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EEUU jugará contra Bélgica, Portugal y Alemania en amistosos antes del Mundial
FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, EE.UU. (AP) — La selección de Estados Unidos jugará contra Bélgica, Portugal y Alemania en sus últimos cuatro partidos amistosos antes de la Copa del Mundo.
El equipo, situado en la 14ta posición del ranking de la FIFA, se enfrentará a Bélgica, que es octava, el 28 de marzo y se medirá a Portugal, que figura sexto, tres días después. Ambos partidos se llevarán a cabo en Atlanta, informó el martes la Federación de Fútbol de Estados Unidos.
El astro de Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo, podría jugar en Estados Unidos por primera vez desde el 2 de agosto de 2014, cuando estaba con el Real Madrid y participó en un amistoso de pretemporada contra el Manchester United en Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Después de que el seleccionador argentino de Estados Unidos Mauricio Pochettino anuncie su lista para la Copa del Mundo, los estadounidenses jugarán contra un equipo aún por determinar el 31 de mayo en Charlotte, Carolina del Norte, y se enfrentarán a Alemania, que ocupa el noveno puesto del escalafón, el 6 de junio en Chicago.
Estados Unidos abrirá la Copa del Mundo el 12 de junio en Inglewood, California, y jugará en Seattle siete días después. Cerrará la fase de grupos el 25 de junio en Inglewood.
Los oponentes se determinarán en el sorteo del viernes, que también influye en qué equipo enfrentará Estados Unidos en el amistoso de Charlotte.
Estados Unidos está invicto en cinco amistosos, incluyendo cuatro victorias.
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U.S. Navy’s “Doomsday” Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission
U.S. Navy’s “Doomsday” Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission
A Boeing E-6B Mercury operated by the U.S. Navy, one of the service’s airborne nuclear command posts commonly known as the “Doomsday plane,” disappeared from civilian flight-tracking platforms Friday morning while operating over the Atlantic Ocean, according to tracking data, the Daily Mail reports.
The aircraft, using callsign AFD FE2, was last observed on ADS-B Exchange and similar services around 8:30 a.m. EST approximately 60 miles east of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The plane had departed Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, on a standard southeast track over Chesapeake Bay before its transponder was deactivated.
During TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) missions, the E-6B typically enters restricted warning areas, deploys a miles-long trailing-wire antenna, and flies extended racetrack patterns to relay secure communications to U.S. ballistic-missile submarines and other strategic assets, Key Aero reports.
The E-6B fleet also performs the Airborne National Command Post “Looking Glass” mission, equipped with the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) capable of transmitting launch orders to silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles if ground command centers are destroyed. An E-6B conducted an ALCS simulated ICBM launch exercise as recently as April.
The Navy and U.S. Strategic Command have not commented on Friday’s flight.
In August, another E-6B was recently forward-deployed to Pituffik Space Base in northern Greenland for what the service claimed was routine operations, including exercises with nuclear submarines in both the Atlantic and Pacific. However, aviation analysts, including Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, described the E-6B aircraft’s flight near Greenland as unusual. Historical E-6B forward operating locations have included Guam, Norway, Germany, Spain, and the U.K., according to Newsweek.
“Naval Strategic Forces conduct global operations in coordination with combatant commands, services, and allies and partner nations, even in the High North,” Commander Jason Fischer, a spokesman for U.S. Submarine Forces, told Newsweek.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/02/2025 – 20:30
Con las cuentas de Trump, tu bebé podría recibir 1.000 dólares. Esto es lo que debes saber
Por MORIAH BALINGIT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuando los hijos de familias adineradas se independizan, a menudo se benefician de la generosidad de sus padres gracias a un fondo fiduciario. Sus pares de familias con menos recursos económicos pueden no recibir nada en absoluto —o incluso se espera que mantengan a su familia cuando ya sean adultos—.
Pero ¿qué pasaría si todos los niños, sin importar sus circunstancias familiares, pudieran recibir un apoyo financiero al cumplir 18 años?
Esa es la idea detrás de la “Cuenta Trump”, una disposición poco conocida de la legislación fiscal del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump. El proyecto de ley, promulgado este año, otorga 1.000 dólares a cada recién nacido, siempre que sus padres abran una cuenta. Empresas privadas invierten ese dinero en la bolsa de valores, y el niño puede acceder a los fondos al cumplir 18 años. Los padres de hijos de mayor edad también pueden abrirles una cuenta, pero no recibirán la bonificación de 1.000 dólares.
