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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lie, cheat or steal at Rhodes College, and the case could make its way to the student-run Honor Council. The group reviews infractions like cheating and plagiarizing and can levy a range of punishments, up to expulsion. In 1994, her senior year at the private liberal arts college in Memphis, Amy Coney Barrett was elected to the council and served as its vice president. At the time, the council would hear cases within the week of the infraction being reported; trials lasted between 30 minutes and the full day. For one c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble. The drama unfolds Tuesday as the U.S. takes its first crack at collecting asteroid samples for return to Earth, a feat accomplished so far only by Japan. Brimming with names inspired by Egyptian mythology, the Osiris-Rex mission is looking to bring back at least 2 ounces (60 grams) worth of asteroid B...
Ever since Russian agents and other opportunists abused its platform in an attempt to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook has insisted — repeatedly — that it's learned its lesson and is no longer a conduit for misinformation, voter suppression and election disruption. But it has been a long and halting journey for the social network. Critical outsiders, as well as some of Facebook's own employees, say the company's efforts to revise its rules and tighten its safeguards remain wholly insufficient to the task, despite it hav...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Liam Neeson's thriller "Honest Thief" stole the top spot at the box office in yet another quiet weekend of moviegoing. The Open Roads Films movie brought in $3.7 million in its U.S. debut. The film, starring Neeson as a notorious bank robber who turns himself in but was double crossed by two FBI agents, opened in Canada last week. The film also played well in markets including Miami, Chicago, San Diego and Atlanta, according to the studio. "Honest Thief" overtook "The War with Grandpa," which claimed No. 1 last week. D...
MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — A Carnival Cruise Line ship rescued two dozen people, including two children, from a sinking boat 37 miles (about 60 kilometers) off the Florida coast, the cruise line reported Saturday. It was not immediately clear why the smaller boat came under distress, but its passengers were taken on board the Carnival Sensation when the boat started taking on water. They were given life jackets, food, water and blankets. The Miami Herald said the passengers were later transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard. The cruise ship was in i...
WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — Dale "Toons" Santoiemma finds his Great Danes "strangely hilarious." So do his nearly 22,000 followers on Facebook and about 8,000 Instagram fans. "It's a Dane Thing" -- that's what Santoiemma calls the daily Great Dane-centric comics he draws and posts as DaleToons. Now he's putting together a 150-page coffee table book featuring 300 drawings being released in February. The cartoonist has raised $87,000 to publish the book through a Kickstarter campaign in September. "When I started the campaign, I hit my $15,000 goal i...
The biggest news in the latest Associated Press college football poll was what didn't change. Clemson remained No. 1 in the Top 25 on Sunday, overwhelmingly ahead of No. 2 Alabama. The Tigers received 54 first-place votes to the Crimson Tide's eight. Considering the Tigers spent Saturday beating Georgia Tech by an ACC-record 66 points, maybe it shouldn't be all that surprising. But Alabama's emphatic victory against Georgia, at the time No. 3 but now No. 4, is the type of big-game performance that can sway voters. In seven of the last eight...
ADA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 19, 2020-- Released today, the September 2020 LegalShield Law Index™, a suite of leading indicators of the economic and financial status of U.S. households and small business, saw its two main real estate indices remain at or near record levels during the month, suggesting a sustained rebound in homebuilding and continued strong home sales activity over the next three to six months. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201019005223/en/ (...
