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Yemen's humanitarian crisis worsens each day. Here's how to stop it

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Yemen's humanitarian crisis worsens each day. Here's how to stop it

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William Hartung writes that if the Trump administration really wants to end the war in Yemen, it must use all of the tools at its disposal -- military, diplomatic and economic.

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n 1996, the year after the Rams moved to St. Louis, they and the Kansas City Chiefs reinstated the Governor’s Cup rivalry that had been put into storage when St. Louis’ original team, the Cardinals, had moved to Arizona.

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In 1996, the year after the Rams moved to St. Louis, they and the Kansas City Chiefs reinstated the Governor's Cup rivalry that had been put into storage when St. Louis' original team, the Cardinals, had moved to Arizona.

The rivalry was, to put it kindly, lacking. It was mostly a preseason affair, but the teams did play six times during the regular season - only once, in 2006, did both teams have winning records at the time of the game, and only once, in 1997, was the game decided by under 14 points.

It took the Rams moving back west for Rams-Chiefs to become a true event.

And what an event, this will be. This is the biggest Monday Night Football game of the season and, records-wise, one of the biggest ever. Both teams are 9-1 and among the favorites for the Super Bowl - they are first (Chiefs) and second (Rams) in DVOA, first (Rams) and third (Chiefs) in FPI, second (Chiefs) and third (Rams) in The Power Rank, etc.

Both teams are also prolific as hell. In this year of offensive renaissance, they've both stood out - the Chiefs are first in yards per play and second in points per game, while the Rams are second and third, respectively. (Defensively, the Chiefs are 22nd and 17th, and the Rams are 25th and 12th. This evening's game could get points-y.)

The Jared Goff-Sean McVay relationship in Los Angeles remains one of football's most fruitful. Pat Mahomes has been so devastating in Kansas City that we immediately forgave him for putting ketchup on his steak. The teams are creative and innovative, even stealing plays from each other at times (McVay: "I'd be lying if I said we have haven't stolen some of their stuff this year").

They aren't running the same offense, though. Not even close.

When the spread offense was catching on in college football, it quickly became a catch-all term. Anybody who was doing anything interesting and creative, particularly out of the shotgun, was considered a spread offense. Now, in the NFL, we're seeing something similar. Anyone doing anything interesting and creative is incorporating "college concepts" or "spread concepts."

Really, though, only one of these two teams is doing any such thing.

Before we get into the schematics, let's look at the raw stats. What differences do they bring to the table in that regard?

One similarity, I guess: each offense possesses major advantages this evening. You probably already knew that. Using the SB Nation NFL analytics app, we see that the Rams' offense is first in marginal efficiency, and the Chiefs' offense is second. Defensively, the Chiefs are 27th, and the Rams are 26th. That suggests that knocking offenses off-schedule will be both a rarity and a premium.

Though it requires us to pick nits, we see that the Rams have the more well-rounded offense of the two teams. They stay on schedule, they generate plenty of big plays, they stand out via run and pass, and when they do encounter a third down, it's third-and-extremely-manageable.

Kansas City, however, lives a little bit closer to the edge. They fall into third-and-longs more frequently and ask Mahomes to play with a bit more degree of difficulty. Of course, he tends to succeed when they ask him to do that, and leveraging them into blitz downs gets you burned pretty frequently.

Kansas City is also utterly unreal in the red zone, as I discussed back in October.

While the passing game has almost entirely revolved around [Tyreek] Hill, [Sammy] Watkins, and [Travis] Kelce between the 20s (aside from the occasional behind-the-line pass to a blocking back), everyone gets involved near the goal line. Defenses have a massive space advantage near their own goal line; it appears the Chiefs are attempting to counter this by using everyone and every possible inch of space. It's working.

It's almost impossible to describe how much of a weapon this is. Even without getting into kicker quality, when you're converting scoring chances into touchdowns this well, your opponent needs about three or four scoring opportunities to match what you're producing in two or three.

The closer they get to the goal line, the more unstoppable they become. It's the direct opposite for most teams.

Alright, let's talk tactics. What do these two offensive juggernauts do that's so different from one another?

The answer: a lot.

Let's start with personnel. According to data provided by Sports Info Solutions, the Chiefs try to vary their formations and personnel packages pretty constantly. They end up in 11 personnel (one running back, one tight end) 61 percent of the time and 12 personnel (one RB, two TE) 22 percent of the time, and they have plenty of situational packages, too - 21 personnel nine percent of the time, 22 personnel four percent, etc.

