Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan listens to a question at the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday in Washington, D.C. The Trump administration will no longer allow migrant families apprehended at the border to enter the U.S. under the immigration policy commonly known as “catch and release.” The policy change was announced Monday by…
Speaking to labor officials in Iowa this week, Bernie Sanders unveiled a new twist to his “Medicare for All” plan. His centrist Democratic rivals pounced, accusing the original champion of government-run health care of softening his signature policy in order to placate angry union members. Nonsense, his campaign responded. So what’s the deal? The new…
In this image released by the U.S. Coast Guard, a helicopter hovers over the overturned Golden Ray cargo vessel in St. Simons Sound, Ga., on Monday. Twenty of the 24 people on board had been rescued as of Sunday afternoon, when crews were forced to suspend the search because of safety concerns related to a…
President Donald Trump on Monday trashed former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford’s newly announced bid for the Republican presidential nomination, dredging up Sanford’s years-old extra-marital affair and mocking his defeat in the 2018 midterm elections. “When the former Governor of the Great State of South Carolina, @MarkSanford, was reported missing, only to then…
Devin Sloane (right) arrives at federal court in Boston on Tuesday for sentencing in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Sloane admitted to paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as a fake water polo player. Updated 8:35 p.m. ET A California businessman was sentenced on Tuesday to four months…
Billionaire activist Tom Steyer’s campaign rolled out a seven-figure television ad campaign promoting his nascent campaign, the largest single television ad buy in the Democratic presidential primary. The pair of ads are backed up by $1.4 million dollars in spending, according to details of the ad campaign shared first with POLITICO. They will run nationally…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The NFCA is proud to unveil its Diamond of Ethics, which will replace the long-standing current Code of Ethics. The Association’s Ethics Committee, along with Executive Director Carol Bruggeman, President Karen Weekly, Kelley Fisher (NFCA Special Projects) and Legal Counsel Samantha Ekstrand, created a new document that focuses on four key principles –…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Olivia Cato of Northgate North High School (Newnan, Ga.) was named MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week for her outstanding play during the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6. Cato stymied her opponent’s bats tossing three shutouts, scattering six hits, holding her opponents to a .080 average and striking out 35 over…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Over 8,000 student-athletes (8,161), a first in NFCA history, were named 2019 Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athletes, the Association announced on Wednesday afternoon. Missouri Baptist University (NAIA) captured the top team GPA amongst college programs, while Frankfort Community High School (Ill.) and Santa Gertrudis Academy (Texas) posted the top marks in the weighted and unweighted…
OKLAHOMA CITY – USA Softball announced its 2020 U.S. Olympic Softball Team roster on Sunday morning. The 15-person roster and three replacement players led by head coach Ken Eriksen will compete next July at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, Japan. “This has been an incredible process that has taken years of evaluation about great people that play…