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(CNN) — A life-altering payday will soon be in store for one lucky New Jersey Lottery winner.
The winner of a $1.128 billion Mega Millions jackpot has finally come forward to claim their staggering windfall nearly nine months since the ticket was drawn, according to a New Jersey Lottery press release.

Lottery officials say the jaw-dropping prize is the fifth-highest in the game’s nearly three-decade history.
The winning ticket was drawn on March 26 at a ShopRite supermarket in the coastal township of Neptune, according to the Lottery.
Like many other lottery winners, the lucky ticket holder has opted to take a cash prize, which is $537.5 million before federal and state taxes are taken out, lottery officials say.
The player “values privacy” and has chosen to remain anonymous, according to the lottery, thanks to a law passed in 2020 that allows lottery winners to conceal their identities in public records indefinitely. Officials say it is not uncommon for winners to wait before coming forward to claim their prize, as they have a full year to do so.
The state of New Jersey raised $77 million in ticket sales from this drawing, and the ShopRite that sold the winning ticket will receive a $30,000 bonus commission.
Mega Millions drawings are held every Tuesday and Friday around 11:00 p.m. ET. The next drawing is on Christmas Eve – and the jackpot stands at $970 million – the ultimate holiday bonus!
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Bill Clinton is hospitalized with fever but in good spirits, says spokesperson
Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington on Monday after developing a fever. The 78-year-old was hospitalized in the afternoon for testing and observation, according to a statement from Angel Urena, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff.
2 rescued after California wharf partially collapses due to heavy surf from major Pacific storm
Two people were rescued after a partially collapsed pier under construction in California fell into the ocean on Monday, as heavy surf from a major storm battered the state’s central coast. The storm, which is expected to bring hurricane-force winds to the Pacific Northwest, caused the collapse near the Santa Cruz Wharf, located about 70 miles south of San Francisco. Authorities have warned residents to avoid low-lying beach areas as the storm quickly intensifies.
Company official charged in 2022 oil-chemical discharge into Michigan’s Flint River
The president of a chemical company has been charged in connection with an unauthorized oil discharge that created a miles-long dark sheen on the Flint River in Michigan more than two years ago. Rajinder Singh Minhas, 60, of Rochester, Michigan, was arrested and arraigned last week on multiple charges, including falsifying public records, substantial public endangerment, discharging harmful substances into state waters, and making false statements related to air pollution control. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the charges on Monday. Minhas also served as director and treasurer of Lockhart Chemical, a Flint-based company that manufactures coatings, metalworking additives, hydraulic fluids, and lubricants.
FAA probes holiday drone show accident that injured a boy in Florida
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Monday that it is investigating the cause of a drone collision that occurred during a holiday show in downtown Orlando, Florida, over the weekend. The incident, which took place at Lake Eola Park on Saturday night, resulted in several drones falling into a crowd of thousands, injuring a 7-year-old boy who required surgery. The show had been approved by the FAA.
NeueHealth to be taken private by New Enterprise Associates in $1.3 billion deal
Health insurer NeueHealth announced that it would be taken private by an affiliate of New Enterprise Associates and a group of investors, with an enterprise value of approximately $1.3 billion. Following the announcement, the company’s shares surged by 62.4% in after-hours trading. The acquisition offer, priced at $7.33 per share in cash, represents a 70% premium over NeueHealth’s closing stock price on Monday.

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The Pico W has WiFi and getting started is easier than you might think from the documentation. Try our easy Web Client to see just how easy. This is an extract from our latest book all about the Pico/W in C.

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The Pico and the Pico W are very similar and, with the exception of anything that uses the built-in LED, all of the programs presented so far work on both models. The important difference between them is that the Pico W has additional hardware that enables it to use WiFi. From the programming point of view, however, the task is to learn how to use the new WiFi driver and the LwIP library that provides higher-level networking. This is made more difficult than need be by the inadequate documentation provided for both. This will probably improve over time.
 
