During the season 21 finale of The Bachelorette, it looked like The Bachelor alum Jenn Tran was finally getting her happy ending with her final pick Devin Strader. But Jenn, 26, revealed on After the Final Rose back in September that Devin, 28, gave her the cold shoulder as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.
“He was making bold proclamations of love and then suddenly the next day he was like, nothing and he denied ever being in love,” Jenn told host Jesse Palmer during the Sept. 3 episode. “All the promises he had made to me, all of the love that he had wanted to give to me wasn’t there anymore.”
Drama continued to play out when Devin shared a 13-minute video recounting his side of the story to Instagram, where in addition to taking “accountability” he shared insight into why he ended the relationship in a 15-minute phone call.
While Jenn alleged he dumped her during the call in August, he claimed that Jenn demanded to know what was wrong as he tried to find a way to break the news in person.
“I didn’t really know what else to do,” he explained, noting he had been waiting to tell her in person. “She kind of forced my hand.”
Since then, Jenn waltzed over to Dancing With the Stars and possibly into the heart of her partner Sasha Farber as they have continued to spark romance rumors since their Oct. 29 elimination.
Landfill sites can be used for biodegradable municipal waste in Scotland until 31st December
Up to 100 truckloads of Scotland’s waste will be moved each day to England once a landfill ban comes in at the end of the year, the BBC’s Disclosure has been told.
The Scottish government is banning “black bag” waste from being buried in landfill from 31 December but acknowledges that there are not currently enough incinerators to meet the extra demand.
The ban, which covers biodegradable municipal waste (BMW), will apply to pretty much all domestic and commercial waste.
Scottish ministers said any export of waste should only be viewed as a “short-term solution”.
The ban was originally meant to be in place by 2021 but was delayed because of the Covid pandemic and concerns that businesses were not ready.
It will see a string of materials banned from landfill, including non-recyclable black bag municipal waste, wood, textiles, paper and food.
Such biodegradable waste breaks down to produce methane, a greenhouse gas that is around 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Some inert material, such as ash from incinerators and building rubble, will still be allowed at landfill sites.
The Scottish government wants to stop traditional black bag waste being buried in the ground by increasing recycling rates and using more energy-from-waste incinerators.
However, four years on from the date of the original plan, environmental consultants have concluded that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish still have no home.
David Balmer says up to a hundred lorries a day will cross the border with waste
More waste is already being sent to incinerators – or energy-from-waste sites – but not enough of them will be ready by the 31 December deadline.
It is leaving a “capacity gap” which is estimated by Zero Waste Scotland to be 600,000 tonnes in the first year of the ban.
Some councils and commercial waste companies have been approaching rubbish handling operators in England to negotiate “bridging contracts”.
Because most incinerators run with very little spare capacity, it would mean sending Scotland’s excess waste to be landfilled in England.
The UK government also wants to eliminate biodegradable waste from landfill and it announced a consultation earlier this year but there is currently no policy in place south of the border.
David Balmer, a waste expert from ERS Remediation, told the Disclosure programme: “You’re looking at the equivalent of between 80 and 100 trucks minimum running seven days a week to take this material to a facility in England or abroad.”
And there are concerns that logistically the transportation might not be fully achievable.
Alasdair Meldrum, director of waste management consultants Albion Environmental, said: “We’ve probably not got the trucks and vehicles to actually move it.”
He added: “You’ve got the environmental impact of all that transport, it’s nonsensical, but the people who have invested in incinerators are saying ‘we’ve invested all this money because of the ban’.
“So, we’re stuck in a really hard place.”
Gillian Martin, cabinet secretary for Climate Action and Energy, told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme that temporarily transporting the waste was better for the environment than continuing to use landfill sites.
She said: “The reason for the incineration gap is due to outside factors, particularly inflation and the cost of initially building them.
“We’ve got plans for more incinerators, with energy from waste schemes, to come on in the next year, and over the next three years – so it is a temporary situation.”
BBC Scotland’s Kevin Keane has been speaking to refuse collectors who take our recycling and waste from kerbsides every day
While the reason for the ban is to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases coming from landfill sites, the short-term impact will be a rise in emissions from the fleet of heavy vehicles taking the waste to sites in Cumbria, Northumberland or potentially as far away as Manchester.
The long-term strategy had been to reduce the amount of “black bag” waste households generate, meaning less would have to be incinerated.
But domestic recycling rates have barely budged in a decade.
In 2013, Scottish homes recycled 41.6% of their waste but by 2023 that figure had increased by less than 2 percentage points to 43.5%.
The figures for England and Northern Ireland are slightly better but for Wales it is a massive 64.7%.
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The ‘energy from waste’ incinerator in Aberdeen processes 150,000 tonnes of waste each year
In Scotland, there are currently eight operational incinerators across the country.
