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A look at South Sudan, where the US is accused of quietly sending migrants
The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain ...
Did Jake Meyers finally halt Astros' never-ending center field carousel?
George Springer left the Houston Astros in 2021 as he became the first member of Houston's championship core to secure a nine ...
This Date in Baseball - Andre Dawson sets an MLB record when he is intentionally walked five times
1958 — Ted Williams hits his 16th career grand slam to provide the Red Sox with the margin in an 8-5 win over the A’s. Ted’s 4th-inning blast, off Jack Urban, ties him with Babe Ruth for second place ...
Sports on TV for May 26 - June 1
6 p.m. GOLF — NCAA Tournament: Individual National Championship, Omni La Costa Resort, Carlsbad, Calif. 1 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Final, Foxborough, Mass. 1 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: ...
Russia’s invasion united different parts of Ukraine against a common enemy – 3 years on, that unanimity still holds
To check that this trend was not just an immediate post-invasion blip, we conducted the surveys again in September 2024 and February 2025. The overall proportion of Ukrainians who blamed Russia for ...
Opinion
Trump treats laws as obstacles, not limits − and the only real check on his rule-breaking can come from political pressure
Trump appears to treat legal rules not as limits but as obstacles to be negotiated or ignored. One recent scholarly paper has described Trump’s approach as “ legalistic noncompliance ,” where the ...
Windows are the No. 1 human threat to birds – an ecologist shares some simple steps to reduce collisions
In fact, window collisions are now considered the top human cause of bird deaths. Due to window collisions and other causes, bird populations across North America have declined more than 29% from ...
Too much sitting increases risk of future health problems in chest pain patients – new research
(THE CONVERSATION) For patients hospitalized with chest pain, the amount of time they spend sedentary afterward is linked to a greater risk for more heart problems and death within a year. That’s the ...
Gerry Connolly, a Democratic congressman and fixture of Virginia politics, dies at 75
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Gerald “Gerry” Connolly, an outspoken Democrat who sought key reforms in the federal ...
The 'bad guy' wins: Jim Schlossnagle SEC's top coach, is a title next?
The former Texas A&M baseball coach could not have made a more disastrous exit from College Station, but he's proving what he can do at Texas.
Rethinking engineering education: Why focusing on learning preferences matters for diversity
I argue that future studies need to consider the use of technologies such as adaptive learning applications to understand ...
19th-century Catholic teachings, 21st-century tech: How concerns about AI guided Pope Leo’s choice of name
The 19th-century pope refused to endorse either the capitalists’ wait-and-see promise of progress or the communists’ longing for a dictatorship of the proletariat. Instead, he offered a vision that ...