(The Center Square) – Adoption of institutional neutrality is supported by better than 6 in 10 tenured and nontenured faculty at the University of North Carolina, Wake Forest University and Duke University, a report says. Nationally, 66% of faculty say “colleges and universities should not take positions on political and social issues,” says Silence in the Classroom, the 2024 FIRE Faculty Survey Report. At Duke, the percentage is 71%, at Carolina 65%, and at Wake 64%. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Gonzaga lands Virginia transfer G Jalen Warley
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell broadly on Friday as Wall Street closed out a holiday-shortened week on a down note. The losses were made worse by sharp declines for the Big Tech stocks known as the “Magnificent 7”, which can heavily influence the direction of the market because of their large size. The S&P 500 fell 66.75 points, or 1.1%, to 5,970.84. Roughly 90% of stocks in the benchmark index lost ground, but it managed to hold onto a modest gain of 0.7% for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 333.59 points, or 0.8%, to 42,992.21. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 298.33 points, or 1.5%, to 19,722.03. Semiconductor giant Nvidia slumped 2.1%. Microsoft declined 1.7%. Each has a market value above $3 trillion, giving the companies outsized sway on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. A wide range of retailers also fell. Amazon fell 1.5% and Best Buy slipped 1.5%. The sector is being closely watched for clues on how it performed during the holiday shopping season. Energy stocks held up better than the rest of the market, with a loss of less than 0.1% as crude oil prices rose. “There’s just some uncertainty over this relief rally we’ve witnessed since last week,” said Adam Turnquist, chief technical strategist for LPL Financial. The S&P 500 gained nearly 3% over a 3-day stretch before breaking for the Christmas holiday. On Thursday, the index posted a small decline. Despite Friday's drop, the market is moving closer to another standout annual finish . The S&P 500 is on track for a gain of around 25% in 2024. That would mark a second consecutive yearly gain of more than 20%, the first time that has happened since 1997-1998. The gains have been driven partly by upbeat economic data showing that consumers continued spending and the labor market remained strong. Inflation, while still high, has also been steadily easing. A report on Friday showed that sales and inventory estimates for the wholesales trade industry fell 0.2% in November, following a slight gain in October. That weaker-than-expected report follows an update on the labor market Thursday that showed unemployment benefits held steady last week. The stream of upbeat economic data and easing inflation helped prompt a reversal in the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy this year. Expectations for interest rate cuts also helped drive market gains. The central bank recently delivered its third cut to interest rates in 2024. Even though inflation has come closer to the central bank's target of 2%, it remains stubbornly above that mark and worries about it heating up again have tempered the forecast for more interest rate cuts. Inflation concerns have added to uncertainties heading into 2025, which include the labor market’s path ahead and shifting economic policies under incoming President Donald Trump. Worries have risen that Trump’s preference for tariffs and other policies could lead to higher inflation , a bigger U.S. government debt and difficulties for global trade. Amedisys rose 4.7% after the home health care and hospice services provider agreed to extend the deadline for its sale to UnitedHealth Group. The Justice Department had sued to block the $3.3 billion deal, citing concerns the combination would hinder access to home health and hospice services in the U.S. The move to extend the deadline comes ahead of an expected shift in regulatory policy under Trump. The incoming administration is expected to have a more permissive approach to dealmaking and is less likely to raise antitrust concerns. In Asia, Japan’s benchmark index surged as the yen remained weak against the dollar. Stocks in South Korea fell after the main opposition party voted to impeach the country’s acting leader. Markets in Europe gained ground. Bond yields held relatively steady. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.62% from 4.59% late Thursday. The yield on the two-year Treasury remained at 4.33% from late Thursday. Wall Street will have more economic updates to look forward to next week, including reports on pending home sales and home prices. There will also be reports on U.S. construction spending and snapshots of manufacturing activity.Right-wing activist Laura Loomer has warned Donald Trump that he could be impeached if he allows tech billionaire Elon Musk to continue influencing future policy decisions, amid an online debate about visas for foreign workers. Loomer and other conservative commenters claimed on Thursday that they were stripped of their verification badges on X after they criticized Musk’s support of H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers. In an X post, Loomer wrote that there was a "full censorship of my account simply because I called out H-1B visas. This is anti-American behavior by tech oligarchs. What happened to free speech?" Vivek Ramaswamy called 'con man' after H1-B backlash as he fails to deflect Trump stays silent as MAGA implodes over Musk and Vivek's immigration stance In an interview with Steve Bannon, Loomer added that she believed Donald Trump ’s affiliation with Musk would threaten his second term in office. "If he [Musk] is a free speech absolutist, why was my account suspended? I lost my verification, my blue check because Elon Musk does not like what I said,” she said. Laura Loomer on her X suspension: "If he's a free speech absolutist, why was my account suspended? ... I am simply trying to warn the Trump administration about something that's going to blow up in their face, & it has the risk of potentially getting President Trump impeached" pic.twitter.com/jBhxc33KIN — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 27, 2024 “I am simply trying to warn the Trump administration about something that's going to blow up in their face, and it actually has the risk of potentially getting President Trump impeached in his second term if the Democrats take back the House and are successfully able to spin and create a narrative that Big Tech is trying to buy influence and enriching themselves in the Trump administration." The debate about H-1B visas began this week when Loomer 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 US. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy,” adding that tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Musk weighed in on Wednesday, saying America had too few "talented" and "motivated" engineers and needed "to recruit top talent wherever they may be." "Loomer is trolling for attention. Ignore," Musk posted on X. Donald Trump hits back at claims Elon Musk is running the US WNBA star tells Elon Musk to 'go back to Africa' after Donald Trump failure Musk warned he's 'making enemies and will get hurt' if he doesn't quit politics The debate enraged MAGA supporters, with figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire US workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers in the industry are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut American citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated. Trump has not yet weighed in on the debate.
