Only 1,790 student-athletes nationwide are recognized as Scholastic All-Americans, and Dominic Impens, a superb swimmer from Fort Mill High School, has been designated one. Impens is one of just 24 South Carolina students to receive this honor in 2024, which honors individuals who achieve excellence in both academics and athletics. Maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale throughout the qualifying year and earning a junior national swim qualifying time or higher are prerequisites for this esteemed award. Impens has proven his extraordinary dedication to the classroom and the pool by going above and beyond these exacting criteria. The Fort Mill High School Boys Swim Team, who placed second at the South Carolina High School League State Championship event, is led by Impens, a residen...

Victor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, announced on Friday that he would invite Benjamin Netanyahu to visit his nation and promise that the Israeli prime leader's arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court will "not be observed." Orban's comments contradict a number of European politicians who pledged to uphold the court's ruling. Simon Harris, the prime minister of Ireland, stated on Friday that if the Israeli prime minister visited his nation, his nation would be ready to detain him. When asked if Netanyahu would be detained if he arrived in Ireland for any reason, Harris said national network RTE, "We support international courts and we apply their warrants." Harris followed suit after the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Slovenia declared on Thursday that the...

The Trenton Police Department and the City of Trenton, New Jersey, are involved in a pattern or practice of behavior that violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, according to a report issued Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 by Federal Department of Justice officials. Due to the use of force during stops, searches, and arrests last year, the U.S. Department of Justice declared that it was looking into the Trenton Police Department. According to federal officials, the report also offers suggestions for how to deal with these problems, and the police and city officials have promised to collaborate with the department to put them into practice. In a statement on the study, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division stated that police offi...

United Arab Emirates' DUBAI As President-elect Donald Trump gets ready to enter office, shifting tectonic plates are sending tremors of uncertainty from Beijing to Brussels. The consequences might cause the United States' goals to diverge from those of its closest European allies in ways that haven't happened in decades. According to multiple European officials and diplomats who spoke to NBC News, the incoming administration is likely to put pressure on European leaders to adopt a tougher stance against China, which it views as America's principal adversary. However, their nations are economically intertwined with both powers, and their interests don't always coincide with Washington's. They would probably stray even more if Trump were to carry on his pledge to put tariffs on imports fro...

The Culinary Union posted on X that 57 striking casino employees were taken into custody by Las Vegas police Thursday during a demonstration outside Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Due to the failure of negotiations to secure a new five-year union pay deal, hundreds of casino employees at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas went on strike last week. Pictures and videosMembers were obstructing a road in front of the hotel, according to a union post on X. Additionally, other pictures showed cops handcuffing union members. According to one of the union's posters, Culinary Union workers are on strike outside of Virgin HotelsLV as they are being detained for nonviolent civil disobedience. According to the Culinary Union, police also detained the union's president, Diana Valles, and other executives. Police in Las...

Social networking platform X's owner, tech billionaire Elon Musk, has blasted proposed Australian laws that would outlaw social media use by minors. In order to stop kids and young teens from using social media sites like X, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, Australia intends to test an age-verification system that might involve biometrics or official identification. If there are systemic violations, businesses could face fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($32.5 million). One of the harshest laws on social media in the world was unveiled Thursday by Australia's center-left government in Parliament. It appears to be a backdoor method to restrict all Australians' access to the Internet. Musk, a self-described supporter of free expression, responded on Xin Thursday to a post made b...

LAS VEGAS Max Verstappen hopes that events in Vegas will be recorded in history rather than simply remaining in Vegas. The Red Bull racer has the opportunity to win the Formula 1 world championship here on Saturday night, joining only Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, and Juan Manuel Fangio as four-time champions. The 27-year-old Dutch driver Verstappen can win the trophy if he finishes the 50-lap race ahead of Lando Norris, his only opponent for the title. Verstappen leads McLaren's Norris by 62 points going into the weekend. Even though Norris' chances of winning the title are minimal, he must beat Verstappen by at least three points. With three races remaining in the season, no other driver is mathematically in the running for the championship. It appe...