The clouds will stick around, leaving us only with an occasional glimpse of blue sky or sun and light winds which means wind chills are not an issue. The roads will stay dry as your out killing those Black Friday deals.

It stays cool and cloudy all evening with temps mainly in the 30s if you’re heading out tonight.

Saturday

We will awake to temps in the upper 20s Saturday morning under cloudy skies and the winds will be picking up a little tomorrow, too. We also expect some wild weather at times tomorrow and the winds will play a big part in it all.

First, anyone heading to Ann Arbor for Ohio State vs. Michigan will need layers as wind chills will be in the low to mid 20s at best. The east winds tomorrow 7-17 mph will gust 20-25 mph at times and although that creates a wind chill nuisance, the winds will be blowing dry air into an approaching weather maker. So, the first round of rain/snow around lunchtime may be very little thanks to those drying winds.

Today’s model data shows some wintry mix moving into Metro Detroit though the afternoon. Make sure you’ve got a layer to protect against the wet stuff. We could see snow, sleet, and rain eventually transitioning to rain showers as highs hit the upper 30s to low 40s tomorrow feeling much cooler.

More late afternoon showers could be on the heavier side, but the heaviest rains will come late, late Saturday into early Sunday.

Sunday

We should see rain, not snow, early Sunday in all areas except our North Zone where areas north of I-69 could see snow stack up to an inch or two.

Rain showers fade mid morning and temps try to warm into the upper 40s. We expect a few more showers coming and going Sunday, and then some cooler air pours in as we head into Monday.

Next week

Could we see a few flakes? A few. But most of Monday is just cool and cloudy with 30s to near 40 degrees. And, that looks to be the trend for most of next week: Lows near 30°F, and highs near 40°F with breezes that cut into those temps.

Still, it looks mostly dry most of next week with no signs of any storms heading our way. We’ll certainly let you know if and when that changes. But enjoy the weekend and your Holidays everyone!

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In years past, he has tried his hand at carving ice sculptures, a cookie bake-off, decorating a tree, professional gift wrapping, a chef chop challenge and putting up Christmas lights against a professional company. That last one has been a fan favorite and that’s why this year we are bringing it back with a twist.

You can watch the competition live in the stream above.

Local 4 approached the same company, Landscape Services, Inc, to see if they would be interested in doing another Rod the Builder challenge.

“We welcome it,” said Bret Steiner, landscape designer and estimator for Landscape Services, Inc. “It’s been eight years. Maybe he has improved his decorating skills. We’re definitely up for the challenge.”

“I’ve been doing Christmas lights for my kids for, what, 30 years? I’m adept reasonably at the process. I can do this,” Meloni said about his outdoor Christmas light decorating skills

Landscape Services also suggested we decorate the home of a family who has had a difficult year. Payton Shock, 10, was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma this past July. She has undergone surgery to remove the tumor from her spine and is in the midst of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The treatments require her to be in the hospital every two weeks.

“It’s just been a whirlwind,” said Heather Shock, Payton’s mom. "Your world gets turned upside down, but they’re both so brave, and we just -- it’s busy. it’s always, hospitals and clinic appointments and who is going to take Blake to school that day, and our family has been great. Their support has just been out of this world.”

Shock said an outdoor Christmas lights challenge on their front lawn is a welcomed distraction for both her children, Payton and her older brother Blake.

“Oh, it made me smile, so I can only imagine what it will do for the kids,” Shock said. “The community and the support -- everyone has just rallied around us and have been great, and when I heard that, I was just, like -- I mean, it took my mind off her diagnoses for a minute, so if that can happen for my two kids, just for a minute, I think it’s beautiful. It’s a blessing and I appreciate it.”

Landscape Services and Meloni will be teaming up to surprise the Shock children with the outdoor lighting display Friday. It will still be a competition, with Meloni decorating a neighbor’s home, making the display even bigger and brighter for the family.

“They’re a part of the community here, so Landscape Services definitely likes helping out our community,” Steiner said. “All we’re going to do is help brighten up their house with Christmas lights, hopefully brighten up their world in this dark period of their life.”

Meloni is thrilled to be able to use the Rod the Builder challenge to give back to the community.

“I doesn’t matter who I’m up against. It matters who we’re for. It’s Payton and Blake. These kids are going through a tough time. There is nothing worse than childhood cancer, I don’t think. So to be able to help these kids and make their Christmas cheerful -- that’s pretty special,” Meloni said.

You can watch the Rod the Builder challenge Friday on Local 4 News at noon, 4, 5 and 6, and on ClickOnDetroit.com.

Updates throughout challenge

Hank Winchester searches for best Black Friday deals

Black Friday is the biggest holiday shopping event of the year, and it’s now in full swing. From deals on electronics to toys, anyone thinking about hitting the stores Friday afternoon will find good deals. Local 4 Consumer Investigator Hank Winchester is in Troy to find the best deals and check on the long lines at the mall.

WDIV Local 4’s first place newscast finishes include:

• <i><b>Local 4 News First at 4</b></i><b> is No. 1 in the 4 p.m. time period across all the key demographics.</b> Delivering with a 5.8 household rating/16 household share, which equates to 100,000 households, beating both The Now (WXYZ 4 p.m.) (2.1 HH RTG/6 HH SHR/36,000 HH) and Judge Judy (WJBK 4 p.m.) (3.4 HH RTG/10 HH SHR/60,000 HH). Our 4 p.m. posted marked increases across the key demographics, specifically +7% in Adults 25-54 rating and 18% in Women 25-54 rating over November 2018.
• <i><b>Local 4 News at 5 p.m. </b></i><b>continues its nine-year winning streak and is the leader in the time period.</b> Local 4 News at 5 p.m. delivered a 7.9 household rating/18 household share, which equates to 137,000 households, beating both WXYZ (4.2 HH RTG/10 HH SHR/73,000 HH) and WJBK (3.8 HH RTG/9 HH SHR/66,000 HH). WDIV posted marked increases across the key demographics, specifically +33% in Adults 25-54 rating and won the 5p.m. and increased 35% in Women 25-54 rating over November 2018.
• <i><b>Local 4 News at 6 p.m.</b></i><b> continues its No. 1 position across all demographics</b>, with an 8.9 rating/19 share/154,000 households as compared to WXYZ (6.1 HH RTG/13 HH SHR/106,000 HH) and WJBK (3.0 HH RTG/6 HH SHR/53,000 HH). WDIV grew YTY, holding its position as Detroit’s No. 1 newscast, +16% in Adults 25-54 rating and 19% in Women 25-54 over last November.
• <b>Local 4 News airing Monday through Sunday at 11 p.m. retains its title as Detroit’s No. 1 Late News </b>delivering a 6.8 household rating/16 household share, which equates to 118,000 households. Local 4 News at 11p.m. beat WJBK’s 10 p.m. news with a 4.0 HH RTG /8 HH SHR /70,000 HH as compared to WXYZ (4.1 HH RTG/9 HH SHR/72,000 HH) and WJBK M-F 11 p.m. (2.8 HH RTG/6 HH SHR/48,000 HH). In addition, Local 4 News at 11 M-F p.m. is No. 1 across all the key demographics.
• WDIV-Local 4 also continues to be the leader in late night programming, claiming the No. 1 spot with first place finishes in <i><b>Ellen</b></i>, <i><b>The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon</b></i> and <i><b>Saturday Night Live</b></i>.
• In the all-important access period at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., <i><b>Wheel of Fortune</b></i> and <i><b>Jeopardy!</b></i> continue to dominate across all demographics with a 9.3 rating/18 share, which equates to 162,000 households compared to WXYZ’s 7 p.m. news and The List (3.9 HH RTG/8 HH SHR/68,000 HH) and WJBK’s TMZ/EXTRA (2.5 HH RTG/5 HH SHR / 44,000 HH). <i><b>Wheel of Fortune</b></i><b>/</b><i><b>Jeopardy! </b></i><b>grew 60%</b> in Adults 25-54 rating and 75% in Women 25-54 rating over last November 2018.

At 6 a.m., Local 4 News Today, anchored by Rhonda Walker, Evrod Cassimy, Jason Carr, Brandon Roux and Kim DeGiulio, delivered a 3.6 HH rating and a 16 HH share, which equates to 63,000 households, placing a closed second to WJBK (4.0 HH rating/18 HH share/69,000 HH) at 6 a.m.

In other dayparts, WDIV’s mid-morning talker - Live in the D – finished at a close 2nd in the time period and delivered a 2.4 household rating / 8 household share, which equates to 41,000 households. This beat The Doctors on WXYZ (1.7 HH RTG/6 HH SHR/29,000 HH). Live in the D finished at a close 2nd across the board increasing its coveted Women 25-54 rating by 57% over last November.

To cap off the November Sweeps wins, WDIV’s website, ClickOnDetroit.com, is the No. 1 media website in Metro Detroit (comScore/2019 to date), already poised to finish November with over 5 million unique visitors. In fact, our livestream of the parade this year delivered 107,846 views, that is 62% higher than the 2018 parade livestream on ClickOnDetroit.com. We also delivered an 18.4 Household rating /40 share, which equates to 320,000 homes tuned into the Parade on WDIV/Local 4 yesterday.

The summit comes at a critical moment for the 29-member military alliance, which has been fraying in the face of Trump’s complaints that too many NATO members are spending too little on defense.

Trump also has meetings scheduled during the summit with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte.

The summit is scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday.

Trump has no meeting scheduled, as of now, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the summit host. Britain holds parliamentary elections Dec. 12.

Johnson has said he doesn’t want “loving allies” to get involved in Britain’s politics.

Local 4 Business Editor Rod Meloni has the latest update on contract discussions between Fiat Chrysler and the United Automobile Workers.

They’ve only been at the table a couple of weeks. On Tuesday night, the main table negotiators stayed up until 4 a.m. hammering out details, which is a very good sign in this environment.

As things stand, the union and the company are knocking on the door of an agreement. Local 4 has learned a couple of details about what’s to come soon.

The signing bonus for UAW-FCA line workers is expected to be $9,000, the same as at Ford. Unlike the Ford and GM contracts, FCA has agreed not to close any assembly or component plants that haven’t already been announced. There had been rumors that the Belvedere plant in Illinois was going to close because there is no dedicated product.

Sources close to the talks told Rod that negotiators and the company are working out an agreement that would put a product in the plant, but details have not been fully ironed out.

In the end, union officials view what they’ve been able to cobble together at FCA a “pattern-plus” contract. This means the contract is actually is an improvement on the GM and Ford pacts because 64% of the FCA workforce is “in progression,” which was an eight-year ramp up to top wages.

The new schedule by which members become eligible for the top wage affects many more members, and while it’s expensive for FCA, it should ensure a quick ratification. Still, this is the UAW. You never know until that last vote is counted what might happen. The expectation is we should see a tentative agreement over the weekend.

The man fatally shot by police on London Bridge Friday was wearing what investigators have determined was a “hoax explosive device” when bystanders bravely tackled him to the ground, officials said.

In what authorities have declared a terrorist incident, the unidentified suspect began stabbing individuals in the London Bridge area about 2 p.m. local time, London Metropolitan police said.

Buses and vehicles were abandoned on the bridge as bystanders rushed the alleged attacker, grappling with the man before restraining him as police rushed to the scene.

In a video of the incident, a man can be seen holding a large knife reportedly wrestled away from the alleged attacker. Mayor Sadiq Khan commended the members of the public for their bravery in the incident, saying those individuals took their lives into their own hands when deciding to get involved.

“It shows the best of us,” Khan said.

Armed police responded to the bridge, firing at the suspect as he lay on the ground. He died at the scene, officials said.

"Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command are now leading this investigation,” Neil Basu, the assistant commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, told reporters. “I must stress, however, that we retain an open mind as to any motive. It would not be appropriate to speculate further at this time.”

Police statement: AC Neil Basu gives statement on #LondonBridge incident. 29.11.19 https://t.co/890GWzIVhJ

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 29, 2019

Authorities urged the public to use caution in sharing images of the incident and asked that footage be shared directly with investigators, as the Metropolitan Police tweeted: “Help us keep you safe.”

Searches in the area continued Friday evening to ensure there was no outstanding threat to the public.

"Those extensive cordons will remain in place for a considerable time and I would ask the public please continue to avoid the area,” Basu said. "Public safety is obviously our top priority and we will be enhancing police patrols in the City and across London … I would also ask the public to continue to remain vigilant and report any concerns they have to police."

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Domingo said that he feels strong despite the difficulties and intends to continue performing at least until the end of his planned engagements running through 2021.

Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial published Friday the 80-year-old Spanish opera legend’s first interview since The Associated Press earlier this year reported allegations of sexual harassment made by multiple women against him.

Domingo denied the allegations. He says Spaniards are naturally “warm, affectionate and loving,” adding that he has always been “gallant” but “gallant gestures are viewed differently nowadays.”

He says the accusations are given “automatic” credibility and he feels “prematurely judged, sentenced and convicted.”

He says he has not been formally accused of any crime.

The Metropolitan Police said “a number” of people were wounded but gave no information on the number or their conditions.

The force’s counterterrorism chief, Neil Basu, said the suspect was feared to be wearing a bomb vest but it turned out to be “a hoax explosive device.”

Basu said officers were keeping “an open mind as to any motive.”

The violence erupted two-and-a-half years after a van and knife attack in the same area in which eight people died.

Police said the incident began with reports of a stabbing at a “premises” near the bridge; it ended with passersby tackling the fleeing knifeman before he was shot dead by armed-response officers.

The police force said officers were called just before 2 p.m. “to a stabbing at premises near to London Bridge,” which links the city’s business district with the south bank of the River Thames.

Scores of police, some armed with submachine guns, rushed to the scene, ushering bemused office workers and tourists out of an area packed with office buildings, banks, restaurants and bars. Staff in office blocks in the area were told to stay inside.

Witnesses reported seeing what appeared to be fighting on the bridge, as several people attempted to hold a man down.

One video posted on social media showed two men struggling on the bridge before police pulled a man in civilian clothes off a black-clad man on the ground. Shots then rang out.

Other images showed police, guns drawn, pointing at a figure on the ground in the distance.

Amanda Hunter said she was on a bus crossing the bridge when she heard shots.

“(The bus) all of a sudden stopped and there was commotion and I looked out the window and I just saw these three police officers going over to a man,” she told the BBC.

“It seemed like there was something in his hand, I’m not 100% sure, but then one of the police officers shot him.”

Karen Bosch, who was also on a bus, said she saw police “wrestling with one tall, bearded man” and then heard “gunshots, two loud pops.”

She said the man “pulled his coat back which showed that he had some sort of vest underneath, whether it’s a stab vest, or some sort of explosive vest, the police then really quickly moved backwards, away.”

Cars and buses on the busy bridge were at a standstill after the shooting, with a white truck stopped diagonally across the lanes. Video footage showed police pointing guns at the truck before moving to check its container.

British Transport Police said London Bridge station, one of the city’s busiest rail hubs, was closed and trains were not stopping there.

City of London Police, the force responsible for the business district, urged people to stay away from the area.

The incident revived memories of the June 2017 London Bridge attack, when three Islamic State-inspired attackers ran down people on the bridge, killing two, before stabbing several people to death in nearby Borough Market.

That incident took place days before a general election. Britons are due to go to the polls again on Dec. 12.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said he was receiving updates on the incident and was returning to his 10 Downing St. office from campaigning in his local constituency.

In March 2017, an attacker fatally struck four people with a car on nearby Westminster Bridge then fatally stabbed a police officer before security forces shot and killed him in a courtyard outside Parliament.

Security officials earlier this month downgraded Britain’s terrorism threat level from “severe” to “substantial,” which means an attack is seen as “likely” rather than “highly likely.” The assessment was made by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, an independent expert body that evaluates intelligence, terrorist capability and intentions.

The UK’s terror threat was last listed as “substantial” in August 2014; since then it has held steady at “severe,” briefly rising to “critical” in May and September 2017.

Climber Aidan Jacobson of Phoenix, Arizona told Outside magazine he was with Gobright, who reportedly performed a masterful ascent of the Sendero Luminoso route in the El Potrero Chico area near the northern city of Monterrey.

Civil defense officials in Nuevo Leon state said Gobright fell about 300 meters (yards) to his death on Wednesday. The Outside account described the fall as 600 feet (about 200 meters).

His body was recovered Thursday. The publication Rock and Ice described Gobright, 31, as a native of Orange County, California, and "one of the most accomplished free solo climbers in the world."

Jacobson also fell, but a shorter distance, after something went wrong in the “simul-rappelling” descent. The technique involves two climbers balancing each other’s weight off an anchor point.

In online forums, many climbers described the technique as difficult and potentially dangerous.

According to Jacobson, the pair might not have evened out the length of the 80-meter (yard) rope between them, to ensure each had the same amount, because Gobright’s end was apparently tangled in some bushes near a ledge below them.

That might have caused Gobright to essentially run out of rope; without the balancing weight of the other climber, both would fall. Jacobson fell through some vegetation and onto the ledge they were aiming for, injuring his ankle. Gobright fell further.

The Hall of Fame catcher and his family have been living in Italy for several years since Piazza’s brief stint as owner of a local soccer club.

Speaking at his introduction at the Italian Olympic Committee on Friday, Piazza says “my heart is in Italy now. ... Italy is a part of me.”

The 51-year-old Piazza, who was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, is of Italian ancestry. While his contract expires at the end of next year, Piazza is expected to manage Italy at least through the 2021 World Baseball Classic.

Piazza played for Italy at the 2006 Classic and was Italy's hitting coach at the 2009 and 2013 WBC tournaments.

In 2016, he bought control of third-division soccer club Reggiana, which dropped out of Serie C after the 2017-18 season.

Piazza replaces Gilberto Gerali, who resigned when Italy failed to qualify for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.

Piazza says “we need to re-establish our place as one of the elite programs in Europe. So we have a lot of work to do.”

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“We are in a position to say it’s contained. We feel comfortable with the efforts that have been made by our firefighters,” Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick said at a news conference in Port Neches, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) east of Houston.

But the area around the TPC Group plant remained dangerous. Several isolated fires were still blazing and visible at the facility, which makes chemical and petroleum-based products. Officials said they could not predict when those would be fully extinguished.

The explosions began early Wednesday morning and were so big that nearby homes captured the bright balls of fire on front-porch security cameras. The blasts shattered windows and ripped doors off hinges. Three workers were injured, and when a second blast erupted 13 hours after the initial overnight explosion, evacuation orders covered a 4-mile radius around the plant took effect.

Debris thrown across Port Neches — and potentially neighboring towns — by the sheer magnitude of Wednesday’s explosions also posed risks to families returning home. Branick, the top county official, cautioned that construction on the plant began in the 1940s and that asbestos could have hurled into people’s yards. He urged homeowners to steer clear of any “white, chalky substance” and call health officials if any are found.

Branick said it may be several months before the cause of the explosions is known. He said the air quality posed no threat to area residents.

“There’s still going to be smoke in the air. There’s still going to be flames visible at night,” said Troy Monk, the director of health safety and security for the TPC Group. “I would love to tell you we’re going to be done by the end of the day. I would not be telling you the truth if I made that statement. It’s very difficult for us to quantify in days how long this is going to take.”

The explosion was the latest in a series of high-profile accidents this year up and down the Texas Gulf Coast, which is home to the highest concentration of oil refineries in the nation. In July, an explosion at an ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown left more than dozen people with minor injuries and put nearby residents under a shelter-in-place for three hours.

Toby Baker, the head of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, called it an “unacceptable trend of significant incidents” this week and said the petroleum industry must be accountable.

But environmental groups for years have accused Baker’s agency of being a toothless watchdog that provides inadequate oversight and slaps highly profitable corporations with only meager penalties. The TPC Group plant had been labeled a “high priority” violator by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency following its last inspection in 2017 and had been cited multiple times in recent years for clean air violations.

Envrionmentalists were also quick to point out that the TPC Group explosion occurred just a week after the Trump administration scaled back chemical safety plant measures that had been prompted by a 2013 explosion at a Texas fertilizer storage facility that killed 15 people. The rollback included eliminating a required public access to information about dangerous chemicals companies keep on site.

Officials have said the first blast occurred around 1 a.m. Wednesday in an area of the plant that makes butadiene, a chemical used to make synthetic rubber and other products. It sent a large plume of smoke stretching for miles and started a fire. The second blast ripped through the plant about 2 p.m., sending a steel reactor tower rocketing high into the air.

The plant has 175 full-time employees and 50 contract workers.

“How have your last couple of years been?” he asked near the start of the hour-long set Thursday night, before describing himself sitting in a restaurant, eating alone, as someone at another table gives him the finger for the duration of the meal.

Later in the set, he acknowledged his transgressions, saying that even though he had asked permission before masturbating in front of women, it had been a mistake. “If they say ‘yes,’ then still don’t do it, because it’s not popular.”

The 52-year-old comedian’s career imploded in November 2017 after he acknowledged complaints of harassment reported by the New York Times, most of which involved him masturbating in the presence of women he knew professionally. Some of the women said they feared their careers would suffer if they discussed the incidents, which took place more than a decade ago.

C.K. released a statement after the Times report, saying “these stories are true.” He acknowledged abusing his power over others and causing them pain but did not publicly apologize.

Earlier this month, one of his five accusers disputed that his behavior was consensual. “We never agreed nor asked him to take all his clothes off and masturbate to completion in front of us,” Julia Wolov wrote in an op-ed for the Canadian Jewish News.

The revelations, which came at the height of the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse in the workplace, led to the cancellation of C.K.’s numerous TV contracts and the scrapping of his feature-length film, “I Love You, Daddy,” shortly before its release.

The comedian vowed to “step back and take a long time to listen.”

But he returned to the stage less than a year later, and is now on an international tour that includes several sold-out shows. Protesters have gathered outside some of them, including a small demonstration outside his first show in Tel Aviv organized by Kulan, a local women’s advocacy group.

Bracha Barad, the group’s director, said those attending the show were “normalizing sexual violence.”

“They are basically telling him everything is OK, you’re not going to pay a price for this and you will be given a stage,” she told the local Kan TV.

There were no protests Thursday outside the arena in Holon, a suburb of Tel Aviv.

Most of the more than a dozen audience members who spoke to The Associated Press had heard about the scandal. Some said they didn’t know the details or that it wasn’t clear whether he had done anything wrong. Several young men attending the show declined to comment. “Twitter is fragile,” one muttered as he strode away. “Feminists.”

The show drew an audience of around 5,000 men and women of all ages. Most appeared to be fans who felt the severity of the misconduct was not enough to justify a boycott.

“We don’t support what he did to those women, but we like him as a comedian,” said Asaf, who came to the show with his wife, Tal. They declined to give their last name out of privacy concerns. “It’s not like he raped someone,” he added.

“It’s like a little bit complicated,” Tal said. She noted that C.K. had reportedly asked permission before masturbating in front of the women and said it shouldn’t end the career of a “genius.” But she also acknowledged the pervasiveness of sexual misconduct.

She finally concluded that paying to see Louis C.K. was “like supporting animal rights and still eating meat.”

C.K. alluded to the scandal on a number of occasions throughout the performance. He said he used to love New York City, his home for many years, but that now he hates it, implying it’s because of the negative attention he receives.

“I’d rather be in Auschwitz than New York City,” he told the almost entirely Israeli audience, which broke out in laughter and applause. “I mean now, not when it was open.”

The set was similar to his past material, with wry observations punctuated by raunchy and irreverent punchlines whose humor came largely from their shock value. There was an extended discussion of the history of using the term “retarded,” and passing references to the Boston Marathon bombing and the Sept. 11 attacks.

He did not repeat an earlier bit in which he made fun of school shooting survivors who had become gun control advocates, which had outraged many and raised concerns among some fans that he would reinvent himself as a right-wing comedian railing against political correctness.

Instead, he displayed some of the same sensitivity to sexual abuse that had earned him praise from many feminists before his rapid downfall.

After discussing his own misconduct, he observed that in sexual situations women sometimes act as though everything is OK when they are actually fearful or disgusted — and that men mistake this for consent. He compared it to listening to African-American slave spirituals and mistaking them for an expression of contentment.

It was perhaps the closest C.K. came to acknowledging that he had learned something deeper from his misconduct and its aftermath, and it was well-received, just like all the other jokes. Those who were prepared to forgive C.K. before the show emerged even more reassured.

“It was just hilarious,” Shiri Ayalon said as she left the arena.

“As a woman who’s been very aware of everything that has happened over the #MeToo movement and all of that, I’d say that he’s probably the only celebrity who’s expressed regret over what he had done and was willing to actually address it,” she said.

“I think he should probably be un-boycotted.”

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The attack happened around 7:30 a.m. Friday in Waterford Township.

The agent was trying to arrest someone for being in the United States illegally when an altercation broke out, according to authorities.

Officials said the suspected attacker fled and couldn’t be found during a search. Authorities called off the search around 10 a.m. Friday.

No additional details have been made available.

The shooting happened around 8:55 p.m. Thursday in the 8400 block of Faust Avenue, according to authorities.

The teenager got into an argument with a 48-year-old man, police said. The 48-year-old pulled out a gun and fired shots at the teenager, officials said.

After the 18-year-old left the scene, he realized he had been shot, police said. He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.

Police said the 48-year-old left the scene in a gold 2005 Chevrolet Uplander before officers arrived.

The incident is still under investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detroit police at 313-596-5640 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP to remain anonymous.

The stabbing took place around 4:20 a.m. in the 19700 block of Waltham Street in Detroit. Police say the unknown assailants fled the scene after injuring the victim. The victim is listed in critical condition.

Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-SPEAKUP.

Soon, specialized rescue crews were arriving by the planeload. One of the most striking was a 13-person team from Serbia, a country with traditionally poor relations with Albania due to an ongoing dispute concerning Kosovo, a former province of Serbia whose ethnic Albanian majority took up arms to fight for independence.

The war ended after NATO bombed Belgrade and ties with neighboring Albania, which supported Kosovo’s independence, are still sometimes strained, although there have been recent efforts to improve them.

Serbian Patriarch Irinej, a hardliner when it comes to Kosovo, expressed condolences and said he was “deeply shaken over this tragic event.”

