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I sleep with a gas mask on': Life next to Portland protest angering Trump

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Top Kremlin aide says agreement reached for Trump-Putin meeting ‘in coming days’

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Trump looks to remake America with sweeping second act

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Ex-FBI Informant Accused Of Making False Claims Against Bidens Indicted On New Tax Charges

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Smirnov's attorneys told Politico their client "intends to vigorously fight these allegations with the same intensity as he has fought the original indictment."

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Smirnov's indictment Tuesday comes just nine months after he was charged by Weiss for allegedly making a false statement and "creating a false and fictitious record" regarding statements he made about the Bidens. Smirnov's statements were a large part of the accusations Republicans brought to a House impeachment inquiry into the president. Prosecutors accused Smirnov of lying when he told the FBI he was in contact with members of Ukrainian holding company Burisma who told him they hired Hunter Biden to "protect us, through his dad ... from all kinds of problems" in exchange for money. The allegations were never verified by the FBI and the impeachment inquiry into President Biden eventually fell flat. Smirnov's trial in the false statements case is slated to begin Jan. 8, 2025. He will remain in jail until then and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of his charges.

Further Reading

Who Is Alexander Smirnov? FBI Informant Helped Spark Biden Impeachment Probe-And Could End It (Forbes)

Feds Want Biden-Accuser Smirnov Kept In Jail: Say Ex-FBI Informant A Flight Risk (Forbes)

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Ranchers at the ‘door’ of an incomplete border wall put faith in Trump to shut it

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When the migrants cross the Mexican border and enter Jim and Sue Chilton’s ranch, they go one of two ways. Those in civilian clothes head west, looking for Border Patrol officers to hand themselves in and request asylum, the couple said. Others, in camo fatigues and carrying large backpacks, go north.

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X-Factor: How Elon Musk Is Influencing the Presidential Election

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Trump claims Musk will interview him on Monday. If the conversation happens, it will only add to the long list of ways the tech billionaire is inserting himself in the election.

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Former President Donald Trump will sit down for an interview with billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk on Monday, Trump said on social media, marking the Tesla founder's latest effort to insert himself into the 2024 presidential election.

"ON MONDAY NIGHT I'LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK - Details to follow!" Trump this week.

Though Musk, the world's richest person, has not yet confirmed the interview, it follows a recent string of incidents in which Musk has taken a larger role in the election.

Here's a sampling of his involvement in just the last few weeks:

Though Musk boasts a huge following on social media, experts are skeptical about whether he has the potential to sway voters. Cayce Myers, professor of communication at the

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Virginia Tech School of Communication, says voters likely don't look to Musk for election guidance. But that doesn't mean the platform isn't helpful to Trump.

"What Musk brings to Trump in the interview is a platform audience that is enormous," Myers says. "And so what you have with Musk - who's one of the most followed people on Twitter - if he does this interview and posts it on X, it would be a lot of views and it's going to outperform typical broadcast or cable interviews."

The relationship between Trump and Musk has evolved over the years. As recently as 2022, the two men were firing insults at each other, with Musk that Trump should "hang up his hat & sail into the sunset," and Trump Musk a "bullshit artist." Historically, Trump has been an outspoken opponent of electric vehicles, in March that if he gets elected, "they're not going to sell those cars." Since Musk's endorsement, however, Trump seems to have softened on the idea of EVs.

"I'm for electric cars. I have to be, because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So I have no choice," Trump at a rally last weekend.

It's unclear how the new unlikely partnership will impact Trump's bid for the White House. Whether Musk could sway voters in the Monday interview would likely come down to who his X audience is, Myers says.

"Are they people that are truly undecided voters, that are up in the air about who they're going to vote for in 2024?" Myers says. "I personally do not think that there are many undecided voters in this election. I think people have made up their mind."

Myers expects the interview will be a friendly one for Trump - who often laments his treatment in the press - and doesn't expect Musk to ask tough questions or fact-check the former president. He does, however, think X's users may step into that role if the interview is posted on the platform. Myers added that Musk conducting a presidential nominee interview is part of the increasing involvement of "hyper wealthy" political donors.

"We're seeing a kind of an emergence here of a political donor class that is actively engaged in politics in a way that goes beyond just the donations," he says. "Now they're entering this space where they are advocating for campaigns and even conducting interviews as if they are the media."

Casey Burgat, assistant professor and director of the legislative affairs program at George Washington University, agreed that Musk's interview is more likely to generate buzz and shape conversation than to sway voters.

And while Musk's involvement could energize Trump's supporters, Burgat says it could also rev up Harris'.

"Musk's polarizing reputation means that his involvement might galvanize opposition as much as it motivates his supporters," he says.

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Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements

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Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don’t make a dent in the crisis.

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Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don't make a dent in the crisis.

As state and local governments navigate how to use the money, advocates say local governments may not have the bandwidth to take the right steps to identify their communities' needs and direct their funding shares to projects that use proven methods to prevent deaths.

Opioids have been linked to about 800,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999, including more than 80,000 annually in recent years, with most of those involving illicitly produced fentanyl.

Drugmakers, wholesalers and pharmacies have been involved in more than 100 settlements of opioid-related lawsuits with state, local and Native American tribal governments over the past decade.

The deals, some not yet finalized, could be worth a total of more than $50 billion over nearly two decades and also come with requirements for better monitoring of prescriptions and making company documents public.

States alone fought the tobacco industry in the 1990s and they used only a sliver of the money from the resulting settlements on tobacco-related efforts.

"We don't want to be 10 years down the road and say, 'After we screwed up tobacco, we trusted small government with opioids - and we did even worse,'" said Paul Farrell, Jr., one of the lead lawyers representing local governments in the opioid suits.

He notes that with settlement money rolling out for at least 14 more years, there's time for towns to use it appropriately, and resources to help.

The goal, experts say, is to help those who are taking opioids to get treatment, to make it less likely people who use drugs will overdose and to create an environment for people not to take them in the first place.

For many, it's personal.

Suzanne Harrison and her family launched a nonprofit dedicated to getting New Jersey residents access to treatment and recovery programs after her brother and Navy veteran, King Shaffer Jr., died from a fentanyl and heroin overdose in 2016, days before he was scheduled to try another treatment program.

At the time, he was staying with a sister who lived in Moorestown, New Jersey.

That town's administration decided to hand its portion of settlement money over to Burlington County, which has used settlement funds to distribute an overdose antidote and run camps for kids affected by addiction.

"The County was in a much better position to handle this subject," township manager Kevin Aberant emailed, noting reporting requirements and restrictions on how the money could be used.

The major opioid settlements, which include deals with Walgreen Co., CVS Health, , Johnson & Johnson and one with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that is before the U.S. Supreme Court, require that most of the funds be used to combat the crisis.

More than half of the funds will be controlled by local governments, according to Christine Minhee, who runs the Opioid Settlement Tracker website. In the biggest agreements, states receive larger amounts by getting eligible local governments with populations over 10,000 to join the settlements.

Unlike most states, New Jersey required local governments to complete reports on the funding.

Using those submissions and additional reporting, The Associated Press examined the spending and decision-making processes for communities in Burlington County, which includes Philadelphia suburbs and rural areas. Fourteen communities there receive allocations and by last June the amounts ranged from $5,000 to nearly $88,000.

By last year, most communities in Burlington County had not spent their allotted funds yet, nor had they followed advice to gather public input, devise strategic plans, conduct assessments of their communities' needs and design processes for awarding funds.

In Mount Laurel, New Jersey, the police department was put in charge and launched outreach events around budget motels where first-responders often administer an overdose antidote. The idea is to connect people with treatment and other services, but advocates prefer police not be in charge of the spending.

