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This Dec. 8, 2023, photo shows the logo of a Lion Electric bus owned by Winthrop Public Schools. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal file Lion Electric, the company that supplied faulty electric buses to schools in Maine, is on the brink of bankruptcy, Montreal’s La Presse reported Monday . The Quebec-based company supplied at least 17 electric buses through the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection’s Clean School Bus grant to schools in Maine, with four in the Winthrop Public Schools. A bus from Lion Electric, acquired by Winthrop schools under the federal Clean School Bus Program, is parked near Winthrop Middle School in December 2023. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal file photo Lion Electric reportedly had until Nov. 30 to pay a $22 million loan from two Canadian investors, along with another $117 million loan taken out through a bank, but the deadlines have been pushed to Dec. 16. The company also has a long-term debt of $293 million, the news outlet said, further reporting that the public company might leave the stock exchange. Now, the company reported on Dec. 1 that it laid off 400 employees, nearly half of its workforce, and has two weeks to close a deal with investors or else Lion Electric might have to seek protection from its creditors under Canadas’ Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), similar to bankruptcy in the U.S., according to the newspaper. Lion Electric did not respond to a Kennebec Journal reporter’s inquiry on how the potential bankruptcy will affect the buses stationed in Maine. The electric buses experienced a multitude of issues in the past two years, including a sideline from the Maine Department of Education after several school district’s transportation directors experienced power steering failures while operating the vehicles. The school buses continue to have issues , including a recent part recall that has caused the Winthrop Public School board to reconsider putting students on the bus. Becky Foley, interim superintendent of the Winthrop Public Schools, said she has not heard from Lion about the potential bankruptcy of the company and that the board will take up the issue at Wednesday night’s school board meeting. In light of the buses issues, the company told school districts in Maine that it planned to hire a local technician to help with the problems. A Lion Electric spokesperson did not respond last week to neither of a Kennebec Journal reporter’s attempts for comment on the technician, nor a previous inquiry about the company’s financial situation, as the company laid off a separate round of employees in mid-November. Since November 2023, the company has gone from 1,350 employees to just 300, La Presse reported, and put itself up for sale on Nov. 18. The layoffs will affect workers at Lion Electric’s assembly plant in Illinois, as the manufacturing operations were suspended Monday . Lion Electric has school buses in the Winthrop Public Schools, Yarmouth Public Schools, Eastern Maine School System, Bingham-area Maine School Administrative District 13, Five Town Community School District, Mount Desert Island Regional School System, Sipyack Elementary School and Vinalhaven Regional School Unit 8. We invite you to add your comments. We encourage a thoughtful exchange of ideas and information on this website. By joining the conversation, you are agreeing to our commenting policy and terms of use . More information is found on our FAQs . You can modify your screen name here . Comments are managed by our staff during regular business hours Monday through Friday as well as limited hours on Saturday and Sunday. Comments held for moderation outside of those hours may take longer to approve. Please sign into your Sun Journal account to participate in conversations below. If you do not have an account, you can register or subscribe . Questions? Please see our FAQs . Your commenting screen name has been updated. Send questions/comments to the editors. « Previous Next »

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How NYPD is using AI, drones, DNA and cutting-edge tech in the manhunt for Brian Thompson’s assassinMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of the national battle over union rights. That law, known as Act 10, effectively ended the ability of most public employees to bargain for wage increases and other issues, and forced them to pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits. Under the ruling by Dane County Circuit Judge Jacob Frost, all public sector workers who lost their collective bargaining power would have it restored to what was in place prior to 2011. They would be treated the same as the police, firefighter and other public safety unions that were exempted under the law. Republicans vowed to immediately appeal the ruling, which ultimately is likely to go before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That only amplifies the importance of the April election that will determine whether the court remains controlled 4-3 by liberal justices. Former Gov. Scott Walker, who proposed the law that catapulted him onto the national political stage, decried the ruling in a post on the social media platform X as “brazen political activism.” He said it makes the state Supreme Court election “that much more important.” Supporters of the law have said it provided local governments more control over workers and the powers they needed to cut costs. Repealing the law, which allowed schools and local governments to raise money through higher employee contributions for benefits, would bankrupt those entities, backers of Act 10 have argued. Democratic opponents argue that the law has hurt schools and other government