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Month: December 2025

Sports Betting Line

By The Associated Press NFL Saturday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at TAMPA BAY 3 3 (43½) Carolina Seattle 4½ 1½ (47½) at SAN FRANCISCO Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at MINNESOTA 1½ 7½ (35½) Green Bay at CINCINNATI 8½ 7½ (44½) Cleveland at HOUSTON 4½ 10½ (39) Indianapolis at JACKSONVILLE 4½ 13½ (47½)

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At least 7 reported killed during widening protests in Iran sparked by ailing economy

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran’s ailing economy spread Thursday into the Islamic Republic’s rural provinces, with at least seven people being killed in the first fatalities reported among security forces and protesters, authorities said. The deaths may mark the start of a heavier-handed response

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Wednesday’s Scores

The Associated Press GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL= Auburn 47, Sabetha, Kan. 38 Johnson-Brock 55, Nemaha Central, Kan. 35 West Central, S.D. 62, Pender 57 Axtell Tournament= Consolation= Axtell 42, CWC 21 Championship= Dundy County Stratton 68, Grand Island Lutheran 40 Boone Central Tournament= Championship= Boone Central 53, Broken Bow 50 Chadron Tournament= Fifth Place= Gering 58,

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Nathan Bedford Forrest: The Wizard in the Saddle

If you love history, consider sponsoring an individual theme or story, it’s not much. Contact Bob at robertmford@aol with your ideas.In the evolution of military tactics, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a fierce innovator.Before World War I, future Supreme Allied Commander Frenchman Ferdinand Foch taught what Forrest perfected during America’s Civil War at the French War

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French government defends granting citizenship to George and Amal Clooney

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney were granted French citizenship because “they contribute, through their distinguished actions, to France’s international influence and cultural outreach,” the French government said Wednesday, defending their naturalization that was questioned by a junior French minister. The naturalizations of the Kentucky-born

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Chief Justice says Constitution remains ‘firm and unshaken’ with major Supreme Court rulings ahead

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the Constitution remains a sturdy pillar for the country, a message that comes after a tumultuous year in the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court decisions on the horizon. Roberts said the nation’s founding documents remain “firm and unshaken,”

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Chief Justice John Roberts on May 12.

Chief Justice John Roberts pushes for judicial independence in history-heavy report

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution in an annual report Wednesday that steered clear of direct discussion of modern controversies. Focusing on the Declaration of Independence as

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