Yann Moix a fait scandale il y a deux mois en affirmant ne pas être attiré par les femmes de 50 ans qui sont, selon lui, “invisibles”. Lynché par de nombreuses femmes, l’écrivain a trouvé une surprenante avocate en la personne de Marlène Schiappa, la secrétaire d’État à l’égalité femmes-hommes.

C’est une “vieille” polémique qui ressurgit aujourd’hui. Dans une interview accordée au magazine Marie Claire, Yann Moix s’était laissé aller à quelques confidences sur sa vie sentimentale. L’écrivain y expliquait être plutôt attiré par les femmes de 25 ans et se disait “incapable d’aimer une femme de 50 ans“, pourtant son âge à lui, car leur corps n’était “pas extraordinaire du tout”.

Des propos qui ont immédiatement enflammé les réseaux sociaux. Le chroniqueur des Terriens du samedi, pas étranger aux propos incendiaires, s’est notamment fait tacler par de nombreuses célébrités, à l’instar de Valérie Damidot ou Karine Le Marchand. Yann Moix a quant à lui assumé ses propos, refusant de s’excuser et se comparant même à Brigitte Macron.

Mais le procès fait à Yann Moix n’a pas été du goût de Marlène Schiappa. Invitée de Chez Moix, l’émission de l’écrivain sur Paris Première, la secrétaire d’État a pris la défense de son hôte. Dans un extrait du numéro de ce mercredi soir partagé sur Twitter, elle loue le courage de Yann Moix d’avoir ainsi ouvertement partagé, dans son livre puis son interview avec Marie Claire, ses névroses personnelles et “ce qui l’amène à préférer tel ou tel type de femmes, à observer des schémas de répétition.” Marlène Schiappa dénonce ensuite avec véhémence les raccourcis faits sur les propos de Yann Moix, le fait que ses déclarations aient été réduites ou déformées afin de mieux pouvoir lui taper dessus.

Et si la femme politique est particulièrement remontée, c’est qu’elle s’est retrouvée prise bien malgré elle dans la polémique. En tant que militante féministe et secrétaire d’État chargée de l’égalité femmes-hommes, on lui a demandé de prendre position. Une position qu’elle fait aujourd’hui bien comprendre : “Moi, je n’ai rien à dire à Yann Moix. Depuis quand est-ce qu’on doit rendre compte des gens qui nous attirent ou qui ne nous attirent pas sexuellement ? Ou des gens dont on tombe amoureux ou dont on ne tombe pas amoureux ? Et je sais que moi-même je vais me faire lyncher probablement sur les réseaux sociaux pour avoir dit ça. Mais moi, je trouve ça assez scandaleux… Yann Moix a le droit d’être attiré sexuellement par qui il a envie d’être attiré !”

Marlène Schiappa a également voulu recadrer le débat : “La question qu’il faut poser, c’est quelle est la place des femmes de plus de 50 ans dans la société ? Et ça, ce n’est pas Yann Moix qui décide que les femmes de plus de 50 ans sont moins promues, moins embauchées dans la société, qu’elles sont discriminées, qu’elles sont moins visibles… Donc, c’est une phénomène de société et ce n’est pas la faute de Yann Moix.” Cette réponse de la secrétaire d’État mettra-t-elle définitivement fin à la polémique ou ne fera-t-elle que l’attiser ?

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Une nouvelle affiche pour “Doctor Strange”, des visuels intrigants pour le film de Tom Ford “Nocturnal Animals”, l’affiche de “Passengers” avec Jennifer Lawrence et Chris Pratt. Découvrez les 20 visuels incontournables de la semaine.

1. Doctor Strange – Sortie le 26 octobre 2016
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De Scott Derrickson avec Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton

L’histoire : Doctor Strange suit l’histoire du Docteur Stephen Strange, talentueux neurochirurgien qui, après un tragique accident de voiture, doit mettre son égo de côté et apprendre les secrets d’un monde caché de mysticisme et de dimensions alternatives.

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The 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate roadshow is coming to Los Angeles on Thursday and “PBS NewsHour” anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff — a veteran journalist who has covered the last 11 presidential campaigns — will be at the moderators’ table when seven candidates take the stage at Loyola Marymount University.

