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l james Being locked up as a 13-year-old for skipping school negatively altered the trajectory of her life, Debbie Kilroy believes. Login or signup to continue reading "After I was put in that children's prison and the harm it inflicted on me, it was a downward spiral," she tells AAP. "I was pipelined onto the street of homelessness and then I was committing offences because it was the only way to survive." Ms Kilroy was last sent away in 1989 for six years after selling cannabis to undercover police. A lack of support and education as a child led her down the wrong path, she says, because she "knew nothing else". Now the chief executive of support organisation Sisters Inside, she says incarcerating Queensland's most vulnerable children under new adult crime, adult time laws instead of investing in reform, will only pave the way for a life of crime. "It started because school wasn't engaging me and I was running away from it," she adds. "It doesn't make any sense to me that 50 years later we are talking about doing the same harm." The incoming Liberal National government urgently introduced its controversial Making Queensland Safer legislation to sentence youth criminals to adult punishment if they commit serious offences, dubbed "adult time, adult crime". Children face life for five offences including murder, manslaughter and grievous bodily harm under the centrepiece election commitment. Juveniles as young as 10 will be considered for the same maximum sentence as adults for 13 offences, including car theft doubling to 10 years. The legislation also removes detention as a last resort entirely, meaning magistrates will have more freedom to imprison children if they deem it necessary. For victim survivor Ben Cannon, the laws should have come sooner. "We've got a system that is not broken from a year-long problem," he says. "This is a decade-plus social issue that let down four-year-olds who are now violent 14-year-olds." Mr Cannon came to help his neighbour, rugby union great Toutai Kefu, during a violent home invasion by four teenagers in 2021 where the family was seriously injured. He managed to stop one of the intruders and held the child down until police arrived. "One of the hardest things for me as a victim was to see a young person the same age as my son being so horrifically violent and horrible to another human," he says. "I still question how is it the best choice that person has in life to be in my neighbour's house at 2am trying to stab half a dozen people? "That still haunts me." Mr Cannon says the new government was left with little choice but to introduce harsh laws preventing teenagers engaging in extreme violence or repeatedly stealing cars. "This draws the line in the sand and says, 'enough is enough'," Mr Cannon said. However, he emphasised that it must be balanced to prevent the four-year-olds of today from becoming violent teenagers. "Without balance and understanding that unless we get better at fixing young kids and the social systems that they unfortunately fall into, we're going to continue on this cycle," he says. "Then it doesn't matter how tough our laws are, we're just not going to have a better society." Mr Cannon says he wants the laws to be accompanied by significant investment in social services and education. The proposed laws have been criticised after a statement of compatibility by Attorney-General Deb Frecklington indicated the legislation doesn't stack up against human rights. "I acknowledge that the amendments in the bill ... are incompatible with human rights," she said. "However, I consider that the current situation with respect to youth crime in Queensland is exceptional." The government has conceded that the laws would increase the number of children in detention centres and watchhouses as well as disproportionately impact Aboriginal children. "This impact results in limitations to the protection from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," the statement said. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child slammed what it said was a violation of international convention. "We do not agree that the so-called 'exceptional circumstances' warrant what will be a flagrant disregard for children's rights," Chair Ann Skelton said. "We also don't agree that it will make Queensland safer." Ms Skelton urged the government to stand by the principle that children should be treated differently from adults. Ms Kilroy says the concession that human rights will be breached under the laws is a "disturbing departure" from the foundations of justice and equity. "It is a dangerous bill that represents a dangerous escalation in criminalising children and contravening human rights." During parliamentary scrutiny this week, stakeholders have also criticised the legislation as making children "sacrificial lambs" while knowingly violating freedoms. "In any other context that is called child abuse," Queensland Human Rights Commission Chair Scott McDougall told a public hearing. Not only were the laws criticised but the short consultation period, consisting of two public hearings and several days of private committee hearings, also came under fire. Ms Kilroy notes that the government