Federal authorities detained a Tufts graduate student last night outside an off-campus apartment in Somerville, University President Sunil Kumar announced in an email around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Kumar wrote that the university is seeking more information about the cause and circumstances of the arrest. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, is a Turkish national and doctoral candidate in the Eliot-Pearson…
The University of Southern California women’s basketball team is once again a top program in the NCAA, just like they were last season. JuJu Watkins, a rising star in women’s college basketball as a freshman, is in charge of the team. Last year, the Trojans made it to the Elite Eight for the first time…
On Monday, a jury in Colorado rejected a woman’s claim that she was mad when she assaulted her stepson, finding her guilty of murder in the death of her 11-year-old stepson. Over three years after the prosecution said that Letecia Stauch stabbed Gannon Stauch 18 times before striking him in the head and then…
After reconciling with Suns owner Mat Ishbia, Nikola Jokic recorded a triple-double, and Michael Porter Jr. connected on five 3-pointers to help the Denver Nuggets defeat Phoenix 118-102 to take a 3-2 series lead. Joker broke a tie with Wilt Chamberlain for the most by a centre in NBA history with his triple-double of 29…
A former federal prosecutor was found dead Saturday morning at a home in Alexandria, Virginia, authorities said. Officers with the Alexandria Police Department were dispatched to the home at 9:18 a.m. Eastern Time on a report of an unresponsive woman. They arrived to find 43-year-old Jessica Aber, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of…
A fire broke out near the French Pavilion at Disney World in Florida on Saturday evening, sending billows of black smoke into the sky The fire at Walt Disney World Resort’s Epcot theme park near Orlando, Florida, started backstage of the France Pavilion. That section at Epcot is located within the park’s World Showcase,…
Catherine, Princess of Wales, honored Mother Nature to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United Kingdom this year. Sunday, March 30 marks Mother’s Day in the U.K. (Mother’s Day in the United States will be celebrated on Sunday, May 11). The former Kate Middleton penned a touching message for the holiday, which comes one year…
Washington, D.C.’s cherry blossom season has begun, with cherry trees just one step away from peak bloom. The National Park Service, on Sunday, announced the capital’s famed cherry trees have reached “stage 5 – Puffy White” with blossom starting to show.NPS wrote on X, “Now we’re just waiting on them to open.” “Peak Bloom…
Barcelona have the lead against Catalan rivals Girona after a strange sequence of events. Lamine Yamal’s free-kick ended up in the back of the net by way of an enormous deflection. The Blaugrana had applied pressure throughout the first half, but without success, with Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal and Fermin Lopez all trying their…
There is no such thing as too much depth. In baseball, that is usually said related to pitching, but unfortunately for the Atlanta Braves, that will also come into play for the team’s outfield through at least mid-season. With the stunning suspension of prized free agent addition Jurickson Profar for 80 games after testing positive for a banned…