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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Another cold morning across the metro, though not quite as cold as yesterday morning. Temperatures starting off in the teens with wind chills in the single digits at times. Skies are clear, which will mean plenty of sunshine to start the day. The sunshine along with a south breeze at 5 to 10mph will help to bring us a bit a of a warm-up. Temperatures should jump to near 40 by Noon, with afternoon highs in the mid-40s. That’ll actually take us above average for this time of year.

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Clouds increase tonight as a cold front approaches by Monday morning. Dry conditions will prevail despite the approaching cold front, but breezy north winds will return for Monday. The north winds and clouds will knock a few degrees off our temperatures, highs likely only top out in the low 40s for Monday afternoon.

Temperatures This Week(WOWT)

A few flurries are possible Monday night into Tuesday behind that cold front. It could mix with a few sprinkles during the morning on Tuesday, but any impacts will be minimal as precipitation looks to be very light, if any at all. Temperatures on Tuesday will be in the 30s thanks to the lingering clouds and a north breeze. More clouds in the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday, with another chance for some light showers possibly mixing with some light snow by Thursday.

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Little Giants Claim Eight Top-Six Finishes At Indiana Little State - Wabash College

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Wabash earned eight top-six finishes, including two individual titles, at Saturday's Indiana Little State Tournament at Manchester University.

James Day and Jack Heldt finished undefeated in the tournament to capture first-place championships. Day won three matches to capture the 125-pound weight class title. Heldt recorded pins in all four heavyweight matches to win the bracket championship.

Day opened the tournament with a pin in 35 seconds against Zimni Malomboza from Indiana Tech, followed by a 6-2 decision against Nathan Smith in the semifinals. Day won the 125-pound title with a 6-5 victory against Aidan Sprague from the University of Indianapolis. 

Heldt started his day with a pin of Marques Lewis from Marian in 1:17. Heldt needed only 34 seconds to earn his second win with a pin of Ryan Latimore from Indiana Tech. Heldt advanced to the championship finals with a pin at 1:35 of West Liberty's Jamie Kilmer. A pin at the 5:52 mark of the final bout against Cameron Mayes-Butler from Indiana Tech gave Heldt the weight class title.

Grant Johnson placed fourth at heavyweight after scoring three wins in the bracket. He opened with an 8-1 decision over Bryce Crump from the University of Indianapolis. Johnson moved on to the championship semifinals with a 16-0 tech fall of Joseph Chacon from Indiana Tech. Johnson rebounded from a loss in the semis to a 13-11 victory in the consolation semifinals against Austin Lane from Marian University before a medical forfeit in the finals put Johnson in fourth place.

Tyson Nisley battled to a second-place finish at 157 pounds. He started with a pin at 1:41 of Keagen Mabie from the host Manchester squad. Nisley scored an 8-3 win over Noah Salary from the University of Indianapolis in the quarterfinals, then moved into the finals with a 6-5 victory against Bailey Moore from Marian. Nisley's day ended with a medical forfeit for the second-place finish in the finals.

Ray Arebalo earned a second-place finish at 174 pounds with three wins in the weight class. He started the day with a 17-0 tech fall victory against Treyton Mucker from the University of Indianapolis. Arebalo won his next match by pin at the 2:03 mark of his bout versus James Bettcher from Manchester. Arebalo moved into the championship finals with a 15-0 tech fall win versus Jahmon Spller from Thomas More before taking his only loss in the championship bout to place second.

Jesse Herrera added a third-place finish in the 165-pound weight class. He pinned Drake Egan from Indiana Tech at 3:28 in the first match of the day. Herrera fell to the consolation bracket in the second round before earning an 18-2 tech fall victory against Carlos Monroy Santos. Herrara scored his last win on the mat with a 7-6 win against Marian's Jeff Dunasky before accepting two medical forfeits in the final two matches for the third-place finish in the bracket.

Ayden Lute won six matches at 157 pounds to finish third overall in the bracket. He won his first match of the day with an 8-2 victory over Byan Richardson from Marian University. Lutes followed with a 4-2 win against Kailan Keith from Thomas More before taking a loss in the quarterfinal round. Lute rallied for four consecutive wins in the following rounds, capped with a 5-4 win against Toby Abbott from West Liberty.