Until 2022 there was a rush to build more but the Scottish government put the brakes on development fearing there would end up being an overcapacity.
The only additional ones which will now be built have already entered the planning process.
While incinerators are still responsible for a significant amount of greenhouse gases, experts say they are about a third less environmentally damaging than the methane caused by materials rotting in landfill sites.
As an additional benefit, they also produce some electricity and some recover heat to warm neighbouring homes and buildings.
Colin Church, who chaired an independent review into incineration in Scotland, believes the shift to incinerators has been the right choice.
He told Disclosure: “It’s probably the best thing that we can do with waste, with our current levels of technology, and so capturing some energy from that is a good idea.”
Circular economy
Environmental groups are concerned that contracts which guarantee waste being delivered by councils to incinerators will put off local authorities from investing in more recycling.
Kim Pratt, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, described the current waste management system as broken.
She said: “Incineration in Scotland is out of control.
“There have been incinerators built in Aberdeen, in Falkirk, there’s one this year that’s going to be built in North Ayrshire as well.
“All of these incinerators have communities locally who are opposing them.”
Waste campaigner Laura Young said: “One of the worries is these are expensive facilities – expensive to run, big contracts involved in this – and it means that we need to utilise them.
“We built them so we need to use them.”
The Scottish government points to a range of initiatives it has launched in recent years to tackle household waste and create a more “circular” economy, where material are reused over and over.
These include bans on single use vapes, forthcoming charges on disposable cups and a planned deposit-return scheme for cans and plastic bottles.
It said the “vast majority” of councils had alternative measures in place ahead of the landfill ban coming into force but they will “work closely with local authorities and sector bodies to monitor and review any related issues which may arise as the date of the ban approaches”.
The Scottish government added: “Any export of waste should only ever be viewed as a short-term solution.”
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In 2003, I helped write the Medicare Modernization Act, which established Medicare Advantage and added a prescription drug benefit through Part D. At the time, I believed that introducing private-sector competition would spur innovation, improve care for seniors and save taxpayer dollars. I was encouraged by health insurance executives, who asked me to be a champion for Medicare Advantage — and I agreed. I believed in the promise of a system where public-private partnership could deliver better results for beneficiaries.
More than 20 years later, I have to admit: the program no longer lives up to that promise.
Medicare Advantage has become something quite different from what many of us envisioned. Instead of a vibrant alternative that drives efficiency and delivers value, it has evolved into a system dominated by a handful of massive insurers who are gaming the rules for profit. These companies are not small innovators fighting to offer better care — they are corporate behemoths raking in billions by exploiting a program meant to better serve our seniors.
Overpayments and risk-score manipulation have become endemic. The program’s original safeguards against excessive billing and cherry-picking enrollees have proven too weak in the face of powerful lobbying, limited oversight, and manipulative practices that seemingly stay just within the rules. The result is that taxpayers are spending more per beneficiary in Medicare Advantage than they would in traditional Medicare — all while beneficiaries often face narrower networks, opaque denials and delays in getting care.
It pains me to say this, but the system we helped create is being abused. And it’s not just hurting taxpayers. It’s hurting patients. Seniors who enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans expecting better care are too often finding out — at the worst possible time — that their plan won’t cover what they need, or that they’ve been shuffled into narrow networks without real choice.
This is not what we intended.
To be clear, I still believe that private-sector participation can play a meaningful role in Medicare. But it must be subject to accountability, transparency and real competition. Today’s Medicare Advantage market lacks all three. A handful of insurers control most of the market. Star ratings are gamed. Audits are rare. And efforts to claw back overpayments are fought tooth and nail.
We owe it to America’s seniors — and to taxpayers and the sustainability of Medicare itself — to reform this system. That means restoring parity between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage, enforcing robust oversight, and ending the perverse incentives that reward insurers for risk coding games rather than real care improvements and innovations.
It also means resisting the industry’s scare tactics. Every time reform is proposed, insurers trot out fear-driven campaigns suggesting that seniors will lose their benefits. But what seniors truly need is a Medicare program — whether traditional or Advantage — that works for them, not for corporate shareholders.
I was proud to support the Medicare Modernization Act. But I never imagined that Medicare Advantage would become a vehicle for such waste and abuse. It’s time to fix it and restore the program’s true promise as a competitive marketplace that provides seniors innovative alternative plans — before the entire foundation of Medicare is eroded beyond repair.
“Then there’s the nuclear cohort…. Every day we see that Oklo and that Cameco, that BWXT, someone asked about that… BWX Technologies, Centrus, Talen Energy, NexGen. These are the ones that have people excited. They can’t put them down. That’s because the data centers use so much electricity that nuclear power’s coming back. In reality, though, there will be no nuclear reactors for at least five years. The stocks that people want are not stocks that I find investible.
