Illinois man charged with attacking U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace
Illinois man charged with attacking U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace
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Washington – An Illinois man who was charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly shaking U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s hand in an “exaggerated, aggressive” manner has entered a not-guilty plea.
James McIntyre, 33, of Chicago, was charged following an encounter at Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday evening. Mace, a South Carolina Republican, said in a social media post earlier this week that the encounter left her needing a brace for her wrist, and icing her arm.
Mace told police that McIntyre said, “Trans youth serve advocacy,” while shaking her hand. The Rayburn building was open at the time of the incident and Capitol police reported that McIntyre had been through a security screening.
She added at the time that she would be “fine just as soon as the pain and soreness subside,” but on Wednesday issued a series of posts on X that accused the media of “using the assault on me to prop up misogyny on the Left,” adding, “Maybe when the Left said ‘believe all women,’ they really meant men who claim to be women.”
She said President-elect Donald Trump called to check in on her after the incident. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, told reporters Wednesday that “no member of Congress should be accosted or assaulted or attacked based on their political beliefs,” calling the incident “very troubling.”
Last month, Mace stepped into the center of controversy over transgender rights when she introduced legislation to change House rules to prohibit transgender women from using women’s bathrooms and other facilities on Capitol Hill.
Mace’s two-page resolution would bar House members, officers and employees from using single-sex facilities in the Capitol or House office buildings that do not correspond with their “biological sex,” but that proposal came just before the House prepared to swear-in the first openly transgender member of Congress, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware.
After the encounter earlier this week, Mace declined to be treated by a paramedic. She has since posted multiple photos of herself in an arm brace on social media.
A magistrate judge ordered McIntyre’s release after an arraignment in Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Efforts to reach an attorney for McIntyre weren’t immediately successful.
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Brown Line service has been temporarily suspended between the Kimball and Southport stations on the North Side because of “track conditions,” according to the transit agency.
As a result, trains are operating only between the Southport and the Loop stations, a CTA alert said.
The track conditions were caused by repairs that needed to be done, according to CTA spokesperson Manny Gonzalez. “We have work crews there now,” said Gonzalez. “Not sure what caused it.”
Shuttle buses will be made available between Kimball and Southport to provide connecting service through the affected area, the CTA said.
Riders can consider alternatives such as nearby bus routes, or using buses to other rail lines. Additionally, consider using the #81 Lawrence and #82 Kimball bus routes.
They call him Kraven the Hunter, but he could go by many names.
Kraven the Unnecessary.
Kraven the Forgettable.
Kraven the Dud.
Despite the presence of a charismatic leading man, two Academy Award winners in key supporting roles and a director of substance, “Kraven the Hunter” is another giant swing-and-a-miss for Sony Pictures’ stand-alone Spider-Man villain roster, following the “Venom” trilogy, “Morbius” and “Madame Web.” (That’s a lineup so weak it makes the historically bad 2024 Chicago White Sox seem like heavy hitters.)
Clocking in at a slow-jog time of 2 hours and 7 minutes, filled with howlingly bad CGI creations, green-screen scenes that would have looked rudimentary in the early 2000s and clunky dialogue, “Kraven” doesn’t even provide much in the way of camp value. It’s just an undercooked pile of steaming mediocrity. Even the somewhat rare distinction of an R rating for a superhero movie seems like a desperate gimmick; the violence is gory but still cartoonish, and when one character invokes a particularly graphic expletive as a punchline, it’s such an obvious and desperate attempt at a “Yippee-Ki-Yay” viral moment that you almost expect said character to wink at the camera and take a bow.
Directed by J.C. Chandor (“All Is Lost,” “A Most Violent Year,” “Triple Frontier”) from a screenplay credited to trio of writers (Richard Wenk, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway) who have much better titles on their respective resumes, “Kraven the Hunter” opens with arguably the best sequence in the entire movie. Aaron-Taylor Johnson’s Sergei Kravinoff, who prefers to be known as “Kraven with a K,” infiltrates a maximum-security prison and quickly knocks off a Russian crime boss whose prison cell is an even nicer setup than the one Paulie Cicero had in “Goodfellas.” I mean, the guy had a flat screen TV and a mini-fridge and a mountain of toilet paper before Kraven ended him. In a nifty escape sequence, Kraven displays superhuman strength, Spidey-like abilities to scale walls and lightning-quick speed. Good stuff.
