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The first phase of Norfolk’s $2.6 billion floodwall and flooding mitigation project has new renderings showing how the project would transform the downtown waterfront. The city and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers presented the new design diagrams this week as part of a presentation to the Norfolk Architectural Review Board. The renderings show how the wall would tower 16.5 feet above the Elizabeth River, near locations such as Harbor Park, the Elizabeth River Trail and the future Norfolk casino property. The first section of the first building phase, 1A, runs from Berkley Bridge to Campostella Bridge . The overall endeavor, called Coastal Storm Risk Management Project , is a city partnership with the Army Corps and includes not only a floodwall but a series of levees, tide gates, pump stations and other mitigation efforts across the city. The federal government plans to fund 65% of the project, leaving the city and state to fund the remaining $931 million. Though the wall itself is not designed to combat nuisance flooding caused by high tide or regular storms, new pump stations at phase 1A would help would help address the problem around Harbor Park, said Doug Beaver, deputy city manager, during a Monday Norfolk City Council retreat. Beaver said the pumps would redirect storm water and could be turned on during rainstorms when necessary. The project drew criticism from community leaders in neighborhoods such as Berkley, Campostella and Campostella Heights, which were left out of initial floodwall plans. Afterward, the City Council asked the Army Corps to study whether the locations could be included. However, the Corps did not receive funding for that study, at least for 2024, according to WHRO reporting. Property owners and other residents in the historic, wealthy West Freemason district also have voiced opposition to the floodwall , saying it would block waterfront views and decrease property values. The design team plans to revise floodwall designs after input from the Architectural Review Board and submit then for approval at a later date, said Megan Shearin, a project spokesperson with the city’s Office of Resilience. Project leaders will hold monthly open houses on the project and city flood mitigation strategies and also ramp up other community meetings going forward, Beaver said at the retreat. The 1A design also needs to go through the Army Corps’ approval process, he said. Trevor Metcalfe, 757-222-5345, trevor.metcalfe@pilotonline.comPac-12 believes title game would have ‘tremendous value’ for rebuilt conferenceAbercrombie & Fitch director Suzanne Coulter sells $459,200 in stockVanTrust Real Estate Acquires Strategically Located Salt Lake County Site to Build Four New Industrial Warehousesjapanese video slot machine 。

Asian shares commenced the week on a subdued note, as elevated Treasury yields posed a challenge to Wall Street's valuation metrics, while supporting the U.S. dollar's surge near multi-month highs. Trading volumes remained thin with the New Year holiday approaching and a relatively light economic calendar this week. China's PMI factory surveys are anticipated on Tuesday, followed by the U.S. ISM survey on Friday. MSCI's broad Asia-Pacific index outside Japan decreased by 0.2%, yet retains a 16% annual increase. Japan's Nikkei eased by 0.9% but maintains about 20% gains for 2024. Conversely, South Korea faced political unrest, seeing a 9% loss this year, despite a slight increase of 0.3% recently. South Korean budget carrier Jeju Air saw its share value plunge drastically after a fatal plane crash, while Chinese blue chips appreciated slightly. With Wall Street experiencing a broad sell-off, experts suggest cautious investment decisions amid potentially prolonged restrictive monetary policy from the Fed and Trump's anticipated policy shifts. (With inputs from agencies.)Stock market today: Wall Street edges back from its records as bitcoin briefly pops above $100,000

