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Oct. 11—Professors can make or break your college experience.Niche, a data-ranking school website, recently ranked universities with the best professors.Factors contributing to the rankings include student surveys on professors, professor salary index, student-faculty ratio, and more. Read about the different factors and how they impact the rankings.One of the schools that made the ranking was the University of New Mexico at No. 32.Here are the Top 25 schools:Yale University (New Haven, CT)Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)Brown University (Providence, RI)Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)Georgetown University (Washington, DC)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)Columbia University (New York, NY)Emory University (Atlanta, GA)Vanderbilt…

Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics,Americans are like members of a quarrelsome family, so intent on arguing their petty grievances around the kitchen table that they don’t smell the rising smoke from the oven. As our nation fumes and the world burns, neither major party presidential candidate is addressing the lapping flames around us.Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are not simply ignoring our frightening national debt – both vow to ramp it up. Neither candidate has a serious plan to respond to the threats posed by China, Russia, or Iran.The strangling costs of health care, the sharp decline in…

Many voters in rural Minnesota who have voted for Tim Walz in the past may now be going MAGA, according to recent reportage. Is it possible that they have been turned off by Walz’s bizarre performance as Kamala’s running mate or are they just sick of the Biden/Harris economy like so many other Americans? Either way, if Trump somehow manages to win Minnesota this year, the left will have a meltdown to end all meltdowns. It would also be a huge embarrassment to the Harris/Walz ticket, considering that Walz is the sitting governor of the state. FOX News reports: Rural…

During this time of year, most of the break room and Slack conversations at the office have shifted to Fantasy Football, with everyone talking about how their fantasy teams and favorite NFL teams are performing. Travis Kelve improvises with a lateral during the October 7th Monday Night Football game.KC Chiefs Brands have long wanted to be a part of these conversations, just as fantasy football and the NFL season are. A CMO’s dream state usually includes their brand being part of the lexicon of consumer culture, and nothing says that more than the Slack chat or coffee room.  “From logo-emblazoned…

The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), a semi-official organization created by the government of Taiwan, reported last week that at least 40 Taiwanese travelers went missing in communist China over the past year and remain unreachable. SEF Secretary-General Luo Wen-jia said there were about 30 additional cases in which missing Taiwanese had been contacted by his agency. Most of those people had arranged their own “disappearances” for “personal reasons,” or because they were fleeing from the law. Luo gave the example of a 22-year-old Taiwanese man who traveled to China and “disappeared” because he was fleeing from a fraud investigation. Luo…

Multiple reports of Democrats beginning to panic over the state of the race have been reinforced by a slew of swing state polls that show real momentum for former President Trump. As always, I will use the most reliable polling available as an example, and that’s the RealClearPolitics average poll of state polls. Afterward, I’ll explain why Trump’s picking up steam. In Pennsylvania, the state that will likely decide the next president, Trump leads sitting Vice President Kamala Harris by an average of 0.3 points. Of note, though, is that Harris has only led in one of the last seven…

(Bloomberg) — China will allow local governments to issue bonds to buy unsold homes to support the ailing property sector, as it pushes to put a floor under an economic slowdown.Most Read from BloombergThe authorities plan to use special local government bonds and tools to aid the real estate sector, Finance Minister Lan Fo’an announced at a briefing Saturday. He indicated the central government has room to expand spending and promised more efforts to relieve the debt burden of local governments, including by giving a “big” one-off quota to swap their debt with bonds carrying lower interest.“The central government still…

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill.In today’s edition, Capitol Hill coverage veterans Ryan Nobles and Frank Thorp V report from Montana on Donald Trump’s voters will decide whether Sen. Jon Tester wins another term — and whether Democrats can hang onto their Senate majority. Plus, “Meet the Press” moderator breaks down the polling numbers behind Barack Obama’s stern message to Black voters.Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every…

Oct. 11—Come next year, a new title sponsorship between the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta and ExxonMobil will kick into effect.The agreement, set to run 2025-2029, will change the name of the Balloon Fiesta to the ExxonMobil Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.The current Balloon Fiesta is “powered by ExxonMobil,” as the energy company is the sole presenting sponsor. Prior to starting the presenting sponsorship in 2022, Exxon was a regular sponsor for three years.Bart Cahir is a senior vice president at ExxonMobil. He mingled under the ExxonMobil tent on Balloon Fiesta’s opening day. In an interview with the Journal, he said Exxon…

Hungary does not want a direct confrontation with Russia, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said Ukrainian accession into NATO would result in World War III, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has warned. Slovakia, a fellow-member of the US-led military bloc, previously vowed to stonewall Kiev’s candidacy over fears of a conflict with Russia.Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum on Thursday, Szijjarto stated that “Ukraine is at war with Russia. Due to the traditional NATO stance, should Ukraine be brought into the alliance under current circumstances, it would mean the start of World War III.”“We have always stood against…