The story then grinds to a near-halt with an overlong flashback from 16 years prior, as young Sergei (played by Levi Miller) and his squirrelly half-brother Dmitri (Billy Barratt) get yanked out of private school by their gruff and brutish crime boss father Nikolai, played by Russell Crowe, who injects at least a measure of life into the proceedings with his thick, Boris Badenov accent.
After informing the boys their mother has killed herself because she was sick and weak, Nikolai takes them on a big-game hunt in Africa, and get this: Sergei is gravely wounded by a gigantic CGI lion who looks nothing like an actual lion, and Nikolai shoots and wounds the lion, and the lion drags Sergei away, and the lion’s blood mixes with Sergei’s blood, and then a teenage girl named Calypso (Diaana Babnicova) happens upon Sergei and gives him a dose of her grandmother’s magic potion, and THAT’S how Sergei becomes … drumroll … Kraven the Hunter!
Back to present day. Kraven uses his legendary hunting skills to track down and dispatch criminals, while Dmitri (now played by Fred Hechinger) is a nightclub entertainer who has a chameleonic ability to mimic others, including Tony Bennett, I kid you not. Why, it’s almost as if Dmitri will one day morph into a character known as Chameleon.
Now that the Russian crime boss is no longer in the picture, there’s a power grab for the top position, with Nikolai pitted against his archrival, one Aleksei Sytsevich (Alessandro Nivola), a snarling mercenary who can turn into a human-rhino hybrid — kind of like the Hulk, only with even rougher skin and horns. Meanwhile, Calypso (now played by Ariana DeBose) has become a high-powered lawyer who teams up with Kraven, and oh, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Aleksei/Rhino has enlisted the services of the Foreigner (Christopher Abbott), a master assassin who seems to have the ability to stop time for a couple of seconds so he can get the drop on his opponents.
That’s a lot to cram into one origins story, leaving little room for any true character development. Aaron-Taylor Johnson sports an eight-pack and preens for the camera while belting out the stilted dialogue and engaging in VFX-laden battle sequences. The disconnect between the human actors and the CGI animals is insanely skewed; there’s never a moment when it looks like they’re sharing the same space in this world. The wonderful Ariana DeBose looks lost and only partially committed to her thinly drawn character, and even Russell Crowe’s hammy scene-grabbing wears thin in the end. Like Morbius and Madame Web, the character of Kraven seems destined to become a marginal footnote in the history of superhero movie characters.
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A tres años de la muerte de Vicente Fernández (1940-2021), su voz y legado musical siguen más vivos que nunca y dando más a su público.
Y no solamente en las más de 100 grabaciones y discos de “El Charro de Huentitán” cantando con mariachi que ya son parte de la historia musical de México, de su acervo cultural y que forman parte de la identidad mexicana, sino en el regalo póstumo que Don Vicente le da a sus fanáticos: su primer disco grabado con banda sinaloense.
El disco “Vicente Fernández con banda” fue estrenado el pasado 29 de noviembre, sólo trece días antes del tercer aniversario luctuoso de “El Charro de Huentitán”, fallecido el 12 de diciembre de 2021.
“Es una novedad y el pago de una deuda musical para toda la fanaticada de mi padre”, comentó Vicente Fernández Jr. a La Voz en entrevista.
“Fue casualidad que es [en la fecha] en su tercer aniversario ”, destacó Fernández Jr. “Viene la Navidad, las fiestas, pero [el lanzamiento] está bajo los compromisos y convenios con la compañía de discos; se dio en el tiempo que tenía que salir”.
Además porque su lanzamiento se hizo en las fechas para que el material sea considerado por la Academia de la Grabación para competir por el Grammy, y por la Academia Latina de la Grabación para competir por el Grammy Latino en la categoría de Mejor Disco de Banda, precisó Fernández Jr.