Jim Cramer Notes BWX Technologies is Among Stocks “That Have People Excited”
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Social media is filled with an endless supply of people selling things, from Shein try-on hauls to health supplement and gadget product placements. Influencer marketing disrupted traditional advertising, creating an army of living room salespeople pumping out content meant to entice strangers at scale — and tech companies’ vision for the future includes more automation.
TikTok announced today it was adding new capabilities to Symphony, the company’s AI ads platform it launched in 2024. The features go beyond generating basic videos and images — instead, the system’s new output mimics what audiences are used to seeing from human influencers. The company says advertisers will be able to upload images, provide a text prompt, and generate videos with virtual avatars holding products, trying on and modeling clothing, and displaying a brand’s app on a phone screen. Some features already available to TikTok users — like creating a video out of a photo — will also now be available to advertisers.
AI creep in the influencer industry has been a steady development: advertisers already have the option of using synthetic characters (sometimes resembling real people) to do things like read scripts to promote brands and products. This new set of features brings an interactivity, with virtual avatars essentially acting like human influencers by using and modeling products. or advertisers, the appeal is a mix of automating processes and cutting costs — an AI avatar can’t demand specific rates or terms in a contract, and a brand can generate an endless amount of content without recording each video separately. AI tools are also being used to target specific audience members, generate ideas for content, and dub audio into different languages. Some advertisers are moving slowly with AI-generated content or are even outright resistant to it. But the expansion of AI ads tools on TikTok signals that the platform, at least, is taking it seriously: why share TikTok Shop affiliate earnings with a thousand random creators when you could instead farm it out to a few virtual faces and bodies?
For human influencers, the potential threat of AI is two-fold: synthetic content could be used in place of human work, and the influx of AI-generated videos could drive rates down for everyone. But so far, AI tools in the influencer space are largely behind the scenes: content creators say they are using AI tools to edit and plan content or find brand deals, even as tech companies continue to push AI-generated profiles and characters. AI-generated sponsored videos — especially of something like trying on clothes or using an app — significantly expand the bounds of influencer content. Is it really a product recommendation if the entity trying to sell you on it doesn’t exist? And if all brands need to promote something is a body, what does it mean for the human influencers that the cheapest, fastest path with the least resistance is being pushed by the platforms they rely on for their income?
TikTok says all content generated using the ads tool will have a label indicating it as AI-generated, and that it will go through “multiple rounds of safety review.”
Enzo Maresca believes Liam Delap has the potential to become England’s main striker, but warned the 22-year-old he faces a fight to get into the Chelsea line-up first.
Chelsea beat out competition from a number of clubs including Manchester United for Delap’s signature amid expectations the former Manchester City academy player could one day rival Harry Kane to lead the line for his country.
Kane is England’s captain and all-time record goalscorer with 73 goals from 107 appearances, but Maresca told reporters on Sunday: “When we faced Ipswich, before we faced Ipswich, so [when] Liam was not a Chelsea player, I said that for me, Liam, potentially, he can be England’s number nine.
“So he was not even with us. And for sure now that he’s with us, I’m going to say again that I don’t have any doubt that he can be in the future England number nine.
“[But] I never say to a players you are going to be a first choice. The message is always the same: you arrive, you work hard, you work more than the other number nine and you are going to be number nine first-choice. So the conversation with Liam has been quite clear.
“He was keen to join us because he knows the way we play, the season that we were together also we won for the first time for Manchester City the under-23 competition. He scored 24, 25 goals that season.
“So he knows exactly what we can give to him and I know what Liam can give us. So I think it’s a win-win and the conversation was quite an easy conversation. We like Liam, Liam like us, so it was an easy conversation.”
Chelsea handed Delap the club’s No. 9 shirt, which many high-profile players have struggled with in recent years including Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Romelu Lukaku, Gonzalo Higuain, Álvaro Morata and Fernando Torres.
“Liam knows quite well how important is the number nine for this club,” continued Maresca, who coached Delap during his time at City. “Personally I don’t see any problem about that. I see Liam quite relaxed, easy, he’s doing well. Since he arrived he’s working well. We know each other already from years ago, so I know what Liam can give us, he knows what we can give to him to improve and to become a better player.
“And again in terms of number nine, hopefully he can score goals for us.”
Midfielder Moisés Caicedo backed Delap to make an immediate impact during the tournament in the United States after impressing in training.
“We are happy to have him because he is a very top player,” said Caicedo. “He showed [that] last season, so we are happy. He is training really well. You can see the quality he has. For sure, we are going to score a lot of goals with this amazing player.”