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Albania on Tuesday killed at least 49 people, injured 2,000 and left at least 4,000 homeless. Every one of Albania’s neighbors sent specialized search-and-rescue crews to comb through the rubble — Italy, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo — as did Serbia, Turkey, Romania, France, Croatia, Israel, Switzerland and the European Union’s civil emergency unit. Even more countries flew in emergency supplies, while one of the injured — a 54-year-old man with severe spinal injuries — was being flown to Italy for treatment.

Rescuers from Balkan countries that fought bitter wars against each other little over 20 years ago during the disintegration of Yugoslavia found themselves united in the common aim of saving lives.

“Trouble knows no boundaries,” Radomir Scepanovic, a Montenegrin rescuer, told regional channel N1 TV, adding that there were 12 international teams from Europe and the Balkans with 600 rescuers in Albania to help.

It is sometimes the indiscriminate power and destruction of natural disasters that brings nations together. One notable example was when Greece and Turkey rushed to each other’s aid after devastating earthquakes struck each less than a month apart in 1999.

The outpouring of sympathy, quick dispatch of rescue crews and images of ordinary Greeks lining up to donate blood for injured Turks in August of that year was reciprocated in kind after Athens was struck by an earthquake in September, leading to the most significant thawing of traditionally tense or even hostile relations between the two neighbors in decades and gave rise to the phrase “earthquake diplomacy.”

With the Balkans in general located in a highly seismically active region, the terror and devastation earthquakes can cause is one thing that resonates throughout the region.

“Pain knows no borders. We are a small region and quakes are felt everywhere,” said Lutfi Dervishi, an analyst and journalism lecturer at Tirana University. “Such calamities make countries, governments more humane as everybody is under one roof, all uncovered.”

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who appealed for international help initially for the search and rescue effort, and on Friday also for reconstruction efforts, was quick to express his thanks.

"We feel good to not be alone and I'm very grateful to all our friends,” he said on Tuesday night, standing near the ruins of a building in the port town of Durres with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias. Relations between the two countries had been strained following tension over the Greek minority in Albania and other issues, but any lingering bitterness was swept aside.

“I'm absolutely very grateful to the Greek prime minister and the minister of foreign affairs,” Rama said. “They called me right away and they simply wanted to know what was asked from them and where they should be. So this is amazing."

Greece dispatched two teams of disaster response firefighters with specialized equipment on Tuesday and was sending a team of civil engineers on Friday to assist in reconstruction efforts.

“We have been through this, we know this, we will do whatever we can to help,” Dendias said in Durres on the day of the earthquake. “We stand with the Albanian people, with its government, to offer whatever we can.”

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Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece. Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia and Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed.

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Ohio State has been by far the more dominant team this season, coming into the weekend 11-0 with only one game -- an 11-point win over Penn State -- finishing within 24 points. The Buckeyes have topped 70 points twice and scored fewer than 34 points just once. The defense ranks No. 1 in the country in terms of yards allowed per game and per play.

In other words, Michigan is hosting what appears to be the obvious No. 1 team in the nation -- a team that has yet to show a weakness in any phase of the game.

But anyone who says Michigan doesn’t have a chance hasn’t been watching much college football.

The Wolverines have won seven of their last eight games. They’ve been particularly dominant since mid-October, beating Notre Dame and Michigan State at home and Maryland and Indiana on the road by an average of more than 30 points.

Michigan is playing its best football in years. That doesn’t mean it will beat Ohio State, but it certainly has a chance.

Offensive improvements

Shea Patterson has looked like a completely different quarterback the last two weeks, completing 44 of 65 pass attempts for 750 yards, nine touchdowns and one interception. Accuracy and turnover issues that plagued him in the early weeks have mostly evaporated as Patterson’s season-long numbers start to round into form.

At the beginning of the season, Michigan’s offense was an unorganized collection of talented players. Patterson wasn’t on the same page as his receivers. Nobody was taking care of the ball. The play calling was suspect. It brought into question the ability of new coordinator Josh Gattis to run an offense.

But his vision has finally started to coalesce. Nico Collins looks like the elite receiver he’s always teased, both in terms of big plays and drawing pass interference penalties. Ronnie Bell and Donovan Peoples-Jones are difference-makers in open space. Tarik Black, Giles Jackson and Mike Sainristil have found important roles in the offense.

Meanwhile, Michigan should have a well-rested running back tandem heading into the game. Hassan Haskins, who rushed for 125 yards against Illinois and 149 yards against Notre Dame, has just 32 carries in his last three games, including 13 last week against Indiana. Zach Charbonnet, the team’s leading rusher on the season with 635 yards and 11 touchdowns, has just 23 carries in the last month, including eight against Indiana.

It’s been difficult to run the ball against Ohio State, but Michigan has two healthy options to open up the passing attack.

Defensive improvements

Ohio State is going to score points Saturday -- there’s no doubt about that. With Justin Fields at the helm, J.K. Dobbins in the backfield and an embarrassment of riches at receiver, Michigan can only hope to slow down the Buckeyes.

After giving up 77 points in their first three games, the Wolverines have slowly risen up the national defensive rankings. Heading into The Game, Michigan ranks No. 4 in terms of yards allowed per game and No. 3 in terms of yards allowed per play.

The rush defense has been particularly strong, allowing just 2.77 yards per run on the season. That, along with Michigan ranking No. 12 nationally with 35 sacks, is a bit of a surprise, considering the question marks surrounding the interior of the defensive line at the start of the season.

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Michigan has also been solid against the pass, allowing 6 yards per attempt and just 161.1 passing yards per game.

Keep in mind: Ohio State ranks top five nationally in just about every single one of these categories. But Michigan is at least in the same stratosphere.

Ohio State showed its first hint of vulnerability against Penn State, fumbling three times and putting up just 28 points. Michigan has some hard-hitting defenders, such as Josh Metellus and Cam McGrone, and it might need some of that fumble luck to win this game.

Special teams

Michigan has leaned heavily on its special teams this season, and that unit has come through time and time again.

Jim Harbaugh has dialed up a pair of fake punts that worked to perfection -- one a pass from Michael Barrett to Daxton Hill against Army and another a Barrett run against Maryland. The conversion against Army likely saved Michigan’s season.

Jackson and Peoples-Jones are also settling in as weapons in the return game. Peoples-Jones ranks 35th nationally at 7.86 yards per punt return and looks due for a special teams touchdown. Jackson ranks 21st with 26.06 yards per kick return. He returned the opening kickoff against Maryland 97 yards for a touchdown.

Field goal kicking has been shaky at times, but Quinn Nordin appears to be gaining some confidence. In the last three games, he’s made all five field goal attempts and all 11 extra points attempts. His most impressive kick was a 49-yarder against Michigan State.

Punting is always an important part of the Michigan-Ohio State game, and Will Hart has been formidable in terms of average distance. Hart ranks 17th in the nation with 44.8 yards per punt.

Winning recipe

Before we break down what it will take for Michigan to win this game, understand that there is a scenario in which the Wolverines play their best game and still lose. When both teams are at their best, Ohio State is the better, more talented team. Michigan will need to force the Buckeyes into some mistakes.

Speaking of mistakes, Michigan cannot turn the ball over, even though conditions are expected to be sloppy. The offense has been much more secure with the ball in recent weeks, and that absolutely needs to continue. Ohio State is good enough without being awarded extra possessions.

Patterson and his receivers need to continue to connect at an elite level. Collins, Bell and Peoples-Jones are three of the best players on the roster, and when they have the ball in space, Michigan is one missed tackle away from a touchdown.

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Will Haskins and Charbonnet be factors? Michigan hasn’t been able to effectively run the ball with consistency, but last time they played in wet conditions, the duo ran all over Notre Dame. Even though the passing attack has to carry the load, Michigan can’t win unless the running backs at least keep Ohio State honest.

Defensively, it’s all about the pass rush. As good as Michigan’s secondary has been, nobody can hold up for long against Ohio State’s speedy receivers. If Aidan Hutchinson, Kwity Paye, Josh Uche and company can’t get to Fields, he’ll pick the defense apart like Dwayne Haskins did a year ago.

At the same time, Don Brown can’t commit too many players on blitzes because Fields will make them pay with his legs. Much like he did against Sean Clifford and Ian Book, McGrone will have to keep an eye on Fields throughout the game and make sure he can’t move the chains on the ground. That type of play has demoralized Michigan in the past.

Michigan’s main advantage is that Ohio State hasn’t played a ranked team on the road this season. The Buckeyes certainly haven’t had to go through much adversity, though Penn State made last weekend’s game close for a quarter.

If Patterson makes good decisions and the defense can get a few stops early, Michigan could take advantage of being at home and perhaps make Ohio State feel uncomfortable. It’s been a long time since the Wolverines played their best game against Ohio State, but there’s no other option this weekend if they want to have a chance.

Ohio State might be the best team in the country, but Michigan is playing its best football. Will that finally be enough? We’re about to find out.

The road closures around Lebanon came as President Michel Aoun headed a meeting of the country’s top economic officials to discuss the rapidly deteriorating economic and financial situation in the country.

Nationwide protests that began Oct. 17 over widespread corruption and mismanagement have worsened Lebanon’s worst economic and financial crises since the 1975-90 civil war ended, as did the resignation of the government late last month. Although Hariri resigned his government on Oct. 29, Aoun has not yet set a date for binding consultations with heads of parliamentary blocs to name a new premier.

The protests were initially sparked by new taxes but quickly evolved into calls for the entire political elite to step aside.

Friday’s meeting was attended by the ministers of economy and finance as well as the Central Bank’s chief and the head of the banking association as well as the economic adviser of outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

Lebanon is one of the world’s highest indebted countries and the country’s banking sector has imposed unprecedented capital control amid a widespread shortage of dollars. People have not been allowed in recent weeks to withdraw as much as they want from their bank accounts.

The price of the dollar has dropped 40 percent on the black market after it was stable at 1,507 pounds to the dollar since 1997.

During the meeting, Aoun put forward some suggestions to come out of the crisis and it was decided that the central bank governor would take needed measures regarding coordination with banks to issue circulars to preserve stability, said a statement read by Salim Sfeir, the chairman of the Association of Banks in Lebanon.

“The meeting discussed financial and banking conditions that the country is passing through that has begun to negatively affect most sectors,” the statement said adding that Lebanon will remain committed to its free market economy.

The shortage of liquidity has led to drops in businesses and over the past months scores of institutions have closed and thousands of employees were either laid off or had their salaries cut.

Gas stations began an open-ended strike Thursday as owners are demanding that they be allowed to hike prices saying they are losing money because of the shortage of dollars in the market.

In Beirut and several areas across the country, motorists parked their cars in the middle of the road, saying they ran out of petrol. In other areas angry protesters blocked roads to express their anger against closure of gas stations.

Politicians, meanwhile, have failed to agree on the shape and form of a new government. Hariri had insisted on heading a government of technocrats, while his opponents, including the militant Hezbollah, want a Cabinet made up of both experts and politicians.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis said he met Friday with central bank governor Riad Salameh and discussed with him measures “urgently needed to stop the further deepening” of the economic crisis and to increase the ability of the banking sector to cope with the pressures.

“Formation of a credible and competent government that can regain the trust of the people and of the international partners of #Lebanon is the priority,” Kubis tweeted.

Energy led the way lower as U.S. crude oil prices slumped 4%. Helmerich & Payne dropped 3.9%.

Health care and technology stocks also helped pull the market lower. Bristol-Myers Squibb slid 1.1%, and Lam Research fell 1.5%.

Big retailers were mixed as investors watched for signs that consumers turned out in force to snap up Black Friday holiday shopping deals. Macy’s, Gap and Nordstrom were among the losers. J.C. Penney, Walmart and Best Buy rose.

Industrial stocks also fell. United Rentals slid 1.2%.

Wells Fargo gained 0.6%, part of a broad gain in financial sector stocks as bond yields rose. Higher bond yields drive up the interest rates that lenders charge on mortgage and other consumer loans. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 1.77% from 1.76% late Wednesday.

Despite Friday’s modest pullback, the S&P; 500 was on track for a 1.2% weekly gain. The benchmark index was also on pace to close out November with its strongest increase since June.

The stock market has been notching gains steadily since October, shaking off recession fears that helped knock stocks into a skid in August.

Surprisingly good corporate earnings, solid economic data and interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve have helped set the stage for the market's fall rally. Investors have also grown more optimistic about the prospects for a U.S.-China trade deal.

New U.S. tariffs are set to kick in on many Chinese-made products as of Dec. 15, but negotiators have said they might soon have a preliminary deal that could avert that.

KEEPING SCORE: The S&P; 500 index was down 0.3% as of 11:52 a.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 95 points, or 0.3%, to 28,068. The Nasdaq dropped 0.3% and the Russell 2000 index of smaller company stocks gave up 0.3%.

Major stock indexes in Europe were mixed.

MONTH OF MILESTONES: The three major stock indexes have notched multiple record highs in recent weeks. That’s helped put them on track to close out November with strong gains.

The S&P; 500 is up 3.5% for the month, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 3.8% and the Nasdaq is up 4.7%.

READY, SET, SHOP: Retailers were hoping for a solid turnout as Black Friday, traditionally the kickoff for the holiday shopping season, got underway.

This year retailers have less time to woo consumers because Thanksgiving fell on the fourth Thursday in November, making the holiday shopping season six days shorter.

The National Retail Federation baked the shorter season into its forecast, which calls for holiday sales to rise between 3.8% and 4.2%, an increase from the disappointing 2.1% growth seen in the November and December 2018 period.

Retail stocks were mixed Friday, with shares in department store chains mostly lower. Macy’s fell 1.4%, Gap dropped 1.9%, Kohl’s slid 2.2% and Nordstrom skidded 1.6%.

A few bucked the downward trend. J.C. Penney rose 0.9%, Walmart added 0.7% and Best Buy gained 0.3%.

SOAKED: U.S. Steel slumped 7.9% following reports that a water pipe burst at the company’s steel mill in Gary, Indiana.

SWEETENED OFFER: Shares in Tech Data jumped 12.3% after Apollo Global Management raised its offer to buy the technology company to $145 per share in cash from $130.

ENERGY: Benchmark crude oil dropped $2.33 to $55.78 per barrel. Brent crude oil, the international standard, gave up $2.38 to $60.89 per barrel.

Ahead of a NATO summit next week that both men will attend, tensions have mounted around Turkey’s military operation in Syria, and its role within the trans-Atlantic defense alliance, which is also a member of the fight against so-called Islamic State.

Macron, complaining of a U.S. leadership vacuum, recently lamented the “brain death” of NATO and says the allies need “a wake-up call.” And on Thursday, he reiterated criticism of Turkey’s operation in northeast Syria against Kurdish fighters who were crucial in the international fight against IS extremists.

“I respect the security interests of our Turkish ally ... but one can’t say that we are allies and demand solidarity, and on the other hand, present allies with a fait accompli by a military intervention which jeopardizes the action of the coalition against IS,” Macron said at a meeting with the NATO chief, Jens Stoltenberg.

The comments angered Turkey’s leadership, and prompted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to shoot back Friday: “You should get checked whether you’re brain dead.”

“Kicking Turkey out of NATO or not, how is that up to you? Do you have the authority to make such a decision?” Erdogan asked, characterizing Macron as "inexperienced."

Turkey also criticized Macron for agreeing to talks with a Syrian Kurd politician whom Ankara considers an extremist.

A French presidential official said the Turkish envoy will be summoned to the Foreign Ministry to explain Erdogan’s “insults.” It was not immediately clear when he would be summoned.

The French official defended Macron’s position, saying that NATO allies are expecting “clear answers” from Turkey about its intentions in Syria.

The Macron-Erdogan spat comes amid other problems within NATO that are expected to come to the fore at next week’s summit in London, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s complaints that other members don’t spend enough on defense and differences over the alliance’s post-Cold War mission.

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Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul contributed.

Dunleavy told The Associated Press recently he hopes to move past the rancor. Whether he can repair strained relationships with legislators and calm the public anger over cuts that fueled the recall push will be telling. Courts will decide whether the recall effort advances.

The Republican, who marks a year in office Tuesday, defended the cuts as a tough decision in the face of budget deficits. Alaska, long reliant on oil, has been using savings and earnings from its oil-wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund, to help fill the gap. New taxes weren’t debated during legislative sessions that lingered into summer, and Dunleavy said new taxes “are not going to solve” the deficit. The state tends to spend money when it comes into money, he said.

He said the question is what Alaskans are willing to accept to resolve the issue, such as further cuts, changes to the annual check they get from Permanent Fund earnings or other revenue measures. He said he plans town halls with Alaskans and regular meetings with lawmakers, some of whom had complained of poor communication by the administration and a singling out of members for positions at odds with Dunleavy’s.

“I think there’s some tension only because there’s different priorities. But the tension gets worse when there’s no understanding on where someone’s coming from,” said Republican Rep. Tammie Wilson, who said getting information on administration positions had at times been difficult.

Dunleavy said he plans to renew his push for constitutional measures related to a spending cap and giving Alaskans a say on taxes approved by lawmakers and lawmakers a say on taxes approved by citizen initiatives. He did not provide specifics on his new budget proposal, due by mid-December.

“We’re going to continue to do the right thing for Alaska even though it may not be in some circles politically palatable,” he said.

Some speculated former chief of staff Tuckerman Babcock and Donna Arduin, a former budget office director with a national reputation for slashing budgets, held considerable sway with Dunleavy. “This is my administration, and I take responsibility for the actions,” Dunleavy said.

Dunleavy said having the right people to implement an agenda is important. He said Babcock and Arduin were the right people at the time.

There have been other changes among his staff. Dunleavy’s press secretary, Matt Shuckerow, left in October. Communications director Mary Ann Pruitt left what was cast as a temporary role Oct. 31, but her PR firm has a contract for communications work through January, she said.

Outgoing Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman said the person in his role should be fully aligned with Dunleavy. Tangeman said with changing political sands, he isn’t sure he would be.

There was public outcry over deep cuts Dunleavy proposed. Amid questions about revenue, there’s a citizen effort underway to put before voters an initiative that would raise taxes on Alaska’s legacy oil fields. Many lawmakers are interested in somehow changing the formula for calculating Permanent Fund dividends.

Dunleavy argued for following a decades-old formula many lawmakers say is at odds with a 2018 law seeking to limit withdrawals from fund earnings.

Republican Senate President Cathy Giessel said she’s had productive conversations with Dunleavy’s new chief of staff, Ben Stevens, a former lawmaker. House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, an independent, said he saw as a good start a recent legislative leadership meeting with Dunleavy.

Edgmon and Giessel stood against the administration on what they saw as separation of powers issues, including disputes over school funding and a special session location.

State GOP chair Glenn Clary said the party, which plans a “unity gala” Dec. 6, wants to repair relationships between Republican lawmakers and Dunleavy’s office.

He said there are “major personalities” at play. “People just need to understand that you can agree to disagree, but you don’t have to be disagreeable,” Clary said.

Dunleavy expressed frustration that positive economic signs after three years of recession aren’t getting enough attention. Figures appear to show budget cuts didn’t “destroy the economy,” as he said some feared.

Dunleavy moderated or relented on some vetoes, including the level of cut to the University of Alaska.

Mouhcine Guettabi, an associate professor of economics at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage, said the economy is out of recession but the recovery has been uneven. Federal figures indicate the 6.2% preliminary unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been for Alaska over a span dating to 1976.

Guettabi said the unemployment figure is driven in part by jobs gains but also by people leaving the labor force. The national unemployment rate for October was 3.6%.

He said he doesn’t think the economy growing means that cuts have no consequences but it’s unclear what impact they may have on economic gains.

Ongoing debate over fiscal issues, including what to do with the dividend, is expected to resume in January, during an election year for most legislators. If the recall advances, it would go to a second signature-gathering phase.

Claire Pywell, manager of the recall campaign, said supporters want an opportunity to vote on whether to fire or retain the governor.

Dunleavy said he wants people to understand the state’s fiscal situation. He said he has faith in the people of Alaska and the court system.

“So, like I said, I’ve got to put my faith in the people of Alaska and the court system to do the right thing. I’m going to do the right thing, and we’ll see where it ends up,” he said.

The news came after witnesses reported hearing gunshots in the area. Sky News reported that police had shot the apparent attacker.

The Metropolitan Police force said officers were called Friday afternoon “to a stabbing at premises near to London Bridge.”

They say “a man has been detained by police. We believe a number of people have been injured.”

BBC reporter John McManus was in the area and said he saw figures grappling on the bridge. He said: “I thought it was initially a fight,” but then shots rang out.

London Ambulance Service said it had crews on the scene. Police could be seen ushering people away from the northern end of the bridge, which links the city’s business district with the south bank of the River Thames.

Cars and buses on the busy bride were at a standstill, with a white truck stopped diagonally across the lanes.

British Transport Police said London Bridge station, one of the city’s busiest rail hubs, was closed and trains were not stopping there.

City of London Police, the force responsible for the business district, urged people to stay away from the area.

London Bridge was the scene of a June 2017 attack when Islamic State-inspired attackers ran down people on the bridge, killing two, before stabbing several people to death in nearby Borough Market.

In March 2017, an attacker fatally struck four people with a car on nearby Westminster Bridge then fatally stabbed a police officer before security forces shot and killed him in a courtyard outside Parliament.

On Thursday police received a call from a driver who reported almost being struck head on while driving on M-19.

The caller and the other vehicle involved pulled into the car pool lot at the intersection of M-19 and Galbraith Line Road. An altercation started while the caller was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher. The call was disconnected during the altercation.

Briefly afterward another call was made to 911 about a man being injured in the parking lot. Police say a 30-year-old man was shot during the altercation. He is being treated for his injuries.

Off-duty police officers roam the grounds, bolstering the company’s own force of armed guards. A basement command center that looks like something out of a spy movie is filled with video screens showing feeds from hundreds of security cameras at company offices across the country.

While heavy security has become common at airports and stadiums to deter terrorism, extreme measures have been out of the ordinary at most companies eager to maintain a comfortable work environment and a welcoming atmosphere.

But that may be changing, as more are now hardening their defenses with new techniques, and even new legal authority, to deal with growing fears about violence on the job.

As mass shootings have become frequent, more company leaders have confronted an absence of clear plans for protecting workers from a disgruntled colleague, even after a threat is received.

Now, spurred by an incident at Paycom, the company has produced a formal threat assessment and response guide that serves as a national model for ways to keep a potentially dangerous person away from other workers.

The company’s approach also includes a new measure based on domestic violence laws.

“This is a huge leap forward in public policy for safety in this country,” said Larry Barton, a University of Central Florida professor who teaches courses in threat evaluation at the FBI Academy. “This is a case study, for me as an educator, that I believe will be taught in business schools and in criminal justice courses for decades to come.”

The guide was the product of brainstorming sessions convened by the company with workplace violence experts, law enforcement and civic leaders, after an ex-worker made threats against employees.

A new law, enacted by the Oklahoma Legislature this year with Paycom’s guidance, allows businesses to petition the court for a victim’s protective order much like one that a woman might obtain against a former boyfriend. A judge can order a potentially dangerous person to stay away from a business or its employees, which companies couldn’t do before.

Barton, a safety consultant for private companies, said dozens of businesses as well as policy makers have expressed interest in both the guide and the new law as a way to protect themselves.

Although the number of people killed in workplace violence has remained steady at between 400 and 500 per year, Barton said there has been an increase in the number of on-the-job shootings involving four or more victims.

“This has been an especially disturbing year,” Barton said. “We’re tracking now about a 19% increase in mass shootings, which is very noteworthy.”

Among the recent high-profile incidents are a mass shooting in Virginia Beach in May, in which a city engineer killed 12 people at his office, and the fatal shooting of five employees at an Aurora, Illinois manufacturing plant in February by a co-worker.

Oklahoma has its own history of workplace violence. In 1986, a disgruntled worker shot 14 people at a post office in Edmond. Five years ago, a woman was beheaded at a food processing plant in Moore by a co-worker who had just been suspended.

In the case of Paycom, which employs about 3,200 people nationwide, the former worker was arrested last year and is facing felony charges in connection with threatening messages and social media posts. The case has been moved to mental health court, which is designed to divert individuals with a mental illness from jail or prison.

The new threat assessment guide lays out a series of factors that company officials should consider in judging a threat and how to respond.

Included are questions about whether an employee has been undergoing personality changes, has a troubled personal life, exhibits confused thinking, is abusing drugs or alcohol or has access to firearms.

Depending on how many questions are answered “yes,” responses can range from a one-on-one meeting, to termination to obtaining a protective order or calling 911.

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4:55 p.m.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says police are not looking for anyone else in the stabbings that took place near London Bridge.

The mayor commended the “breathtaking heroism” of the members of public who intervened in the incident, running toward the suspect. The man was later shot dead by police.

Khan says a number of people were wounded in the incident Friday and that some of the injuries are serious. He did not offer a figure, but said it was important to allow the families of those who were hurt some privacy.

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4:30 p.m.

Police say the stabbings and shooting at London Bridge have been declared a “terrorist incident” and that a man was shot dead.

The Metropolitan Police’s Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu says the suspect who died was wearing a hoax explosive vest.

Police have said several people were stabbed, though it was not immediately clear how many people were hurt nor the extent of their injuries. Basu did not address the number of injured in his statement Friday.

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3:30 p.m.

London’s Metropolitan Police say that though the circumstances of an incident on London Bridge remain unclear, authorities are treating it as if it is terror-related.

The police acknowledged one man had been shot in the incident that began at 1:58 p.m. on Friday. The police say that “at this stage, the circumstances relating to the incident at #LondonBridge remain unclear. However, as a precaution, we are currently responding to this incident as though it is terror-related.”

"One man has been shot by police. We will provide further information when possible."

They previously said that several people had been stabbed nearby.

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2:50 p.m.

Police say several people have been stabbed close to London Bridge, and a man has been detained.

The Metropolitan Police force says officer were called Friday afternoon “to a stabbing at premises near to London Bridge.”

They say “a man has been detained by police. We believe a number of people have been injured.”

