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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has endorsed the Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley Tuesday night at a town hall in Manchester, the latest step in his long-running effort Donald TrumpThe march to the 2024 GOP nomination.

“Let’s get this thing done. We’re all into Nikki Haley, no doubt. You can feel the energy. You can feel it,” said the fourth-term governor.

Sununu, who once considered his own presidential bid, joined the former South Carolina governor on the first night of his three-day campaign swing in New Hampshire. He has appeared with nearly every Republican candidate in recent months, weighing their chances, but in recent days has decided to back Haley and campaign hard on her behalf until the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary.

“This is not a campaign,” Sununu said, urging voters to move beyond Trump. “It’s a movement.”

Halle and Sununu appeared together at center stage, standing behind an American flag and receiving enthusiastic applause from supporters. Haley thanked the governor for trusting her candidacy: “It doesn’t get any better than this, to be endorsed by a live-free-or-die governor.”

“I don’t think New Hampshire can keep it to themselves,” Haley said, invoking the state’s famous motto. “I guess we’re supposed to be a live-free-or-die country, right?”

Haley and the Florida governor Ron DeSantis They are in a tough battle to replace Trump as the leading Republican party. The contenders now have dueling endorsements from the respective governors of Iowa and New Hampshire, opening the race for the Republican nomination in January.

State of Iowa Kim Reynolds Endorsed DeSantis in November and campaigned extensively with him. He’s up for re-election in 2022 and is one of the most popular Republican officials in the state, but whether his support will move the needle for the Florida governor remains an open question.

Long before their respective endorsements, Reynolds and Sununu were at odds with Trump. The former president plans to campaign in Iowa on Wednesday and New Hampshire on Saturday, both of his dominant states.

Sununu made clear in recent weeks that he had narrowed his choice for an anti-Trump challenger to Hawley, DeSantis and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Haley has previously been vocal about her support for the New Hampshire governor, saying his endorsement would greatly affect her campaign.

“It’s going to be huge. There’s no mistaking that Chris is a popular governor, not just in the state. He’s popular across the country,” Haley said during an interview with radio host Jack Heath in November.

“The idea is that if we can get his approval, that would make a lot of sense. But, you know, we’ll wait and see. He’s taking his time at this point and we’re going to wait,” he added.

Sununu campaigned with Haley last month during town halls in Londonderry and Nashua. Haley hasn’t been shy about asking for his support in her race for the White House.

“Are you still ready to support me?” Hallie asked Sununu.

“Getting closer every day,” replied Sununu with a smile.

The endorsement is the latest setback for DeSantis in New Hampshire, where his support has fallen from its spring peak, and it creates a new headwind for the Florida governor’s hopes. He aggressively sought Sununu’s support, hoping he could go 2-for-2 in securing the endorsement of heads of state he pre-nominates.

“What happens in New Hampshire will be significantly affected by the outcome in Iowa, where the real Trump alternative will emerge,” DeSantis campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo said in a statement. “When Ron DeSantis steps down, he will be joined by more than 60 New Hampshire state legislators who are ready to return power to the establishment and their previous candidates to grassroots conservatives.”

DeSantis and Sununu did not always see eye-to-eye on leadership styles and approaches to governance. As Republican governors hunker down in Central Florida after the 2022 midterms, Sununu warned his party against what he called “big government Republicans” who are pushing conservatism on businesses — a clear swipe at DeSantis’ home turf.

Sununu was alarmed by the bitter dogma among Republican leaders, epitomized by DeSantis, who told the room to “not encourage anyone by pointing fingers and telling them how wrong they are.”

In February, the two clashed over DeSantis’ harsh approach to punishing Disney for its crackdown on LGBTQ topics in the classroom. Sununu said DeSantis’ actions violated free-market conservatism and set “the worst precedent in the world,” calling DeSantis “crazy.”

But by the time DeSantis launched his White House bid, he had adopted a more conciliatory tone toward the popular Granite State governor, praising Sununu’s leadership during visits there and speaking to local media. The two have campaigned together a few times in recent months and set out to prove a true camaraderie.

However, Sununu never accepted DeSantis’ pitch that the GOP race was a two-man battle between the Florida governor and Trump.

“I think the race is really wide open,” Sununu said, standing next to DeSantis in late October.