Arlie Benson finished in sixth place at 133 pounds. Benson finished 3-3 for the tournament with an 18-2 tech fall over Maleec Griffin from Marian University in the opening round. Benson also earned two major decisions on the way to his sixth-place finish.

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James Day's place is 1st and has scored 21.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - James Day (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Quarterfinal - James Day (Wabash) won by fall over Zimani Malomboza (Indiana Tech) (Fall 0:35)
• Semifinal - James Day (Wabash) won by decision over Nathan Smith (Unattached - Indianapolis) (Dec 6-2)
• 1st Place Match - James Day (Wabash) won by decision over Aidan Sprague (Indianapolis) (Dec 6-5)

Open 125

Atticus Waddell's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Alexander Crane (West Liberty) won by tech fall over Atticus Waddell (Wabash) (TF 19-4)
• Cons. Round 1 - Justin Brantley (Manchester) won by major decision over Atticus Waddell (Wabash) (Maj 10-0)

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Arlie Benson's place is 6th and has scored 11.5 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Arlie Benson (Wabash) won by tech fall over Maleec Griffin (Indianapolis) (TF 18-2)
• Quarterfinal - Elijah Anthony (Indiana Tech) won by major decision over Arlie Benson (Wabash) (Maj 10-2)
• Cons. Round 2 - Arlie Benson (Wabash) won by major decision over Jacob Simone (Marian University (IN)) (Maj 14-2)
• Cons. Round 3 - Arlie Benson (Wabash) won by major decision over Braxton Vest (Indiana Tech) (Maj 10-2)
• Cons. Semi - Anthony Hughes (Unattached - Marian) won by decision over Arlie Benson (Wabash) (Dec 12-5)
• 5th Place Match - Joey Langeman (Trine University) won by medical forfeit over Arlie Benson (Wabash) (MFF)

Open 133

Garson Mattney's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Garson Mattney (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Quarterfinal - Matt Gimson (Indiana Tech) won by fall over Garson Mattney (Wabash) (Fall 3:11)
• Cons. Round 2 - Thomas Miller (Trine University) won by decision over Garson Mattney (Wabash) (Dec 5-2)

Open 133

David Gelman's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Braxton Vest (Indiana Tech) won by fall over David Gelman (Wabash) (Fall 0:37)
• Cons. Round 1 - Thomas Miller (Trine University) won by major decision over David Gelman (Wabash) (Maj 12-4)

Open 149

Andrew Ross's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Corey Cavanaugh (Indiana Tech) won by major decision over Andrew Ross (Wabash) (Maj 9-0)
• Cons. Round 1 - Andrew Ross (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 2 - Isaac Hawkins (Trine University) won by decision over Andrew Ross (Wabash) (Dec 4-0)

Open 149

Daniel Uribe's place is unknown and has scored 4.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Daniel Uribe (Wabash) won by fall over Taijon Span (Thomas More) (Fall 4:18)
• Champ. Round 2 - Daniel Uribe (Wabash) won in sudden victory - 1 over Zach Wilson (Marian University (IN)) (SV-1 5-3)
• Quarterfinal - Nathan Conley (Indianapolis) won by medical forfeit over Daniel Uribe (Wabash) (MFF)
• Cons. Round 4 - Elijah Chacon (Indiana Tech) won by medical forfeit over Daniel Uribe (Wabash) (MFF)

Open 149

Isaac Reilly's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Isaac Hawkins (Trine University) won by tech fall over Isaac Reilly (Wabash) (TF 17-2)
• Cons. Round 1 - Isaac Reilly (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 2 - Corey Cavanaugh (Indiana Tech) won by fall over Isaac Reilly (Wabash) (Fall 2:02)

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Phenix Carney's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Zach Haughton (Indianapolis) won by decision over Phenix Carney (Wabash) (Dec 10-3)
• Cons. Round 1 - Phenix Carney (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 2 - Elijah Chacon (Indiana Tech) won by fall over Phenix Carney (Wabash) (Fall 1:19)

