Frese pleased after No. 8 Maryland stays unbeaten in 'phenomenal game' against No. 19 Michigan StateThe Dallas Cowboys ended five weeks of frustration with a 34-26 win at Washington in a Sunday decision overflowing with both hilarious and historic moments. And one guy who obviously feels he's earned an at-least temporary last laugh? Micah Parsons, who not once but twice last week in the buildup for this game proclaiming that his Cowboys are a "damn good football team.'' Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Thanks for the feedback.
(Bloomberg) -- US stocks ended a shortened trading session higher while Treasury yields declined across the curve. Speculation that President-elect Donald Trump will temper his most extreme trade policies drove the dollar down. The S&P 500 climbed more than 1% for a second straight week. On Friday, it rose 0.6%, notching fresh record highs. The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 4.17%. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index extended a weekly decline to more than 1%, snapping eight weeks of gains. Trump’s pick for his Treasury secretary has fueled optimism that tariffs will be measured, boosting US stocks and bonds, and sapping dollar strength. The S&P 500 rose 5.7% in November, its best month this year, as investors plowed $141 billion into US equities, the heaviest inflows for a four-week period on record, according to EPFR Global data. A handful of tech titans have led 26% year-to-date gains in US stocks on the prospect of Federal Reserve rate cuts while the American economy continues to grow. “We were talking day in and day out about trade tensions in 2019. What happened? The Nasdaq was on a tear. What mattered was the Fed was making a U-turn, real rates went down, and that drove equities,” Max Kettner, multi-asset chief strategist at HSBC Holdings Plc, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. “That’s very similar to now — this is still a cutting cycle. It’s a fantastic set-up.” Read more: The Vintage Year for US Stock Markets That Few People Expected There is now an “extreme disconnect” between investor bullishness on US assets and bearishness on the rest of the world, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists, who made a contrarian bet on European stocks as the continent’s main equity index heads for its worst year of underperformance relative to the US since 1976. Scope for fiscal spending appears to be improving in Europe, while any potential ceasefire in Ukraine could ease pressure from high energy prices, according to the strategists. Read more: BofA Strategists Make Contrarian Bet on Shunned European Stocks Euro-area inflation climbed above the European Central Bank’s 2% target, but by a margin that was seen as too small to derail the path of policymakers to lower rates. Traders on Friday raised their ECB rate-cut bets, seeing a 20% chance of a half-percentage point reduction in December. Elsewhere, the yen advanced more than 3% against the dollar this week, as bets grow that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates next month. In Canada, the economy posted a modest gain last month after a weaker-than-expected third quarter, putting the central bank on track to keep cutting rates. Some of the main moves in markets: Stocks The S&P 500 rose 0.6% as of 4:07 p.m. New York time The Nasdaq 100 rose 0.9% The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% The MSCI World Index rose 0.6% Currencies The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.4% The euro rose 0.3% to $1.0581 The British pound rose 0.4% to $1.2744 The Japanese yen rose 1.3% to 149.64 per dollar Cryptocurrencies Bitcoin rose 2.4% to $97,423.65 Ether rose 0.5% to $3,590.25 Bonds The yield on 10-year Treasuries declined nine basis points to 4.17% Germany’s 10-year yield declined four basis points to 2.09% Britain’s 10-year yield declined three basis points to 4.24% Commodities West Texas Intermediate crude fell 1% to $68 a barrel Spot gold rose 0.6% to $2,653.89 an ounce This story was produced with the assistance of Bloomberg Automation. © 2024 Bloomberg L.P.Slayings on rise in rural Manitoba
Seahawks safety Coby Bryant had one of the biggest plays of Sunday's game vs. the Cardinals. Bryant picked off a Kyler Murray pass and returned it 69 yards for a touchdown at the 7:12 mark of the third quarter. Bryant punctuated the play with a celebration that Marshawn Lynch made famous during the Seahawks' Legion of Boom days, grabbing, uh, beneath the line of scrimmage as he dived into the end zone. Bryant could be hearing from the NFL this week and it could cost him. Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams was fined $19,697 for doing the same celebration last week against the Jaguars. Lynch originally did it on his "Beast Quake" TD in 2011 and a second time against the Cardinals during the 2014 season. That second grab cost him $11,050. Lynch was fined twice while with the Seahawks for the gesture. He was also fined $20,000 for doing it in the NFC championship game in 2015. Before the Super Bowl that year, the NFL warned the Seahawks another grab would mean a 15-yard penalty. Aaron Jones, then with the Packers, was penalized $11,050 for doing it at the end of a 79-yard run against the Cardinals in 2022.
