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Shares of Azincourt Energy Corp. ( CVE:AAZ – Get Free Report ) traded up 50% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as C$0.02 and last traded at C$0.02. 253,181 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 2% from the average session volume of 259,671 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$0.01. Azincourt Energy Trading Up 50.0 % The stock has a market cap of C$4.48 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -1.50 and a beta of 2.78. The stock’s 50 day moving average is C$0.01 and its two-hundred day moving average is C$0.02. About Azincourt Energy ( Get Free Report ) Azincourt Energy Corp., an exploration and development company, focuses on the alternative fuels/alternative energy sector in Canada and Peru. It explores for uranium and lithium deposits, as well as other clean energy elements. The company owns interest in the East Preston project covering an area of approximately 25,000 hectares located in Saskatchewan, Canada; and the Big Hill Lithium project covering approximately an area of 7,500 hectares located in southwestern Newfoundland, Canada. Recommended Stories Receive News & Ratings for Azincourt Energy Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Azincourt Energy and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Targeting “Proteolethargy” to Restore Protein Mobility May Represent Therapeutic Approach for Chronic DiseasesModine stock soars to all-time high of $141.78 amid robust growthWASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling , as early as January 14, in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon. "Treasury expects to hit the statutory debt ceiling between January 14 and January 23," she wrote in a letter addressed to House and Senate leadership, at which point extraordinary measures would be used to prevent the government from breaching the nation's debt ceiling — which was suspended until Jan. 1, 2025. The department in the past deployed what are known as “extraordinary measures” or accounting maneuvers to keep the government operating. Once those measures run out, the government risks defaulting on its debt unless lawmakers and the president agree to lift the limit on the U.S. government’s ability to borrow. "I respectfully urge Congress to act to protect the full faith and credit of the United States," Yellen said. FILE - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a visit to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in Vienna, Va., on Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) The news came after Democratic President Joe Biden signed a bill into law last week that averted a government shutdown but did not include Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s core debt demand to raise or suspend the nation’s debt limit. Congress approved the bill only after a fierce internal debate among Republicans over how to handle Trump's demand. “Anything else is a betrayal of our country,” Trump said in a statement. After a protracted debate in the summer of 2023 over how to fund the government, policymakers crafted the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which included suspending the nation's $31.4 trillion borrowing authority until Jan. 1, 2025. Notably however, Yellen said, on Jan. 2 the debt is projected to temporarily decrease due to a scheduled redemption of nonmarketable securities held by a federal trust fund associated with Medicare payments. As a result, “Treasury does not expect that it will be necessary to start taking extraordinary measures on January 2 to prevent the United States from defaulting on its obligations," she said. The federal debt stands at about $36 trillion — after ballooning across both Republican and Democratic administrations. The spike in inflation after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed up government borrowing costs such that debt service next year will exceed spending on national security. Republicans, who will have full control of the White House, House and Senate in the new year, have big plans to extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts and other priorities but are debating over how to pay for them. Many consumers may remember receiving their first credit card, either years ago in a plain envelope, or months ago from a smartphone app. Still other consumers may remember their newest card, maybe because it's the credit card they're now using exclusively to maximize cash back rewards or airline miles. But for most consumers, there's also a murky in-between where they add, drop and generally accumulate credit cards over time. Over the years, consumers may close some credit card accounts or leave some of their credit cards dormant as a backup form of payment, or perhaps left forgotten in a desk drawer. In the data below, Experian reveals the changes in consumers wallets in recent years. U.S. consumers, on average, carry fewer cards today than they did in 2017, when the typical wallet held 4.2 active credit cards. As of the third quarter (Q3) of 2023, consumers carried 3.9 cards on average. This average is up slightly since the early days of the pandemic, when consumers reduced their average credit card debt and number of accounts as the economy slowed. As Experian revealed earlier this year, credit card balances are still climbing, despite (and partially because of) higher interest rates. And while average balances are increasing, they are spread across fewer accounts than in recent years. Alternative financing—including buy now, pay later plans for purchases—may account for at least some of this discrepancy, as consumers gravitate toward these newer financing methods. In general, residents of higher-population