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Some sun this morning with increasing clouds this afternoon. High 53F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph..
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Updated: November 17, 2024 @ 10:57 am
FILE – People walk around Oxford University’s campus on Sept. 3, 2017, in Oxford, England.
FILE – People walk around Oxford University’s campus on Sept. 3, 2017, in Oxford, England.
A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year among an international class representing more than 70 nations, scholarship officials announced.
Nearly 3,000 U.S. students began the application process for the scholarship covering all expenses at the storied university in Oxford, England, to pursue graduate degrees beginning in October 2025, the Office of the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust in McLean, Virginia, said in a statement early Sunday.
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Olympic and world champion Christopher Grotheer of Germany, followed by British teammates Marcus Wyatt and Matt Weston, took the top three places in a World Cup men’s skeleton race on Sunday. It was exact same order as the result of Saturday’s season-opening race on the 2018 Olympic track. Grotheer won a World Cup race for the eighth time in his career. In Sunday’s women’s race, Freya Tarbit of Britain got the first win of her World Cup career. Olympic champion Hannah Niese of Germany was second and Janine Flock of Austria was third.
Today in Sports, November 18 – Antwaan Randle El becomes 2nd player in NCAA DI history to rush & pass for 200 pts
The leaders of Nigeria and India have pledged stronger ties in maritime security and counterterrorism during Prime Minister Narendra Modi first visit to Nigeria. He was hosted Sunday by President Bola Tinubu in capital Abuja, where both spoke of a new chapter in their strategic partnerships in the areas of defense, energy, technology, trade and development. Nigeria is India’s largest trading partner in Africa with total bilateral trade between estimated at $14.9 billion in 2022.
Bangladesh’s interim leader and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus says his administration will seek the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, where has been in exile since fleeing a mass uprising in August. In a televised address to the nation on his first 100 days in office, Yunus said Sunday that the interim government will try those responsible including Hasina for hundreds of deaths during the student-led uprising that ended her 15-year rule. He said that once electoral reforms are completed, he would unveil a roadmap for a new election to hand over power to an elected government.
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Slovakia has followed up its win over the United States with a 2-0 victory over Australia to reach the semifinals of the Billie Jean King Cup finals. Rebecca Sramkova cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 win over Ajla Tomljanovic to clinch Slovakia the victory after Viktoria Hruncakova rallied to defeat Kimberly Birrell 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-3 for her sixth straight BJK Cup win counting singles and doubles. Slovakia had beaten the U.S. in the first round of the finals in Malaga. Iga Swiatek’s Poland will face 11-time champions Czech Republic in the other semifinal. Defending champion Canada faces Great Britain in the other quarterfinal on Sunday.
Tropical Storm Sara is nearing landfall in Belize, where forecasters expect heavy rain to cause life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides. The storm’s center was expected to make landfall in Belize late Sunday morning or around midday, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. Earlier, the storm drenched the northern coast of Honduras, where it stalled since Friday, swelling rivers and trapping some people at home. The Hurricane Center’s tropical storm warning includes portions of Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico’s state of Quintana Roo. The storm could drop up to 10 inches of rain across the area, with localized totals reaching 15 inches, through early next week.
Prominent Russian opposition figures are leading a march of more than 1,000 people in central Berlin. They are criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine and calling for democracy in Russia. Behind a banner that reads “No Putin No War,” the protesters are being led by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of top Putin critic Alexei Navalny, as well as Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who were freed from Russian detention in a high-profile prisoner exchange this summer.
The WNBA has wrapped up a historic season that notched all-time viewership and attendance records while racking up brand deals and corporate sponsorships for its players along the way. But for all those enjoying their newfound riches, there are still some players who are being left out, specifically Black LGBTQ+ women who express their gender in a more masculine way. The WNBA recently partnered with Kim Kardashian’s underwear brand SKIMS, which featured women of color as well as LGBTQ+ players. But the company received pushback for excluding masculine-presenting athletes in its May campaign. That allowed Latina and LGBTQ+-owned women’s boxer brand Woxer to fill in the gap by featuring Phoenix Mercury’s Natasha Cloud and Dallas Wings’ Natasha Howard in its own ad campaign.
Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election. But their party succeeded with significant state down-ballot victories that builds them hope for the next cycle. Donald Trump narrowly won North Carolina’s electoral votes for the third consecutive election. But Democratic candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general won, and legislative candidates appear to have secured enough victories to end the GOP’s veto-proof majority. State Republican leaders say their party is still doing well. They point to winning five statewide executive branch posts, retaining General Assembly control and continuing recent dominance in statewide appellate court races.
Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence is facing scrutiny over her past remarks that supported Kremlin propaganda about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Tulsi Gabbard has criticized U.S. support for Ukraine and expressed sympathy for Russia’s antagonistic view toward NATO. She also made a secret trip in 2017 to visit Syrian President Bashar Assad, who’s been accused of war crimes and being a Russian proxy. Gabbard is a military veteran and a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who later left her party and became a key Trump surrogate. If confirmed, she would lead the office tasked with coordinating U.S. spy services and advising the president on intelligence matters.
The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching the historic levels of the 2020 contest. Conventional political wisdom was that Republicans struggle to win races in which many people vote. According to Associated Press elections data, more than 152 million ballots were cast in this year’s race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with hundreds of thousands of more still being tallied in slower-counting states such as California. When those are fully tabulated, the number of votes will come even closer to the 158 million cast in 2020, which set records as the highest turnout election since women were given the right to vote more than a century ago.
A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic has sold at auction for nearly $2 million. The 18-carat Tiffany watch was given by three women survivors to Capt. Arthur Rostron for diverting his passenger ship, the RMS Carpathia, to save them and others after the ship struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. Auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son, who sold the watch to a private U.S. collector on Saturday, said it’s the most paid for a piece of Titanic memorabilia. The watch was a gift from the widows of wealthy businessmen who died in the shipwreck.
A Hezbollah official says an Israeli strike in central Beirut has killed the militant group’s main spokesman.
Rory McIlroy has capped off a tumultuous year with another win in Dubai and another title as Europe’s No. 1 player. McIlroy was in a tight battle with Rasmus Hojgaard in the World Tour Championship. They were tied for the lead until McIlroy hit wedge to a foot on the 16th hole for birdie. Hojgaard failed to make birdie over the last 11 holes. McIlroy shot 69 when he birdied the last. This is his sixth Race to Dubai title. That leaves him two behind Colin Montgomerie in European tour points title, and ties him with Seve Ballesteros.
The defense ministers from the U.S., Japan and Australia have agreed to step up military cooperation and expressed concern about a spate of confrontations with China’s increasingly assertive military. Australia’s Defense Minister Richard Marles hosted his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Lloyd Austin and Nakatani Gen for talks Sunday in Darwin. The ministers announced trilateral amphibious training between Australia, Japan and the U.S. Marine rotational force in northern Australia from 2025. Australia will also join an exercise in Japan for the first time next year.
The U.S. antitrust watchdogs that pounced on Big Tech and deterred dealmaking throughout corporate America during President Joe Biden’s administration may be tamer and kept on a shorter leash by President-elect Donald Trump after he returns to the White House next year. Although regulators began to crack down on Google and Facebook during Trump’s first term as president, most experts are expecting his second administration to ease the Biden-era crackdown that resulted in additional cases targeting Apple and Amazon as abusive monopolies. And the Trump administration is expected to clear be more receptive to big businesses becoming bigger after the hypervigilance of Biden’s antitrust team squelched many deals from getting done.
Cuba is hemorrhaging people as the economy falters. Now, the country is coming under fresh political pressure as one of the government’s archrivals is poised to start calling foreign-policy shots in Washington.
LOS ANGELES — It’s a scene that’s become routine with big blazes in the West. A plane dips low over a smoldering ridgetop and unleashes a ribbon of fire retardant, coating the hillside a bright pink. Onlookers cheer the display of firefighting prowess.