They're almost equally good from formation to formation, too: their success rate in 11 personnel is 46 percent, and it's 49 percent in 12 personnel as well. They line up in shotgun 79 percent of the time, and there is a quality difference there - 48 percent success rate in shotgun vs. 39 percent in non-shotgun.

Los Angeles, however, lives by the Joe Moorhead school of thought.

Mississippi State's head coach believes in the power of using similar personnel on almost every play and leaving defensive coordinators to guess what's going to come out of that personnel grouping.

"Defensive coordinators, they don't really know what formation you're going to line up in," Moorhead says. "So when you're in a certain personnel grouping, you have to make a defensive call, and it's gotta match up against any formation they can align in."

By the time the defense sees the formation, it's too late to call a play.

"So with us never switching personnel, we can align in three different formations with the tight end attached, we can align in two different formations with the tight end detached, and then we can line up in three different empty[-backfield] formations. And we haven't taken anybody out of the game."

Since I'm referencing a college coach there, does that make that a "college concept"? I digress.

Again via Sports Info Solutions, the Rams utilize 11 personnel 95 percent of the time with a 50 percent success rate. They also use the shotgun far fewer than the Chiefs, lining up with Goff in the gun only 35 percent of the time and with a lower rate of success (42 percent success rate in shotgun, 53 percent otherwise).

Another difference: the Rams use play action quite a bit more than the Chiefs.

One of this year's most important articles emerging from the analytics community was Ben Baldwin's Football Outsiders piece on play action passing - both its importance and its independence from the quality of one's run game.

[I]t appears that the conventional wisdom that running is necessary for play-action passes to be effective should be questioned. We have a lot of evidence that play-action passing is more effective than non-play-action passing, so the big question that remains is why teams run play-action so infrequently (the percentage of passes that are play-action has hovered around 20 percent since 2011). What would happen if teams started devoting a higher share of their plays to play-action passing? Would the advantage persist or would defenses adjust?

Los Angeles utilizes play action on 37 percent of its passes and 22 percent of all plays. This fits well with McVay's favorite weapon, a bunch formation that keeps a lot of bodies near the line. The bunch is nothing new, but McVay explores its possibilities more (and better) than anyone else. He also deceives you with scrupulous self-scouting.

Now, for anyone who closely watches the Rams and 49ers, their similarities are hard to ignore. A few calling cards - such as the use of play-action, pre-snap motion and deceptive use of "minus" splits - permeate both offenses. But those are smaller pieces of the larger philosophy that makes a Shanahan and McVay offense go: creating down-to-down deception while presenting the same look.

"It's all about not creating tendencies," said running back Alfred Morris, who played for Washington under Shanahan and McVay. "It's 'Oh, they'll never do this and this out of this set or this formation' and then you try to game plan and it's like 'No, they actually will.'"

The Rams use the same personnel groupings and similar looks from play to play, and they succeed by making sure you have absolutely no idea what's coming even if you know what they're going to look like when they line up.

Of course, we'll see how this changes with Cooper Kupp's injury. The Rams' use of 11 personnel was perfect for the personnel at hand, with the standard wideout trio of Kupp, Brandin Cooks, and Robert Woods each averaging between seven and eight targets per game. (Seriously, they don't allow you to spot any tendencies.)

The next wide receiver on the list, second-year Texas A&M product Josh Reynolds, has averaged just 1.2 targets per game. He's done a decent amount with those targets, mind you, catching seven of 12 balls for 98 yards and two touchdowns.

Still, when Kupp missed two games earlier this year, the Rams' balance was thrown off a bit. Woods and Cooks still got their targets (14 and 13, respectively, for a combined 286 yards), but Reynolds and Nick Williams combined for only nine targets, and a lot more ended up on running back Todd Gurley 's plate: he carried 40 times for 177 yards and caught 10 of 12 passes for 104.

Via both run and pass, Gurley's efficiency levels dropped when Kupp was out. McVay appeared a bit more willing to run the ball in obvious run situations, while avoiding doing so has been one of Los Angeles' biggest strengths.

According to the NFL's Next Gen Stats, Todd Gurley has rushed against eight or more defenders in the box on just 16 percent of his carries so far this season. That means he carried the ball just 10 times against a loaded box. According to the site, 37 other running backs in the league have seen a higher percentage of their carries against eight or more defenders in the box.

Mind you, the Rams won both games without Kupp - a 39-10 trouncing of the 49ers and a 29-27 slugfest against the Packers. But he's out the rest of the year, and McVay might have to work even harder to avoid revealing tendencies from this point forward.

