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Pennsylvania on Wednesday approved flag football as an official girls’ high school sport as NFL teams in the state encourage more female athletes to participate in the sport.With approval from the Pennsylvania High School Athletic Association, the state agency that governs high school sports in the state, flag football will become an official girls’ sport in the nation’s fifth-most populous state starting in the 2025-26 school year.As part of the sanctioning process for girls flag football, the PIAA required at least 100 teams from within the state to participate, a threshold that was met in April with 65 schools participating…

Warner Bros. Discovery is expanding its board of directors. The entertainment company said Daniel Sanchez will join its board of directors starting Oct. 1. Sanchez is familiar to Discovery shareholders, having served on the company’s board since before its 2022 merger with WarnerMedia to form the current company. He is also the nephew of John Malone, a director and shareholder in WBD, and currently serves on the board of directors of Malone’s Liberty Global Ltd. and Liberty Latin America Ltd. Prior to his retirement in 2021, Sanchez worked as an attorney, focusing on tax law and tax planning. Malone is…

I have the strange privilege and burden of living in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a city not only in a battleground state, but also one of the most battleground areas: Barack Obama won Luzerne County by about 5 points in 2012, then Donald Trump won it by about 20 points in 2016, before Joe Biden narrowed the gap to about 14 points. It’s no doubt why both Trump and Kamala Harris have been visiting Wilkes-Barre in recent weeks, despite the town’s modest population of about 45,000 — Trump appeared at a local arena (technically in neighboring Wilkes-Barre Township) last month, and Harris…

Eric Kilburn Jr.’s mother noticed that he had unusually large feet when he was a teenager and began having to spend thousands of dollars to have shoes made specially for him. But his feet were bigger than anyone his age in the world, and so were his hands.Eric, 16, wears a US size 23 (UK size 22) shoe on his 13.5-inch (34 cm) feet, more than double the average size for an adult male in the US, which is about a size 9. His hands are 9.13 inches, well above the average of 7.14 inches for his age.These measurements landed…

ABC News said viewership for “World News Tonight with David Muir” on Monday night was up 9 percent from the same period last year. The network pointed to the poor ratings amid claims from the right that World News Tonight’s viewership took a hit following last week’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, which Muir and ABC News Now anchor Lindsey Davis co-hosted. According to the latest figures, “World News Tonight” drew 7.6 million viewers, the highest number for any Monday night show in the last five weeks. NBC Nightly News had 6.15 million viewers and the CBS…

This article also appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter – sign up for free here to get it delivered to your inbox. CNN — No one can see a clear strategy in the cat memes that have dominated American political discourse during a pivotal election year. But it’s worth considering why former President Donald Trump’s campaign and its supporters continue to simmer, rather than recovering from insults about “childless cat-loving women” and false stories about Haitian immigrants eating cats in Ohio. Trump generally refuses to admit he’s wrong, so do they see the benefit in stirring things up? Why else…

Alison Fry scored all three of the Titans’ goals in Tuesday’s 3-1 win over Londonderry. (Photo by Tom King for The Telegraph) Register to continueDo you subscribe to our print edition? Subscribe for full access!To continue viewing our website, please register for just 36 cents per day.Enjoy unlimited access to every article on nashuatelegraph.com on your computer, tablet or smartphone. Visit nashuatelegraph.com to read the digital edition or use the Full Access app. For more information, visit nashuatelegraph.com/fullaccess. Log in Copyright © The Nashua Telegraph | https://www.nashuatelegraph.com | 110 Main St, Ste 1, Nashua, NH 03060 | 603-882-2741 Source link

American brand Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy after struggling to survive in the face of falling sales.The food storage container company said it plans to seek court permission to begin selling its business and aims to stay in business.The 78-year-old company has become synonymous with food preservation, and many people use the name when referring to any old plastic container. Despite attempts in recent years to refresh its products and reposition itself among younger customers, it has failed to stand out from the competition.The company warned last year that it could go bankrupt if it couldn’t raise new capital quickly.The…

The extraordinary attack, which simultaneously detonated hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, came at a terrible time for U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East, and could provoke the kind of escalation of tensions the United States is desperately trying to avoid.The coordinated obstruction came a day after Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to Joe Biden, visited Israel to urge Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials against escalating tensions in Lebanon. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also warned that time was running out to find a negotiated solution between Israel and…

Getty ImagesThe U.S. central bank cut interest rates for the first time in four years on Wednesday.The highly anticipated measure will affect mortgage, credit card and savings rates for millions of people in the U.S. and around the world. The Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage point to a range of 4.75% to 5%.So what does this mean for you? What do cuts mean for mortgages, car loans and other debt?The Fed’s prime lending rate — the rate it charges banks for borrowing — serves as the benchmark for the interest rate that companies in…