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Caitlin Clark honored as AP Female Athlete of the Year following her impact on women's sports Caitlin Clark has been named the AP Female Athlete of the Year after raising the profile of women’s basketball to unprecedented levels in both college and the WNBA. She led Iowa to the national championship game, was the top pick in the WNBA draft and captured rookie of the year honors in the league. Fans packed sold-out arenas and millions of television viewers followed her journey on and off the court. Clark's exploits also put other women's sports leagues in the spotlight. A group of 74 sports journalists from AP and its members voted on the award. Other athletes who received votes included Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and boxer Imane Khelif. Clark’s only the fourth women’s basketball player to win the award since it was first given in 1931. Soprano Angel Blue sings her first Metropolitan Opera 'Aida' in a new production Angel Blue, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s “Aida” in 36 years. The 40-year-old takes on the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess torn between love for an Egyptian warrior and loyalty to her country. It’s a part that comes weighted with history, especially for a Black soprano at the Met, where Leontyne Price embodied the role from her first performance in 1961 until her retirement in 1985. Blue tells The Associated Press she’s long looked up to Price, and directors who have worked with her say the singer is ready for the challenge. Blue’s Met debut in ‘Aida’ will happen New Year’s Eve. Centuries-old angels uncovered at Boston church made famous by Paul Revere BOSTON (AP) — Conservators have uncovered eight angels in a historic Boston church that counted Paul Revere as a bell ringer and played a pivotal role in the Revolutionary War. The angels were painted in the early 18th century but painted over in 1912 as part of a renovation of the Old North Church. Inspired by research showing the existence of at least 20 angels, conservators for the past four months have been removing the white paint that covered the eight angels located on the balcony's arches in the church sanctuary. The public is now able to view them. Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in avalanche, aged 26 Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort. The country's skiing federation says the incident took place at the Arosa resort in Switzerland. The 26-year-old Hediger competed at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in the women’s snowboard cross and the mixed team version of the same event. Hediger achieved her first two World Cup podium finishes in the 2023-24 season. Her best result was a second place in St. Moritz in January. NFL on Netflix: Christmas Day games are a 1st for streaming giant Netflix will have one of its biggest days since the site launched in 1998 when it carries two NFL games for the first time on Christmas. “NFL Christmas Gameday on Netflix” kicks off with a two-hour pregame show at 11 a.m., before Pittsburgh hosts Kansas City. Baltimore faces Houston in the second game. The streaming giant agreed to a three-year contract in May to carry Christmas Day games. Magic and lights draw crowds to an alpine village in Washington state for Christmas LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) — Freshly baked pretzels, shining tree lights and sleds in the snow lend a ruddy warmth to an unlikely collection of Bavarian-themed chalets in the mountains of Washington state. Decades ago, the town of Leavenworth was a near ghost town, one of the poorest parts of the Pacific Northwest. The mines and the sawmill had closed, and even the railroad left. That’s when desperate business owners took a serious gamble -- reinventing the community in the vision of an alpine village. More than half a century later, the result brings tourists from near and far -- especially during the holidays, when Leavenworth takes on the flavor of a German Christmas market. Bill Clinton is hospitalized with a fever but in good spirits, spokesperson says WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever. The 78-year-old was admitted in the “afternoon for testing and observation,” Angel Urena, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving,” Urena said. Packers clinch playoff berth with 1st shutout in NFL this season, 34-0 over Saints GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Josh Jacobs gained 107 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown for a sixth straight game as the Green Bay Packers clinched a playoff berth while producing the first shutout of the NFL season, 34-0 over the hapless New Orleans Saints. Green Bay improved to 11-4 and earned its fifth postseason appearance in six years. New Orleans played without injured quarterback Derek Carr and running back Alvin Kamara. Rookie Spencer Rattler started and went 15 of 30 for 153 yards with an interception and a fumble. The Packers have won nine of their last 11 games. Prosecutors withdraw appeal of dismissed case against Alec Baldwin in fatal movie set shooting SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin. The actor had been charged in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside Santa Fe in October 2021. Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew on Monday the appeal of a July decision at trial to dismiss the charge. The decision to drop the appeal solidifies the decision by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer halfway through trial to dismiss the case on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense. An all-Filipino crew is set to make history in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race SYDNEY (AP) — There have been plenty of “firsts” in the history of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race which was first held in 1945. An all-Filipino crew of 15 sailors will make it another when the annual ocean classic begins in Sydney Harbor on Thursday. With veteran sailor Ernesto Echauz at the helm, Centennial 7 will embark on the 628-nautical mile race. The boat itself is no stranger to the race. Previously, the TP52 yacht was known as Celestial and claimed the Sydney to Hobart overall handicap victory in 2022 under Sam Haynes after being runner-up the year before.Californians who try to withdraw money but don’t have enough in their bank accounts won’t fall deeper into a financial hole from having to pay a fine, thanks to a new state law. The law covers instances in which banks charge customers when their withdrawals are declined instantaneously, such as at ATMs, because of insufficient funds. It takes effect Jan. 1. Assembly Bill 2017 applies to banks and credit unions that are regulated by the state; Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it in September. The bill was backed by several consumer advocacy groups, including the California Low-Income Consumer Coalition and East Bay Community Law Center, which called penalties for insufficient funds “ junk fees ” and said getting rid of them will protect financially vulnerable consumers. Tim Grayson, the bill’s author, said when he introduced it in May that it would “help prevent fee creep in the banking industry.” Grayson, a Democrat from Concord, is an incoming senator who was in the Assembly through the end of the 2024 legislative session. The Consumer Federation of America, a sponsor of the bill, said common charges for insufficient funds are $30 or more. The California Credit Union League, which at first opposed the bill and said credit unions “do not charge these types of fees,” eventually took a neutral position. But the state Department of Financial Protection & Innovation has found that many credit unions do have income from insufficient-fund charges; a 2022 state law tasked the agency with collecting data from banks and credit unions about their fees. The law by Grayson is similar to a rule by the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau — the federal watchdog agency that’s in President-elect Donald Trump’s crosshairs — that applies to federally chartered banks. In line with the growing nationwide push to eliminate junk fees , Newsom also signed another bill addressing overdraft fees: Senate Bill 1075 will limit credit-union fees for insufficient funds to $14 unless a lower federal limit is set. That becomes law in 2026. And he signed Assembly Bill 2863 , which will make it easier for consumers to cancel subscriptions and requires companies to get consent from their customers before charging them to renew or when a free trial ends. It goes into effect July 1.
Greens launch push for ACT to adopt housing as a human rightMiami of Ohio and Colorado State will try to overcome notable transfer-portal defections during Saturday's Arizona Bowl at Tucson, Ariz. Miami (8-5) enters the game without its top two wide receivers Javon Tracy and Reggie Virgil after the duo elected to play elsewhere. Tracy, a redshirt sophomore who caught 57 passes for 818 yards with seven touchdowns, is moving on to Minnesota. Virgil, a junior who tallied 816 yards on 41 receptions with nine touchdowns, is bound for Texas Tech. "It's kind of insane, to be honest," Miami coach Chuck Martin said. "We'll lose some real good kids in the portal, but we'll also gain some good ones. It's just crazy. "In some ways, it stinks, but in some ways, it's fun, too. We're looking at a lot of some good ones." Miami has also lost two cornerbacks, including sophomore Raion Strader to Auburn. Strader had 53 tackles with two interceptions and a team-best 17 passes broken up. Will Jados, a redshirt junior offensive tackle who started 38 games for Miami, is transferring to Texas Tech. Colorado State (8-4) also lost its two top receivers in the portal. Sophomore Caleb Goodie committed to Cincinnati and sophomore Jamari Person remains undecided. Goodie caught 21 passes for 436 yards with four touchdowns, and Person had 36 receptions for 386 yards and a touchdown. Another sophomore, linebacker Buom Jock, also is in the transfer portal after he led the Rams with 100 tackles. "They lost a couple receivers in the portal, just like us, so they've adjusted, just like most teams in the bowl season have adjusted to the team that they have available," Colorado State coach Jay Norvell said. Redshirt sophomore Armani Winfield, who had 37 catches for 338 yards and two touchdowns, is the top available receiver for the Rams. Miami's leading receiver entering the game is fifth-year senior Cade McDonald (49 catches for 606 yards and three touchdowns). Miami won seven straight games before losing to Ohio in the MAC championship game behind sixth-year quarterback Brett Gabbert, who has completed 57.6 percent of his passes (204 of 354) for 2,737 yards and 21 touchdowns. Gabbert has been prone to throw interceptions, with 11, including one against Ohio in the conference title game. He did not throw an interception in a 30-20 victory over Ohio earlier this season. Keyon Mozee is Miami's featured running back with 1,073 yards on 170 carries with four touchdowns. Matt Salopek, a sixth-year linebacker, leads Miami with 113 tackles. He is the first player in program history with four 100-tackle seasons. Colorado State won six of its last seven games -- committing only seven turnovers in that span. Senior running back Avery Morrow has 956 yards on 166 attempts with nine touchdowns. Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi, a redshirt sophomore, has thrown for 2,475 yards while completing 207 of 335 attempts (61.8 percent) with 13 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Chase Wilson, a fifth-year senior linebacker, has 91 tackles this season, three for loss. --Field Level Media
A Saudi Arabian delegate has been accused of directly making changes to an official Cop29 negotiating text, it can be revealed. Cop presidencies usually circulate negotiating texts as non-editable PDF documents to all countries simultaneously, which are then discussed. Giving one party editing access “risks placing this entire Cop in jeopardy”, said one expert. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is regarded by many as a persistent obstructor of action to cut the burning of fossil fuels at UN climate summits and has been described as a “ wrecking ball ” at Cop29. Earlier on Saturday, a document was circulated by the Azerbaijani presidency with updates to the negotiating text on the Just Transition Work Program (JTWP). This aims to help countries move to a cleaner and more resilient future, while reducing inequalities. The document was sent with “tracked changes” from the previously circulated version. In two cases, the document showed edits were made directly by Basel Alsubaity , at the Saudi Ministry of Energy, and the lead on the JTWP. It was not sent to other countries to edit, the Guardian was told. One of the changes deletes a section of text reading “encourages parties to consider just transition pathways in developing and implementing NDCs, NAPs and LT-LEDSs that are aligned with the outcome of the first global stock take and relevant provisions of the Paris agreement”. Catherine Abreu, director at the International Climate Politics Hub and Cop veteran, said: “All parties need to see presidency texts during this process as the negotiations proceed and this is generally done by circulating non-editable PDF documents to all parties simultaneously. “Giving one party editing access to these documents, and a party known for its objective of rolling back the historic global agreement made last year to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy and energy efficiency, suggests a worrying lack of independence and objectivity and clearly contravenes both the spirit and the rules of this process,” she said. “This kind of behaviour from a presidency risks placing this entire Cop in jeopardy.” Two groups – the Alliance of Small Island States and the Least Developed Countries walked out of key meeting on Saturday, saying they were not being consulted by the presidency. German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, speaking on Saturday before the editing revelation, said: “We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states. We will not allow the most vulnerable, especially the small island states, to be ripped off by the few rich fossil fuel emitters who have the backing, unfortunately, at this moment of the president [of Cop29].” A 2023 report from the Climate Social Science Network concluded: “One nation has had an outsized role in undermining progress at global climate negotiations, year after year: Saudi Arabia. The fossil fuel giant has a 30-year record of obstruction and delay, protecting its national oil and gas sector and seeking to ensure UN climate talks achieve as little as possible, as slowly as possible. “Riyadh’s envoys are among the most active across all tracks of UN climate talks, frequently pushing back on efforts to curb fossil fuels”, it said. “Despite increased temperatures across Saudi Arabia and falling groundwater supplies, Riyadh has shown little sign of shifting strategy.” The Cop29 presidency, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Saudi delegation have been contacted for comment.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says he's putting life in public office on hold. Ashcroft is ending his second term after losing the Republican primary for governor last summer. A spokesman for his office confirmed that Ashcroft told the Missouri Independent this week that he has no plans to seek another public office. Ashcroft, the son of former Missouri governor and U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft, was elected to the secretary of state post in 2016 and won re-election in 2020. “I don’t have any intention to run for office again,” Ashcroft told The Independent. Ashcroft, who was in southwest Missouri with family Tuesday, was not available for an interview on Christmas Eve. His wife, Katie Ashcroft, will work as chief of staff for the incoming lieutenant governor, Dave Wasinger.