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Dominic Litchfield's place is unknown and has scored 1.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Asa Garcia (Unattached - Marian) won by decision over Dominic Litchfield (Wabash) (Dec 5-1)
• Cons. Round 1 - Dominic Litchfield (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 2 - Dominic Litchfield (Wabash) won by decision over Zach Haughton (Indianapolis) (Dec 9-4)
• Cons. Round 3 - Jalen King (West Liberty) won by major decision over Dominic Litchfield (Wabash) (Maj 20-9)

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Ayden Lutes's place is 3rd and has scored 16.5 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Ayden Lutes (Wabash) won by decision over Bryan Richardson (Marian University (IN)) (Dec 8-2)
• Champ. Round 2 - Ayden Lutes (Wabash) won by decision over Kailan Keith (Thomas More) (Dec 4-2)
• Quarterfinal - Jonah Smith (West Liberty) won by tech fall over Ayden Lutes (Wabash) (TF 17-2)
• Cons. Round 4 - Ayden Lutes (Wabash) won by major decision over Keagen Mabie (Manchester) (Maj 13-2)
• Cons. Round 5 - Ayden Lutes (Wabash) won by decision over Lakin Webb (Trine University) (Dec 5-4)
• Cons. Semi - Ayden Lutes (Wabash) won by injury default over Bailey Moore (Marian University (IN)) (Inj. 0:00)
• 3rd Place Match - Ayden Lutes (Wabash) won by decision over Toby Abbott (West Liberty) (Dec 5-4)

Open 157

Jordan Hodge's place is unknown and has scored 4.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Jordan Hodge (Wabash) won by fall over Austin O'Donoghue (Marian University (IN)) (Fall 4:22)
• Champ. Round 2 - Jordan Hodge (Wabash) won by decision over Reese Hamblen (Ancilla College) (Dec 6-3)
• Quarterfinal - Logan Bailey (Indianapolis) won by fall over Jordan Hodge (Wabash) (Fall 0:28)
• Cons. Round 4 - Lakin Webb (Trine University) won by fall over Jordan Hodge (Wabash) (Fall 3:43)

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Tyson Nisley's place is 2nd and has scored 18.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Tyson Nisley (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Champ. Round 2 - Tyson Nisley (Wabash) won by fall over Keagen Mabie (Manchester) (Fall 1:41)
• Quarterfinal - Tyson Nisley (Wabash) won by decision over Noah Salary (Indianapolis) (Dec 8-3)
• Semifinal - Tyson Nisley (Wabash) won by decision over Bailey Moore (Marian University (IN)) (Dec 6-5)
• 1st Place Match - Logan Bailey (Indianapolis) won by medical forfeit over Tyson Nisley (Wabash) (MFF)

Open 157

Justin Hood's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Bailey Moore (Marian University (IN)) won by major decision over Justin Hood (Wabash) (Maj 14-0)
• Cons. Round 1 - Justin Hood (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 2 - Zach Morgan (Manchester) won by fall over Justin Hood (Wabash) (Fall 0:54)

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Dylan Baron's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Brett Goff (West Liberty) won by fall over Dylan Baron (Wabash) (Fall 0:22)
• Cons. Round 1 - Carlos Monroy Santos (Unattached - Indiana Tech) won by decision over Dylan Baron (Wabash) (Dec 11-5)

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Jesse Herrera's place is 3rd and has scored 20.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Jesse Herrera (Wabash) won by fall over Drake Egan (Indiana Tech) (Fall 3:28)
• Quarterfinal - Tyler Jones (Indianapolis) won by decision over Jesse Herrera (Wabash) (Dec 8-6)
• Cons. Round 2 - Jesse Herrera (Wabash) won by tech fall over Carlos Monroy Santos (Unattached - Indiana Tech) (TF 18-2)
• Cons. Round 3 - Jesse Herrera (Wabash) won by decision over Jeff Dunasky (Marian University (IN)) (Dec 7-6)
• Cons. Semi - Jesse Herrera (Wabash) won by medical forfeit over Jack Eiteljorge (Indianapolis) (MFF)
• 3rd Place Match - Jesse Herrera (Wabash) won by medical forfeit over Tyler Jones (Indianapolis) (MFF)

Open 165

Rylan Hendricks's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Jeff Dunasky (Marian University (IN)) won by fall over Rylan Hendricks (Wabash) (Fall 1:27)
• Cons. Round 1 - Rylan Hendricks (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 2 - Jordan Fulks (Marian University (IN)) won by fall over Rylan Hendricks (Wabash) (Fall 1:02)

