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Stephon Gilmore still not practicing for VikingsSince Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in the 2016 presidential campaign and through his first term, out-of-office election-denial antics and his 2024 campaign, many supporters have built a cottage industry excusing his more extravagant claims. They’ve often said that Americans should take him seriously, but not literally. While it’s true President-elect Trump often engages in figurative rhetoric that’s best to ignore, we believe that Americans should take his plan for mass deportations both literally and seriously, given its prominence in his campaign. It’s real cause for concern. The “Mass Deportation Now” placards held by Trump supporters at his rallies were literally a sign of his intentions. Trump’s and Vice President J.D. Vance’s rhetorical attacks on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were another — even though most of them are here legally and definitely were not eating pet cats and dogs. Then there’s this doozy. Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton posted the following on Truth Social: “GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.” Trump responded to the post by writing “TRUE!!!” ABC News noted that Trump, at his Madison Square Garden rally at the end of his campaign, promised, “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.” That statement includes wiggle room given its focus on criminals — and it’s still unclear how he might deploy military assets toward that end. The military has long provided operational assistance to border authorities, according to CBS News. “(L)ongstanding federal law generally prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement,” it noted, but exemptions exist. CBS quoted incoming border czar Tom Homan suggesting a more limited military role with Trump adviser Stephen Miller saying they might deputize the National Guard. Even if the Trump team finds some legal justification, the proposal raises serious constitutional and practical concerns. We’re most concerned by the idea of declaring a national emergency. That tactic is rarely used in this country because it gives the federal government limitless powers to conduct raids and is distinctively un-American. There’s also talk of creating large detainment facilities. This would entail invoking the Insurrection Act, which allows the feds to deploy the military in the face of “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion ... (that) make it impracticable by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.” Presidents rarely use such martial law-like powers and only for targeted situations — not for nationwide operations. Anyone who believes that only criminal aliens have reason to fear such an approach are forgetting why our nation’s Founding Fathers included myriad checks and balances in the Constitution, were so concerned about due-process rights and so intent on limiting the unilateral power of the federal executive branch. American citizens — and non-criminal illegal immigrants — almost certainly will get caught up in any dragnets. Conservatives who were rightly appalled at unilateral COVID-19 restrictions on our liberties should also oppose this type of power grab. The Orange County Register remains proud of its opposition to the Japanese-American internment during World War II. This editorial board will likewise oppose any similar abuses now. It’s too early to know the details, but we take the threats literally and seriously.

Keith Reckdahl breathed a sigh of relief this week after an automatic recount, certified last week, confirmed his narrow 10-vote victory for a seat on the Palo Alto City Council. “There’s a lot of relief — it was a long grind, and the county process was lengthy on top of the recount,” Reckdahl said. Reckdahl, a planning and transportation commissioner, initially led fellow commissioner Doria Summa by just 12 votes, 11,539 to 11,527. However, last month’s recount tightened the race even further, leaving Reckdahl with a razor-thin 10-vote lead, 11,561 to 11,551, according to the official count from Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. The Palo Alto race was , including contests in Fremont, Cupertino, and Newark. In Newark, Julie Del Cantancio . Incumbents Greer Stone, the current mayor, and Pat Burt, along with newcomer George Lu, secured their seats on the council early in the race. With two new members joining the council, Reckdahl emphasized the importance of fresh perspectives. “The council has a few new people, and that’s good,” Reckdahl said. “It’s always valuable to have a variety of voices. You don’t want groupthink, where everyone’s thinking exactly the same.” One of Reckdahl’s top priorities when he takes office in January is to increase the housing supply and “modernize” downtown zoning. “The council is committed to adding more housing, but there are