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No. 13 seed Tarleton State wins inaugural FCS playoff game, beats Drake 43-29Arsenal moved into second place in the Premier League table with a 1-0 win over Ipswich at the Emirates. In their final fixture of 2024, Kai Havertz scored the only goal of the game midway through the opening period. Arsenal’s victory takes them back to within six points of leaders Liverpool, having played one match more than the Reds, and a point clear of Chelsea following their St Stephen’s Day defeat to Fulham. Ipswich, although much improved in the second half, have now lost five of their last six games, and remain just one place off the bottom of the table, three points away from safety. Mikel Arteta’s men have been rocked by Bukayo Saka’s hamstring injury which could keep the England winger, who has nine goals and 13 assists this season, out of action for the next two months. Gabriel Martinelli was handed the unenviable task of filling Saka’s shoes on Arsenal’s right-hand side and the Brazilian was involved in the only goal of the evening. The Ipswich defence failed to deal with Martinelli’s cross, with the ball falling to Leandro Trossard on the opposite side of the area. Trossard fought his way to the byline before fizzing his cross into the box for Havertz to convert from a matter of yards. It was Havertz’s third goal in four matches, his 12th of the season, and no less than the hosts, who at that stage of the match had enjoyed a staggering 91.4 per cent of the possession, deserved. Heading into Friday’s fixture, Arsenal had lost only one of their last 75 Premier League games when they had opened the scoring, and their triumph here rarely looked in doubt following Havertz’s strike. Havertz thought he had doubled Arsenal’s lead with 34 minutes gone when he converted Gabriel Jesus’ cross. But Jesus – handed his third successive start for the first time in a year – strayed into an offside position in the build-up. When referee Darren England blew for half-time, Ipswich had failed to touch the ball in Arsenal’s box, becoming just the second side to do so in the Premier League this season. Nottingham Forest were the other, away at Liverpool, before they went on to inflict Arne Slot’s sole defeat of his tenure so far. And for all of Arsenal’s possession, while they held just a one-goal advantage, Ipswich knew they were still in the game. An encouraging start to the second half for the Tractor Boys ensued, albeit without testing David Raya in the Arsenal goal. Shortly after the hour mark, Gabriel should have settled any growing Emirates nerves when he arrived unmarked to Declan Rice’s corner, but the defender headed wide of Arijanet Muric’s post when it looked easier to score. Martin Odegaard then forced a fine fingertip save from Muric at his near post after a mazy run and shot from the Arsenal skipper. Rice’s stinging goal-bound volley from the following corner was blocked by Dara O’Shea as Arsenal pushed for a game-killing second. Havertz should have tapped home Trossard’s header but he fluffed his lines. And moments later, substitute Mikel Merino’s effort was diverted from danger by a diving Muric. Ipswich looked to catch Arsenal on the counter, but the match ended without them registering a single effort on Raya’s goal. Ipswich fans goaded their opponents with chants of “boring, boring Arsenal”, but it was the Gunners who enjoyed the last laugh as they saw out 2024 with a win which keeps the pressure on Liverpool.Here’s a heartwarming story that should bring you joy this holiday season: the worst people you know are all fighting. The MAGA v. Tech Right feud that kicked off over Christmas, spurred by a divide on allowing skilled immigrant workers to come stateside, was escalated by Elon Musk on Thursday. Trump’s “first buddy” declared far-right characters including former Trump orbiter Laura Loomer to be trolls and allegedly removed their verification status on Twitter. Musk spent most of yesterday amplifying support for H-1B visa programs, which allow American companies to hire noncitizens for specialty occupations and have become a favorite tool in the tech industry to attract global talent. He also did it in the most 4chan-ish way possible, responding in agreement to a post from Autism Capital that posited the tech industry doesn’t hire Americans because “ you guys are retarded. ” That put him in the crosshairs of the nationalist right, which backed Trump in large part due to his promise to limit immigration. Figures like Loomer , InfoWars host Owen Shroyer , and others took shots at Musk and other tec-right figures like Vivek Ramaswamy for their narrow pro-immigration position. As Musk backed away from the conversation, chalking it up primarily to trolling, his biggest critics also saw their blue checkmarks removed from their profiles. Loomer , Shroyer , Newsmax contributor Gavin Wax , and political action committee ConservativeOG all lost their verification in the fallout of the H-1B visa battle after explicitly standing in opposition to Musk and friends. The de-verification won’t just cost them the check mark, but also the payouts from their attention-seeking posts and any income they were generating from