The Chinese basketball player Zhou Qi has been making headlines recently due to his remarkable road to recovery after suffering a series of injuries. Xu Limin, the head coach of the Chinese Men's National Basketball Team, recently stated that Zhou Qi is now recovering to 30-40% of his full potential. Despite the challenges he has faced, Xu Limin remains optimistic about Zhou Qi's future and believes that he has the ability to continuously improve and refine his skills on the court.First and foremost, we would like to assure all our employees that there are no ongoing plans for massive layoffs within the company. Hisense Group has always taken a responsible approach to managing its workforce, ensuring that any organizational changes are carried out through open communication, careful planning, and consideration for the well-being of our employees.
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Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 , iPhone 16 Plus , iPhone 16 Pro , and iPhone 16 Pro Max in September, with only the Pro versions featuring periscope telephoto cameras. And if you were expecting next year's non-Pro iPhone 17 models to sport periscope units, that's not happening. The word comes from South Korean publication The Elec , which claims the periscope telephoto camera will remain exclusive to the Pro models in next year's lineup, even though LG Innotek - that makes iPhone camera modules - is investing in new facilities, possibly for the upgraded iPhone 17 series camera modules. The iPhone 17 series is expected to include four models - iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air (or Slim; whatever it will be called), iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Since the periscope cameras on the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max have 5x optical zoom, you can expect next year's Pro version to offer at least 5x optical zoom, but you won't get that with the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air/Slim. Source ( in Korean )NoneTORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Donald Trump that Americans would also suffer if the president-elect follows through on a plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products, a Canadian minister who attended their recent dinner said Monday. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if they don’t stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders with the United States. He said on social media last week that he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders. Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include border security, attended a dinner with Trump and Trudeau at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Friday. Trudeau requested the meeting in a bid to avoid the tariffs by convincing Trump that the northern border is nothing like the U.S. southern border with Mexico. “The prime minister of course spoke about the importance of protecting the Canadian economy and Canadian workers from tariffs, but we also discussed with our American friends the negative impact that those tariffs could have on their economy, on affordability in the United States as well,” LeBlanc said in Parliament. If Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation. Economists say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, alcohol and other goods. The Produce Distributors Association, a Washington trade group, said last week that tariffs will raise prices for fresh fruit and vegetables and hurt U.S. farmers when the countries retaliate. Canada is already examining possible retaliatory tariffs on certain items from the U.S. should Trump follow through on the threat. After his dinner with Trump, Trudeau returned home without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. “The idea that we came back empty handed is completely false,” LeBlanc said. “We had a very productive discussion with Mr. Trump and his future Cabinet secretaries. ... The commitment from Mr. Trump to continue to work with us was far from empty handed.” Joining Trump and Trudeau at dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, and Mike Waltz, Trump’s choice to be his national security adviser. Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, told The Associated Press on Sunday that “the message that our border is so vastly different than the Mexican border was really understood.” Hillman, who sat at an adjacent table to Trudeau and Trump, said Canada is not the problem when it comes to drugs and migrants. On Monday, Mexico’s president rejected those comments. “Mexico must be respected, especially by its trading partners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said. She said Canada had its own problems with fentanyl consumption and “could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has.” Flows of migrants and seizures of drugs at the two countries’ border are vastly different. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border. Most of the fentanyl reaching the U.S. — where it causes about 70,000 overdose deaths annually — is made by Mexican drug cartels using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia. On immigration, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 1.53 million encounters with migrants at the southwest border with Mexico between October 2023 and September 2024. That compares to 23,721 encounters at the Canadian border during that time. Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well. Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security.
