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The Nets set six guidelines Irving must meet before he can return to the club: a condemnation of the movie; a meeting with Nets owner Joe Tsai; a meeting with Jewish leaders and members of the Anti-Defamation League; sensitivity training; antisemitic training; and a $500,000 donation to anti-hate causes.

Brown told the Globe Monday morning that the NBPA believes those conditions are too stringent, especially when there is no guideline that addresses social media posts in the collective bargaining agreement. He said the NBPA is expected to appeal.

“I don’t believe Kyrie Irving is antisemitic,” Brown said. “I don’t think people in our governing bodies think he’s antisemitic. He made a mistake. We understand from an outside perspective how important sensitivity is to not condone hate speech and not condone anything of that nature. It’s sensitivity to the dialect around that. We don’t want to stand up for somebody in order to not condemn hate speech, but I don’t believe Kyrie Irving is antisemitic. And hopefully the NBA feels the same way.”

Brown said Irving’s future and how the league approaches the issue of expression on social media could be clarified after Irving’s meeting with Silver.

“There is an interesting distinction between what somebody says verbally and what somebody posts as a link on a platform with no description behind it,” Brown said. “Some people will argue there’s no difference and some people will argue there is a difference. There’s no language in our CBA. There’s no rules against it. This is uncharted territory for everybody, and everybody is trying to figure out the difference between the two.”

The NBPA and NBA have been having discussions about more clarity with player expression and empowerment since the Irving issue. It’s one of the first major topics NBPA executive director Tamika Tremaglio has addressed in her brief tenure. The NBPA released a statement last week condemning hate speech but did not mention Irving’s name. The NBA released a similar statement, also without a reference to Irving.

“It’s definitely a conversation that’s going on,” Brown said. “I told people that are participating in this ongoing discussion that everybody is watching. I think there’s a big meeting on Tuesday amongst Adam, Kyrie, and whomever they decided to be there.

“I’ve been talking to Kyrie, I’ve talked to Adam, I talked to Tamika, I’ve talked to pretty much everybody about this situation.

“But I’m expecting the NBPA to appeal the suspension from Brooklyn. The terms, etc., that went into his return. The terms for his return, they seem like a lot, and a lot of the players expressed discomfort with the terms.”

Irving will be out for at least three more games, and it is uncertain if he is willing to meet the Nets’ requirements for his return.

The organization has been in upheaval with the removal of coach Steve Nash, the potential hiring of suspended Celtics coach Ime Udoka, and Irving’s post about the movie.

“He made a mistake. He posted something,” Brown said. “There was no distinction. Maybe we can move forward, but the terms in which he has to fulfill to return, I think not just speaking for me, speaking as a vice president from a lot of our players, we didn’t agree with the terms that was required for him to come back and we’re waiting for this Tuesday meeting to happen to see what comes of it. But we’ll go from there. That’s all I’ll say.”

Gary Washburn is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @GwashburnGlobe.

BAGHDAD, Nov 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen was killed on Monday in central Baghdad after a failed attempt to kidnap him, Iraqi police sources said.

The body was taken to a hospital in the capital’s Karrada district and an initial hospital report indicated that the death was caused by a bullet, the sources added.

A police source said the victim was carrying an identity card showing his job as an English teacher.

Another police source said armed men in a vehicle opened fire at an SUV carrying the victim and shot him dead.

“Our initial investigation and eyewitnesses showed that armed men were trying to kidnap the American citizen,” an Iraqi police major said.

Iraq’s state news agency (INA) said that the country’s armed forces’ commander-in-chief gave an order to form an investigative committee into the killing of the U.S. citizen.

The U.S. State Department was aware of reports of an American killed in Iraq and was looking into them, department spokesperson Ned Price said.

“We would of course notify the next of kin before making any public comments,” Price said at a regular press briefing.

Reporting by Baghdad newsroom; additional reporting by Daphne Psaledakis in Washington
Editing by Andrew Heavens and Bill Berkrot

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Aaron Carter’s medically-trained neighbors were reportedly denied entry to his home by the housekeeper who discovered his body on Saturday.

Anthony and Amanda Cheval claimed to the Daily Mail in an article published on Monday that they rushed over to the singer’s property in an attempt to offer medical care after hearing the frantic 911 call on their police scanner.