The news comes after witnesses reported hearing gunshots. Sky News reported that police had shot the apparent attacker.

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2:20 p.m.

British police say they’re dealing with an incident on London Bridge, and witnesses have reported hearing gunshots.

The Metropolitan Police force tweeted that officers were “in the early stages of dealing with an incident at London Bridge.”

A BBC reporter said he heard shots being fired and saw someone on the ground.

11:45 a.m.

Stocks moved lower in midday trading on Wall Street as major indexes come off record highs from earlier in the week.

Trading volume was lighter than usual on Friday with markets open for only a half day after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Energy stocks had some of the sharpest drops following tumbles in prices for crude oil and natural gas. Helmerich & Payne lost 3%.

Retailers are mixed as shoppers look for deals on Black Friday.

The S&P; 500 slipped 7 points, or 0.2% to 3,146.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 82 points, or 0.3%, to 28,082. The Nasdaq lost 16 points, or 0.2%, to 8,689.

Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 1.77%.

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9:35 a.m.

Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as the major indexes come off record highs from earlier in the week.

Trading volume could be light Friday with the markets open for only a half day after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Technology and health care companies are leading the way lower in early trading. AutoDesk fell 1.2% and UnitedHealth Group dropped 0.9%

Retailers are mixed as shoppers look for deals on Black Friday.

The S&P; 500 slipped 6 points, or 0.2% to 3,147.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 88 points, or 0.3%, to 28,075. The Nasdaq lost 22 points, or 0.3%, to 8,683.

Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 1.77%.

It drew about 1,800 attendees and Grammy-winning rocker Lenny Kravitz performed. Yet there were no written invitations, and the actual date and location were carefully guarded secrets.

The annual charitable event is mischievously known as Spookstock. While many Washington insiders, let alone the public, haven’t heard of it, the gala has become a centerpiece for the capital region’s tightknit intelligence and military special operations communities.

“I’ve done my share of formal events and black dress nights. This is a lot more fun,” said retired Maj. Gen. Clay Hutmacher, the former director of operations for U.S. Special Operations Command. “It’s very casual. If you want to show up in a Def Leppard T-shirt, that’s fine.”

Now in its seventh year, Spookstock has raised millions for the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which look after the families of CIA officers and special operations forces killed in the field. Last year, after expenses, each charity received about $400,000, according to Spookstock board member Mark Kelton.

The event is essentially fueled by defense contractors and mainstays of the military-industrial complex that pay big money for a table or a balcony box. Kelton, a retired CIA officer, would only say those corporate boxes are “not cheap.” Other government employees or members of military who secure an invitation pay a much lower, but still undisclosed, rate.

The invitation list and event details are closely guarded by Kelton and the four-member board. Given the clandestine nature of some of the participants’ work life, news coverage and social media postings are avoided. The only real online traces are a smattering of articles, some briefs in intelligence-focused newsletters and a few unauthorized YouTube videos.

A visit to the Spookstock website reveals a parody of the original Woodstock logo, a password box and nothing else. Spookstocks have been held at a warehouse in Springfield, Virginia, and a farm in Loudoun County, Virginia. Previous attendees have included actors Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel. Kelton says he’s constantly fending off invitation requests and adds somewhat proudly that he has never extended an invitation to an active politician.

The guests of honor are a few dozen young beneficiaries — college seniors or recent graduates who have had their entire university education paid for by one of the foundations. Last year, 30 beneficiaries were flown in, Kelton said, with a major airline donating the tickets.

While the CIA foundation focuses exclusively on funding higher education, the special operations fund helps cover preschool, tutoring, SAT prep and college visits in addition to a full scholarship.

“We call it cradle to career,” said Hutmacher, the head of the foundation, who estimates that the fund spends an average of $250,000 per child. The standard military death benefit for a soldier killed on duty is a lump-sum payment of $100,000.

Kelton said that losing a parent amid “murky circumstances” can produce a specific sort of trauma among the children.

“You’re always wondering how it happened and you can never know,” he said. “These are closed worlds.”

Kelton said the only networking that’s allowed is among the young beneficiaries. The weekend serves as an informal job fair for the new graduates if they want to pursue a career in defense or intelligence.

Beyond the financial help, Kelton said a large element of the event is having beneficiaries meet each other and forge bonds.

“The most important part is to get them all together, because most of these kids have gone through this ordeal on their own,” he said. “It’s a revelation to them to meet others who went through what they experienced.”

The event has grown into a weekend of activities. In addition to tours of Washington and CIA headquarters for the young beneficiaries, corporate sponsors can pay extra for a day of pseudo special-operations training.

But the centerpiece is the concert. Spookstock headliners have included Peter Frampton, ZZ Top and the Steve Miller Band. Kravitz, 55, reflected an attempt to skew a bit younger, Kelton said.

Although Spookstock is relatively new, the charitable foundations that it benefits are much older. The early version of what would develop into the Special Operations Warrior Foundation was created in the wake of Operation Eagle Claw — the 1980 attempt to rescue the 52 hostages held in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The operation was aborted by President Jimmy Carter and resulted in the deaths of eight servicemen, leaving behind a total of 17 children.

“Senior leaders at the time passed the hat” to help those children, said Hutmacher, a former commander of the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the Night Stalkers. But the experience led to the creation of what would become the foundation.

``Now most of the wars being fought are with special operations and intelligence,” Kelton said. “The pace of losses since 9/11 has increased sharply.”

The event may just be growing too fast to remain hidden for much longer.

Kelton had expected about 1,400 attendees this year, which would have been a record. Instead there were 1,800.

The corporate clientele has changed a bit as well.

Kelton said the normal defense contractor crowd has been joined recently by an increasing number of tech companies. Now he said organizers are planning an expansion that would create a springtime Spookstock West event in the tech hub of Austin, Texas.

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Associated Press writers Deb Riechmann and Lolita Baldor contributed to this report.

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We do share a lot, like, a border and the need for oxygen. But there’s so much more that makes Michigan better. Here’s a long list:

We have the beer

Michigan's beer industry has been booming in the last decade, leaving Ohio beer in the dust. Ohio has 1.5 breweries per capita, 23rd in the nation. Michigan has 4.5 per capita, 11th in the nation, with 330 craft breweries, ranking fourth in the nation. (Brewers Association)

We have the pizza

In 2017, Michigan-based pizza chains accounted for four of the top 15 pizza chains in the country. Ohio had one -- Marco's Pizza -- which is Toledo based. So it's basically a Michigan chain.

We have the championships

Michigan (Detroit) has enjoyed plenty of sports success, racking up 22 major sports championships, which is the fifth most for any North American city. Cleveland has had nine and Cincinnati has had five. And it'd be one less if LeBron wasn't such a nice guy.

We have the better sports teams

In every category we could find, Detroit sports teams have outperformed Cleveland sports teams historically.

The Lions, Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons all lead in all-time series records with the Browns, Indians, Blue Jackets and Cavaliers.

We have fewer speed traps

Ohio police are known by Michiganders as the strictest speeding enforcers known to mankind. Ohio ranks sixth for speeding violations. Ohio is one of only two states that allows individual cities to set their own fines and fees, resulting in a patchwork of speeding violation rules across the state. Indeed, Cleveland.com reports that speeding tickets in northeast Ohio can vary by $100 or more along the same street.

We have the music

Putting aside the fact that Motown was founded in Detroit, which essentially puts Michigan ahead of every state for music, we still have a better group of musicians who call Michigan home.

In Michigan, we have Bob Seger, Eminem, Kid Rock, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Glenn Frey and Iggy Pop, to name a few.

Ohio has Dean Martin, Marilyn Manson, Doris Day, John Legend and wait for it -- Lil' Bow Wow. We'll let you decide on that one.

We have the lakes

Michigan not only has amazing lakes, including the Great Lakes, we also have the highest percentage of water area for any state in the country. 41.5 percent of Michigan is water. Ohio is at 8.8 percent. So, if you want to walk on land for your whole life, move to Ohio. (Lame)

We have the trees (and fall colors)

Michigan ranks 16th for forest cover, compared to Ohio's 32nd. Michigan also has more maple trees than almost any state in the country. Also, our fall colors put Ohio's to shame, especially in Northern Michigan.

We have nicer spiders

In Ohio, spiders run free and it's insane. Black widows and recluse spiders are both found in Ohio. In Michigan, the only dangerous spiders come from people who are visiting from Ohio or even further south. Keep your spiders to yourself, Ohio.

We have the cars

The biggest industry in Ohio is... the automotive industry. The automotive industry came from where? Oh yeah, Michigan. You're welcome, Ohio.

We were ranked No. 1

Thrillist ranked Michigan as the No. 1 state in America. Ohio was ranked No. 48. 'Nuff said.

We have the Upper Peninsula

The nearly bloodless Toledo War of 1835 resulted in Ohio getting Toledo. Congrats, guys! What did they give up? THE UPPER PENINSULA. At the time, it was considered worthless, but now we know the truth -- it's priceless. I think we all know who won that war.

We could go on and on and on, but we’re pretty sure you get the point. Michigan is better than Ohio. Well, besides for our roads.

A great Friendsgiving includes a few key elements: Some Thanksgiving-themed dishes to serve, some kid-friendly activities, lots of beverages for everyone who shows up and a few decorations to highlight how special the event is to you and yours. Ideally, everything can be done with limited expense and with a few special purchases.

Read all about it here.

The deal runs from now through 5 p.m. on Dec. 4.

Click here to visit the ticket purchase page. Use promo code “GIFT” to get the deal.

The “buy one, get one free” deal is available for these shows:

• <i>Sister’s Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold</i>
• <i>The Simon &amp; Garfunkel Story</i>
• <i>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical</i>
• Il Volo
• <i>Twas A Girls Night Before Christmas: The Musical</i>
• <i>Disney On Ice presents Road Trip Adventures</i>
• <i>Cirque Dreams Holidaze</i>
• Duel In The D – Michigan vs Michigan State College Hockey
• Oakland University vs Michigan State University Men's Basketball
• <i>Riverdance - New 25th Anniversary Show</i>
• Michael W. Smith Christmas with special guest Marc Martel
• <i>Nick Jr. Live! “Move to the Music”</i>
• Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis
• Little Big Town
• <i>The SpongeBob Musical</i>
• <i>MasterChef Junior Live!</i>
• WWE SmackDown Live
• RAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles
• 2019 Great Lakes Invitational
• <i>The Bachelor Live on Stage</i>
• <i>Sesame Street Live! Let’s Party!</i>
• Blue Man Group

Or for those of you who love a good deal: Happy Black Friday. I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday.

It’s safe to say there is only one thing on the minds of Wolverine fans right now: tomorrow’s game vs. Ohio State. Now, Michigan has a slight chance to beat OSU if they play a perfect game, and while being optimistic is important, there are a lot of emotions flying around right now. To make matters worse, both golf clubs across from Michigan Stadium announced they will be closed -- again -- due to wet grounds.

Did this affect your plans? Here’s a list of parking lots around the stadium.

Have a great weekend and Go Blue!

- Meredith (@meredith_A4)

What’s been happening:

🏠 The city of Ann Arbor will be holding a series of public meetings this week on affordable housing with two vacant city lots in mind for redevelopment. (A4)

🗝 Antelope Antiques and Coins will be shutting its doors for good in February. The longtime antique shop has been a fixture downtown for more than 20 years. (A4)

🌮 This week it was announced that Taco Bell will be joining the list of food vendors at the newly renovated Michigan Union. (A4)

🥕 Food Gatherers’ annual food and fund drive Rockin’ for the Hungry kicks off on Tuesday at Kroger locations across Washtenaw County. Tune in to ann arbor’s 107one for live broadcasts with community partners as they try to raise one million meals for the hungry this holiday season. (A4)

🍗 Speaking of meals, Tios Mexican Cafe has been quietly donating Thanksgiving meals to patients and their families at local children’s hospitals for 26 years. (MLive)

🏈 Former Michigan Football player Chase Winovich surprised his mother Nina with a brand-new car to make up for all the long drives she made watching him play football in Ann Arbor. (A4)

Fun to know:

🎥 'Tis the season for free holiday classics at the Michigan Theater. Starting Sunday, see four free Christmas movies this month. (A4)

🎅 Staying in the holiday spirit, Santa’s Mailbox will be installed on Main St. Dec. 2-15. Get those letters mailed in time to get a response from the man in the red coat! (A4)

🛍 Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. Here’s a great local shopping guide Sarah put together. (A4)

🐟 Want to escape the cold? Mack Indoor Pool will be screening “Finding Dory” during its Dive in Movie on Saturday. (A4)

Feature interview of the week:

“They have never closed for a single day. The first year I was here it was the Superbowl Sunday blizzard where no one could get out. We were still here serving breakfast."

- Morgan Battle, director of The Breakfast at St. Andrew’s

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James Fernandes, 43, is facing two counts each of assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, assault with a dangerous weapon and four counts of felony firearm.

Fernandes was charged following a barricaded gunman incident at his home in the 16000 block of Blue Skies in Livonia Tuesday. Police say he allegedly fired shots at the court officer who tried evicting him from the home.

Livonia police arrived at the scene and surrounded the house. They were able to convince Fernandes to peacefully surrender following a brief standoff with officers. No one was injured. Fernandes was arraigned Wednesday in the Livonia 16th District Court and denied bond. A probable cause conference is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Dec. 5 at the Livonia 16th District Court.

Background: IT Broadcast Engineering is a unique and exciting field at the heart of the modern television facility, combining aspects of Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and enterprise IT.

Engineering interns will have the opportunity to develop skills in the areas of systems architecture, networking and programming to learn how these are applied in television production. Interns will also gain hands-on experience with broadcast equipment used in producing newscasts and entertainment programs.

Applicants should have a course curriculum in Engineering or Computer Science, a passion and curiosity for technical learning, strong analytical reasoning and communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously or in teams.

Engineering Interns will participate in the following daily functions:

• IT Technical Support • Computer Video Servers • Database Management • Broadcast Computer Applications • Broadcast Computer Hardware Installation • Electronic Graphics Integration • Maintenance / Production of Broadcast Equipment

Duration/Hours: Must be able to work 24 hours per week between the hours of 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Mon-Fri) during a 13-18 week period.

FALL (September–December) SUMMER (May–August)

Download: WDIV-TV Local 4 - Internship Packet with application

Updated 11/11/14

Click Here: Internship Application

Local 4 internships are paid positions. The applicant must be eligible to earn credits from his or her college/university or the equivalency if a trade/technical school.

Interested candidates should apply several months prior to the semester in which they hope to work.

Interested candidates will be referred to the various departments for interviews and selection is based on the intern's interest and qualifications.

This is an equal opportunity program.

Included is a brief outline of the programs within each department.

We're looking for people who are smart (not just book smart) and want to contribute to the conversation of how we view content, create it and market it.

Creative Services interns are hard-working and detail-oriented individuals who want to gain valuable experience in the television/media industry. They are curious and are passionate about how media companies work and want to explore career interests.

What's so important about local TV?

Local journalists and producers of local programming are crucial to telling the stories that make up our communities.

Position Summary: The Creative Services team is the marketing and design department for Local 4. We promote local and NBC programming, syndication and online.

The ideal candidate possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills, has the ability to multi-task, works well under pressure and takes initiative. Creative thinkers are essential. Help us reach new audiences and strengthen the relationships with our current viewers.

Responsibilities include monitoring Local 4's website - ClickOnDetroit.com, monitoring WDIV apps, screening and logging video, assisting with press releases, attending promotional events and helping producers with day-to-day needs.

Requirements: Undergraduate (junior/senior standing) student attending an accredited college or university majoring in Communications/Marketing/Journalism/Broadcasting or a related field of study. Students must be able to obtain college credit for the internship experience.

Students should have a strong academic record (GPA of at least a 3.0 is strongly preferred).

Duration/Hours: Must be able to work 24 hours per week between the hours of 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Mon-Fri) during a 13-18 week period. Note: Some special projects may require working nights and/or weekends.

FALL (September–December)* WINTER/SPRING (January–April) SUMMER (May–August)

If you have any questions about an internship in the Creative Services department please contact Donna Harper at 313-222-0643.

Download: WDIV-TV Local 4 - Internship Packet with application

Updated 11/11/14

Sales Interns will participate in the following daily functions:

• Learn terminology and software tools of the sales department: Wide Orbit, Wide Orbit Sales • Learn developmental business strategies and skills • Work with research director to learn ratings terminology • Work with digital team to learn digital sales practices • Assist AE's with order input, order maintenance • Assist AE's with creating special packages for clients • Assist AE's with digital orders, packages • Assist sales support staff with daily execution of client support • Go on sales calls with sales people • Help put together sales presentations

While we try to provide a positive learning experience, there are some things a Local 4 Sales Intern should NOT expect:

> To attend client lunches or dinners > To attend media parties or social events on behalf of Local 4

If you have any questions about an internship in the Sales Department, please contact:

• Karren Yurgalite: (313) 222-0487 • Angela Satizabal: (313) 222-0469

Download: WDIV-TV Local 4 - Internship Packet with application

Updated 11/11/14

Each fall and summer semester [not available winter semester] students are exposed to all aspects of local TV production -- from concept to air. WDIV-TV's award-winning local specials are highly regarded as innovative trend-setting productions. Our interns are a part of that process and we hope they leave here with a well-rounded foundation of the skills and knowledge that will help them compete successfully in the entry-level job market.

"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about" – Tom Brokaw

Producers of local programming bring to light the stories of people, places and things going on in our communities we might not otherwise see.

Position Summary: Local 4 is known as the "Big Event" station. The Programming/Production team brings these big local events to our on-air and mobile viewers -- the three-hour special event broadcast of America's Thanksgiving Parade, the two-hour primetime Fireworks special, the weekly public affairs program Flashpoint, the newsmagazine First Block, the Arts Beats & Eats special, annual Auto Show coverage and more.

The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills; has excellent journalistic, organizational and research skills; a compelling interest in television either as an entertainment form or as an information source; and has had exposure to the business of television and/or journalism through college classes.

Responsibilities included research, assisting during field production shoots and studio tapings, writing scripts, booking guests and contributing to the many other facets of show productions.

Requirement: Undergraduate (junior/senior standing) student attending an accredited college or university majoring in Communications/Marketing/Journalism/Broadcasting or a related field of study. Students must be able to obtain college credit for the internship experience.

Students should have a strong academic record (GPA of at least a 3.0 is strongly preferred).

Duration/Hours: Must be able to work 24 hours per week between the hours of 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Mon-Fri) during a 13-18 week period. Note: Some special projects may require working nights and/or weekends.

FALL (September–December) SUMMER (May–August)

If you have any questions about an internship in the Programming Department please contact: Laurie Oberman at 313-222-0609.

Download: WDIV-TV Local 4 - Internship Packet with application

Local 4 internships are more journalism-oriented than production-oriented. Interns work in news gathering, however, they are not able to do any hands-on work with equipment. Each intern will go out with a reporter a few times during a semester, but most of the time will be needed inside the newsroom.

Here's what we look for in interns: • A compelling interest in news. • An avid news watcher/listener? • Strong journalism skills • Previous experience at college or commercial newspapers, radio and television • Enthusiasm, assertiveness and willingness to learn

Deadline to submit an application for spring/summer semesters is March 31.

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The opportunities for NEWSROOM internships include:

ASSIGNMENT DESK: This is the nerve center of the newsroom. The desk keeps on top of breaking and continuing news stories, assigns and dispatches crews and reporters. Interns on the desk gather news for daily stories, screen incoming news stories for reporters, check in several times daily with police stations for news, watch/listen to other media outlets. If you want to learn how news judgments are made and be in the center of the action, this internship is for you.

SPORTS: This unit is responsible for the sports segment of each newscast. Interns watch sporting events – often multiple events at once – log plays and assist in selecting highlights, monitor sports wires and find file video. This internship is only for hard-core sports fans.

GOOD HEALTH: Work on production of nightly Good Health segments.

SPECIAL PROJECTS: This unit works on news series, documentaries, election coverage and other special events that are not daily breaking news stories. For example, special projects interns work in the Rescue 4 Unit. Interns here get an in-depth look at what it takes to develop and research a series. Most of the interns' time is spent in research, follow-up of story ideas, phone interviewing, logging tapes and assisting a reporter or producer. If you're a detail person, like to work in-depth on one subject and have good interviewing skills, this internship is for you.

CLICKONDETROIT.COM: This unit is responsible for website news service.

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While we try to provide a positive learning experience there are some things Local 4 interns are NOT able to do:

• No on-camera interviews.
• ?Will not attend media parties or social events on behalf of Local 4.
• ?Not prepare a resume tape.

If you have any questions about an internship in the Local 4 News department, please contact:

• James Jackson?: (313) 222-0500
• Angela Satizabal?: (313) 222-0469

Download: WDIV-TV Local 4 - Internship Packet with application

5 songs we have on repeat this week:

I Wish I Never Met You -- Oh Wonder

Oh Wonder dropped a track about the feelings experienced after a relationship goes bad.

It’s a song about pain, regret and acceptance that sums up the grieving process, including the sadness and questions associated with it. The vocals are low, over a beat that isn’t slow but isn’t overly upbeat, making “I Wish I Never Met You” a solemn track.

“I wish I never met you / But it’s a little too late / You left me with these issues that I just can’t seem to shake / I wish I never met you”

Oh Wonder is set to drop a new album, “No One Else Can Wear Your Crown,” on Feb. 7. The band is slated to perform in Michigan on April 13.

Doin’ Too Much -- SAYGRACE

Grace Sewell has re-branded from her stage name Grace and moved onto the next chapter of her career -- SAYGRACE.

“This time last year I was so lost. I felt minimized and controlled by the people I was doing business with. I felt restrained by the limitations and constructs I saw in society but most of all I was bored and disappointed with the norms that female artists are held to in this industry. Now I have absolutely zero f***s to give. I will no longer be bound by other people’s opinions of what they think I should be. I’m gonna do what I want, dress how I want, make art that I’m proud of and write exactly what I think and feel in my songs because that’s what empowers me,” SAYGRACE tweeted.

"Please let me know if I’m doing too much / No, I’m not perfect but I’m close enough”

“Doin’ Too Much” is the second part of what is expected to be a trilogy. “Boys Ain’t S--t” was the debut song. Sewell told Billboard that that first video was meant to “take the stereotypical things that little boys to do girls and flip it on its head, and show little girls being empowered and bada** and teasing the boys in a playful way.”

“So yeah, gender norms is just a dead concept to me. It’s no longer relevant to follow these antiquated rules. Music and art should represent that,” she told Billboard.

Chasing Highs -- Too Close to Touch

Too Close to Touch recently released “I’m Hard To Love But So Are You, Vol 3.,” an EP that follows volumes one and two, both released earlier this year.

The upbeat track “Chasing Highs” runs through the thrill of chasing a connection that isn’t going to go anywhere.

“'Cause when it rains it pours / And maybe I adore / A little bit of apathy / Yeah the shame is more than I can take / I swore I didn’t need your sympathy / Didn’t want it, no / Now I need it, yeah"

On the surface, the song seems optimistic, but the lyrics paint a different picture, one of love that is going to crumble and cause pain. Nonetheless, it’s an energetic track.

Too Close to Touch will play at the Pike Room in Pontiac on Dec. 8.

Tattoos and Tequila -- Jason Aldean

“Tattoos and Tequila” is the first song on Jason Aldean’s new album "9.″ It’s a song that doesn’t really fit in a box -- but feels like it could be described as a solid country-pop-rock breakup jam.

“When I’m missing her / I take another shot / I know it ain’t the cure / but right now it’s all I got / she took most of me / now all that I have left / are tattoos to remember / tequila to forget”

“I enjoy making the albums and getting into the studio and having that outlet to get creative. You spend all that time making the records and [the fans] come out and you see the reaction it gives people," he told Billboard.

Aldean’s album was released last Friday and features 16 songs. He’s expected to launch a 2020 tour in January.

Can’t Fight This Feeling -- Bastille, London Contemporary Orchestra

Bastille’s cover of REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling" is good. Like, really, really good.

The band recorded the cover with the London Contemporary Orchestra for British retailers John Lewis and Waitrose’s Christmas ad.

Dan Smith’s voice paired with the orchestra gives the track a magical sound, especially when the instruments play loudly over Smith’s calm vocals.

It’s a beautiful twist on the song.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SONGS, UPCOMING SHOWS

For the past three years, a tiny business in middle America has been teaching children how to earn holiday money from the intersection of commerce and community. 

At the Charm School crafts store in Terre Haute, Indiana, owner Yvette Morgan opens her heart and her doors to kid entrepreneurs on Small Business Saturday, the increasingly popular antidote to big box shopping on Thanksgiving weekend.

"I love helping young girls ... you can get somebody come in who is very shy, but by the time they leave, they're very excited about what they've done," Morgan told InsideEdition.com.

What they're doing is making their own goods to sell and thereby earning their own money. In 2016, Morgan began the "Little Makers Suitcase Sale," during which pint-sized business people display their wares in little suitcases opened throughout her shop. This year, Small Business Saturday falls on Nov. 30.

Eleven-year-old Ella Tapy is the daughter of Morgan's business partner, Angela Tapy. She has been marketing her creations since Morgan started the holiday sale. 

"I sell earrings and Christmas ornaments and cards," she said proudly. This season, she is offering snowman tea lights — a battery-operated tea light complemented by stick-on eyes and a top hat. She also has holiday earrings made from tiny Christmas light bulbs and a glass ornament with a clay horn. 

The latter is "a unicorn-a-ment," Ella says. Get it?

Ella thinks that's a very cute pun. 

She also offers original artwork, painted by her with a hat tip to Jackson Pollack. Her technique?

Ella: "So it's just abstract painting, so you just dump ..."

Her mother: "You pour."

Ella: "Pour paint onto a canvas and you swirl it around."

The price? $5.

"People seem to really like this kind of thing, so I like to see people's reaction," the young artist said.

The reactions of adults to the kids' creations crack them up. 

"They're always, they're like, 'Wow! Did you make all this this? And I was like, 'Well, yeah." (The 'duh' was implied but not spoken.)

Ella added, "And they're like, 'Well, I want this.' I was like 'OK!'''