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Can’t Happen If US Military Members Resist ItDonald Trump says that when he takes power next month he will direct the US Justice Department to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty. The US president-elect, 78, said he would do so to protect Americans from what he called "violent rapists, murderers and monsters". Mr Trump was responding to President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of almost all federal inmates on death row - whom Mr Trump called "37 of the worst killers in our country". "When you hear the acts of each, you won't believe that he did this. Makes no sense," Mr Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. "Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can't believe this is happening!" He continued: "As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. "We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!" President Biden , 82, announced on Monday that he would reduce the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal death row prisoners to life in prison without the possibility of parole, saying he was "guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender". The three others the president did not spare are Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; Dylann Roof, who gunned down nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina , in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out a 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured almost 300 others. 'I condemn these murderers' Despite sparing the lives of 37, Mr Biden added: "Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss." During Mr Trump's first term in office between 2017 and 2021, the US Justice Department put 13 federal inmates to death. He has since said he would like to expand capital punishment to include child rapists, migrants who kill US citizens and law enforcement officers, and those convicted of drug and human trafficking. Read more from Sky News: Bill Clinton discharged from hospital Denmark to boost Greenland's defence Mr Biden, who ran for president opposing the death penalty, put federal executions on hold when he took office in January 2021. His latest decisions come after a coalition of criminal justice advocacy groups, former prosecutors and business leaders wrote letters to the White House asking for Mr Biden to commute the sentences ahead of Mr Trump's inauguration on 20 January. Follow our channel and never miss an update. Pope Francis also appealed to Mr Biden, who is Catholic, to reduce the sentences to imprisonment. Unlike executive orders, clemency decisions cannot be reversed by a president's successor, although the death penalty can be sought more aggressively in future cases.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Roddy Gayle Jr. scored 16 points to guide Michigan to a 72-49 victory over Tarleton State on Thursday night. Gayle buried 6 of 7 shots from the floor, including his only 3-point attempt, and 3 of 4 free throws for the Wolverines (4-1). He added four assists and three rebounds. Tre Donaldson and reserve Sam Walters both scored 13 for Michigan. Donaldson had five assists and Walters was 3 for 6 from beyond the arc. Vladislav Goldin scored 12. Bubu Benjamin finished with 15 points on 5-for-7 shooting from distance for the Texans (1-5). Ronnie Harrison scored 14. Gayle had 11 points and Walters came off the bench to hit two 3-pointers and score eight as Michigan built a 40-30 lead at halftime. Benjamin scored 12 to keep the Texans within striking distance. Michigan scored the first six points and led until a dunk by Harrison put Tarleton on top 24-23 with 6:54 left before halftime. Walters and Donaldson had back-to-back layups and Gayle added two free throws in a 6-0 run that gave the Wolverines the lead for good. Donaldson made two free throws and a layup in a 10-0 run to begin the second half, and Michigan hit cruise control. Michigan will square off against Virginia Tech in the Fort Myers Tip-Off on Monday.In a surprising turn of events, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has sought refuge in Russia after losing power in his war-torn country. As he now resides in Moscow, many are left wondering what lies ahead for the once authoritarian leader. Taking a closer look at the fates of other former exiled leaders can provide some insight into the potential outcomes for Bashar al-Assad.Comment Pat Gelsinger is out as Intel CEO, cutting short his nearly four-year crusade to revitalize the beleaguered chipmaker. Gelsinger's "retirement" as CEO and departure from the x86 behemoth's board of directors is immediate, having gone into effect on Sunday, though Intel didn't disclose the decision until today . The abruptness of Gelsinger's departure and lack of a succession plan suggest it probably wasn't voluntary. “I think the board made a decision or overruled a decision that Gelsinger thought was a bad one and he was out — likely related to the splitting Foundry from the design company.” Patrick Moorhead, chief analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy, told The Register . "Something happened in the last week." “I think people are missing the