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Brian Kelly and the Louisiana State University football staff have extended an offer to one of the top cornerbacks in the state of Louisiana after Ruston, Louisiana star Aidan Anding received a call on Friday night.Anding, the No. 3 ranked cornerback in the Bayou State, had been on LSU's radar in recent months with recruiting guru Frank Wilson calling on him.The Tigers' lack of talent at defensive back in the 2025 class has come up after Louisiana State passed on Louisiana's No. 1 cornerback, Javoree Antoine, earlier this week.Now, LSU has reached out to Anding and offered him a scholarship,…

Source: shutterstock.com/solarseven While it's true that technology stocks are driving the market rally, not all tech stocks are winners. While the Nasdaq index continues to hit record highs, many of its constituents have fallen hard and underperformed. The reality is that for every winner, like Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock, there are plenty of losers dragging down investors' portfolios. The situation seems to be getting worse following a series of recent earnings reports from tech companies. Shares of several big-name companies have fallen following major earnings misses and disappointing guidance announcements. For investors, these are tech stocks to avoid. Anyone holding these…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Splash Mountain has long been a popular attraction at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, but travel advisor says retheming the attraction as Tiana's Bayou Adventure will modernize it to be more inclusive and appeal to a wider range of park guests.Splash Mountain's storyline was based on Disney's 1946 film “Song of the South,” which was criticized for its portrayal of black people. In 2020, Disney unveiled a new theme for the mountain, noting the importance of promoting inclusivity. In fact, during a media preview of the attraction, Charita Carter, executive creative producer at Walt Disney…

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and many users are turning against tech giants like Microsoft and Meta over data privacy concerns.While the companies are aware of the criticism, not all responses have been equally reassuring.Microsoft announced its Recall AI tool for Copilot+ PC as an “everyday AI assistant,” but delayed the release of the tool after a series of data privacy concerns. Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft was forced to delay the release of an artificial intelligence tool called “Recall” after a wave of backlash.The feature was introduced last month and is billed as “your everyday AI companion.”It takes a screen capture…

A personal perspective: How one statement set our country back a century. “He opened the borders to prisoners, to inmates in psychiatric hospitals and insane asylums, and to terrorists.” In one breath, the former president placed my class (people with mental illnesses) in the same fear-based category as terrorists. He used my health condition, and that of 57.8 million other Americans (National Institutes of Health, 2024), as a political pawn. Article continues after ad Dark history Like many phenomena that are difficult to understand, mental illness has historically been met with fear and fear-based abuse. The first treatment for what…

The city of Detroit agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting, and it also changed how police use facial recognition technology to solve crimes. The terms are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams, whose driver's license photo was incorrectly determined to be a likely match for a man seen on security cameras at a Shinola watch shop in 2018. “I'm very happy that there are now stronger safeguards around the use of this technology that will make it a better world to live in,” Williams told reporters. “But our preference would be…

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The University of Nebraska football program has missed out on some key players in the recruiting process in recent weeks, and now with in-state first, the Huskers could be in for another failed recruitment spree. Chase Loftin was one of the University of Nebraska football's top prospects for the freshman recruiting class of 2025. He has visited the Huskers over 10 times since Matt Lue was hired. He is ranked No. 2 in the state of Nebraska for the 2025 class and is committed to Florida State University. Chase Loftin expected to miss University of Nebraska football game The Seminoles…

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MF3d Stock indexes were mixed this week as investors and traders assessed a wave of economic data, including a slight upward revision in the Commerce Department's first-quarter GDP growth forecast to 1.4%. Meanwhile, both PCE headline and core PCE inflation rates declined in May, in line with expectations. The core PCE price index rose 0.1% from the previous month to its lowest reading since November 2023, strengthening the case for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year. The S&P 500 (SP500) rose 14.16% in the first half of 2024, driven by a rise in technology stocks amid the…