Washington quarterback Colt McCoy left Monday night’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles after suffering a leg injury in the second quarter and is questionable to return, the team announced.
Mark Sanchez, who signed with Washington on Nov. 19 following Alex Smith’s season-ending leg injury, replaced the injured McCoy under center.
The team only has two quarterbacks active for the game, so tight end Jordan Reed will serve as the emergency quarterback, according to NBC Sports’JP Finlay.
McCoy left the game having gone 4-of-4 for 50 yards, zero touchdowns and zero interceptions, leaving with Philadelphia leading 7-3. On Sanchez’s first play of the game, though, former NFL MVP Adrian Peterson broke off a 90-yard touchdown run:
A vintage AD performance would certainly help take the pressure off Washington’s quarterback situation.
Washington was leading the NFC East at 6-3 when Smith went down. McCoy was unable to lead his team to a victory over the Houston Texans in relief of Smith in Week 11 and also dropped his first start of the season a week ago against the Dallas Cowboys. As a result, Washington (6-5) is currently trying to cling on to a wild-card spot.
And while the 32-year-old Sanchez has a pair of AFC Championship Game appearances on his resume, Monday marked his first regular-season action since the 2016 season, when he was a member of the Cowboys. The former fifth overall pick has not been a full-time starter since 2012, his final year with the New York Jets.
He has played in a total of just 15 games since the end of the 2012 season.
Now that the team has to turn to a quarterback it signed just two weeks ago, Washington will likely try to lean on Peterson even more. Sanchez’s Jets career was plagued by turnovers, so Washington will have to hope the veteran can protect the football and let the ground game carry the workload.
Irfah Satiri slightly bends down to drag a plastic bag out of the mud at the bottom of a waterway.
“Maybe, it’s been here for years,” he says.
The paddy fields that used to surround Satiri’s village in Bogor, south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, have mostly been built over by housing. Only these irrigation channels remain.
Over the years, the waterways became a dumping ground for waste. Despite the foul smells, most of the villagers did not care, Satiri says.
“I was really stressed about the garbage in the river, and how I would solve this problem.”
Soon after, Satiri and his friends came up with an idea. They started with a 30-metre stretch of waterway. They cleaned it out and populated it with fish. When the other villagers saw that it could be a source of food and income, they joined in.
Nowadays, the fish farm is more than 300 metres in length, while neighbouring villages are thinking of doing the same.
Even some of her critics concede that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen seems to have bought herself time with some savvy presentation. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
The embattled DHS secretary, recently said to be on the brink of ouster, may now survive well into 2019.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who was recently on the brink of losing her job, is now expected to survive the Cabinet shake-up President Donald Trump has spent weeks teasing — and she may have the caravan to thank.
On the verge of firing by a president who has said she isn’t a strong enough defender of the U.S.-Mexico border, Nielsen has adopted — and made sure to publicize — a tough stance in response to the caravan of Central American migrants headed toward the U.S. that Trump turned into a major midterm campaign issue. She has visited the southern border three times since October, and recently hailed Trump as a forceful “leader.”
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The firm posture seems to have impressed her most important audience: the president.
Five sources inside and close to the administration describe a clear shift in the president’s feelings toward his DHS chief, about whom he has repeatedly complained over the past year. Her fate is of particular interest because, administration officials say, White House chief of staff John Kelly, a longtime Nielsen mentor and defender, could quickly follow her out the door in frustration.
Even some of her critics concede that Nielsen seems to have bought herself time with some savvy presentation.
“She’s playing the part of an immigration hawk as opposed to actually being one,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, who’s been critical of Nielsen in the past.
There is no such thing as total job security in Trump’s administration, where every official is subject to the president’s changing whims.
But in recent days Nielsen, backed by powerful allies including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, has shown off policy actions and political positioning that seem to have mollified Trump’s criticism.
Nielsen jumped to Trump’s public defense late last monthamid blaring criticism over the use of tear gas by U.S. border officers against asylum-seekers who tried illegally crossing into the United States. In a statement under her name and posted on the Facebook page of the Department of Homeland Security, she accused organizers of the caravan of using women and children as “human shields.”
She also praised Trump, thanking him for the decision to send U.S. military troops to the border.
“Instead of ‘a political stunt,’ as suggested by some, this was in fact the act of a leader concerned about the rule of law,” she wrote of a president who eight days earlier had said that Nielsen needed to “get much tougher” on border security.
