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President Donald Trump on Friday again waded into contentious issues around college sports, ordering the field’s governing bodies to create new regulations around name, image and likeness (NIL) rules, calling for limits on athletes’ ability to transfer schools and calling for more funding for women’s sports.

KABUL, Afghanistan — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 rattled parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan late Friday, killing at least eight people in Afghanistan, authorities said. The region is highly seismically active, and quakes have caused thousands of deaths in recent years. Friday’s earthquake had an epicenter in the Hindu Kush mountain range, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) east of the Afghan city of Kunduz, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center and the U.S. Geological Survey.Hafizullah Basharat, a spokesman for the Kabul governor, said eight people were killed and a child was injured when…

The members of a tiny Methodist church in Virginia are excited — if a little confused — that Vance’s memoir of his path to Catholicism has put them in the spotlight.

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice will not face discipline under the NFL’s personal conduct policy amid an ongoing civil lawsuit accusing him of domestic assault.The NFL announced April 3 it had concluded its investigation into the accusations made against Rice by his former girlfriend, as ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.Advertisement”There was insufficient evidence to support a finding that he violated the personal conduct policy,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement.Sean Lindsey, an attorney representing Rice, addressed the news with a statement of his own.”Mr. Rice wants to thank the NFL for their thorough investigation, and looks forward…

Republicans are rallying behind Gen. Randy George after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly fired him from the Pentagon, praising the former Army chief of staff as a steady and accomplished military leader. A Pentagon official told The Hill on Thursday that Hegseth asked George to step down as the Army’s 41st chief of staff and…

Ukraine’s Emergency Services posted images of rescue workers trying to save the animals — in one instance administering CPR to a dog — at the clinic in Chabany.

Penitents from the La Paz brotherhood parade in the Palm Sunday procession in Seville, Spain, on March 29. Many of the participants in Semana Santa processions wear traditional costumes that include pointy hoods, which, especially for Americans, may be reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. But this Catholic garb far predates the American hate group. Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images SEVILLE, Spain — Each spring, for one week, Seville transforms. The scent of orange blossoms mixes with heady incense. Booming drums and soaring brass bands echo down narrow streets. Gilded floats…

The Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire, the 14th and 15th WNBA franchises, finally have rosters. On Friday, the Tempo and Fire completed their long-awaited expansion draft, which had been delayed due to the extended labor negotiations between the league and the players union over a new collective bargaining agreement. The Tempo won a coin toss last week and chose the No. 6 overall pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft, which gave the Fire the first pick in the expansion draft. The Fire selected Bridget Carleton from the Minnesota Lynx with the first overall pick and the Tempo chose Julie Allemand from the Los Angeles Sparks second.The draft was two…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California judge on Wednesday cleared the final legal hurdle in the long-running prosecution of a pro-life activist who alleged in undercover videos that abortion providers were illegally profiting from fetal tissue.”As promised, the final charge has been DISMISSED and the case completely expunged— —after a couple months’ administrative delay, and a truly bizarre last-minute ‘April Fool’s’ attempt by @PPFA and @NatAbortionFed to overturn the State’s agreement,” Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden tweeted on Wednesday, including a previous statement made on the reached settlement.Daleiden, who alongside undercover journalist Sandra Merritt,…

As the Israel and the U.S. continue striking Iran, Iranians are traveling across the border with Turkey to find an Internet connection with access cut off in Iran