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No. 2 Oregon (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) at Purdue (1-5, 0-3)

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Jordan Burch is missing, Gary Bryant Jr. is participating: What we saw at Oregon football practice on Tuesday

NCAA changes rule after Oregon’s Dan Lanning fielded 12 players against Ohio State

Oregon football receiver Traeshon Holden faces “some discipline” after a spitting incident

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USC Head coach Lincoln Riley has received a lot of criticism for the way the Trojans are playing on the field after a 3-3 start. Now he’s being criticized by the former USC star and current Fox Sports analyst Matt Leinart for his recruiting tactics and skills.

Luca Evans published a story Thursday evening in which he shared that “several Mater Dei coaches told @ocregister that USC has only visited once since the spring. The same goes for St. John Bosco.”

Evans further revealed, “Lincoln Riley said recruiting kids from California is ‘Priority No. 1.’ Data says USC is increasingly looking south — and finding success there.”

Matt Leinart cited Evans’ story on Twitter Friday morning and shared his thoughts on Lincoln Riley and his recruitment.

“Pete Carrol built a fence around Southern California and the coaches knew they never had a chance of catching anyone during that time. If true, that would be unfortunate as there is still a lot of elite talent not only at MD but throughout Southern California!” said Matt Leinart.

Leinart’s tweet obviously received a lot of attention since he played at USC from 2001 to 2005 and won the Heisman Trophy and two national titles.

Pete Carroll was the head coach at USC in each of Leinart’s seasons. In total, Carroll spent nine years at Southern Cal, leading the Trojans to seven Pac-12 titles and two national titles before heading to the NFL.

It’s safe to say that Lincoln Riley and USC will need to do a better job on the field and in recruiting going forward to prevent Matt Leinart and other former stars from becoming upset with the direction of the program.

In addition to Matt Leinart, fellow Fox Sports analyst Urban Meyer also recently shared his thoughts on USC.

Meyer really can’t believe why USC Problems at this point below Lincoln Riley. Riley is now 5-8 in his last 13 games, including five of seven losses through the end of last season.

Given the brand and recruiting base in California, Meyer was almost amazed that this wasn’t an easy top-10 or top-5 team in the country at that point. So what is the solution?

Well, if it were that easy, Riley and USC might be better than 3-3 midway through the season.

“That cannot be calculated,” Meyer continued The triple option. “It hasn’t worked out for me for the last 10 or 15 years. For me this is a top five place. When you’re recruiting, you stumble upon players. I recruited there forever when I lived at Colorado State, Utah. I’m serious, to me Texas and California are different… In Texas and California they are like college coaches…

“To me, the history, the tradition and the recruiting base and financial support at USC don’t matter, and Coach Riley has a 5-8 record in the last 13 games. This follows previous staff who really struggled. So you can still blame the coaches. But are there any, I guess, is there something? There is a problem? Because that’s a top five job.”

Photo: Simon Upton.

The 18th-century Chinese wallpaper that decorator Elsie de Wolfe installed in publishing magnate Condé Nast’s Park Avenue ballroom around 1925 lived a long life before ending up in the Big Apple – it was found in the attic of the English mansion Welbeck Abbey unearthed and hung at Beau Desert Hall, the estate of the Marquess of Angelesey in Staffordshire. When the scene, depicting a dreamy walled garden, was mounted in the magazine man’s Manhattan party pad, it served as a backdrop for fashionable events of all kinds (owned by Nast). fashion and finally a few other titles) that cement it in the memory of aesthetes then and now.

Let’s rewind to the 1950s: After Nast’s death, Gracie, the hand-painted and antique wallpaper dealer, purchased this famous setting and sold the remains to interior designer Michael S. Smith in 2011. “I’ve always been obsessed with its distinctive architectural quality,” says the AD100 talent, who installed restored fragments in his New York dining room. “There’s a real magic to it.”

