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The expected rate of population growth in the Lower Mainland is “a bit too much,” especially if the federal government does not properly plan for the infrastructure required to accommodate it, says Metro Vancouver Regional District chair Mike Hurley. Last week, Metro Vancouver released new population projections showing the region of 23 local governments is expected to grow, on average, by 50,000 new residents each year until 2050 when the total population reaches 4.21 million people. If that pace proves true, that’s a 1.7 per cent annual compound growth rate from 2021 when population reached about 2.6 million. Metro Vancouver stated the new growth rate is based on “evolving federal immigration policy, and trends in non-permanent residents.” Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the region was expecting 35,000 new residents annually to reach 3.8 million. The new analysis shows a low-growth scenario of 3.98 million people and a high-growth scenario of 4.39 million people. “I think the growth rate is a bit too much,” said Hurley. “I think that — and this is just my personal opinion, not Metro Vancouver's — until our infrastructure really starts to catch up and there's infrastructure deficit everywhere, including schools, hospitals, not just the Metro Vancouver infrastructure and other cities’ infrastructure, I just think it's a lot to be put on to municipalities,” said Hurley, who is also the mayor of Burnaby. And the federal government, which applies GST on new homes, “is not really stepping up to help out when it comes to infrastructure projects,” said Hurley. The analysis also noted that by 2035 all of the population growth will be from immigrants, based on birth rate trends, meaning the issue falls squarely on immigration policy. As an immigrant from Northern Ireland, Hurley said immigration “has to be controlled in more of a solid fashion and more reasoned fashion, so that we can keep up with the infrastructure issues.” Asked where this growth directive is coming from, Hurley said the business community concerned about their workforces is “probably a primary driver.” Asked if the region, or Canada in general, can sustain a lower growth rate — such as Scandinavian nations — given its dependence on construction, buying and selling of homes, Hurley said: “I think that's such a big part of our economy now that we've become reliant on that a bit, but I think we can live well within that one per cent growth range, one and a half per cent growth range, and I think our economy could handle that.” Hurley said all three levels of government need to be on the same page. “There needs to be some think tank amongst them, you know, the three orders of government, laying out exactly what the plan is here. Because I'm not seeing a real plan. I'm just seeing this is what's happening.” Glacier Media also spoke to Eric Woodward, Metro Vancouver’s chair of the regional planning committee, for his personal opinion on projected growth rates and whether they are the right path for the region. “I don't think about it in those terms, because a lot of these predictions are based on inputs that are out of the control of Metro Vancouver or local government. “There isn't a ton of political input in terms of producing them, and whether they're right or wrong or not, is also not much of a consideration that I've seen. This is, again, an academic exercise in predicting what is going to happen,” he said. Woodward, who said he ran on a pro-building campaign in 2022, suggested cities are effectively forced to react to the population increases of the federal government. “I think it would be more important to say, ‘Well, if it is going to happen, then we need to improve how we're managing it.’ I think there's lots of areas where that can be improved.”