Quienes respaldan esta cuenta dicen que es una forma de impulsar el capitalismo y ayudar a los niños de hogares de bajos ingresos a generar riqueza en un momento en que candidatos abiertamente socialistas ganan popularidad.
El nuevo programa otorga el bono de 1.000 dólares solo a los bebés nacidos durante los años que dura el mandato de Trump. Gracias a una donación histórica anunciada el martes por los multimillonarios Michael y Susan Dell, algunos niños de 10 años o menos podrían recibir 250 dólares en capital inicial si sus padres les abren una cuenta. Ese dinero está reservado para niños que vivan en zonas con un ingreso familiar promedio de 150.000 dólares anuales o menos y que no recibirán el capital inicial de 1.000 del Departamento del Tesoro.
Esto es lo que necesitas saber sobre la Cuenta Trump y cómo solicitarla.
¿Qué es la Cuenta Trump?
Es una nueva herramienta de ahorro donde se invierte dinero en la bolsa de valores en nombre de un niño. El niño no puede acceder al dinero hasta que cumpla 18 años —y sólo puede usarlo para fines específicos, como pagar la matrícula universitaria, iniciar un negocio o dar el enganche para una vivienda—.
Después de que un padre o madre abra la cuenta, el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos aportará 1.000 para el recién nacido. Bancos privados y casas de bolsa administrarán el dinero, que debe invertirse en fondos indexados o de renta variable de Estados Unidos que busquen replicar el rendimiento del mercado de valores y que cobren a las cuentas una comisión anual máxima del 0.10%.
Los padres pueden aportar hasta 2.500 dólares anuales en ingresos antes de impuestos, de manera similar a como lo hacen para su cuenta de jubilación. Los empleadores, familiares o amigos de los padres, así como gobiernos locales y grupos filantrópicos también pueden contribuir. Las contribuciones anuales tienen un límite de 5.000 dólares, pero las contribuciones de los gobiernos y de las organizaciones benéficas no se contabilizan para ese total.
¿Quién recibe 1.000 dólares?
Para calificar para el capital inicial de 1.000 dólares, el bebé debe ser ciudadano estadounidense, tener un número de Seguro Social y haber nacido entre el 1 de enero de 2025 y el 31 de diciembre de 2028. Cualquier padre o madre puede abrir una cuenta para un hijo que cumpla los requisitos, independientemente de su propio estatus migratorio.
Es importante tener en cuenta que el menor no podrá acceder al dinero hasta que cumpla 18 años, salvo en circunstancias excepcionales, por lo que no podrá ayudar a cubrir gastos inmediatos. Además, los desembolsos de las cuentas estarán sujetos a impuestos.
¿Qué ocurre con los hijos de mayor edad?
Los niños nacidos antes de 2025 no calificarán para el incentivo de 1.000 dólares, pero los padres pueden abrirles una cuenta siempre que sean menores de 18 años, y los padres pueden invertir en ella hasta 2.500 dólares antes de impuestos para esos hijos —quienes podrían beneficiarse de la donación de los Dell, que otorga 250 dólares a los niños de hasta 10 años en ciertas zonas—.
¿Cómo abrir una Cuenta Trump para tus hijos?
Las cuentas no estarán abiertas para contribuciones hasta julio de 2026. Pero los padres de niños que cumplan los requisitos para tenerlas pueden inscribirse ahora completando el Formulario 4547 del Servicio de Impuestos Internos (IRS, por sus siglas en inglés). Hasta el martes por la tarde, ese formulario aún no estaba disponible en el sitio web de la Cuenta Trump.
En mayo, los padres que se registren recibirán información sobre cómo completar el proceso para la apertura de la cuenta.
La Casa Blanca dice que, a partir de julio, tendrá un sitio web donde los padres podrán registrarse para las cuentas.
¿Cuál es la idea detrás de las cuentas?
Quienes las apoyan dicen que quieren acercar a más personas al mercado de valores y dar la oportunidad de beneficiarse de dicho mercado incluso a niños nacidos en familias de bajos recursos. Creen que dar 1.000 dólares a cada recién nacido ayudará a combatir la creciente popularidad del socialismo y ofrecerá a más personas la oportunidad de generar riqueza. Alrededor del 58% de los hogares estadounidenses tenían acciones o bonos en 2022, según la Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de Estados Unidos (SEC, por sus siglas en inglés), aunque el 1% más rico poseía casi la mitad del valor de las acciones ese mismo año.
