76ers’ Markelle Fultz Injury Diagnosed as Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Philadelphia 76ers Markelle Fultz looks on during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, in Philadelphia. The 76ers won 127-108. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

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The agent for Philadelphia 76ers point guard Markelle Fultz said Tuesday his client was diagnosed with neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).

Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN provided the full statement from Fultz’s agent, Raymond Brothers.

“Markelle has been diagnosed with neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome, a physical injury,” Brothers said. “TOS affects nerves between the neck and shoulder resulting in abnormal functional movement and range of motion, thus severely limiting Markelle’s ability to shoot a basketball. TOS is treatable by physical therapy.”

Wojnarowski added Fultz could return in three-to-six weeks, despite the team considering him out indefinitely.

Fultz is set to begin physical therapy and will be out indefinitely, “likely weeks,” per Shams Charania of Stadium and The Athletic.

The Sixers confirmed the TOS diagnosis and stated “further updates will be provided as appropriate.”

Fultz has missed Philly’s last six games while receiving medical opinions on his right shoulder, which limited him to 14 regular-season appearances as a rookie last year.

The 20-year-old Maryland native averaged 8.2 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.1 assists while shooting only 41.9 percent overall and 28.6 percent from three-point range in 19 games this season. During his one season in college with the Washington Huskies, Fultz shot 41.3 percent from deep.

His shooting woes led him to test out a few curious tactics, including juggling the ball at the free-throw line, in an effort to break out of the slump:

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Last week, Woj reported Fultz’s Sixers teammates had become “increasingly concerned about his overall well-being” amid the “internal and external debate about how much of this perplexing circumstance is physical versus mental.”

Meanwhile, Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported sources believe the 76ers have grown “tired of this saga” and have considered trading the first overall pick of the 2017 draft.

The Sixers will likely have to put those plans on hold until Fultz finishes his rehab and returns to the floor, though.

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Hunger-striking asylum seekers call for faster border processing

Tijuana, Mexico – Nubia Morazan looked after her one-year-old son as he played outside their tent propped up beneath a freeway overpass just inches from Tijuana car traffic.

It’s been more than 24 hours since Morazan has had a bite to eat, and she is willing to go days more without food if it helps draw attention to the plight of migrants and refugees waiting at the US-Mexico border.

Morazan is one of more than a dozen refugees and activists who started a hunger strike last week to pressure US immigration officials to speed up the asylum process that is expected to require most of the more than 6,000 Central Americans, who arrived in in Tijuana as part of a mass exodus, to wait at least two months to apply for asylum. The hunger strikers are also calling on the Mexican government to provide work visas while the migrants and refugees wait.

“We need the process to be faster, because we don’t have a place to live,” Morazan says.

Those striking rotate every four days, living off only water and oral rehydration salts.

Morazan joined the strike with her husband after the city government closed the converted outdoor sports complex that sheltered thousands of migrants and refugees, and moved those willing to leave to a new shelter 20km away.

“This is a difficult environment for the children here in Tijuana. What we want is to be somewhere where they can study and have a better future,” she told Al Jazeera as her two children, who eat regularly while they join their parents in an encampment just feet from the pedestrian border crossing called the Chaparral.

Number 1,592 of 5,000

Rights groups have accused the Trump administration of intentionally stalling the asylum process to try to deter individuals from attempting to come to the US, allegations the government denies.

Last month US President Donald Trump suspended asylum rights for immigrants who try to cross into the US between official ports of entry. A federal judge temporarily blocked the new rules pending a challenge in court.

A sign on a tent of the hunger strikers’ encampment reads, ‘Respect the right to ask for asylum’ [Nidia Bautista/Al Jazeera]

Additional practices, including metering, the US government’s practice of regulating how many people can enter the US to seek asylum, have pushed migrants and refugees like Morazan to take more extreme measures to try to speed up the process.

“We can’t afford to wait considering the circumstances,” said Irineo Mujica, an activist from Tijuana during a press conference kicking off the hunger strike last Thursday. “The hunger strike is a peaceful action to ask for help,” he said.

Across the street from the hunger strike encampment, migrants and refugees manage an informal numbering system in a notebook that keeps track of those in line to turn themselves in to US Customs and Border Protection and request asylum.