Amanda, 30, a registered nurse, was armed with a defibrillator when she knocked on the door “several times” but was informed by the unnamed housekeeper that Carter was already “dead.”

“I heard them call out a 927D — code for a possible dead body — for Aaron Carter’s address,” Anthony further told the outlet.

“I knocked on the door several times. Finally, after a few minutes, a black female answered the door,” he continued, alleging that she was “foaming at both sides of her mouth” and screamed, “He’s gone, he’s dead, he’s gone.” 

His medically-trained neighbors were reportedly denied entry to his home by the housekeeper.

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Anthony, 45, who teaches CPR as part of his job as a corporate safety manager, claimed the housekeeper then “locked the front door.”

“[She said] ‘I can’t let you in’ … and I could hear her running away from the door,” he noted.

When LA County Sheriff Deputies arrived on the scene a few minutes later, the housekeeper also allegedly denied them entry, only opening the door a fraction of the way.

“But the sheriff’s deputies pushed past her and ran inside the house,” Anthony claimed. “Minutes later they exited the house, but not with the same urgent demeanor they had going in. At that point, I thought whoever it was inside there is dead.”

He alleged to the outlet he didn’t realize Carter was dead until his on-again, off-again fiancée Melanie Martin — with whom he shared 11-month-old son Prince — was seen sobbing on the street.

On Saturday, a rep for the 34-year-old singer confirmed his death to Page Six.

“It is with great regret to confirm Aaron Carter was found unresponsive this a.m. in his home in Palmdale, CA,” the statement read.

Nick Carter paid tribute to his brother at a Backstreet Boys concert.

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“The family has been notified and will be flying out to Los Angeles. Aaron worked very hard towards the end of his life in recovery, to be a good father and to make amends with his family.”

An official time and cause of death have not been confirmed.

One day after his sudden death, Nick Carter broke down on stage while his Backstreet Boys family hugged him as they paid tribute to his younger brother.

While it’s felt like we’ve been eagerly anticipating the outcome of the midterms for weeks, a good thing to keep in mind on election night is that there’s a lot that we may not know immediately because of how much time it takes to process ballots.

That delay won’t be a sign that anything has gone amiss, but the result of needing time to count votes, including mail-in ballots, which often take longer to tally because many states can’t start processing them until Election Day. Since each state also establishes its own vote-counting policies, and has different polling times, some states are also poised to be faster than others when it comes to reporting their returns.

Due to all this variability — not to mention a range of different time zones — the results will be staggered, and each party’s respective leads could shift significantly in the process. Here’s a rundown of a few things to expect as we wait for election results on Tuesday evening, and later this week.

Several states — including key swing states — may not be called on election night

Because of the time it will take states to process mail-in ballots, it’s possible several states won’t be called on election night, especially if the races are close. Wisconsin, for example, can only begin counting mail-in ballots on Election Day, so results won’t become more clear until that process is underway.

While it’s not an exact parallel, the 2020 election could offer a preview of when we’ll see returns from different places. As the New York Times explained, the presidential election results in 16 states still hadn’t been called as of midnight eastern time on Election Day that year. Notably, key swing states — including Pennsylvania and Nevada — didn’t have their races called until the following weekend because both places were still counting mail-in ballots, and both presidential outcomes were within less than 5 percentage points.

Depending on how tight the contests are this year, we could see similar timing, or a faster call if it’s clear that particular elections are a landslide. Additionally, fewer people may use mail-in ballots this year because there are fewer concerns about voting in-person due to the pandemic, another factor that could contribute to faster results this cycle than last.

Beyond counting of mail-in ballots, the timing of poll closures in different states could also affect when results come in. The first polls to close will be in Indiana and Kentucky, where some polls will shut down at 6 pm eastern. The latest West Coast polls will stay open until 8 pm local time and 11 pm Eastern, so many of those states, along with Alaska and Hawaii, won’t even begin reporting returns until later into the evening.

In general, states like Florida and Colorado are typically expected to report results faster because they’re able to begin counting mail-in ballots before Election Day, while states like Washington take longer because they can’t begin counting mail-in ballots until the polls close, and because they give voters more time to submit them. Below is a preview of when to expect results from some of the biggest swing states:

Pennsylvania: Polls close in Pennsylvania at 8 pm Eastern and results could take longer because the state does not begin counting mail-in ballots until Election Day. In 2020, Pennsylvania’s presidential election results were not called until the Saturday after the election, a dynamic that could be the case again for races that are particularly close, as the Senate race is expected to be.

