to a more comfortable distance. He nonetheless picked his moment and executed perfectly to redress the imbalance from Sao Paulo. “I didn’t have to do it if I didn’t want to,” Norris said. “I told my engineer that I would do it, so he was the main one that probably knew about it, and I told him before the race if we have a bit of a gap and we’re first and second, then I would try and do it. “He knew and he was telling me not to do it because I think the gap to George was probably a bit too fine for their liking, but Oscar did his part in trying to help me get closer to Max in the championship and give that opportunity a go. “I deserved that right to have a chance, and that’s how we have to work as a team when one of us has that opportunity, and I returned the favour today.” Piastri, who admitted to being a little bit surprised to be handed the lead given Russell was right on his tail, said it spoke to the way the drivers lived McLaren’s values that he and Norris could be trusted to sort it out for themselves. “I think it just speaks of our teamwork and fairness for the team,” he said. “It obviously doesn’t change the points, and I think it just shows off our teamwork and lack of egos within the team. “I think if you’ve got both drivers so willing to work together and help each other out, then it’s the best example for the rest of the team, because it’s not just about us two, it’s about the hundreds and thousands of people trying to help us win.” But perhaps best of all for McLaren is that it neatly draws a line under this season from the perspective of the drivers title. There’s an expectation that Piastri and Norris will be rival championship contenders next season, with McLaren tipped to start the year with a race-winning car. Ending the year effectively with scores level — and with the drivers having shown faith in each other’s sportsmanship — gives the team the best possible chance of surviving a possible internal title battle. McLAREN HAS CHANCE TO SEAL CONSTRUCTORS TITLE TODAY The Norris-Piastri position reversal was points-neutral for McLaren, with the team taking a big step forward in the constructors championship. With Ferrari finishing fourth and fifth, the gap opened to 30 points. There’ll be just 44 points remaining after Sunday night. Another one-two finish in the grand prix would seal the deal regardless of what Ferrari achieves, winning McLaren its first teams title since 1998. But things don’t look quite as straightforward after qualifying as they did after the sprint. Norris dominated sprint qualifying, but neither McLaren driver looked likely to take pole position for the grand prix on a circuit that had fully rubbered in and cleaned up after almost two days of running. He qualified third ahead of Piastri in fourth. Again there was little to separate them, just 0.057 seconds. McLaren — as did every team — made changes to the car following the sprint to hone it for qualifying and the grand prix, but rather than having taken a wrong turn, Norris said the way the weekend has unfolded has only highlighted a long-running trait of the team and its car. “I think today probably showed that we are very strong at getting everything out of the car very early in the weekend,” he said. “The car was quick already in FP1. In [sprint] qualifying we felt good. In the [sprint] race we were good. “What is clear is that others did a bad job. They amended some of their wrongdoings and managed to get a lot more potential out of the car today, and we just were not able to. We got everything out of the car already. “That was the main thing. We hope in the race that things come back to us just a little bit.” It’s given Ferrari a small opening to try to claw back some points. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz qualified fifth and seventh. Both were still slower, but not by as much as they were in sprint qualifying, the gap between the two teams just 0.08 seconds. Sainz demonstrated in the sprint that he had the pace to stick with the podium-getters. Leclerc was also rapid late in the sprint after getting back past Lewis Hamilton. But we also learnt from the short race that overtaking is difficult, and the propensity for a train to form in the DRS is high. It puts a significant onus on Ferrari’s race start if it’s to stand a chance of either neutralising or potentially outscoring the orange team ahead. “We’ll need a good start and a good first few laps in order to try and pass one of them and then put the pressure on the other. “I think we are fast in the long runs, but as I was saying this morning, it’s very difficult to overtake here, so I think that we are not going to use that pace that much. “But let’s see. Every race is different. If we find our one opportunity to show out pace in clear air at one point, we’ll try and take it.” Degradation is lower than expected. Combined with the long pit straight and commensurately long stop time, one stop is now forecast as the preferred strategy. That leaves only one other opening for position changes if passing really will be that difficult. After analysing performances in the sprint, the top four teams are split by just 0.1 seconds per lap on average in race pace — practically nothing. It should make for an unpredictable battle on Sunday night. PÉREZ PLAYS THE TEAM GAME BUT ENDS UP SLOWER Sergio Pérez was on a hiding to nothing from 16th on the sprint grid, so Red Bull Racing hauled him in for a pit-lane start for a series of set-up changes as an experiment for the rest of the weekend. Things only got worse from there. Franco Colapinto had also been recalled for a pit-lane start and was queuing behind Pérez when the lights went green. Bizarrely the Mexican didn’t react, and the Argentine subjected him to a super rare overtake at pit exit. Pérez appeared to miss the light turning green, and when he did eventually pull away, it was at a leisurely pace rather than with the vigour of a race launch. He argued afterwards that it had been a deliberate move to put himself at the back of the pack and in as much clear air as possible to experiment with the car, though it appeared to be the first team principal Christian Horner had heard of it. “I don’t know [what that was about], to be honest,” Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner told Sky Sports. “I need to have a chat with him about it. “It looked like he just misjudged it, but when the light goes out, you’re supposed to go.” Nonetheless, the combination of his experiments and lessons learnt