agencies by taking away the ability of employees to collectively bargain for their pay and working conditions. Union leaders were overjoyed with the ruling, which affects tens of thousands of public employees. “We realize there may still be a fight ahead of us in the courts, but make no mistake, we’re ready to keep fighting until we all have a seat at the table again,” said Ben Gruber, a conservation warden and president of AFSCME Local 1215. The law was proposed by Walker and enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature in spite of massive protests that went on for weeks and drew as many as 100,000 people to the Capitol. The law has withstood numerous legal challenges over the years, but this was the first brought since the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped to liberal control in 2023. The seven unions and three union leaders that brought the lawsuit argued that the law should be struck down because it creates unconstitutional exemptions for firefighters and other public safety workers. Attorneys for the Legislature and state agencies countered that the exemptions are legal, have already been upheld by other courts, and that the case should be dismissed. But Frost sided with the unions in July, saying the law violates equal protection guarantees in the Wisconsin Constitution by dividing public employees into “general” and “public safety” employees. He ruled that general employee unions, like those representing teachers, can not be treated differently from public safety unions that were exempt from the law. His ruling Monday delineated the dozens of specific provisions in the law that must be struck. Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he looked forward to appealing the ruling. “This lawsuit came more than a decade after Act 10 became law and after many courts rejected the same meritless legal challenges,” Vos said in a statement. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state’s largest business lobbying organization, also decried the ruling. WMC President Kurt Bauer called Act 10 “a critical tool for policymakers and elected officials to balance budgets and find taxpayer savings.” The Legislature said in court filings that arguments made in the current case were rejected in 2014 by the state Supreme Court. The only change since that ruling is the makeup of Wisconsin Supreme Court, attorneys for the Legislature argued. The Act 10 law effectively ended collective bargaining for most public unions by allowing them to bargain solely over base wage increases no greater than inflation. It also disallowed the automatic withdrawal of union dues, required annual recertification votes for unions, and forced public workers to pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits. The law was the signature legislative achievement of Walker, who was targeted for a recall election he won. Walker used his fights with unions to mount an unsuccessful presidential run in 2016. Frost, the judge who issued Monday’s ruling, appeared to have signed the petition to recall Walker from office. None of the attorneys sought his removal from the case and he did not step down. Frost was appointed to the bench by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who signed the Walker recall petition. The law has also led to a dramatic decrease in union membership across the state. The nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum said in a 2022 analysis that since 2000, Wisconsin had the largest decline in the proportion of its workforce that is unionized. In 2015, the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature approved a right-to-work law that limited the power of private-sector unions. Public sector unions that brought the lawsuit are the Abbotsford Education Association; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Locals 47 and 1215; the Beaver Dam Education Association; SEIU Wisconsin; the Teaching Assistants’ Association Local 3220 and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 695.

Senior executives from Dell are urging enterprise leaders across the Asia-Pacific region to create chief AI officer roles and to adopt a “top-down” approach to AI implementation. While 2024 has primarily seen early adopters experimenting with AI in production, Dell anticipates a pivotal shift in 2025, with more enterprises transitioning from proof-of-concept initiatives to deploying AI as core projects that deliver measurable returns on investment . John Roese, Dell’s global chief technology officer and chief AI officer, emphasised in a media briefing that the region’s primary challenge is not the technical feasibility of AI but rather creating the right organisational strategy and framework to ensure successful adoption. SEE: Dell’s 5 Tips for Enterprises Wanting to Accelerate AI Innovation “If you’re not the chief AI officer and you’re not empowered and supported by your board and your leadership, your ability to prioritise the right AI work in a company is limited,” he said. “You may not get any budget, you may not have control, and there may be competing AI efforts that are not the right ones.” The rise of chief AI officer roles in Asia-Pacific Peter Marrs, Dell’s president for the Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China region, explained at the briefing how he regularly meets with CTOs and CEOs across the region. As recently as November 2024, Marrs observed signs of AI project overload, with one customer managing over 300 AI projects simultaneously. “I am seeing in some of the biggest customers in the world, where they don’t have that strategy locked down, they’re still kind of swinging all over the place,” Marrs said. SEE: A Sovereign Cloud Boom is Happening In APAC Right Now To overcome these challenges, Marrs