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Prominent industrialists and businessmen from across Anambra State have expressed confidence that the South-East Development Commission will create more opportunities for the South-East geopolitical zone once it becomes operational. They praised the management of the commission, led by Mark Okoye as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer and Dr. Emeka Nworgu as Chairman, for having the capacity to bring the commission’s vision to fruition. Okoye is also the MD/CEO of the Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency, while Nworgu is a former Minister of Labour. Speaking to journalists in Awka on Friday about the SEDC’s importance to the South-East region, businessman and former president of the Anambra Chambers of Commerce, Don Ebubeogu, commended President Bola Tinubu for prioritising competence over political affiliation in constituting the board. Ebubeogu stated, “President Tinubu may be sending a strong message to Ndigbo: the era of career political contractors is over. The political gang that has held this region down should now seek meaningful work and remove their weight from our necks.” On her part, Mrs. Ijeoma Oduonye, the Chief Executive Officer of Cutix Plc, expressed confidence that the SEDC would fulfill its mandate of infrastructural transformation and economic rejuvenation for the region. Related News SEDC board will tackle Southeast infrastructure deficit — Ex-PDP presidential aspirant Anambra federal character commissioner lauds Tinubu on S’East development Matters arising from mushrooming of development commissions She added, “We are confident that the SEDC will deliver beyond expectations, promoting dynamic infrastructure development and sustainable economic growth in the South-East region.” It should be noted that President Tinubu signed the SEDC bill into law in July and nominated a 16-member board for the commission on December 7. Among the other nominees were Mr. Sylvester Okonkwo, Mr. Toby Okechukwu, Mr. Stanley Ohajuruka, Mr. Anthony Agbo, Dr. Clifford Ogbede, Mr. Ugochukwu Agballah, Mr. Okey Ezenwa, and Chief Hyacinth Ikpor. The SEDC was established to oversee the reconstruction and rehabilitation of infrastructure damaged during the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970). The businessmen expressed gratitude to President Tinubu for constituting the Governing Board and Executive Management of the Commission and voiced their hope for a swift confirmation process.ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Maverick McNealy has learned in his five years on the PGA Tour that trying to win a tournament is “designed to make you feel as uncomfortable as you possibly can.” Standing in the 18th fairway Sunday in the RSM Classic, part of a four-way tie for the lead that included Florida State sophomore Luke Clanton, the 29-year-old McNealy had every reason to be uncomfortable.KUWAIT: Witnessing the plight of underprivileged families in Kuwait — where both parents may be unemployed, leaving no income to support their children, or encountering 13-year-olds unable to read or write — presents a harsh reality that remains largely hidden from public view. This somber truth was highlighted during the Voices of Service storytelling session held on Wednesday in honor of International Volunteer Day. Organized in partnership with UN Volunteers and in collaboration with Qesati, the event shed light on the challenges faced by marginalized communities. “People often overlook the struggles others endure, focusing solely on their own lives. We rarely see what happens behind closed doors,” said Muneera Al Jeeran, a Community Engagement Specialist with the Manara humanitarian team in Kuwait. Speaking during the session, Al Jeeran emphasized on the importance of cultivating selflessness through volunteering. On the sidelines of the event, she told Kuwait Times that addressing these societal issues requires breaking the cultural stigma surrounding volunteerism. “Many think, ‘I have a stable life, a job, and everything I need — why volunteer? I don’t have time,’” she noted. Al Jeeran stressed that even small acts of service can create a lasting and meaningful impact, urging more individuals to step forward and contribute to change. Addressing data gaps Another gap she highlighted in Kuwait, is the lack of data on underprivileged communities, which she believes is key to creating a sustainable change. “We need statistics and numbers to better understand people’s challenges and measure the impact of our efforts,” she emphasized. Understanding the struggles faced by underprivileged families “humbles you” and fuels a deeper desire to contribute more, according to Farah Al Ali, a member of Basta Non-Profit Company, during the discussion. Basta’s primary focus goes beyond merely providing aid, aiming instead to equip families with the skills and resources necessary for sustainable change. Al Ali emphasized that their mission centers on ensuring children’s education by covering tuition fees, highlighting education as a crucial tool to break the cycle of poverty. By gaining access to education, children acquire the knowledge and skills needed to secure jobs, support their families, and pursue better opportunities in life. Both Manara and Basta are open to everyone, regardless of age, accepting donations and encouraging volunteer contributions at various workshops and events they organize. You can access more information through their Instagram accounts, websites, and contact numbers. For further details, visit their Manara Instagram or Basta Instagram. Volunteerism as a graduation prerequisite Lulwa Al Sharrah, Senior Coordinator at LOYAC, a non-profit organization established with an aim of empowering youth to become impactful leaders in society, highlighted the growing significance of volunteerism, particularly within Kuwait’s educational sector. “In high school, we were required to complete 40 hours of community service to graduate. Now, at LOYAC, we’re working with several private schools that have already adopted similar requirements, with more schools following suit.” She noted that while mandatory service may seem demanding initially, it helps cultivate a lasting habit. “Over time, students often engage voluntarily, recognizing the value and sense of fulfillment it provides.” Dr Ghassan Al Othman, Consultant Pediatric Respirologist and Founder of Athr, an NPO aimed at empowering the community to build a healthy urban living, explored the scientific basis behind giving and volunteering, focusing on how certain brain chemicals — oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine — drive human behavior. “As social animals, we are inherently wired not to take, but to give,” he explained. Reward system behind volunteering Oxytocin, often called the “love hormone,” plays a role in bonding and trust, while serotonin influences mood and feelings of well-being. Dopamine is linked to reward and pleasure, particularly in response to acts of kindness, such as receiving gratitude or smiles from others. Al Othman emphasized that the positive feedback from helping others — such as a smile — releases dopamine, reinforcing a sense of humanity and connection. Volunteering in difficult situations not only provides support to those in need but also “fulfills an innate human desire for compassion and connection,” he said. Recognizing and encouraging these patterns helps create more compassionate, interconnected urban spaces, added Al Othman. Ghada Hatim Eltahir Mudawi, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kuwait, highlighted Kuwait’s leadership in volunteerism, emphasizing how volunteers, communities, and civil society organizations drive positive and transformative change. She expressed deep appreciation for Kuwaiti volunteers, praising their dedication and passion that inspire the UN team daily. The UN recognizes volunteers as key contributors to principles like “leaving no one behind” and sustainable development, she added.