Gracie has been a family business for decades and is celebrating its 126th anniversary this year (they just released The Art of Gracie with Rizzoli), dealt in first-class antiques like this. At some point, as customers began requesting additions or adjustments to fit their respective spaces, the company began offering hand-painted paneling based on this and other historic patterns. Since then, such papers have repeatedly ended up in luxurious homes, regardless of trends. Jennifer Gracie, fifth-generation creative director, explains it this way: “Beauty never goes out of style.”

When interior designer Alex Papachristidis inquired about this Ming Garden pattern for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in 2016, Gracie worked with him on an offshoot—oversized and recolored grisaille—to match the dining room’s grand proportions. “It’s actually an incredible bargain,” explains Papachristidis, given the high price. “You don’t have to buy paintings! The wallpaper is the work of art.” graciestudio.com

Originally published by Architectural Digest

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DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — A man charged with murdering two teenage girls in a small Indiana community forced them off a hiking trail before slitting their throats, a prosecutor said Friday, sharing told the jury that the evidence included images and audio recorded on a victim’s phone.

“The last thing the girls saw was Richard Allen’s face,” said Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland.

And they heard his “terrifying words: ‘Girls, down the hill,'” McLeland said. “The girls obeyed out of fear.”

52-year-old Richard Allen is charged with two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder during the commission or attempt of kidnapping. The trial is a spectacle in the town of 3,000, with people lining up in the morning chill to get a seat in the courtroom.

Allen, a local pharmacy technician, was arrested in 2022, five years after the deaths of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German, a case that had angered police and sparked much speculation among true crime lovers. The outsized media attention in the small community prompted a specially appointed judge to select a jury in Fort Wayne, nearly 100 miles (160 kilometers) away.

They are being held for a trial that could last a month, are not allowed to watch the news and have limited use of their phones to call relatives under the supervision of bailiffs.

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In his opening statement, McLeland described the crime scene: a rugged wooded area near the Monon High Bridge Trail, just outside the town of Delphi in Carroll County.

He said an unused bullet discovered at the scene came from a gun that belonged to Allen and that his grainy image and voice were recorded by Libby on her phone. A video showed a man walking behind her on the abandoned railway bridge.

He also told jurors that they would listen to incriminating statements made by Allen to correctional officers, inmates, law enforcement and even his wife.

“They had details that only the murderer would know,” the prosecutor said. “Richard Allen is the man on the bridge.”

Allen shook his head at times as McLeland spoke, and his wife, sitting in the gallery, did the same as the prosecutor said her husband confessed to her.

When it was defense attorney Andrew Baldwin’s turn, he told the jury there was a lot of reasonable doubt.

He said Allen’s statements were made under the stress of being under constant surveillance in a tiny cell after his arrest. Baldwin noted that Allen mentioned that he shot the girls in the back, even though they didn’t die as a result.

And he said police believed one person could not have committed the murders.

“Richard Allen is innocent,” Baldwin told the jury. “He’s really innocent.”

The teenagers were found dead on February 14, 2017. They went missing a day earlier while hiking on the trail. Within days, police released the files found on Libby’s cellphone. Investigators also released a sketch of a suspect in July 2017 and another in April 2019 along with the bridge video.

After more years passed without a suspect being identified, investigators said they went back and reviewed previous leads.

Investigators discovered that Allen had been interviewed in 2017. He told an officer he was on the trail the day Abby and Libby went missing and saw three “women” at a bridge called the Freedom Bridge but did not speak to them, an affidavit states.

At previous hearings, Allen’s lawyers had tried to argue that the girls were killed in a ritual sacrifice by members of a pagan Nordic religion and a white nationalist group called the Odinists.

Judge Fran Gull bans news media from reporting directly from the courtroom using electronic devices. The judge also set strict rules for photo or video coverage outside the courthouse. Police seized cameras from several journalists outside the building on Friday morning before the trial began, including two cameras from a photographer from The Associated Press.

AUSTIN – Robert Roberson, the Texas man whose execution was halted by the state Supreme Court, is expected to testify before a legislative panel on Monday.

Roberson was set to become the first person in the United States to be executed for murder because of “shaken baby syndrome” before the court intervened late Thursday night and events escalated dramatically.