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested a teen in the Friday deaths of two men in southwestern Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Independence police served an arrest warrant Sunday night at the Labette County Jail to James Gofourth, 18, of Independence, who was already in the jail on a separate case, Topeka television station KSNT reported. The arrest warrant accuses Gofourth of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 27-year-old Tyler Cook and 24-year-old Rodricus Dawson, and one count of attempted f...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of a Topeka high school are considering how the community can respond to a report from its student newspaper that the man the school is named for was a prominent member of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century. Seaman High School's student newspaper, The Clipper, reported Friday that Fred Seaman was an "exalted cyclops" or chief officer of the Topeka KKK. Rumors of Seaman's ties to the KKK had circulated for years in the Topeka district, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. Earlier this year, someone a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association is renewing the group's call for a statewide mask mandate as the number of people hospitalized due to the coronavirus has reached record levels. OSMA President George Monks said in a tweet Sunday that cities in Oklahoma that have adopted mask ordinances have seen lower rates of infection. "We need face mask mandates to protect more of our Oklahoma citizens," Monks tweeted. The association has been calling for a statewide mask mandate since the summer, but Gov. Kevin S...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Excavation work began Monday at two locations in a Tulsa cemetery for victims of a race massacre nearly 100 years ago that left hundreds dead and decimated an area that was once a cultural and economic mecca for African Americans. Researchers took a core soil sample at one location to give them a better idea of what lies beneath the soil, said Oklahoma State Archeologist Kary Stackelbeck. "That will help narrow the focus for the heavier machinery," Stackelbeck added. Both areas of interests are in Oaklawn Cemetery in n...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A new hand-dug tunnel has been found near the U.S. border in Nogales. Tucson Sector agents said the tunnel was discovered Saturday night by video surveillance. Agents located the tunnel's 2-feet-by-2-feet exit about a half-mile west of the DeConcini Port of Entry and about three feet north of the border. Mexican authorities located the tunnel's entrance in the floor of an existing drainage system in Mexico. Border Patrol officials said the tunnel extended for about 10 feet and had no shoring, ventilation or lighting. C...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln company focused on fighting wildfires using drones has been awarded more than $1 million in federal and state grants, it announced. Drone Amplified has been awarded a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant for $983,676 and a Nebraska Department of Economic Development matching grant for $100,000, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. The company said the funding will be used to help conduct research and development on improving the safety, decreasing the costs and increasing the e...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Early voting began Monday in Arkansas for the November general election, and lines were reported at several locations around the state. Secretary of State John Thurston hasn't predicted how many of the state's 1.8 million registered voters will cast a ballot in this year's election. Officials, however, are expecting a large number of mail-in ballots after Gov. Asa Hutchinson issued an order allowing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic as a reason to vote absentee. The voters casting ballots early included Heather E...
Stocks gave up some of their recent gains Monday as hopes faded on Wall Street that Washington will come through with badly needed aid for the economy before Election Day. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%, its worst day in more than three weeks. The benchmark index had been up 0.5% in the early going following a report that China's economy grew at a 5% annual rate in the last quarter. The market's slide was broad, though technology, health care and communication stocks bore the brunt of the selling. Treasury yields were mixed. The early gains...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in a string of global cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics in South Korea and American businesses. The case implicates the same Kremlin unit that interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections, but is not related to the November vote. The indictment accuses the six defendants, all said to be current and former officers in the Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU, of hacks that prosecutors s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 arsenal that has operated continuously for 50 years, officials said Monday. The estimate is up about $10 billion from four years ago. The weapons, known as intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, are intended as part of a near-total replacement of the American nuclear force over the next few decades at a total cost of more than $1.2 trillion. Some, including former Defense S...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Elizabeth Cantwell, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On Oct. 20, a University of Arizona-led NASA mission 16 years in the making will attempt the astronomical equivalent more than 200 million miles away. A NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx will soon attempt to touch the surface of an asteroid and collect loose...
PHOENIX (AP) — Sunbathers understand the benefits of applying sunscreen, but in America's hottest big city the same concept is being tested at street level in the hope of bringing some lasting relief from the relentless Arizona sun. A team from Arizona State University is working with the city of Phoenix on a pilot program studying the use of "cool pavement" to reduce heat island effect, a phenomenon that raises temperatures in urban areas covered by asphalt and concrete. Heather Murphy, a Street Transportation Department spokesperson, said P...
NEW YORK (AP) — What has more letters than the alphabet? That's easy: The post office. That joke — sponsored by the letter A — is a highlight of the first original podcast from "Sesame Street," featuring music, interactive games and Muppets galore. "The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley & Friends" is an offering on Audible that gives some screen-free educational entertainment to kids who may be having spotty school lessons during the coronavirus pandemic. "We think it's so important to have this other medium besides screens for playful, fun, eng...
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Comedian John Oliver made a secret trip to Connecticut last week to help cut the ribbon on a sign naming a sewage treatment plant in his honor. Danbury's City Council voted earlier this month to rename the sewage plant "The John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant," following a tongue-in-cheek battle that began with an expletive-filled rant against the city on HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" in August. Mayor Mark Boughton responded to the attack by posting a video of himself at the sewage plant saying the city was g...
