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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey will not need surgery on his injured right knee but he will miss the rest of the regular season. Coach Kyle Shanahan said Monday that McCaffrey will be out at least six weeks after injuring his posterior cruciate ligament in a loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night . McCaffrey will be placed on injured reserve for the second time this season after previously missing the first eight games with Achilles tendinitis. “I just feel for him,” Shanahan said. “It was a real frustrating year for him. He worked his ass off to get back to this point and I think he was really feeling good and about to take off and just had that real unfortunate injury last night. I know he’s as crushed as anyone, but he’ll get through this. He’s a hell of a player, a hell of a person and an unbelievable 49er. He’ll be back stronger than ever next year to help us.” San Francisco (5-7) sits alone in last place in the NFC West standings, two wins behind division-leading Seattle, and in jeopardy of missing the playoffs a year after losing to Kansas City in the Super Bowl. The 49ers also lost McCaffrey's backup to an injury with Jordan Mason also set to go on injured reserve after suffering a high ankle sprain in the game against the Bills. It has been a frustrating season for McCaffrey, who won the 2023 AP Offensive Player of the Year then signed a lucrative contract extension in the offseason. McCaffrey injured his Achilles tendon early in training camp and missed the first eight games of the season. He rushed for just 149 yards on 43 carries in his first three games back as he struggled to get back to form. He looked much better early Sunday night with seven carries for 53 yards, including a 19-yarder that was his longest of the season. He appeared to hurt his knee on an 18-yard run in the second quarter. He then went down immediately on his next carry on a sweep to the left on a snow-slicked field for a 5-yard loss. Mason had played well as McCaffrey's replacement, rushing for 789 yards and averaging 5.2 yards per carry this season. San Francisco will now turn to rookie Isaac Guerendo and promote Patrick Taylor from the practice squad. Shanahan said the team will also look to add another running back to the mix. In other injury news from the game, defensive lineman Kevin Givens tore his pectoral muscle and will be out for the rest of the season. Shanahan said cornerback Deommodore Lenoir should be back at practice Wednesday after missing the game with a knee injury and that stars Nick Bosa (hip, oblique) and Trent Williams (ankle) will be evaluated as the week goes on. Bosa and Williams have both missed the last two games. Williams has also been dealing with family tragedy as his wife announced on Instagram that she gave birth to stillborn Trenton O’Brien Williams Jr. on Nov. 24. Sondra Williams also wrote that she was initially pregnant with twins and lost the other child earlier in the pregnancy. Shanahan said Williams spent time with his family last week but is trying to get back to play. “He was there at the hospital with her and got to meet him and say bye,” Shanahan said. “Then he had to cremate him on Friday. So he’s been dealing with that and he’s working through it. We’re all just trying to be there for him through it all.” NOTES: OL Aaron Banks and DT Jordan Elliott remain in the concussion protocol. ... LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles (knee) is day to day. ... LB Dre Greenlaw will get more work this week after his practice window was opened last week for the first time since he tore his Achilles in the Super Bowl. ... S Talanoa Hufanga (wrist) will have his IR practice window opened this week. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflItalian journalist arrested in Iran50jili com 。

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Jeff Bezos is pushing back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's claim the Amazon founder predicted President-elect Trump would lose the 2024 presidential election. "Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock," Musk wrote on his social media platform X in the early hours of Thursday morning. "Nope. 100% not true," Bezos replied. "Well, then, I stand corrected," Musk responded, with a laughing emoji. Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote in the election and received heavy backing from Musk, whom the president-elect has tapped to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy in his second term. Musk's cozy... Fox BusinessAn online debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump's political coalition WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press Dec 27, 2024 10:43 AM Dec 27, 2024 10:50 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Vivek Ramaswamy arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, to meet with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and billionaire Elon Musk as they convene a meeting of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as envisioned by President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer's comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government , weighed in, defending the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump's world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift, and his presidential transition team did not respond to a message seeking comment. Musk, the world's richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump's movement but his stance on the tech industry's hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry's need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent," he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump's own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump's businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country" and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country," he told the “All-In" podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump's budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes. Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Science News A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says Dec 27, 2024 10:01 AM Maryland sues maker of Gore-Tex over pollution from toxic 'forever chemicals' Dec 27, 2024 9:55 AM One owl rescued by a Minnesota woman is euthanized; efforts to save the other continue Dec 27, 2024 7:52 AMSwifties beware: Vancouver police are warning the public against falling for scammers ahead of the looming Eras Tour. The VPD says those looking for tickets should keep an eye out for risky transfers. “Ticketmaster only allows transfers 72 hours before the concert, so think twice before sending money and waiting on a response,” it said. “Use verified ticketing platforms or trusted resellers. Don’t fall for stories about ‘a friend of a friend’ with extra tickets.” Prior to the Toronto concerts, a woman from that city told CityNews she unwittingly became the victim of an online scammer who she feels was preying on the eagerness and vulnerability of fans keen to see their idol on stage. “I was just so excited at the prospect of going and the [cheap] cost and [given] just how difficult it was to get tickets, in hindsight, we really overlooked a lot of small details that should have made us realize it was a scam,” said Natalie Benacem. She had been scouring TikTok for tips on how to score tickets for weeks. “In the comments section there’s tons of people writing comments saying ‘I’m selling tickets, reach out to me’,” she said. She and a friend reached out to one such commenter who presented themselves as a teenage girl. “Everything seemed to check out. She had a profile built with lots of pictures of her. Then we also moved communications over to Instagram and all the pictures lined up and it just seemed feasible. We actually had very lengthy conversations with her and it just felt genuine. She was very believable,” said Benacem. “We thought she was a young, teenage girl. So for her safety, we understood she might not want to meet up in person. She showed us screenshots of tickets and we agreed per her preference that we would send the payment to PayPal as opposed to e-transfer. [We paid] for the first ticket and then she sent us the first ticket. Then I had sent the PayPal for the second ticket, and we never got a second ticket. She basically blocked us and there was no way to reach out to her anymore.” Benacem and her friend paid $600 for two tickets and received sweet nothing in return. Instead they were left with just one to split between the two of them. “It was only $300, so that should have set off a red flag. But $300 in this economy is hard ... but it was too much of a good situation and so we kind of fell for it. We got really excited and we missed all the red flags,” she said. They felt there was no fair way to decide who would go for the show and instead of risking any bad blood, they ended up reselling the one ticket they received from the scammer. “We were really upset. Some expletives were said ... but it gives the opportunity for somebody else to enjoy it,” she said. In a Zoom interview, Daniel Tsai, an adjunct professor specializing in business law and technology at the University of Toronto said Benacem fell victim to one of the most common online scams. “Usually what we see is the use of Kijiji and other open marketplaces, where you’re not able to identify or verify the identity of the other parties — that’s where people can pretend to be somebody else. They don’t even have to be in the same city. They could be in a foreign country,” he explained. “Inevitably they always ask for some kind of Bitcoin or e-transfer, which makes it effectively impossible to get your money back once you transfer it out.” He cautions against buying tickets from unknown sellers online. “You shouldn’t be buying tickets online from anyone that you don’t know and you haven’t actually spoken to or seen in person to discuss the purchase. It’s just not worth it,” he said. He says even a video call is not proof enough anymore and could be a very convincing hoax. “The deep fakes have gotten so good with AI that you can have a zoom call like this ... and the person is speaking, it looks like they have naturalistic realistic movements. You wouldn’t be able to tell if that’s a virtual avatar created by AI. That actually happened in a banking scam in Hong Kong where the bank was defrauded out of tens of millions of dollars,” he said. All a bad actor needs is a free app and a sample of someone’s voice and image from their social media to pull off such a scam. “And unfortunately, the software developers of these apps haven’t put in protections or protocols to prevent that type of misuse and fraud from occurring,” he said. Another common fraud technique he says to watch out for involves hacked social media accounts of friends and family. “So you believe you know this person from Facebook or some other social media, you’re connected, you’re in the same network, so you have no reason to doubt that that is the person that you know. And you purchase the tickets finding out later it’s all fake and that that person’s account was hacked, and in fact, you were dealing with somebody else and not with that person. That has actually become quite common, especially with the Taylor Swift tickets,” he said. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is coming to BC Place Dec. 6, 7, and 8.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — PGA Tour rookie Patrick Fishburn played bogey-free for an 8-under 64 for his first lead after any round. Joel Dahmen was 10 shots behind and had a bigger cause for celebration Friday in the RSM Classic. Dahmen made a 5-foot par putt on his final hole for a 2-under 68 in tough conditions brought on by the wind and cold, allowing him to make the cut on the number and get two more days to secure his PGA Tour card for next year. He is No. 124 in the FedEx Cup.Glove stocks a safe haven amid rising tariffs

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