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Deion Sanders held a meeting with his new support staff at the University of Colorado, and wanted to get a feel from all departments on how to improve the culture of the football program.Sanders made one of his main goals clear during the discussion.A member of the school’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion leadership team attended the roundtable and mentioned the goal of her program. She told the coach that her job is “creating an atmosphere where student athletes and staff of all ethnicities feel comfortable.”Before she could finish, Sanders replied, “Creating an atmosphere where Black folks feel good — just…

Hindu and Buddhist leaders want a New York brewery to change the name of its Nirvana IPA, complaining that the moniker is disrespectful to their beliefs. “Upset Hindus and Buddhists are urging Cooperstown, NY based Ommegang to apologize and withdraw its ‘Nirvana’ beer,” according to a statement issued by Rajan Zed, president of Universal Society of Hinduism and Buddhist minister, Matthew Fisher. Ommegang brewery in Cooperstown, NY was asked to “withdraw” its Nirvana beer.Ommegang Brewery The men of cloth said slapping the word ‘Nirvana’ on a beer is “deeply trivializing” of the sacred term and “equating it with alcohol was…

An aluminum coil stands in a warehouse awaiting transport, at an Alcoa World Alumina Australia smelting plant, partially owned by Alumina Ltd., in Point Henry, Australia.Carla Gottgens | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading.Discover Financial Services — Shares of Discover Financial Services slid 6.2% after the credit card company posted quarterly earnings. The firm reported earnings per share of $3.77 on $3.73 billion in revenue where analysts expected earnings of $3.66 per share and $3.66 billion in revenue, according to Refinitiv. The bank also boosted its provision for credit losses compared to the prior…

The Department of Justice and FBI on Wednesday announced a civil rights inquiry into a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, that preceded the death of a Black man.Tyre Nichols, 29, died three days after being taken to a hospital in critical condition following the Jan. 7 stop. The Memphis Police Department said the case was referred to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation the next day, and an internal investigation was opened into the incident. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Tennessee announced Wednesday that the FBI’s Memphis field office and the Civil Rights Division of the Department…

The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday disqualified an important coalition member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government from serving as a minister. In a 10-1 ruling, the court said Aryeh Deri’s appointment as a minister in the new coalition government was “extremely unreasonable.”Deri is leader of the Shas party, a religious party mostly made up of Sephardic Jews. Shas has the second-most seats in Netanyahu’s coalition government with 11, and if they were to leave the government, Israelis would likely have to go back to the polls.Deri is currently serving as the minister of health and interior affairs and will…

Rep. George Santos’ late mother was nowhere near the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, immigration records show, despite his claims that the terror attack caused her death. Fatima A.C.H. Devolder was in her native Brazil for the entirety of 2001 — meaning she could not have been working in Lower Manhattan on 9/11, according to the records obtained by The Forward. The US Citizen and Immigration Services recorded Devolder as coming to the US in 1985 — three years before she gave birth to the future congressman — on a Seasonal Agricultural Workers visa. Devolder — who had…

Most of the UK is set for some icy temperatures tonight as the cold snap continues, with many regions plunging into the negatives and some even reaching an eye-watering -6CA cold snap continues to bring blistering weather to the UK and tonight some regions could see temperatures as low as -6C. The Met Office has issued further yellow weather warnings for snow and ice, lasting until Thursday, as they warn that disruptions from wintery showers are still likely. As temperatures continue to plummet, the UK Health Security Agency have also expanded their Level 3 Cold Weather Alert as they predict…

You really do learn something new every day. Take it from Tianna Robillard, the girlfriend of Cardinals offensive lineman Cody Ford, who chronicled her latest discovery on TikTok – when she learned her NFL beau had to shell out more than $1,300 to keep some of his NFL gear after the season. “Today’s the day I found out that they don’t get their jerseys for free or their helmet,” Robillard said in the clip, which featured the 26-year-old Ford holding up his Cardinals apparel. Warning: Explicit language Tianna Robillard, the girlfriend of Cardinals offensive lineman Cody Ford, shared in a…

CNN  —  Wes Moore, an Army veteran and former nonprofit executive, was sworn in Wednesday as Maryland’s first Black governor. He’s the third Black person to be elected governor in US history. “It’s impossible not to think about our past and our path. We’re blocks away from the Annapolis docks, where so many enslaved people arrived in this country against their will,” Moore said in his inaugural speech after being introduced by Oprah Winfrey, who endorsed him during the election. “And we are standing in front of a capitol that was built by their hands. We have made uneven and…

The Federal Election Commission has tossed out claims by the Republican National Committee that Google’s spam filters in Gmail are illegally biased against conservatives, according to an agency letter obtained by CNN. The decision resolves a joint FEC complaint filed last year spearheaded by the RNC that alleged Gmail’s automated filters had sent Republican fundraising emails to spam at a higher rate than for Democratic candidates during the 2020 election cycle. The RNC didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The FEC decision to dismiss the complaint and close the case is the latest defeat for Republicans who have…