A NCAA committee really helpful that Flag football add to its aspiring women's sports program on Wednesday, a major step by which it becomes an officially sponsored championship in all three divisions.

The NCAA said at the least 65 schools of sponsorship football already on the club or university level, with more moving on this direction. The 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles Football was also added with a thrust from the NFL.

The NFL has energetically promoted flag football, including the beginning of a world ambassador program in 2022. In Germany, the league and its teams have urged that flag football as a university sports in highschool is sanctioned across the country.

As soon because the NCAA program for ladies's sports is within the NCAA, Flag Football would need to need at the least 40 schools that were sponsored on the university level and the minimum minimum for games and participation of the players for the NCAA championship status.

The emerging NCAA women's sports program was founded to present women more opportunities and offer schools more opportunities for sponsoring teams.

The last sport that moved through this system was the wrestling of ladies, which was approved last month as 91st championship sports of the NCAA. The first wrestling championship of ladies takes place in 2026.

There are currently five other sports in this system: acrobatics and tumbling, rider, rugby, stunt and triathlon. Previously, five sports emerged from this system to earn the NCAA championship status: Rowing (1996), ICE Hockey (2000), Water Polo (2000), Bowling (2003) and Beach Volleyball (2015).

MIAMI – COVID is back in circulation this summer, and infection rates are rising across Florida and the country.

The excellent news is that the variants mostly circulating within the country – KP.3, KP.2 and LB.1 – cause symptoms just like previous COVID strains, akin to cough, fever and fatigue. And many individuals can get better at home.

The bad news: These variants have a mutation that makes them more contagious.

So how long must you stay home in quarantine if you’ve got COVID? And must you start wearing a mask again?

Recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have modified over the course of the pandemic. Now the federal health agency's guidelines focus more on symptoms.

The current CDC guidelines state:

What are the quarantine guidelines for COVID?

If your COVID test is positive and you’ve got symptoms: Stay home and avoid other people until overall symptoms improve and you’ve got been freed from a fever (without the assistance of fever-reducing medication) for at the very least 24 hours.

“Depending on the duration of symptoms, this period could be shorter, the same, or longer than previous guidelines for COVID-19,” the CDC explains.

Once the stay-at-home period is over, the CDC recommends taking extra precautions akin to wearing a mask and avoiding crowded areas for the subsequent five days, as you might still be contagious. Also, be sure you wash your hands incessantly.

What in case your COVID cough just won't go away?

Don't worry. While some symptoms, like fever, are common during times when someone is contagious, other symptoms, like a persistent cough, can last for a time even after you're not contagious, the CDC says.

If your COVID test is positive and you’ve got no symptoms: Take precautions for the subsequent five days to cut back your risk of infecting others, as you might still be contagious. Precautions may include wearing a mask, social distancing, washing your hands incessantly, and cleansing incessantly touched surfaces akin to doorknobs.

Why have the CDC COVID guidelines modified?

The CDC's previous COVID guidelines advisable isolating for at the very least five days after which taking additional precautions. In March, the CDC has updated its guidelines to focus more on the symptoms, just like other respiratory diseases.

The CDC said it did so for several reasons, including since the COVID situation within the country has improved, with fewer COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths, and in addition because “we have more tools than ever to fight influenza, COVID and RSV.”

“We considered several options for adjusting isolation guidelines for different lengths of time. In addition to the fact that fewer people are becoming seriously ill with COVID-19 and we have better tools to combat severe disease, CDC also considered other factors, such as the personal and societal costs of prolonged isolation,” the agency said. “We also considered when people are most likely to spread the virus (a few days before and after symptoms appear). The updated guidelines are easy to understand, practical, and evidence-based, and are more consistent with long-standing recommendations for other respiratory illnesses.”

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Originally published: July 12, 2024 at 1:29 p.m.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is one step closer to having his license revoked.

The Professional Responsibility Committee in Washington, DC, recommended on Friday that the previous New York mayor and federal prosecutor be stripped of his law license for his involvement in a bogus 2020 election fraud lawsuit.

Giuliani's law license had already been suspended due to his work supporting Trump's false claims about his election loss. It is now as much as the DC Court of Appeals to determine whether Giuliani will likely be permanently disbarred.

“We conclude that disbarment is the only measure that will protect the public, the courts and the integrity of the legal profession and will deter other lawyers from filing similarly baseless lawsuits seeking such a broad and yet totally unjustified remedy,” the Bar Disciplinary Committee wrote Friday.

The opinion follows a trial-like proceeding held in late 2022 by a panel hearing committee examining ethics allegations raised by the DC Bar's disciplinary counsel. Giuliani was accused of violating attorney conduct rules with a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that sought to invalidate greater than 1 million votes within the state that President Joe Biden won in 2022.

The disciplinary panel on Friday agreed with the committee's findings that Giuliani likely violated the foundations.

“We agree with the hearing committee that the litigation in Pennsylvania was based 'only on speculation, mistrust and suspicion,'” the statement said.

The committee concluded that Giuliani “failed to provide facts to support his allegations and that his opinion that election fraud occurred did not meet the requirements for a lawsuit.”

Ted Goodman, Giuliani's spokesman, said in a press release: “The recommendation comes as no surprise as partisan Democrats continue to destroy the credibility of the American justice system in their efforts to defeat President Trump and stay in power.”

Giuliani is considered one of several lawyers facing skilled misconduct charges for supporting Trump's plans to overturn the election.

Earlier this week, attorney Jenna Ellis said saw her law license in Colorado for 3 years for her guilty plea within the 2020 election interference criminal case in Georgia. John Eastman, who planned a plot to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election results, was suspended for by a judge of the California Bar Association for He is accused of “extraordinarily serious violations of the code of ethics” and his license is suspended while proceedings proceed on whether he needs to be disbarred.

This story has been updated with additional details.