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Ruud van Nistelrooy treated himself to a beer after enjoying a perfect start to his reign as Leicester manager. Van Nistelrooy’s first game in charge ended with a 3-1 win over West Ham, thanks to goals from Jamie Vardy, Bilal El Khannouss and Patson Daka. The Dutchman, who was out of work for just two weeks following his four-game spell as Manchester United interim boss, only started on Sunday so was happy to end a hectic three days in style. “It has been very busy getting to know everyone, start working together,” he said. “Everybody was involved with that and helping, it was busy, long days, but worth it. I was focused on the game and what the game needed, the subs, the half-time talk, so focused on the moment, so I am going to get myself a little beer and reflect on the last three days.” He endured a dream start as Vardy scored after just 98 seconds with El Khannouss and Daka adding second-half goals. It was by no means one-way traffic, though, as West Ham – who scored a consolation through Niclas Fullkrug at the death – had 30 shots on goal. But Van Nistelrooy saw enough to think he can deliver on his objective of keeping the Foxes in the Premier League. “I am very happy, if you look at the result – and it is about the result – it was a great night, three points, three good goals and also very effective. Ruud at the wheel 🛞 pic.twitter.com/eVgIwWAcYw — Leicester City (@LCFC) December 3, 2024 “Overall the game of course we have seen and how dominant West Ham were at certain stages and what they created, that is a fact and something we have to look at. “Overall, what I expected of the players going forward was togetherness and hunger, energy and spirit in this team that is fighting for every inch. “Eleven players on the pitch who are fighting as a foundation to play the rest of the Premier League. I saw that completely with every single player that started and came on. “That’s the foundation we have to build on, without that it will be impossible to get where we want to go. I am very happy about that.” West Ham’s hierarchy will have seen what impact a managerial change can have as the jury remains out on Julen Lopetegui, with away fans making their feelings clear by chanting “You’re getting sacked in the morning”. Lopetegui expects to keep his job but forthcoming games against his former club Wolves, Bournemouth, Brighton and Southampton could determine the Spaniard’s future. “The only thing that I am worried about is to go to training session tomorrow and stand up the players and prepare the next challenge,” he said. “We have one month of December with a lot of matches and I am sure with this attitude we are going to achieve many more points. “I believe in the players. 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The sources said that Hegseth’s political aspirations were already apparent, as were his far-right convictions. “We would argue about women’s reproductive rights,” one person told Vanity Fair . “He had some regressive views on birth control. His position was basically, if you got pregnant it was your fault.” While the couple remained together despite frequently being geographically apart, Hegseth already displayed behavior that troubled the two’s friends. Two sources told Vanity Fair that, on one occasion, Hegseth went out for a night of drinking with his college friends, but didn’t return, prompting Schwarz to call hospitals. He returned in the morning and castigated his wife for fretting about his absence. A representative for Hegseth did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment on Vanity Fair ’s report. When sent a “detailed list of questions” from Vanity Fair, Hegseth’s lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, did not respond “and instead provided a statement that impugned my record as a reporter,” author Gabriel Sherman wrote. In spring 2008, Hegseth reportedly told Schwarz that he wanted to move back to Minnesota with her, where he would pursue a graduate degree at the University of Minnesota. Eager to be reunited with her husband, Schwarz quit her finance job, sold her apartment, and moved to Minneapolis. But Hegseth didn’t come. He waffled on his plans, sources said, offering different stories to Schwarz about what was going on. Meanwhile, she suffered. “In her journal she was begging God to help her figure out what was happening,” a friend of Schwarz’s told Vanity Fair . In November of that year, Hegseth took a trip to Minnesota (wearing his army uniform) and finally admitted his infidelity to Schwarz. She was crushed, the sources said, and Hegseth himself seemed racked by guilt. Schwarz’s younger brother called Hegseth the next day for an hours-long conversation, a source familiar with the situation told Vanity Fair . “Pete said he no longer believed in God and family values,” the source said. “He claimed he no longer wanted to seek the limelight. He said, and this quote is as clear as day, ‘I’m a f--ked up individual.’” Although Schwarz still tried to make the marriage work—she loved him—it didn’t last long. She noticed charges for hotel rooms on her credit card that she didn’t recognize. Confronted about it, Hegseth couldn’t give a straight answer, sources said, but Schwarz would later learn that the room was for him and Samantha Deering, a woman who also worked at Vets for Freedom whom Hegseth would later marry. Hegseth reportedly admitted to Schwarz that he had had five affairs while the two were married, which was when she decided to end their communication and divorce him. 