George Pickens Isn’t With Cowboys for Voluntary Work as Schottenheimer Says Communication Is Good

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — George Pickens isn’t with the Dallas Cowboys during the opening week of voluntary offseason practices, while coach Brian Schottenheimer says the receiver is “taking care of his business” and their communication has been good. “Communicated with (Pickens) yesterday,” Schottenheimer said Thursday. “He’s got a football camp this weekend that he’s doing. …

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Trump Administration Probes 15 Medical Schools Over Admissions Policy

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – ⁠The ⁠U.S. Justice ⁠Department said on Thursday ​it had opened civil rights ‌investigations into 15 medical ‌schools examining ⁠potential ⁠race discrimination over their alleged use of ​race in admissions. The department said in a statement the ​probes would examine whether the schools, ⁠each ⁠of which receives ⁠millions ​of dollars in …

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Putin Says Russia Will Defeat Ukraine

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 4 (Reuters) – ⁠President ⁠Vladimir Putin said on ⁠Thursday that Russia would defeat Ukraine on the battlefield ​if necessary, but was ready to end the war via diplomacy and honour ‌unspecified compromises he said ‌had been agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking to foreign media ⁠editors on ⁠the sidelines of …

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U.S. Revokes Endangered Species Listing for Permian Basin Lizard, Resolves Texas Attorney General Lawsuit

June 4 (Reuters) – The Trump administration agreed to ⁠strip ⁠endangered species protection from a ⁠lizard whose habitat overlapped the largest oil-producing region in the United States, ​settling a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated the ‌dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered in ‌May 2024, after concluding …

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What borrowers need to consider before the July federal student loan changes

The federal student loan changes arriving in July could have meaningful consequences for borrowers. Pla2na/Getty Images Federal student loan borrowers have spent the last few years adapting to a constantly changing borrowing and repayment landscape. Between the end of pandemic-era relief, the return of required student loan payments and a series of court challenges affecting …

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Where, Oh Where, Have the Bikis Gone? Oʻahu Is Missing 800 Bikes

When Honolulu’s bike-share system Biki launched in nearly a decade ago, it promised to bring Hawaiʻi a transportation method that had seen success in places like New York City, Boston and Miami. Residents and tourists could get around urban Honolulu by renting a bike for cheap from one of over a hundred stations and returning …

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Trump’s name must come off the Kennedy Center by June 12

Lawyers for what is currently called the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are instructing staff to immediately begin switching the name of the facility back to its original title. The instructions, laid out in a memo sent Thursday by the center’s general counsel and obtained by CBS News, are the first official signal …

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