Deputy Police Chief Tim Hudnall also said there is consideration of hiring peer-support navigators to try to help people address addiction.

Another New Jersey town, Willingboro, spent a little over $57,000 on a back-to-school wellness event, where students received backpacks full of school supplies and information about mental health resources.

"We've been trying to be aggressive about it," Gary Lawery II, the deputy township manager, said of spending the funds. "If not, it's just going to sit there."

But those approaches have not relied on the kind of community needs assessments that Sara Whaley, a researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who helps develop guides for counties, says are essential.

Some service providers, such as Shaffer's sister Suzanne Harrison, have found the process frustrating. Her organization, King's Crusade, helps connect people with services, pays rent at sober living facilities and provides transportation to treatment. They've raised as much as $80,000 a year, but there is always more demand.

Harrison said she hasn't had a chance to apply for allocations to subsidize this. Instead, the organization received $6,625 in opioid settlement money to organize a one-time recovery community event in Evesham Township.

In Evesham, a suburb of 45,000 that's the most populous in Burlington County, most of the control over the settlement funds lies with the local alliance to prevent alcoholism and drug addiction, which is the sort of body Whaley says should be involved.

Marc Romano, director of operations for Prevention Plus of Burlington County, said he also wished there was a call for proposals for using the money. The group was paid $2,000 to hold a painting night for women in recovery, which he said was "a nice event for recovery and recovery awareness," but the group could do more by getting funds to help support programs geared toward its mission of prevention.

Council member Heather Cooper, whose own brother was killed by a fentanyl overdose, said there are service providers in the area that can help get people into treatment, get them rides there and offer other services.

"But what we hear is families still don't know where those resources are," she said. "So I think the marketing of that has to increase."

Other governments have used different approaches.

In Arkansas, all the towns and counties pooled their money by creating the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership.

Grants have gone to a drug task force to hire an overdose investigator and peer recovery specialist, for the American Indian Center of Arkansas to hire peer recovery specialists, and for a religious organization to expand its recovery housing center in projects ranging from $100,000 to more than $2 million.

Kirk Lane, a former police chief and director of state drug policy who now serves as director of the partnership, said it's able to steer projects to underserved parts of the state and to fill in gaps in the state's treatment, recovery and prevention systems.

He explained, "Individual mayors and county judges didn't have to worry about, 'How are we going to spend that money?'"

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Shouts of ‘Shame! Shame!’ erupt in Arizona House as fight over abortion ban engulfs lawmakers

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The Arizona Legislature devolved into shouts of “Shame! Shame!” on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers quickly shut down discussion on a proposed repeal of the state’s newly revived 1864 law that criminalizes abortion throughout pregnancy unless a woman’s life is at risk.

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PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona abortion providers vowed Wednesday to continue service until they're forced to stop, a pledge that comes day after the state Supreme Court cleared the way for enforcing an 1864 law criminalizing abortion throughout pregnancy unless a woman's life is at risk.

The court decision rocked the state as women, including physicians, grappled with how to respond to a law that comes without exceptions for rape or incest.

State legislators convened as pressure mounted from Democrats and some Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, for them to intervene. House Democrats and at least one Republican tried to open discussion Wednesday on repealing the 1864 ban, but GOP leaders, who command the majority, shut it down twice and quickly adjourned. Outraged Democrats erupted in chants of "Shame! Shame! Shame!"

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs earlier called on the Legislature to repeal the ban.

"They could do that today," she told CBS News. "They could gavel in today and make a motion to repeal this."

According to AP VoteCast, 6 out of 10 Arizona voters in the 2022 midterm elections said they would favor guaranteeing legal abortion nationwide. The state recorded 11,530 abortions in 2022, the last data available, according to the Department of Health Services.

At Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, where about one-fourth of Arizona abortions are performed, registered nurse Ashleigh Feiring said abortion services were still available and that staff hope emergency legislation will avoid interruptions or closure.

"Our plan is to stay open as long as possible," Feiring said. "Our clinic has been shut down twice in the last four years, but we've always resumed service."

At the same time, anti-abortion groups including SBA Pro-Life America urged Arizona residents to oppose a proposed ballot initiative aimed at placing abortion rights in Arizona's state constitution.

"They would wipe away all pro-life laws put in place by the Legislature, reflective of the will of the people," SBA President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement.

Hobbs, however, predicted that outrage will motivate voters to enshrine abortion rights in state law.

"The fight is not over for sure" she said.

Arriving for a campaign fundraiser in Atlanta, Trump said the Arizona court decision went too far and called on state lawmakers to change it even as he defended the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling overturning of Roe v. Wade.

"It's all about states' rights," the former president told supporters and journalists. "It'll be straightened out."

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, most Republican-controlled states have started enforcing new bans or restrictions, and most Democratic-dominated ones have sought to protect abortion access.

The Arizona ruling suggests doctors can be prosecuted for performing the procedure. The 1864 law carries a sentence of two to five years in prison for doctors or anyone else who assists in an abortion.

"Physicians are now on notice that all abortions, except those necessary to save a woman's life, are illegal," the Arizona Supreme Court said in its decision, adding that additional criminal and regulatory sanctions may apply to abortions performed after 15 weeks, the state's previous time limit for the procedure.

Beyond that, the court ruling also ignited concern that enforcement might interfere with handling miscarriages.

Enforcing the 1864 law won't begin for at least two weeks. However, plaintiffs in the case - including Planned Parenthood - said the delay could last up to two months, based on an agreement reached in a related case.

Planned Parenthood has said it will offer abortion services up to 15 weeks of pregnancy for at least two more months, in line with an agreement in the related case. ___ Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, contributed to this report.

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The most shocking moment of the 2024 Academy Awards on Sunday night? The ceremony ended on time — technically, a few minutes early.

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The most shocking moment of the 2024 Academy Awards on Sunday night? The ceremony ended on time - technically, a few minutes early.

The telecast was slated to conclude at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, and just after 10:20 p.m., presenter Al Pacino arrived onstage to award best picture and went about it in the most confusing way possible: "Only one will take the award for best picture ... and, uh, I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will ... here it comes. And my eyes see - 'Oppenheimer?'"

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" collected seven awards, including best picture and best director, at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 10. (Video: Allie Caren/The Washington Post)

The audience seemed baffled, but then roared. Because as expected, "Oppenheimer" - a sweeping epic detailing the creation of the atomic bomb - took home the show's biggest prize, capping off the night with seven trophies including actor (Cillian Murphy), supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), director (Christopher Nolan), cinematography, editing and score.

"I think any of us who make movies know that you kind of dream of this moment," producer Emma Thomas said, adding, "The reason this movie was the movie that it was was Chris Nolan. He is singular, he is brilliant. And I'm so grateful to you."

While "Oppenheimer" was the predicted juggernaut of the night, earlier in the show "Poor Things" had all the momentum, picking up wins for costume design, production design and makeup and hairstyling - and that was far before best actress was announced. Here are more highlights from the telecast. (See the full list of winners here.)

Emma Stone won best actress
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Emma Stone beat Lily Gladstone in a tight best actress race, surprising those who consider the Screen Actors Guild award - which Gladstone won for her role in "Killers of the Flower Moon," which wound up getting shut out at the Oscars - to be a notable predictor for the Academy Awards acting categories.

