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A Texas A&M committee agreed that the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity.The internal committee ruled that the university didn’t follow proper procedures and didn’t prove there was good cause to fire Melissa McCoul, who was a senior lecturer in the English department with over a decade of teaching experience. Republican lawmakers, including Gov. Greg Abbott, had called for her termination after seeing the video.The committee unanimously voted earlier this week that “the summary dismissal of…

 KUWAIT: The World Summit Awards (WSA), a United Nations initiative, has selected “Al-Hisba” platform to represent the State of Kuwait in the Business and Trade Category for 2025 in recognition of its role in developing digital real estate solutions and upgrading the level of transparency in the local market.Speaking to KUNA on this selection, Khaled Al-Otaibi, the general manager of Al-Hisba real estate platform, said that the move was a national achievement that reflects the confidence of government bodies and the financial sector in the real estate data provided by his platform.” Al-Hisba’s Deputy General Manager Muneera Al-Mutairi Al-Hisba, in…

Nov 22, 2025, 06:01 AM ETPaul Pogba is set to return to professional football for the first time in two years, having served a four-year doping ban that was reduced 18 months on appeal, which meant he could play again from March 2025.Pogba, 32, will now be included in the AS Monaco squad for the first time to face Rennes on Saturday and the plan is for him to play a few minutes, sources told ESPN on Thursday.But, having last featured in a game on Sept. 3, 2023, for Juventus against Empoli, what has the former world-record transfer holder and…

 KUWAIT: 1980 — Kuwait Society for Advancement of Arab Children was established as an NGO aimed at developing early childhood education in the Arab world.1990 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah met with US President George Bush in the Saudi city of Jeddah.1999 — Kuwait First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah inaugurated the Free Trade Zone, designed to boost contribution of private sector to national economy. The FTZ included office buildings, warehouses and an exhibition hall.1999 — A team of Kuwaiti and British archeologists announced discovery of graves, some dated back to the Bronze Age,…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Several thousand people braved cold weather and rain in Serbia’s capital on Saturday to march against violence targeting university students behind a year of street protests that have shaken autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic ‘s rule in the Balkan country.The march was held on the day when last year a group of pro-government supporters attacked drama students during a commemorative protest. The attack triggered nationwide blockades of faculty buildings and almost daily rallies drawing tens of thousands of people.Led by drummers, the whistle-blowing crowd on Saturday marched through Belgrade carrying huge dummy heads symbolizing the pro-government attackers.…

“There has been a lot of talk about where we are at as a team – something else that is part and parcel of being at a club like Liverpool – but we know this better than anyone. Just as we were not perfect last season when we became champions and just as we knew we needed a lot of late goals to win our early games this season, we recognise that in a lot of our recent fixtures our biggest issue has been being on the wrong side of the small margins.”This was even true of our defeat against…

Nov 22, 2025, 02:41 AM ETThomas Frank has brushed off the topic of one-time summer target Eberechi Eze ahead of Tottenham’s trip to rivals Arsenal.Spurs were set to secure a major statement signing in August when they made a move for England playmaker Eze, but the transfer was hijacked at the last minute by north London rivals Arsenal.Tottenham instead switched focus to Xavi Simons and although Eze has only two goals and three assists in 17 appearances for Arsenal, all eyes will be on the ex-Crystal Palace talisman before Sunday’s clash at the Emirates Stadium.Frank joked: “Who’s Eze? Very good…

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s, the first known time the new pontiff removed a bishop accused of abuse.A one-line statement from the Vatican said Leo had accepted the resignation of Cádiz Bishop Rafael Zornoza, 76. It didn’t say why, but Zornoza submitted his resignation to the pope last year when he turned 75, the normal retirement age for bishops.It hadn’t been accepted though until the El País newspaper reported earlier this month that Zornoza…

Cambridge Dictionary named “parasocial” as Word of the Year for 2025.Francesco Carta Fotografo | Moment | Getty ImagesAI chatbots, Taylor Swift, and social media influencers all played a part in deciding Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, 2025: “parasocial.” Parasocial — revealed by the global dictionary on Tuesday as its word of the year — refers to the connection a person feels to an online personality ranging from celebrities to podcasters, and even artificial intelligence. “Parasocial relationship is when we think we know someone, or we feel very close to someone who’s in fact, a person we’ve never met, like…

LONDON (AP) — The publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail has entered exclusive talks to buy Telegraph Media Group in a deal that would link two news groups that have traditionally supported the right-leaning Conservative Party.Daily Mail and General Trust plc said on Saturday that the talks were designed to finalize the terms of a 500 million-pound ($654-million) deal to buy the Telegraph from an Abu Dhabi-backed venture known as Redbird IMI.The proposed transaction comes after concerns about foreign ownership of British news organizations stalled Redbird IMI’s efforts to take control of the Daily Telegraph and its sister Sunday publication two…