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Hoops star Nurse joins Athletes Unlimited aiming to rebound from ‘rocky’ two years TORONTO — Everything changed for Kia Nurse when she tore her anterior cruciate ligament in the 2021 WNBA playoffs. The basketball star from Hamilton was locked in as starter for a team in the semifinals. Myles Dichter, The Canadian Press Nov 22, 2024 1:37 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Everything changed for Kia Nurse when she tore her anterior cruciate ligament in the 2021 WNBA playoffs. Nurse, of Canada, plays against France in a women's basketball game at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 29, 2024, in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mark J. Terrill TORONTO — Everything changed for Kia Nurse when she tore her anterior cruciate ligament in the 2021 WNBA playoffs. The basketball star from Hamilton was locked in as starter for a team in the semifinals. She’d been selected as an all-star just two years prior. But in one awkward fall three years ago, she was plunged into the depths of surgery and rehab. Nurse would miss the entire 2022 season due to the injury. She signed with the Seattle Storm for the 2023 campaign before a trade landed her with the Los Angeles Sparks last season. Meanwhile, Nurse represented Canada at the Paris Olympics in August, but she struggled as the team failed to reach the knockout round for the second straight time. The common thread throughout Nurse’s recent basketball journey? She just hasn’t quite felt like herself. “I still love basketball with all of my heart, and it's my favourite thing that I get to do. And I'm so privileged to be able to say that I get to do it as a job,” Nurse said. "But the last two years for me have been just really rocky, up and down.” Nurse, 28, will become a WNBA free agent as of Feb. 1. For now, she’s continuing her Raptors broadcast work with TSN and, on Monday, announced a new playing gig. In February, Nurse will join fellow WNBAers Alysha Clark and Sydney Colson among 37 others for Athletes Unlimited’s third basketball season in Nashville. Athletes Unlimited was founded as a women’s professional softball league in 2020 before expanding to basketball, volleyball and lacrosse. Its 24-game hoops campaign switches teams weekly and concludes by crowning a season-long individual champion. Players earn points through a fantasy-style system that rewards team successes like wins as well as individual accomplishments from made three-pointers to steals to drawn fouls. Outside of the unique scoring system, the game looks like traditional basketball — a major appeal to Nurse as she attempts to tap back into her roots. “I am not proud of my performance at the Olympics and not necessarily proud of how I’ve been playing over the last two years. I just have goals of finding my true love of the game and kind of coming back and being stronger physically, being more fit and just ultimately having a good year,” Nurse said. When Nurse’s career began in 2018, many WNBA players would ply their trade overseas during the off-season as a way of staying in shape and making additional money. But over the past half-decade — and perhaps expedited by Brittney Griner’s 2022 detainment in Russia — more options have emerged stateside, including Athletes Unlimited. “The (WNBA) now has a lot of the teams that have practice facilities, so they have full-time player development, practice-facility access and that's a big piece as well. But now ultimately we have these leagues at home like AU,” Nurse said. Athletes Unlimited will not be the only professional women’s basketball operation in North America this winter. A three-on-three league called Unrivaled, founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, will tip off in January in Miami. Nurse said Unrivaled was an option for her, but she preferred Athletes Unlimited. “I wanted a place where I'm happy with basketball again, really happy with myself and how I'm playing and a having a little more confidence boost from what I've had over these last two years. And I feel like AU, for me, that five-on-five setting was a big piece of it,” Nurse said. The timing of the Athletes Unlimited schedule — deep enough into the WNBA off-season but with enough leeway to fine tune things before the 2025 campaign begins — also stood out to Nurse. Ahead of AU, Nurse said she moved her training from Toronto to Hamilton, where she could stay closer to home and avoid the long highway drives. And following two seasons in which Nurse’s WNBA teams suffered a combined 61 losses, she’s hoping to find a landing spot in free agency with a winning franchise. “I want to ... have an opportunity make a deep playoff run, be kind of like an X-Factor player, somebody who can go out there, be a three-and-D player, can help make winning plays,” she said. Nurse said she and fellow WNBA veteran Bridget Carleton have discussed what went wrong in Paris and how it can be fixed ahead of Los Angeles 2028. Management changes have already occurred with the retirement of GM Denise Dignard and a mutual parting with head coach Victor Lapena. The national team recently met up in Toronto for an informal training camp where Nurse and Carleton aimed to lay the groundwork for the culture they hope to create over the next four years. “Getting back to the basics and just enjoying playing for Canada Basketball, but also creating a really strong, bonded culture where everybody does what they need to do for our team to win," she said. "We understand our roles (and) we understand the commitment piece of it because now there's so much going on and people are all over the place." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 22, 2024. Myles Dichter, The Canadian Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect on Tuesday named Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the . He will replace Lina Khan, who became a lightning rod for Wall Street and Silicon Valley by blocking billions of dollars’ worth of corporate acquisitions and suing Amazon and Meta while . Ferguson is already one of the FTC’s five commissioners, which is currently made up of three Democrats and two Republicans. “Andrew has a proven record of standing up to Big Tech censorship, and protecting Freedom of Speech in our Great Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, “Andrew will be the most America First, and pro-innovation FTC Chair in our Country’s History.” The replacement of Khan likely means that the FTC will operate with a lighter touch when it comes to antitrust enforcement. The new chair is expected to appoint new directors of the FTC’s antitrust and consumer protection divisions. “These changes likely will make the FTC more favorable to business than it has been in recent years, though the extent to which is to be determined,” wrote Anthony DiResta, a consumer protection attorney at Holland & Knight, . Deals that were blocked by the Biden administration could find new life with Trump in command. For example, the new leadership could be more open to a proposed merger between the country’s two biggest supermarket chains, Kroger and Albertsons, which forged a $24.6 billion deal to combine in 2022. Two judges Tuesday night. The FTC had earlier this year to block the merger, claiming the deal would eliminate competition, leading to higher prices and lower wages for workers. The two companies say a merger would help them lower prices and compete against bigger rivals like Walmart. One of the judges said the FTC had shown it was likely to prevail in the administrative hearing. Yet given the widespread public concern over high grocery prices, the Trump administration may not fully abandon the FTC’s efforts to block the deal, some experts have said. And the FTC may continue to scrutinize Big Tech firms for any anticompetitive behavior. Many Republican politicians have accused firms such as Meta of censoring conservative views, and some officials in Trump’s orbit, most notably Vice President-elect JD Vance, have previously expressed support for Khan’s scrutiny of Big Tech firms. In addition to Fergson, Trump also announced Tuesday that he had selected Jacob Helberg as the next undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy and the environment.

Galal Yafai overpowered Sunny Edwards in six rounds to claim the WBC interim flyweight title in his home city of Birmingham and send the former IBF champion into retirement. Yafai, 31, extended his unbeaten professional record to nine fights with a seventh stoppage at the Resorts World Arena on Saturday night with 28-year-old Edwards appearing to tell his corner “I don’t wanna be here” amid an early onslaught. The 2020 Olympic gold medallist, who lost to Edwards on a split decision when the pair fought as amateurs in 2015, told BBC Radio 5 Live: “I was scared going into camp, worried what Sunny could do to me. I sparred him, he was hard to spar, he’s beaten me before, he’s been the man in the division, so I had to train as hard as I could to compete with him. “Whatever Sunny decides to do, he’s been the man for a long time now and I’ve looked up to him, so it’s nice to beat him. But it’s 1-1, maybe we can finish on that note.” Yafai went on to the offensive from the off, pinning Edwards to the ropes in the first minute of the fight and unleashing both hands as he set out his stall, catching his opponent with a left cross, right hook combination as the younger man struggled to find his range. Edwards took a series of second-round body shots and a solid left cross with Yafai riding what response the Londoner was able to muster, and having told his corner his legs had gone during the interval, he found himself under intense pressure in the third. "I don't want to be here" Astonishing 🤯🤯 — Matchroom Boxing (@MatchroomBoxing) Yafai maintained his dominance over the fourth and fifth rounds with Edwards visibly wilting and landed a series of right hooks in the sixth before the referee stepped in to call a halt after a minute and 10 seconds. Edwards, who tasted defeat for the second time in his 23-fight career, swiftly announced his decision to retire, saying: “I’ll be real, if I won the fight, I was going into the sunset. This is the last thing that I wanted to do, get that scalp of the Olympic [champion].” He added: “If I’m being perfectly honest, my body’s falling apart, man. I’ve got bad ankles, I’ve got bad wrists, I’ve got bad shoulders, I’ve got a bad back – everything about me is bad at this moment.”