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Trane Technologies PLC stock rises Friday, outperforms marketHennessy Funds uses a four-step process for fundamental quantitative investing. The strategy focuses on mid-cap stocks with specific financial metrics and momentum. The fund outperforms benchmarks with a 12.39% annualized return over 21 years. It's a hard-knock life trying to chase the stock market while balancing the business cycle, inflation , interest rate cuts , and a political environment expected to shift drastically next year. Investors who weren't spooked by rich mega-cap tech stocks over the past two years did well. Those who threw in the towel might be licking their wounds as growth stocks continue to outperform value dramatically. But all that matters less to the team at Hennessy Funds, a firm that follows high-conviction investment strategies, rain or shine. While they monitor the macroeconomic environment, they don't sweat the details because they use a simple approach to filter the noise and stick to the fundamentals. The strategy, referred to as fundamental quantitative investing , isn't the kind done with a computer that rapidly turns over trades. Instead, it builds a simple filter based on backtested factors dating decades to determine the key variables that have worked over time. For the Hennessy Cornerstone Mid Cap 30 Fund, that filter has been boiled down to a four-step process used for 21 years. It has worked well; the fund has an average annualized total return of 12.39% compared to the S&P 500 at 10.59% and its benchmark, the Russell Midcap Index, at 10.50%. The method was developed in the 1990s, and Kelley prefers to call it a formula-based approach to avoid mixing it up with modern-day quantitative trading. It takes the emotion and guesswork out of investing. "We absolutely just let the numbers dictate what we own, and it takes some discipline and it takes some trust in the process," Kelley said. "But we've had some very good success over 21 years." Related stories The 4-step process Market capitalization between $1 and $10 billion : This starting point simply keeps the focus on small to mid-cap names. A price-to-sales ratio below $1.50 is a lesser-used multiple than, say, price-to-earnings. Still, it skips the accounting noise that could muddy insight into a business's health because it purely focuses on revenue, which better reflects the core business operation. "There's not much manipulation you can do to sales," Kelley said. "Like, as a person, you make a salary, and that's very easy to figure out. Well, everything else that happens, if you have investments, if you have capital gains, if you have taxed different things, your bottom line will be much different for me versus you. So the same with a company's income statement, there are a lot of assumptions that can happen." The dollar value threshold means the fund doesn't want to pay more than $1.50 for every $1 the business makes in revenue. Once stocks have met the above variables, they are filtered by those with annual earnings higher than the previous year to make sure the company is still growing its bottom line. The last step is catching upward momentum by filtering for the stocks that have had positive stock price appreciation over the past three and six months . Often, a stock will hit the bottom and start going up, but there's no way to discern where the absolute bottom will be. "One of the pitfalls of investing could be essentially catching a falling knife," Kelley said. "And the idea is, 'Oh, this stock looks so cheap, it hasn't been this cheap in 10 years, so I'm going to buy it now'. But unfortunately, if there's something wrong with that stock, if there's some sort of cyclical issue and it's on its way down, it could continue to go down for quite some time. You'll get people shorting it, and a whole bunch of different factors that continue to push it down." Once a stock has turned the corner and has had upward momentum for three and six months, it's more likely to continue to do well, Kelley said. It's a signal that the overall market has recognized the stock's potential. By the time the filter process is complete, thousands of US stocks have been filtered down to about 125 to 150, which is still too much. Despite the increased risk, you get more excess returns with a concentrated portfolio. Therefore, they want to stick to 30 finalists. Narrowing from here means picking the stocks with the best performance over the last 12 months or those that have seen their share prices rise the most. Below are the top 10 holdings of the fund and their weightings as of November 15, 2024. The portfolio rebalances annually.