Last year, the middle-schooler made about $100 — most of which she donated to Toys for Tots, the Salvation Army and Tackle Childhood Cancers. She saved a little of it to buy Christmas presents for her family and Starbucks confections for herself. 

As for her competitors at the Little Makers Suitcase Sale, she sees them them more as compatriots. "We help each other," she says.

Her mom, Angela, weighs in. "I'm not sure how any of them really ever make any money, because they're always going around to each other's little suitcases and buying things or trading things.

"It's really cute, though, to watch them say, 'Wow, I really like this. I wish I would have thought of that,''' Angela said. There are nine small business owners of small businesses scheduled for this year's holiday sale.

Their wares include bath bombs, jewelry, ornaments, Christmas decorations, cookies and other baked goods.

The Small Business Saturday shopping holiday was started in 2010 and promoted by American Express. The idea was to encourage people to visit local craftspeople instead of giant store chains, as a way to promote small businesses and help the neighborhood. 

The concept took off, and has crossed the Atlantic to Great Britain, which started its own version. 

To Morgan, the owner of Charm School, her version makes perfect sense. Especially for young women.

"You see the girls just really light up when you are buying something from them that they personally made. It just helps them meet new people and interact with other adults," she said. 

The kids make change, pack up purchases and even make their own carry-out bags. Morgan and her business partner make business cards for the children to hand out with their sales.

Morgan says she got the idea for the Little Makers Suitcase Sale from a friend who is an artist and who supports young creators with a similar program. 

"I've been in business for 13 years," Morgan said. "It's really important to show kids that if you have a dream, you can absolutely do it. And the kids absolutely love it."

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Buy Nothing Friday is something you may not have heard of, but the anti-Black Friday holiday serves as a replacement for the chaos that can come the day after — and increasingly the night of — Thanksgiving.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a high time for holiday shoppers to nab the best deals on gifts for themselves and others. But it's often riddled with tales of shoppers trampling over each other to make sure they can get what the stores advertise as their best sales.

Buy Nothing Friday, however, is the complete opposite. People are urged to not spend a dime on the day — no train rides, no trips to the mall, literally nothing.

The holiday was created by artist Ted Dave in Canada in September 1992 as part of the movement against consumerism.

In 1997, the holiday was moved to one of the most popular shopping days of the year, seemingly the most appropriate time to boycott unnecessary spending.

Once the day became popular in America around 2011 after Canadian magazine “Adbusters” wrote about it, Americans began holding marches to celebrate the day.

Over the years, people have tweeted to share what they do for the holiday. Some said they donated to charity. Others said they specifically wouldn’t shop because they don't want to support stores that make their employees work during the holiday instead of letting them spend the time with family and friends. Some companies started opening later on Black Friday, and even closing on Thanksgiving altogether, in response to those sentiments.

One person joked about deleting every Black Friday email they received.

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William Jeffrey Bertt, 60, of Flint, was driving a 1995 Chevrolet Surburban south in the northbound lanes of I-475, police said. Grand Blanc Township officials said they received the first call about Bertt’s vehicle at 10:53 p.m. Monday.

Officials said the Suburban crashed into a 2014 Ford Focus driven by Laura Katelyn Osaer, 25, of Macomb.

Osaer was a medical student at Michigan State University and was on her way to an internship at a Bay City hospital, according to authorities.

Police said they suspect alcohol use by Bertt, but they’ll have to wait for the toxicology reports for confirmation.

It has been 30 years since Kimberly Mays, now 41, discovered she was switched at birth. Now, she’s revealing new details about the high-profile custody battle and running away from both families. 

“I wasn’t prepared for, like, life,” Mays said in a new interview with ABC’s 20/20 airing Friday.

Mays was born in Florida in late 1978 and went home with new parents Bob and Barbara Mays. Barbara died of ovarian cancer three years later.

When Mays was 9 years old, a different set of parents, who were at the hospital the day she was born, discovered Mays was actually their biological daughter.

Ernest and Regina Twigg had gone home with another baby, named Arlena Twigg, that fateful day. It was discovered that Arlena was not the Twiggs’ biological daughter when they learned she had a different blood type from them.

When Arlena died of a rare heart condition, the Twiggs came to know of their true biological daughter and began a five-year custody battle that was broadcast on television screens all over America.

The court decided to keep her with Bob Mays, which initially made Mays happy. But she ran away from the man months later to move in with the Twiggs.

She also soon terminated her relationship with the Twiggs. 

Was the switch truly an accident? New evidence suggests the mystery that cast a shadow over her entire life might have been intentional.

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The former front man of the Faces who has hits dating back to the 1960s has put the finishing touch on a 23-year project that has landed him on the cover of Britain’s Railway Modeller magazine. It’s a far cry from Rolling Stone, whose cover he has graced many times.

The model is an ambitious portrayal of a gritty American city in 1945, representing a combination of New York and Chicago. It’s an artistic success, one that Stewart didn’t outsource but designed and constructed from start to finish, with some help with the electrical and computer connections.

“It’s the detail that I’m proud of,” Stewart said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Stewart is modest about hits like “Maggie May” but proud of his railway design skills.

“Absolutely amazing detail,” Steward said. “There’s garbage in the streets, the windows are filthy, there’s everything you can imagine in real life is on the railroad.”

He grew up in London across the street from a railroad line and has been fascinated by trains ever since, taking mental notes on his extensive world travels.

When he got around to building a house in Beverly Hills, he added a room at the very top for his oversize model railroad. He would typically go up there for three or four hours at a time, quietly stepping away from his family and his musical responsibilities.

“It wasn’t a whim, it took a bit of planning, and 23 years later it’s finished,” Stewart said.

Now that the project is completed, he’s got more time for music. The 74-year-old singer says that for some reason it’s easier for him to write songs than it used to be.

He’s promoting a new record — his best-known songs backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra — and traveling in style, arriving for interviews in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce with a hair stylist standing by to help with shape and volume.

If pressed, he can come up with a few new artists that he likes, but Stewart readily admits he’s “old fashioned” and prefers to listen to classics by Otis Redding, the Temptations, and Frank Sinatra, who he started paying attention to when he was nine or ten because his parents were big fans.

“The greatest,” he said of Sinatra. “Probably the only white singer I’ve ever listened to and really studied his technique. And I’ve actually met him a couple of times...and his daughter is the godmother of my children. Pretty good, huh?”

TV: 8 p.m. ET, ESPN. LINE: UCF -24

“It matters to them,” Knights coach Josh Heupel told reporters of the rivalry as his team tries to extend its home winning streak to 21. “The history of the game, and a lot of the kids are from here inside the state. … It’s important to (the fans) like it is to our players. It’s bragging rights for an entire year in the state.” UCF’s freshman quarterback Dillon Gabriel has thrown for 3,123 yards and 25 touchdowns with seven interceptions while junior receiver Gabriel Davis is putting together another impressive season with 1,135 yards receiving and 10 touchdowns - tied for 15th in the nation. Heupel said he expects a challenge from an improving USF team, which nearly knocked off 17th-ranked Cincinnati two weeks ago but fell apart after taking an early lead last Saturday in a 49-10 setback against No. 18 Memphis. “We just could never get any rhythm at all going on offense,” Bulls coach Charlie Strong told reporters after his team’s third straight loss. “Then, it just beats down your defense.”

ABOUT SOUTH FLORIDA (4-7, 2-5 AAC)

The Bulls finished with just 44 yards passing last week, but may have found a future star as freshman Kelley Joiner Jr. rushed for 115 yards on 13 carries as injuries gave him the opportunity. Senior backs Jordan Cronkrite (team-best 686 yards) along with Trevon Sands are not expected to play, giving Joiner another chance, and Strong told reporters: “The thing about (Joiner), he’s so small and quick, but he’s fast enough where he can run away from people.” Freshman quarterback Jordan McCloud has thrown for 12 touchdowns and six interceptions while senior tight end Mitchell Wilcox (26 catches, 334 yards, five TDs) is his top target.

ABOUT CENTRAL FLORIDA (8-3, 5-2)

Gabriel has completed 59.4 percent of his passes while Tre Nixon supports Davis well with 44 receptions for 722 yards to go along with seven scores and fellow junior Marlon Williams (39, 549, five) had nine catches for 119 yards last week. The Knights boast four backs with at least 400 yards rushing, led by junior Otis Anderson (658, five TDs), with sophomore Bentavious Thompson (524, eight), senior Adrian Killins Jr. (514, six) and Greg McCrae (419, six) also contributing. Senior linebacker Nate Evans, who leads the team with 92 tackles, plays his final home game along with senior defensive lineman Brendon Hayes (6.5 sacks).

EXTRA POINTS

1. Killins needs 37 all-purpose yards to move past Mark Whittemore (4,282) for fourth on the school’s all-time list.

2. South Florida sophomore LB Dwayne Boyles is tied for the team lead with 67 tackles and had a season-high 10 against Memphis.

3. The Bulls leads the all-time series 6-4, but the Knights have won the past two meetings - 38-10 in Tampa last season.

PREDICTION: Central Florida 45, South Florida 21

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The Supreme Court’s role in a bitterly divided Washington and nation may be more important than ever, yet basic details about how the court operates remain obscured. The court is not subject to the federal Freedom of Information Act and the justices are not bound by most ethics rules that apply to all other federal judges.

Its arguments aren’t televised. The justices decide for themselves how much to tell the public about travel plans, speaking engagements or health issues. They typically don’t disclose their reasoning when they decide to sit out cases that may pose conflicts of interest. And beyond the secrecy surrounding the drapes are other questions about the building, including which groups have been allowed to use the taxpayer-funded structure for after-hours parties.

These developments have led to a raft of reform proposals, many with scant chance of success. There are calls for the justices to adopt an ethics code, enhance disclosure of travel and other gifts and allow broader access to court proceedings.

“We’re at a moment when trust in American institutions is declining across the board and the court itself has taken a hit in that trust. It’s important for the court to be a leader on ethics,” said Alicia Bannon, managing director of the democracy program at New York University’s Brennan Center. She is co-author of a report advocating for a Supreme Court code of ethics, explanations of decisions to sit out cases and enhanced travel and gift disclosures.

The justices have generally opposed the changes. Several have said over the years that the court is the most transparent branch of government because their written opinions explain the decisions they have reached and why, while dissents often point out in exacting detail where one side believes the other has gone wrong.

The majestic building at the top of Capitol Hill is first and foremost a public office building, open to the public on weekdays. But it also serves as a coveted, after-hours event space, used 30 to 50 times a year by private groups, if they are sponsored by a justice.

One of those groups is the conservative Federalist Society, which held a reception in July 2018 that was attended by Justice Samuel Alito. The group posted photos from the event on its Facebook page.

The court would not provide a comprehensive list of groups, events or sponsoring justices. “The court does not maintain public records of organizations holding events,” spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. But groups that use the building typically have a connection to the court or the law, and they pay up to $6,000 for an event, Arberg said.

The nine justices are in high demand as speakers around the country because they issue momentous rulings that touch all corners of American society. But they decide when to provide advance word of their speaking engagements and sometimes let sponsoring organizations close their talks to news coverage.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s recent Federalist Society speech was open to reporters, but Kavanaugh broke with past practice by not allowing video cameras at his talk to more than 2,000 people at Washington’s Union Station.

The choice also is left to each justice when it comes to stepping aside from pending court cases. Recusals rarely come with explanations. The public is left to piece together the reason from the justices’ yearly financial disclosures, work histories and sometimes, family trees.

When health issues arise, each justice decides what to tell the public and when.

Eighty-six-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has provided ample details of her many medical issues, but the court waited until her summer radiation treatment had ended before announcing she had a tumor on her pancreas. More recently, Ginsburg was taken to a Washington hospital with fever and chills on a Friday, but the court didn’t say anything for 24 hours.

But that was far quicker than with news about then-Justice Anthony Kennedy’s heart procedure. The court waited 10 months to reveal that doctors had inserted a stent in one of Kennedy’s arteries, saying something only when the stent had to be replaced in 2006.

The justices’ annual reports list who pays for their travel but does not include the cost of transportation, hotels and meals. Legislation written by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a frequent court critic, and Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., would require the justices and all federal judges to fill in those details within 15 days after they return home.

“To avoid conflicts of interest, the American people ought to know what hospitality, travel, and other emoluments justices and judges receive,” Whitehouse said. Similar past efforts aimed at court transparency, including proposals to have court proceedings televised, have languished in congressional committees.

The federal judiciary says it does not post judges’ financial reports online for security reasons, though media and interest organizations often do.

In July, Ginsburg and Justice Sonia Sotomayor traveled to Portugal for an New York University conference. There was no advance word of the trip, which the justices presumably will include on their 2019 financial reports that won’t be made public until June 2020.

The public knows about the travel now only because Ginsburg talked about it in her eulogy for the late Justice John Paul Stevens, who died at age 99 less than a week after returning from the same trip.

When the court hears cases, the courtroom is open to the public, only a couple hundred people are lucky enough to be admitted on any given day. The justices refuse to allow the broader public to watch arguments or even listen to them as they happen.

Chief Justice John Roberts has so far this term denied requests to provide streaming or same-day audio for two of the biggest cases, about protections for LGBT people from workplace discrimination and immigrants brought to the United States as children. Audio recordings are made available a few days after the arguments.

By contrast, the federal appeals court that meets in the courthouse less than one-half mile from the Supreme Court livestreams the audio of all its arguments. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco regularly provides live video of its arguments. Internationally, when Britain’s highest court ruled in September that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s shuttering of Parliament was illegal, the decision was read live on camera by U.K. Supreme Court President Brenda Hale.

``The Supreme Court should be leading the judiciary in openness and accountability, but by and large, it's fallen behind,” said Gabe Roth, executive director of the court watchdog group Fix the Court.

4:20 p.m.

Celebrations have erupted in Iraq’s Tahrir Square, where anti-government protesters have been camped out for nearly two months following an announcement by the Iraqi premier that he would be resigning.

The square in central Baghdad has been the epicenter of protests that began Oct. 17 to decry corruption, poor services and lack of jobs.

Shortly after Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his intention to resign Friday, protesters in Tahrir broke out in song and dance in celebration.

A 25-year-old protester, who identified herself by her first name Amira, said the resignation should have come many weeks ago.

"We will not stop with the Prime Minister, we still have more fighting to do. We will push forward until our demands are met."

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3:40 p.m.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi says he will submit his resignation to Parliament in the wake of anti-government protests, a bit over a year since he took office.

The statement, broadcast on Iraqi TV, comes a day after more than 40 protesters were killed by security forces and shortly after Iraq's top Shiite cleric called on the parliament to withdraw support.

Abdul-Mahdi says he will present to parliament an official memorandum asking for the resignation of the current government.

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1:30 p.m.

Iraq’s top Shiite cleric is warning of civil war after a deadly day of violence in which security forces shot dead 40 people in the capital and the southern provinces, calling on lawmakers who to “reconsider” their support for the current government.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani says the parliament that voted the government of Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi is “invited to reconsider its choices in that regard,” in his weekly Friday sermon delivered in the holy city of Najaf.

Al-Sistani also said protesters should distinguish between peaceful demonstrators and those with have malign intentions to coopt their movement.

Forty protesters were shot dead by security forces in Baghdad and the southern cities of Najaf and Nasiriya on Thursday, one day after the burning of an Iranian consulate.

The area was under a Wind Advisory until 9 p.m. Wednesday with winds SW 15-30 mph gusting 30-50 mph. Nearly 60,000 customers were without power Wednesday afternoon after trees toppled onto power lines.

As of 6 a.m. Thursday, DTE Energy had restored power to 77 percent of the 106,000 customers who continued to be impacted through midnight Wednesday by the turbulent weather.

DTE said there were 323 crews on the job Thursday working to restore power to everyone.

According to the DTE Energy Outage Map, scattered outages are being reported throughout Southeast Michigan. (How to check the outage map)

Friday timeline:

• As of 3:49 a.m. Friday,<b> 2,858 are without power.</b>

Thursday timeline:

• As of 11 p.m. Thursday,<b> 2,858 are without power.</b>
• As of 4:30 p.m. Thursday,<b> about 3,000 are without power.</b>
• As of 2:30 p.m. Thursday,<b> 6,485 are without power.</b>
• As of noon, Thursday,<b> 15,690 are without power. </b>
• As of 9:50 a.m. Thursday,<b> 21,168 customers are without power. </b>
• As of 8:20 a.m. Thursday<b>, 22,456 customers are without power.</b>
• As of 6:20 a.m. Thursday, <b>22,342 customers are without power. </b>

Wednesday timeline:

• As of 9 p.m., <b>23,000 customers are without power.</b>
• As of 5 p.m., <b>42,936 customers were without power with 876 outages.</b>
• As of 3:30 p.m., <b>50,129 customers were without power as a result of 775 outages.</b>
• As of 1:15 p.m., <b>57,149 customers were without power</b> as a result of 661 outages.
• As of 12 p.m., <b>about 46,000 customers were without power.</b>
• As of 11:30 a.m., <b>33,448 customers without power</b> as a result of 493 outages.
• As of 11 a.m., <b>20,660 customers were currently without power</b> as a result of 349 separate outages.

During and Extended Power Outage

Keep a list of emergency phone numbers handy. Unplug all motor-driven appliances (refrigerators and freezers), heat-producing appliances (stoves, curling irons, etc.) and sensitive electronic equipment (televisions, stereos and computers) to minimize the danger of fire and to prevent an electrical overload when power is restored.

Leave one light on so you’ll know when power is restored. Keep refrigerator, freezer and cooler doors closed as much as possible. If power will be out for a long time, contact a dry ice distributor.

Preparing for a Power Outage

• Assemble an emergency kit in advance
• Battery-powered radio or television (the news media will provide updates on when electricity will be restored)
• Flashlights or battery-operated lanterns
• Extra batteries
• Candles with holders
• Matches
• Bottled water
• Manual can opener
• Nonperishable food
• Disposable plates and utensils
• Wind-up or battery-powered clock
• Corded telephone (cordless phones don’t work when the power goes out and your cell phone may not work if cell towers are affected)

TV: 4 p.m. ET, Fox. LINE: Washington -7

That makes winning the in-state rivalry and picking up the bragging rights that come with it even more important for the two schools this season although Washington head coach Chris Petersen tried to low key things during his press conference this week. "I always tell you this: Washington State's not more important than Colorado," Petersen said. "It's like one game at a time. That's all how I think. Then you go and play the next game. And is it fun that there's more energy and those type of things coming into the stadium? That's fun on game day. But it's got to be all done with the preparation. So my mentality is one game at a time." That philosophy has worked well for Petersen and the Huskies who have won 16 of the last 21 meetings, including six in a row.

ABOUT WASHINGTON STATE (6-5, 3-5 Pac-12)

The Cougars comes in off a pair of high-scoring home victories over Stanford (49-22) and Oregon State (54-53), winning the latter on a two-yard run by Max Borghi with two seconds remaining. Quarterback Anthony Gordon, who led the team on a 10-play, 58-yard drive to pull out that win, completed 50-of-70 passes for 606 yards, six touchdowns and three interceptions and leads an Air Raid passing attack that tops the nation in passing (456.7), is fifth in total offense (533.0) and ninth in scoring (41.5). Gordon leads the nation in passing yards (4,920), passing yards per game (446.3) and touchdown passes (45) while Borghi ranks second in Pac-12 with 14 total touchdowns and leads the conference with an average of 6.7 yards per rushing attempt.

ABOUT WASHINGTON (6-5, 3-5)

The Huskies stumble in off a 20-14 loss at Colorado and have lost three of their last four games. Junior quarterback Jacob Eason, a former USA Today Offensive Player of the Year and considered a potential first round NFL Draft pick, has completed 223-of-351 passes for 2,678 yards, 21 touchdowns and eight interceptions but has thrown more interceptions (three) than TDs (one) over his last two games. Junior Salvon Ahmed has rushed for 915 yards on 166 carries and scored nine TDs to lead the ground game while the defense, which has allowed just one scrimmage play of 40 or more yards this season, features one of the Pac-12′s top secondaries led by senior free safety Myles Bryant who leads the team with 61 tackles while outside linebacker Joe Tryon paces the squad with six sacks.

EXTRA POINTS

1. Washington won last year's meeting, 28-15, in the snow in Pullman and is 41-15-5 against the Cougars in games played in Seattle.

2. Borghi leads all running backs nationally with 69 receptions and has also rushed for 100 yards in a game four times.

3. Washington State LB Jahad Woods is 10th in the nation with 111 tackles and has had seven games with 10 or more tackles.

PREDICTION: Washington 34, Washington State 28

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TV: 3:30 p.m. ET, CBS Sports Network. LINE: Boise State -13.5

Boise State has an achievement it can attain as the program has never gone unbeaten in conference play in its nine seasons in the Mountain West. "To have a chance to go undefeated in conference play for the first time in Mountain West history for Boise State, to me, that's a challenge in itself," Broncos coach Bryan Harsin said during a press conference. "When you get a chance to talk about doing something for the first time, if that doesn't fire you up as a competitor, something is wrong with you." The elements could come into play Friday as more than a foot of snow hit the ground in the Fort Collins area Tuesday with the possibility of more during the game. Colorado State fifth-year coach Mike Bobo's job is on line - the Rams are 7-16 over the past two seasons - and he may need an upset win to remain employed.

ABOUT BOISE STATE (10-1, 7-0 Mountain West)

Third-string quarterback Jaylon Henderson has thrown three touchdowns in each of the past two games in his first two starts and Harsin declined to reveal whether the fifth-year senior will start against the Rams of if freshman Hank Bachmeier (shoulder) or sophomore Chase Cord (hand) are healthy. “No season-ending injuries. You can try and keep asking,” Harsin said. “... Guys are all available to play. That’s where we are. One quarterback plays at a time, that’s the reality of it.” Junior returner Avery Williams took a punt back 74 yards for a score against Utah State for his second this season and fourth of his career.

ABOUT COLORADO STATE (4-7, 3-4)

The Rams didn’t seem to possess much fight in losing 17-7 to heated rival Wyoming on Saturday but standout junior receiver Warren Jackson (69 receptions, 1,035 yards) promises his team will be up to the task of giving Boise State a battle. “We’re not going to quit. We’re going to give it everything we’ve got until the clock hits 0:00,” Jackson told reporters. “Last year, we would just get blown out, no hope. Just little mistakes and tiny errors are just hurting us.” Senior safety Jamal Hicks has racked up a team-leading 102 tackles and has 253 in his career.

EXTRA POINTS

1. Boise State has won all eight meetings versus Colorado State.

2. Rams junior QB Patrick O'Brien (2,514 yards) has four 300-yard outings, including two of more than 400.

3. Broncos freshman RB George Holani rushed for a career-best 178 yards against Utah State.

PREDICTION: Boise State 48, Colorado State 16

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TV: 6 p.m. ET, No TV. LINE: Appalachian State -13

Appalachian State must win this week and next, and needs No. 17 Cincinnati, No. 18 Memphis and No. 19 Boise State to each lose in order to possibly finish as the highest-ranked Group of Five team and earn a New Year's Day bowl bid. Mountaineers junior running back Darrynton Evans continued his assault on Sun Belt defenses with 154 yards and three touchdowns against Texas State, giving him 1,168 yards and a conference-most 17 TDs (14 rushing, two receiving, one kickoff return). "He’s an elite tailback, obviously,” Appalachian State coach Eliah Drinkwitz told reporters. “To me, he’s one of the most dynamic players in college football because of his speed and return ability, and we’re very fortunate to have him.'' The Trojans are coming off a 53-3 loss at Louisiana after scoring a total of 112 points in victories over Georgia Southern and Texas State.

ABOUT APPALACHIAN STATE (10-1, 6-1 Sun Belt)

The Mountaineers suffered a huge blow last week when junior wide receiver Corey Sutton (41 catches, seven touchdowns) suffered a torn ACL and was lost for the season. "Corey is one of the best wide receivers in the country,” Drinkwitz told reporters. “He’s obviously a huge part of what we’ve done, especially in the last couple of weeks offensively. ... Hurt for him. ... It’s devastating for us.” The defense - third nationally with a three-and-out percentage of 43.5 - is led by sophomore cornerback Shaun Jolly (five interceptions, tied for fifth in the country) and linebacker Akeem Davis-Gaither (82 tackles), a Senior Bowl invitee.

ABOUT TROY (5-6, 3-4)

Senior quarterback Kaleb Barker has thrown for 3,347 yards - the fifth-most in a season in school history - and his 30 touchdown passes are tied for sixth nationally. Junior wide receivers Kaylon Geiger (74 catches, five TDs) and Khalil McLain (41, seven) are Barker’s favorite targets. Sophomore linebacker Carlton Martial boasts a team-high 101 tackles to go along with four sacks, and his three interceptions are second only to senior cornerback Will Sunderland (four).

EXTRA POINTS

1. Appalachian State is the first Sun Belt team to start 10-1 since the conference's FBS inception in 2001.

2. The Mountaineers are tied for second in the country with seven turnovers and two lost fumbles.

3. Appalachian State prevailed 21-10 last season after the teams split the previous two meetings in 2015 and 2016 by a combined seven points.

PREDICTION: Appalachian State 38, Troy 24

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Tribune publisher Paul Huntsman learned earlier this month that the Internal Revenue Service had approved the paper’s plan to become a public charity, which lets people claim tax deductions for donations to support its journalism.

It’s an intriguing new option for newspaper owners laid low by the industry’s financial struggles, although there’s some question about how widely the idea can spread.

“I’m surprised, quite frankly, that I’m the first one doing this,” Huntsman said. “I’m not a journalist. I saw how broken the model really was. I was wondering, why isn’t there anybody doing something about this, instead of waiting for someone to come in and rescue us?”

Huntsman, son of the wealthy industrialist Jon Huntsman, bought the Tribune in 2016 from the hedge fund that had been operating it. His chief mission was to keep it alive; the Tribune had a staff of 148 people in 2011, and the paper said earlier this month there were now about 60 employees.

He figured he had about five to 10 years to settle on a strategy but quickly learned that was optimistic.

“This was strictly about trying to figure out a pathway to sustainability, rather than figuring out a rate of return,” he said.