Arizona: Polls close in Arizona at 7 pm local time / 9 pm Eastern and results could take longer because a high proportion of the state votes early and has until election day to drop off mail-in ballots. The state is able to begin counting mail-in ballots as they are received, but could take more time to process last-minute ones. In 2020, Arizona’s presidential election results were not called until nine days after Election Day, and the state could need more time again this year if many voters submit their ballots on the later side.

Georgia: Polls close in Georgia at 7 pm Eastern, and results could come in more quickly from the state this year because of rules changes that enable it to begin processing absentee ballots earlier than it did before. The closeness of the Georgia Senate election, however, could mean the outcome may still take longer to become clear. In 2020, Georgia’s presidential results were initially called by networks 10 days after the election, and reaffirmed six days later after a recount. It’s also possible candidates in the Senate race could go to another run-off on December 6 if neither wins more than 50 percent of the vote.

Wisconsin: Polls close in Wisconsin at 8 pm local time / 9 pm Eastern and results could take longer because the state isn’t able to count mail-in ballots until Election Day. In 2020, Wisconsin’s presidential results were called the next day, which could happen again this year depending on how tight the Senate election is.

Nevada: Polls close in Nevada at 7 pm local time / 10 pm Eastern and results could take longer because voters can postmark their ballots as late as Election Day, delaying the count. In 2020, Nevada’s presidential results were called the Saturday after the election, which could be the case again for the state’s heavily contested Senate race.

It might initially look like one party’s candidate is winning a race — but that could change

As results come in over the course of the next few days, the leads that each party’s candidates have could also shift: In some states, for instance, Republicans may initially appear to be winning because in-person voting is counted earlier and skews GOP, but Democrats could overtake them after mail-in ballots, which skew Democratic, are factored in.

That’s a dynamic that experts have warned about in states including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, each of which has a tight Senate race. Neither state can count mail-in ballots until the day of the election, so those outcomes are likely to come in later than the initial in-person votes.

That set-up could create what’s known as a “red mirage,” suggesting that Republicans are initially winning, an outcome that could potentially change after more mail-in ballots are factored in. Earlier this year, former Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt testified in front of the January 6 Committee about this phenomenon, and how it was amplified in the 2020 election because more people used mail-in ballots that year. In 2020, Trump sought to exploit this dynamic by prematurely declaring victory because of early leads he had before the votes had fully been counted in battleground states.

As New York Magazine’s Ed Kilgore writes, it’s important to be on guard for candidates trying to use the same strategy to again falsely declare victory before all the ballots have been counted, especially in swing states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

We might not know final Senate and House breakdowns

Beyond the specific timing issues that could result because of each state’s unique ballot-counting rules, there are other factors that could delay when we know the final breakdowns about House and Senate control.

If the Georgia Senate race goes to another run-off this year, it’s possible we won’t know which party has the Senate majority until after that race takes place on December 6. In Georgia, the Senate race automatically goes to a run-off between the top two candidates if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in the general election.

Additionally, it could take longer to finalize other outcomes if races are particularly close and a recount is triggered. In over 20 states — including Florida and Ohio — a recount automatically takes place if candidates are within extremely narrow margins of one another, usually at least 0.5 percent or less. Candidates are also able to separately request recounts if the results are close enough in other states.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel signaled over the weekend that Republicans intended to utilize different avenues, including recounts, to verify and challenge election results that are not in their favor as well.

“Listen, you should have a recount. You should have a canvas. And it’ll go to the courts, and then everybody should accept the results. That’s what it should be,” McDaniel said in a CNN interview.

Attempts at legally challenging the results, or disputing mail-in ballots — a strategy that Republicans have already begun to employ in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin — could lead to major delays in officially settling races, meaning it could be weeks, or longer, before the final results are set as well.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Climate change talks have long been stymied over demands for transfers of billions of dollars — on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron backed a new push for the conversation to be measured in trillions.

Speaking at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Macron gave his support to elements of a plan outlined by Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley that seeks to overhaul the way climate finance flows to the countries that most need it. 

