U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is reportedly on Donald Trump’s brief listing of candidates to hitch his ticket, elevating the query of who would exchange South Carolina’s junior senator — and the way.

Scott has been thought of a possible working mate for Trump since he dropped out in November, when the GOP presidential area was nonetheless crowded. However hypothesis actually ramped up after Scott’s on-stage endorsement of Trump two months later. Scott’s been such an enthusiastic supporter, Trump has stated the senator’s a greater campaigner for him than Scott was for himself.

“He did properly (within the major), however he wasn’t as forceful as he’s, as a result of he doesn’t wish to speak about himself. So attention-grabbing,” Trump stated at a rally in North Charleston in February.

Hypothesis could finish Thursday evening.

Trump has teased that he “almost definitely” would announce his decide for vice chairman throughout his televised debate with President Joe Biden in Atlanta.

If Trump chooses Scott, and their ticket wins in November, South Carolina’s subsequent U.S. senator would take workplace the identical approach Scott did in 2013.

By state regulation, the governor replaces any U.S. senator who leaves workplace earlier than the time period ends. The interim appointment lasts via the following common election, thought of a particular election for the Senate seat, in line with the state Elections Fee.

In December 2012, then-Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Scott to interchange U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint of Greenville, who resigned two years into his six-year time period to steer the Heritage Basis, a conservative assume tank.

Scott had simply received re-election to the coastal 1st Congressional District. However as a substitute of beginning a second time period within the U.S. Home, the previous Charleston County Council chairman was sworn in to the U.S. Senate in January 2013, changing into the South’s first Black Republican senator since Reconstruction.

Retaining the seat required going via the common election course of in 2014. Scott received the GOP major that June by an 80-percentage-point landslide, then beat his Democratic challenger by 24 factors that November to meet the remainder of DeMint’s time period.

Scott then trounced his competitors in 2016 to win his first full time period. He had one other simple win in 2022 for a Senate race he’s stated was his final.

If Scott leaves the U.S. Senate after November — equally two years right into a six-year time period — Gov. Henry McMaster would appoint his alternative.

South Carolina is one in all 37 states that makes use of a gubernatorial appointment to fill Senate vacancies till a common election. Of these, 10 require the governor to nominate an interim of the identical political celebration because the departing senator, in line with the Congressional Analysis Service. 

South Carolina doesn’t mandate that events match. Nevertheless, it’s a on condition that McMaster, a former state Republican Celebration chairman, would appoint a Republican.  

On this hypothetical state of affairs, ought to McMaster’s appointee wish to keep within the Senate, the interim would face a possible major and common election in 2026 to serve out the rest of Scott’s time period via 2028.

McMaster had no touch upon whether or not he had any candidates in thoughts to interchange Scott.

“It might be untimely at this level to make plans,” McMaster spokesman Brandon Charochak stated Wednesday. 

A spokesperson for Scott declined to remark.

It’s attainable for governors to take a Senate seat for themselves when a emptiness happens. However voters usually don’t look kindly on that.

It’s occurred solely as soon as in South Carolina.

In April 1965, then-Gov. Donald Russell resigned following the demise of U.S. Sen. Olin Johnston, permitting Russell’s lieutenant governor to ascend to governor and appoint him to the empty Senate seat.

However Russell didn’t keep within the Senate lengthy.

He was ousted from the seat by Fritz Hollings within the 1966 Democratic major. Hollings not solely fulfilled the remainder of Johnston’s time period however remained South Carolina’s senator for 38 years, making him the eighth longest-serving U.S. senator in historical past as of his demise in 2019. (When Hollings retired in 2004, voters elected DeMint to interchange him.)

Kinky Friedman, the satirical and infrequently provocative musician, creator and one-time politician, has died on the age of 79.

“Kinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill surrounded by household & pals,” learn a publish on his social media. “Kinkster endured super ache & unthinkable loss in recent times however he by no means misplaced his preventing spirit and fast wit. Kinky will reside on as his books are learn and his songs are sung.”