premium subscribers who backed them . These accounts likely lost their verification status because of their association with ConservativeOG. One way to receive verification on Twitter is via affiliation with a verified organization, which ConservativeOG previously was, as seen by the gold checkmark that was once displayed on its profile . At some point, ConservativeOG got axed, and so did everyone associated with it. Loomer and ConservativeOG have ties, as seen on an archived version of Loomer’s account that shows the ConservativeOG logo next to her verification badge. It’s unclear if Loomer’s actions cost the whole organization its verification status. Loomer is currently sitting in Twitter Jail, suspended for 12 hours over a post in which she falsely accused Sriram Krishnan, Trump’s incoming senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence, of donating to the Kamala Harris presidential candidacy. It’s worth noting that the checkmark purge appears to reach beyond just those directly engaged in the H-1B visa debate. The account RawAlerts, which posts pretty much exclusively clickbait and drama-farming content, also lost its verification , and a number of other users have raised concerns that their verification status is under review without explanation as to why. In the middle of the whole immigration kerfuffle, Musk announced a tweak to the Twitter algorithm that would drop in rank posts from users who are blocked or muted by “ credible, verified subscriber accounts “—a move that Loomer interpreted as an attack on her because nothing has ever happened that isn’t about her. But it’s possible the review of verification badges is related to the algorithm adjustment. Regardless, it appears that Musk’s goodwill with MAGA loyalists is running low. It’s clear Musk and other techies who decided to cling to Trump are trying to turn the page and leave the H-1B debate behind, potentially going so far as to try to bury the accounts leading the opposition. 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Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “Men are ruled by toys.” As the cursed favourite toy, the State of Maharashtra has seen more than its fair share of attention from the country’s central leadership. After five years of a revolving door of leadership, Maharashtra will now enter a phase of more stable leadership—or so one hopes. The maximum metropolis Mumbai has always been a conurbation of contrasts: tall skyscrapers looking out at a sea of flat blue tin roofs and slum clusters. In the last few years, the State as well has begun to show the same sharp inequities its capital does. Maharashtra’s per capita GDP has seen a slide, moving from second to sixth-highest among States in the last decade. Ironically, even as the State moves lower, its rich and elite rise. The Hurun India Rich List 2024 documents the State-wise distribution of India’s richest people with the highest net worth. Maharashtra continues to hold pole position there, almost doubling its entries from 248 in 2020 to a stunning 470 entries in 2024. Unsurprising, as the State has consistently boasted of the highest number of wealthy individuals. During the Lok Sabha election, the Mahayuti lost five of the six Lok Sabha seats in the “onion belt” of Dindori, Nashik, Beed, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, and Dhule seats. The region accounts for over a third of the country’s onion production. A complete ban on onion exports triggered anger among onion farmers, and they voted with their feet. In this round of the Assembly election, the belt has seen more scattered outcomes—a reflection of the BJP’s performance in another agrarian State, Haryana, and the fact that the agrarian crisis and its solution is playing out quite differently in the minds of rural voters. There is swift retribution when policy decisions are unpopular but it is also clear there isn’t yet an appealing or cogent enough alternative that presents itself. Also Read | Maharashtra election: How will Muslims and Dalits vote? The Congress party tried to rally support on the near collapse of soybean prices, promising legal status for a Minimum Support Price (MSP) and a price of Rs 7,000 per quintal for soybean. The message and the promise have clearly not hit home. Farmers of Maharashtra want to see why and how a different political outcome will address their needs. It’s a lesson the opposition will have to reflect on quite deeply. As things stand, the legislative Assembly may not have a Leader of Opposition for the first time simply because none of the opposition parties has managed to win 10 per cent of the total number of seats required to claim that post. Were critical pressure points different? Not at all. A pre-poll Lokniti survey conducted by the Centre for Study in Developing Societies (CSDS) ahead of the election in Maharashtra found that inflation was a key issue for voters. Ditto with unemployment. According to the government’s own data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey for April-June 2024, the unemployment rate for youths between 15 and 29 years in urban areas was 16.8 per cent. It has certainly not helped that large job-creating projects have been