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TURIN: Pakistan’s special athletes added to their medal tally on Saturday during the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin with multiple athletes winning medals in various events. Muneeb Ur Rehman won his second gold medal of the Games in the men’s 100-metre cross-country skiing event, while Abdul Saboor and Manahil won gold medals in the men’s and women’s 400-meter snowshoeing races, respectively. Pakistan’s special athletes have won a total of 11 medals, including, six gold, three silver and two bronze medals, thanks to their impressive performance at the Games. Muneeb led the charge as he cruised to victory ahead…

PYLOS: A gender row involving two female boxers at the Paris 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Saturday. Bach, who is stepping down in June after 12 years in charge of the biggest job in world sports, said the IOC had needed to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games. The boxing competition at the Paris Games was run by the IOC after it stripped the International Boxing Association (IBA) of recognition last year over…

WASHINGTON (AP) — For parents of kids with disabilities, advocating for their child can be complicated, time-consuming — and expensive.Changes at the Education Department are likely to make the process even more difficult, advocates for kids with disabilities say. When a parent believes their child is not receiving proper services or school accommodations for a disability, they can seek remedies from their district. They can file complaints with their state, arguing the child’s rights have been taken away without due process of law, or even pursue litigation in state or federal courts.Those processes often involve multiple sessions with hearing officers…

It’s that time of year again when more than a million green-clad revelers fill the streets of America’s most Irish big city for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade, celebrating the heritage and contributions of all those who hail from the Emerald Isle.Sunday’s parade dates back to the turn of the 20th century and marks both St. Patrick’s Day and Evacuation Day, which commemorates the day in 1776 when British troops left Boston after a protracted siege during the Revolutionary War.The 3.5-mile (5.6-kilometer) parade rolls through the neighborhood South Boston, a center of Irish-American heritage in a city where…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The high-stakes race for Wisconsin Supreme Court has gotten most of the attention leading up to the April 1 election. But it is not the only issue voters will decide when early voting begins Tuesday.Also on the ballot is a race for the battleground state’s top education official who will guide policies affecting K-12 schools during President Donald Trump’s second term.There is also a measure that would place the state’s voter ID law into the state constitution. Both of those contests have sharp partisan divisions, even though the spending and national attention have been far less…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine crackles for a moment before Ghulam Ahmad Sofi’s otherworldly voice fills his shop with verses about divine love and the pain of separation from the beloved creator of the universe.Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along with a meticulously preserved collection of audio cassette tapes from the 1970s, which he often listens to as…

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed knobby branch hits the ground.“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile.Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organizations to protect their crops from the bitter impacts of climate change and underinvestment that have pushed cocoa prices to record levels.Cocoa trees are high maintenance: Grown only near the equator,…

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments. Many of the biggest presentations, talks, and panels will be livestreamed as well. The conference starts Monday, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to deliver a keynote from the SAP Center on Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT, which you’ll be able to stream and watch online at Nvidia.com without having to register, and on Nvidia’s YouTube channel. We’re expecting Huang to…

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the news as it happens — and we’re expecting a healthy dose of announcements. CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote address at the SAP Center on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific, focusing on — what else? — AI and accelerating computing technologies, according to Nvidia. The company is also teasing reveals related to robotics, sovereign AI, AI agents, and automotive — plus 1,000 sessions with 2,000 speakers and close to 400 exhibitors. Here’s how to watch…

More than one-third of billionaires who responded to Forbes’ survey thought Lincoln was the best president in U.S. history.Ed Vebell/Getty Images Billionaires poured hundreds of millions into Donald Trump’s presidential run and poured on praise when he won. They’ve congratulated him on social media, donated to his inauguration fund through their companies and in some cases changed company policies in hopes of earning his favor during a second term so far characterized by layoffs of federal workers, new tariffs and testy words with certain foreign leaders. The wealthy have always weighed in on politics, making massive donations and more recently…