All through his profession, Richard Samet “Kinky” Friedman developed a cult following for his distinctive, quirky strategy to nation and Western music. The self-proclaimed “governor of the guts of Texas” launched a strong variety of albums beginning with 1973’s “Bought American,” usually thought-about his foundational document, and along with touring with Bob Dylan on his “Rolling Thunder Revue,” he grew to become the “first full-blooded Jew” to look on the Grand Ole Opry.

Outdoors of his music profession, Friedman was a prolific author, penning detective novels and serving as a columnist for Texas Month-to-month. He dabbled in politics, operating for Governor of Texas in 2006 with marketing campaign slogans like “My Governor is a Jewish Cowboy.” In the long run, he obtained 12.6 p.c of the votes amongst six candidates.

Born in Chicago, Friedman grew up in Texas and attended College of Texas at Austin to check psychology. An curiosity in music led him to kind King Arthur & the Carrots adopted by Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, which he described as a “nation band with a social conscience, a demented love little one of Lenny Bruce and Bob Wills.” The group stirred controversy with songs like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “Journey ‘Em Jewboy.”

When his music profession waned within the Eighties, Friedman shifted to being a novelist and author at giant, publishing 1994’s “Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola: A Novel” and 2004’s “Kinky Friedman’s Information to Texas Etiquette: Or Learn how to Get to Heaven or Hell With out Going By Dallas-Fort Value.”

Together with his sister Marcie, he helped run the Echo Hill Gold Star Camp for youngsters. Kent Perkins, a longtime good friend of Friedman, remembered him in a publish on his social media.

“Someplace in heaven,” he wrote, “I’m positive there’s a quiet nook with an enormous straightforward chair, a vibrant flooring lamp, an enormous stack of biographical books, and some previous canine wagging their tails to the faint odor of cigar smoke.”

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Richard “Kinky” Friedman — the provocative and flamboyant Texas satirist who mounted a spirited marketing campaign for governor in 2006 and was identified for his boundary-pushing music and deep love for animals — died this week. He was 79.

Friedman died at his longtime household dwelling at Echo Hill Ranch in Medina, his mates Cleve Hattersley and Kent Perkins mentioned. Friedman had Parkinson’s illness, Hattersley mentioned in an interview.

“He was a communicator. An uncommon, however very pointed and poignant communicator,” Hattersley mentioned. “He may deliver you to tears on stage. He may make you roll on the ground in laughter.”

The iconoclastic Friedman ran for governor as an impartial in opposition to Republican incumbent Rick Perry in 2006. Regardless of a colourful marketing campaign, Friedman completed fourth within the race.

“Kinky Friedman was a bigger than life Texas icon and can be remembered as one of the crucial attention-grabbing personalities in Texas politics,” Perry mentioned in an announcement to The Texas Tribune on Thursday. “Kinky’s run for governor in 2006 made an in any other case grueling marketing campaign cycle truly enjoyable. Might he relaxation straightforward after a life lived to the fullest.”

Friedman additionally ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner in 2010 and in 2014. He rose to Texas celeb standing for his outsized persona, pithy one-liners and signature look: curly hair poking out from beneath a black cowboy hat, cigar in hand.

“He has been described as a provocateur, and it’s not in a damaging means,” Perkins mentioned. “His goal was to impress thought to make individuals assume.”

Friedman was born in Chicago in 1944 to Russian Jewish dad and mom. The household moved to Texas the 12 months after Friedman was born and finally settled in Medina, the place his dad and mom based the Echo Hill Ranch summer season camp. He graduated in 1966 with a bachelor’s diploma in psychology from the College of Texas at Austin.

Within the early Nineteen Seventies, Friedman shaped the satirical nation band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys — which penned songs like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “Get Your Biscuits within the Oven and Your Buns within the Mattress.” The latter tune, which made enjoyable of feminism, helped Friedman earn the Nationwide Group for Girls’s “Male Chauvinist Pig Award.”

On the identical time, he gained the respect of musical titans like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson.