whisked away from the State and handed to Gujarat instead. The Vedanta-Foxconn project loss was followed by the Tata-Airbus aircraft project being shifted to Gujarat. Not helpful for a State that is currently saddled with a fiscal deficit gap of over Rs.2 lakh crore for 2024-25. What’s worse, even more debt is being slapped onto the state’s finances. In October, the State cabinet approved an interest-free subordinate loan of Rs.1,354 crore for the Orange Gate-Marine Drive tunnel and a similar loan of Rs 2,417 crore for the Thane-Borivali tunnel. Hurriedly stitched together ahead of the election, the Ladki Bahin Yojana comes with an annual burden of Rs.46,000 crore. Why did Maharashtra vote the way it did? While granular analysis of flawed and delayed seat-sharing agreements between the Opposition’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on the one hand and caste equations on the other will add more perspective, there are two big lessons for the opposition. One is that the average voter is no longer interested in or beguiled by “personality politics.” The Thackerays continued with the approach of avenging the personal affront they had faced from their ouster even as the BJP quickly realised that a hyper-local election such as Maharashtra needs specific and concrete solutions. The first step was to emulate Madhya Pradesh’s example of the Ladli Behna scheme and quickly convert it into the Ladki Bahin Yojana to promise cash in the hands of the State’s poor women. The second, is that there is very little patience any more for the “long view.” Just as the Onion Belt voted to show their anger in the general election, they have now chosen what looks and feels like the best immediate and localised solution to their problems. A sly nod to the good old communalism card also helped with slogans like “ Batenge Toh Katenge ” stitching up a “combo offer” of cash in hand, savvy caste strategy, and the promise of safety in religious numbers. Also Read | Maharashtra election: Will the promise of mega infrastructure projects win NDA votes? There is another takeaway for the country’s political opposition. State election results, such as in Haryana and Maharashtra, are met with complete shock. This isn’t what they expected to see at all, say opposition leaders; this isn’t how they had read the room. Local reporters, however, shared with simple confidence a week before the State went to election: not only was the Mahayuti going to be the clear winner, the BJP was going to emerge as the single largest party in the State. Where has such a deep disconnect grown between political organisations and the people they want to represent? How much time, effort, and space is being provided to listen to voters and to reflect that in intention and action. For the State of Maharashtra, binaries will continue to exist. Dharavi will live in the same city as Antilia, plummeting crop prices will live in the same State as surging stock market returns, and deprivation will continue to live alongside unimaginable wealth. But in the dust and rubble of an increasingly familiar and heightened communal and cash pitch pre-election, the people of Maharashtra will now pick up the pieces. Of the voting decisions they made, the narrative they chose and the future that stands before them. Mitali Mukherjee is Director of the Journalist Programmes at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. She is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism. Mitali has co-founded two start-ups that focussed on civil society and financial literacy and her key areas of interest are gender and climate change. CONTRIBUTE YOUR COMMENTS SHARE THIS STORY Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit

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The Arab League Council has condemned Israeli incursion into the buffer zone with Syria, and the areas adjacent to it in Mount Hermon, Quneitra Governorate, and Rif Dimashq. In its extraordinary session at the level of permanent delegates, the Council indicated that the Israeli incursion is a violation of the disengagement agreement concluded between Syria and Israel in 1974, stressing that the agreement remains in effect in accordance with Security Council Resolution No 350 issued in the same year, and therefore that agreement is not to be affected by the political change currently taking place in Syria. Qatar's delegation to the session was headed by ambassador to Egypt and its Permanent Representative to the Arab League, Tariq Ali Faraj al-Ansari. The council also condemned the ongoing Israeli raids on a number of Syrian civilian and military sites, stressing that the Golan Heights is Syrian Arab land and will remain so forever. It called on the international community to oblige Israel, as the occupying power, to comply with the relevant international legitimacy resolutions, especially Security Council Resolution No 497 of 1981, which calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan. The council tasked the Arab Group in New York to move to hold a special session in the Security Council to discuss the Israeli practices that threaten international peace and security, including the recent incursion of Syrian lands that