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He was elected mayor of a small municipality near a crime-ridden Mexican resort city. Acapulco The assassination, which took place early Monday morning, was the latest in a series of attacks targeting politicians, local prosecutors said.Salvador Villalba Flores, who was due to take office in October, was shot dead while driving on the highway in Copala, a town of about 4,000 people about 80 miles southeast of Acapulco, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Prosecutors said they had opened a murder investigation but gave no further details. Click here to see related media. Click to enlarge Local…
In his first visit since the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bihar on June 19 to inaugurate the new campus of Nalanda University. Nalanda is the prime minister’s home district, and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is also expected to attend the ceremony.The university has been conceived as a joint collaboration between India and the East Asia Summit (EAS) countries. The inauguration ceremony will be attended by several eminent personalities, including representatives from 17 countries, according to a press release.Also Read | Election results 2024: JD(U) defies all election predictions, Nitish takes the lead againThe university has…
Baltimore Sun Media has appointed a former USA Today editor to oversee The Baltimore Sun’s editorial and opinion pages, the company announced Monday.Candy Woodall, a 20-year journalism veteran, began as The Sun’s editorial editor on Monday.Woodall replaces Tricia Bishop, who has been The Sun’s director of opinion and features since 2019. Bishop will succeed Sam Davis, who is retiring from The Sun at the end of June after a 44-year career as a journalist. Woodall will oversee The Sun’s editorial and op-ed pages and eventually the opinion pages of The Capital Gazette and The Carroll County Times. A deputy opinion…
In 2013, I warned that Pax Sinica might supplant America’s dominant role in the Middle East. As the largest importer of Persian Gulf oil, China wants regional stability. To that end, China’s first foray into Middle East diplomacy came in December 2022, when it issued a joint statement with Sunni Gulf states condemning Iran’s destructive role in the region. But when Beijing brokered the restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia in March 2023, China proved it had arrived as a regional power.China’s industrial might is driving its growing influence in the Middle East: exports to Saudi Arabia…
PINEHURST, N.C. — Bryson DeChambeau spent most of the U.S. Open smiling at the roaring fans. The cheers died down for a moment while he stretched his sore right hip on the ninth tee box Saturday. Then a spectator rang out.”Hey, Bryson! If you shoot 70.5 or better today I’ll bet you $100!”This time, DeChambeau was emotionless. A bystander named Lee Woody, holding two cans of White Claw soda, seemed pleased to see DeChambeau miss the green on a par-3 hole.”There’s a line, so I’m just going to dip my toe in there,” Woody said of the taunt, who had…
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The poor performance of the Indian National Congress in the Lok Sabha elections has come as a huge shock to its members and cadres, who are yet to come out of the situation. The party has not investigated the reasons for such a result. It has not raised any issue with the government. The Indian National Congress Party leadership has been silent since the announcement of the election results. The results of the state assembly and Lok Sabha elections have left the party highly shaken and the party leaders uncertain about the party’s future in the state.…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Tips and hacks often go viral on social media, but sometimes they can be dangerous.Now, some people are taking to social media to share their sun habits, including taking an anti-sunscreen stance, according to CBS News. A Lexington doctor WKYT spoke with says people should definitely not follow this trend. “We’ve known for years that sunscreen helps prevent skin cancer,” says Dr. Katrina Hood, a pediatrician in Lexington.As you or your kids scroll through TikTok or other social media sites, you may see videos pop up that take a stance against sunscreen or offer unusual tanning…
There are still more than two months until the 2024 college football season. Virginia Tech will open the season against a major rebuilding SEC team, Vanderbilt, in Nashville, Tennessee. Predictions are starting to come in for the fall, and Grant Hughes of 247Sports has predicted the win/loss numbers for every ACC team, offering an interesting take on the Hokies’ final standing.As for Virginia Tech, Hughes projects them to finish 8-4 overall and 5-3 again in the conference. He projects losses at home to Rutgers, Georgia Tech and Clemson and away to Miami. Hughes projects Virginia Tech to finish seventh in…
The Federal Ministry of Education said on Monday The two universities failed to adequately protect both Jewish and Muslim students during the fierce fighting that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Gaza war.The University of Michigan and the City University of New York (CUNY) and their affiliated universities have reviewed past cases and The training and other steps will help resolve a federal investigation into student complaints amid the Middle East conflict, in which Jewish and Palestinian students have alleged harassment and other incidents of discrimination, including hostile rhetoric, disruption of classes and vandalism.”Hate has…
When you buy two of something and get the third for half price, or add a few dollars to an online order to secure free shipping, you’re “spabbing.”Spaving is a combination of the words “spending” and “saving,” and means encouraging savings by spending more.But experts say don’t fool yourself: Savings are mostly about spending.”Spending always goes up. Savings don’t always go up,” says Jeff Galak, an associate professor of marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh.Sparing has been in the news lately. It seems like something new. The term has barely appeared in the publication. It’s…