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Chicago’s Korean community was rattled Tuesday following the news that South Korea’s president declared martial law amid an ongoing feud with his political rivals. President Yoon Suk Yeol’s order briefly threw the country into turmoil, sparking mass protests in the early morning hours. Less than three hours later, South Korea’s National Assembly unanimously voted to lift it, vowing to protect democracy. Yoon eventually backed down from his declaration. “Community members are concerned about what’s happening. Many of them are here as Korean Americans, but they still have family and people they care about in Korea,” said Danae Kovac, the executive director of the HANA Center, a Chicago-based community organization serving Korean Americans and immigrants in the region. Following the recent U.S. presidential election, Kovac said Chicago’s Korean immigrant community was already on edge. About 62,000 Koreans live in the area, according to 2020 census figures. “This is causing more turmoil and concern in the community here in Chicago,” Kovac said. “We are already feeling a lot of anxiety and fear because of the recent election and the impending attacks on immigrants and people of color here in this country.” Tuesday’s events marked the first time in more than four decades that martial law was declared in South Korea, which saw the end of a military dictatorship and the start of democratization in 1987. Martial law was last declared in October 1979, following the assassination of former military dictator Park Chung-hee. Yoon’s attempt was also a reminder that South Korea began as a dictatorship, said Ji-Yeon Yuh, a professor in Asian American history and Asian diasporas at Northwestern University. “Until the 1980s, South Korea was a military dictatorship and martial law was declared frequently,” Yuh said. “The people rose up frequently; there were lots of crackdowns by the military.” But, following several decades of struggle, South Korea became a democracy in the 1980s, Yuh said. “South Korea went from the dark days of a severely oppressive military dictatorship to a really vibrant and active participatory democracy,” Yuh said, adding, “To the point where citizens can force South Korea’s president out of office, and once they leave office are held accountable in a court of law for their crimes and then convicted and jailed for their corruption.” While Yoon’s actions are certainly alarming, Yuh said, the response by the Korean people and lawmakers shows the might of an active democracy. “The people of South Korea said, ‘We are not going back,’” Yuh said. “Martial law is a regressive step. We are not going back to those dark days of a military dictatorship.” For some Korean Americans, the memories of life under that dictatorship are still fresh, Kovac said. “The military dictatorship was not that long ago,” she said. “People remember the history not just as a distant memory. Some of our older community members lived it in Korea, while others were here seeing what was happening.” The HANA Center serves 16,000 people each year, the majority of whom are Koreans but they also work with other multi-ethnic groups, Kovac said. The organization provides a range of social services and advocates for stronger policies that support immigrants. Yoon declared martial law to eliminate “anti-state” forces as he struggles against the opposition, South Korea’s liberal Democratic Party, which controls the country’s parliament. He also accuses the party of sympathizing with communist North Korea, a move that’s become part of the hard right’s playbook in South Korea, Yuh said. Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the country’s Assembly in Seoul, calling for Yoon to resign or be impeached. Under South Korea’s constitution, the president can declare martial law during “wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states” that require the use of military force to maintain peace and order. Yoon has been an unpopular leader since he was narrowly elected in 2022. When martial law is declared, “special measures” can be employed to restrict the freedom of press, freedom of assembly and the power of courts. The constitution also states that the president must oblige when the 300-seat National Assembly demands the lifting of martial law with a majority vote. On Tuesday, the 190 lawmakers who participated in the vote supported the lifting of martial law. Television footage showed soldiers, who had been stationed at parliament following the martial law order, leaving the National Assembly after the vote. To Yuh, the assembly’s rebuke showed why it’s important for lawmakers to stand by their country before their political party. “His own party denounced martial law,” Yuh said. “There’s a divide in South Korea between the president and his political party. The president does not control his political party and that makes for a healthy democracy.” Contributing: Associated PressTrump has flip-flopped on abortion policy. His appointees may offer clues to what happens nextOpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship'