From a tendencies perspective, Kansas City might be a hair easier to prepare for. But because of absurd talent and dominant, nearly mutant, physical traits, the Chiefs aren't any easier to stop.

In theory, any type of offense can work if you have the right personnel for it. Take the triple option, for instance: the longtime college football staple didn't ever make much of an impact at the pro level, in part because of the team speed involved with pro defenses. But if you had the best option QB ever, a dominant line, and the fastest running back in the league attacking the perimeter, you could still score points with it.

Kansas City runs as close to a standard college football spread offense as anyone in the NFL. There were questions about which spread concepts might work at the pro level, but when you've got Mahomes' otherworldly arm strength and Tyreek Hill 's unfair speed, those concepts work quite well.

They work even better when the awareness levels of the Chiefs' play-calling is so high.

Since opposing defenses have no choice but to account for Mahomes and Hill, it tends to open up wide swaths of space in different areas of the field. Tight end Travis Kelce fills that space with vigor and has actually led the Chiefs with 86 targets and 57 catches thus far. (Hill still leads the team in receiving yards.)

When defenses overcompensate for both vertical space and the space in the middle, that leaves no one to account for Kareem Hunt and Spencer Ware on the perimeter.

Because of his absurd raw numbers - he's on pace for 1,580 rushing yards, 640 receiving yards, and 27 combined touchdowns - Gurley is considered one of the league's MVP candidates at the moment. He and backup Malcolm Brown are averaging 29.5 intended touches (rushes and pass targets) and 163.1 yards per game (5.5 yards per intended touch).

Hunt and Ware haven't been asked to carry quite the same load, but their effectiveness is what has taken Kansas City's offense to such a ridiculous level. They are averaging more yards per carry (5.2) and more yards per target (10.0) than Gurley and Brown (5.0 and 7.6, respectively), and they're averaging 23.9 intended touches per game and 6.2 yards per intended touch.

When you've got the fastest player in the league and one of the best tight ends, and you're able to consistently carve out 5-7 yards a pop near the line of scrimmage, you've got an answer for just about everything.

And even when something goes wrong, the Chiefs still gain yards. According to data from Sports Info Solutions, the Chiefs average 2.8 yards after contact, third in the league. Plus, and this is truly absurd, Mahomes has a 34 percent success rate on passes when he gets hit. Heading into Week 11, that was higher than two teams' overall passing success rate (Buffalo at 30.5 percent, Arizona at 33).

That's just unfair.

These teams are not without their weaknesses. They each gave up over 40 points in their respective lone losses, and they've given up 27 or more points in wins seven times. Neither offense can afford an off-game with the state of either defense.

While the Rams' defense does appear to be trending in the wrong direction (that piece was written two weeks ago, and they have given up a combined 76 points since), Kansas City's defense might be figuring some things out. Since losing 43-40 to New England, the Chiefs have allowed just 17 points and 325 yards per game, down from 29 and 468 per game to that point. Granted, that's included games against the Browns and Cardinals, but there may be signs of life there.

Still, you're watching this game not only because of the 18-2 record but also because you're going to see things you've never seen NFL offenses do before.

It's been basically a weekly occurrence, and there's no reason to think it won't continue on Monday night.

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The Chiefs and Rams are breaking the NFL, each in their own way

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In 1996, the year after the Rams moved to St. Louis, they and the Kansas City Chiefs reinstated the Governor's Cup rivalry that had been put into storage when St. Louis' original team, the Cardinals, had moved to Arizona. The rivalry was, to put it kindly, lacking.

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Chiefs get ready to clap the rams in LA tonight. #LAaintready

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The Denver Broncos beat the Los Angeles Chargers 23-22. WR Keenan Allen say the Broncos suck and don´t deserve the credit.

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The Los Angeles Chargers blew a chance to put distance between themselves and the playoff pack, and possibly inch closer to the Kansas City Chiefs in the division.

The Chargers bungled multiple opportunities to put down the Denver Broncos, before ultimately falling, 23-22, on a last-second field goal by Denver kicker Brandon McManus.

After the loss, L.A. receiver Keenan Allen wasn't in the mood to give the Broncos any credit for crawling their way back in the game and stealing the victory.

"No, I don't think they played well at all," via Eric Williams of ESPN.com. "We dominated the game. Turnovers, we gave them some points and that's what happened. They suck."

Turnovers certainly played a massive role in the game. Von Miller's interception of Philip Rivers completely changed the tenor of the contest.