Lawmakers are now seeking to re-examine the controversial medical theory that played a key role in his conviction.

The Texas House of Representatives Criminal Justice Committee will begin hearing testimony at noon Monday.

Roberson issued a statement praising God and thanking his supporters following his overnight stay of execution by the Texas Supreme Court.

Texas Supreme Court issues stay

That ruling came after a volatile legal battle in which the Texas Court of Appeals early Thursday evening rejected a request to stay the execution, overturning a temporary order from Travis County Judge Jessica Mangrum. This ruling by the state appeals court was in response to an appeal by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of Mangrum’s ruling. 0

In an effort to delay the execution, Roberson was subpoenaed Wednesday night by a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers on the House Criminal Justice Committee after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles previously rejected Roberson’s clemency request.

“The underlying criminal matter is within the jurisdiction of the Court of Criminal Appeals, but the relief sought here is civil in nature, as are the claims presented in the district court,” Texas Supreme Court Justice Evan Young wrote in his brief Opinion. “Whether the legislature may use its authority to compel the presence of witnesses to block the executive branch’s authority to carry out a death sentence is a question of Texas civil law, not its criminal law.”

The warrant expires at midnight. A state prison spokesman previously said staff and guards were on site and ready when Roberson’s appeal options were exhausted.

The US Supreme Court also rejected a request to stay the execution on Thursday evening. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her ruling that “the Supreme Court is unable to act without a final federal claim, and because the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has rejected a recommendation of clemency, only one remedy remains: granting it.” an executive stay delaying Roberson’s execution for thirty days.

Such a reprieve would have to come from Gov. Greg Abbott.

“A thirty-day executive pardon would give the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles an opportunity to reexamine the evidence of Roberson’s actual innocence,” Sotomayor wrote. “This could prevent a miscarriage of justice from occurring: the execution of a man who has provided credible evidence of actual innocence.”

Mangrum’s injunction went to Texas Lawmakers issued a subpoena against Roberson, 57 There was a last-minute legal attempt to stop his execution on Wednesday evening, which would be the first in the country associated with one Shaken baby syndrome Diagnosis. Roberson was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. Central Time on Thursday for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in the East Texas city of Palestine.

“This is an extraordinary remedy,” Republican state Rep. Jeff Leach of Plano said during arguments Thursday. “But it’s not inappropriate.”

Republicans and Democrats on the House Criminal Justice Committee believe Roberson deserves a new trial based on the medical theory that the death of his chronically ill daughter was caused by violent shaking known as shaken baby syndrome, widely believed by many experts Science was dismissed as nonsense.

Leach said more than 80 lawmakers had signed a letter “calling for Roberson’s execution to be paused” because they believed his testimony was vital.

“We were joined by people from the far left in the Texas House of Representatives to people on the far right — people we’ve had a hard time working with on other issues,” said Rep. John Bucy (D-Williamson County) in Huntsville Thursday. “We came together because the people in the House of Representatives who have looked closely at this and reviewed the evidence know that Robert Roberson is an innocent man and this execution should not move forward.”

The summons came after that The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a clemency request Wednesday for Roberson.

Over the past two days, Roberson’s attorney at the Innocence Project expressed confidence that his life would be spared.

“We asked the Supreme Court to stop Texas from making a devastating, irreparable mistake by failing to provide Robert Roberson with due process,” Roberson’s attorney Gretchen Sween said in response to the SCOTUS decision. “Yesterday, the Texas House of Representatives heard a full day of testimony documenting the failure of this process. No one who heard this testimony could be left in any doubt that Robert is completely innocent and never received a fair trial.”

Concerns raised by Roberson’s supporters

Roberson’s lawyers and supporters don’t deny that head and other injuries from child abuse are real, and claim doctors misdiagnosed Curtis’ injuries as being related to shaken baby syndrome. They also claim that Roberson’s conviction was based on flawed and now outdated scientific evidence related to shaken baby syndrome.

The diagnosis refers to a severe brain injury caused by a child’s head being injured by shaking or other violent impact, such as being thrown against a wall or thrown onto the floor.