The Tribune’s nonprofit status requires Huntsman to transfer ownership to a public board of directors, with protections built in to ensure donations don’t compromise the independence of its journalism. Besides Huntsman negotiating himself out of a job, the paper will no longer be able to endorse candidates in political races.

Those steps alone may give pause to independent newspaper owners who enjoy the power and influence of their positions. Beyond that, most newspapers are part of chains with ownership interested in a profit.

“It’s not a panacea,” said industry analyst Ken Doctor.

The Tribune will be allowed to continue to sell advertising and charge for a subscription and individual copies. Continuing on both tracks is crucial for the idea to succeed, Doctor said. It’s still possible for a newspaper to receive donations and grants even if it’s not a nonprofit, but the tax deduction is an important advantage

Utah may be particularly well-suited to the nonprofit approach with a community that has indicated a willingness to support the paper, he said.

Some people in the news industry may have been reluctant to try the idea because of doubts that the Internal Revenue Service wouldn’t be interested, said lawyers Meghan Biss and Douglas Varley of the Washington firm Caplan & Drysdale, who helped with the Tribune’s application. But the IRS will listen to a good, legally sound argument, they said.

There had been some question whether the IRS would limit the scope of the Tribune’s coverage to comply with an educational mission, such as cutting out sports, the Tribune said when approval was granted. But that did not happen.

Huntsman said he’s happy to share his experience with other publishers in the hope that the Tribune’s idea could spread and be useful throughout the industry.

“We need good journalism,” he said. “We have to continue to support it in our state and hope others will see it the same way.”

TV: 3:30 p.m. ET, ABC. LINE: Memphis -11

Cincinnati has only one loss this season, against the nation's No. 2 team, Ohio State, winning nine straight since that setback, including last week's 15-13 nail-biter over Temple. The Bearcats' defense has been the story of the team's success, holding opponents to 19.9 points per game (17.7 if you don't count the 42 points scored by the Buckeyes), which is tied for 23rd in the nation. It's the exact opposite story with Memphis, which is eighth in the country in scoring at 42.2 points per game behind the play of quarterback Brady White (3,074 yards, 30 TDs). Running back Kenneth Gainwell has been hard to stop as well, rushing for 1,294 yards and 12 touchdowns as well as making 38 catches for 472 yards and three more scores.

ABOUT CINCINNATI (10-1, 7-0 AAC)

As Cincinnati prepares to take on the highest-scoring team it has faced since losing to Ohio State, it needs a bit more out of its passing game if it hopes to stick with the Tigers. The Bearcats have failed to pass for more than 100 yards in consecutive games for the first time since 1997, throwing for 78 yards against South Florida and 62 against Temple. Sophomore quarterback Desmond Ridder has played in the last two games with a shoulder injury but the Bearcats’ passing game hasn’t been prolific all season long, averaging just 179.5 yards per contest.

ABOUT MEMPHIS (10-1, 6-1)

Weather could be a factor in Friday’s game, with rain possible, and the Tigers went 0-3 in rainy games last season. Memphis has a streak of five consecutive contsts of 40 or more points and three straight games with more than 510 yards of total offense, so even bad weather might not be a problem, but the Cincinnati defense could be. The Tigers -- and White in particular -- have to be patient against a tough Bearcats defense and not force things that can lead to turnovers, as Cincinnati is tied with Ohio State for seventh in the nation with 23 takeaways this season.

EXTRA POINTS

1. The winner of this game will be the host for next week's AAC Championship Game.

2. After starting the season 5-of-12 in red-zone trips, Cincinnati has scored in 35 of its last 38 trips inside the opposition's 20, including its last 19.

3. In just second game back after missing eight contests with injury, Memphis RB Patrick Taylor Jr. had a three-TD game in the win over South Florida.

PREDICTION: Memphis 35, Cincinnati 24

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TV: 4:15 p.m. ET, ESPN. LINE: TCU -13.5

TCU, which will attempt to avenge last year's 47-10 mauling at West Virginia, suffered its third loss in four games with a 28-24 setback at No. 7 Oklahoma -- a defeat that came two weeks after falling to Baylor in triple overtime. “I’m trying to beat West Virginia to be honest with you,” Patterson said after the latest setback. “We’re just a small fraction away from being the team that we want to be.” The Mountaineers also are coming off a narrow defeat, losing for the sixth time in seven games with a 20-13 setback to Oklahoma State that snuffed out their bowl hopes. "We're gong to have a tremendous challenge when we play Friday in Fort Worth," first-year West Virginia coach Neal Brown said. "This has been a football team that has steadily gotten better. We've had multiple chances to win in the league in every game except one."

ABOUT WEST VIRGINIA (4-7, 2-6 Big 12)

An ongoing issue for the Mountaineers has been a woeful ground game that is one of the worst in the nation, ranking 129th at 72.1 yards per game, and managed a paltry 26 yards Saturday. Quarterback Jarret Doege, a transfer from Bowling Green who was expected to redshirt this season, has thrown for five touchdowns and zero interceptions in three appearances and is coming off a 308-yard performance as he prepares to make this third start. Sam James is the No. 1 wideout with 66 receptions for 663 yards but George Campbell has found the end zone seven times on just 19 catches.

ABOUT TCU (5-6, 3-5)

Freshman Max Duggan completed a season-worst 33.3 percent of his passes and tossed his eighth interception in five games last week, but he ran for 92 yards on 12 carries and has a rushing touchdown in five of the last six contests. Running backs Darius Anderson and Sewo Olonilua, who were limited to 26 yards on 10 carries last week, have combined for 1,299 yards and 13 touchdowns for a ground attack that ranks 29th nationally with 208.6 yards per game but was held to minus-7 yards in last year’s loss at West Virginia. The Horned Frogs feature the Big 12′s No. 2-ranked defense at 345.4 yards allowed per game.

EXTRA POINTS

1. TCU LB Garret Wallow has a team-leading 113 tackles, including 15 for losses.

2. West Virginia ranks tied for 24th nationally with 31.0 sacks.

3. TCU is 89-23 at home under Patterson.

PREDICTION: TCU 30, West Virginia 20

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TV: ESPN+ at 5 p.m. Friday

AGAINST THE SPREAD

• HOT: Jaguars are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games on fieldturf.
• HOT: Jaguars are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 home games vs. a team with a winning road record.
• HOT: Jaguars are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games as a favorite of 0.5-3.0.
• COLD: Jaguars are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games as an underdog of 0.5-3.0.
• COLD: Jaguars are 1-8-1 ATS in their last 10 games as a favorite of 3.5-10.0.
• COLD: Jaguars are 1-5-1 ATS in their last 7 games as a home favorite of 3.5-10.0.

OVER/UNDER

• HOT: Under is 4-0 in Jaguars last 4 games as an underdog of 0.5-3.0.
• HOT: Under is 4-0 in Red Wolves last 4 games as an underdog of 0.5-3.0.
• HOT: Over is 8-1-1 in Jaguars last 10 home games vs. a team with a winning road record.
• HOT: Under is 7-1 in Red Wolves last 8 games as an underdog of 3.5-10.0.
• HOT: Under is 6-1 in Jaguars last 7 games as an underdog of 10.5 or greater.
• HOT: Under is 5-1-1 in Jaguars last 7 games as a favorite of 0.5-3.0.

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TV: 2:30 p.m. ET, CBS. LINE: Missouri -12

Missouri learned Tuesday that the NCAA denied the Tigers’ appeal and upheld their bowl ban, so even with a sixth victory their season ends Friday. They should have a good chance to end on a high note against the Razorbacks, who have lost 22 of 23 SEC games over the past three seasons. Arkansas is playing its second game under interim coach Barry Lunney Jr., who suffered through a 56-20 blowout at No. 1 LSU in his debut. The Tigers have won the past three meetings in the Battle Line rivalry, including a 38-0 rout at home last season.

ABOUT MISSOURI (5-6, 2-5 SEC)

Even during the losing streak, the Tigers’ defense has been steady. The unit ranks 17th nationally in total defense and 23rd in scoring defense (19.9 points), but the offense hasn’t been able to provide enough support lately, totaling 47 points during the five-game skid. The offense almost did enough in a 24-20 loss to Tennessee last week, but the ground game continued to sputter as the Tigers failed to crack 100 rushing yards for the third straight contest and fell short of 300 total yards for the fifth consecutive game.

ABOUT ARKANSAS (2-9, 0-7)

The Razorbacks boast a 1,000-yard rusher in Rakeem Boyd, but they have not found consistency at the quarterback position. Arkansas has used four starters under center, and could make it five if Jack Lindsey gets his first start with KJ Jefferson and Nick Starkel in concussion protocol. It might not matter who is running the offense if the Razorbacks can’t find some solutions on defense - they have the sixth-worst run defense in the nation at 228.5 yards.

EXTRA POINTS

1. Missouri RB Larry Rountree III needs 112 rushing yards to surpass Henry Josey for fifth on the school’s all-time list.

2. Arkansas WR Treylon Burks has a team-high 469 receiving yards - the most by a Razorback freshman since Marcus Monk had 569 in 2004.

3. Missouri K Tucker McCann has 352 career points, third in program history behind Jeff Wolfert (362) and Andrew Baggett (355).

PREDICTION: Missouri 27, Arkansas 20

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AGAINST THE SPREAD

• HOT: Eagles are 11-0 ATS in their last 11 games as an underdog of 3.5-10.0.
• HOT: Golden Flashes are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games after accumulating more than 450 total yards in their previous game.
• HOT: Golden Flashes are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games in November.
• COLD: Eagles are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games as a home favorite of 0.5-3.0.
• COLD: Golden Flashes are 1-7 ATS in their last 8 games after accumulating more than 200 yards rushing in their previous game.
• COLD: Golden Flashes are 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games as a favorite of 0.5-3.0.

OVER/UNDER

• HOT: Over is 5-0-1 in Eagles last 6 games as an underdog.
• HOT: Under is 5-0 in Golden Flashes last 5 games after accumulating more than 280 yards passing in their previous game.
• HOT: Over is 4-0-1 in Eagles last 5 games overall.
• HOT: Under is 4-0-1 in Eagles last 5 games as a home favorite.
• HOT: Over is 4-0-1 in Eagles last 5 games following a straight up win.
• HOT: Over is 4-0-1 in Eagles last 5 games on fieldturf.

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TV: ESPNU at noon Friday

AGAINST THE SPREAD

• HOT: Chippewas are 7-0 ATS in their last 7 games after scoring more than 40 points in their previous game.
• HOT: Chippewas are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 home games.
• HOT: Chippewas are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games as a favorite.
• COLD: Rockets are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games after allowing more than 450 total yards in their previous game.
• COLD: Rockets are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 road games.
• COLD: Rockets are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games as a road underdog of 3.5-10.0.

OVER/UNDER

• HOT: Over is 6-0 in Chippewas last 6 games overall.
• HOT: Over is 6-0 in Chippewas last 6 games after allowing more than 450 total yards in their previous game.
• HOT: Over is 5-0 in Chippewas last 5 Friday games.
• HOT: Over is 5-0 in Chippewas last 5 home games.
• HOT: Over is 5-0 in Chippewas last 5 conference games.
• HOT: Over is 5-0 in Rockets last 5 games overall.

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TV: Noon ET, ABC. LINE: Virginia Tech -2.5.

With a drastically improved defense - one that held Pittsburgh to a season-low 177 yards in a 28-0 win last week - and a change at quarterback to Hendon Hooker, Virginia Tech picked itself off the mat after a 45-10 loss to Duke and has won six of seven since with a winnable game against Notre Dame the only blemish. "You couldn't have scripted it any better, I don't think, when it's all said and done. As far as down the stretch, the Wake game (a 36-17 win), and then to go to Georgia Tech and play the way we did (a 45-0 victory) … and then it was a playoff game today, basically," Foster said after the Pitt win. "To play the way we did, we didn't play tight, we played with confidence, we executed, we made plays, and to see that from a coaching perspective is very gratifying." That defense will be tested this week by Virginia's Bryce Perkins, who joins Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts as the only two FBS quarterbacks to pass for at least 2,625 yards and rush for at least 520 this season. The Cavaliers should be well-rested, having a bye week before getting touchdowns from seven different players in a 55-27 tune-up over Liberty last week.

ABOUT VIRGINIA TECH (8-3, 5-2 ACC)

Hooker, who completed 10-of-13 passes for 153 yards and two touchdowns against Pitt, has thrown 110 passes without an interception to begin his career - the best streak since Grant Noel went 108 passes without an interception from 1999-2001. The 6-4 sophomore is completing 63 percent of his passes with 10 TDs this season and has a passer rating of 179.3 in six starts - all wins. Linebacker Rayshard Ashby had seven total tackles versus the Panthers, has led the team in tackles seven times this season and is tied for fourth in the conference with an average of nine stops per game.

ABOUT VIRGINIA (8-3, 5-2)

Perkins, who ranks 16th in FBS with a conference-high 3,161 yards of total offense, completed 18-of-30 passes for 199 yards and two TDs last week and ran for 30 yards and a score. The Cavaliers can be stingy on defense, holding their first eight opponents under 360 yards with only North Carolina topping 400 yards all season (539). Jordan Mack is sixth in the ACC with 7.5 sacks and first among the league’s linebackers (No. 7 among the nation’s linebackers), while fellow linebacker Zane Zandler leads the team in tackles (79) and tackles for loss (10).

EXTRA POINTS

1. Virginia Tech rallied from a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit last season and pulled out a 34-31 overtime win when the Cavaliers fumbled on their one possession in the extra period. Perkins completed 14-of-29 passes for 259 yards with three TDs and added 112 more yards on the ground.

2. The Hokies have blanked conference opponents in back-to-back games for the first time since 1935 and held their past three opponents to 301 total yards or less with none rushing for more than 63 yards.

3. Virginia's Joe Reed has 2,989 career kick return yards and is averaging 29 yards per kick return - the only player in FBS history with 2,700 career kick return yards and a career average of at least 28 yards.

PREDICTION: Virginia Tech 24, Virginia 10

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TV: Noon ET, FOX. LINE: Texas -10

The Longhorns are 2-4 overall since an early three-game winning streak and third-year coach Tom Herman knows the program is at a bit of a crossroads after a 10-win campaign capped by a Sugar Bowl victory last year. "I'm not shaken," he said Monday at his weekly press conference. "Obviously in big-time evaluation mode of everything throughout our program. I'm not going to bury my head in the sand. It's my job to make sure that we play to the level that is expected at the University of Texas." The Red Raiders are doing some soul-searching as well amid a 1-5 slide that has clinched the program's fourth straight losing season. Each of those five losses have come by 10 points or fewer and four of them by three points or fewer, including last Saturday's 30-27 setback against Kansas State.

ABOUT TEXAS TECH (4-7, 2-6 Big 12)

The string of narrow defeats has eliminated the Red Raiders from bowl eligibility, and knowing how close the team was in so many contests has certainly left a mark. “This loss solidifying the fact that we can’t make a bowl game is really heart breaking, really devastating,” sophomore defensive back Adrian Frye told reporters Saturday. Junior quarterback Jett Duffey is finishing strong, however, throwing for at least 333 yards in each of the last three games.

ABOUT TEXAS (6-5, 4-4)

The Longhorns averaged nearly 41 points per game in their 5-2 start, but they’ve been held to 27 or fewer during the current 1-3 stretch. Junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger ranks third in the Big 12 in passing yards (3,114) and second in touchdown passes (27), but he had a season-low 200 yards and no TDs in the 24-10 loss to Baylor. Senior wide receiver Devin Duvernay tops the conference in receiving yards (1,095) and leads all FBS players with 97 catches.

EXTRA POINTS

1. Ehlinger threw for 312 yards and four TDs - two to Duvernay - in last year's 41-34 win at Texas Tech.

2. Red Raiders freshman RB SaRodorick Thompson has eight rushing scores over his last six games.

3. The teams have split the last four meetings, each of them decided by single digits.

PREDICTION: Texas 37, Texas Tech 26

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AGAINST THE SPREAD

• HOT: Redhawks are 7-0 ATS in their last 7 games as an underdog of 0.5-3.0.
• HOT: Redhawks are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 road games vs. a team with a losing home record.
• HOT: Redhawks are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games after accumulating more than 200 yards rushing in their previous game.
• COLD: Cardinals are 0-6 ATS in their last 6 games as a favorite of 0.5-3.0.
• COLD: Cardinals are 0-6 ATS in their last 6 games as a home favorite of 0.5-3.0.
• COLD: Cardinals are 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games as a home underdog of 0.5-3.0.

OVER/UNDER

• HOT: Under is 6-0 in Redhawks last 6 games following a straight up win.
• HOT: Over is 5-0 in Cardinals last 5 games in November.
• HOT: Over is 4-0 in Cardinals last 4 home games vs. a team with a winning road record.
• HOT: Under is 4-0 in Redhawks last 4 games overall.
• HOT: Under is 4-0 in Redhawks last 4 games on fieldturf.
• HOT: Under is 4-0 in Redhawks last 4 games as a road favorite of 10.5 or greater.

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AGAINST THE SPREAD

• HOT: Falcons are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games as a road favorite of 10.5 or greater.
• HOT: Bulls are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games as a home underdog.
• HOT: Bulls are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games after accumulating more than 450 total yards in their previous game.
• COLD: Falcons are 0-6 ATS in their last 6 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
• COLD: Falcons are 0-6 ATS in their last 6 games as a road underdog of 10.5 or greater.
• COLD: Falcons are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games after allowing more than 450 total yards in their previous game.

OVER/UNDER

• HOT: Under is 9-0 in Falcons last 9 games after allowing more than 200 yards rushing in their previous game.
• HOT: Over is 7-0 in Bulls last 7 games after scoring more than 40 points in their previous game.
• HOT: Over is 6-0 in Bulls last 6 games as a favorite of 0.5-3.0.
• HOT: Over is 6-0 in Bulls last 6 games as a home favorite of 3.5-10.0.
• HOT: Over is 4-0 in Bulls last 4 games overall.
• HOT: Over is 4-0 in Bulls last 4 games as a home favorite of 0.5-3.0.

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TV: 2:30 p.m. ET, Big Ten Network. LINE: Iowa -5.5

Iowa reached the eight-win mark for the 12th time under Ferentz, riding yet another strong effort from one of the nation's stingiest defenses in a 19-10 victory last weekend over Illinois and allowing the four-time conference coach of the year to pass his predecessor, Hayden Fry, for fourth place on the Big Ten all-time coaching wins list. "If you had asked me in 1981, I didn't know where Iowa was, why anybody would live there, and I think if you asked Coach Fry the same thing in 1970, he'd probably tell you the same thing. It's interesting how life goes sometimes," Ferentz said. Second-year coach Scott Frost saw his shorthanded Cornhuskers end a four-game losing streak and move one win away from qualifying for a bowl game for the first time in three seasons with last weekend's 54-7 rout of Maryland. "I was really happy with the team just having the enthusiasm they had, playing for each other. This team could have shut it down, turned it off, stopped caring, stopped playing hard. They're not doing that," Frost said.

ABOUT IOWA (8-3, 5-3 Big Ten)

Nate Stanley ranks second in the conference in passing yards (2,639) after throwing for a season-high 308 against Illinois, leaving him 10 shy of becoming the fourth Hawkeye to pass for 8,000 yards in his career. Freshman receiver Tyrone Tracy Jr. (34 catches for 569 yards) has emerged as Stanley’s favorite target in recent weeks with three straight efforts of at least five receptions and 77 receiving yards. Junior defensive end A.J. Epenesa (seven sacks, eight tackles for loss and three forced fumbles - all team highs) is considered the best player on a unit that has held eight of 11 opponents to season-low point totals and ranks fifth in FBS in scoring defense (12.2 points).

ABOUT NEBRASKA (5-6, 3-5)

Frost told reporters after the Maryland game that his travel roster changed “about eight times” due to injuries and illness; while all-purpose dynamo Wan’Dale Robinson (hamstring) and Kanawai Noa (knee) did not play, leading receiver JD Spielman and leading rusher Dedrick Mills managed to play well despite feeling ill all week. Noa has been ruled out for the remainder of the season due to a torn meniscus, while Robinson’s status remains up in the air for the regular-season finale, Spielman (46 catches for 864 yards and four touchdowns - all team highs) became the first player in school history to post three 800-yard receiving seasons after accumulating 104 yards against Maryland; he needs four receptions Friday to become the first Nebraska player with three 50-catch seasons.

EXTRA POINTS

1. With a victory on Friday, Ferentz will trail only Ohio State's Woody Hayes (153), Michigan's Bo Schembechler (143) and Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg (115) on the conference's all-time wins list.

2. The Cornhuskers have amassed 200 yards passing and rushing in the same game five times this season, matching the number of instances by the other six teams in the Big Ten West combined.

3. Hawkeyes PK Keith Duncan has converted a Big Ten-record 27 field goals this season, leaving him four shy of tying the NCAA record set by Georgia’s Billy Bennett back in 2003.

PREDICTION: Iowa 24, Nebraska 20

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The move by Adel Abdul-Mahdi, which came 13 months after he took office, triggered celebrations by anti-government protesters who have been camped out for nearly two months in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. Young men and women broke out in song and dance as news of the imminent resignation reached the square, the epicenter of the leaderless protest movement.

But in the event of an actual resignation, the road to a new government was uncertain and the possibility of political crisis hung in the air, Iraqi officials and experts warned.

In a statement, Abdul-Mahdi said he had "listened with great concern" to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s sermon and made his decision in response to the cleric’s remarks and to "facilitate and hasten its fulfillment as soon as possible."

"I will submit to parliament an official memorandum resigning from the current prime ministry so that the parliament can review its choices,” he said. Abdul-Mahdi was appointed Iraq’s fifth prime minister since 2003 as a consensus candidate following months of political wrangling between rival political blocs.

If accepted when put to vote, Abdul-Mahdi’s resignation would signal a return to square one in those slow-moving negotiations, Iraqi officials and experts said.

Abdul-Mahdi would be the second prime minister in an Arab country to be forced out by mass protests recently. In Lebanon, the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri exactly a month earlier, on Oct. 29, led to further political gridlock and uncertainty.

Abdul-Mahdi’s rise to power was the product of a provisional alliance between parliament’s two main blocs — Sairoon, led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and Fatah, which includes leaders associated with the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Units headed by Hadi al-Amiri.

In the May 2018 election, neither coalition won a commanding plurality, which would have enabled it to name the premier, as stipulated by the Iraqi constitution. To avoid political crisis, Sairoon and Fatah forged a precarious union with Abdul-Mahdi as their prime minister.

Now, with his resignation, unresolved disputes between the coalitions threaten to re-emerge, two Iraqi officials said.

“The two of them need to come to an agreement again for us to see a new prime minister,” said a senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

Abdul-Mahdi had alluded to this challenge implicitly in earlier statements, saying he would resign, but only if an alternative candidate was found for the premiership.

Officials also questioned Abdul-Mahdi’s decision to submit his resignation via the more time-consuming route of parliament, requiring MPs to vote, rather than sending it directly to the president, who has the power to accept it immediately and demote the government to caretaker status until a new one is formed.

One Iraqi official said one of two things could happen: “There’s going to be a lot of horse-trading going on, or it could be paralysis, and nothing changes.”

The resignation also creates legal uncertainties as the constitution does not provide clear procedures to guide lawmakers in the event of a premier stepping down, experts said. The key issue was how long Abdul-Mahdi’s government could maintain caretaker status in the event of protracted political negotiations.

“To my understanding there is no clause (in the constitution) that says how long he can remain in the post once his resignation is accepted,” said Sajad Jiyad, the managing director of Bayan Center, an Iraq-based think tank.

The federal Supreme Court might have to step in, he added, if the caretaker government stays for too long and if parliamentary blocs are unable to come to an understanding.

In his weekly Friday sermon delivered via a representative in the holy city of Najaf, Al-Sistani said parliament, which elected the government of Abdul-Mahdi, should “reconsider its options.” His comments prompted political parties to issue calls for the government to step down.

“We call upon the House of Representatives from which this current government emerged to reconsider its options in that regard,” al-Sistani said in the statement — a clear sign he was withdrawing his support for the prime minister.

It was not immediately clear whether Abdul-Mahdi’s resignation would placate protesters, who are now calling for the removal of the entire political class that has ruled Iraq since the 2003 downfall of Saddam Hussein. Nearly 400 people have been killed in the bloody crackdown on protests since Oct. 1, most of them young demonstrators who were shot dead or killed by exploding tear gas canisters fired by security forces.

Amira, a 25-year-old protester, said the resignation should have come weeks ago.

"We will not stop with the prime minister. We still have more fighting to do. We will push forward until our demands are met," she said, declining to give her full name, fearing retaliation.

Forty protesters were shot dead by security forces in Baghdad and the southern cities of Najaf and Nasiriyah on Thursday, in a sharp escalation of violence that continued Friday.

Three more protesters were shot and eight wounded by security forces Friday in Nasiriyah when demonstrators attempted to enter the city center to resume their sit-in, security and hospital officials said. Security forces had fired live rounds the previous day to disperse protesters from two key bridges, killing 31 people.

Al-Sistani also said protesters should distinguish between peaceful demonstrators and those seeking to turn the movement violent, following the burning of an Iranian consulate building Wednesday in Najaf. Government officials said the fire was perpetrated by saboteurs from outside the protest movement.

After the sermon, the Islamic Dawa party called for parliament to convene immediately and choose an alternative government. Fatah said it would convene with other political blocs to discuss options.

A former oil and finance minister and an ex-vice president, the 77-year-old Abdul-Mahdi was seen as a political independent when he took the post in October 2018. He was Iraq’s first prime minister from outside the Dawa party in 12 years.

His administration’s policies were characterized by small gains to improve the day-to-day lives of Baghdadis. He moved his offices out of Baghdad’s highly secure Green Zone on the first day of his term, saying he wanted to bring his government closer to the people, while removing wartime cement barriers that had closed Iraqis off from much of the city.

In the halls of power in Baghdad, his office worked behind the scenes to streamline the administration and improve decision-making. But the effects of those efforts were not visible to an Iraqi public impatient for reform.