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FAIRFAX, Va. , Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GovCIO Media & Research , a leading federal technology media company, opened the Flywheel Award nominations for the 2025 Defense IT Summit. The Flywheel Awards will be presented on February 27, 2025 , in Arlington, Virginia , at the Defense IT Summit. The awards will recognize the key accomplishments of federal and defense leaders in transforming and innovating national security technology through the programs they oversee. The entry deadline is December 20 and finalists will be announced on January 6 . "The Flywheel Awards embody what it means to be a transformer in defense IT, and it is our goal to continuously recognize these leaders," said Amy Kluber , Editor-in-Chief. "During the Defense IT Summit, the Awards will recognize the accomplishments made by defense leaders and the programs that they work on that transform and innovate national security technology." The Defense IT Summit Flywheel Award categories include: Rising Star Emerging Tech Innovator Cyber Defender Digital Transformer Data Advocate Nominees must be federal IT employees and submission achievements must be from January 2024 to present. Nominations for the Defense IT Summit Flywheel Awards are open until December 20 . Submit nominations here. Visit the Defense IT Summit event page to view the full event agenda, speaker lineup and register for this must-attend event. Tickets are going fast, register today. About GovCIO Media & Research GovCIO Media & Research, an independent media company, provides insights and analysis on federal IT innovation and is the leading industry solutions resource. Our team utilizes a multi-platform approach to today's most pressing issues through video, podcasts, events, articles and special reports that keep federal IT decision-makers informed on technology's impact on government. Media Contact Emyly Hall Sr. Communications & Marketing Specialist emyly.hall@govcio.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nominations-open-for-2025-defense-it-summit-flywheel-awards-302315886.html SOURCE GovCIO Media & ResearchGrowing to 4.2M people in Metro Vancouver 'a bit too much' without a plan: Mike Hurley

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Elon Musk’s preschool is the next step in his anti-woke education dreamsNew coach Chris Holtmann has been tasked with rebuilding DePaul to the point where it can return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2004. Northern Illinois coach Rashon Burno knows what it takes to steer DePaul to the NCAAs because he was the starting point guard on the 2000 team that made the tournament -- the Blue Demons' only other NCAA appearance since 1992. Perhaps they can compare notes Saturday afternoon when Burno leads the Huskies (2-3) back to his alma mater as DePaul (5-0) hosts its sixth straight home game in Chicago. Last season, Burno's NIU squad helped accelerate DePaul's need for a new coach -- as the Huskies waltzed into Wintrust Arena and owned Tony Stubblefield's Blue Demons by an 89-79 score on Nov. 25. The Huskies built a 24-point second-half lead before coasting to the finish line. Can history repeat for NIU? There's just one problem with using last year's game as a potential barometer for Saturday's rematch: Almost no players on this year's teams were part of last year's squads. At DePaul, only assistant coach Paris Parham remains as Holtmann had the green light to bring in an all-new roster. UIC graduate transfer Isaiah Rivera (16.0 ppg, .485 3-point rate) and Coastal Carolina transfer Jacob Meyer (15.4 ppg, .406 on 3s) lead a balanced attack that focuses on getting half its shots from beyond the arc. At NIU, Burno retained only two players who competed against DePaul last year -- Ethan Butler and Oluwasegun Durosinmi -- and they combined for three points in 26 minutes in that game. The Huskies' main players used the transfer portal to join such programs as Kansas, Wisconsin, Penn State, Colorado State, James Madison, Georgia State and Niagara. With every starting job open, Butler has jumped into the lineup and produced 11.6 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.8 blocks and 1.4 steals per game. Transfers Quentin Jones (Cal Poly) and James Dent (Western Illinois) pace the Huskies with 14.4 and 14.0 points per game. NIU is on a two-game losing streak, most recently a 75-48 home defeat at the hands of Elon on Wednesday. Holtmann hopes to have Arkansas transfer Layden Blocker for Saturday's game. Blocker missed Tuesday's 78-69 win over Eastern Illinois with a quad injury. With the combo guard unavailable, point guard Conor Enright handed out a career-high 11 assists in a season-high 38 minutes. "We need (Blocker)," Holtmann said. "I don't want to play Conor 38 minutes." --Field Level Media