With the Chargers up 19-7 and driving for more points, Miller read a screen pass and swiped Rivers' pass, rumbling the other way for 42 yards to set up a Denver score. The play turned a would-be blowout into a tight tilt.

L.A. later botched a late-game management that could still have put the Broncos away for good or at least made the last-minute drive much more difficult. A botched handoff led to third-and-long from around midfield at the two-minute warning. With Denver out of timeouts, instead of running 40 seconds off the clock, Rivers then tossed a wormburner at the feet of Allen, taking just two seconds.

The miscues set up Denver's dramatics.

It's easy to see Allen's side on the matter. The Chargers piled up 479 total yards of offense, including 401 passing yards from Rivers. The L.A. defense had held Case Keenum to 59 passing yards entering the fourth quarter. At one point in the game, the Chargers had 22 first downs while Denver had just nine.

Unfortunately for Allen and the Chargers, it's a 60-minute game, not 45, 50 or even 58. Led by Miller's pick, the Broncos made plays to steal the win. As they have too often, the Chargers made plays to lose it.

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Keenan Allen: Broncos 'suck,' don't deserve credit

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The Los Angeles Chargers blew a chance to put distance between themselves and the playoff pack, and possibly inch closer to the Kansas City Chiefs in the division. The Chargers bungled multiple opportunities to put down the Denver Broncos, before ultimately falling, 23-22, on a last-second field goal by Denver kicker Brandon McManus.

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A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

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A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

The six people had gotten into an elevator on the 95th floor of the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly known as the John Hancock Center, when they heard a loud noise as the car started descending.

"At the beginning I believed we were going to die," Jaime Montemayor told WBBM-TV. "We were going down and then I felt that we were falling down and then I heard a noise-clack clack clack clack clack clack."

Montemayor, who was visiting from Mexico City on a business trip with his wife Maña, said the couple held onto each other and began praying. Maña told the Chicago Tribune she noticed dust particles seeping into the elevator.

"I knew something wasn't ok," she said.

One of several cables holding the elevator had broken and the car fell rapidly, landing somewhere near the 11th floor. No one was injured, but those inside had to wait hours for firefighters to break through a wall more than 10 stories above ground.

"It was a precarious situation where we had the cable break on top of the elevator [and] we couldn't do an elevator-to-elevator rescue we had to breach a wall," Chicago Battalion Fire Chief Patrick Maloney told WBBM.
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A city official told the Tribune the elevator was last inspected in July, and that a "hoist" rope connected to the car failed shortly after midnight.

"That rope is one of several that are connected to the elevator, and, even with this one failing, there's a redundancy in place," City Buildings Department spokesman Gregg Cunningham told the paper. "Specifics of how it failed, and what type of failure, is still under investigation."

The elevator and two others will be closed until repairs are made and officials figure out what happened. Visitors to the famed Chicago tower and its observatory area are using freight elevators in the meantime to reach upper floors.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Elevator at one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers plunges 84 floors after cable breaks

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A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

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Elevator at one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers plunges 84 floors after cable breaks

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A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

The six people had gotten into an elevator on the 95th floor of the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly known as the John Hancock Center, when they heard a loud noise as the car started descending.

"At the beginning I believed we were going to die," Jaime Montemayor told WBBM-TV. "We were going down and then I felt that we were falling down and then I heard a noise-clack clack clack clack clack clack."

Montemayor, who was visiting from Mexico City on a business trip with his wife Maña, said the couple held onto each other and began praying. Maña told the Chicago Tribune she noticed dust particles seeping into the elevator.

"I knew something wasn't ok," she said.

One of several cables holding the elevator had broken and the car fell rapidly, landing somewhere near the 11th floor. No one was injured, but those inside had to wait hours for firefighters to break through a wall more than 10 stories above ground.

"It was a precarious situation where we had the cable break on top of the elevator [and] we couldn't do an elevator-to-elevator rescue we had to breach a wall," Chicago Battalion Fire Chief Patrick Maloney told WBBM.
NEW JERSEY COUPLE ON WAY TO WEDDING KILLED IN CHAIN REACTION CRASH
A city official told the Tribune the elevator was last inspected in July, and that a "hoist" rope connected to the car failed shortly after midnight.

"That rope is one of several that are connected to the elevator, and, even with this one failing, there's a redundancy in place," City Buildings Department spokesman Gregg Cunningham told the paper. "Specifics of how it failed, and what type of failure, is still under investigation."

