Heil to the Kiser: Jack Kiser leads the way for Irish linebackers in 2024 This smell announced not only the changing of the seasons but also the triumphant return of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football for the 90th Annual Blue-Gold game. The Irish, coming off an undefeated ... 04/18/2024 - 8:43 pm | View Link
‘You’re coming back to us, home’ – Stardust families react to verdict “It was a very emotional day for all the families here, all of us. For 43 years we had to fight and we shouldn’t have had to have done. None of us. We shouldn’t be here now, this should have been ... 04/18/2024 - 8:21 pm | View Link
From Princeton to South Bend: Senior captain Matt Allocco tries his luck with the Fighting Irish For Allocco, the connection to Notre Dame runs in the family. His uncle, Frank Allocco, played varsity football and basketball at Notre Dame in the early 70’s. Frank Allocco was a part of the 1973 ... 04/18/2024 - 7:58 pm | View Link
Hansen: Central contracts 'the only way Irish rugby is going to get stronger' Hansen – who joined Connacht from the Brumbies in 2021 – feels the current central contracts model is a good fit for Irish rugby, having seen how Rugby Australia has at times struggled to keep players ... 04/18/2024 - 7:13 pm | View Link
We must do more to welcome Irish people returning home The great majority of inward migrants came here to work or study – refugees and asylum seekers are just a small fraction of the total. Overall, new arrivals are, on average, as well educated as the ... 04/18/2024 - 6:00 pm | View Link
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.
Israel launched a retaliatory strike against a site in Iran late Thursday night (early Friday morning local time), U. S. officials confirmed to several media outlets, though an Iranian official has downplayed the attack as a “failed and humiliating” drone strike.
ABC News, CBS News, NPR, and others have cited unnamed U.
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
Several students involved in the protest said they also were suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of Democratic U.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment.
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The request came as NATO’s Deputy General Secretary Mircea Geoana held talks in Brussels on regional security challenges with visiting Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri.
Geoana said he welcomed Argentina’s bid to become an accredited partner in the alliance—a valued role short of “ally” for nations that are not in NATO’s geographical area and not required to take part in collective military actions.
A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.
The patient, a 72-year-old man with a blood disorder, failed to mount a strong immune response to multiple Covid shots before catching the omicron variant in February 2022.