Israel has seized since Dec 8. The extraordinary session of the Council was held with the aim of formulating a unified Arab position regarding the Israeli army's seizure of additional lands in the occupied Syrian Golan. Related Story Thousands of Syrians celebrate in streets, calling for unityWhen it comes to buying a new car, traditional wisdom says the best time of year is late December when year-end sales and incentives flood the market, and factories as well as dealers are looking to dump inventory. That tradition changed during the COVID-19 pandemic as the chip shortage for cars’ computer-controlled functions occurred which also led to lower production and plenty of empty dealership lots. But today, Aurora area dealers by and large say the good times are back as far as late-year car shopping. Emir Abinion, CEO of the Fox Valley Auto Group in St. Charles which includes Volkswagen, GMC and Buick dealerships, said he is happy about being able to deliver the color and car people want, in most cases, as compared to a few years ago. “The nice thing is that the dealers now have inventory which we didn’t have before. At our stores, I’m probably at 75% to 80% of what I used to carry before COVID – before the chips shut down and before logistic transportation issues happened,” Abinion said. “It almost seems like right after COVID, we had those two nightmares. The fact things are back by almost 80% is good ... including customers getting what they want instead of settling for what dealers had on the lot.” Abinion also said that low inventory in the past effected both the manufacturers and dealers by saving them some money, despite having lower sales numbers a few years ago. “Manufactures and the dealers, for the most part, are so used to what’s happened in the last three years of having minimal inventory,” he said. “It does cost the dealers less money in interest in keeping that kind of inventory, and the factory likes that lower inventory allows them to save money on incentives and manufacturing costs. Today, we’re seeing a lot of incentives back on the vehicles which we didn’t see the last three years, and so those are good things from a consumer perspective.” The benefits now, Abinion insists, include consumers getting the cars they want, and the incentives to drive a lower price on the vehicle. He said the week after Christmas “is the busiest week of the year.” “I don’t like it when one of my customers can’t get exactly what they want, but today, I love telling them, yes, we can get that vehicle and the color they want,” he said. “We’ll sell 50% of our vehicle sales for this month in just one week.” Meanwhile in North Aurora, Doug Gerald, owner of the Gerald Auto Group which includes Ford, Kia, Hyundai, Nissan and other auto brands, said end-of-the-year car sales this year “are a little bit of the old, a little bit of the new.” “A lot of models, we are doing great deals on and where we’ve got inventory, it’s strong,” Gerald said. “The week after Christmas is going to be the busiest week of the year. That’s our expectation and while there are still a number of models that are low supply and high demand, there are a number of models that we’re going to need to rely on in order to hit our sales numbers. The manufacturers are sending us cars, but some are in short supply and some are not.” Gerald said dealers “are motivated to sell cars right now for our own sake, to close out our own year, and also for the manufacturers.” “It’s hard to predict if we’ll have the model or color you want, so the best thing is to go in and see,” he said. “It’s not just month-end close, it’s year-end close, and the finance companies, the manufacturers and the dealers are all doing everything they can to move inventory.” The showroom at Hawk Nissan in St. Charles is decked out with holiday-decorated cars. Aurora area dealers expect sales to be strong as the year comes to a close. (David Sharos / For The Beacon-News) Jake Pezzuto, sales manager at Hawk Nissan in St. Charles, feels that “right now is probably the best time to purchase a vehicle. One of the best in recent years.” “I think the buyers coming out of COVID are coming into incredible deals and incentives and we have a handful of leftover 2024s. The reason is because Nissan after Black Friday put thousands of dollars off on brand new vehicles above and beyond any dealer discounts,” Pezzuto said. “They also incentivized interest rates lower than anybody has seen at this point in four to five years. If there is a 2024 left on the lot chances are you’re going to get a rate deal. With Nissan, we’ve got more inventory than we’ve seen in years. It is the polar opposite of the last few years.” Gerald and others including Jim Martinez, general sales manager who works at Hawk Ford in St. Charles, who has been in the car industry for 30 years, noted that end-of-the-year sales campaigns began earlier this year in order to drive more customers to the dealerships. “If you buy a car now compared to maybe six months ago means saving about $1,500” off the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, Martinez said. David Sharos is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.VDIAGTOOL makes car diagnostics great again