still many details to address,” Reckdahl said. “We must continue pushing aggressively to create more housing in the city. As for retail, we have some vacancies, and we’re working on modernizing downtown zoning to make the area more attractive. These efforts are already underway, but there’s still much to be done.” Palo Alto’s housing plan, officially known as the housing element, was certified in August after being sent back by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. In April, the city revised its plans to include measures for increasing access for minorities and zoning for multi-family construction. To meet its state-mandated housing targets, . “The housing element took a lot of time, which diverted attention from other city matters,” Reckdahl said. California Avenue, one of Palo Alto’s two downtown areas that features parklets, mom-and-pop shops, cafes, and restaurants, as many tech companies and start-ups shifted to remote work. The council has been discussing ways to revitalize the area, but so far, efforts such as new signage, painted planters, bike lanes, and bollards have not been enough to boost foot traffic. “If you go down to California Avenue, it just looks like a cold street,” Reckdahl said. “It doesn’t look like an attractive shopping area, but it has so much potential.” In addition to serving on Palo Alto’s Planning and Transportation Commission, Reckdahl has worked as an aerospace engineer for Lockheed Martin since 2005 and is a graduate of Stanford University.Angry Rudy Giuliani argues with judge overseeing defamation payout: ‘I can't pay my bills'EXCLUSIVE Inside chilling case of 'The Man of Many Faces' as victim breaks her silence with six haunting words READ MORE: U.S. Fugitive Nicholas Rossi appears in court on rape charges By RUTH BASHINSKY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 16:52 EST, 13 December 2024 | Updated: 16:52 EST, 13 December 2024 e-mail 11 shares View comments A woman who was sexually abused by a notorious fugitive who allegedly faked his own death has broken her silence. Nicholas Rossi, 37, who also known as Nicholas Alahverdian , which is his legal surname, and an 'alias' Arthur Knight, is facing two rape charges dating back to 2008. Now another woman Mary Grebinski, 36, has spoken out about how Rossi sexually abused her when she was a college student in Ohio in 2008. In her first-ever television interview, which is scheduled to air at 9pm tonight on NBC Dateline special 'The Man of Many Faces', she told reporter Andrea Canning six haunting words: 'I should have been the last one'. In exclusive clip shared with DailyMail.com, Grebrinski became emotional as she continued: 'There shouldn't have been Utah women - it should have ended with me'. Rossi allegedly fled to Scotland to avoid rape charges and faked his own death. He was extradited back to the US following a lengthy process in early 2022. He is accused of raping a 21-year-old woman and his 26-year-old ex-girlfriend in Utah. He also faces charges of sexual assault in Rhode Island , Ohio and Massachusetts . He pleaded not guilty to the two rape charges in October 2024. Mary Grebinski, 34, was sexually abused by Rossi in 2008. She told reporter Andrea Canning during the Dateline NBC segment that airs Friday: 'I should have been the last one' Nicholas Rossi pictured after his extradition hearing in Scotland. Scottish minister signed an extradition order to enable him to be extradited to the United States In the Dateline segment, Grebinski is pictured standing outside the Scott M. Matheson courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah , ready to see her attacker face the judge. She told Canning: 'He's in custody. I've waited for years to see him in custody... so it is very sweet for me.' Grebinski was 19 when she met Rossi on MySpace in 2008. The two exchanged text messages while both attending Sinclair College in Ohio . Though she had never met Rossi in-person, he approached her on campus and insisted on walking her to class. She said he then forced himself on her in a vacant stairwell. Shaken, Grebinski immediately filed a report with campus police. When Rossi was interviewed about the assault, he made it seem as if she had initiated it. She later told Dayton Daily News that Rossi pushed her up against a wall, started kissing her, groped her, exposed his genitals and then sexually pleasured himself. A year later he was found guilty and convicted of sexual imposition, public indecency, and required to register as a sex offender. The evidence gathered in Grebinski's case helped prosecutors investigate other reports, including the alleged rape that took place in Utah in September 2008. Rossi filed two civil suits against Grebinski in 2009 and 2013 for slander and defamation that he claimed caused him 'humiliation and emotional stress. He lost. Nicholas Rossi, aka 'the man of many faces', pictured in a mugshot Rossi is pictured departing Edinburgh