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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Anaheim Ducks acquired New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba on Friday in a trade for defenseman Urho Vaakanainen and a conditional fourth-round pick in 2025. The trade ends Trouba's five-year tenure with the Rangers, who have lost six of their last seven games. The 30-year-old defenseman joined the Rangers in a trade with Winnipeg in 2019, and he became New York's captain before the 2022-23 season. Trouba has been considered one of the NHL's best checking defensemen at the height of his talents. He has six assists in 23 games this year while struggling to produce offensively at the level of his best seasons, including a career-best 50 points with Winnipeg in 2018-19. Trouba has been featured in trade rumors since the summer while New York general manager Chris Drury didn't try to hide his desire for a roster reboot, but Trouba has a robust no-trade clause. He is completing the sixth season of a seven-year, $56 million contract, and his hefty deal has been an impediment to movement. “I want to sincerely thank Jacob for his contributions to the Rangers and our community,” Drury said in a statement. “Jacob has been an example on and off the ice for our organization and played a major role in our success over the last several years. ... He has demonstrated grit, toughness, and tremendous leadership, and we can’t thank Jacob enough for everything he has done for the Rangers.” The Ducks can accommodate the final 1 1/2 years of Trouba's deal because they have one of the NHL's lowest payrolls and ample salary cap space after general manager Pat Verbeek failed to land any top free agents last summer. Trouba will immediately become a key contributor on the blue line for the Ducks, who are in last place in the Pacific Division. He will also play alongside Anaheim forwards Ryan Strome and Frank Vatrano, his teammates with the Rangers during the club's run to the Eastern Conference finals in 2022. “Jacob is a highly respected player in this league whose character and leadership qualities on and off the ice are second to none,” Verbeek said. “We believe Jacob has many more years in this league, and hope he is a big part of our future success. It’s rare you are able to acquire a player with Jacob’s experience, stature and ability. On the ice he competes every shift, leads by example and is a presence on the blue line every night.” The Ducks' group of defensemen includes captain Radko Gudas, veteran Cam Fowler, free-agent signee Brian Dumoulin and promising youngsters Olen Zellweger and Pavel Mintyukov. Anaheim has been solid defensively this season, allowing just 2.96 goals per game after giving up 3.57 last season, but has struggled offensively yet again. Vaakanainen hasn't played for Anaheim since Nov. 13 while dealing with an upper-body injury. The veteran played 68 games and scored one goal for the Ducks last season, but he has been injured frequently during his career with Boston and Anaheim. This story has been corrected to show the Rangers have lost six of their last seven games, not seven games in a row. AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL

CINCINNATI , Nov. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced that Stuart Aitken is stepping down as senior vice president, chief merchandising and marketing officer, to pursue other professional opportunities. Aitken will remain in his role at Kroger through December 31, 2024 . Mary Ellen Adcock , Kroger's senior vice president of operations, will succeed him as chief merchandising and marketing officer. " Mary Ellen is a respected leader both within Kroger and our industry," said Rodney McMullen , Kroger's chairman and CEO. "Her deep strategic experience in her past 25 years with Kroger in roles of increasing responsibility will continue to drive value for customers and growth for our business and associates." Continuing in their current roles as leaders of the company's operations are senior vice presidents of retail operations Valarie Jabbar and Kenny Kimball , who oversee Kroger operating divisions, and group vice president of retail operations Paula Kash , who leads enterprise retail operations, which includes asset protection, corporate food technology and e-commerce operations. They will now report to McMullen. "On behalf of the Kroger Board and management team, I want to thank Stuart for his work to evolve Kroger's brand while bringing exciting, innovating products to our shelves," said McMullen. "He played an instrumental role in overseeing dunnhumby's integration and establishing 84.51o. We wish Stuart and his family all the best as they embark on a new chapter." About Mary Ellen Adcock Adcock served as Kroger's senior vice president of operations since 2019. In this role, she leads strategic operations for the company's more than 2,700 stores across 35 states supporting more than 416,000 associates and serving 11 million customers every day. Adcock oversees customer experience, associate experience, asset protection, process change and productivity improvement initiatives and is responsible for maintaining the highest food safety and regulatory standards. As senior vice president of operations, Adcock has delivered more than $1 billion in annual operations savings for six consecutive years. This strategic focus on efficiency improvements provided Kroger the ability to reinvest those savings to consistently lower prices for customers and increase wages for associates. Adcock achieved this efficiency goal while also improving the customer and associate experience by developing Kroger's Full, Fresh & Friendly: Every Customer Every Time program. Adcock also played a lead role in operationalizing Zero Hunger | Zero Waste, Kroger's commitment to end hunger in the communities it serves and eliminate waste as a company. She