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There has been a surge in WhatsApp account hacks in Sri Lanka during the past couple of months, with scammers using verification code manipulation to gain access to accounts and defraud contacts. This alarming trend has led to numerous occasions of financial fraud and identity theft and journalists have become the latest victims of this cybercrime. The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) has warned the public of financial fraud being carried out targeting social media platform, WhatsApp. As the latest development of this alarming trend, WhatsApp accounts of nearly 10 Sri Lankan journalists were compromised during the past few days, particularly of those who work in the English media using sophisticated methods to gain unauthorised access to their user accounts. In all recent incidents, the users have reported receiving unexpected WhatsApp verification codes and scammers contacting users, posing as friends or acquaintances, to request the code, which, once shared, grants hackers control over the account. This enables them to read and send messages, access contacts, and even make calls. According to forensic cybercrime experts, hackers use a two-step approach: “First, they compromise the user’s WhatsApp account through the verification code, and then target the user’s contacts with requests for financial assistance. Victims have reported sending money – Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 100,000, believing they were aiding a friend in a dire need.” Be cautious always Cybercrime experts ask users to “always be cautious” when a WhatsApp message requests a verification code. They said any OTP or a code received should never be shared. Victims are advised to alert their contacts via social media if their accounts are hacked, helping prevent further scams. With the increasing prevalence of this scam, the SLCERT and relevant authorities are encouraging users to enable two-step verification on their accounts and to remain vigilant when receiving any messages involving verification codes. When such an untoward incident of compromising a WhatsApp account occurs, the WhatsApp account user has to face a great deal of inconvenience expending much time to retrieve the account. When a user is subjected to such WhatsApp account hack, the only option available for him is to lodge a complaint with the Computer Crime Investigation Division (CCID) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) or complain to the SLCERT seeking technical advice on how to overcome such issues and regain the control of the WhatsApp account. Several journalists who became victims of hacking their WhatsApp accounts over the past couple of weeks said that the Police response to their complaints was often lethargic and that there should be a mechanism in place to immediately trace the culprits who resort to such cybercrimes. Otherwise, the hackers do the maximum possible damage to the victims and continue their financial scams after they take control over a WhatsApp account. Those who are not familiar with such financial scams might transfer money to those bank accounts. The police can conduct investigations to ascertain those bank account details shared by the hackers. According to the accepted procedure, the banks and finance companies cannot disclose the details of their account holders to a third party. Even if the police want to investigate such accounts, they will have to get a court order. Pretext of financial distress A senior journalist of a leading weekend English newspaper, who became a victim to a scam a couple of days ago, said that he had received a WhatsApp call from a known contact, asking him to join a zoom meeting mentioning a code number. When the journalist had declined to join the zoom meeting, the hacker had asked him to repeat the code number displaced in his WhatsApp call, following which the journalist’s WhatsApp account was immediately hacked. Once the WhatsApp account is compromised, scammers use it to send messages to the user’s contacts, requesting money under the pretext of financial distress. Some of those contacts, who are not familiar with such cybercrime frauds, immediately call or respond to such fake WhatsApp messages hoping that it’s a genuine case. A former News Editor of a leading weekly English newspaper who had also faced a similar issue a recently told the Sunday Observer that he had lodged a complaint with the CCID, but he hasn’t received any feedback so far. The senior journalist said the hackers had also shared WhatsApp messages among some of his schoolmates in foreign countries too. “Then as advised by my friends, I immediately changed my mobile number