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Apr 11 2024
News
Harvard Returns to Standardized Testing Requirements After Tossing Them Overboard During COVID
Harvard College will once again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, the Ivy League school announced Thursday, years after it dropped the requirement during the coronavirus pandemic. Harvard unveiled the change through a statement from its Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean, Hopi Hoekstra. Starting next year, Hoekstra said, prospective undergraduate students must submit their
Washington Free BeaconApr 11 2024
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PPP fraud investigation by state watchdog finds $7.2 million in improper loans
More than four years after the outbreak of COVID-19, a state watchdog is continuing to investigate public employees ripping off millions of dollars from the federal Paycheck Protection Program intended for businesses that struggled during the pandemic. Since the coronavirus pandemic began here in early 2020, the Office of Executive Inspector General has found 277 cases of wrongdoing involving
Chicago Sun-TimesApr 09 2024
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Las Vegas conventions, tourism continue to rebound from pandemic
The Las Vegas convention industry and tourism in general continued their recovery last year from the height of the coronavirus pandemic, a report released today said. Las Vegas welcomed 6 million conventioneers last year, a 19.9% increase from 2022, according to the report by Applied Analysis for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The report, which looked at the economic impact
Las Vegas SunApr 09 2024
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White House, Senate Democrats unveil bill to battle pandemic aid fraud
Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping, roughly $1.3 billion bill that would expand the federal government’s powers to find and prosecute pandemic fraud, as Washington scrambles to recover the federal aid stolen by scammers during the worst economic crisis in a generation. The measure, which would deliver on an earlier budget request from President Biden, arrived as the Justice
Washington PostApr 09 2024
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About 30 Attend Jill Biden's Missouri Fundraiser
About 30 individuals attended a fundraiser in Ladue, Missouri, on Monday that First Lady Jill Biden headlined as part of the joint effort of the Biden Victory Fund, months ahead of the election. Speaking to what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described as a “roomful of supporters” at the home of Joyce Aboussie — a Democrat operative — Biden asserted that her husband, 81-year-old President Joe
Breitbart NewsApr 09 2024
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Senior Editor: NPR Employs 87 Democrats in Editorial Positions, 0 Republicans in DC Newsroom
Far-left National Public Radio (NPR) reportedly employs 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions but zero Republicans in the same positions in its Washington, DC, headquarters, NPR Senior Editor Uri Berliner wrote Tuesday. Berliner, who admittedly leans left, wrote a scathing article about NPR’s illiberal newsroom, slamming the taxpayer-funded network for refusing to address “a diversity
Breitbart NewsApr 09 2024
Opinion
The Great COVID Cover-up: Shocking truth about Wuhan and 15 federal agencies
How vast was the Great COVID Cover-up? Well, my investigation has recently discovered government officials from 15 federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19.
These officials knew that the Chinese lab was proposing to create a COVID 19-like virus and not one of these officials revealed this scheme to the public
Rand PaulApr 11 2024
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Why car insurance costs are skyrocketing and leading to higher inflation
Skyrocketing auto insurance costs helped contribute to inflation accelerating at a faster-than-expected pace in March and are adding to the ever more expensive costs for U.S. vehicle owners.
On a monthly basis, car insurance prices as part of the consumer price index rose by an unadjusted 2.7%, while the year-over-year increased by 22.2%, according to data released Wednesday. The index
CNBCApr 06 2024
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Utah journalism giant R. Gail Stahle dies at age 88
R. Gail Stahle, the former publisher of The Davis Clipper, died March 30 at the age of 88. Stahle’s grandfather, John Stahle Sr., co-founded the Bountiful paper in 1891 with a local business owner, according to a study from Brigham Young University. Three generations of the Stahle family continued the newspaper’s operations over its 129-year history. The paper stopped publication in December
The Salt Lake TribuneApr 05 2024
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Denver Nuggets superfan’s tickets revoked over claims the 72-year-old grabbed a referee and hit a player
Vicki Ray can count the number of Denver Nuggets games she’s missed since she first sat in the nosebleeds at McNichols Sports Arena 32 years ago. There were two games in 2005 when her mother died and the four in 2022 after Ray had a stroke. One when she was snowed in at her Lone Tree home and all the games closed to fans during the coronavirus pandemic. And then there are the 14 games she’s
Chicago Tribune