Open 165

Mawuli Nevis's place is unknown and has scored 0.5 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Jack Eiteljorge (Indianapolis) won by major decision over Mawuli Nevis (Wabash) (Maj 11-2)
• Cons. Round 1 - Mawuli Nevis (Wabash) won by decision over Landon Buchanan (Indiana Tech) (Dec 2-0)
• Cons. Round 2 - Jeff Dunasky (Marian University (IN)) won by decision over Mawuli Nevis (Wabash) (Dec 10-7)

Open 174

Raymond Arebalo's place is 2nd and has scored 20.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Raymond Arebalo (Wabash) won by tech fall over Treyton Mucker (Indianapolis) (TF 17-0)
• Quarterfinal - Raymond Arebalo (Wabash) won by fall over James Bettcher (Manchester) (Fall 2:03)
• Semifinal - Raymond Arebalo (Wabash) won by tech fall over Jahmon Spiller (Thomas More) (TF 15-0)
• 1st Place Match - Elliott Rodgers (Marian University (IN)) won by fall over Raymond Arebalo (Wabash) (Fall 4:25)

Open 184

Caden Friedt's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Caden Friedt (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Champ. Round 2 - Robert Gurley (Indianapolis) won by decision over Caden Friedt (Wabash) (Dec 11-5)
• Cons. Round 2 - Caden Friedt (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 3 - Andrew Williamson (Trine University) won by decision over Caden Friedt (Wabash) (Dec 9-5)

Open 184

Sammy Saunders's place is unknown and has scored 1.5 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Jake Lone (Indianapolis) won by fall over Sammy Saunders (Wabash) (Fall 1:04)
• Cons. Round 1 - Sammy Saunders (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 2 - Sammy Saunders (Wabash) won by decision over Trescott Duffy (Wabash) (Dec 3-1)
• Cons. Round 3 - Sammy Saunders (Wabash) won by decision over Tabor Lock (Indianapolis) (Dec 3-1)
• Cons. Round 4 - Kyle Saez (Indianapolis) won by fall over Sammy Saunders (Wabash) (Fall 6:25)

Open 184

Trescott Duffy's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

Open 184

Brandon Hammer's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Brandon Hammer (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Champ. Round 2 - Cody Timmerman (Indiana Tech) won by tech fall over Brandon Hammer (Wabash) (TF 16-0)
• Cons. Round 2 - Brandon Hammer (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Cons. Round 3 - Jake Lone (Indianapolis) won by tech fall over Brandon Hammer (Wabash) (TF 16-1)

Open 285

Alex Naylor's place is unknown and has scored 0.5 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Alex Naylor (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Champ. Round 2 - Kyler Bills (Trine University) won by fall over Alex Naylor (Wabash) (Fall 1:28)
• Cons. Round 2 - Alex Naylor (Wabash) won by decision over Nico Torres (Manchester) (Dec 9-3)
• Cons. Round 3 - Jacob Johnson (Unattached - Indianapolis) won by major decision over Alex Naylor (Wabash) (Maj 11-3)

Open 285

Jack Heldt's place is 1st and has scored 28.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Jack Heldt (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Champ. Round 2 - Jack Heldt (Wabash) won by fall over Marques Lewis (Marian University (IN)) (Fall 1:17)
• Quarterfinal - Jack Heldt (Wabash) won by fall over Ryan Latimore (Indiana Tech) (Fall 0:34)
• Semifinal - Jack Heldt (Wabash) won by fall over Jamie Kilmer (West Liberty) (Fall 1:35)
• 1st Place Match - Jack Heldt (Wabash) won by fall over Cameron Mayes-Butler (Indiana Tech) (Fall 5:52)

Open 285

Grant Johnson's place is 4th and has scored 14.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Grant Johnson (Wabash) received a bye () (Bye)
• Champ. Round 2 - Grant Johnson (Wabash) won by decision over Bryce Crump (Indianapolis) (Dec 8-1)
• Quarterfinal - Grant Johnson (Wabash) won by tech fall over Joseph Chacon (Indiana Tech) (TF 16-0)
• Semifinal - Cameron Mayes-Butler (Indiana Tech) won by fall over Grant Johnson (Wabash) (Fall 1:23)
• Cons. Semi - Grant Johnson (Wabash) won by decision over Austin Lane (Marian University (IN)) (Dec 13-11)
• 3rd Place Match - Jamie Kilmer (West Liberty) won by medical forfeit over Grant Johnson (Wabash) (MFF)

