- All 30 MLB teams will expand netting to protect fans from foul balls
The move from MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred comes after growing concerns about spectators being injured, and in some cases dying, from the fouls.
read more ...2 hours ago - U.S. director is one of Laos’ first female filmmakers bringing horror to screen
Laos had essentially no film industry to speak of, but Mattie Do is diving right in.
read more ...5 hours ago - Ex-Credit Suisse exec says she was fired and harassed when she wouldn’t bend accounting rules
Colleen Graham, a 20-year employee, alleges the bank wanted her to mislead auditors to avoid multimillion-dollar losses for itself and data firm Palantir.
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3 expert tips to avoid sabotaging your financial goals.
read more ...8 hours ago - Congress finalizes bill restoring funding to black colleges
"We are sending an important message of support for our HBCUs and showing in no uncertain terms that we believe they are vital to our system of higher education.”
read more ...9 hours ago - Trump’s new NAFTA got better because of Democrats. But they must keep pushing.
If the final USMCA is as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described, she won a good deal for workers. It's about time Democrats did so in a trade agreement.
read more ...9 hours ago - University of Phoenix to cancel $141 million in student debt
The deal, announced Tuesday, settles a dispute over an ad campaign the for-profit college launched in 2012.
read more ...9 hours ago - University of Montana council urges removal of swastika-like symbol
The tiles show a mirror-image swastika called an aristika designed within Corbin Hall in the 1920s when swastikas were not yet adopted as a symbol by the Nazis.
read more ...9 hours ago - Venezuela will be 2020’s worst — and most underfunded — refugee crisis
The international community spent $7.4 billion on refugee efforts in the first 4 years of the Syrian crisis versus $580 million for Venezuelan refugees.
read more ...10 hours ago - Polygamy, ‘Roma’ among U.S. Spanish speakers’ top 2019 Google searches
"We often go to Google to look up the things we are curious about and the things we don’t dare to ask our friends,” Jesús Garcia of Google said about some search terms.
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