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How College Classes Taken in High School Can Affect Law School Applications 08/06/2023 08:00pm • Law school admissions officers are generally unconcerned with applicants' history or performance in high school. After all, law school is a professional school, and high school is a distant memory for all but early college graduates. While law school applications may ask for the name of an applicant Veterans see historic expansion of benefits for toxic exposure as new law nears anniversary 08/06/2023 11:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicole Leger always thought of the burn pits at military bases in Afghanistan as more like campfires than health hazards. Ordered to dispose of sensitive documents, she would toss the paperwork into the flames while catching up with fellow soldiers, moments of quiet bonding that Veterans see historic expansion of benefits for toxic exposure as new law nears anniversary 08/06/2023 11:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicole Leger always thought of the burn pits at military bases in Afghanistan as more like campfires than health hazards. Ordered to dispose of sensitive documents, she would toss the paperwork into the flames while catching up with fellow soldiers, moments of quiet bonding that After upstaging group rivals, Nigeria ready to take on England at Women's World Cup 08/06/2023 07:09am • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — When he dared speak up about pay and conditions for the Nigeria women’s team, Randy Waldrum was described by one federation official as the worst coach to ever lead the Super Falcons to a Women’s World Cup. Now, after orchestrating a run to a knockout-stage game agai Jets' Sauce Gardner fulfills a promise to his mother and walks the stage as a college graduate 08/05/2023 03:39pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Sauce Gardner made a promise to his mother before he became a first-round NFL draft pick. The New York Jets cornerback told her he'd soon take another stroll across a big stage — next time as a college graduate. Gardner kept his word. And he has a diploma from the Univ Taylor, Dodgers rally for 5 runs in the 8th to beat the Padres 10-5 08/05/2023 01:38am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — Chris Taylor and pinch-hitter J.D. Martinez drew consecutive bases-loaded walks during a Padres bullpen meltdown in the five-run eighth inning that lifted the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers to a 10-5 win Friday night, their sixth straight victory against San Diego. The Dodge After clash over teaching on gender, psychology class may be available to Florida students 08/04/2023 11:58pm • MIAMI (AP) — The first time the College Board bumped up against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s efforts to inject conservative ideals into education standards, it ultimately revamped the Advanced Placement course for African American studies, watering down curriculum on slavery reparations and the B Jose Siri homers and drives in 3 runs to help Rays rout Tigers 8-0 08/04/2023 10:03pm • DETROIT (AP) — Jose Siri homered and drove in three runs, Zack Littell won his second straight start and the Tampa Bay Rays routed the Detroit Tigers 8-0 on Friday night. Littell (2-2) gave up three hits and a walk in six innings, one start after going a career-high five in a win against the Houst Thomas homers twice, lifts Nationals past Reds 6-3 08/04/2023 09:47pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — Lane Thomas hit his second homer of the game in the 10th inning to seal a 6-3 comeback win by the Washington Nationals over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night. Thomas' two-run shot, his team-leading 18th of the season, came off Reds closer Alexis Díaz (3-3) and followed a ru Charles Ogletree, longtime legal and civil rights scholar at Harvard Law School, dies at 70 08/04/2023 08:13pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a law professor and civil rights scholar with a distinguished career at Harvard Law School and whose list of clients ranged from Anita Hill to Tupac Shakur, died Friday after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 70. A California native Scott Dixon can tie Kanaan's IndyCar consecutive starts streak in Nashville 08/04/2023 07:30pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Scott Dixon credits luck for being in position to put his name on another IndyCar Series milestone Sunday. If the defending champion of the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix starts the race around Nashville's streets, Dixon will tie Tony Kanaan's IndyCar record with his 31 4 new offshore wind power projects proposed for New Jersey Shore; 2 would be far out to sea 08/04/2023 07:16pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Wind power developers proposed four new projects off the New Jersey Shore on Friday, a surge that would more than double the number of wind farms built off its coast if they are approved by regulators. At least two of them are more than twice as far out to sea than other Why some DC students will have virtual classes every Friday next year 08/04/2023 05:57pm • Paul Public Charter School in Northwest D.C. will again offer "Virtual Friday" programming to middle and high school students in the upcoming school year. The school piloted the weekly virtual option in the 2022-23 school year, and said many families found that it benefited their students. It inc Ukraine says its drones damaged a Russian warship, showing Kyiv's growing naval capabilities 08/04/2023 05:55pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said its sea drones struck a major Russian port Friday and damaged a warship in an attack that underlined Kyiv's growing naval capabilities as the Black Sea becomes an increasingly important battleground in the war. The strike on Novorossiysk halted maritime traffic fo Colorado fugitive who was captured in Florida was leading a posh lifestyle and flaunting his wealth 08/04/2023 05:41pm • A career fraudster who escaped from a federal prison in Colorado nearly five years ago was captured this week while moving into a $1.5 million house near the ocean on Florida’s Gold Coast, federal officials said Friday. Federal marshals arrested Alan Todd May, 58, at the house in Fort Lauderdale o