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Kim Ng, former Miami Marlins general manager, appointed commissioner of AUSL on April 16, 2025. Athletes Unlimited (AUSL) Athletes Unlimited named Kim Ng their first commissioner of Athletes Unlimited Softball League last week tapping into Ng’s vast experience as a general manager and trail blazer in the MLB. Athletes Unlimited, a company providing women’s professional sports in an untraditional gamified scoring format as well as their weekly leaderboard, has added a traditional softball league format to their roster of offerings that will launch June 7. Ng’s leadership at the helm of the league is accompanied by advisors, general managers and…

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 28: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a protest in front of the … MoreGetty Images With major changes happening at the Department of Education, and mass layoffs happening at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, many student loan borrowers are wondering where they can turn for help if something happens with their student loans. While federal government options are limited, they’re still available. But many borrowers can also seek assistance from their state governments for help with their loans. In fact, over the last decade, many states have added resources to help student loan borrowers and…

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified as part of the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta, saying Mark Zuckerberg saw Instagram as a threat to Facebook and therefore starved his photo-sharing app of resources after acquiring it more than a decade ago. After being asked by an FTC lawyer why he thought Zuckerberg decided to give Instagram less resources, Systrom replied that the Facebook co-founder thought the photo-sharing app was a threat to his social media platform, according to a report by the New York Times. “Mark was not investing in Instagram because he believed we were a threat to their growth,” Systrom,…

VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public Wednesday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with thousands of people filling the central aisle and Swiss Guards standing at attention. Francis’ body will lie in state in the basilica until Saturday’s funeral and burial. Francis died on Monday at age 88. Earlier, the bells of St. Peter’s tolled as his body was transferred from the Vatican hotel where he lived into the basilica, escorted by a procession of solemn cardinals and Swiss Guards through the same piazza where the pontiff had greeted the…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday called for sweeping reforms at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, urging the institutions to abandon what he described as “mission creep” and return to their founding charters focused on macroeconomic stability, trade, and development. Speaking at the Institute of International Finance during the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, Bessent said that “America First does not mean America alone.” He argued that the Trump administration is not looking to abandon international institutions or the global financial system built with American leadership, but rather is making a renewed commitment to U.S.…

As a Hongkonger with a British national (overseas) – BNO – passport who is now living in Britain, I read your editorial about the UK’s evolving position on China with both personal and political weight (The Guardian view on UK-China relations: a dilemma made sharper by Brexit, 16 April). For many of us who left Hong Kong following the imposition of the national security law, the threat from the ruling regime was not abstract – it was immediate, personal and existential.Our migration was not simply a search for better opportunities but a necessary departure from a city whose freedoms were…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish King Frederik X will visit Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, next week to meet with the new prime minister and his government, the royal house said Wednesday.The trip comes weeks after U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited a remote U.S. military base in Greenland and accused Denmark of underinvesting in the strategic Arctic island. President Donald Trump seeks control of mineral-rich Greenland, saying it’s crucial for U.S. security. Trump has not ruled out taking the island by military force, even though Denmark is a NATO ally of the United States.King Frederik X will visit…

The latest earnings report for Tesla was widely expected to show awful results. As it turns out, even the pessimists were too optimistic: Company profits fell a whopping 71% in the first quarter of the year, compared to the same three-month period a year ago. Making matters worse, Tesla has lost roughly 50% of its value from its mid-December peak.In fact, the closer one looks, the worse the details appeared. A New York Times report noted that Tesla actually would have lost money in the first quarter “had it not earned $400 million in interest on cash and investments and…

Nearly 700 koalas have been killed from helicopters in a national park in Victoria in a wildlife cull Australian authorities are under fire following the culling of hundreds of koalas in the state of Victoria.Around 700 koalas have been shot by snipers from helicopters flying over Victoria’s Budj Bim National Park, in an act of euthanasia following a devastating bushfire that scorched over 2,000 hectares of habitat.The fire left many koalas injured, dehydrated, and without food, prompting authorities to initiate the cull in early April as a means to prevent further suffering.Animal welfare organizations have voiced alarm over the wellbeing…

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the administration’s threat to withhold federal funding due to the state refusing to bar male athletes from women’s and girls’ sports. Trump signed an executive order to protect women’s and girls’ sports on February 4. On Tuesday, Bondi sent out a letter warning states that were not in compliance that they were at risk of losing funding. “This Department of Justice will hold accountable states and state entities that violate federal law,” Bondi wrote Tuesday in letters addressed to Maine Gov.…