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Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman, Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips, and Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark.Porter Binks | Matt Kelley | Stacy Revere | Getty ImagesCollege sports leaders are crunching the numbers as they head toward payments for players and new avenues for revenue growth.Speaking at CNBC Sport and Boardroom’s Game Plan conference on Tuesday, Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman, Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips and Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark addressed the NCAA’s $2.8 billion settlement that’s enabled paying players directly and the rollout of player revenue sharing.”Revenues have never been greater,” Phillips said. “Expenses for our schools also…

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi police on Wednesday awaited autopsy results for a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, in a case that has ignited strong emotions in a state with a history of racist violence.The 21-year-old student was found near the campus pickleball courts early Monday. While police have said they saw no evidence of foul play, his family is demanding answers and has hired prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump.Campus police Chief Michael Peeler released little new information about the investigation at a news conference, calling the death an “isolated incident” and insisting…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to call two different houses his “principal residence” at the same time — a similar claim to the one that President Donald Trump cited when he tried to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, according to a report Wednesday.Documents show that on the same day in September 2007, Bessent agreed that homes in both Bedford Hills, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, each would be his principal residence, Bloomberg reported.Cook signed mortgage agreements declaring that houses in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Atlanta were each her principal residences, according to prior reports. Cook signed those documents…

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president lifted emergency rule and removed the suspension of a state governor and lawmakers in oil-rich Rivers State on Wednesday after six months of emergency rule in response to a protracted political crisis and oil pipeline vandalism, according to a statement on social media.The choice to impose emergency rule was meant “to arrest the drift toward anarchy in Rivers State,” said President Bola Tinubu in a statement defending the choice.“This is undoubtedly a welcome development for me and a remarkable achievement for us. I therefore do not see why the state of emergency should exist…

House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Democrats in Congress on Wednesday of inserting “partisan political preferences” into the government funding fight, and said they are risking a shutdown if they don’t drop their demands.”It doesn’t make any sense, and they’re going to lose that battle,” Johnson said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” of his Democratic colleagues.Democrats have zeroed in on the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced tax credits as their central demand in negotiations over a bill to fund the government after Sept. 30, when current funding expires.House Republicans on Tuesday released text of a stopgap bill that would fund the government through…

The European Commission has announced a proposal to suspend free trade with Israel and sanction two Israeli ministers, in measures that would represent a major blow to Israel-EU relations. “The horrific events taking place in Gaza on a daily basis must stop,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday after presenting the proposal to the EU Council. “There needs to be an immediate ceasefire, unrestrained access for all humanitarian aid, and the release of all hostages held by Hamas.” The move comes a day after Israeli forces launched a ground offensive on Gaza City and a major UN investigation…

The board decided to appoint Russell Martin in the summer, and they’re going to back him for as long as they possibly can. But when you look at the fans’ reaction over the last few weeks, it’s reached a tipping point with them, and I don’t see any way back for Martin right now. You’re now looking at a situation where it’s going to turn on Chief Executive Officer Patrick Stewart and Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell. I was at Ibrox on Saturday – it was toxic. But for me, listening to a lot of the Rangers fans, they feel as…

President and CEO of Frontier Airlines, Barry Biffle attends The Future of Everything presented by the Wall Street Journal at Spring Studios on May 17, 2022, in New York City.Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesFrontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle fired back at his counterpart at United Airlines who said the deep-discount model in the U.S. is dead.”That’s cute,” Biffle said Wednesday at the Skift Global Forum, a travel conference in New York. “If he’s good at math he would understand that we have a [flight] oversupply issue in the United States.”Biffle’s comments were a response to United…

The exterior of the Providence School Department headquarters in Providence, RI on April 25, 2019. Lane Turner | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit alleging that Rhode Island’s student loan forgiveness program for teachers of color discriminates on the basis of race.Under the Providence Public School District initiative, “new teachers can receive student-loan repayments,” the complaint filed on Tuesday said. “The catch: white teachers are not eligible.”The move is the latest in the Trump administration’s efforts to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, policies across the country.More from Personal Finance:Inflation…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Doctors for former President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that they detected early-stage cancer in skin lesions removed from the 70-year-old politician following his conviction last week on attempted coup charges.Bolsonaro, under house arrest in Brasilia until his sentence is finalized, has been to hospital twice since Thursday’s court verdict. He went to the DF Star hospital Sunday to have eight lesions removed for testing, and again on Tuesday because of vomiting and low blood pressure before being released Wednesday.Results showed early-stage skin cancer in two of the lesions, doctors said in a statement Wednesday, adding…