Stone gave a charming speech while accepting her win for "Poor Things," the Yorgos Lanthimos film in which she plays a woman whose brain is replaced with that of her unborn child. She singled out Gladstone while acknowledging her fellow nominees, and expressed gratitude for the experiences they shared throughout awards season: "Lily, I share this with you. I'm in awe of you," she added.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph gave one of the night's best speeches
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Da'Vine Joy Randolph, in the first category of the telecast, kicked the show off with a tear-jerker. The 37-year-old former opera singer, who won best supporting actress for her role in "The Holdovers," did not hold back on the Oscars stage. "You know, I didn't think I was supposed to be doing this as a career. I started off as a singer," she said.

In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Randolph opened up about how impostor syndrome was dampening her awards-season excitement. But when accepting her trophy in a custom pale blue Louis Vuitton gown, the actress released all that pent-up emotion. "For so long I've always wanted to different and now I realize I just need to be myself. I thank you for seeing me," she said as the tears flowed. While onstage the actress also made sure to spotlight her Yale Drama School professor, Ron Van Lieu. "When I was the only Black girl in that class ... you saw me and you told me I was enough."

And despite Oscar announcer David Alan Grier's instructions to keep speeches short, Randolph made sure to sneak in an honorable mention for her publicist, whose name we still don't know - but whom we do know is going to be very busy following Randolph's big night. "I pray to God that I get to do this more than once," she said.

Jimmy Kimmel didn't make too many enemies
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Most celebrities are wary of hosting award shows these days (it's generally a high-risk, low-reward situation), but ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returned for a fourth time and delivered a monologue that shouldn't make anyone too angry. Among his targets:

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.): "Emma [Stone], you are so unbelievably great in 'Poor Things.' Emma played an adult woman with the brain of a child, like the lady who gave the rebuttal to the State of the Union on Thursday night."

Robert Downey Jr.'s past substance abuse: "This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr.'s long and illustrious career - well, one of the highest points." As Downey touched his nose, Kimmel went further: "Was that too on the nose, or was that a drug motion you made?" (At this point, Downey motioned for the host to move it along with the jokes.)

Bradley Cooper's tradition of bringing his mother to award shows: "It's very sweet, but I guess the question is, how many times can one bring his mom as his date before he is actually dating his mom? Are you working on a movie about Freud right now and not telling us?"

Robert De Niro and his wife's 35-year age gap: "In 1976, Jodie Foster was young enough to be Robert De Niro's daughter. Now, she's 20 too old to be his girlfriend."

But at the end, Kimmel turned sincere, leading a round of applause for all the workers behind the scenes who didn't cross the picket lines during the Hollywood strikes last year.

Multiple winners got political
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One big question was how political the show might get: It's a big election year globally, not just in the United States, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine have no end in sight.

Arguably the biggest political statement of the night happened on the road to the Oscars - literally. Guests heading to the awards had to be rerouted after a protest calling for a cease-fire in Gaza shut down streets. Some attendees of the ceremony wore orange Artists4Ceasefire pins.

But on the Oscars stage, politics appeared to take a backseat to publicists, for the most part. That was until "The Zone of Interest" filmmaker Jonathan Glazer accepted the award for best international feature. The English director said the striking Holocaust film depicts how dehumanization "shapes all of our pasts and present"; he then directed the audience's attention to an Israeli "occupation which has led to conflict for so many people."

"Whether the victims of Oct. 7 in Israel, or the ongoing attack in Gaza, or the victims of this dehumanization," he continued, "how do we resist?"

Next was Mstyslav Chernov, who won best documentary feature for "20 Days in Mariupol," which chronicled Russia's attack on Ukraine. Chernov pointed out that it was the first Oscar ever given to a Ukrainian film.

"But probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I never made this film," Chernov said. Chernov said he would give up the award in return for "Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities" and not killing tens of thousands of his fellow Ukrainians.

Chernov then called on the room to commit themselves to telling the truth about the past: "Because cinema forms memories, and memories form history."

Backstage, Chernov told reporters that he didn't believe his statements were political: "This is a humanitarian emergency and a matter of supporting the civilians that are being attacked and being killed."

"I don't know how I can fix it, and I don't know whether we should try," he added. "But I hope that this win will just elevate this story."

Best actor winner Cillian Murphy also alluded to war in his speech: "I'm a very proud Irish man standing here tonight. We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or worse we're still living in Oppenheimer's world, so I'd like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere."

There was one more political moment
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Toward the end of the show, Kimmel informed the crowd he received a review of his performance, and read it out loud: "Has there ever been a worst host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars? His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard be something that he is not and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC talent, George Slopanopoulos. He would make everybody onstage look bigger, stronger and more glamorous ... blah, blah, blah, make America great again."

"Now, see if you can guess which former president just posted that on Truth Social," Kimmel said dryly. "Well, thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching, I'm surprised ... isn't it past your jail time?" The audience roared with applause.

Cord Jefferson won best adapted screenplay for 'American Fiction'
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Cord Jefferson, who took home the award for best adapted screenplay, used his speech to call attention to Hollywood's aversion to taking chances on new talent and new stories.

Jefferson, a former Gawker blogger, found acclaim as a TV writer on shows such as "The Good Place" and "Watchmen" before adapting Percival Everett's novel "Erasure" for his first feature film, "American Fiction" (which Jefferson also directed). He acknowledged that he had spoken a lot this awards season on how many people passed on the movie - a point he made not to be vindictive, he said. "It's a plea that there are so many people out there that want the opportunity I was given," Jefferson said onstage.

Backstage, Jefferson said he hoped to convey in his acceptance speech that there's interest in a variety of Black stories.

Some of the presenters were ... actually pretty funny?
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After host, presenter has to be the most thankless job in Hollywood. If you do it bad (and so many do) then you've got an embarrassing highlight reel (or worse, an everlasting meme) to haunt you until the end of time. If you do it well? Well, who does that? At this year's ceremony there were some real contenders.

First up with a bit that was actually funny and not an eye-rolling time suck were "Beetlejuice" co-stars Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara. As delightful a pair as always, they went back and forth about all the incredible things that happen in the makeup trailer. "The last thing we want is anyone knowing what we really look like," O'Hara joked.

Another refreshing matchup was "Barbie" co-stars Kate McKinnon and America Ferrera, who managed to make the Oscar for best documentary short film funny with a long-running punchline about whether the "Jurassic Park" films were in fact documentaries. (Hint: They were not). And somehow this innocent joke roped in Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, one Jeff Goldblum and "tasteful nudes" from McKinnon.

The bronze medal goes to the fake "Barbenheimer" feud, which came to a laughable head when "Oppenheimer" star Emily Blunt and "Barbie" star Ryan Gosling became the odd couple of presenters. Blunt called Gosling's hello "frosty." Then the actors spent a minute or so shading one another with sick burns about who won more awards this season ("Oppenheimer") and who brought back the summer movie ("Barbie"). "This is insane Emily," Gosling fake demanded. "We have to squash this!"

And we don't even know how to categorize John Cena showing up naked (yes, naked) to present best costumes.

Messi showed up to the Oscars
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German actress Sandra Hüller gives a stunning performance in "Anatomy of a Fall" as a woman suspected of murdering her husband, but we'd be remiss not to mention the film's other star: Messi, the border collie who plays the family's service dog, Snoop. Snoop deals with all sorts of nonsense - the poor thing also has to listen to that steel-band cover of 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P," after all - but at one point is accidentally poisoned. Messi stuns.

And luckily, he was in much better spirits at the Oscars. Although there were reports that he might not show up because others were worried he might steal the spotlight, Messi appeared a few times in the audience (including during Robert Downey Jr.'s best supporting actor win).

