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| Work Alexandar Georgiev bounces back, helps Avalanche shut down Red Wings  Colton returns: The original timeline for Colton after breaking his foot blocking a shot Oct. 28 against Chicago was 6-8 weeks. He made it back in 40 days, crediting the club’s training staff while also noting that he had set Sunday’s game in New Jersey as a goal for his return. The Garden State native will have plenty of friends and family at Prudential Center for the Avs’ matchup against the Devils. |
| Work For 8 Months, Traffic Enforcement on New Jersey's Highways Plummeted  Troopers who believed that they had been closely adhering to strict rules adopted as a result of the consent decree said the report left them concerned that even small missteps might derail their careers. |
| Work Unidentified Drones Light Up New Jersey's Skies, Baffling Residents  Ms. Dunbar is not alone. Drone sightings have been reported in at least 10 New Jersey counties since mid-November. They have been spotted flying over important infrastructure, like reservoirs, power lines and railroads, in people’s backyards and above highways. They often fly in groups and emit a loud humming noise that Mr. Dunbar, 39, described as similar to the sounds made by electric cars. The drones appear to be significantly larger than those widely available to hobbyists. |
| Work Judy Garland's stolen 'The Wizard of Oz' ruby slippers sell for $28 million at auction  “The Wizard of Oz” story has gained new attention in recent weeks with the release of the movie “Wicked,” an adaptation of the megahit Broadway musical, a prequel of sorts that reimagines the character of the Wicked Witch of the West. |
| Work US announces nearly $1 billion more in longer-term weapons support for Ukraine  “We're not going to stop Putin by telling Ukraine we aren't going to give you anything more,” Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said at a panel at the Reagan National Defense Forum. |
| Work New images appear to show suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO killer in back of taxi  At around 11 p.m. on the night he arrived, he went by taxi to the HI New York City Hostel. It was there, while speaking with an employee in the lobby, that he briefly pulled down the mask and smiled, giving investigators the brief glimpse they are now relying on to identify and capture a killer. |
| Work Dana Carvey and David Spade reunite for 'Church Lady' 'SNL' cold open  Church Lady's third guest was Major League Baseball slugger Juan Soto, played by cast member Marcello Hernandez. Soto, who played his last season with the New York Yankees, is a free agent and is expected to sign with a new team soon. |
| Work 10 Habits To Prevent 'Brain Rot' And Create A Smart Brain In 2025  Neuroscientists tell us that "Brain Rot" is becoming a trend that can dampen a smart, "thinking" brain. After all, your brain is your best friend. It's with you 24/7, and never leaves your side (or I should say your head). |
| Work Dawg Gone Good: Georgia/Texas Part 2 was all it was cracked up to be as Georgia Bulldogs win SEC title  Georgia Bulldogs secure SEC championship with a fake punt and a touchdown in overtime. Georgia wins 22-19 over Texas. |
| Work Renck: Thompson Valley's first state title team features kids who dreamed big, coach who is happy he didn't retire  “You always kind of talk about this stuff happening when you have good players. But things have to go well with health and breaks. And it all lined up,” Steele said. “I am just so proud of these kids.” |
| Work Douglas County commissioner Lora Thomas resigns before end of term, blaming conflict with colleagues  “It is tragic that our censured colleague with whom we made countless attempts at reconciliation, chose to repeatedly violate our policy manual, and then host a press conference when the County was honoring the Kendrick Castillo family,” they said. |
| Work Broomfield roars back to beat Montrose for Class 4A football title, program's sixth championship  “I went to Coach (O’Brien) during a timeout and said, ‘I kind of like this route against this matchup,'” Benner said. “I said, ‘All you’ve got to do is trust me.’ I’m not going to lie; the ball was a little bit overthrown, but I told myself, ‘You’ve got to make a play.'” |
| Work Nikola Jokic career-high 56 points go to waste as Wizards end 16-game losing streak vs. Nuggets  “Jamal, I think he, in the Cleveland game, maybe aggravated his hamstring. … During the course of a game, adrenaline flowing, didn’t really feel that bad during the game,” Malone said pregame. “Was able to finish. And then obviously after the game, flying, it stiffens up.” |
| Work Cherry Creek rallies to beat Legend for Class 5A football title, clinching Bruins' fifth crown in last six years  Cherry Creek finished 13-1, winning 13 games in a row after losing their season opener to Skyridge in Utah on Aug. 30. Legend was only the second Colorado team to play Cherry Creek to single digits this year, as Pine Creek lost to the Bruins 21-14 on Sept. 27. |
