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Keir Starmer boards flight to Washington DC to meet Joe BidenYour support helps us tell the storyLearn morecloseMy recent work focusing on Latino voters in Arizona showed me how important independent journalism is in giving a voice to underrepresented communities.Your support allows us to tell these stories and bring attention to issues that are often overlooked — without your support, these voices may go unheard.Every dollar you donate helps us continue to shine a light on these important issues before and after the electionEric GarciaWashington Bureau ChiefSir Keir Starmer is due to visit the White House to meet US President…

The father of an 11-year-old boy who was killed last year when a minivan driven by a Haitian migrant crashed into a school bus has called on Donald Trump and J.D. Vance not to use his son’s name for “political gain.”At Tuesday’s Springfield, Ohio, city commission meeting, Aiden Clark’s father, Nathan Clark, spoke at the forum along with his wife, Danielle. “I wish my son, Aiden Clark, had been killed by a 60-year-old white man. I never thought anyone would be so blatant in saying something like that, but if that man had killed my 11-year-old son, the hate-spewing people…

CINCINNATI — A new luxury hotel is set to open in downtown Cincinnati. The $174 million project will redevelop the former Fourth & Walnut Centre into a 280-room hotel. Today, the vacant office building is about 491,000 square feet. On the first floor, you can see the scaffolding surrounding the building. There are also a few reminders of the past: Once a pizza parlor, the building has a message posted on its door thanking customers for 30 years of business, there are boarded-up windows, and graffiti can be seen on the walls.”This is an old building, and old buildings come…

Taylor Swift’s announcement that she will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris comes six years after the singer first made her political endorsement.”Like all of you, I watched tonight’s debate,” Swift wrote on Instagram to her 283 million followers on Tuesday. “I will be voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for President in 2024. I am voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for rights and causes that I believe we need warriors to defend.”Until 2018, Swift had kept quiet about politics and had faced criticism over the years about if and when she would make her opinions public.…

An estimated 67.1 million people tuned in to watch the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump, up 31% from the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden that ultimately led to the president dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.The debate was produced by ABC News but aired on 17 networks, according to the Nielsen Co. The Trump-Biden debate in June was watched by 51.3 million people.Tuesday’s viewership fell short of the previous presidential debate record of 84 million viewers when Trump and Hillary Clinton first faced off in 2016. The first debate between Biden and…

Ten members of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) have been selected as Bernhard Academy Links to Success United Kingdom 2025 and will attend the 2025 BTME conference in Harrogate, England, in January. For over 20 years, Bernhard has been selecting 10 British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) members to experience the show by attending the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show in the U.S. Through this program, North American Superintendents will have the opportunity to have a similar experience in the UK. “We are incredibly proud to present this initiative to GCSAA members,” said Sami Strutt,…

Fall intramural athletics began last week, and it promises to be a season filled with competitive fun and pride for the residential college. Aiden Zhou September 12, 2024 1:22 AM Ava Seymour, contributing photographer Get your cleats on and get your Spikeball skills ready: Intramural sports kick off on September 9th. One of the historic rivalries between Yale’s 14 residential colleges, the intramural competition takes place in three different seasons. This fall, outdoor events include cornhole, flag football, soccer and spikeball, with pickleball and table tennis matches taking place in Payne Whitney Gymnasium. These sports are more than just an…

The Stanford women’s volleyball team will travel more than 33,000 miles this season. (Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports Illustration)The Pac-12’s collapse began with an ambush.While the Big Ten Conference was trying to close a television contract already estimated at $1 billion a year, the conference was secretly negotiating with USC and UCLA in an effort to increase its influence and extract more money from potential broadcast partners.In June 2022, USC and UCLA surprised the Pac-12 Conference by seeking the influx of funds and long-term stability that the Big Ten offered. Six more schools dropped out the following summer after the weakened Pac-12…

State and local election officials across the country warned Wednesday that problems with the U.S. mail delivery system could disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that deep-rooted flaws have not been fixed.In their letter, officials said that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mail-in ballots that were postmarked on time arrived at local elections offices days after the deadline for counting.They also noticed that properly addressed election mail was being returned as undeliverable.Multiple attempts to contact USPS to resolve the issue have been unsuccessful, the official added.”We…

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, with its moon-viewing, lantern-making and dragon boat racing, is rich in cultural symbolism and offers luxury brands an opportunity to maintain their cultural relevance in the market. This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, considered the second most important festival in China after the Lunar New Year, runs from Sunday to Tuesday. Despite expectations of a boom in tourism and spending over the three-day national holiday, the Chinese market slowdown looms large, with brands starting to adopt targeted efforts in lieu of big-budget marketing events to boost brand awareness. “Occasions such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and traditional Victorian gift-giving…