Ryan Gosling crushed "I'm Just Ken"
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In the most anticipated performance of the night, Ryan Gosling performed "I'm Just Ken," the earworm Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt created for "Barbie." He began the performance seated in the audience behind co-star Margot Robbie, who beamed as Gosling revealed his bedazzled pink suit. He strode to the stage, where a bunch of dancers in black cowboy hats performed choreography similar to that of the film's whimsical fight scene. Joining Gosling onstage? Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir, two of the other Kens we love to hate. A cute little reunion!

... but "Barbie" got (mostly) shut out
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It's hard to think of a movie last year that sparked more conversation and excitement than "Barbie," but with eight nominations, the Greta Gerwig film only received one award. (Billie Eilish and her co-writer/producer/brother, Finneas, won best original song for the ballad "What Was I Made For?") This wasn't a surprise - even Kimmel reassured Margot Robbie and Gosling during his monologue.

"Ryan, Margot, I want you to know that even if neither one of you wins an Oscar tonight, you both already won something much more important," he said. "The genetic lottery."

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As China increasingly threatens to use force against Taiwan, the United States is rightly focused on the dangers of conflict over the island. But there is an equal risk of crisis, confrontation, and even war over a different area-the South China Sea. China is aggressively pursuing its claims throughout the sea, through which over $3 trillion in trade flows each year. Over the last decade, Beijing has built military bases on a series of reclaimed islands and harassed other countries that claim rights in the sea. Most recently, it has raised the risk of disaster by unsafely intercepting ships and aircraft belonging to the United States and its allies.

Tensions are especially high between China and the Philippines in the long-running standoff over the Second Thomas Shoal. For years, the Philippines has maintained its claim to the submerged coral reef within its exclusive economic zone through a jury-rigged outpost-an aging tank landing ship, the Sierra Madre, that the Philippine navy ran aground on the shoal 25 years ago. Over the last year, Chinese ships have used water cannons, lasers, and ramming to threaten Philippine resupply missions.

With the Sierra Madre now in danger of falling to pieces, the Philippines will soon need to rebuild the outpost, a step that Beijing has said it will not accept. In January, meanwhile, the Philippines announced plans to fortify as many as nine disputed maritime areas under its control. All this makes the risk of a direct military confrontation in the South China Sea higher than ever-and the United States has repeatedly promised to stand by the U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951. If Beijing directly attacks Philippine ships, Washington would be compelled to respond.

To make matters more complex, any future South China Sea crisis is likely to highlight an obvious weakness in the United States' larger strategy on China: it embodies no clear vision of success. U.S. officials have said that they are not trying to engineer a Cold War-style transformation of the Chinese system, such as the end of Chinese Communist Party rule. A comprehensive U.S. victory in a war with China is hardly possible. As a result, Washington has been unable to define what success looks like and how U.S. strategy is designed to produce it. These shortcomings are likely to be front and center in a new crisis, as Washington would struggle to respond in a way that makes progress toward clear long-term objectives.

In the near term, a military confrontation seems unlikely, in part because Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has been struggling to revive China's stagnating economy and solidify political control at home, has shown a desire to ease tensions with the United States. But ever more frequent maritime incidents and provocations in the South China Sea almost guarantee a crisis. When one occurs, it will mark an inflection point in U.S. strategy toward China. Such an event will drive home the lesson that simply opposing Chinese power and ambitions-whether by stacking up barriers to Beijing's capabilities and influence or shoring up deterrence-will not by itself underwrite a strategic relationship that can survive the coming decade.

In its broader strategy toward China, the United States must compete vigorously, but it must also lay the groundwork for a stable relationship with Beijing that can, at some point, transition into a mutually respectful form of coexistence. This is the only credible medium-term outcome of the U.S.-Chinese rivalry short of war. For the United States, this means matching obstruction with bold multilateral approaches to regulate issues of dispute with China. A crisis in the South China Sea will provide a perilous but unmissable opportunity to move in such a direction.

WAIT AND SEA

It is easy to exaggerate China's intent to dominate the world. A combination of expanding maritime capabilities, nationalism, and entrenched interests of the one-party state has produced a pattern of behavior in Beijing that often looks like a drive for hegemony but may be as much about momentum as any formal plan for global supremacy. Yet it is now difficult to deny that Beijing seeks to be the predominant power of Asia and wants to exercise a veto over the most important military and geopolitical actions of other countries. One important piece of this agenda is China's effort to force rival claimants out of its way in the South China Sea.

Beijing's risk tolerance in this campaign appears to be growing. In recent years, it has accelerated the pace of coercive actions against not only the Philippines but also Indonesia and Vietnam. It has dramatically stepped up risky maneuvering near U.S. and allied ships and aircraft: in the last two years alone, Chinese ships and planes instigated almost 300 such incidents, more than the total of the entire previous decade, according to a report from the U.S. Defense Department. And since mid-2023, China has continually hounded Philippine vessels attempting to resupply the Sierra Madre. The South China Sea dispute has thus become a test of a rising autocratic power's ability to impose its will on smaller neighbors.

As a result, the South China Sea is also providing a verdict on Washington's willingness to stand by those who resist Beijing's bullying. To signal this commitment, the United States has already reinforced its position in the region. Since 2019, it has consistently maintained that the U.S.-Philippine defense treaty covers attacks on Philippine armed forces, public vessels, or aircraft. It has held joint patrols and exercises with Australia, Canada, and Japan. In December, it conducted freedom of navigation operations close to Second Thomas Shoal for the first time. Washington has also announced new military aid and sales to the Philippines for maritime security and self-defense. But the perception remains that China is slowly gaining control of the sea, and a new crisis would pose a critical test of U.S. commitments.

It is easy to exaggerate China's intent to dominate the world.

Xi has strong reasons to restrain China's aggressiveness for the time being: slowing growth, a real estate sector in crisis, falling stocks, declining consumer confidence, and an escalating anticorruption drive that hints at deeper political issues. Beijing may also sense that it was becoming too belligerent for its own good and may not want to goad the United States in an election year. China may therefore be less bellicose for the time being. But the structural realities of disputes in the South China Sea-the collision course over the Second Thomas Shoal, U.S. insistence on air and maritime transits, renewed clashes over fishing rights and energy exploration-seem bound to lead to further escalation. When that happens, the United States may decide it needs to respond more vigorously than in the past. Like it or not, contesting Chinese coercion in the South China Sea is now a prominent way to measure U.S. resolve. Washington's scope for playing the long game is diminishing.

A new South China Sea crisis could take many forms. It could be set off by a sudden Chinese move to militarize Scarborough Shoal, another atoll in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, which China seized from the Philippines in 2012. Or it could involve a deadly clash over the Sierra Madre, or perhaps a midair collision precipitated by Chinese aircraft maneuvering close to U.S. or allied planes in the region. When such a crisis arises, the United States will have a rich menu of responses to choose from to form a more muscular response.

Building on its growing military ties, Washington could deploy military forces to the scene of a clash and directly support beleaguered U.S. allies. It could launch an information campaign, including the selective release of intelligence, to highlight Chinese belligerence and generate a global reaction. It could further expand its regional military presence and announce a new series of exercises in contested waters. It might organize a multilateral effort to boost military aid and arms sales to regional partners and quickly assemble new cooperative defense programs, such as one to deploy large numbers of inexpensive air and maritime drones. It could even consider selectively expanding security guarantees-arguing, for example, that it will view aggressive moves against Vietnamese assets as a threat to international security that would justify some form of U.S. response.

One part of a U.S. crisis response, therefore, must convey strength and commitment, both to U.S. allies and partners and to Beijing. The time has come for the United States to send a firmer message about the limits of what Washington and its allies will tolerate in China's piece-by-piece bid for regional control.

