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Denzel Aberdeen scored 17 points, but Kentucky fell to top-seeded Florida 71-63 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Southeastern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament. Kentucky (21-13) got 14 points from Mo Dioubate and 10 from Otega Oweh. The Cats struggled offensively, making just 21 of 59 (35.6 percent) from the floor, including 5 of 23 (21.7 percent) from behind the arc. The Gators dominated the glass, grabbing 50 rebounds compared to just 29 for UK. Florida scored the first three points of the game before Malachi Moreno got the Cats on the board and within one. The Gators scored five in a row before Oweh scored to cut the deficit to 8-4. The Gators would score again to lead by six. Oweh connected to cut the deficit to 10-6, but Florida scored six in a row to build the lead to 16-6. Dioubate scored to cut the deficit to eight but Florida answered to lead 18-8. That’s when Dioubate brought the Cats back.  He hit two free throws and later hit two three-pointers,  » Read More

PGA TOURTwo-time major champion hits all 14 fairways, birdies last two holes to grab sole lead Garry Smits Jacksonville Florida Times-Union Updated March 13, 2026, 3:10 p.m. ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. ― The X Man put on a clinic in the second round of The Players Championship on March 13 as the weather cleared, the wind blew a bit and fans packed the course. Xander Schauffele didn't break the course record. He didn't even play a bogey-free round.  But it was difficult to find any flaws in the 65 that Schauffele posted at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass to give him the clubhouse lead by one shot over Cameron Young at 10-under-par 134.   » Read More

Washington, March 13, 2026 House Committee on Financial Services Chairman French Hill (AR-02) and Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Chairman Andy Barr (KY-06) issued the following statement in support of President Trump's Executive Order expanding access to mortgage credit:  “I commend President Trump’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit. The President and his Administration have shown tremendous leadership in helping to ensure that community banks and credit unions can once again participate fully in the mortgage lending market and expand access to affordable home loans for American families. Since the enactment of Dodd-Frank, community banks and credit unions have increasingly scaled back their mortgage lending due to burdensome and complex regulatory requirements. Excessive and unnecessary HMDA data collection mandates, overly prescriptive Ability to Repay and Qualified Mortgages rules, restrictive capital requirements, needless supervisory restrictions on lending to homebuilders, and outdated appraisal requirements are clear examples of misguided Washington policies that have crippled our community lenders. That is why it is so important to recognize that strengthening community banks and credit unions– key providers of mortgages for many Americans – and expanding access to affordable housing are fundamentally connected.  » Read More

State Sen. Shannon Grove tore into the state librarian this week about what she said was $650,000 in “really, truly misappropriated” taxpayer money that was supposed to advance the work of a literacy nonprofit set up by country music star Dolly Parton. The Bakersfield Republican accused State Librarian Greg Lucas of ignoring the will of lawmakers by setting up a nonprofit that spent $1.2 million in state money — then failed to account for about half of it — under a children’s reading initiative established by a state law Grove authored in 2022. Thursday’s clash at a meeting of the California Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee is making headlines in news organizations including Politico. It has drawn scrutiny of a normally quiet state agency while bringing attention to Grove as she runs for a seat on the state Board of Equalization before terming out of the Senate this year. “Where’s the money?” Grove asked Lucas bluntly toward the end of the meeting, following similar questions asked of him by a fellow subcommittee member. Lucas responded that he has been working to get an answer from the nonprofit, called the Strong Reader Partnership, and that he expects to receive a

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The ivy-covered walls of elite schools and universities have long been a subject of intrigue, evoking curiosity about what happens within these institutions. The insular nature of academia has left many wondering: What do the students know that I don’t? This mystique, fueled by popular media from the juggernaut that is Harry Potter to the 1989 cult classic Dead Poets Society, feeds into the “dark academia” and “light academia” styles that have come to permeate the internet in recent years. On TikTok, you might find men sporting wool trousers, dark overcoats, and toting around leather-bound books, looking as if they were running to a lecture. While most microtrends tend to come and go in the TikTok era (a time of hyper-niche “cores” and “aesthetics”), academia has served as a constant source of style inspiration for millennials and Gen Z since the Tumblr heyday of the 2010s. Now, on just TikTok alone, there are over 700,000 videos under the #darkacademia tag, and over 80,000 under #lightacademia. Both dark and light academia deliver autumnal ensembles that look and feel like the first day of a new semester. Each aesthetic favors a layered outfit involving garments such as tweed jackets, chunky cable-knit sweaters

SYDNEY — One-fifth of Australian teenagers under 16 were still using social media two months after the country banned platforms from allowing minors, industry data showed, raising questions about the effectiveness of their age-gating methods. The number of 13-to-15-year-olds using TikTok and Snapchat, among the most popular social media apps with Australian teenagers, fell from before the ban took effect in December to February, but still more than 20 per cent used the apps, according to a report by parental control software maker Qustodio provided to Reuters. The data is among the first to show the effects on youth online behaviour since Australia rolled out the ban, which is being copied by governments around the world. The Australian government and at least two university studies are tracking the ban's impact but none has published data yet. "Among children whose parents haven't blocked access, a meaningful number continue to use restricted platforms in the months following the ban," Qustodio said in the report, which was based on data collected from Australian families from late 2024 to February. Under the ban, platforms including Meta's Instagram, Facebook and Threads, Google's YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat must block people aged under 16 or face a