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Little Debbie Is Making A Big Exit From Canada - Tasting Table

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Little Debbie has long sold its snack cakes throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, and on U.S. military bases throughout the world. But that's no longer true for Canada, per CTV News – nor for U.S. military bases, as Stars and Stripes reported on the latter on September 2. Company spokesperson Mike Gloekler advised Stars and Stripes that with regard to military bases, the issue was increased distribution costs. With regard to Little Debbie's exit from Canada, LeeDaily reported on December 3 that the brand's sole Canadian distributor terminated its distributorship with the Tennessee-based company. No reason was given, and Canadians are both confused and stricken by the news.

But for days now, the disappearance of Little Debbie's Oatmeal Creme Pies, Swiss Cake Rolls, Nutty Buddy Wafer Bars, and other favorites from Canadian shelves has already been in progress. One Twitter user expressed their discontent: "How can I get some little debbies !! Please !!! I have no problem paying , I just need my little Debbie's !!" Mike Gloekler, corporate communications and public relations manager for McKee Foods, stated on behalf of Little Debbie that while the decision was not the company's to make, it's "not actively searching for a new distributor relationship in the Canada market," (via Food Business News). 

It's not clear at present whether it's just the snack cakes, or if Little Debbie's big Canadian exit will also apply to its recent partnership with Kellogg Cereal.

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U.S. Sees Little Prospect for Ukraine Talks With Putin After Biden Offer - The New York Times

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The Kremlin reaffirmed a stance that both Washington and Kyiv find unacceptable, and U.S. officials said Mr. Biden’s position had not changed.

WASHINGTON — A day after President Biden said he would be willing to talk with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia about a possible peace agreement in Ukraine, the Kremlin offered a frosty response, and prospects for settling the brutal conflict remained as distant as ever.

Mr. Biden said on Thursday that he would hold his first conversation with Mr. Putin since before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 if the Russian leader was “looking for a way to end the war.” But U.S. officials said that Russia, as they have previously assessed, was not prepared to negotiate in good faith, and Russian officials repeated hard-line demands that are unacceptable to Kyiv.

Although Mr. Biden’s remark was taken by some as a new emphasis on moving toward peace talks with Russia, John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters that Mr. Biden’s position had not changed.

“The president has been very consistent about that,” Mr. Kirby said. “He’s got no intentions to talk to Mr. Putin right now. As he also said, Putin has shown absolutely no inclination to be interested in dialogue of any kind. In fact, quite the contrary. Everything he’s doing shows that Mr. Putin is interested in continuing this illegal, unprovoked war.”

In Moscow, Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, said at a news conference on Friday that Mr. Putin remained “open to contacts and negotiations” and that diplomacy was the “preferable way” to achieve Russia’s goals.

But Mr. Peskov noted that the United States “still does not recognize new territories as part of Russia,” an apparent reference to eastern Ukrainian regions that Mr. Putin claimed to annex after sham referendums in September, saying that “this makes more complicated the search for common ground for mutual discussions.”

In fact, the Russian position essentially rules out serious negotiations with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who said in a mid-November interview with Bloomberg News that the war could not end until Ukraine had reclaimed all its territory from Russia, including the purportedly annexed regions as well as the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.

“The Russians have made it very clear that, of course, they are not in the mood for constructive dialogue and for constructive diplomacy,” the State Department spokesman, Ned Price, said at a press briefing. Any conversation between Mr. Biden and Mr. Putin “is nothing more than a hypothetical at this time,” he added.

“We have been very clear that the United States and countries around the world will never — never, never, never — recognize territory that Russia has illegally annexed, either in 2014 or more recently, as part of its illegal and now brutal aggression against Ukraine,” Mr. Price added.