Sheriff Court after his extradition hearing in July 2023 in Edinburgh, Scotland Another mugshot of Rossi from the Pawtuck Police Department Rossi pictured with his wife that he wed while in the UK Once Rossi was back in the US, he attended a series of court hearings and once asked to be addressed as Arthur Knight. He was wheelchair bound and donned an oxygen mask for the proceedings. Rossi testified that he discovered there were credible threats against his life in 2020 that prompted him to move overseas, the Associated Press reported. He claimed the threats were related to his work to reform the Rhode Island’s Department of Children, Youth and Families. During the testimony, he alleged that he suffered abuse and negligence in the Department of Children Youth and Families, Rhode Island's social service system, when he was a child in foster care. Last October, a judge ruled that prosecutors had presented adequate evidence for him to be tried for first-degree rape, days after another Utah judge came to the same conclusion for the second rape charge. He is currently being held in a Utah prison with his bail set at $250,000. His attorney asked for a lower bond because his client was unable to pay it but Utah County prosecutors maintained that he was a flight risk, ksl.com reported. Grebinski speaking with Dateline NBC Andrea Canning outside Salt Lake City Utah courthouse Grebinski was one of the victims to come forward in the case of Nicholas Rossi Sinclair College in Ohio is where Rossi met Grebinski Read More American fugitive Nicholas Rossi to face no further action over claims of sex attack in the UK Rossi, who has been dubbed 'the man of many faces ', is accused of carrying out a wild scheme to take on a new identity while a worldwide manhunt was underway. He allegedly claimed he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, before an obituary ran two months later. He then ended up in the UK under the alias Arthur Brown. Once there, he reportedly professed he was an Irish orphan and spoke in a faux British accent. He also adopted different looks. At times he appeared clean-shaven and boyish. At others he had a bead, glasses and dark cloak and hat. On other occasions he has appeared in a wheelchair with an oxygen mask. In July, Peacock produced a docuseries on the imposter titled: 'Rossi: A Fugitive Faking Death.' Rossi who allegedly used up to sixteen different names, was described as a 'master of disguise, and deception,' by a reporter in docuseries, as per Oxygen. During his time in the UK, Rossi met a woman by the name of Miranda Knight who would later become his wife. He took her surname, calling himself Arthur Knight. In 2021, the couple moved to Glasgow. When Rossi contracted Covid he was hospitalized at the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. While there, his distinctive tattoos and fingerprints matched the American man being hunted by police - but was reported dead. Alleged rapist Nicholas Rossi was wheeled into court in Utah where he was ordered to stand trial for a 2008 rape charge in Utah Rossi told the authorities he was a UK citizen and that his name was Arthur Knight. He c laimed he had never been to the United States and that it was a case of mistaken identity. He said in court that he did not know how he got his tattoos and did not have them when he went into a COVID coma. He also claimed someone was trying to frame him, as per Datyon Daily News. Later he was described as 'dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive and manipulative,' the BBC reported. The Dateline NBC segment also features exclusive interviews with Prosecutor David O. Leavitt, Michael Alahverdian and State Police Detective Conor O’Donnell. 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The Malleswaram police probing the engineering seats-blocking scam have issued notices to three engineering colleges seeking details of admissions and on students not taking admission for the allocated seats for the past three years. The notices were sent to BMS College of Engineering, Akash Institute Of Engineering and Technology, and New Horizon College of Engineering, which have been mentioned in the FIR as the alleged beneficiaries of the scam. The probe so far revealed that the colleges in question are suspected to have blocked the seats as management seats. The police last Tuesday had arrested 10 people, including an outsourced employee of the Karnataka Examinations Authority, who were allegedly involved in the racket. The police suspect that the gang was running the racket and involved in similar offence in other professional courses. Published - December 10, 2024 03:40 am IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Karnataka / higher educationFERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who prosecutors say went by the alias “Dirty Harry,” and Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida, were part of a sophisticated illegal operation