speed at which this went down. They backdated the announcement. He retired on December 1; it goes on December 2, right? He’s not on the board. He's not an advisor... There is a hard separation between the board and Pat,” he added. While Intel would never admit it, it wouldn't be the first time the board had lost faith in its chief exec. Former CEO Bob Swan's time at Intel ended rather abruptly in early 2021 amid pressure from activist investors and mounting pressure from competitors. His departure, of course, made way for Gelsinger's return as CEO that same year. In his stead, CFO David Zinsner and Michelle Johnson Holthaus, who runs Intel's Products division, have been named interim co-CEOs while the board searches for Gelsinger's replacement. Board member Frank Yeary, meanwhile, will take over as interim board chair. Gelsinger's return to Intel in January 2021, came as the chipmaker faced mounting pressure from rivals — most notably AMD, which has been steadily stealing market share from the x86 giant — as well as activist investors unhappy with its financial trajectory. His appointment was heralded as a turning point for Intel with many lauding the decision to put a proper engineer rather than a bean counter at the helm. And better yet, Gelsinger knew the chipmaker well. Prior to his time as COO of Dell EMC and later CEO of VMware, he'd spent nearly three decades at Intel where he helped architect the venerable 80486 before rising through the ranks to become the company's first CTO. At the time, Gelsinger's engineering background seemed like it was just what the doctor ordered as many of Intel's biggest hurdles were technological. Its 7nm process tech — since rebranded as Intel 4 — had been severely delayed by design flaws disclosed in mid 2020. At the same time, Intel was struggling to roll out its 10nm process tech, which wouldn't see widespread release outside the notebook space until early 2021. Also, AMD was already shipping its second-generation of Ryzen processors based on TSMC's 7nm process tech and Apple had just launched its M1 SoC on the Taiwanese foundry operator's 5nm tech. And while Intel's 10nm transistor densities may have been closer to TSMC's 7nm tech, public perception was that while Intel was the market leader, its technology was beginning to lag that of its rivals. Gelsinger aimed to change this while simultaneously charting a new and ambitious course for the chipmaker. A little over month after taking over, the newly appointed CEO announced plans to open the company's fabs to contract manufacturing with the formation of Intel Foundry Services and invest more than $20 billion in a pair of leading edge manufacturing plants in Arizona. Up until that point, Intel was one of the very few companies designing and manufacturing its own chips. The rest of the industry was busy gravitated toward a fabless model, with companies like AMD and Nvidia designing with industry-standard tools with hand-off of manufacturing to the likes of TSMC and Samsung. In the midst of a pandemic-fueled semiconductor shortage, Gelsinger saw an opportunity to challenge TSMC and overtake Samsung as the second largest foundry operator. During his tenure, he announced more than $100 billion in planned investments to massively expand Intel's manufacturing footprint across the US, Europe, and the Middle East. At the same time, Intel began development of next-gen manufacturing processes called Intel 20A and 18A, which were expected to close the gap with TSMC and Samsung's 2nm process nodes. Unfortunately for Gelsinger, realizing these ambitions wouldn't be easy. He was essentially starting from scratch with foundry being of limited utility until 18A and the fabs to produce it were ready in 2026. Despite Gelsinger's grand vision, he never could quite escape the perception that Intel was falling behind. While he was free to chart a new course with Foundry, he was burdened by a product roadmap too far along for a fresh start and (we suspect) overcoming that momentum proved more challenging than he'd bargained for. Arguably, the most embarrassing example of this was Intel's infamous 4th-Gen Xeon Scalable processors, better known as Sapphire Rapids. The chips were originally slated for release in 2021, but repeated setbacks and poor yields pushed its release back to early 2023 and even then, bugs in the product forced a brief halt in shipments for some SKUs. However, it wasn't just Intel that suffered as a result of the delays. An HBM-equipped variant of Sapphire Rapids was, alongside Intel's Ponte Vecchio GPUs, slated to power the Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer. With a peak performance of nearly 2 exaFLOPS, the machine was expected to overtake the AMD based Frontier system at Oak Ridge as the United States' most powerful publicly known super. Unfortunately, the system fell short of expectations achieving just over an exaFLOP of double precision performance in the Linpack benchmark this spring. By this fall El Capitan's debut meant it would never claim the number one spot. This, it seems would be the final hurrah for Ponte Vecchio as, around the same time, Intel reportedly began sunsetting the product. Amid the AI boom, Intel shifted focus