The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said. UC first announced the new policy on April 1, 2020, for incoming freshman in fall of 2021, and in May of 2020 the regents board extended the policy
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(CNN Business) — En la mañana del 17 de abril, dos hermanos en Westchester, Nueva York, se despertaron para enterarse de que se habían convertido en millonarios de la noche a la mañana, gracias a una apuesta poco probable por una criptomoneda que se creó originalmente como una broma. Tommy, de 38 años, y James, de
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Rombauer, trained by Michael McCarthy and ridden by jockey Flavien Prat, won the 146th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The horse put on a strong finish, passing Midnight Bourbon and Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit down the stretch, to comfortably win the race. The victory at the Preakness Stakes is
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EL PASO, Texas — A person was seriously injured in a stabbing attack late Saturday afternoon in El Paso’s Lower Valley. It happened at a mobile home court located at 602 Lafayette Drive about 4:15 p.m. Authorities indicated the victim was stabbed three or four times and taken to the hospital in serious condition. There
Continue Reading A Union Pacific train derailed Saturday afternoon in Albert Lea, Minnesota, according to local authorities. No injuries have been reported among the crew, according to the rail operator. The 50-car train was traveling by Goose Lake when the accident happened, per the Albert Lea Police Department, about 10 miles north of the state border with
Continue Reading (CNN) — Las imágenes captadas por dos telescopios diferentes muestran a Júpiter, el mayor planeta de nuestro sistema solar, bajo una nueva luz. El telescopio Gemini North, en Hawai, y el telescopio espacial Hubble captaron a Júpiter en luz visible, infrarroja y ultravioleta, revelando con detalle sorprendentes características atmosféricas del gigante gaseoso. Entre ellas se
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El Paso, Texas– The ABC-7 StormTrack weather team has issued an ABC-7 First Alert for the potential of strong winds and blowing dust and sand due to storms developing around us. Gusts of up to 50 mph were recorded on our ABC-7 wind tracker. A slight chance for showers will remain in our forecast for
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President Joe Biden was at the wooded Camp David retreat in Maryland when he first heard Colonial Pipeline had been hacked. Briefed in one of the mountainside lodges by senior advisers and aides from the National Security Council, Biden quickly realized the incident — and subsequent shutdown of the company’s pipeline supplying fuel to the
Continue Reading BALTIMORE, Maryland — Rombauer has crossed the finish line first in the Preakness Stakes. That denied trainer Bob Baffert’s Kentucky Derby-winning Medina Spirit of a Triple crown bid that would have carried a giant asterisk. Medina Spirit finished third in the Preakness after going off as the 5-2 favorite. Midnight Bourbon was second. Jockey Flavien
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Damon Weaver, who as a child landed an interview with President Barack Obama in 2009, has died at the age of 23, according to a medical examiner. At age 11, Weaver was selected to meet and interview President Obama at the White House to ask questions primarily about education. Weaver died on May 1, according
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From gravity-defying dunks and in-air acrobatics to an unquenchable thirst for dominance and an overt disdain for anything shy of excellence, Kobe Bryant spent much of his life following in the footsteps left by Michael Jordan’s iconic Nike sneakers. This weekend that path winds its way into New England, where Jordan will once more show
Continue Reading A large loggerhead sea turtle was killed when she wandered onto a busy Florida highway while looking for a spot to lay her eggs. But researchers rescued 70 of her eggs intact and buried them in hopes they will hatch normally. The turtle was struck by at least one vehicle early Wednesday morning on State
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The US has condemned Eritrea and Ethiopia for coordinating their troops to close off a key aid route to Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, following an exclusive CNN investigation published earlier this week that found that Eritrean soldiers were blocking critical humanitarian aid to starving and wounded civilians. In a statement on Saturday, US Secretary of
Continue Reading A 50-car train derailed Saturday afternoon in Albert Lea, Minnesota, according to local authorities. The accident happened by Goose Lake, per the Albert Lea Police Department, about 10 miles north of the state border with Iowa. Albert Lea is about 100 miles south of Minneapolis. It was not immediately clear how many cars left the
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Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — As India continues to attempt to contain a massive outbreak of COVID-19 that has killed more than 266,000 people, a prominent nine-year-old climate activist is taking matters into her own hands and using her online influence to save lives. In the last few
