This kind of systemic favoritism of the white, wealthy and connected is not new when it comes to elite academic institutions. It’s always been a bit of a rigged game, one that overwhelmingly favors rich white people.

In addition to the enhanced contagiousness of the delta strain, the statement blamed the region’s surge on the continent’s unvaccinated population and the decision of many countries to roll back mask wearing and social distancing. The WHO previously cautioned that winter could drive outbreaks in Europe as people gather close together indoors with poor ventilation, conditions that facilitate transmission of the virus.

On Tuesday, WVLT reported that a Knoxville, Tennessee man held up a Little Caesars in Cedar Bluff with an AK-47 rifle after being told his pepperoni pizza order would take ten minutes."Officers responded to the restaurant just after 9 p.m. Friday where they were told that the suspect, identified as ...

ConstitutionDAO, the failed attempt to buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction after raising more than $40 million in crypto from thousands of strangers, is shutting down after a week of protracted catastrophe. The announcement was made in the group's Discord channel on Tuesday, a day after refunds were made available for everyone who contributed to the project. The project's website was updated with the same announcement. "This project has been such an incredible experience, and we are so honored and appreciative to have been on this journey with you," said the post. "We know that everyone is eager to hear what the next steps for ConstitutionDAO are, and we’ve been deeply exploring several options for this over the last four days. While we would very much like to have been able to do so, we have determined that building and maintaining an ongoing project is not something that we as a core team are able to support, given the technical and administrative requirements of doing it properly."

LONDON — “Is everything okay?” is probably not a question any world leader wants to be asked, especially in relation to their competence. But that is the question politicians, newspaper headline writers and much of social media were asking Tuesday, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, lost his place in his notes for 20 seconds while delivering a speech to business leaders, then imitated the noise of a car engine and, perhaps most bizarre of all, spent an awkwardly long time declaring his love for the popular amusement park Peppa Pig World. The 25-minute speech, in which the prime minister also compared himself to Moses, was delivered Monday in Tyneside, northeastern England, for the annual Confederation of British Industry conference, an event considered to be the highest-profile on Britain’s business calendar.

From maple-glazed squash to hominy-turkey stew, these dishes celebrate the people and flavors of this land.

Unite the Right rally organizers found liable for violating Virginia conspiracy statute; plaintiffs are awarded millions in damages.

In Louisiana, law enforcement agencies have been accused of targeting Hispanic drivers in traffic stops and identifying them as white on tickets. Misidentification makes it impossible to track racial bias, experts say.

The tiny Arab nation of Qatar has for years employed a former CIA officer to help spy on soccer officials as part of a no-expense-spared effort to win and hold on to the 2022 World Cup tournament, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. It’s part of a trend of former U.S. intelligence officers going to work for foreign governments with questionable human rights records that is worrying officials in Washington and prompting calls from some members of Congress for greater scrutiny of an opaque and lucrative market. The World Cup is the planet’s most popular sports tournament. It’s also a chance for Qatar, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, to have a coming-out party on the world stage. The AP’s investigation found Qatar sought an edge in securing hosting rights by hiring former CIA officer turned private contractor Kevin Chalker to spy on rival bid teams and key soccer officials who picked the winner in 2010. Chalker also worked for Qatar in the years that followed to keep tabs on the country’s critics in the soccer world, the AP found. The AP’s investigation is based on interviews with Chalker’s former associates as well as contracts, invoices, emails, and a review of business documents. The surveillance work included having someone pose as a photojournalist to keep tabs on a rival nation’s bid and deploying a Facebook honeypot, in which someone posed online as an attractive woman, to get close to a target, a review of the records show. Operatives working for Chalker and the Persian Gulf sheikhdom also sought cell phone call logs of at least one top FIFA official ahead of the 2010 vote, a review of the records show.

Last week, Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III declined to sentence 20-year-old Christopher Belter to prison, after Belter pleaded guilty to the rape and sexual assault of four teenage girls. Murphy instead sentenced Belter to eight years’ probation and required him to register as a sex offender. The judge told the court he had “agonized” over the decision, but that sending Belter to prison “would be inappropriate.” Instead, the probation, Murphy told Belter, would be “like a sword hanging over your head for the next eight years.” “I agonized. I’m not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case, because there was great pain,” Murphy told the court, without specifying who had been subject to this “great pain.” He added, “There was great harm. There were multiple crimes committed in the case.”

In September, Texas enacted the nation's most extreme abortion ban. Two months later, legislators in Ohio are pushing an abortion ban that goes even further. And the bill has significant momentum. The Texas law bans abortions after about six weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Since many women don't even know they are pregnant after six weeks, very few abortions have been performed in Texas since the law went into effect. An Oklahoma City clinic reported that 60% of its appointments are filled by women from Texas, including rape victims. The Ohio bill, which is co-sponsored by 35 House Republicans, bans all abortions at any time during pregnancy. Like Texas, there are no exceptions for rape or incest. There is a limited exception to protect the life of the mother. But the burden is on the physician to prove "the physician made reasonable medical efforts under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of her unborn child in a manner consistent with conventional medical practice."

At 25, Star Trek: First Contact remains the Trekkiest of Star Trek films - the best argument for the franchise on the big screen.

The Assembly’s investigation is finally finished, and it goes beyond “overwhelming evidence” of sexual harassment.

Survivors and the families of victims had sued the Department of Justice, alleging that the FBI failed to acts on tips regarding the shooter.

An invasive dog-sized lizard is spreading throughout the Southeast and officials want to put it to an end.

The community of crypto investors who tried and failed to buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution last week has descended into chaos as people are realizing today that roughly half of the donors will have the majority of their investment wiped out by cryptocurrency fees. Meanwhile, disagreements have broken out over the future of ConstitutionDAO, the original purpose of the more than $40 million crowdfunding campaign, and what will happen to the $PEOPLE token that donors were given in exchange for their contributions. Over the weekend, the next steps of the project repeatedly changed. In the immediate aftermath of the Sotheby's auction, in which ConstitutionDAO lost to hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin, the founders of the project asserted on its official Discord that, though they lost, "we still made history tonight." "We have educated an entire cohort of people around the world—from museum curators and art directors to our grandmothers asking us what eth is when they read about us in the news —about the possibilities of web3," an admin of the project posted on Thursday.

On Friday, the rules around who's eligible for a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot became much simpler. All adults 18 years of age and older can now receive a booster six months after getting their second vaccine shot. "Based on the compelling evidence," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a statement, "all adults over 18 should now have equitable access to a COVID-19 booster dose." The new booster guideline simplifies the earlier rules that set requirements around age and around the risk of infection based on age, health and work or living situation.

Parnell's campaign has been on the rocks ever since court records surfaced of protective orders that were granted to his then-wife in 2017 and 2018. Parnell's estranged wife accused him of past domestic abuse, and a judge found the allegations to be credible. Parnell was a leading GOP candidate in the closely watched race to replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican in a swing state that Democratic President Joe Biden won.

Shabazz was one of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz’s six children

Improved semiconductor supply and an easing of port congestion around the world could help slow inflation down if nothing goes seriously wrong. That said, if the last few years are any indication, unexpected events could shift the situation at any time.