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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon responded to San Jose State University (SJSU) and the California State University (CSU) system after the institutions sued the federal government to challenge the findings of a federal Title IX investigation. SJSU and CSU announced their lawsuit Friday after the Department of Education determined SJSU violated Title IX in its handling of a transgender volleyball player from 2022-24. Now, McMahon is giving the institutions a deadline of 10 days to come to an agreement or risk federal funding cuts and a referral to the U.S. Department of Justice. “Protecting women’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A fraternity hazing ritual allegedly turned fatal in January when a college freshman was pushed to consume a lethal amount of alcohol — prompting arrests, a criminal review and the permanent shutdown of the chapter.Colin Daniel Martinez, 18, died Jan. 31 after attending a Delta Tau Delta “rush” event near Northern Arizona University, according to an autopsy report reviewed and obtained by Fox News Digital.The report determined Martinez’s cause of death was alcohol poisoning and that his blood-alcohol concentration was 0.425% — more than five times the legal driving limit and a…

MPs voted Wednesday to reject a bill that sought to close a loophole in Ottawa’s weapons export regime that allows Washington to send Canadian arms to countries that would otherwise be blocked. “We are living within a lie with our arms exports,” NDP MP Jenny Kwan said at a Tuesday press conference.Kwan tabled a private member’s bill last September following attempts by Washington to purchase Canadian weapons for Israel, despite a Canadian ban on exports of various types of weapons to that country.MPs rejected Bill C-233 in a vote on second reading on Wednesday, with 295 voting against it, and…

Reigning world high jump champion Nicola Olyslagers will headline a star-studded Australian athletics team at the world indoor championships in Poland on March 20-22.Olyslagers will be chasing a rare three-peat, having won the two previous global indoor titles in 2024 and 2025, in addition to a first outdoor world crown in Tokyo last year.Among her stiffest challengers will be countrywoman and 2022 world champ Eleanor Patterson, who also pocketed bronze at the Paris Olympics.The team for the world indoors in Kujawy Pomorze also includes 2024 Olympics silver medallist Jessica Hull (1500m) and Kurtis Marschall, who recently became only the fourth…

INVESTING IN PEOPLETwo phrases were paired throughout the report – investing in “physical things” and “people”.Lin described “investing in people” as “the counter-narrative to pure infrastructure spend”.It comes with a concrete new mechanism: the Urban and Rural Residents Income Growth Plan, first called for at December’s Central Economic Work Conference.HKU’s Wong traced the concept to the early years of Xi’s administration but said COVID and the first Trump trade war delayed its full articulation.“Investment in people, whilst having been an important principle for a decade, was only able to gain proper policy salience after China emerged from that double whammy,”…

Elon Musk is planning to launch a new payments platform, called XMoney, in beta form to select users in April.In announcing a planned partnership between XMoney and Visa more than a year ago, then X CEO Linda Yaccarino referred to the platform as a so-called “Everything App” — a reference to the kind of all-in-one digital products that combine messaging, social networking, shopping, payments and other services in a single app, such as China’s WeChat.In a brief post on social media Tuesday, Musk, also the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, didn’t specify when the first users will be offered early access to…

Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoThe attack that killed more than 170 people, mostly children, in an elementary school in southern Iran has prompted anger and calls for an investigation in the United States.But President Donald Trump has been giving contradicting answers about the incident over the past week. In early instances, he blamed Iran for the bombing. More recently, he has claimed that he does not know the details of the strike.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe New York Times reported on Wednesday that a preliminary Department of Defense investigation into the bombing found that the US military…

Outside groups are already spending more than $5 million in hopes of unseating GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a May primary after President Trump called for his defeat. So far, federal campaign finance records show that anti-Massie forces have dominated much of the outside spending picture in the Kentucky contest where the congressman is facing a pro-Trump challenge from Ed Gallrein, whose campaign website describes him as a farmer who has also served in the U.S. Navy. Spending disclosures show that a Super PAC linked to the Republican Jewish Coalition has directed more than $2.8 million towards the contest…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Viral video shows former President Bill Clinton appearing to nudge former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toward a busy New York City intersection crosswalk Tuesday, prompting her to pull back and protest as the couple attempted to cross the street.The Clintons were walking in New York City after attending an event and visiting their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, when the awkward encounter unfolded.Video showed the former president smiling as he pushed his wife into an adjoining crosswalk, in an apparent jaywalking attempt.Hillary Clinton pulled back and raised her hands in…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to vacation in both the United Kingdom and Italy during March break, according to two sources. The prime minister will not fly home with the Canadian delegation that is scheduled to come back to Canada from Carney’s trip to Yellowknife, Norway and London on March 16, instead staying in Europe to vacation.Sources tell Global News Carney will vacation in London and then head to Rome. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories. The House of…