Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the West, particularly the United States, of manipulating its national currency rates as the country gears up for elections this weekend. The lira slid nearly six percent last Friday, prompting Erdogan to call for a crackdown on market “manipulations” and Turkish regulators to open a probe into investment banks….
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Guiding Indiana Wesleyan University to its second straight NAIA Championships appearance and school-record 58 wins, head coach Steve Babinski and his staff have been recognized by their peers as the 2018 NFCA NAIA National Coaching Staff of the Year. It marks the first honor for the program led by Babinski, along with…
TORONTO — Student protesters were thrown out of Ontario’s legislature Tuesday morning after unfurling a banner to demand free tuition and hurling insults at Premier Doug Ford. “Doug Ford can kiss my a**. You’re a f**king cracker,” one woman yelled from the public gallery at Queen’s Park. Security escorted five people out of the building,…
The US could overtake Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil exporter by 2024, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted. In its annual oil outlook, the agency forecast rapid growth of American oil supplies to the global market in the next five years, as output from the country’s shale fields continues to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The NFCA is pleased to announce that Southern Illinois University-Carbondale associate head coach Jen Sewell is the 2018 recipient of the Association’s Donna Newberry “Perseverance” Award, which recognizes an NFCA member coach who has demonstrated extraordinary strength of will and character in the fight to overcome a physical, mental, or social adversity…
Winnipeg’s airport is now the home of North America’s first ever autonomous snowplow. Richardson International Airport collaborated with Manitoba companies Northstar Robotics and Airport Technologies to create the plow, which was unveiled Thursday. Otto clears snow by following GPS routes and moving its blades according to what has been pre-programmed into it via iPad. The…
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a ban on the import of more than 50 Ukrainian goods, worth $510 million. The move comes in response to recently prolonged Kiev’s embargo on Russian products. The list, published by the Russian government on Saturday, includes mainly industrial goods, agricultural products, raw materials, and food. The products…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Oneida’s (N.Y.) Kyra Shlotzhauer, Superior’s (Wisc.) Mady Stariha, White House (Tenn.)-Heritage’s Alyssa Arden, Clyde’s (Texas) Peyton Lee and Tooele’s (Utah) Amber Lujan were selected MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Players of the Week for games played the week of May 14-20. East RegionOver three games, Shlotzhauer was 10-for-11 (.909) with two doubles, three…
President Donald Trump has told Apple to make its products in the US instead of China. It comes shortly after the Silicon Valley giant’s lowered revenue forecast crashed the market, but Trump says he’s not concerned about it. “Apple makes its product in China. I told [Apple CEO] Tim Cook, who’s a friend of mine,…
MONTREAL — In what is being described as a major defeat for the tobacco industry, the Quebec Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a landmark judgment ordering three companies to pay billions of dollars in damages to Quebec smokers. Imperial Tobacco, JTI-Macdonald and Rothmans-Benson & Hedges had appealed a ruling that found the companies chose…