AGREE TO AGREE

Beyond merely punishing China for aggression, however, the United States can use a new crisis to take tentative but important steps toward transcending the current zero-sum rivalry. As the Cold War progressed, the United States and the Soviet Union made halting but critical progress toward stabilizing their relationship, such as by establishing the Antarctic Treaty, the Test Ban Treaty, the Treaty on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and various hotlines and rules of engagement governing military operations. These agreements gradually built a sense of mutual toleration, strengthened diplomatic relationships, and placed limits on certain zones of competition. Later, more significant accords-including the Helsinki Final Act and major nuclear arms agreements-limited competition in more profound ways. The process took decades and was punctuated with crises and war scares, but it was essential in complementing deterrence in the long-term U.S. effort to fashion a successful, and peaceful, end to the Cold War.

It is telling that the formula for the United States' China strategy offered by Secretary of State Antony Blinken-"invest, align, and compete"-does not include an explicit pillar aimed at building the sinews of coexistence. The U.S. approach seems to assume that checking Chinese ambition will be enough to produce stability and that, when tensions rise, a spate of bilateral dialogues-as is underway now-can soothe the relationship. But that is an ad hoc and risky way of moderating a major rivalry. Absent larger diplomatic initiatives, it is tempting fate to assume that mutual deterrence will be enough to limit the contest to a polite series of disputes. Washington's reliance on the idea that good judgment will prevail over tensions may instead invite an unending series of intense crises.

This missing leg of U.S. strategy-a willingness to devote serious effort, and compromise, to find sustainable bargains on certain key issues-is also an essential precondition for long-term success in the rivalry. As has happened before with pairs of rivals, the United States may eventually be able to steer its contest with China into a less paranoid, hostile, and mistrustful relationship. Competition and deterrence are critical to such an outcome: Chinese leaders must be convinced that hegemony is not an option. But history suggests that any route to eventual reconciliation must also include formalized agreements that create a world in which both sides feel safe.

In a 2019 RAND study, my colleagues and I looked at the factors that tend to moderate great-power rivalries. The most important was what could be called a shared status quo-a situation in which the two sides agree, at least for a significant period of time, on the elements of an order that provides for the vital interests of both. A good example might be the many accords and negotiations-including the 1971 Four Power Agreement on Berlin, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, and the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Talks that began in 1973-that together implied an emerging, shared agreement on some elements of a peaceful status quo in Europe. Of course, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union continued. The Reagan administration, for example, sought to end Soviet rule in its Eastern European satellites. But a set of formal and informal rules emerged that set important limits on the contest. Such mutual visions don't typically arise just because two countries are exhausted from competing with each other but require conscious effort by each side to develop initiatives that temper the confrontation. Despite modest outreach to China on issues such as climate change and artificial intelligence, serious attempts to pursue such agreements are largely absent from Washington's strategy today.

This omission is understandable: such efforts seem pointless as long as Chinese leaders are unwilling to subscribe to any stable status quo that constrains their ambitions. China is still on the upswing of its power; unlike the fatigued Soviet Union of the 1970s, it does not perceive the need to pursue détente with its primary rival, at least not yet. But the United States needs to test the limits of China's openness to talks on key issues, such as the status of the South China Sea. Even if it does not produce near-term agreements, the pursuit of concrete accords can demonstrate a willingness to accept lasting settlements that respect Chinese interests-and demonstrate to others that U.S. strategy is not all about competing and opposing.

BUILDING BLOCKS

The shock and fear created by a major crisis in the South China Sea could provide a critical opportunity to push for such a framework for the region. Even as the United States responds in a strong and credible way during the crisis, it can call for a comprehensive, multilateral diplomatic conference on South China Sea issues, including territorial and maritime claims, natural resource extraction, depletion of fisheries, and the presence of outside militaries. Washington could argue that the crisis proves that regional disputes are leading to violent confrontation and the time has come to push for principles of peaceful coexistence.

The U.S. position on such a diplomatic initiative could build on several foundations, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the 2016 Hague ruling on regional claims, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' drive to achieve a code of conduct that would spell out clear rules governing the pursuit of territorial and maritime interests in the South China Sea. China and ASEAN agreed in July to make fresh efforts in the direction of such a code by 2026. Many will be skeptical of the potential for any agreement: China rejects the Hague ruling and has used the code of conduct process to delay action while it steadily imposes its control over the region.

But with a new crisis as evidence, the United States could argue that this time is different: the world is headed for a perilous series of confrontations, and the only alternative is to establish the regional equivalent of a shared status quo. The United States will need strong multilateral support for such an initiative-not only from countries in Southeast Asia but also from European countries, India, Japan, South Korea, and many others. And Washington will have to be open to making concessions of its own, such as giving advance notification of military transits and perhaps even limits on U.S.-led military exercises in the South China Sea.

China will be wary and resistant, viewing the offer as another U.S. scheme to undermine its ambitions. But the danger posed by the crisis and the new wave of global demands for negotiations could force Beijing to be more flexible. Moreover, the promised U.S. diplomatic and military responses to the crisis can pose Beijing with a clear dilemma: the alternative to a negotiated solution would be a surge in U.S. regional presence and partnerships. There is an advantage to trying, moreover, even if the effort fails at first. Washington can demonstrate clearly which great power is truly interested in peaceful coexistence, and even partial and limited stabilizing agreements can make a difference. Building a shared status quo is the work of decades, not months or years.

If such a diplomatic initiative produces tangible results, it would have echo effects beyond the U.S.-Chinese relationship. The United States will have taken an important step in what should be its primary foreign policy imperative: leading the world toward a refreshed, more multilateral international order, one that is less U.S.-centric yet still reflects the international norms and structures that are most critical to U.S. interests. The United States has led the world out of disasters to new forms of coexistence and stability before. If current tensions in the South China Sea escalate into a major confrontation, it will have the chance to do so again.

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The Wi-Fi Alliance released a new version of its wireless technology Monday, boasting new features designed to boost performance and improve connectivity across a variety of environments.

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The Wi-Fi Alliance released a new version of its wireless technology Monday, boasting new features designed to boost performance and improve connectivity across a variety of environments.

New features in Wi-Fi Certified 7 include:

320 MHz channels in countries, like the United States, that make the 6GHz band available to Wi-Fi, which facilitates multi-gigabit device speeds and high throughput;

Multi-Link Operation (MLO), which allows devices to transmit and receive data simultaneously over multiple links for increased throughput, reduced latency, and improved reliability;

4K Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for higher transmission rates; and

512 Compressed block-ack to enhance spectrum efficiency.

"The introduction of Wi-Fi Certified 7 marks the emergence of the latest generation of Wi-Fi and will be an accelerant to mass adoption of Wi-Fi 7," Alliance President and CEO Kevin Robertson said in a statement.

"This certification underscores our relentless commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology that redefines the way users experience Wi-Fi, providing faster speeds, improved efficiency, and increased reliability, which expand the horizons of what is possible through Wi-Fi," he added.

Technology 'Big Deal'

The Alliance predicts that Wi-Fi 7 will be rapidly adopted across a broad ecosystem, with more than 233 million devices entering the market in 2024, growing to 2.1 billion devices by 2028.

In terms of U.S. dollars, IDC is forecasting the wireless LAN market to reach $23 billion by 2027, with a 3% compound annual growth over the next five years.

"We expect businesses and consumers to start to deploy Wi-Fi 7 later this year, and a pretty significant ramp-up as we get into 2025 and beyond," Brandon Butler, research manager for the enterprise networks group at IDC, a global market and research firm, told TechNewsWorld.