Soon after that statement, she sent a memo to a half-dozen federal agencies, first reported by POLITICO, urging them to deploy all available civilian law enforcement officers to the border.
Both moves, combined with a recent surge in Nielsen’s social media posts about border security, have placed the Cabinet secretary on safer ground, according to allies of the Homeland Security chief and two people familiar with Trump’s thinking.
“The recent developments with Mexico and her strong Facebook post have helped subside the speculation on her future,” a source close to Nielsen told POLITICO.
In what may have been another positive sign, Nielsen accompanied Melania Trump to a Nov. 28 town hall discussion of the opioid epidemic at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., where the first lady said she was “proud” to be joined by the DHS chief.
Those close to Nielsen said she has been relieved to see gossip about her job status dissipate. They also noted that several Republicans who have the president’s ear recently expressed their appreciation for her both publicly and behind closed doors, including Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Vice President Mike Pence.
But the sudden respite from job-related speculation has also stirred frustration among Nielsen and her allies. One source close to the secretary said “she’s just now starting to bear fruit for all the work she’s put in,” claiming that Nielsen has been a quietsteward of Trump’s immigration agenda for months, but couldn’t discuss several policies in public until recently.
“Ever since the [family] separation issue, she’s been working behind the scenes trying to find solutions. I don’t think it’s her being tougher, it’s just that things she’s worked on just now emerged front and center,” said a former Nielsen aide, citing the administration’s recently debuted plan to force migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. to stay in Mexico until their claims can be heard. The aide claimed the Remain in Mexico policy, as it’s widely known, was borne out of the family separation crisis earlier this summer, which Nielsen defended at the time, but privately told confidants she did not want to let happen again.
Nielsen’s post-midterm job performance has satisfied Trump enough to make it possible she will hold her job well into 2019, according to one senior administration official. Two sources close to the secretary also said she’s committed to staying as long as Kelly remains inside the West Wing and her relationship with the president remains neutral.
Nielsen has meanwhile continued her official duties. She and Pompeo were scheduled to meet with Mexico’s incoming foreign minister on Sunday and Monday in Washington to finalize the details of the policy, to which newly inaugurated Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tentatively agreed last month.
According to the former Nielsen aide, Trump’s Homeland Security chief has forged strong relationships with Pompeo and Mattis over the course of her tenure.
The support of Mattis and Pompeo came up repeatedly during a recent conversation between Trump and Kelly, who has spent months trying to save her job.
Two sources familiar with the conversation said Kelly also warned Trump about the difficulties of installing a new head of the agency, which has gone months without a permanent deputy secretary and could face significant hurdles in its border protection division if the government shuts down later this month.
“No one has been working harder to implement the president’s security-focused agenda than Secretary Nielsen,” said DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton. “She is fully focused on supporting the men and women of DHS, the mission at hand, and solving the crisis at the border.”
Critics who doubt Nielsen’s allegiance to Trump’s restrictionist immigration agenda have said her recent trips to the border may have marked a turning point in their perception of her. Nielsen told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum — in an interview last month conducted at the border — that any migrants who avoid ports of entry and enter the United States illegally would “absolutely … be apprehended and removed immediately.”
“Everything is on the table,” she said, when asked how the administration planned to address the sudden influx of migrants
“This is what a DHS secretary is supposed to do,” said Krikorian, who remains skeptical that Nielsen is as hard line on immigration as she publicly suggests.
“But I don’t care who’s in that job so long as they’re doing the job,” he added.
The rise and fall of Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande‘s whirlwind romance has been a source of fascination during a grim 2018. Some aspects of celebrity gossip are fun — especially when a couple is happy to open up about their love — but it sounds like, months after their engagement ended, some fans are still making things a bit too personal.
In a vulnerable Instagram post on Monday (December 3), Pete opened up about the harassment he’s received both online and in real life over the past several months.
“I’ve kept my mouth shut. Never mentioned any names, never said a word about anyone or anything,” he began the post, which also does not name names or call out any specifics. “I’m trying to understand how when something happens to a guy the whole entire world just trashes him without any facts or frame of reference.”
Of course, both he and Ariana have vaguely and/or indirectly addressed their split, but Pete’s right — the public is largely without knowledge of their relationship’s final days.
Pointing out the irony of a culture that “loves to be offended and upset” yet is quick to judge, the SNL star continued, “I’ve been getting online bullied and in public by people for 9 months.”