that has brought increasing numbers of Indians into the U.S., prosecutors said. They were each convicted on four counts related to human smuggling, including conspiracy to bring migrants into the country illegally. “This trial exposed the unthinkable cruelty of human smuggling and of those criminal organizations that value profit and greed over humanity,” Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said. “To earn a few thousand dollars, these traffickers put men, women and children in extraordinary peril leading to the horrific and tragic deaths of an entire family. Because of this unimaginable greed, a father, a mother and two children froze to death in sub-zero temperatures on the Minnesota-Canadian border,” Luger added. The most serious counts carry maximum sentences of up to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office told The Associated Press before the trial. But federal sentencing guidelines rely on complicated formulas. Luger said Friday that various factors will be considered in determining what sentences prosecutors will recommend. Federal prosecutors said 39-year-old Jagdish Patel; his wife, Vaishaliben, who was in her mid-30s; their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi; and 3-year-old son, Dharmik, froze to death Jan. 19, 2022, while trying to cross the border into Minnesota in a scheme Patel and Shand organized. Patel is a common Indian surname, and the victims were not related to Harshkumar Patel. The couple were schoolteachers, local news reports said. The family was fairly well off by local standards, living in a well-kept, two-story house with a front patio and a wide veranda. Experts say illegal immigration from India is driven by everything from political repression to a dysfunctional American immigration system that can take years, if not decades, to navigate legally. Much is rooted in economics and how even low-wage jobs in the West can ignite hopes for a better life. Before the jury’s conviction on Friday, the federal trial in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, saw testimony from an alleged participant in the smuggling ring, a survivor of the treacherous journey across the northern border, border patrol agents and forensic experts. Defense attorneys were pitted against each other, with Shand’s team arguing that he was unwittingly roped into the scheme by Patel. Patel’s lawyers, The Canadian Press reported , said their client had been misidentified. They said “Dirty Hary,” the alleged nickname for Patel found in Shand’s phone, is a different person. Bank records and witness testimony from those who encountered Shand near the border didn’t tie him to the crime, they added. Prosecutors said Patel coordinated the operation while Shand was a driver. Shand was to pick up 11 Indian migrants on the Minnesota side of the border, prosecutors said. Only seven survived the foot crossing. Canadian authorities found two parents and their young children later that morning, dead from the cold. The trial included an inside account of how the international smuggling ring allegedly works and who it targets. Rajinder Singh, 51, testified that he made over $400,000 smuggling over 500 people through the same network that included Patel and Shand. Singh said most of the people he smuggled came from Gujarat state. He said the migrants would often pay smugglers about $100,000 to get them from India to the U.S., where they would work to pay off their debts at low-wage jobs in cities around the country. Singh said the smugglers would run their finances through “hawala,” an informal money transfer system that relies on trust. The pipeline of illegal immigration from India has long existed but has increased sharply along the U.S.-Canada border. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested more than 14,000 Indians on the Canadian border in the year ending Sept. 30, which amounted to 60% of all arrests along that border and more than 10 times the number two years ago. By 2022, the Pew Research Center estimates more than 725,000 Indians were living illegally in the U.S., behind only Mexicans and El Salvadorans. Jamie Holt, a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations, said the case is a stark reminder of the realities victims of human smuggling face. “Human smuggling is a vile crime that preys on the most vulnerable, exploiting their desperation and dreams for a better life,” Holt said. “The suffering endured by this family is unimaginable and it is our duty to ensure that such atrocities are met with the full force of the law.” One juror Kevin Paul, of Clearwater, Minnesota, told reporters afterward that it was hard for the jurors to see the pictures of the family’s bodies. He said he grew up in North Dakota and is familiar with the kind of conditions that led to their deaths. “It’s pretty brutal,” Paul said. “I couldn’t imagine having to do what they had to do out there in the middle of nowhere.”