The “NewsHour” is teaming with Politico for the event that begins at 5 p.m. Pacific and will be seen on PBS TV stations nationwide, and simulcast on CNN and its digital platforms. The debate will also be streamed on “PBS NewsHour’s” Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages and broadcast on NPR stations. Woodruff, who will be co-moderating with Politico’s Tim Alberta and “News Hour” correspondents Yamiche Alcindor and Amna Nawaz, recently shared some thoughts about presidential debates past and present.

Does the timing of this primary debate — the sixth since June — make it any more challenging? Based on the TV ratings, interest in this field of candidates has subsided from those first few debates when there was a lot of curiosity. And we’re still seven weeks away from the Iowa caucus. So do you have to think about how to make this a pivotal event?

We have seven candidates, which would be the smallest field on a stage for these Democratic National Committee sponsored debates. So in a way that gives us more opportunity to ask direct questions to candidates, to ask the candidates to engage, hopefully to explore where there’s any daylight among them, and to get to some issues that maybe we haven’t gotten to before.

So what is the preparation process like? Do you do a mock debate where production assistants and other staffers play the different candidates?

Our team is working very closely with Politico in terms of research, in terms of thinking about questions and what’s the best way to phrase a question. We’ll do mock debates where we try questions and have producers, production assistants and folks like that who’ve been part of this process. I think that’s what everybody does now.

Being that it’s PBS and there’s no commercial incentive here, is there also an opportunity to maybe structure it differently to make the debate more substantive?

You just put your finger on it — substance. Our main goal is to try to put ourselves in the shoes of the American voters and [ask] what are they interested in? What are they looking for? What do they want to know from these candidates? How do they better understand them? Whether it’s their positions on the issues, or what about their character, or how they make decisions, what kind of leader would they be — all those things come into play. In terms of format, we’re not looking to do something wild and crazy here. We’re looking to keep the focus on the candidates and to let them talk about the most important issues.

You’re a veteran of presidential debates. You did the general election debate in 1988 between the vice presidential candidates, when Lloyd Bentsen told George H.W. Bush’s youthful running mate, Dan Quayle, “I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. You’re no Jack Kennedy.”

That’s right, that’s what everybody remembers about that debate. The room exploded when Bentsen said that. And it’s a reminder about what debates are, because everybody listened to that and they thought, “Oh, boy, that’s the end for Dan Quayle.” And then, of course, he and Bush went on to win the election.

You’ll have three female moderators at your debate. And we had four female moderators at the last Democratic primary debate on MSNBC. You came up in the 1970s when there were few female correspondents covering Washington for the networks. How does it feel to see this kind of representation now?

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I think it’s exciting. I think it’s appropriate. Four years ago, Gwen Ifill and I moderated the one of the primary debates between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in February of 2016. So it started to improve years ago, but I think we’re now at the point where when you don’t have a diverse group of moderators, it looks out-of-place. Because journalists have become more conscious of how important it is to look like the country. We may be late in journalism, but we’ve finally come around. To have a lineup of moderators that is all cookie-cutter, lookalike — that just wouldn’t happen.

Is that a change that you ever imagined when you were blazing the trail a few decades back?

Not even close. When I started out all the major political reporters, the main political reporters certainly for print … the Johnny Apples, and the David Broders and on and on — they were men. And there were certainly a few women coming up, but they were often not given permanent slots. I think the networks were a little ahead of print in including women in [covering] these events. But to be where we are today, — there’s just no way I would’ve imagined. And you could argue, well, I should’ve imagined it, and it should’ve been a whole lot sooner than it was.

The news cycle is nonstop and chaotic these days. Are you seeing any dividend at “PBS NewsHour” from sticking with its sober, steady approach to the news because there are fewer places doing it that way on TV?

Absolutely. I hear every single day from our viewers and our online followers that they appreciate what we’re doing, They are desperately looking, many of them say, for facts, for straight reporting. And I’ve never heard the kind of response that we’re getting today, which is incredible. I mean, on the one hand it’s heartening; on the other hand, it says something about where we are as a country and where journalism is today, that people are coming to you and saying, “I don’t know where to turn for information, for news that I can believe in. And I’m so grateful that you are there.” People stop me at the airport or at the coffee shop. People are saying to us, “Thank goodness for what you guys are doing. You’re doing the journalism that matters today.” Honestly I’ve never seen the kind of affirmation that we’re getting today.