From a technology standpoint, Wi-Fi 7 is a big deal because it achieves faster throughput through several key technologies, maintained Mark N. Vena, president and principal analyst at SmartTech Research in San Jose, Calif.

"The use of advanced modulation schemes, such as 4K-QAM, allows for higher data rates per transmission," he told TechNewsWorld. "Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output technology enables simultaneous data transmission to multiple devices, enhancing overall network efficiency."

"Additionally," he continued, "the introduction of Basic Service Set Coloring reduces interference in crowded environments, further optimizing throughput.

Paradigm Changer

One feature that should be a cause for excitement among technologists is MLO because it changes the operational characteristics of Wi-Fi, noted Mike Leibovitz, an enterprise networking analyst at Gartner, a research and advisory company based in Stamford, Conn.

Multi-link allows a device to connect to more than one radio on an access point and send data across those channels simultaneously. "That's a paradigm change," Leibovitz told TechNewsWorld.

"Now I can connect to the 2.4GHz radio and the 5GHz radio to a single access point. Now I have new characteristics for potentially more bandwidth, as well as lower latency, better roaming - a whole slew of characteristics that now increase significantly because I can use two channels simultaneously."

"That sort of functionality is very complex," he acknowledged. "Imagine trying to make a feature like that work for thousands of different types of IT devices. It will take time for that feature to become highly functional in the real world."

"It might take a couple of years for it to correctly work in enterprise and production environments," he added.

Catalyst for AR/VR Growth?

The Alliance also noted that it expects smartphones, PCs, tablets, and access points to be the earliest adopters of Wi-Fi 7, and customer premises equipment (CPE) and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) equipment will continue to gain early market traction.

"Novel generative AI applications that require high throughput will benefit from Wi-Fi 7's fast speeds," added Kristen Hanich, an analyst at Parks Associates, a market research and consulting company specializing in consumer technology products, in Dallas.

"We're also seeing an increasing number of businesses adopt internet of things [IoT] devices and use cases, including machine vision through video cameras," she told TechNewsWorld. "These businesses need CPE capable of handling all of these simultaneous connections."

"The AR/VR market has been slow to take off, but there is an opportunity with faster speeds allowing for greater performance in households with multiple headsets," she continued. "With the Apple Vision Pro headset launching in early February, we also expect to see more attention to this market."

Vena added that CPEs, including routers and modems, benefit from Wi-Fi 7's advanced capabilities, providing users with faster and more reliable connections.

"In the realm of AR/VR, where high data throughput and low latency are crucial for immersive experiences," he continued, "Wi-Fi 7's enhanced performance becomes a catalyst for adoption."

"The technology's ability to meet the demanding requirements of these applications positions it as a transformative force, driving early adoption in both CPEs and AR/VR equipment," he said.

Added Security

While it's a little early to determine how Wi-Fi 7's security posture compares to previous versions of the technology, some of its aspects improve security, noted John Gallagher, vice president of Viakoo Labs, an enterprise IoT security company in Mountain View, Calif.

"The biggest new feature related to security is with Multi-Link Operation, where a single, high-level MAC address is used for the encryption keys," he told TechNewsWorld. "This is more secure because instead of three keys being used - one key for each of the possible radio bands being used - the devices only need to build one set of keys."

"Deterministic latency is another notable feature," he continued. "While it does not directly address security, it provides a path for analyzing changes to that latency to determine if the path is insecure."

"In general," he added, "the control plane for Wi-Fi continues to move to the cloud, which brings with it all the cloud-related security issues. Organizations may take the opportunity with Wi-Fi 7 to undergo a review of any cloud-based infrastructure related to it."

Leibovitz has this advice for enterprises that can't wait to embrace Wi-Fi 7:

"We don't advise clients to rush into Wi-Fi 7. It's very early right now. Some of the advancements that are there from a technology standpoint are very exciting, but it will take a long time to have broad availability in devices and correct operation on the device and infrastructure sides to create value for Wi-Fi 7."

"Right now, there's a lot of hype about Wi-Fi 7," he added. "We wouldn't advise rushing in on a new Wi-Fi 7 infrastructure because you won't realize the benefits in the next 12 to 18 months. It might take 36 months to see total realization from Wi-Fi 7."

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Jordan Spieth dispelled the notion he is part of an alliance with Tiger Woods and Patrick Cantlay on the PGA Tour board as the deadline nears for the tour to finalize its framework agreement with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf, who have lured away Masters champion Jon Rahm.

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Jordan Spieth dispelled the notion he is part of an alliance with Tiger Woods and Patrick Cantlay on the PGA Tour board as the deadline nears for the tour to finalize its framework agreement with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf, who have lured away Masters champion Jon Rahm.

Sports Illustrated reported the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia indicated it was willing to not only pump $2 billion into the proposed commercial deal as part of the June 6 agreement, but an additional $1 billion equalization pool for PGA Tour players who turned down LIV's lucrative offers.

It also said Cantlay had seized control and was driving the negotiations with Woods and Spieth as part of an alliance to protect the interests of top players. Spieth recently was appointed to finish the board term of Rory McIlroy, who resigned last month and who often sparred with Cantlay.

"There's no fact to it," Spieth told The Associated Press by phone on Friday. "It's been very collective since I've jumped on. It's not even a thing. We're looking for the best outcome for the players as a whole, and it's six persons (as player directors)."

The tour has until Dec. 31 to finalize its agreement with the PIF. The agreement, announced June 6, said the deadline could be extended if both sides agree, although PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said last week Dec. 31 was a "firm target."

The agent for Woods declined to comment. Cantlay chose not to speak publicly except to say he is guided by a responsibility to represent the entire membership.

Cantlay, who won the FedEx Cup in 2021 and was voted PGA Tour player of the year, is an intellect who can come across as aloof. He stood out at the Ryder Cup for not wearing a hat amid reports it was a protest for not getting paid, which he denied.

Spieth said Cantlay might be an easy target because of his personality.

"But he's very smart and he's very measured in everything he says," Spieth said. "He doesn't waste words, and a lot of times that comes across as demanding.

"In no way, shape or form does he control anything. He wants objectivity when it seems that isn't the case," Spieth said. "He, like the rest of us, are all in agreement. We may disagree on how, when and why. But our collective duties are to represent the players - deal, no deal, multiple partners."

The multiple partners involve private equity groups that have become part of negotiations. The tour has been narrowing them down, along with negotiating with the PIF, and Acorn Growth and Fenway Sports Group are believed to be the leading contenders.

Negotiations became more complicated when Rahm, a PGA Tour loyalist since LIV began, announced Thursday he had signed with the rival league. Not only was it a big loss for the PGA Tour, it was a reminder that the PIF has the money to grab even more players.

"I don't think for him it was the money," Spieth said of Rahm. "I believe he saw two places that neither one was in a great situation right now, and he said, 'May as well have the money.'"

Monahan originally planned to meet with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of the PIF, this week. That has been pushed back to next week, and it was not clear if they still would meet after the Rahm signing.

"It's a really nice play by them," Spieth said of the Saudis. "I think we hold the best hand, but they know what our hand is. It's a nice leveraging tool with everything going on."

Among those leading the Acorn Growth bid to invest in the PGA Tour is Randall Stephenson, the retired AT&T chairman who resigned from the tour board in protest of the Saudi deal.

Spieth has been an AT&T ambassador for the last decade. McIlroy, meanwhile, was connected to the Fenway Sports Group through his TGL league, which has been postponed until 2025. Woods was appointed to the board four months ago, making it six player directors and five independent directors.