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NoneFormer minister Josepha Madigan given court defence deadline as ex-Fine Gael TD being pursued over €225k bank loan debtDo we want patients consulting trapos (traditional politicians) for health assistance? It might become the norm as social health insurance (the Philippine Health Insurance Corp., better known as PhilHealth) gets defunded in favor of a medical assistance program that reeks of patronage politics. We hear politicians singing hosannas for the Medical Assistance to Indigent Patients (MAIP) run by the Department of Health (DoH), which allows politicos to dole out Guarantee Letters (GLs) from their share of MAIP funds. MAIP only had a budget of P1.8 billion when it was created in 2015, but it is now the fastest growing item in the DoH budget. By fiscal year 2025, it will grow over 40 times its original budget when Congress soon approves a P74-billion MAIP budget. On the other hand, the budget for indigents (the premiums of indirect contributors) in PhilHealth has declined from P79 billion in 2023 to P40 billion this year and will stay below its budget level in 2023, with the Senate contemplating a budget of P47 billion for indigent premiums in 2025. This situation is not a new development, as politicians have always curried favor with constituents through ayuda (assistance) programs since COVID-19 hit in 2020. But this time the scale of health patronage is clearly exceeding the public health system’s regular funding. PhilHealth’s Social Health Insurance Program for indigents has suffered the most under this unwritten policy. The health system embodied in Universal Health Care is being gutted to fund MAIP. Indigent patients have always been intimidated by large public hospitals, which they can only go to if they have money in their pocket. Political patronage through MAIP may now mean indigents going to the politicians first before they even think of entering an emergency room or consulting a primary care physician. COMPARING PHILHEALTH AND MAIP PhilHealth serves 17 times more patients than MAIP. In 2023 the number of patients assisted by PhilHealth was 12,675,634. In comparison, based on available data from the DoH website, MAIP served 737,280 patients, in a similar period from July 2022 to June 2023. On average, PhilHealth paid out an average of P4,900 per patient claim in 2023. In comparison, using Region 12 (Soccsksargen) as example, where data are publicly available, we note that DoH’s MAIP provided P3 billion to private hospitals and assisted 140,200 patients with an average of P21,398 per claim in the first nine months of 2024. In short, given the limited data available to us, we can estimate that PhilHealth was able to serve 17 patients for every patient under MAIP (with Region 12 as comparator) with roughly the same amount of funds. GOODWILL OPPORTUNITY Unregulated MAIP funds provide an opportunity for politicians to gain goodwill to the detriment of the health system. MAIP fund support is entirely discretionary on the part of the approving authority (politicians and government executives). The goodwill generated by the generous persons in authority is highly valued, and this translates to political support or votes from the beneficiary who now has a feeling of utang na loob (debt of gratitude) for the political benefactor. This type of political patronage in health is probably more appealing to politicians who want to avoid the “share of percentage” from pork barrel projects paid back to them by favored contractors out of fear of a paper trail of corruption. The politician can exert influence through an apparently “corruption-free” manner through this type of health ayuda . But it is still essentially corruption, for it is a form of bribing voters. MAIP started as an exclusive program for indigents who would have to show proof of indigency from the barangay captain where the beneficiary resided to be covered by the program. However, since mid-2023, the DoH has loosened this requirement to allow financially incapable patients to avail themselves of MAIP (now renamed Medical Assistance to Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients or MAIFIP). This expansion of MAIP to non-indigents allows political patronage to reach an even broader segment of the population, something that is most important during election seasons. TWO SYSTEMS Two systems of financing healthcare are emerging. While PhilHealth provides a similar package of assistance to all its 91 million