Amazon and oil-and-gas companies are helping to pull U.S. stock indexes higher on Friday, while yields skid in the bond market following a surprisingly weak jobs report that was marred by hurricanes and other unusual occurrences.
Former President Trump is spurring backlash with his comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in which he described her having guns “trained on her face” while criticizing her foreign policy.
Ian Sams, senior adviser for the Vice President Harris’s campaign, slammed Trump for “dangerous, violent rhetoric.”
“You have Donald Trump, who’s talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad. And you have Vice President Harris talking about sending one to her Cabinet,” Sams said Friday morning on MSNBC.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, host Joe Scarborough said Trump was “calling for Cheney being shot in the face by nine guns — nine rifles — the closing weekend of the campaign.”
“Not only what it says about the Republican Party in 2024, but also what it must look like in London, in Paris, in Madrid, in Warsaw, across the world,” Scarborough said.
Trump made the comments about Cheney during a fireside chat with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Arizona on Thursday evening, while criticizing Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, for endorsing Harris .
“I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb,” Trump said Thursday.
“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump said. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine-barrel shooting at her, OK. Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, we’ll, let’s send — let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
Cheney has emerged as one of Trump’s most vocal Republican opponents since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and has jumped into the race this cycle on behalf of Harris and a handful of downballot Democrats.
She responded to Trump’s remarks , posting on the social platform X that it was akin to a death threat.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death,” Cheney said.
Former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), who is running for Congress against Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), took a swipe at his opponent for supporting Trump in light of the comments.
“As Donald Trump calls for the murder of Liz Cheney, it is despicable and disqualifying that Mike Lawler continues to support him,” Jones posted on X .
SAN JOSE — Would you believe Thursday night’s game at SAP Center came down to which team is the bigger underdog.
The Chicago Blackhawks had assuaged a four-game losing streak with a statement win against the Colorado Avalanche . That’s peanuts compared to the San Jose Sharks, who took some of the stink off their 0-7-2 start with two straight wins.
Make that three.
The Sharks pestered the Hawks from the start to take the first lead of the game, then erased a 2-1 deficit with two unanswered goals during what Hawks coach Luke Richardson called a “disorganized” and “sloppy” second period.
The Hawks made a push in the third and generated plenty of good (or good enough) looks, but they just missed or were stymied by Sharks goalie Mackenzie Blackwood in a 3-2 loss.
“Very frustrating, very disappointing,” Seth Jones said. “It’s a winnable game for us. We think we’re a better hockey team, but we have to go out and show it every night. It’s just frustrating.
“Big win in Colorado, and then we come out and lose this one. It’s one we think we could win and should have.”
Sharks rookie Will Smith scored his first two goals of his NHL career, and with them earned his first two points.
Ryan Donato and Tyler Bertuzzi each scored goals 50 seconds apart for the Hawks, with Connor Murphy assisting on them both.
On a Halloween night in which the Sharks looked like they could barely string two fans together (SAP Center had a season-low attendance of 10,315), the Hawks failed to string together two wins through 11 games now.
Can you see the empty seats through the scaffolding? I get it’s Halloween and it’s the Sharks, but even at the Blackhawks’ worst, the United Center would never. pic.twitter.com/mX4AlDGzvt
— Phillip Thompson (@_phil_thompson) November 1, 2024
“There’s not much to say right now,” Donato said. “You’re disappointed in yourselves. It’s a hard loss. We had a lot of chances that we could’ve scored on, obviously, but it’s not good enough just to create.
“We’ve been saying in the locker room that we’re not going to take any moral victories and getting chances is just not good enough.”
Here are five takeaways from the loss.
Especially coming off a technically sound (in other words, non-fluky) win against the Avalanche.
Richardson pointed out how the Sharks entered on a winning streak, but they were also winless through their first nine games. And yeah, the Sharks have made improvements from last season’s last-place team, but so did the Hawks. Supposedly.
The Hawks seem to come up with myriad reasons why they backslide from what they always preach – simple, structured, consistent hockey – but let’s see what the issue is this time:
“We were off and on our game plan, really,” Richardson said.
He explained: “This team’s a fast team, and they get going up and down, north and south. And sometimes we can get trapped into playing their game plan instead of playing ours. We started to try and play their game plan a little bit in the second period. And that’s not really the way our team’s built.”
After the Hawks took command in the first period, how did they allow the Sharks to wrest momentum from them in the second?