Immigration measures announced as part of Canada’s border response to president-elect Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariff threat are starting to be implemented, beginning with a ban on what’s known as “flagpoling.” This is when someone who was in Canada on a temporary visa leaves for the U.S. then quickly re-enters Canada to access immigration services at a port of entry. The restriction on providing work and study permits to flagpolers takes effect today. Last week, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said that going forward temporary visa holders will have to apply online to extend their stay in Canada. The Canadian Border Services Agency processed more than 69,300 people who engaged in flagpoling in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. There are still rare exceptions where a person will be granted a work or study permit even though they meet the definition of flagpoling, including international truck drivers with a work permit, professionals under certain free trade agreements and American citizens. Miller first announced the plan to ban the practice on Dec. 17, alongside Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc who promised a border control package worth $1.3 billion. This includes removing the point value for having a job offer in Canada’s express entry immigration system. The stated goal of this change is to reduce and prevent immigration fraud. In a social media post, Miller said this will take effect in the spring and that it will be a temporary measure. A broader review of the express entry program is being conducted, and a future decision on the value of a job offer in that system will be made at that time. A labour market impact assessment, a key document required for an employer to hire a foreign worker, is currently worth 50 to 200 points in the express entry system. Applicants are not supposed to pay for these, but a black market has emerged where people are charging tens of thousands of dollars for these documents. Applications that are already in progress won’t be affected once this change takes effect. Miller also said the government is looking at ways to streamline Canada’s asylum system at that Dec. 17 press conference. This includes exploring options to “quickly deal with” illegitimate claims. The government’s broader border measures plan to respond to Trump’s 25 per cent tariff threat also includes enhanced aerial surveillance and drug detection efforts.Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login The ASX is set to drop despite a rally in the big US tech companies that spurred a rebound in stocks. Wall Street had a brief wobble on Monday driven by a weaker-than-expected report on US consumer confidence. Bloomberg Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Introducing your Newsfeed Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you. Latest In North America Fetching latest articles Most Viewed In World

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Brie Larson has traded in her long, golden blond tresses for a dramatic new ‘do. The “Captain Marvel” star chopped off her locks ahead of her upcoming West End performance in the drama “Elektra,” where she’ll portray the titular character. Larson, 35, debuted the hair major transformation — a brunette pixie cut with side swept bangs — in new snaps shared via Instagram on Monday. “Elektra is here,” the actress captioned her post . Although Larson uploaded the snapshots in black-and-white, it appears she opted for a much darker hue. In the first slide, the Oscar winner was pictured grinning ear-to-ear as she showed off the new look. The second slide featured her offering up a more serious pose, complete with a smize. The “Lessons in Chemistry” star also posted a more up-close look at the hairstyle via her Instagram Story, captioning the selfie with a simple black heart emoji. The transformation comes less than two months before Larson is set to take the stage at Brighton, England’s Theatre Royal. Larson will portray the role of Elektra, a woman who is “haunted by her father’s assassination” and is “consumed by grief, a need for survival and a thirst for vengeance,” per the play’s website . The production of “Elektra” will be based off of the Sophocles-written Greek tragedy and translated by poet Anne Carson. Soon after Larson shared pics of her pixie cut with her social media followers, many of them took to the comments section to express how perfect her transformation is as she gets into character for the role. “your face is so dynamic and matches nicely with so many hair styles, this cut is no exception,” one admirer gushed via X . “YOUR HAIR?!! OMGGGGG!!!! YOU LOOK SO GOOD AS ELEKTRA!!” another wrote underneath Larson’s post on X. Despite many adoring Larson’s physical transformation into Elektra, others weren’t as pleased. “It’s different. I must admit I do prefer the longer hair,” one netizen wrote , while another added , “Ow no. What did you do! Cant wait for it to grow back!!” Meanwhile, a separate follower had Jennifer Garner’s 2005 version of Elektra in mind. “Not the Elektra I was thinking of,” they wrote alongside a photo of Garner in the poster for the film. Larson’s play will run at the Theatre Royal in Brighton from Jan. 13 to Jan. 18 and later at London’s Duke of York Theater from Jan. 24 to April 12.