for a brief period. Several other journalists who also became victims had also followed the same guidelines, and said they are also waiting for feedback from the CCID. When looking at the real-life examples of WhatsApp hacks in Sri Lanka, a retired officer had fallen victim to a similar scam, where the hackers had used his account to defraud his friends and family. A Colombo based businessman had also lost significant sums of money after his account was compromised, with scammers sending messages to his contacts requesting financial assistance. A money swindling scheme had also taken place recently after SJB Colombo District Parliamentarian Mujibur Rahuman posted on Facebook to warn his contacts against the hackers impersonating him on WhatsApp. Hackers who accessed the MP’s WhatsApp account had sent messages to his contacts requesting money. After that, many people had responded to the messages with fund transfers to the account details mentioned. Police Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa said when a complaint is made on the hacking of Facebook or WhatsApp, the CCID will take action regarding that. However, he said there is no significant increase in cybercrimes in Sri Lanka over the past couple weeks. The incidents pertaining to hacking Facebook and WhatsApp are not a recent development that took place in Sri Lanka. These incidents had taken place for a long time and we have also educated the social media users about these hackings and other cybercrime related incidents. Recent developments When social media develops, hacking and other scams using social media and the internet is also developed. Therefore, the hacking of WhatsApp and Facebook is reported not only in Sri Lanka but also worldwide. However, most of those who use social media have an understanding of how these recent developments take place. CCID Deputy Director SSP Darshika Ranasinghe said anybody who became a victim of such cybercrimes can either present a written complaint or send an email to the CCID. The CCID will take action regarding complaints made on any such hacking incidents. SLCERT Senior Information Security Engineer Charuka Damunupola told the Sunday Observer that during the past three months, they had received nearly 74 complaints on hacking of WhatsApp accounts. In most of these cases the user should try to re-register his number with WhatsApp. However, if the user is getting an error message saying that you should try in eight or 24 hours because of the scam mechanism placed in WhatsApp, the user should uninstall the WhatsApp app and try to install it again using the same procedure. That is one option that they could try in such a case. We have had a few cases where users got their access back by reinstalling the app. There is another option similar to some sort of hacking using a WhatsApp business account. The user can download the WhatsApp business account and try to register the number into a WhatsApp business account and then he will get a SMS and enter it and register it to the WhatsApp business account and then the ordinary WhatsApp account will lose its access. Normally, those are the two simple things the user can do if their WhatsApp accounts got compromised. He said during the past few weeks, they witnessed a surge in this particular WhatsApp account hack. The most important thing is if someone’s WhatsApp account is hacked, that account holder’s contacts can also get these messages and the hackers will go through their contacts and see what groups they are in by creating communities. That is why it’s like going in circles among journalists, politicians and Government officials. The hacker will only need to compromise one account. If you take one mobile phone, you will have hundreds of contacts. There is a possibility that anyone can be fooled through such scams and they will disclose their verification code or they will send money without thinking twice. This scam is widely spreading within these few weeks. WhatsApp accounts of several journalists from both print and electronic media had been compromised during the past couple of days. Some fake WhatsApp calls are circulated by the hackers on the pretext that they are from a Government office asking the users to join a Zoom meeting. Most of the journalists could think that it is an important discussion and click the link to join it. A few people had complained to SLCERT that they had noticed that on certain occasions the call originated from their own contact. Damunupola said sometimes, it can come from an unknown number and it can be an overseas number as well. The hackers may give missed calls or they will call and ask you to enter some numbers. We haven’t seen those cases very