Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is redirecting nearly $500 million in federal funding toward historically Black colleges and tribal colleges, a one-time investment covered primarily by cuts to other colleges serving large numbers of minority students.The Education Department announced the funding boost days after cutting $350 million from other grants, mostly from programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of Hispanic students. Agency leaders said those grants were unconstitutional because they’re available only to colleges with certain minority enrollment thresholds.Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the changes will redirect money away from “from ineffective and discriminatory programs toward those…

The Associated Press national player of the week in football for Week 3 of the season:Mario Craver, Texas A&MThe Mississippi State transfer posted career highs with 207 yards on seven catches, including an 86-yard touchdown, in the Aggies’ 41-40 win at Notre Dame.Craver is the nation’s leading receiver after amassing over 100 yards in a third straight game. He’s averaging 147.5 yards per game and 22.2 per catch and has four TDs.He scored the Aggies’ first points against Notre Dame when he got past his defender to make a catch at the A&M 30, broke through three would-be tacklers at…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Ever since wildfires destroyed Lahaina two years ago, hundreds of students have struggled mentally — and not all have received the help they need. The Hawaii Department of Education estimates more than a third of Maui students lost a family member, sustained a serious injury or had a parent lose a job after the fires, which killed 102 people and damaged more than 3,300 properties in Lahaina. Two years later, many in Lahaina are ready to return to normal. But therapists say students’ mental health challenges continue to mount. The Associated Press is collaborating with Honolulu…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will undergo surgery on his injured left toe and is expected to be out for three months, a person with knowledge of the situation said Monday.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Bengals are not expected to make an announcement until coach Zac Taylor’s news conference later Monday.It is Burrow’s third major injury in his six seasons since being the top overall pick in the 2020 draft and a major blow to Cincinnati, which is off to its first 2-0 start since 2018 and has postseason aspirations…

Last month, in Japan, venture capitalist Deedy Das was supposed to be off the grid, focused solely on proposing to his girlfriend. Two nights into the trip, the deal flow found him anyway.A founder he’d been getting to know over eight months texted to say he was kicking off a raise. Other investors were circling, but the founder wanted Das and his firm, Menlo Ventures, at the table. So between temple visits and kaiseki meals — and once when he told his girlfriend he was soaking at the onsen — Das coordinated with colleagues back home.The day after he returned…

Jackson Stokes, the 26-year-old cofounder of TrainLoop, cares about his health. Next to his fridge, Stokes showed off his apartment’s stack of supplements. Inside the fridge, he had a rotisserie chicken.”Usually we just eat a lot of salads with stuff on top of that,” he said. He pulled out a clear drawer, where he said he keeps “a lot of extra protein from Costco.”Stokes seems to be eating his protein: By the time he sent a photo of his fridge to Business Insider, the rotisserie chicken and clear drawer contents were gone.The TrainLoop cofounders pay themselves “just enough for healthcare,”…

TOKYO (AP) — Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke the pole vault world record for the 14th time Monday night, clearing 6.30 meters to capture his third world championship.Duplantis, who grew up in Louisiana but competes for his mother’s native Sweden, easily won his 49th straight meet and fifth straight major title, including Olympics, then kept the crowd around for another drama-rich half-hour to watch him go for the record.He cleared his top height (20 feet, 8 inches) on his third and final try — the bar still bouncing but not falling as he leaped off the mat and jumped into second-place…

At the defense tech and data juggernaut Palantir’s customer conference in early September, CEO Alex Karp joined the online talk show “TBPN” to take a victory lap. “We’re crushing it,” Karp said, sporting a white T-shirt and a six-figure Patek Philippe watch. “I’m the most humble I’ve ever been.”But Karp wasn’t there to talk business. Over 20-ish minutes, he confessed that he’s “an unhappy Democrat,” waxed poetic about what he thinks unifies “the woke left and the woke right,” detailed his cross-country skiing conditioning, boasted that he works on holidays, and bragged that he can hang from a bar for…

The Super Bowl rematch turned into bully ball highlighted by the NFL’s ugliest play.Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles pushed — literally — their way past Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, 20-17, on Sunday.Hurts scored a touchdown on a tush push and the Eagles used the play seven times to help hand the Chiefs their first three-game losing streak with Mahomes and send them to their first 0-2 start since 2014.The NFL tried to ban to the tush push following a proposal from the Green Bay Packers in the offseason but fell two votes short of…

One CEO of a newly minted public company is a big fan of vibe coding.On an episode of the Sourcery podcast released on Saturday, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said AI coding tools like Cursor have helped him build prototypes faster and save time for his tech teams.”I was a business person, and then I just started exploring Cursor,” Siemiatkowski said about his non-technical background.The CEO of the Swedish fintech firm said that he has been vibe coding for 20 years, but the nature and speed of the work have changed. Before tools like Cursor, he said, he would give engineers…