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Brazil 's former President Jair Bolsonaro has been a target for investigations since his early days in office, and the swarm of cases since his failed reelection bid in 2022 has left him in ever-deeper legal jeopardy. In the latest indictment Thursday, he was accused of attempting a coup to keep himself in the presidency. In another case, the electoral court ruled the far-right leader ineligible to run for office until 2030. There are dozens of other probes that could produce criminal charges at low-level courts, where he could appeal any eventual conviction. But the country's Supreme Court will have the final say regarding more than five in-depth investigations, including into the alleged coup attempt, which could land the former president behind bars or under house arrest. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing in all of the cases, and his allies have alleged they are political persecution, while recognizing the severity of the legal risks on multiple fronts. Here's a look at the biggest threats and where they stand: Coup Attempt Federal police on Thursday indicted Bolsonaro and 36 others for allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections. The indictment is sealed, but among other things authorities had been investigating whether he incited the Jan. 8, 2022 riot in which his followers ransacked the Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital of Brasilia. STATUS: Police sent their findings to Brazil’s Supreme Court, which must decide whether to refer them to Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet. He will either formally charge Bolsonaro and put him on trial, or toss the investigation. Electoral Misdeeds Brazil’s highest electoral court in June ruled that Bolsonaro used government communication channels in a meeting with diplomats to promote his reelection bid and sow distrust about the vote. The case focused on a meeting the prior year, during which Bolsonaro used government staffers, the state television channel and the presidential palace in Brasilia to tell foreign ambassadors that the country’s electronic voting system was rigged. The ruling rendered him ineligible for office until 2030, although he has insisted that he will run in the 2026 race. The court also found that Bolsonaro abused his power during Brazil’s Independence Day festivities, a month before the election. The ruling didn’t add years to Bolsonaro’s ineligibility, but made any appeal less likely to succeed. A third case is also pending at the court. STATUS: Bolsonaro’s appeal of the initial ruling was denied. Vaccination Fraud Bolsonaro has been indicted for directing an official to tamper with a public health database to make it appear as though he and his 12-year-old daughter had received the COVID-19 vaccine in order to bypass U.S. entry requirements. During the pandemic, he railed against the vaccine, characterized the choice to receive a shot as a matter of personal freedom and has repeatedly said he never did so. The Federal Police accused Bolsonaro of criminal association and inserting false data into public records, which carry maximum penalties of 4 and 12 years in prison, respectively. It was his first indictment since leaving office. STATUS: Brazil's Supreme Court sent the indictment to the prosecutor-general, who is weighing whether to use it to press charges. Local media reported that he was seeking to consult American authorities about whether Bolsonaro used the forged document to enter the country, and that having done so could result in U.S. legal action. Saudi Jewels Federal Police have probed whether Bolsonaro directed officials to smuggle luxury jewelry worth millions into Brazil from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, then acted to prevent them from being incorporated into the presidential collection and instead retain ownership for himself. Investigators summoned Bolsonaro for questioning in April and August of 2023. He has returned the jewelry in question. STATUS: The Federal Police indicted Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations. A second source confirmed the indictment, although not for which specific crimes. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Pandemic Sabotage Brazil’s Federal Police is investigating Bolsonaro for inciting crimes against public health during the COVID-19 pandemic, which include encouraging people not to wear masks and causing alarm about non-existent danger of vaccines accelerating development of AIDS. A Senate inquiry commission also spent months investigating his pandemic-era actions and decisions, and recommended nine criminal charges. Brazil’s former prosecutor-general Augusto Aras, widely seen as a Bolsonaro ally, decided not to file any charges based on the lawmakers' findings. They have urged his Aras' successor to reopen the case. STATUS: The investigation is ongoing. Fake News, Digital Militia Brazil's Supreme Court in 2020 ordered an investigation into a network allegedly spreading defamatory fake news and threats against Supreme Court justices. The probe has yielded the imprisonment of lawmakers from the former president's circle and raids of his supporters' homes. In 2021, Bolsonaro was included as a target. As an offshoot of that probe, the Federal Police is also investigating whether a group operating inside Bolsonaro’s presidential palace produced social media content aimed at undermining the rule of law. The group, allegedly comprised of aides and Bolsonaro’s politician son, has been widely referred to as a digital militia and “the hate cabinet.” STATUS: Both investigations are ongoing. ___ Biller reported from Rio de Janeiro
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Amaravati: Hitting back at former Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party president, Andhra Pradesh Minister for Education, IT and Electronics, Nara Lokesh, on Sunday said that the dues of the previous government to be paid as fee reimbursement which is imposed on the present government are not less than Rs 6,500 crore. In a strong counter to Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s statement criticising the coalition government for neglecting the education sector, Lokesh told him that his inefficient government could not implement the promise of total fee reimbursement. Stating that the previous ruling dispensation played with the lives of the students by amending the rules of fee reimbursement, Lokesh said while in power, Jagan acted in an irresponsible way but is now preaching values after losing power. The Minister said that the future of lakhs of students is hanging in balance as they have not received their certificates due to dues to the tune of Rs 3,500 crore under Vidya Deevena and Vasathi Deevena. The TDP leader said when I was on my Yuva Galam pada yatra, the students brought the issue to his notice and as per the promise made to them, the TDP-led NDA government resolved the issue immediately after coming to power. The colleges have been directed to immediately issue their certificates to the students and a decision too was taken recently to pay the fee reimbursement amount directly to the colleges, he stated. He alleged that the entire academic sector was totally destroyed in the past five years due to wrong decisions of the Jagan Mohan Reddy government. “Is it not a fact that the total strength of students in government schools has fallen by four lakh due to the faulty and corrupt decisions taken by the previous government in the past five years,” Lokesh asked. Observing that the CBSE system was introduced without even preparing the students and the teachers, Lokesh felt that due to this 90 per cent of the students failed the CBSE exam that was conducted after the NDA came to power. “You have taken the publicity to peak level by claiming Nadu-Nedu but the matter is very weak. During my ground-level visit I have found that several schools do not have even basic facilities like drinking water, toilets and even tables to sit. We are thus making preparations to assess the capacity of students on their schools campuses itself,” he said. Observing that it is the duty of this government to bring the academic sector back on track, the Minister said that it is moving ahead in a planned manner. “We are initially taking measures to provide basic amenities on the campuses and have already begun the exercise to fill the 16,347 vacant teacher posts through Mega DSC,” the Minister for Education maintained. He made it clear that the old fee reimbursement scheme will be revived in place of Vidya Deevena and Vasathi Deevena so that the students and their parents do not face any kind of problems.