His supporters said new evidence showed the girl died not from abuse but from complications related to severe pneumonia.

Among those protesting Thursday’s planned execution was police officer Brian Wharton, who helped put Roberson on death row.

“Let me just say, Robert is an innocent man,” Wharton said. “But more than that, he’s a friendly man. He is a gentle man. He’s a lovely man.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics, other medical organizations and prosecutors say the diagnosis is valid and that doctors look at all sorts of things, including any medical conditions, when determining whether injuries are due to shaken baby syndrome.

The Anderson County District Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted Roberson, said in court documents that after a hearing in 2022 to review new evidence in the case, a judge rejected theories that pneumonia and other illnesses caused Curtis’ death.

Prosecutors contend Roberson’s new evidence does not refute her claim that Curtis died from her father’s injuries.

What courts have said about shaken baby syndrome

In recent years, courts across the country have overturned convictions or dropped shaken baby syndrome-related charges, including in California, Ohio, Massachusetts and Michigan.

In a ruling last week in another shaken baby syndrome case in Dallas County, the Texas Court of Appeals ordered a new trial after determining that scientific advances related to the diagnosis would now likely lead to an acquittal in the case .

But the appeals court has repeatedly rejected Roberson’s request to stay his execution, most recently last week.

At least eight people have been sentenced to death in the United States for shaken baby syndrome, said Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Two of those eight were exonerated and Roberson is the only one given execution dates.

“According to the National Exoneration Registry, at least 30 people across the country have been exonerated based on this discredited scientific theory,” Maher said.

But Danielle Vazquez, executive director of the Utah-based National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, said a 2021 research article found that 97% of the more than 1,400 shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma convictions from 2008 to 2018 were confirmed and that this was the case. Convictions were rarely overturned on the basis of medical evidence.

A new FinCEN rule aims to crack down on real estate money laundering by requiring certain individuals to report high-risk real estate transfers to FinCEN.

Key Takeaways:

• Criminals often facilitate money laundering through residential real estate because they can avoid government control through unfinanced residential real estate transfers
• The FinCEN Rule extends the reporting requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act to real estate professionals
• Violations of the rule can be reported through the AML Whistleblower Program
• The final rule will go into effect on December 1, 2025

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an office of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has issued a new rule for investment advisors to protect residential real estate from illegal financing such as money laundering. Criminals often facilitate money laundering through residential real estate because they can avoid government control through unfinanced transfers (including “cash sales”) of residential real estate. FinCEN’s new regulation aims to increase transparency by restricting certain defined persons, such as: B. Require real estate or escrow agents involved in real estate transfers to report to FinCEN on certain high-risk transfers. The investment advisor final rule also unifies anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) requirements across the real estate industry by requiring advisors registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to report compliance and suspicious activity . The final rule will go into effect on December 1, 2025.

Obligations under the Final Rule

FinCEN is one of many federal agencies charged with enforcing the anti-money laundering provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The new rule advances its mission to protect the financial system from illegal activity by extending the BSA’s reporting requirements to residential real estate professionals. The new rule conflicts with two serious violations of the AML law that FinCEN enforces: (1) failure to file required reports and record violations, and (2) failure to file the property report. Starting in December 2025, failure to submit any of these documents will result in an enforceable violation of the new rule. When reporting, the person must be provided with information about the transfer of residential property, including:

• The reporting person;
• The legal entity (acquiring entity) or trust (acquiring trust) that receives title to the property; ex. Limited Liability Company (LLC)
• The beneficial owners of the transferring company or trust;
• Certain persons signing documents on behalf of the transferring entity or trust during the reportable transfer;
• The transferor (e.g. the seller);
• The residential property is transferred, and
• Total consideration and certain information about any payments made.

By requiring the reporter to know and disclose the identities of the above parties involved in transfers, illegal actors using shell companies or other anonymous means to launder money through real estate transfers can be more easily exposed. The new rule uses a reporting cascade to determine reporting responsibility. Essentially, the reporting cascade represents a list of seven different functions that a real estate professional may perform in a reportable residential property transfer and whether they are required to report based on that function.

