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December 27, 2024, 12:29 PM ETPhiladelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley needs 268 yards over the next two games to set the NFL single-season rushing yards record.One person Barkley won’t set a mark on is current record holder Eric Dickerson.”I don’t think he’ll break it. But if he breaks it, he’ll break it,” Dickerson told the Los Angeles Times this week. “Do I want him to tear it up? Absolutely not. I’m not pulling any punches on that.”But I’m not whining about it. Did he have 17 games to get it done? Hey, football is football. That’s the way I…

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The Biden administration has promised to approve new military aid to Ukraine, including a critical air defense system, in the coming days as North Korean troops face rising casualties in their first major deployment to the European conflict. .U.S. National Security Public Affairs Advisor John Kirby told reporters on Friday that North Korean troops had suffered more than 1,000 casualties in the past week alone in what he described as a failed “human sea” attack near the Kursk border. He said he issued a. Similar numbers have been reported in South Korea.Kirby said there are also reports of North Korean…

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Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last remaining medical facility in the northern Gaza Strip, setting much of it on fire and ordering hundreds of people to leave. The Gaza Health Ministry announced on Friday that it had lost contact with staff inside a hospital in Beit Lahya, which has been under Israeli siege and intense pressure for weeks. It added that there was no information regarding the safety of the patients inside. “Occupation forces are currently inside the hospital and are burning it down,” the ministry’s director-general, Munir al-Burush, said in a statement. The Israeli military issued a…

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PosiGen receives $200 million investment from international companyAn international company has increased its investment by $200 million in PosiGen, a New Orleans company that specializes in selling solar energy systems to low-income households.This brings Brookfield Asset Management’s total investment in PosiGen since 2023 to $600 million. Brookfield is an investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets. The company’s assets include telecommunications towers in India. A portfolio of hydro, wind and solar assets across North America. Commercial real estate in New York, Toronto, and Houston. and the Port of Los Angeles. Founded in 2011, PosiGen has installed approximately 30,000…

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Looking back at my writings in 2024, even though most of those articles were written before the election, I clearly put the election disaster into historical, economic, and socio-psychological context. I spent the better part of a year trying to figure it out. Countries of immigrants naturally sometimes fall prey to xenophobia. In my checkered past, I found many parallels with the current wave. (In one article, I unearthed such a long-gone American wave that almost sparked the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.) Much of what we saw this year was a consistent pattern of urban-rural disconnection. It is something that has characterized…

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s hard-line “Make America great again” stronghold of US president-elect picks Indian-born entrepreneur as artificial intelligence advisor A fierce internal conflict broke out between them.The controversy has pitted Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy against enthusiastic supporters such as far-right activist Laura Loomer and former congressman and attorney general candidate Matt Gaetz, who had an abortion. are. The spat threatens to open a rift between President Trump’s supporters over immigration, a key issue in his election victory.Predicting what has been dubbed a “MAGA civil war,” Loomer attacked the choice of Silicon Valley venture capitalist…

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Big Lots announced Friday that it will sell its stores, distribution centers and intellectual property to retailers including Variety Wholesaler to Gordon Brothers in an effort to preserve the brand and save some distributors and jobs. – Announced that it has reached an agreement with Retail Partners. Privately owned Variety Wholesalers plans to acquire 200 to 400 Big Lots stores and two distribution centers, retaining employees and operating them under the Big Lots brand, the discount housewares company said. the retailer said. The Columbus, Ohio-based company, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, plans to close about 20% of…

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Protecting you and your wallet is one of the ways we fight for our local residents, so Badlands was front and center at the Dec. 18 City Council meeting. We were watching closely. But the staggering amount of money now facing us, the taxpayers, was not the only issue in question.Politics and inappropriate rituals were also on display, and those who were unable to speak out further raised public concerns.Darcey Spears: The Badlands debacle was built on allegations of political corruption.Councilwoman Victoria Seaman: That’s right.Darcey Spears: Are we still paying attention to the politics that are…

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