President Joe Biden's senior aides are reportedly having vigorous internal discussions on whether to preemptively pardon a number of current and former officials who could face the wrath of President-elect Donald Trump . Politico reported Wednesday that the discussions have become more pressing following Trump's nomination of loyalist Kash Patel — who has vowed to seek political retribution against Trump's foes — for FBI director . The Biden officials have concerns over the implications of issuing blanket pardons to certain people who as of yet haven't been accused of any crimes, as "it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them," the report said. ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: Senate Dems consider whether Biden should ‘clear the slate’ and pardon Trump Those who could be pardoned preemptively include Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). Schiff, for his part, encouraged Biden not to issue the pardons. “I would urge the president not to do that,” he told Politico. “I think it would seem defensive and unnecessary.”Key GOP senators begin to fall in line behind Kash Patel and keep door open for Pete Hegseth

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Democrat Bob Casey concedes to Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate contestXenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. ( NYSE:XHR – Get Free Report ) announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 18th, RTT News reports. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of 0.12 per share by the real estate investment trust on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.18%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a payout ratio of 154.8% indicating that the company cannot currently cover its dividend with earnings alone and is relying on its balance sheet to cover its dividend payments. Equities research analysts expect Xenia Hotels & Resorts to earn $1.58 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $0.48 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 30.4%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts Price Performance Xenia Hotels & Resorts stock opened at $15.09 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $1.54 billion, a PE ratio of 65.61 and a beta of 1.52. The company has a current ratio of 2.20, a quick ratio of 2.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.07. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $15.21 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $14.48. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a 12 month low of $12.34 and a 12 month high of $16.50. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth Get Our Latest Stock Analysis on Xenia Hotels & Resorts About Xenia Hotels & Resorts ( Get Free Report ) Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc is a self-advised and self-administered REIT that invests in uniquely positioned luxury and upper upscale hotels and resorts with a focus on the top 25 lodging markets as well as key leisure destinations in the United States. The Company owns 32 hotels and resorts comprising 9,511 rooms across 14 states. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for Xenia Hotels & Resorts Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Xenia Hotels & Resorts and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .West Ham show support for hospitalized Antonio before Premier League match

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Quinstreet director Andrew Sheehan sells $215,000 in stockBy Leslie Patton | Bloomberg Costco Wholesale Corp. is switching manufacturers for its popular Kirkland Signature brand of diapers as its supplier moves away from store brands to increase profitability. First Quality is replacing Kimberly-Clark Corp. as the maker of Costco’s diapers, with the official change set to happen in January, according to people familiar with the decision who weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter. More on Costco: Not a Costco member? Shoppers have tips to skip new entry scanners Consumer goods makers have been focused on restoring profit margins to pre-pandemic levels and scrutinizing their business models after years of higher costs. For Kimberly-Clark, which makes the Huggies brand of diapers, that means a shift away from low-margin private label contracts and a stronger focus on selling more higher-priced premium items under their own brand names. First Quality didn’t respond to requests for comment. Representatives for Costco and Kimberly-Clark declined to comment. Earlier this month, Kimberly-Clark Chief Financial Officer Nelson Urdaneta said that the company’s exit of private label businesses, “allows us to dedicate our capacity and our investments to our own technologies and brands to differentiate them.” In October, Chief Executive Officer Mike Hsu said that the company’s percentage of sales from private label will go from about 4% in 2023 to about 2% next year, and that it would decline further “over time.” Also read: Discount retailer Panda Mart leases former Sears in Orange First Quality, which also makes Cuties diapers along with paper towels and toilet paper, hasn’t disclosed the arrangement with Costco. In May, the New York-based company said it was increasing capacity for diapers and training pants by 50% at its Macon, Georgia, manufacturing factory. Costco’s Kirkland Signature diapers have become popular with parents, especially as years of inflation for basic goods crimps spending. The company has said in past years that private label items are a good value versus brand names, thanks to their price point. Costco says it expects to increase sales of Kirkland-branded items, which generally earn higher margins for the retailer versus national labels. Kirkland diapers made by Kimberly-Clark have a curved fit that many shoppers perceive to be more ergonomic for their babies, said Natalia Richer, director of business development at consultant Diaper Testing International. “It will be noticeable to the consumer if they change it,” she said. Kimberly-Clark also makes Kotex tampons and pads, along with Kleenex tissues and Scott toilet paper. Huggies recently introduced a new type of diaper and wipes, dubbed Skin Essentials, designed to protect against rashes. Related Articles Retail | Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year’s biggest day for online shopping Retail | SunFed cucumbers and Costco eggs recalled due to potential salmonella contamination Retail | Gifting on a budget: 5 secrets to being generous without going broke Retail | After flood of pre-Black Friday deals, stores open early Friday across Southern California Retail | Is Black Friday still a holiday shopping juggernaut in 2024?

