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
Santa Cruz boys volleyball earns No. 1 seed in CCS Open Division | Local Roundup Santa Cruz High’s boys volleyball team earned the No. 1 seed in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs, it was announced at the seeding meeting Saturday. 05/5/2024 - 12:25 am | View Link
ROUNDUP: Peabody, Swampscott dominate ahead of Monday meeting Is it Monday yet? The Peabody and Swampscott girls lacrosse teams dominated Thursday – in high-scoring fashion – ahead of their powerhouse clash on Monday. That one’s slated for 4:30 p.m. in ... 05/2/2024 - 1:56 pm | View Link
HS Roundup: Monday's district baseball and softball results District 12 Naples 3, Gulf Coast 1: At 9:41 p.m. Monday night, the Naples High School baseball team nearly saw their season come to a premature end in the district quarterfinals against ... 05/1/2024 - 3:27 pm | View Link
Monday soccer playoff roundup: Vestavia Hills girls upset Spain Park Ranked by MaxPreps as the top girls team in the nation, Spain Park (21-1) scored two second half goals in the final 12 minutes to send the game into overtime. Tatum Ahlemeyer scored on a penalty kick ... 04/30/2024 - 4:39 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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