Perkins, an actor, met Friedman at a piece Christmas get together within the mid-Nineteen Seventies. Perkins was with Columbia Footage, and Friedman with Columbia Information. They discovered one another amongst a whole bunch of company as a result of each wore cowboy hats with their tuxedos.

The person Perkins received to know was a humorous, trustworthy, deep thinker who loved fame however didn’t care about cash. Friedman would meet somebody at a live performance and keep in mind their title if he bumped into them later at one other metropolis’s airport. He would invite Perkins for a “monetary bloodletting” in Las Vegas when he received paid for a e book deal. He may tip $30 on a $10 lunch.

“Anybody that wished to befriend him, he was variety to; he didn’t shut individuals out even when many others did,” Perkins mentioned. “Kinky was adored and cherished within the leisure business by giants.”

Within the late Nineteen Seventies, Friedman performed each Sunday night time on the Lone Star Cafe in New York Metropolis, Hattersley remembered. Hattersley’s job grew to become getting him on stage and conserving him there. Hattersley recounted the storied company who got here to see him, corresponding to actor Robin Williams and John Belushi and different forged members of Saturday Evening Stay.

There was nobody else in nation music like him, Hattersley mentioned. He recalled his larger-than-life buddy as a “connection level” who launched him to all kinds of individuals he by no means would have met. And his lyrics had been “insane” — a mirrored image of the revolutionary occasions of the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies wherein they’d lived.

As soon as, Friedman famously sprayed the New York Rangers hockey crew and their wives with beer whereas sporting a protracted jersey, cowboy boots and no pants.

“The irreverence that he was in a position to get away with opened up extra concepts,” Hattersley mentioned. “Proper now we’re in sort of a time in society the place phrase utilization is being suppressed, and language is being codified virtually to the purpose of hieroglyphics and a lot is being unnoticed. Kinky by no means left something out.”

Later, Friedman turned to writing books, publishing novels that usually featured a fictionalized model of himself, together with “Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola” and “Armadillos and Outdated Lace.” He prevented the Web, didn’t ship textual content messages and wrote his books and columns for Texas Month-to-month with a typewriter.

In politics, Friedman staked out uncommon positions on the time for somebody in search of statewide workplace in Texas, like legalization of marijuana and on line casino playing. He supported same-sex marriage in 2006, lengthy earlier than the Supreme Court docket legalized it nationally, quipping, “I assist homosexual marriage as a result of I consider they’ve proper to be simply as depressing as the remainder of us.”

Friedman additionally supported crackdowns on undocumented immigration, boosting pay for Texas lecturers and ending the loss of life penalty.

Friedman befriended former presidents George W. Bush and Invoice Clinton. He launched his gubernatorial marketing campaign in entrance of the Alamo, the place he known as for Perry’s “unconditional give up.” After he misplaced to Perry in 2006, Friedman backed the previous governor in his failed 2012 presidential bid.

Friedman made his Jewish id a core a part of his public persona — evident in his slogans throughout his 2006 gubernatorial bid, together with “My Governor is a Jewish Cowboy,” and his music such because the tune “Trip ‘Em Jewboy,” a darkish meditation on the Holocaust.

“His Jewishness was central to his politics, his music, hIs books, his life,” mentioned Laura Stromberg Hoke, who’s Jewish and served as Friedman’s press secretary in the course of the 2006 marketing campaign. “That was fairly cool for lots of us youthful people.”

Friedman took in previous canine when their people died, Perkins mentioned, and within the late Nineteen Nineties he based an animal rescue known as Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch. Friedman traced its beginnings to an injured kitten he discovered whereas driving together with his canine, Mr. Magoo. A physician amputated the kitten’s leg. The cat was known as “Fortunate.”

As he neared loss of life, Friedman’s hospital mattress confronted his beloved hummingbird feeder, Hattersley mentioned.

Typically Friedman would ask Perkins to select up fried hen when he went to city. He fed it to his canine, smoked a cigar and smiled. A couple of days in the past, Perkins went to go to Friedman and noticed fantastic-looking dishes of rice and beef stew. He reached for a plate and the prepare dinner stopped him. The meals was for the canine.