The other player directors are Webb Simpson, Charley Hoffman and Peter Malnati.

Spieth said he thought the report that Cantlay had seized control of negotiations was "a lot funnier than I think Pat did."

"I believe he's done more for the PGA Tour in the last six months on the board than anyone since Tiger. That's how great he's been for the membership," Spieth said. "It's like he's the biggest issue and it couldn't be further from the truth."

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A new initiative to better identify child predators who obscure their activity by jumping among tech platforms was announced Tuesday by The Tech Coalition, an industry group that includes Discord, Google, Mega, Meta, Quora, Roblox, Snap, and Twitch.

The initiative, called Lantern, allows companies in the coalition to share information about potential child sexual exploitation, which will increase their prevention and detection capabilities, speed up the identification of threats, build situational awareness of new predatory tactics, and strengthen reporting to authorities of criminal offenses.

In a posting on the coalition's website, Executive Director John Litton explained that online child sexual exploitation and abuse are pervasive threats that can cross various platforms and services.

Two of the most pressing dangers today are inappropriate sexualized contact with a child, referred to as online grooming, and financial sextortion of young people, he continued.

"To carry out this abuse, predators often first connect with young people on public forums, posing as peers or friendly new connections," he wrote. "They then direct their victims to private chats and different platforms to solicit and share child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or coerce payments by threatening to share intimate images with others."

"Because this activity spans across platforms, in many cases, any one company can only see a fragment of the harm facing a victim," he noted. "To uncover the full picture and take proper action, companies need to work together."

Gathering Signals To Combat Child Exploitation

Here's how the Lantern program works:

Participating companies upload "signals" to Lantern about activity that violates their policies against child sexual exploitation identified on their platform.

Signals can be information tied to policy-violating accounts like email addresses, usernames, CSAM hashes, or keywords used to groom as well as buy and sell CSAM. Signals are not definitive proof of abuse. They offer clues for further investigation and can be the crucial piece of the puzzle that enables a company to uncover a real-time threat to a child's safety.

Once signals are uploaded to Lantern, participating companies can select them, run them against their platform, review any activity and content the signal surfaces against their respective platform policies and terms of service, and take action in line with their enforcement processes, such as removing an account and reporting criminal activity to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and appropriate law enforcement agency.

How the Lantern Child Safety Signal Sharing Program works (Infographic Credit: The Tech Coalition)

"Until now, no consistent procedure existed for companies to collaborate against predatory actors evading detection across services," Litton wrote. "Lantern fills this gap and shines a light on cross-platform attempts at online child sexual exploitation and abuse, helping to make the internet safer for kids."

Significance of the Lantern Initiative

"This initiative holds immense significance in forging a path towards industry-wide collaboration to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse," observed Alexandra Popken, vice president of trust and safety at WebPurify, a cloud-based web filtering and online child protection service in Irvine, Calif.

"Each platform faces its unique set of challenges, whether related to knowledge, tools, or resources, in addressing the escalating issue of CSAM," she told TechNewsWorld. "Lantern symbolizes a unity among platforms in combating this issue and offers the practical infrastructure needed to pull it off."

Lantern builds on the existing work of tech companies sharing information with law enforcement, added Ashley Johnson, a policy analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a research and public policy organization in Washington, D.C.

"Hopefully, we will see this kind of collaboration for other purposes," she told TechNewsWorld. "I can see something like this being useful for combating terrorist content, as well, but I think online chat sexual abuse is a great place to start with this kind of information sharing."

Popken explained that malicious actors weaponize platforms through a range of tactics, employing various strategies to evade detection.

"In the past, platforms were hesitant to signal-share as it would imply an admission of exploitation," she said. "However, initiatives like this demonstrate a shift in mindset, recognizing that cross-platform sharing ultimately enhances collective security and safeguards users' well-being."

Tracking Platform Nomads

Online predators use multiple platforms to contact and groom minors, meaning each social network only sees a portion of the predators' evil actions, explained Chris Hauk, a consumer privacy champion at Pixel Privacy, a publisher of consumer security and privacy guides.

"Sharing information among the networks means the social platforms will be better armed with information to detect such actions," he continued.

"Currently, when a predator is shut down on one app or website, they simply move on to another platform," he said. "By sharing information, social networks can work to put a stop to this type of activity."

Johnson explained that in cases of online grooming, it's very common for perpetrators to have their victims move their communication off one site and onto another.

"A predator may suggest moving to another platform for privacy reasons or because it has fewer parental controls," she said. "Having communication to track that activity across platforms is extremely important."

Responsible Data Management in Child Safety Efforts

Lantern's potential to speed up the identification of threats to children is a critical aspect of the program. "If data uploaded to Lantern can be scanned against other platforms in real time, auto-rejecting or surfacing content for review, that represents meaningful progress in enforcing this problem at scale," Popken noted.

Litton pointed out in his posting that during the two years it has taken to develop Lantern, the coalition has not only designed the program to be effective against online child sexual exploitation and abuse but also to be managed responsibly via:

Respect for human rights by having the program subjected to a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) by the Business for Social Responsibility, which will also offer ongoing guidance as the initiative evolves.

Soliciting stakeholder engagement by asking more than 25 experts and organizations focused on child safety, digital rights, advocacy of marginalized communities, government, and law enforcement for feedback and inviting them to participate in the HRIA.

Promote transparency by including Lantern in The Tech Coalition's annual transparency report and providing participating companies with recommendations on how to incorporate their participation in the program into their transparency reporting.

Designing Lantern with safety and privacy in mind.

Importance of Privacy in Child Protection Measures

"Any data sharing requires privacy to be top of mind, especially when you're dealing with information about children because they're a vulnerable population," Johnson said.

"It is important for the companies that take part in this to protect the identities of the children involved and protect their data and information from falling into the wrong hands," she continued.

"Based on what we've seen from tech companies," she said. "They've done a pretty good job of protecting victims' privacy, so hopefully they'll be able to keep that up."

However, Paul Bischoff, privacy advocate at Comparitech, a reviews, advice, and information website for consumer security products, cautioned, "Lantern won't be perfect."

"An innocent person," he told TechNewsWorld, "could unwittingly trigger a 'signal' that spreads information about them to other social networks."

Comprehensive Overview on Combating Online Grooming

The Tech Coalition has published a research paper titled "Considerations for Detection, Response, and Prevention of Online Grooming" to shed light on the complexities of online grooming and outline the collective measures being undertaken by the technology sector.

Intended solely for educational purposes, this document delves into established protocols and the industry's ongoing efforts to prevent and reduce the impact of such predatory behavior.

The Tech Coalition offers this paper as a direct download, with no registration or form submission required.

John P. Mello Jr. has been an ECT News Network reporter since 2003. His areas of focus include cybersecurity, IT issues, privacy, e-commerce, social media, artificial intelligence, big data and consumer electronics. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including the Boston Business Journal, the Boston Phoenix, Megapixel.Net and Government Security News. Email John.

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HALFTIME: Panthers 10, Bears 9

First downs: CAR 6 CHI 13
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Bryce Young 7/14 63 yards (one 45 yard completion to Mike Strachan)
Tyson Bagent 14/24 127 yards

Chuba Hubbard 6 carries 20 yards
D'Onta Foreman 10 carres 39 yards

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Adam Thielen 3 catches 8 yards
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Massachusetts

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Massachusetts not only boasts a thriving tech industry and a robust job market but also offers an abundance of co-working spaces that foster innovation and productivity among its workforce.