Morazan said she’s number 1,592 in the list of 5,000 asylum-seekers. From Honduras, she joined the migrant caravan in mid-October, escaping a violent ex-husband.

“He beat me and treated be horribly. When I left him and met the father of my young son, his friends would call and threaten me,” she said.

After moving multiple times she says her ex-husband and his fellow gang members still found her and her family. They fled to San Pedro Sula and heard about the caravan.

“It happened so quickly. The fact is, we also are fleeing poverty. My husband made so little in Honduras and it wasn’t enough to raise our two children,” she said.

‘My dream is to enter the US’

Nightclubs and small businesses surround the hunger striker encampment and a steady flow of traffic encircles the small group of tents all day long.

Sammy Contreras, 23, from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, has been on hunger strike for three days. He said while local residents have left them alone for the most part, the group takes turn keeping watch over night.

Despite being diagnosed with a sinus infection, thanks to the long days walking through varying weather through Mexico, Contreras said he joined the hunger strike because of the desperation many migrants and refugees share in the face of the long wait in Tijuana.

“I decided to volunteer myself so we can all be seen and heard,” he told Al Jazeera. He said in the three days he’s been at the Chaparral crossing, only few migrants have been able to turn themselves in to US authorities

Migrants and refugees rest as they wait at the El Chaparral port of entry border crossing between Mexico and the United States [Hannah McKay/Reuters]

Contreras said the hunger strikers are asking that at least 200 migrants and refugees per day be allowed to apply for asylum. Watching from across the street, he said that every day asylum seekers travel from the shelter to try to cross the port of entry to begin the asylum process but are turned away.

The camp hasn’t received a response from the US and Mexican authorities which frustrates Contreras because as asylum-seekers “what they need most is a response and options”.

My dream is to enter the US. It’s the dream of many people here.

Nubia Morazan, hunger-striking asylum seeker

Tijuana’s Government Secretary Leopoldo Guerrero told Al Jazeera that the city was aware of the hunger strike but said the local government also wanted the US to clarify how long migrants and refugees had to wait for asylum.

As the cold night air nipped at the members of the camp, Morazan offered a small smile when asked about the prospect of staying in Tijuana should her family be unable to secure asylum.

After travelling more than 3,200km from Honduras, and less than half-way through her hunger strike, she’s steadfast in her determination to reach the US.

“My dream is to enter the US. It’s the dream of many people here,” she said.

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 855 chip for 2019 Android phones

A new generation of smartphones is nearly upon us.

Starting in 2019, Android phone makers will start shipping new devices with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 system-on-a-chip (SoC), which’ll be the first chip to support 5G. That’s right, mobile 5G — which has been mostly company promises and marketing hype up to this point — is now a step closer to being something you can hold in your hand.

In a meeting in advance of the announcement, Qualcomm Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Alex Katouzian was light on specific details about how much faster the Snapdragon 855 is compared to the current Snapdragon 845.

Katouzian also didn’t share with me any stats on how the new chip stacks up to Apple’s industry-leading A12 Bionic and A12X Bionic chips found in the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max and new iPad Pros, respectively.

More details on the the 855 will be forthcoming on Dec. 5, the second day of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii, but for now here’s what we know about the chip and what it could mean for your next phone.

1. 5G phones coming soon

Phone makers who choose to use the 855 chip in their devices will have support for 5G out of the gate. That depends, of course, on the particular carrier network you want to connect to and whether the phone’s manufacturer has enabled the modem. You may need to wait for network availability, and it may take a firmware update after that, but the capability will be there.

At the Summit, Cristiano Amon, president of Qualcomm, announced the chip would support “multi-gigabit connectivity” consisting of 5G, 4G LTE, and WiFi.

Presumably, the chip will integrate Qualcomm’s previously announced X50 modem in order to achieve 5G data speeds or include the X24 LTE modem to get download speeds of up to 2 Gbps.

Ahead of the Summit, Samsung and Verizon announced they’ll show off a concept 5G phone this week.

2. Faster AI and mixed reality performance

Injecting AI in more places in phones has been an ongoing trend for a few years and Qualcomm has tripled the AI performance with the 855 chip, at least on paper.

Qualcomm says the 855’s four-generation multi-core AI Engine offers up to three times the AI performance compared to the AI Engine on the 845.

A more powerful AI Engine should improve everything from advanced camera features (like object and scene detection or processing depth-of-field for portrait mode photos) to making digital assistants more responsive, and more.