states tend to carry more credit cards than those who live in states with fewer and smaller population centers. Nonetheless, the difference between the states is relatively small. Considering that the national average is around four credit cards per consumer, the four states with the fewest cards per consumer (Alaska, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming) aren't appreciably different, with "only" about 3.3 credit cards per consumer. Similarly, the four states on the higher end of the scale where consumers have 4.2 or more credit cards are Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, New Jersey and Rhode Island. The disparity in average credit card counts is more apparent when the population is segmented by age, thanks in part to Generation Z, many of whom have yet to receive their first credit card. The average number of credit cards for these consumers was two, less than half of what older generations keep on hand. Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.jili lucky slots 。

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Wake Forest keeps trying new things early in the season, even if not all of the adjustments are by design. The Demon Deacons will try to stick to the script when Detroit Mercy visits for Saturday's game in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Demon Deacons (5-1) will be at home for the final time prior to three consecutive road games. Detroit Mercy (3-2) already has two more victories than all of last season. After a couple of narrow wins and a loss at Xavier, Wake Forest had a smoother time earlier this week in defeating visiting Western Carolina 82-69 on Tuesday night. Yet these are games when teams have to figure where contributions are going to come from in certain situations. The experimenting took a turn for Wake Forest in the Western Carolina game. Center Efton Reid III had limited minutes because of migraines, so there was a shift in responsibilities. Normal backcourt players Cameron Hildreth and Juke Harris logged time at the power forward slot. "That's just part of it," coach Steve Forbes said. "They did a good job adjusting. We ran a lot of stuff and there are several guys learning different positions. ... I give credit to those guys for doing the best job that they could do on the fly and adjusting to the play calls that we ran and the stuff that we changed." Wake Forest could excel if both Parker Friedrichsen and Davin Cosby can be consistent 3-point threats. Friedrichsen slumped with shooting in the first few games of the season and was replaced in the starting lineup by Cosby. In Tuesday's game, Friedrichsen drained four 3-pointers, while Cosby hit two. "It was really good to see Parker and Davin both make shots together," Forbes said. Not everything was solved for the Demon Deacons. Western Carolina collected 12 offensive rebounds, and that took some of the shine off Wake Forest's defensive efforts. "We can't be a good defensive team, or a really good defensive team, unless we rebound the ball," Forbes said. "It's demoralizing to your defense to get stops and then not get the ball." In Detroit Mercy's 70-59 win at Ball State on Wednesday, Orlando Lovejoy tallied 19 points, seven rebounds and five assists. "We got the ball to the shooters and playmakers," first-year Titans coach Mark Montgomery said. "You could tell by the guys' body language that we were going to get a road win. It had been a long time coming." On Saturday, the Titans will look for their second road victory since February 2023. The outcome at Ball State seemed significant to Montgomery. "We had to get over the hump," he said. "Our guys grinded it out." --Field Level MediaA man in Albania was arrested after allegedly breaking into a bank and knocking its front door down while streaming on TikTok. On December 21, a man reportedly went live on TikTok and broadcasted himself breaking down the door to a bank in Korça, Albania. According to Telegrafi , the man, later identified as 38-year-old Valter Xhellillari, forcibly entered the bank at around 10:05 PM and stayed there for a bit without being able to take anything, as he escaped when the alarm started going off, alerting not only police, but security in the building. However, the authorities soon began to investigate and track down the man, with two agencies working together to catch and identify him. Man claims he was ‘too intoxicated’ to remember breaking into bank on TikTok Newsbomb reports that the man had entered the bank with the intent to rob it. After checking out the security footage, they noticed he held a phone in his hand and was recording the incident on TikTok. The police eventually discovered the man’s identity and searched areas where he could have taken refuge without any luck. Not giving up, police were stationed outside his apartment and watched it in case he returned home. Sure enough, three days later, Xhellillari showed up and was immediately handcuffed by officers, but the accused claims he had no idea what happened. When he was arrested, Xhellillari said he was ‘too drunk’ to remember ever breaking into the bank or the entire day’s events, including streaming the alleged bank break-in on TikTok. Nonetheless, the case was sent to the Prosecutor’s Office for further action. Related: This is hardly the first time an alleged crime has been posted to a video platform. In November, a Florida woman was arrested for shoplifting after posting a video showing her Target haul on TikTok . Earlier in 2024, street racer Squeeze Benz was arrested for numerous social media stunts, including a video where he allegedly eluded the police at high speeds . Authorities also found clips of the creator “committing various traffic violations throughout the Tri-State area.”