led the organization in achieving 100% store participation in the company's surplus food rescue program for the first time. Adcock joined Kroger in 1999 in the company's manufacturing division, where she held a variety of leadership positions. In 2009, she was promoted to vice president of deli/bakery manufacturing, and in 2012, Adcock became vice president of natural foods. In 2014, she led merchandising and operations for the Columbus division. Adcock was promoted to group vice president of retail operations in 2016 and named as senior vice president of retail operations in 2019. In 2022, Adcock was a Top Women in Grocery Trailblazer. About Kroger At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the Human SpiritTM. We are, across our family of companies nearly 420,000 associates who serve over 11 million customers daily through a seamless digital shopping experience and retail food stores under a variety of banner names , serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kroger-announces-chief-merchandising-and-marketing-officer-succession-302314616.html SOURCE The Kroger Co.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Looking for hard-to-find bottles of Kentucky bourbon to toast the holidays or add to a collection? Get your bids ready as the Bluegrass State launches its first online auction of confiscated alcohol. Whiskeys up for sale include two bottles of Old Rip Van Winkle, a Blanton’s Single Barrel Gold in box with Japanese markings and a bottle of Four Roses Small Batch Barrel Strength 2011. The sale is the result of a new Kentucky law, which allows alcohol confiscated from closed criminal investigations by the state's alcoholic beverage control agency to be auctioned. Online bidding opens Wednesday and closes at midnight on Dec. 11. Proceeds will support programs promoting responsible alcohol use by adults and awareness programs for youths. “This is a really good auction,” Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, said by phone Tuesday. “There are some hard-to-find and rare bottles on there.” No estimate has been given on how much the auction might raise. “We look forward to seeing the response to this auction and have started planning additional auctions for 2025,” said Allyson Taylor, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The auction features 32 bottles of alcohol and includes a “stock the bar” bundle with bottles of wine, vodka, rum and whiskey, the agency said. But the stars are the hard-to-find and rare bourbons up for sale. “It’s not every day you go to a liquor store and find a bottle of Blanton’s Gold," Gregory said. “You never go to a liquor store and find a bottle of Four Roses 2011.” The lineup includes bottles of E.H. Taylor bourbon, Blanton’s Single Barrel, Eagle Rare 10 yr., Weller Antique 107, Willett Family Estate Single Barrel Rye, Michter’s, an Old Forester gift set and more. A link to the online auction is available at ABC.ky.gov. Auction items cannot be shipped, so winning bidders must pick up items in Frankfort, the state said. The auctions will become a “can't miss opportunity” for bourbon connoisseurs, Gregory said. Previously, confiscated bourbon or other spirits could end up being destroyed, he said. “We don't like to see good bourbon poured down the drain,” Gregory said. Kentucky distillers produce 95% of the global bourbon supply, the Kentucky distillers’ group says.

The Dallas Cowboys find themselves at 3-7 with their playoff hopes and season on shaky ground, with the walls feeling like they are closing in on "America's Team." But while many focus on what is happening on and off the field, there is a delicate balancing act that players must undertake above the shoulders . Veteran receiver Brandin Cooks spoke earlier in the week about bringing the "joy" back into football for the locker room in the middle of a dark period in the franchise's history; quarterback Cooper Rush has now given his thoughts on the current situation. And for Cooper, there is a balance between knowing that they play a game for a job and knowing the urgency of needing to win. “There's a balance for sure,” Rush said. “You want to have perspective, obviously we're playing a game we love and enjoy to do, and get to do it for a living, there's that. I'm there out there with guys you love and care about is fun, and then you just got to get that first win. "We just need that first win, get it rolling ... and that goes hand-in-hand with the playing free and just keep snowballing that.” © Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images The "snowball effect''? That is an interesting thought. Yes, professionally speaking, the Cowboys are in all sorts of trouble with their form and how things have transpired this season, and the pressure is immense to get things back on track. Related: Cowboys Rookie Feeling Spirit of Commanders Rivalry But conversely, it is important to know that at the end of the day, this is a game, and for most, it isn't the be-all and end-all - it's a job that players do with friendships forged through times like these. Of course, that is easier said than done, but the Cowboys appear to be shifting their mentality this week as they try to regain some semblance of form and begin to salvage something from this disastrous season. And it all might begin with the right perspective. ... so things "snowball'' in a good way. Related: Why's Micah Parsons In Twitter War With Ex Teammate?NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) , a leading provider of secondary liquidity solutions to private companies, employees, and investors, announced today that it has promoted Rotem David , Parul Dubey, Sharif Khaleel , and Chris Setaro to new roles on its Executive Leadership Team. Rotem David has been promoted to Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) . At NPM, he is an active member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. In Mr. David’s new role, he will lead NPM’s product and technology divisions worldwide, responsible for setting and executing the product roadmap as well as effectively bridging the gap between product vision and technical feasibility. He will oversee tech infrastructure, engineering, QA, and product. 