Social media users are misrepresenting a Vermont Supreme Court ruling , claiming that it gives schools permission to vaccinate children even if their parents do not consent. The ruling addressed a lawsuit filed by Dario and Shujen Politella against Windham Southeast School District and state officials over the mistaken vaccination of their child against COVID-19 in 2021, when he was 6 years old. A lower court had dismissed the original complaint, as well as an amended version. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed on Nov. 19. But the ruling by Vermont's high court is not as far-reaching as some online have claimed. In reality, it concluded that anyone protected under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP, Act is immune to state lawsuits. Here's a closer look at the facts. CLAIM: The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that schools can vaccinate children against their parents' wishes. THE FACTS: The claim stems from a July 26 ruling by the Vermont Supreme Court, which found that anyone protected by the PREP Act is immune to state lawsuits, including the officials named in the Politella's suit. The ruling does not authorize schools to vaccinate children at their discretion. According to the lawsuit, the Politella's son — referred to as L.P. — was given one dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic held at Academy School in Brattleboro even though his father, Dario, told the school's assistant principal a few days before that his son was not to receive a vaccination. In what officials described as a mistake, L.P. was removed from class and had a “handwritten label” put on his shirt with the name and date of birth of another student, L.K., who had already been vaccinated that day. L.P. was then vaccinated. Ultimately, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that officials involved in the case could not be sued. “We conclude that the PREP Act immunizes every defendant in this case and this fact alone is enough to dismiss the case,” the Vermont Supreme Court's ruling reads. “We conclude that when the federal PREP Act immunizes a defendant, the PREP Act bars all state-law claims against that defendant as a matter of law.” The PREP Act , enacted by Congress in 2005, authorizes the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a declaration in the event of a public health emergency providing immunity from liability for activities related to medical countermeasures, such as the administration of a vaccine, except in cases of “willful misconduct" that result in “death or serious physical injury.” A declaration against COVID-19 was issued on March 17, 2020. It is set to expire on Dec. 31. Federals suits claiming willful misconduct are filed in Washington. Social media users described the Vermont Supreme Court's ruling as having consequences beyond what it actually says. Story continues below video “The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that schools can force-vaccinate children for Covid against the wishes of their parents,” reads one X post that had been liked and shared approximately 16,600 times as of Tuesday. “The high court ruled on a case involving a 6-year-old boy who was forced to take a Covid mRNA injection by his school. However, his family had explicitly stated that they didn't want their child to receive the ‘vaccines.’” Other users alleged that the ruling gives schools permission to give students any vaccine without parental consent, not just ones for COVID-19. Rod Smolla, president of the Vermont Law and Graduate School and an expert on constitutional law, told The Associated Press that the ruling “merely holds that the federal statute at issue, the PREP Act, preempts state lawsuits in cases in which officials mistakenly administer a vaccination without consent.” “Nothing in the Vermont Supreme Court opinion states that school officials can vaccinate a child against the instructions of the parent,” he wrote in an email. Asked whether the claims spreading online have any merit, Ronald Ferrara, an attorney representing the Politellas, told the AP that although the ruling doesn't say schools can vaccinate students regardless of parental consent, officials could interpret it to mean that they could get away with doing so under the PREP Act, at least when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines. He explained that the U.S. Supreme Court appeal seeks to clarify whether the Vermont Supreme Court interpreted the PREP Act beyond what Congress intended. “The Politella’s fundamental liberty interest to decide whether their son should receive elective medical treatment was denied by agents of the State and School,” he wrote in an email to the AP. “The Vermont Court misconstrues the scope of PREP Act immunity (which is conditioned upon informed consent for medical treatments unapproved by FDA), to cover this denial of rights and its underlying battery.” Ferrara added that he was not aware of the claims spreading online, but that he “can understand how lay people may conflate the court's mistaken grant of immunity for misconduct as tantamount to blessing such misconduct.” John Klar, who also represents the Politellas, went a step further, telling the AP that the Vermont Supreme Court ruling means that “as a matter of law” schools can get away with vaccinating students without parental consent and that parents can only sue on the federal level if death or serious bodily injury results. — Find AP Fact Checks here: https://apnews.com/APFactCheck .