Antes de que Trump creara la cuenta, California, Connecticut y el Distrito de Columbia ya implementaban programas piloto de “bonos para bebés” que son similares a la Cuenta Trump en algunos aspectos. Varios otros estados, incluido Maryland, sopesan programas.
Pero esos programas están dirigidos a jóvenes que crecen en la pobreza o en hogares de acogida, además de a niños que perdieron a uno de sus padres a causa del COVID-19. Los niños de familias más adineradas no reciben el beneficio.
Además, son gestionados por el estado, no por empresas privadas.
¿Qué dicen los críticos?
Los críticos señalan que las cuentas no ayudan a los niños en sus primeros años, cuando son más vulnerables y tienen más probabilidades de vivir en la pobreza. También mencionan que las cuentas no compensan los recortes que el gobierno de Trump y los legisladores republicanos han aplicado a otros programas que benefician a los niños y sus familias, como la asistencia alimentaria y Medicaid. Los republicanos crearon las cuentas en la misma ley fiscal de Trump que redujo el gasto para algunos de esos programas.
E incluso con la contribución del gobierno, los críticos dicen que la Cuenta Trump ampliará la brecha de riqueza. Las familias adineradas que puedan permitirse hacer la máxima contribución antes de impuestos a las cuentas obtendrán los mayores beneficios. Las familias pobres que no pueden darse el lujo de reservar dinero para las cuentas serán las que menos se beneficiarán.
Bajo la suposición de una rentabilidad del 7%, los 1.000 dólares de capital inicial ascenderán a aproximadamente 3.570 dólares en 18 años.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Dirigencia de Pumas ratifica a Juárez como su entrenador para el Clausura 2026
Por CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Aunque fracasó en el intento de clasificar a la liguilla, Efraín Juárez se mantendrá en su puesto como entrenador de Pumas para el torneo Clausura que arranca en enero, dijo el martes el nuevo vicepresidente del equipo, Antonio Sancho.
Bajo la dirección de Juárez, los universitarios terminaron en el décimo sitio de la tabla y quedaron eliminados en la reclasificación para la liguilla.
“Efraín es nuestro técnico, lo conozco y sé que es el primero que quiere ganar títulos aquí”, dijo Sancho en la rueda de prensa en la que fue presentado. “Estoy convencido de que tiene las mismas ilusiones que yo para ser campeón.”
Sancho reemplazó al veterano Miguel Mejía Barón, quien renunció al cargo la víspera. Además, el equipo dejó libre al director deportivo Eduardo Saracho.
Ambos fueron encargados de la elección de Juárez, un exjugador del equipo, que arribó a Pumas luego de ser campeón con el Atlético Nacional en Colombia.
“Efraín es un director técnico que se preparó afuera, que ganó afuera y no es fácil, pero ya lo hizo y ahora lo quiere hacer aquí”, agregó el dirigente.
La eliminación prematura dejó a Pumas sin la oportunidad de pelear por un campeonato de liga que se le ha negado desde el torneo Clausura 2011.
“Estamos conscientes de la deuda que tiene Pumas y legítima exigencia de su afición”, dijo el presidente del equipo, Raúl González. “Estamos claros que nuestra afición quiere que Pumas alcance los objetivos que no logramos”.
Se trata de la segunda ocasión que Sancho tiene un puesto como dirigente en Pumas. Estuvo como director deportivo durante dos años entre 2014 y 2016 cuando el equipo dejó las últimas posiciones en la tabla del descenso y disputó una final que perdió en penales ante Tigres en el Apertura 2015.
“La vez pasada estaba muy complicado, llegué en la fecha siete, peleando en el último puesto de la porcentual (descenso), ahí el objetivo era salvarse y caminó bien. Después llegamos a una final y los penales nos dejaron sin título”, recordó Sancho.
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Illinois settles suit against Monsanto for $120 million for PCBs contamination
Illinois reached a settlement Monday of at least $120 million with Monsanto Co., the largest producer of now-banned PCBs, to address longstanding contamination across the state.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul sued Monsanto in 2022 over its denial of the health and environmental harms of the hazardous synthetic chemical, known as polychlorinated biphenyls. The lawsuit alleged Monsanto knowingly concealed the dangers of PCBs and continued to produce and distribute it for decades.
