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UNC board slashes diversity program funding to divert money to public safety resources 05/13/2024 05:49pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As North Carolina's public university system considers a vote on changing its diversity policy, the system's flagship university board voted Monday to cut funding for diversity programs in next year's budget. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees a Virginia governor swiftly signs compromise budget deal 05/13/2024 05:47pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Public schools will get more funding, teachers and other government workers will see a pay bump and Virginia's tax policy will remain as is under compromise budget legislation the Democratic-led General Assembly sent Monday to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who swiftly signed Plans unveiled for memorial honoring victims of racist mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket 05/13/2024 05:39pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A permanent memorial honoring the 10 Black victims of a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket will feature interconnected stone pillars and arches, and a windowed building where exhibitions and events will be held, community and elected leaders announced Monday. The de The Latest | Nearly half a million people flee fighting in Rafah and northern Gaza, UN says 05/13/2024 04:54pm • Nearly half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says. Around 360,000 Palestinians were driven out of Rafah in Gaza's south over the past week, the United Nations’ agency for Palestinia College baseball notebook: Sooners' regular-season conference title is their first since 1995 05/13/2024 03:17pm • For a program with such a proud history, it seems almost unfathomable Oklahoma hadn't won a regular-season conference championship in nearly 30 years. The Sooners checked that box over the weekend, sweeping Baylor for their first title since Larry Cochell's 1995 squad won the second of two straight Mother of three uses early morning routine to become a record-breaking runner and inspiration 05/13/2024 01:35pm • WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Helen Ryvar goes through the same routine every night. She checks the weather forecast, lays out her running clothes, puts her running shoes by the front door, charges her cellphone and flashlight, and sets the alarm for 4 a.m. By 4:15 a.m., she’s out the door — rain or s College football portal classes: Ole Miss all in, Ohio State shops high end. Prime restocks again 05/13/2024 11:43am • With the spring transfer portal window closed, a look at six college football teams that cleaned up in various ways. Mississippi In terms of quantity and quality, Ole Miss killed it. In a Nick Saban-less Southeastern Conference, the Rebels might be the best non-Georgia team in 2024. The Rebels had g Sports on TV for Tuesday, May 14 05/13/2024 10:00am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, May 14 COLLEGE BASEBALL 6 p.m. PAC-12N — Utah Tech at Utah 7 p.m. ACCN — Liberty at Wake Forest IIHF HOCKEY (MEN’S) 10 a.m. NHLN — World Championship Group Stage: Kazakhstan vs. Latvia, Group B, Ostrava, Czech Republic Trump will stump in Minnesota, traditionally blue state he insists he can win. Is it really in play? 05/13/2024 09:08am • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's planned campaign visit to Minnesota on Friday will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state that he has long argued he could carry. Trump will take a break from his hush money trial in New York to speak at the Minnesota GOP's annual Key players: Who's who at Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial 05/13/2024 09:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, who was once Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer, is expected to take the stand Monday as the prosecution's star witness in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The trial centers on allegations the former president falsified his company’s inte Intel exec on bringing artificial intelligence into the workplace 05/13/2024 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence is just about everywhere you look these days — including the workplace. That means training staff about the technology and using it responsibly is critical. It's a tall order, especially as the commercialization of generative AI continues its rapid growth. All things no-go? The ticketing nightmare behind Maryland's premier indie music festival 05/13/2024 06:34am • The All Things Go music festival, hosted at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, has only grown since its inception in 2014. Now, it's bursting out of its 40-acre cage and seems like a whole different animal for potential festivalgoers. This year's festival sold out altogether sh Campus protests over Israel-Hamas war scaled down during US commencement exercises 05/13/2024 06:00am • Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread across U.S. university and college campuses in recent weeks, leading to disruptions and arrests. Some demonstrations extended into weekend graduation celebrations, although they were muted in comparison to the encampments and rallies that have roiled ca Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as some US college graduations marked by defiant acts 05/13/2024 05:52am • A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, blac Szegedi hat trick sparks UCLA women to 7-4 victory over Cal in NCAA water polo title match 05/13/2024 12:10am • BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — UCLA freshman Panni Szegedi scored three goals in the final 8:43 for her second hat trick in a row and the unbeaten and top-ranked Bruins pulled away for a 7-4 victory over the third-seeded California Golden Bears, winning their eighth NCAA women's water polo championship o