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DAVIS, Okla. — Days before the start of a new school year, more than 1,730 college students and leaders gathered at Falls Creek Conference Center in Davis, Okla., to learn how to live on mission and become passionate followers of Jesus.
PHILADELPHIA (BP) — The task was enormous. They wanted every campus in the United States to have a Gospel ministry presence. For Brian Musser, a self-funded collegiate minister at Drexel University, that meant learning about every campus currently being reached by Baptist Collegiate Ministries. But it also meant learning which campuses were not being reached.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined Wednesday to endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump for president, saying neither candidate had sufficient support from the 1.3 million-member union.
NEW YORK (AP) — The company behind Tupperware, the plastic kitchenware that revolutionized food storage after World War II and became inextricably linked to the parties where women seeking a measure of financial independence and fun in midcentury America sold the colorful products, has filed for bankruptcy.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among parents that their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Sandy Hook or Uvalde — or any other town hit by mass shootings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by a half-point.