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Month: March 2024

March Madness as we know it could be on the way out amid seismic changes in college sports

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as keeping up during the first week of March Madness. Ultimately, those changes could impact what America’s favorite basketball tournament looks like in the future. News about athlete compensation, player unions and realignment dominate discussions. Everything in college sports

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UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023

By JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice. It warned that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate.

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Secretario de Defensa de EE.UU. asegura que el apoyo a Ucrania sigue firme incluso cuando la ayuda de seguridad sigue estancada en el Congreso

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Lloyd Austin, enfatizó el martes que Estados Unidos “no permitirá que Ucrania fracase”, mientras el Congreso continúa dilatando la aprobación de fondos claves para la ayuda a Ucrania. Hablando en Alemania durante la vigésima reunión del Grupo de Contacto de Defensa de

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A California city wrestles with its history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants

By TERRY TANG and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — Over the last two years, the quiet city of Antioch, California, has been wrestling with its long and complicated history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants during the gold rush. This includes fires that decimated the city’s Chinatown in the 1870s. Newspaper reports

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Armenia’s prime minister says quick border demarcation needed to avoid new conflict with Azerbaijan

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister says the Caucasus nation needs to quickly delimit the border with neighboring Azerbaijan to avoid a new round of hostilities. Last year, Azerbaijan waged a lightning military campaign to reclaim the Karabakh region, ending three decades of ethnic Armenian separatists’ rule there. The

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