Friday Roundup: JG girls win Jerry Neal Invite; Muskie softball secures share of Big School title Valley girls came in second with 96, as the 4x100 won (53.8), Taylor Crozier placed first in the 3,200 (12:36) and third in the 400 (1:04.05), Erin Hogue was second in the 1,600 (5:36), the 4x800 was ... 05/5/2024 - 1:29 am | View Link
Friday's CIF-SS playoff roundup: Starting pitching leads three baseball teams to wins Pacifica, Newbury Park and Hueneme earn first-round baseball wins; and two boys lacrosse teams and four boys tennis teams advance with victories Friday. 05/4/2024 - 4:16 am | View Link
Friday baseball roundup: Landen Walker throws no-hitter for Baldwin County, Central sweeps Baker Landen Walker pitched a complete-game, no-hitter Friday night as Baldwin County salvaged a doubleheader split with Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa in the Class 6A quarterfinals. The Tigers won the nightcap 11-0 ... 05/4/2024 - 2:51 am | View Link
Baseball playoffs roundup: Buena Park, La Habra, Beckman win in Friday’s first round There were several exciting victories by Orange County baseball teams Friday in the CIF Southern Section playoffs. The list of winners includes Cypress, Huntington Beach, Foothill, Los Alamitos ... 05/4/2024 - 2:26 am | View Link
Friday soccer roundup The Kenai Central boys soccer team recorded a 6-1 nonconference victory over Grace Christian on Friday. The Kardinals are now 6-3-0 overall. 05/3/2024 - 10:10 pm | 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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