FBI Director Christopher Wray could soon be out of a job. President-elect Donald Trump recently said he will fire Wray after he takes the oath of office next month and replace him with former Justice Department official Kash Patel. During his first presidential term, Trump nominated Wray to be the eighth director of the FBI, calling him “a man of impeccable credentials.” Wray’s 10-year term expires in 2027, which means he would have to either resign or be fired in order to be replaced by Patel, who must still win Senate confirmation. Patel, a Trump loyalist, is a longtime critic of the bureau and has called for shutting down its Washington headquarters and then reopening it as a “museum of the deep state.” Although Wray has been FBI director in Washington for the past seven years, he continues to have deep Atlanta ties. Here are five things you need to know about him. 1. An Atlanta lawyer: Wray, 57, moved to Atlanta in 1993 to join King & Spalding, one of the city’s top law firms. He left King & Spalding in 1997 to become a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office here. He tried a number of high-profile cases. Among them: He helped secure a guilty plea to a mail fraud charge from Pat Jarvis, once a popular Atlanta Braves pitcher who later served as DeKalb County sheriff. He obtained corruption convictions against the city of Atlanta’s former chief investment officer and a politically connected businessman. And he was instrumental in the prosecution of a man convicted of setting church fires, one of which killed a Georgia firefighter. 2. Wray goes to Washington: Wray was recruited to join the U.S. Department of Justice in 2001 by Larry Thompson, a former King & Spalding colleague serving as deputy attorney general. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Wray worked closely with Thompson coordinating anti-terrorism and counterespionage efforts. “Chris was very deliberate, made sound decisions, had good judgment and never got panicked,” Thompson said in a 2018 interview. “I relied upon him a great deal.” In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Wray to be assistant attorney general. He won unanimous Senate approval to head the department’s criminal division and became the youngest person to hold that position since the Kennedy administration. “At the age of 36, Mr. Wray has accomplished more in the legal profession than many of us as attorneys do in a lifetime,” then-Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said at Wray’s confirmation hearing. While heading the criminal division, Wray oversaw the prosecutions of terrorism cases as well as several high-profile corporate fraud cases, such as the Enron scandal. He returned to King & Spalding in 2005 in Atlanta and worked there as a partner until being tapped to head the FBI. 3. An independent streak: On a number of occasions, Wray pushed back against Trump. When Trump tweeted in December 2017 that the FBI’s reputation was in “tatters” and was the worst in its history, Wray told the House Judiciary Committee a few days later that the bureau he saw had “tens of thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people they will never know safe from harm.” After being confirmed by the Senate with a 92-5 vote , Wray held an invitation-only, swearing-in ceremony in Washington. Among Wray’s invitees: Sally Yates, his former colleague at the U.S. Attorney’s Office here and whom Trump had fired as acting U.S. attorney general when she refused to defend the administration’s travel ban. 4. Personal: Wray was born and grew up in Manhattan. He attended Phillips Academy, a prestigious preparatory school in Andover, Mass., where he played in rock bands and was a member of the wrestling and rowing teams. He then graduated cum laude from Yale University with a degree in philosophy. During his freshman year, he met fellow student Helen Howell, an Atlantan who graduated from Westminster Schools and whose great-grandfather, Clark Howell, once owned The Atlanta Constitution. They were married at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Buckhead before Wray returned to Yale to get his law degree. They have two children. After Yale law school, Wray clerked for conservative jurist J. Michael Luttig on the federal appeals court in Richmond. Since retiring from the bench, Luttig has strongly criticized Trump and he even endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. 5. Has not seen eye to eye with Trump on several occasions. Just months into his tenure as FBI director, Wray found himself at loggerheads with Trump . In January 2018, Wray went public with a request that the White House block the release of a classified House GOP memo that alleged abuses by the FBI in the Russian election interference investigation. In a statement, the FBI said it had “grave concerns” about the memo’s accuracy. Even so, Trump declassified the memo and it was soon released by House Republicans, enraging Democrats and alarming national security officials. This past Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social that those convicted of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were “J-6 hostages” and victims of “an abuse and miscarriage of justice.” Patel, Wray’s possible successor, has called the Jan. 6 attack part of a “free speech movement.” But Wray condemned it during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2021, calling the riot “domestic terrorism.” During his Senate confirmation hearing, Wray was asked what would he do if the president asked him to do something that was illegal or unethical. “First, I would try to talk him out of it,” Wray answered. “If that failed, I would resign. There isn’t a person on this planet whose lobbying or influence could convince me to just drop or abandon a properly predicated and meritorious investigation.” ©2024 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Visit at ajc.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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NEWS BRIEF BlueAlpha, a Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group, has recently evolved its malware delivery chain to abuse Cloudflare Tunnels — with the goal of ultimately infecting victims with its proprietary GammaDrop malware. Cloudflare Tunnels is, as its name suggests, a secure tunneling software. It can be used to connect resources to Cloudflare's network without using a publicly routable IP address, with the goal of protecting Web servers and applications from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and other direct cyberattacks, by hiding their origins. Unfortunately, this obfuscation mechanism, like other legitimate cloud tools , can also be used by the likes of BlueAlpha, which uses Cloudflare Tunnels to conceal its GammaDrop staging infrastructure from traditional network detection mechanisms, according to Recorded Future's Insikt Group. "Cloudflare offers the tunneling service for free with the use of the TryCloudflare tool," according to an analysis published this week from Insikt. "The tool allows anyone to create a tunnel using a randomly generated subdomain of trycloudflare.com and have all requests to that subdomain proxied through the Cloudflare network to the Web server running on that host." The APT then uses the concealed infrastructure to mount HTML smuggling attacks that bypass email security systems, along with employing DNS fast-fluxing, which makes it more difficult to disrupt BlueAlpha’s command-and-control (C2) communications, Insikt Group researchers noted — and in the end, deliver the GammaDrop malware, which enables data exfiltration, credential theft, and backdoor access to networks. BlueAlpha, which shares DNA with other Russian threat groups like Trident Ursa , Gamaredon, Shuckworm, and Hive0051, first emerged in 2014, and has lately targeted Ukrainian organizations via spearphishing campaigns. The APT has used the custom VBScript malware GammaLoad since at least October 2023. To protect against such attacks, Insikt Group recommended several mitigations, including: Tara Seals has 20+ years of experience as a journalist, analyst and editor in the cybersecurity, communications and technology space. Prior to Dark Reading, Tara was Editor in Chief at Threatpost, and prior to that, the North American news lead for Infosecurity Magazine. She also spent 13 years working for Informa (formerly Virgo Publishing), as executive editor and editor-in-chief at publications focused on both the service provider and the enterprise arenas. A Texas native, she holds a B.A. from Columbia University, lives in Western Massachusetts with her family and is on a never-ending quest for good Mexican food in the Northeast.