The improved AI engine will also improve augmented- and mixed-reality experiences, further blurring the lines between the real and the digital.

3. Built-in computer vision

This little chip is gonna be everywhere.

The future of mobile photography and video capture isn’t just about cramming in more megapixels or more lenses (although it’s certainly one way forward for some phone makers). Instead, it’s looking more and more like computational photography, which leverages AI and machine learning to achieve photos and videos not possible hardware alone, is the way forward.

Google was quick to pioneer computational photography with the Pixel 2, using machine-learning techniques to produce portrait photos with blurred backgrounds without the need for a second camera. Apple followed this year, leaning on the A12 Bionic’s Neural Engine in the iPhone XR to achieve the same (albeit only for people shots).

The Pixel 3 took computational photography to the next level with Night Sight, a mode that takes night shots and literally turns them into photos that look like they were shot during the day.

With the 855, Qualcomm says the chip is the first with a CV ISP (computer vision image signal processor) that’ll enable “cutting-edge computation photography and video capture features.” What exactly that means is unclear. Perhaps portrait mode or Night Sight-like modes for video? That would really be something! Hopefully, we’ll learn more soon.

4. Snapdragon Elite Gaming

Mobile gaming (especially in Asia) continues to grow like there’s no tomorrow and with more people playing performance-taxing games like Fortnite on their phones and more companies releasing gaming-centric phones, it’s no wonder Qualcomm’s putting more eggs into improving the experience.

We don’t know what exactly the “Snapdragon Elite Gaming” features cover, but safe bets probably include faster GPU performance with less power draw and better heat management from ramping up the 855’s clockspeed.

Ultimately, mobile games running on the 855 will likely look even better with richer details (graphics always get better year over year) and play smoother with smoother frame rates.

5. More accurate in-display fingerprint sensor

Better in-display fingeprint sensors are coming.

A good number of Chinese phone makers made the risky jump to include in-display fingerprint sensors in their phones. The OnePlus 6T and Huawei Mate 20 Pro are two phones with the fastest and most responsive sensors.

But these optical in-display fingerprint sensors still aren’t on par with a physical sensor like Touch ID on some iPhones and the Pixel Imprint on the Pixel 3.

Qualcomm wants to change that with its “3D Sonic Sensor.” Instead of shining a light from underneath the display to illuminate your fingerprint for authentication, the sensor uses ultrasound.

The chipmaker says the sensor is a marked improvement over current optical in-display sensors because it’s more accurate and more secure, enables thinner designs, and works even if your fingers are dirty or wet.

It sounds great, but we’ll reserve judgement for when phones ship with these sensors.

We’ll have lots more to day about the Snapdragon 855, Qualcomm, and 5G in the coming days.

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Patrick Corbin, Nationals Reportedly Agree to 6-Year, $140M Contract

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 19: Patrick Corbin #46 of the Arizona Diamondbacks pitches in the second inning against the New York Mets at Citi Field on May 19, 2018 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

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Patrick Corbin‘s six-season run with the Arizona Diamondbacks reportedly is over.

According to Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post, the free-agent southpaw has agreed to terms on a deal with the Washington Nationals.

Per Fancred’s Jon Heyman, Corbin’s deal will be for six years and worth $140 million.

Heyman also reported the New York Yankees missed out on Corbin because they didn’t want to guarantee him a sixth year.

The Diamondbacks signed Corbin to a one-year, $7.5 million deal to avoid arbitration last January, and he was stellar with a chance to boost his stock in a contract year.

In 33 starts last season, the 29-year-old went 11-7 with a 3.15 ERA, 1.050 WHIP and 5.13 strikeout-to-walk rate en route to his second career All-Star nod.

Those numbers were aided by Corbin’s quality fastball and one of MLB‘s hardest-to-hit sliders.

Additionally, he’s excelled at keeping batters off balance thanks to the introduction of a slow curveball to his repertoire. According to FanGraphs, he threw the curve 9 percent of the time, and it clocked an average of 72.8 mph last year.

The Nationals will welcome Corbin and his refined three-pitch arsenal to one of a staff that already features three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and Tanner Roark; Roark settled in and went 6-3 with a 3.43 ERA after the All-Star break last season.