He called for a “huge shock of concessional financing,” suspension of debt for disaster-struck countries and putting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on notice. 

It was a speech that signaled a shift in tone that developing countries have been long been pushing for.

During the first day of official speeches, leader after leader from wealthy countries highlighted the need to demonstrate “solidarity” with developing countries after a year in which calamitous disasters and a bubbling debt crisis helped reshape the often contentious conversation about climate finance.

“It’s the right thing to do,” said U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Money is a central focus of this year’s climate talks given the widening gap between what has been pledged and what is needed. It extends from everything from clean energy transitions to hardening countries’ defenses against climate impacts to potential payments for irreparable climate damages.

In September, Barbados issued the world’s first pandemic and natural disaster bond. “The time has come for the introduction of natural disaster-pandemic clauses in our debt instruments,” Mottley said.

“God forbid, if we are hit tomorrow, we unlock 18 percent of GDP over the next two years, because what we do is effectively put a pause on all of our debt,” she said. 

Macron called for the rules of the IMF, the World Bank and other major lenders to be changed to make clauses that halt debt repayments in the event of a disaster far more common. 

“What you’re asking of us in terms of debt reimbursement and guarantees, when we are affected by a climate shock, when we are a victim of a climate accident, to some degree, there must be a suspension of those conditions,” said the French president.

Broken promises

While the need for finance to spur the transition to clean energy across the world and guard against the ravages of climate change is already stretching into trillions, the U.N. climate system remains stuck on a broken decade-old promise from rich countries. They pledged to deliver $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020, but that’s not likely to happen until next year.

As climate impacts have grown more extreme and prolific, appeals for new and more innovative forms of finance have escalated. Ballooning debt in the wake of the pandemic has heightened those calls, with dozens of vulnerable countries threatening a debt strike in the lead-up to COP27.

Mottley has been a champion of elevating the debt crisis facing nations like her own and highlighting how it adds to climate inequities. The plan she outlined in September hinges on debt relief, increased finance, and new mechanisms for post-disaster recovery, like bonds.

The Barbados leader’s call to arms and Macron’s heavyweight backing brought a new reality and scale to the financial discussion.

Mottley has pushed for the IMF’s special drawing rights to be put toward helping climate-vulnerable nations recover and respond to climate impacts. That could be used to help unlock far more money from the private sector — $500 billion from the IMF could result in $5 trillion in investments, she said Monday.

The challenge is getting shareholders in those financial institutions to agree to reforms. 

Officials in the U.S., Germany and other major economies have pushed for an overhaul of the way multilateral development banks lend to allow them to extend more climate finance. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called on the World Bank to draft a roadmap by the end of the year that could then be used to drive reform efforts at other development banks.

On Monday, Macron went further, saying that by next spring, global financial institutions would need to devise ways to “come up with concrete solutions to activate these innovative financing solutions and to help us to provide access to new liquidities.”

He paid tribute to Mottley’s “force of character” and said the two leaders — one who commands an economy 600 times larger than the other — had agreed to form a group of “wise minds” to develop suggestions for the overhaul of the international financial system.

But one Mottley suggestion that Macron swerved was her call for fossil fuel companies to pay a levy on their profits into a fund for disaster-hit countries.

“How do companies make $200 billion in profits in the last three months and not expect to contribute at least 10 cents on every dollar of profit to a loss and damage fund?” she asked.

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Some of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s top donors are privately panicking about Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin’s recent surge in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s midterms, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Republican, who’s been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has closed in on Hochul’s double-digit lead in recent weeks — prompting Hochul’s corporate backers to push her to change tactics, according to these people.

At the start of October, Hochul was ahead of Zeldin by an average of 14 points, according to data from FiveThirtyEight, which aggregates data from several polls. RealClearPolitics, which looked at several polls taken during the last half of October, showed Zeldin closing in on Hochul, who was up by an average of six percentage points. A Quinnipiac poll from mid-October showed an even smaller lead for Hochul, who was ahead of Zeldin by just four points at the time.

Many of the people who discussed these conversations with Hochul did so on the condition of anonymity so they could speak freely about the private conversations. A spokesperson for Hochul’s campaign did not return a request for comment.