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — States with restrictive abortion laws generally have more porous safety nets for mothers and young children, according to recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press. Tennessee is an example of how this plays out. Tennessee residents of childbearing age are more likely to live in maternal care deserts and face overall doctor shortages. Women, infants and children are less likely to be enrolled in a government nutrition program known as WIC. And Tennessee is one of only 10 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid to a greater share of low-income families. The AP reported on how safety net programs in Tennessee and states with similarly strict abortion laws often fail families. Here are some key takeaways. The Republican supermajority in the Tennessee legislature has long rebuffed efforts to expand Medicaid to people earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level — about $35,600 for a family of three. Earlier this year, a federal judge ruled TennCare — the state’s Medicaid program — unlawfully terminated coverage for thousands of families and had a “lethargic” response to nearly 250,000 children losing coverage because of paperwork problems. Republican Gov. Bill Lee argues that his administration has enhanced services. For example, it boosted its Medicaid coverage for mothers in 2022 from 60 days postpartum to one year, which allowed an additional 3,000 moms to use the program each year. The state also raised the Medicaid income limit for parents to the poverty level — nearly $26,000 for a family of three — and began offering recipients 100 free diapers a month for babies under 2. “Pro-life is much more than defending the lives of the unborn,” Lee said in his 2023 annual address to lawmakers and echoed more recently on social media. “This is not a matter of politics. This is about human dignity.” Moms described several aid programs as rife with red tape and other challenges. Anika Chillis of Memphis was on WIC for several months after her son was born, but then went without because of a mistake during the renewal process — eventually getting it restored with help from the nonprofit Tennessee Justice Center. Taylor Cagnacci of Kingsport, who is pregnant and has a 1-year-old, said she was on the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — formerly known as food stamps — for a while but missed an appointment and was unclear about the steps after that. The process to get recertified was “such a headache” that she’s going without SNAP. “I just felt like it was purposely being made difficult so that I would just give up,” she said. The issues extend beyond Tennessee. Women with young children in states where abortion is banned or limited to early weeks of pregnancy said it can be tough to get social services there, according to a survey by the health policy research organization KFF. Nearly half said it’s difficult for women in their state to get food stamps, for example, compared with 3 in 10 in states where abortion is generally available. Of Tennessee’s 2.8 million households, 30% earn above the poverty level but not enough to afford the basic cost of living in their counties, according to a recent report . Often, they don’t qualify for government help. A fragmented patchwork of charities can help, but they don’t cover the entire state. Some nonprofits are hindered in helping by government agencies’ income rules. And most charities are constrained by the ebb and flow of donations. Nonprofit leaders fear that safety net gaps may grow with a new administration in Washington and a GOP-controlled Congress. Republicans could seek significant changes to federal assistance programs they’ve long criticized, like Medicaid and food stamps. “We’ve been through four years of a Trump administration, and the goal under the Trump administration was to cut social services,” said Signe Anderson, the Tennessee Justice Center’s senior director of nutrition advocacy. “I’m concerned ... for families in Tennessee and across the country.”