to its Gaudi3 accelerators in the hopes the chips would drive half a billion dollars in revenues in 2024. Those revenues, Gelsinger would later admit, would not materialize this year. Intel's client division wasn't without controversy either. Most recently Intel acknowledged a defect in its 13th and 14th-gen desktop CPUs which caused degradation and instability of the parts. Not long after, Intel announced its next-gen desktop CPUs, the first to use its all-new Intel 20A process tech, would instead be built by TSMC. Following Intel's earlier decision to manufacture its Lunar Lake mobile CPUs at TSMC, only a small number of products are still built in house. We'll note that very little of this was actually Gelsinger's fault. Product development for new silicon takes years and work on these chips almost certainly began well before he took over as CEO. The same can't be said of Intel's ailing foundry unit, for which the real reckoning came in early 2024 when Intel officially split off Foundry as a standalone unit and released revised financial reports revealing that the unit had bled $7 billion in 2023. In the quarters since, Intel Foundry has posted more than $11 billion in operating losses. Investors clearly felt lied to. The precipitous decline of Intel's share price — currently down 47 percent since the start of the year – has spurred multiple class action suits from investors who claim Gelsinger and Zinsner misrepresented the outlook of its foundry division. However, we'll note these losses really shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone. While Gelsinger was busy building Intel up to be a foundry giant, its product division was shifting ever more of its production to TSMC. Gelsinger's insistence that production would begin to return home in 2025 with the launch of Clearwater Forest in the datacenter and Panther Lake on client side, it seems faith in Intel's ability to follow through on its promises has been lost. Just weeks after Intel posted a record breaking $16.6 billion loss in Q3, the largest in its history, Nvidia supplanted Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Gelsinger for his part has taken drastic action to get Intel's finances under control, having previously announced plans to lay off more than 15,000 staff — or about 15 percent of its workforce — by the end of the year, cut capital expenditures by 20 percent, and end quarterly dividends beginning in the fourth quarter. Gelsinger attempted to assuage investors by spinning off Foundry as an independent subsidiary with its own board, a move he argued would bring in new sources of capital for the ailing business. The announcement also saw Intel scale back its foundry expansion and "pausing" development of its €30 billion fab project in Magdeburg, Germany and $4.6 billion assembly and test facility in Wroclaw, Poland. The delay will no doubt cost Intel any subsidies it'd hoped to claim under the European Chips Act, as we don't anticipate the EU will fund delayed fabs. Without the funding, we suspect that "pause" may in fact be permanent. With Gelsinger out of the picture and no clear successor on the horizon Intel's future remains an open question. What we do know is whoever Intel finds to fill Gelsinger's shoes has one heck of a knot to untangle. For some, the obvious course would be to cut Intel's losses, abandon Foundry, and fully embrace TSMC as rival AMD has. As it is, Intel is already outsourcing production of many of its current-gen products. However, spinning off or even selling Foundry will be far more challenging than proponents of such a plan would have you believe . A spin-off would please Intel's investors, eager to get the blood off the books. But it's hard to see how a company now burning more than $5 billion a quarter is supposed to survive on its own even with Intel as a guaranteed customer. The reality is Intel Products is Foundry's only customer of consequence, and that's still not enough to turn a profit. It'll stay that way at least until 18A reaches volume production, which isn't until late 2026. The design tools necessary to harness older Intel process nodes either don't exist for outside customers or are limited to less attractive, legacy nodes. Further complicating the matter is the fact Uncle Sam has a vested interest in Intel's success. As we've previously discussed , Intel is the only domestic supplier of leading-edge process technology, arguably making it the most important chipmaker in the country with regard to US National Security policy. Because of this Intel has been awarded roughly $7.86 billion in CHIPS Act subsidies to support development of domestic fabs and is set to receive another $3 billion to establish a secret enclave for the development of leading edge chips for the US government. Taking this cash comes with its own restrictions, namely that Intel must retain 50.1 percent ownership or voting rights in the foundry unit if it is ever spun off. What's more, any spinout would require Intel to remain a Foundry customer. And so while Gelsinger will no longer be in the picture, he's made it exceedingly difficult to walk away from his foundry dream. ® Now read: With Gelsinger gone, who benefits from an Intel break up?