Honeywell International Inc HON shares are trading lower in Monday’s after-hours session after the company announced a strategic agreement with Bombardier and cut its near-term 2024 outlook . What Happened: Honeywell announced the signing of an agreement with jet manufacturer Bombardier to provide advanced technology to current and future Bombardier aircraft. Under the partnership, the companies will collaborate on the development of Honeywell avionics and work to certify and offer JetWave X for both new production and aftermarket installations. Bombardier will also have access to Honeywell’s full suite of L-Band satellite communications products and antennas. Honeywell noted that all legacy pending litigation between the two companies has been resolved. The company estimated that the value of the partnership will be around $17 billion over its lifetime. “This is a tremendous opportunity to co-innovate and advance next-generation technologies, including Anthem avionics and engines,” said Vimal Kapur , chairman and CEO of Honeywell. “Growing our long-term collaborative relationship with Bombardier is directly connected to Honeywell’s focus on compelling megatrends — automation, the future of aviation, and energy transition.” See Also: S&P 500 At 6,666 In 2025? Bank Of America Predicts ‘Another Good Year For Equities’ As a result of the strategic agreement, Honeywell expects its near-term financials to be negatively impacted. Fourth-quarter revenue is now expected to be approximately $400 million lower than previous guidance, while earnings are expected to be about 47 cents per share lower than previous guidance. Honeywell lowered its full-year 2024 revenue guidance from a range of $38.6 billion to $38.8 billion to a new range of $38.2 billion to $38.4 billion, versus estimates of $38.69 billion. Honeywell also lowered its full-year earnings outlook from a range of $10.15 to $10.25 per share to a new range of $9.68 to $9.78 per share, versus estimates of $10.19 per share. Honeywell now anticipates a full-year operating cash flow of $5.8 billion to $6.1 billion and a full-year free cash flow of $4.6 billion to $4.9 billion. HON Price Action: Honeywell shares were down 2.93% at $223.21 after-hours at publication Monday, per Benzinga Pro . Photo: Shutterstock. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

The Dallas Cowboys ruled out right guard Zack Martin and cornerback Trevon Diggs with injuries on Saturday, one day prior to a road game against the Washington Commanders. Martin has been dealing with ankle and shoulder injuries and didn't practice at all this week before initially being listed as doubtful to play on Friday. He also physically struggled during Monday night's loss to the Houston Texans. Martin, who turned 34 on Wednesday, has started all 162 games played in 11 seasons with the Cowboys. He's a nine-time Pro Bowl selection and a seven-time first-team All-Pro. Diggs has been dealing with groin and knee injuries. He was listed as questionable on Friday before being downgraded Saturday. Diggs, 26, has 37 tackles and two interceptions in 10 games this season. The two-time Pro Bowl pick led the NFL with 11 picks in 2021 and has 20 in 57 games. The Cowboys elected not to activate receiver Brandin Cooks (knee) for the game. He returned to practice earlier this week and he was listed as questionable on Friday. Dallas activated offensive tackle Chuma Edoga (toe) and defensive end Marshawn Kneeland (knee) off injured reserve Saturday, placed safety Markquese Bell (shoulder) on IR and released defensive end KJ Henry. Tight end Jake Ferguson (concussion) was previously ruled out. Tight end Princeton Fant was elevated from the practice squad to replace him. Cornerback Kemon Hall also was elevated from the practice squad. --Field Level Media

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Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders took quite the hit during Saturday's game against Kansas. The senior quarterback was on the receiving end of a hit to the knees by Jayhawks linebacker Dean Miller that sent Sanders to fall backwards and grip his knee. Sanders did not depart from the game, but the severity of the hit had many take to social media to criticize the hit not being penalized. This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis. For more from Bleacher Report on this topic and from around the sports world, check out our B/R app , homepage and social feeds—including Twitter , Instagram , Facebook and TikTok .