said more companies in APAC are now appointing chief AI officers to steer AI strategies. This is expected to bring more coherence and focus on enterprise AI strategies. “We are seeing a lot of our customers right now, especially the more mature enterprise customers, making investments in chief AI officers,” he noted. While they are also appointing AI committees with representation from business units, such as marketing, software development, and manufacturing, these business units are ultimately led by a chief AI officer. “Sometimes the CIO is playing a dual role, but more and more we are seeing companies investing in CIOs or chief AI officers to help them on their strategy and path forward around their AI enablement.” The benefits of the ‘top-down’ approach to implementing AI Roese said the biggest issue for companies rolling out AI is no longer technology or methodology, which Dell believes it has solved for its customers with its defined “AI factory” model and approach . Instead, Roese said: “The thing that is still an issue which we are seeing, which has nothing to do with technology, is organisational complexity. How to do [AI] is becoming clearer, but how to organise a company to do it successfully is the really big active conversation right now,” he explained. Roese explained that even the most advanced companies are still struggling “to build the right organisational model to make sure they have an empowered leader” for AI “who can actually make strategic decisions.” This AI leadership role would involve confronting the reality that “some people won’t like those decisions” made about AI strategy and having the authority to enforce the chosen direction among business leaders. Roese said Dell was “very thoughtful” about internally structuring its AI efforts. The business has implemented measures to ensure all AI projects are “top-down and strategic.” Leveraging this top-down approach, all AI projects and use cases now require approval from Roese, CIO Doug Schmidt, and COO Jeff Clarke. SEE: Rethinking AI: How Organisations Can Become More Sensitive & Resilient “We knew that it would be impossible to get a consensus amongst all the business leaders about what the single most important AI project was to go implement, because all of them are important to our business leaders,” Roese explained. “But our ability to implement them is limited to only a handful at a time.” Roese strongly favors the top-down approach over the “bottom-up” option. While the bottom-up approach, where a business unit creates and implements an AI project, can foster innovation and experimentation, it may lead to misaligned priorities and inefficiencies without clear oversight and direction. Roese warned that this approach “cannot happen in the organisation.” SEE: AI Market Trends: Key Insights & How Enterprises Should Adapt Return on investment to spike in 2025 According to Dell, the first wave of AI return on investment will start next year . Roese said this will come in the form of savings, revenue, margin improvement, or significant changes in outcomes and result from having figured out through experimentation over the last two years how to use AI effectively. “We have seen that most of the AI tools needed to do enterprise AI have become standardised and turnkey,” he explained. “You do not need to build your own coding assistant. You can simply buy one and implement one on premise. There is now a clear methodology for implementing AI. “And what we have learned is, if you pick the right projects and approach them the right way , there is significant business impact in terms of hard ROI dollars. And that is important because enterprises do not like going first into an area where there is no proof they will be successful.”The European Union also called on "all sides to de-escalate", while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "alarmed" by the violence and called for an immediate halt to the fighting. Syria has been at war since Assad cracked down on democracy protests in 2011. The conflict has since drawn in foreign powers and jihadists, and left 500,000 people dead. The conflict had been mostly dormant with Assad back in control of much of the country, until last week when the Islamist-led rebel alliance began its offensive. The attack has seen swathes of Syria fall to rebel control, including second city Aleppo for the first time since the start of the civil war. "We want to see all countries use their influence -- use their leverage -- to push for de-escalation, protection of civilians and ultimately, a political process forward," US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. In a statement issued by EU foreign affairs spokesperson Anouar El Anouni, the European Union also called for de-escalation and the protection of civilians, while also condemning Assad backer Russia for conducting air strikes in his support. Russia first intervened directly in Syria's war in 2015 with strikes on rebel-held areas. Its help, along with that of Iran and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, were instrumental in propping up Assad's rule. On Monday President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian both pledged "unconditional support" for their ally, according to the Kremlin. Aleppo is home to two million people and saw fierce fighting earlier in the war. The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies took the city at the weekend, except for neighbourhoods controlled by Kurdish forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. They also seized Aleppo International Airport. HTS, led by Al-Qaeda's former Syria branch, has faced accusations of human rights abuses including torturing detainees. Abu Sufyan, a rebel commander, told AFP: "God willing, we will continue, go into