registered members (as of June 2024) in need regardless of financial capacity, MAIFIP provides assistance to 17 times fewer beneficiaries without regulatory constraint and dependent only on what the approving authority will allow. The emergence of two systems of health financing in the country is more than worrisome, primarily because one system feeds off the other and may end up with the health sector being saddled by two competing programs which increases ine ff iciency. The DoH has noted that benchmark indicators of population health have yielded poor results: • Infant mortality went up to 22/1,000 live births in 2022 (from 21/1,000 the previous year); • Maternal mortality rate increased to 154/100,000 in 2021 (from 149/100,000 in 2021; and, • Neonatal mortality is now 15/1,000 live births (increasing since 2013). The recent decline in the above health indicators is evidence that our primary and secondary levels of health provision (mainly under local government control) have been severely tested by the pandemic and continue to underperform. Such weakness will put a heavy strain on higher levels of care run by provincial, regional, and National Governments and providers in the private sector. The alarm bells are ringing for our healthcare system. The poor and underserved Filipinos feel the crisis. Our highest authorities have remained deaf. It is high time civil society raised a hue and cry about the dismantling of Universal Health Care. Jeepy Perez, a doctor of Medicine, specializes in public health administration, primary healthcare, and has worked with nine Health Secretaries and three National Economic and Development Authority Secretaries since 1992. He was undersecretary for Population and Development and executive director of the country’s Commission on Population and Development up to Sept. 8, 2022, when he retired. He occasionally writes for Action for Economic Reforms.

The Game Awards 2024: The 15 biggest announcements and new trailers including The Witcher 4 and Elden RingSegun James The National Council for Child Rights Advocates of Nigeria (NACCRAN) has demanded an unreserved apology from Nigeria’s consular in Mali, Mr. Ugochukwu C. Chime for what the council described as his alleged defamatory statement against its officers. NACCRAN contributions to the war against human trafficking was acknowledged by the United Nations (UN) in 2011, when it was awarded the special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In a statement issued at the weekend by the South-west Coordinator of NACCRAN, Mr. Samson Olapade Adefioye, the council appealed to the federal government to call Chime to order over his alleged defamatory statements against the council’s officers. While acknowledging the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Muhammed Muhammed, and his counterpart at the Department of State Services (DSS), Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi for their efforts in combating child trafficking in the country, NACCRAN urged the two agencies not to allow the war against child trafficking to fail. The group lauded President Bola Tinubu for maintaining listening ears to the cries of Nigerians and exhibiting open door policy since his assumption of office. According to him, President Tinubu, ever since he was the Governor of Lagos State, had been a leader with a godly passion for the plight of the led. He insisted that President Tinubu deserves commendation for assembling a progressive team of ministers who share the same vision to move Nigeria forward and project the country’s good image to the world, to work with him. Speaking on its efforts at combating child trafficking to Mali, NACCRAN noted the challenges it has faced from the office of the Nigerian Consular in Mali. It commended NAPTIP Director General and his members of staff for their cooperation and support in the fight against child trafficking. NACCRAN praised the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice, and the Director General of Human Rights Commission, for their support in their fight against child trafficking in West Africa. NACCRAN was created in 2005 by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs in conjunction with United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) to ease the plight of Nigerian children, and upgrade the lives of women and youths. NACCRAN was then grouped into six geo-political zones, and the South-west zone has been operating along with other five zones to promote the rights of the child.

