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The Big Ten and SEC don't like the college sports bill in Congress. Can they break away? 06/18/2026 06:36pm • The Protect College Sports Act took a step forward Thursday with a Senate committee approval. Plenty of potential pitfalls remain ahead, including opposition from the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences. The two most powerful conferences in college sports made clear that “revisions are needed to Police shooting of a 1-year-old Mississippi boy ignites tension between police and Black residents 06/18/2026 06:32pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by police who were responding to a shoplifting call this week has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi. The death of Kohen Wiley is the latest in a series of troubling Minor league team forfeits Pride Night game after some players refuse to wear special jersey 06/18/2026 06:31pm • YORK, Pa. (AP) — An independent minor league baseball team says it is forfeiting a game because some of its players refused to wear a special Pride Night jersey. The Atlantic League Pro Baseball’s York Revolution were planning to hold their 11th annual Pride Night event Thursday for a game ag Military jamming disrupted a medical plane's GPS system before it crashed last month in New Mexico 06/18/2026 06:28pm • The GPS system on a small medical plane that crashed into a mountainside last month in New Mexico malfunctioned because the military was jamming that signal throughout the area at the time although pilots had been warned to expect that, according to federal investigators. Four people died in the pre Rape charge against former BYU standout wide receiver Parker Kingston dismissed 06/18/2026 06:26pm • A judge on Thursday dismissed a first-degree felony rape charge against former Brigham Young University wide receiver Parker Kingston, though prosecutors said they plan to refile the charge. The case was scheduled for trial in July, but state prosecutors requested a continuance, according to the Wa Ebola cases increase almost 40% in a week as death toll passes 200 06/18/2026 06:21pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda has claimed more than 200 lives in its first month and is the worst known outbreak at this stage, with up to 35,000 suspected potential contacts, Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. With 894 confirmed White Sox OF Pereira placed on 7-day concussion injured list after crashing into fence 06/18/2026 06:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Chicago White Sox center fielder Everson Pereira was placed on the seven-day injured list with a concussion Thursday, one day after crashing into the left-center field fence at Yankee Stadium. Pereira tracked down Ben Rice’s fly ball and crashed into the fence near the 399-foot s