holds a majority in the state's unicameral legislature and can pass laws as it wishes. "There are no checks and balances, no accountability," she says. But Mr Cannon insists they needed to be rushed. "When you've sat with someone that in the darkness of night had their loved one murdered by one of these repeat offenders then urgencies needed," he says. "Whether we get it right, time will tell. "But you can't continue to allow these behaviours to go on." Premier David Crisafulli argues that his government was following the democratic process by allowing submissions and committee scrutiny but must uphold its election promise to pass the laws by Christmas. "Any good committee process can allow people to have a suggestion but just to be clear, we campaigned on adult crime, adult time," he said. "We will fulfil that." The steadfast campaign to pass the laws comes as the Department of Youth Justice reports there were 46,130 court-recorded convictions by young Queenslanders in 2023-24. Violent offending - murder, manslaughter, serious assault - has increased 8.3 per cent since 2019. Mr Cannon says the laws mark a moment for victims, who finally feel heard. "It has felt for a long time the justice system has had an imbalance where the rights of the criminal have been overseen or seen first before that of the victim," he says. But Ms Kilroy sees the laws as a "full frontal attack" on the most vulnerable children, especially Aboriginal kids. She says the children themselves are victims but the government has not included them in the rhetoric of "victim numbers" instead deciding to throw kids into prison without support. "Locking up children for longer is never going to work as it does not give any healing to the victims and children are the victims," she says. "This is just fuelling our love affair with caging children." She is instead calling for funding for services like Sisters Inside to re-engage kids with education, get them into jobs, reconnect with their families and communities or just give them food and water. Australian Associated Press DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. Also includes evening update. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. 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Seven losses in a season is unfamiliar territory for the San Francisco 49ers. With two Super Bowl appearances in five seasons, general manager John Lynch openly admits the 49ers haven't earned the right to be called "as good" as the 2023 NFC championship group. San Francisco is 5-7 but only two games behind NFC West-leading Seattle with five games remaining as the Chicago Bears (4-8) arrive Sunday. "I've found the whole discussion on Kyle rather comical," Lynch said in an interview Friday with KNBR in San Francisco. "We have won four of the last five division championships. We've been to two Super Bowls. The standard here is to win championships, and we've fallen short of that, I understand. "But we have an excellent head coach, and the fact that people are talking about stuff like that, I do find it comical. We're 100 percent behind Kyle and what he brings to our organization. Like I said, our focus is really on the Bears and doing everything we can. That's where Kyle's focus is, and that's where all our focus is." San Francisco lost 35-10 in the snow at Buffalo last Sunday night and the 49ers placed their top two running backs on injured reserve due to injuries in that game. Christian McCaffrey (knee) and Jordan Mason (ankle) could return for Week 18 at Arizona if the 49ers are still fighting for a playoff spot. In a top-down ranking of NFC teams by record and playoff position, the 49ers are No. 11 entering Week 14. "You are what your record says you are in this league, and that isn't very good. So I think we've been through a lot as a team, this current team with a lot of stuff that has happened to members of our organization. Injuries, tragic circumstances, ultimately those are just excuses. One thing I can tell you is I'm proud of how this group has stuck together, had each other's back. The other thing I can tell you is the story's not written yet. We're still grinding, and we're still playing." The 49ers last missed the postseason in 2020 with a record of 6-10 that followed an appearance in the Super Bowl -- San Francisco's first title game loss of two to the Kansas City Chiefs. San Francisco's upcoming schedule after Sunday includes a short week before playing the division rival Rams on Thursday, at Miami (Dec. 22), a Monday night matchup with the Detroit Lions on Dec. 30 and the finale against the Cardinals. --Field Level MediaRoy brushes off Hegseth allegations, saying everyone has 'indiscretions'Democrats still don’t agree on the seriousness of their political problem after election defeat

