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'We were built for this moment': Black women rally around Kamala Harris 07/23/2024 01:24pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and allies logged on at the same time to support her brand-new presidential campaign. Memphis tabbed as American Athletic Conference favorite ahead of UTSA and Tulane 07/23/2024 12:40pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Memphis has been tabbed as the preseason favorite in the American Athletic Conference after a vote of media who cover the league. The preseason poll was released Tuesday during the league's kickoff event involving coaches and players from all 14 teams. The Tigers got In Sean Wang's 'Dìdi,' a portrait of an artist as a young skater kid 07/23/2024 11:51am • NEW YORK (AP) — Within the span of five days in January, Sean Wang’s life changed about as dramatically as is possible for a young filmmaker. On Jan. 19, Wang’s “Nai Nai & Wài Pó,” a documentary short about his two grandmothers, was nominated for an Academy Award. On Jan. 23rd, his f Malaysia evacuates 123 citizens from violence-hit Bangladesh 07/23/2024 11:24am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia evacuated 123 of its citizens from Bangladesh on Tuesday in response to violent unrest that has killed dozens of people. Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution greeted the evacuees, including 80 students, at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport after they landed Violence against women at 'epidemic' levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn 07/23/2024 09:28am • LONDON (AP) — Violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism, Britain's police chiefs said Tuesday. More than 1 million violent crimes against women and girls were recorded by U.K. police in 2022 to 2023, accounti India's Modi focuses on jobs creation in first budget after winning polls 07/23/2024 05:16am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s newly formed government presented an annual budget to Parliament that raises spending to generate more jobs and spur economic growth, while aiming to appease coalition partners it needs to stay in power. In her budget speech Tuesday, Finance 2 DC-area cities named the fittest in the nation. Is your hometown on the list? 07/23/2024 05:00am • Arlington, Virginia, and D.C. are ranked the top two cities in the nation in the 17th annual American College of Sports Medicine Fittest Cities Index. "Arlington, Virginia — this is the seventh year in a row that they were first," said professor Stella Volpe, head of the department of Human Nut Sabally sisters ready to lead Germany women's basketball team to its first Olympic appearance 07/23/2024 05:00am • PARIS (AP) — Satou and Nyara Sabally plan on enjoying Germany’s first trip to the Olympics in women’s basketball. The sisters are proud to have a chance to play together and will soak in every minute of their experience in Paris. “It means everything, I love to share the court with her,” 2024 Election Latest: Harris says she's looking forward to accepting Democratic Party's nomination 07/23/2024 12:26am • Vice President Kamala Harris had a busy 24 hours after being endorsed as the Democratic presidential candidate by President Joe Biden. She has secured enough delegates to earn the party’s nomination and raised more than $81 million, a record sum for the 2024 political cycle. Harris also spoke Mond ACC's Phillips touts financial gains, intent to fight lawsuits in assertive stance for the future 07/22/2024 07:15pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Commissioner Jim Phillips firmly believes in the future of the Atlantic Coast Conference amid the uncertainty of realignment and the wholesale changes to the model of college athletics itself. He was ready to tell everyone why, too, as the league opened its preseason footbal Conservatives use shooting at Trump rally to attack DEI efforts at Secret Service 07/22/2024 06:40pm • As Congressional members on both sides of the aisle grilled U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Monday on how a gunman was able to fire shots at former President Donald Trump in an assassination attempt, several Republican lawmakers seized on gender and the agency’s diversity, equity and Mark Carnevale dies at age 64 a week after former PGA Tour winner worked radio at Scottish Open 07/22/2024 05:53pm • PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Mark Carnevale, a former PGA Tour winner who had been calling tournaments for Sirius XM Radio, died Monday, a week after working his last tournament, the PGA Tour said. He was 64. The tour did not disclose a cause, only saying that he died suddenly. Carnevale w South Carolina Election Commission to put logo on Coastal Carolina's teal football field 07/22/2024 05:35pm • CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Coastal Carolina's distinctive, “Surf Turf” teal field will feature the logo for the South Carolina State Election Commission this season. The school and the organization that administers elections in the state announced Monday that the group's logo will be displayed on the SMU embracing challenge of 'moving up in weight class' and joining Atlantic Coast Conference 07/22/2024 05:24pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Rhett Lashlee isn’t naive about the enormous challenge facing Southern Methodist as his team transitions to the Atlantic Coast Conference this season. But that hasn’t dampened the third-year head coach's confidence. “It’s a jump. We are moving up in weight class,” Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose powerful voice helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, has died 07/22/2024 05:18pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service of the American Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles around the world, died on July 16, according to her daughter's social media post. She was 81. Reagon wa