“That’s simply so Kinky,” Perkins mentioned.

Renzo Downey contributed to this story.

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The Toronto Raptors and Sacramento Kings are reportedly swapping swingmen in a commerce.

The Kings will ship Davion Mitchell, Sasha Vezenkov and the No. 45 decide within the 2024 NBA Draft to the Raptors for Jalen McDaniels, per a number of experiences.

Mitchell is understood for his defensive talents on the perimeter whereas McDaniels has developed an identical repute with the Raptors.

A lottery decide in 2021, Mitchell has seen his position steadily decline in Sacramento. Final season, he averaged 5.3 factors, 1.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 15.3 minutes per sport, a far cry from the 11.5 ppg, 2.2 spg and 4.2 apg he averaged in 27.7 mpg as a rookie.

Nonetheless, Mitchell performed robust after the All-Star break and was a key participant for Sacramento, which made the Play-In Match. In 28 video games after the All-Star break, Mitchell posted 7.4 ppg, 1.8 rpg and a pair of.1 apg in 18.6 minutes per sport.

McDaniels signed a two-year take care of the Raptors final summer season and appeared in 50 video games, averaging 3.4 ppg and 1.6 rpg in 10.8 mpg. He struggled offensively, taking pictures 34.4% general after averaging 45.5% in 2022-23. He noticed his position improve after the All-Star break (14.3 mpg, 4.4 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 1.2 apg) however the Raptors had been out of rivalry for the postseason by early March.

Vezenkov, a rookie in 2023-24, was the EuroLeague MVP in 2022-23 and signed a three-year take care of the Kings final summer season. He appeared in 42 video games (12.2 mpg, 4.5 ppg, 2.3 rpg) however competed for frontcourt minutes with veterans akin to Harrison Barnes, Malik Monk, Kevin Huerter and Trey Lyles.

The New York Knicks chosen Marquette’s Tyler Kolek with the thirty fourth decide (through Portland) within the second spherical of the 2024 NBA Draft on Thursday afternoon.

The 6-foot-3 level guard averaged a career-high 15.1 factors per sport throughout his senior yr the place he began all 31 video games he performed in.

Kolek earned loads of accolades throughout his three years at Marquette after transferring from George Mason following his freshman yr. He was named two-time All Huge-East, was the 2022-23 Huge East Participant of the Yr and was named Huge East Match MVP in 2023.

The Cumberland, Rhode Island native additionally had a career-best in assists (7.7), rebounds (4.9) and free throw proportion (85 %) in 2023.

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This is a scouting report through ESPN’s Jonathan Givony on Kolek:

“Kolek picked opposing defenses aside final season out of pick-and-rolls, whipping the ball round to shooters, attending to floaters and proving opportunistic in taking pictures; he hit 39% of his pictures from past the arc. His common instruments may make him divisive amongst NBA groups, however his strategy and really feel for the sport will enchantment to franchises on the lookout for a backup level guard.”

That is the second decide the Knicks have made within the draft after deciding on 18-year-old French prospect Pacome Dadiet twenty fifth total Wednesday evening.

It has been every week stuffed with strikes for the franchise, as they made the commerce of the offseason to date, buying Mikal Bridges and a 2026 second spherical decide from the Nets for Bojan Bogdanovic, 4 unprotected first spherical picks (2025, 2027, 2029, and 2031), a 2025 protected first spherical decide (through Milwaukee), a 2025 second spherical decide and unprotected decide swap in 2028.

Yesterday, the Knicks determined to signal O.G. Anunoby, who they traded for previous to final season’s commerce deadline, to an enormous five-year, $212.5 million deal.

Panamá y Estados Unidos enfrentan este jueves por segunda fecha por la fase de grupos de la Copa América 2024.

Panamá y Estados Unidos se verán las caras por la segunda fecha de la fase de grupos de la Copa América 2024 y se espera que Thomas Christiansen y Gregg Berhalter, seleccionadores de Panamá y Estados Unidos, respectivamente, coloquen a sus mejores jugadores sobre la cancha para buscar el triunfo.