Although Christie has often questioned the power of endorsements throughout his presidential campaign, he has courted Sununu, his friend and fellow Republican of more than a decade, who he believes agrees with him in his commitment to accepting Trump.

The pair last appeared on the campaign trail together on Nov. 20 at a town hall in Nashua, where Sununu noted Christie’s dedicated efforts to campaign in the Granite State and praised him for “hitting more pavement and wearing more shoes in the 603. Is there anyone.”

Christie’s campaign on Tuesday played down Sununu’s latest move and promised to make progress in the Granite State.

“We saw the news about Governor Sununu’s decision to endorse Nikki Haley. It leaves us one vote short in New Hampshire, and when Governor Christie returns to Londonderry tomorrow, he will continue to tell the unspoken truth about Donald Trump and gain that one missing vote and thousands more,” Christie campaign spokesman Carl Rickett said in a statement.

“I consider Chris a friend,” Christie said Tuesday on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Georgia Politically” podcast. “We agree on a lot of things. We don’t agree on who to vote for in New Hampshire on Jan. 23. And one less vote isn’t that confusing.”

Reflecting on his endorsements of Mitt Romney in 2012 and Trump in 2016 last week, Christie told CNN’s David Salian that he was “skeptical about what the real impact of the endorsements was.”

“So, I would like to have it more because of my philosophical and personal agreements that I have with Governor Sununu than what I think it will bring to the race in practice,” he said.

Christy He has rejected pressure to quit the competition And rallied support behind Haley, telling CNN’s Omar Jimenez last week, “I’m not going anywhere.”

He clarified that there is no alliance between the pair.

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Update for December 12th: This story has been updated to reflect the US Space Force’s current target launch date of Wednesday, December 13.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – SpaceX has again delayed the next Falcon Heavy launch of the space shuttle’s secretive fourth-sized spacecraft, pushing it back a day for weather.

“Standing down from tonight’s Falcon Heavy launch due to ground side issue; The vehicle and payload will be healthy,” SpaceX posted on X less than an hour before Monday’s scheduled liftoff. “The team is resetting for the USSF-52 mission’s next launch opportunity, which is no earlier than tomorrow night.”

If it tries to launch Tuesday night, it will be during a 10-minute window that opens at 8:14 p.m. from KSC’s launch pad 39-A. The weather team of space launch Delta 45 predicted a 60% chance of good conditions.

Falcon Heavy, making only its ninth launch, is essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strung together to produce 5.1 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff, the most powerful rocket available for conventional missiles.

Both side boosters are making their fifth mission and will attempt recovery landings at Landing Zones 1 and 2 of the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. As they return after lift off, many people on the Space Coast get a double sonic boom for each booster. The screams of the house were heard deep into central Florida.

The rocket’s payload is a secret X-37B orbital test vehicle developed by Boeing. Resembling a miniature space shuttle, it first flew into space in 2010 and is now on its seventh mission. Each task, the vehicle has long duration tasks. Its sixth mission, which ended last November at the former shuttle landing facility at KSC, lasted nearly 909 days.

To date, the spacecraft has traveled more than 1.3 billion miles and spent more than 3,774 days in space.

Previous launches have used Atlas V or Falcon 9 rockets for liftoff, but the Falcon Heavy’s power may be a factor in the latest mission for the spacecraft, which is heading toward “new orbital regimes.”

“We are excited to expand the capabilities of the reusable X-37B using the flight-proven service module and the Falcon Heavy rocket to fly many sophisticated tests for the Air Force and its partners,” said Lt. Col. Joseph Fritsen, X-37B Program Director.

That includes NASA, which is on board for an experiment called SEEDS-2, which will expose plant seeds to intense radiation during long-duration flight. This comes in line with NASA’s efforts to prepare humans for missions to Mars and beyond.

What else the X-37B does in space and where it flies remains largely classified, but Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, chief of the Space Force’s space operations, called the tests “fundamental.”

“The X-37B continues to equip the United States with the knowledge to improve current and future space operations,” he said. “X-37B Mission 7 demonstrates the USSF’s commitment to innovation and defining the art of the possible in the space domain.”

For the record, the Space Force says the spacecraft’s test technologies for domain awareness are “integral to ensuring safe, stable, and secure operations in space for all users of the domain.”

USSF-52 marks the Falcon Heavy’s third mission for the Space Force, all in less than a year.