Now that we have managed to make the connection the WiFi, the next step is to transfer data. There are lots of low-level LwIP functions concerned with data, but in most cases we need to work at a higher level with a well defined protocol. One of the most common is HTTP which is used to transfer HTML web pages and this is easy enough to implement using LwIP. You can use raw low-level functions to implement an HTTP client and this is what the example in the SDK does, but there is a much simpler way to achieve the same result. LwIP has a ready built HTTP client that you can use to download any file from a web server. The HTTP client makes use of the raw API, so it can be used without the need for freeRTOS.
The HTTP client has two functions:
As you can see they are very similar. The only real difference is that the first makes the connection using an IP address and the second uses a URL or an IP address and performs a DNS lookup if necessary.
Both functions are asynchronous and you need to define three callback functions to accept the results. Notice that this means you could initiate multiple file downloads that would proceed in parallel.
The first three parameters specify the server and the file to be downloaded. The settings parameter specifies callbacks etc to be used as the connection proceeds. The recv_fn callback is called with the body of the web page, i.e. minus any headers. The callback_arg is passed to the callbacks and the connection parameter can be used to identify the connection if the callbacks are used to download multiple files.
The recv_fn callback provides access to the data:
The first parameter is the argument specified in the original call. The tpcb parameter gives the TCP control block which provides information about the connection which generated the data. The p parameter is a pointer to a pbuf linked list which contains the data, the contents of the requested file. How to make use of pbuf is described later. The final parameter gives the code for any error that has occurred.
A simplified definition of the settings type is:
The first three fields are used to set a web proxy and you can ignore them unless you need to use a proxy. The final two define callbacks. The first result_fn is called when the file transfer is over and it is given the results of the transfer:
The first parameter is the argument specified in the call that started the transfer. There are three parameters concerned with reporting the status of the transfer. The httpc_result parameter gives you the status of the HTTP connection e.g. HTTPC_RESULT_OK or HTTPC_RESULT_ERR_HOSTNAME.
The srv_res parameter gives you the status code from the web server – usually 200 if the file was found and downloaded and 404 if it wasn’t. The err parameter gives you any errors generated by the LwIP functions themselves.
The rx_content_len parameter gives you the number of characters downloaded, but notice you don’t have access to the data in this callback, just the final status of the transaction.

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Orin S. Kerr | 12.23.2024 6:08 PM
A cert petition was recently filed at the Supreme Court in Case v. Montana on the Fourth Amendment standards for entry into a home to help people in an emergency.  The question presented:
Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the emergency-aid exception requires probable cause.
The petition does not address the original public meaning of the Fourth Amendment, or the common law rules on this issue. But this is one area where there are common law authorities on the question, and they seem pretty home-protective.  Given the Supreme Court’s increased interest in originalism, I thought I might blog about what the established rule was for this issue at the time of the adoption of the Fourth Amendment, which presumably would inform what would have been understood as an unreasonable search and seizure.
Let’s start with what was perhaps the best treatise on common law rules of criminal procedure, William Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown (1787 ed).  Here’s how Hawkins summarizes the rule:

Here Hawkins states the rule as allowing entry when the “affray” (somewhat a term of art in the 18th century, but basically meaning a really big fight) is made in the constable’s “view or hearing.” It’s not just that the constable has heard about the fight. He needs to see it or hear it.  If he sees it or hears it, he can enter the home to “suppress the affray,” that is, break up the fight.
What makes Hawkins particularly helpful as a treatise writer is that he cites sources.  On the side note, he cites five sources.  Let’s take a look at them.
The first source is “Sum. 134-35.”  That refers to Matthew Hale’s short volume, Pleas of the Crown: or, a Methodical summary of the principal matters relating to that subject, from 1678.  The pincite is to Hale’s discussion on the law of affrays, and he states the rule about the power of constables as follows:

Hale’s short volume is less clear on the standard of entry. The constable ought to break up a fight in his presence (somewhere outside, one assumes) but there’s nothing specific about what if the fight is ongoing in a house; does the constable need to see or hear the fight, as Hawkins is saying later on?
Hawkins next cited “2 Hale 95.” That’s a cite to Volume 2 of Hale’s more developed and influential treatise, Historia Placitorum Coronæ, the 1736 edition of which contains the following at page 95:

In this volume, Hale talks of two different situations.  First, if there’s an affray in the house, and “there is likely to be manslaughter or bloodshed committed,” the constable can demand entrance, and if no one lets him in but the fight is still ongoing, he can break in.   Second, if there’s a lot of noise going on at night, he can basically do the same.
Hawkins also cites “Crompton 170,” which I assume refers to George Crompton’s Practice Common-placed Or, The Rules & Cases of Practice in the Courts of King’s Bench & Common Pleas, although at least on a quick look I can’t find the relevant discussion. It may be that, since Hawkins wrote his treatise in 1719, that the pagination of Crompton was different from the later editions I find on Google books. Or maybe that’s the wrong Crompton treatise? Not sure.  I’ll have to look into that more later.
The next Hawkins cite is to “Dalton c.78,” which is to Chapter 78 of Michael Dalton’s Country Justice, the chapter on jails, although it seems to be mostly about who pays for setting up a jail (a big deal in an era where there was no state-provided jail).  That’s perhaps relevant to the second common law rule in that Hawkins paragraph, about hot pursuit searches, but it doesn’t seem relevant to the rules about emergency entry.
Finally, there’s a citation to “B.P. Imprison. 6.” I’m not sure what that is, but I wonder if it’s to a Parlimentiary writ of the era, “B.P.” standing for “”Brevia Parliamentaria,” or “Before Parliament.” Perhaps a writ relating to imprisonment powers, akin to the citation to Dalton above?  I’m not sure.
Anyway, combining the Hawkins rule from his Pleas of the Crown with the rule from Hale’s Historia Placitorum Coronæ, I take the common law authorities to suggest some significant certainty about whether the “affray” is happening inside the house before the constable can enter.  Hawkins says the constable has to hear or see the big fight.  Hale says it needs to be “likely” that there will be manslaughter or bloodshed, something taht to me sounds more suggestive of a probable cause standard.  Hale’s mention of noise coning from the house seems consistent with a high certainty, too. The constable would hear the noise himself, being sure of it.
I’d need to look in a lot more detail to be sure of this. But at least on a quick look, it appears that there’s significant common law support for the idea that the government needs a significant likelihood of harm occurring before entering the home.
Anyway, I have no idea if the Supreme Court will be interested in this case. The Court has not been much interested in its Fourth Amendment docket recently.  The state waived its opportunity to file a brief in opposition. But there are some significant common law materials on this question if the Court ends up interested in the issue.
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Joe Bradley is not happy with how things ended with Danielle Olivera in a first look at the Southern Hospitality Season 3 premiere.
In case you missed the news, Southern Hospitality is coming back — and according to the above preview for Season 3, Episode 1 (set to air Thursday, Jan. 2), we’ll be jumping right back into the drama.
Watch the Season 3 premiere of Southern Hospitality on Thursday, January 2 at 9/8c on Bravo and next day on Peacock.
However, this time around, said drama will include more Bravolebs than just our favorite Republic employees.
As fans might remember, manager Joe Bradley made headlines last January after he apparently spent a night out on the town with The Real Housewives of New York alum Luann de Lesseps after meeting her during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. As it happened, that fateful evening ended up ruining his relationship with Summer House alum Danielle Olivera and his coworker TJ Dinch.
“My beef with TJ first started in New York,” Joe explains in a new confessional. To sum things up, rumors swirled that Joe had hooked up with Luann after the show … which he denies, but TJ continues to perpetuate. The big problem? He was dating Danielle at the time of the alleged hookup.
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“TJ betrayed my trust. He confirmed those rumors and that sabotaged my relationship,” Joe explains.
Texts between the former best friends are then shown onscreen, with Joe making it clear just how upset he is with TJ.
While Joe says nothing happened with Luann, the rest of his castmates disagree.
“Joe definitely hooked up with Luann,” says TJ in a confessional. 
Maddi Reese also seems to think it’s true. “Joe hooking up with Luann is iconic,” she says in her own interview.
“Luann is such a badass. I mean, who wouldn’t want to f-ck her?” adds Grace Lilly.
And then, even he seems to change his tune: “But like, so what if I did?”
Luann, meanwhile, told TMZ that nothing happened.
“We definitely had great chemistry, and we went out to have drinks,” the countess said. “What’s wrong with that? … You know, he’s got a girlfriend, but we definitely had great chemistry, let’s put it that way.”
After meeting in Las Vegas at BravoCon 2023 in November 2023, the New Yorker and Southerner ended up dating for four months. They broke up in February 2024.
“I just don’t think I’m in the position as a 28-year-old, who works in a night club, to be the caliber of man for Danielle Olivera, who is just, I think, ahead of me in life in a lot of ways,” Joe explained while discussing the split during an appearance on the Gabbing with Gib podcast. “As far as like, maturity, where she stands in her career. And I’m just in this tiny little quaint town of Charleston and she’s like, running laps in the big city, like she always has.”
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2025 National Convention October 17-19  Myrtle Beach, SC