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Are Americans hopeful — or discouraged — heading into new year? What a new poll foundThanks to their star players, the Winnipeg Jets gave their fans an early Christmas present Monday afternoon, downing the Maple Leafs 5-2 in Toronto. Toronto was the better team for the bulk of the opening period before the Jets earned the game’s first power play with just under five minutes to go in the first and their top-ranked unit cashed in. Off a faceoff win, a Josh Morrissey point shot was tipped in front by Gabriel Vilardi, creating a big rebound that ricocheted to Kyle Connor, who buried it past Joseph Woll for his 20th goal of the season. After a slow start, Winnipeg wound up outshooting Toronto 11-8 in the opening 20 minutes and carried their 1-0 lead into the second, where it didn’t take long for them to expand their lead. Just over a minute into the period, Mark Scheifele blocked a shot near the Winnipeg blue line and the puck caromed into the neutral zone. Scheifele tracked it down and skated it into the Leafs’ end where he waited patiently for a hard-charging Connor to drive the net. Scheifele then slid a perfect pass that Connor steered into the goal for his second of the afternoon, giving Winnipeg a 2-0 lead. Not long after, Max Domi instigated a fight with Alex Iafallo (the first fighting major of Iafallo’s career), giving the Jets their second power play look of the day. The Leafs had the best scoring chance on the Winnipeg power play when Mitch Marner blocked a shot and tried to skate away from Neal Pionk for a breakaway but as Marner tried to begin a deke on Connor Hellebuyck, Pionk executed a textbook stick lift to knock the puck away. A double-minor high stick penalty to Mason Appleton at the 4:16 mark of the period gave Toronto an excellent chance to get back into the game, and they took advantage thanks to their star players as an off-speed pass from Marner fooled the Jets before landing on the stick of John Tavares for a back-door tap-in. The goal came during the first leg of the double-minor, giving Toronto two more minutes to try and draw level on the power play but the Jets killed it off to maintain the 2-1 lead. With the Leafs still pushing to tie the game late in the second, Haydn Fleury went down awkwardly and clutched at his knee. He very slowly got to the bench with some help and had to leave the game, forcing the Jets to finish the game with five blueliners. At the 3:27 mark of the third, Winnipeg’s top line got back to work. Gabriel Vilardi made a great play to knock down the puck in the Toronto end and corral it before sending a perfect back-door pass that Scheifele redirected past Woll to make it 3-1 with his 19th of the year. With a touch under 11 minutes left, a delay of game penalty sent Toronto back to the power play. Early in the man advantage look, the Jets got a shorthanded 2-on-1 but Iafallo was turned aside by Woll. Toronto wasn’t able to parlay that into anything though as the score stayed 3-1, but not for long as Winnipeg’s stars came through again. With just over eight minutes left in the third, Scheifele found himself alone in front of the Toronto net and his initial try was stopped by Woll but he kept digging away and the puck eventually trickled over the goal line to make it 4-1. Tavares got the Leafs back within two with 6:18 to go, burying a shot from the slot in transition for his second of the game. With just over 2:30 to go, Woll went to the bench for an extra attacker but Toronto couldn’t generate much of a push through the Jets defence before Scheifele found the empty net with 21 seconds left to seal the win with a third period hat trick, the tenth of his career and second of the season. Hellebuyck turned aside 23 shots to earn the win as the Jets enter the Christmas break in first place in the NHL with 51 points. They will return to action Saturday when they host the Ottawa Senators.

Caitlin Clark raised the profile of women's basketball to unprecedented levels in both the college ranks and the WNBA, and Tuesday she was named the AP Female Athlete of the Year for her impact on and off the court. After leading Iowa to the national championship game, Clark was the top pick in the WNBA draft as expected and went on to win rookie of the year honors in the league. Fans packed sold-out arenas and millions of television viewers tuned in to follow her journey. Clark’s exploits were far reaching, casting a light on other women’s sports leagues along the way. A group of 74 sports journalists from The Associated Press and its members voted on the award. Clark received 35 votes, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles was second with 25 and boxer Imane Khelif was third, getting four votes. Clark is only the fourth women’s basketball player to be honored as the female athlete of the year since it was first presented in 1931, joining Sheryl Swoopes (1993), Rebecca Lobo (1995) and Candace Parker (2008, 2021). “I grew up a fan of Candace Parker and the people who