Effects

The new regulation could lead to a significant increase in AML violations for a variety of reasons. The complexity of defining reporting requirements, the vague scope of what is and is not considered reportable, and the inability or refusal of real estate professionals to provide sufficient information about their clients could contribute to an increase in violations. As real estate professionals begin to adopt the new regime, both understanding and implementing a mandate of this complexity will likely place a significant burden on real estate professionals, particularly small business owners. Consciously choosing not to shoulder this burden or simply not reporting suspicious activity would result in a significant increase in money laundering violations. On the other hand, the desire to avoid triggering the rule’s complicated provisions may discourage real estate professionals from dealing with unidentifiable and potentially criminal actors. While the scheme may increase administrative burden, it may also help stabilize the housing market as the inflow of black money stops.

The final rule could strengthen ongoing efforts in various states to limit money laundering through real estate transfers. In 2022, two New York legislators introduced legislation that would require any person who purchases real estate in New York through a limited liability company (LLC) to disclose their identity to the state and include the information in their to file tax returns. LLCs allow property buyers to conceal their identities, but are required to identify themselves as the transferring entity under the final rule. New York has long struggled with money laundering of foreign investors in luxury real estate through anonymous shell companies and LLCs. While the legislation has not yet been passed, FinCEN’s new rule could finally help address the long-standing problem.

Impact on foreign money laundering

By creating and expanding new regulations through this rule, FinCEN expands the scope of the AML Whistleblower Program to include residential real estate. Money laundering has historically been difficult to detect, with the government often relying on whistleblowers to inform them of illegal activities. Any failure by residential real estate professionals to follow the new rule will constitute a violation that Insiders can report through the AML Whistleblower Program. Whistleblowers who provide information to the U.S. Treasury Department about violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) may be fined up to 30% of the fines imposed in a successful investigation. Outside of self-reporting, FinCEN relies on AML whistleblowers to hold real estate professionals accountable and detect money laundering.

The rule could have major international implications. On January 25, 2023, FinCEN warned financial institutions about potential investments by sanctioned Russian elites in the U.S. commercial real estate sector and reminded them of their BSA reporting obligations. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury Department has renewed efforts to isolate sanctioned Russian oligarchs from the international financial system. FinCEN’s final rule and expansion of BSA reporting requirements represent an important aspect of this renewed effort.

For example, in 2023, as part of its “Operation KleptoCapture,” the DOJ seized $75 million in luxury real estate in Miami, the Hamptons, and New York City that belonged to beneficial owner Viktor Vekselberg, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. Vekselberg’s attorney, Robert Wise, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit international money laundering in order to preserve six properties in the United States. Wise assisted in the acquisition and managed the finances of the properties. The final rule could aim to target foreign elites like Vekselberg by requiring their executors, like Wise, to disclose the identity of their beneficial owners for high-risk transfers. Given the high-profile cases such as Vekselberg and Wise, as well as increasing resistance from some real estate groups, the new regulation could succeed in deterring real estate professionals from making risky transfers in the first place.

Publicity from multimillion-dollar Russian money laundering cases combined with FinCEN’s new rules and awards could encourage potential whistleblowers to come forward, extending the AML whistleblower program’s coverage to certain defined individuals in residential real estate and international Criminals such as identified terrorists and others are expanded to include those on OFAC’s sanctions list. The AML whistleblower provisions have recently been strengthened to include offers of cash rewards and protection from retaliation. Since then, the AML whistleblower program has had great success, incentivizing whistleblowers to provide tips that were “highly relevant to many of Treasury’s top priorities,” said FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki. The final rule appears aimed at extending these large gains to the residential real estate sector. Whether the regulation is effective in detecting and deterring money laundering or incentivizing whistleblowers to report it remains to be seen in the coming years.