Almost 100 protesters gathered outside Reform UK’s Scottish conference on Saturday, as the party pledged to treble its numbers north of the Border. Groups including Stand Up To Racism, Unison, Trades Union Congress, the Socialist Workers’ Party and Perth Against Racism blasted music and chanted outside the conference venue in Perth. Catriona Mackay, from Perth Against Racism, said the campaigners were opposed to a party that “enables racism”, but conceded Reform would probably do well at the 2026 Holyrood election. She told The Scotsman: “Reform will use anything they can to get votes. We will oppose Reform getting any seats in Scotland over the next two years.” Ms Mackay added: “Nigel Farage is a disingenuous little cretin and people need to wake up and see him for what he is.” Inside the party conference more than 300 people gathered to discuss building up a branch of party branches across Scotland ahead of the Holyrood election. The party said it would treble its numbers in Scotland over the next 18 months. Martyn Greene, Reform UK’s Scotland organiser, opened the conference and said: “Britain is broken and it needs Reform. We need to challenge what is being done to our country, our values, immigration and the indoctrination in our schools. “Good people are fed up with the state of the country and it is time to take a stand.” The party also announced the defection of two North Ayrshire councillors. Matthew McLean, who represents Irvine South, and Stewart Ferguson, who represents Ardrossan, said they joined Reform as there was a “need for a fresh approach to Scottish politics”. One of the biggest cheers of the conference was for party chairman Zia Yusuf, who launched a scathing attack on former first minister Humza Yousaf. The Steamie newsletter brings you unrivalled political analysis - sign up here Mr Yusuf said the former first minister had made a speech recently that was “one of the most despicable and racist speeches of any world leader”. He said: “There he stood pontificating in the Scottish Parliament and his voice and body language was dripping with hate and disdain. Let’s clear something up here - there’s nothing wrong whatsoever with being white.” Mr Yusuf said the SNP was against the values of family, community and country, and stressed the SNP was “less Scotland and more Soviet Union”. He also said divisive rhetoric in mainstream politics had “enabled the left to divide and conquer”. Mr Yusuf pledged to ensure no one earning under £20,000 a year would pay any income tax. Earlier this week Reform UK said it was aiming to be “kingmakers” at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, with polls suggesting the party could secure a dozen seats. Deputy leader Richard Tice MP told The Telegraph: “It’s quite possible that we poll as the third largest party in terms of the number of votes and seats.”If Young Thug hadn’t pleaded guilty to gang, drug and gun charges on Halloween night, the rap superstar might have walked free, two jurors said after the lengthy trial ended this week. The trial, the longest in Georgia history, concluded Tuesday as the two remaining defendants were acquitted of murder, gang and racketeering charges. The jury found Deamonte Kendrick not guilty of all the charges he faced, while Shannon Stillwell was convicted of one count of possessing a gun as a felon and sentenced to probation. The single guilty verdict was a blow to Fulton County prosecutors, who spent more than a year arguing “Young Slime Life” was a violent gang led by the Grammy-winning rapper. YSL, they contended, was responsible for a series of robberies, shootings and the deaths of three rival gang members. In a press conference announcing the indictment in May 2022, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said she would seek the maximum penalties for the 28 defendants charged, alleging gangs are responsible for “75 to 80% of all of the violent crime” in Fulton County. But two jurors said Tuesday that the state failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, particularly when it came to the evidence against Young Thug. The Atlanta rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, was sentenced to 15 years of probation and banished from his hometown for a decade after pleading guilty. “From my perspective, I think he had a great shot of going home,” Juror No. 71 said in a phone interview. “A lot of time, we sat there waiting on that smoking gun. At that point, there wasn’t a smoking gun.” Juror No. 71 said he doesn’t know