WASHINGTON — 

A federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled against part of the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday — providing a limited victory for President Trump and his Republican allies but not overturning most parts of the sweeping 2010 healthcare law.

The ruling by two GOP-appointed judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals came in a case that had threatened to strip health protections and insurance coverage from tens of millions of Americans.

For now, however, the case will return to a federal district judge in Texas for further proceedings while the law remains fully in effect. That likely means a final ruling in the case will not come until well after next year’s presidential election.

Republican state attorneys general from Texas and 17 other conservative-leaning states brought the latest court challenge to the healthcare law, and the Trump administration joined in. California and a group of Democratic states stepped in to defend the law.

Democrats have made the administration’s embrace of the lawsuit a major plank of their push to defeat the president and other Republicans, who have not detailed how they would replace lost health protections if the healthcare law were scrapped.

Several leading Democrats criticized the appeals court ruling Wednesday evening, saying that it would create continued uncertainty in the healthcare system.

“Tonight’s ruling is a chilling threat to the 130 million Americans with preexisting conditions and every other family who depends on the lifesaving protections of the Affordable Care Act,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said in a statement. “This ruling should not stop families from continuing to sign up for the quality, affordable coverage they need in states where the enrollment period is still open.”

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said he would ask the Supreme Court to take up the case without waiting for further proceedings in order to “get clarity and certainty” on the healthcare law.

Trump issued a statement calling the ruling a “win,” but also noted that it “will not alter the current healthcare system.”

If Texas and its allies were to fully prevail, the case could strip coverage from as many as 20 million people and eliminate scores of other protections contained in the healthcare law, including prescription drug assistance for seniors who rely on the Medicare Part D program and a popular rule allowing young people to remain on their parents’ health plans until they are 26.

The lawsuit centers on a provision in the 2017 tax bill that eliminated a tax penalty on Americans who don’t have health insurance. The tax bill did not change the technical requirement in the healthcare law that Americans have coverage, the law’s so-called individual mandate.

The coverage requirement and the penalty were once considered integral parts of the healthcare law. At the time the law passed, insurers, state regulators and other experts believed that unless there was a penalty for going uninsured, younger and healthier people would not buy health plans until they got sick, leading insurance markets to collapse.

The penalty was also crucial to the healthcare law’s survival when it first came before the Supreme Court in 2012 in a lawsuit that alleged the insurance requirement was unconstitutional.

In the 2012 case, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court’s four liberal justices to uphold the law. Roberts upheld the requirement that all Americans have insurance because the penalty that enforced it could be considered a tax, which Congress had the power to enact.

In the current case, Texas and the other conservative states argued the requirement to have insurance was no longer constitutional because Congress reduced the tax penalty to zero as part of the 2017 tax cut law.

More importantly, they said that because the requirement was central to healthcare law, the entire law would have to be struck down if the mandate were unconstitutional.

That argument was once considered a legal long shot by experts on the left and right.

But in December, a federal judge in Texas appointed by former President George W. Bush backed the plaintiffs’ argument. He ruled that the coverage mandate was a key part of the law and as a result, the entire law was unconstitutional.

In the appeals court, California and the other Democratic states argued that Congress had no intention of wiping out the healthcare law when it zeroed out the tax penalty. The Senate, just a few months earlier, had rejected a measure to roll back the law, they noted. And, they said, with no penalty to enforce it, the mandate to have insurance was no longer truly a requirement and couldn’t be considered a constitutional problem.

Leading lawmakers have backed that position.

“I am not aware of a single senator who said they were voting to repeal Obamacare when they voted to eliminate the individual mandate penalty,” Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who heads one of the main Senate committees on healthcare issues, said in a statement after Wednesday’s ruling.

The appeals court sided partially with the conservative states.

Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, and Judge Kurt Engelhardt, who was appointed by President Trump, wrote in their ruling that they agreed the requirement to purchase coverage was no longer constitutional.

But, they said, it was unclear whether others parts of the law should be struck down. Because the federal government had changed its position in the case several times, they said, the case should go back to the district court for further proceedings to determine which, if any, parts of the law should be considered invalid.

The third member of the appellate panel — Judge Carolyn Dineen King, who was appointed by President Carter — dissented. Since Congress reduced the tax penalty to zero, she said, the entire issue was nothing but an “academic curiosity.”

“People can purchase insurance — or not — as they please,” she wrote. “No more need be said.”