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2025 National Convention October 17-19  Myrtle Beach, SC

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The Freedom From Religion Foundation strongly condemns the recent proposal to insert overt Christian references into social studies standards for Oklahoma public schools.
The move, spearheaded by Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, represents yet another troubling breach of the constitutional principle of separation of state and church and further jeopardizes the secular education of Oklahoma students. FFRF is currently involved in two lawsuits in Oklahoma involving public education.
The new standards mandate increased emphasis on Christian teachings and references to the bible, which Walters boasts is mentioned “over 40 times,” falsely framing them as central to understanding American history and civic values.
“Oklahoma is putting the Bible and the historical impact of Christianity back in school. We are demanding that our children learn the full and true context of our nation’s founding and of the principles that made and continue to make America great and exceptional,” says Walters. “These new standards fully and unabashedly answer the mandate that voters demanded upon electing President Trump: No more woke, radical indoctrination.”
FFRF warns that these changes would undermine constitutional principles and threaten the integrity of public education. By instilling religious teachings, the standards would subvert the ideal of a balanced and inclusive curriculum that respects America’s pluralistic society. The proposed standards clearly violate not only the First Amendment, but also the Oklahoma Constitution, which stipulates that public schools must be “free from sectarian control” (Article 1, Section 5) and bars any public money or property being appropriated to benefit any “system of religion” (Article II, Section 5).
“Oklahoma students deserve an education that prepares them to be informed citizens, not one that imposes religious dogma,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Oklahoma already is ranked 49 out of 50 on its educational system. This proposed curriculum would further undermine critical thinking, as well as marginalize non-Christian students.”
FFRF will thoroughly review the curriculum and urges Oklahoma’s citizens to utilize the public comment period (through Jan. 21) to combat these unconstitutional and divisive standards. FFRF stands ready to take legal action if necessary to ensure that Oklahoma’s public schools uphold the principles of secular education and constitutional protections.
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Afghanistan is facing a severe food security crisis, with millions struggling to access adequate food. An estimated 11.6 million Afghans—25 percent of the population—are experiencing food insecurity.
Climate shocks are exacerbating this crisis. The ongoing drought—among the worst in decades—has drastically reduced rainfall, severely impacting rain-dependent agriculture. Earlier this year, catastrophic flooding in provinces like Baghlan, Takhar, and Badakhshan, caused widespread destruction of homes, agricultural lands, and livestock.
Afghanistan ranks fourth on the list of countries most at risk of climate-related crisis and is considered the seventh most vulnerable country with the least coping capacity. The frequency of droughts in the country has increased from an average of once every 3 years over 1986–2012, to once every other year over 2013–2023.
These intensifying droughts and floods damage crops, disrupt supply chains, and increase food prices. Such climatic shocks—coupled with economic instability and conflict—worsen food insecurity.
Impact on agricultural economy
A new World Bank study examined the effects of climate and weather shocks on Afghanistan’s agricultural economy, with an emphasis on food security, prices, and wages. The findings reveal that both flooding and drought significantly increase food insecurity, directly and indirectly.
Floods cause immediate crop and infrastructure damage, while droughts exacerbate water scarcity and lower crop yields, driving up food prices and lowering agricultural wages. Economic factors, such as inflation, rising fuel costs, and currency depreciation, further reduce the purchasing power of consumers and strain affordability. These combined challenges leave vulnerable households particularly at risk.
Investing in long-term resilience
Addressing food insecurity requires a comprehensive approach. Investments in climate resilience, like drought-resistant crops and livestock, crop diversification, improved irrigation and integrated watershed management, are essential. Simultaneously, economic measures such as income support for vulnerable populations and improved market access can help mitigate the effects of rising costs.