Boston

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The city of Boston, Massachusetts, has a population of approximately 694,583 residents. The monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in a prime location with high-speed internet access is about $2,500.
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Police say the deceased man had a long criminal record, including convictions for assault, disorderly conduct and fare beating, according to the New York Post.
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Donald Trump defamation trial: E. Jean Carroll's lawyers seek to corroborate her rape claim

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WASHINGTON - E. Jean Carroll's legal team sought Tuesday to corroborate her claim that Donald Trump raped her in 1996, utilizing two key witnesses: a friend who said Carroll discussed the incident shortly after it happened and another woman who said Trump physically assaulted her as well.

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WASHINGTON - E. Jean Carroll's legal team sought Tuesday to corroborate her claim that Donald Trump raped her in 1996, utilizing two key witnesses: a friend who said Carroll discussed the incident shortly after it happened and another woman who said Trump physically assaulted her as well.

Witnesses friendly to Carroll dominated the fifth day of trial in the defamation lawsuit she filed against Trump, claiming he lied about the attack and impugned her character in the process.

Trump attorney Joseph Tacopina also confirmed to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that his client will not testify in the trial that could end next week.

A friend of Carroll

The day began with testimony from Lisa Birnbach, a fellow writer whom Carroll told about the attack just minutes after it happened at a New York City department store.

"He raped you," Birnbach said she told Carroll at the time.

On cross-examination, Trump attorney W. Perry Brandt cited Birnbach's past criticism of the former president, suggesting that her story and Carroll's are politically motivated.
'I'm here because Donald Trump raped me': E. Jean Carroll testifies; Trump attacks Rape accuser E. Jean Carroll is cross-examined by Donald Trump's lawyer in day three of trial
Another alleged attack

The jury also heard from Jessica Leeds, a woman who said Trump groped her during an airplane flight from Texas to New York in 1979.

Saying the attack "was like out of the blue," Leeds testified that "it was like he had 40 zillion hands. It was like a tussling match between the two of us."

Trump has frequently denied the allegations made by Leeds and Carroll.

Other witnesses

Carroll's attorneys also called Leslie Lebowitz, a psychological expert, to discuss Carroll's emotional state.

Robert Salerno, a former executive with Bergdorf Goodman, testified that he does not think there were surveillance cameras on the floor of the store where Carroll said the attack took place.

Trump did not appear (again)

Trump is not expected to testify at the trial, and he was not even in the country on Tuesday.

The former president is on a trip to Scotland and Ireland to inspect golf courses.

The plaintiff's case

Carroll's attorneys plan to call more corroborating witnesses in the days ahead.

They informed the judge that they plan to conclude their case mid-day Thursday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on Tuesday a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote environmental, social and governance goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales.

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May 2 (Reuters) - Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on Tuesday a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote environmental, social and governance goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales.

The bill is one of the furthest-reaching efforts yet by U.S. Republicans against sustainable investing efforts, and a clear political message from DeSantis, a likely presidential candidate.

Republicans, including some from energy-producing states, say many executives and investors have lost their focus on returns as they take growing account of issues like climate change and workforce diversity.

"We want them to act as fiduciaries. We do not want them engaged on these ideological joyrides," said DeSantis just before he signed the bill at a webcast event.

Analysts said the legislation goes further than other state anti-ESG bills, even as business groups worry the efforts pose financial risks. Florida's law now creates some questions of how it will operate in practice, analysts said.

For instance, fund managers working for agencies like the state's big pension fund would have to include disclaimers in some communications with portfolio companies to make clear they do not reflect Floridians' views.

Fund managers that don't include enough disclaimers could face regulatory action, said Joshua Lichtenstein of law firm Ropes & Gray. But, he added, "It's an oddity to say you're only talking on behalf of some of your clients."

The law also outlaws the sale of ESG bonds, a popular way to fund renewable energy projects or lower debt costs for borrowers if they meet gender diversity or greenhouse gas emissions targets.

Lawyers and credit analysts said the new law could deny municipalities access to large pools of ESG-mandated capital. A further issue is how officials interpret the terms, said Thomas Torgerson, co-head of global sovereign ratings at DBRS Morningstar, which rates debt.

"If we as a rating agency cannot assess environmental, social or governance risk that creates a problem for us. There are climate and weather risks that are highly relevant, especially in a state like Florida, and would be captured in our assessment of credit risk," Torgerson said.

Reporting by Isla Binnie and Ross Kerber, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien

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May 2 (Reuters) - Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on Tuesday a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote environmental, social and governance goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales. The bill is one of the furthest-reaching efforts yet by U.S.

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The storied Russian warship Moskva, whose proud history goes back to days of the Cold War, sank into the Black Sea on Thursday in the latest blow to Moscow's war effort in Ukraine.

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Russia said the flagship of its Black Sea fleet was "severely" damaged Wednesday and its crew evacuated following an explosion that a Ukrainian official said was a result of a missile strike.

Odesa Gov. Maksym Marchenko said on Telegram that Ukrainian forces struck the guided-missile cruiser Moskva - the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet - with two missiles and caused "serious damage." The cruiser usually has about 500 officers and crew, according to The Associated Press.

Hours later, Russia's Ministry of Defense said ammunition had exploded on Moskva as a result of "a fire," according to the state news agency Tass. "As a result of a fire, ammunition detonated on the Moskva missile cruiser. The ship was seriously damaged. The crew was completely evacuated," the ministry added.

Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 with the goal, according to Western officials, of taking Kyiv, toppling the government and installing a Moscow-friendly one. But the ground advance slowly stalled and Russia lost potentially thousands of fighters.

Elsewhere, in one of the most crucial battles of the war, Russia said more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops had surrendered in the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where Ukrainian forces have been holding out in pockets of the city. A Ukrainian official denied the claim, which could not be verified.
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►The frayed relations between Ukraine and Germany may have taken a turn for the worse Wednesday when German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed his aggravation over a diplomatic snub and said he has no intention to travel to Kyiv anytime soon.

►Authorities in the east-central Ukraine city of Dnipro say they are willing to help return to Russia the bodies of more than 1,500 Russian soldiers now in city morgues.

►WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus slammed the global community Wednesday for turning a blind eye on crises outside Ukraine and questioned whether "the world really gives equal attention to Black and white lives," citing dire issues of war, disease and famine in countries such as Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria.

Biden commits another $800M in assistance during call with Zelenskyy

President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for almost an hour Wednesday, one day after Zelenskyy praised Biden for accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of "genocide."

Biden said in a statement that he has authorized an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, including weapons and ammunition.

"The Ukrainian military has used the weapons we are providing to devastating effect,'' Biden said. "As Russia prepares to intensify its attack in the Donbas region, the United States will continue to provide Ukraine with the capabilities to defend itself.''

Zelenskyy tweeted that he and Biden discussed the new weapons shipment, enhanced sanctions against the Russians and seeking justice for their war crimes. In his nightly address to the nation, Zelenskyy said he's "sincerely thankful" for the new U.S. military aid.

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Alarmed Finns warm to joining NATO amid

Thousands of Finns have signed up with training associations to sharpen their military skills or learn new ones, an interest fueled by anxiety over Finland's geographic proximity to Russia. For the first time in Finland's history, a majority of Finns are in favor of joining NATO.
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Key Russian warship 'severely' damaged in the Black Sea; Biden commits another $800M: Live Ukraine updates

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Russia said the flagship of its Black Sea fleet was "severely" damaged Wednesday and its crew evacuated following an explosion that a Ukrainian official said was a result of a missile strike. Odesa Gov. Maksym Marchenko said on Telegram that Ukrainian forces struck the guided-missile cruiser Moskva - the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet - with two missiles and caused "serious damage."