Damascus and liberate the rest of Syria." One Aleppo resident spoke of panic. "There were terrible traffic jams -- it took people 13 to 15 hours to reach Homs" in central Syria, which is under government control. Normally, he said, it would take a couple of hours. AFPTV footage showed rebels patrolling the streets, some burning a Syrian flag and others holding the flag of the revolution. On Monday, Assad branded the rebel offensive led by HTS an attempt to redraw the regional map in line with US interests. His comments came in a call with Iran's Pezeshkian, who in turn pledged continued support and said Iran hoped "Syria will pass through this stage with success and victory". On Monday, Syrian and Russian air raids on several areas of Idlib province in the northwest killed 11 civilians including five children, the Observatory said. "The strikes targeted... families living on the edge of a displacement camp," said Hussein Ahmed Khudur, a 45-year-old teacher who sought refuge at the camp from fighting in Aleppo province. Other strikes in Aleppo killed four civilians, two of them children, the Observatory said, adding that air raids also targeted a Christian-majority neighbourhood. AFPTV footage showed rebels pushing into Hama province in central Syria. Syria's defence ministry said troops were clashing with "terrorist organisations" in the northern Hama countryside. Islamist-led rebels killed six civilians on Monday in a rocket attack on the government-held city of Hama, the Observatory said. Aron Lund of the Century International think tank said a major question hangs over possible Turkish involvement. "I have a hard time imagining that Turkey-backed groups could launch a major rebel offensive out of Turkey-held areas without Turkey being very significantly involved," he said. "But I also don't think Turkey necessarily wanted the rebels to get this far." Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an end to the "instability" in Syria and an agreement to stop the civil war. On a visit to Ankara, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said it was crucial "to protect the achievements" of the so-called Astana process to end Syria's civil war, which involves Turkey, Russia and Iran. Several hours later, he said the respective foreign ministers would meet on the matter next weekend in Qatar. "We will try to activate this process again," he said. While the current fighting is rooted in a war that began more than a decade ago, much has changed since then. Millions of Syrians have been displaced, with about 5.5 million now in neighbouring countries. Most of those involved in the initial anti-Assad protests are either dead, in jail or in exile. Russia is at war in Ukraine, and Iran's militant allies Hezbollah and Hamas have been massively weakened by more than a year of conflict with Israel. Lebanon's Hezbollah played a key role in backing government forces particularly around Aleppo, but it withdrew from several positions to focus on fighting Israel. HTS and its allies launched their offensive on Wednesday, the day a Lebanon ceasefire began. The violence in Syria has killed 514 people, mostly combatants but also including 92 civilians, according to the Observatory. burs-srm-ser/smwHARTFORD, Conn. — It’s well known that Steve Cohen wanted a Picasso, Le Reve, badly enough to pay $139 million for it. When the seller put an elbow through the canvas, Cohen pulled his offer and waited, but once the painting was suitably restored he ponied up $155 million to get it for his Greenwich, Conn., home. Couple of things there. When Cohen wants something badly enough, for his mansion or the Mets, he will not be denied. And since Cohen didn’t go for the banana taped to the wall that recently sold for $6.2 million, it’s clear he knows the difference between trendy gimmicks and timeless art. So it was when Juan Soto, a hitter of rare beauty, hit the open market. Listen, every top free agent feels like more than just the top free agent, more like the last great player who is ever going to be available. The very first sweepstakes, for Catfish Hunter 50 years ago this month, felt like that, as did Reggie Jackson, Dave Winfield and countless others. In the last three years, Aaron Judge, who stayed with the Yankees, Shohei Ohtani, who signed with the Dodgers, had that kind of cachet. And now Soto, who left the Yankees to sign a 15-year contract reportedly worth $765 million, with clauses that could bump up north of $800 million, has joined Cohen’s growing collection of stars with the Mets with the potential to realign the game. It can certainly shifts the terrain under a state so long dominated by the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. All the whys and wherefores are still to come, but safe to say that Cohen is all he was advertised to be when he bought the Mets in 2020 — aggressive, persuasive, relentless in pursuit of the championship that has eluded his favorite team since 1986. That’s Le Reve, which in English is “The Dream.” There are those who shudder at how the money he can spend will impact baseball, but so be it. He wants to win, he’s going for it. He had to have Juan Soto. Now the pressure to make this work will be enormous for all and history shows such signings do not always produce the desired results, but Cohen didn’t get where he is in the hedge-fund jungle by being risk-averse. Soto is certainly a generational game-changer, if not the first or last. He made the difference between the Yankees missing the playoffs altogether in 2023 and reaching the World Series in 2024. He is 26, younger than most free agents, and can be counted on to put up Soto stats, .419 on-base, 41 homers, 109 RBI last season, for years to come. And he has proven he can handle New York and perform in the postseason. The