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Subscribe to our newsletter Privacy Policy Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My Account to verify and manage your account. An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link. Support Independent Arts Journalism As an independent publication, we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider becoming a member today . Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member . 2024 was a bustling year for art in New York, with blockbuster exhibitions at museums, museum-level shows at galleries — especially a few new, nearly museum-sized galleries in Tribeca, the city’s reigning art hub — and nonprofits and artist-run spaces presenting some fresh faces and engaging programming. Art censorship also came to the fore this year as we got a glimpse into the interests and politics of museums, but despite it all, there was so much great art to see. It was hard for Hyperallergic ’s staff and contributors to compile our favorites with so many strong shows to choose from, but below are the ones that made us think, nourished our souls, introduced us to under-recognized artists, cultures, or histories, and most of all, just blew us away. — Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor Joyce Kozloff: Collateral Damage DC Moore Gallery , January 6–February 3, 2024 Organized by the gallery I arrived on the last day of this beautiful exhibition to find a series of map works by the veteran of the Pattern & Decoration movement. Kozloff turned each graphic into a rich surface teeming with danger, cultural memory, and possibilities. Joyce Kozloff demonstrates how painting continues to be a point of conflict — not only in art but in the way we see the world or, as we’re bombarded with information, the way we refuse to look away. — Hrag Vartanian Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Daily Weekly Opportunities Apollinaria Broche: In the distance there was a glimpse Marianne Boesky Gallery , January 24–March 2, 2024 Organized by the gallery A moving display of whimsical ceramic and bronze sculptures that seem to have stepped out of someone’s dreamspace. There’s a sense of romanticism throughout Apollinaria Broche’s art and in this show an eerie pop soundtrack helped to transport the viewer into a space of wonder. The title was swiped from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 children’s book The Secret Garden . It is a good choice as it captures the spirit of awe, tinged with fragility, that was very much a part of this show. I still think about it, not only for the wistful figures and plants that appear to be on the verge of almost disappearing, but for that spirit. — HV Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality The Morgan Library & Museum , November 10, 2023–March 10, 2024 Curated by Diane Wolfthal and Deirdre Jackson This unexpectedly in depth exhibition focused on the culture of money in the European Medieval and early Renaissance eras, and included numismatic displays, old manuscripts, prints by Albrecht Dürer, paintings by Fra Angelico, Jan Gossaert, Hans Memling, and even Hieronymus Bosch’s riveting “Death and the Miser” (c. 1485–90) on loan from the National Gallery of Art in DC. The Morgan did a fantastic job of introducing the culture of commerce and early capitalism without falling for clichés. I left this show understanding the complexity of money and its role not only in life but in the art of the era. — HV Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre Jack Shainman Gallery , January 12–March 16, 2024 Organized by the gallery This exhibition was the soft launch of Jack Shainman Gallery’s new space by City Hall, and it seemed perfectly in tune with a collective desire these days for spaces that allow the viewer to reflect and process the world around them through art. Irish artist Richard Mosse gave us a multi-channel exploration of the environmental devastation in the Amazon. The visuals were gorgeous even when we were faced with the anger of a young Indigenous woman who will not let you forget your privilege as consumers of her resources. — HV Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection Queens Museum , December 6, 2023–April 7, 2024 Organized by Hitomi Iwasaki, Head of Exhibitions/Curator Aki Sasamoto’s wacky humor about the drudgeries of middle-class life reached peak existentialism in her first museum exhibition. The show played a sneaky trick on viewers: Sure, you get amused by installations showing Magic Eraser cubes dancing in the air with snail shells, or by watching the artist crawl in and out of industrial pipes in her performances, but soon after leaving you struggle to push away the question: What kind of life am I living? — Hakim Bishara Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School The New-York Historical Society , October 20, 2023–April 14, 2024 Curated by the artist and Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto It was fantastic to see Kay WalkingStick paired with the artists of the Hudson River School, because it allowed her art to be in direct dialogue with much of the imagery she has grappled with for decades. Juxtaposed with canvases by Asher B. Durand, Albert Bierstadt, and others, WalkingStick challenged us to question what is “objective” in the colonial gaze and how the lies of “manifest destiny” continue to infect our ideas of nature in North America and beyond. — HV Jim Dine: The ’60s 125 Newbury , March 15–April 20, 2024 Organized by the gallery Jim Dine’s career has gone through many changes since his first exhibition at the Reuben Gallery in the 1960s, where he also staged the performance “Car Crash” in 1960. Because of all these transformations, and the wide range of techniques he has mastered, from printmaking to drawing to painting to sculpture, not to mention his poetry, his art cannot be characterized. What would a retrospective of his work like, if it were to cast a backward gaze from the vantage point of 2025, when the artist, who shows no sign of slowing down, turns 90? These questions occurred to me when I saw this show, which revealed two aspects of the artist’s work that I had not fully grasped in the past. First, drawing was there from the beginning. Second, Dine believes physical labor and art making are essentially interchangeable. On Templon gallery’s website, he is quoted as saying: “When you paint every day, all year long, then the subject is essentially the act of working.” For Dine, there is neither a gap between art and life (as with Robert Rauschenberg) nor a disdain for labor (as with Andy Warhol). Dine’s belief in labor explains why many of his works project a sense of joy, as the sheer act of making is one that gives the artist pleasure. Many pleasures are to be found in Dine’s work, which is far more complex and varied than the art world has given him credit for. He attached objects to all 11 paintings in the exhibition (which also included two sculptures incorporating tools or workmen’s clothing and two pairs of drawings — one based on color charts, the other depicting a paintbrush). His commemorations of industriousness are at fundamental odds with the art historians, critics, and curators who have asserted that Pop Art is about boredom and picks up where Marcel Duchamp left off; he celebrates labor while eschewing commercial products and mechanical means. As the art world focused on erasing the hand from art and championed fabrication, Dine neither wavered from nor fetishized his belief in the bond between art and labor. — John Yau Mira Schor: Wet Lyles & King , March 27–May 4, 2024 Organized by the gallery Over the last five decades, Mira Schor has forged a body of work rooted in feminist thought and encompassing its evolutions. The fact that her deceptively delicate rice-paper Dresses from the 1970s pulse with relevance today (and that her canvases from the past year, portraying faceless women in deeply hued expanses, are just as timeless) made this thematic survey an ambitious undertaking — and all the more thrilling to take in. The show captured visitors from the start with a salon-style hang of framed works at its entrance and a riveting selection of Schor’s expansive multi-paneled canvases, including “ Pardon Me Ms. ” (1989), in which an ear metamorphosing into a penis zooms through space like a projectile, inseminating a smaller