Integrado por 13 temas, de los cuales cinco son inéditos, “Vicente Fernández con banda”, permite escuchar temas icónicos de este género como son “El sinaloense”, “Mi gusto es” y “Por una mujer casada” en la voz de “Chente”.
“La selección [de temas] la hizo al 100% mi padre, quien se volvió sabio antes de hacerse viejo”, destacó Fernández Jr. “Fue una persona previsora y amante de su profesión y de su música, que se dedicó a dejar un acervo musical para poder presentarle al público su música y tener una nueva generación de seguidores”.
El material no se hizo con inteligencia artificial como descartó tajantemente Vicente Fernández Jr. Es 100% la voz de “Chente”.
“No hay ni habrá inteligencia artificial en el pasado, presente o futuro de sus discos ni en los de cualquier otro integrante de la familia Fernández”, aclaró el mayor de “Los Potrillos”, como cariñosamente llamaba Vicente a sus hijos Vicente, Gerardo y Alejandro.
El primogénito de Don Vicente comentó que este disco se grabó entre 2010 y 2011 con “la luz verde” de su padre; la primera parte de la producción se hizo con arreglos de Omar Loredo “El Pony” y de Don Pedro Ramírez, quien era su director musical.
El material quedó guardado y este 2024 año de su lanzamiento, lo que sí se le hizo fueron nuevos arreglos con ayuda de la tecnología y nuevas consolas de grabación, explicó Fernández Jr., para con más músicos e instrumentos crear un sonido más envolvente y así brindar una mayor calidad a la excelencia.
Esto corrió a manos de Alberto “Beto” Lizárraga, nieto de Don Cruz Lizárraga (1918-1995), el fundador de la Banda El Recodo “la madre de todas las bandas” una institución en la música de banda sinaloense.
Vicente Fernández Jr. dijo que estuvo involucrado en la producción, postproducción y en los vídeos del material y que tanto él como su familia, están muy agradecidos con la respuesta del público porque refleja el amor que se le tiene a “Chente”.
Un amor que el “rey de la música ranchera” se ganó a pulso, con sus presentaciones tanto en México como en Estados Unidos. En Chicago, la primera ciudad que visitó de Estados Unidos, como él mismo lo contaba en sus presentaciones, se presentó por última vez en dos conciertos en el Allstate Arena de Rosemont, realizados el 20 y 21 de octubre de 2012.
Un día después, el 22 de octubre, “Chente” se dio cita en “el corazón” de la comunidad mexicana de Chicago, el vecindario de La Villita, donde se le rindió un homenaje de despedida en su emblemático arco. Además a un tramo de la calle 26 —entre Troy St. y Western Ave.— se le nombró la Avenida Vicente Fernández.
Vicente Fernández Jr. estuvo acompañando a su padre en los conciertos y en el homenaje.
“Lo recuerdo mucho”, destacó. “Tenemos mucho cariño por la ciudad de Chicago que tanto cariño le da a mi padre y le sigue dando, gracias a todos esos paisanos”.
Para él, cualquier cosa que haga para mantener “para siempre” vivo el legado y la voz de su padre, es parte de las lecciones que les dio tanto a él como a su hermano Alejandro sobre el oficio del cantante: tenían que estar conscientes y mentalizados que primero, era la profesión, que no existía ni la Navidad, ni los cumpleaños.
“Mi padre no estuvo con nosotros en muchos cumpleaños y celebraciones, porque para él el amor a su público era lo primero. Y en esta nueva producción es la idea: que sigan teniendo el amor que él les tenía”.
Courtesy of a Chicago-area music scholar with a talent for digging up the past, local audiences will be the first in centuries to hear a series of old carols that trace back to 16th- and 17th-century Mexico and Guatemala.
The group behind the project is the Newberry Consort, which plays old music using instruments and techniques from the period. The Consort hosts its annual “Latin American Christmas” concerts Dec. 13–15, culminating in a matinee at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen.
