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☆ Cricket, a big business in India, brings star power to the U.S. with the country's first world cup
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Laya Neelakandan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

USA Cricket Vice-Captain Aaron Jones poses next to a giant cricket ball, installed at a marketplace to mark 100 days to go for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, in Miami, Florida, on Feb. 22, 2024. But the sport has boomed in India, the world's most populous country, as well as some other former British colonies. And now, the U.S. men's national cricket team will represent the home country in this year's International Cricket Council Men's T20 World Cup. While traditional cricket matches can last as long as five days, a T20 match typically lasts around three hours. The early June world cup matchups will bring some of that star power to the U.S., with a high-profile India-Pakistan competition and culminating in a U.S.-India match.

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— In Virginia, polls close statewide at 7 p.m. — In Mississippi, polls close statewide at 7 p.m. local time (CT), which is 8 p.m. — In Pennsylvania, polls close at 8 p.m. — In Colorado, polls close at 7 p.m. MST, which is 9 p.m. — In New York, polls close at 9 p.m.

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☆ Firearms Classes Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Harel Shapira | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I did not grow up around guns, but 10 years ago, I started attending firearms training classes. The classes I attended trained students to believe that their lives are in constant danger. Most of all, I immersed myself in firearms schools in Texas, where I live, that cater to people who wish to learn how to use guns for self-defense. Some of these instructors’ students have gone on to open training programs of their own. While American gun culture has diversified in recent years, the overwhelming majority of firearms instructors — in Texas it’s 75 percent — are white men.

☆ Opinion | A Gun in the Home Makes Murder More Likely, Not Less
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But in the United States it is, because we’re awash in an estimated 450 million guns and suffer from a mass delusion that a gun in the home makes us safer. — In upstate New York, a 20-year-old woman was killed when she and several friends drove to the wrong address. As their car was turning around to leave, the homeowner allegedly fired his gun and struck her. — In Texas, two cheerleaders were shot after one of them mistakenly got into the wrong car in a parking lot. Foreigners admire our popular culture, our technology, our lifestyle, but are bewildered by our refusal to rein in guns.

☆ Live Results: Texas votes in congressional and state elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Walt Hickey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Polls close in Texas at 7 p.m. local time. Given the state has multiple timezones, the first polls close at 8 p.m. EST and the last polls close at 9 p.m. EST. It symobilizes the 2022 Election. Polls close in the state at 7 p.m. local time. Given the state has multiple time zones, the first polls close at 8 p.m. EST and the last polls close at 9 p.m. EST.

As a result, political observers say, public school funding is effectively on the ballot Tuesday. “These groups have been demonizing what is being taught in public schools, and that’s the fastest way to erode faith that public schools work,” Rottinghaus said. (Abbott publicly came out in support of private school vouchers two months after winning the primary with 66.5% of the vote.) Greg Abbott in the GOP primary, campaigned in support of private school vouchers. “I will never support vouchers.”Rep. John Bucy III said he will continue to oppose private school vouchers.

☆ A major investor who owns 40,000 rental homes can't find enough new supply, so it'll manufacture its own out of factories in Sun Belt states like Texas and Florida
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-14 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The goal is for each of those factories to produce between 500 and 750 rental homes a year, Joe Butler, the head of Studio Built, told Insider. Modular homes meet the same standards of those built using traditional methods but are typically cheaper and faster to produce. Meanwhile, soaring mortgage rates have made homeownership more expensive, pushing more people into rental homes. Many of those people still want to live in single-family homes in good school districts, Nguyen said. "We believe that Studio Built is going to be a very long-term initiative that's going to be quite successful," Butler said.

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