much. Normally, what happens in that scenario is they will forward your call to their numbers. Through that they will re-register the number by a WhatsApp phone call verification and anyway it will verify on their phone because all the calls are going to that number. They scam a huge number of people and they don’t send these WhatsApp messages singly. They just want at least one person to click the message and fooled and that is enough for them. They send WhatsApp messages on a smart scale. At the initial stage, it was mainly targeted at the Muslim community as they do some online prayers. Then hackers sent them fake WhatsApp messages or calls asking them to join a religious or prayer discussion. If you look at the messages, the greetings mainly say As-Salaam-Alaikum and also added some Muslim words in the text. After that they delete that message, and now they are sending the message in flawless English. He said either way, the WhatsApp call comes from an unknown number or your own contact, and it is impossible to trace the WhatsApp anyway. The only possible evidence is that the Police can investigate the accounts that the hackers ask to deposit money. They send some account holders name and account number to deposit that money. The bank and finance companies have the details of these account holders. But they don’t disclose it to a third party. Even if we make a request, they will ask for a court order and that is the normal procedure for any bank. Floating accounts We have also identified several such bank account details belong to two or three banks sent by the hackers to the WhatsApp users. However, the Police have to get a court order to investigate these accounts but most of these accounts are actually floating accounts. This is the untold story of these accounts because the scammers don’t directly go to a bank to prove their identity so that they have these floating accounts or hijacked accounts to do such scams. He said these account holders have no idea what is happening to their accounts. Sometimes, most of these floating accounts belong to the people who had passed away. If the police try to find the account holder, there is no such person or that he had passed away. However, there are a few ways to withdraw the money deposited in those floating accounts. Even though the Police have the name of the account holder, they can’t do much as there is no such person. The only thing that the Police can do is to default the account. At a certain point, scammers have to get that money into their hands. They use a proxy such as a drug addict or beggar to withdraw the money from a nearby ATM machine and just give them some money for it. Therefore, the scammer won’t be in the picture when the withdrawal takes place. These are some of the techniques used by the scammers. However, some of these accounts can be the real person’s accounts. At times, these scammers recruit university students saying that they have to do an online job. They tell the students that they will get money into their accounts and then they will have to buy online gift cards and send them to an email address. This is the untraceable part of this scam and the person who has got involved in it has no idea whatsoever about as he thinks that he is doing an online job. He is in fact, also a part of a crime. The scammers have set up well organised scams all over the world and they haven’t even visited Sri Lanka. Through fake passports and identity documents anyone can get SIM cards and that is the dangerous part of this scamming. Mechanism to trace the account According to Damunupola, the only possible way to contact WhatsApp is only through it. If someone has already hacked your WhatsApp account, there is no way to communicate with the support team. They don’t have a direct support email or support team here. Obviously, they see these kinds of things happening within a short period of time. At least, they need to take precautions. If someone’s account is accessed by a different IP, there should be a mechanism to trace it. He said when looking at hacking of social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook and emails, it has mainly affected Facebook as the majority are facebook users. Because of that most of the cases we receive are Facebook hackings and there are several incidents of Instagram hackings as well. During this year, we received nearly 7,000 complaints relating to social media related scams but all these are not relevant to hackings of WhatsApp or Facebook. This includes hacking, creating fake accounts, unauthorised use of photographs and videos by someone else. Those cases are now mainly handled by the CCID because they have a Meta connection mainly for Facebook.