Yankees, who reportedly upped their offer to $750 million for 16 years, were not trying to finish a strategic second and tell their fans they gave it their best shot. Hal Steinbrenner fully understood the ramifications of this loss, and not because the other team in New York. Nope, not going down the Mets-own-New-York path. There is no such thing. The Yankees and Mets don’t have to worry about each other unless both reach the World Series, and if they do, both will profit immensely and the city will be delirious. Unlike George Steinbrenner and the previous Mets owners, Hal and Cohen get this: The team that’s more successful will be more popular in the moment, but it’s better for both when both are good. The Red Sox were in on Soto, too, and although there are skeptics in Boston, they apparently did make a competitive bid. The Yankees can at least take solace he’s out of the AL East and The Rivalry, and baseball can at least take solace in that he didn’t join all those megastars in Los Angeles. So the bomb hit Sunday night, the earth shifted, and it’s time for all the franchises we watch in Connecticut to pick up the pieces and move on, mindful that the goal line is moving. The Mets pair Soto with their MVP runner up, Francisco Lindor. The one-two punch that can really get them the title is Cohen and president of baseball operations David Steans. The Mets have a GM with experience in finding undervalued talent, developing young players and building contenders with limited resources in Milwaukee. His brainstorm to make overvalued reliever Clay Holmes into a potential bargain of a starter, is an example of his resourcefulness. Couple that with an owner willing to spend big when quality is up for auction, and that’s a hard combination to beat. That’s the Dodgers’ formula. Neither the Yankees nor Red Sox appear to have both at the moment. The Red Sox do have the deep farm system left by Chaim Bloom, though, and if current GM Craig Breslow can pry enough resources from the owners to go after a few solid veterans, they can be right back in contention. The Yankees are in a more difficult space. In years gone by, the three-quarters of a billion left behind by Soto could be used to upgrade a roster in a dozen areas. But those kind of players are not really out there, and that strategy can yield a team of mediocre, past-their-primers. GM Brian Cashman will have to sort those out now. Putting Judge back in right field where he belongs and getting a legit centerfielder could help, beefing up starting and relief pitching will help, there are many holes that were covered up by the historic productivity of Soto and Judge in 2024 that must now be addressed starting at the Winter Meetings. To get back to the World Series, the Yankees will have to get past a number of AL teams loaded with young talent. In the NL, they face the Mets, Dodgers and Padres, teams with multiple high-end stars, where they have only Judge still at that level. To be sure, pinstripe prestige took a major blow Sunday night, but they still have resources to repair it to full value, like that Picasso. The overarching fact Monday is that the way we watch and perceive baseball will be different now. The Greenwich art collector is throwing his billions around as promised (and feared), and has turned baseball on its head. It should be quite a summer around here. ©2024 Hartford Courant. Visit courant.com . 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Ruben Amorim has urged Manchester United supporters not to get carried away by warning that “the storm will come” and his side will be found out in some games. face at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday night in the toughest test yet of Amorim’s short reign, and visit champions Manchester City in the derby clash on December 15 after a home game against Nottingham Forest. A on Sunday, which followed a in the Europa League and in Amorim’s first game in charge extended United’s unbeaten run to seven matches. has introduced a back three and new system since succeeding Erik ten Hag but, with little time to work on those changes on the training pitch given the congested schedule, the Portuguese says there will be problems along the way. “I would like to say different things, but I have to say it again: the storm will come,” said Amorim, who warned after the Ipswich match that United are “going to suffer for a long period”. “I don’t know if you use that expression but we are going to have difficult moments and we will be found out in some games. And I know that because I’m [getting to] know my players and I know football and I follow football. “So I understand the difference between the teams and we are at the point we are putting simple things in the team, without training, and you feel it in this game against Everton. “They changed a little bit the way they were building up – they are a very good team and we were with a lot of problems because we cannot change it by calling one thing to the captain because we don’t have this [time] training.” Amorim added: “I know it’s really hard to be a Manchester United coach and say these things – we want to win all the time, no matter what, and we are going to try to win. “But we know that we are in a different point, if you compare to Arsenal. We will try to win it and we go with confidence to win but we know that we need to play very well to win the next football match.” Amorim admitted he was a huge admirer of the job Mikel Arteta had done at Arsenal, not least in terms of developing younger talent such as Bukayo Saka, William Saliba and Martin Odegaard, and hoped to have a similar impact at Old Trafford. “I think he’s done an amazing job,” Amorim said. “Sometimes the coaches are just judged about the titles, but what he has been doing in