ear with the liquid red stripes of the United States flag. Tender, funny, tough, and serious, WET was a spirited tribute to an artist’s living legacy. — Valentina Di Liscia Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature The Morgan Library & Museum , February 23–June 9, 2024 Curated by Philip Palmer For many, the name Beatrix Potter will immediately evoke a whimsical, cozy world of personified bunnies gathering blackberries and getting tucked into bed by an apron-wearing Mrs. Rabbit, or a group of dapper toads at a tea party. But the universally cherished British children’s book author and illustrator was also a mycologist, botanist, and committed land preservationist, among other lesser-known roles brought to the forefront in this exquisite survey. The exhibition encompassed not only artworks from Potter’s most beloved tales, but also early sketches, letters, manuscripts, books, and photographs that radiated with her deep affection for the natural world. Carefully curated, the show was tender and heartfelt, but not the least bit cutesy. — VD None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection Japan Society , March 8–June 16, 2024 Curated by Tiffany Lambert; the presentation at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was curated by Bradley M. Bailey and Yukio Lippit The collection of Alice Yelen Gitter and Kurt Gitter was a great introduction to zenga , which is what the painting associated with Japanese Zen Buddhism is called. Hakuin Ekaku, considered one of the most influential figures in the genre, was showcased with his excellent “Two Blind Men Crossing a Log Bridge” (18th century), which curator Yukio Lippit explained is one of the best known zenga works outside of Japan. Among the other works on display, a large cross section of scroll paintings highlighted the intellectual interests of Zen. This show was a great exploration of the themes that illuminate why the Japanese understanding of Zen continues to have wide appeal. — HV Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 Grey Art Museum , March 2–July 20, 2024 Curated by Lynn Gumpert and Debra Bricker Balken Starting at the end of World War II, more than 400 servicemen went to Paris to study art, subsidized by the G.I. Bill, including artists of color, as well as many women. As demonstrated by this landmark exhibition, this resulted in racial and gender diversity in Paris that was not mirrored in the ascending New York art world. Among the 70 artists included, viewers got to see early pieces by James Bishop, Norman Bluhm, Ed Clark, Ralph Coburn, Shirley Goldfarb, Carmen Herrera, Sheila Hicks, Shirley Jaffe, Kimber Smith, and Shinkichi Tajiri, all of whom went on to create singular bodies of work. With the exception of Herrera, who received a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight (September 16, 2016–January 9, 2017), curated by Dana Miller (though Herrera was more than 100 years old by then), the artists I listed deserve to be better known, even though not all of them returned to the United States or settled in New York. Being in Paris was instrumental for many, as they gained firsthand experience of different European traditions, from the chance operations of Hans Arp to the saturated colors of Henri Matisse. What this exhibition conveys is the cross pollination that took place in Paris after their eyes were opened to new possibilities. — JY The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism Metropolitan Museum of Art , February 25–July 28, 2024 Curated by Denise Murrell At the Metropolitan Museum, curator Denise Murrell arranged an enlightening collection of artworks representing a pivotal cultural era following World War I: the Harlem Renaissance. The artistic, literary, and scholarly movement traversed Black America and beyond, with the namesake New York City neighborhood at its center. The exhibition posits Alain Locke, author of The New Negro , as a vanguard of the landmark movement, highlighting his philosophies on class and racial uplift alongside the movement’s prolific development of arts and literature. Borrowing from the repositories of Historically Black Colleges and Universities like Howard, Hampton, and Fisk, the exhibition is decorated with works revealing the day-to-day curiosities, experiences, and philosophies of 20th-century Black life, like Laura Wheeler’s pensive portraits and photographs by James van der Zee. “The Block” (1971) by Romare Bearden, offers a stretching view of a bustling Harlem street across six panels; Aaron Douglas’s massive canvases depict Black American history through grandiose, mythic visuals. Other collected works help make sense of sociocultural trends — like the Great Migration, famously represented by collagist Jacob Lawrence — giving a peek at, and helping conceptualize the larger ethos of, a burgeoning Black modernism. — Jasmine Weber Video Works at the 2024 Whitney Biennial Whitney Museum of American Art , March 20–August 11, 2024 Curated by Chrissie Iles, Meg Onli, Min Sun Jeon, and Beatriz Cifuentes If anything stood out at this year’s Whitney Biennial, it was the videos. Artists including Sharon Hayes ( Ricerche: four , 2024), Nyala Moon (“Dilating for Maximum Results,” 2023), and Penelope Spheeris (“I Don’t Know,” 1970) all showed works that navigated LGBTQ+ themes with nuance and humor, while Christopher Harris ( Still/Here , 2001), Edward Owens (“Remembrance: A Portrait Study,” 1967), Diane Severin Nguyen ( In Her Time (Iris’s Version) , 2023–24), and many more explored racism, memory, and colonial histories, to name a few topics with which most of us can connect in some way. Hayes’s engrossing two-channel video installation had a homey feel, with mismatched chairs inviting visitors to listen to different generations of queer people in discussion (it’s a shame that the 60-minute film itself couldn’t be streamed on Mubi, like many of the videos). Other standout works included Seba Calfuqueo’s visually stunning “Tray Tray Ko” (2022), Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s poetic look at Suzanne Césaire, “Too Bright to See (Part I)” (2022), and Isaac Julien’s grand, room-sized installation Iolaus/In the Life (Once Again. . . Statues Never Die) (2022). While we all enjoyed works in various media, film and video really made this biennial. — NH Painting Deconstructed Ortega y Gasset Projects , May 18–August 24, 2024 Curated by Leeza Meksin What is a painting? That was the question posed by this exhibition, answered spectacularly by 45 envelope-pushing artists from various backgrounds and disciplines. Their paintings jumped out of the walls, burst out of their frames, or cosplayed as sculptures. It was a remarkable feat by this artist-run gallery, and a joy to behold. — HB Suchitra Mattai: We are nomads, we are dreamers Socrates Sculpture Park , May 11–August 25, 2024 Curated by Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas Half a year has passed since I visited Suchitra Mattai’s sculptures in Queens. They’ve been taken down, a chill has settled over the park where they once stood, and much has changed in both my life and the world around me. I still think about them every day. The Guyanese-American artist’s intuitive approach to line and color endowed these mirrored forms with a heartbeat. Woven from everyday saris that were previously worn and loved, they recall the ocean’s linkage to histories of Indo-Guyanese indentured labor and the shape of both South Asia and South America. The more time I spent with them, the more new interpretations they conjured. They could be coral reefs, clouds, continents, or creatures from another world, but one thing was certain: They were alive. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin Pacita Abad MoMA PS1 , April 4–September 2, 2024 Curated by Ruba Katrib and Sheldon Gooch; the presentation at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, was curated by Victoria Sung and Matthew Villar Miranda Filipina artist Pacita Abad was an empath, a roving intellectual, a truth-teller, a soul queen, a woman of the world. She journeyed between continents, visiting some 60 countries, to soak up local traditions and feel the pain of others on her skin. She stitched all these experiences into spellbinding quilt-like trapunto paintings, using everything from shells and beads to water bottle caps and toothpaste tubes. New Yorkers had a rare chance to see so many of her magnificent works in one place thanks to this unforgettable exhibition. — HB LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity Museum of Modern Art , May 12–September 7, 2024 Curated by Roxana Marcoci, Caitlin Ryan, and Antoinette D. Roberts LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MoMA retrospective lived up to its title in many ways. Monumental in scale and scope, the exhibition, featuring works from across two decades of the artist’s career, asked big questions about the meaning and enactment of solidarity, and the reasons why it’s so deeply necessary in a world that feels ever more atomized. While many know the intimate black and white photographs Frazier has taken over the years in her Rust Belt hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, they might be unaware of her three-act series on the Flint, Michigan, water crisis through the experiences of Shea S. Cobb, a poet, activist, and mother from the city; her moving collaboration with fellow artist Sandra Gould Ford focused on the racially segregated and dangerous realities of work inside the steel mills that once dominated the region where they both grew up; her steady and probing gaze as the final car left the line at the now-shuttered General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio; and her pilgrimage to capture the legacy of United Farmworkers Association co-founder Dolores Huerta. Viewers got a taste of how the artist builds intimacy, connection, and a shared sense of struggle with those she features and collaborates with in her work; we were also pushed to ask ourselves about our own community ties, and about where and when we would act for those with whom we live, work, and love. — Alexis Clements Frank Walter: To Capture a Soul The Drawing Center , June 21–September 15, 2024 Curated by Claire Gilman To Capture a Soul packed in a lot. Along with dozens of the late Antiguan artist’s paintings and drawings, two walls and multiple vitrines displayed archival materials documenting his labyrinthine genealogy, which he had made efforts to trace; his professional life — in 1948 he became a rare person of color in a managerial position at the Antiguan Sugar Syndicate; his travels throughout the UK to study industrial technology; other creative outlets, including books and poetry; and the home studio he built later in life in rural Antigua. Although Walter’s aesthetic can evoke naive art, particularly in his simplistic renderings of the human figures that occasionally enter his imagery, he was no hobbyist. Creativity flowed through his veins, and he honed it whenever he had the chance. The archival materials were important context, but his mostly small landscape paintings are Walter’s great legacy. Thin layers of oils, often with visible brushstrokes adding texture, transform abstract color fields into idyllic realms — Antigua, Scotland — pared down to basic forms and awash in radiant color. In “Untitled (Lavender sky, black bird formation),” birds blackened by the dusk light soar in formation from a black landmass against a dark mauve sky, above a crimson sea. The painting holds Rothko and Turner in the balance, but that’s beside the point: It’s sublime on its own. In another work, among the archival materials and easy to miss, Walter created an entire bucolic landscape through nothing but strata of grayish white and grassy greens. His paintings are less to look at than to live within. — NH Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other Museum of Arts and Design , March 23–September 22, 2024 Organized by the Museum of Arts and Design; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Sonya Clark has a unique ability to hack our culture by finding a contentious form that forces us to reconsider what we thought we already knew. Her “Monumental” (2019) project about the actual white dishcloth flag of surrender used by Confederate forces is a good example. She also frays Confederate flags in a way that makes them appear very fragile and vulnerable, while her work with Black hair is striking in the way that it renders a symbol of racist hierarchies into something that turns it into a beautiful object deserving careful attention. Each one of her projects was a delight to explore in this compact show that gracefully demonstrated her brilliance. — HV Leon Golub: Et In Arcadia Ego Hauser & Wirth , September 5–October 19, 2024 Conceived by Rashid Johnson As I wrote in September, Golub’s art “aims at the gut more than the mind.” The paradox of this show is that these searing political works were all the more gutting because Hauser & Wirth — a blue-chip commercial gallery — has the means to showcase them properly (the up side is that commercial galleries are free to enter). Still, there’s nothing like the experience of being surrounded by these massive, vitriolic paintings from the 1980s, in a space that lets them breathe but allows them to feel monumental, even overwhelming. At the right time, they could be seen in relative solitude, and in those moments the paintings’ brute figures or crimson color fields seemed to teem with perverse energy. Golub’s art treads a fine line between condemning and fetishizing violence, and the mercenary paintings on view here may be his ultimate achievement. In this fairly intimate space they were visceral enough to bring their chilling realities of police brutality, war crimes, and torture — everyday events, then as now — up close, in all their nauseating grandeur. — NH Nan Goldin: You never did anything wrong Gagosian , September 12–October 19, 2024 Organized by the gallery To be enraptured by art’s sublime beauty is the dream of anyone who’s tired of seeing things as they are. Nan Goldin had that experience in the palatial museums of Paris, where she began seeing the faces of friends and lovers from over the years in classical masterpieces portraying gods, nymphs, and satyrs. Her short film “Stendhal Syndrome” is an entrancing record of that episode. It was juxtaposed with “you never did anything wrong, Part 1” (both from 2024), a moving video work that gazes empathetically into the expressive eyes of animals during a total solar eclipse. Both films were a generous invitation to take part in a transcendental moment. — HB Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Caressing the Circle Bitforms Gallery , September 4–October 26, 2024 Organized by the gallery Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is always on the cutting edge of art and tech, but in this show his “Transparency Display” (2024), which he developed with his own “pixel glass” technology, suggested that he might be considering industrial uses for this attractive technology, potentially influencing the way we interact with windows. Lozano-Hemmer always sparks excitement and wonder in his projects, which often look like they emerged from an inventor’s laboratory. Always an innovator, his latest show was a welcome peek at the tinkering going on in his studio. More please. — HV Manoucher Yektai: Landscapes Karma Gallery , September 12–November 9, 2024 Organized by the gallery Iranian-born Manoucher Yektai is the Abstract Expressionist who is in the midst of a comeback: his gestural paintings offer a fresh chapter of the story of the New York School that has floundered in obscurity for decades. In this exhibition, his rhythmic landscapes charted a journey from European-inflected modernism to more abstract compositions that distill the mid-20th century energy of post-World War II painting. Yektai’s best paintings are situated between legibility and pure abstraction, and always made with heaps of paint. — HV Miatta Kawinzi: Numma Yah Smack Mellon , September 28–November 17, 2024 Organized by Smack Mellon Filmed in both Liberia and the US, “to trust the ground might free us (begin again)” (2024) is a moving short video that seems to wish for a world beyond flags and borders, one that heals as much as fractures. Artist Miatta Kawinzi brought a diasporic sensibility to ideas around space and belonging with this show, and transformed the Dumbo exhibition space into an otherworldly terrain that seemed to breathe with the rustle of fermenting ideas and connections. — HV Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard Museum of the Moving Image , February 2–December 1, 2024 Curated by Regina Harsanyi Any child of the early