This announcement is heartbreaking, especially because Pete has used his platform to amplify his own struggles with mental health, particularly his borderline personality disorder diagnosis and past suicide attempt, as well as his attempts to alleviate his struggles with dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT). Those are all things he says he’s spoken about “only in the hopes that it will help bring awareness and help kids like myself who don’t want to be on this earth.”
Fortunately, despite the loud and negative peanut gallery, Pete isn’t losing sight of himself. “No matter how hard the internet or anyone tries to make me kill myself. I won’t. I’m upset I even have to say this,” he wrote, before ending on a note of gratitude. “To all those holding me down and seeing this for what it is — I see you and I love you.”
Pete may be experiencing problems with trolls, but it seems there is no bad blood between him and his ex. Ari indicated as much with last Friday’s much-hyped “Thank U, Next” music video, which included messages about Pete in her Mean Girls-inspired Burn Book. His page was notably decorated with the sweet phrases “i love u always” and “sry i dipped.” And, proving that she still has a sense of humor when it comes to the controversial comedian, she added “HUUUUUGE” along the bottom of the page — likely yet another reference to Pete’s impressive proportions.
So, if Ari isn’t mad, and if Pete isn’t mad, then it seems like he’s right: It’s time for us all to move on from the unnecessary bullying.
Shady developers have found a new way to trick users into spending ridiculous sums of money on worthless services.
The scheme, which was discovered by Redditors and reported by the welivesecurity blog, uses TouchID to trick users into in-app purchases, which can be as high as $99.99.
The blog uncovered two such examples, both from purported fitness apps. In both cases, the apps instruct users to hold their finger over their iPhone’s home button in order to “scan” their fingerprint for health data. While the “scan” is happening, though, the app triggers an in-app purchase, which is then authenticated via TouchID and completed before the user even realizes what is happening.
Welivesecurity blog uncovered two examples of this tactic, one called “Calories Tracker app” and one called “Fitness Balance.” Both apps have since been removed by from the App Store by Apple, but you can see it in action in the video below. Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Shady though they are, it appears that these developers’ tactics were extraordinarily successful. “Calories Tracker app,” pulled in $60,000 in November while “Fitness Balance” made $10,000, according to data from app analytics firm Sensor Tower.
The incident also raises the questions about Apple’s ability to detect scams in the first place.
Though Apple’s App Store has a reputation for being safer than other app stores, this isn’t the first time shady developers have been allowed to get their apps into the store. Last year, a number of barely-functional apps were removed for tricking users into paying for exorbitantly-priced subscriptions.
One such app, which also took advantage of the App Store’s search ads, was charging $99.99 weekly for a worthless VPN service. The app was pulling in $80,000 a month before it was eventually removed.
Indonesia’s Lion Air is reviewing airplane purchases from Boeing Co and has not ruled out cancelling orders as relations worsen in a spat over responsibility for a 737 jetliner crash that killed 189 people in late October.
Co-founder Rusdi Kirana is furious over what he regards as attempts by Boeing to deflect attention from recent design changes and blame Lion Air for the crash, while the airline faces scrutiny over its maintenance record and pilots’ actions.
Kirana is examining the possibility of cancelling remaining orders of Boeing jets “from the next delivery”, a person familiar with his thinking told the Reuters news agency.
Another source close to the airline told Reuters it was looking at cancelling orders.
No final decision has been made, but discussion over the fate of $22bn of remaining orders highlights the stakes surrounding an investigation involving Boeing’s fastest-ever selling jet, the 737 MAX, which entered service last year.
Lion Air has 190 Boeing jets worth $22bn at list prices waiting to be delivered, on top of 197 already taken, making it one of the largest US export customers.
Any request to cancel could be designed to put pressure on Boeing and would likely trigger extensive negotiations. Many airlines defer orders, but industry sources say aerospace suppliers rarely allow much scope for unilateral cancellations.
Lion Air declined to comment. A Boeing spokesperson said: “We are taking every measure to fully understand all aspects of this accident, and are working closely with the investigating team and all regulatory authorities involved. We are also supporting our valued customer through this very tough time.”
The 737 jetliner crash killed 189 people in late October [File: Beawiharta/Reuters]
Maintenance, software
Kirana, who is now Indonesia’s envoy to Malaysia but still carries weight at the airline he co-founded with his brother in 2000, ordered the review in response to a Boeing statement focusing attention on piloting and maintenance, the person said.