Continue Reading A newly released government report on domestic violent extremism warns lone wolf attackers with easily accessible weapons present the greatest terrorism threat to the US and the number of people dying at the hands of racially motivated extremists every year is on the rise since 2017. The joint report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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El Paso, Texas — The Mija Project is excited to help deserving women and girls in the El Paso and Las Cruces area achieve their education and career goals by awarding six different scholarships through their first scholarship program “Mija, Power up!” Last month Mija, Yes You Can ® along with other nonprofit organizations in
Continue Reading An orphaned black bear cub that was suffering from injuries received during Colorado’s biggest wildfire is running free in the Rockies after wildlife officials spent nearly five months nursing him back to health. The yearling bear was released into the wild on May 5 in the mountains in Larimer County near Fort Collins, according to
Continue Reading Leicester City won the FA Cup for the first time thanks to a sensational strike from Youri Tielemans as a dramatic, late video assistant referee decision denied Chelsea an equalizer at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. It looked like Chelsea had leveled the scores with minutes left to play when Ben Chilwell’s cross bounced off defender
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EL PASO, Texas — The University of Texas at El Paso celebrated the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021 during it’s in-person commencement ceremony on Friday. It’s the first commencement ceremony UTEP is holding after it had to cancel ceremonies because of the pandemic. “Last year, we had a virtual ceremony and it
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It’s true: “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon” is ending after a seven year run. But he’s not going far — the show is just changing its name. Beginning Monday at 10 pm ET, the two-hour program will be called “Don Lemon Tonight.” The anchorman triggered a frenzy late Friday after he said something cryptic about
Continue Reading Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates bemoaned House Republicans’ decision to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership post for challenging former President Donald Trump’s lie that he won the 2020 presidential election, saying she never thought she’d cheer on the GOP congresswoman “for simply telling the truth.” “I never thought that I’d be saying,
Continue Reading The top Republican in the House of Representatives said he doesn’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election — even as many Republicans continued to publicly question the legitimacy of the presidential election. A prominent Republican senator claimed that Democrats wrote a bill to register millions of undocumented immigrants to vote —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PRICHARD, Alabama (WALA) — Friday was a gorgeous day, perfect for youth sports or just hanging out in the park. Just one problem in Prichard – they’re all closed. Even as other cities long ago reopened their parks and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has lifted all COVID-19 restrictions,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — After 15 months worth of sacrifice and changes because of COVID-19, soon glaring signs of the pandemic, like roped off pews and masks, will be stripped away from many Catholic churches across South Alabama. Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi addressed priests of the Archdiocese of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAPHNE, Alabama (WALA) — The Daphne Police Department says a woman wanted after a knife and machete attack several days ago has turned herself in, but her son is also wanted and remains at large. Police say 36-year-old Tamekia Williams turned herself in but refuses to say anything
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Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) pro wrestler Jerome “New Jack” Young has died at 58, his wife, Jennifer Young, confirmed on Facebook. The wrestler joined ECW in the mid-90s and was featured in the 1999 documentary “Beyond the Mat,” according to the entertainment data website IMDB. The wrestling website PWInsider.com, who spoke to the wrestler’s wife,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — A businessman has been sentenced for dumping nearly 48 million gallons of untreated landfill wastewater into the Flint sewer system. Robert Massey, the president and owner of Oil Chem Inc., located at W. 12th Street, was charged with violating the clean water act. He’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — With spring here, lots of people have been doing some sprucing up in their yard but as with many things during this pandemic, COVID-19 has now affected yard waste pick-up too. “This is just something this experience that we work on our way through,”
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Quizás el nombre Blessd para Latinoamérica aún no sea de dominio público, pero para Medellín sí lo es. El rapero colombiano, quien orgullosamente usa el eslogan «Hecho en Medellín» como parte de su nombre artístico, es parte de la nueva camada de artistas del género urbano más prometedores de su país. Lo dicen
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