HUNTINGTON PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- Huntington Park , with the help of a $25.3 million grant from the California Public Utilities Commission, will get what it's wanted since the pandemic -- high-speed internet. At City Hall Wednesday morning, city and CPUC officials announced the sizable grant to literally bring the southeast L.A. county community up to speed with high-speed internet. "$25 million is a big game changer for the city of Huntington Park. We already provide free WiFi access in our parks and certain parts of the city. This will provide us the opportunity to lay down the infrastructure that we need to further expand this Wifi program or internet access for the community," said Mayor Karina Macias. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, between 2018-2022, 12% of households in Huntington Park, had no internet access of any kind. The rest had some kind of broadband, dial up or satellite. Compare that to all of Los Angeles County, where 4% of residents don't have access to the internet.. This infrastructure project to bring high speed internet to the city will benefit businesses and education. "The speed right now is poor. And right now it has to be a better speed and connection. And for the community it's excellent and for businesses and the schools, it's a great opportunity," said Huntington Park parent Jessica Sosa. The pandemic, according to city and community groups, really exposed the need for affordable high-speed internet access for the city. "LAUSD had created this plan to connect mobiley. But what they didn't account for was a lot of homes, a lot of our residents were not able to afford having broadband, being able to connect to the internet," said City Councilman Arturo Flores. Once all of the paperwork has been filed, the infrastructure could be done in a couple of years.University of Wyoming to host Mental Wellness Forum with Gov. Gordon

By Aui'a Vaimaila Leatinu'u , PMN For over six years, Pacific families have continued to struggle with overcrowded housing, a reality that the Salvation Army finds unsurprising. According to Census data from Statistics New Zealand, over 100,000 people are estimated to be severely housing deprived, an increase from 99,462 people in 2018 . This figure includes those living without shelter, in temporary accommodation, sharing private dwellings, or uninhabitable housing. Among the severely deprived, 38.5 percent of Pacific people, or about four in 10 individuals, live in overcrowded conditions. Over 28,000 Pacific people in New Zealand are in extremely bad housing conditions. The rate of overcrowding among Pacific homes significantly exceeds the national average of around 12 per cent. However, the overall statistics have remained unchanged in the last six years. The many barriers Pacific families face Ana Ika, a Social Policy Analyst at the Salvation Army, says the data reflects the ongoing housing crisis in New Zealand. She says Pacific families struggle to move into home ownership due to unaffordability, and private rentals pose their own challenges since they are often unsuitable for larger families. "There's not enough big houses and private rentals and if there are big houses, they're often unaffordable for our families. "So there's a myriad of issues there around housing, home ownership for Pacific, income levels, and education that necessarily since 2018 hasn't changed." While some Pacific people are moving into higher-paid roles and managing to purchase homes, this group remains a small percentage compared to the rest of the Pacific community. "So the housing space is really complex. I can't really put my finger on one thing, but affordability of housing and availability of bigger housing can often contribute to why the numbers have stayed the same." She says many Pacific families living in overcrowded conditions are directed towards transitional housing, which Ika describes as "a step between emergency or homelessness towards getting into Kāinga Ora property or social housing". "[Overcrowded homes] not only creates a lot of health challenges or issues in regards to respiratory issues, but it also creates challenging dynamics in regards to the family well-being. "And so the best option, both health-wise, family-wise and financially-wise, is for them to be able to move out." While it is discouraging that the number of overcrowded Pacific homes has stagnated, Ika finds it is encouraging that the situation has not worsened. Ika also said that the definition of overcrowding, often defined as "two people in a room", is important to understand. This norm is common among Pacific families, but it becomes concerning when the number of occupants grows. Over 11,000 children impacted The report shows that children bear the brunt of these overcrowded living conditions, where 38.6 per cent (11,115) of severely housing-deprived Pacific people are under 15 years old. Ika said overcrowding made it difficult for children to find quiet spaces to study, which can lead to poorer educational outcomes and negative long-term outcomes and negative long-term consequences for younger generations. She referenced a study by the Education Review Office's study that looked into Covid-19's impacts on Pacific learners, finding that these students experienced disproportionately negative effects, including large isolation bubbles, access to devices, and job loss. "It was often around the house [being] too noisy - there was no space for them to study," Ika said. "They had to share devices in between so many siblings and so there are repercussions for us living in these homes of lots of people." Severe crowding hits Tongan homes hardest Statistics New Zealand's Principal Analyst, Rosemary Goodyear, said Tongan households experienced the highest rates of overcrowding among Pacific groups, with around 46 per cent living in severely crowded conditions. This is followed by Tokelauan households at nearly 40 per cent and Sāmoan households at 37.3 per cent. "Around a quarter of people with Tongan ethnicity are living in a severely crowded home," Goodyear