came before me and to be honored in this way, is super special and I’m thankful,” Clark said in a phone interview. “It was a great year for women’s basketball and women’s sports.” Shohei Ohtani won the AP Male Athlete of the Year on Monday for the third time. Clark broke the NCAA Division I career scoring record for both men and women finishing her career with 3,951 points while guiding Iowa to its second consecutive national championship game. After her Hawkeyes lost t South Carolina for the title, Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley took the mic during her team’s celebration and said, “I want to personally thank Caitlin Clark for lifting up our sport.” For all the success Clark has had and the attention she has brought to women’s basketball, she is often the centerpiece of debates and online toxicity towards her and other players in the league. For her part, Clark has disavowed the toxic discourse. Lobo also has been impressed with the way the 22-year-old Clark has handled the pressure and attention that has come her way. “I would say she’s navigated it almost flawlessly. she hasn’t had an big missteps or misspeaks at a time you’re under constant scrutiny,” Lobo said. “She’s seemed to say and do all the right things. That’s just incredible at a time when it’s constant attention and scrutiny. She has not done anything to tarnish this sort of mild persona she has.” As Clark handled the praise — and the backlash — during the heat of competition, it was hard for her to appreciate just what she was able accomplish over the past year. But after having time to reflect on the whirlwind tour, she appreciates those who were there alongside her for the ride. “I'm thankful for the people I got to do it with,” Clark said. “A year ago I was still in the early part of my senior year in college. ... How fast things change, and now I can see how great a college season it was.” Iowa sold out all of its games at home and on the road with Clark as the main attraction. That momentum continued into the pros. Her No. 22 jersey was prevalent wherever she played during her rookie season and will be retired at Iowa. “You’d be remiss not to acknowledge how crazy her fan base is and the eyes she gets with everything she does,” said Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton, who was often spotted courtside at Clark's Indiana Fever games. “It’s a different type of popularity, she’s one of the most popular athletes in the world. It’s not just women’s sports anymore. "It’s really cool to see and she just handles it with such grace.” Clark said she enjoys spending time with fans at games, usually taking a few minutes before and after games to sign autographs. “For me it's still really fun,” she said. “Whether it's 15 seconds or 10 seconds or 5 seconds can be very impactful in a young girl and young boys life. Seeing the fans going crazy an hour before tipoff, I never take that for granted. That's super cool and I never want that to go away.” After a slow start to her WNBA career, Clark eventually found her stride there too. She set the single-game assist record with 19 and also had 337 assists on the season to break that mark as well. Clark, known for her logo-distance 3-pointers, was the fastest player to reach 100 3’s when she did it in 34 games which helped Indiana reach the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Lobo, who won the AP female athlete of the year award after lifting UConn to its first national championship, was on the court for launch of the WNBA two years later. The ESPN analyst sees Clark's ascension as something different. “She’s brought unprecedented attention both in the building, but also viewership to the sport that was worthy of it but didn’t have it yet," Lobo said. "There’s never been anything like this. "That timeframe from 1995-97 was a baby step in the progression of it all. This is a giant leap forward. I’ve never seen anything like this. There's more attention then the sports ever had." The numbers have been record breaking when Clark is part of a broadcast: — TV viewership in the WNBA was up 300% thanks in large part to Clark with ABC, CBS, ION, ESPN, and ESPN2 all having record viewers when Fever games were on. — The NCAA women’s championship game outdrew the men on TV for the first time in the sport’s 42-year history with 18.9 million viewers tuning it to watch the event. It was the second most watched women’s sporting event outside of the Olympics in the history of U.S. television. — The 2024 WNBA draft was the most-watched in league history with 2.4 million viewers. Clark credits the community of women athletes for the popularity increase of women's sports, saying “we” did this or “we” did that when asked about it. “It's fascinating, you don’t always appreciate how many people 18 million is,” Clark said. “You see that number against a college football game or the Masters or whatever it is as far as the biggest sporting events in our country and it puts it in perspective. We outdrew the men’s Final Four.”

