U.S. athletes qualified for 2024 Paris Olympics The U.S. Olympic team roster for the 2024 Paris Games will ultimately include more than 500 athletes. It will be one of, if not the biggest, delegation at the Games, which open July 26. Athletes will ... 04/30/2024 - 11:04 pm | View Link
Caitlin Clark’s early WNBA play could be Olympic tryout Attending the camp wasn’t mandatory to make the team, but it certainly would have helped the NCAA Division I all-time scoring leader show the selection committee she could hold her own against some of ... 04/23/2024 - 4:59 am | View Link
Poole's Bryony Page helps seal second GB Olympic spot AFTER months of work across the World Cup series, Poole's Bryony Page has secured Team GB a second women’s trampoline gymnastics spot at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Great Britain is only one ... 04/12/2024 - 12:35 am | View Link
How is the Olympic fencing competition structured? Individual fencing events at the Olympic Games utilize a single-elimination, bracket-style format where fencers must win head-to-head bouts to advance ... separated by one-minute breaks. The first ... 04/5/2024 - 12:17 pm | View Link
Caitlin Clark invited to Olympic training camp amid NCAA tournament run Clark has averaged 29.5 points through first- and second-round wins in the NCAA tournament over Holy Cross and West Virginia, respectively. She is the projected top pick in next month’s WNBA draft. 03/28/2024 - 9:38 am | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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