Under the agreement, the state will receive $80 million by March 31, which will be disbursed to Chicago and nine surrounding cities of Evanston, Lake Forest, North Chicago, Zion, Beach Park, Glencoe, Lake Bluff, Winnetka and Winthrop Harbor.
Illinois joins Washington, Ohio, Oregon and Virginia in winning damages from Monsanto to fund massive statewide PCB cleanups.
“I’m pleased that this settlement will hold Monsanto accountable for producing and disposing of a dangerous toxic chemical that continues to impact Illinois’ natural resources,” Raoul said in a statement.
The attorney general’s office did not return requests for comment Tuesday.
Monsanto, now owned by German-based Bayer, was the leading producer in the United States of hazardous materials like PCBs, as well as the maker of the controversial herbicide Roundup. The company made products including paints, caulks and lubricants for industrial electrical equipment.
On Monday, President Donald Trump’s administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Bayer’s bid to end thousands of lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, according to a Reuters report.
From 1960 to 1970 alone, Monsanto sold nearly 50 million pounds of commercial PCB mixtures to customers in Illinois, according to the statement from the attorney general’s office.
PCBs are considered “forever chemicals” as they don’t break down easily and can remain in the water, soil and air for decades, according to Erik Olson, the senior strategic director of health for the Natural Resource Defense Council.
Since 1979, PCBs have been banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which found that overexposure to the synthetic material is likely carcinogenic and linked to cancers like non-Hodgkins lymphoma as well as reproductive and neurological issues.
PCBs can also “bioaccumulate,” meaning the toxins will build up in the tissues of animals that humans eat, Olson explained.
“That’s something that obviously is a worry, because as people eat something like a fish that’s been in that environment that’s loaded with PCBs, the fish will actually concentrate the PCBs in their tissues,” Olson said. “And if people eat that, then they’re exposed to a big wallop of PCBs.”
Roundup weed-killing products are offered for sale at a home improvement store on May 14, 2019, in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty)
The suit alleged that Monsanto unlawfully discharged massive amounts of PCBs from its Krummrich Plant in Sauget in southern Illinois into the surrounding environment, including sewers that allowed the toxic waste to enter the Mississippi River.
PCB waste was also dumped into Sauget landfills, leaching into surrounding soil, water and groundwater, according to the suit. PCB contamination then extended statewide, including Cook County, through waterways like the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
This settlement marks a major environmental justice win for Illinoisans who have been affected by decades of unlawful contamination in their communities, Raoul said in the statement.
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However, Sauget is not one of the cities listed to receive funds from the settlement despite bearing a heavy burden from Monsanto’s activities.
Sauget, a town of a couple of hundred people and two EPA Superfund sites, has been left with groundwater considered too contaminated to be used for drinking water or even for industrial use due to Monsanto’s PCB dumping practices, according to the suit.
Additional legal action will determine the remaining sums that Monsanto owes Illinois, ranging from $40 million to $200 million.
In total, the state could be awarded up to $280 million to finance cleanups in affected Illinois communities.
Beyond PCBs, Olson and other environmental health experts hope the Illinois settlement provides momentum toward holding companies accountable for manufacturing other forever chemicals like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that also threaten the health of communities across the country.
“Myself and others that are looking at this (settlement) are seeing the possibility of widespread liability,” Olson said. “And the PCB settlements are just sort of an initial indication of what we could start seeing because of the PFAS contamination. So stay tuned.”
Christiana Freitag is a freelancer.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/illinois-monsanto-pcbs-contamination/
National Teachers Union Training Members To Promote LGBT Ideology, Parents Group Says
National Teachers Union Training Members To Promote LGBT Ideology, Parents Group Says
Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The nation’s largest teachers union is planning a workshop on “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice,” prompting criticism from a conservative national parent group that obtained the training handouts and released them to the public ahead of the session.
The National Education Association’s (NEA’s) next Focus Academy session is planned for Dec. 2 to Dec. 4. Participants will “develop a toolset of tactics for dismantling systems of privilege and oppression as it relates to LGBTQ+ educators and students,” the union’s website states.
The union’s national headquarters are in Washington, but the registration page does not disclose an address for the training. Upcoming Focus Academy sessions on advancing “racial justice” and winning school board elections are scheduled for early 2026.
