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WVU Doomed By Miscues, OSU’s Gordon

By BOB HERTZEL WV News MORGANTOWN — West Virginia spent its homecoming afternoon shooting itself in the foot and, eventually, one of the bullets wound up hitting the Mountaineers in the heart, leaving them on the short end of a 48-34 loss to Oklahoma State. The Mountaineers have now lost two straight games -- despite scoring 73 points in those two contests -- after running off four wins in a row to get their fan base juiced up that something unexpectedly wonderful might be emerging. And in this game, one in which they showed great heart and courage after losing at Houston nine ...

Watchdog: Deal For 15% Minimum Tax Marred By Loopholes

WASHINGTON (AP) — An ambitious 2021 agreement by more than 140 countries and territories to weed out tax havens and force multinational corporations to pay a minimum tax has been weakened by loopholes and will raise only a fraction of the revenue that was envisioned, a tax watchdog backed by the European Union has warned. The landmark agreement, brokered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%. The idea was to stop multinational corporations, among them Apple and Nike, from using accounting and legal maneuvers to shift ...

Search Continues For Suspect In Fatal Shooting Of Md. Judge

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Maryland judge continued for a fourth day Sunday as authorities completed their search of an area where the suspect’s SUV was found. Officials said Pedro Argote, 49, is suspected of gunning down Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson in his driveway on Thursday, hours after Wilkinson ruled against him in a divorce case. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that the silver Mercedes SUV that Argote was believed to be driving was found in a wooded area in Williamsport, about eight miles (13 ...

Using Israel’s Humanity Against It

Hamas is banking on short memories, lazy journalism and short fuses. The lies it told about the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital event illustrate the war on truth that it conducts simultaneously with sadistic attacks on civilians. Hamas’s attack on Israel constituted an encyclopedia of war crimes: Targeting civilians, rape, parading of corpses, burning people alive in their homes, torture, killing children in front of their parents and vice versa, kidnapping, and more. But Hamas knows that those atrocities will fade quickly from memory. They will be replaced by images of Palestinian civilians ...

Seeking Hope in Midst of Crisis

The October report from the National Center for Education Statistics revealed some serious concerns regarding the 2023-24 academic year, as more than 1,300 K-12 schools across the country are still struggling due to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data collection was completed in mid-August, and two primary findings were that 45% of public schools felt they were stretched thin as a result of being understaffed, and there was difficulty in finding and hiring skilled general elementary and special education teachers. Overall, two-thirds of the schools in the NCES ...

What Kind of Message Is Being Sent by TV’s ‘The Golden Bachelor?’

“The Golden Bachelor” is a popular reality TV show. It opens with a handsome, impeccably groomed 72-year-old adjusting a bow tie. In the background we hear Cat Stevens singing “The Wind,” a sharp hook into the boomer soul. The bachelor finally says: “I’m Gerry. Tonight is the first day of the rest of my life. How lucky would I be to find a second true love in my lifetime?” And ooooh, why wouldn’t an older woman pining for a male partner enter this race? There are reasons, self-respect being high up. Gerry gets dangled as a man who was happily married for 43 ...