internet will find a lot of familiarity in digital artist and sculptor Auriea Harvey’s retrospective that spanned the aesthetics of the early World Wide Web to more immersive worlds that transport you either through screen or artifact. Unlike many other digital artists, Harvey demonstrates an emotional depth that connects her work to other eras through its storytelling or metaphors. The show was a real tribute to an artist at the height of her powers. — HV Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet Metropolitan Museum of Art , September 19, 2024–January 12, 2025 Curated by Kurt Behrendt A stunning installation in the middle of the atrium in the Robert Lehman Wing of the Met Museum illustrates a thought in the process of becoming and dissipating. “Biography of a Thought” is artist Tenzing Rigdol’s atrium-size mandala bringing viewers on a journey through climate change, gun violence, and even George Floyd, as waves crash through the four sets of paintings. Throughout the installation, figures bear hand gestures that Rigdol calls “ASL [American Sign Language] mudras,” referencing natural elements and our own interdependence. Further into the exhibition, viewers are treated with a detailed view of mandalas — diagrams of the cosmos — from places like Tibet, Nepal, and China, spanning the centuries, along with physical objects, like the ritualistic vajra and a traditional trumpet, that would appear in mandalas. With 100 objects on display, plan to stay a while (it’s up into January 2025); this show rewards careful study of the various symbols, signs and images painted and woven into each mandala. — AX Mina Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies Brooklyn Museum , September 13, 2024–January 19, 2025 Curated by Dalila Scruggs, Catherine Morris, Mary Lee Corlett, Rashieda Witter, and Carla Forbes Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary and All That It Implies succeeded at portraying the aesthetic brilliance and political depth of the distinguished artist’s work across a career of 50 years. The massive retrospective displays Catlett’s prints and sculpture depicting Black and Indigenous lives and struggles for liberation. Interactive spaces for immersion, play, and reflection follow the presentation of Catlett’s immense oeuvre. The exhibition provides didactic information to narrate the leftist politics and artistic traditions undergirding the artist’s consistent references to anti-imperialist and socialist movements as well as African and Mesoamerican artmaking traditions. The exhibition accurately historicizes Catlett as a Black American feminist artist adopted into a Mexican leftist community of artists, and a true renaissance woman whose artwork transcended both medium and national boundaries. — Alexandra M. Thomas Edges of Ailey Whitney Museum of American Art , September 25, 2024–February 9, 2025 Curated by Adrienne Edwards, Joshua Lubin-Levy, and CJ Salapare Dance and visual art — two forms in close kinship but often treated as disparate — are considered anew in Edges of Ailey , a deeply moving curation of Black diasporic art anchored by the legacy of late choreographer Alvin Ailey. Despite its ambitious range of materials, this exhibition deftly stitches together artistic traditions from the diaspora and incorporates new works made specifically for the show by Karon Davis, Jennifer Packer, Mickalene Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Some of my favorite moments during my visit were encounters with familiar works in new contexts, like the 1979 Bayou Fever collage series by Romare Bearden, a close friend and collaborator of the choreographer. Situated below a clip of performances orchestrated by Ailey, Bearden’s figures, too, seemed to dance. — LRA Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 El Museo del Barrio , October 10, 2024–February 9, 2025 Curated by Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and María Elena Ortiz One of the anchor works of El Museo del Barrio’s triennial survey of Latine contemporary art this year is Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s “Seven circles” (2023), an 18-foot-long, multi-panel painting rendered in the artist’s idiosyncratic mode of landscape abstraction. In his vision of the US-Mexico border, he warps the region’s topographical features into a wormhole composition that dizzyingly collapses distinct spaces and times — a fitting and disconcerting image for the fate of immigrant communities at the brink of a second Trump presidency. Featuring 33 artists from around the world, this exhibition is filled with wildly inventive and truly original work, from Norberto Roldan’s haunting ziggurat-shaped altars to Magdalena Suarez Frimkess’s hand-crafted ceramics unexpectedly adorned with comic-book references. La Trienal ’s curators seem to have figured out that you can’t change people’s minds or engage them in dialogue without first drawing them in, and this show does exactly that. — VD Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now Metropolitan Museum of Art , November 17, 2024–February 17, 2025 Curated by Akili Tommasino Curator Akili Tommasino’s large show examines the reception of Ancient Egyptian art by Black artists. He placed Fred Wilson’s “Grey Area (Brown Version)” (1993) at the symbolic core of this show and then included a very wide range of artists, including Betye Saar, Renee Cox, Irene Clark, Damien Davis, Kara Walker, and EJ Hill, to illustrate the real impact of Egyptian art today. His exploration of the legacy of historical Egyptian art is a good reminder of how the spirit of one of the world’s oldest civilizations continues to resonate with those who can find empowerment in its imagery and stories. — HV Vital Signs: Artists and the Body Museum of Modern Art , Nov 3, 2024–Feb 22, 2025 Curated by Lanka Tattersall, Margarita Lizcano Hernandez, and Simon Ghebreyesus Organized by Lanka Tattersall with Margarita Lizcano Hernandez, this exhibition avoids the splashy expectations of other exhibitions focused on the body, instead offering a more archival and cerebral take that explores absences and residues of the human form as much as its agency or volume. While some inclusions were expected, such as Jasper Johns’s “Painting Bitten By a Man” (1961) and Nancy Grossman’s “Untitled (Double Head)” (19171), others, like Blondell Cummings’s excerpt from “Commitment: Two Portraits” (1988) and Bhupen Khakhar’s “Kali” (1965), were welcome surprises, suggesting an expansive view of the topic. Take your time here, and hopefully you’ll find some quiet moments, as the work on display benefits from your careful attention. And be sure to see the large mural project by Martine Syms outside the main galleries and overlooking the museum’s garden. — HV We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading, please consider supporting Hyperallergic ’s journalism during a time when independent, critical reporting is increasingly scarce. Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden to large corporations or billionaires. Our journalism is funded by readers like you , ensuring integrity and independence in our coverage. We strive to offer trustworthy perspectives on everything from art history to contemporary art. We spotlight artist-led social movements, uncover overlooked stories, and challenge established norms to make art more inclusive and accessible. With your support, we can continue to provide global coverage without the elitism often found in art journalism. If you can, please join us as a member today . Millions rely on Hyperallergic for free, reliable information. By becoming a member, you help keep our journalism free, independent, and accessible to all. Thank you for reading. Share Copied to clipboard Mail Bluesky Threads LinkedIn FacebookThe withdrawal in the case marked the end of the years-long legal battle between Mr Trump and the special counsel, Jack Smith, and reflected the extraordinary ability of Mr Trump to sidestep an indictment that would have sunk the presidential bid of anyone else. Mr Trump’s election victory was always going to spell the end of the criminal cases against him due to justice department policy that prohibits prosecutors from taking criminal action against a sitting president. But the pre-emptive withdrawals showed how Mr Trump used politics to beat the legal system. In a six-page motion to dismiss