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A man has been arrested in the shooting death of a former national title-winning University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gymnast near the school’s campus, police said.Whitewater police said 23-year-old Chad T. Richards, who knew the victim, shot and killed 21-year-old Kara Welsh after an argument late Friday at an on-campus apartment.Police said they will not be releasing any additional information at this time as the investigation is ongoing.University President Corey King announced Welsh’s death in a message to students, faculty and staff on Saturday.”I know the news of Carla’s death is heartbreaking for our close-knit university community,” King said. “This is a…

TJ CURTIS: Hi. This is TJ Curtis. I’m currently watering my school garden at Wellington Elementary in Wellington, Utah. This podcast was recorded at…SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: 12:04 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 3, 2024.CURTIS: Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I will still be eagerly awaiting the return of my students for the beginning of the school year, hoping that they’re surprised as I am at how great our garden’s done. Enjoy the show.(SOUNDBITE OF THE BIGTOP ORCHESTRA’S “TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)”)ASHLEY LOPEZ, BYLINE: Oh, that’s so cute.MCCAMMON: What a cool…

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, bringing you the latest in Washington, DC political news and the latest on the 2024 election campaign. What’s going on…- White House condemns Labor Day anti-Israel protests as “violent”…- New poll gives VP Harris 5-point lead over former President Trump- Cuomo faces criticism ahead of coronavirus hearing”Open the door”The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) is facing a new lawsuit after the Republican National Committee (RNC) sued the state, alleging that it opened the door to voting for non-citizens.The lawsuit, filed last week in Wake County by the Republican National Committee and…

Brooke Shields was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in late May, and now leads the union of more than 51,000 actors and stage managers on Broadway and across the United States. The longtime actress is primarily known for her film roles, but has also appeared on Broadway five times, and this will be her first guild role. Now, a few months into her new role, Shields spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about why she chose to add an unpaid volunteer role to her busy life that already includes a new business venture, a new book and an acting…

Casa Gessi is a new luxury showroom located in New York City’s SoHo shopping district.Gessi Wellness is changing the way we live and design our living spaces. In fact, in an interview with Forbes, Khoi Vo, executive director of the American Society of Interior Designers, said that wellness is “the most important trend influencing single-family home design right now.” This is good news for Gessi, the luxury Italian furniture company that specialises in creating wellness-focused home and leisure environments with premium bathroom and kitchen taps and accessories. The 30-year-old brand recently opened its first U.S. showroom at 214 Lafayette Street,…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first-ever guidelines on antibiotic contamination from manufacturing. The new guidelines on wastewater and solid waste management for antibiotic production shed light on this important yet neglected issue ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to be held on 26 September 2024. The emergence and spread of AMR caused by antibiotic contamination has the potential to globally undermine the effectiveness of antibiotics, including medicines produced at contaminated manufacturing sites. Despite the widespread documented high levels of contamination from antibiotics, the issue is largely unregulated and quality…

September 3, 2024 – High School This week marks the full start of the high school fall sports season. The “soft open” may have been delayed last week, as high school football and field hockey began. Cross country also began for some teams. But this week, all other sports are in… September 3, 2024 – Local Sports Last weekend, New England Patriots coach Jerrod Mayo announced Jacoby Brissett would be the team’s starting quarterback when the regular season begins this Sunday at Cincinnati, and then walked away with a bang. Blink and you’ll…

WASHINGTON (AP) — V.P. Kamala Harris President Trump is scheduled to propose on Wednesday to increase federal tax incentives for small business start-up costs tenfold, from $5,000 to $50,000, in hopes of spurring a record 25 million new small business applications over his four-year term if he wins the 2019 presidential election. November. She is expected to announce the plan during a campaign rally in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, area, a rare development outside the Midwest and Sun Belt battlegrounds that have been the Democratic candidate’s focus in his race against the Republican former president. Donald Trump. A Harris campaign…

Get our FREE US Election Countdown newsletterImportant news about money and politics in the race for the White HouseThere are US presidential elections that don’t matter. Even if Bill Clinton had lost to Bob Dole in 1996, or George W. Bush had lost to John Kerry on the other side of the millennium, there is no reason to believe we would live in a significantly different world now. So don’t tweet “journalists say that all the time” when I suggest that November 5, 2024, is a turning point in history.What is the special importance of this election? There is also…

US Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has warned his Republican rival, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, that history will judge him “unfairly” for paving the way for right-wing policies that are out of touch with the American people.In an interview with Punchbowl News conducted at the Democratic National Convention in August and published on Monday, Schumer blamed McConnell for enabling Donald Trump’s reshaping of American politics and the judiciary. Schumer argued that McConnell played a number of roles in helping to shift the Supreme Court sharply to the right through the former president’s appointments of three Supreme Court justices, including abolishing…