Dr. George French, the president of the university, said Friday that the past two years have been “emotionally and financially difficult on students and their families due to the COVID-19 pandemic.” “That is why we will continue to do all we can to support their efforts to complete their CAU education,” French said in a statement. “We care about students and want to lighten their individual and family’s financial load so they can continue their journey in pursuing and attaining their educational and professional goals,” he added....

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, with Atlanta only revealing Escobar was considered a discovery signing. “Franco is a physical and versatile defender, capable of playing anywhere along the back line,” Atlanta technical director Carlos Bocanegra said in a news release. “He’s a young player who has already featured often in the Argentina Primera Division and he brings a level of toughness that will suit MLS and benefit our club immediately....

Atlanta United names Gerardo Martino as coach Gerardo Martino’s side previously planned to play the first three months of the MLS campaign on the road while awaiting the summer completion of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a multi-purpose venue the team will share with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. The home of the Georgia Tech football team, Bobby Dodd Stadium is a 55,000-seat venue in downtown Atlanta. In a news release, Atlanta United cited a desire “to be as competitive as possible from Day 1” as the rationale behind “playing a normalized schedule with a balanced slate of home games....

City went through 1-0 on aggregate after playing out a goalless draw at the Wanda Metropolitano against the La Liga champions. Atletico pushed City hard in the second half and pegged the Premier League leaders back near their own box for much of proceedings. Antoine Griezmann went agonisingly close with a snapshot from the edge of the area and in the final seconds substitute Angel Correa had a shot from close range parried away by Ederson....

Atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (AVRT) is a common type of SVT and is particularly common in children. What Is AVRT? AVRT is a type of reentrant tachycardia. As is the case with all reentrant SVTs, people with AVRT are born with an abnormal electrical connection in the heart. In AVRT, the extra connection, which is often called an accessory pathway, creates an electrical connection between one of the atria (the upper chambers of the heart) and one of the ventricles (the lower chambers of the heart)....

of its body weight a day, devouring everything from lettuce to mouse droppings to its own dead comrades. Worse, it can also carry rat lungworm, a nasty parasite that burrows into the human brain and causes meningitis, and another that can rupture the intestines. “It crawls into gardens, up walls, over the pavement,” says Silvana Thiengo, a snail expert at Brazil’s Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. “We found it in Copacabana. I mean, Copacabana!...

A portion of the Federal budget was passed by Congress and signed into law at the beginning of the 2019 fiscal year. This partial budget provided funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and within that organization, the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The Indiana University School of Medicine was awarded a $36 million grant from the NIH that’s expected to launch a drug discovery center to accelerate the development of promising treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, which is also a partnership with the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery....

‘RAW’ thoughts Am I the only one who … … thought it was a letdown when Bobby Roode was revealed as the mystery man making his “RAW” debut in the 10-man tag match main event? The way it was built up, viewers had to be expecting a major name, which Roode just isn’t at this point. Roode is a talented wrestler but other than his “Glorious” entrance, there’s just not much reason for fans to be invested in his character....

There has long been a popular conceit that older age automatically excludes people over 80 from joint replacement surgery due to everything from anesthesia complications to the fragility of older bones. But is any of this true, or are there ages when having a joint replacement is unadvised? Factors Considered by Surgeons As a rule, age alone is never a contradiction for any surgery, including a joint replacement. Healthcare providers are far more interested in the overall health of an individual rather than the chronological age....

She will answer questions from readers of the weekly publication Westside Seattle, which is owned by the family of her husband Christopher Robinson. Also available online, the paper is circulated in the Washington state city she is from, as well as neighboring towns, The Seattle Times reported. In 2009, Knox, now 32, and her then boyfriend, Rafaele Sollecito, were convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher two years previously in the Italian town of Perugia where she was studying....

I’d imagine playing someone currently in the news is daunting. What inspired you to take this role? I’m a mimic. I’m never gonna be her. But the trick is always to get the audience to believe that you are her very soon into the show, then they forget about what she really looks like. But oh, God, it was so much fun. In the first episode, I got to do the deposition stuff....

The video was captured on March 20 above Lake Wissota, a 6148-acre lake in Chippewa County in the northern western part of the state. Photographer Justin Patchin, who lives in Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley, created the 40-second-long clip with time-lapse footage he captured of the northern lights dancing above the lake. Coincidentally, the northern lights lit up the Wisconsin sky on the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, after which point the days are longer than the nights....

The Sun’s reporting did not ascertain the nationalities of anyone captured in the recordings, but consumer privacy groups have raised red flags over possible violations of U.S. law for recorded incidents involving U.S. consumers. Marc Rotenberg, the president of the digital privacy watchdog EPIC, told Newsweek that corporations generally can’t get around federal wiretapping laws “by saying ‘we’re just doing testing.’” “The companies claim that recordings only start with the use of an alert word, but there’s lots of evidence that’s not correct,” Rotenberg said of the broader digital assistant market....

The online retailer confirmed that the item, sold by a third-party, had been removed from its store after The Independent first reported on the move. A link to the item sold by Onlybabycare that was shared on social media also now leads to an error page. Journalist Yashar Ali, who was written for New York Magazine and HuffPost, was the first to share a picture of the children’s T-shirt....

Video footage from the woman’s home in Charlotte, North Carolina, shows a man ringing the doorbell and speaking with the resident. McCall allegedly asked the woman if she was in possession of a package that she should not have. She said she wasn’t and then closed the door. The person in the video then walked away from the home only to return a few minutes later and ask again....

Stephnie White was abducted on Niagara Falls Boulevard in North Tonawanda at around 7 p.m. on Monday night, according to the North Tonawanda Police Department. Police described her as a white female, aged approximately 17, with short brown hair and brown eyes. She is around 4 feet and 10 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. The girl was last seen wearing a black Deadpool sweatshirt with red and black pajama pants and black and white high-top sneakers....

Heard recently sat down with Today’s Savannah Guthrie for her first post-trial interview following her high-profile court battle with Depp, who sued her for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post, in which she said she was a domestic abuse survivor—a claim the jury found to be false and defamatory. Following a six-week trial, the jury on June 1 awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages....

Heard joined fellow actor Zachary Quinto at The Trevor Project’s 2011 Trevor Live! on December 4, 2011, in Los Angeles to deliver speeches about the young LGBTQ lives that TrevorSpace had saved through their work. TrevorSpace provides support for LGBTQ youth aged 13-24 and also has a suicide prevention hotline, which the stars spoke about when they took the stage at storied venue the Hollywood Palladium. In the video, Star Trek actor Quinto was the first of the two to speak, telling the story of a teenage boy living with autism who had lived through multiple suicide attempts....

Following the highly publicized blockbuster trial between the actress and her ex-husband Johnny Depp, both parties were found liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other. The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages and only $2 million to Heard, and since the jury’s decision, Heard has fought for a retrial, citing that there were several issues with the June ruling. On Friday, Heard’s insurance company, New York Marine and General Insurance Co....

The newly released documents revealed a number of details which were prevented from being mentioned during the recent defamation trial, which Depp ultimately won in Fairfax Country, Virginia. The unsealed documents have shed new light on Depp’s severed finger, revealed personal messages between Depp and Marilyn Manson, and suggested that Depp’s team wanted to use nude photos of Heard as evidence. The documents also revealed that when Heard and Depp were going through divorce proceedings in 2016, she had the opportunity to claim half of Depp’s income from his latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie....