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Month: April 2025

Lafayette continues growing pains in first boys volleyball season with loss to East (Kansas City)

The gym is now alive with many sounds and sights, as the Fighting Irish are in the midst of their inaugural MSHSAA-sanctioned boys volleyball season.

The program’s growing pains continued Tuesday evening, as visiting East (Kansas City) handed Lafayette its fourth straight loss, sweeping the match 25-17, 25-18, 25-8. The Bears improved to 4-3, while the Irish dropped to 3-9-1.

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Displaced people fleeing from Boko Haram incursions into Niger attend a World Food Programme (WFP) and USAID food distribution at the Asanga refugee camp near Diffa in June 2016.

USAID reverses course and restores some humanitarian aid contracts after WFP warning of possible deadly consequences

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US Agency for International Development (USAID) reversed course Tuesday and restored several of the World Food Programme’s lifesaving humanitarian aid contracts after canceling them over the weekend, a source familiar told CNN. The reversal comes after the World Food Programme warned Monday that the cuts could “amount to

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NHL Expanded Glance

All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div x-Toronto 77 47 26 4 98 251 224 25-13-1 22-13-3 13-8-1 x-Tampa Bay 77 45 26 6 96 276 202 27-8-2 18-18-4 9-12-1 x-Florida 78 45 29 4 94 241 210 25-11-2 20-18-2 10-11-2 Ottawa 78 42 30

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NBA Expanded Glance

All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf y-Boston 59 20 .747 — 9-1 W-3 26-13 33-7 37-12 x-New York 50 29 .633 9 7-3 L-1 27-13 23-16 33-16 Toronto 29 50 .367 30 5-5 W-1 17-23 12-27 20-31 Brooklyn 26 53 .329 33 3-7 W-1 12-27

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NBA Glance

All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Boston 59 20 .747 — x-New York 50 29 .633 9 Toronto 29 50 .367 30 Brooklyn 26 53 .329 33 Philadelphia 23 56 .291 36 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Orlando 39 40 .494 — Atlanta 37 42 .468 2 Miami 36

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Costumed revelers dance through the streets of south Philadelphia

Philadelphia’s Carnaval de Puebla canceled amid concerns of ICE presence

By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — An annual festival in Philadelphia dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture and history has been cancelled, with organizers citing fear that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement might be present and target attendees. Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, ICE has detained thousands of people, using aggressive methods like the rarely-used Alien

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