The rocket first flew in 2018, sending Elon Musk’s Tesla on a mission past Mars. It flew just twice more in 2019, before taking a hiatus of more than three years, but continued to launch last fall with SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy mission. That will be followed by four more missions in 2024 — another Space Force launch, two commercial satellite launches and the first for NASA last October, when it sent the Psych probe on its six-year mission to explore a metallic asteroid. .

For this fifth flight in 2023, the Space Force’s Assured Access to Space program leader, Brig. Gen. Christine Bunsenhagen is based at Patrick Space Force Base and is also in charge of Space Launch Delta 45 and the Eastern Range.

“Our team has done an amazing job preparing for this important launch, and we’re doing even more behind the scenes,” he said. “We are improving our processes to make our launch capabilities even more responsive to national security needs. We are making our space platforms more resilient to ensure that our ability to sustain capabilities in orbit is never diminished.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 set for launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 and the United Launch Alliance rolled up its new Vulcan Centaur. Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 for a wetsuit rehearsal ahead of its upcoming launch.

Although the Vulcan isn’t scheduled to launch until at least December 24, SpaceX could launch as early as Monday night.

In what will be the 69th launch of the year, the Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in a four-hour window between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. Tuesday. That mission was another Starlink flight. Along with 23 more Internet satellites from SpaceX.

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Advocates Alexei Navalny On Monday they lost contact with the jailed Russian opposition leader, who is believed to be imprisoned in a penal colony about 150 miles east of Moscow and whose whereabouts are unknown.

Navalny was sentenced 19 years in prison In August, after he was found guilty of creating an extremist community, financing terrorist activities and other offences. He was already serving a sentence 11 and a half years He pleads not guilty in a maximum security facility on fraud and other charges.

Navalny’s supporters say his arrest and imprisonment are a politically motivated attempt to stifle his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Prosecutors have made several attempts to gain access to the two penal colonies where Navalny is a victim. Serious health problems, is believed to be, spokeswoman Kira Yarmish told X on Monday. They were told the 47-year-old was not in IK-6 or IK-7 penal colonies, Yarmish added.

“Friday and throughout today, neither IK-6 nor IK-7 responded to them,” Yarmysh posted, adding that Navalny had been missing for six days. Navalny was last imprisoned in the IK-6 penal colony east of Moscow.

The White House said it was “deeply concerned” by reports of Navalny’s disappearance.

“He should be released immediately. He shouldn’t have been incarcerated in the first place, and we’re going to work with our embassy in Moscow to see how much more we can find,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters aboard Air Force One.

Navalny is scheduled to appear in court via video link on Monday, Yarmish said. Prison officials told Navalny’s team that Navalny was unable to attend the hearing due to an electrical problem at the prison.

Yarmish said he was concerned by Navalny’s recent decline in health.

“It is especially alarming that we could not find Alexey, because last week he fell ill in his cell: he was unconscious and lying on the floor. The colony staff immediately came running, lowered the bed and laid Alexey down. [him] In an IV,” she said in X.

“What it was, we don’t know, but he was without food, kept in a punishment cell with no ventilation, and his walking time was reduced to a minimum, and it seemed like a hunger pang,” Yarmush said.

Navalny’s death comes days after Putin announced it Run for President again With Russia’s elections in March 2024, he could retain power until at least 2030.

Navalny posed one of the most serious threats during Putin’s rule that lasted more than two decades. arranged Street protests against the government and used his blog and social media to expose alleged corruption in the Kremlin and Russian business.

The protester was transported from Russia to Germany in 2020, after he was poisoned Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent. Navalny had to be airlifted from the Siberian city of Omsk to a hospital in Berlin in a coma.

A Joint investigation The Russian Security Service (FSB) was implicated in Navalny’s poisoning by CNN and the Bellinggate team. The investigation found that an FSB toxic team of about six to 10 agents followed Navalny for more than three years.

Navalny later betrayed one of the spies, Konstantin Kudryavtsev Reveals how he got poisoned. As a senior official in Russia’s National Security Council, he was tasked with analyzing the poisoning operation and phoned Kudryavtsev, who provided a detailed account of how nerve agents had been used in a pair of Navalny’s underwear.

Russia denies any involvement in the posing of Nalwani. Putin said in December 2020 that if Russian security services had wanted to kill Navalny, they would have “finished” the job.