The elevator and two others will be closed until repairs are made and officials figure out what happened. Visitors to the famed Chicago tower and its observatory area are using freight elevators in the meantime to reach upper floors.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Elevator at one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers plunges 84 floors after cable breaks

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A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

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Woman shopping for Thanksgiving dinner when alleged murder suspect steals her car

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Nissan chair Ghosn arrested in probe of financial misconduct

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YOKOHAMA, Japan - Nissan Motor's chairman Carlos Ghosn has been arrested and will be dismissed for alleged under-reporting of his income and misuse of company funds, the company said Monday.

The Japanese automaker's CEO Hiroto Saikawa confirmed that Ghosn was arrested after being questioned by prosecutors following his arrival in Japan earlier in the day.

It was a stunning development that will pose a daunting test for the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance, one of the world's biggest automakers.

The Yokohama-based company said the alleged violations involving millions of dollars by Ghosn, 64, and another executive were discovered during a months' long investigation that was instigated by a whistleblower.

"Beyond being sorry I feel great disappointment, frustration, despair, indignation and resentment," Saikawa said, apologizing for a full 7 minutes at the outset of the news conference. "I want to minimize the bewilderment and the impact on the operation and our business partners."
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Nissan said it was providing information to the prosecutors and cooperating with their investigation. The allegations also concern a Nissan representative director, Greg Kelly, who was also arrested.

Saikawa said Nissan's board will vote Thursday on dismissing both Ghosn and Kelly, who he described as the "mastermind" of the alleged abuses.

"This is an act that cannot be tolerated by the company," he said. "This is serious misconduct."

Saikawa said three major types of misconduct were found, including under-reporting income, using investment funds for personal gain and illicit use of company expenses.

Asked why the company had failed to spot the illicit activity for so long, Saikawa said it was because a "system in the company" allowed a lack of transparency that made the wrongdoing possible.

Throughout the news conference he repeatedly said he was constrained by the ongoing investigation from disclosing many of the details of the case. But he promised to beef up corporate governance, adding that the problems may have happened because too much power was concentrated in one person.

"We need to really look back at what happened, take it seriously and take fundamental countermeasures," he said.

Already at Nissan for 19 years, Ghosn signed a contract earlier this year that would have run through 2022. His compensation, high by Japan's moderate standards for executive pay, has been an issue over the years.

According to NHK and the Kyodo News Service, Nissan paid Ghosn nearly 10 billion yen ($89 million) over five years through March 2015, including salary and other income from the company, but reported as if he only made 5 billion yen ($44 million), or half of what he had received.

Nissan's annual securities report shows Ghosn received annual remuneration exceeding 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) until fiscal 2016, when shareholders voted against his pay package and his annual pay dropped to 735 million yen ($6.5 million) in 2017, down more than 30 percent.

Shares in Renault SA of France plunged 14 percent early Monday. The news of Ghosn's troubles broke after Japanese markets had closed for the day.

The allegations are a serious blow at a time when Nissan and Mitsubishi Motor Co. are still overcoming scandals over their quality testing reporting.

Ghosn is credited with helping engineer a remarkable turnaround at Nissan over the past two decades, resuscitating the Japanese automaker from near bankruptcy after he was sent in by Renault.

For the past two decades, he has maintained an unusually high profile in a nation where foreign chief executives of major Japanese companies are still relatively rare.

He looms similarly large in France, where the business world saw him as a trailblazer from outside the traditional French mold who turned Renault around and made it into a global player, notably in electric vehicles. He also led the French carmaker through massive job cuts and a costly, contentious bailout amid the world financial meltdown a decade ago and what he called a "crisis of massive proportions" for the auto industry.

Ghosn has also been a nemesis for French unions and left-wing politicians, who saw him as a symbol of globalized, U.S.-driven capitalism and its excesses - and notably its executive pay packages.

Shareholders at Renault voted in 2016 against Ghosn's pay package, seeing it as too generous - but the board ignored the vote. That prompted the ire of then-President Francois Hollande. Hollande's socialist government imposed limits on executive pay at state-run companies and tried to do the same in the private sector but backed down amid concerns that it would scare away foreign investment.

Nicknamed "Le Cost Cutter," Ghosn's appointment inspired fears of social and economic upheaval amid plant closings, mass layoffs and the potential damage his reforms might inflict on Nissan's ties with its suppliers. But his triumph in turning the company around and introducing greater efficiency made him something of a national hero.

Ghosn served as Nissan's chief executive from 2001 until April 2017, becoming chief executive of Renault in 2005, leading the two major automakers simultaneously. In 2016, Ghosn became Mitsubishi Motors' chairman.