Boeing released the statement after investigators last week issued an interim report focusing on maintenance actions spread over four flights in the run-up to the doomed flight on October 29.
Boeing is also examining software changes in the wake of the crash, while insisting longstanding procedures exist for pilots to cancel automated nose-down movements experienced by the 737 MAX in response to erroneous sensor readings.
It has come under fire from US pilots for not mentioning the MCAS system – a modification of existing anti-stall systems – in the manual for the 737 MAX, which began service last year.
“Why are they changing (software) if there was nothing wrong?” the person familiar with Kirana’s thinking said.
Boeing has said all information needed to fly the 737 safely is available to pilots and that its workhorse model is safe.
Some financial sources say Lion Air and southeast Asian rivals over-expanded and would be comfortable with fewer orders.
But the row highlights an unusually polarised dispute over the causes of the crash. Experts say most accidents are caused by a cocktail of factors and parties rarely comment in detail before the final report, which often follows a year of analysis.
In its statement, Boeing recapped the interim report and listed questions on maintenance and pilot behaviour that it said remained unanswered in the 78-page document, but did not mention the MCAS modification covered in an earlier safety bulletin.
It is not the first time an airline has crossed swords with its supplier after a crash. Lion Air’s rival AirAsia clashed with Airbus after its Indonesian subsidiary lost an A320 in 2014. It continued to take deliveries, but relations never fully recovered and it later toyed with buying 787s from Boeing.
When Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced a lower-priced Model 3 a few months ago, he deducted thousands in federal tax incentives from the sticker price. On Monday, according to Reuters, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the subsidies for electric vehicles from Tesla and other carmakers would end in 2020 or 2021.
Trump’s administration has long floated the idea of eliminating the tax break. Last week, he said he was thinking about cutting electric vehicle subsidies for General Motors after it announced plans to shut down five U.S. car plants.
….for electric cars. General Motors made a big China bet years ago when they built plants there (and in Mexico) – don’t think that bet is going to pay off. I am here to protect America’s Workers!
As it stands now, Americans who buy a qualified electric vehicle (like the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt, or any Tesla) receive a $7,500 tax credit. That’s a sizeable chunk meant to incentivize electric vehicle (EV) adoption. But there’s a cap for car makers. After 200,000 electric vehicles sold, the subsidy is halved every six months until it disappears.
Tesla hit its 200,000th EV sale in July, so the incentive program is phasing out. Tesla buyers are still eligible for a tax credit, even though it will dwindle to $1,875 by the end of 2019. General Motors is expected to hit 200,000 cars by the end of the year.
For other companies like Volvo, Volkswagen, and Toyota that are far from the 200,000 car limit, ending the subsidies could seriously hurt their ambitious goals to produce more — if not switch entirely to — electric vehicles in the next few years.
Tesla has promoted the federal tax program for years to would-be buyers and has tried to change the law concerning the cap for all electric vehicles. Musk has repeatedly also argued for a carbon tax to disincentivize traditional car use.
We reached out to the leading EV sellers in the U.S.: Tesla and GM. A GM spokesperson said the company supports the consumer credit and doesn’t think there should be a cap.
“We believe an important part of reaching a zero emissions future and establishing the U.S. as the leader in electrification is to continue to provide a federal tax credit to help make electric vehicles more affordable for all customers,” the spokesperson said in an email.
Tesla declined to comment.
UPDATE: Dec. 3, 2018, 3:19 p.m. PST Tesla has said it supports a “level playing field” for all car manufacturers, meaning no incentives for anyone.
In a statement from October given to CNBC a Tesla spokesperson said, “Tesla has succeeded in spite of government subsidies, not because of them. Third-party studies have shown that our biggest competitors, including the oil and gas industry, receive trillions of dollars in subsidies each year. In comparison, Tesla receives virtually nothing yet still manages to compete with these giants. We would much prefer a level playing field where all companies go to zero incentives.”
The Heisman Trophy finalists were announced Monday evening, with Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray and Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins selected for the Saturday, Dec. 8 ceremony and announcement of the winner in New York.
And if you think there’s a clear-cut favorite from that group, well, think again.
Barrett Sallee @BarrettSallee
Kyler Murray is now the Heisman Trophy favorite at @BovadaOfficial
Kyler Murray 1/2
Tua Tagovailoa 3/2
Dwayne Haskins 60/1
Gil Brandt @Gil_Brandt
So many great Heisman candidates this year but my favorite is Kyler Murray, whose total offense (4,945) compares favorably to past Heisman winners. When season is over he’ll hold 2 FBS records (pass yds/gm & yds/att). Currently he has comp % of 70.9 w/ 51 TDs. Tape don’t lie.
trey wingo @wingoz
So who should win the Heisman?
