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The college football season is short. Games could drag on after the regular season ends, with roughly two months between USC’s game against Notre Dame and the College Football Playoff national championship, but compared to other sports, it’s truly a three-month sprint.With big games coming up against Florida State and USC in November, this is when the Irish need to stay focused.They should be able to take on Stanford if all goes well, and they should be fine against Navy a week later, but Georgia Tech has the potential to do something special if all goes well. This will be…
SOUTH FULTON, Ga. — Business owners in South Fulton are fighting to have their business licenses reinstated after police raided a vape shop and arrested them.[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]They claim South Fulton police officers are unaware of Georgia’s laws regarding legal marijuana products and that the testing methods used by police are inaccurate.read moreTisha Fernandez of Channel 2 Store employees testified at a hearing Thursday in South Fulton County.The police raid took place at a vape shop on Campbellton Road on May 1, with surveillance video showing South Fulton police officers arresting the store…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bill signed this week makes Louisiana the only state to require the Ten Commandments to be posted in every classroom in public schools and universities, reigniting a long-running debate over the role of religion in government institutions. The new law will require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in poster-sized, “large, easily readable font” in all public elementary, middle, and high school classrooms and at state universities next year. Civil rights groups are planning to sue to block the law, signed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, arguing that it unconstitutionally infringes on protections against government…
of Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE:XLK), the second largest ETF in the sector, is set to undergo a major rebalancing this week. NVIDIA Inc. (NASDAQ:NVDA) Apple. (NASDAQ:AAPL). Big change The change comes amid a relentless surge in Nvidia’s stock price, fueled by its presence in artificial intelligence. The company’s shares have soared 164% so far this year and surpassed Apple in market capitalization earlier this month. If Nvidia maintains its position as the world’s second-largest company by the end of this week, XLK will increase its allocation of Nvidia shares to more than 20% and reduce its allocation of…
Virginia Tech’s huge freshman recruiting weekend got off to a great start on Thursday when defensive tackle Christian Evans committed to the Hokies. Evans is a 6-foot-3, 280-pound defensive tackle out of Stonebridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia. Stonebridge is one of the powerhouse schools in the state of Virginia and will be a big addition to the Hokies. Evans will join his high school teammate, redshirt freshman tight end Zeke Wimbush, on the University of Virginia roster. Evans chose the Hokies over the other finalists, the University of Oklahoma and the University of North Carolina. Why the Hokies? “I…
Cases against nearly all of those arrested inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall last month were dropped Thursday.Of 46 The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has dropped cases against 31 people charged with trespass in connection with the occupation, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Prosecutors have told 14 others that the cases will be dropped if they are not arrested within the next six months, but the defendants have rejected the offer and are scheduled to appear again in court on July 25.The remaining defendant, James Carlson, has two outstanding cases on separate charges including flag burning. Carlson has no…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan stormed into a police station on Thursday, abducted a man being held there and lynched him for allegedly desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book. The attackers also set fire to a police station in the town of Madyan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and set fire to a police vehicle parked there, according to local police official Rahim Ullah. The man who was killed, Mohammed Ismail, was a tourist staying at a hotel in the town when some local residents attacked him and accused him of blasphemy. Ullah said officers took the…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan stormed into a police station on Thursday, abducted a man being held there and lynched him for allegedly desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book.The attackers also set fire to a police station in the town of Madyan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and set fire to a police vehicle parked there, according to local police official Rahim Ullah.The man who was killed, Mohammed Ismail, was a tourist staying at a hotel in the town when some local residents attacked him and accused him of blasphemy.Ullah said officers took the man to…
Brown University’s college prep program offers a course on obesity phobia, where students discuss “the social, medical and cultural impacts of obesity” as an introduction to the emerging academic field of “obesity studies.” Titled “The F-Word: Examining the Science, Culture, and Politics of Obesity,” the week-long class “applies major theoretical perspectives to the study of obesity, including feminist/gender perspectives, reader response perspectives, historical perspectives, and race perspectives.” While there are no mandatory prerequisites (yes!), enrolled students should come to the class “open-minded and ready to engage respectfully with others,” according to the course description. Brown isn’t the only Ivy League…
Shortly after Judge Eileen M. Cannon was appointed to handle former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case in June 2023, two of her experienced colleagues in Florida’s federal courts urged her to step down from the assignment and hand it over to another judge, according to two people briefed on the conversations.The judges who approached Cannon, including Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida, each urged her to consider whether it would be better to recuse herself from the high-profile case and assign it to another judge, two of the people said.But Judge Cannon, a…