Mr. Biden’s comment — made during a news conference with the visiting President Emmanuel Macron of France, who has spoken to Mr. Putin several times over the past year, including in late August — follows some signs that senior U.S. officials have contemplated whether Ukraine’s recent successful offensives present a window for negotiations. Last month, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark A. Milley, told reporters that Ukraine’s position of “strength” creates “a possibility” for a political solution.

But Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who served as NATO secretary general from 2009 to 2014, said this week during a visit to Washington that he had spoken with Biden administration officials and saw no sign that they were pressuring Ukraine’s government to begin negotiating with Russia.

“It was an idea that was just floated, but it has been immediately shut down,” Mr. Rasmussen said. “It would really weaken the Western front if we tried to push Zelensky into premature peace negotiations, because that would be a trap.”

“Putin is not sincere when it comes to peace negotiations,” Mr. Rasmussen added.

Ukrainian officials have said the same, warning that Russia could try to pause the fighting for talks — but only to use that time to prepare for new military offensives.

Mr. Macron reaffirmed France’s support for Ukraine and nodded to the reality that a Ukrainian population enraged by Russia’s occupation is in no mood to compromise. France “will never urge Ukrainians to make a compromise that will not be acceptable for them,” he said.

On Friday, Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, said that Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure targets like power grids were “making any kind of dialogue impossible.”

“We all want peace, but it must come through Kyiv’s independence, not through its surrender,” Mr. Tajani said. “The responsibility for this situation is only Russian. Now the Kremlin must give concrete signals instead of bombing the population.”

White House officials said they were not surprised by Russia’s reaction to Mr. Biden’s comments. Few on the president’s national security team expected anything different from Mr. Putin, given Russia’s behavior in the past several weeks, which has included strikes on infrastructure targets that have deprived major cities including Kyiv of heat, light and running water.

“This brutalization of Ukraine’s people is barbaric,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said at a NATO meeting in Romania on Wednesday.

Mr. Biden’s remark about speaking to Mr. Putin was not intended, the officials said, to signal a shift in policy or to indicate that the president was drifting from his commitment to ensuring that Ukraine’s leadership decided when and how to negotiate an end to the war.

Aides say the president continues to believe that negotiations will be necessary. But they also say he does not believe that direct talks with Mr. Putin will be possible unless the “facts on the ground” change.

In his remarks on Thursday, Mr. Biden was careful to show deference to Ukraine and the NATO allies, saying he would talk to Mr. Putin only after consulting with them first.

In part, the message was intended to be a show of support for diplomacy by his counterparts. Mr. Macron has stressed the importance of maintaining dialogue with the Russian leader, if only to avoid dangerous escalation or miscalculation. He called Mr. Putin in August and is expected to meet with him in a few days. Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, spoke to the Russian president on Friday morning.

A Kremlin readout of the call with Mr. Scholz blamed the West for the absence of talks, saying that the Western approach of “pumping the Kyiv regime with weapons” and providing it with financial and political support “leads Kyiv to reject any idea of negotiations.”

But there are other audiences to consider as well. Some leaders are anxious about the economic impacts of a war that has driven up food and energy prices worldwide. And in the United States, some Republican and progressive Democratic lawmakers have expressed frustration that the Biden administration, which has provided nearly $20 billion in military aid to Kyiv since the Russian invasion, appears to be writing “blank checks” without describing an end game for the conflict.

White House officials said the president’s comment about being willing to meet with Mr. Putin under certain circumstances was not directly aimed at those groups. But the remark nonetheless signals that the Biden administration has not foreclosed the possibility of diplomacy, even though Mr. Biden has not spoken to Mr. Putin since mid-February.

Mr. Blinken has spoken to his counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, only once since mid-January, to discuss the potential release of two Americans imprisoned in Russia, Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner. Mr. Biden also said in October that he would be willing to talk with Mr. Putin about releasing the two Americans.

Speaking a day before Mr. Biden’s comments, Mr. Rasmussen, the former NATO chief, said he did not believe that Ukraine would accept a peace deal that allowed Russia to occupy any part of its territory.

“I can conclude quite confidently that as long as you will see Russian troops on Ukrainian soil, you will have a conflict,” he said. “The only off-ramp for Putin is, get out of Ukraine.”

Elisabetta Povoledo contributed reporting.

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What jurors make of the phrase “in behalf of” could decide whether the former president’s namesake company is guilty of tax fraud.