Navalny was immediately imprisoned Return to Russia In January 2021, he was charged with violating the terms of his probation related to a fraud case brought against him in 2013, which he also denied was politically motivated.

He campaigned from prison against Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and tried to mobilize public opposition to the war.

“We will campaign against the war. And against Putin. Exactly. A long, stubborn, exhausting, but fundamentally important campaign, where we will turn people against war,” Navalny said in a statement on his website.

When Navalny was sentenced in August to 19 years in a maximum-security penal colony, he said “the number of years doesn’t matter.”

“I am well aware that I am sitting on a life sentence like many other political prisoners. Life is measured by my lifetime or the lifetime of this regime,” he said in a statement.

CNN’s Nikki Carvajal contributed to this report.

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HONG KONG (AP) — Voter turnout in Hong Kong’s first election has fallen below 30% District Council Election New rules introduced under Beijing’s guidance effectively shut out all pro-democracy candidates, a record low since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

According to official data on Monday, 27.5% of the city’s 4.3 million registered voters cast their ballots. Polling on Sunday – Significantly lower than the participation record of 71.2% Past elections Held at the height of anti-government protests in 2019. The pro-democracy camp won overwhelmingly in those polls, a clear rebuke of the government’s handling of the protests.

Loyalists of Beijing are expected to take control of district councils after Sunday’s election, which saw major pro-government parties win directly elected seats.

“The newly elected district councilors come from diverse backgrounds,” said Hong Kong President John Lee. “They will make the work in the districts more multi-dimensional … working better with the interests of the citizens.”

Anna “Chickady” Cardwell, daughter of Mama June Shannon, died Saturday night at the age of 29, according to Instagram Mail Sunday by his mother.

“With heavy hearts, we announce that @annamarie35 is no longer with us. He passed away peacefully at my home last night at 11.12 pm. He put up a hell of a fight for 10 months and he passed away with his family,” Shannon wrote in the post alongside a photo of the family. He thanked the fans for their continued support and love.

The announcement comes after Mama June posted on Friday that “things out of our control have changed over the last few weeks” asking for continued prayers for the family. He added that Caldwell is still with family but “God has all hope and all cards.”

Cardwell rose to fame after starring with his family in TLC reality TV shows Toddlers & Tiaras And Here comes Honey Boo Boo.

In a separate Instagram post, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson paid tribute to her older sister, describing their final moments.

“This is a post I wish I didn’t have to,” the 18-year-old wrote, along with a broken heart emoji.

“Last night we all hugged Anna and let her know it was okay to go. Anna sadly breathed her last around 11pm. Anna was in so much pain last night but we all know she is now at peace as a family.

“I don’t know what to say because my heart is completely broken. It wasn’t easy watching my 29-year-old sister battle this horrible disease last year. Anna was a fighter and still is,” he added.

In January, Caldwell was diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma after suffering stomach pains. Doctors soon discovered cancer in his liver, kidneys and lungs.

In May, Shannon opened up about struggling with social media and her daughter’s diagnosis, says People, “I didn’t go live [on TikTok] A lot by Anna. I am already emotional about this. Shannon also moved from Alabama to Georgia for Caldwell during treatment.

Cardwell began dating Tony Elridge in 2019 and posted a Photograph She caught up with him in May with an update on her third round of chemo. Cardwell leaves two DaughtersKaitlyn Elizabeth and Kylie Madison, born in 2012 and 2015.

‘Poor Things’ scores top special debut of fall with $644,000

Animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki’s epic coming-of-age story “The Boy and the Heron” earned $12.8 million in its opening weekend, becoming the first original anime production to top the domestic box office. The GKids release is being screened in IMAX and other premium large format auditoriums, which boosted its record grossing and helped it reach the number one spot. It benefited from a lack of big-screen offerings, with holiday blockbusters like “Wonka” and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” still awaiting debuts in the coming weeks.

“The Boy and the Heron” marks an unexpected screen return for Miyazaki, who has been absent from the screen for more than a decade — the filmmaker behind such classics as “Spirited Away” and “Princess Mononoke” announced his retirement in 2013 following his previous film, “The Wind.” Arises” was published. “The Boy and the Heron” has been taking off slowly internationally, earning $84 million, $56 million of which came from Miyazaki’s home country of Japan.