Defending Education, a parent and research organization that opposes progressive curricula and policies such as transgender ideology, critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools, obtained and released the handout in November.
“The NEA is the largest teachers’ union in the country, and they have decided to vilify half the country in an upcoming training,” Erika Sanzi, Defending Education’s senior communications director, said in an email sent to The Epoch Times. “As far as they are concerned, the only reasons anyone could oppose their preferred ideologies are racism and transphobia, and they name Republicans as villains, in writing!”
The first section of the materials is a pronoun guide with “tips for using gender-neutral pronouns.”
The next section contains Cornell University’s “Transgender Guide to Transitioning and Gender Affirmation in the Workplace.”
A guide from the National LGBTQ Task Force lists “levels of expression and oppression.” This document is not limited to gender ideology and alleges discrimination against black and Hispanic public school children, immigrants, and women in the workplace.
The NEA’s policy on LGBT employee rights is included in the handout. It includes guidance on a recent Supreme Court ruling determining that parents are allowed to opt their children out of LGBT-related instruction for religious reasons.
“The decision only requires schools to provide opt-outs on the basis of sincerely held religious beliefs and practices,” the guidance states. “It does not require schools to grant opt-outs based on parent/guardian personal, political or ideological beliefs or preferences.”
The last section of the handout, “Transgender Youth and the Freedom to Be Ourselves: Building a Choir With a Race Class Narrative,” was commissioned by the Transgender Law Center. It accuses conservatives of exploiting people who identify as transgender.
“Over the last ten years, Republicans in state legislatures have increasingly turned to anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation as a powerful complement to their arsenal of racist dog whistles used to whip up fear and consolidate power,” the document states.
Defending Education’s position on the NEA materials is that the union wants teachers to train students to become social justice advocates instead of teaching them facts and skills.
“Their federal charter was granted because they promised to elevate the character and advance the interests of the professions of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States,” Sanzi said in an email.
“Seeing as their leadership—and by extension, the organization itself—has morphed into a far-left insane asylum that is actively destroying the cause of education, that charter is no longer defensible.”
The NEA did not respond to a request for comment.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/02/2025 – 20:05
Ole Miss rises to No. 6 in College Football Playoff rankings despite losing coach — Ohio State is still No. 1
Ole Miss lost a coach but gained a spot in the College Football Rankings released Tuesday, moving to No. 6 despite the sudden departure of Lane Kiffin to LSU.
Undefeated Ohio State and Indiana remained at 1 and 2 in the rankings, while Georgia moved to third and Texas Tech rose to No. 4.
The rest of the top 12: Oregon, Mississippi, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Alabama, Notre Dame, BYU and Miami, with the flip-flop between the Tide and Irish an eyebrow-raiser as the season heads into its final week before the playoffs.
The final rankings come out Sunday, the day after a slate of conference title games determines the five automatic qualifiers for the 12-team bracket. The playoffs start Dec. 19 and end a month later with the title game outside Miami.
As newsy as the selection committee’s decision was not to dock Mississippi for losing its coach — something it has the latitude to do — was Alabama’s move up one to No. 9 at the expense of Notre Dame, which fell to 10. Both teams are 10-2.
Committee chair Hunter Yurachek called the decision the product of “one of the strongest debates we’ve had in the room since I became a member of the committee.”
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One key factor, he said, was Alabama’s 27-20 win at archrival Auburn on Saturday — a tougher opponent than Stanford, which the Irish beat 49-20 over the weekend.
“That was enough to change the minds of a couple committee members,” Yurachek said.
The move gives Alabama a better chance to make the 12-team bracket even with a loss Saturday to Georgia in the SEC title game, which would be the Tide’s third this season.
And now, Notre Dame finds itself in a precarious position on the bubble despite a 10-game winning streak. But not as precarious as Miami, which remains at No. 12, still behind Notre Dame despite a win over the Irish in the season opener.
In another move that could have a huge impact, the committee put James Madison of the Sun Belt Conference at No. 25 — higher than unranked Duke, which plays No. 17 Virginia for the Atlantic Coast Conference title.
If Duke and James Madison win, then James Madison could deny the ACC an automatic bid.
Those go to the five best-ranked conference titlists, with no guarantee to the Power 4 leagues. The SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 will earn spots, while the American from the Group of 5 seems to have a hold on one of those, with No. 20 Tulane and No. 24 North Texas slated for that title game Friday.
