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Month: February 2024

BYU Football Adds Returned Missionaries Signees To Program Wednesday

BYU Football Adds Returned Missionaries Signees To Program Wednesday

PROVO, Utah-Wednesday, National College Football Signing Day occurred. This represents the day recruits can sign their National Letters of Intent to play college football at institutions throughout the country. BYU released its list of returned missionaries signees Wednesday morning. They are as follows: tailback Jovesa Damuni Ridgeline High School-Providence, Utah […]

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Military helicopter with five Marines on board goes missing en route to California

Military helicopter with five Marines on board goes missing en route to California

Brais Seara/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — California search and rescue crews are looking for a missing helicopter with five Marines aboard, the U.S. Marine Corps said. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter was “reported overdue” to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Tuesday night. The helicopter departed from Creech Air Force Base […]

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US detects Russian aircraft flying in Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone

US detects Russian aircraft flying in Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone

luoman/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has detected and tracked four Russian military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday, according to a statement. “The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. […]

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DOE launches investigation into Harvard following Islamophobia, anti-Arab complaint

DOE launches investigation into Harvard following Islamophobia, anti-Arab complaint

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation Tuesday into Harvard University for possible discrimination after Arab and Muslim students filed a civil rights complaint against the university. More than 60 DOE investigations into K-12 schools, colleges and universities have been opened for alleged discrimination […]

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Philadelphia man exonerated after nearly 40 years in prison

Philadelphia man exonerated after nearly 40 years in prison

Harold Staten (right) with his son Harold DeBose (left) celebrate after Staten was exonerated from prison after nearly 40 years behind bars. (Pennsylvania Innocence Project) (PHILADELPHIA) — A man incarcerated for nearly 40 years was released from prison on Monday after a judge ruled his conviction be overturned. Harold Staten, […]

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Suspect in hostage incident at Florida bank shot and killed by SWAT sniper: Sheriff

Suspect in hostage incident at Florida bank shot and killed by SWAT sniper: Sheriff

Lee County Sheriff’s Office (FORT MYERS, Fla.) — A suspect in a hostage incident at a Florida bank was shot and killed by a SWAT sniper, authorities said. Two hostages were unharmed in what Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno called a “chaotic scene.” The incident unfolded at a Bank of […]

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What to know about NASA’s PACE mission set to launch Thursday after delay

What to know about NASA’s PACE mission set to launch Thursday after delay

NASA and SpaceX technicians safely encapsulate NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in Space’s Falcon 9 payload fairings on Jan. 30, 2024, at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Fla. (Katie Mellos/NASA Goddard) (NEW YORK) — While NASA is known for observing […]

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Dartmouth reinstates SAT/ACT scores, drawing attention to role of standardized tests

Dartmouth reinstates SAT/ACT scores, drawing attention to role of standardized tests

drflet/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dartmouth College announced on Monday it will reinstate the standardized testing requirement beginning with undergraduate applicants for the Class of 2029. Dartmouth is one of hundreds of colleges and universities that stopped requiring SAT or ACT scores amid the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in 2020. At […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 2/6/24

Scoreboard roundup — 2/6/24

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Phoenix 114, Milwaukee 106 Indiana 132, Houston 129 New York 123, Memphis 113 Miami 121, Orlando 95 Dallas 119, Brooklyn 107 Chicago 129, Minnesota 123 (OT) Utah 124, Oklahoma City 117 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Vegas […]

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Missing military helicopter found, search continues for five Marines on board

Missing military helicopter found, search continues for five Marines on board

Brais Seara/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A missing military helicopter was found in Southern California Wednesday morning, but a search and rescue operation continues for five missing Marines on board, the U.S. Marine Corps said. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter was “reported overdue” to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Tuesday […]

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