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Middle East latest: Syrians celebrate Assad's fall as US seeks a peaceful political transitionWASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s decision to go back on his word and issue a categorical pardon for his son, Hunter , just weeks before his scheduled sentencing on gun and tax convictions was a surprise that wasn’t all that surprising. Not to those who had witnessed the president’s shared anguish over his two sons after the boys survived a car crash that killed Biden’s first wife and a daughter more than a half-century ago. Or to those who heard the president regularly lament the death of his older son, Beau , from cancer or voice concerns — largely in private — about Hunter’s sobriety and health after years of deep addiction. But by choosing to put his family first, the 82-year-old president — who had pledged to restore a fractured public’s trust in the nation’s institutions and respect for the rule of law — has raised new questions about his already teetering legacy. “This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation,” Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis wrote in a post on X. He added that while he could sympathize with Hunter Biden’s struggles, “no one is above the law, not a President and not a President’s son.” Biden aides and allies had been resigned to the prospect of the president using his extraordinary power in the waning days of his presidency to ensure his son wouldn’t see time behind bars, especially after Donald Trump ’s win. The president’s supporters have long viewed Biden’s commitment to his family as an asset overall, even if Hunter’s personal conduct and tangled business dealings were seen as a persistent liability. But the pardon comes as Biden has become increasingly isolated since the loss to Trump by Vice President Kamala Harris , who jumped in to the race after the president’s catastrophic debate against Trump in June forced his exit from the election. He is still struggling to resolve thorny foreign policy issues in the Middle East and Europe. And he must reckon with his decision to seek reelection despite his advanced age, which helped return the Oval Office to Trump, a man he had warned time and again was a threat to democratic norms. Trump has gleefully planned to undo Biden’s signature achievements on climate change and reverse the Democrat’s efforts to reinvigorate the country’s alliances, all while standing poised to take credit for a strengthening economy and billions in infrastructure investments that are in the pipeline for the coming years. And now, Biden has handed the Republican a pretext to carry through with sweeping plans to upend the Department of Justice as the Republican vows to seek retribution against supposed adversaries. “This pardon is just deflating for those of us who’ve been out there for a few years yelling about what a threat Trump is,” Republican Joe Walsh, a vocal Trump critic, said on MSNBC. “‘Nobody’s above the law,’ we’ve been screaming. Well, Joe Biden just made clear his son Hunter is above the law.” Jean-Pierre said Monday from Air Force One that the president wrestled with the decision but ultimately felt his son’s case had been tainted by politics, though she tried to thread the needle — insisting he had faith in the Justice Department. “He believes in the justice system, but he also believes that politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage of justice,” she said. But Trump has already made very clear his intent to disrupt federal law enforcement with his initial nomination of outspoken critics like former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general and Kash Patel to replace FBI Director Christopher Wray , who nominally still has more than two years left in his term. (Gaetz ended up quickly withdrawing his name amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations.) Reacting to the pardon, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement: “That system of justice must be fixed and due process must be restored for all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people.” In a social media post, the president-elect himself called the pardon “such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice.” “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?” Trump asked. He was referring to those convicted in the violent Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by his supporters aiming to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. Biden and his spokespeople had repeatedly and flatly ruled out the president granting his son a pardon. In June, Biden told reporters as his son faced trial in the Delaware gun case, “I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.” In July, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters: “It’s still a no. It will be a no. It is a no. And I don’t have anything else to add. Will he pardon his son? No.” In November, days after Trump’s victory, Jean-Pierre reiterated that message: “Our answer stands, which is no.” Neither Biden nor the White House explained the shift in the president’s thinking, and it was his broken promise as much as his act of clemency that was a lightning rod. He is hardly the first president to pardon a family member or friend entangled in political dealings. Bill Clinton pardoned his brother Roger for drug charges after he had served his sentence roughly a decade earlier. In his final weeks in office, Trump pardoned Charles Kushner , the father of his son-in law, Jared Kushner, as well as multiple allies convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Yet Biden held himself up as placing his respect for the American judicial system and rule of law over his own personal concerns — trying to draw a deliberate contrast with Trump, who tested the bounds of his authority like few predecessors. Inside the White House, the timing of the pardon was surprising to some who believed Biden would put it off as long as possible, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. It came just after Biden spent extended time over the past week with Hunter and other family members on Nantucket in Massachusetts, a family tradition for Thanksgiving. “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further,” Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon. Some in the administration have privately expressed anguish that the substance of Biden’s statement, including his claim of an unfair politically-tinged prosecution of his son resembled complaints Trump — who faced now-abandoned indictments over his role in trying to subvert the 2020 election — has been making for years about the Justice Department. Biden said the charges in his son’s cases “came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election.” Many legal experts agreed that the charges against the younger Biden were somewhat unusual, but the facts of the offenses were hardly in dispute, as Hunter wrote about his gun purchase while addicted to illegal drugs in his memoir and ultimately pleaded guilty to the tax charges. The pardon too was unusual, coming before Hunter Biden was even sentenced and covering not just the gun and tax offenses against his son, but also anything else he might have done going back to the start of 2014. It’s a move that could limit the ability of the Trump Justice Department to investigate the younger Biden’s unsavory foreign business dealings, or to find new ground on which to bring criminal charges related to that time period. Biden, in his statement, asked for consideration: “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”MAA Announces Regular Quarterly Preferred Dividend

Los Angeles Times owner plans on adding bias meter to site next yearGermany's KfW to provide $25 bln loan for hydrogen networkUtah’s liquor commission approved liquor licenses for 10 restaurants Thursday, and also announced early success with its statewide program to support homeless services. Starting Tuesday, state liquor stores began offering customers the option to “round up” their purchase to the nearest dollar and donate that money to the Pamela Atkinson Homeless Account. In Thursday’s meeting, Tiffany Clason, director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services (DABS), announced that in the two days the program had been active, liquor stores had already raised $12,631. “We’re obviously very excited to play a small role in what is a really big and really significant effort to provide services to our unhomed population,” Clason said. Utahns can also donate to the Pamela Atkinson Homeless Account via QR codes in liquor stores, and by visiting jobs.utah.gov/htf/ . The Utah Legislature created the initiative earlier this year, under House Bill 548. The funds are distributed to homeless services providers across Utah to provide unhoused individuals with temporary shelters, case management, meal services and housing, a news release stated. The only bar license awarded Thursday was to the Salt Lake City LGBTQ bar Club Try-Angles , which is surrendering its current bar license. The new license will replace the old license, as the bar goes through a change in ownership. Campfire Lounge — which has been closed since April as the owners remodel it into a tiki bar called Remora — had requested an extended closure until the commission meeting on March 31, 2025. All of the commission members voted to approve the closure, except for commissioner Tara Thue, who said, “I feel like we’re getting to a point where we’re going to run out of licenses again, and we need to be judicious in how we are granting extended closures.” “It’s nothing against the business,” Thue continued. “It’s nothing about the management or progress that has been made or not made. I just think that we are being put in a position where we’re dealing with scarcity, and we need to start considering our options yet again until the quota issue is truly fixed by our legislature.” Snowmobile Pizza , which has been closed since August for a remodel, also requested an extended closure, until the commission’s meeting in January. The commission also approved that closure. After Thursday’s meeting, the commission has four bar licenses available to award (that number will go up to five in December), and 67 full-service restaurant licenses. Restaurants that received liquor licenses • Yoko Taco , 285 W. 800 South, Salt Lake City. This restaurant, which serves Mexican food with an Asian twist, originally got its liquor license in October 2023 . But this year, ownership missed the annual renewal period, so they reapplied for a new license, which was approved at Thursday’s meeting, said DABS spokesperson Michelle Schmitt. • Yoko Ramen , 473 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City. • Main Street Grill , 9027 W. Main St., Magna. • Nacho House , 15 US-89, North Salt Lake (conditional). • The Social , 65 N. University Ave., downstairs Suite 2, Provo (conditional). • Ganesh Indian Cuisine , 1811 Sidewinder Drive, Park City (conditional). • Le Depot , 660 Main St., Park City (conditional) (projected opening Dec. 1). • Squatters Corner Pub , 3555 Constitution Blvd., West Valley City (conditional) (projected opening date Dec. 27). • Hearth and Hill , 2188 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City (conditional) (projected opening date Jan. 14, 2025). • Purple Sky Winery , 2809 N. 1600 West, Pleasant View (conditional) (projected opening date Jan. 15, 2025).