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How to Get Into Graduate School 07/30/2024 08:00pm • Graduate school can be a great way to accelerate your career, develop skills and get involved in outstanding research and networking opportunities -- but success is not a given. "No matter how highly ranked or highly respected a degree is, there are no guarantees," says Luke Bickel, director of grad How to Invest When Short-Term CDs Are Higher Than Long-Term CDs 07/30/2024 08:00pm • If you're looking for a low-risk, high-yield investment option, certificates of deposit, or CDs, may be a good choice. They are typically insured up to $250,000 (per depositor, per institution) by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and can beat out traditional savings rates. CDs are unique be Editorial Roundup: United States 07/30/2024 07:44pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 26 The Washington Post on Biden's SCOTUS reform plan In an Oval Office speech on Wednesday, President Biden announced that he supports reforming the Supreme Court, “because this is critical to our democracy.” But how? There ar Georgia's largest school district won't teach Black studies course without state approval 07/30/2024 07:10pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's largest school district announced Tuesday that it won't teach a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, saying the state Department of Education's refusal to approve the course means its students would be cheated out of credit for the difficulty of the w Steelers QB Russell Wilson returns to practice at training camp 07/30/2024 06:39pm • LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Russell Wilson stepped up under center, barking out the play call. He took a snap and turned to his left to hand it off to reserve running back Aaron Shampklin, then backpedaled quickly so as to remove himself from the play. It was as nondescript as any 11-on-11 rep over the f Washington set to begin first camp under Jedd Fisch following offseason of massive change 07/30/2024 05:30pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Jedd Fisch was straightforward about the truth of the situation he’s inherited at Washington and the unknowns of how the next month will play out. The new head coach of the Huskies seems just as curious as everyone else about how this team and this season is all going to come toge Panthers focused on commitment to running game under new head coach Dave Canales 07/30/2024 05:23pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales vowed to establish the running game — and remain committed to it — when he was hired five months ago. So far he’s living up to his word. The Panthers, who spent more than $150 million this offseason on big-body free agents guar Alabama's Pringle, Texas signee Scott among new faces for South Carolina this season 07/30/2024 04:52pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nick Pringle had the chance to finish his career anywhere after Alabama's run to the Final Four this past season. He chose to come home, especially after South Carolina completed its own rags-to-riches season in the second year of coach Lamont Paris. “I'm home, I'm home. I Officer fatally shoots armed man on Indiana college campus after suspect doesn't respond to commands 07/30/2024 03:59pm • FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A police officer fatally shot an armed man on a northeastern college campus Tuesday after the suspect failed to respond to officers' commands, police said. The shooting at Purdue University Fort Wayne prompted school officials to close the campus for the remainder of Tuesda William Calley, who led the My Lai massacre that shamed US military in Vietnam, has died 07/30/2024 03:30pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80. Calley died on April 28, according to his Fl Baylor extends women's basketball coach Nicki Collen's contract through the 2029-30 season 07/30/2024 03:26pm • WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor has extended the contract of women's basketball coach Nicki Collen through the 2029-30 season after a 74-28 record and NCAA Tournament appearances in each of her first three years with the Bears. The Big 12 school announced the extension on Tuesday. “Nicki has demonstra Florida begins Billy Napier's third season with a revamped staff and hope for a winning season 07/30/2024 03:07pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Billy Napier took a significant swing at solving his program's problems this offseason. He revamped his defense, his special teams, his strength and conditioning program and even hired a new team nutritionist. Although the results of Napier’s make-or-break The Latest: Simone Biles and Team USA win women's gymnastics team gold 07/30/2024 02:31pm • PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles and the U.S. women took the gold the gymnastics team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, completing their ‘redemption tour’ after taking second in the 2021 Tokyo games. Italy came in second and Brazil in third. Team USA soaks it in The U.S. women’s gymnastics team gra A New York state police recruit is charged with assaulting a trooper and trying to grab his gun 07/30/2024 02:12pm • CAZENOVIA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state trooper recruit was arrested after he attacked a trooper and tried to grab his gun while attending a training academy last week, state police said. The 22-year-old was at a training academy at the campus of the closed Cazenovia College in central New York on 5 ways the 2024 race has changed with Harris replacing Biden on the Democratic ticket 07/30/2024 02:08pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Over the last month, much has changed about the 2024 presidential election in the United States. Now that President Joe Biden is out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris is in, former President Donald Trump is having to pivot his campaign to a new challenger. Here are five w