THE controversial China-born crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun has invested US$30 million in President-elect Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial, making him the largest investor in the decentralised finance (DeFi) project. “The US is becoming the blockchain hub, and Bitcoin owes it to @realDonaldTrump!,” Sun, the founder of the cryptocurrency firm Tron, announced in a post on X on Monday (Nov 25). “Tron is committed to making America great again and leading innovation.” A spokesperson for Sun did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “We are excited about the momentum experienced by World Liberty Financial, and this sizeable purchase of WLF tokens underscores the early success of this project,” a spokesperson for World Liberty said. “Indeed, there have been several significant purchases in recent weeks, and we are confident in our future success as we build a platform that promotes freer and fairer finance. We expect more such developments to happen in the coming weeks and months.” The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Sun in March 2023 for allegedly violating securities rules. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, claims that Sun worked with companies he owns and controls to engineer the offer and sale of the unregistered securities. It also accuses the crypto entrepreneur of breaking antifraud and market manipulation rules. Sun has said in the past that he believes that an SEC court filing accusing him and several of his firms of violating securities rules “lacks merit”. Earlier this year, USDC stablecoin issuer Circle axed their support for the Tron blockchain – attributing the decision to a “risk management framework” that “continually assesses the suitability of all blockchains” for the stablecoin. Trump-backed World Liberty Financial, launched a day after the former president emerged from a second apparent assassination attempt, is being promoted by Trump and his sons as part of the DeFi movement, which seeks to democratise access to financial services through the elimination of intermediaries. During World Liberty’s initial launch, the Wilmington, Delaware-based project planned to raise US$300 million at a US$1.5 billion valuation. However, it recently disclosed that its US$300 million offering of tokens is primarily being marketed offshore. World Liberty filed a notice with American regulators on the offering, stating that it “currently only plans” to sell US$30 million of tokens in the US. After reaching the US$30 million threshold, World Liberty will terminate the US offering, even though the company has some US$288.5 million of tokens available for sale, according to the document. Trump has been a recent and vocal proponent of digital assets such as Bitcoin. Last week, Bloomberg News reported that Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) is in talks to buy the digital-asset marketplace Bakkt Holdings, citing sources familiar with the discussions who asked not to be named sharing private information. Trump owns more than 50 per cent of TMTG, which operates Truth Social, a social media site. Donald Trump is listed as World Liberty Financial’s chief crypto advocate, while his sons, Eric, Donald Jr and Barron Trump are named as its Web3 ambassadors. The project also includes Paxos co-founder Rich Teo as its stablecoin and payment lead, as well as Luke Pearson, a senior research cryptographer for Polychain. Just two days ago, Sun announced that he paid US$6.2 million for a banana duct-taped to a wall, as part of a piece of work by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. The price of Tron’s TRX token dropped about 5 per cent to around 20 US cents on Monday. It has climbed about 87 per cent this year. BLOOMBERGBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, there was still time to read books. U.S. sales held steady according to Circana, which tracks around 85% of the print market, with many choosing the relief of romance, fantasy and romantasy. Some picked up Taylor Swift’s tie-in book to her blockbuster tour, while others sought out literary fiction, celebrity memoirs, political exposes and a close and painful look at a generation hooked on smartphones. Here are 10 notable books published in 2024, in no particular order. “House of Flame and Shadow,” by Sarah J. Maas Asking about the year’s hottest reads would basically yield a list of the biggest hits in romantasy, the blend of fantasy and romance that has proved so irresistible fans were snapping up expensive “special editions” with decorative covers and sprayed edges. Of the 25 top sellers of 2024, as compiled by Circana, six were by romantasy favorite Sarah J. Maas, including “House of Flame and Shadow,” the third of her “Crescent City” series. Millions read her latest installment about Bryce Quinlan and Hunter Athalar and traced the ever-growing ties of “Maasverse,” the overlapping worlds of “Crescent City” and her other series, “Throne of Glass” and “A Court of Thorns and Roses.” “The Anxious Generation,” by Jonathan Haidt If romantasy is for escape, other books demand we confront. In the bestselling “The Anxious Generation,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt looks into studies finding that the mental health of young people began to deteriorate in the 2010s, after decades of progress. According to Haidt, the main culprit is right before us: digital screens that have drawn kids away from “play-based” to “phone-based” childhoods. Although some critics challenged his findings, “The Anxious Generation” became a talking point and a catchphrase. Admirers ranged from Oprah Winfrey to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee, who in a letter to state legislators advocated such “commonsense recommendations” from the book as banning phones in schools