if prosecutors had additional evidence to present against Williams. But at the time Young Thug pleaded guilty, there wasn’t enough for a conviction, he said. Citing concerns for his safety, the juror, whose first name is Kevin, asked not to be fully identified. Other jurors declined to be interviewed after they were released from jury duty. Jury foreman Jason Collins told Channel 2 Action News he didn’t feel the state had presented enough evidence to convict the rapper, either. “From what I was looking at, I did not see anything connected to him throughout the course of the case,” he said. Some jurors have taken to social media after being dismissed from the trial, including three who say they want to collaborate online with the state’s star witness, Kenneth Copeland. The trio launched TikTok and YouTube accounts after being dismissed from jury duty, and spoke to Melanie Goolsby, a content creator who has been following the case, about their experience on the jury. The jurors didn’t reveal their names, and only two of them appeared on camera while a third remained out of view. They couldn’t be reached for comment on Wednesday. During their live social media interview Tuesday night, juror No. 225 told Goolsby that the state’s evidence against the rapper didn’t shine a negative light on him, like the state intended it to. “I saw somebody who kind of pulled himself up, got himself out of the position he was in and help other people around. It actually shined a more positive light in my eyes than what the state was trying to present,” she said. Jury selection started in January 2023 and lasted 10 months. The trial itself took more than a year and was marred by repeated delays and the replacement of the judge midway through. In the end, the jury was ready to go home. “It was extremely long,” Collins told Channel 2. “You pretty much put your whole life on the side.” Prosecutors argued at trial that YSL members regularly rapped about crimes they had committed. Kevin said he wasn’t swayed by the state’s use of lyrics as evidence. He grew up in Chicago and said plenty of people rap about violence. “If that’s the case, come lock up my nephews and my cousins’ kids. Come lock up my whole neighborhood,” he said. Kevin also said he thought the state’s evidence was lacking when it came to the shooting deaths of Donovan Thomas and Shymel Drinks. For one thing, the juror said, he felt the witness who placed Stillwell and Kendrick at the scene of Thomas’ shooting was unreliable, especially after that witness, Copeland, admitted he had lied to investigators to keep himself out of trouble. “Everything to me was a torn up picture they were trying to tape back together,” he said of the state’s case. “You try to make it whole, but you are missing some pieces.” The 26-year-old Thomas was gunned down outside an Atlanta barbershop, and prosecutors argued the car used in the drive-by had been rented by Young Thug. But Kevin said there simply wasn’t enough evidence to convict the two defendants of murder. ”(Copeland) placed them there and then the state didn’t back it up with the phone records,” he said. “They had everybody else’s phone records except for Kendrick and Stillwell.” Regarding the fatal shooting of Drinks at a red light in March 2022, Kevin said the grainy surveillance video presented by the prosecution wasn’t enough to find Stillwell guilty of murder either. “We never saw the shots. We never saw the flashes,” he said. Kevin described serving on the jury as a nice change of pace from his regular job, where he clocks plenty of overtime hours each week. There were enough breaks in proceedings that he could schedule doctor appointments, but he said he couldn’t travel back and forth to Illinois to visit his relatives. Jury service wasn’t as easy for others, Kevin acknowledged, saying some jurors essentially put their lives on hold to attend trial each day. Prosecutors and defense attorneys met with the jury after the verdict was delivered Tuesday morning. But Chief Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love wasn’t there, Kevin said. The juror said he thought the lead prosecutor took things personally at times during the trial, especially during closing arguments. Kevin said he may keep in touch with some of the other jurors, but acknowledged that they’re from different walks of life. “I can see a few of us getting together a year down the line, six months down the line in the summertime,” Kevin said.

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