| Work CU Buffs smash CSU Rams in Rocky Mountain Showdown: "It feels good to beat them"  Buffs center Elijah Malone led all CU scorers with 10 at the break, while Hammond poured in eight. Jalen Lake dropped seven for CSU to pace the green and gold in the first half and led all scorers with 18, while teammate Kyan Evans chipped in 11 for the Rams, who were outrebounded 44-33 and outscored in the paint, 36-20. |
| Work Today in History: December 8, John Lennon shot to death  In 2016, John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 95. |
| Work New images appear to show suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO killer in back of taxi  At around 11 p.m. on the night he arrived, he went by taxi to the HI New York City Hostel. It was there, while speaking with an employee in the lobby, that he briefly pulled down the mask and smiled, giving investigators the brief glimpse they are now relying on to identify and capture a killer. |
| Work What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle  Arm CEO Rene Haas has a unique, bird's eye view of the tech industry. His company's chip designs are in the majority of devices you use on a daily basis, from your smartphone to your car. |
| Work 'We could see the bullets bouncing off the road.' At 12, she survived the attack on Pearl Harbor  By way of epilogue, nearly four years later, on Sept. 2, 1945, her father — who would become a rear admiral — was on board the USS Missouri for the signing of Japan’s surrender. He died in 1972. |
| Work Long Beach police release video of officers fatally shooting a man on church steps  Members of the group also denounced the treatment of three of Boyd’s family members following the shooting, saying police had handcuffed and mistreated them, leaving one with a fractured arm. Police told the Long Beach Post that three people had been arrested for disrupting the crime scene and that one had battered an officer. |
| Work 10 injured when motorcycle officer crashes into crowd at Palm Springs Festival of Lights Parade  A video taken moments before the crash showed motorcycle officers riding along the parade route. One appears to accelerate along the route before crashing near a crowd of people, the video shows. |
| Work How A Princeton Professor's Home Renovation Project Is Fighting Climate Change  “Forrest is a little bit non-compromising with his ideals,” said Ms. Stern, who got her engineering Ph.D. along with her husband, but left academia when the couple’s first of four daughters was born. “He pushes you beyond what you thought was possible,” she continued. “But sometimes I have to draw a line.” |
| Work 'I Was So Absorbed in My Notes That I Had Forgotten to Have Lunch'  Despite being in a place where I knew eating was prohibited, I pulled a protein bar out my backpack. The crinkle of the wrapper prompted the student sitting across from me to stop typing and tilt his head to study me. |
| Work At Daniel Penny's Trial, the Moment May Matter as Much as the Evidence  In a strikingly convivial conversation with detectives at the Fifth Precinct on the day of the confrontation, Mr. Penny would describe the man he put in his grip as a “crackhead,” claiming that “these” were the “guys” who were “pushing people in front of trains.” However glaring the bias, the assumption was one any of us might have made. All but two of the 11 witnesses who testified at the trial said that Mr. Neely’s presence amounted to the scariest experience they’d had on a subway. |
| Work Generative AI is making traditional ways to measure business success obsolete  Businesses are already being radically transformed by artificial intelligence (AI). Tools now exist that offer instantaneous, high-quality results in improving certain operations without the burden of high costs or delays. |
| Work Why 'Tipping Points' Are the Wrong Way to Talk about Climate Change  CLIMATEWIRE | Unstoppable ice loss in Antarctica. Irreversible permafrost thaw in the Arctic. The shutdown of a gigantic Atlantic Ocean current. |
| Work Elon Musk is planning a rude awakening for 94% of federal workers by monitoring their every move BYMusk has long decried the remote work revolution. |
| Work Donald Trump Announces Plan to Change Elections  President-elect Donald Trump has announced a sweeping plan to change the way U.S. elections are carried out. |
| Work At 2 a.m., an unexpected event led to a surprise planet discovery  The astronomical confusion started at 2 a.m ET on June 26, 2023. Scientists using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope sought to observe a planet beyond our solar system (an exoplanet) called Kepler-51d, an unusual "puffy" world with a cotton candy-like density. |
| Work The Morality and Practicality of Tit for Tat - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Review Economists have long argued that Game Theory provides tools for understanding human interactions using mathematical models. |