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A man convicted of a mass shooting in Sunnyvale decades ago could be re-sentenced to life in prison. Elizabeth Allen lost her husband, Buddy, in a mass shooting on Feb. 16, 1988. "Buddy was the absolute love of my life," Allen said. Allen and her husband both worked at the tech firm, ESL Incorporated in Sunnyvale. They had lunch together every day. "I did not realize that his kiss after lunch was the last kiss I would ever have from him," Allen said. RELATED: Santa Clara Co. district attorney moves to resentence death row inmates to life without parole The shooter and former employee, Richard Farley, killed seven people that day and wounded six others. "Buddy was the only one who died immediately, because as he was sitting working at his desk. He was shot in the face with a shotgun at the age of 23," Allen said. Farley was convicted and then sentenced to death in 1992. Now 32 years after that decision, Farley will have a re-sentencing hearing on Friday. In April, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced a plan to seek new sentences of "life without the possibility of parole" for inmates previously sentenced to death in the county. MORE: Man convicted in 1993 Polly Klaas kidnapping, murder asks for death sentence to be overturned "In terms of judges and juries, they're going to decide where a person dies and that's going to be in prison for the rest of their lives. In terms of when that person is going to die, that's going to be God's decision," Rosen said. Rosen planned to change sentences for more than a dozen prison inmates. When Allen received the letter from Rosen, she went through a variety of feelings. "How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why is this district attorney, on this beautiful letterhead, acting as though he does not know what his job is," Allen said. In Rosen's petition for Farley, it states: "This community does not deserve an archaic, errors strewn, and racist system of capital punishment." "Saying to the public that this was about social injustice and it not being at all about social injustice, was offensive and insulting all by itself," Allen said. Former Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr says no one is standing up for the victim's families. MORE: San Quentin seeks to clear out death row inmates by July "Now clearly there's a moratorium on the death penalty in California, and Governor Newsom has moved these inmates into the regular prison population, so there is no longer a death row at San Quentin. So, in a way, since nobody's been executed since 2008 and there's a moratorium, what is the point resentencing them? Except that they're subject to being commuted by the governor," Carr said. Carr says she's expecting a large group to show their opposition on Friday. "In these cases they've come in with essentially a stipulation, they're both agreeing and obviously the defendant is not going to object to getting resentenced. This is pushed by the DA, so there's no one standing up for the victims putting up the legal obstacles about what he's doing," Carr said. A judge will have to approve the resentencing. "Why would we tell the United States that it's OK to lessen the death sentence of a mass shooter," Allen said.

NoneThe Israeli government confirmed on Monday that Omer Neutra, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was killed during Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Neutra, 21, was a tank platoon commander in the IDF. He was thought to be alive in captivity. His parents, Ronen and Orna Neutra, spent the last year campaigning for his release and the release of the remaining hostages thought to be held in Gaza. They spoke at the Republican National Convention in July, wrote op-eds, stayed in steady communication with the Biden Administration and the White House, and made regular media appearances, including with Scripps News . The whole time, they sought to pressure U.S. and Israeli leadership to resolve the hostage crisis. RELATED STORY | Families of Gaza hostages bring their message to both the current and upcoming White Houses "In the 423 days since October 7th, we expected our leaders to demonstrate the same courage displayed so bravely by Omer and rise to the occasion on behalf of those who were killed and kidnapped, just as our beloved Omer showed until the very end," Ronen and Orna Neutra wrote in a statement released Monday. "Leadership will only be revealed in actions and results going forward. We call upon the Israeli government to work with President Biden and President-elect Trump, to use all of their leverage and resources to return all 101 hostages — living and the deceased — to their families as soon as possible." A propaganda video released by Hamas Saturday showed Edan Alexander, an Israeli-American held hostage who was also captured while serving in the IDF. In the video, Alexander calls on Trump to keep negotiating for the freedom of the hostages remaining in Gaza. Trump on Monday demanded release of the remaining hostages, writing on Truth Social: "Please let this truth serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity."In the final hours before University of Mississippi student Jimmy “Jay” Lee disappeared , sexually explicit Snapchat messages were exchanged between his account and the account of the man now on trial in his killing, an investigator testified Thursday. Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr., 24, of Grenada, Mississippi, is charged with capital murder in the death of Lee, who vanished July 8, 2022. Lee, 20, of Jackson, Mississippi, was a gay man well known in the LGBTQ+ community at Ole Miss and in Oxford, where the university is located and Herrington's trial is being held. Lee's body has never been found, but a judge has declared him dead. Herrington maintains his own innocence. Herrington “was not openly in the LGBTQ community,” but evidence will show he had a relationship with Lee and is responsible for the death, assistant district attorney Gwen Agho said during opening arguments Tuesday in Oxford. Herrington’s attorney, Kevin Horan, told jurors that prosecutors have “zero” proof Lee was killed. University Police Department Sgt. Benjamin Douglas testified Thursday that investigators used search warrants to obtain cellphone records, information from social media accounts belonging to Lee and Herrington and information about Herrington's internet searches on the day Lee disappeared until Herrington was arrested two weeks later. One of Lee's friends, Khalid Fears, testified Tuesday that he had a video call with Lee just before 6 a.m. on July 8, 2022. Fears said Lee mentioned a sexual encounter with a man hours earlier, which ended badly. Lee was leaving his own on-campus apartment to go see the same man again, Fears said. Douglas testified Herrington's Snapchat account sent a message to Lee's account at about 5:25 a.m. saying: “Come back.” People using the two accounts then argued, and Lee's account sent a message at 5:54 a.m. saying he was on the way over. Douglas said that at 6:03 a.m., Lee's account sent its final message: “Open.” Google records obtained through a warrant showed that Herrington searched “how long does it take to strangle someone” at 5:56 a.m., Douglas said. An officer from another police agency, the Oxford Police Department, testified that starting on 7:18 a.m. the morning of Lee's disappearance, a car matching the description of Lee’s black sedan was captured on multiple security cameras driving through Oxford. A camera showed the car entering a parking lot at the Molly Barr Trails apartment complex at 7:25 a.m., Lt. Mark Hodges testified. The same camera showed a man jogging out of the parking lot moments later, turning onto Molly Barr Road. A witness, Kizziah Carter, testified Wednesday that he was driving home from work about 7:30 that morning and saw Herrington jogging along Molly Barr Road. Carter said he knew Herrington and honked to greet him, and Herrington flagged him down to ask for a ride. Carter said he drove Herrington to Herrington’s apartment in another complex. Lee's car was towed from Molly Barr Trails later that day. Both Herrington and Lee had graduated from the University of Mississippi. Lee was pursuing a master’s degree. He was known for his creative expression through fashion and makeup and often performed in drag shows in Oxford, according to a support group called Justice for Jay Lee. Prosecutors have announced they do not intend to pursue the death penalty, meaning Herrington could get a life sentence if convicted. Mississippi law defines capital murder as a killing committed along with another felony — in this case, kidnapping.To many, the Gotham Awards serve as the unofficial starting gun for the Oscar race . The annual awards — which are presented by the Gotham Film and Media Institute and voted on by a selection of film critics, programmers, and curators — serve as the first major film award ceremony of the season and offer an early look at the state of the race that has emerged in the months following the fall festival circuit. The 34th annual Gotham Awards are set to take place tonight at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Many of the year’s biggest Oscar contenders will be on hand, as frontrunners like “Anora,” “Challengers,” “Babygirl,” and “Nickel Boys” are all nominated in some of the night’s biggest categories . “We are proud to announce the nominees for The Gothams, selected by nominating committees who bring their independent perspective to the selection process,” Gotham Film and Media Institute executive director Jeffrey Sharp said in a statement announcing the nominations. “This year’s nominations celebrate voices from across the globe, embodying the growing embrace of international cinema by audiences everywhere.” For award watchers and New York cinephiles, the Gotham Awards are a can’t miss event. And you don’t need to attend the ceremony to follow all of the excitement. The show, which begins at 7pm E.T./4pm P.T., will be streamed in its entirety on the Variety YouTube channel embedded below. Those who don’t have time to watch can also follow along with IndieWire’s forthcoming winners list, which will update live throughout the evening. In addition to the competitive awards, the ceremony will also feature tributes to the creative teams behind some of the year’s biggest films. “Dune: Part Two” director Denis Villeneuve will receive the Director Tribute, while the film’s star Zendaya will be honored with the Spotlight Award. The cast of Malcolm Washington’s “The Piano Lesson” will be honored with the Ensemble Tribute, and Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing” will receive the Social Justice Tribute. Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold will also share the Visionary Award for their work on “A Complete Unknown,” and Angelina Jolie will receive the Performer Tribute for “Maria.”