Los ‘Caneleros’ sufrieron una derrota por 3-1 ante Uruguay en su debut en el certamen de la CONMEBOL, pero Christiansen señaló que el miedo al combinado sudamericano fue clave para que no pudieran sumar puntos.

“Tuvieron demasiado respeto a un gran equipo, tuvimos miedo a equivocarnos. Pudimos con el balón en nuestro poder generar ocasiones. A pesar de la derrota, en el segundo tiempo demostramos que estamos vivos con ilusión de hacer buenos partidos”, dijo Thomas en rueda de prensa.

Al respecto de Estados Unidos, los aficionados de las “Barras y las Estrellas” esperan que Christian Pulisic siga siendo el líder del combinado estadounidense.

“Christian es un líder desinteresado, sale, compite, trabaja duro y eso ayuda al equipo. Para mí, tuvo un rendimiento excepcional”, dijo Gregg Berhalter.

Posibles alineaciones del Panamá vs Estados Unidos

Alineación de Panamá:

22 Orlando Mosquera

3 José Córdoba

24 Edgardo Fariña

25 Roderick Miller

15 Éric Davis

2 César Blackman

8 Adalberto Carrasquilla

6 Christian Martínez

10 Édgar Bárcenas

23 Michael Murillo

9 Eduardo Guerrero

Alineación de Estados Unidos:

1 Matt Turner

13 Tim Ream

3 Chris Richards

5 Antonee Robinson

22 Joe Scally

4 Tyler Adams

7 Giovanni Reyna

8 Weston McKennie

20 Folarin Balogun

10 Christian Pulisic

21 Timothy Weah

Starting subsequent 12 months, Spain and Luxembourg will be a part of 4 different NATO nations that present satellite tv for pc communications providers to the North Atlantic Treaty Group as a part of a satellite tv for pc providers challenge that started in 2020. 

Earlier this month, leaders of the oversight companies within the six international locations met simply exterior of Washington, D.C., to assessment the satellite tv for pc providers already being offered by the challenge, known as NATO SATCOM Providers sixth Technology, or NSS6G. Throughout their assembly, in addition they assessed the present efficiency of these providers and any ongoing challenges. 

Throughout these periods, representatives of NATO’s Communications and Info Company and the six nations agreed on the ultimate textual content of the modification to the memorandum of understanding, which offers the framework through which satellite tv for pc communications providers are offered to NATO. 

The proposed modification is crafted to allow Luxembourg and Spain to affix the U.S., France, Italy and the U.Okay. because the suppliers of army satellite tv for pc communications to NATO. 

Starting in 2005, NATO ceased buying and working its personal satellites, a few of which had been based mostly on designs from the early Nineteen Seventies. As a substitute, NATO opted to show to member states France, Italy and the U.Okay. to offer NATO forces with the satellite tv for pc communications they wanted whereas conducting operations. In 2020, the U.S. joined the present crew. 

Below the association, the U.S. offers assist with its “extraordinarily excessive frequency,” or EHF, transport service for NATO nuclear command and management and “super-high frequency,” or SHF, capability from its nationwide Wideband International Satellite tv for pc Communications System. 

France, the U.Okay. and Italy present SHF and UHF capability by their Syracuse, Skynet, and Sicral constellations. Spain and Luxembourg will deliver extra SHF and UHF capability to the consortium from their Spainsat Subsequent Technology and GovSat satellite tv for pc constellations, respectively. In complete, a few dozen army satellites will present functionality to NATO. 

“These are at various ranges of safety,” stated Brian Hughes, the present NSS6G Joint Providers administration workplace chief within the worldwide affairs workplace of the U.S. House Techniques Command. “It is all army satellite tv for pc communications, which implies that it has resistance to nuclear results and has resistance to jamming capabilities that business providers usually do not have.” 

Hughes stated satellite tv for pc communications providers are offered to NATO although a mix of what’s known as “allocate and commit” and managed providers. 