Asked if Ghosn was a charismatic leader or a despot, Saikawa said that as an outsider, "He achieved much that many others could not do in reforms, especially in the beginning."

"This is the negative outcome of the long regime of Mr. Ghosn. But over these 19 years we have been developing many things," Saikawa said. "He was a part of that but it was the result of hard work by many people."

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Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed.

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Nissan chair Ghosn arrested in probe of financial misconduct

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YOKOHAMA, Japan - Nissan Motor's chairman Carlos Ghosn has been arrested and will be dismissed for alleged under-reporting of his income and misuse of company funds, the company said Monday. The Japanese automaker's CEO Hiroto Saikawa confirmed that Ghosn was arrested after being questioned by prosecutors following his arrival in Japan earlier in the day.

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Chris Watts charged with the murders of his five family members. He strangled his wife, daughters (3 and 4) and killed his wife's unborn child. He then dumped the bodies at a work site, where the bodies were discovered.

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Chris Watts sentenced to life for 'inhumane' killings of two daughters and pregnant wife | CNN

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A Colorado judge sentenced Chris Watts on Monday to three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole in the killings of his pregnant wife and two young daughters.

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New Jersey couple Kathryn Schurtz and her fiancé, Joseph Kearney killed in when a tractor hit them, on the way to their wedding

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A New Jersey couple driving to their wedding in Pennsylvania died after a tractor-trailer hit their vehicle Wednesday.

Kathryn Schurtz, 35, of Fanwood, and her fiancé, Joseph Kearney, were killed after the accident on Interstate 78 in Berks County, Pa., according to Schurtz's obituary. The two were headed to their wedding, which was to be held in Pittsburgh.

The accident left the couple dead and three others injured after the driver of a tractor-trailer couldn't slow the vehicle down for traffic. The tractor-trailer slammed into the couple's car causing a chain reaction crash that ultimately involved four other tractor-trailers in addition to the couple's vehicle, LehighValleyLive.com reported.

According to the Pennsylvania State Police, the accident caused a fire that burned two of the tractor-trailers and the couple's vehicle. Traffic was reportedly backed up on the interstate for 12 hours.
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Schurtz, according to a Facebook page for the town of Fanwood, was the daughter of a former city councilwoman. She lived in Jersey City and worked for Oracle in New York City.

"She will be remembered for her voracious appetite for reading, love of cooking, and trailblazing new adventures with Joseph," her obituary read. A funeral mass for Schurtz will be held Tuesday in Scotch Plains, N.J.

Further information on Kearney wasn't immediately available.

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New Jersey couple on way to wedding killed in chain reaction crash

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A New Jersey couple driving to their wedding in Pennsylvania died after a tractor-trailer hit their vehicle Wednesday. Kathryn Schurtz, 35, of Fanwood, and her fiancé, Joseph Kearney, were killed after the accident on Interstate 78 in Berks County, Pa., according to Schurtz's obituary.

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Tonight’s #MNF showdown features the 2 highest-rated passers in primetime since 2000 (min. 3 starts): Jared Goff (139.9) and Patrick Mahomes (106.7)

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Thirty-four percent of US parents said their child was unlikely to get the flu vaccine this year, according to a report published Monday by C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

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During the last US flu season, 179 children died, with hundreds hospitalized due to flu-related illnesses; 80% of the children who died were unvaccinated.

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Elevator at one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers plunges 84 floors after cable breaks

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A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

The six people had gotten into an elevator on the 95th floor of the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly known as the John Hancock Center, when they heard a loud noise as the car started descending.

"At the beginning I believed we were going to die," Jaime Montemayor told WBBM-TV. "We were going down and then I felt that we were falling down and then I heard a noise-clack clack clack clack clack clack."

Montemayor, who was visiting from Mexico City on a business trip with his wife Maña, said the couple held onto each other and began praying. Maña told the Chicago Tribune she noticed dust particles seeping into the elevator.

"I knew something wasn't ok," she said.

One of several cables holding the elevator had broken and the car fell rapidly, landing somewhere near the 11th floor. No one was injured, but those inside had to wait hours for firefighters to break through a wall more than 10 stories above ground.

"It was a precarious situation where we had the cable break on top of the elevator [and] we couldn't do an elevator-to-elevator rescue we had to breach a wall," Chicago Battalion Fire Chief Patrick Maloney told WBBM.
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A city official told the Tribune the elevator was last inspected in July, and that a "hoist" rope connected to the car failed shortly after midnight.