This year’s program features something unique: The “backbone,” in director Liza Malamut’s words, is nine pieces studied and edited by Paul Gustav Feller-Simmons, a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University. Four of the works were written and performed in a convent in Puebla, Mexico, between 1630 and 1740 and now reside at the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical (CENIDIM) in Mexico City. The other five were discovered in a chest in the Guatemalan highlands and are even older, dating between 1562 and 1635. Those manuscripts are now held at Indiana University.
Featuring eight instrumentalists and six singers, this weekend’s performances will mark the first time this music has been performed since the works were rediscovered and catalogued by scholars in the 1960s. Furthermore, these old carols will soon be available to anyone who wants to perform them; Feller-Simmons is publishing an anthology of this music and more in 2025.
“Paul has transcribed all of these to modern notation. We’re very, very grateful to him for making these available to us,” Malamut said.
How these carols were reintroduced to the present-day holiday canon is a story of scholarship, patience and modern-day musical archaeology, the kind practiced by Feller-Simmons, 35.
Newberry Consort will present a beautiful approximation of what one might have heard 400 years ago in the newly discovered holiday carols.
Courtesy of Newberry Consort
The digging started back when he was an undergraduate student in Chile, assisting musicologist Alejandro Vera in his recovery of a rare manuscript by Santiago de Murcia, a renowned composer of Baroque guitar music.In recent years, he’s worked with another scholar, Cesar Favila, on a project documenting the centuries-old music of Latin American nuns.
Ultimately, Feller-Simmons’ research was a great fit for the Newberry Consort, which wanted to broaden the concept of its annual “Mexican Christmas” concerts to encompass more historical sounds of Latin America.
Just like travel in those days, it took some time for musical fads to cross the Atlantic. The music of colonial Spain tended to be old-fashioned compared to what was happening in mainland Europe. Even the earliest pieces on the Newberry Consort’s program, from the 1560s or so, contain music more akin to that composed in 1510.
“It would be like listening to swing today,” Feller-Simmons said.
Some of the music is signed by composers or copyists, while other pieces are anonymous. But the manuscripts offer up clues that Feller-Simmons has worked to decode.
For example, some of the Old Spanish inscriptions in the Guatemalan manuscripts contained enough unusual misspellings and syntax errors that he suspected their copyists were non-native speakers — quite likely some of the countless Indigenous Americans who converted under duress by Spanish missionaries.Other songs in the collection were written in the Mayan languages spoken in the region.
Some of the manuscripts were discovered in a chest in the Guatemalan highlands dating between 1562 and 1635.
Courtesy of Paul Gustav Feller-Simmons/Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington
Names also appeared in the Puebla manuscripts — of women, most likely the nuns tasked with copying down the music. Those signatures tell us a lot about how the music was created and credited, Feller-Simmons said.
“We tend to privilege composers, sidelining the invisible labor of historical performers and other musical actors. This music was made for the nuns, copied and performed by them in a female space,” he said.
Those convent performers would have had to navigate a whole different set of culture clashes than those in present-day Guatemala. Gender roles in Indigenous cultures don’t easily map onto the patriarchal attitudes of colonial Spain. Catholic authorities forbade nuns from playing “improper” instruments, like percussion or brass. Even those playing “acceptable” instruments were often not “acceptable” to see: Some convents had nuns perform behind the cloister for outside visitors.
To emphasize the context of the convent music, Newberry Consort director Malamut, who is also a trombonist, will have only female musicians play the Puebla pieces. But most of the program, like the Consort itself, is co-ed.
“If we’re really trying to get as close to reality as possible, I wouldn’t even be on the stage,” she said.
Deciphering these manuscripts, as Feller-Simmons has, takes time and patience. Besides the expected wear and tear, worms nibbled through some of the sheets. It was even more challenging to convert them into a performance-ready edition. The music doesn’t exist in a full score, with all the lines printed on the same page. Instead, only the individual parts survived — meaning researchers needed to round them all up to reconstruct how the works might have sounded. The notation style and clefs used in the manuscripts are also archaic.
“Some historical performers can probably read from the manuscripts, but it’s not the most comfortable thing,” Feller-Simmons said.
Instrumentation is never specified in the manuscripts.