Even with Bryce Harper potentially out of the picture as a free agent and the offense primed for a bit of regression, the pitching unit has a chance to keep the Nationals competitive at the top of the National League East alongside the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Will Turkey push for UN probe into Khashoggi murder?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demanded more answers into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

At the G20 Summit in Argentina, Erdogan criticised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for offering an “unbelievable explanation” on Khashoggi’s killing that denied any Saudi official role.

The CIA reportedly believes Prince Mohammed is responsible, as do many US politicians, but not President Donald Trump.

But will Erdogan win support for an international investigation and can involvement from the United Nations make any difference?

Presenter: Richelle Carey

Guests:

Vehbi Baysan – professor of History at Ibn Haldun University.

Barin Kayaoglu – assistant professor of world history at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani.

Saad Djebbar – international lawyer

Source: Al Jazeera News

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New White House counsel to arrive as Democrats, Mueller close in

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After a two-month delay, the conservative legal activist Pat Cipollone assumes will start his job on Monday, according to two sources.

Pat Cipollone will start his new job as White House counsel on Monday, following a nearly two-month delay since his appointment, with dwindling time to prepare for a coming onslaught of House Democratic oversight demands.

President Donald Trump tapped Cipollone in early October to be the White House’s top lawyer, replacing Don McGahn, who stepped down on Oct. 17 after a turbulent tenure in which he clashed with the president. Cipollone’s start date was confirmed by two sources familiar with the timing.

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Even before assuming his official duties, Cipollone has reached out to several lawyers to staff an office responsible for everything from judicial nominations to federal litigation to presidential pardons. Cipollone’s team will also contend with what are expected to be several investigations launched by House Democrats who will assume committee chairmanships in January.

Cipollone also starts at a time when Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is making major new waves, including with an expected Tuesday court filing outlining the fired former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s cooperation with the investigation, as well as a Friday document describing alleged criminal lies by Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

A commercial lawyer and conservative Catholic activist, Cipollone will oversee four deputies, with responsibility for investigations, judicial nominations, national security, and ethics, respectively.

Mike Purpura, a Justice Department veteran who worked in George W. Bush counsel’s office, is likely to serve as deputy White House counsel leading the response to congressional investigations, according to a source familiar with the plans. In that role, he is expected to emerge as a central behind-the-scenes player in the West Wing over the next two years, helping to shield the president from newly emboldened Democrats with subpoena power. He would bring crucial experience to the job: As associate counsel in the Bush White House, he worked on the administration’s response to congressional investigations.

Also expected to join the counsel’s office is Kate Comerford Todd, a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and head of the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who will handle judicial nominations, though it is unclear whether she will serve as a deputy White House counsel.

Pat Philbin, a partner at Kirkland and Ellis who served in senior positions in the George W. Bush Justice Department, is also expected to join the office in a senior position.

The White House declined to comment.

The new hires also begin a badly needed rebuilding of the counsel’s office. Cipollone is expected to bring on several more lawyers soon to replace ones who started under McGahn early last year but have since departed.

A longer-than-expected security clearance process, however, has prevented Cipollone from assuming the job, even as the Mueller probe advances and a House Democratic majority draws ever nearer to assuming power. That has left Cipollone playing catchup as he tries to fill vacant posts in an office whose staff numbers in the dozens.

Cipollone comes from the Washington law firm of Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner. He is a graduate of the University Chicago Law School, which has produced several prominent conservative legal activists. He is also a co-founder of National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

Since McGahn’s exit in October, Emmet Flood, who represents the president in the Mueller probe, has been serving as acting White House counsel, but he did not hire additional lawyers into the office, instead allowing Cipollone to build his own team.

John Eisenberg, who served as former White House counsel Don McGahn’s deputy for national security affairs, will remain in that position.

Darren Samuelsohn contributed to this report.

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Urban Meyer Leaves Another Program Disgraced—and It Won’t Be His Last

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - DECEMBER 01: Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer looks on prior to the Big Ten Championship game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 1, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

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Take a deep breath, everyone. We’ll get through this shocking revelation, this can’t-be-true moment, together.

Urban Meyer has retired. Again.

Meyer proclaimed Tuesday that he’s leaving Ohio State because of health issues, and that he’s done coaching. It’s the same thing he said eight years ago after walking away from Florida.