One of the most surprising predictions made by AS is the deployment of JonaAmani as a center-back. The midfielder, who is known for his versatility and tactical intelligence, has been tasked with adapting to a new role in the heart of Real Madrid's defense. While this decision may raise some eyebrows among fans and pundits alike, it is indicative of the team's willingness to experiment and adapt in order to achieve success in Europe's premier club competition.In conclusion, while the absence of large-scale fighting in Damascus is a positive development, the city's journey towards lasting peace is far from over. Small-scale unrest and ongoing challenges persist, underscoring the need for sustained efforts to address the underlying causes of conflict and pave the way for a more stable and prosperous future. With patience, perseverance, and a shared commitment to peace, Damascus can overcome its turbulent past and embrace a new chapter of hope and renewal.
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, a symbolic gesture rejected by the United States and Israel. The resolution -- adopted by a vote of 158-9, with 13 abstentions -- urges "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire," and "the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages" -- wording similar to a text vetoed by Washington in the Security Council last month. At that time, Washington used its veto power on the Council -- as it has before -- to protect its ally Israel, which has been at war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian militant group's October 7, 2023 attack. It has insisted on the idea of making a ceasefire conditional on the release of all hostages in Gaza, saying otherwise that Hamas has no incentive to free those in captivity. Deputy US Ambassador Robert Wood repeated that position Wednesday, saying it would be "shameful and wrong" to adopt the text. Ahead of the vote, Israel's UN envoy Danny Danon said: "The resolutions before the assembly today are beyond logic. (...) The vote today is not a vote for compassion. It is a vote for complicity." The General Assembly often finds itself taking up measures that cannot get through the Security Council, which has been largely paralyzed on hot-button issues such as Gaza and Ukraine due to internal politics, and this time is no different. The resolution, which is non-binding, demands "immediate access" to widespread humanitarian aid for the citizens of Gaza, especially in the besieged north of the territory. Dozens of representatives of UN member states addressed the Assembly before the vote to offer their support to the Palestinians. "Gaza doesn't exist anymore. It is destroyed," said Slovenia's UN envoy Samuel Zbogar. "History is the harshest critic of inaction." That criticism was echoed by Algeria's deputy UN ambassador Nacim Gaouaoui, who said: "The price of silence and failure in the face of the Palestinian tragedy is a very heavy price, and it will be heavier tomorrow." Hamas's October 2023 attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,208 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. That count includes hostages who died or were killed while being held in Gaza. Militants abducted 251 hostages, 96 of whom remain in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed at least 44,805 people, a majority of them civilians, according to data from the Hamas-run health ministry that is considered reliable by the United Nations. "Gaza today is the bleeding heart of Palestine," Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour said last week during the first day of debate in the Assembly's special session on the issue. "The images of our children burning in tents, with no food in their bellies and no hopes and no horizon for the future, and after having endured pain and loss for more than a year, should haunt the conscience of the world and prompt action to end this nightmare," he said, calling for an end to the "impunity." After Wednesday's vote, he said "we will keep knocking on the doors of the Security Council and the General Assembly until we see an immediate and unconditional ceasefire put in place." The Gaza resolution calls on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to present "proposals on how the United Nations could help to advance accountability" by using existing mechanisms or creating new ones based on past experience. The Assembly, for example, created an international mechanism to gather evidence of crimes committed in Syria starting from the outbreak of civil war in 2011. A second resolution calling on Israel to respect the mandate of the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and allow it to continue its operations was passed Wednesday by a vote of 159-9 with 11 abstentions. Israel has voted to ban the organization starting January 28, after accusing some UNRWA employees of taking part in Hamas's devastating attack. abd/sst/jgc/nro/des
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