This post was co-authored by Allison Nguyen

Just moments after confirming that Israeli forces had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, officials in the United States hailed the killing as an “opportunity” to turn the war around and move to a “day after” for Gaza.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan didn’t offer a clear idea of ​​what the future of the devastated area might look like, but described Sinwar’s killing on Thursday as an opportunity to “bring about a better day for the people of Gaza.” Israel said people from the entire region.”

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris repeated that claim in their own statements.

However, Israeli leaders had a completely different message. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war was “not over yet” and vowed that Israeli forces would continue to operate in Gaza for “many years to come.”

However, since there are no details about Washington’s vision for Gaza’s future and there is no indication that the Biden administration would meaningfully push Israel toward a political solution to the conflict, Israel is likely to continue – if not increase – its military onslaught. say analysts.

And amid the widespread destruction and carnage in Gaza, any postwar plan will face enormous difficulties in conception and implementation.

HA Hellyer, a geopolitical analyst, dismissed US talks about a “day after” in Gaza as “ridiculous”.

“There is no day after,” Hellyer said. “We all have to recognize that the Israelis have made it very clear that they will not leave Gaza, that the military presence will remain, so the idea of ​​any political horizon here is just very, very unrealistic.”

He added that while Washington was discussing the future of the Gaza Strip, Israel was pressing ahead with its occupation of the territory, along with the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Syria’s Golan Heights, while simultaneously invading Lebanon.

Israel “does not show the slightest interest in leaving any of these places any time soon,” Hellyer told Al Jazeera.

The real obstacle

While U.S. officials this week spoke of Sinwar as an “obstacle removed,” it is unclear how his killing will affect negotiations over a ceasefire agreement that includes the release of Israeli prisoners in Gaza, which has not materialized for more than a year.

Hamas has stressed that it supports a deal that would lead to a permanent ceasefire, while Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to continue the war until complete victory.

“Sinwar was not the only obstacle to a ceasefire or even the main obstacle to a ceasefire. That was Netanyahu and that remains Netanyahu,” Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, told Al Jazeera.

“What’s really at stake is: Will the Biden administration finally be ready to put real pressure on Netanyahu, both to end the war and to commit to not simply moving to permanent Israeli occupation the day after? “

U.S. officials say they want the war to end as quickly as possible. However, they have been unwilling to exercise the influence available to them, and it is unclear whether Sinwar’s assassination will change that.

The United States supplies Israel with billions of dollars worth of weapons essential to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and Lebanon. Biden and Harris have rejected calls for an arms embargo against Israel.

“This is the persistent missing piece, not just in the course of this war, but historically in the U.S. management of the peace process and its policies toward Israel and Palestine,” Duss said.

“Consequences and costs are only ever imposed on one side – the weaker side, the Palestinian side. The Israelis can do whatever they want with complete impunity. And that’s part of what led us to this disaster.”

U.S. officials have floated various postwar scenarios since the war began — including handing over Gaza to a “revived” Palestinian Authority — which have been flatly rejected by Israel. Recently, the US was considering an Emirati plan to create an interim authority in Gaza, according to an Axios report.

But US hopes for a ceasefire or a political solution continue to fail given Israel’s continued unconditional support.

“For the war to end, the U.S.’s most important ally in the region, the State of Israel, would have to significantly change its actions, and at no time in the past year has the U.S. shown any willingness to exert that pressure to actually force that change in behavior.” must,” said Hellyer.

“In fact, the opposite is happening: if the Israelis are given a red line by DC and they cross it, there are no consequences. I don’t know why anyone would expect that to change in the next few weeks or months.”

For example, earlier this year Biden warned Israel against invading the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are crowded.

Israel ignored U.S. calls and launched a massive bombing campaign and ground invasion against the city. Washington responded that the offensive, which nearly depopulated and destroyed the city, was not a major operation.

Which day after?

Even if a ceasefire occurs against all odds, planning for Gaza’s future is a significant task given the devastation wrought by a year of war.

“Gaza has just been destroyed – its infrastructure, its villages, its towns, its buildings, its cities. It’s in ruins,” Duss said. “How do you strengthen a credible governance structure?”

