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A state Senate committee is recommending the full chamber fire two Universities of Wisconsin regents who voted against a deal to limit campus diversity positions. The Republican-controlled Senate Committee on Universities and Revenue voted along party lines Thursday to recommend the full body reject confirmation for Dana Wachs and John Miller. The recommendation comes after Wachs and Miller voted twice in December to reject a deal Republican legislators brokered with UW officials that called for... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The main attraction at any State of the Union is the president’s speech. But that doesn’t mean lawmakers and guests can’t send their own message — and they did that Thursday night with their fashion choices as President Joe Biden addressed Congress.

The U.N. Security Council is urging Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow desperately needed aid to reach 25 million people. Ramadan is expected to begin on or around Monday, depending on the sighting of the new moon. The vote Friday on the British-drafted resolution was 14-0 with Russia abstaining. Sudan plunged into chaos in April, when long-simmering tensions between its military and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary broke out into street battles in the capital, Khartoum.

UN Security Council calls for an immediate halt to fighting in conflict-wracked Sudan during holy month of Ramadan.

A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump’s administration have entered the district attorney’s race in Fulton County, Georgia, where the former president is being prosecuted. That office is held by Fani Willis, a Democrat who's awaiting a judge’s decision on whether she'll be removed from the 2020 election interference case against the Republican ex-president. The primary will be held in May, the general election in November. The Fulton County Superior Court judge... Читать дальше...

Wrexham is set to take on English powerhouse Chelsea this summer at Levi's Stadium.

The Senate is looking to approve a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal agencies. A vote would get lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year. While the Senate is expected to approve the measure, progress was slow in getting the bill to a final vote. The package advanced on a key test vote Friday afternoon to limit debate, but it remains to be seen if senators can... Читать дальше...

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A Connecticut state trooper who shot a 19-year-old man to death in a stolen car in 2020 has testified that he believed he had to open fire because the man was armed with a knife and made threatening movements toward other officers. Trooper Brian North took the stand Friday at his trial in Milford, Connecticut. He has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree manslaughter charge. He fatally shot Mubarak Soulemane in West Haven after a high-speed chase and reports Soulemane had earlier committed a carjacking. Читать дальше...

A gun shop employee has testified in the trial of the father of a Michigan school shooter. Cammy Back recalled how James Crumbley bought a handgun while accompanied by his son in 2021. The gun was used by Ethan Crumbley four days later to kill four students at Oxford High School. James Crumbley is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Investigators say he failed to secure the gun at home. Earlier, a judge restricted James Crumbley's use of a phone and tablet while in jail. The sheriff's office said he'd been using them to make threats.

One of Curry's teammates doesn't sound optimistic about his status.

Oregon's whirlwind 35-day legislative session ended Thursday night, a couple days ahead of schedule. This year lawmakers focused on housing and drugs as the two main priorities. They voted to roll back the state's first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law by restoring criminal penalties for the possession of small amounts of drugs. It's now a misdemeanor once again and punishable by up to six months in jail. Lawmakers also passed a sweeping $370 million housing package aimed at jumpstarting... Читать дальше...

Pope Francis appears to be in good form as he made his first parish visit outside the Vatican this year. He delivered his homily and heard confessions on Friday after a lingering bout of the flu sent him to the hospital for tests and forced him to cancel some appointments. Francis read his homily aloud in a strong voice with some occasional coughs. Previously, he asked an aide to deliver his remarks to spare him the strain. He is still having mobility problems and used a wheelchair rather than walk with a cane, even for a short distance.

Ariana Grande's seventh studio album, “eternal sunshine,” dropped on Friday. Turns out, her lead single, the '90s house-pop of “Yes, And?” was a bit of a red herring. She belts across the release. Her idiosyncratic vocal tone stretches across the funky, finger-snapping, shimmery disco of “Bye.” Then there’s her breathy falsetto on “Don’t Wanna Break Up” (a reminder that this is her first album since her divorce from real estate agent Dalton Gomez), and the wobbly ’00s R&B pop of “True Story,” like a long lost Destiny’s Child cut. Читать дальше...

The kidnapping of 287 grade school students by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria this week was only the latest in a slew of such raids since the infamous Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram a decade ago. Around 1500 students have been kidnapped in raids since 2014. The kidnappings take place in the country’s troubled northern region, where relentless violence by separatist Islamic militant organizations and by bandit groups with no particular ideology have crumbled communities and killed thousands of people. Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.” The term applies to a seemingly covert way for companies to raise prices by ever so slightly reducing the size of their products. There’s suddenly fewer pretzels in the bag, less toothpaste in the tube and shorter candy bars. Biden complained in his State of the Union address that people get charged the same but smaller Snickers bars. The president’s focus on shrinkflation is part of a broader strategy to reframe how voters think about the economy before the November election. Читать дальше...

Passengers had to be evacuated from a United Airlines plane after it rolled off a runway in Houston and ended up stuck in a grassy area. United Airlines says no injuries were reported among the 160 passengers and six crew members. Flight 2477 from Memphis, Tennessee, had landed at Bush Intercontinental Airport around 8 a.m. on Friday. The Houston Airport System says the Boeing 737 Max 8 was rolling to a terminal gate when it left the left the pavement. United said it will work with the National Transportation... Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A student from a rural Mexican teachers’ college where 43 youths disappeared in 2014 has died in a confrontation with police, officials said Friday.

GOP officials have voted to install Donald Trump’s handpicked chair of the Republican National Committee. Party members on Friday in Houston elected North Carolina Republican Michael Whatley as party chairman. Whatley is part of a leadership slate that will include the former president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair. The person running the party’s day-to-day operations will be Chris LaCivita, a top Trump aide who will also serve as RNC chief of staff. Trump and his lieutenants will have... Читать дальше...

At least one fertility clinic in Alabama has resumed in vitro fertilization treatments. News outlets report that Alabama Fertility Specialists performed several embryo transfers Thursday. Alabama Fertility was among three clinics that paused their services after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed in an accident at a storage facility could pursue wrongful death lawsuits for their “extrauterine children.” The ruling prompted state lawmakers... Читать дальше...

Fresh off his defiant State of the Union address, President Joe Biden and his senior aides will barnstorm the country starting Friday to aggressively sell his vision for a second term to voters. He's also warning of the Republican alternative. The president will try to ride the post-speech momentum to Pennsylvania and Georgia for campaign events. Those are two critical swing states that he flipped in 2020 and is rallying to retain in his column this November. He'll visit Wisconsin and Michigan next week. Читать дальше...

The U.S. government is suspending mail orders for free COVID-19 tests — at least for now. Friday is the last day residential households can request for free virus tests shipped through the United States Postal Service. According to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, a division of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, orders are set to close at 11:59 p.m. PT. Mail orders for free COVID tests from the government have been paused or expanded before. Despite Friday’s suspension... Читать дальше...

The New York Police Department has been taking a more active role in trying to influence public policy through slick online videos and social media posts. The nation's largest police department has in recent months also encouraged its chiefs to be more vocal on social media. It gives them a green light to publicly criticize judges, prosecutors or proposed laws they don't like. The strategic shift has brought criticism from some former police officials and civil liberties groups. They say the department’s... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were lower Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May fell 2.50 cents at $5.3125 a bushel; Mar. corn was off 3.50 cents at $4.2150 a bushel; May oats dropped 9.75 cents at $3.48 a bushel; while Mar. soybeans lost 6.50 cents at $11.4850 a bushel.

A seven-year investigation into the activities of a former Irish Republican Army double agent has revealed that the spy was probably responsible for more lives lost than saved during the so-called Troubles that wracked Northern Ireland for three decades. Operation Kenova, which was conducted by a police force just outside of London and cost around 40 million pounds, or $52 million, was tasked in 2016 to find out the truth of the British Army’s supposedly prized agent in the IRA, codenamed “Stakeknife.”... Читать дальше...