Abdul-Mahdi was also often caught in the middle of rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with many perceiving his government and certain staffers as being close to Tehran. Reducing Iraq’s reliance on Iranian electricity imports to meet consumer demand was a key concern of Washington.

Protesters widely reject growing Iranian influence over Iraq state affairs. In Baghdad on Friday, demonstrators gathered around the historic Rasheed Street near the strategic Ahrar Bridge and burned the Iranian flag, chanting “Iran out!”

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Associated Press Writer Murtada Faraj in Baghdad contributed to this report.

The north London team lost to Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 in the Europa League on Thursday in front of a sparse and disgruntled crowd at Emirates Stadium. The loss extended Arsenal’s winless run to seven matches — the club’s worst streak since 1992.

In the Premier League, Arsenal has dropped to eighth place.

“The decision has been taken due to results and performances not being at the level required,” Arsenal said in a statement.

Freddie Ljungberg has been put in temporary charge. The former player, who was promoted from his assistant’s position, has only two days to prepare the team before Arsenal goes to Norwich on Sunday for a Premier League match.

Arsenal finished fifth in the league in Emery’s first season and reached the Europa League final, losing to Chelsea.

“However long I oversee (at)Arsenal for I will give everything I have to put smiles on faces again,” Ljungberg wrote on Twitter. “We have a busy few weeks ahead and the team needs your support. Let’s get to work!”

Emery’s departure comes 10 days after Tottenham fired Mauricio Pochettino following a poor run of form. Emery is the third Premier League manager to depart this season after Pochettino and Watford’s Javi Gracia.

Wenger spent 22 years in charge at Arsenal. The club hoped Emery could revive the winning ways seen under the Frenchman.

Emery arrived at Arsenal after leaving Paris Saint-Germain, where he won the French title but couldn’t deliver the European success the Qatari-owned club craves. Before that, he won three Europa League titles with Sevilla.

After losing his opening Premier League games to Chelsea and Manchester City in August 2018, Emery’s Arsenal went on a 22-game unbeaten run. However, that same consistency has been missing this season with losses to Sheffield United and Leicester.

Arsenal had a distinctive, easy-on-the-eye approach under Wenger but Emery's team had no discernible style, even though he stated his intention to adopt a high-energy pressing game upon his arrival.

Crucially, he never managed to shore up Arsenal's defense — wobbly in the final years of Wenger's reign — and didn't seem to know how to handle playmaker Mesut Ozil, who was repeatedly dropped.

Earlier this month, Emery removed the captaincy from Granit Xhaka after the midfielder swore at fans while being substituted during the Oct. 27 draw against Crystal Palace. Xhaka later said he and his family had been subjected to abuse and threats on social media.

Arsenal’s majority owner is American businessman Stan Kroenke. His son, Josh, is a director on the Arsenal board.

“Our most sincere thanks go to Unai and his colleagues who were unrelenting in their efforts to get the club back to competing at the level we all expect and demand,” Josh Kroenke said. “We wish Unai and his team nothing but future success.”

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The U.S. sales phenomenon has spread to retailers across the world in recent years with such force that it’s prompting a backlash from some activists, politicians and even consumers.

Near Paris, climate demonstrators blocked a shopping mall and gathered in from of Amazon’s headquarters to protest over-production they say is killing the planet. Workers at Amazon in Germany went on strike for better pay. Some French lawmakers want to ban Black Friday altogether.

Consumer rights groups in Britain and some other countries say retailers use Black Friday as a slogan to lure in shoppers, but it’s not always clear how real or big the discounts are. Other critics say it hurts small businesses.

“The planet burns, oceans die, and we still want to consume, consume, and therefore produce, produce - until we eradicate all living things? ... We will not betray our children for a 30% discount!” reads a manifesto by groups holding “Block Friday” protests around Paris.

Globalized commerce has brought U.S. consumer tastes to shoppers around the world, from Halloween candy to breakfast cereal and peanut butter, sometimes even supplanting local traditions.

To many activists, Black Friday is the epitome of this shift, a purely commercial event designed to boost U.S. retailers ahead of the Christmas holidays, the symbol of capitalism run amok.

In Britain, where the big winter sales have traditionally been held on the day after Christmas, companies have adopted Black Friday marketing campaigns since about 2010. After a rise in business on the day in the first years, the volume of shopping has leveled off, with most of it happening online over multiple days.

Research by a U.K. consumer association found that 61% of goods advertised in Black Friday deals last year were cheaper or about the same price both before and after the event.

That echoes similar warnings in other countries. Russia’s consumer watchdog published detailed tips on how to avoid getting fooled, like checking whether prices were raised before Friday to make deals look good or whether delivery costs are inflated.

The Black Friday advertising push has extended beyond the one day to Cyber Monday, with retailers in several countries spreading them across what’s often called “Black Week.”

In the Czech Republic, one electronics chain encourages shoppers - in English, of course - to “Make Black Friday Great Again,” in an ad featuring a suited man wearing the distinctive red cap used by U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign.

Broadcasters in South Africa showed people waiting in line to shop in one of the world’s most socially and economically unequal nations. The respected weekly Mail & Guardian newspaper decried in a scathing editorial how Black Friday is used to enrich big retailers.

“Like no other day, this Friday shows how broken the world we have built is,” it said.

Black Friday has meanwhile had to adapt to cultural norms. Egyptians, for example, have taken on all aspects of the occasion - except the name, because Friday is a sacred day of worship for Muslims. Rather than scrap the event, many retailers decided to rename it White Friday or Yellow Friday.

The term Black Friday comes from retailers’ claim that it was the day when they went from being lossmaking for the year - in the red - to making a profit - in the black.

Among other concerns is that Black Friday could hurt small businesses that do not have the vast marketing budgets and online sales presence of big retail chains or multinationals.

In Italy, for example, Black Friday falls outside the season’s strictly defined schedule for when the winter shop sales can be held. This year, sales cannot be held from Dec. 5 until Jan. 4, when stores are allowed to clear out stock. The fashion industry has warned that can hurt smaller retailers in a country that relies heavily on them.

A French legislative committee passed an amendment Monday that proposes prohibiting Black Friday because it causes "resource waste" and "overconsumption." France's e-commerce union, whose members are aggressively marketing Black Friday sales throughout November, has condemned the measure.

Dozens of French activists blocked the Amazon warehouse in Bretigny-sur Orge on Thursday, spreading hay and old refrigerators and microwaves on the driveway. On Friday, climate activists took aim at Black Friday, blocking shops and setting up heated exchanges with the people who had been hoping to find a good deal.

“We need to stop telling ourselves that, 'it's Christmas, I need to go shopping,'” says Théophile Pouillot-Chévara, a 17-year-old climate activist in Paris.

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Cara Anna in Johannesburg, Colleen Barry in Milan, Noha ElHennawy in Cairo, James Heintz in Moscow, Karel Janicek in Prague, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Yuri Kageyama in Tokyo, Jan Olsen in Copenhagen, and Carlo Piovano in London contributed to this report.

The European Union’s statistics agency, Eurostat, said Friday that the jobless rate across the single currency bloc declined in October to 7.5% from 7.6% the previous month. Over the month, the number of people out of work fell by 31,000 to 12.33 million.

Unemployment has been falling steadily in the eurozone for the past few years as the region recovered from a financial crisis and fears over Greece’s future in the euro abated.

Disparities between countries remain, though they are not as huge as they were in the midst of the region’s debt crisis. While unemployment has remained super-low in Germany, at 3.1%, it has fallen sharply over the past few years in Spain and Greece. Both had been struggling under jobless rates of over 25% at one point. Now, their unemployment rates stand at 14.2% and 16.7%, respectively.

Policymakers at the European Central Bank had been hoping that the sustained falls in unemployment would bolster wages, giving inflation a lift. That hasn’t happened as expected and inflation has been stubbornly below the ECB’s goal of just below 2% for large periods over the past few years.

As a result, the bank has had to enact a series of monetary stimulus measures, including slashing its main interest rate to zero. Its new president, Christine Lagarde, is hoping that inflation heads toward the target in coming months so the pressure on the bank to announce further stimulus measures dissipates.

Some evidence did emerge Friday that inflation pressures may be building. Eurostat said consumer price inflation rose to 1% in the year to November. That’s up from the previous month’s rate of 0.7% and ahead of market expectations for 0.9%.

The rise was largely due to higher food, alcohol and tobacco costs.

Stripping out those items, as well as energy costs, the so-called core inflation rate also increased, to 1.3% from 1.1%. That suggests wage increases may be finally boosting prices.

Recently, the bank announced a package of stimulus measures including 20 billion euros ($22 billion) a month of purchases of government and corporate bonds, a step that pumps newly printed money into the financial system to stimulate lending, growth and, hopefully, inflation.

There are concerns that the recent slowdown in economic growth will mean unemployment starts to rise again, dampening inflation again. In the third quarter of the year, the eurozone economy expanded only 0.2% from the previous three months.

“With surveys pointing to a further slowdown in employment growth, while firms are no longer experiencing the shortages of workers that they suffered from last year, we think that inflationary pressure from the labor market will remain muted,” said Jessica Hinds, European economist at Capital Economics.

“As a result, the ECB still has a lot of work to do to get inflation rising.”

Muscat said Friday that police found no grounds to hold Keith Schembri, his former chief of staff in custody. The family of the slain journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, said in a tweet that “we share Malta’s shock and anger” that the ex-aide was released from jail a day earlier.

“This travesty of justice is shaming our country, ripping our society apart, and it is degrading us,” one of Daphne’s sons, Paul Caruana Galizia, said in a tweet. “It cannot continue any longer.”

“We urge the prime minister to step aside and let an unconflicted deputy take over. If the prime minister has the interests of justice and Malta at heart, then he should do so immediately.”

Maltese media were reporting that Muscat’s resignation could be imminent.

Thousands of Maltese on the Mediterranean island nation of some 400,000 people have been turning out nightly outside Muscat’s office calling on the prime minister to step down.

Schembri, who resigned his post when questioned earlier in the week, has denied any wrongdoing related to the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed as the car she was driving near her home blew up.

She had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles in the EU nation.

Three men have been arrested for carrying out the bombing. No trial date has been set.

Last week, police took into custody a Maltese hotelier as he tried to flee Malta on his yacht. The jailed businessman, Yorgen Fenech, provided information about Schembri, reportedly in a bid to win immunity.

But Muscat told reporters early Friday that the police commissioner and the attorney general recommended that “there is not sufficient reason to grant a presidential pardon.”

Muscat did not give details about why police came to that conclusion.

"The police commissioner and the attorney general's detailed recommendation is that there is not sufficient reason to grant a presidential pardon to Yorgen Fenech,” Muscat said. He added that his Cabinet unanimously agreed with that recommendation.

The lack of information frustrated the slain reporter’s family.

Fenech “does not need a presidential pardon for the police to charge Schembri,” the family said in the tweet.

In an unrelated case which added to Muscat’s woes, a Maltese court on Friday ruled that Finance Minister Edward Scicluna be investigated for a deal in which the government privatized three public hospitals.

The court also ruled investigations were in order in the hospital transfer deal of two politicians who resigned ministry posts earlier this week. Chris Cardona and Konrad Mizzi had resigned from their Cabinet positions, in connection with the car bomb probe. New reports have linked the two men to the murder investigation. Cardona and Mizzi have denied wrongdoing in connection with the bombing.

Announcing his plans on his YouTube channel on Friday, Farah said: "I’m really excited to be competing. I’m back on the track.”

Farah is a four-time Olympic gold medalist who won the 5,000-10,000 double at both the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. He switched his focus to the marathon and road races after a farewell 5,000 victory at the Diamond League finals in Zurich in August 2017.

“I hope I haven't lost my speed,” said the 36-year-old British runner, won the Chicago Marathon in 2018.

Farah’s announcement came one day after UK Athletics said it asked a lawyer to lead a review of its work with banned track coach Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project.

Salazar worked with Farah from 2011-17, spanning his era of Olympic dominance, and was hired to advise UKA's endurance program in 2013.

Salazar was banned for four years by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency last month for experiments with supplements and testosterone that were bankrolled and supported by Nike, along with possessing and trafficking testosterone.

Farah was not implicated by USADA, and Salazar denies wrongdoing.

Salazar has filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The case is unlikely to be judged before the Tokyo Olympics open on July 24. The men’s 10,000 final is set for July 31.

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Gen. Francois Lecointre on Friday told French radio RFI that no shots were fired at the helicopters. The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara has claimed responsibility but offered no evidence.

Lecointre said complex coordination during a combat operation was the cause of Monday night’s accident in the West African nation.

He said the helicopters’ flight data recorders will provide more details, saying the soldiers’ families are owed the truth about what happened.

It was France’s highest military death toll in nearly four decades.

The crash drew global attention to an emerging front for IS-linked groups as IS loses strength in Syria and Iraq.

Johnson tried to brush aside criticism of his past comments about single mothers and his current refusal to submit to the same amount of televised scrutiny as other party leaders.

At a news conference, Johnson claimed Brexit had been “delayed, diluted, denied” by obstructive politicians. He said that if the Conservatives won the Dec. 12 election he would take the U.K. out of the European Union on the currently scheduled date of Jan. 31, so that “we can finally move on as a country.”

He touted the alleged benefits that would come with departure from the 28-nation trade bloc, saying his government would introduce new state-aid rules allowing the government to step in to help struggling businesses.

The level of support EU governments can give industries is limited by regulations barring anything that might distort competition.

Johnson also vowed to scrap an EU-required tax on tampons and sanitary pads and introduce a requirement for public bodies to buy British produce rather than imports.

Promising more state intervention in the economy is reminiscent of the left-of-center Labour Party, rather than the free-marketeer Conservatives, and appears designed to help the Tories win over Brexit-backing Labour supporters.

All 650 seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs in the Dec. 12 election, which is being held more than two years early after Parliament became deadlocked over Brexit.

Johnson wants to secure a Conservative majority in the election so he can push through the Brexit divorce deal he negotiated with the EU. Under the terms of that deal, the U.K. would leave the EU on Jan. 31 but remain bound by the bloc’s rules until the end of 2020.

On Friday, Johnson repeated his assertion that Britain and the EU will be able to strike a new free trade deal by the end next year, a timescale trade experts say is wildly ambitious.

“I am full of optimism and confidence and suggest that everybody else should be as well,” he said.

But Johnson also announced plans to diverge from EU rules in significant ways, which would make it harder to retain close trade ties with the bloc. And he said he would not extend the transition period beyond the end of 2020, even if no trade deal was in place.

Economists warn that a no-deal Brexit would plunge Britain into recession and severely impede commerce with the EU, its biggest trading partner.

With most polls showing a double-digit lead for Johnson’s Conservatives and less than two weeks until polling day, the governing party is keen to limit the prime minister’s opportunities for gaffes and slip-ups.

That has led to allegations he is dodging scrutiny. Johnson declined to take part in a debate Thursday alongside his main opponent, Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party, and other party leaders, and has so far refused to commit to a one-on-one TV interview with BBC interrogator Andrew Neil.

“I’ve done plenty of debates,” Johnson told radio station LBC on Friday. “I can’t do absolutely everything.”

The Conservatives were also embroiled in a feud with broadcaster Channel 4 over the network’s decision to put an Earth-shaped ice sculpture in place of Johnson after he declined to appear for Thursday’s climate change-themed TV debate.

The party complained to Britain’s broadcast watchdog, Ofcom, over what it called “a provocative partisan stunt.”

Five party leaders took part. Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage declined to attend and were replaced with melting sculptures atop podiums.

Johnson has faced questions about his character throughout the campaign. The prime minister has a history of making offensive remarks, including a newspaper column last year in which he compared women who wear face-covering veils to “letter boxes.”

This week the Labour Party unearthed an article Johnson wrote in conservative magazine the Spectator in 1995 in which he called the children of single mothers “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate.”

Asked about those remarks Friday, Johnson said he had written “millions of words” in his career, and “everybody is able to find some they can cull from the texts and twist them and distort them.” He did not distance himself from the comments about single mothers.

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Returning to the .Com cyber café after almost 20 years are Brandon Beemer (“Shawn Brady”), Martha Madison (“Belle Black”), Heather Lindell (“Jan Spears”), Aaron Van Wagner (“Jason Welles”), Nadia Bjorlin (“Chloe Lane”) and Lindsay Hollistar (“Susan Adamson”). The role of “Mimi Lockhart,” played in the broadcast series by Farah Fath, will now be played by Teressa Liane. Chadwick Hopson will play “Kevin Lambert,” a role originally played by Brett Lawrence and Robert Benvenisti. In addition, there will be a big surprise for viewers in the first episode when a major fan favorite returns to join the reunion.

The first chapter of “Last Blast Reunion” will premiere on Friday, Nov. 29, on The DOOL App. New episodes will be available every Thursday for the following seven weeks. The episodes will also be available on the NBC app and NBC.com one week after streaming exclusively on The DOOL App. Each episode will be approximately 7-10 minutes in length.

“We are excited to bring together some of the most beloved characters from Days of our Lives in the next DOOL App series,” said Greg Meng, co-executive producer of “Days of our Lives.” “As this new digital platform continues to grow, we can provide exciting additional content to complement the air show on NBC.”

In “Last Blast Reunion” Belle and Chloe discover their old friend Kevin has reopened the “.Com Café” in New York, similar to the one at which they all used to gather at together 20 years earlier. The three of them decide to plan a reunion of the “Last Blast Crew,” and a week later they are joined by Susan, Shawn and Mimi and the friends reminisce and quickly ease back into their old bonds and rivalries. Two people, Jan and Jason, are missing from this get-together but will soon join in this long-awaited reunion. The story takes an unexpected turn with some shocking twists that will keep viewers at the edge of their seats all the way to the surprise ending.

The “Last Blast Reunion” digital series was written by “Days of our Lives” head writer Ron Carlivati and produced by Corday Productions.

The DOOL App was developed by the Corday Productions team of Greg Meng, creative director (and co-executive producer, “Days of our Lives”); Michael Fairman, content producer; and Maya Frangié, director of communications and strategic initiatives. The DOOL App is a new all-access platform for “Days of our Lives” fans to get more of the show they love, including breaking news from the set, exclusive original content, backstage videos with the cast, quizzes and interactive games, fan-favorite clips, weekly recaps and other fun ways to connect with the cast. More information is available at www.TheDoolApp.com.

About “Days of our Lives”

“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives...” For over half a century, those words have introduced and underscored NBC’s longest-running drama series. “Days of our Lives,” which turns 54 in November, first premiered as a half-hour drama in 1965 and expanded to an hour 10 years later. The show is currently in its 54th season and remains a consistent favorite among critics and fans alike. “Days of our Lives” is produced by Corday Productions Inc. in association with Sony Pictures Television. Ken Corday is the executive producer with co-executive producers Greg Meng and Albert Alarr. Ron Carlivati is the head writer. “Days of our Lives” airs nationally on NBC in the United States and in over 15 countries internationally. The show has garnered 57 Emmy Awards, including most recently 2018’s Outstanding Daytime Drama, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing and 350 nominations, as well as multiple People’s Choice Awards, GLAAD Media Awards and Prism Awards. The show’s success stems from its consistent commitment to excellence in writing and storytelling – supported by a diverse ensemble of performers – and an uncanny knack for anticipating viewer interests. With its mix of classic genre traditions and groundbreaking narratives reflecting modern life, “Days of our Lives” remains a perennial favorite among viewers of all ages. “Days of our Lives” is set in the fictitious Midwestern town of Salem. The core families are the Bradys, Hortons and DiMeras, and the multilayered storylines involve elements of romance, adventure, mystery, comedy and drama.

The rallies kicked off in Australia, where people affected by recent devastating wildfires joined young environmentalists protesting against the government’s pro-coal stance.

Janet Reynolds said she had come to the rally in Sydney after losing everything in an “inferno, an absolute firestorm that raced through my property.”

“It's so unnatural that I started investigating, reading science and really exploring what's happening with climate change,” she told Australian television.

Student Daisy Jeffrey said protesters had come to help raise money for those affected by the fires and to demand action from the government

“People have lost their homes, people have lost their lives. We have to ask: How far does this have to go before our government finally takes action," she said.

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg, who is traveling across the Atlantic by sailboat to attend the climate talks, sent a message of support to protesters. “Everyone’s needed. Everyone’s welcome. Join us,” she said on Twitter.

Since starting her one-woman “climate strikes” in Sweden more than a year ago, Thunberg has drawn a huge following around the world and inspired thousands more students to regularly skip school on Fridays and join climate protests.

Further rallies took place in Germany, Hungary, Belgium, South Korea, Poland, England, Turkey, Italy, Spain and France — where environmental protesters took a swipe at Black Friday.

In Berlin, about two dozen environmental activists jumped into the chilly waters of the Spree river in front of parliament to protest a government-backed package of measures they say won’t be enough to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The package was blocked Friday by Germany’s upper house, which represents the country’s 16 states.

Later, tens of thousands of students rallied in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

“The generations before us messed it up,” said 17-year-old Robin Ebelt. “And we’re the ones that will feel the consequences. I would like to spend another 60 years on this planet, grow old and have grandchildren.”

Quang Paasch of the activist group Fridays for Future said governments attending next week’s annual climate conference should keep in mind the goals of the 2015 Paris accord, which set a target of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). “We need to keep taking to the streets, we need to defend Paris.”

Thousands of demonstrators also marched in Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia, protesting high levels of air pollution, among the worst in Europe.

Organizers blamed the government for the weak implementation of safety standards that has led to some 3,500 deaths annually due to the exposure to harmful chemicals in the environment, according to United Nations health data.

In South Africa, a few dozen people holdings signs saying “Not Cool” and “Stop Pollution Now” protested outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the summer heat of the Southern Hemisphere.

One protester lay on the ground faking death, holding a sign saying “Black Friday Reason to Grieve.”

Africa contributes least to climate change and is the least prepared to deal with it. Temperatures in parts of the continent are projected to rise more quickly than the global average.

“The reality is that we have a climate change emergency,” protest organizer Elana Azrai said. She noted water shortages in parts of the country amid a drought in southern Africa.

Elsewhere, officials have raised the alarm over unusually severe rainfall in East Africa and a pair of cyclones that ripped into Mozambique within weeks of each other early this year.

Scores of young Nigerians marched in downtown Lagos displaying messages such as “There is no planet B” and “Stop Denying the Earth is Dying” as passing vehicles slowed and honked in support.

“Mother nature is lamenting and we are grieved,” declared one of the Lagos marchers, Omobolanle Eko. “The rise in temperature is real. The rise in sea level is real.”

Student Folashade Gbadeola listed several possible solutions, some of them challenging, in Nigeria, whose economy is still deeply dependent on oil production.

“We should stop the use of fossil fuel,” Gbadeola said.

And in a city of some 20 million people and epic traffic jams, the student suggested that people live near their place of work, ride bikes and share car rides.

The megacity is Africa’s most populous and is among its coastal cities threatened by rising sea levels.

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Albanian, Serb and Montenegrin rescue crews were working through the ruins of the hotel, where one person was still believed to be missing, Defense Ministry spokeswoman Albana Qehajaj said.

Sniffer dogs have signaled a person’s presence under the rubble.

Neighboring countries and European Union nations rushed in rescue crews and specialized equipment hours after the quake struck.

About 2,000 people were injured in Tuesday’s 6.4-magnitude pre-dawn quake, said Health Minister Ogerta Manastirliu, after information was collected from hospitals, small health centers, homes and those now staying in tents.

Two seriously ill persons were taken to Italy for further treatment.

The most seriously affected areas were Durres, 33 kilometers (20 miles) west of the capital, Tirana, and the nearby town of Thumane. The search operation in Thumane, whose mosque was so badly damaged that believers prayed outside, ended Wednesday.

Mourners were preparing to bury some of the victims of the earthquake in a series of funerals on Friday. Hundreds of Thumane residents took part in funeral ceremonies for eight people killed in the quake, six from one family and two from another.

Prime Minister Edi Rama and his deputy, Erion Brace, also attended.

President Ilir Meta visited Durres with Kosovo’s outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha also has been visiting the quake-hit sites, as the catastrophe appeared to at least temporarily sideline political differences in the ever-squabbling country.

The earthquake struck as people slept, and nearly all of those killed were trapped when their apartment buildings or hotels they were staying in collapsed. Hundreds of aftershocks, with at least three of magnitudes greater than 5, have rattled the country and complicated rescue efforts.

Apart from the buildings that collapsed, Rama said preliminary figures showed about 700 buildings in Durres and more than 235 in Tirana were seriously damaged.

"Now comes the hard time for us, with nonstop work to bring life back to normal,” said Rama, adding that he had appealed for international help in reconstruction efforts. He has vowed to re-house all those left homeless "in better living conditions than before the quake," within a year.

The prime minister said that the first donations for reconstruction totaled about 10 million euros ($11 million).

Greece said it was responding to Rama’s appeal by sending a specialized team of 16 engineers from the country’s natural disaster relief agency to help in reconstruction on Friday. The team was to fly to Albania on a military plane that would in turn take back two teams of Greek disaster response firefighters that have been working in search-and-rescue efforts since Tuesday afternoon.

“The priority now is shelter, food and care for any homeless citizen,” said Albanian Defense Minister Olta Xhacka, adding that engineers have begun assessing damaged homes. Preliminary estimates put the number of people left homeless by the quake at 4,000.

“No one will remain in the street,” she said.

About 500 people spent a third night in tents in Thumane, while a total of about 2,000 people from Durres and Thumane were moved to temporary accommodation in hotels, schools and sports halls.

In a sign of brotherhood, many homeless have been taken to neighboring Kosovo, where a vast majority of the people are ethnic Albanians.

During Kosovo’s 1998-99 war, hundreds of thousands from Kosovo were sheltered in Albania.

The European Union pledged further assistance to assess Albania’s needs and priorities, adding that it had started to coordinate with member states, other countries and international organizations on the emergency response.

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Elena Becatoros in Athens contributed.

U.S. financial markets were closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday and will have a half-day session on Friday.