Courtesy of Paul Gustav Feller-Simmons/Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington
As is typical for the time period, instrumentation is also never specified in the manuscripts. The Consort has made educated guesses about what instruments might have been at the musicians’ disposal and how they might have functioned in the ensemble. For that, Malamut scoured primary sources — correspondence, receipts, transatlantic cargo lists — for clues.
“We have a lot of plucked instruments: harp, guitars and sometimes even lute or theorbo could have been used,” she said. There is even evidence of a bajón, more or less an early version of the bassoon.
“The convents would have used those instruments to play the bottom of the range if they didn’t have a woman who could sing that low,” said Malamut.
How the Guatemalan manuscripts ended up in Bloomington, Indiana, reflects the fraught colonial history of the region. Catholic missionaries who returned to the Huehuetenango region’s parish in the 1960s were shown some old chests in its holdings. Inside were some 50 books of music, preserved and venerated by area parishioners like relics. Interspersed in the books’ pages were brief accounts of local history, noting visits from church dignitaries and documenting births and deaths.
Paul Gustav Feller-Simmons studied and edited a series of old carols that trace back to 16th- and 17th–century Mexico and Guatemala.
Courtesy of Paul Gustav Feller-Simmons
The books were taken for research, but most were sold off at auction to collectors. To date, only 19 of the 50 books survive and 17 of those ended up at Indiana University. Microfilm copies were made of some of the lost texts, but not all.
“They might be somewhere in some private collection, and they don’t even know what they have,” Feller-Simmons said.
Despite the remarkable detective work by Malamut, Feller-Simmons and others, some basics — like when and why these pieces were performed — remain lost. Yet another open question is how much Indigenous Mayan instruments and musical traditions mingled with Western ones. European written sources are unlikely to be objective or accurate on that point.
So, what you’ll hear this weekend is a beautiful approximation of what one might have heard 400 years ago. For perfomer–scholars like Malamut, that uncertainty comes with the craft.
“In a certain sense,” she said, “we have to respect that we’re never really going to know.”
A judge was shot dead Wednesday in Mexico’s once-thriving beach city of Acapulco, local media and the state prosecutor’s office said.
Local press identified the slain judge as Edmundo Roman Pinzon, president of the Superior Court of Justice in Guerrero state, saying he was shot at least four times in his car outside an Acapulco courthouse.
The southern state of Guerrero is one the areas hardest hit in Mexico by violence linked to organized crime, and has seen a string of deadly attacks this year.
In October, the mayor of the state capital Chilpancingo was killed and decapitated just days after taking office. Days later, four mayors asked federal authorities for protection.
Weeks later, armed clashes between alleged gang members and security forces left 19 people dead in the state. Last month, a dozen dismembered bodies were discovered in vehicles in Chilpancingo.
Acapulco, the state’s most populous city, was once a playground for the rich and famous, but has lost its luster over the last decade as foreign tourists have been spooked by bloodshed that has made it one of the world’s most violent cities.
On Wednesday, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it was “investigating the crime of aggravated homicide against Edmundo N” in line with the usual practice of not giving full names.
Wednesday’s killing comes two days after assailants in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz shot to death a federal congressman. Rep. Benito Aguas Atlahua was a member of the Green Party, an ally of the ruling Morena party. Investigators have yet to publicly identify any possible motive in Monday’s slaying.
The judge’s murder comes just over a week after President Claudia Sheinbaum led a meeting of the National Public Security Council in Acapulco, with state governors in attendance.
Members of the Mexican Navy and investigators arrive at the house of a family that was shot by an armed commando in the town of Tres Palos in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, on November 4, 2024.
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Spiraling violence, much of it linked to drug trafficking, has seen more than 450,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2006, when the government launched an offensive against organized crime.
Sheinbaum, who took office in October as Mexico’s first woman president, has ruled out launching a new “war on drugs,” as the controversial program was known.
She has pledged instead to stick to her predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” strategy of using social policy to address the causes of crime.
Last year, 1,890 murders were recorded in Guerrero.
Violence in Guerrero reached such unprecedented levels that earlier this year, Roman Catholic bishops announced they had helped arrange a truce in another part of the state between two warring drug cartels.