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide. That’s according to excerpts from a new book, “Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world” by Hernán Reyes Alcaide and based on interviews with the pope. The book will be published on Tuesday ahead of the pope’s 2025 jubilee. Francis had editorial control over the book. He said in excerpts published by Italian daily La Stampa on Sunday that some experts say “what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide” but that we “should investigate carefully to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.”
Olympic champion Clement Noel has posted the fastest time in the opening run of the first men’s World Cup slalom of the season. Record eight-time overall champion Marcel Hirscher failed to qualify for the second run. Noel overcame what looked like a costly mistake when he had to brake in the steep middle section of the Levi Black course and edged out Swiss allrounder Loic Meillard by 0.02 seconds. Noel’s French teammate Steven Amiez was 0.21 behind in third. Hirscher finished 2.59 off the lead and outside the top 30 in his first slalom race in 2,072 days.
ATLANTA — Georgia Tech retired Dennis Scott’s No. 4 jersey on Friday night at McCamish Pavilion. He played for the Yellow Jackets back when they were a national power with coach Bobby Cremins. They’ve never reached the same heights. Arch-rival Georgia came town and showed that Tech still has…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Grant Hill, the former Orlando Magic star and one of our city’s resident sports icons, started going to Orlando Pride games six or seven years ago because he wanted his daughter and her friends to have athletic role models who they could up look to, emulate and aspire to be someday.
DALLAS — “What celebrities are here?” asks a young man breathlessly as a woman at the gate of AT&T Stadium scans his ticket.
INDIANAPOLIS — Veteran Heat big man Kevin Love could see this coming, this dominant start by the Cleveland Cavaliers, because he was part of how it came together — the part that required patience, perspective and pain,
SEATTLE — The story of Friday night should be the number 6, but No. 2 stole the spotlight.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — At the time, the moment seemed unremarkable. A ground ball to Taylor Walls. An underhand flip to Jose Caballero to force Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. at second base. A completed 4-3 Rays victory in their final home game of a frustrating 2024 season.
PHILADELPHIA — Jayson Werth hopped up and down, screamed, hugged his family, and, finally, cried as his long-shot horse won the Belmont Stakes. Dornoch, the first colt purchased by the former Phillies outfielder, was an afterthought in June after a poor showing at the Kentucky Derby.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The 2024 hurricane season has hurled one storm after another, with some of those storms turning deadly.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff is a darling of the Democrats, a fighter and political veteran accustomed to the limelight on Sunday talk shows and on the House floor.
A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year among an international class representing more than 70 nations. The American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust said in an announcment early Sunday that the 32 recipients from 19 states and the District of Columbia represent 20 U.S. colleges and universities. The scholarship will cover all expenses at the storied university in Oxford, England, beginning in October 2025. Scholars will pursue graduate degrees in subjects ranging from social sciences and humanities to biological and physical sciences.
The Nashville Predators aim to end a three-game slide with a win against the Vancouver Canucks.
The Seattle Kraken play the New York Rangers with a four win streak on the line.
The Montreal Canadiens and the Edmonton Oilers hit the ice in a non-conference matchup.
The Philadelphia Flyers come into a matchup with the Colorado Avalanche as winners of three straight games.
The Boston Bruins host the Columbus Blue Jackets after Trent Frederic’s two-goal game against the St. Louis Blues in the Bruins’ 3-2 overtime loss.
The Dallas Stars host the Anaheim Ducks after Mason Marchment’s two-goal game against the Minnesota Wild in the Stars’ 2-1 win.
The St. Louis Blues visit the Carolina Hurricanes after the Blues knocked off the Boston Bruins 3-2 in overtime.
The San Jose Sharks look to break their three-game slide when they play the Detroit Red Wings.
In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee’s clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there’s not a single clinic that provides abortions. And until recently, Marsee herself wasn’t trained to treat patients who wanted to end a pregnancy.
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