Former Lobo Frerichs earns spot on U.S. Olympic team

yan Kang) EUGENE, Ore. — Former Lobo and NCAA record holder Courtney Frerichs ran her way onto the U.S. Olympic team on Thursday night, taking second place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Frerichs clocked a personal best time of 9:20.29. “This year couldn’t have gone more perfect,” Frerichs said in a post-race interview broadcast on...

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White people are aging the U.S. population

The most common age for white people is decades older than the most common age among minorities, according to Census Bureau data. In 2015, more white Americans were 55 years old than any other age, according to a Pew analysis of the census data released Thursday. For comparison, among all racial groups, 24-year-olds outnumbered every other age, Pew reported. The...

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Do You Own Your Own Fingerprints?

These days, many of us regularly feed pieces of ourselves into machines for convenience and security. Our fingerprints unlock our smartphones, and companies are experimenting with more novel biometric markers—voice, heartbeat, grip—as ID for banking and other transactions. But there are almost no laws in place to control how companies use such information. Nor is...

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Obama Administration Joint Effort With Corporations Can Resettle Refugees Limitlessly

The White House announced last week that it is launching a “Call to Action” asking private businesses to help with the resettlement of refugees. This could be done without regard to the government cap of 85,000 total refugees, including 10,000 Syrian refugees, in 2016. Fifteen founding corporations have teamed up with the Obama administration on the effort. These are:...

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5 PR Infographics To Go GaGa Over

The age of the infographic is upon us in full swing. Want the latest PR trends, stats and comparisons? You can’t beat these colorful, vibrant images to inform and delight the eye and give insight into the constantly evolving world of online marketing, public relations and the channels that keep both disciplines interesting. Here are 5 we found especially awesome: 1....

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German agency accuses Iran of trying to buy nuclear technology after 2015 deal

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Will Americans elect a 'congenital liar' president?

Does Hillary Clinton possess the integrity and honesty to be president of the United States? Or are those quaint and irrelevant considerations in electing a head of state in 21st-century America? These are the questions put on the table by the report from FBI Director James Comey on what his agents unearthed in their criminal investigation of the Clinton email...

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Climate change chief Christiana Figueres enters race to head UN

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Jared Kushner: The Donald Trump I Know

My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite. It’s that simple, really. Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he’s not a racist. Despite the best efforts of his political opponents and a large swath of the media to hold Donald Trump accountable for the utterances of even the most fringe of his supporters—a standard to which no other candidate is ever held—the worst that his...

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Donald Trump says he took in $51 million for his campaign

CINCINNATI (AP) — Celebrating new success in fundraising, Donald Trump says he took in $51 million for his campaign and allied Republicans in recent weeks, a huge jump from his previously lackluster figures though still well shy of Hillary Clinton's money machine. Trump also appeared to be moving closer to choosing a vice presidential running mate Wednesday, though...

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The History of the 4th of July

On July 4, 1776, the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on July 4th, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event. Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia...

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To Spin Or Not To Spin

To Spin or Not to Spin The profession of public relations has long had to deal with a certain duality of nature. On one hand, public relations is seen as a connector between companies, individuals, causes, products and people – the process of communicating throughout cultures beyond borders and across all sorts of channels in positive ways. However, PR also has an ugly cousin that people associate with on an almost more visceral level –...

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Obama Will Need His Oratory Powers to Sell Globalization

WASHINGTON — When President Obama travels to North Carolina and Europe this week, he will press an argument that could define foreign policy in the last six months of his presidency: that Americans and Europeans must not forsake their open, interconnected societies for the nativism and nationalism preached by Donald J. Trump or Britain’s Brexiteers. Few presidents...

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