Despite all the talk of fancy apartments, free Mercedes-Benzes and cash flowing at Christmastime, the criminal tax fraud trial of Donald J. Trump’s family business could come down to three mundane words: “in behalf of.”

The company stands accused of doling out those off-the-books perks to several executives, who failed to pay taxes on them. The scheme’s architect — the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg — pleaded guilty and testified at trial.

The company, however, is not automatically guilty of his crimes. Under New York law, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office must prove that Mr. Weisselberg committed his many felonies “in behalf of” the Trump Organization, a clunky phrase that the judge overseeing the case has, in something of an understatement, called “a confusing area of the law.”

Ordinarily, when a company’s financial whiz becomes a star witness against it, things are not looking great. But if the Trump Organization has any hope of an acquittal or a hung jury after weeks of embarrassing revelations, it rests on this phrase, which has set off fierce semantic debate. The company’s lawyers have argued that the prosecution must prove that Mr. Weisselberg intended to benefit the corporation when he engineered the scheme — and that “in behalf of” can mean nothing else.

Ultimately, it falls to the judge, Juan Merchan, to decode the mystifying words. And in court on Tuesday, with the jurors absent, he appeared to agree with the defense’s interpretation.

What prosecutors will need to show, he said, “is there was some intent to benefit the corporation.”

He added, however, that prosecutors need not prove that helping the Trump Organization had been Mr. Weisselberg’s primary goal, thwarting the defense’s most far-reaching argument.

Justice Merchan is an even-keeled, gray-haired jurist who has presided over a broad array of cases, including two base jumpers who leaped from 1 World Trade Center and a man stabbed to death with a fork. This trial, however, has uniquely high-stakes implications: It has enraged the former president and his ranks of fervent supporters, and could permanently stain his family business while reverberating through the 2024 presidential campaign.

And it might all come down to four head-scratching syllables.

Already, Justice Merchan has said the company’s lawyers can tell jurors in their closing arguments on Thursday that prosecutors failed to prove that Mr. Weisselberg intended to benefit the company. And once the jurors start deliberating in the coming days, if they express confusion about the meaning of “in behalf of,” the judge may well use the defense’s preferred “intent” interpretation to clarify.

In addition to proving that Mr. Weisselberg was acting “in behalf of” the Trump Organization, New York criminal law requires that prosecutors establish that he was a “high managerial agent” of the company, and that he committed the crimes “within the scope of his employment.” Neither of those requirements is much in dispute.

But the prosecution and the defense spent weeks dissecting and debating the meaning of “in behalf of”: The company’s lawyers have called it “unconstitutionally vague,” while the prosecution argued that the defense had “misstated the law” to the jury.

Allen H. Weisselberg hid the perks, but for himself? Or for the company that he served as well?Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times

Even the judge pointed out that, “This statute has been on the books for a long time, and to my knowledge this really hasn’t been argued to the extent it’s being argued now.”

There is little in New York law — or in past cases — that clarifies the meaning, Justice Merchan noted when he first addressed the issue in October. The few cases that exist were either irrelevant to the Trump trial or, in his mind, were decided in error.

And so, like anyone else, the judge resorted to Merriam-Webster. The dictionary’s website, originally cited in the defense’s court papers, suggested that — unlike the phrase “on behalf of” — “in behalf of” essentially means “for the benefit of.”

The judge also consulted various legal treatises, one of which, he said, had found that the “in behalf of” phrase “should limit corporate liability to the conduct engaged in for the corporation’s benefit and not mere personal gain.”

The debate heated up last week when prosecutors and defense lawyers laid out their contrasting interpretations — and whether Mr. Weisselberg’s testimony helped or hurt them.

A prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, disputed the defense’s contention that he had to prove that Mr. Weisselberg intended to benefit the Trump Organization — or show that the corporation did indeed benefit. Nevertheless, he said, there was “ample evidence of both.”

Mr. Weisselberg, for example, testified that the perks saved the company money in taxes. Mr. Weisselberg also subtracted the cost of some benefits from his overall compensation, essentially repaying the company.

Yet a defense lawyer, Alan S. Futerfas, noted that Mr. Weisselberg had repeatedly testified that he acted for his own benefit, not for the company or the Trump family. Prosecutors have not accused Mr. Trump, or anyone in his family, of taking part in the scheme.