In addition to the staggering death toll of more than 42,500, it is feared that another 10,000 or more may die under the rubble. One in 23 people in Gaza were injured last year, a quarter of them with life-changing injuries requiring long-term treatment.

Some 114 hospitals and clinics were taken out of service; According to Palestinian officials in Gaza, 150,000 homes have been destroyed and 96 percent of Gaza’s population suffers from severe food shortages and lacks access to clean water.

“What day after that? What is a day after, when you have destroyed more than 70 percent of Gaza, leaving most people homeless and five percent of the population killed?” Zaha Hassan, human rights lawyer and fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Al Jazeera.

“It’s very difficult to hear U.S. officials talk almost solemnly about a day after for Gaza, as if the guns had fallen silent, which they haven’t, and given the magnitude of what happened.”

“How do you even begin to think about how to rehabilitate and fix what happened?”

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors have requested arrest warrants against Sinwar, as well as Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yaov Gallant, for possible war crimes in the ongoing conflict.

Hassan noted that although Sinwar is dead, there has been no mention of justice or accountability in U.S. discussions about Gaza’s future. “Where is justice and accountability for the mass atrocities and likely genocide we have seen in Gaza?”

The United States has vigorously opposed the International Criminal Court’s investigation into the Gaza conflict, and some lawmakers have called for sanctions against the court’s prosecutor. It is unclear whether U.S. pressure has delayed the issuance of the arrest warrants, which still need to be approved.

“The situation is simply catastrophic,” said Hassan. “There are just so many questions and no answers coming from the U.S. government.”

Forever war

Whatever the U.S. desires to turn the page in Gaza, if the U.S. is unwilling to change its stance toward Israel, nothing is likely to change there, experts say.

Ori Goldberg, an Israel-based political analyst, said Israeli officials appeared to have no clear goal beyond consolidating their military presence in Gaza – and little interest in what their U.S. counterparts might prefer.

“Israel is doing what it has always done: it is bombing and killing and murdering, but there is no plan, there is no progress, there is no sense of anything happening other than death,” he told Al Jazeera.

“We really don’t have an end goal or any real political plan for where this is going and especially where it ends.”

He added that Israel wants the conflict to be a “forever war.”

So far, timid US and international criticism has proven largely irrelevant to Israel.

“Never before has a country broken every single rule so blatantly and blatantly. “No country has ever done exactly what it wanted, regardless of various attempts at intervention by its friends and allies,” Goldberg said.

“The USA is there.”

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) – First Lady Cathy Justice and other state representatives were at Belington Middle School to gift a one-year-old golden retriever to Belington Middle and Elementary Schools.

The first lady says therapy dogs boost student morale.

“Oh it’s wonderful when you see the excitement in their children and their faces, the joy it will bring to the schools, then it will improve attendance and behavior. They want to be at school to see the dog and that will be great,” said First Lady Cathy Justice.

Therapy dogs are made possible by communities in school programs. This initiative has placed 39 dogs in schools across the state.

Students say they love their new furry friend.

“I think it’s a great part of this school. Children come from rough backgrounds. Coming to this dog and petting him means detaching from his problems and work, and that can stress you out from homework and other things. School can be stressful. I think it’s a great part of this school,” Belington Middle School 8th grader Owen Hart said.

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The Mary Ellen and Robert McKee branch of the Boys & Girls Club has begun the registration process for youth basketball. There will be different leagues depending on skill level and age group. Bitty Ball is a mixed student from kindergarten through second grade. This league is designed for the youngest ballplayers learning the game for the first time. “Bitty Ball is for the younger kids who are just learning to play basketball,” said store manager Laura Stratton. “The coaches teach the kids how to dribble and shoot. Above all, teach children not to run and to hold the ball in their hands. The baskets are shorter and the game is only played on half the field.”

“This is a great opportunity to increase your child’s passion for the game and learn some new techniques to improve their skills,” Stratton said.

