EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State women’s basketball players wiped away tears as they stood shoulder to shoulder during a moment of silence before losing to No. 8 Maryland 66-61 on Saturday, less than a week after three students were killed in a shooting on campus. “I’m really proud of us for just showing up,” … Read more
Eric Bieniemy’s next job won’t be a promotion to the top rung of coaching from the offensive coordinator job he held with the Kansas City Chiefs. The Washington Commanders announced Bieniemy as the team’s new assistant head coach and offensive coordinator on Sat. In Washington, Bieniemy will be charged with improving an offense that ranked … Read more
Laboratory technicians work on testing human COVID-19 samples at a laboratory in Shenyang, China, on Feb. 12, 2020. (AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The World Health Organization is denying a report made by a top scientific journal that it had “quietly shelved” an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. But that denial itself … Read more
Both Social Security and Medicare have financial problems. Any changes enacted by Congress will affect current retirees, people closing in on retirement — and younger workers. (Hannah Agosta/The New York Times) The unusual back and forth between President Joe Biden and Republican lawmakers on live television during the recent State of the Union address kicked … Read more
SALT LAKE CITY — The world is a circus around Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, even at the NBA All-Star Game media availability, where people should be used to having access to the globe’s greatest basketball players. Durant was asked if he were in a zombie apocalypse, which of his teammates would he bring with … Read more
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; Library of Congress Earlier this month, Shakespeare scholar Daniel Pollack-Pelzner received a substantial settlement in a whistleblower suit against his former employer, Linfield University. Given the Oregon private school’s notorious record on faculty speech, this is certainly a result worth … Read more
“The 360” shows you different perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates. What’s happening Rates of depression and suicidal thoughts among American teenagers increased dramatically between 2011 and 2021 — particularly among girls and children who do not identify as heterosexual — according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Read more
In his 18 years in Minnesota, the Rev. Runney Patterson Sr. has presided over funeral services for some 70 young Black men, most of them victims of street violence. Too often it’s a gunshot, a fatal flicker of light in the dark, but sometimes a stabbing, like the one that took a 15-year-old boy’s life … Read more
Roob’s Obs: NFL refuses to admit Super Bowl field conditions were deplorable originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia A laughable statement from the NFL, an unbelievable Jalen Hurts stat and Cam Jurgens’ future. This is our first official edition of Roob’s 10 Random Eagles Offseason Observations. Only a couple dozen more of these and it’ll … Read more
A palette of human emotions coming and going from his face, Alex Murdaugh has sat at the defense table for 20 days, multiple members of his grieving and troubled family sitting behind him – but perhaps not in support. At times, Murdaugh, once a prominent attorney from a family chock full of lawyers and public … Read more