After Asian indexes closed lower, Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.2% to 7,402 and the CAC 40 in Paris edged up 0.1% to 5,920. Germany’s DAX recovered from losses on the open to trade 0.2% higher at 13,266.

U.S. futures were lower, with the contract for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P; 500 both down 0.2%.

Stock benchmarks have largely fallen since U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation supporting human rights in Hong Kong, potentially increasing tensions as the U.S. and China negotiate over ending their trade war.

New U.S. tariffs are set to kick in on many Chinese-made products as of Dec. 15. Negotiators have said they might soon have a preliminary deal that could avert that.

Beijing reacted with fury but no specific retaliatory measures Thursday to Trump’s decision. Since the bills got nearly unanimous approval by both houses of Congress his decision was not unexpected.

China has stayed silent on the issue of whether the U.S. move, viewed as meddling in internal Chinese affairs, might derail the trade talks.

In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lost 0.5% on Friday to close at 23,293.91 points, while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong sank 2.0% to 26,335.06. The Shanghai Composite index shed 0.6% to 2,871.98 and Australia’s S&P; ASX 200 gave up 0.3% to 6,846.00. South Korea’s Kospi slipped 1.5% to 2,087.96.

Japan reported Friday that its factory output fell 4.2% in October, much worse than forecast and the biggest month-on-month drop since January 2018. The decline could mean industrial production will decline by 4% in the October-December quarter from the previous quarter, Tom Learmouth of Capital Economics said in a commentary.

He noted that forecasts by manufacturers do not suggest output is likely to rebound soon.

Neighboring South Korea reported its industrial output declined 1.7% in October.

“It suggests the U.S.-China trade dispute continues taking its toll on Asian economies, despite signs of some green shoots,” Jeffrey Halley of OANDA said in a report.

In energy trading, benchmark crude oil lost 8 cents to $58.03 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude oil, the international standard, gave up 33 cents to $62.94 per barrel.

In currencies, the dollar was up 0.1% at 109.60 Japanese yen and the euro was down 0.1% at $1.1001.

The Seoul Central District Court said singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young received a six-year prison term and former boy band member Choi Jong-hoon a five-year term.

The court said in a statement that they were convicted of committing “special quasi-raping,” which it said means multiple people collaborating to have illicit sextual intercourse with a person who was unconscious or unable to resist.

Jung was additionally convicted of filming sex videos of women against their will and sharing them with friends in a group chat.

The two men were also ordered to undergo 80 hours of sex offender treatment programs.

They have one week to appeal, according to the court.

Their scandals roiled South Korea’s entertainment industry earlier this year when the investigation began.

South Korean pop songs, TV dramas and films are hugely popular in Asia and beyond, but the country’s entertainment world has in recent years suffered a series of sexual scandals that revealed its dark side.

Male stars have faced allegations of sexual assault and abuse and reports have been made that female entertainers and trainees have been forced to provide sexual services to men in power.

On Sunday, K-pop musician and actress Goo Hara was found dead at her home in Seoul. Before her death, she suffered cyberbullying after she was engaged in a public dispute with her former boyfriend, who she said threatened to disclose a sex video of her.

Last month, another K-pop star, Sulli, was discovered dead at her home. She had spoken against the online backlash she received over her lifestyle.

It has long been a truth in British politics that young people vote in lower numbers than older ones. In the last election in 2017, just over half of under-35s voted, compared to more than 70% of those over 60.

But that may be changing. According to official figures, 3.85 million people registered to vote between the day the election was called on Oct. 29 and Tuesday’s registration deadline — two-thirds of them under 35. The number of new registrations is almost a third higher than in 2017.

Amy Heley of Vote for your Future, a group working to increase youth participation, says the figure is “really encouraging, and shows that politics has been so high profile recently that it is encouraging more young people to vote.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that young voters like what they see. Many appear unimpressed with the choice between Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, the main opposition Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn and a handful of smaller parties.

“I think they’re all unlikeable,” said Callum Nelson, a 21-year-old law student attending a question session with local candidates at his London college. “I’m tempted to exercise my right to spoil my ballot.”

About 46 million people are eligible to vote in the Dec. 12 election to fill all 650 seats in the House of Commons, including hundreds of thousands who were too young take part in the U.K.’s 2016 Brexit referendum. Britain’s voting age is 18, although Labour and other parties, including the centrist Liberal Democrats and environmentalist Greens, want it lowered to 16.

The current election campaign is a product of that 2016 vote, in which Britons decided by 52%-48% to leave the European Union after more than four decades of membership.

More than three years on, the country remains an EU member. Johnson pushed for the December election, which is taking place more than two years early, in hopes of winning a majority and breaking Britain's political impasse over Brexit. He says that if the Conservatives win a majority, he will get Parliament to ratify his Brexit divorce deal and take the U.K. out of the EU by the current Jan. 31 deadline.

Labour says it will negotiate a new Brexit deal, then give voters a choice between leaving on those terms and remaining in the bloc. It also has a radical domestic agenda, promising to nationalize key industries and utilities, hike the minimum wage and give free internet access to all.

While most opinion polls give Johnson’s Conservatives a substantial lead overall, the surge in new young voters is good news for Labour, which is seeking to defy the odds and win a general election for the first time since 2005.

Young voters are more likely than their older compatriots to oppose Brexit, which will end Britons’ right to work and live in 27 other European nations and will have a major — though as yet unknown — economic impact.

Matt Walsh, a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Cardiff, said young voters also strongly back abolition of tuition fees and stronger action against climate change — both policies “at the center of the offer that the Labour Party is putting forward to young people.”

Labour’s strategy “is to try and grab those missing voters, get them registered and get them to vote and support Labour policies,” he said.

Labour is spending more than its main rival on social media ads, churning out a stream of memes and messages on Facebook and Instagram. It is also outspending the Conservatives on Snapchat, whose users tend to be younger than those on the other networks. Twitter has banned all political advertising.

Labour also pushed to get young people to register to vote before the Nov. 26 deadline, spreading the message through tweets from celebrity supporters, including grime artist Stormzy. Corbyn posted a link to the government's voter registration website 26 times on Twitter and 31 times on Facebook in the month before the deadline. Johnson, in contrast, didn’t post the link or the word "register" at all on Twitter, and just once on Facebook.

While some analysts are forecasting an electoral “youthquake,” others are cautious. This is a rare winter election, and turnout could suffer if Dec. 12 is a wet, cold day. It’s also difficult to know how much the voters’ decision will be motivated by Brexit and how much by domestic issues.

“At this point, I’m kind of sick of Brexit,” said Susie Chilver, a first-year politics student at the University of Bristol, in southwest England. “So, the things that are swaying it for me are things like social housing, and things like health care, more about social issues than foreign policy."

Konstantinos Matakos, senior lecturer in the department of political economy at King's College London, said there is an assumption that young voters are “leaning more Labour.” But he says their geographical spread —and whether they show up on polling day — will ultimately determine their impact on the outcome.

“It’s not a straightforward assumption to say that this surge in the registration rates will undoubtedly benefit Labour in terms of gaining electoral seats,” he said.

Some young voters agree that Labour shouldn’t take their support for granted.

“People think that students will definitely vote for Labour,” said Molly Jones, a 19-year-old student at London’s Westminster Kingsway College. “But a lot of them who I’ve spoken to, it’s not like that. They will vote for the Liberal Democrats, or the Greens, or even the Conservatives.

“All the parties are just a mess at the moment, and all the leaders are terrible,” she said. “It makes it really hard to vote for someone — you just hold your nose and vote.”

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The Michigan State star lost his brother and best friend to a tragic accident less than three weeks ago.

The grieving has been incomprehensible, the steps in the healing process nearly infinitesimal.

Winston, his family and his basketball family are trying to find a way to wade through it.

“We always try to make games or events in our life, life and death,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “This was life and death. And it's hard.”

Winston was an All-American last season, a preseason All-American this year and a popular pick for national player of the year in 2019-20 after deciding the NBA could wait.

Winston’s return and a loaded roster led the Spartans to a No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press preseason poll.

Michigan State took a hit before the ball went in the air for the first time, losing starting shooting guard Joshua Langford until at least January to another foot injury.

Then the unfathomable happened.

According to police, on Nov. 9, Zachary Winston took his own life by stepping in front of a train in Albion, Michigan. The 19-year-old known as “Smoothie” was a son, a brother, a friend, seemingly a beacon of joy to everyone who came into his orbit.

Zachary’s death rocked the foundation of the Winston family, sent shockwaves across the Michigan State basketball program and campus.

The next day, Cassius Winston, one of college basketball’s most respected leaders, took the floor with his teammates to face Binghamton. A moment of silence was held before tipoff to honor Zachary. Cassius had the game’s first assist, sank his first shot, finished with 17 points and 11 assists in the Spartans’ rout.

Winston and his two families grieved quietly until he broke his public silence on Nov. 18. Speaking after a blowout win over Charleston Southern, he took the microphone and thanked Breslin Center crowd for all the flowers, messages and cards with a short, heartfelt speech.

“I really appreciated it from the bottom of my heart,” Winston said, tapping his chest. “I lost a piece of my heart, but you guys are keeping me going.”

Winston’s heart will never fully heal. A basketball player at Division III Albion College, Zachary was not just Cassius’ younger brother. He was his best friend.

The death of an immediate family member, like the birth of a child, is experiential; only someone who has gone through can understand. Even then, it’s different for everyone.

Winston has spent the days since his brother’s death trying to navigate a world he never wanted to understand. His coach has helped man the rudder, trying to decipher when to push, when to lay back, when to provide a hug, all with the Izzo blend of intensity and compassion.

“I've been told by the people that there's going to be these ups and downs,” Izzo said. “So somewhere, if one guy says I'm making an excuse, there's going to be a fistfight, because the facts do matter. They matter. And the fact is the best friend in his life lost his life. And we're struggling, as a team, but he is struggling as a human being.”

Just as he has labored emotionally, Cassius has suffered a physical toll since Zachary’s death. Izzo allowed Winston to take a few practices off to support his family, and it’s taken him some time to get back into a rhythm.

Winston rose to the occasion when the Spartans went to New Jersey and knocked off then-No. 12 Seton Hall on Nov. 14, finishing with 21 points and five assists.

Once in Maui, Winston began to feel grief’s weight bear down.

In the Spartans’ opener against Virginia Tech, Izzo called Winston “a shell of himself.” Playing like a passenger instead of his usual role of conductor, Winston had seven points on 2-of-7 shooting. Virginia Tech knocked off the third-ranked Spartans 71-66.

Holiday tournaments are not like any other portion of the schedule, so instead of having a day if not more between games, the Spartans had to play Georgia the next afternoon.

With his team warming up on the Lahaina Civic Center court for a game against Georgia, Izzo was summoned to the locker room by freshman guard Rocket Watts.

It’s Cassius.

When Izzo arrived at the upstairs locker room of the rec center turned epicenter of holiday hoops, he found his senior guard sitting on a bench, head down, a puddle of tears growing at his feet.

“We’ve got an All-American that's probably gone through one of the toughest things that any human being would go through,” Izzo said. “We're just going to have to keep working him day-to-day through that.”

Through some coaxing by his coach, Winston took the floor with his teammates. Once he had a ball in hand, Winston felt at least a sense of normalcy, found the rhythm in his game that had been missing since tragedy struck.

Winston scored 28 points, had eight assists and made huge plays down the stretch to help the Spartans overcome Georgia freshman Anthony Edwards’ 37-point night for a 93-85 win.

“Once I got out there, I was able to find my rhythm, find my peace out there on the court and that was really good for me, getting up and down, just having that rhythm that I usually play with,” Winston said. “I feel like this is the first time I kind of had it in a while.”

Winston was in his element the next day, too, scoring 20 points while orchestrating Michigan State’s offense in a 75-62 win over UCLA to take third at the Maui Invitational.

Is Winston back, at least on the court? Maybe. Grieving has a way of hitting when you least expect it, so there could be a few more downs to go with the ups.

No matter what happens, Winston will have plenty of help to get him through it.

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The defiant move circumvents the law and upends a decades-long status quo keeping public transit largely off the streets from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday throughout most of the country. It comes amid political paralysis that has cleared the way for what could prove to be the next battleground over the country’s ethos.

“This is a revolution,” said Nitzan Horowitz, the head of the dovish, secular Democratic Union party. “We cannot maintain a modern state with the necessary demands of the public while maintaining the religion with all its rules and laws.”

For years, secular activists have pointed to the lack of public transit on the Sabbath as a prime manifestation of religious coercion in a state still grappling over its identity more than 70 years after its establishment.

Religious and traditional Jews in Israel view the Sabbath as sacrosanct and a time for rest. Observant Jews do not drive or use electricity on the Sabbath, among other restrictions. Most businesses shut down each week, and commerce comes to a standstill.

But in Tel Aviv, the country’s economic and cultural hub, the Sabbath takes on a different hue. Its sandy beaches are packed, cafes are buzzing and some shops stay open.

Since the days before Israel’s foundation, most of the country hasn’t been served by public transportation on Saturdays, aside from Arab communities as well as mixed Jewish-Arab cities such as Haifa.

In the 1990s, certain public transportation was given official approval to run on Saturdays, including in Arab areas and lines traveling to hospitals, leaving most Israelis relying on cars to get around on the weekend. Nearly half of Israel’s Jews consider themselves secular.

While some transport solutions have emerged over the years — a minivan taxi service in Tel Aviv as well as sporadic lines from suburbs into the city’s beaches — the new effort establishes a veritable network of public transit, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to crisscross the metropolis and beyond.

The earlier services, coupled with years of growing public and political support for Sabbath transit, showed there was a need and that it was legally possible to run the lines, said Uri Keidar, head of Israel Hofsheet, an organization that champions pluralism.

The city has managed to flout a 1992 law by making the minibus ride free. If it were to charge a fare, it would have required the Transportation Ministry’s approval, something that would have been nearly impossible.

“We as a city needed to play a trick,” said Meital Lehavi, a Tel Aviv deputy mayor in charge of transport. “The need is real. The people are voting with their feet and they are riding these lines.”

The network consists of six lines and 500 stops spanning from Tel Aviv to three nearby cities. The municipality plans to eventually upgrade the minibuses to full-sized buses and hopes to receive retroactive government approval, allowing it to charge a fare and sustain the service.

During its initial run last weekend, minibuses careened around the sun-soaked city, in many instances packed with passengers, many of whom rode them simply to celebrate what they called a “holiday of freedom.”

Parents brought children to mark the occasion. Tourists, many oblivious to the political baggage associated with the transportation, were ferried to beaches and secular politicians took celebratory rides.

“Just as I respect other people’s freedoms, I cherish my own freedoms and I want to be allowed to travel,” said Avigail Pekelman, a Tel Aviv resident.

The city said the maiden service was so successful, serving some 10,000 people, that it plans to expand capacity this weekend.

The bus lines appear to also be materializing as a result of political disarray following two inconclusive elections this year, and the strong likelihood of another vote early next year.

“For many months now, there is no central government that can do something,” said Shuki Friedman, an expert on religion and state with the Israel Democracy Institute, a think-tank. “The (municipality) may be violating the Sabbath but they are doing it like thieves in the night.”

The caretaker government, a holdover from the one in power before elections were called in December last year, is dominated by opponents of Sabbath transportation, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party, two ultra-Orthodox parties and a religious-nationalist faction.

But caretaker governments follow an unwritten rule of not passing major legislation. Lacking a majority in parliament, it would struggle to pass any law against the move in any case.

While the ultra-Orthodox community makes up about 10 percent of the population, their political parties have traditionally wielded outsized influence in Israel’s parliament, often emerging as kingmakers in coalition building and allowing them to extract concessions for their constituents.

That political clout, along with the tendency by many ultra-Orthodox Jews to forgo work and compulsory military service and spend their days in religious study while living on government handouts, has bred tensions with secular Israelis who see themselves as funding an unsustainable lifestyle out of touch with the modern world.

The two sides have clashed in the past over military service for ultra-Orthodox men and the opening of convenience stores on the Sabbath.

Opponents say the buses are part of a broader trend of creeping secularism.

“The minute you take steps such as these, it is a head-on collision with the country’s Jewish character,” said Amital Bareli, head of Hotam, a group that seeks to bolster Israel’s Jewish side.

Proponents say the move is irreversible and expect other predominantly secular cities to follow Tel Aviv’s lead.

“This is something that cannot be turned back,” said Roy Schwartz Tichon of the group Noa Tanua, which has worked to promote Sabbath bus lines. “The train has left the station.”

Mannion went coast to coast and made a running layup that banked in high off the glass with 4 seconds remaining to lift the 14th-ranked Wildcats to a 93-91 victory over Pepperdine on Thursday night at the Wooden Legacy.

“Before I pushed it I was looking up the floor to Josh (Green) or Dylan (Smith) on the wing,” said Mannion, who finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds. “Once I got down there I was thinking it was going to be a shot or a quick kick out. I kind of floated it up and it went in.”

Colbey Ross’ off-balance jumper tied it at 91 before Mannion drove the floor for the winning basket. Ross’ heave from halfcourt went off the glass as time expired.

One person who wasn’t surprised by Mannion’s aggressiveness was his coach, Sean Miller, who saw the 6-foot-3 point guard make those types of plays when he was recruiting him.

“He’s made a lot of game-winners in his day. That’s who he is as a player,” Miller said. “He’s poised for a freshman. That was an old-school hook off the glass.”

The game featured 24 ties and 13 lead changes as both teams shot 50 percent or better from the floor and combined for 24 3-pointers.

Green led the Wildcats (7-0) with 24 points, while Zeke Ninaji had 16 points and 11 rebounds. Smith added 16 points.

Kameron Edwards was Pepperdine’s leading scorer with 21 points. Skylar Chavez and Ross had 20 apiece.

Pepperdine coach Lorenzo Romar, an assistant on Miller’s staff at Arizona after he was fired at Washington, said the Waves gambled by taking a tying shot with 7 seconds left and lost.

“What we didn’t want to happen is take the last shot and if we didn’t make it the game was over,” Romar said. “Nico hit a big-time shot that was pretty well defended.”

The Wildcats had won their first six games by an average of 30.3 points, the largest margin in the nation, but this was their first time away from the McKale Center.

The game was tied 42-all at halftime before Arizona jumped out to a 69-57 lead midway through the second half with a 13-2 run keyed by three consecutive 3-pointers from Green.

Pepperdine (3-4) got back into the game with nine straight points, including six by Chavez. The Waves tied it at 74 on Edwards’ fast-break dunk off a steal with 6:47 remaining.

“I thought we would be able to hold steady on that gap after our run. I didn’t think they would punch it back to tie it,” Miller said.

TIP-INS

It was the first time since 2009-10 that Pepperdine has had three players score at least 20 points in a game. ... All of the Waves’ points came from their starters. ... Arizona made 60.7% of its shots from the floor and was 18 of 25 in the second half. It did not miss consecutive shots over the final 24 minutes.

BIG PICTURE

Pepperdine: Three of the Waves’ four losses are to Pac-12 teams. They have an eight-game losing streak to teams from the conference, with their last victory coming against Washington State in 2012.

Arizona: The Wildcats came into the game making 72.5% of their foul shots but went 14 of 24, one reason why Pepperdine was able to stay in the game.

UP NEXT

Pepperdine: The Waves will take on Central Florida on Friday in the consolation bracket.

Arizona: The Wildcats will face Penn in the winners’ bracket.

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The shopping season is the shortest since 2013 because Thanksgiving fell on the last Thursday in November — the latest possible date it could be. That means customers will have less time to shop and retailers will have less time to woo them.

Shoppers up since the wee hours slept in chairs and slumped against shopping bags at Nashville’s Opry Mills mall, known for its outlet stores. Outside, deal-seekers were still fighting for parking spots by midmorning.

Haley Wright left Alabama at 4 a.m. to arrive at the Tennessee mall by 7 a.m. She makes the annual trip because she says the stores offer better deals and a more fun environment than the stores back home.

“I let my husband do the online shopping; I do Black Friday,” she said.

Adobe Analytics predicts a loss of $1 billion in online revenue from a shortened season. Still, it expects online sales will reach $143.7 billion, up 14.1% from last year's holiday season

The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, baked the shorter season into its forecast, but it says the real drivers will be the job market. It forecasts that holiday sales will rise between 3.8% and 4.2%, an increase from the disappointing 2.1% growth in the November and December 2018 period that came well short of the group’s prediction.

Last year’s holiday sales were hurt by turmoil over the White House trade policy with China and a delay of nearly a month in data collection because of a government shutdown. This year’s holiday forecast is above the average holiday sales growth of 3.7% over the previous five years.

NRF expects online and other non-store sales, which are included in the total, to increase between 11% and 14% for the holiday period.

Adobe Analytics said that as of 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, online sales for the day reached $2.1 billion, representing a 20.2% increase from a year ago. Top selling products included MGA Entertainment's LOL Surprise toys and toys tied to the sequel to Disney's "Frozen," according to Adobe. Among the most popular electronics items were Amazon Fire TV, Google Chromecast and air fryers.

“This has been a really good start,” said Rod Sides, vice chairman and leader of U.S. retail and distribution practice at Deloitte LLP. “Black Friday isn’t as important as it was in the past, but it is still the biggest shopping day. It is the most critical barometer of spending.”

Based on reports from his team who were in stores and malls over the past 24 hours. discounters like Target and Wal-Mart drew big crowds for door busters Thursday.

Target reported Friday that 1 million more customers used its app to shop Black Friday deals compared with last year. The discounter said customers bought big ticket items like TVs, Apple iPads and Apple Watches.

In Europe, though, Black Friday drew a backlash from activists, politicians and even consumers who criticized the U.S. shopping phenomenon as capitalism run amok. Climate demonstrators blocked a shopping mall near Paris and gathered in front of Amazon’s headquarters to protest overproduction. Workers at Amazon in Germany went on strike for better pay. Some French lawmakers called for banning Black Friday altogether.

Attention in the U.S. shifted Friday to malls, where traffic has been on decline with the increasing popularity of online shopping and a rash of store closings.

Few shoppers were at Newport Centre in Jersey City, New Jersey, when Latoya Robinson walked in at 9:30 a.m.

“It looks empty for Black Friday,” said Robinson, a student who lives in New York and planned to stop by Forever 21 and Macy’s to shop for herself.

Jill Renslow, senior Vice President at Bloomington, Minnesota-based Mall of America, reported that traffic on Black Friday should exceed the 240,000 count from a year ago. She said many people are coming for the deals of up to 50% off but also to check out new stores.

Renslow added that many stores started promoting holiday items earlier than last year because of the shortened season.

More than half of consumers started their holiday shopping early this year, and nearly a quarter of purchases have already been made, according to the annual survey released by the NRF and Prosper Insights & Analytics.

Theodora Hatcher, of New York, said she started holiday shopping two weeks ago, lured by online deals of up to 60% at Walmart.com, Amazon and Old Navy.

Still, she arrived at Macy’s Herald Square in Manhattan with her son at 6. a.m. on Black Friday, joining a steady stream of shoppers in search of deals from 40 % to 60% on everything from boots to sheets.

As for the shortened calendar, she prefers it.

“It adds pressure,” she said.

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AP writers Joseph Pisani in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville contributed to this story.

5 songs we have on repeat this week:

I Wish I Never Met You -- Oh Wonder

Oh Wonder dropped a track about the feelings experienced after a relationship goes bad.

It’s a song about pain, regret and acceptance that sums up the grieving process, including the sadness and questions associated with it. The vocals are low, over a beat that isn’t slow but isn’t overly upbeat, making “I Wish I Never Met You” a solemn track.

“I wish I never met you / But it’s a little too late / You left me with these issues that I just can’t seem to shake / I wish I never met you”

Oh Wonder is set to drop a new album, “No One Else Can Wear Your Crown,” on Feb. 7. The band is slated to perform in Michigan on April 13.

If you like "I Wish I Never Met You," here are some other songs by Oh Wonder worth checking out:

All We Do | Drive | Lifetimes | All About You | Lose It |

Doin’ Too Much -- SAYGRACE

Grace Sewell has re-branded from her stage name Grace and moved onto the next chapter of her career -- SAYGRACE.

“This time last year I was so lost. I felt minimized and controlled by the people I was doing business with. I felt restrained by the limitations and constructs I saw in society but most of all I was bored and disappointed with the norms that female artists are held to in this industry. Now I have absolutely zero f***s to give. I will no longer be bound by other people’s opinions of what they think I should be. I’m gonna do what I want, dress how I want, make art that I’m proud of and write exactly what I think and feel in my songs because that’s what empowers me,” SAYGRACE tweeted.

"Please let me know if I’m doing too much / No, I’m not perfect but I’m close enough”

“Doin’ Too Much” is the second part of what is expected to be a trilogy. “Boys Ain’t S--t” was the debut song. Sewell told Billboard that that first video was meant to “take the sterotypical things that little boys to do girls and flip it on its head, and show little girls being empowered and bada** and teasing the boys in a playful way.”

“So yeah, gender norms is just a dead concept to me. It’s no longer relevant to follow these antiquated rules. Music and art should represent that,” she told Billboard.

If you like "Doin' Too Much," here are some other songs by SAYGRACE worth checking out:

You Don't Own Me | Boys Ain't Shit | The Honey | Hell Of A Girl | Dirty Harry |

Chasing Highs -- Too Close to Touch

Too Close to Touch recently released “I’m Hard To Love But So Are You, Vol 3.,” an EP that follows volumes one and two, both released earlier this year.

The upbeat track “Chasing Highs” runs through the thrill of chasing a connection that isn’t going to go anywhere.

“'Cause when it rains it pours / And maybe I adore / A little bit of apathy / Yeah the shame is more than I can take / I swore I didn’t need your sympathy / Didn’t want it, no / Now I need it, yeah"

On the surface, the song seems optimistic, but the lyrics paint a different picture, one of love that is going to crumble and cause pain. Nonetheless, it’s an energetic track.

Too Close to Touch will play at the Pike Room in Pontiac on Dec. 8.