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Nico Hischier and Kyle Palmeiri scored second-period goals in their first game since linemate Taylor Hall was traded and the New Jersey beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-1 on Wednesday night.

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Sami Vatanen also scored and Mackenzie Blackwood made 26 saves as the Devils gave interim coach Alain Nasreddine his second straight win. It marked only the fourth time this season New Jersey has won consecutive games.

Adam Henrique scored against his former team for the Ducks, who squandered an early 1-0 lead in losing to New Jersey for the first time in four games. Ryan Miller had 17 saves as Anaheim lost its second straight on a four-game East Coast trip.

Anaheim defenseman Michael Del Zotto had a hand in the Devils’ goals. He had a giveaway on Hischier’s goal early in the second period and was in the penalty box for interference when Palmieri gave New Jersey a 2-1 lead at 11:29 of the second.

The journeyman defenseman lost a battle with No. 1 overall draft pick Jack Hughes in the corner early in the third period, leading to Vatenen’s goal and a 3-1 lead.

Henrique gave Anaheim the lead, capping a 2-on-none with Ondrej Kase 3:33 after the opening faceoff.

The tide changed early in the second period when Del Zotto misplayed a puck sent around the boards. It deflected toward the net, where Jesper Bratt got the puck and found Hischier for a shot low in the right circle at 1:28.

Palmieri got his 13th of the season in the closing seconds of the penalty against Del Zotto. He made a toe-drag move on defenseman Cam Fowler and beat the screened goaltender from the right circle.

Vatanen extended the margin to two goals with a tally against his former team, and Blackwood made the lead standing up, making 11 saves in the final 20 minutes in giving New Jersey its first home win since Nov. 23 against Detroit.

Linebacker U. may have found its next star pupil.

He comes with the requisite mean streak, can cover ground faster than a FedEx deliveryman and logged more sacks in one state high school playoff game last season than UCLA collectively did in all but one game.

Damian Sellers was the jewel of the 17-player recruiting class the Bruins announced Wednesday during the first day of the early signing period, one of seven linebackers the school brought in to offset the departure of all four starters at the position.

Sellers, a universally regarded four-star prospect from Scottsdale (Ariz.) Saguaro High, picked UCLA over Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State and Auburn. He had 4½ sacks in a semifinal victory for his high school team and will immediately challenge for a starting spot at outside linebacker, where the Bruins have an immense need for an impact player.

“He certainly has a motor,” UCLA coach Chip Kelly said. “He was a highly rated kid for a reason; he’s one of the top edge rushers in the country and we’re really, really excited for him to be a part of this class.”

Sellers is expected to be joined by another four-star linebacker, Jonathan Vaughns of Bellflower St. John Bosco, during the regular signing period in February. Among the other linebackers the Bruins signed Wednesday were Caleb Johnson, a transfer from Fullerton College who might be able to contribute immediately at inside linebacker.

Kelly said linebackers Myles Jackson and Choe Bryant-Strother, who both hail from Georgia, were interchangeable at inside and outside linebacker, helping the Bruins replace the seven linebackers who departed after last season. UCLA could also sign Mesa (Ariz.) Desert Ridge linebacker Joquarri Price, who has decommitted from San Diego State, as soon as Thursday.

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Pressuring the quarterback is a must for a team whose 26 sacks last season ranked tied for sixth in the Pac-12 Conference and whose defense gave up 34.8 points per game, second-to-last in the conference.

“Obviously getting to the quarterback is going to be a priority for us,” Kelly said, “something we really tried to earmark in the recruiting process.”

The Bruins may not be finished in the early signing period given that Kelly said there were a few players awaiting clearance from UCLA’s compliance department before the school could announce their signings. The coach added that he anticipated adding a few more players in February and via graduate transfers.

UCLA’s class was ranked No. 28 nationally and No. 4 in the Pac-12 as of Wednesday, a significant improvement from last year, when the Bruins’ class finished No. 40 nationally and No. 6 in the Pac-12.

“We feel really good about our class,” Kelly said.

The Bruins added just one quarterback in Parker McQuarrie, a four-star prospect from Concord (N.H.) St. Paul’s School, but Kelly said that was largely a function of the team already having six quarterbacks on scholarship. Kelly compared the 6-foot-7, 208-pound McQuarrie, at least in stature, to Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and described him as a very intelligent player.

