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Coach Dusty May and the Michigan Wolverines players celebrate after beating the Wisconsin Badgers in the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship Game at Gainbridge Field House on March 16, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Aaron J. Thornton | Getty ImagesGlobal payment company PayPal On Thursday, it signed a contract with the Big Ten and Big 12 meetings, which announced that student-athletes will be able to receive compensation through the fintech company’s platform.The announcement comes weeks after the court settlement in the House v. NCAA case. This dramatically changes the university’s sports landscape by allowing schools to compensate student-athletes for the…

President Trump praises Israeli leaders as “warriors,” and says the US will “save Bibi Netanyahu” amid corrupt trials.President Donald Trump has called on Israel to cancel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial or to allow him to describe the lawsuit against Israeli leaders as a “witch hunt.” Trump issued a phone call on Wednesday on behalf of his close Israeli allies, who were charged in Israel in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud and trust violations. “The trial of Bibi Netanyahu must immediately cancel the pardon given to a great hero who has done so much for the (Israel) state,”…

The gold was recovered from e-waste in a study at Flinders University. Credit: Flinders University An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and sustainable approach to extracting and recovering gold from ore and e-waste. In natural sustainability, as explained in this paper, “Sustainable Gold Extraction from Ore and Sustainable Gold Extraction from E-Waste,” shows that gold extraction technology reduces the level of toxic waste from mining and can recover high-purity gold from recycling valuable components of discarded computer printed circuit boards. The project team led by Professor…

The farmer was hit by fines of more than £40,000 after swelling out of his fields, silt leaking in large quantities, closing major roads and polluting local rivers in dramatic environmental incidents.David Mitchell pleaded guilty to let sediment-containing water flow from farmland to a tributary of the river under his control. The pollution that took place at Hill Common near Taunton in Somerset occurred at two heavy rain events in August and September 2022.The Environment Bureau described the spill as “to the ankle,” saying it had a serious impact on the backstream near Combe Florey, covering the “bank to bank”…

Hugo Carvajal pleaded guilty to four criminal numbers, including narcoterism conspiracy and conspiracy to import cocaine.According to the Justice Department, Venezuela’s military intelligence director pleaded guilty to charges of drug trafficking and narcotelism in US federal court. Hugo Carballar, who served as President Hugo Chavez’s government president from 2004 to 2011, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday to four detectives including conspiracy to narcoterism and conspiracy to import cocaine and arms fees. Federal prosecutors allegedly led a drug cartel, along with other high-ranking Venezuelan government and military officials, that the former general had led a drug cartel that…

This year, European defence stocks have skyrocketed amid a regional push towards increasing defense spending, but Bull Run could soon be out of steam, according to investment bank Citi. The Stoxx Europe Aerospace and Defense Index has been garnering nearly 50% since the start of the year, with a small number of stocks more than doubled in value, including Germany’s Renk, Rheinmetall and Hensoldt. The rally, supported by actions from the European government, by raising the defence budget, the EU has pledged to mobilize 800 billion euros ($928 billion) for security spending, but the UK government said earlier this year…

California is the US state with the largest number of electric vehicles. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars allocated to building electric vehicle charging stations in dozens of US states. In Tuesday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Tana Lynn granted a provisional injunction to request the distribution of funds for National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) development, which was allocated $5 billion for use between 2022 and 2026. The NEVI program, which was signed to the law in 2021 by then-President Joe Biden, was reimbursed in February by the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation, x predicted…

Elon Musk’s Xai is subject to scrutiny in Memphis, where the natural gas turbine running the Colossus Data Center is causing vigilance among residents concerned about air pollution. On Tuesday, the city of Memphis released the results of a third-party initial air quality test, saying the levels of the 10 pollutants they tested were not dangerous. However, the Southern Environmental Law Centre (SELC), which threatens to sue Xai on behalf of the NAACP, said ozone, a key pollutant, also known as smog, was omitted in the test. “It is unclear why the city does not test this harmful contaminant,” SELC…

Farmers, according to critics, are pursuing legal action against the government on controversial changes to the succession tax.The judicial review could soon begin with the UK government’s decision to reform agricultural and business property relief (APR and BPR) without consulting the sector.Reliefs that help protect farms and small businesses from critical inheritance tax burdens have long been seen as essential for preserving family-owned agricultural businesses.James Austin, a partner at Collier Bristau, a law firm representing the claimant in a potential judicial review, has unveiled the legal basis for the challenge.”The claimant’s position is simply that the government should be bound…

EU leaders will gather in Brussels to address sanctions on Russian, US tariffs and Middle Eastern conflicts.The heads of the 27 European Union member states will meet in Brussels to discuss harsher sanctions against Russia, how to prevent new, painful US tariffs, and how to hear their voices in conflicts in the Middle East. Most of the leaders arrived at an event held from the short but intense NATO summit on Thursday, where they pledged a big boost to defence spending and wrote a paper on some of the differences with US President Donald Trump. Ukrainian President Voldymir Zelensky will…