Janelle Brown Questioned How Kody Brown Handled the Family Money
Griping about the family’s inability to pay off Coyote Pass, Janelle said Kody claimed to have “all these other debts.” And, yet, she’s watched him snap up other assets like trailers and home décor. “I see all the art on their walls,” she said of Robyn and Kody’s home. “I see all these things. And that’s fine, I have money and I’ve spent it on things, too.” (For his part Kody said much of his cash went to buying cars—”Basically had a fleet”—and insurance for the kids.)
And while Janelle acknowledged she wasn’t sure how Kody and Robyn handled their finances, “I used to always be surprised at how nice her backyard was. It was completely finished. And there was always, like, stuff at her house. And I was like, ‘Wow. Huh.'”
Bottom line, she said, “He doesn’t prioritize what I need or what I want.” And that issue eventually wore her down. “I think after a while, I began to see it, and my kids were getting very angry about it, like my adult children. Like, ‘What the hell, Mom?'”
Robyn’s take, however, was that she was very careful with her budget after her first marriage fell apart.
“I used to be not so great with money,” she shared during the Sept. 22 episode. “When I was young, I had hard knocks, and then I learned during my divorce really how to budget myself very, very well.” As for her fellow sister wives, she said, “You just must have had a different priority of where your money was going to go than I did, that’s all.”
A man has been discharged from hospital after a vehicle fell from a multi-storey car park at London Luton Airport.
Emergency services were called to Car Park One shortly before 11:00 BST on Sunday and one person was taken to hospital.
The vehicle involved was believed to have fallen from the third storey.
A spokesperson from the airport said it remained fully operational and an investigation into the cause of the incident was under way.
On Sunday, people at the scene told the BBC the car, with one man inside, appeared to turn the wrong way when exiting the car park before crashing to the ground.
The East of England Ambulance Service sent crews to the site and Bedfordshire Police have urged any witnesses to contact the force.
The person involved in the incident had been discharged from hospital with “minor injuries,” a Luton Airport spokesperson said.
“There was no disruption to flights, and the car park remains open, with staff on hand to assist passengers,” the added.
“An investigation into the cause of the accident is now under way.”
The intelligence chief for Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has reportedly been killed by Israel amid growing conflict between the two countries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday afternoon that Israel targeted IRGC intelligence chief Mohammad Kazemi in a strike.
“Moments ago, we also got the chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran because we’re now over the skies of Tehran,” Netanyahu told Fox News’s Bret Baier on “Special Report.”
Iranian state media confirmed Kazemi and his deputy Hassan Mohaqiq were killed in a strike, The Times of Israel reported. Another Iranian intelligence officer was also reportedly killed.
Israel has killed a number of nuclear scientists and top Iranian commanders in its strikes, including Gen. Hossein Salami, commander in chief of the IRGC.
“I think we’ve set them back quite a bit,” Netanyahu said Sunday of Israel’s strikes, touting the element of surprise in launching widespread attacks on Thursday night.
Netanyahu argued that U.S. talks with Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program were not heading toward a resolution, and he did not want to wait until talks were officially called off to hit first.
“That’s not how I conduct wars, and it’s not how Israel conducts wars,” he said.
The Trump administration had pushed for a diplomatic solution to limit Iran’s nuclear enrichment and engaged in multiple rounds of talks with Iranian negotiators to try to reach a deal before Israel launched its attacks.
Following Israel’s initial attack on Iran, the Trump administration has stressed Israel acted unilaterally, though President Trump acknowledged Sunday the U.S. could get pulled into the conflict given its close relationship with Israel.
“We’re not involved in it. It’s possible we could get involved. But we are not at this moment involved,” Trump told ABC News.
Netanyahu in the Fox interview said Iran views Trump as “enemy number one,” while calling himself the president’s “junior partner” in efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear powers.
The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE:SJM) is one of the 18 stocks Jim Cramer recently shared insights on. While discussing the company, Cramer said that almost every analyst who covers the stock is bearish about the business. He commented:
“But let’s look at the other way. Let’s talk about what old folks were interested in. There’s a company called J.M. Smucker. It makes coffee jams and pet food, Uncrustables, Twinkies. It’s covered by 15 different firms… It’s real. We’ve all bought their stuff. Two years ago, right at the time that the GLP-1 drugs came of age and we went nuts for the weight loss shots, J.M. Smucker didn’t seem to notice. They ran into the fire, they bought Hostess, that’s right, Hostess, maker of Twinkies, for $5.6 billion in November of 2023. Today, they took a $980 million impairment charge for that transaction. I doubt that’ll be the last one, as Twinkies and Ho Hos may not turn very well. Let’s just say they’re going nowhere. They also took a big hit from tariffs and higher coffee costs. Smucker’s talking about a 20% boost in coffee prices. That’s not going to help demand. In the wake of the news, the stock plunged more than 15%. Nearly every analyst who covers it had tough things to say about the business, all major firms.”
Jim Cramer on J.M. Smucker: “It’s Real”
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