By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is ending several grant programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of minority students, saying they amount to illegal discrimination by tying federal money to racial quotas. In a shift upending decades of precedent, the Education Department said Wednesday it now believes
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By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian judge ruled Wednesday that the man accused of killing 11 people by ramming his sport utility vehicle into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival is mentally fit to stand trial. Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, faces multiple counts of second-degree murder in the
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters and the lawmakers they elect could be headed for a clash at the ballot box over the power to set public policy. Citizen activists rallying Wednesday at the Missouri Capitol kicked off an initiative petition drive for a proposed constitutional amendment that
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects. Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie’s archive, which opens to the public this week. The 90,000 items acquired from Bowie’s estate by
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are downplaying a pair of emotional on-field outbursts, including one that involved star tight end Travis Kelce, that marked their season-opening loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in Brazil last week. The first came when Kelce got into the face
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are downplaying a pair of emotional on-field outbursts, including one that involved star tight end Travis Kelce, that marked their season-opening loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in Brazil last week. The first came when Kelce got into the face
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Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis in a new exhibit five years in the making. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, curated
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The plots of Dan Brown’s novels have so many turns that even the author has to make sure he can keep it all organized. “Anybody who writes a thriller needs to have a plan. There’s a great saying that the thriller writer who starts a
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of White House economic adviser Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, setting up a likely approval by the full Senate, which would make Miran the third Trump appointee to the seven-member board. The White House
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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing. The rule was a key part of efforts
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Esteves of Atlanta resigned from his Georgia state Senate seat Wednesday, the first of many candidates who will face that choice as they pursue statewide office in 2026. “One thing has become clear from my time in the Senate: the challenges Georgia is
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By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday. Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all of the heat events considered in the study, which was published in the journal Nature
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By The Associated Press There’s a new Bachelorette in town — and we’ve met her before. Taylor Frankie Paul, “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star, will be the lead on Season 22 of “The Bachelorette.” She broke the news herself Wednesday on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. ABC confirmed the news in a statement
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By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Sept. 11 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. (Friday) FS2 — AFL Playoffs: Hawthorn at Adelaide, Semifinal AUTO RACING 3:05 p.m. FS2 — NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series: Practice, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn. 4:10 p.m. FS2 — NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series:
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By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have granted recognition to same-sex partnerships in the Chinese city, despite the rights offered being limited, in a major setback to the LGBTQ+ movement. The Registration of Same-Sex Partnerships Bill, unveiled in July, stemmed from
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By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that he has “confidence” in the country’s ambassador to the United States, who faces mounting criticism of his links to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Starmer’s defense of Peter Mandelson came after Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a
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