Back then, in 2010, he walked away from a program cratered with entitlement run amok, roster manipulation, a drug problem in the locker room and more than 30 player arrests in six seasons.

On Tuesday, he walked away from a program that has had a brutal season off the field, including revelations of the reckless enabling of former assistant coach Zach Smith, whose alleged domestic violence (among other nefarious issues) while working for Meyer at both Florida and Ohio State left an indelible shame stain for all to see on one of the greatest coaches in the history of the sport.

The next big question: Who takes a chance on Meyer when he wants back in?

If you think Meyer, the most competitive, win-at-all-costs football coach of our generation, will just walk away at 54 years young, you’re the same person who believes he’s as pure and true as the Pope he’s named after.

Any number of jobs could be available for the 2020 season, and a year away from the grind will allow Meyer to get well (he has been dealing with an arachnoid cyst in his brain since the early 1990s), recharge and reorganize his life.

Forget about the NFL. Meyer’s rah-rah, psychological motivation won’t work on grown men. It will, however, work at the highest level of college football.

But if you’re USC, Auburn, Florida State or any other major program, are you willing to sell your souls for championships, knowing full well the future collateral damage?

Do you hire a coach who allegedly hid drug-test failures on the Florida sideline by having players wear walking boots so it looked like they were injured?

Do you hire a coach who proclaims respecting women is his No. 1 priority but allows star tailback Carlos Hyde to return to the team after just a three-game suspension when video evidence showed Hyde slapping a woman at a bar?

Do you hire a coach who did nothing after a star player (Percy Harvin) allegedly attacked one of his assistant coaches at Florida?

Do you hire a coach who had to visit a player’s family in the middle of the season to make it right with them because he created an environment where an assistant, Smith, allegedly got into an altercation with the player, Trevon Grimes, and used a racial slur?

I know, I know. All in the past. All just allegations. And Meyer denies it all.

Because what would make anyone doubt the honesty of a coach who was caught lying by an Ohio State committee investigating the enabling of Smith? Who deleted texts on his phone prior to investigators searching it for clues? Who told investigators he met with Smith’s wife in 2009 and she recanted domestic abuse claims, even though Smith himself told the committee that Meyer didn’t meet with her? Who would cook up a story about flying down to Florida five days before a Big Ten road game to see Grimes’ sick mother out of the goodness of his heart—not because he was concerned a damaging story would get out?

At what point do college presidents see Meyer for what he is: a helluva football coach with a win-at-all-costs mentality who dangerously blurs the line between righteous and renegade?

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - DECEMBER 01: Head coach Urban Meyer of the Ohio State Buckeyes speaks to media after defeating the Northwestern Wildcats at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 01, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

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Meyer doesn’t lie. He misrepresents facts.

He doesn’t know about damaging details. He forgets them.

He doesn’t delete text messages. He just asks his director of football operations how one would, you know, clear old texts messages, if one wanted to?

He doesn’t fly down to Florida in the middle of the season to make a deal with a backup freshman wide receiver who has three career catches. He travels to Florida to comfort a sick mother.

Ohio State knew all of this in August and still chose to slap Meyer on the wrist with a three-game suspension instead of ripping off the bandage and firing him.

The old coaching adage is that a team is a reflection of its coach. Well, a university is, too. A three-game suspension, and back on the horse.

If we don’t learn from history, we’re doomed to watch Meyer build a program of preferential treatment at Florida with what he called his “Circle of Trust,” then move to Ohio State and do the same damn thing with his—ready for it?—”Brotherhood of Trust,” all over again somewhere else.

Wash, rinse, repeat. Who’s next?

The clock started ticking on Meyer’s latest exit once he sat through the uncomfortable suspension press conference in August, dripping with defiance and using forced, uncomfortable apologies. Then last month, Meyer told reporters that headaches he gets from the cyst have become an issue, but that he loves Ohio State and he wanted to coach the Buckeyes “as long as I can.”

Let me be the first to translate that for you: He has worn out his welcome in Columbus, and he knows it.

It took six years at Florida. It took seven at Ohio State. He seems to have a bad locker room now (why else would star defensive end Nick Bosa not even hang around to support his teammates while recovering from a core injury and work out at the finest facilities in college football?), like he had a bad locker room when he left Gainesville after the 2010 season.

So now Meyer is retiring and wants to get healthy and spend more time with his family (sound familiar?). He’ll sit out a season and do some television work, and a big job will open up.