“[Allocate and commit is] the place this capability is definitely given to NATO and [NATO] can use it because it wants it,” Hughes stated. “After which, we have now a managed entry service the place [NATO] makes a request at particular occasions that they want it, and we [the team of national providers] really handle the service offered.” 

It isn’t NATO nations who will immediately use the aptitude offered by NSSG6, however slightly NATO headquarters itself when it runs NATO-sanctioned operations. 

“NATO has, as an enterprise, its personal necessities as a result of it offers the headquarters capabilities, whether or not they’re static or deployed,” Hughes stated. “That SATCOM [satellite communications] is vital as a result of NATO is offering the command-and-control operate by SATCOM, which is completely essential.” 

Whereas the NSS6G consortium offers the space-based functionality, NATO itself offers the instruments its forces want on the bottom, stated Nusret Yilmaz, the SATCOM enterprise unit proprietor inside the NATO Communications and Info Company.

“NATO owns the bottom tools,” Yilmaz stated. “All of the end-user tools, together with the tactical radios, together with the terminals for, as an instance, deployed communications and together with the assorted sizes of transportable and deployable communication methods. These are owned by NATO. NATO is working and sustaining [the ground systems]. These are natural capabilities of NATO. Nonetheless, for the house phase, NATO does not have any natural functionality.” 

NATO’s unique transfer away from its natural house property was each a cost-saving measure and an effort to permit NATO to have the ability to reap the benefits of the extra fashionable space-based methods that NATO allies would subject for their very own use. 

The addition of Spain and Luxembourg to NSSG6 means elevated resilience in satellite tv for pc communications functionality. 

“Since it’s not just one nation, [but] a number of nations, there may be additionally form of resilience within the house phase,” Yilmaz stated. “There may be lately a really excessive enhance in demand for satellite tv for pc communications. NATO has compensated for this enhance in demand by numerous floor phase and person phase initiatives. Now by this MOU and modification, NATO form of makes certain this extra capability is taken care of from the house phase perspective, as nicely.” 

Mike Dean, who serves because the Protection Division’s Chief Info Workplace SATCOM chief, served because the host for this month’s convention. He stated, thus far, NSS6G has been an excellent instance of collaboration and partnership among the many 4 nations to offer satellite tv for pc bandwidth and repair to NATO, and the 2 extra companions will solely improve that cooperation. 

“The addition of Luxembourg and Spain will construct upon current working relationships and the continuing interactions we have now with our Worldwide companions,” he stated. 

Dean additionally commented on the advantages of U.S. participation to the DOD. 

“We’re reimbursed for the providers we offer to NATO,” he defined. “We’re then in a position to work with the U.S. House Command and the providers and use that cash to assist fund initiatives that can improve the satellite tv for pc communications providers for our warfighters. It is a wonderful instance of how a small funding could make a big enchancment in functionality.” 

NSS6G is starting 10 years of its totally operational interval, which continues by the top of 2034.

The USA Males’s Nationwide Workforce proceed with the Copa America group stage once they tackle Panama tonight. It’s the second matchday for the USMNT, who gained over Bolivia Sunday night and hope to safe a berth within the knockout stage of the event.

The USMNT had objectives from Christian Pulisic and Folarin Balogun towards Bolivia in a 2-0 victory. They have been capable of rating early and take off among the strain whereas enjoying pretty properly on the night. They hope so as to add extra to their aim differential in an effort to maintain tempo with Uruguay and have an opportunity to win the group. Nonetheless, Panama is an opponent that has overwhelmed the USMNT in event play earlier than. That features final summer time’s Gold Cup semifinals, the place Los Canaleros superior on penalties over america.

Two Concacaf foes sq. off in Copa América. Let’s go!

Methods to watch

USA vs. Panama

Location: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta

Kick-off time: 6:00pm Jap, 3:00pm Pacific

Out there TV: Fox (English), Univision (Spanish), TUDN (Spanish)

Out there streaming: Fox Sports activities (English), Vix (Spanish), FuboTV (Free Trial)

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