from Verstappen’s lacklustre race to eighth formed the basis of a set-up that served the team well for qualifying, delivering the Dutchman a front-row start. But they did little for Pérez. To the Mexican’s credit, he just slipped into the top 10 for his third Q3 appearance in the last six races, avoiding an embarrassing repeat of his sprint qualifying bottom-five knockout. But he did so despite being even slower relative to Verstappen that he had been on Friday. When he was knocked out of sprint qualifying in SQ1, he was 0.685 slower than his teammate. In Q3 in grand prix qualifying his deficit blew out to 0.905 seconds. It was his second-biggest deficit of the entire season after his result at the Canadian Grand Prix in June. “I think that was a good step considering where we’d been with the discontented balance we’ve been having with the car,” he argued. “There’s still some work to do and to be done to be able to bring it all a little bit more together. “I think we should be able to be competitive, have some good pace. Hopefully we will be in the mix. Hopefully early on we will be able to go with the leaders.” Red Bull Racing is highly likely to lose touch with McLaren’s constructors championship lead, condemning its title defence. It could also find its odds of even finishing second taking a blow. Given Pérez’s central role in those disappointments, it’ll be hard to spin any result this weekend as a success.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saints quarterback Derek Carr was willing to risk his health to improve New Orleans’ chances of playing meaningful football in mid-December. Now the Saints, who’ve remained mathematically alive in the playoff race by winning three of four, might have to play without Carr again — and it didn’t go well the last time. Saints interim coach Darren Rizzi declined on Monday to rule out Carr for any of New Orleans' final four games because of his injured non-throwing hand or his concussion . Both injuries occurred when he tried to leap for a first down and crashed hard to the turf during the fourth quarter of New Orleans' 14-11 victory over the reeling New York Giants on Sunday. “We’re not going to rule him out just yet,” Rizzi said. “We have to see in the next day or two what the healing process is like and see if he can function. “The good news it’s not his throwing hand,” Rizzi said. “The bad news is we’re obviously dealing with an injury here that we have to kind of play it by ear.” Rizzi noted that Carr must clear the concussion protocol first. After that, he said, the Saints can see how well Carr can operate with his hand injury. “It's been done before,” Rizzi said when asked about the prospect of an NFL QB playing with an injured non-throwing hand. “It appears at moment that it's non-surgical, which is a big aspect of it. ... That's why we're going to discuss the options.” Last season, Los Angeles Chargers QB Justin Herbert played with a fractured finger on his non-throwing hand . Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen has played part of this season with an injured non-throwing hand . If Carr can't play, his replacement will be either second-year pro Jake Haener or rookie Spencer Rattler. Rattler started three games earlier this season when Carr had an oblique injury — all losses by New Orleans, which was in the midst of a seven-game skid. “We've just got to surround whomever it is and pick him up and get him rolling with the rest of us,” guard Lucas Patrick said. “It's just another step of adversity in this long season that we’ve had.” New Orleans' interior defensive line is coming off one of its better games. Defensive tackles Bryan Bresee and Khalen Saunders accounted for both New Orleans' sacks in New York. The Saints also held the Giants to 112 yards rushing — a lower opponent rushing total than in seven other games this season. The Saints' 92 yards rushing offensively was their fourth-lowest total all season and the lowest in any of their victories. Running back Kendre Miller's future is looking a bit brighter now. He has played in just three games this season because of hamstring injuries and his lack of readiness was criticized by since-fired coach Dennis Allen earlier this season. Miller also has yet to rush for more than 36 yards in a game. But against the Giants, he earned praise for the speed, strength and elusiveness he was able to show on a couple of clutch runs, including an 8-yard run for his first and only touchdown this season. Patrick said Miller deserved credit on his scoring run for staying upright and continuing to push forward — with the help of some teammates — after he was met at the 5-yard line by a Giants defender. Patrick said if Miller didn't give the extra effort and stay on his feet, his teammates would not have had the chance to help push him across the goal line. “Kendre's definitely a bright, young runner and he's exciting to block for,” Patrick said. Blake Grupe was 0 for 2 on field goal attempts, although both were from beyond 50 yards and one was blocked. Those were Grupe's first two failures from beyond 50 yards this season. In addition to Carr, reserve linebacker D’Marco Jackson left Sunday's game with an ankle injury. 0 — The number of games the Saints have won when Carr does not play. They've gone 5-5 in his starts this season. The Saints are back home Sunday against Washington in what could be ex-New Orleans cornerback Marshon Lattimore's first game with the Commanders. The game also marks the return to Louisiana of quarterback Jayden Daniels, who won the Heisman Troply last year at LSU. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
The No. 4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (11-1) host the No. 9 Indiana Hoosiers (11-1) at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana in the first round of the College Football Playoff. Opening kick is at 8 p.m. ET, and Notre Dame is a 7.5 favorite. If you are in the market for Fighting Irish vs. Hoosiers tickets, information is available below. Notre Dame vs. Indiana game info How to buy Notre Dame vs. Indiana tickets You can purchase tickets to see the Fighting Irish play the Hoosiers from multiple sources. Notre Dame vs. Indiana betting odds, lines, spreads Odds courtesy of BetMGM Notre Dame Fighting Irish schedule Notre Dame Fighting Irish stats Indiana Hoosiers schedule Indiana Hoosiers stats This content was created for Gannett using technology provided by Data Skrive.
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