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Month: February 2024

Fisk University made history as the first HBCU gymnastics team. But the sport still struggles with diversity, gymnasts say.

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Naimah Muhammad was first introduced to gymnastics at the age of nine when her parents signed her up for a community gym in Rochester, New York. Muhammad said she became passionate about the sport, competing locally and statewide with other gymnasts. But over the years, Muhammad said one thing consistently

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GOP candidates elevate anti-transgender messaging as a rallying call to Christian conservatives

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of people in one of South Carolina’s most conservative counties roared when Donald Trump promised to cut federal funding on “Day 1” for schools pushing what he called “transgender insanity” onto children. “And I can’t even believe I have to say it, but

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Turkey detains company director as part of inquiry into gold mine landslide that left 9 missing

Istanbul (AP) — Authorities in Turkey have detained the director of the company managing a gold mine where a massive landslide in the country’s east left nine workers missing. A huge landslide engulfed Tuesday the Anagold Madencilik company’s Copler mine in the town of Ilic in Turkey’s mountainous Erzincan province, trapping the workers under tons

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Jordan kills 5 drug smugglers on the Syrian border. The area is known for an addictive amphetamine.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The Jordanian military says its forces have killed five smugglers who allegedly tried to bring drugs into the country from neighboring Syria. It said four other suspected smugglers were wounded and “large quantities of drugs” were seized in Sunday’s incident. It vowed to “strike with an iron fist” anyone who threatens

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El Salvador: Tribunal Supremo Electoral emite notificación sobre Acta de Escrutinio Final de las elecciones presidenciales

Sofía Barruti (CNN En Español) — El Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) de El Salvador ratificó este sábado la victoria de Nayib Bukele, del partido oficialista Nuevas Ideas (NI), en las elecciones presidenciales del 4 de febrero en las que el actual presidente obtuvo un 84,6 % de los votos. Nayib Bukele saluda a simpatizantes junto

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Republican opponent of US aid to Ukraine brings his case to an international conference

MUNICH (AP) — A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine argued at an international security conference Sunday that the package stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and others have advocated

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