Voting is habit-forming and high schools are critical for starting that pattern.
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Dutch athletes can hope for a record number of medals at the summer Olympics in Paris this year, according to sports data bureau Nielsen’s Gracenote. With 100 days to go before the games start, Gracenote is putting the Netherlands in fourth place in its virtual medal’s table, with 38 medals across up to 13 sports, two more than in Tokyo three years ago. Last year, the Dutch Olympics committee and sports federation said it had softened its ambitions for the
To kick off the 100-day countdown to the Summer Games in Paris, athletes from Team USA were asked to guess which sport a mime was performing.
“Reform prosecutors” are starting to flounder in California, exposing just how unpopular criminal justice reform is in reality once it moves past the half-baked platitudes of the campaign cycle. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price will soon be facing a recall election, with the Alameda Registrar of Voters confirming that recall supporters secured enough signatures. […]
"Instead of riding at eight miles an hour, I ride at 10," Waimea resident David Giff said, "It's just not the same as a throttle bike where you can run up to 30 miles an hour just just by twisting your wrist, you know?"
There’s yet another TikTok food trend floating around the internet these days, and it involves flattening a croissant until it looks like it’s been run over by a steamroller, before heating it on both sides until it’s crisp and crunchy. Though the technique takes away one of the more delightful aspects of a croissant, which is its delightful and delicate puffy layers, it amplifies the shattering textural qualities of each bite — and TikTok can’t seem to get enough of the idea. In fact, multiple...
If you haven't watched For All Mankind, I get it. With so many streaming services available, it can be challenging to keep track of everything. For an added level of difficulty, For All Mankind is on Apple TV+, which has fewer subscribers than all the streamers you have heard of except Starz. — Read the rest
Government funding for the next Olympic cycle is expected to be reduced, potentially jeopardising medal hauls in Milan and Los Angeles
Faster. Higher. Stronger. Floatier? As times have changed, so, too, has the Olympic program. When Paris first hosted in 1900, croquet and tug-of-war were featured (that was croquet’s only Olympics appearance, while tug-of-war was featured five more times until the Games in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920). Contests of all kinds have come and gone and sometimes returned over the years — a trend that will continue thanks to the International Olympic Committee’s allowing host countries to nominate...
Yahoo Sports announced on Monday Shawn Johnson East’s addition as an Olympic Games correspondent for the upcoming 2024 Summer Games in Paris. Get ready to bring home the gold🥇 Welcome new Olympic Games correspondent @ShawnJohnson to the Yahoo Sports team ⭐️ pic.twitter.com/VI2RK85TH1 — Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) April 15, 2024 “It’s such an honor to be