By David Close and Nicole Chavez, CNN The NFL announced Monday it has created a diversity advisory committee to review its hiring policies and practices with a “focus on senior-level coach and front office personnel positions.” The committee was created “in light of ongoing concerns over a lack of diversity in hiring,” the league said.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Felisha Legette-Jack has been introduced the women’s basketball coach at Syracuse. Legette-Jack previously spent a decade as the coach at Buffalo. She was a star player for the Orange in the 1980s. Now she takes over a program that’s recovering from allegations that longtime coach Quentin Hillsman mistreated his players. Eleven
Continue Reading By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — The rebuilding Baltimore Orioles got a glimpse at their future over the final three innings of a 7-1 spring training loss to the Philadelphia Phillies Monday and it didn’t start well when D.L. Hall’s first pitch was high and inside and wound up hitting the backstop.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La muerte del baterista de Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins, conmocionó al mundo de la música este fin de semana: admiradores y músicos de todo el mundo quedaron conmovidos por la noticia de su fallecimiento a los 50 años. Las circunstancias de su muerte siguen siendo poco claras, pero esto es lo que
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration will offer Covid-19 vaccines to migrants taken into custody at the US-Mexico border, according to two sources familiar with the planning, and confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, as officials prepare for an influx of migrants. The plan, which had earlier been a source of tension at
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer The Duke-North Carolina rivalry has been filled with future NBA stars and intense finishes through nearly 100 meetings in Mike Krzyzewski’s Hall of Fame tenure with the Blue Devils. The teams are preparing to meet Saturday in the Final Four. That will mark the first meeting between the neighboring
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By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles and Whitney Wild, CNN Members of the House select committee investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol voiced their frustration with Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice on Monday, as they voted unanimously to recommend two former advisers to former President Donald Trump be referred
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By Clare Foran and Kasie Hunt, CNN Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah hasn’t yet made up his mind over how he will vote on President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as he undertakes an in-depth review of her record. “I’ll complete that analysis and then reach a decision, but I’ve not
Continue Reading By CHUCK KING Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Albert Pujols has returned to the St. Louis Cardinals, finding a home in the place where he became one of baseball’s most powerful sluggers. The 42-year-old Pujols says this is his final season. Pujols emerged from beyond the right field wall at the Cardinals’ spring training
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By CHUCK KING Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Albert Pujols has returned to the St. Louis Cardinals, finding a home in the place where he became one of baseball’s most powerful sluggers. The 42-year-old Pujols says this is his final season. Pujols emerged from beyond the right field wall at the Cardinals’ spring training
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Biden administration’s request for the NASA budget in 2023 is $26 billion, the largest request for science in the space agency’s history, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday. The figure is 8% more than the enacted federal spending levels, or the appropriation bill from fiscal year 2022, Nelson said. “Greater
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By The Associated Press Company founder Fred Smith is stepping down as CEO of FedEx in June. The company said Tuesday that Smith will become executive chairman. FedEx Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam will become CEO. Smith started FedEx in 1973, delivering small parcels and documents more quickly than the post office could. Over the
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Coach Josh McDaniels says the Las Vegas Raiders are trying to build around quarterback Derek Carr and are looking for the “sweet spot” in finding an acceptable contract extension that won’t hamper the franchise in the future. Carr is entering the final season of a $125 million, five-year
Continue ReadingBy Mia Villanueva Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — Washington County deputies arrested a gunman along Cornelius Pass Road after they say he fired as many as 100 shots from multiple guns. A man who was driving in the area says his box truck was hit by the gunfire
Continue ReadingBy Theresa Waldrop and Shawn Nottingham, CNN Firefighters are making progress against a wildfire at Fort Hood that has scorched about 33,206 acres, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. The Crittenberg Complex fire in Coryell County, about 120 miles south of Fort Worth, is made up of three fires that have burned together. It
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN By now it seems like everyone has seen or heard about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at Sunday’s Academy Awards after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith issued an apology to Rock on Monday, saying he “reacted emotionally” to the joke. “I would like to
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Heavy fog and precipitation from a snow squall caused a mass pileup Monday on a Pennsylvania highway and sent about 20 people to area hospitals, authorities said.
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and cool, breezy. Lows in the low 40s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy and windy. Wind gusts between 25-35 mph. Highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. EXTENDED: We’ll see patchy clouds into this evening with temperature remaining above freezing as winds shift back to the southeast. We’ll start Tuesday out in the
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The Philadelphia Flyers have signed prospect Noah Cates and are expected to insert him into their lineup right away. His college season ended over the weekend when Minnesota-Duluth was eliminated from the playoffs by Denver. Cates had three points in four games for the U.S. at the Beijing Olympics
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The Philadelphia Flyers have signed prospect Noah Cates and are expected to insert him into their lineup right away. His college season ended over the weekend when Minnesota-Duluth was eliminated from the playoffs by Denver. Cates had three points in four games for the U.S. at the Beijing Olympics
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