Then what? We’ll breathe deep and get through that shocking, can’t-be-true revelation together.

Again.

Matt Hayes covers college football for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter: @matthayescfb.

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In historic first, UK government found in contempt of parliament

The UK government will publish in full legal advice it received regarding British Prime Minister Theresa May’s widely criticised Brexit deal after it was found to be in contempt of parliament for failing to originally do so.

In a landmark vote on Tuesday, parliamentarians in the lower chamber House of Commons backed a motion, tabled a day before by six parties, demanding full disclosure of the counsel by 311 votes to 293.

The vote marked the first time in history a UK government has been found in contempt of parliament.

Responding to the result, the ruling Conservative Party’s Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said the government intended to publish the advice on Wednesday.

“We have listened carefully and in light of the expressed will of the House, we will publish the final and full advice provided by the attorney general to cabinet,” Leadsom told parliament.

The issue will also be referred to the Commons’ Privileges Committee to determine which ministers are accountable for the alleged contempt and whether any subsequent punishment is required, she added.

An earlier attempt by ministers to head off the contempt motion by having the entire issue referred to the cross-party Privileges Committee was defeated by four votes.

‘Huge constitutional significance’

The main opposition Labour Party’s Shadow Brexit Secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, claimed the decision was of “huge constitutional and political significance”.

“The motion makes clear the government must now publish the attorney general’s final legal advice in full,” Starmer said.

“I hope the government will now comply with that order,” he added.

Tuesday’s furore came after the government’s publication on Monday of a 52-page summary of the legal counsel it received regarding May’s Brexit plan.

In an address to parliament on Monday, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox claimed publishing the full extent of legal advice he provided the government over the deal would be “contrary to the public interest”.

“I am caught in an acute clash of constitutional principle,” Cox said.

“Let us suppose I had given advice … covering all sorts of matters, including our relationships with foreign states … including matters of acute importance to this country, would it be right for the attorney general, regardless of the harm to the public interest, to divulge his opinion? I say it wouldn’t.”

‘Meaningful vote’

May, for her part, has said the full extent of advice received by her government over the Brexit deal is confidential under lawyer-client privilege.

The British leader kickstarted five days of parliamentary debate on her proposed withdrawal agreement with a statement to parliament on Tuesday.

Following the discussions, a so-called “meaningful vote” on May’s deal will take place on December 11 in the Commons.

Majority support would mean she can introduce a formal EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill to parliament for consideration and ratification in early 2019.

Majority opposition, however, would force her government to put forward a new plan within 21 days. A separate House of Commons vote on Tuesday determined that parliamentarians will have the right to amend any such motion.

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ESA’s SpaceBok is training for missions in space

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Students from two Swiss universities designed SpaceBok, a quadruped robot being trained for missions to Mars and the moon.

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Klay Thompson on Cavs Rivalry in LeBron Era: ‘Pettiness Gets You 1-8 in Finals’

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Only a true Petty King can be petty while criticizing another person for being petty.

It’s probably time we schedule Klay Thompson’s anointing ceremony.

The Golden State Warriors guard lobbed a massive pile of shade at LeBron James (and/or the Cleveland Cavaliers) when reminded of the Cavaliers’ 2016 Halloween party that featured Thompson and Steph Curry on tombstone cookies.

“Oh, yeah. Ha!” Thompson told Anthony Slater of The Athletic. “That was funny. Look how that turned out. Psssh. Bums. That was crazy. I forgot about that. Well, look at what pettiness gets you. Gets you 1-8 in the Finals. Idiots.”

As far as shade goes, Thompson levied a haymaker. The Warriors defeated the Cavaliers in two straight Finals after the Cavs upset them for the 2016 NBA title, knocking them out in five games in 2017 and sweeping them in 2018.

One could, however, argue that the Cavs’ 1-8 record in the last two Finals has more to do with the arrival of Kevin Durant in Golden State than any culinary choices. Cookies, to my knowledge, are yet to become sentient and win consecutive Finals MVPs.

The back-to-back embarrassments nonetheless led to LeBron’s departure for Los Angeles and Cleveland’s current state as one of the NBA’s worst franchises.

The Warriors are scheduled to play in Cleveland for the first time since James’ departure Wednesday night.

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