In June, at least three politicians in Guerrero were killed. Acacio Flores, who represents Malinaltepec, was killed just days after the killing of Salvador Villalba Flores, another mayor from Guerrero state elected in June 2 polls. Earlier in the month, a local councilwoman was gunned down as she was leaving her home in Guerrero.
Her murder came a few days after the mayor of a town in western Mexico and her bodyguard were killed outside of a gym, just hours after Sheinbaum won the presidency.
DEAR ABBY: As a 22-year-old gay man, I have tried dating apps to no avail. One guy was 10 years older than me, ex-military (Air Force) and extremely clingy in the first few hours of texting. He said he was “deeply in love with me,” “wanted a future with me,” etc.
The other guys I tried talking to never tried to keep a conversation going. I don’t know what to do. Some co-workers and friends I mentioned this to said I should look only at men of my race. I don’t care about race. I have seen many men, regardless of race, be abusive to their partners.
I care about characteristics that make someone enjoyable to be around. What are their hobbies? What direction are they looking to take their career in? How do they operate in the kitchen? Do they keep things tidy? Also, I’m not much for parties, drinking and casual sex.
I would love to find a guy for me, but there aren’t many LGBTQ areas where I am currently. I feel like I’m going to be alone for longer than I hope for. I’m trying to focus on school and work, but it would be nice to have a special someone. Any advice? — FAILING AT IT IN NORTH CAROLINA
DEAR FAILING: Make sure you aren’t using dating apps that are geared toward hookups. Instead, look for those that are geared toward relationships. They are out there. Also, make it a priority to visit the nearest large city and go to the LGBTQ community center so you can meet new people with similar interests. While I can’t guarantee you’ll find romance, you may make some lasting friends.
DEAR ABBY: I have cared for my elderly mother in my home for 15 years. I have four brothers who live out of state. It is harder and harder for me emotionally to see Mom aging and the difficulties that come with it. My brothers don’t call or visit often. I repeatedly remind them to call Mom regularly because she needs contact, but time and time again they fail us. We are five hours away, but they visit only once or twice a year.
In three months, I will be retiring early so I can move back to their state to be closer to them and Mom can see them and her many grandkids and great-grandkids more often. How do I stop resenting them for not stepping up? I love Mom and have sacrificed so much with pleasure, but I expected others to do better. — DISAPPOINTED BROTHER IN MISSOURI
DEAR BROTHER: I understand your disappointment, but have you considered that your brothers may have circumstances in their lives that occupy their attention such as wives, families and jobs which prevent their being as present in their mother’s life as you have been? Calm your anger. The move you are making may enable them — and their wives and children — to spend more time with her. Before you relocate, however, this is something you should discuss fully with your siblings to ensure that what you are hoping for will happen.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Two men were fatally shot early Thursday in a Roseland home on the South Side.
Around 12:50 a.m., officers were told by a female witness at a home in the 9400 block of South LaSalle Street that she heard shots and found the two men shot in the living room, Chicago police said.
One man, whose age wasn’t immediately known, was shot multiple times in the body, police said. The other man, 59, was shot in the chest and back.
Both were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where they were pronounced dead, officials said.
No one was in custody and Area 2 detectives are investigating.
Bears interim coach Thomas Brown’s debut was nowhere near what he hoped it’d be as they got clobbered by the 49ers on Sunday, but he gets another shot Monday at the Vikings. The Bears are looking to break a seven-game losing streak, and if that slides to eight, it’ll match the second-longest in franchise history.
Brown’s to-do list will be long Thursday when the Bears begin their practice week. They’re reeling on offense and defense, and the Vikings are third in the NFL at 11-2.
The top priority for the Bears is to get rookie quarterback Caleb Williams rolling, and he played well against the Vikings when he faced them in Week 12 at Soldier Field. Williams rallied the Bears from an 11-point deficit in the final minute of the fourth quarter to force overtime before losing 30-27. He completed 32 of 47 passes for 340 yards with two touchdown passes and ran six times for 33 yards.
In the 49ers game, though, he had his fourth-lowest passing total of the season. Williams had a 116.1 passer rating, but completed only 17 of 23 passes for 134 yards.
