2024 Drake Relays: Results, big performances from each Iowa City area team Liberty girls placed 15th in both the 4x200 relays and 800-meter sprint medley relay. They also placed 88th in the 4x100 prelims. Sophomore Alexi Thigpen took home sixth place in the long jump with a ... 04/28/2024 - 11:38 pm | View Link
US News ranked the nation's high schools, and three Iowa City schools made the list West High School tops Iowa's best high schools list in latest U.S. News & World Report rankings along with other ICCSD schools. 04/25/2024 - 12:08 am | View Link
2024 4A-3 Baseball Tournament: Southside beats Westside in semifinals Red Wolves in 90: Kobe Julien signs, Men's Golf advances to match play in SBC Championship ... 04/24/2024 - 8:23 pm | View Link
Iowa City West blanks Wash for 5th shutout of the season The #4 team in class 4A, Iowa City West beat Cedar Rapids Washington 5-0 on Tuesday night.It was the 5th shutout of the season for the Trojans. 04/24/2024 - 12:22 pm | View Link
Iowa City West’s Moustafa Tiea dazzles in the middle distances at Forwald-Coleman Relays Moustafa Tiea opened the running portion of the Forwald-Coleman Relays with a record-setting relay anchor, and he closed it with an improbable comeback in the finale. He did plenty in between, too. 04/18/2024 - 5:50 pm | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.