Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter has been given a lifetime ban by the NBA for breaching betting rules. An NBA investigation found the 24-year-old disclosed confidential information about his fitness to sports bettors and limited his participation in games for betting purposes. Porter also bet on NBA games using a friend's online account. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Porter's &;quot;blatant violations&;quot; warranted the &;quot;most severe punishment&;quot;. &;quot;There is nothing more important than...

A quartet of Columbia University officials largely avoided a viral breakout moment in a Wednesday House hearing on antisemitism‚ but they still struggled in multiple areas when peppered with questions from Republican lawmakers.   The viral question that last year stumped the presidents of Harvard University‚ the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was asked early of the Columbia officials.  Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) asked all...

Another state university system is moving to eliminate diversity‚ equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements and roles from its campuses‚ as part of a growing backlash to DEI ideology in schools across the country. The University of North Carolina (UNC) board of governors committee voted in less than four minutes on Wednesday to repeal and replace the system's existing diversity and inclusion policy and replace it with a different policy‚ The Associated Press reported. Seventeen college...

A California bill that would make purchasing child sex a felony up from a misdemeanor moved forward on Tuesday‚ but not before Democrats made significant changes. The bipartisan bill would raise solicitation of a minor from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by up to four years in prison‚ and a fine of up to $25‚000. The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years. However‚ the new version of the bill would only allow...

A watchdog group is calling on the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for using video of House proceedings in the promotion of her election campaign. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust’s report highlighted four instances in which Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign social media account reposted videos of herself speaking on the House floor. Federal law and House rules prohibit congressional members from utilizing official House resources‚...

“You hear people say, ‘Well, we did the best we could with what we knew.’ No, they did not," he says.

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