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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will debate on Tuesday. Win McNamee/Getty Images Kamala Harris spent nearly the entire hour and 45 minutes of their first, and likely only, debate Tuesday night taunting Donald Trump, and the former president embraced it all. The vice president had meticulously prepared for the debate, sprinkling nearly every answer with comments designed to infuriate the former president. Trump was often out of control. He loudly and repeatedly asserted many lies to be true. The former president repeated the lie that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election. He parroted conspiracy…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently announced a grant to establish a Veterans Business Outreach Center (VBOC) at Penn State University that will enhance training and counseling services to new and existing veteran and military spouse small business owners across the state. “Veterans own nearly 55,000 businesses in Pennsylvania, and more service members are leaving the military and returning to civilian life each month looking to start a business,” said Robert Yanuzzi, deputy director of the SBA Veterans Business Development Office. “We selected Penn State for our Veterans Business Outreach Center because of its existing…

An American man who set a world record by visiting every country on Earth says he was briefly detained in four countries on suspicion of espionage.”There were a lot of times where I feared for my life,” Indy Nelson said in an interview recently published on the Guinness World Records website. “There were definitely a few times where I thought I wasn’t going to make it out of the country. But by the fourth time, I was like, ‘Oh no, it doesn’t matter.'”The Hayward, California, native told Guinness World Records that the countries he suspected he might be spying for…

Pictured from left: Brian Goodson, Jonathan Leganza, and He Li, all recently named Powers Emerging Fellows. Download Image September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 The Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business has appointed three College of Business faculty members as Emerging Fellows, beginning in the 2024/2025 academic year. Emerging Fellows have demonstrated outstanding achievements in research and teaching or service activities prior to their tenure. “These emerging fellows have published high-quality research and excelled in other aspects of their faculty roles, demonstrating what it means to be a well-rounded junior faculty member. They are the…

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a debate on Tuesday. Here’s what experts said about their performance. Share this story Copy link Link copied! Email Facebook LinkedIn Twitter WhatsApp Reddit Former President Donald Trump watches Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speak during the ABC News presidential debate. Photo by Associated Press/Alex BrandonThe first, and likely only, presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris has concluded. The two candidates debated on Tuesday, and according to political experts at Northeastern University, their debating styles, policies and visions were clearly contrasting,…

Nearly a century later, we face an even more chaotic battlefield: free speech is under siege not by a single giant oppressor, but by a hydra of rapidly shifting political agendas, corporate interests, and social and technological forces, all working piece by piece to rob us of our capacity for free expression. Free speech is being destroyed, but not by a single dramatic smack, but by a thousand piecemeal deaths, whether deliberate or technologically driven, at the whims of a troubled society. All of this points to major shifts in how information, power and influence are being reshaped and how…

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced off on Tuesday night in their first, and likely only, debate before the Nov. 5 election. The two candidates came into the debate roughly tied in the polls and with just a few weeks to try to persuade a small minority of undecided voters how to vote.After weeks of wrangling over the format and rules of the debate, the debate was broadcast live on ABC from the key battleground state of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but with no audience and each candidate’s microphone muted while his or her opponent was speaking.This was Trump’s second…

Every summer, Michigan State University students leave the normally bustling downtown East Lansing, only to return in their thousands a few months later for the back-to-school rush. This cycle is normal in college towns, but how does this pattern affect the local shops and restaurants that remain here year-round? Ken Campbell, owner of Campbell’s Market Basket, said his business has been “very directly affected by Michigan,” with sales at his grocery store up nearly 50% from summer to fall. “Michigan State is a very stable customer,” Campbell says. “They always have an incoming undergraduate class, so they always have a…

Listen to the article 4 mins This audio is automatically generated, please let us know if you have any feedback. Dive Overview: The global luxury market is expected to continue to struggle through the rest of 2024, according to a new report from HSBC Global Research. The analysts subtitled their new report “A Cruel Summer” and lowered their outlook for the industry’s organic growth in 2024 to 2.8% from their previous prediction of 5.5%. The new forecast is based on “several revisions to company forecasts in late July” as well as additional downward projections noted in the report, the analysts…

The habitat of the world’s largest giant tortoise is being threatened by a Qatari-funded hotel development aimed at attracting luxury yachts, private jets and wealthy tourists to a remote Indian Ocean island, conservationists have warned.Plans to build a luxury resort on Assumption Island, part of the Aldabra archipelago, are currently being discussed by Seychelles authorities, and work has already been completed to expand the airport to allow larger aircraft to land on the 11.6 square kilometre (4.5 square miles) coral island.The developers say they will follow world-class sustainability practices, but wildlife groups and biologists say the project is being rushed…