It means the fifth and final will either go to the ACC or the Sun Belt, where James Madison plays Troy on Friday for the championship.
Stats show troubling trend in Caleb Williams’ accuracy, but Ben Johnson says to ‘throw those out the window’
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams had a pair of “oh, no” throws Friday that would have been the talk of the week had the Bears not beaten the Philadelphia Eagles on a national stage.
The first was a back-of-the-end-zone dart to Olamide Zaccheaus, who was wide open on a “hero post.” The pass sailed in front of Zaccheaus as he dived to make a play on it in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, a second would-be touchdown pass dropped too low in front of Rome Odunze by the right pylon for him to cradle it.
Bears coach Ben Johnson said the pass to Zaccheaus is called a hero post because “you want to be a hero — that’s when you throw that thing because it’s so rarely thrown. (Williams) happened to find it, it was open and we just barely missed that thing.”
On Odunze’s play, he wasn’t the primary read but Williams “ended up seeing Rome pop and just left him a little bit short. Both of those were a little bit of him seeing the field really well.”
Williams recalled “two where I should have hit, thrown to the right side, Rome and DJ (Moore),” referring to the aforementioned Odunze target and a deep out route to Moore on which Williams threw the ball behind him. “Right time and right everything — miss.
“And then we have the other couple players where the guys slip,” Williams added, referring to slips by Moore and Luther Burden III. “But it’s right time and right spot, it’s just a guy slips.”
Yes, some random factors have gone into Williams’ inaccuracy, but it’s hard to explain away his 33rd-ranked completion percentage (58.1%) among qualified passers, per NFL Pro’s Next Gen Stats. (The NFL’s Game Statistics & Information System ranks him 27th among qualifiers.)
To truly judge accuracy, on-target pass percentage is a better metric than completion percentage because it filters out spikes and throwaways and drills into whether a pass is catchable.
Williams’ career-best on-target pass percentage of 95.7%, according to sports-reference.com’s Stathead, came last season against the Green Bay Packers in the season finale at Lambeau Field.
In fact, only one of Williams’ top 10 performances in that category occurred this season: 76.7% during the 52-21 blowout loss in Week 2 in Detroit.
For the season, just over two out of every three passes Williams has thrown (67.3%) has been on target. His rookie-year average was 72.4%, with only five games dipping below 70%.
“It’s an area that we’re certainly talking about, there’s no question,” Johnson said Monday.
He acknowledged that the wind at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field was challenging and that Bears receivers need to be disciplined in their route running, but he added: “There’s a number of (passes) that we’ve been talking about where we’ve got to fundamentally be correct. The primary receiver, when he’s open, we’ve got to make sure we hit him.
Bears quarterback Caleb Williams throws a pass against the Eagles in the second quarter Nov. 28, 2025, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
“We’re winning in spite of our passing game, not because of it, and none of us are pleased with that right now.”
Johnson walked back his critique Tuesday.
“When I made that comment yesterday, it’s easy to construe it as I’m not happy with the quarterback,” he said. “That’s not the case whatsoever.
“He continues to get better each and every week, and I couldn’t be more pleased with how he played last week. I know what the stats say. Throw those out of the window. He’s doing a really good job managing the ballgame.”
“Yeah, take the stats out,” Williams said, smiling a little, when told what his coach said. “You go watch some ball and you’ll be able to really see.”
Williams agreed with Johnson: Route discipline and ball location factor into accuracy, but there are other components.
“Obviously, I miss a pass and it looks a certain way to everybody, and everybody doesn’t know all the details,” Williams said. “So you go into that and you look at the stats and you look at all these percentages and whoopty-doo, right?
“So you go into all of that and then from there, we come back here and we actually look at the film. Was I in the right spot? Was my drop right? You always look at yourself first and then you go look at the other guys, and were they at the right spot? Were they at the right spot at the right time? You try and tie those things together.”
Williams characterized the ups and downs of a season as “the fun part about football,” where he and his pass catchers “have these moments where you may not be hitting on all cylinders.”
“And then you have these moments where it feels like you can’t miss,” he said. “We’re trying to get to the point where we feel like we can’t miss.”
He believes that’s achieved by a lot of talking with his teammates and coaches, visualizing reps and coverage and film study.
“Details, details, details, and when the time comes, give the guys a runner’s ball and from there let them go be special,” he said. “But my part of it is details, just footwork, being clean and moving throughout the concepts.”