| Work Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times  I have been a contributor to the Los Angeles Times op-ed page in some fashion for more than 15 years. For the last three years, I have been the Senior Legal Columnist, writing regular weekly columns about Trump's legal troubles, the Supreme Court, and a wide range of other topics. |
| Work What to Know About a Landmark Court Case  The most important climate case that a lot of people haven't heard about is playing out this week and next at the International Court of Justice. The court, based in The Hague, adjudicates disputes between nations and issues advisory opinions on big international legal issues. |
| Work How the Weirdest Store at the Mall Survived the Retail Apocalypse  In most remaining malls, there's a Spencer's. And it's likely one of the most reliable tenants on the concourse. |
| Work Zepbound users discuss weight loss after preliminary research touts effectiveness  Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly that new preliminary research indicates its medication Zepbound helps patients lose more weight in a shorter time frame compared to Novo Nordisk's Wegovy. |
| Work When I was laid off from Google, I felt a sense of relief. I've lived a full life ever since.  Woven Web and a former developer relations engineer at Google based in Boulder, Colorado. The following has been edited for length and clarity. My dad passed away around the time I graduated. |
| Work Which Colleges Offer Free Tuition?  In the last month, several colleges and universities, including the University of Texas system and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have announced programs to provide free tuition for undergraduate students from families who fall below a certain income threshold. |
| Work A psychologist reveals 5 essential mindset shifts for anxious high achievers  Mary Anderson is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and speaker with over a decade of experience helping people become happier, healthier, and sustainable high achievers. |
| Work The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone  Over the past two decades, literary fiction has become a largely female pursuit. Novels are increasingly written by women and read by women. |
| Work In Tests, OpenAI's New Model Lied and Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down  It sounds like OpenAI's latest AI is showing signs of a drive for self-preservation. |
| Work Trumps promise to tax imported goods could spell trouble for US auto industry  Few vehicles are as emblematic of the American auto industry's might as the Ford F-150 pickup truck, the nation's best-selling vehicle for over 40 years. But the F-150 is much less American than its image suggests. |
| Work Insurgents reach gates of Syria's capital, threatening to upend decades of Assad rule  BEIRUT (AP) -- Insurgents' stunning march across Syria accelerated Saturday with news that they had reached the gates of the capital and that government forces had abandoned the central city of Homs. The government was forced to deny rumors that President Bashar Assad had fled the country. |
| Work The four startups from YC's Fall batch that enterprises should pay attention to  Notable Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator held a Demo Day for its inaugural Fall cohort this week. The 95 startups in this latest batch looked quite similar to recent YC cohorts in the sense that it includes many AI startups. |
| Work New York's top VCs under 30  The next generation of New York City investors are already making their mark in the Big Apple. They come from big-name venture firms like Female Founders Fund and Lerer Hippeau and smaller ones like Chai Ventures. They work in areas like growth, consumer, and health. |
| Work As YC retreats from Africa, alumni launch accelerators to fill the gap  The influential accelerator Y Combinator made a splash in Africa in 2020 when it shined its light on the market and began to accept startups from the region into its cohorts. |
| Work A year into Javier Milei's presidency, Argentina's poverty hits a new high  The soup kitchen is run by the Union of Informal Economy Workers (UTEP), an organisation that represents employees without contracts or in unregulated industries. Those employees make up close to half of Argentina's workforce. |
| Work OpenAI Employee Says They've "Already Achieved AGI"  Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI). If you were anticipating a fairly massive caveat, though, you weren't wrong. |
| Work 2 Top Dividend Stocks to Buy in December  Matt DiLallo has positions in Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, and Enbridge. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Enbridge. The Motley Fool recommends Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work Ant Group promotes finance chief Cyril Han to CEO as Alipay owner marks 20-year milestone  This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the most authoritative voice reporting on China and Asia for more than a century. For more SCMP stories, please explore the SCMP app or visit the SCMP's Facebook and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2024 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| Work 13 jaw-dropping International Landscape Photographer of the Year images  Our planet can wow you, if you give it a moment. "Patience, perseverance and determination" is what it takes to capture the beauty of Earth, according to Peter Eastway, Chairman of the Judges for the 11th International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. |