and keeping kids off social media until age 16. “War,” by Bob Woodward Bob Woodward books have been an election tradition for decades. “War,” the latest of his highly sourced Washington insider accounts, made news with its allegations that Donald Trump had been in frequent contact with Russian leader Vladimir Putin even while out of office and, while president, had sent Putin sophisticated COVID-19 test machines. Among Woodward’s other scoops: Putin seriously considered using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and President Joe Biden blamed former President Barack Obama, under whom he served as vice president, for some of the problems with Russia. “Barack never took Putin seriously,” Woodward quoted Biden as saying. “Melania,” by Melania Trump Former (and future) first lady Melania Trump, who gives few interviews and rarely discusses her private life, unexpectedly announced she was publishing a memoir: “Melania.” The publisher was unlikely for a former first lady — not one of the major New York houses, but Skyhorse, where authors include such controversial public figures as Woody Allen and Trump cabinet nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And its success was at least a minor surprise. Melania Trump did little publicity for the book, and offered few revelations beyond posting a video expressing support for abortion rights — a break from one of the cornerstones of GOP policy. But “Melania” still sold hundreds of thousands of copies, many in the days following her husband’s election. “The Eras Tour Book,” by Taylor Swift Taylor Swift was more than a music story in 2024. Like “Melania,” the news about Taylor Swift’s self-published tie-in to her global tour isn’t so much the book itself, but that it exists. And how well it sold. As she did with the “Eras” concert film, Swift bypassed the established industry and worked directly with a distributor: Target offered “The Eras Tour Book” exclusively. According to Circana, the “Eras” book sold more than 800,000 copies just in its opening week, an astonishing number for a publication unavailable through Amazon.com and other traditional retailers. No new book in 2024 had a better debut. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney Midnight book parties are supposed to be for “Harry Potter” and other fantasy series, but this fall, more than 100 stores stayed open late to welcome one of the year’s literary events: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo.” The Irish author’s fourth novel centers on two brothers, their grief over the death of their father, their very different career paths and their very unsettled love lives. “Intermezzo” was also a book about chess: “You have to read a lot of opening theory — that’s the beginning of a game, the first moves,” one of the brothers explains. “And you’re learning all this for what? Just to get an okay position in the middle game and try to play some decent chess. Which most of the time I can’t do anyway.” “From Here to the Great Unknown,” by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough Lisa Marie Presley had been working on a memoir at the time of her death , in 2023, and daughter Riley Keough had agreed to help her complete it. “From Here to the Great Unknown” is Lisa Marie’s account of her father, Elvis Presley, and the sagas of of her adult life, notably her marriage to Michael Jackson and the death of son Benjamin Keough. To the end, she was haunted by the loss of Elvis, just 42 when he collapsed and died at his Graceland home while young Lisa Marie was asleep. “She would listen to his music alone, if she was drunk, and cry,” Keough, during an interview with Winfrey, said of her mother. “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” by Cher Meanwhile, Cher released the first of two planned memoirs titled “Cher” — no further introduction required. Covering her life from birth to the end of the 1970s, she focuses on her ill-fated marriage to Sonny Bono, remembering him as a gifted entertainer and businessman who helped her believe in herself while turning out to be unfaithful, erratic, controlling and so greedy that he kept all the couple’s earnings for himself. Unsure of whether to leave or stay, she consulted a very famous divorcee, Lucille Ball, who reportedly encouraged her: “F— him, you’re the one with the talent.” “James,” by Percival Everett A trend in recent years is to take famous novels from the past, and remove words or passages that might offend modern readers; an edition of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” cuts the racist language from Mark Twain’s original text. In the most celebrated literary work of 2024, Percival Everett found a different way to take on Twain’s classic — write it from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. “James,” winner of the National Book Award, is a recasting in many ways. Everett suggests to us that the real Jim was nothing like the deferential figure known to millions of readers, but a savvy and learned man who concealed his intelligence from the whites around him, and even from Twain himself. “Knife,” by Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie’s first National Book Award nomination was for a memoir he wished he had no reason to write. In “Knife,” he recounts in full detail the horrifying attempt on his life in 2022, when an attendee rushed the stage during a literary event in western New York and stabbed him repeatedly, leaving with him a blinded eye and lasting nerve damage, but with a spirit surprisingly intact. “If you had told me that this was going to happen and how would I deal with it, I would not have been very optimistic about my chances,” he told The Associated Press last spring. “I’m still myself, you know, and I don’t feel other than myself. But there’s a little iron in the soul, I think.”