“We’re really excited about what he can do and how he throws the football,” Kelly said.

Kelly said he expected six or seven newcomers to enroll for winter quarter in January, allowing them to participate in spring practice, and one or two more players to arrive in time for spring quarter, allowing them to join the team at that point.

UCLA added just two offensive linemen in Oakland Piedmont’s Patrick Selna and Tucson Salpointe Catholic’s Bruno Fina, but that led to something of a push with the Bruins losing just center Boss Tagaloa and guard Michael Alves to graduation.

Kelly said he was satisfied with his team’s depth along the offensive line, noting that the Bruins had only one starting spot to fill with Tagaloa’s departure.

Kelly said Christaphany Murray, Jon Gaines II, Sam Marrazzo, Duke Clemens and Siale Liku were all candidates to take over Tagaloa’s job.

“All of them will get an opportunity to show us what they can do,” Kelly said, “and then we’ll see who fits into that mold.”

Kelly clarified the status of the handful of players with remaining eligibility who walked with the departing seniors as part of a farewell ceremony before the final home game last month, saying that receiver Ethan Fernea was petitioning for an additional season of eligibility, tight end Matt Lynch intended to play one more season for the Bruins and receiver Dymond Lee was graduating and had completed his college football career.

There could be less movement among Kelly’s staff after the coach said he did not anticipate any turnover among his assistants, though Kelly acknowledged that Roy Manning departed for Oklahoma last year after signing day.

Kelly said none of his assistants had talked about retirement as part of a staff that includes quarterbacks coach Dana Bible, 66, defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro, 61, and inside linebackers coach Don Pellum, who will turn 58 in January.

Before he confronts his football future and decides whether he’ll declare for the NFL draft, there is one matter of business Austin Jackson prefers to take care of first.

“Right now, I’m really just looking forward to enjoying a bowl game,” the Trojans’ junior left tackle said this week. “It’s something we didn’t get to enjoy last year. I’m just really focused on that right now.”

Jackson isn’t the only third-year USC player delaying that discussion until after the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 27 against Iowa. Wideout Tyler Vaughns and defensive tackle Jay Tufele also suggested they planned to wait on any draft decision until then.

All three are expecting to hear first from the NFL advisory committee about where they stand. Jackson has already elicited some first-round buzz, making his departure more likely than Tufele and Vaughns, who would likely be viewed as late-round picks.

Vaughns, especially, may have trouble finding traction in a deep class at receiver. But as USC will get back a number of players at the position, making targets potentially harder to come by next season, Vaughns could also decide to take his chances.

“My goal right now is to beat Iowa and win the Holiday Bowl,” Tufele said Wednesday. “Everything else after that will handle itself.”

After that, the decisions should be fast for USC. But for now, the bowl game offers a bit of respite from the lingering uncertainty to which players and coaches have grown accustomed to this season.

Questions about the future are a bit more difficult to avoid for USC’s staff, which is expected to undergo some shake-up. Coach Clay Helton said this week that he wouldn’t make any major decisions until after the bowl game.

“It’s part of the business,” offensive coordinator Graham Harrell said Tuesday. “It’s not a fun part of it. It can be a stressful part of it. But what people don’t realize is the family side of it, more than us. You want to be successful and win and be where you are, but it’s really hard on the families. That’s what people fail to realize. For us, we’re just doing our job until they tell us we don’t have one.”

Those discussions have yet to start, although some assistants have begun looking to 2020. Defensive backs coach Greg Burns said he already started thinking of next steps for his talented young secondary.

Clancy Pendergast would prefer not to look past the bowl. Asked if he had talked to Helton about his future, the defensive coordinator offered only a curt response, before calling attention back to the task at hand.

“Sure haven’t,” he said. “We’ve got one more game to play this year against Iowa.”

Bru McCoy is back

After two transfers and a mysterious illness kept him sidelined for all of his freshman season, wideout Bru McCoy has been a part of USC’s bowl practice this week, donning full pads for the first time since he arrived last fall.

McCoy is still working his way back to full participation, but Harrell, who had yet to see him practice in person, was excited by the little he has seen.

“It’s like getting a new toy at Christmas,” Harrell said. “You get to see something new, something different.”

Etc.

Redshirt freshman running back Markese Stepp took part in bowl practice after undergoing ankle surgery in late October. His status for the bowl is uncertain. … Center Brett Neilon, who strained a calf Nov. 9 against Arizona State, is healthy and expected to be ready.