Donato stammered, “If we had that answer, we would’ve… I don’t know. I don’t know.”
Jones could pinpoint it: “The second period, we started turning pucks over: same old story. We give them life.”
He had a reason the Hawks offense dried up, too.
“You’ve heard it a thousand times,” he said. “We start going east-west in the neutral zone. Sometimes we think we’re the Globetrotters in the neutral zone when we need to be getting pucks deep and going to work and scoring rebound goals like we did last game.
“Just keep it simple.”
Really, who saw this coming?
Donato, playing on the third line, leads the Hawks in goals with six. His 42.9% shooting percentage is bonkers (and frankly unsustainable, so enjoy it while it lasts). He ranks ninth in the league in that category right now and first among skaters who’ve take at least 10 shots.
His career high is 16 goals in 74 games for the Seattle Kraken, so where is this offensive outburst coming from?
“I worked hard in the summer,” he said. “It’s hard to look at it after a hard loss like that, but I pray a lot. That’s all I can say. I try to show up and do the right things and work hard, but my faith has carried me a long way.”
Richardson said he isn’t surprised.
“Dono’s definitely a shooter,” he said. “He’s a guy that has had some really good fortune lately, but it’s from working hard and getting to the right spots.
“He’s got a certain role on this team of checking the other teams’ top lines, and he is doing a pretty good job in that department, as well. So very similar to (Jason) Dickinson’s success in the goal department from last year and in that role.”
It does bear shades of Dickinson, who shared the team lead in goals (22) with Connor Bedard.
Donato’s goal came 37 seconds after Smith’s opening goal for the Sharks.
Richardson said, “I like to see our team react when we get scored on just the way he did, we scored right away back.”
OK, bad pun, but Bedard did hit Blackwood’s goalie stick on a couple of shots.
“He had two and I think someone else had one off the knob part of the stick. So it wasn’t meant to be, I guess, to go in that part of the net tonight,” Richardson said.
Bedard is tied for 18th in the league with 37 shots on goal, but he’s making just 8% of those shots.
Positive regression has to be coming his way.
“He’s kind of elusive the way he shoots that puck and gets his body going one way and shoots it the other way,” Richardson said. “I like him shooting the puck and we’re going to continue to keep asking him to do that.”
Entering Thursday’s game, Bedard had won just 30% of faceoffs – not great numbers for a center. He’s made it a point of emphasis.
“Just try to practice it as much as I can,” he said. “I feel like there’s been games where it’s been pretty good, and then you still have those games where it’s tougher. But it’s something that I want to get better at throughout the year.”
Against the Sharks Thursday, he went 4-of-9 (44.4%).
Kamala Harris and her team seized on Donald Trump’s latest comments about women, including a statement that under him, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would work on “women’s health.” The Trump team lashed out over remarks by a top Harris supporter.
Biden seemed to call Donald Trump supporters as “garbage” during a campaign call, but has insisted that he was referring to rhetoric at a Trump rally.
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An election should pique your interest, raise concerns, propose opportunity, inspire a hopeful “what-if” kind of thinking.
It shouldn’t make you feel like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Just as you should never be afraid to vote, you should never be fearful that the world will unravel if your candidate doesn’t win.
And yet here we are. Worried, panicked, running in place, cleaning closets, losing sleep and binge watching “The Great British Baking Show.”
All while fantasizing about a perfect world.
They say idealism is the vocation of youth, that as we age, a narrower, more cynical pulse begins to course through our veins, and we become more into ourselves and less trusting of others, perhaps more afraid of losing what is “ours” — faculties, belongings, hard-earned money, loved ones.
But in the end the only thing that was ever truly “ours” was the time we spent here on Earth and what we did with it.
We can’t take anything with us. But we can pass a torch of hope for a better world. Even in the darkest of times, humans have relied on hope to get them through, to keep them alive, to keep moving forward.
The older I get, the more I want humans to be their best selves, the more I want them to empathize and care as only humans can, the more I want them to deserve to be at the top of the food chain.
Humans are the only animals who don’t need a reason to be cruel. But they also are the only animals capable of moving mountains, lifting communities and inspiring movements.
I want them to recognize their privilege and their responsibility, their opportunity and their duty. I want them to strive to leave this world better than they found it.
The older I get, the more I want the world to be a place:
Donna Vickroy is an award-winning reporter, editor and columnist who worked for the Daily Southtown for 38 years. She can be reached at donnavickroy4@gmail.com.
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