"That rope is one of several that are connected to the elevator, and, even with this one failing, there's a redundancy in place," City Buildings Department spokesman Gregg Cunningham told the paper. "Specifics of how it failed, and what type of failure, is still under investigation."

The elevator and two others will be closed until repairs are made and officials figure out what happened. Visitors to the famed Chicago tower and its observatory area are using freight elevators in the meantime to reach upper floors.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Elevator at one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers plunges 84 floors after cable breaks

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A ride down from the top of Chicago's fourth-tallest building turned into a terrifying drop early Friday for a group of people, including a pregnant woman, who plunged 84 floors when a cable broke.

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Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith's 2018 season ended Sunday when he was carted off the field after suffering a gruesome leg injury against the Houston Texans. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported Smith will undergo surgery after breaking his tibia and fibula. Former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, famously suffered a serious leg injury on the same day in 1985

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Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith's 2018 season ended Sunday when he was carted off the field after suffering a gruesome leg injury against the Houston Texans.

Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported Smith will undergo surgery after breaking his tibia and fibula.

Albert Breer of The MMQB noted Smith's right leg was placed in an air cast right after suffering the injury.

Former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, who famously suffered a serious leg injury on the same day in 1985 (h/t Darren Rovell of ESPN.com), expressed his condolences:

Smith hasn't appeared in fewer than 15 games in a season since 2012. Entering Sunday, he had completed 64.1 percent of his passes for 2,045 yards and 10 touchdowns with three interceptions this season. Smith was 12-of-27 for 135 yards with two interceptions Sunday.

With Smith out, the onus will be on Colt McCoy to play his first meaningful snaps since 2014-when he played five games, including four starts, and threw for over 1,000 yards.

Since then, McCoy has attempted 11 passes, all of which came in Week 17 of the 2015 season. On Sunday, McCoy completed six of his 12 attempts for 54 yards and a touchdown in a 23-21 loss.

Washington will need him to shake off the rust in short order if it wants to remain perched atop the NFC East.

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Alex Smith to Undergo Season-Ending Surgery After Suffering Gruesome Leg Injury

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Alex Brandon/Associated Press Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith's 2018 season ended Sunday when he was carted off the field after suffering a gruesome leg injury against the Houston Texans. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported Smith will undergo surgery after breaking his tibia and fibula.

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LeGoat James goes off against Miami Heat scoring 51 points

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The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat 113-97 on Sunday at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami.

LeBron James earned his first win in Miami since leaving the Heat in 2014, scoring 51 points and collecting eight rebounds. It's the 12th 50-point scoring game of LeBron's legendary career. Sports Illustrated's Ben Golliver noted that's the most among active players.

Kyle Kuzma and Brandon Ingram chipped in with 15 and 13 points, respectively, while Kentavious Caldwell-Pope came off the bench to score 19 points. Tyson Chandler grabbed 11 rebounds as well for Los Angeles.

Wayne Ellington (19 points) was Miami's leading scorer, with Josh Richardson scoring 17 before his ejection in the fourth quarter.
LeBron's Huge Night Reminds Rest of NBA He's Still Best Player in the World

This is the first year one could make a strong argument Kevin Durant or Stephen Curry is close to usurping James as the NBA's pre-eminent talent-if not already there. Then LeBron drops 51 points on his old team.

Ben Axelrod @BenAxelrod
LeBron with a casual 51 point Sunday night game in Year 16. Good god.

This wasn't the kind of performance in which James needed to overexert himself either. He played 38 minutes and attempted 31 shots, both of which aren't that high by his standards.

Harrison Faigen @hmfaigen
"When players are as good as LeBron it looks easy for them. It's not easy, but they make it look easy because they're so good... He did it within the way we want to play, and it was just an incredible night." - Luke on LeBron

MarkJonesESPN @MarkJonesESPN
LeBron outchea in workout mode. An easy 42pts after 3 qtr. Lakers up 12 with 8:36 to go.

At 33 years old and with 1,397 career games under his belt, James will have stretches in which he doesn't get out of second gear.

Right now, his priorities should be saving himself for the stretch run of the regular season and letting the Lakers' younger players take their lumps and learn-the latter of which he did when he returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

But don't for a second question how good James can be when he's dialed in.

Granted, the Lakers' fortunes this season will likely highlight how they can't be a one-man show-even with James running things-and contend for a title. That formula was good enough for the Cavs in the weaker Eastern Conference; it's going to be less successful in the Western Conference.

