ORLANDO – Players must be assigned female at birth or have transitioned to female before going through male puberty to compete in LPGA tournaments or the eight USGA championships for females under new gender policies published Wednesday. The policies, which begin in 2025, follow more than a year of study...
SEC and Big Ten Powers Lead on Signing Day as Prospects Finalize College Selections
ATLANTA - The arrival of the early signing period Wednesday offered a stark reminder for college football fans. If recruiting rankings offer any accurate gauge in the era of the transfer portal, those teams competing for College Football Playoff berths now should keep contending for years to come. Texas, Georgia,...
RFK Jr Asks Fresno Raw Milk Dairyman to Apply for FDA Advisory Role
The owner of Raw Farms in Fresno says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants him to apply for a role in the Food & Drug Administration to create standards for getting raw milk safely on the shelves. Kennedy and his vice presidential running mate in the November election, Nicole Shanahan, are...
Mexico President Will Ask Trump to Deport Non-Mexican Migrants Directly to Their Home Countries
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president said Thursday she will ask President-elect Donald Trump to deport non-Mexican migrants directly to their home countries, rather than dumping them at the Mexican border. President Claudia Sheinbaum said she hopes to reach an agreement with Trump so that "they send people who come from...
GivingTuesday Estimates $3.6B Was Donated This Year, an Increase From 2023
NEW YORK — U.S. donors gave $3.6 billion on Tuesday, an increase from the past two years, according to estimates from the nonprofit GivingTuesday. The Tuesday after Thanksgiving, now known as GivingTuesday, has become a major day for nonprofits to fundraise and otherwise engage their supporters each year, since the...
Earthquake Strikes off California; Tsunami Warning Issued
Update on Dec. 5, 2024 at 12:05 p.m. The US National Weather Service in Eureka said on social media, "The National Tsunami Warning Center has indicated that NO TSUNAMI has been generated by this earthquake. Repeat: NO TSUNAMI is expected. This will be the final notification from NWS Eureka for...
ICE Looks for a New Detention Center in California. State Probably Can’t Stop It.
Federal immigration authorities are looking for a potential new detention center in Northern California, an effort that alarms advocates and some Democratic state lawmakers as President-elect Donald Trump gears up to unleash his mass deportation plan. In August, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a request for information to...
Trump Has ‘Lost Faith’ in NRA, Says Gun Group Official
President-elect Donald Trump has “lost faith” in the National Rifle Association, according to a top official at the gun organization, who argued in a recent letter to fellow board members that the NRA needed to regroup so that it could help protect the Republican Party’s new edge in Congress in...
Digging Resumes in the Search for a Woman in a Pennsylvania Sinkhole
Digging crews resumed work early Thursday in the effort to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine. Fewer than a dozen searchers, including state police and excavator operators, have returned to the spot where 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard is thought...
Jeff Bezos Says He Is ‘Optimistic’ About a New Trump Term and Can Help With Cutting Regulations
NEW YORK — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Wednesday he is "optimistic" about President-elect Donald Trump's second term and expressed some excitement about potential regulatory cutbacks in the coming years. "I'm actually very optimistic this time around," Bezos said on stage during a wide-ranging interview at The New York Times'...