said. "It's severe crowding that's really kind of more related to the sort of risk of infectious disease. "Generally, we know that from the kind of research that's done on infectious disease, that that's got the worst kind of health outcomes." Otago University research also found that crowded living environments increase the risk of contracting infectious diseases, such as rheumatic fever, which can have lifelong health consequences. Balancing culture and housing market realities Ika said that despite new housing developments, policies and interventions, the fundamental challenge lies in balancing cultural preferences for larger households with a market geared towards smaller, more profitable dwellings. "I think there needs to be a discussion around how we acclimatise to the current housing market and the properties that are available. "Unfortunately, because the majority of us live in Auckland, they're shoebox houses, and they're not fit for how we live as Pacific. "How do we still protect the social connections that we have as a family, but splitting across multiple houses so that we address these health issues, we're not overcrowded so that we can move into homes of our own? "There's no simple answer to it." - PMN

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Garry Clark scored 15 points as Texas A&M-Corpus Christi beat Prairie View A&M 109-74 on Saturday night. Clark also contributed five rebounds for the Islanders (5-3). Dian Wright-Forde shot 5 of 6 from the field and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line to add 14 points. Jordan Roberts shot 4 of 6 from the field, including 2 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 4 for 5 from the line to finish with 14 points. The Panthers (1-6) were led in scoring by Tanahj Pettway, who finished with 21 points and six rebounds. Nick Anderson added 15 points and two steals for Prairie View A&M. Marcel Bryant had 14 points and 10 rebounds. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar . For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.

History will — or at least should — see a $165 billion error in revenue estimates as one of California’s most boneheaded political acts. It happened in 2022, as the state was emerging from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Finance, based on one short-term spike in income taxes, projected that revenues from the state’s three largest sources would remain above $200 billion a year indefinitely. Newsom then declared that the budget had a $97.5 billion surplus , although that number never appeared in any documents. “No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this,” Newsom bragged as he unveiled a 2022-23 fiscal year budget that topped $300 billion. With that in mind, he and the Legislature adopted a budget with billions in new spending, most notably on health and welfare programs and cash payments to poor families. Within a few weeks, Newsom and legislators learned that real revenues were falling well short of the rosy projections. But the damage, in terms of expanded spending, was done. Two years later, buried in its fine print , the deficit-ridden 2024-25 budget acknowledged that revenues from sales taxes, as well as personal and corporate income tax, would fall well short of the $200 billion a year projection, estimating a $165.1 billion shortfall over four years. The past two years have seen budgets with deficits papered over with direct and indirect borrowing, tapped emergency reserves, vague assumptions of future spending cuts, and accounting gimmicks. For instance, the current budget “saves” several billion dollars by counting next June’s state payroll as an expenditure in the following fiscal year. This bit of fiscal history is important to remember because the twin 2022 acts of overestimating revenues and overspending billions of nonexistent dollars on new and expanded services continues to haunt the state, as a new analysis indicates. The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, unveiled his office’s annual overview of the state’s finances Wednesday and it wasn’t a pretty picture. There’s been a recent uptick in personal income tax revenues thanks to wealthy investors’ stock market gains , some stemming from Donald Trump’s presidential victory. However, Petek said, government spending — much of it dating from 2022’s phony surplus — is continuing to outpace revenues from “a sluggish economy,” creating operating deficits. “Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs in a year and a half,” the analysis declares. “Similarly, the number of Californians who are unemployed is 25% higher than during the strong labor markets of 2019 and 2022. Consumer spending (measured by inflation‐adjusted retail sales and taxable sales) has continued to decline throughout 2024.” Meanwhile, it continues, “one reason the state faces operating deficits is growth in spending. Our estimate of annual total spending growth across the forecast period — from 2025‐26 to 2028‐29 — is 5.8% (6.3% excluding K‐14 education). By historical standards, this is high.” Petek’s grim outlook coupled with the more conservative bent of voters, as shown in this month’s election, present a political dilemma for a governor and a Legislature oriented toward expanding government. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, reacting to the analysis in a statement, indicated that he’s gotten the message. “We need to show restraint with this year’s budget, because California must be prepared for any challenges, including ones from Washington,” Rivas said. “It’s not a moment for expanding programs, but for protecting and preserving services that truly benefit all Californians.” Newsom will propose a 2025-26 budget in January, but no matter what he and the Legislature decide, the structural budget deficit will still be there when he exits the governorship in 2027. It will be part of his legacy. Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers. His commentary comes via CalMatters.org, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more, go to calmatters.org/commentary.