Business leaders have encouraged Hochul in private meetings, including one with top real estate executives in late October in New York City, to pivot away from focusing on the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and other social issues. They, instead, have advised her to show how she’s going to fight inflation and a recent rise in crime in the city, those familiar with the conversations explained.

Other donors have tried to convince her to fire Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who faces blame, often by Republicans, for an increase in crime in the city, these people said. Hochul has suggested she has no plans to remove Bragg, a fellow Democrat, from office because she says he’s a duly elected lawmaker.

As Zeldin has gained steam in the polls, boosted by support from outside groups, Hochul herself has been calling on wealthy donors for additional contributions in recent weeks, some of these people said. Data from AdImpact shows that last week, Hochul and her allies spent just over $5.2 million on TV, radio and digital ads while Zeldin and groups backing him, put up $8.3 million over that same time period.

New York businessman Bernard Schwartz gave just over $69,000 last year to Hochul’s campaign for governor, according to state campaign finance records. He told CNBC that he’s concerned about Zeldin’s growing popularity, noting that others have privately encouraged Hochul to focus more on the economy. While she’s made that change, he said he’s not sure it’s enough to solidify her win.

“I am concerned,” Schwartz said when asked about Zeldin’s comeback in the polls. “She changed her strategy, but she was being advised that the voter was most concerned about the economy and less concerned about crime. I’m not so sure that that message is being projected out by the Democrats because the economy should be a stronger point for the Democrats,” he said.

While inflation rose by 0.4% in September, nonfarm payrolls grew by 261,000 last month. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.7%.

One Democratic advisor, who counts numerous Hochul donors as clients, said he’s having “PTSD” as he sees Zeldin closing in on Hochul in the polls. He compared Zeldin’s surge to Trump‘s win over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Kathryn Wylde, the president and CEO of the New York business lobbying group Partnership for New York City, said Hochul was “too ambivalent on crime, aside from gun control” for many business leaders.

The encouragement to focus more on the economy and crime as the polls tighten seems to have made an impact on Hochul’s messaging. At a private fundraiser on Wall Street last Tuesday, Hochul hit those broad topics in front of the over 100 people that attended, one attendee told CNBC. The dinner was held at Manhatta, a restaurant on the 60th floor at the  28 Liberty St. tower in the financial district, this person said. Tickets for a table to the event went up to $50,000, the attendee explained.

Another suggestion from donors to Hochul has been to fire Bragg as a way to show voters that she’s looking to take on crime within the state, some of these people said. Crime in the Big Apple climbed 5.9% year-over-year, according to an October report by the New York Police Department.

Bragg has been criticized, often by GOP officials, for the uptick in crime in New York City. Bragg, a Democrat, was elected as Manhattan’s DA in 2021 to a four-year term. He’s led an investigation into Trump’s company, Trump Org., and plans to have former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testify against his previous employer.

At an October debate between Hochul and Zeldin, the governor pushed back on the idea of firing Bragg and suggested that it was up to the voters to decide his fate. Zeldin said at the debate that his first initiative if he becomes governor is to remove Bragg from office.

Hochul told Zeldin at the time “you can’t throw out someone who is duly elected.”

On Friday night, a bright meteorite fell in Nevada County, California and likely struck the home of Dustn Procita, causing it to catch fire and burn to the ground. (Update: NASA says no. See below.) You can see video of the meteorite in the news report above. From ABC7:

“I heard a big bang. I started to smell smoke and I went onto my porch and it was completely engulfed in flames,” Procita said.

It appears a bright ball of light, which lit up the dark northern California sky around 7:30 p.m., landed in the middle of nowhere, KCRA reported.

“They said it was a meteor,” Procita said when asked what he thought might have hit his house. “I’ve always watched meteor showers and stuff as a kid, but I definitely didn’t look forward to them landing in my yard or through my roof. I did not see what it was, but from everybody I talked to — was a flaming ball falling from the sky, landed in that general area.”

The Penn Valley Fire Department, along with Cal Fire, battled the flames for hours and are now investigating what started the fire in this rural area.

Update from ABC10:

NASA officials do not currently believe that any particles from any of the meteorites seen Friday touched the ground or started any fires. [William Cooke, manager of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office ] added that by the time most meteorites hit the ground in general, they are cold.