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NEW YORK — A New York woman is challenging a long-standing rule that disqualifies mothers from the Miss America and Miss World beauty pageants. Danielle Hazell said Monday she had always dreamed of competing in the pageant but was shocked to learn she was no longer eligible because, at age 19, she gave birth to her son. “When I told Zion, who is now 6, about these rules, he had an immediate, instinctive reaction: He said these rules were ridiculous,” she said at the Women’s Rights Pioneers Memorial in New York’s Central Park. “His sense of fairness, still only 6…

The Nippon U.S. Steel deal has been in the spotlight as U.S. presidential candidates battle it out in battleground states. Gene J. Puskar/AP Hide caption Toggle caption Jean J. Puskar/AP As U.S. presidential candidates vie for battleground states, a deal between Nippon Steel Corp. and U.S. Steel Corp. is in the spotlight. Jean J. Puskar/AP Nippon Steel is considering buying U.S. Steel, but says it wants to keep jobs in the U.S. Economists say it makes sense. But U.S. presidential candidates are pushing back. Today we look at the role politics plays in distorting the economy and see whether that’s…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2030 plan has a national goal of increasing youth sports participation from 50% to 63% over the next five years. Being active benefits youth overall health, social and academic lives. However, the number of youth participating in physical activity and sports is declining. While participation disparities based on a single social identity are well studied, little research has examined youth’s multiple, intersecting and marginalized social identities. The study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, explored inequities that exist at the intersection of multiple identities, including assigned sex, gender modality,…

Tamara Keith: Yes. And in that interview, Vance offered no apology and in fact criticized Dana for suggesting that these threats against schools and other public places in the Springfield community might have something to do with statements made by Vance and former President Trump, both of whom continue to amplify this and have never backed down or apologized.But the Trump campaign’s approach, the Trump political ethos, is to just dig in. And there’s a couple of things they’re doing here. One is, they’re trying to get people to talk about immigration in a way that focuses people’s attention on…

Suspect did not fire shots, did not see Trump, Secret Service chief saysSecret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said agents discovered Routh had a rifle and the 58-year-old opened fire before fleeing.”He did not fire or attempt to fire at our agents,” Rowe said. “Upon receiving reports of gunfire, the former president’s security forces immediately evacuated the president to a safe location.”Rowe also told reporters that Trump was out of the gunman’s sights during an unscheduled visit to his golf club.”The Secret Service’s defensive techniques were effective yesterday,” Rowe added.Ronald Rowe Jr. watches a news conference in West Palm…

The job was completed in the second week. The Chargers comfortably defeated the Panthers 26-3, controlling the game until the end and improving to 2-0 on the season. The Chargers outgained the Panthers 349-159 total yards and their defense held them to just 1 of 12 third-down attempts in another dominant performance on both offense and defense. John Breech of CBS Sports was thrilled with Bolt’s winning performance, giving him an “A” in the week two ratings. Through two games, Breech believes coach Jim Harbaugh’s vision is coming to fruition in Southern California. For the second week in a row,…

The chief engineer of the sunken Titan submersible said Monday he felt “100 percent” pressured to keep the vessel in the water. Tony Nissen, the lead witness at Coast Guard hearings into the deadly 2023 submarine explosion at the Titanic’s sinking site, said he frequently clashed with CEO Stockton Rush over his boss’s reckless and dangerous efforts to get the high-tech subs up and running. Asked by investigators whether he felt pressured to put the titanium and carbon fiber vessel in the water as a lucrative linchpin of Rush’s Ocean Gate deep-sea diving business, Nissen replied, “100 percent.” Former Titan…

DANVILLE — For 50 years, Scott Edwards has provided the Danville-area community with floral arrangements to celebrate life’s most cherished moments.Edwards began arranging flowers in her parents’ basement when she was just 17 years old.Today, Edwards continues to own and operate the 15,000-square-foot shop, Scott’s Floral, Gifts & Greenhouse, with the help of his wife, Judy, and twin daughters, Holly Hoffman and Heather Marks.”I never thought I’d see the ‘Big 50,'” Edwards said.Edwards, the florist, spoke about the hardships her family-run business has faced over the years, which she calls “the three F’s”: fire, flood and flu.Despite struggles along the…

The FBI and other officials say a sick individual tried to kill Donald Trump, and we should all be thankful that no one was hurt and that the Secret Service and local police appear to have done their jobs well.He also thanked former President Trump for placing the blame for the assassination attempt on the Democratic Party, specifically “Biden and Harris.” On Monday, Trump told Fox News Digital, “I’m being shot at because of their actions. I’m in a position to save my country, and they’re destroying it from the inside and out.”Why am I grateful to Trump? First, he…

September 17, 2024 2:52 AM Canada – Crime/Crowding: Toronto teen convicted of crowd killing homeless man in 2022 TORONTO, Sept. 16 — One of eight teenage girls charged with the gang murder of a homeless man in Toronto in 2022 was sentenced Monday but will not serve any further prison time. Toronto teen convicted in 2022 for gang-murder of homeless man The girl, who was 13 at the time of the crime, is the first of the group to be convicted. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter and cannot be named under Canada’s Youth Criminal Law. The judge decided that she…