Gooding baseball splits with Filer; prep sports roundup: April 18 Gooding baseball split with Filer. Canyon Ridge track and field swept the Capital Quad. Murtaugh track and field won the Barry Espil Invitational. Filer swept the Brad Matthews Invite. 04/18/2024 - 5:30 pm | View Link
High school sports roundup for Wednesday: Hornets lose soccer showdown to WD From staff reports SALISBURY — Salisbury’s girls soccer team lost 2-0 to West Davidson in Wednesday’s Central Carolina Conference battle at Ludwig Stadium. “We played with a ton of heart, but West ... 04/18/2024 - 4:59 pm | View Link
Local sports roundup: Winona softball drops first game of the season Winona’s softball team lost its first game this season Thursday, falling 5-4 in a home Big 9 Conference matchup against Red Wing. 04/18/2024 - 4:45 pm | View Link
High school sports roundup: Tomah softball takes MVC lead with win over La Crosse Aquinas The Tomah High School softball team took over sole possession of first place in the MVC with a 4-1 victory over former co-leader Aquinas at La Grange Elementary Elementary School ... 04/18/2024 - 4:07 pm | View Link
Sports in a Minute: Sullivan to do prep year at Berkshire Academy As you probably remember, Sullivan was practically un-tackleable on the girdiron this year. He was named our Daily News MVP, and for good reason. The electric back piled up 1,195 rushing yards on 109 ... 04/18/2024 - 2:00 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.