Moving beyond emergency aid, Afghanistan must invest in long-term resilience. While emergency aid is necessary to address urgent needs, sustainable solutions are essential for lasting food security. This includes enhancing local agricultural production, promoting sustainable farming practices, enhancing agricultural value chains, and developing early warning systems for climatic events.
The World Bank is helping address the food security crisis through the Afghanistan Emergency Food Security Project (EFSP) which supports the Afghan population by boosting food crop production among smallholder farmers and addressing the nutritional needs of women-headed households, in partnership with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It is also promoting resilience and commercialization of agriculture production systems through the private sector by scaling up climate-resilient seed value chains, investing in improved water management technologies, and promoting value addition facilities to connect food supply chains to markets. The project has benefited more than 5 million people, employed more than 170,000 women farmers, increased production of wheat by 26 percent, and provided improved irrigation and drainage services on 523,000 hectares of land.
The Water Emergency Relief Project (WERP) is supporting a pilot to improve surface water irrigation systems to reduce the impact of droughts and thus foster greater agricultural climate resilience in partnership with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Agha Khan Foundation (AKF). By replacing diesel pumps with sustainable energy solutions, the project enhances farmers’ access to water and energy resources. It is also fostering community-private partnerships to deliver longer term solutions for drought-affected rural communities. The project will benefit 2,000 farmers and 100,000 community members.
The World Bank is also partnering with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to strengthen the delivery of hydrometeorology and early warning services to Afghan people. A drought forecasting and early warning tool is being developed, leveraging satellite remote sensing datasets and machine learning prediction models, to strengthen drought risk management and anticipatory actions. This open-source tool can help farmers to prepare in advance by adjusting their crop management practices, such as altering irrigation schedules, selecting drought-resistant crop varieties, or delaying planting to avoid the most vulnerable periods.
The challenges posed by climate change and its cascading impacts on food security in Afghanistan will continue to increase over time. By focusing on resilience and sustainable food system solutions, Afghanistan can build a more robust and adaptive food system that ensures food security and safeguards the livelihoods of the millions of Afghan people.
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“New York’s Board of Regents approved a Department of Education funding request for climate education,” reported Public News Service (December 23, 2024).
If the funding is included in the state budget for 2025-2026, $536,500 would be allocated to support the development of guidance documents to help educators integrate climate education into existing standards across grades and disciplines as well as to fund a staffer to support school decarbonization projects across districts.
The request was developed in collaboration with the Climate and Resilience Education Task Force, a project of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and its volunteers, students, educators, and partners. NWF’s Emily Fano told NCSE, “If the governor approves this appropriation request in her budget, teachers will finally be provided with a framework for teaching climate change at every grade level and in every subject,” adding, “This would put the state in a lead position in the nation on cross-curricular climate education requirements.”
The request would just be a start on improving climate change education in New York, Fano emphasized. “We’ll need far more resources going forward for a proper rollout of these new climate resources to over 800 districts, especially for both pre-service and in-service teacher training. A majority of teachers want to teach about climate but don’t have the proper training.”
“The grown-ups who are responsible for educating our students are finally listening to our kids,” Fano concluded. “They have been asking us to do this for quite some time.”
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WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington after developing a fever.
The 78-year-old was admitted in the “afternoon for testing and observation,” Angel Urena, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement.
“He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving,” Urena said.
Clinton, a Democrat who served two terms as president from January 1993 until January 2001, addressed the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer and campaigned ahead of November’s election for the unsuccessful White House bid of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
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