the 2020 election interference case, prosecutors said even though Mr Trump was not yet president, they had been told by the department’s office of legal counsel, which provides internal legal advice, to withdraw the case before his inauguration in January. “It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President,” wrote Mr Smith’s top deputy, Molly Gaston. “That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind,” she added. At the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, from where Mr Trump is running the presidential transition and once stashed classified documents after he left office in 2021, Mr Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, issued a gleeful statement on the news. “Today’s decision by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump, and is a major victory for the rule of law. The American People and President Trump want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system,” Cheung wrote. Within days of Mr Trump’s victory, prosecutors started examining how to shut down the 2020 election case in federal district court in Washington, and the more complicated matter of the classified documents case that was before the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit. Mr Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2022 under the cloud of an impending special counsel investigation into his retention of national security materials at his Mar-a-Lago club after he lost the 2020 presidential election and left the White House. He repeatedly told supporters at rallies and in public statements that he was running for his literal freedom, urging voters to return him to the presidency in part because the charges would only disappear if he were re-elected. Mr Trump also vowed to pursue the prosecutors and federal investigators involved in the cases. In anticipation of an expected legal retribution effort, Mr Smith and his top deputies are expected to resign from the justice department before Mr Trump is inaugurated, the Guardian has reported. For months, Mr Trump’s overarching legal strategy was to delay the criminal cases until after the election – banking on the fact that if he won he could appoint a loyalist attorney general who would simply drop the prosecutions. He was unsuccessful in delaying his New York criminal case, tied to his efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 election through an unlawful hush-money scheme, and for which he was convicted on 34 felony counts. Sentencing has been postponed indefinitely. – Guardian
Video: NY prison guards beat Robert Brooks from moment he arrived. He died 6 hours laterSANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy will miss Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers with a sore throwing shoulder. Purdy injured his right shoulder in last Sunday's loss to the Seattle Seahawks . Purdy underwent an MRI that showed no structural damage but the shoulder didn't improve during the week and Purdy was ruled out for the game. Coach Kyle Shanahan said star defensive end Nick Bosa also will miss the game with injuries to his left hip and oblique. Left tackle Trent Williams is questionable with an ankle injury and will be a game-time decision. This will be the first time Purdy has missed a start because of an injury since taking over as the 49ers’ quarterback in December 2022. Brandon Allen will start in his place. The Niners (5-5) are currently in a three-way tie for second in the NFC West, a game behind first-place Arizona, and have little margin for error if they want to get back to the playoffs after making it to the Super Bowl last season. Purdy has completed 66% of his passes this season for 2,613 yards, 13 TDs, eight interceptions and a 95.9 passer rating that is down significantly from his league-leading mark of 113 in 2023. Allen has been mostly a backup since being drafted by Jacksonville in 2016. Allen last started a game in Week 18 of the 2021 season for Cincinnati and has thrown just three passes the last three seasons — including none since joining San Francisco in 2023. Joshua Dobbs will be the backup on Sunday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL
Peppers missed seven games since being placed on the list on Oct. 9 after he was arrested and charged with shoving his girlfriend’s head into a wall and choking her. The league said its review is ongoing and is not affected by the change in Peppers’ roster status. Braintree, Massachusetts, police said they were called to a home for an altercation between two people on Oct. 7, and a woman told them Peppers choked her. Police said they found at the home a clear plastic bag containing a white powder, which later tested positive for cocaine. Peppers, 29, pleaded not guilty in Quincy District Court to charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a Class “B” substance believed to be cocaine. At a court appearance last week a trial date was set for Jan. 22. “Any act of domestic violence is unacceptable for us,” Patriots coach Jerod Mayo said after the arrest. “With that being said, I do think that Jabrill has to go through the system, has to continue to go through due process. We’ll see how that works out.” A 2017 first-round draft choice by Cleveland, Peppers spent two seasons with the Browns and three with the New York Giants before coming to New England in 2022. He was signed to an extension this summer. He played in the first four games of the season and missed one with a shoulder injury before going on the exempt list, which allows NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to place a player on paid leave while reviewing his case. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflOura Ring Is ‘Like An Apple Product’ And Could Take Key Health Metric MainstreamASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST ANNOUNCES CONVERSION OF LE PAVILLON NEW ORLEANS TO MARRIOTT'S TRIBUTE PORTFOLIO
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IA NS): Despite rapid growth in passenger vehicle export volumes, Chinese original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) continue to face various uncertainties in the global market, according to a new report. For several OEMs, weak channel and product localisation capabilities have led to significant disparities in sales performance and inventory levels across overseas markets, a Canalys report said. According to Alvin Liu, senior analyst at Canalys, channel management and localisation capabilities are vital to Chinese carmakers as they face export restrictions while exploring local production and integrating into the local supply chain ecosystem. Chinese OEMs have achieved global leadership in electrification and SDV technologies. But the competitive edge in ADAS and digital cockpit technologies has yet to materialise fully. The report stated that Chinese OEMs should view export markets pragmatically, carefully assessing the feasibility of replicating the Chinese market’s success globally. Though Japanese and Korean carmakers are losing market share in China, their globalisation strategies remain strong and competitive and will pose a threat to Chinese OEMs. The EU-China EV tariff dispute is a significant setback to the global electrification of the automotive industry. Chinese and European automakers could benefit from sharing expertise, investing in joint research and development, and establishing a level-playing field for innovation. “But geopolitical tensions and diverging interests are hindering progress. If the dispute escalates, the EU risks weakening the development of a competitive EV ecosystem, thus losing its leading position in the global automotive and green energy markets,” said principal analyst Jason Low. The European Union’s tariffs and falling EV demand are also slowing the growth of Chinese battery electric vehicle (BEV) exports to 9 per cent (860,000 units). As a result, the share of BEV exports will fall from 22.5 per cent in 2023 to 19 per cent in 2024, the report mentioned.LEWISTON, Maine — The Fryeburg Academy football team captured its first state championship since 1965 when the Raiders defeated Hermon 28-0 at Lewiston High School’s Don Roux Field in Lewiston on Saturday. FA (9-2) last won a state football championship in 1965, when its cast of Raiders went undefeated and won the Class B title. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.