How ‘Grande Dame of Blockbusters’ Barbara Taylor Bradford made her £160m fortune – including selling £10m flat to starROCKVILLE, MD, Dec. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- -- MacroGenics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGNX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing innovative monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that the Company's management will participate in the following investor conference this month: 7th Annual Evercore HealthCONx (Coral Gables, FL). MacroGenics’ President and Chief Executive Officer, Scott Koenig, M.D., Ph.D., will participate in a fireside chat on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 7:30am ET. MacroGenics’ management will also participate in one-on-one meetings. A webcast of the above presentation may be accessed under "Events & Presentations" in the Investor Relations section of MacroGenics' website at http://ir.macrogenics.com/events.cfm . The Company will maintain an archived replay of this webcast on its website for 30 days. About MacroGenics, Inc. MacroGenics (the Company) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing innovative monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The Company generates its pipeline of product candidates primarily from its proprietary suite of next-generation antibody-based technology platforms, which have applicability across broad therapeutic domains. The combination of MacroGenics' technology platforms and protein engineering expertise has allowed the Company to generate promising product candidates and enter into several strategic collaborations with global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. For more information, please see the Company's website at www.macrogenics.com . MacroGenics and the MacroGenics logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of MacroGenics, Inc. ### CONTACTS: Jim Karrels, Senior Vice President, CFO 1-301-251-5172, info@macrogenics.com

NoneThe State of Qatar, represented by the Ministry of Finance, organised on Sunday the first GCC Economic Competitiveness Forum in co-operation with the World Economic Forum, with the attendance and participation of members of the GCC countries. Chaired by Assistant Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance Dr Saud bin Abdullah al-Attiyah, the forum seeks to bring together the parties concerned with economic competitiveness in the GCC countries under one roof to discuss the common opportunities and challenges related to improving the competitiveness of the Gulf countries and unifying efforts between the GCC countries by establishing a common framework to enhance coordination and co-operation, which contributes to enhancing the competitiveness and supporting the Gulf economy of each country individually and as a single bloc. In a speech delivered at the opening of the forum, the assistant undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance said that the aim of organising the forum is to answer some questions such as what is economic competitiveness, and ways to come up with a unified Gulf definition proposal for economic competitiveness, especially in light of the changing methodologies and indicators of economic competitiveness, some of which do not necessarily reflect the reality of the Gulf economy, especially when relying on international indicators. He added that the forum will also address how the GCC countries can benefit from each other's experiences and form a joint Gulf framework for coordination and communication regarding Gulf competitiveness, especially unifying messages directed to international institutions, and how to benefit from the capabilities and expertise of existing Gulf institutions, such as the Economic and Development Affairs Authority of the GCC General Secretariat as well as the GCC Statistical Center. The Assistant Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance stressed that the GCC countries enjoy great economic strength, as they have been able in recent years to confront economic, financial, and geopolitical crises and challenges, such as fluctuations in oil prices, Covid-19 pandemic, interest rates, and others, thanks to political stability, financial, monetary, and economic policies. In turn, Director of the Economic Competitiveness Department at the Ministry of Finance Baraa al-Mansouri addressed the definition of competitiveness by global institutions, the importance of this ability at the global level, and the extent of the need for cooperation between the GCC countries in this field, whether among themselves or with major economies, reviewing the main foundations for cooperation between the GCC countries and the field of competitiveness. Al-Mansouri said that the forum will discuss these topics in detail through two discussion sessions, the first of which will address the future of competitiveness of the GCC countries, while the second will address methodologies of global reports, especially the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Index, as it is one of the most followed indicators around the world. In his remote speech, Aengus Collins of the World Economic Forum praised this Gulf initiative aimed at examining the GCC countries' ability to add tools and mechanisms that help formulate the GCC's economic policies and increase their competitiveness as a Gulf economic bloc. He stressed that today's meeting embodies the values of dialogue, cooperation, and institutional innovation, which are important concepts that support the Gulf's competitiveness. Collins discussed the work undertaken by the World Economic Forum in the field of competitiveness, addressing the chronology of the transformations it underwent later after its European launch in 1979, especially the development of the definition of competitiveness during 2010, 2014, and 2019, especially when the forum became global and held its annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland. He pointed out that the World Economic Forum defines competitiveness as the set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity in any country, which in turn determines the level of development and progress in any country, indicating the factors affecting competitiveness in terms of production costs, productivity, and many other elements that play a role in this regard, such as the country's internal dynamics, the quality of its human resources, the way it prepares for the future, and others. This competitiveness can also be affected by various factors such as wages, the cost of social programmes, the efficiency of telephone systems, or even the ability to speak foreign languages. After exchanging experiences between the GCC countries in the field of competitiveness, the forum concluded its work with a number of outputs and recommendations, to enable everyone to benefit from pioneering experiences, achieve greater economic integration, and establish a co-ordination framework between the GCC countries to enhance cooperation in the field of economic competitiveness, and to ensure continuous co-ordination in this field. Related Story Government efforts enabled Qatar's private sector perform for common goods QatarDebate, Paris Peace Forum host discussion on youth and global south