| Work 2 Stocks That Could Create Lasting Generational Wealth  John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. John Ballard has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon and Roku. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work 3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into $1 Million (or More)  John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Neil Patel and his clients have no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon, Apple, and Home Depot. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
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| Work 1 Stock-Split AI Stock to Buy Before It Soars 450%, According to a Wall Street Expert  Philip Panaro is a founder and former CEO of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Platinion, a division of BCG that offers technology consulting services. During an interview in November, Panaro told Schwab Network that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) could hit $800 per share by 2030 due to its leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators. Of course, Nvidia has been one of the hottest stocks on the market. |
| Work Deal agreed to sell the Observer to Tortoise media organisation  “We will invest in more journalists and increase the editorial budget. We hope that together we can honour its history, delight today’s readers and win the admiration of a generation of readers to come.” |
| Work How many rape cases are derailed by a??sexsomniaa?? claims? The CPS doesna??t know  Michaela-Clare Addison, national sexual violence lead at the charity, warned that it could become the new "rough sex" defence, a colloquial term for defence claims that victims consented to being seriously hurt - and sometimes killed - during rough sex that went wrong. |
| Work a??Ita??s like they were smoking something potenta??: the a??bizarrea?? Paul McCartney alien musical that never was  For Volume 2, the writers spoke at length with four former members of Wings, including the drummer Geoff Britton - who has not given an in-depth interview since 1977 - as well as producers and recording engineers, among others who worked with McCartney |
| Work Two men killed by falling trees as Storm Darragh brings winds of nearly 100mph  Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, said there needed to be greater environmental protections to help tackle flooding in the future, especially with Labour’s plan to build 1.5m homes over the next five years. |
| Work Storm Darragh live: further disruption expected across UK as strong winds continue  Energy Networks Association said 259,000 customers across England, Scotland and Wales were without power as of Saturday evening. It said that 80% of homes affected by the storm have been reconnected. |
| Work Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled Syria as rebels say they have captured Damascus  “Just a few months ago all of us were operating under the assumption that this day would never come,” he said. “Every time I say to myself the words the Assad regime has fallen, I still can’t really believe it.” |
| Work Arab states will talk to all forces in Syria to prevent reignition of war, says Qatar  Asked about Assad’s whereabouts, he said: “He is in the wind. He is no longer in the city. There has been no confirmation whether he has been received around any capital around the region.” |
| Work Syrian rebels say they have captured capital as Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled Damascus a?? live updates  Iraq has reportedly evacuated its embassy in Syria and moved staff to Lebanon, hours after rebels overthrew Assad and took control of the capital. Reasons behind the evacuation were not made public. |
| Work Jacques Audiarda??s genre-bending Emilia PA(C)rez wins best film at European Film Awards  At $8.8m in global box office takings so far, Emilia Pérez hasn't looked likely to replicate the success of last year's winners, though that could change on the back of its prize haul and with cinematic releases in Italy and Scandinavia still to come next year. |
| Work a??Wea??re devastateda??: anger as Madrid backtracks on museum plan for site of Robert Capaa??s famous civil war photo  "In some ways, I think it's a very hopeful picture, which is so much of what Capa was trying to photograph during the war ⦠I see it so much in the history of the building as well. It felt like most of that whole area had been torn down at one point or another during the 80s or even before, but this building stayed, for some bizarre reason." |