The American women’s cycling team Cynisca was punished by the sport’s governing body Monday for trying to enter an international race by deceiving organizers. The International Cycling Union said in a news release that a team official told a mechanic “to wear a rider’s clothes and a face mask” and pretend to be feeling ill […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley suffered another big loss in her home state’s primary on Saturday. After losing to “none of the above” in the Nevada primary, Haley finished a distant second behind front-runner former President Donald Trump in the South Carolina GOP contest, capturing just 39.5 percent of the vote compared to Trump’s […]
Opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice voting system say that they have managed to gather enough signatures for a ballot proposition that would end the system. The website AlaskansForHonestElections.com claimed that 150 percent of the required number of signatures was submitted. According to Ballotpedia, opponents of the current system, which features open primaries and a ranked […]
Adding injury on top of insult, one of Duke University’s star basketball players was hurt Saturday after unranked Wake Forest beat eighth-ranked Duke 83-79. Kyle Filipowski collided with a fan when the Wake Forest home crowd stormed the court after the game in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, according to CBS Sports. Video of the incident showed […]
Hundreds of names have been removed from the voter rolls in two Arizona counties and some of these illegal voters had actually cast ballots in past elections. In the latest purge of illegal voters, both Pima and Maricopa counties in Arizona have eliminated hundreds of names of people who are ineligible to vote because they […]
Miami’s Jimmy Butler and New Orleans’ Naji Marshall have been suspended for one game apiece for instigating an on-court altercation, the NBA announced Sunday. The incident happened during the Heat-Pelicans game Friday night. Miami’s Thomas Bryant and New Orleans’ Jose Alvarado were both handed three-game suspensions for fighting and leaving the bench area. Miami’s Nikola […]
A massive fire broke out Saturday at a cattle auction facility in Rock Island, Illinois. The fire broke out at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, according to WHBF-TV. The station reported that it is not expected that anything in the complex will be salvageable, The report said fire crews from multiple communities were summoned to […]
Major film flops have Warner Bros. seeing the color red. The company’s shares sank after a quarterly earnings report Friday came in lower than projections, according to the New York Post. With two recent releases proving box office film disappointments, maybe the company — and Hollywood overall — ought to ask itself why Americans aren’t […]
The route that took illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra from Venezuela to Georgia, where he has been arrested in connection with the murder of student Laken Riley, went through New York City, according to the suspect’s wife. Layling Franco, 23, also of Venezuela, told the New York Post she and Ibarra were put on a […]
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Saturday that regardless of the pounding she took at the polls in her home state, she is not giving up. With 95 percent of the votes counted, former President Donald Trump easily won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary with 59.8 percent of the vote. Haley, a former governor […]
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