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In an era of instant gratification, transferring high schools is as commonplace as players look for immediate playing time, instant notoriety and the opportunities that will put them in front of the most eyeballs.

Linebacker Justin Flowe was an immediate sensation at Upland High, but could have sought other pastures brighter than the Highlanders’ green after the team went 6-5 his freshman year. He could have looked for a brighter spotlight and nationally televised games when Upland coach Tim Salter retired.

Quarterback CJ Stroud never faltered in his dedication to Rancho Cucamonga High. The dual-sport athlete waited for his opportunities while still wearing purple and black. He could have departed when he wasn’t the starting quarterback his first two years. He wouldn’t have been blamed for quitting the basketball team to have more chances to train and participate in seven-on-seven passing tournaments.

Two players at rival schools had different journeys, but both became nationally ranked football prospects. Through their four years, their loyalty — to their school, their friends, their community — never waned. They stayed home.

But Wednesday when the college football early signing period opened, Flowe and Stroud realized they could no longer find what they were seeking in Southern California. They left like so many of their Southland peers.

The rest of the country saw just how vulnerable the area is to outsiders in a pair of nationally televised ceremonies held just eight miles apart. Stroud announced his commitment, grabbing a black Ohio State hat that sat beside a USC cap as well as Georgia, Michigan and Oregon caps.

That the Trojans were even on the table was surprising as they were considered an afterthought. They also failed to sign longtime commit Bryce Young, who flipped to Alabama in September. The Santa Ana Mater Dei five-star said, “I just felt like it was personally a better fit for me and would be better for my future.” USC and UCLA also watched Wednesday as the best pocket passer in the nation, Bellflower St. John Bosco five-star DJ Uiagalelei signed with Clemson.

Less than two hours after Stroud’s announcement, Flowe spurned overtures from the top programs across the country to stay on the West Coast, but the five-star prospect isn’t staying home to play in Los Angeles. The nation’s top linebacker stood up from behind a table and mulled over Clemson, Miami and Oregon hats before picking the Ducks. A USC hat was on the table, but fittingly tucked behind two microphones as Flowe gazed the other way. It may well have been sitting in another hemisphere.

California boasts 12 prospects in the top 100 of the 2020 recruiting class, per the 247Sports Composite rankings, and 23 in the top 250 nationally.
Oregon signed four of the top 24 players in California, a year after locking up six of the top 22 when the early signing period opened. Last year, USC and UCLA each signed one of the top 22 in the early period. None of the top 25 prospects from the state of California signed with UCLA or USC. Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Arizona State, Oregon and Washington all signed multiple top 25 prospects from the Golden State.

The threat of a talent exodus had grown during the season when USC and UCLA struggled early in the season, but both had some strong games in the second half of the schedule. It didn’t matter. The top Southland talent no longer wants to stay home to play.

“I feel like the schools out here are doing great things,” Stroud said, “but I just think it’s different towards the Midwest, the East, the South. They just cherish their football so much. Not saying anything about the local schools, but those [outsider] schools, they’re just going up and beyond for their players and how they treat their players. I mean, the stadiums are bigger and everybody comes to the game. It’s like a home feeling. It’s not really like an organization feel, it’s just like a family.”

Flowe was considered a Clemson lean for a long time. The cross-country distance seemed to grow as a bigger impediment for Flowe and his family. He ultimately chose to stay in the same time zone, but left the state.

“Clemson was a really good school program-wise, but I think everything else that really factored in was really more on Oregon’s side,” Flowe said, later adding, “USC is a pretty great school, but Oregon was my dream school. That’s why I chose it.”

“Oregon just felt like more of the home environment for me that I’m used to. Just being there and just like feeling like I know everybody on the team and everything, so just feeling like it’s home.”

Flowe and Stroud proved their hometown loyalty the last four years, but the next four, it appears many Southland stars might search for home elsewhere.

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It has been more than three years since the U.S. 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard final arguments in a San Diego terrorism case, with no opinion issued and none in sight

SAN DIEGO — 

After nearly an hour of listening to arguments from federal prosecutors and the lawyers for four Somali men who lived in San Diego and were convicted of terrorism-related charges in 2013, Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals formally closed the court hearing.

“Very interesting case,” she said.

That was late in the morning of Nov. 11, 2016 — more than three years ago.