In other words, managing all aspects of the passing game.
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“Game manager” as a label is usually considered a slight, but Williams sees it as a requirement of the position.
“That’s a part of quarterback, obviously,” he said. “When it’s time to go make plays, when it’s time to maybe make a comeback, or when it’s time to put the game away, those times come. But throughout the whole game … it’s being able to make consistent plays, routine plays.
“That’s something that I’m going to keep focusing on because that’s part of quarterbacking. (It’s) managing the game, ‘dirting’ it on a couple of screens that we had and small things like that, throwing out of bounds. All these different things to … keep the team in a positive position.”
Managing is all well and good, but the Cleveland Browns and Packers are third and sixth in pass defense (and 10th and eighth in run defense) while representing three of the Bears’ final five games.
Both Williams and Johnson understand the challenge the Packers pose, particularly after they slowed down the Detroit Lions’ high-octane offense on Thanksgiving.
“Personnel-wise, they’re pretty loaded across the board,” Johnson said. “You’ve got multiple guys up front that you’ve got to be aware of, starting with Micah (Parsons). … Fast players, sideline to sideline, and then … this is probably the two best safeties (Xavier McKinney and Evan Williams) we’ve seen all year long.”
Said Williams: “Not only best safeties, but they’ve got a hell of a D-line. The ’backers, No. 7 (Quay Walker) especially. Their corners, 25 (Keisean Nixon) and 24 (Carrington Valentine), they’ve been playing very well. The safeties, like Coach said, are extremely talented. And so it’s a great challenge for us.
“We’ve got to be focused on the details and from there we’ve got to go out and execute the plays that are called and have a certain mentality about us when we step on that field.”
Injury update
The Bears didn’t issue a practice report Tuesday. Linebackers T.J. Edwards and Noah Sewell were spotted on the field during the portion of practice that was open to the media. However, cornerback Tyrique Stevenson and wide receiver Rome Odunze weren’t seen.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/chicago-bears-caleb-willams-accuracy/
Maza anota y Leverkusen elimina a Dortmund de la Copa de Alemania por 1-0
Por CIARÁN FAHEY
BERLÍN (AP) — El gol de Ibrahim Maza en la primera mitad fue suficiente para que el Bayer Leverkusen eliminara al Borussia Dortmund de la Copa de Alemania, al superarlo el martes por 1-0 en su encuentro de tercera ronda.
Maza anotó a los 34 minutos, después de una jugada colectiva desde atrás. El español Álex Grimaldo asistió al delantero argelino de 20 años, y aunque Waldemar Anton bloqueó el primer tiro de Maza, un segundo tiro combado venció a ése y a otro defensor del Dortmund.
A Martin Terrier del Leverkusen le anularon un gol por fuera de juego tras una revisión del VAR en la segunda mitad.
Karim Adeyemi tuvo dos buenas oportunidades para el dominante Dortmund antes del descanso, y los aficionados pensaron que había anotado en el tiempo de descuento. En realidad, remeció por fuera la red lateral con su cabezazo desde un ángulo muy cerrado.
“Teníamos una cuenta pendiente”, afirmó Maza, en referencia a la victoria obtenida el sábado por el Dortmund en la cancha de Leverkusen en la Bundesliga.
El antiguo equipo de Maza, Hertha Berlín, disfrutó de una goleada de 6-1 sobre su rival de segunda división Kaiserslautern, el finalista derrotado en 2024, para extender su racha de victorias a siete en todas las competiciones. El gol que concedió fue el primero desde su última derrota, por 3-2 en el campo de Bochum el 18 de octubre.
Kennet Eichhorn, joven de 16 años, anotó por el Hertha, convirtiéndose en el goleador más joven del club.
Louis Oppie anotó el gol de la victoria para el St. Pauli —que ha perdido sus últimos nueve partidos de la Bundesliga— para vencer 2-1 al Borussia Mönchengladbach como visitante.
Christoph Baumgartner anotó dos veces para que Leipzig, campeón de 2022 y 2023, lograra una victoria de 3-1 en casa sobre el Magdeburgo de segunda división.
Los aficionados en todos los partidos permanecieron en silencio durante los primeros 12 minutos nuevamente para protestar contra las propuestas del gobierno alemán, de aumentar las medidas de seguridad alrededor de los partidos. Los cambios propuestos incluyen boletos personalizados, mayor vigilancia, la implementación de un software de reconocimiento facial y prohibiciones centralizadas en los estadios para los hinchas considerados problemáticos.