Kyler Murray has a 96.0 QBR this season and Tua Tagovailoa is at 94.2.
In the first 14 seasons QBR was tracked, the highest QBR entering bowl season was 93.8 by Andrew Luck in 2010.
Jason McIntyre @jasonrmcintyre
Yes, Kyler Murray has better stats. Why? Tua sat out the 4th quarter … and he faced tougher defenses
Top 25 defenses faced:
Kyler Murray 1 (TCU)
Tua Tagovailoa 5 (Georgia, Miss St, LSU, Missouri, Auburn)
Below, we’ll break down the finalists and their cases to be voted on as the winner.
Finalists
Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama
The Alabama quarterback has arguably been the front-runner for this award for most of the season, leading the Crimson Tide to an unbeaten regular season and a berth in the SEC Championship Game against Georgia, where they won and claimed both an SEC title and berth in the College Football Playoff.
Tagovailoa has thrown for 3,353 yards, 37 touchdowns and just four interceptions this season, adding 190 rushing yards and five scores. He’s completed an impressive 67.7 percent of his passes and didn’t throw an interception until Alabama’s eighth game of the season.
He also finished the regular season off in style, throwing for five touchdowns and rushing for a sixth in the Iron Bowl against rival Auburn in Alabama’s convincing 52-21 win. On the most talented team in the country, Tagovailoa has nonetheless stood out.
“It’s crazy because you don’t ever really notice that you’re witnessing greatness,” Alabama running back Josh Jacobs told B/R’sAdam Kramer. “The plays he makes are so difficult, but he makes them look so effortless.”
“He’s a GOAT,” Alabama’s Quinnen Williams added. “He’s going to win the Heisman twice.”
This year might be his first, though his performance and injury in the SEC title game might have opened the door for another contender to surpass him. Tagovailoa left the game in the fourth quarter with the Crimson Tide trailing by seven after completing just 10 of 25 passes for 164 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions, and Jalen Hurts led the team to consecutive touchdown drives to earn the win.
It was Tagovailoa’s worst game of the season on the biggest stage. It was his only poor performance of the year, however—a fact worth remembering.
Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma
In most seasons, Murray would probably be the unquestioned favorite for the Heisman Trophy. His stats are gaudy: 4,053 passing yards for 40 touchdowns and seven interceptions, completing 70.9 percent of his passes, to go along with 892 rushing yards for another 11 scores. Murray is the most dynamic dual-threat quarterback in the nation.
And he may be the best young athlete in the country, period. Football isn’t even Murray’s primary sport, after all. In fact, he still plans to give up football after this season to pursue a professional baseball career after he was the No. 9 overall pick by the Oakland Athletics last summer.
Eric Bailey @EricBaileyTW
Kyler Murray: I feel like I could play in the NFL but as far as giving (football) up, that’s the plan. #Sooners
If Murray were to win the Heisman and then go on to become a baseball star, he’d become the stuff of legend. Regardless, he’s made his mark on college football this season and has led Oklahoma to the College Football Playoff.
If Murray leapfrogs Tagovailoa, it won’t be a major shock, especially given Murray’s superior performance (25-of-34 for 379 passing yards and three touchdowns) in his conference title game.
Dwayne Haskins, QB, Ohio State
Haskins is likely a distant third in the Heisman race behind Tagovailoa and Murray, but he’s had a superb season nonetheless, throwing for an impressive 4,580 yards, 47 touchdowns and eight interceptions. His place in New York was guaranteed with his enormous performance against Michigan, when he threw for 396 yards and six touchdowns and led the Buckeyes back to the Big Ten title game.
He was just as good in that game, finishing 34-of-41 for 499 yards, five touchdowns and one interception as Ohio State claimed the conference. While it wasn’t enough to earn a berth in the College Football Playoff, Haskins nonetheless had the Buckeyes in the conversation.
He also made Big Ten history, breaking conference records for passing yards and passing touchdowns. Given the number of talented quarterbacks who have played in the Big Ten, that’s no small feat, and yet another reason Haskins deserves his place in New York.
Where to Watch: The Heisman Award ceremony and all college football broadcasts are available through fuboTV.
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