On the witness stand, Mr. Weisselberg also admitted to betraying the company that had employed him for decades, and acknowledged that Mr. Trump did not authorize him to carry out the scheme. When Mr. Futerfas asked Mr. Weisselberg, “Were you reducing your compensation because you didn’t want to hurt the company?” He responded, “No, my intention was to save pretax dollars.”

When making his case to the judge last week, Mr. Futerfas also argued that the language of the New York law itself was so confounding that the case should be thrown out.

“All parties have struggled to determine what those words mean; particularly in the context of this case,” he said, adding that it was “very difficult, almost impossible” to ascertain what had been intended by legislators when they wrote the law in the 1960s.

Adam S. Kaufmann, a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for nearly two decades who oversaw white-collar cases as the chief of its investigations division, said the “in behalf of” issue seldom arose, because the actions of high-ranking officials in such cases almost always benefit a company.

“It’s not an issue that I recall seeing before,” Mr. Kaufmann said.

Lola Fadulu contributed reporting.

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Little Named to SEC Community Service Team - Razorbacks Arkansas

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas kicker Cam Little has been named to the 2022 SEC Football Community Service Team.

Little, who is involved with Down Syndrome Connection of Northwest Arkansas, has donated money for every field goal he makes for the second straight season. This year, he has donated $20 per field goal.

The Moore, Okla., native has drilled 12-of-15 (80.0%) attempts this season, raising $240 in made field goals. Since his historic freshman campaign in which he connected on 20-of-24 (83.3%) field goal attempts, Little has donated $440.

Little has also participated in the organization’s annual walk to raise awareness and funds. Last spring, a local company donated $25,000 live on Good Morning America to Down Syndrome Connection of Northwest Arkansas on Little’s behalf due to his dedication to the organization.

The SEC names a Community Service Team for each of its 21-league sponsored sports, highlighting an athlete from each school who gives back to his community through superior service efforts.

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Job Openings Ease, but Layoffs Are Little Changed - The New York Times

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Government data for October shows the labor market is still strong, though cooling slightly.

Employers continued to pull back in October on the number of jobs they were looking to fill, the latest sign that the labor market is strong but gradually cooling.

About 10.3 million positions were open on the last day of October, the Labor Department said Wednesday, down from 10.7 million the previous month. Vacant positions in October effectively equaled the level in August, seasonally adjusted.

Reductions in job openings occurred in a broad range of industries including manufacturing, construction, professional and businesses services, and state and local government. Still, openings in every major industry remained above prepandemic levels, underscoring the persistent strength in the labor market despite higher borrowing costs.

The Federal Reserve is trying to constrain hiring in its efforts to tame inflation, concerned that a hot job market is forcing employers to raise wages, contributing to soaring prices.

Other measures in the report — the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS — affirm the labor market’s resilience. There were roughly 1.7 posted jobs for every unemployed worker, still extraordinarily high by historical standards.

In recent weeks, a number of technology companies have announced sweeping layoffs. Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, slashed the company’s work force in half in early November. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, shed 11,000 people, or about 13 percent of its workers.

Even as the job cuts in the technology industry have dominated the headlines, however, layoffs across the entire economy in October were largely unchanged at 1.4 million, low by historical standards, suggesting that employers remain hesitant to part with workers after the pandemic-era hiring frenzy.

The number of workers voluntarily quitting their jobs — an indicator of how confident workers are that they will be able to find better employment opportunities — ticked down but only slightly.

Although the report overall pointed to continued elevated demand for workers, there were undeniable signs that the labor market is weakening.

After a surprise jump in September, job openings resumed their march lower. There were four million quits in October, continuing the downward trend from the “Great Resignation” peak last year. The rate of people quitting their jobs — the number of people voluntarily leaving their jobs divided by total employment — was the lowest it had been since May 2021, at 2.6 percent.

“Today’s JOLTS report shows that the job market is gradually slowing,” said Daniel Zhao, an economist at the career site Glassdoor. “And that’s in line with what we have been seeing in other data as well.”

A more up-to-date readout of the economy will come on Friday, when the Labor Department releases data on monthly job growth and unemployment in November. Employers added 261,000 jobs in October.

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