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Juan Soto could decide on his next team before or during baseball's winter meetingsA new year is only a few days away, and do you realize what that means? There’s still time for Chicago’s professional sports teams to kick yet another coach to the curb before 2024 is in the books. It probably won’t happen. Then again, this is a year whose final seconds one could spend counting down all the coaches and managers fired or otherwise replaced before the city lights up the downtown sky with fireworks over the river. “Ten ... nine ... Grifol ... Weatherspoon ... Eberflus ...” You get the idea. Indeed, Chicago sports dropped the ball like never before in 2024. Our teams partied like it was 1999 — probably the worst previous year on record — when, for the most part, they ranged in quality from terrible to, “Man, don’t you wish these guys were merely terrible?” But helmsmen such as the Bears’ Dick Jauron, the Bulls’ Tim Floyd and the White Sox’ Jerry Manuel were still in the early going, so at least pink slips didn’t drive the news cycle. Cheating just a little, we can flip the 2024 calendar back to October of 2023, when, after a last-place finish, the Red Stars fired Chris Petrucelli, who would be replaced by Lorne Donaldson. Of greater note, in November, the Cubs fired David Ross — “He’s our guy,” chairman Tom Ricketts had said at season’s end — and replaced him with Craig Counsell, enticing Counsell with a record-setting $8 million-a-year contract. In June of this year, the Wolves hired Cam Abbott to replace Bob Nardella, who six months earlier had been suspended by the AHL for using a homophobic slur during a game, a charge Nardella denied. Nardella, a former championship player with the Wolves, no longer is with the organization. When baseball’s All-Star break arrived in July, the city had two last-place teams on its hands. The Sox were 27-71 — a major-league record for losses at the break — on the way to a record 121 for the season. The Cubs had followed a promising 24-17 start with an excruciating 15-31 stretch and reached the break 81⁄2 games behind the first-place Brewers, Counsell’s former team, in no discernible way, shape or form any better off than they’d been with Ross. By the time Grifol was relieved of his duties in August, his overall Sox winning percentage at an almost unfathomable .319, GM Chris Getz characterized things as “broken.” In firing Grifol, Getz cited “underperformance, some misalignments along the way, some different belief systems,” and those were some of the nicer things being said at the time about the beleaguered skipper. Counsell’s first Cubs team failed to make the playoffs and finished in third place, 10 games back. After the Brewers clinched, Counsell lamented the “big gap” between the teams and called it “daunting” — an urgent message to management, no doubt, but also a bitter concession speech. At least he’s far closer to winning than the Bulls’ Billy Donovan is. In his fifth season, which is heading nowhere, Donovan has one winning record and one playoff series to show for his time here. But he’s still clocking into work every day, which is saying something. In September, the Sky fired Teresa Weatherspoon, who hadn’t lasted a full calendar year in her first WNBA head-coaching post. Angel Reese, the rookie star to whom Weatherspoon had perhaps catered too much, posted on social media, “I’m heartbroken. I’m literally lost for words knowing what this woman means to me at such a pivotal point in my life.” They were lovely words, though little about the 13-27 Sky had been lovable. The Fire’s coaching turnstile never stops spinning. In October, they hired Gregg Berhalter, a fitting appointment given he’d been fired a few months before as coach of the U.S. men’s national team. That meant another passing of the whistle from Frank Klopas, who multiple times has stepped in on an interim basis. The Fire, who wouldn’t recognize success if it kissed them on the mouth, have had two first-round playoff appearances in 15 years. But now we’re into November, and that means — who else? — the coach who stood dumbfounded like a deer in headlights with a timeout in its back pocket as the clock melted to zeros in a humiliating Thanksgiving fiasco at Detroit. No, a pocketed deer makes no sense at all, but neither did Matt Eberflus during his run with the Bears, which ended at 14-32. “I like what we did there,” Eberflus said of the final Bears drive on his watch, unwittingly uttering an absolutely perfect epitaph. Ah, well, Eberflus and Grifol are free to make the world’s worst buddy movie together now. Not to miss its chance, December brought the firing of the Blackhawks’ Luke Richardson. The team’s record at the time — 8-16-2 — was almost exactly on par with Richardson’s full Hawks record of 57-118-15, one of the NHL’s worst of all time. Richardson never had much of a roster with which to work, but he failed to get young superstar Connor Bedard going and juggled lines worse than a bad improv comic. “The results did not match our expectations for a higher level of execution this season,” GM Kyle Davidson said. But the results sure fit the city’s year in sports. Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi might as well have been speaking for all of us when he said of the team’s historic loss No. 120, “Same as every other loss — they all suck.” The year is ending, and none too soon. Even if it’s too late to use the one in our collective back pocket, we all deserve a timeout.