If nothing else, Sunday's performance signals to potential free agents next summer that James has plenty left in the tank.
Heat's Lack of Star Power Will Sink Them Once Again
For Miami, Sunday's game was another reminder how the Heat have yet to fill the void James left when he re-signed with the Cavs in 2014.

The 2018-19 season will likely end much as the last four years have; Miami will fight for a bottom-four playoff seed and struggle to get out of the first round should it reach the postseason.

Goran Dragic has been battling a knee injury, which has left the Heat without one of their best players. Even with a healthy Dragic, though, Miami's playoff ceiling wouldn't change much.

Perhaps it's simplistic to say LeBron is the difference between Miami and Los Angeles. It looks that way nonetheless.

David Furones @DavidFurones_
Spoelstra on LeBron: "I've seen it before on our side. No question, when he's hitting the three like that, it changes the equation."

Following an underwhelming 2-5 start, the Lakers turned to James to right the ship.

The Heat, on the other hand, don't have that same luxury as head coach Erik Spoelstra tries to respond to a fifth defeat in his team's last six games. There's only so much Spoelstra can do with a roster built around Dragic, Richardson, Hassan Whiteside, Justise Winslow, Rodney McGruder and Tyler Johnson.

Whiteside in particular is a burden for Miami. He shot 2-of-9 from the field, with his .494 field-goal percentage on pace to be his worst since returning to the NBA in 2014-15.

Anthony Chiang @Anthony_Chiang
Hassan Whiteside has now missed 16 of his last 24 shot attempts.

One could question whether acquiring Jimmy Butler from the Minnesota Timberwolves ultimately would've changed much for the Heat. He would've provided a different dimension to Miami's offense and been a star who could've attempted to match James shot for shot Sunday.

Until the Heat are willing to embrace a complete rebuild or land a marquee free agent, they'll continue to tread water in the East.
What's Next?
The Lakers head to Cleveland on Wednesday for a reunion between James and the Cavaliers. The Heat stay at home Tuesday for a matchup with the Brooklyn Nets.

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Issac Baldizon/Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat 113-97 on Sunday at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami. LeBron James earned his first win in Miami since leaving the Heat in 2014, scoring 51 points and collecting eight rebounds. It's the 12th 50-point scoring game of LeBron's legendary career.

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A New Jersey couple driving to their wedding in Pennsylvania died after a tractor-trailer hit their vehicle Wednesday.  Kathryn Schurtz, 35, of Fanwood, and her fiancé, Joseph Kearney, were killed after the accident on Interstate 78 in Berks County, Pa., according to Schurtz's obituary.  The two were headed to their wedding, which was to be held in Pittsburgh.

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A New Jersey couple driving to their wedding in Pennsylvania died after a tractor-trailer hit their vehicle Wednesday.

Kathryn Schurtz, 35, of Fanwood, and her fiancé, Joseph Kearney, were killed after the accident on Interstate 78 in Berks County, Pa., according to Schurtz's obituary. The two were headed to their wedding, which was to be held in Pittsburgh.

The accident left the couple dead and three others injured after the driver of a tractor-trailer couldn't slow the vehicle down for traffic. The tractor-trailer slammed into the couple's car causing a chain reaction crash that ultimately involved four other tractor-trailers in addition to the couple's vehicle, LehighValleyLive.com reported.

According to the Pennsylvania State Police, the accident caused a fire that burned two of the tractor-trailers and the couple's vehicle. Traffic was reportedly backed up on the interstate for 12 hours.
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Schurtz, according to a Facebook page for the town of Fanwood, was the daughter of a former city councilwoman. She lived in Jersey City and worked for Oracle in New York City.

"She will be remembered for her voracious appetite for reading, love of cooking, and trailblazing new adventures with Joseph," her obituary read. A funeral mass for Schurtz will be held Tuesday in Scotch Plains, N.J.

Further information on Kearney wasn't immediately available.

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A New Jersey couple driving to their wedding in Pennsylvania died after a tractor-trailer hit their vehicle Wednesday. Kathryn Schurtz, 35, of Fanwood, and her fiancé, Joseph Kearney, were killed after the accident on Interstate 78 in Berks County, Pa., according to Schurtz's obituary.

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Before learning he would never walk out of prison Monday, Chris Watts sat at the defense table, head down and leg bobbing, as his mother told him she loved him and his slain wife's family called him a monster.

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Chris Watts sentenced to life for 'inhumane' killings of two daughters and pregnant wife | CNN

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A Colorado judge sentenced Chris Watts on Monday to three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole in the killings of his pregnant wife and two young daughters.