The older children have the opportunity to compete in the Junior Suns and Junior Mercury leagues. The Junior Suns offer three different levels of play for children. Rookie is in third to fourth grade, Cadet is in fifth to sixth grade, and Sun is in seventh to eighth grade. This league is also mixed. Junior Mercury is for girls only and offers two play level options. Girls can participate in the rookie or cadet groups. “These two leagues are for the more experienced kids,” Stratton said. “Faster games and full pitch. For both leagues, the championship games will be held at the Footprint Center (in downtown Phoenix).”

Registration closes November 17th and anyone interested in having their child participate can apply online at the club’s website: bgcs.org/mary-ellen-robert-mckee-branch/.
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On day one of Fragadelphia x Tap 2, Dust2.us’ Jeffrey “Mnmzzz” Moore met with TSM Impact’s Marissa “madss” Dasta following the team’s 2-0 win over Sedated.

madss competes with a mixed roster called TSM 2.0, which was put together for this event following sudden changes to the TSM Impact roster last month. At Fragadelphia x Tap 2, madss talked about what happened at the TSM Impact Camp and how the plan is progressing.

Overall, a pretty easy opening game for you as you face a mixed team with the M80 manager. What do you think about this series overall?

We’re fine, we’re warming up a little. Everyone’s kind of okay, we’re all just having fun.

You are not on the regular TSM roster, but you, Lynn “Lx” Clarke, Mythic’s Austin “Austin” Meadows, Andrew “Pretzel” Davison, and TylerT69 are. How did this setup come about?

We bought a place, but then other teammates couldn’t come, there were squad changes. So I asked Austin if he wanted to play; I know he’s a good player and a great IGL, and I thought I could leave IGLing in the dust for a while. Tyler, obviously he’s a good player. I wasn’t familiar with Brezel, but he’s another recommendation for Austin.

So the plan was to be there with the entire team. Obviously the team went through some roster changes, but were there plans to include Diane “di^” Tran and April “Bungee” Haight?

We had planned to come here before everything happened, but it all happened very suddenly. I didn’t want to waste the space and really wanted to play since it’s a good experience, so I thought making a good mix would be enough.

It was shocking to see Lucy “empathy” Verkaik and Phoebe “phoebe” Winter leave so suddenly. After some time, can you tell us what happened?

It’s all kind of a mess. They say one thing, but in reality something else happened. Professionally it just wasn’t right, something happened, the chemistry really wasn’t right, they didn’t agree with the way we played. Our general manager felt it was time to make a change and so we finally did and that’s why we’re doing tryouts.

With di^ and Bungee, the team had a mixed result at ESL Impact. What do you think about this outcome given the circumstances?

Obviously we’re not where we want to be yet, but we kind of knew to use substitutes who haven’t played yet Counterattack They’ve been playing for some time VALORANT meant our results wouldn’t be great. Right now we’re more focused on our future and building a really good foundation.

And what is your full-time status in the team?

At the moment, trial training sessions are possible for everyone. In principle, all places are available.

Was it difficult to find replacements for Empathy and Phoebe?

Empathy is a great player, obviously her mechanical skills are amazing, but we lacked a lot of mental depth when it came to understanding when to make a play or when to do things. It just didn’t work out. Mechanical skills are great, but right now we’re focusing on trying people who not only have mechanical skills, but are also very capable of listening and understanding the game around them at the same time.

With the changes in 2025, there is a possibility that TSM Impact will be invited to more mixed tournaments. What do you think of this opportunity and this challenge?

It’s a big challenge. Any time you are able to play better talent and become more official is good practice. It will be great, especially for the new squad coming in.

You will be playing for Team USA at the IESF World Esports Championship later this year. What are the expectations for Saudi Arabia?

Last year we secured third place and I’m pretty sure we can do it again. Of course there is a lot of good European talent and a lot of real impact squads are playing. But I think we can at least reach the top 5.

Their next game is against the Phoenix Core at Penance. What expectations do you have for this game?

They are good players, so we expect them to be versatile and fundamentally solid. We will try to surprise them with our mechanics and a chubby style. Should be fun.

TSM will be hoping to put in a good performance here in Philadelphia when they compete in the group stage today.