Last weekend’s “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé” slipped in its second weekend, earning $5 million for a fifth-place finish. That’s a quick 77% drop, indicating the music icon’s concert film lacked the staying power of “Taylor Swift: The Era’s Tour,” which grossed nearly $180 million. “Revival” has earned about $28 million domestically. Like Swift, Queen Bey eschewed a traditional studio to release her film and enlisted AMC Theaters to oversee its distribution. This allows them to keep a larger share of ticket sales.

As “Revival” faltered, Lionsgate’s “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” took second place, taking in $9.4 million to lift its domestic cume to $135.6 million. That’s a solid number, especially since the “Hunger Games” prequel had a production budget of $100 million, a modest figure for a film of that size and scope.

Toho International’s “Godzilla Minus One” climbed to $8.3 million in its second weekend. Monster has grossed $25.3 million domestically, making it the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film released in North America.

Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “Trolls Band Together” will take fourth place, earning $6.2 million. This has taken the family film’s total to $83.1 million. One of the weekend’s other new offerings, Bleecker Street’s “Waitress: The Musical,” earned $3.2 million.

In limited release, Searchlight’s “Poor Things” earned $644,000 from nine theaters. It averaged $72,000 per theater during the fall awards season — just behind the theatrical bows of spring releases “Beau Is Afraid” ($80,000) and “Asteroid City” ($142,000). And summer. “The Favorite” stars Emma Stone in the off-beat comedy from director Yorgos Lanthimos and has been generating plenty of Oscar buzz since its debut at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Golden Lion.

“Origin,” another critical favorite, opened in limited release with $117,063 from two theaters. That’s an average of $58,532 per screen. The neon issue was written and directed by Ava DuVernay and Isabelle Wilkerson’s “Race: The Origins of Our Discontents,” a historical study of hatred and racism.

Next weekend sees the release of “Wonka,” a look at the early days of the chocolate maker starring Timothée Chalamet. That should sweeten the box office, but theater owners and analysts believe this holiday season will outpace the past two years, when the mega-grossing “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” debuted. .

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Liz Magill, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned Saturday — days after her congressional testimony on anti-Semitism drew a fierce backlash from students, faculty and donors.

Scott Bogue, chairman of the university’s board of trustees, announced the decision In a letter to the school community. Bock also submitted his resignation.

“It is my privilege to serve as president of this remarkable institution. It is an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni and community members to advance Penn’s mission,” Magill said in a statement. Letter of departure.

Bogue submitted his own resignation letter, writing: “As I have been asked to remain in office for the remainder of my term to assist in the presidential transition, for me, the time is right for me to step down.”

Bock added that he stood with Mahil, describing him as a “good man” and “not the least bit anti-Semitic.”

“Overprepared, with a hostile forum and a high-stakes attorney, he gave a legal answer to a moral question that was wrong. A terrible 30-second sound bite into five hours of testimony.” Bock wrote.

He added that it was time for him and Mahil to step down “at the same time”.

According to Bock, Mahil will serve as interim president until a new person is appointed. He will also be a faculty member at McGill Penn Carey Law School. Bock said the university will share details about the interim leadership “in the coming days.”

Mahil’s resignation comes less than a year and a half into her tenure Appointed as president.

On Tuesday, the leaders of McGill and Harvard and MIT testified before Congress about how they protect students from anti-Semitism on their campuses. Criticism soon arose about how university leaders responded to a question about whether “calling for the genocide of the Jews” violated the university’s code of conduct.

After Magill’s comments, six members of Congress from Pennsylvania sent a letter to the school’s board of trustees asking for Magill’s resignation. Rose Stevens, a hedge fund manager, threatened to receive a $100 million donation from the University of Pennsylvania.

In a statement, the chairman of the House Education Committee, which led the inquiry, Rep. Virginia Fox, RN.C., said she approved Mahil’s resignation.

“When asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Eupen’s code of conduct during our investigation into anti-Semitism, President McGill had three chances. Instead of pledging yes to the question, he chose to compromise,” Fox said. Saturday.

Concerns about Mahil’s leadership had been growing for months — even before war broke out between Israel and Hamas. In September, there was Mag Criticized For an event on campus, they invited speakers with a history of anti-Semitic ideas and behavior. The event, which focuses on celebrating Palestinian culture, was scheduled to end just before the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

NPR’s Sequoia Carrillo contributed reporting.