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Global Citizen NOW urges investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and youth outreach
05/02/2024 08:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — This week's Global Citizen NOW conference featured appeals for long-term investments in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increased outreach to young changemakers worldwide, as the international advocacy organization seeks to drive resources toward antipover
College
Admitted Student Days: What to Know
05/02/2024 08:00pm • Each spring,
college
s hold admitted student days exclusively for accepted students. It's a chance for them and their families to ask questions of faculty, meet current students and future classmates, learn about programs and see what life on campus is like. Admitted student days usually are held bef
The Latest | Arrests top 2,000 as protests against Israel-Hamas war roil
college
campuses
05/02/2024 07:58pm • The number of people arrested in connection with protests on
college
campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000. The Associated Press has tallied arrests at 35 schools since a tent encampment began at Columbia University on April 17. Student protests have popped up at many
college
an
Arkansas governor says state won't comply with new federal rules on treatment of trans students
05/02/2024 07:25pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared Thursday that the state won't comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools, joining other Republican-led states that are defying the new rules. Sanders sign
Sports on TV for Friday, May 3
05/02/2024 07:15pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, May 3 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 — AFL: Collingwood at Carlton 11:30 p.m. FS1 — AFL: Greater Western Sydney at Sydney 5:30 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 — AFL: Geelong at Melbourne AUTO RACING 12:25 p.m. ESPN2
Georgia's Kirby Smart becomes the nation's highest-paid
college
football coach at $13m annually
05/02/2024 06:37pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's Kirby Smart agreed to a contract extension Thursday that makes him the highest-paid coach in
college
football with an annual salary of $13 million. Smart got a bump in salary of $1.75 million annually as part of the deal, which ties him to the Bulldogs through 2033. He
Paying
college
football players could reverse trend of bowl game opt-outs, boost non-CFP postseason
05/02/2024 06:23pm • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — With the expanded
College
Football Playoff locked in through 2031, questions still remain about what the rest of the postseason will look like. One thing is certain, there will still be bowls. “
College
football cannot have a postseason that only provides 12 opportunities
Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here's what they have to say
05/02/2024 06:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after violence broke out, Catherine Hamilton and three colleagues from the Daily Bruin suddenly found themselves surrounded by demonstrators who beat, kicked and sprayed them with a noxious chemical. On American campuses
MLB extends Draft League through 2030 season and announces plan to expand to eight teams
05/02/2024 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball extended the MLB Draft League through the 2030 season and announced plans to expand by two teams to eight. The Draft League launched in 2021 following the reorganization that trimmed the minor leagues and it started play with six teams that had been in the Eas
At time of rising antisemitism, Holocaust survivors take on denial and hate in new digital campaign
05/02/2024 05:13pm • DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Herbert Rubinstein was 5 years old when he and his mother where taken from the Jewish ghetto of Chernivtsi and put on a cramped cattle wagon waiting to take them to their deaths. It was 1941, and Romanians collaborating with Germany's Nazis were rounding up tens of thou
European court upholds Italy's right to seize prized Greek bronze from Getty Museum, rejects appeal
05/02/2024 05:10pm • ROME (AP) — A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was justified in trying to reclaim an important part of its cultural heritage and rejecting the museum's appeal. The European Court of Human
Defender Kelley O'Hara plans to retire from soccer at the end of the NWSL season
05/02/2024 04:47pm • U.S. team and Gotham FC defender Kelley O'Hara announced Thursday that she is retiring from soccer at the end of the National Women's Soccer League season. O'Hara, 35, is a two-time Women's World Cup winner, an Olympic gold medalist and a two-time National Women's Soccer League title winner. She m
Nebraska forward Rienk Mast will have knee surgery and miss the 2024-25 basketball season
05/02/2024 04:39pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska forward Rienk Mast will have surgery on his left knee and miss the 2024-25 season, coach Fred Hoiberg said Thursday. Mast, who averaged 12.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, said he plans to take a medical redshirt and return in 2025-26. “As some people know, I pl
Faceless people, invisible hands: New Army video aims to lure recruits for psychological operations
05/02/2024 04:36pm • FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — The video is unsettling, with haunting images of faceless people, fire and soldiers. The voiceover is a cascade of recognizable historical voices as the screen pulses cryptic messages touting the power of words, ideas and “invisible hands.” Hints of its origin are tuc
Iowa investigator's email says athlete gambling sting was a chance to impress higher-ups and public
05/02/2024 03:32pm • A criminal investigator for the state of Iowa suggested to colleagues last year that busting
college
athletes for online sports betting would impress the public and “the powers that be” and perhaps nudge lawmakers toward updating gambling laws. “If they get suspended or get a scholarship taken
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