By Kurt Bardella We are a few weeks removed from the election, and Democrats do not appear to be any closer to truly understanding why they lost so much ground to Donald Trump with so many demographics. It’s clear to me that comprehending what happened and why will have to come from somewhere other than political operatives within the party, cable news media elites, the dumpster fire that is social media or pollsters. As luck would have it, after the election I found myself giving a lecture to between 40 and 50 students at an American University media and public policy class. For all the discussion about younger voters and trying to understand what motivates them to head to the polls, I wonder how many of the pundits, commentators and experts dissecting the election have actually had a conversation with anyone under age 25 about it. So there I was speaking to a room full of young adults, under 25, some from Alabama or West Virginia, others from Germany or Pakistan, many having voted in the election — most shocked, even shaken from the results. Interestingly, two young women from Pakistan, who had not voted, were least surprised by the outcome. They had a front-row seat to prejudice in America, having lived in New York in the aftermath of 9/11, the victims of threats, hatred and law enforcement targeting. They scoffed at anyone just waking up to the reality that the electorate was not persuaded by warnings of sexism, racism or misogyny. For them and their families, those factors were embedded in their lived experience as Americans. A number of students who attended some of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign rallies were surprised that the very real, tangible energy they felt at those events did not translate to the end result. They felt that they had immersed themselves in a bubble of lefty jubilance and were blindsided when they realized that bubble wasn’t as large as they thought. As the conversation unfolded, I was surprised that the topic of the Middle East never came up as a reason to support or oppose Harris. For all the talk leading up to the election about the effect the Israel-Hamas conflict would have on younger, more progressive college voters, it didn’t come up at all in this sample. What did come up was the feeling that Harris’ pivot to the middle wasn’t authentic. Her talking about her own gun ownership, for example, felt like a blatant effort to appeal to the center-right, and they just didn’t buy it. Harris’ loss hit the young women the most. So many of them didn’t understand how so many in this country could knowingly vote for a man and a political party that want to take away their rights and control their bodies. I challenged them to raise their hands if they, with any regularity, talk with the men in their lives about their bodies, about their menstrual cycles, about what it is to experience life as a woman. I asked them how many times the men in their lives — their fathers or partners — proactively broach those topics with them. Not one hand was raised. Given that, I asked, why would you think that any of them would vote one way or the other based on what’s going on with your body? Another reccurring criticism of Harris was the inability or refusal to meaningfully distinguish what she would have done differently from President Biden. I’ll admit, I was surprised to hear this specific point mentioned numerous times. They felt that the whole premise of the Harris campaign was a fresh start, a new generation of leadership, a turning of the page from old to new and yet, by not contrasting at all from Biden, she was sending the signal to these kids that it would be business as usual. They found that incredibly uninspiring. As I spent these few hours with them, it was clear that these students feel unseen by the political system. It was an overwhelmingly pro-Harris class, but the disdain they felt for the Democratic Party was palpable. This generation doesn’t want to be told what to do or what to think. They don’t want to be told what could happen if the other side wins. They don’t want to be lectured to or preached at. What they do want is to be inspired. They want something different from what they’ve seen from Washington over the last eight years. They want to be engaged regularly and authentically, not just when the political calendar dictates, as some targeted demographic determined by a political consultant. Every election cycle, everyone asks how to get young Americans to turn out more robustly, to engage and activate. After talking with these students, I think the answer is simple: Engage them like adults. Talk to them, not at them. Be real. Make it relatable and personal. Meet them where they are, not where you want them to be. This article was published in the Los Angeles Times and distributed by Tribune Content Agency.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Corey Stephenson had 21 points in CSU Bakersfield's 68-60 victory over Northeastern at the Homewood Suites Classic tournament in Fort Myers, Florida on Sunday. Stephenson shot 8 of 16 from the field and 5 for 6 from the line for the Roadrunners (4-3). Marvin McGhee shot 4 for 10 (1 for 5 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line to add 12 points. McGhee went 3 of 7 from the field (3 for 5 from 3-point range) to finish with 10 points. LA Pratt led the way for the Huskies (5-2) with 15 points and six rebounds. Masai Troutman added 15 points for Northeastern. Harold Woods also had eight points. CSU Bakersfield led Northeastern at the half, 34-29, with McGhee (six points) its high scorer before the break. Stephenson's layup with 4:08 left in the second half gave CSU Bakersfield the lead for good at 56-54. NEXT UP These two teams both play Saturday. CSU Bakersfield visits Southern Utah and Northeastern visits Vermont. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from . The Associated Press

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