It was also the last time anyone heard from the court on the case — the only one publicly acknowledged by the government to have been brought using a controversial mass surveillance program that allowed the National Security Agency to sweep up phone call records of citizens for years, secretly and without warrants.

Even for the 9th Circuit, the nation’s largest and busiest appeal court, the long wait for a ruling is extraordinary. Two of the four men who were tried and convicted of sending a total of $15,500 to the Shabab terrorist group have been sentenced, served their time and released.

The case centered on the NSA program of sweeping up metadata — information that says who someone called, when they called and how long they spoke. The massive program was revealed through Edward Snowden, the former NSA contract worker who revealed the secrets of the agency’s surveillance program in 2013.

That was just months after the four men — Basally Moalin, 42, Mohamed Mohamud, 47, Issa Doreh, 63, and Ahmed Nasir Mohamud, 44 — had been convicted and sentenced. Doreh was released in July, and Nasir Mohamud in February 2016. They were convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group and money laundering after a monthlong trial in federal court in San Diego in early 2013.

Lawyers involved in the case declined to speculate about what could be causing the extraordinary wait. It is likely the panel of judges is split, which would mean two opinions, including the dissent, have to be written. The high-profile nature of the case may also be a factor, because it is probable the losing side will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling.

Whatever the reasons, the wait is taking a toll.

“Mr. Mahamoud would like to bring up the fact that he still has a case, waiting to be decided,” his lawyer David Zugman said this week.

At a congressional hearing on the Snowden revelations in June 2013, then-FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce testified that Moalin had been investigated by the FBI in 2003 for suspected terrorist links, but the investigation was closed about a year later when none was found. In 2007, Joyce said, the NSA tipped off the FBI that a phone number in San Diego had been in indirect contact with an extremist in Somalia.

The connection was made by running the number through the massive database of records the agency had been compiling and finding Moalin’s number, launching the case.

Investigators tapped his phone for a year, using a warrant obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Exactly what the government told the court in its application is unknown because FISA records are not public.

How the intelligence agencies obtain permission to surveil citizens has become an issue in the FBI investigation of President Trump. A recent report by the inspector general faulted the agency for how it obtained a warrant to surveil a Trump campaign official. It listed 17 omissions and errors in the applications agents made to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to monitor the communications of a former campaign advisor, Carter Page.

Overall, the report summary said, the inspector general found “multiple instances” in the initial FISA applications that were “inaccurate, incomplete or unsupported by appropriate documentation based on information the FBI had in its possession at the time the application was filed.”

This week, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued an order requiring the government to explain the steps it will take in the future to prevent the FBI from misleading the court.

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Defense lawyers in the case out of San Diego have argued the program violated the constitutional rights of their Somali clients and the convictions should be thrown out. The law the NSA relied on, known as Section 215 of the Patriot Act, was set to expire this week. But last month Congress passed an extension to the program through March 15.

The status of the program is unclear. Reports this year indicated that the government had shuttered the program but still wanted the legal authority to use the surveillance program in the future.

Moran writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

A 24-year-old Pennsylvania man has been arrested in Hawaii in connection with last weekend’s vandalism of Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills.

Anton Nathaniel Redding of Millersville, Pa., has been charged with vandalism of a religious property and commercial burglary, charges that include a penalty enhancement for a hate crime, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department.

Beverly Hills Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli announced the arrest at a community town hall Wednesday night about the synagogue vandalism, news that prompted a standing ovation from the crowd. She said it was “one of the worst incidents that can happen to a community.”

Spagnoli said Redding got into a cab after vandalizing the synagogue, went to Los Angeles International Airport and flew to Hawaii.

Beverly Hills police worked with Hawaiian authorities to arrest Redding in Kona. Authorities used closed-circuit recordings from the city to help identify and locate Redding.

Redding is being held without bail and will remain in Hawaiian custody pending an extradition hearing to authorize his transfer to California, according to the Police Department. Once extradition is approved, Redding will be transferred to California, where he will face charges in Los Angeles.

“I said we would catch this guy, and we did,” Beverly Hills Mayor John Mirisch said in a statement. “The criminal who we believe desecrated a holy place on Shabbat is now in custody thanks to the superb work of the Beverly Hills Police Department. The Beverly Hills community is strong and will not be intimidated by despicable acts.”

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