Power conferences, NCAA to vote on landmark $2.7 billion settlement as smaller leagues balk at terms
University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week to vote on whether to accept a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that would cost the NCAA nearly $3 billion. The …
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By RALPH D. RUSSO
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5/20/24
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The CIA’s first chief technology officer Nand Mulchandani is marshaling generative AI tools to the intelligence agency. There’s considerable urgency: Adversaries are already spreading …
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By FRANK BAJAK
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5/20/24
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The most powerful Democrat in Congress on banking and financial issues called for President Joe Biden to replace the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Monday, saying the agency is …
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By KEN SWEET
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5/20/24
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White noise is frequently used to mask background sounds and it now has competition in a rainbow of colors. There’s a growing buzz around pink noise, brown noise, green noise and their theoretical …
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON
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5/20/24
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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's allies and opponents alike are awaiting her decision on whether to endorse Donald Trump. Haley's eventual move could shape not only this year's presidential race …
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By STEVE PEOPLES, MEG KINNARD and THOMAS BEAUMONT
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5/20/24
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Israel’s defense minister says the military would expand its operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Meanwhile the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced he’s …
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By The Associated Press
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5/20/24
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President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the …
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By The Associated Press
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5/20/24
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Surprising flavor combinations – think gravy-flavored Jones Soda or Sour Patch Kids Oreos -- are showing up more frequently in grocery stores and restaurants. Earlier this year, IHOP and Lay’s …
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN
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5/20/24
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The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is scheduled to be refloated and moved to a nearby marine terminal. The Dali has remained at the collapse …
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5/20/24
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An argument between two women led to a gunfight that left 11 people injured in a busy tourist area of of Savannah, Georgia. The shootout Saturday night near Savannah's Ellis Square was one of five …
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5/19/24
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Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday in the trial of a former University of Arizona graduate student accused of killing a professor on campus two years ago. Murad Dervish faces seven felony …
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5/19/24
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Houston area residents affected by deadly storms last week that left at least seven dead were finally getting some good news. Officials say they expect power to be restored by Sunday evening to a …
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By JUAN A. LOZANO
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5/19/24
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A young boy is among three people dead after an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck in upstate New York. The Friday accident happened in North Tonawanda, a small town along the Niagara River between …
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5/19/24
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America's first Black astronaut candidate has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company. Ninety-year-old Ed Dwight blasted off from West Texas with five other …
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5/19/24
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Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an attempted …
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The Associated Press
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5/19/24
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A long-planned series of Catholic pilgrimages is getting underway across the United States this weekend, with pilgrims embarking on four different routes. The processions will converge on …
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By PETER SMITH
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5/19/24
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French security forces are working to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific …
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By JOHN LEICESTER
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5/19/24
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A lawsuit over a Virginia prison inmate's death has raised broader questions about conditions at the lockup and newly obtained records are providing further insights. The Marion Correctional …
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By SARAH RANKIN
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5/19/24
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A Florida man will soon learn whether he will be sentenced to death or life in prison for fatally shooting five women in a bank in 2019. Jury selection starts Monday in the penalty trial of …
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By TERRY SPENCER
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5/19/24
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President Joe Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically Black, male-only institution in Atlanta. The speech on Sunday offers Biden an election-year …
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and BILL BARROW
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5/18/24
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