Posts Tagged ‘approves’
NCAA approves giving cash to athletes
The NCAA is giving college sports a whole new look. The Division I Board of Directors approved a package of sweeping reforms that gives conferences the option of adding more money to scholarship offers, schools the opportunity to award scholarships for multiple years, imposes tougher academic standards on recruits and changes the summer basketball recruiting model.
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Israel approves 1,100 new homes in east Jerusalem (AP)
AP – Israel granted the go-ahead on Tuesday for construction of 1,100 new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any freeze in settlement construction, raising already heightened tensions after last week’s Palestinian move to seek U.N. membership.
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Senate approves debt deal hours before default deadline
The Senate Tuesday approved a last-minute deal to raise the debt ceiling and stave off a disastrous national default.
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House approves debt bill; Senate rejects it (AP)
AP – In an unforgiving display of partisanship, the House approved emergency legislation Friday night to avoid an unprecedented government default and the Senate scuttled it less than two hours later.
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House approves debt bill; Senate ready to reject (AP)
AP – Riven by partisanship, the Republican-controlled House approved emergency legislation Friday night to prevent a threatened government default and bundled it off to swift and certain defeat in the Senate.
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German parliament approves nuclear shutdown (AP)
AP – German lawmakers overwhelmingly approved on Thursday plans to shut the country’s nuclear plants by 2022, putting Europe’s biggest economy on the road to an ambitious build-up of renewable energy.
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FDA approves new HIV drug from Johnson & Johnson (AP)
AP – The Food and Drug Administration says it approved a new HIV drug from Johnson & Johnson for patients who have not been treated with other medications for the virus.
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