Arsenal, I think, is amazing. It transformed the team. “He bought some youngsters that now are the big talents in this country. I hope to have the same mindset that he had in the difficult moments because I followed the Premier League for a long time. I think it’s a very good characteristic in Mikel and I think he did a great job.” Arsenal have invested considerable faith and time in Arteta, but Amorim said the scrutiny is such at United that he may need to deliver more quickly than the Spaniard. “That is also always important for a coach to have that confidence, but we have to acknowledge that Manchester United is a little bit different – all the attention that you guys put in here, all the time,” he said. ”So I know that sometimes it is not possible to have all that time. So we will try to manage that and try to do things a little bit more fast knowing that here is a massive attention and massive judgment every day.” One youngster who has made an immediate impression under Amorim is Amad Diallo, who has impressed at right wing-back. The Ivory Coast international is out of contract at the end of the season, although by 12 months to June 2026 and Amorim admitted his future needed resolving. “I think he wants to stay and we want him to stay, so that is clear and we will find a solution,” he said. Amorim said Amad’s versatility and ability to play in different positions, including as a No 10, was “one of his great advantages”. “He’s very good playing in that position but also playing between the lines, because he has good control and he seems faster with the ball than without the ball,” the head coach said. “He is capable of playing in both positions and he can play in different systems. So in the future, we will play in a different system, maybe. So it’s that kind of player that we need in the team.” Asked why he was playing Amad at wing-back rather than behind the striker, Amorim said: “Because of his left foot, sometimes in that position, the way he receives the ball, if you are right-footed, sometimes you don’t have the space to come inside. “But we have, for example, [Noussair] Mazraoui and [Diogo] Dalot who can go inside because they are fast and strong with the ball. But we chose Amad to have one against one outside. And that is very important to break some pressures, especially high pressures, and he has that ability. And then in that position, you need to have a good physicality. Good physicality is not the size, but he can run and that is a key point in that position. “So you try to choose players that you can put in that position and then the technical characteristics are perfect for him.” Luke Shaw says he is going through the “toughest period” of his career after the defender suffered a fresh injury that is expected to rule him out for several weeks. The England left-back made his first appearance for United since February in the – Ruben Amorim’s first game as head coach – nine days ago. Two more substitute outings followed against Bodo/Glimt and Everton, but Shaw is now set to be sidelined until later this month after sustaining a muscle injury. Sources say it is a new problem and not related to the hamstring injury he suffered in February or the subsequent calf problem that ruled him out for the first few months of this season after a brief cameo for England at the Euros in Germany. But it is a bitter blow for the 29-year-old, who has averaged just 16 Premier League starts per season over more than a decade at Old Trafford since a £28 million move from Southampton in 2014. In a statement on his social media feeds, Shaw said: “Hi guys, it’s hurting a lot having to write this, as I really thought I had got through my recent struggles and was on a positive path going forward, but unfortunately I’ve had a small setback. “I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs but this has definitely been my toughest period. I’m absolutely devastated and it’s extremely tough to come to terms with reality at this moment in time. “I understand there are going to be people frustrated, angry, disappointed, and I understand all that. There is no one feeling that more than me at this moment in time. “But what I can promise is I will do everything I can to come back better soon, to help this club achieve its ambitions this season. “Thank you to everyone for the support. It really doesn’t go unnoticed and I really do appreciate it.”Crypto-Related Shares Fall Today: What's Going On?

Rachel Lindsay was seen spending a lot of time this weekend with what may be a new male companion who has ties to a major A-list artist ... TMZ has learned. Witnesses tell us the former "Bachelorette" star and Willie Jones, who collaborated on Beyonce 's Cowboy Carter album, were spotted together on Friday at iHeart’s Jingle Ball in Los Angeles. We're told the two enjoyed each other's company in the Patrón Lounge suite, where they sat closely, chatting, and laughing throughout the night. Our witnesses say when T-Pain hit the stage, the pair got up to dance. The two continued to spend time together over the weekend. On Sunday, they were spotted shopping at the Melrose Trading Post, where a store called Blk Rchvs posted a photo of them on social media. In the snap, Willie is seen with his arm around Rachel, fueling even more questions about their status. While it’s unclear whether the two are romantically involved, one witness told us Rachel appeared "the happiest she's been in a long time." Willie is also known for his 2012 appearance on "The X Factor" at the age of 17. Rachel is still navigating a nasty divorce from her ex-husband, Bryan Abasolo . The two, who met on "The Bachelor" in 2017 and married in 2019, separated in December 2023 after four years of marriage. We reached out to Rachel's camp for comment ... so far, no word back.