If you like "Chasing Highs," here are some other songs by Too Close to Touch worth checking out:

Good Intentions | Hard to Love | The Fear of Letting Go | Perfect World | Restless |

Tattoos and Tequila -- Jason Aldean

“Tattoos and Tequila” is the first song on Jason Aldean’s new album "9.″ It’s a song that doesn’t really fit in a box -- but feels like it could be described as a solid country-pop-rock breakup jam.

“When I’m missing her / I take another shot / I know it ain’t the cure / but right now it’s all I got / she took most of me / now all that I have left / are tattoos to remember / tequila to forget”

“I enjoy making the albums and getting into the studio and having that outlet to get creative. You spend all that time making the records and [the fans] come out and you see the reaction it gives people," he told Billboard.

Aldean’s album was released last Friday and features 16 songs. He’s expected to launch a 2020 tour in January.

If you like "Tattoos and Tequila," here are some other songs by Jason Aldean worth checking out:

You Make It Easy | Dirt Road Anthem | Burnin' It Down | Amarillo Sky | Tattoos on This Town |

Can’t Fight This Feeling -- Bastille, London Contemporary Orchestra

Bastille’s cover of REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling" is good. Like, really, really good.

The band recorded the cover with the London Contemporary Orchestra for British retailers John Lewis and Waitrose’s Christmas ad.

Dan Smith’s voice paired with the orchestra gives the track a magical sound, especially when the instruments play loudly over Smith’s calm vocals.

It’s a beautiful twist on the song.

If you like "Can't Fight This Feeling," here are some other songs by Bastille worth checking out:

Joy | Those Nights | Oblivion | Power | Overjoyed |

Other songs to check out:

• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehiNCZSvGzk" target=_blank>Unfaithful</a> -- Dennis Lloyd
• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpYSB3mAWc" target=_blank>My Own Dance</a> -- Kesha
• <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0W39mDc7CooLW1VBonwcGT" target=_blank>life? ... lol</a> -- Pouya, Rocci
• <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3uQN0eMtoTyLczKLNqI98R" target=_blank>Cologne</a> -- Fetty Wap
• <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6WEMgk7ZDjIFd6uMZ7WUEy" target=_blank>Never Knows Best</a> -- Saving Vice

Upcoming shows:

• <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/368266780550634/" target=_blank>With Confidence</a> at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit on Nov. 29 (Friday)
• <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/711594162614721/">Issues</a> at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit on Dec. 2 (Monday)
• <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/424554375072112/">Emarosa</a> at the Pike Room in Pontiac on Dec. 8 (Sunday)
• <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1316960191814273/" target=_blank>DaBaby</a> at Royal Oak Music Theatre on Dec. 11 (Wednesday)
• <a href="https://www.bandsintown.com/e/101502993?affil_code=js_www.newpoliticsmusic.com&app_id=js_www.newpoliticsmusic.com&came_from=242&utm_campaign=event&utm_medium=web&utm_source=widget" target=_blank>New Politics</a> at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit on Dec. 18 (Wednesday)

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MORE: Suspended police sergeant’s inaction during fatal shooting leads to questions about his past

Police Chief James Craig said Sgt. Ronald Kidd should have been at the scene where Officer Rasheen McClain and his partner, Officer Phillippe Batoum-Bisse, were shot. McClain was killed.

Kidd has been suspended after a review of his car cam and body cam found that he never made it to the scene. Instead, he stayed a block away and suggested to his partner they take cover.

Attorneys Odey K. Meroueh and Zachary Hallman released a statement regarding the issue:

“We believe the characterization of Sergeant Kidd’s character to be inaccurate and defamatory -- particularly in light of his 21 years of service to the city of Detroit and before that to our country as a United States Marine -- it would be inappropriate to say any more at this time.”

More coverage:

‘Allegation of neglect of duty,’ -- Detroit police sergeant suspended after officer killed

Chief: Detroit sergeant suspended after officer’s shooting death was previously fired for cowardice

Suspended Detroit police sergeant’s inaction during fatal shooting leads to questions about his past

Twelve Oaks Mall opened its doors at 6 p.m. Thursday, but some stores inside the mall opened even earlier. Mall general manager Dan Jones said stores continue to push up their opening times because customers want the stores open so early.

“The response has just been overwhelming. We have great crowds. Our parking lot stays about 90 percent full,” Jones said. “At the end of the day, the merchants love it, the customers love it and that’s why we keep doing it.”

Leah Van Ess was one of the many of thousands of people starting Christmas shopping early at Twelve Oaks.

“Three perfumes for $5.95 and normally they’re $18.95,” Van Ess said. “Everyone loves good deals.”

A Best Buy store was also packed.

"I hate to say it, I’m one of those guys every year, stands in line an hour early,” Frank Ulloa said.

What do you think of stores that open for Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving? Let us know in the comments.

Hill blocked a punt to set up his 3-yard touchdown catch before scoring again on a 30-yard run, and the New Orleans Saints clinched their third straight NFC South title by beating the Atlanta Falcons 26-18 on Thursday night.

Hill stole the show on a roster filled with more established stars.

“When you have guys like Mike Thomas, Alvin Kamara, Jared Cook, the list goes on, it kind of creates opportunities for little old me because it creates so much attention that's put on those guys,” Hill said.

“Coach (Sean Payton) is one of the best at being creative and putting guys in positions to be successful. I got lucky because I was that guy tonight.”

The Saints (10-2) atoned for their 26-9 home loss to the Falcons on Nov. 10, their only defeat in the last 10 games.

With Julio Jones inactive due to a shoulder injury, the Falcons had too little offense to keep pace with Drew Brees and the Saints. Atlanta recovered two onside kicks in the closing minutes, including one with 1:54 remaining, to make things interesting.

Matt Ryan was sacked by Cameron Jordan on a fourth-down play from the New Orleans 44 with 38 seconds remaining. Ryan was sacked nine times, including four by Jordan.

“We had to drop back and pass at the end of the game,” Ryan said. “When you do that and there’s really no threat of run, it’s tough sledding, particularly when you’re going against a good defense, a very good defensive line and one of the better pass rushers in the game in Cam Jordan.”

The versatile Hill blocked Ryan Allen’s punt to end Atlanta’s first possession. The Saints took over at the Falcons 30, and four plays later Hill scored his first touchdown on a short pass from Brees.

Hill took a direct snap and ran 30 yards for his first rushing touchdown of the season to give New Orleans a 17-6 lead late in the first half.

“If I can step on the field eight to 10 to 15 times, whatever that number is, my goal is to add a spark whenever I can,” Hill said. “I love to be able to go in and add some energy.”

The disappointing Falcons (3-9) solidified their hold on last place in the division with their second straight home loss.

Atlanta running back Devonta Freeman returned after missing two games with a foot sprain. Freeman ran for 51 yards on 17 carries.

Ryan committed three second-half turnovers — two interceptions and a lost fumble. Saints nose tackle Shy Tuttle and safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson had interceptions.

Ryan fumbled in the fourth quarter when hit by Marcus Davenport. Vonn Bell’s recovery set up Will Lutz’s fourth field goal, from 45 yards.

Eli Apple’s 22-yard pass-interference penalty helped extend an Atlanta drive that ended with a fourth-down incompletion from the Saints 2.

Apple drew another pass interference call, this one a 35-yarder, and on the next play Ryan found tight end Jaeden Graham for an 18-yard touchdown pass that cut the Saints’ lead to 7-6, following Younghoe Koo’s missed extra point.

Koo also missed a 42-yard field goal before making a 45-yarder with 3 seconds remaining in the first half. Koo was good from 43 yards late in the game.

INJURIES

Saints: Kiko Alonso left the game with a thigh injury. ... The offensive line remained short-handed as left tackle Terron Armstead was inactive after leaving last week’s win over Carolina with an ankle injury. Left guard Andrus Peat missed his third straight game since breaking his arm against Atlanta on Nov. 10.

Falcons: Left guard James Carpenter left the game with a concussion in the first half. Jamon Brown, who lost his starting job at right guard to Wes Schweitzer, returned to the game following Carpenter’s injury. ... Backup offensive tackle Ty Sambrailo injured his hamstring.

BIGGER GOALS

Hill and many teammates wore T-shirts after the game that read “The South Is Not Enough.” Clearly, the Saints’ goals extend beyond the division crown. “We've got bigger fish to fry, so to speak,” Brees said. “We've got a list of goals and objectives and want to knock them down, one by one.”

NEXT UP

With Jones missing a game for the first time since 2016, and Atlanta tight ends Austin Hooper and Luke Stocker held out with injuries, Ryan had to look for new targets. He threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Russell Gage with less than four minutes remaining. Christian Blake had six catches for 57 yards.

UP NEXT

The Saints return home to play San Francisco on Dec. 8.

The Falcons play their fifth straight game against an NFC South rival when they face Carolina on Dec. 8. The Falcons beat the Panthers 29-3 on Nov. 17.

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The office of his son, Hirofumi Nakasone, confirmed that Nakasone died Friday at a Tokyo hospital where he was recently treated.

As a World War II navy officer, Yasuhiro Nakasone witnessed the depths of his country’s utter defeat and devastation. Four decades later, he presided over Japan in the 1980s at the pinnacle of its economic success.

In recent years, he lobbied for revision of the war-renouncing U.S.-drafted constitution, a longtime cause that no postwar leader has achieved to date.

Nakasone began his political career as a fiery nationalist denouncing the U.S. occupation that lasted from 1945 to 1952, but by the 1980s he was a stalwart ally of America known for his warm relations with President Ronald Reagan.

He boosted defense spending, tried to revise Japan’s U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution and drew criticism for his unabashed appeals to patriotism.

In the 1950s, he was a driving force behind building nuclear reactors in resource-poor Japan, a move that helped propel Japan’s strong economic growth after World War II but drew renewed scrutiny in the aftermath of the meltdowns at a nuclear plant in Fukushima swamped by a tsunami in 2011.

The son of a lumber merchant, Nakasone was born May 27, 1918, the last year of World War I. He went to Tokyo Imperial University before entering the Interior Ministry and then the navy, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant commander during World War II.

In his last news conference as prime minister, he said his political ambitions were sparked after the war by "the conviction I felt as I gazed bewildered at the burned ruins of Tokyo.”

“How can this country be revived into a happy and flourishing state?" he said.

He established his nationalist credentials by campaigning for parliament riding a white bicycle bearing the "rising sun," or the “Hinomaru” national flag, which Japan’s wartime military had used. He won a seat in 1947, becoming the youngest member of parliament at age 28.

Nakasone became a leading figure in the Liberal Democratic Party that has dominated postwar politics. During more than a half-century in parliament, he served as defense chief, the top of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party before becoming prime minister.

Nakasone assailed the U.S.-drafted postwar constitution, demanding revision of the document's war-renouncing Article 9 and urging a military buildup.

He was a key figure behind crafting and ramming through government funding for nuclear research in 1954, less than a decade after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 200,000 people in the last days of the war. In 1955, he helped pass legislation designed to promote nuclear power.

"Atomic power used to be a beast, but now it's cattle," he told a parliamentary session in 1954.

In a 2006 speech marking the 50th anniversary of Japan's first nuclear institute in Tokaimura, Nakasone said he was intrigued by nuclear power as he tried to figure out why Japan lost the war.

"My conclusion was that one of the biggest reasons was (the lack of) science and technology," he said. "I felt strongly that Japan would end up being a lowly farming nation forever unless we take a bold step to develop science and technology."

After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, there was a public backlash against nuclear energy, but Nakasone said it remained indispensable to maintain Japan's industrial growth.

As prime minister from 1982 to 1987, Nakasone broke the mold of the Japanese politician. His outspokenness appealed to voters, and he was praised for putting a human face on Japanese politics.

His tongue sometimes got him in trouble. He sparked outrage in 1986 by suggesting Japan was an economic success because it didn't have minorities with lower intellectual levels.

He was the first Japanese prime minister to visit South Korea, a country with bitter memories of its 1910-1945 colonization by Japan. That was his first trip abroad as leader, a break from his predecessors, who made Washington their first stop.

Despite that gesture, Nakasone was staunchly committed to Japan’s alliance with the U.S., and his warm friendship with Reagan was known as "Ron-Yasu" diplomacy.

His premiership coincided with a period of major trade disputes with the West. Responding to U.S. complaints that Japanese markets were closed, Nakasone initiated packages to reduce tariffs and other import barriers, including a long-term plan to shift Japan's export-dependent economy to focus more on domestic growth.

He also privatized the sprawling Japan National Railways — today's Japan Railways group — as well as the state telephone and tobacco companies.

Nakasone’s nationalist legacy includes the first official visit in 1985 by a postwar prime minister to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors the war dead, including Japan’s convicted war criminals. His visit fueled disputes with china and South Korea over World War II history that persist to this day.

Nakasone overcame opposition from Japan's strong pacifist forces to boost defense budgets, and excluded military technology cooperation with the U.S. from Japan's ban on arms exports.

"Japanese cowered under the (postwar U.S.) occupation and occupation policies," Nakasone said just before stepping down as prime minister in 1987. "It is important to revive from that cowered spirit — that is healthy nationalism."

But Nakasone also said Japan should remain a war-renouncing nation.

"We must stick to our commitment as a pacifist nation. We have caused tremendous trouble to our neighboring countries in the past war," Nakasone said in a 2011 interview with public broadcaster NHK. "Our commitment to peace must be the centerpiece of Japan's domestic and diplomatic policies."

Both nationalist and wrestling with the same issues — stronger military, constitutional revision and trade friction with the U.S. — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been compared to Nakasone by some Japanese media and analysts. But the Japan that Abe leads today is no longer at its peak and China is now a rival to the U.S., and Abe is seen more hawkish toward Beijing’s aspirations.

In later life, Nakasone became one of Japan's leading elder statesmen. He promoted his longtime dream of revising the U.S.-drafted constitution and pronouncing his views on national and international affairs. He had attended an annual May rally campaigning for a constitutional revision until he skipped one just before turning 100, when he had a hand injury and couldn’t use his cane to rise from his wheelchair.

He retired from parliament in 2003, at age 85, when he was pushed to retire from parliament after then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi urged him to step aside in upcoming elections to make way for a younger lawmaker.

Nakasone complied, but he accused Koizumi of discrimination and lack of respect for his elders. He publicly read a haiku poem. In his 100th birthday message, Nakasone said that he was not done yet, and that same haiku still best described his spirit:

Even after dusk,

Cicada persists in song,

While it still has life.

Nakasone is survived by his son Hirofumi — a parliamentarian — two daughters, and three grandchildren.

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Luke Logan missed a 35-yard extra point after Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore was penalized for celebrating a touchdown by crawling and pretending to urinate like a dog, and Mississippi State escaped with a 21-20 victory Thursday night in the 116th Egg Bowl.

“That’s not who we are. We’ve been a disciplined team all year, and so just disappointed that happened," Rebels coach Matt Luke said. “That’s not who he is. Elijah is a good kid, and he just got caught up in the moment.”

Ole Miss (4-8, 2-6 Southeastern Conference) pulled within a point with 4 seconds remaining on Matt Corral’s 2-yard pass to Moore, but Logan hooked the extra point after Moore cost the Rebels 15 yards. The extra yards also prevented Mississippi from going for a winning 2-point conversion.

The penalty was another in a long line of unsportsmanlike conduct fouls between these two teams in recent years, and oddly not even the first one featuring a player pretending to pee. Luke said he knew that as emotions flared in the annual rivalry game that showboating would need to be avoided.

“Absolutely,” Luke said. “We talked about it. We had five penalties. We just wanted to play a clean game. Nothing after the whistles or before the whistles was going to help us win the ballgame.”

Mississippi State (6-6, 3-5 Southeastern Conference) beat Ole Miss at home for the first since 2013, possibly saving second-year coach Joe Moorhead’s job.

Moorhead was fiery in his defense of the job his staff has done with this team, overcoming a litany of academic suspensions and several injuries to key players.

“To me it was an exclamation point on the narrative that I’m not the right man for this job or this team, or that I can’t coach in this league,” Moorhead said. “This is my school, my team, and this is my program. They’ll have to drag my Yankee ass out of here.”

The teams combined for seven sacks and 17 tackles for loss, and Mississippi State won the turnover battle 3-1. The Bulldogs’ Erroll Thompson had 11 tackles, one for a loss, a pass deflection and a forced fumble.

“Erroll’s our team captain, you know, and he has the confidence of the team,” Moorhead said. “For him to play the way he did, and just the entire defense, it was a great team win.”

The Bulldogs scored two first-half touchdowns, the first on Nick Gibson’s 27-yard run and the second on the next possession on quarterback Garrett Shrader’s 1-yard run. Ole Miss responded with two touchdowns of its own, with J.R. Plumlee scoring on a 2-yard run and Jerrion Ealy on a 5-yarder to tie it at 14 at the half.

Midway through the third quarter, the Bulldogs sacked Plumlee three times on the same drive, the third forcing a fumble. Seven plays later, Shrader scored on a 5-yard run to put Mississippi State up 21-14.

After pulling Plumlee in favor of Corral, Ole Miss had two different red-zone opportunities in the fourth quarter. The other ended with a Marcus Murphy interception.

On the final drive of the game, Mississippi State committed three of its five total penalties and Ole Miss ran nine plays inside the 15 before eventually connecting for the touchdown.

THE TAKEAWAY

Ole Miss: The Rebels are young and continue to show signs of life under Luke, but inconsistent play and the lack of a clear offensive strategy are the biggest reasons they’ll be sitting at home this bowl season.

Mississippi State: After a long season that fell well short of expectations, an emotional home win over a hated rival might just be enough to keep Moorhead from losing his job. But maybe not.

Police said the man was going into a gas station in the 1900 block of E. McNichols about 8:05 p.m. when someone in an older model, dark-colored sedan stopped near the entrance.

A man got out of the passenger seat and fired several shots at the victim, police said.

The victim was taken to a hospital, where he is listed in serious condition.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Detroit Police 11th Precinct’s Investigative Unit at 313-596-1140 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.

Barn fire kills animals

A barn fire killed 10 animals at the African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, Ohio on Thanksgiving.

A Macomb County bodybuilder caught on video attacking his girlfriend withdrew his plea Wednesday in hopes of a more favorable sentence. Paul Bashi was captured on video punching, kicking, stabbing and burning his girlfriend on July 29, 2018 in their Washington Township home.

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• A St. Clair County prosecutor has been appointed to the hazing investigation into members of the De La Salle football team. <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/11/20/de-la-salle-football-hazing-investigation-st-clair-county-prosecutor-appointed-to-case/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wdiv4" target=_blank><i>Click here to read more.</i></a>
• Power outages are a concern in Metro Detroit on Wednesday, ahead of Thanksgiving, with a wind advisory in effect. <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/11/27/wind-advisory-power-outages-possible-in-southeast-michigan-ahead-of-thanksgiving/" target=_blank><i>Click here to read more.</i></a>
• Police have identified a Michigan State medical student and a suspected drunken driver who were killed in a wrong-way crash. <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/11/27/michigan-state-medical-student-killed-by-suspected-drunken-driver-going-south-on-northbound-i-475-police-say/" target=_blank><i>Click here to read more</i></a><i>.</i>
• There are ways to enjoy food over the holidays without derailing your diet<i>. </i><a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/11/27/how-to-enjoy-holiday-meals-without-completely-derailing-your-diet/" target=_blank><i>Click here to read more</i></a><i>.</i>

Be Informed

Road closures

Thanksgiving Day festivities in Detroit will close numerous roads. Bus routes will also be changed as the Turkey Trot, America’s Thanksgiving Parade and Lions game draw large crowds to the city Thursday.

Heavy winds

Intense winds Wednesday took a large branch down onto a van on Detroit’s southwest side. Neighbors said they heard a loud bang and went outside to investigate.

Coyotes

Many residents in Highland Park are reporting seeing coyotes roaming their neighborhoods and police are on alert. According to a study by Ohio State University, coyotes have adapted to live in densely populated environments while avoiding contact with humans.

Travel

Traveling has been tricky for many people as storms, wind and snow hit the Midwest on Wednesday, the busiest travel day of the year. Despite heavy winds in Metro Detroit, the wind hasn’t caused many flight delays.

Detroit shooting

A postal worker was injured over the weekend when shots were exchanged between two vehicles on Detroit’s west side, police said.

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• <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/11/27/power-outages-put-damper-on-some-thanksgiving-preparations-in-metro-detroit/" target=_blank>Power outages put damper on some Thanksgiving preparations in Metro Detroit</a>
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According to the park, the fire was discovered early Thursday evening. The barn was housing animals for the night.

WKYC reported that four antelopes, three giraffes, and three Red River hogs died. A zebra was able to escape the blaze.

Staff members were trying to get a giraffe that was at a pond at the time back into its enclosure, according to WKYC.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. The park will be closed Friday.

Below is video from the scene taken by Aaron DiBucci:

After some mid-morning sunshine, overcast skies have returned, but it will be dry overnight. It will be chilly, too. Friday remains dry before slippery snow and rain arrive for the rest of the holiday weekend.

Thursday night will be cloudy and chilly. Roads will be dry on the ride home from dinner. Overnight lows will be near 30 degrees.

Friday will be mostly cloudy to partly sunny to mostly cloudy for shoppers. Families going to stores or spending time together at activities, like Robot Odyssey at the Cranbrook Institute of Science or Santa at the RenCen or Detroit Blues Heritage Stories at the Scarab Club in Detroit, will need their coats, hats, scarves and gloves to stay warm. Temps will be in near 30 degrees in the morning and near 40 degrees in the afternoon.

Rain and snow showers are possible for the Michigan Wolverines noon ET football game against Ohio State at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. Tailgating temps will be near freezing. Travel will not be impossible, but drivers must factor an extra 15-30 minutes to get to the venue. Afternoon temps will be near 40 degrees.

Saturday night and Sunday morning will be chilly and wet with rain showers. It will not be as chilly in the afternoon with highs in the middle and upper 40s.

Monday remains chilly and will be partly sunny. Highs will be in the upper 30s.

Well, the Cowboys (6-6) still lead the NFC East after a 26-15 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Thanksgiving Day. And Jason Garrett is still their coach.

“I’m looking ahead at another ball game. I’m looking ahead at winning four or five straight. Five straight and helping write a story they will talk about, how it looks like you were down and out, and got it done,” Jones said. “I mean that. That’s the way that I’m operating. Every decision that I make over the next month will be with an eye in mind to get us in the Super Bowl now.”

While obviously still disappointed and emotional — Jones clearly had some tears in his eyes after exiting the locker room from which the muffled shouts of players could be heard — it was a far different mode than when the owner blasted the coaching staff after a 13-9 loss at New England.

After another loss four days later, Jones instead said he wasn’t going to panic and was looking for ways to help the team.

“One of them is not a coaching change. One of them is not reworking the offense or the defense,” he said. “Those aren’t alternatives for us to be ready to play over the next month and give us a chance to be what we want to be.”

Jones believes some games can turn out differently if the Cowboys stay healthy and other teams don’t, “and all of a sudden we start jelling and we start getting some turnovers. ... I like our bet there. I do, even though we haven’t played well the last three games.”

Dallas plays at Chicago next Thursday night, and has games left against the Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia and Washington.

The Cowboys haven’t beaten a team that has a winning record. They are 3-6 since opening the season with three consecutive wins — all over teams that currently have two wins each — in what is the final year of Garrett’s contract.

They are 4-0 against their NFC East rivals — all have losing records. Dallas twice beat the 2-9 New York Giants, and has one win each over the 5-6 Eagles and 2-9 Redskins.

Linebacker Jaylon Smith admitted there were plenty of upset people in the locker room.

“For sure, we understand the type of team that we have and what we’re capable of,” Smith said. “We’ve got to figure it out, it’s crunch time.”

Asked what gives him confidence that his team can win out, Jones responded, “I don’t know that I would inject confidence anywhere in this thing relative to just the hanging on the mathematical chance, but hanging on the fact that that group of people in there, I know at various times over the last several years, I thought they were absolutely, exactly what I wanted to be in the room with as the part of a team. ... Those names haven’t changed.”

After being held to three field goals on a wet, blustery day in New England, the Cowboys returned home and opened the game with a nine-play, 75-yard drive. They led 7-0 on Dak Prescott’s 8-yard touchdown pass to Jason Witten.

Buffalo (9-3) then scored 26 consecutive points while the Cowboys missed two field goals — including one at the end of the first half that would have made it 13-10. Prescott had two turnovers in the first half, an interception and a fumble.

Defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence said the team still believes in Garrett and the coaching staff.

"That’s a stupid question, but yes absolutely. I feel like this is a man’s game, it’s not just on the coaching staff,” Lawrence said. “I don’t feel like they did anything to hurt us, we did self-inflict the wounds. It’s really about the offense and defense capitalizing and we didn’t really do that.”

Some fans were heard during the game chanting “Fire Garrett” and others held signs expressing their displeasure. There were a lot of empty seats by time Dallas scored a late touchdown in its fourth Thanksgiving loss by double figures the past six years.

“We know we have tough fans who love and hate us at the same time,” Smith said. “For us we’re going to give it our all and we know what we need to do. We need to go out here and win and find a way.”

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit announced Wednesday that Fenton Dr. April Tyler agreed to up to two years in prison this month when she pleaded guilty to violating a federal anti-kickback statute. Patrick Wittbrodt and Jeffrey Fillmore face longer sentences after pleading guilty to fraud.

Investigators say the trio targeted UAW insurance plans because of their high reimbursement rates. Their plan included medically unnecessary pain creams, patches and vitamins.

Federal officials say UAW members were told they could receive prescriptions free, but that led to theft of millions from their health care fund.

Conversion therapy is a practice that attempts to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ people.

Testimony was heard from people who experienced harm, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicidal thoughts and attempts, as a result of conversion therapy.

According to the AMA, a lack of regulation on the practice can lead to fraud, harm and trauma.

"It is clear to the AMA that the conversion therapy needs to end in the United States given the risk of deliberate harm to LGBTQ people,” said AMA Board Member Dr. William E. Kobler. “Conversion therapy has no foundation as scientifically valid medical care and lacks credible evidence to support its efficacy or safety.”

Eighteen states currently ban subjecting minors to conversion therapy. Utah is close to becoming the 19th state to put a ban in place.