Las propuestas se discutirían en una conferencia de tres días del ministerio del interior a partir de este miércoles.
El Bayern Múnich y el campeón defensor Stuttgart juegan este miércoles, en las canchas de Union Berlín y Bochum, respectivamente.
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Alabama Zoning Commission Rejects Proposal For Muslim School After Town Erupts In Fury
Alabama Zoning Commission Rejects Proposal For Muslim School After Town Erupts In Fury
A Hoover, Alabama zoning commission unanimously rejected a rezoning request Monday that would have allowed a Muslim K-12 academy to relocate to an office building in the Birmingham suburb, capping a contentious public hearing that packed roughly 170 residents into the room and erupted with heated testimony over concerns of growing Islamification of the area, 1819 News reports.
The Islamic Academy of Alabama, which has operated in neighboring Homewood since 1995 serving approximately 260 students, sought to move to a larger facility in Hoover’s commercial corridor. The proposal was voted down 7-0 to sustained applause from the crowd of concerned residents.
The town’s commissioners pointed to vehicular congestion in an already-strained commercial corridor and lingering questions about the property’s long-term compatibility as grounds for denial.
John Padgett, whose residential property sits closest to the proposed location, challenged the traffic study’s conclusion that the school would have zero impact on current conditions.
“I see the traffic backed up every morning already,” Padgett reportedly told commissioners. “When they start, if you add a few hundred cars to that, it’s gonna be backed up past the stop sign.“
Padgett recounted a recent incident at an Airbnb next door to his home, carefully prefacing his remarks.
“I want to be very sensitive and careful in the way I say this,” he began, noting that he didn’t want to seem as though he was attacking a particular religion. “They weren’t supposed to have any kind of big parties, but they had an Islamic wedding there.”
Padgett described returning from a trip to find videos from neighbors showing dozens of cars—30 or 40, he estimated—parked throughout the neighborhood, including in his own driveway without permission, blocking his vehicles.
“They drove through my yard. Waving Islamic flags, out the window, and screaming things in Arabic,” he said.
Several attendees brandished signs reading “Give an inch — Dearborn Michigan” and “Stop the 100 year plan”—pointed references to demographic shifts in Dearborn, Michigan, which is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States.
“You’re going to have real problems with this community, I’m just telling you now,” resident Bruce Davis warned commissioners. “There’s going to be an influx of other people that are going to create a problem for this community and we might as well just face it.”
The final public commenter drew applause as the unidentified woman recounted travels through the United Kingdom and issued stark warnings about parallel risks facing the United States. The female speaker described witnessing “the land that gave us the King James Bible, supposedly a Christian nation, overwhelmingly being taken over,” according to 1819 News.
“The Muslims did not assimilate,” she continued. “In fact, the Brits bent backwards to accommodate their demands over and over again, to the level of feeling the second-class citizens in their own country.”
“The citizens could not even voice their grief because it was immediately associated with that type of phobia,” she added. “They gave in an inch and were soon taken for rides, miles away, with no hope of landing back to familiarity.”
Hoover Commission Chairman Mike Wood cut her off, steering the discussion back to zoning criteria. “We are here to look at whether this school was appropriately placed,” he interjected. “We’re not here for that. I’m sorry. We’re not going to listen to that.” The interruption sparked objections from the audience.
Lucas Gambino, who presented the case for the school, pushed back against the city’s objections.
“We’re not here to mislead anybody or trick anybody,” Gambino said, addressing questions about the evolving scope of what was variously described as a community center, prayer center, or auxiliary facility.
Gambino argued against forcing the developer to wait indefinitely for an idealized tenant.
“The idea that holding these 200,000 square feet buildings hostage for a tech buyer to come in and occupy those buildings, when you have a developer that owns those buildings, that’s paying significant carrying costs, on a monthly basis, for those buildings,” Gambino explained. “It’s gonna be asked to sit back and wait for a tech buyer to come in and occupy those buildings.“
Initially, a motion to send the request to the city council without a recommendation was made, but it failed to receive a second. A motion to move the proposal forward with a recommendation to deny it then passed unanimously. The decision now moves to the Hoover City Council, which will likely take up the matter at its first January meeting.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/02/2025 – 19:40