AP Business SummaryBrief at 6:08 p.m. ESTATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said. A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed hostage rescue in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter acknowledged in his 2020 “White House Diary” that he could be “micromanaging” and “excessively autocratic,” complicating dealings with Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He also turned a cold shoulder to Washington’s news media and lobbyists, not fully appreciating their influence on his political fortunes. “It didn’t take us long to realize that the underestimation existed, but by that time we were not able to repair the mistake,” Carter told historians in 1982, suggesting that he had “an inherent incompatibility” with Washington insiders. Carter insisted his overall approach was sound and that he achieved his primary objectives — to “protect our nation’s security and interests peacefully” and “enhance human rights here and abroad” — even if he fell spectacularly short of a second term. Ignominious defeat, though, allowed for renewal. The Carters founded The Carter Center in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind base of operations, asserting themselves as international peacemakers and champions of democracy, public health and human rights. “I was not interested in just building a museum or storing my White House records and memorabilia,” Carter wrote in a memoir published after his 90th birthday. “I wanted a place where we could work.” That work included easing nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiating cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, The Carter Center had declared at least 113 elections in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be free or fraudulent. Recently, the center began monitoring U.S. elections as well. Carter’s stubborn self-assuredness and even self-righteousness proved effective once he was unencumbered by the Washington order, sometimes to the point of frustrating his successors . He went “where others are not treading,” he said, to places like Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had wandered across the border in 2010. “I can say what I like. I can meet whom I want. I can take on projects that please me and reject the ones that don’t,” Carter said. He announced an arms-reduction-for-aid deal with North Korea without clearing the details with Bill Clinton’s White House. He openly criticized President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also criticized America’s approach to Israel with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And he repeatedly countered U.S. administrations by insisting North Korea should be included in international affairs, a position that most aligned Carter with Republican President Donald Trump. Among the center’s many public health initiatives, Carter vowed to eradicate the guinea worm parasite during his lifetime, and nearly achieved it: Cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to nearly a handful. With hardhats and hammers, the Carters also built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Nobel committee’s 2002 Peace Prize cites his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter should have won it alongside Sadat and Begin in 1978, the chairman added. Carter accepted the recognition saying there was more work to be done. “The world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place,” he said. “The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.” Carter’s globetrotting took him to remote villages where he met little “Jimmy Carters,” so named by admiring parents. But he spent most of his days in the same one-story Plains house — expanded and guarded by Secret Service agents — where they lived before he became governor. He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the small sanctuary where Carter will receive his final send-off after a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral. The common assessment that he was a better ex-president than president rankled Carter and his allies. His prolific post-presidency gave him a brand above politics, particularly for Americans too young to witness him in office. But Carter also lived long enough to see biographers and historians reassess his White House years more generously. His record includes the deregulation of key industries, reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign oil, cautious management of the national debt and notable legislation on the environment, education and mental health. He focused on human rights in foreign policy, pressuring dictators to release thousands of political prisoners . He acknowledged America’s historical imperialism, pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders and relinquished control of the Panama Canal. He normalized relations with China. “I am not nominating Jimmy Carter for a place on Mount Rushmore,” Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy director, wrote in a 2018 book. “He was not a great president” but also not the “hapless and weak” caricature voters rejected in 1980, Eizenstat said. Rather, Carter was “good and productive” and “delivered results, many of which were realized only after he left office.” Madeleine Albright, a national security staffer for Carter and Clinton’s secretary of state, wrote in Eizenstat’s forward that Carter was “consequential and successful” and expressed hope that “perceptions will continue to evolve” about his presidency. “Our country was lucky to have him as our leader,” said Albright, who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter should be remembered for “an epic American life” spanning from a humble start in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing through decades on the world stage across two centuries. “He will likely go down as one of the most misunderstood and underestimated figures in American history,” Alter told The Associated Press. James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains and spent his early years in nearby Archery. His family was a minority in the mostly Black community, decades before the civil rights movement played out at the dawn of Carter’s political career. Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery’s tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery. His mother, Lillian , would become a staple of his political campaigns. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — Carter won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains. His decision angered Rosalynn, even as she dived into the peanut business alongside her husband. Carter again failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions — but this time, she was on board. “My wife is much more political,” Carter told the AP in 2021. He won a state Senate seat in 1962 but wasn’t long for the General Assembly and its back-slapping, deal-cutting ways. He ran for governor in 1966 — losing to arch-segregationist Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. Carter had spoken out against church segregation as a Baptist deacon and opposed racist “Dixiecrats” as a state senator. Yet as a local school board leader in the 1950s he had not pushed to end school segregation even after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration. And in 1970, Carter ran for governor again as the more conservative Democrat against Carl Sanders, a wealthy businessman Carter mocked as “Cufflinks Carl.” Sanders never forgave him for anonymous, race-baiting flyers, which Carter disavowed. Ultimately, Carter won his races by attracting both Black voters and culturally conservative whites. Once in office, he was more direct. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he declared in his 1971 inaugural address, setting a new standard for Southern governors that landed him on the cover of Time magazine. His statehouse initiatives included environmental protection, boosting rural education and overhauling antiquated executive branch structures. He proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the slain civil rights leader’s home state. And he decided, as he received presidential candidates in 1972, that they were no more talented than he was. In 1974, he ran Democrats’ national campaign arm. Then he declared his own candidacy for 1976. An Atlanta newspaper responded with the headline: “Jimmy Who?” The Carters and a “Peanut Brigade” of family members and Georgia supporters camped out in Iowa and New Hampshire, establishing both states as presidential proving grounds. His first Senate endorsement: a young first-termer from Delaware named Joe Biden. Yet it was Carter’s ability to navigate America’s complex racial and rural politics that cemented the nomination. He swept the Deep South that November, the last Democrat to do so, as many white Southerners shifted to Republicans in response to civil rights initiatives. A self-declared “born-again Christian,” Carter drew snickers by referring to Scripture in a Playboy magazine interview, saying he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” The remarks gave Ford a new foothold and television comedians pounced — including NBC’s new “Saturday Night Live” show. But voters weary of cynicism in politics found it endearing. Carter chose Minnesota Sen. Walter “Fritz” Mondale as his running mate on a “Grits and Fritz” ticket. In office, he elevated the vice presidency and the first lady’s office. Mondale’s governing partnership was a model for influential successors Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Biden. Rosalynn Carter was one of the most involved presidential spouses in history, welcomed into Cabinet meetings and huddles with lawmakers and top aides. The Carters presided with uncommon informality: He used his nickname “Jimmy” even when taking the oath of office, carried his own luggage and tried to silence the Marine Band’s “Hail to the Chief.” They bought their clothes off the rack. Carter wore a cardigan for a White House address, urging Americans to conserve energy by turning down their thermostats. Amy, the youngest of four children, attended District of Columbia public school. Washington’s social and media elite scorned their style. But the larger concern was that “he hated politics,” according to Eizenstat, leaving him nowhere to turn politically once economic turmoil and foreign policy challenges took their toll. Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He designated millions of acres of Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and nonwhite people to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter left office. He built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. But he couldn’t immediately tame inflation or the related energy crisis. And then came Iran. After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the hostages broke down repeatedly ahead of the failed rescue attempt. The same year, Carter signed SALT II, the new strategic arms treaty with Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, only to pull it back, impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise” speech, although he didn’t use that word. He declared the nation was suffering “a crisis of confidence.” By then, many Americans had lost confidence in the president, not themselves. Carter campaigned sparingly for reelection because of the hostage crisis, instead sending Rosalynn as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Carter famously said he’d “kick his ass,” but was hobbled by Kennedy as Reagan rallied a broad coalition with “make America great again” appeals and asking voters whether they were “better off than you were four years ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, eviscerating him in their lone fall debate with the quip: “There you go again.” Carter lost all but six states and Republicans rolled to a new Senate majority. Carter successfully negotiated the hostages’ freedom after the election, but in one final, bitter turn of events, Tehran waited until hours after Carter left office to let them walk free. At 56, Carter returned to Georgia with “no idea what I would do with the rest of my life.” Four decades after launching The Carter Center, he still talked of unfinished business. “I thought when we got into politics we would have resolved everything,” Carter told the AP in 2021. “But it’s turned out to be much more long-lasting and insidious than I had thought it was. I think in general, the world itself is much more divided than in previous years.” Still, he affirmed what he said when he underwent treatment for a cancer diagnosis in his 10th decade of life. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said in 2015 . “I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” Former Associated Press journalist Alex Sanz contributed to this report.QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) Shares Down 2.9% Following Insider Selling
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