Last year, the Pac-12 was the league filled with uncertainty, which caused instability and, eventually, its collapse. The ACC isn’t in quite the same place, but no other conference is quite the powder keg as this league heading into the school year.For one, both Florida State and Clemson have filed various lawsuits challenging the ACC”s Grant of Rights documents that is binding the members right now. In short, the ACC’s Grant of Rights creates an extremely punitive penalty if any member wants to leave for another conference, and essentially ties the members until 2036. The bigger brand schools like Florida…
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Kabul, Afghanistan – In an apartment near a Taliban headquarters, a young woman is discreetly moving about. Breshna* is 24 years old. Today, as on every day for the past year, her hands are sweaty and shaking. Yet her movements must be meticulous. She’s cutting the hair of one of her clients. “In a week, my niece is getting married. It’s a big moment. You have to do your best,” says the customer, a woman in her 50s. Comb in one hand, scissors in the other, Breshna concentrates. She has repeated these movements hundreds of times. Hair is her speciality,…
Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 14, 2024 in New York City. Stocks rallied on Thursday as investors regained confidence in the economy following encouraging consumer and labor data that helped ease recession worries. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped 554 points, or 1.39%, to end the day at 40,563.06. The S&P 500 closed up 1.61% at 5,543.22, for its sixth straight gain. The broad market index has advanced roughly 8% from its intraday bottom on Aug. 5. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.34% to 17,594.50. Retail sales increased…
Africa has been through painful bouts of austerity before, with damaging effects on health and education. The IMF examined 82 instances of African governments reducing deficits between 1980 and 2021. About a quarter of the adjustments came from tax rises, and three-quarters from spending cuts. But this time governments plan to have an even split. A greater emphasis on tax rises comes partly at the urging of the IMF, which reckons that in Africa they are less harmful to growth (in rich countries, it thinks the opposite). There are plenty of things that could be taxed more: property in booming…
Gifted singer-songwriter Soundz has taken his hit single, Attention, to a new level with a 2.0 (a remix) featuring the talented British-Nigerian singer Gabzy. The collaboration is a match made in heaven, combining the amazing talents of both artists to create an enjoyable track.Attention originally gained significant traction following its release on Soundz’s debut EP, In the Rough. The song’s catchy melody and lovable lyrics quickly captured the hearts of listeners, becoming one of the viral songs released in 2022.The remix with Gabzy adds a fresh dimension to the song, with both artists complementing each other’s styles seamlessly. Gabzy’s smooth…
The title fight atop UFC 305 is given all the headlines for the event, but heavyweights Tai Tuivasa and Jairzinho Rozenstruik are looking to steal the show. As two heavy-handed strikers who both average fewer than nine minutes per fight in the UFC, Tuivasa and Rozenstruik were always expected to have one of the most exciting brawls of the night. At the UFC 305 pre-fight news conference, the two confirmed that would be the case when prompted by a reporter.The reporter asked Rozenstruik if he planned to “stand until someone falls” with Tuivasa, which the heavyweight began to answer before…
At least two countries outside of Africa have reported mpox cases after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the virus had become a “public health emergency” earlier this week. A relatively new strain of the virus known as clade 1 has been spreading in African countries since 2022. Earlier this year, it was reported that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was experiencing the biggest outbreak of the disease ever recorded, with tens of thousands of people infected as of June. The government of DRC had declared it an epidemic in December 2022. Last week, the Africa CDC reported…
The NYPD is searching for a 14-year-old suspect following a stabbing early Thursday on a subway train in midtown Manhattan sending two victims to the hospital, police said. The attack happened on a southbound ‘Q’ train at the 42nd Street-Times Square station around 6:54 a.m. Thursday, according to the NYPD. Police said a 24-year-old man was stabbed in his left hand and a male teenager was stabbed in the torso. Both victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Officers are looking for a 14-year-old male suspect who left the scene wearing an all-black shirt and pants. Police said…
CASTRIES, St Lucia – The 2022 Population and Housing Census marks a significant milestone in the Central Statistical Office’s (CSO) ongoing statistical activities in unraveling the demographic, social, and economic dynamics of our small island developing state (SID). Conducting a population and housing census (PHC) is a comprehensive, complex, and costly statistical undertaking to provide a snapshot of a country’s population distribution at a specific point in time. Census data serves as a benchmark for a country’s demographic statistics, from the national level down to the smallest statistical geographical unit, the “enumeration block” (EB). The 2022 census was the first…
Chelsea Football Club have confirmed the exit of its winger, Diego Moriera, to RB Strasbourg on a permanent deal just a few months after he joined the London club.The news of his departure was confirmed on the official website of Chelsea on Friday, August 16, 2024. According to reports from Stamford Bridge, Diego Moriera has been sold permanently with no option of returning.Moriera joined Chelsea during the 2023 summer transfer window, but he failed to break into the club’s first team under Mauricio Pochettino. However, he had the privilege of playing one game for Chelsea, which was the Carabao Cup…