Dealing a blow to Olympic boxing officials after months of investigations, the IOC has set up a vote next month on removing the sport’s governing body AIBA from organizing bouts at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The International Olympic Committee’s executive board on Wednesday proposed suspending AIBA — a move that will go before the full […]
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Lawmakers took steps to safeguard the bill from legal challenges, amending the wording so that it covered an array of public officials, federal executive branch employees and political party leaders. Under the legislation, the commissioner of the New York Department of Taxation and Finance would be permitted to release returns to the chairmen of the
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The amount of federal loans that undergraduate students can borrow is capped each year, depending on the student’s year of college. The maximum is generally $5,500 for freshmen, $6,500 for sophomores and $7,500 for both juniors and seniors. The amount borrowed over all is limited to $31,000. Students who need to borrow more may have
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Two Democratic women running for president unveiled plans Wednesday to improve maternal health care, with Sen. Kamala Harris reintroducing a bill aimed at addressing racial disparities in childbirth care and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand promising to make adoptions and high-tech fertility treatments more accessible to those who want children. Harris’ bill, first introduced in 2018, would
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Image caption Hearts have been left at St Ann’s Square for people to take with them on the anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing Pop stars paid tribute to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing from the venue’s stage, two years on. Dedicating hit “Stay” to the victims and their families, South Korean pop
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Image copyright Getty Images Fashion house Prada has announced it is to stop using fur from next year. Joh Vinding, chairman of the Fur Free Alliance (FFA), said: “The Prada group with its brands now joins a growing list of fur-free brands that are responding to consumers’ changing attitudes towards animals.” The FFA is a
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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has pulled out of the ruling coalition amid a political crisis triggered by a secret recording featuring two leading party figures. In the video, from 2017, FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache appears to offer government contracts to a woman in exchange for electoral support. Mr Strache resigned as vice-chancellor but protested
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A Seven-Bedroom Finca on Ibiza $3.3 MILLION (2.98 MILLION EUROS) This seven-bedroom country house sits on a hill outside San Antonio, a town on the west coast of Ibiza, one of Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The 6,577-square-foot, white-stucco house was built in 1970 in traditional Spanish finca style around an older structure
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Fake news has evolved beyond the playbook used by Russian trolls in the U.S. election. As the European Union gears up for a crucial election, it is mostly homegrown groups rather than foreign powers that are taking to social media to push false information and extremist messages, experts say. And private and encrypted chat apps
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Another Olympic medalist has criticized the IAAF’s testosterone regulations and said she will refuse to take hormone-reducing medication. Margaret Wambui of Kenya, who won bronze in the 800 meters behind Caster Semenya at the 2016 Olympics, said she is affected by the new rules but won’t take “any type of medication” to lower her natural
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