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The Board of Trustees’ decision on Thursday to add Autherine Lucy Foster’s name to the building comes 66 years after she first enrolled at the school. Foster, 92, attended the university for three days in 1956, but her attendance led to riots and protests and she was expelled, according to The Crimson White, the University of Alabama’s student newspaper. She earned her master’s from the school in 1992 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2019....

It was no different at the Senior Bowl on Tuesday night. Alabama’s Nick Saban, Penn State’s James Franklin, Texas’ Steve Sarkisian and Auburn’s Bryan Harsin all spoke at the Senior Bowl Summit at Saenger Theatre in an event hosted by Kirk Herbstreit, and all four took turns giving their takes on the two issues that are reshaping college football. MORE: Caleb Williams’ transfer to USC will accelerate Lincoln Riley’s rebuild...

It may surprise you, but some recent discourse has discouraged even mentioning student struggle. A few weeks ago, a New York Times article asked whether it might hurt children and families to assess student learning, considering the year we’ve all had. Could an entire generation be stigmatized, the article pondered, by measuring their learning deficits? It’s a question many people are asking, but it’s the wrong one. This coming school year offers us an opportunity to reboot our instruction, to find an approach that reaches all students....

Trump effectively ruled out bringing back Mike Pence as his potential running mate, telling the Washington Examiner this week that he doesn’t think people would “accept that.” “I haven’t spoken to him in a long time,” the former president said. Trump said that they had a good relationship, “except for the very important factor that took place at the end,” which was likely a reference to Pence’s refusal to reject Electoral College votes....

After Hillary Clinton, Warner had assembled the largest campaign apparatus of any Dem and secured some of the party’s top talent, including media consultant Jim Margolis and strategist Jim Jordan. Aides had been talking up his fund-raising prowess and grass-roots network. But intimates knew that Warner had grown increasingly unsure about the prospect of running since returning from a family vacation to Italy this past summer. In recent weeks he’d told several friends he had “real doubts” about the race, and his inner circle knew to expect a make-or-break decision on Columbus Day....

MORE: Week 14 in photos | Week 14 scoreboard | Mich/OSU brawl | Sumlin new deal Luckily for viewers, only the shoes are designed in the zigzag pattern. The Aggies will be wearing all-white uniforms and their regular maroon helmets. The winner of the Aggies' showdown against the Tigers will earn a spot in the SEC Championship.

Preparing to begin a general manager search last summer, Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon already had a long relationship with Van Wagenen and figured the powerful player agent could offer some quality candidates thanks to his vast network of contacts developed during nearly two decades of negotiations. Turned out, the more they talked, Wilpon started to think Van Wagenen himself was the right man for the job — despite his unorthodox background....

Aguero enjoyed his most prolific season to date at the Etihad Stadium last term, scoring 33 times across all competitions, but found himself to be the focus of constructive criticism from Guardiola earlier in the campaign. The Catalan boss maintained he would help the 29-year-old to improve his overall contribution to City’s play and eventually expressed glowing satisfaction in this regard. Dani Alves agrees Manchester City two-year deal However, that came after a mid-season interlude when the Argentina international lost his starting berth to Gabriel Jesus....

Sanchez has been a purported target for City and Guardiola, who took the Chile star to Barcelona in 2011, throughout the close season. The 28-year-old told reporters in his homeland over the weekend of his desire to play in the Champions League – a competition that will feature City but not Arsenal next term – but Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger maintained this week that Sanchez would not be allowed to leave despite entering the final year of his contract....

Look at Cam Newton as Brooks lightly places two hands on his shoulder. Newton's been in a lot of commercials, but this might be his best acting job yet. (H/T GIFD Sports)

From robots to machine learning, there are plenty of amazing DIY projects for the kitchen. 1. Raspberry Pi Pico Stove Monitor Using a combination of sensors alongside machine learning, this small circuit will detect when your food is burning on the stove. Considering how many injuries and death are caused by fires in home kitchens every year, it’s a fantastic use for the inexpensive Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller. What makes this project particularly exciting is the use of Sensor Fusion on the Edge Impulse platform....

Companies are increasingly using AI to craft and aim ads for users. A new essay in The Atlantic argues that the use of AI for advertising is “poisoning” society, and some experts agree that there are reasons for concern. “Data getting in the hands of the wrong people can cause personal harm to real people,” AI expert Sameer Maskey told Lifewire in an email interview. Mind Control? Ayad Akhtar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, recently attacked the practice of AI advertising in his essay in The Atlantic, suggesting the things we like are no longer up to us but are instead chosen for us so companies can profit....

Many evangelical Christians agree that combating AIDS is “a moral imperative,” as the aide puts it, but they shun a chief AIDS-prevention tool: the condom. Believing condoms encourage promiscuity, they prefer abstinence-until-marriage education instead. The Bush plan, however, relies on both. Bush’s new policy won mostly glowing reviews from the global AIDS community. “The fact that he has said this is extraordinarily good news,” says Sandra Thurman, president of the International AIDS Trust....

HIV is a virus that causes immunodeficiency (the loss of immune function). It progressively kills disease-fighting white blood cells, called CD4 T-cells, leaving the body vulnerable to an ever-widening range of opportunistic infections (OIs). The types of OIs a person can get corresponds to how much the immune system has been destroyed. The three stages of HIV infection are: Primary infection Clinical latency Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) This article describes the possible signs and symptoms of HIV at the different stages of infection....

They unanimously decided to Award the ‘Best Coach Award’ to Derrick Pereira. Pereira was chosen over three other Coaches which were suggested to the Committee by the AIFF’s Technical Team, the AIFF General Secretary and I-League CEO. The Committee also endorsed the idea of having an Award for the Best Junior Player (U-23) and an Award for the Best Referee and Assistant Referee from the 2013-14 Season of the I-League....

According to a report, AIFF is ready to ‘honour’ the contract with IMG-Reliance which has a clause to make ISL the “most senior and prestigious football league in India”. The contract refers to a 15-year Master Rights Agreement (MRA) whose primary signatories were the AIFF and IMG-Reliance. Currently, it is constituted in the name of Reliance based Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), in which broadcaster Star India also holds stakes....

Earhardt, 44, who has been working for Fox News since 2007, made the claim during a segment of Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning when the hosts were discussing Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s positive COVID test. Following the announcement about Abbott on Tuesday evening, the governor’s office said that he was receiving Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment and was showing no symptoms of COVID. Speaking about the governor’s diagnosis on Wednesday, Earhardt said Abbott “is in our prayers this morning because he announced that he tested positive for COVID yesterday....

Kelley served in the Air Force for nearly five years before he was discharged in 2014 for bad conduct. He was convicted for domestic violence for assaulting his former wife and stepson. The Air Force reportedly failed to fingerprint and submit the prints to the FBI on four separate occasions, and then failed to submit the final report on the case twice. A felony conviction in the FBI database would prevent Kelley from purchasing firearms from licensed dealers....

Joshua Black, 44, from Leeds, has been charged with violent entry and entering restricted grounds during the riot on January 6, according to federal court documents made public. Federal officials say an anonymous individual called the FBI on January 7 and admitted to breaking into the Capitol and entering the Senate chamber. After the phone number was linked to Black, he voluntarily met with FBI agents and admitted to filming the videos....

Larondrick Macklin, 31, was detained by officers from the Decatur Police Department on August 1 after they responded to a domestic dispute call at the 2800-block of Wimberly Drive, Decatur. He was discovered with burns on his face and taken to a local hospital for treatment. According to local media outlet Al.com, Macklin is the ex-boyfriend of the female victim and had been armed with a pistol during the incident....